Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

John I. Hochstein; E. H. Perry

, then the answer is “yes.” How to construct such an exercise may bedaunting task. In fact, even if such an exercise can be crafted, it may not be the best way todocument that a student has acquired a particular capability. DCT is just one tool in the toolbox. Page 4.200.2How Have We Implemented DCT?At the conclusion of our initial discussion of competency testing, the authors agreed thatassessing our students’ ability to obtain completely correct solutions to simple problemsrequiring a basic understanding of fundamental principles of engineering was highly desirableand we further agreed to experiment with such testing in our individual

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Ruggles

Criteria(1), indicate that theobjectives of the course have been met and students are in addition developing a sense ofthe engineering diversity within design projects.IntroductionExperience obtained through advising sessions with students, has shown that mostentering first year engineering students do not have an understanding of the variousfields of engineering nor the engineering design process. In order to provide exposure toeach of these topics a required course was adopted for all engineering majors at LafayetteCollege in the Fall, 1995 semester. The initial offerings of this course provided a design Page 4.12.1theme from which student design teams

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanley J. Pisarski

initial run. The next day the printed numerical resultswere obtained from the computer center. Advances in computer technology in the areas ofcomputer software and hardware have paved the road for instant results for circuit simulations.The new computer software packages stimulate the senses with colorful, accurate circuitwaveforms in graphical and tabular formats. No longer must the user of this software enterhand-coded data for circuits or systems, but a nudge of the computer mouse is all it takes to Page 4.293.1create aprofessional-looking schematic of a circuit or a block diagram of a system. The simulation isfast and the results are many times

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Kent Curtis, Northern Kentucky University; Niaz Latif, Purdue University - Calumet

degrees at the Bachelor and Associatelevels. It offers two ABET accredited Bachelor of Science (BS) degrees in ElectronicsEngineering Technology and Manufacturing Engineering Technology. The department alsooffers BS degrees in Industrial Technology (Manufacturing), Construction Management,Industrial and Labor Relations, Business Teacher Education and Industrial Education. At theassociate level, it offers degrees in Aviation Administration, Construction Technology, IndustrialEducation, Industrial Production Technology, and Industrial Supervision. Therefore, thedepartment has a very diverse faculty. The initial MST team was formed with the members ofthe DOT faculty. Later, members were added from administration, other departments offeringMasters

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Will Manion; Ronald Kozlowski; Mike Scott; Lynn E. Katz; Lenly J. Weathers

isprepared, the user initiates the experiment by clicking on the Inject Reactants button. The user iswarned that sampling should start when the reactants enter the reactor.The injection process is visually apparent by the change in color in the tank. Two colors ofreactants are available, a blue conservative tracer and a red reactive component. The color in thereactor is determined by the blending of the two colors. For the batch experiment shown inFigure 1, the color of the reactor initially becomes purple upon injection indicating that theconservative tracer and the reactive component are present at maximum concentration. From thesettings the user selected for the experiment, a series of calculations are performed usinganalytical or numerical

Conference Session

Simulations and Virtual Learning

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David M. Feinauer P.E., Virginia Military Institute; James C. Squire P.E., Virginia Military Institute; Gerald Sullivan, Virginia Military Institute

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education Division (COED)

Paper ID #41474An Update Regarding the Pedagogical Efficiency of Continuous vs. DiscreteUser Interactions with Computer SimulationsDr. David M. Feinauer P.E., Virginia Military Institute Dr. Feinauer is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Military Institute. His scholarly work spans a number of areas related to engineering education, including the first-year engineering experience, incorporating innovation and entrepreneurship practice in the engineering classroom, and P-12 engineering outreach. Additionally, he has research experience in the areas of automation and control

Conference Session

Assessing Conceptual Thinking about Engineering Mechanics

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julian Ly Davis, University of Southern Indiana; Andrew Jason Hill, University of Southern Indiana

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics Division (MECHS)

biomechanics of biting in bats and monkeys, also using finite element modeling techniques. In 2010, he started his career teaching in all areas of mechanical engineering at the University of Southern Indiana. He loves teaching all of the basic mechanics courses, and of course his Vibrations and Finite Element Analysis courses.Dr. Andrew Jason Hill, University of Southern Indiana Jason Hill is an associate professor and director of civil engineering at the University of Southern Indiana. He holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in civil engineering from Tennessee Technological University. His research interests include rainfall-runoff modeling and river restoration. ©American Society for Engineering

