Conference Session

Issues in Engineering Technolgy Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Terence Geyer, Eastern Washington University; William R Loendorf, Eastern Washington University

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Engineering Technology

has to be anotherway to meet this challenge. In conventional course occurrences, events like a midterm, final andassignments tend to overlap between classes, and can cause big spikes in student workload. Withan increased number of students in each class, students can also feel the pressure of increasedcompetition. These stresses’ on both faculty and students, negatively affect the positive outcomesdesired by both groups. This paper describes the formulation, design, and execution of twoplanning methods used to help balance the needs, workload, and time resources for both thefaculty and students in an Engineering curriculum. One approach compares weekly instructorworkload for the planning and delivery across three classes. Covering items from

Conference Session

Cooperative & Experiential Education Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nichole Ramirez, Purdue University; Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

the Sloan Foundation and his team received Best Paper awards from the Journal of Engineering Education in 2008 and 2011 and from the IEEE Transactions on Education in 2011. Dr. Ohland is Chair of the IEEE Curriculum and Pedagogy Committee and an ABET Program Evaluator for ASEE. He was the 2002–2006 President of Tau Beta Pi and is a Fellow of the ASEE and IEEE. Page 26.140.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Academic Outcomes of Cooperative Education ParticipationAbstractOutcomes and benefits of cooperative

Conference Session

Online Teaching

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carlotta A. Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

Paper ID #11534Teaching an Electrical Circuits Course OnlineDr. Carlotta A Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. Carlotta A Berry is an associate professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She is the director of the multidisciplinary minor in robotics and co-director of the Rose building undergraduate diversity scholarship and professional development program. She has been the President of the Technical Editor Board for the ASEE Computers in Education Journal since 2012. She is a member of ASEE, IEEE, NSBE, and Eta Kappa Nu

Conference Session

Teaching and Learning Strategies II

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cyrus Habibi P.E., University of Wisconsin-Platteville; Annelise Shirley Roti Roti, University of Wisconsin - Platteville; Motahareh Alaei, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Educational Research and Methods

they are used properly. • If instructors allow their students to use solution manuals, the students are less intimidated by problems and more motivated to use faculty office hours efficiently. • Solution manuals could potentially have damaging effects on student learning, if the student does not spend enough time to solve a problem. Therefore, the effective use of a solution manual should be taught in the class.The authors acknowledge that respondents in a survey on such a controversial topic have thepotential to be skewed. Further research of similar nature with larger focus groups should beconducted to negate any student biases present in surveys.References1. Habibi M., Ulseth R. Carlson M., “Developing

Conference Session

Graduate Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andres Alejandro Herrera, University of Arkansas; Eric Specking, University of Arkansas; Richard Ham, University of Arkansas

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

transit safety, operations, equipment and technology, and other modal-specific security strategies and data-driven processes. He also developed, delivered, and approved curriculum for web-based, online, video, virtual and traditional classroom modalities for security, operations and leadership courses. Additionally, Dr. Ham was a key contributor to several studies on security gaps and staffing models. While serving as the Assistant Federal Security Director at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, Dr. Ham managed the entire TSA regulatory program, including operational K9 units, at the agency’s fourth busiest airport. In this capacity, Dr. Ham also oversaw the merger of American and US Airways, forming the largest

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Assessment

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Sleep P.E., Oregon Institute of Technology; Yasha Rohwer, Oregon Tech

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Engineering Ethics

no surprise that the first canon of the American Society of CivilEngineers (ASCE) code of ethics reads “Engineers shall hold paramount the safety, health andwelfare of the public and shall strive to comply with the principles of sustainable development inthe performance of their professional duties” [1] Of all the canons in the ASCE code of ethics,the first canon is clearly the most important. After all, the canon lists the moral obligation to holdthe safety, health, and welfare of the public paramount.The first canon is plausible because it rules out actions that are clearly immoral—like cuttingcorners in construction that would put personal profit over the health, safety, and welfare of thepublic. Another virtue of the first canon is that

