Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Huong Vu; Dave Parent; Emily Allen

, and academic benefit andshould be easily adaptable by other institutions. Students have responded positively to theexperience and recommended keeping it in the curriculum.There are many lessons that engineering students can learn as they study photovoltaic powergeneration. In the phase of the project discussed here, students simply learn how solar cellsfunction, how they are made, how to test and evaluate them, and how to design a simple solararray for a specified application. We currently use very inexpensive cells with relatively poorefficiencies (1-2%). Ultimately we plan to use our own higher efficiency, campus-manufacturedsolar cells for this project

Conference Session

Construction Contracts, Law and Ethics

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Renae Miller; Carla Lopez Del Puerto, Colorado State University; Rodolfo Valdes-Vasquez, Colorado State University; Kelly Strong

Tagged Divisions

Construction

Design-Build project delivery: Purpose, Structure and Risk Allocation. 3. Identification of contractual topics contained in both agreements. This discrete approach allows identifying topics provision-by-provision in both contract agreements. 4. Comparative analysis to identify any similarities of contractual intent required by the specific contractual language. 5. Evaluation of contractual topics unique to either the AIA or DBIA agreements to identify any differences of contractual intent.The research approach for this exploratory study consists of a provision-by-provisioncomparison analysis of these two sample forms of agreement.Results and DiscussionOne purpose of a comparative analysis of design-build agreements

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Kelly; Theodore A. Bickart; Pamela Suett

maintains Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)aerospace and ground vehicle standards. All of the above organizations are ANSI-accredited standards developers.A useful resource for students and faculty members researching standards is the NationalStandards Network(NSSN) that can be accessed at http://www.nssn.org/ . AlthoughNSSN originally stood for the national standards system network, the NSSN is nowmuch broader in scope and is a good starting point for students to research internationalstandards as well. The MIT library can be expected to have a fairly good collection ofstandards but it appears that many non-MIT students may find access to actual standardsfairly limited although standards can sometimes be obtained through interlibrary loan

Conference Session

Experiential Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Hanneman; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

to improve their programs and truly make assessmentpart of the continual improvement process.At Iowa State University, engineering programs are beginning to implement competency-basedlearning and assessment, and using the results of assessments for continuous curriculumimprovement. For example, the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering isimplementing a competency-based assessment strategy, and is identifying the degree to whichthe engineering courses they offer address the 14 ISU Competencies.14 They are providing moreopportunities for their students to develop and demonstrate the Innovation competency acrosstheir entire curriculum by incorporating more open-ended problems and case-studies in theirclasses, motivated to a

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

Design Experiences in Energy Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kendrick Aung

seniorundergraduate students but first-year graduate students are also allowed to take the course. AtLamar University, the prerequisites for the course are the completion of undergraduate fluidmechanics, thermodynamics, and heat transfer courses. The class is a 3-credit hour class with 3hours of lecture time each week. The course consists of four parts: energy resources, energy conversion, energyconservation, and environmental impacts of energy generation. Both non-renewable andrenewable energy resources were covered. Non-renewable energy resources include petroleum,coal, natural gas, and nuclear while renewable energy resources are solar, biomass, wind,geothermal energy, and hydro. The energy conversion devices covered in the course includeinternal

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Kenrow

,typically graduate students and researchers, due to the high costs of wafers and equipment.TCAD gives the student, even on the undergraduate level, a chance to learn about realisticsilicon wafer processing via hands-on simulation, without the need for IC processing facilities. Page 9.766.6With TCAD the student can experiment and explore the impact of process flow modifications at Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationvirtually no cost. Powerful computers are readily available on any campus, which the

Conference Session

Technology-Based Entrepreneurship Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hsu Tze Chi; Han Bee Shan

variety of societal needs. Our program at the undergraduate levelemphasizes on creativity, hands-on practice, internationalization, and the ability toadapt to rapid changing technologies. Our mission is to prepare for practice or forgraduate studying engineering or other fields where a broad, fundamental engineeringbackground is desirable. A solid grounding in the principles and practices ofmechanical engineering enables graduates to acquire innovative concepts,technologies and methodologies throughout their lives, and to address a variety ofsocietal needs. Combining engineering and business students in a company environment is aneffective method of entrepreneurship education. It provides a more realisticenvironment for developing business

