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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

ofmultidisciplinary and multinational technical issues derived from joint ventures for newvalue-added products and processes and increase quality, reliability and safety factors that Page 4.59.9can help keep North American products competitive in the global market.It becomes very important to seek and develop local avenues for hands-on education withinternational relevance. These international skills need to be developed by US graduates sothat they do not become the exclusive domain of overseas institutions of higher learning.V.1 The Cal Poly and Technological Institute of Culiacan Experience. - Case Study on Building of a Partnership -The author, with the

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

P. M. Wild; B. W. Surgenor

by] graduate-level work in systems design and control theory”[3]. On the other hand,one might argue that very few people have the ability to assimilate and integrate the breadth ofknowledge required to become a “mechatronics engineer”. If this premise is accepted, thenmechatronics education should be about technical specialization with teamwork skills.Over the past decade, many mechatronics courses and programs have come into existence. Asfar as we can determine, every one of these initiatives has originated in a mechanical engineeringdepartment. This is particularly significant in light of the fact that engineering curricula, in Page

Conference Session

Problem- and Project-based Learning in Engineering Mechanics

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Hasz, Carthage College

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics Division (MECHS)

provide a potential use for it.This work-in-progress paper describes the motivation and development process of these labs, aswell as preliminary lab examples and planned assessment.There is substantial discussion in the engineering community about the importance of includingill-structured problems into curriculum within engineering education, as these problems betterrepresent the experiences post-graduation [1]–[7]. However, past work has found that textbookproblems are rarely ill-structured in form and that students may be rarely exposed to ill-structured problems within their engineering curriculum [1], [2], [5]. One area in which ill-structured problems are easier to incorporate are within lab experiences. Student laboratoryexperiences are

Conference Session

Technical Sessions 4

Collection

2024 Fall ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Shashi S. Marikunte, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College

Tagged Topics

Professional Papers

weresome drawbacks to online instruction during Covid-19, the benefits observed have promptedhigher education institutions to take a serious look at developing and offering some coursesonline. The main benefits are the flexibility it provides to both students and instructors alongwith increased enrollment by attracting students outside of their institution. This online courseoffering can be in the form of synchronous (zoom), asynchronous (web-based), or hybrid formatwith some in-person component. Many researchers who studied the benefits and challenges ofonline learning have highlighted the importance of course design in online learning to bebeneficial and to avoid pitfalls. While there are general guidelines for a well-developed onlineclass, this

Collection

2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Norman D. Dennis

"according to the ABET criteria. These courses have each been modified to incorporatesignificant open-ended design experiences that integrate specific knowledge requirements fromeach of several sub disciplines in civil engineering. The new curriculum requires students toselect two of these elective courses from a list of four to satisfy graduation requirements. Thispaper specifically addresses the changes made to the course in Foundations Engineering tosatisfy the ABET criteria and peripherally addresses the changes made to the other three subdiscipline courses in Structures, Environmental/Water Resources and Transportation.IntroductionA portion of Criterion 4 from the “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs”, published bythe Accreditation

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Physics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jian Peng, Southeast Missouri State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

AC 2010-1930: REVISING A MICRO-CONTROLLER COURSE FORENGINEERING PHYSICS STUDENTSJian Peng, Southeast Missouri State University Jian Peng received his B.E. degree from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China in 1992, his M.S. degree from Hangzhou Institute of Electronic Engineering, Hangzhou, China in 1995, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, in 2004. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics at Southeast Missouri State University. His research focuses on intelligent robotics and computer vision. He is a member of ASEE and IEEE

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

Authors

Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University; Elizabeth Anne Parry, North Carolina State University

is an ASEE Fellow.Ms. Elizabeth A Parry, North Carolina State University Elizabeth (Liz) Parry Elizabeth Parry is an engineer and consultant in K-12 Integrated STEM through Engineering Curriculum, Coaching and Professional Development and a Coordinator and Instructor of Introduction to Engineering at the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University. For the past sixteen years, she has worked extensively with students from kindergarten to graduate school, parents, preservice and in- service teachers to both educate and excite them about engineering. As the Co-PI and project director of a National Science Foundation GK-12 grant, Parry developed a highly effective tiered mentoring model for graduate