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)

those connections and find therelevant information themselves. The points in which students are asked to identify theirquestions will remain, but there will be fewer times when the class reassembles as a whole.However, students are welcome to discuss with other groups, and the lab instructor(s) will becirculating to address any extreme misdirection.As a deliverable, students write a short memo with their recommendation for the design briefwith justification. They must include their experimental data in that justification and clearlyexplain any assumptions they made. Students must also turn in their documentation from the labperiod with the initial brief, the prompting questions, and their plan. This ensures students workmethodically to create a

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division WIPS 3: Courses and Curricula

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mahdi Agheli, Worcester Polytechnic Insitute; Greg Lewin, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Markus Nemitz

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

University, 2020 ¨ ¨ PhD, MSc A`ı The University of Edinburgh, 2018 BEng A`ı Bochum University of Applied Sciences, 2012 I grew up in Germany where I studied electrical engineering in Bochum. I subsequently moved to Scotland to study electronics and robotics in Edinburgh. At Harvard, I focused on the development of embedded controllers for soft robots. Since 2020, I am an assistant professor of robotics engineering and electrical and computer engineering. My research group (the Robotic Materials Group) focuses on the creation, modeling, and control of robotic soft matter. Instead of using soft materials for the design of manipulators, we are interested in

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 5

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alireza Kavianpour, DeVry University

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT)

oflearning”. That is exactly what the author noticed among students indiscovering the use of this new tool.Overall, based on the author’s experiences, most students were curious to learnmore about this new tool. As a result, they were more engaged in writing codes.The author has warned students that scientific advances can both help and hurt andAI is no exception. Students highly welcomed this new tool and were eager to useit in a positive way in the other courses to enhance their learning.(1) IntroductionThere is a lot of buzz around AI and specifically, how ChatGPT6,7 is being used inthe academic field. Most notable comments include: “AI will take over the role ofan instructor” or “students will never write their own research papers or their

Collection

2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

John W. Gibbons

mechanic." Teams were provided lecturetime for brainstorming and designing the game before implementation began. Teams had tocollaborate to create and maintain a "Game Design Document" that detailed the following: ● Concept, Vision, and Distinguishing Features ● Story and Characters ● Gameplay and Mechanics ● World Design ● Sound Design ● UI and Game Controls ● PlatformThe "Game Design Document" was a living document that was allowed to change asspecifications, story, or other details changed. After the initial design of the game was finished,the teams then began work on their final projects.The projects consisted of several prototypes, a final public demonstration, and a posterpresentation. Each prototype was demoed in

Conference Session

Learning Mechanics through Visual and Tactile Modalities

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Jean Carlos Batista Abreu, Elizabethtown College

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics Division (MECHS)

%) Insufficiently developed to evaluate (n/a) 3/46 (6.5%)Figure 1 provides some excerpts of student work to illustrate several of the coded categories defined inTable 2. (C,C,C) (C,C,E) (C,E,C) Notice that in the (C,C,E) case, the student did not interpret the resultant Given: angle correctly, and/or was unable to reconcile the resultant’s angle with the incorrect orientations of the vectors from their initial depiction. F1 = 200 lbs, F2 = 300 lbs, In the (C,E,C) case, there is an error with the direction of F2, but otherwise, θ = 57°, m = 3, n = 5 a reasonable

Conference Session

Materials Division (MATS) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan R. Brown, The Ohio State University; Elvin Beach, The Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Materials Division (MATS)

contextsimproves student learning and engagement and increase retention [1], [2]. Thus, to address theseissues, between the spring 2021 and spring 2022 offerings we redesigned the ModSim sequenceto add several specific connections between the systems studied across the physical labsequences.This work to integrate computational approaches in the materials curriculum is especiallyrelevant to share with other departments across the country given the recent national emphasis,through the Materials Genome Initiative and other programs, in using computational tools toenable rational design of materials [3]. In one example, CALPHAD was applied to design a new,cheaper alloy used to manufacture nickels [4]. Computational tools are crucial towards the goalof inverse

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 8: International Perspectives in Graduate Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Appiah-Kubi, University of Dayton; Khalid Zouhri, University of Dayton

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

thatgraduate students be ready from day one. International graduate students face additionalchallenges in their first semester. Unfortunately, several international students take too muchtime to overcome the initial challenges, negatively impacting their ability to integrate and thrivein their graduate program. This paper reviews the factors that support the early integration ofgraduate students in their first semester. A survey was designed to understand the factors thatinternational graduate students perceive as critical to thriving in their first semester. Thefeedback from the students indicates that adjusting to the classroom is the least important factorin achieving academic success as a graduate international student. However, a

Conference Session

Duff's Dynamic Duo: Harnessing the Power of Teamwork for STEM Excellence!