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas H. Ortmeyer; M. Sathyamoorthy; Karl Cunningham

component of engineering education,methods of providing undergraduate students with a significant design experience varywidely among disciplines and faculty. Dunn-Rankin, et. al.[1] state the "design training,though somewhat ill-defined, is crucial to enable graduating engineers to contribute intoday’s competitive manufacturing environment." A key aspect of this dilemma is thatdesign practices vary by discipline and project criteria. In surveying 47 companies ontheir priorities in manufacturing engineering education, Mason [2] notes that "theimportance of hands-on experience emphasized by the survey is a break from atraditional engineering curriculum."At the same time, it is recognized that workplace experience is a key factor in enabling

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Harrah; Martha Cyr; Brad George

confidence. This is an extension of the methods of scientificmanagement pioneered by Frederick Taylor (1856-1915) at Bethlehem Steel in the earlytwentieth century. In fact, the earliest graphical project planning tool, the bar chart, isnamed after an early associate of Taylor’s, Henry Gantt (1861-1919) who studied theorder of work operations in manufacturing4. This simple form of project planning relieson the horizontal representation of project task duration and can be modified to includethe dependency of one task on the next. While this technique is presently usedindustrially only for relatively simple projects or when the duration and scope of theproject is not firmly fixed (e.g. research and development), its utility remains substantial.Gantt

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Nick Salamon; Gautam Wagle; Cliff Lissenden

addition to teaching engineeringmechanics courses ranging from statics to plasticity theory, he performs experimental andmodeling studies of material response in the presence of multiaxial stress states. He is a memberof ASEE, SES, ASME, ASCE, and Sigma Xi.GAUTAM S. WAGLE is a Research Assistant at Penn State. He received a B.E. degree inMechanical Engineering from the University of Bombay, India in 1997. He worked for a year asa Pre-planning engineer in the Switchgear manufacturing division of M/s Larsen and Toubro Ltd,Bombay, India. Gautam received his M.S. in Engineering Mechanics from Penn State in 2000.N.J. SALAMON, Ph.D. (Northwestern University, USA) has been a professor at Penn Statesince 1985. Prior to that he was associate professor at

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Zorica Pantic-Tanner

pronounced. It is imperative for graduating engineers to have operative knowledge of EMIand corresponding remedies. The EMC-related principles and applications are incorporated intwo electromagnetics, one communications and one EMC course and are supported by hands-onexperience in a newly developed state-of-the-art high-frequency laboratory. The lab exercisesand design projects are described at the web site http://http.engineering.sfsu.edu/nsf/. They helpstudents understand the difficult EM/EMC concepts and expose them to practical EMCapplications.I. IntroductionIn this era of rapid development of communication systems, the trend is toward use ofmicrowave and higher frequency ranges. At the same time circuits and systems are operating athigher

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Dyer; Robert Krchnavek; John Schmalzel; Shreekanth Mandayam

withengineering practitioners all are asking us to change the way engineering is taught.Material must be relevant—ever more important as the pace of technological innovationescalates. The educational process must be outcomes oriented—we need to decide whatwe want our students to learn and then see if they learn it. Fresh graduates should be Page 6.696.11 The support of the National Science Foundation (DUE 9981139) is gratefully acknowledged. Theopinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not represent NSF positions or policies.“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Bahador Ghahramani

information, therefore, may not depend on correctness of another; and, correction of onefaulty value may not prevent the occurrence of others at a later point in time. However, validityof the outputs as a whole depends on accuracy of each piece of data. In IS environments, acorrect value may be accurate for a limited duration of time, becoming faulty or outdated at alater time. This paper will also address the following fundamentals of data quality and futureevolutionary initiatives in modern IS. • Processes that deliver data and the accuracy of the data become more significant. This includes on-line services such as automated processes that enhance research and development efforts

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Postcard Session (Best of WIPs)

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Ilkhanipour Rooney, University of Delaware; Shameeka M Jelenewicz, University of Delaware

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

Paper ID #41974Work in Progress: Development of a Medical Devices Course for SophomoreBiomedical Engineering Undergraduate StudentsDr. Sarah Ilkhanipour Rooney, University of Delaware Dr. Sarah I. Rooney is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Delaware. Dr. Rooney’s efforts center around developing and teaching courses in the undergraduate BME curriculum and facilitating continuous improvement of the program.Mrs. Shameeka M Jelenewicz, University of Delaware ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024

Collection

2023 CIEC

Authors

Mohsen Azizi

troubleshooting.This project is conducted at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), which is a publicuniversity located in Newark, New Jersey. It is home to 18% Hispanic, 9% other minorities, and28% female students as of 2021. The School of Applied Engineering and Technology (SAET) atNJIT develops strong connections with the community colleges and industries, and offersABET-accredited programs with significant hands-on laboratory experiences and appliedresearch opportunities. These opportunities complement the classroom experience in preparationof students for careers in a wide range of industries. The principal investigator of this project hasexpertise in the field of solar PV and power systems [1]-[8], has supervised several research anddevelopment