Conference Session

The Computer, the Web, and the ChE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

G.T. Lineberry; David Silverstein

) engineering education(University of Louisville, Murray State University, and Western Kentucky University), alongwith the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) and selectedindependent colleges (e.g., Kentucky Wesleyan) to develop a collection of offerings of pre-engineering courses at community colleges across the state. The courses have been selected toallow students graduating from two-year programs to then enter four-year programs andcomplete an engineering degree within two additional years.As part of this project, the specific needs of certain courses have been considered in the redesignof distance-learning classrooms in order to provide an effective instructional environment. Oneof the courses to be offered is “Process

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

of US educators in the SEFIannual meeting. US participants were engineering faculty and administrators who want tobring greater familiarity with international issues to their teaching and serviceresponsibilities at their home institutions.The short, concentrated workshop took place in the day and a half preceding the SEFIconference – on Monday evening, 10 September and all day Tuesday, 11 September2001. Participants attended presentations and discussions providing a comprehensiveoverview of current trends and issues in European engineering education. Particularattention was paid to explaining the relevance of these topics to US higher education atboth the undergraduate and graduate levels. In addition, selected sessions of the SEFIconference

Conference Session

Project Based Learning In ET Program

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vassilios Tzouanas, University of Houston - Downtown; Matthew Stevenson; Sanjo Peter, University of Houston Downtown

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Paper ID #6648Temperature and Level Control of a Multivariable Water Tank ProcessDr. Vassilios Tzouanas, University of Houston - Downtown Vassilios Tzouanas is an Assistant Professor of Control and Instrumentation in the Engineering Technol- ogy Department at the University of Houston-Downtown. Dr. Tzouanas earned a Diploma in Chemical Engineering from Aristotle University, the Master of Science degree in Chemical Engineering/Process Control from the University of Alberta, and the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Chemical Engineer- ing/Process Control from Lehigh University. His research interests focus on process control

Conference Session

Innovative IE Course Content

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Connie Gomez, Galveston College; Heidi A. Taboada, University of Texas, El Paso; Jose F. Espiritu, University of Texas, El Paso

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

., Allenby, B., Crittenden, J., Davidson, C. I., Hendrickson, C., & Matthews, H. S. (2009). Sustainability in engineering education and research at US universities. Environmental Science and Technology-Columbus, 43(15), 5558. 5. Steiner, S. J. (2010). Approaches to the embedding of sustainability into the engineering curriculum–where are we now, and how do our graduates become global engineers?. 6. Allenby, B., Murphy, C. F., Allen, D., & Davidson, C. (2009). Sustainable engineering education in the United States. Sustainability Science, 4(1), 7-15. Page 23.1251.12

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Poster Session

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara Ellen Wilson, The University of Kansas; Emma Grob-French, The University of Kansas

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

supported by 1 faculty member and 2 graduate teaching assistants. In Fall 2024, the course had111 students who completed the course. The course has a 50-minute weekly lecture, a 110-minute weekly lab (two sections), and a 50-minute discussion section (four sections). The coursehas both individual and team components. Individually, each student was responsible forcompleting a weekly lab assignment (5 points), a weekly in class activity during the lecture (5points), and a weekly homework assignment (5 points). There were also three 150-point exams(two on Matlab and one on Arduino). These individual activities constituted 83% of the totalcourse grade.The remaining 17.5% of the total course grade was a semester long team-based project withteams of 4-6

