Conference Session

Projects in ECE

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wookwon Lee, Gannon University; Nicholas B. Conklin, Gannon University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #6043High Altitude Radiation Detector (HARD): Integration of UndergraduateResearch into Senior Design and Lessons LearnedDr. Wookwon Lee, Gannon University Wookwon Lee, P.E. received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Inha University, Korea, in 1985, and the M.S. and D.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the George Washington University, Washington, DC, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. He is currently on the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Gannon University, Erie, PA. Prior to joining Gannon, he had been involved in various research and development projects in

Conference Session

Project-based and Cooperative Learning in ECE

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stanley W. Hsu, University of California, Davis; Rajeevan Amirtharajah, University of California, Davis; andre knoesen, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, U C Davis

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #6114Lab and Team Project Development for Engineering Problem Solving usingMATLAB, with Emphasis on Solar Power and Engineering for SustainabilityMr. Stanley W. Hsu, University of California, Davis Stanley Hsu received a B.S. degree from University of California, Los Angeles in 2006 and an M.S. degree from University of California, Davis in 2011, both in Electrical Engineering. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering at UC Davis. His research is in the area of low power mixed- signal integrated circuits for energy harvesting sensor applications. He is also interested in high-speed

Conference Session

Considerations for the Collection Conscious Librarian

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Theresa M. Calcagno, George Mason University; Jessica Bowdoin, George Mason University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

, Statistics, Systems Engineering andOperations Research. During Fall 2010, the School had a headcount enrollment of 4,287students;1 42% are enrolled at the graduate level.This paper describes the development and implementation of a successful textbook reservesprogram at a major university that targets graduate and upper-level undergraduate students in thetwo largest departments in the Volgenau School of Engineering: Computer Science andElectrical and Computer Engineering.Literature ReviewThe high cost of college textbooks has always been a concern to college students. Recently, thisconcern has grown even higher, and a number of researchers have studied the reasons for hightextbook costs as well as the strategies students use for coping with the

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carla Zoltowski, Purdue University; William Oakes, Purdue University; Steve Chenoweth, Rose Hulman Institute Of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

. Page 15.1175.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Teaching Human-Centered Design with Service-LearningAbstractEffectively teaching human-centered design can pose challenges within the undergraduatecurriculum as it requires access to users and stakeholders. Service-learning, a growing pedagogywithin engineering, offers many synergistic opportunities to create a human-centered designexperience. In service-learning, students are paired with a real user in a real community andasked to address a real need. This paper presents the implementation of a human-centered designapproach using service-learning at Purdue University. The approach is multidisciplinary withparticipation from students within and outside of engineering

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Al-Ansary; Andreas Christoforou; Ahmet Yigit

Engineering Criteria2000 (EC 2000) 1. This paper presents the thus far experiences in implementing theassessment process and in using the results for improvement. The process includes astructured methodology for establishing educational objectives and outcomes at the programand course levels, development of required assessment instruments, identification of keyinstitutional practices that need to be aligned, and training programs to help instill the mindsetof the new criteria in all concerned parties2-4. The process has been in place for the last twoacademic years and it is producing results. At the course level, faculty are re-examining thecourse outcomes to ensure higher levels of student learning based on Bloom’s Taxonomy5,and that they can be

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Walker; Susan Magliaro; Michael Alley; Hassan Aref, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Alex Aning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Hayden Griffin; Mark Sanders, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech; Richard Goff; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jenny Lo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jean Kampe, Michigan Technological University

. students, one with an engineering background and one with a technologyeducation background, as teaching assistants for the freshman engineering courses, and the resulthas been outstanding. Some of the other benefits of this interdisciplinary Education/Engineeringarrangement include:• Cross-listing of courses that will be taken by a mix of EngE and Education students and taught (and co-taught) by a mix of EngE and Education faculty• Recruitment of “career switchers” both ways; i.e., Technology Education teachers seeking a masters in Engineering Education to become community college faculty; and disillusioned engineers looking for a more “people-oriented” slant such as teaching, industrial training, technical representative, etc.• Joint

Conference Session

Manufacturing Program Innovation

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lenea Howe; Jr., Elijah Kannatey-Asibu

engineers from industry towork with manufacturing faculty and students in both education and research. TheCenter has successfully developed an organization that can be responsive to bothacademic needs for process and to corporate needs for agility. The Education StrategicPlan integrates curriculum, culture and outreach. This paper provides an overview ofeach of the elements of this comprehensive effort.IntroductionThe vision for the Education Strategic Plan of the Engineering Research Center forReconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (ERC/RMS) was driven by the desire to give theUM manufacturing curriculum and outreach activities an identity which would capitalizeon the uniqueness of the ERC/RMS research challenge. Typical courses onmanufacturing