Conference Session

Two-Year College Special Topics Potpourri

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Fraser, Long Beach City College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

of ocean science applications into the electrical, electronic, computerscience, and mechanical design programs provides the students with a real-worldapplication for their course of studies and broadens their career opportunities. Further,giving students the hands-on applications first then following up with the technicalconcepts serves as a powerful motivator of student learning. The electrical technologyprogram at the author’s institution (California) is one example of how this can work.Students can enroll in a robotics applications class without prerequisites and as a resultdevelop an immediate understanding of the operational systems. From there theydemand additional knowledge on the inner workings of the systems providing self

Conference Session

Mechanics Division Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

thatmajority of engineering students must know and understand. The approximation is valid fornon-linear waves and fairly long waves. The students should also understand that fluid beingstudied is incompressible and is an assumption that is used in the theory of convection. Someinstructors are of the opinion that Boussinesq Equations are normally not taught in anundergraduate curriculum. The author is in partial agreement with this idea. Regardless, theauthor wants to introduce the importance of Boussinesq approximation in an undergraduatecurriculum, because many students may not choose to go to a graduate program in fluidmechanics.Boussinesq Equations It is important to observe that buoyancy-driven flow experiments, data collection

Conference Session

Curriculum Issues in Software Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Massood Towhidnejad; Thomas Hilburn

discipline took place at the 1968 NATO Conference on Software Engineering [4].Since that time there have been numerous studies and analysis of software development as anengineering profession [1, 5, 7, 9, 11]. Even though software engineering has made greatprogress and the term “software engineering” is now widely used in industry, it is still not yetwell-defined and its professional content, practices, and certification criteria are not universallyagreed upon. There is confusion and controversy over the relationship between computer scienceand SE, and some would even dispute that SE is engineering. A more generous attitude might bethat the discipline is still new relative to more traditional engineering fields; and, thus, softwareengineering is

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Mechanical ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Johnson; Carlos Oncina

Session: 1647 Use of MET Capstone Course RADDical Metric Carlos Oncina, Craig Johnson Central Washington UniversityAbstractThis research involves the application of an assessment metric to the first quarter of our capstonecourse with the purpose of improving both our student preparedness and our overall MechanicalEngineering Technology program. Observations of recent student performance on meeting thecourse outcomes of the design phase of our capstone course were below expectations. Anassessment metric, referred to as RADD (Requirements, Analysis, Design, Drawings

Conference Session

Building Bridges in ET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Newman; John Robertson; Lakshmi Munukutla

horizons, promotelife-long learning and enrich their lives.Sharing Resources such as LaboratoriesAccording to a study conducted by Cyberstates Research, Arizona ranks number three in thenation in semiconductor manufacturing employment, with 35,000 jobs. To meet these demands,semiconductor companies nationally and locally has launched an ad campaign to attract studentinto programs that prepare them for the future workforce. Local semiconductor companies havesought to collaborate with the higher education institutions, such as their neighboring universitiesand community colleges, to implement this workforce initiative. The College of Technologyand Applied Sciences (CTAS) at ASU East is leading the way by developing a state-of-the-artteaching factory

Collection

2022 CIEC

Authors

Brad Dahm; Emma Davidson; Paniz Hazaveh; Aleksandr Sergeyev

been developed forwelding 3 dimensional objects from nothing [1]. Industrial applications today are increasing intheir use of robots for a variety of processes. Students graduating from University havingcompleted courses covering robotic materials are quite valuable to potential employers. Thesenior design program at Michigan Technological University is designed to provide studentswith a real-world project that emulates the work that would potentially be done in the student’sfuture career.This senior design project revolves around the FANUC robotics platform and provides anexcellent opportunity for hands-on learning of the controls and functions of the robot. Robots inuse today are used for a wide variety of processes including material

Collection

2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Felix Ewere, North Carolina State University at Raleigh

Tagged Topics

Diversity

piezoelectric structures for engineering applications. Educational research interests include engineering design education, developing better-equipped graduates for the workforce, bridging the core competencies gap, improving diversity and collaboration within disciplines ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 The Engineering Design Process: An introduction to Engineering Students using the Tower Bridge ProjectAbstractFamiliarity with the engineering design process is essential to the professional development ofthe Integrated Engineer. Therefore, as part of the new MAE Transfer to Success course, anIntroduction to Engineering Design module was added to familiarize new transfer

