Conference Session

Capstone Design and Engineering Practice

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Adams

with two ASU and twoLeeds students both at Rolls-Royce and Boeing. The summer activity has been concluded with allstudents meeting in Arizona at the end of August for a two week joint team working session.Student TutorialsEach student was expected to prepare a tutorial on a related project subject as part of the summerinternship. The tutorials were the mechanism by which the students initiated basic research intotheir GEDT design project. Each student was expected to become a focal point resource for theselected subject matter. During the final two weeks of the summer session each student presentedtheir tutorial to the team and mentors. Typical tutorial subjects have included turboshaft enginethermodynamic cycles, installed engine performance

Conference Session

K-20 Activities in Materials Science

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hermes Calderon; Amilcar Quispitupa; Scott Kiefer

[enter]At this point the students have generated a sphere representing the central Cl- anion of the CsClcrystal, as shown in Figure 3. They are ready to start graphing the eight Cs+ cations withdifferent colors. Due to central symmetry in this case it is convenient to locate the origin of aCsClcoordinates at the center of the Cl- ion; therefore, = 0.101nm. 2 Figure 3: Initial step to generate the Cl- located in the center of the CsCl BCC crystal. 7 Change color Click: arrow next to second white box in top menu → click: blue

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas E. Hulbert; Robert B. Angus

secondcycle with plans for more offerings already in place. Page 5.476.3 3Eastern Massachusetts Photoresist ManufacturerThe company provides photoresist technology for most major semiconductor companies in theworld. Northeastern’s Microelectronics Certificate Program fits well into their business as all oftheir technical staff need product knowledge as they interface with customers. The first of threecycles was Research Engineers and Scientists as participants. The second was the Engineeringstaff, and the third is the equipment and field staff.The certificate program is six twenty hour courses-four

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve York

the freshman year. As part of the on-going implementation of these activities at Virginia Tech, we have recently introduced aseries of design/build projects for freshman student teams that are centered on astandardized kit of tools and materials dubbed the “MacGyver box”. This program hasbeen piloted with approximately 300 students during the fall semester of 2001 and is tobe fully implemented into the Virginia Tech freshman engineering class by fall of 2002.This initiative has been well received by students, and offers an engaging and instructivemethod to introduce students to design, engineering economy, and the dynamics ofteamwork.Teams of four students are issued a MacGyver box, briefly introduced to the designprocess, and assigned

Conference Session

Current Issues in Computing

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

E. Bernard White

Page 7.899.3curricula. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationThe following is a summary of the insightful guidance for initiating the BS ITproposal development process that was provided by the BS IT proposal workingcommittee:§ Solicit industry input to establish need for the IT Major.§ Develop goals for the IT Major, and determine how these goals will be assessed.§ Keep in mind why we cannot produce enough CS and engineering majors to meet workforce demands.§ Determine what types of jobs the BS IT program will prepare students for.§ Determine the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Spencer Brinkerhoff; III, Walter Hopkins; David Hartman

EngineeringDesign, was developed to bring these freshmen into the College of Engineering and Technology,expose them to the various engineering programs available at Northern Arizona University, andto develop their skills as problem solvers and communicators. Other important objectives for thecourse are to develop teaming skills, to provide exposure to ethical issues, and to initiate thedevelopment of skills that will be used in the subsequent three engineering design courses. Thiscourse is the initial step in the Design4Practice1 curriculum, first described in 19952, and whichwon the 1999 Boeing Outstanding Educator Award.3II. BackgroundThe first engineering design course developed and offered at Northern Arizona University was acapstone course which

Conference Session

Integration of the Humanities and Social Sciences into Civil Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald W. Welch, University of Texas, Tyler

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

beginning the process nowbecause they believe that the new outcomes in the BOK II are justified and needed; andtherefore, they should not wait until the new outcomes become part of the official CEProgram criteria to begin demonstrating accomplishment. This paper will present therubrics used, the results (data) of these first assignments, the assessment, and the changesbeing incorporated based on the assessment. The key is early development of detailedrubrics that most of the faculty can initially agree with such that optimal points within thecurriculum are selected to collect data. The initial rubrics may need to be updated eachcycle to improve assessment focus and efficiency.1.0 IntroductionThe American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) recognized

Conference Session

FPD III: Innovation in Design in the First Year

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ann Saterbak, Rice University; Mark Embree, Rice University; Maria Oden, Rice University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

a professor of computational and applied mathematics at Rice. Educated in computer science and math- ematics at Virginia Tech, Embree received his doctorate in numerical analysis at Oxford. His research interests focus on spectral theory for nonnormal matrices and the behavior of algorithms for large-scale linear algebra problems. Since its launch in 2010, Embree has directed RCEL in its efforts to challenge engineering students to develop into effective leaders and to devote their expertise toward solving pressing problems.Dr. Maria Oden, Rice University Maria Oden is a professor in the practice of engineering education and Director of Rice’s Oshman Engi- neering Design Kitchen. She joined Rice in 2004

