Conference Session

FPD 6: Course Content and Educational Strategies

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian M. Frank P.Eng., Queen's University; Behnam Behinaein Hamgini, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen's University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

andobserve the process used to solve the problem. Instructors can also analyze student work veryquickly and provide feedback more rapidly than is usually possible. In this pilot student responseto the approach was mixed, with about half the class feeling the approach is useful for learning.This initial pilot is a promising approach to support quality feedback on open-ended activities inlarge lectures.Bibliography 1. Hattie, J., Visible learning: A synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses relating to achievement, Routledge, 2008. 2. Hattie, J., “The black box of tertiary assessment: An impending revolution,” Tertiary Assessment & Higher Education Student Outcomes: Policy, Practice & Research, Ako Aotearoa, Wellington, New Zealand, pp

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chih-Ping Yeh

-hand and closely monitor student learning. WSU (junior and senior) students from Engineering Technology will also be used as peer mentors to increase academic success and to encourage relationships between Schoolcraft Tech Scholars and WSU students. • WSU Orientation and Series of Personal Development/ Critical Thinking Workshops: A series of personal development workshop featuring such topics as time management, credit management, handling relationship crisis, working effectively with professors, handling change will be developed for University Bound students. Students will also be given workshop activities on the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and critical thinking.4. The Learning Community: The research

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Watkins

students. But if an alternative definition is considered,such as “computer solution of engineering problems,” the subject becomes much moreappropriate for an ET curriculum.In recent years, the personal computer has become as ubiquitous as the television. Today’sstudents are completely at ease using a computer for everything from researching a term paper tosynching data from their PDA to creating CAD drawings. Using the computer to solveengineering problems is not just an easy concept for today’s students to grasp; it’s anexpectation.Concurrent with the rise of the personal computer, and its unprecedented computing power, isthe proliferation of software tools available for solving engineering problems. Today, there arenumerous commercial packages

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dilip Mirchandani; Kathryn Hollar; Beena Sukumaran; John Chen; Yusuf Mehta

21st century. One ofthe hallmarks of the program is the truly multidisciplinary curriculum in which laboratory/designcourses are offered simultaneously to engineering students in all four disciplines. Indeed, thehallmark of the engineering program at Rowan University is the multidisciplinary, project-oriented, Engineering Clinic sequence. Every engineering student at Rowan University takes theEngineering Clinics each semester. In the Engineering Clinic, which is based on the medicalschool model, students and faculty from all four engineering departments work side-by-side onlaboratory experiments, real world design projects and research. The solutions of these problemsrequire not only proficiency in the technical principles, but, as importantly

Conference Session

Experience with Experiential Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Adam McGough; Coral Nocton; Ken Patton; Ismail Fidan

. Since the initial introduction of the RP process in 1987, several machines haveentered the market, which are now affordable by universities. Project team has searchedmany sources in order to decide which RP machine will be selected. A low cost perprototyped part is important because of the need to prototype a large number of concepts,and to have many student teams use the machine. Speed is important as well. With a classsize ranging from 15-20 students and plans to increase the class size to 40 students, amachine that takes one-to-two days to produce a part would limit student access. The useof benign printing materials also would make it safer to let students work with the system. Because of the short time allowed in the course schedules

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Duane Bolick; Richard Drushel; John Gallagher

emailother remotely located users the IP address of his/her machine – and they can connect theirsimulations to the server to display what the server robot is doing live. This facility allows largegroups of students to be watching the same robot activity live and is meant to support groupanalysis and debugging. Both of these features are available in the currently distributedsimulator and have been extensively tested for functionality.5. Easing the Pain by Lowering Threshold to ParticipateBecause of the inherently distributed nature of the class, there are just some things we won’t beable to do collaboratively. Among these is the initial set up of each student’s individualcomputing environment and coming to grips with just enough Java to be

Conference Session

Understanding Engineering Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Durward Sobek

telephone to ensure a 100% response rate. During those discussions welearned that client satisfaction was relative to the client’s initial expectations coming into theproject. Thus, to get a more objective comparison of the quality of student products relative toone another, we contracted four professional engineers to evaluate the final reports (whichincluded engineering drawings and analyses) using a design quality rubric. The rubric asked theevaluator to score the project along 5 metrics on a scale of 1-7 (seven being high), which wereaveraged to obtain a quality score for the project. A minimum of two practicing professionalsevaluated each project. (See Sobek and Jain8 for details on the instruments and theirdevelopment.)To date we have coded