Conference Session

Joint Session: Entrepreneurially-Minded Learning in the Classroom

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melissa Gibbons

as a Senior Research Engineer at L3 Technologies. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Developing and Assessing a Renewable Energy Design Project that Embeds Entrepreneurially Minded Learning in an Introductory Thermal Sciences CourseAbstractThis paper describes a group design project created for an introductory thermal sciences coursethat incorporates both project-based learning (PBL) and entrepreneurially minded learning(EML). According to a commonly-used framework developed by Kern EntrepreneurialEngineering Network, the entrepreneurial mindset (EM) is broadly categorized by curiosity,making

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Tactical Approaches to Entrepreneurship Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric G Meyer, Lawrence Technological University; Mansoor Nasir, Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Projects course that is required for all freshman in the College of Engineering at LTU. This committee is currently designing a new sophomore-level Engineering Entrepreneurship Studio that will also be required for all students as a continuation of the ”Foundations studio”. He has published 33 peer-reviewed journal and conference proceeding articles. At LTU, Meyer offers a number of outreach programs for high school students and advises many projects for undergraduate students.Dr. Mansoor Nasir, Lawrence Technological University Dr. Mansoor Nasir received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from University of Cincinnati and Ph.D.in Bioengineering from University of California-Berkeley. He worked as a research scientist at

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division (FPD) Technical Session 6: Learning by Doing - Contextual and Community-Based Engineering

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebeka Lynn Yocum, Oregon Institute of Technology; Ashton Danielle Greer, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs Division (FPD)

Paper ID #46900Game on! Utilizing analogous context immersion to introduce critical engineeringconcepts to first-year students through board gamesDr. Rebeka Lynn Yocum, Oregon Institute of Technology Rebeka is a faculty member at Oregon Institute of Technology. She co-teaches the sequence of introductory civil engineering courses with the co-author of this paper, Dr. Ashton Greer. Her research interests include first year curriculum development and game based learning.Dr. Ashton Danielle Greer, Oregon Institute of Technology Ashton Greer is an Assistant Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at the Oregon Institute

Conference Session

Student Learning and Assessment

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Josh Coffman, University of Arkansas; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas; Daniel Jensen, United States Air Force Academy; Christina White, Columbia University; Ashland Brown, University of the Pacific; Jiancheng Liu, University of the Pacific; Kristen Kaufman, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

graduate degree in the field of Manufacturing and Design. Her current research interests include transformation design and engineering education, focusing on bringing learning to early childhood education. Page 15.1110.2© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Structured Process for Writing, Revising, and Assessing Multiple-Choice QuizzesAbstractA structured process is presented for developing or revising a multiple-choice quiz. A multiple-choice checklist form was created based on the best practices found in educational measurementbooks. The multiple-choice checklist form serves

Conference Session

How We Tackled the Pandemic

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ashley J. Earle, York College of Pennsylvania; Alison R. Kennicutt, York College of Pennsylvania

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Paper ID #33492Far from Normal – Student struggles with health and social interactionpersist through three semesters of education during the COVID-19 pandemicDr. Ashley J. Earle, York College of Pennsylvania Ashley is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical and Civil Engineering department at York College of Pennsylvania. She received her B.S in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and B.A. in International Studies from Lafayette College. She then pursued her passion for neuromuscular disease research at Cornell University where she received her PhD in Biomedical Engineering. At York, she is passionate about

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques in Structural Engineering Courses

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew W. Roberts, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Angela Marie Jones, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Michael K. Thompson, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

strengths and weaknesses.”4 In their study, Knaack, et al., found that when stu-dents clearly knew the outcomes, they found grading fairer and less mysterious, and they weremore likely to “work diligently to accomplish the goal set before them.”4 At K–12 levels, par-ents also felt that outcomes-based assessment meant they were less in the dark about their chil-dren’s grades. College students, though, are responsible for their own studies, and outcomes-based assessment helps them directly interpret both the meaning of a certain grade and the levelof understanding they have attained.Some academic blogs have featured discussion on the topic (typically in secondary education),but very little research has appeared in peer-reviewed publications