Conference Session

New Concepts for Alternative Energy Courses and Concepts

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lawrence Holloway, University of Kentucky

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

targeted questions. This also requirescareful selection of the recommended articles, where each article has appropriate depthand will lead the student presenter towards the key points intended for the class.Such a discussion session is very different from classroom styles found in manyengineering courses. Moving to such a session can initially be intimidating to aninstructor who is used to more structured lecture styles. This instructor was initially quitenervous about the prospect of going into a class with no prepared lecture, with the planthat the students would actually engage in these targeted discussions for most of the classperiod. There were fears that the students either wouldn’t participate at all, or else thatthe discussions would

Conference Session

Design Potpourri

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bethany M. Miller, John Brown University; Will C. Holmes, John Brown University; Kevin Hunter Macfarlan, John Brown University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

the American Solar Challenge6,7 or building a solar house in the Department of Energy’sSolar Decathlon8 have fewer participants, but are similarly well known. Also of note are small-scale robotic competitions such as the Two-Year College Model Design held at the ASEEAnnual Conference and the Student Hardware Competition9,10 held at IEEE’s region three annualconference, SouthestCon. A new competition available to universities is the NASA LunaboticsMining Competition.As part of the Kennedy Educational branch of the National Aeronautics and SpaceAdministration (NASA), the Lunabotics Mining Competition was developed as an initiative toencourage university students to engage in the fields of science, technology, engineering, andmathematics (STEM

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Regina Zmich; Thomas Wolff

at least a subset of engineering freshman. The initial idea was simply tocluster students in common classes, but a model already successful at MSU was the living-learningconcept, which had been implemented by two other campus units, the Lyman Briggs School andthe James Madison College. The Lyman Briggs School is a degree-granting unit of the College ofNatural Science which has all students is the program living in the same dorm, taking classestogether, and having professors’ offices in the same building or nearby. The James MadisonCollege provides a similar program in international relations. A focus of both programs was tocounter the large and potentially overwhelming size of MSU by providing the experience of a“small college on the campus

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Bishop; Richard Dorf

confirming engineering intuition regarding the design variablesand how they affect the system response. Traditional lectures on control system design usingroot locus, frequency response techniques, and state-space design methods should not bereplaced with lectures on computer programming.In our design approach, we emphasize the use of analytic methods based on the notion of dominant poles to obtain initial control system designs (using root locus methods, forexample). The idea is to design the controller such that the closed-loop system response isdominated by poles placed appropriately to meet the design specifications. Then, MATLAB andSimulink are used to verify that he design specifications have indeed been satisfied and to fine-tune the design

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Rick Duley; A Boyanich; S P Maj

transmitted (I!i) then the obvious solution is to reduce the depth in which thatinformation is studied (D!d). The question often asked is whether such a reduction isacceptable in SE education. In the authors’ view the real question is whether or not a SE studentactually needs the knowledge of the inner workings of a VLSI chip, CD-ROM, a Zip Drive orModem which is appropriate to a Computer Scientist or Computer Systems Engineer. Wesupport the case that it is not since an SE is a user of computers rather than a maker of them andthat students need to be familiar with the tools of the trade at the user (not designer) level5.Therefore, we believe that a conceptual understanding of such devices would adequately serve— at least in the initial stages. This

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Hrishikesh Potdar; Kurt Gramoll

Session 2257 Internet-based, Interactive Software for Industrial Engineering Education Hrishikesh Potdar and Kurt Gramoll Research Assistant and Hughes Professor Engineering Media Lab University of OklahomaAbstractNew and developing electronic communication tools are rapidly changing the ways in whicheducators educate and students learn. Collaborative learning environments utilizing variousinteractive electronic technologies are now being used in all levels of education

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Brown; Francine Battaglia; Donald R. Flugrad

. Typical dimensions are engineering knowledge,continuous learning and initiative, to name a few. For each dimension, a description (the rubric)is provided that qualifies the dimension. For example, program outcome PO 1 is assessed in ME231, Engineering Thermodynamics 1. The assessment rubric for this outcome has fourcategories (the dimension is underlined for emphasis): • Demonstrates specific engineering knowledge of subject area • Demonstrates interest in continuous learning • Demonstrates initiative • Demonstrates analysis and judgmentConventional rubrics were first used during the Spring 2000 semester. A four-point ratingsystem was incorporated; a score of zero was used to designate an unscorable dimension; that