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rafic Bachnak, Penn State University, Harrisburg; Brittany Anderson, Penn State University, Harrisburg

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

betterunderstanding of science and engineering careers. This is especially important tounderrepresented populations in STEM as active learning opportunities have been shown toincrease interest and improve retention.This paper describes a two-week summer enrichment program that improves studentpreparedness for college, while promoting STEM education through active learning experiencesand hands-on activities. The program was initially developed in 2016 with a focus on introducingparticipants to various engineering disciplines through hands-on activities and participation intwo field trips to facilities that employ engineers and scientists. Rising high school juniors andseniors are recruited via a program web site or through guidance counselors, STEM teachers

Collection

2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Justin Reginato

an effortto commercialize research projects, often culminating with a business plan competition.Introducing entrepreneurship to graduate students has its benefits. First, student experience andsophistication can affect the willingness to participate in entrepreneurship courses. Secondly,graduate curriculum guidelines are less impacted by accreditation boards, specifically theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). Third, there is some generalconfusion among faculty and administrative personnel regarding the concept of entrepreneurshipand the pedagogy surrounding it. At the University of the Pacific School of Engineering andComputer Science, which does not have a graduate program, each of these problems wasencountered upon

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jeffrey S. Burmeister; Kyle A. Watson; Maria Garcia-Sheets

outstanding academic achievement and leadership. Parent leadership, training teaching parents about advocacy skills and leadership. Teacher training initiatives developed for school sites teachers that expand and improve learning not just for MESA students, but also across schools.Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering Education MESA students perform well when compared with non-MESA students. 81% complete Algebra by the 10th grade, allowing more time to take college preparatory classes. 61% of MESA graduates fulfilled the “A-G” requirements for University of California and California State

Collection

2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Alex Edgcomb; Frank Vahid

been shown by researchers to improve student outcomes inengineering25, math8, and science2. Wood25 built an interactive program for engineeringeducation that allowed a student to manipulate basic engineering math equations representingsignal filters and simultaneously see the affects on many perspectives of the equation. ALEKS8is a web-based interactive software for enhancing college algebra education that significantlyimproved the student exam performance in college algebra courses. Broschat2 developedinteractive software that allowed a student to manipulate electromagnetism equations andvisualize in 3-D the shape of the electromagnetic forces, such as electric potential and themagnitude of the electric potential. Interactive software has

Collection

2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Andy Moore; C.J. Fisher; Pat Crosby; Wayne Helmer; Chih-Hao Wu

allow fordifferent selectable engine speeds. The ultimate purpose for the station was that it beused as an instructional test facility to acquaint students with electronic fuel injection andIC engine performance characteristics. The first phase of this research describes thedesign and construction of the low-cost EFI dynamometer system using the Megasquirtprogrammable engine computer [2],[3],[4].Dynamometer Theory A dynamometer is a device used to measure engine performance. To develop theperformance equation consider the steady state energy equation for an open systemwritten on a rate basis assuming that there is only one flow stream where Qin is positiveand Win is positive: Qin + Wiu + m(hin + ke in + pe in) = m(hout + ke out

Collection

2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Ing-Chang Jong

for use in solving for A yReferring to Fig. 8 and applying the virtual work principle, we write Ay (2 δθ ) + 300 (−2 δθ ) + 200 (2 δθ ) + 600 (− 2 δθ ) + 300 ( 3 δθ ) = 0 4 δU = 0: Ay = 500 A y = 500 lb ↑Remarks. There it goes again. The above solution by the virtual work method shows that we areable to solve for the designated unknown A y without the need to solve simultaneous equations!This advantage may initially appear as a magic black box to students and cannot be matched bythe solution using the conventional method. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education

Collection

2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Yacob Astatke; Farzad Moazzami; Craig Scott; Jumoke Ladeji-Osias

used to capture and record the daily courselectures of the regular ECE courses. It was initially tested on the students enrolled in the regularECE courses as a supplementary material that could help them learn and understand the coursematerial better. The students had access to daily course lectures through their Blackboard coursemanagement software. Most students downloaded podcast versions of the daily course lecturesand watched them as often as they wanted until they understood the topics covered in eachlecture. This approach increased the interactions and discussions between the students involvedin the course. The online lectures also allowed the students to prepare and ask additional andmore advanced questions to the instructor because it

Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Philip L. Brach; Ahmet Zeytinci

from kindergarten through Junior High School about the excitement and challenge ofengineering and technology careers. Examples of experiences with 1st through 12th grade students usinghands-on experiments and simple topics, such as center of gravity, mass center and “limits,” areillustrated. The paper presents a concept initiated by the authors, called “An Experiment in a Box,” whichpresents a number of simple and interesting experiments that can be accomplished in one class period orless, fit in a 10 ream paper box, and can be tailored for various age groups. In addition, the paperdescribes a series of hands-on experiments, suited to senior high school and freshmen college students, tointroduce students to science, engineering and technical