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hadas Ritz, Cornell University; Meredith N. Silberstein, Cornell University; Nelly Andarawis-Puri, Cornell University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Paper ID #23177Uniaxial Tension Testing Lab: Fewer Instructions for Better Results?Dr. Hadas Ritz, Cornell University Hadas Ritz is a senior lecturer in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. She teaches required and elective courses covering a wide range of topics in the undergraduate Mechanical Engineering curriculum. Her main teaching interests include solid mechanics and finite ele- ment analysis. Ritz was recognized with a 2013 Cornell College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award. She received her PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell in 2008.Prof. Meredith N

Conference Session

Dynamic Pedagogies for Engineering Dynamics

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vincent C. Prantil, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Mark L. Nagurka, Marquette University

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Mechanics

Paper ID #23580Work in Progress: Connections Between First-Order and Second-Order Dy-namic Systems – Lessons in Limit BehaviorDr. Vincent C. Prantil, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. Vincent Prantil earned his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Mechanical And Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. He has worked as a senior member of technical staff in the Applied Mechanics and Materials Modeling Directorates at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California where he was a co-recipient of the R&D100 Award for development of Microstructure-Property Model Software in 2000. He has published 31 peer-reviewed journal

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jessica Patricia Conry, Arkansas Tech University; Amber Harrington, Arkansas Tech University

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Engineering Physics and Physics

(ANSAC) and Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC),respectively. These programs follow an “Introduce, Reinforce, Master” curriculum map as partof the assessment plan where each student learning outcome (SLO) is assessed in at least threecourses of different levels, so that each SLO is assessed at each of the three levels (introduced,reinforced, and mastered). We seek to effectively assess, at the introductory level, the proposedANSAC SLO (5) and the new EAC SLO (4) with a series of case studies and a rubric in ourintroductory physics course. There are two primary difference between the SLOs from the twocommissions. Firstly, the EAC requires that the students recognize while the ANSAC requiresthat the students understand ethical and

Conference Session

Ensuring Access to K - 12 Engineering Programs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benita Comeau, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology; Donna Llewellyn, Georgia Institute of Technology; Michael Pastirik

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

of Above actions & school must undergo outside Improvement- Year 3 corrective actions which may include replacing staff or implementing new curriculum 5 In Need of Above actions & school must undergo re- Improvement- Year 4 structuring which may include change in governanceTable 1: In Need of Improvement program for schools failing to meet AYP 3 In the state of Georgia, there are three objectives which must be met to achieve AYP.There must be 95% participation in the statewide tests, the achievement on the tests

Conference Session

Emerging Computing and Information Technologies

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raymond A. Hansen, Purdue University; Tomasz Wiktor Wlodarczyk, University of Stavanger; Thomas J. Hacker, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Computing & Information Technology

programs today lacksfocused intended learning outcomes built on the use of current technology and is not coherentlymapped into teaching/learning activities and assessment tasks. Perhaps one of the biggestchallenges for creating Big Data and Data Intensive Systems curricula is to define coherent andstable learning objectives in a highly dynamic field. One of the reasons that courses offered atdifferent institutions are not clear in this regard is because they are anchored deeply in thedetailed research areas of lecturers, as opposed to industry needs. While this may not be bad inprinciple for an advanced course, a significant shared curriculum is necessary to facilitateknowledge transfer and increase quality of education for an introductory

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Economy

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jon Juneau; Kant Vajpayee; Eyler Coates

Session 1139 Introducing Engineering Economy Students to Real Options Eyler R. Coates, S. Kant Vajpayee, Jon Juneau University of Southern Mississippi/Engineering Consultant Box 5137, Hattiesburg, MS 39406AbstractEngineering economy has been a core requirement in engineering curriculums for many years.The traditional engineering economy courses only include problems with all deterministic inputs,even though deterministic data seldom occur in business. Also, traditional net present valuemethods make no allowance for flexibility by management and assume a static