Conference Session

Lean and Green

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Terri Lynch-Caris, Kettering University; John Sutherland, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

and processes. The IE skillset includes a systems approach to decision-making required for sustainable design. Traditionaltopics of study in IE curricula include Systems Analysis, Computational Modeling (Statistics,Engineering Economy, Operations Research, Discrete-Event Simulation) and Work Design.Such courses lend themselves to a discussion of sustainability. The orientation and preparationof IE students puts them in an excellent position to embrace the goal of sustainable design inorder to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations tomeet their own needs.2 This is particularly the case for IE undergraduate students.Figure 1 shows the factors that define a sustainable state of development. The three

Collection

2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Lu Zhang; Mudasser F. Wyne; Alireza Farahani; Bhaskar Sinha; Mohammad Amin

ofdirect application of computer science and relational mathematics that enables us to solve realworld problems. Since database is part of any digital activity that we perform in our daily life thusdatabase remains among the most sought-after and popular subjects taken by students studying inengineering, science, business and technology disciplines. Many, both technical and non-technical,programs (graduate and undergraduate) at times require at least one database course. Usually, sucha course introduces the conceptual model of database design (Entity Relationship Model),implementation model (Relational Model) and administration. Teaching a database course tostudents from different disciplines in one class is always a challenging task, and at the

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - DEI and Design Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chi Ying Chan, University of Hong Kong; Chun Kit Chui, University of Hong Kong

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

to unleash students’ creativity by entrusting them to spearhead ambitious innovation and technology projects that will shape the future. The iconic facility is located at the heart of the campus, offering 2400m2 of space with state-of-the-art resources and a supportive environment to enhance hands-on and experiential learning for undergraduate students. He also holds the position of Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at HKU. His research interests include database and data mining, as well as pedagogical research in computing education. Dr. Chui has received several education awards, including the University Outstanding Teaching Award (Individual Award) at the University of Hong Kong for the

Conference Session

Incorporating Technology in the Classroom

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Sanders, California State University, Fullerton; Serop Kelkelian, California State University, Fullerton; Markus Wieser; Guenter Bischof, Joanneum

California State University, Fullerton majoring in Mechanical Engineering and minoring in Computer Science. Presently, he is completing a summer internship with the United States Department of Defense. After graduation, he plans to pursue a graduate degree in Computer Science with a focus on artificial intelligence.Markus Wieser Markus Wieser obtained his B.Sc. degree in Automotive Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Joanneum Graz. Currently, he is completing his M.Sc. studies at the same faculty.Guenter Bischof (Associate Professor) Günter Bischof holds a doctorate in physics and is currently an Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Applied Sciences FH Joanneum in Graz

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Division (ARCHE) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea Atkins, University of Waterloo; Alison McNeil; Rania Al-Hammoud, University of Waterloo

Tagged Divisions

Architectural Engineering Division (ARCHE)

Paper ID #38335The Effect of the Application of Feedback and Reflection on an IterativeStudent Design ChallengeMrs. Andrea Atkins, University of Waterloo Andrea Atkins is a lecturer in Architectural Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Previously, she was a structural designer at Blackwell Structural Engineers in Toronto.Alison McNeilDr. Rania Al-Hammoud, University of Waterloo Rania Al-Hammoud is a lecturer and the current associate chair of undergraduate studies at the civil & environmental engineering department at university of waterloo. Dr. Al-Hammoud has a civil engineering background with research focusing

Collection

2007 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Nihad E. Daidzic; Vojin R. Nikolic

been formed throughout the state. Their primary objective has been to improve the competitiveness of the Minnesota workforce through better preparing the state graduates for careers in engineering, then through forming stronger links between the Minnesota colleges and universities and its industry, and finally by addressing the low level of interest among HS students in these professions. Minnesota State University (MSU), Mankato, has been a partner in one such center, the Minnesota Center for Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence (MNCEME). Realizing the need to increase the student enrollment and retention in science and engineering programs in the state of Minnesota and MSU in particular the authors

Conference Session

Meeting ABET Requirements

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anne Spence, University of Maryland-Baltimore County; Liang Zhu, University of Maryland-Baltimore County

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UMBC and holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. Her research focuses on the effects of vascular geometry and blood perfusion on local heat transfer in microcirculation and the simulation of temperature fields in tissue during hyperthermia and hypothermia treatment for various diseases. Dr. Zhu was actively involved in the ABET data collection and analysis process. Page 12.1314.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Student Outcomes Assessment Methodology in Mechanical EngineeringIntroductionFor many years