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Dick Desautel

of department representatives about three years prior to the College’sFall 1998 ABET evaluation visit. The ATF proved to be an invaluable forum for sharing bestpractices, providing mutual encouragement and help, and stimulating departmental action andparticipation. Whereas the “old culture” of program evaluation focused on units and topics withminimal constituent input (see Figure 1), the generic assessment system design adopted by allfive departments through the ATF uses embedded loops of course, program and departmentassessment processes (see Figure 2). Results of the accreditation visit proved the value andeffectiveness of the College assessment system design as it was initially implemented in sevendegree programs. Aerospace Engineering

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

William B. Hudson; Donald M. Gruenbacher

program. The structure of the recitation has certainly evolved over the past fewyears. Initially, the recitation component was primarily made up of breadboarding exercisesusing small scale integration (SSI) and/or medium scale integration (MSI) logic and simpleprogrammable logic devices such as the 16V8. Additional topics were added over time, and atone point a semester of recitation would include circuit design and breadboard constructionusing SSI and MSI logic, Altera CPLD design using both schematic capture and VHDL, PLDdesign using CUPL, and simple programming of microcontrollers. This was too much materialin a semester so the VHDL and microcontroller components were dropped from the list oftopics. The current recitation exercises consist of

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2024 CIEC

Authors

Sabah Abro; Ken Cook

project, project, task(s), team. with a team? task(s), and and working with a working with a team. team.Leadership & Facilitates team assignment Takes responsibility Takes some Does what isParticipation of responsibilities, ensuring when asked or elected, responsibility for required but that work is shared. Shows shows good project. Shows hesitates to or does initiative and good

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cyrus Habibi, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Adama Sawadogo, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

, including improvements in public health, environmental quality, and resource sustainability, even if they involve higher upfront costs or regulatory hurdles. Medical Device Design: Engineers involved in designing medical devices, such as pacemakers or prosthetic limbs, must weigh considerations of safety, effectiveness, and accessibility for patients. Utilitarianism would prioritize devices that provide the most significant improvements in quality of life and healthcare outcomes for the greatest number of people, even if they require additional research and development costs or regulatory approvals. Transportation Infrastructure: Planning and designing transportation systems, including roads

Collection

2013 GSW

Authors

Edward E. Anderson

, graphic representation, variables lists, and mathematicalmodel, and requires users to develop each of these mental models (graphical representation isoptional). Andes includes an equation solving tool although users can also solve the equationsoff-line. A research project conducted on some 330 students approximately one-half of whomwere in a control group, resulted in a 3% (1/3 letter grade) student performance improvement ondepartmental pencil and paper examinations by students who did Andes homework rather thantraditional homework. Anecdotal results from Andes users (Schulze, et al.18) indicate thatstudents are initially reluctant to carefully define their variables, some students ask for help onalmost every step of a problem solution, giving

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2011 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Heath A. Schluterman; Kellie Schneider; C. Richard Cassady

Engineering I completed the initial assessment of their engineeringproblem solving skills by completing the “Exam 1 and 2 Pre-Test” (i.e., the Pre-Test). Theassessment was executed during the first week of class (Wednesday, August 25 and Thursday,August 26, 2010) before students were exposed to any of the problem solving topics covered bythe Pre-Test. Each student was given an exam which contained thirteen problems, and eachstudent was randomly assigned five problems to attempt. Students were allowed 50 minutes tocomplete their assigned problems. They were encouraged to put forward their best effort on eachproblem, but they were told that “I have no idea” was an acceptable answer.Students were informed that the grade for the Pre-Test would be based

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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Michael E. Kuhl

value.The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. In section 2, we discuss entrepreneurialmindset learning as it relates to simulation and the expected outcomes. The EML activity designmethodology is presented in section 3. In section 4, we discuss an example implementation of theactivity. In section 5, we discuss the results and outcomes of the escape room implementation.Finally, in section 6, we present our conclusions and insights for future course development.2. Entrepreneurial Mindset Learning Activities in SimulationAlthough often associated with individuals that take the initiative to develop a product or serviceinto a company (i.e., entrepreneurs), an entrepreneurial mindset is a way of thinking that can bedeveloped and applied by

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

James Solderitsch

of these offering of new forms of security monitoring embedded in thecapabilities into a cohesive instructional program. back-end, and probably cloud-based, operations control center.Note: An early draft of this paper and was created while the In this paper we want to acknowledge the significant challengesauthor was a member of the Cyber Security R&D group within that need to be understood to create a safe and secure world ofAccenture Technology Laboratories that was supporting a recently smart things and smart systems. We want to raise awareness in theestablished company-wide strategic innovation initiative on the context of an engineering student's educational program of howIndustrial

Conference Session

Computational Tools

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joel Esposito, U.S. Naval Academy; Carl E. Wick, U.S. Naval Academy; Kenneth A. Knowles, U.S. Naval Academy

