Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Young

Engineering’s purpose is to introducesophomore students to the disciplines and methodologies of aerospace engineering at a basic levelwith a balanced exposure to analysis, empirical methods, and design. Several laboratoryexperiments are performed and a number of systems problems integrating the different disciplinesare included over the course of the year.Students graduating from Unified Engineering are expected to:1. Formulate appropriate coupled multi-disciplinary models of engineering systems based on physical laws and principles and identify the underlying assumptions and limitations of those models.2. Conduct experimental investigations, analyze experimental results, quantify experimental uncertainty and generate simple empirical models.3

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Puttiphong Jaroonsrisphan

conversion eliminates the need to write complicated parsing code and networkcomplexity. Therefore, users do not have to write the parsing code. Also, users can switchbetween data sources just by changing a simple URL. DataSocket is an ActiveX control;thus, users can use it to develop data-sharing applications in ActiveX containers such asVisual Basic, and Visual C++. This aspect simplifies the use of DataSocket to broadcastlive data. There are two modes of client operations under the DataSocket setup:1. LabVIEW based client program where a Virtual Instrumentation (VI) program runs within the LabVIEW environment in the client computer. This is the preferred mode for research activities as the user can interactively expand on the

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Maarij M. Syed; Sudipa Mitra-Kirtley

-Kirtley is currently an associate professor in the department of physics and Applied Optics, atRose-Hulman Institute of Technology, IN. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky in 1991 inphysics, her specialty being x-ray absorption spectroscopy with synchrotron radiation. She was appointed as ajoint post-doctoral scientist at UC Berkeley, and Schlumberger-Doll Research during 1991-93, at which time shecontinued her work on x-ray absorption studies with synchrotron radiation, and also worked on absorption andfluorescence analyses in UV-Vis-NIR regions. At Rose-Hulman Inst of Tech, Sudipa has been involved withteaching many physics courses for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as continuing with her researchwork.MAARIJ

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Jenkins; Dwayne Arola

theiracademic aims. Teaching students to learn as well as assessing how well students learn areintegral parts of this new paradigm in engineering education.In this paper, the background of an evolving “do-say” course in engineering mechanics, ME354“Mechanics of Materials Laboratory” is first described. Then, one of the exercises (Structures)within ME354 is presented in detail followed by a brief discussion of assessment and evaluationof the success of student learning. Finally, some conclusions are drawn regarding the teachingand learning aspects of this exercise.BackgroundStarting in 1995, the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington,has revised its curriculum partly to realign the number of required credits for graduation

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Vince Prantil; Joseph Musto; William Howard

the best design configuration.As a result of the rapid evolution of solid modeling and finite element software, the distinctionsbetween the roles of design engineer, stress analyst, and draftsman have become increasinglyblurred. At Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE), a survey of our recent mechanicalengineering graduates showed that the most common job category was mechanical design. As aresult, we strongly encourage upperclassmen to add finite element analysis and solid modeling astwo tools they should have when seeking employment. Beginning in the fall of 2002, seniorswill be required to take one FEA course.Traditionally, university courses in FEA have fallen into one of two categories: 1)mathematically rigorous theory courses that are

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard M. Bennett, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; William Schleter, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Taimi Olsen, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Stan Guffey, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

other topics. All work at the TENN TLC is carefully researched and planned in order to bring best practices and innovative methods to UTK faculty, lecturers, and GTAs. Olsen earned her doctorate in american and twentieth century literature at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1997, after which she taught at a private college for 12 years, eventually serving as Full Professor and Department Chair. She published Transcending Space: Architectural Places in works by Henry David Thoreau, E. E. Cummings and John Barth, Bucknell UP, 2000, has published numerous articles in her field, and has presented regionally and nationally on faculty development and assessment issues.Dr. Stan Guffey, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Stan Guffey

Conference Session

Design Across Disciplines

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hosni I. Abu-Mulaweh, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Hossein M. Oloomi, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Donald W. Mueller Jr. P.E., Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Omobola Ayoyimika Thomas, Cummins Filtration, Inc.

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Design in Engineering Education

. Omobola Thomas graduated from Purdue University in 2011 with a bachelor’s of science degree in elec- trical engineering with highest distinction. She currently works as a Test Engineer for Cummins Filtration, Inc., and is also working towards her master’s degree in electrical engineering. Her Interest areas in elec- trical engineering include automatic control systems and digital signal processing. She enjoys watching movies, traveling, and reading. Page 25.74.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 A Multidisciplinary Capstone Senior Project: Interactive

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce R. Dewey; Raymond Jacquot