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lulu Sun, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Matthew Kindy, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Caroline Liron, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Christopher D. Grant, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Shirley Anne Waterhouse, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach

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Aerospace

for a person truly familiar with anoperating system. Our analysis of this survey suggests that students are “comfortable” withusing the computer for simple tasks - typically involving the web browser - but are not ascapable as they might believe. So, when the course requires the use of new tools such asBlackboard, ZIP files, or Citrix applications such as Network File Access, the instructors end upteaching much more than the curriculum of the course because students have never observedthese tools in use, let alone applied them personally.With respect to programming familiarity, surprisingly 44% of students believe they haveprogrammed in some fashion. The level of programming might just be a calculator program, butthis is a nice beginning for

Conference Session

Exemplary Outreach Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly Edginton Bigelow, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

+3 A Girl Scout or Boy Scout Troop +2 A small group of people (at least 2) +1 An individualYou’ll be presenting… +2 Independently +1 With at least one other class memberNumber of Activities Presented +3 At least three activities +2 Two activities +1 One activityType of Activity +2 For each activity you found/developed on your own +1 For

Conference Session

Problem- Project- and Case-Based Learning in Environmental Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Jason Hill, University of Southern Indiana; Zane W. Mitchell Jr., University of Southern Indiana

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

• Filter media: anthracite coal, sand, and gravel • Filter materials: 3 ft section of cylindrical pipe and perforated cap Students constructed granular filters and developed flexible chemical dosing schemesprior to the competition. Design variables also included jar test operational parameters (mixingtime and speed). A flexible treatment scheme was necessary since the quality of the water to betreated (turbidity, pH, etc.) was not known ahead of time. On the day of the competition, eachteam was provided with 35 L of raw water and required to produce 6 L of treated water. Eachteam was scored based on the quality of the treated water, efficiency of treatment (teamwork),experimental techniques, response to questions by the instructor, and

Conference Session

FPD 10: Teamwork

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth A Adams, Arizona State University; Claire L. A. Dancz, Arizona State University; Thomas P Seager, Arizona State University; Amy E. Landis, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

’ levels of persistence inengineering, and affirmed the importance of identifying these intentions and fostering the linkbetween intention and motivation for individual students 9. Further, a 2005 study providesevidence that students with certain conative strengths either preferentially self-select forengineering programs, or are more likely to persist in those programs. This suggests that studentswith alternative strengths may be discouraged somewhere along the way from pursuingengineering degrees 10. Incorporation of conation into the curriculum may improve retention inSTEM and persistence of diversity in conative strengths. Conative diversity extends to diversityin other areas and addresses the need to improve success in educating

Conference Session

FPD 2: Building Community

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nora Honken, University of Louisville; Patricia A. Ralston, University of Louisville

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Paper ID #8864Informal Peer-Peer Collaboration, Performance, and Retention for First SemesterEngineering StudentsNora Honken, University of Louisville Nora Honken holds degrees in industrial engineering from Virginia Tech and Arizona State University. She will receive a PHD in Education Leadership, Foundations and Human Development from the Uni- versity of Louisville in May 2014. She has held positions in engineering and management for Axxess Technologies, Varian, Amoco and Corning, and has taught in industry, at community college and at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Her research interests include

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Blackwell

packaging sizes have been reduced to better suit thedemands for smaller components. SMT was developed by IBM and others in the 1960s and 1970s to reduce the size ofelectronic component packages and thereby reduce the size of devices designed with thosepackages1,2. These technologies have other advantages for both design engineers andmanufacturing engineers, including reduced package-related parasitics, with resultingimprovements in high-speed performance, and allowing high-speed assembly automation. In2002 worldwide production of integrated circuits (ICs) indicated that 86% of all ICs wereproduced in SMT packages. This number continues to rise, and leads to the conclusion that thebasic concepts of SMT, design of SMT-based products using DFM