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Moffitt; Jennifer van Rij; Jeffrey Wolchok

“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Introduction:IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating Ph.D. scientistsand engineers with the multidisciplinary backgrounds and the technical, professional, andpersonal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze acultural change in graduate education by establishing new, innovative models for graduateeducation and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcendstraditional disciplinary boundaries.The Utah Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award

Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knox; Randall Kolar; Teri Rhoads; Kurt Gramoll

Paper 2005-2156 A Pilot Study for a “Course-less” Curriculum R. L. Kolar, R. C. Knox, K. Gramoll, T. R. Rhoads University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019AbstractIn 2002, we received an NSF planning grant (NSF EEC 0230681) that builds upon our SoonerCity project, which was funded through the Action Agenda program (NSF EEC 9872505).Briefly, Sooner City is a comprehensive, integrated, infrastructure design project that is threadedthroughout the OU civil engineering curriculum, beginning in the freshman year. For practicalpurposes, the original Sooner City project was implemented in the

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; Ron Foster; Greg Salamo

education. Inherent in this is the need to support the K-16 educational pipeline that willproduce the next generation of their professional colleagues. It is important to lead throughexample, so the microEP faculty and administration have pursued resources to activelyparticipate in all of these activities. The microEP program has received NSF IGERT, REU,RET, GK-12, and MRSEC awards; and a Department of Education FIPSE award to implementthe microEP educational concepts in the traditional Physics Graduate Program.The history of the microEP program formation, along with the details of its approach to graduateeducation, have been fully described in a paper presented by the authors at the 2002 ASEE

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Wo; Pei-Fen Chang

Mechanics National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan 106Abstract Although the outcome-based approach of Abet EC 2000 is widely used in the UnitedStates as a tool to enhance learning and teaching processes, and to assure qualityimprovement, it is a brand-new phenomenon in the engineering education of Taiwan. It is anincreasing concern that the traditional lecture-based instruction is failing to fulfill the needsof development of active learning skills of engineering students in Taiwan. Through a carefulliterature review, this paper first summarizes the crucial events in engineering education thatled to the formation, implementing, and assessing of a team-based faculty

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Orr; Richard Vaz

traditionally known as electrical engineering1. On July1, 1992, the name of the department was changed to “Electrical and Computer Engineering,” inrecognition of the substantial role of computer engineering in the undergraduate and graduatecurricula and research activities. For many years within the Electrical Engineering major atWPI, the largest area of student interest has been the computer engineering specialty, and inacademic year 1995-96 the department established a formal concentration in computerengineering, partially in response to student requests.This paper presents the background which led the WPI ECE faculty, in consultation withstudents, alumni, and advisory board members, to conclude that replacing the EE major with theECE major is

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tushar Patil; Ofodike Ezekoye; Justin Cone; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

engineers have solid training in applying engineering principles toanalysis, product design, testing and other technical duties, they are frequently not prepared tounderstand the nature and goals of the companies and ventures that employ them. Many studieshave noted the disconnect in engineering curriculum between the assessment of customer needsas dictated by the marketplace and the engineering of products. In product design anddevelopment engineers are often quick to offer solutions without fully exploring the actual needand market for those solutions. Approaching a problem with this kind of “solution fixation” canlimit an engineer’s contributions in business environments. What business skills do engineersneed to acquire and how does the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Jeff Williams; Beth Milligan; Andrew DuBuisson; Robert Drew; Karl Rink; Edwin Odom

early external leadership aremore prepared for a successful capstone experience than teams that are left to their own devices.This paper outlines how graduate student mentors facilitate team development. Strategies includeleading the teams in introductory meetings and organizing team-building activities such as a ropescourse, a shop orientation, tracking early progress on a present condition board, and visualizingaccomplishments in team documentation. Successful teams tend to immerse themselves in theproject very soon after team formation, generating insightful customer interview questions andproducing a realistic schedule for the year. Graduate student mentors increase the likelihood of asuccessful transition by providing a model for effective

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian S Macherone; Jagdish T. Gajjar; Cherrice Traver

Session 2253 Introducing Freshmen to Engineering Design: Weather Station Project Cherrice Traver, Jagdish Gajjar, Brian Macherone Union College/State University of New York at AlbanyIntroductionIn recent years there have been many examples of engineering curriculum reform in thefreshman year 1,2,3,4. Some involve adding design to existing freshman courses 3, others involvethe development of optional design courses 1,2 , and yet others are quite focused on a particularengineering topic such as modeling 4. This paper reports on a group design project that is part ofa