MechanicalEngineering in 1969. He is a member of ASEE, IEEE and ASME and has been active in ASEE for the past twodecades serving as Rocky Mountain Section Chair and PIC IV Chair. His professional interests are in modeling,control, simulation and animation of dynamic systems. He currently serves as Professor of Electrical Engineering.BRUCE R. DEWEYDr. Dewey is a graduate of Iowa State University (B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 1959, and M.S. in NuclearEngineering,1964) and the University of Illinois (Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 1967). In 1982, hemoved to UW. He has worked as a consultant and research collaborator for Union Carbide, Oak Ridge NationalLaboratory, General Electric, Laawrence Livermore Laboratory and Pafec, Ltd. His research

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Brackin; Julia Williams

Session 2625 Teaching and Assessing Team Skills in a Senior Level Design Course Patricia Brackin, Julia Williams Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyABSTRACTIndustry wants to hire graduates with good teaming skills. As a result, many universities areintroducing projects that require students to work in teams. Unfortunately engineering educatorsfind it difficult to assess a student’s team skills adequately. Requiring students to work in teamsdoes not necessarily improve a student’s ability to be an effective team member. Engineeringeducators must decide what teaming skills students need

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Chapra; Gary Huvard; David E. Clough

engineering professionals; and/or they are unfamiliar with theteaching of 17-year-olds just out of high school. A rational approach to introductory computingis based on the real needs of students and professionals. These should be assessed throughsurvey, study and evaluation, and then used as the basis for curriculum design. We believe wehave done this.There have been tendencies across the US to go in one of two directions when it comes tointroductory computing for engineering students:1) The "tools" approach. Here, the focus is on the built-in capabilities of a number of software packages. Students solve a variety of engineering problems within the confines of the software’s menu options. The features of the software define the scope of the

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen R. McNeill; Jed S. Lyons

. Yahoo, http://www.yahoo.com/Science/Engineering/Education/8. College of Engineering, Texas Tech, “Distance Education Graduate Program” http://aln.coe.ttu.edu/distance/disted.htm9. East Carolina University School of Industry and Technology, http://www.sit.ecu.edu/trp/home.htm10. Julien C. Sprott, University of Wisconsin, “Physics Demonstrations” http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/demobook/intro.htm11. Cristiano Gentili, Universita' degli Studi diTrieste, Italy, “Fundamentals of Heat Transfer” http://www-dinma.univ.trieste.it/~nirftc/courses/12. K. H. Sauer, University of California Berkely, “Biophysical Chemistry Virtual Classroom” http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/~chem130a/13. College of Engineering, Iowa State

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Mahmood Nahvi

ScienceFoundation along with donations from Texas Instruments, IBM, Sun Microsystems and DigitalEquipment Corporation. With a current ILI grant from NSF, the laboratory is being expanded toinclude more real-time signal processing and more experiments within a real-life context . AnImage Processing laboratory is also being developed along with the DSP lab.The environment also supports other activities in digital signal processing such as seniorprojects, individual studies, and research. The aim is for students to learn through synthesis anddesign. A preliminary report presented at the 1992 ASEE conference described the DSPenvironment under development, its use for senior projects, the course and the laboratoryfacilities at that time [6].During the past five

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

J. A. Murden; K. P. Brannan

sequential files sequential files Vectors and matrices (single and single and double dimension arrays single and double dimension double-dimension arrays) arrays User-defined functions functions functions and subprograms 2D graphing, 3D graphing graphics graphics (surface and contour plots) Data analysis and presentation (statistical functions, scatter plots, curve fitting, and histograms) Symbolic, numerical, and graphical solutionssenior projects or software development to support graduate research efforts. Ultimately, it wasdecided that the advantages of using Mathcad in the

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Johnson

theirpeers. Team skills are also of significant interest in industry. The 1997 Boeing Educator’sWorkshop5 had four morning topics: EC2000, collaborative research, faculty/industry relationsand student teamwork skills. Students need to enhance both assessment and team skills, butthere are few traditional opportunities.In one example of a curricula effort, Schmidt reported use of TQM in the classroom6. Thisinvolved 1.)customer satisfaction, 2.)continuous improvement, 3.)empowerment, and4.)teamwork. This was a singularly successful implementation which eventually involved anentire high school. However, as with typical applications of TQM, total buy-in by participantswas required. And as the author stated, “Colleges and universities continue to reward

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division WIPS 1: Projects, Teams, and Portfolios

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aysa Galbraith, University of Arkansas; Heath Aren Schluterman, University of Arkansas; Gretchen Scroggin, University of Arkansas; Latisha Puckett, University of Arkansas

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

Paper ID #43492WIP: The Missing Link? Providing Honors Students a Self-Paced AssignmentThat Fits Their NeedsDr. Aysa Galbraith, University of Arkansas Dr. Aysa Galbraith is a Teaching Associate Professor in the First-Year Engineering Program at University of Arkansas. She received her PhD in Chemical Engineering from Chemical and Biomolecular Department at North Carolina State University in 2006. She is responsible from coordinating the First-Year Honors Research Experience, teaching Introduction to Engineering, developing course material, and advising freshmen engineering students.Dr. Heath Aren Schluterman, University of