Collection

2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Gabriel Parmer; Rahul Simha; Chris Toombs; Poorvi Vora; Timothy Wood

, the design of main components, algorithmic design, and testing. ● Algorithmic component. While originally students had great flexibility to propose ideas for projects, we have since imposed some constraints on the type of project. We did not want students to be doing lots of incremental busy work, as for example in building a large website. Neither did we want student projects to be about crafting a video game or animation, or solely conducting research. In sum, we require students to build an actual product that is justifiably different from existing products, as one would expect from a startup, but also one which contains a core algorithmic challenge that is addressed by the student. Thus

Collection

2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Elimchili Lyaro; Jennifer Biddle; Jaclyn Stanfield

developed for automotive manufactures and consumers in the Californiaregion due to the preexisting HOV lanes and performance vehicle manufactures. 23. BackgroundThe need to reduce or eliminate the functions of the driver of the vehicle has been researched bya number of automotive manufactures for many years. Recently, the U.S. Department of Defense(DARPA) has also been involved with finding a way to produce unmanned vehicles to be usedon the front lines of war zones in order to reduce number of causalities. The DARPA programbegan a competition between universities to construct a system that will be installed on existingvehicles and use latest technologies to navigate the vehicle on a deserted route

Collection

2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

B. Samanta

, medicineand econometrics, among others. Several methods have been used for predictionof real life complex, nonlinear time series commonly encountered in various suchapplication domains [1-3]. In recent years, there is also a growing interest inincorporating bio-inspired computational algorithms, commonly termed ascomputational intelligence (CI), in discovering knowledge from data, both ineducation and research [4-9].Among various CI techniques, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have beendeveloped in form of parallel distributed network models based on biologicallearning process of the human brain. Among different types of ANNs, multi-layerperceptron (MLP) neural networks are quite popular [4]. Recently singlemultiplicative neuron (SMN) model has been

Collection

2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

James Helbling

education coursesinstead. As of this semester, department chairs in both departments have been able to jugglefaculty and course loads to satisfy administrative requirements so that HU/COM may continue tosupport the AE students’ professional development. And many administrators see the value ofthe continuing collaboration between departments, for both teaching and research. Nonetheless,varying levels of administrative support for team teaching is a continuing challenge forERAU/Prescott, one that might be side-stepped by in the short term by mini-grants or adjuncthires, but one that must be addressed each semester that this curricular redesign continues.SuccessesAlthough a quantitative assessment of the success of the capstone curriculum change is

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Philip L. Brach; Ahmet Zeytinci

from kindergarten through Junior High School about the excitement and challenge ofengineering and technology careers. Examples of experiences with 1st through 12th grade students usinghands-on experiments and simple topics, such as center of gravity, mass center and “limits,” areillustrated. The paper presents a concept initiated by the authors, called “An Experiment in a Box,” whichpresents a number of simple and interesting experiments that can be accomplished in one class period orless, fit in a 10 ream paper box, and can be tailored for various age groups. In addition, the paperdescribes a series of hands-on experiments, suited to senior high school and freshmen college students, tointroduce students to science, engineering and technical

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven G. Northrup, Western New England College

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2011-2444: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT -REDSIGNED TO INCREASE INTERDISCIPLINARY INTERACTIONSteven G Northrup, Western New England College Steven G. Northrup is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Western New England College in Springfield, MA. His research interests are: systems engineering and control systems in alternative energy power production, embedded control systems, humanoid and mobile robotics, and pedagogy of multidisciplinary teamwork. He has worked on alternative energy systems in Guatemala and the US and worked in automotive electronics design for several years

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

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Keith Stanfill, University of Florida; Arif Mohsin, University of Florida; Oscar Crisalle, University of Florida; Suleyman Tufekci, University of Florida; Carl Crane, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

engineers who represent their companies in the student-leddesign activities. A faculty retreat was held in May 2008 to develop an outline for that guide.The faculty nominated exemplary liaison engineers, and best practices were gathered from adescription of these engineers’ modes of operation, and consolidated into the IPPD LiaisonEngineer Guide Document5-6. To supplement the guide, a comprehensive set of universityresources were identified and made available to the liaison engineers. These resources includelibrary privileges, university e-mail accounts, and access to certain campus software licenses(note: football and basketball tickets were not available).To initiate the creation of the coach guide, an IPPD faculty retreat was held in May 2009