Conference Session

Innovations in Learning by Doing

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Doanh Van

Page 9.389.6verge of slipping”, ‘on the verge of tipping,’ or both occurring simultaneously. These areProceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2004, American Society for Engineeringdifficult concepts for students to master initially. Figure 11 allows for the student to change theplacement of the rope, thereby changing the point of application of the force, until slipping, ortipping or both occur (it is noted that the breadboard is not needed to demonstrate this learningactivity. It is shown here as something that could be conveniently done while using the board forother demonstrations). Changing the angle of the rod, as shown in Figure 12, will allow thestudent to observe

Conference Session

Practice/Partnership/Program Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Strueber

facultyvisiting both campuses researching materials developing the design and finally assisting in build-ing the demonstration house in Alice. Even though the housing being developed is of modest sizethe prototype with very little modification could be used for migrant and other seasonal farmworker housing in the United States, and larger versions could be developed for rural low costhousing.During 2003 Tuskegee University and the University of Fort Hare were awarded a USAID, ALOstudent exchange partnering grant to provide training in building low cost energy efficient hous-ing to produce healthier living conditions in the rural areas of South Africa, which are suffering asevere shortage of affordable, clean, warm and durable housing. It has been

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Strueber

ask for. Currently the material is being researched and developed, and a 40sm(420sf) three-bedroom passive-solar house design using these materials is being presented to theproposed clients for their critique. Construction of the prototype house is scheduled to be under-way when this paper is being presented. The development of the demonstration training pro-grams and the actual training are scheduled for the next phase of the project.The MaterialsOur research indicates that an air-dried stabilized enriched mud brick with straw is the bestchoice. A non-stabilized mud brick has several problems---the major ones being absorption ofmoisture leading to eventual failure if not corrected and erosion from rain. The addition of a sta-bilizer to the

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Maxwell; Michael Parten

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 6. Control System Front Panel DisplayVI. Vehicle SafetyWhen designing for Future Truck 2003, safety was one of the main concerns. The three systemswhich pose the greatest safety concerns are the hydrogen fuel system, high voltage system, andthe battery packs.The fuel used in the vehicle is gaseous, compressed hydrogen, which diffuses rapidly and seeksthe highest collection point. Hydrogen sensors are strategically placed in multiple collectionpoints on the vehicle to show any indicate of leaks. To ensure the safety of the passengers, thecomputer initiates an emergency shutdown

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Swiezynski; Don Myers; Ray Luechtefeld

willhopefully provide insight into the needs of the overall engineering community. As part of thissurvey, alumni were asked to indicate their major considerations when choosing (or notchoosing) a particular masters program. Our results were similar to those of Burton, Parker, andLeBold, who found that the major motivation for the pursuit of additional training in 1995 was toimprove one’s skills. They also found that engineers are becoming increasingly involved inmanagement tasks [3]. These particular findings reinforce the need to seek out informationabout working engineers.MethodologyA web-based interactive survey was developed and delivered to approximately 10,000 UMRB.S. graduates dating back to the 1970s. Initially, attempts were made to contact

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sean Daly; Roman Stemprok

also be used to interface the CPU to devices for handshakingsignals. The software component used in programming the computer is an assembly program.The goal was to have the least number of process lines to increase the programs process speed tomeet the speed of faster sound frequencies. Figure 4: Actual PC Board Page 8.627.4Important parts of the program include the Trainer’s port initialization, input values (from theProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

puszynski jan; David Dixon; Bhavani Puli; James Munro

laboratory was developed. It wasfirst implemented in an undergraduate laboratory course in fall of 2002 in the ChemicalEngineering program at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Students wereable to accomplish the objectives of the experiment within a three week laboratory periodby designing, building and testing a gas absorption system to meet a unique objective.The initial assessment of the experiment indicated that it met the objectives of providing aunique design-build-test experience for senior-level chemical engineering students.AcknowledgementsThe authors gratefully acknowledge the Dow Corning Foundation for their sponsorshipof the Materials, Automation, Processing and Simulation (MAPS) laboratory project, theNational Science

Conference Session

Curriculum Issues in Graphics

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Kelley

ofthe available commercial PLM tools that can be found on the market are enhanced, web-enabledversions of applications that have existed for several years. Due to initiatives by leading PLMcompanies such as Dassault Systemes and Parametric Technology Corporation, many of thesetools are merging together to form seamless work environments that facilitate the communicationof data. One tool that is essential in PLM is CAD. Today’s CAD applications barely resembleCAD tools from a decade ago. Early CAD systems were primarily two-dimensional in naturewith some 3D capabilities. With the integration of parameter design capabilities, CADapplications are able to capture the intent of a design. CAD systems in the future will have theability to