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 4 - Engineering for One Planet & Sustainability Innovation

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dustyn Roberts, University of Pennsylvania; Jarrett Stein, University of Pennsylvania; Tex Kang, University of Pennsylvania

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Diversity

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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON)

challenge rather than reproduce or exacerbate structural inequalities astechnology often does. The priorities of the Collaboratory focus on three areas: Research,Education and Community Engagement, and Outreach. The smoothie bike team has received a$60,000 grant from Penn4C that is divided evenly between engineering, nursing, and RebelVentures - the community partner through which the work with three different high schools iscoordinated.Additionally, the class was recently accepted into Penn Global Seminars [10]. This programcombines intensive semester-long study with a short-term travel component that deepens studentunderstanding of concepts discussed in the classroom. Through this program, the class will travelto the Netherlands during the Spring

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2013 GSW

Authors

Tyler Crosson; Monica Hew; Bernd Chudoba; Amit Oza

aircraft. The capstone course mini-project experience during this first semester hasbeen initiated to teach students when and how to operate disciplinary design tools thatprepare them for design trade-studies they will encounter in the second semester seniordesign project. The class has been divided into three groups of 14 people and assigned theMesserschmitt Bf 109, Supermarine Spitfire, and the North American P-51 Mustang.This paper is the story of the group that focuses on the North American P-51 Mustang.The engineering team first forms a methodology that parametrically reproduces thedocumented aircraft performance specifications; the simulation results are validated bydirect comparison with historical data found in research; this validation

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Russell Trafford; Linda Head

Engineering Program will experience overthe next 2-3 years, we could see this number double. Each section’s “Theme” is determinedby the instructor for that section, leading to sections which are dealing with sensor networkdevelopment, magnetic nanoparticle testing and fabrication, and many other multidisciplinaryprojects. Students typically choose their section based on scheduling considerations rather thanon content or professor since students do not know prior to the first day of class which sectioncorresponds to what project. This is done to encourage students to co-mingle between the areasof study and experience projects which they would most likely never pick on their own. In themidst of the stereotypical first week madness, all students meet in

Conference Session

Lab Experiments & Other Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Claydon; Betty Barr; David Shattuck; Stuart Long; Jennifer Ruchhoeft; Julie Trenor

season (i.e. semester)without losing eligibility. The key element of Redshirt Camp is the creation of a learningcommunity in which students collaborate in small groups on challenging exercises. Topics arenot only intended to strengthen students’ base knowledge in pertinent course-related content (e.g.units, vector calculus, and linear algebra), but are intended to help the students discover andpractice effective learning strategies such as time management and reading comprehension,which they can apply to future coursework, research, and work projects. All entering sophomores and incoming transfer students are invited to participate at nocost to the student. Since many of our students hold part time jobs and taking time off from workcould

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Gally; Steve Chadwick; Randy Shaffer; Milton Cone; Jim Helbling

course as a prototype using aselect subset of incoming engineering freshmen.In the past, each engineering department at Embry-Riddle University conducted its ownintroduction to engineering class. The College decided about a year ago that our graduates sawthemselves as engineers in their specific discipline and not as engineers on an interdisciplinaryteam. In order to begin the change of philosophy, a team was put together from each engineeringdepartment to create a freshman course that would emphasize the interdisciplinary nature ofcurrent engineering practice. The instructors share lecture and grading responsibility, andattempt to integrate material relative to their own areas of expertise into an interdisciplinarydesign

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; Dana Burnett; Michael Warren; Rainer Fink

engineering careers, especially in mixed signal semiconductortesting.Bibliography1. Fink, R. and Porter, J. “Mixed-Signal Test Initiative in Engineering Technology,” Proc. of the 1999 Gulf Southwest ASEE Conference, Dallas, TX (March, 1999).2. Burns, M. and Roberts, G. An Introduction to Mixed-Signal IC Test and Measurement. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).MICHAEL WARRENMichael Warren graduated in December 2000 with the BS in Engineering Technology. He is currently working on hisMS in the Information and Operations Management Department at Texas A&M University. He also works as agraduate research assistant in the Virtual Instrumentation Laboratory in the Department of Engineering Technologyand Industrial Distribution.DANA

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Sutterer

kept the same, even if less class time is assigned to the topics. In this way, thefaculty can assure that valued traditional basic knowledge is not sacrificed while elevating thelevel of work completed by students. This modification of backward design is especiallysuitable for unfunded work for courses at research universities where faculty have much lesstime for major course revision. Of course, in some cases, minor changes are not possible and a“leap of faith” into a more dramatic course modification is necessary. This is not recommendedas a first step in curriculum revision but rather as a step much later in the process, if at all.Desired ResultsThe desired results of the author’s modifications to Mechanics of Materials are: • No