Conference Session

New/Emerging Technologies

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

R. Radharamanan

Session 2163 Virtual Manufacturing: An Emerging Technology R. Radharamanan School of Engineering, Mercer University, Macon, GA 31207AbstractIn this paper, Virtual Manufacturing (VM), an emerging technology, that provides the capabilityto “Manufacture in the Computer”, and the modeling approaches necessary to realize VM arepresented and discussed. VM has the ability to interchange models between their use insimulation and control environments. The use of VM concepts improves decision-making andquickly achieves products with high performance and quality at a low cost. VM can

Conference Session

Engrng Edu;An International Perspective

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Johansen; Jens Riis; Henrik Jorgensen; Claus Balken; James Luxhoj

competitiveadvantage for the firm (Turban and Aronson 6).3.2 Knowledge Components of RoundTableThe basic building blocks of a Knowledge Management System (KMS) are a knowledgerepository, knowledge contribution and collection processes, knowledge retrieval systems, aknowledge directory, and a method for content management. RoundTable is being developed asa Web-based prototype KMS to facilitate strategic development and innovation for productionorganizations. The term, RoundTable, is used to invoke the imagery of a participative, sharingdialog. As Figure 6 conceptualizes, this KMS prototype will contain technical componentsdealing with both process and content knowledge for production.For the RoundTable knowledge repository, one of the key technical components

Conference Session

Recruitment & Retention of Women II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Milgram, National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology & Sciences (IWITTS)

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

training systems develop more female-friendly recruitment and retention practices. In 1994, Ms. Milgram founded IWITTS, the only national organization whose sole mission is to provide educators and employers with the tools they need to encourage women to enter and succeed in careers where they are under-represented. IWITTS’ solutions include trainings, publications, products and technical assistance. Since then, Ms. Milgram’s work has taken her to 43 of the 50 states. She has consulted and conducted hundreds of trainings on recruiting and retaining women in technology education and related occupations for national, state, regional and local educational institutions, organizations and employers. Ms. Milgram has

Conference Session

Pedagogical Advancements in Engineering Management

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ralph Ocon, Purdue University, Calumet

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

workplace.For several years the author has been teaching creativity using a problem-based learningapproach. The author has discovered that learning can be more relevant and interesting tostudents if they are actively involved in the learning process. In the course the authorprovides students, individually and in teams, with a variety of unstructured and open-ended problem solving activities and assignments. These activities and assignments ofactual or simulated real world challenges are used to develop creative problem solvingskills that will help prepare students for the 21st century workplace.In the paper, the author will describe the problem-based learning approach used to teachcreativity. The author will identify the benefits students derive from

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Myers; Kathleen Nunnally; Catherine Blat; Patricia Tolley

making a statistically significant positiveimpact on final course grades and on DFW rates. Initial retention results also indicate that Collegeof Engineering students who attended SI at least five or more times during a semester are morelikely to be retained. Qualitative feedback from faculty suggests that SI participation is often thedetermining factor in whether or not a student repeats a course.This paper focuses on the development, implementation, assessment, and continuous improvementof the program. Actual assessment results and lessons learned are presented.IntroductionThe philosophy, format, and objectives of SI are different from tutoring, problem sessions,recitation, and group study in several ways. First, SI focuses on high-risk

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Tomoki Abe; Richard Thurlkill; Krishna Kurpad; Jay Porter; Anthony Vaughan; Joseph Morgan

/TET) students at TexasA&M University take a series of technical courses each of which includes an integratedlaboratory experience. After receiving feedback and recommendations from industries that hireEET/TET graduates, more emphasis is being placed on laboratories where teams of students arerequired to design, implement, test, and analyze a project. The experience is concluded with thedocumentation of the results of each project in both written and oral format. This approachbegins in selected sophomore-level courses and continues through the capstone senior designproject with less and less faculty intervention and control as the students progress in theircurriculum. One of the courses that utilize this approach is a junior-level Computer

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew N. Vavreck

Session 1566 Enhancement of an Introductory Course in Dynamics and Machine Elements Andrew N. Vavreck, Ph.D. Penn State University, Altoona CollegeAbstractThis paper discusses improvements which were made to an introductory dynamics and machineelements course at Penn State Altoona, in Altoona, Pennsylvania, in the Fall of 1998. Theimprovements included implementing two team design projects, one on kinematics and theother incorporating kinetics and machine elements as well; inclusion of peer assessment of thedesign projects; balanced incorporation of

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Brown; Francine Battaglia; Donald R. Flugrad

directly used to evaluate, improve and redesign the state of thecurriculum. These steps are detailed in this paper. Page 6.130.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationII. Desired Program OutcomesProgram outcomes are the specific skills we hope to instill in our undergraduate students by thetime they complete the curriculum in Mechanical Engineering. Ideally, they prepare ourstudents for entry level engineering positions in a variety of industries, qualify them foradvanced study in science