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Will; Doug Tougaw

with their twoadvisors and a customer to define System Design Requirements (SDRs) for their project.In this way, the students were able to understand exactly what would constitute successfor their team before they began to propose alternative solutions. As part of the projectdefinition process, students began to perform research on their project topic and to learnabout other similar projects that had been completed in the past.After defining the SDRs for their project and performing initial research in their area,students were asked to propose alternative solutions to their problem. Each of theseproposed solutions was then evaluated using numerical weighting of design requirements,desired project attributes, and the risk associated with each

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

needed in developing countries toassure that international aid funds sent there are utilized effectively and efficiently – bothfor initial project implementation and for long term operation and maintenance. Too oftenin the past, major projects in developing countries have failed to meet desired anddesigned objectives because there is not a local base of technically qualified people toassist in implementation in ways that are compatible with the local culture andenvironment.Thus it is clear that developing countries need their own indigenous technologicalexpertise. They cannot afford to buy it from developed countries, and even when technicalexpertise from developed countries is provided by external funding it is often ineffective inappropriately

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Theresa Jones

threeconstructs. In Version 2, with the three constructs on separate pages, the students did notseem to focus upon the first construct being evaluated. Instead, they seemed to respondrelated to their initial general impression of what was wanted. Then when they cameacross the same outcomes for a different construct, they didn’t understand why they werebeing asked the same thing. That’s when the hands went up. Having the three constructslisted together seems to force the student to recognize that they are being to asked tothink about three different things. Or, as one student put it on the survey about the survey,“I was on the 2nd page before I knew what I was supposed to do on the 1st .” While theconstructs of Quantity and Quality are different and may

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Alford

create course materials for students and faculty. Thesetools can be categorized into four general categories: (1) HTML and XML-based tools, (2) texttools, (3) calendar tools, and (4) programming tools.Computing EnvironmentAll 4,200 students at the United States Military Academy are required to purchase a personalcomputer and, beginning with the graduating class of 2003, a personal digital assistant as well(see Figures 1 and 2). Handheld and desktop computer purchases are centrally managed, andwith very few exceptions all students within the same graduating class own the same computer,PDA, and software applications. Students purchase their personal computer and PDA prior to thebeginning of their freshman year, and they receive initial training in

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

THEO MARYONOVICH; Chris Netherton; Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”pivot linearity. CAGOR has many circuits on top; therefore the platforms must supportthis weight while maintaining structural integrity.Leg DesignA hexapod has a distinct advantage over other land roaming robots; it has ability to crossuneven terrain. Nature has developed, over time, the most efficient ways for animals toroam around. We have keenly observed at what nature has evolved and implementedthese ideas into a machine by using legs with articulating joints under software control.The initial design was developed after researching the leg movements of insects and ofpreviously

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; Joseph Morgan

for the courseproject. In the past, the platform has been a titration and measurement station used by theTexas A&M College of Medicine to support research activities, a rotating machinesimulator used as an exhibit demonstration station by private industry, and a performancemonitoring system for a Formula SAE race car being design and built for nationalcompetition by the Mechanical Engineering Department. Most recently, a self-powered,mobile platform that is monitored and controlled via a wireless network infrastructure hasbeen the platform of choice. The student teams must cooperate to schedule and gainaccess to the platform to test their design and development efforts as well as identify andsolve common problems. The teams must also

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Advances II

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Zeena Pinto; Richard Burt

able to test concrete structure. In 1934 Prof. K. Gaede (Hanover,Germany) reported the use of a spring driven impactor to supply the force to drive a steel ball intothe concrete2. The spring was compressed by turning a screw, a trigger released the compressedstring, and the plunger was propelled toward the concrete. The diameter of the indentation wasmeasured through a magnifying glass. D.G. Skramtajev3 of the Central Institute for IndustrialBuilding Research, Moscow summarized 14 different techniques, 10 of which were developed inthe Soviet Union for measuring the in-situ strength of concrete. He divided the test into 2 groups,those that required installation of test hardware prior to the placement of concrete and those thatdid not require

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Dalton; Daniel Stutts

and homework exercisesthrough out the semester. Control system designs were supported using simulation studiesconducted with Matlab and Simulink. The pre-laboratory work constituted the initial phase ofthe laboratory experience, prepared students for actually developing physical control systems,and were completed individually by each student in the course. During the second phase of theexperience, students divided into laboratory groups ranging from 2-4 students per group andconducted the in-lab portion. The experiences differed, somewhat, between the two apparatuses,and these differences are described in brief below.In the final phase of the mini-lab experience, students were asked to summarize the results of thelaboratory in a final written

Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Koenig; Masoud Rais-Rohani; Thomas Hannigan

with Unigraphics. In addition, students are introduced to departmentaleducational and research facilities located on and off-campus.A traditional textbook is not used because there is not one currently available that fits well withthe topics and activities of the course. Instead, a custom-made booklet provides a reference forthe students. The booklet contains the following sections: • Flight Vehicles: A Sampling for ASE 1013 Introduction to Aerospace Engineering • Business Aircraft: A Reasonably Complete Listing of Business Aircraft Currently in Production • Gulfstream IV Detail Specification • NACA Airfoils: A Small Assortment of Amazingly Antique but Uncommonly Useful Airfoils • U.S. Standard

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ricardo Molina; Claudio da Rocha Brito; Melany Ciampi

scienceand technology that has been modifying the entire world. It is essential the development of theability of seeking for the best solution for the problems, the right use of information to foster theprogress of the society, rationally. It is about the quality of actions, decisions and design.Bibliography1. Vieira, A. H. G.; Brito, C. da R. “História da engenharia elétrica no Brasil”. In: Vargas, M. Contribuições para ahistória da engenharia no Brasil. São Paulo, EPUSP, 1994. p. 259-272.2. Fonseca, M. “Professional education and the fostering of citizenship”, São Paulo: SENAC. 2000.3. Brito, C. da R.; Ciampi, M. M.; Molina, R. C. “Scientific and Technological Initiation Projects in theConsolidation of Engineering Education". In: Internationalen

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Floersheim; Stephen Ressler; Margaret Bailey

courseassessment plan provides that crucial link between the program curriculum and theindividual courses. The plan process and content will be the major focus of this paper.To illustrate the impact of the course assessment plan in closing the assessment loop, wewill discuss an example of a course change with implications at the program level thatwas initiated and completed through use of the plan.I. IntroductionWhile many institutions may not possess the unique mission and faculty composition ofthe United States Military Academy, we all share the same desire and requirement toimprove our curriculum structure, integration and assessment as we move forward intothe 21st Century. Accordingly, EC2000 Criteria for curricular objectives and contentstates the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Clark; Lisa Comparini; Anthony Dixon; David DiBiasio

method,though labor intensive and time consuming, was necessary to probe the richness and complexityof the learning process.ResultsFirstly, it is important to know that external judging of the problem solving competition showedthat there was a significant positive difference between spiral-taught and comparison teams.Perhaps this is not surprising since spiral-taught students had more group learning experiences.However, the comparison cohort had several team experiences during the year. What surprisedus was the degree of difference between the two cohorts. We concentrated our efforts on tryingto understand this difference.A second surprise was the absence of traditional teamwork problems. Our initial analysis focusedon some traditional issues

Conference Session

Curriculum and Laboratory Development

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Walker; Chang Kim; Caye Drapcho

, the fundamentals of FEM using the Galerkin WeakStatement (GWS) were introduced to the class with discussion of error analysis. This techniqueprovides a more accurate solution with the estimation of error. The concept of error reductionthrough mesh refinement was also introduced. An example one-dimensional steady state heattransfer problem was used to illustrate these concepts. Secondly, the students gained first-handexperience with FEM by application to independent semester projects in biological engineering.Each project was required to include computational modeling and simulation of a biologicalengineering problem, primarily from the student’s research interest.The fundamental theory of FEM One dimensional heat transfer was used to

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon A. Driscoll

lecturing as graduate students; others go throughgraduate student/faculty development programs. While there are many different theories onteaching and learning, most have one thing in common: a belief that the traditional lectureformat is not the optimum method for presenting information to the majority of students that wewish to have them retain.My first experience teaching a technical course brought mixed results. I often started the lecturewith a short review of theory, and continued straight into an example. When I would stop to aska question, I was met with blank faces. Somewhere I had lost the attention of the class. By trialand error, I started including more active learning activities in the classroom to try to liventhings up. Initially, I

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Hamid Khan

Session 3560 Teaching and Learning Effectiveness Planning by Simulation Hamid Khan East Carolina University Greenville, NC 27858 Khana@mail.ecu.eduAbstractThis paper deals with a concept of computer simulation of teaching and learning, laboratorylimitations and resource allocations. This research is an offshoot of present dilemma that arises dueto effectiveness of instruction and student skill development in design. Student skills as have beenobserved depend on one-on-one instruction which requires