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch. Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammed Haque

were concrete compressive strength, column types (Tied andSpiral), reinforcing steel ratio (0.01 – 0.08), factored axial load, Pu, and moment, Mu. In thepresent research, several different ANN back-propagation trial models with different layers/slabsconnections, weights and activation functions were trained. The presented back-propagationmulti-layered neural net with logistic activation function, "Rotation" for pattern selection, and"TurboProp" for weight updates was the best one among all other trials, which converged veryrapidly to reach an excellent statistical performance. The trained ANN back-propagation modelwas tested with several actual design data, and a comparative evaluation between the ANNmodel predictions and the actual designs

Conference Session

Teaching Ceramic, Polymer, and Electric Materials

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Brow; Carol Click

science, and a graduate class onoptical properties. In addition, he organizes and oversees a six week section on glass in the sophomore laboratorysequence. Dr. Brow is an internationally recognized researcher and has won numerous awards in glass science. Page 7.789.8 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Teaching Analog and Digital Communication: Novel Ideas for Lecture Courses, Laboratories, and Projects

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chaitri Aroskar, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Yahong Rosa Zheng, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Electrical and Computer

, both in electrical engineering. She received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, in 2002. She was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow from Jan. 2003 to April, 2005 at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Currently, she is an as- sistant professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. Her research interests include array signal processing, wireless communica- tions, and wireless sensor networks. She has served as a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for many IEEE international conferences, including IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Fall 2008, IEEE GlobeCom 2005-09

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael F. Young; Sheryl A. Sorby

Engineering.Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of spatial visualization and experimental mechanics.MICHAEL F. YOUNG is an Instructor in Michigan Tech University's Mechanical Engineering-EngineeringMechanics Department. He is also a graduate of Michigan Tech (B.S.) and the Unviersity of Utah (M.S.). Hisareas of expertise include Computer Aided Design software, engineering graphics, industrial ergonomics andoccupational biomechanics. Page 3.113.8

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Jr., Harry J. Sauer

-Handling Systems - With a Case Application,” ASHRAE Transactions, V. 103, Pt. 2, 1997. BIOGRAPHIESHARRY J. SAUER, JR. is Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla. Academic experienceincludes teaching and research in the thermal science or energetics field, with particular emphasis on heat transfer, energy conversion and conservation, and HVAC (heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning) systems.YOGITA GIDH has served as a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Missouri-Rolla while working on her M.S. in MechanicalEngineering degree which she received in May 1997. Her B.E. degree in

Conference Session

Materials Lab Experiments and Demonstrations

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lori Rosario, Rochester Institute of Technology; Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Materials

AC 2010-593: BIODEGRADABILITY OF PLASTICS TESTING IN ANUNDERGRADUATE MATERIALS LABORATORY COURSELori Rosario, Rochester Institute of Technology Lori Rosario is a graduate student at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Mechanical & Manufacturing Systems Integration. She completed her B.S.in Mechanical Engineering Technology. She has completed internships at Johnson and Johnson McNeil Consumer Healthcare, Delphi Automotive Systems and the Center for Integrated Manufacturing Systems (CIMS)at the Rochester Institute of Technology as a Fuel Cells Research Engineer.Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology Elizabeth Dell is an Assistant Professor of Manufacturing & Mechanical

Conference Session

Communication in Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Schmidt, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Deborah Sharer, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Nabila (Nan) BouSaba, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Daniel Hoch, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; James Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Bruce Gehrig, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Steve Patterson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Design in Engineering Education

15.89.3ImplementationA simplified approach to documentation control is desirable in an academic setting. Asimple structure mimics the limited scope that novice engineers encounter when startingtheir careers. A simple structure also allows for a standardized list of deliverables whichfacilitate assessment of diverse project work using a common rubric.This work is targeted as an aid to those who have studied design methodology in anacademic setting, or have only been involved in design in a research and developmentcapacity. Acting as instructors for students who may be employed as field, line orapplication engineers who might interface with a purchasing department, a manufacturingfacility or an external consulting organization will require a different skill set

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2012 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

A. Ieta; R. Manseur; M. Hromalik

facilities, equipment, coursecontent, and the design of course material for studio delivery. This experience, aimed at enhancing student learning,may be of interest to other instructors contemplating the use of studio-teaching in their own programs.Keywords: studio-style instruction, active learning, peer-interaction, new engineering program. INTRODUCTIONEngineering graduates with the best practical design, analysis, and team effort skills will have the best careeropportunities [1]. However, students often find it difficult to connect the theoretical and practical aspects ofengineering [2]. Increased motivation and participation in the learning process helps students work harder and learnfaster. A