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ing-Chang Jong

engi-neering curricula. Major established methods for determining deflections of beams, as taught insuch a course, may include the following: 1-6 (a) Method of double integration (with or without the use of singularity functions), (b) Method of superposition, (c) Method using moment-area theorems, (d) Method using Castigliano’s theorem, and (e) Conjugate beam method.The conjugate beam method was first derived, defined, and propounded for determining de-flections of beams in 1921 by Westergaard.1 It may well be called a “Westergaard method.”Readers interested in the development of this method are advised to refer to the original paper byWestergaard.1 Additionally, note that this method is one of the established

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

R. William Graff

Session 1532 Forty Years of Teaching Circuits I: A Tribute to Dr. Hayt R. William Graff LeTourneau UniversityAbstractThe author has had the experience of teaching Circuits I for forty years, using Dr. William H.Hayt’s book, Engineering Circuit Analysis, in all six of its editions. Certain teaching principleshave been developed to give consistency to the grading and teaching of the material, so thatsome trends in student performance can be traced over that time. Some of these trends arereflected in the paper, as well as comments concerning ways to communicate the

Conference Session

ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kishore Kotteri; Joan Carletta; Amy Bell

, and canonical signed digitrepresentation of coefficients.Intr oductionThe typical electrical and computer engineering curriculum includes courses in both digitalsignal processing and digital design, but treats the two subjects completely separately. Studentsin a digital signal processing (DSP) course learn various techniques, such as windowing and theequiripple Park-McClellan methods, for the design of finite and infinite impulse response (FIR,IIR) filters subject to specifications such as passband ripple, stopband attenuation andpassband/stopband edge frequencies. A typical DSP filter design project uses MATLAB,MathCAD, or C to create a floating-point design as the end product. The design is consideredhigh quality if it meets the frequency

Conference Session

TIME 5: Solid Mechanics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy Reffeor; David Blekhman

of the design i.e. the greatestcarrying capacity per unit weight. Students' responses were overwhelmingly supportive of bothprojects. Students found the projects provided better understanding of the theory, 87% and 95%for the bridge and the steel column projects, respectively. Students also supported (95%) the ideaof making the projects a regular feature of the respective courses. Through these projects theauthor found strong evidence of students’ developing self-sufficient learning skills early in theengineering program. In addition to better comprehension of the material required to succeed inthe projects, students enhanced their library research, drafting and technical report writing skills.Based on the Bicycle Dissection Exercise, Regan

Conference Session

Trends in Biological & Agricultural Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Saba Choudhary; Naz Azadi; Mike Ratino; Lauri Kreeb; Jason Congdon; Paul Schreuders

andprogramming approach. Legos were used to design the ant and then RoboLab software was usedto program it to successfully meet the challenge.IntroductionControl SystemsA control system is a collection of interconnected components that can be made to achieve adesired response in the face of external disturbances. The study of control systems is an integralcomponent of the engineering curriculum for the design and analysis of high performancerobotic systems. Control systems can be of two types: open-loop or closed-loop. In an open-loopsystem, the response of the system is determined only by the controlling inputs. On the otherhand, a closed-loop system operates on a self-regulatory mechanism by employing feedback tothe control system. Feedback can be of

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barry Lineberger; Larry Stikeleather

. Once the assemblies are manufactured students runperformance tests on their “products” using statistical design of experiments (DOE) methodologyto evaluate the effects of two factors at two levels (2x2) and determine the setup giving the bestperformance. The project culminates in a written technical report, which the student teams presentorally to an audience of their peers and a panel of faculty and staff evaluators.Introduction BAE202 (Intro to BAE Methods) introduces basic design and problem solvingmethodology for Biological Engineering. The majority of the students are enrolled in theBiomedical Engineering curriculum with the remainder in Biological Engineering, which offersconcentration areas in bioprocessing, environmental, and

Conference Session

Improving Teaching and Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Deepti Suri