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Smith, University of Arkansas; Waleed Al-Assadi, University of Missouri

externally by Dr. Jia Di from the University ofArkansas; and he rated them as excellent. In fact, he is currently working on the design of anNCL 8051 microcontroller for a NASA Phase II SBIR, and has required his graduate studentsworking on the project to download Modules 2-5, study them, and complete the related exerciseproblems. Furthermore, he is utilizing the authors’ VHDL library for the NCL 8051 functionaldesign, although he is using Cadence for the transistor-level and physical-level design. Dr. Di’smain suggestion for improvement was to implement the transistor-level and physical-levellibraries in Cadence as well, such that the libraries are available for use with the three mostprevalent digital design tool suites (i.e., Mentor Graphics

Conference Session

The Computer, the Web, and the ChE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Baratuci; Angela Linse

once peracademic year. Students who are unable to enroll in a required course during the quarter inwhich it is offered, must delay graduation by one full year. As a result, there is a strongdisincentive for Chemical Engineering undergraduates to participate in the co-op program in anyquarter other than Summer.Heat transfer was the first course selected for our new distance-learning program because it is theonly course required for Chemical Engineering juniors in Spring Quarter. By offering thiscourse at a distance, students could work a Spring or Spring-Summer co-op assignment withoutdelaying graduation for a full year. The Co-op students enrolled in the course were both on

Conference Session

Focus on Capstone Experiences in the Chemical Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David L. Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Margot A. Vigeant, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

. Other schoolsprovide exams from previous years for students to study, providing a “level-playing field” forthose without access to collections of old exams. Video from television programs likeMythbusters is used for safety discussions. Animations collected from FEM/CFD software areused. Online reactor labs like www.SimzLab.com are used. Online texts are also used by some,such as Carl Lund’s KaRE TExT,http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/Research/karetext/front_matter/title/info.shtml. The ChemicalSafety Board also has videos available online. Some textbooks offer significant supplementarymaterial, including tutorial software, on their associated web sites

Conference Session

Capstone Design Projects in ECE

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James K. Archibald, Brigham Young University; Doran K. Wilde, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

worked 12 years in industry doing microprocessor design. In 1990, he began graduate studies at Oregon State University, where he received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science in 1993 and 1995, respectively. In 1995, he joined the faculty in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University where he is currently serving as an associate professor. Dr. Wilde has taught a wide range of computer and electrical engineering courses and has been involved in new computer engineering course development. He has been actively engaged in research in the fields of computer arithmetic, application specific systems and architectures, and autonomous vehicles. Dr. Wilde is a senior member of

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Walter W Schilling Jr., Milwaukee School of Engineering; Brad Dennis, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Division

Paper ID #20543WIP: Active Learning Exercises to Promote System Performance TestingDr. Walter W Schilling Jr., Milwaukee School of Engineering Walter Schilling is a Professor in the Software Engineering program at the Milwaukee School of Engi- neering in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received his B.S.E.E. from Ohio Northern University and M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Toledo. He worked for Ford Motor Company and Visteon Corporation as an Embedded Software Engineer for several years prior to returning for doctoral work. He has spent time at NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, and consulted for multiple embedded

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2003 GSW

Authors

Jerry K. Keska; Heechan Shin

Power and Mechanical Systemsin College of Engineering at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His research interests are in the areas ofMicroelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) including microheatexchangers, fluid dynamics of complex heterogeneousmixtures (multiphase, slurries), tribology; computer-aided measurement systems and instrumentation ofconcentration, film thickness and viscosity using electromagnetic sensors; turbulence and flow pattern phenomena inmixtures; and deterministic and random signal analysis including validation process of physical data.HEECHAN SHINHeechan Shin is pursuing a master’s degree of Engineering Management Dept. in University of Louisiana atLafayette. He graduated from Electrical Engineering Dept. in University

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Rabb, United States Military Academy; Andrew Biaglow, United States Military Academy; David Chang, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

provides guidelines to develop and implement otheracademic courses. Multidisciplinary engineering courses could stimulate faculty and students toapproach other departments to conduct multidisciplinary research and conduct joint andcollaborative design projects. Multidisciplinary projects are also highly encouraged from thedepartments but also help the student become more knowledgeable and valuable in their futurepositions.Our short term goals were to evaluate the existing course work and integrate more applicationsand demonstrations that could make an immediate impact to the students’ learning. We intend touse the results and information to stimulate additional interest in other departments, faculty, andstudents to further study dynamic modeling

Conference Session

ETD Projects

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maddumage Karunaratne, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

(Tucson). Before joining academia, he gained fourteen years of extensive industry experience working in the semi- conductor industry performing software development, application engineering, design, testing and verifi- cation of digital integrated circuits. He has taught electrical and general engineering technology classes at Pitt-Johnstown since 2004. His research and teaching interests include Semiconductor circuit Testing and Verification, Low Power Design Analysis, Digital and Embedded Systems, Electromagnetic Wave Scattering, and IC Design Au- tomation Software development. He has authored or coauthored 27 publications and he holds two US patents. He can be reached at maddu@pitt.edu 209 Engineering and

Conference Session

What's New in Engineering Economy

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Olufemi Omitaomu; Adedeji Badiru

Educationinvestment and more emphasis is usually placed on its understanding when teaching engineeringeconomy. However, the analysis of this type of cash flow profile usually intimidates students.The understanding and analysis of cash flow diagrams is an integral part of engineering economyeducation especially at the undergraduate level. Several innovative methods of enhancing theteaching of engineering economy are in the literature, including incorporating spreadsheets intothe classroom lectures1, 5, the need for curriculum enhancement by integrating research advancesinto course materials4, 6, and practical factors that increase the efficacy of teaching engineeringeconomy8. In this paper, several designs and a close-form analysis of some real-life

Conference Session

Project-based Education in Energy Courses

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrian Ieta, State University of New York, Oswego

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

the last 20 years have contributed to the development of third world countries become morecompetitive [1] and their development contributes to an even more acute need for energy. Studies indicatethat US high school graduates tend to be less prepared for college studies in STEM areas than many otherWestern or Asian countries [2]. Science and engineering skills are essential for maintaining the UnitedStates’ competitiveness in the increasingly knowledge-based global economy [3]. However, studentsoften lack those skills [1] and are unaware and unable to assemble the impact of common activitiesaround in a larger picture and have appropriate reactions to them. Physics is at the core of understandingenergy concepts which are often difficult [4

Conference Session

Using Communication and Writing Techniques to Improve Student Learning

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shannon Ciston, University of California, Berkeley; Sean Poust, University of California-Berkeley

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #7152Authenticity Promotes Student Engagement and Learning in a Stand-AloneTechnical Communications CourseDr. Shannon Ciston, University of California, Berkeley Dr. Shannon Ciston is a lecturer in the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Califor- nia, Berkeley, where she teaches courses in technical communications, first-year design, and pedagogy. Dr. Ciston holds degrees in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University and Illinois Institute of Technology. Her research interests include aspects of engineering student experience, identity, and motivation, especially among first-year students and

Conference Session

Topics of Interest-Nuclear Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Deinert; K. Bingham Cady; Joshua Barratt; Erich Schneider

materialbalances for fuel cycle systems studies. While V:BUDS does not replace more high-fidelitymodels, its simple interface, short computation time, and graphical output format make it auseful tool for classroom demonstration or student experimentation with a wide range of reactorphenomena. V:BUDS is a C-based code bundled with custom cross section libraries and drivenby a graphical MATLABTM front end. It operates at the unit cell level and couples a detailedmultigroup treatment of energy dependence with a simplified collision probability model ofspatial dependence. This approach gives strong fidelity to benchmarked standards for LWRs andresponds correctly to perturbations in relevant parameters such as geometry and composition.1