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

very similar to those used with the old Scorbot.However, our initial efforts to load the DLL into MATLAB failed. Unfortunately, it turned outthat the new DLL was apparently written in C++ and was compiled in such a way that the libraryfunction names could not be successfully read by MATLAB.The reason may be obscure to many non-computer scientists, and has to do with some of theflexibility afforded by programming languages like C++. One of these flexibilities is to be ableto have several software routines with the same function name, but with different lists ofparameters (similar to overloading). The compiler is left to decide which variant to use based onthe parameters the programmer provides. This extension also allows for default

Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Josue Njock-Libii, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

ofimpacts and collisions [6].The impact process between a ball and a hard surface involves a change, albeit temporary, in theshape of the ball [1]. A frame-by-frame study of the pictures of bouncing tennis balls obtainedusing high-speed cameras (2000 frames per second) in our laboratory demonstrated that thisprocess consists of four separate and distinct phases: initial contact, deformation of the originalshape, restitution and recovery of the shape of the ball, and separation and takeoff [6]. Page 22.218.2In general, impulses that act on the ball during the deformation phase are different in magnitudeand direction from those that arise during

Conference Session

Scholar Program Proposal/Develop Courses and Materials/Collaborations and Accredatation Systems for Global Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugo Pirela, InterAmerican Development Bank; Gisela Coto Quintana, SINAES; Juan Luis Crespo Marino, Universidade da Coruna; Maria M. Larrondo Petrie, Florida Atlantic University; Miguel J. Escala, Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo; Zenaida Otero Gephardt, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

International

AC 2010-2197: CREATION OF A GREATER CARIBBEAN REGIONALENGINEERING ACCREDITATION SYSTEMHugo Pirela, InterAmerican Development Bank Dr. Hugo Pirela is a representative of the Interamerican Development Bank in the Dominican Republic and leads the Greater Caribbean Region Engineering Accreditation System project.Gisela Coto Quintana, SINAES Dr. Gisela Coto Quintana is the International Consultant on the Greater Caribbean Region Engineering Accreditation System project, and is an engineering accreditation expert in the SINAES, an accreditation agency in Costa Rica.Juan Luis Crespo Marino, Universidade da Coruna Dr. Juan Luis Crespo Mariño is a Research Associate on the Greater Caribbean Region

Conference Session

Track 4 - Session II - Student and Curriculum Development II

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Megan Elizabeth Sharp, IUPUI School of Engineering and Technology; Alison L. Stevenson, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Tagged Topics

Student and Curriculum Development

cultures, histories, and global issues frominternational students; to participate in environments where differences are acknowledged andrespected, reducing stereotypical thinking; and to see beyond city and state borders to understandU.S. interdependence with the world.”32A knowledge of contemporary issues: Students in the engineering technology programs areexpected to have discipline-specific knowledge, as well as a knowledge of contemporary issues.Imparting knowledge regarding these contemporary issues will only better prepare our studentsfor success in their careers. In this curriculum, we have chosen to add an international dimension– a need which can be addressed with these skills.The IUPUI campus also has a curriculum enhancement initiative

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ing-Chang Jong

machines (structures with movable members) or frames (structures with no mov-able members). By letting the free body of a system undergo a strategically chosen compatiblevirtual displacement in the virtual work method, we can solve for one specified unknown at atime in many complex as well as simple problems in mechanics without having to solve coupledsimultaneous equations. The virtual work method may initially appear as a magic black box tostudents, but it generally kindles great curiosity and interest in students of statics. This paper pro-poses an approach consisting of three major steps and one guiding strategy for implementing thevirtual work method. It results in great learning of the virtual work method for students.I. IntroductionWork is

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Feemster

propeller blade). In order to illustrate the advantages of including currentmeasurements, two compensator design strategies were evaluated: i) a Bode frequency responsecompensator design that utilizes only rotor velocity measurements and ii) an inner loop currentcompensator coupled with an outer loop rotor velocity compensator designed from Root Locusbased techniques. In order to facilitate the Root Locus compensator design, an initial design projectwas conducted to identify individual parameter values of the electrical and mechanical subsystemsof the dynamometer setup from experimentally obtained data while the second design projectfocuses on the Bode and Root Locus compensator designs.3.1 Parameter IdentificationSince electro-mechanical systems

Conference Session

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Wheeler; Robert LeMaster

created to meet the needs of thenon-traditional student and others whose educational objectives were not met by traditionaldegree programs. The degree was approved by the Faculty Senate in Spring 2000 andimplemented in the fall of that year.Concurrently, The University of Tennessee (UT) System offered The University of Tennessee atMartin (UTM) the opportunity to provide the initial degree program through UT New College.The BUS degree was selected as the means through which the UT New College could beginoffering bachelor’s degrees off-campus to students at convenient times and places. Because ofthe low number of Tennesseans holding a post secondary degree and a new emphasis placed onhigher education degrees by the state, the primary focus of the