Software Engineering Curriculum are presented todemonstrate the impact of the approach on classroom instruction as well as on student learning.1. IntroductionThe methods typically employed by an instructor to solicit feedback on a regular basis regardingtheir own effectiveness or the students’ learning in a classroom setting include (i) Askingstudents if they have any questions (ii) Instructor’s reaction to student’s questions (iii)Monitoring the students’ body language and facial expressions and (iv) Reading home-works,tests, lab assignments and so on. Even though these techniques are a large part of an instructor’sdaily lives, collecting feedback in this way is a subconscious and implicit process. Thecandidness and quality of the feedback is

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Manhire

in Decline (College Station, Texas: Texas A&M Univer- sity Press, 1979), 54.12. A. Sanderson, V. C. Phua and D. Herda, The American Faculty Pole (Chicago, Illinois: National Opinion Re- search Center, 2000), 39. URL: http://www.norc.uchicago.edu/online/tiaa-fin.htm13. R. Eric Landrum, "Student Expectations of Grade Inflation," Journal of Research and Development in Educa- tion, Vol. 32, No. 2, 1999, 124-128.14. Stephanie Mc Spirit and Kirk E. Jones, "Grade Inflation Rates Among Different Ability Students, Controlling for Other Factors," Educational Policy Analysis Archives, Vol. 7, No. 30, September 1999, ISSN 1068-2341. URL: http://olam.ed.asu.edu/epaa/v7n30.html15. William Beaver, "Declining College Standards: It's Not

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew L. Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Philip M. Gerhart P.E., University of Evansville

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2011-1722: USING FAMILIAR ANALOGIES TO TEACH FUNDAMEN-TAL CONCEPTS IN THERMO-FLUIDS COURSESAndrew L. Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University Andrew Gerhart, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Lawrence Technological University. He is actively involved in ASEE, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Engineering Society of Detroit. He serves as Faculty Advisor for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Student Chapter at LTU, chair for the LTU Leadership Curriculum Committee, director of the LTU Thermal Science Laboratory, coordinator of the Certificate in Energy & Environmental Man- agement and Certificate/Minor in Aeronautical Engineering, and member

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-college Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alpaslan Sahin, AggieSTEM Center at Texas A&M University; James R. Morgan, Texas A&M University; Niyazi Erdogan, Texas A&M University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

25.474.3 Advanced Placement Courses and Major SelectionThe Advanced Placement [AP] Program was created by the U.S. College Board in 1955 with themotto Connecting Students to College Success. The AP program aims to prepare students for anacademically demanding college experience. Advanced Placement is a curricular option foracademically superior high school students. “Naturally, courses offered in the program are moredemanding in terms of time and intellectual skills than corresponding courses in the regular highschool curriculum”.19 Initially, AP courses began as a program for elite private school students totake college-level course while still in high school. This way, outstanding students could begincollege with already

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ash Miller; Jeffrey Honchell

his M.S. from the State University of New York at Binghamton. He has 10 years of industrialexperience with IBM and The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. His primaryinterests lie in the area of RF communications, and the development of curriculum concentration in this Page 6.195.14area within the school. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for engineering EducationASH L. MILLERAsh Miller is currently an employee of Allied Aerospace Engineering, Inc. in the greater Washington, D.C.area working as an RF

Conference Session

IE Technical Session I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abhijit Gosavi, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Jane M. Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

. Arebuzzwords unique to our profession, i.e., industrial engineering? Does a new buzzword inindustrial engineering fundamentally alter the content of what we teach or should teach inour courses? In this paper, we will first attempt to answer questions such as the ones posedabove. We believe that answering such questions and studying these issues cansignificantly benefit our community. Coming up with these answers may also help aninstructor uncertain of whether the use of buzzwords is appropriate in teaching. We willmake every attempt to develop an objective understanding of the numerous issuessurrounding this topic. In particular, we will characterize the roots and origins of severalbuzzwords that are being used or have been used in industrial