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary D. Keller; Fred Begay; Antonio A. Garcia; Albert L. McHenry

Practices Our AMP has generated a wealth of curriculum and research projects which we now proposeto innovatively disseminate. For example, through our existing and well-institutionalizedsummer bridge programs we have developed condensed courses in Calculus, Biology, Physics,Organic Chemistry, and technical English for incoming freshman and community collegestudents who hope to major in mathematics and science-related fields. These courses focus onkey material in gate-keeping courses which are required early in their college careers. Throughdocumentation in final project reports, course syllabi, texts, problem sets, and other forms thesematerials are catalogued and now will be made available to interested faculty through the Internetor by

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam W Davidson, Duke University; Kip D. Coonley, Duke University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

Paper ID #43127Board 149: Pioneering Pathways for High School Students in STEM Education(Work in Progress)Mr. Adam W Davidson, Duke University Adam is a seasoned educator and Senior Laboratory Administrator for the Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) department at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering. With a degree in Technology Education from NC State University, his journey in education began as a Technology Education teacher at Penn-Griffin School for the Arts and later as a PLTW Engineering Instructor and Fab Lab Manager at Riverside High School and Technology Equipment Coordinator for Durham Public

Conference Session

Professional Development and Engineering Ethics Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

MAN LIANG, University of Maryland College Park; Michael P McMeekin

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

Paper ID #42216Developing a Team-Based Regulatory Framework for Mobility EngineeringProfessionalsMs. MAN LIANG, University of Maryland College Park Man Liang is a PhD student in Civil Engineering at the University of Maryland. She has over 3 years of working experience as a civil engineer conducting independent engineering designs for residential, commercial, institutional projects in the states of Ohio, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Texas, and etc. She specializes in site surveys, roadway engineering, pavement design, traffic analysis, site layout, site grading, sustainable stormwater management, utility connections, erosion and

Collection

2024 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Timothy Frank; Daphne DePorres; Emily Stoneham; Joel Sloan P.E.; Vincent Bongionanni; Eric Tucker

(Takeuchi, et al., 2020). This shift requiredembracing the true potential of engineering education as a powerful tool for fostering inclusivityand the self-efficacy of future STEM majors from underrepresented groups. This paper delvesinto the experiences of 18 first-year undergraduate participants who were part of the inauguralcohort of the course, Engineering Problem Solving, and uncovers nascent themes throughqualitative interviews. By exploring the participants’ perspectives, we gained valuable insightsregarding the effectiveness as well as the opportunities for continuous improvement of thisinnovative course.The course, Engineering Problem Solving, focuses on “capitalization,” which emphasizes theidea of investing in oneself for future gain

Conference Session

SE Capstone Design Projects, Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David R. Jacques, Air Force Institute of Technology; John M. Colombi, Air Force Institute of Technology; Richard G. Cobb, Air Force Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering, Systems Engineering

completingthese graduate programs are not adequately equipped to perform in an interdisciplinaryenvironment where the needs of the system overshadows the desire to optimize or even improvethe component technologies or subsystems. Bearing in mind that contractors produce designs forthe DoD, the government engineer’s role is often associated with facilitating trade-offs andevaluating system level impacts, not the detailed electrical, mechanical or aeronautical design.This paper presents an argument and cites examples for using selected curriculum elements fromSE within the other STEM graduate programs, and reinforcing these elements withinterdisciplinary capstone projects. While this may not be the traditional approach to graduateengineering research, it

Conference Session

K-8 Engineering & Access

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eugene Ressler; Stephen Ressler

Session 3510 Using Information Technology to Facilitate Accessible Engineering Outreach on a National Scale Stephen J. Ressler, Eugene K. Ressler United States Military AcademyIntroductionThis paper presents a description and comprehensive assessment of the West Point BridgeDesign Contest—a nationwide, Internet-based competition that has provided an engagingintroductory engineering experience to over 40,000 high-school and middle-school students inthe past three years. We begin by discussing how existing national engineering competitionshave influenced the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leslie Collins; Lisa Huettel

expertise in two domains: thetheoretical understanding of signal processing problems and the design of devices or algorithmsto solve those problems. As part of its ongoing curriculum reform, the ECE department at DukeUniversity has implemented a new DSP laboratory that impacts student instruction in multiplecourses. In this paper, we describe the motivation for creation of our DSP laboratory, itspedagogical principles, its implementation in our undergraduate major, and the key challengesthat remain. Page 10.105.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition