Conference Session

Software Applications in ET Programs

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

MADDUMAGE KARUNARATNE, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown

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Engineering Technology

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, and Electronic Design Automation. He is an author of over 23 publications and a US patent holder. He can be reached at maddu@pitt.edu 225 Engineering and Science Building University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown Johnstown, PA 15904

Conference Session

Ethics & HSS in Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Lau

world.Engineers typically overestimate the role of quantification and rationality in decision making, aswell as thinking that because they understand the physical world better than most people, theyhave the really important knowledge in a given situation. We need to teach engineers tounderstand people better, work effectively on teams, and participate in the political process. Weneed them to understand ecology and systems analysis.These ideas are somewhat reflected in the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology’s (ABET) Criterion 3 Program Outcomes and Assessment (relevant outcomes inbold italics)2: Engineering programs must demonstrate that their graduates have: (a) an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Economy Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gunter Sharp; Jack Lohmann

Criteria Fundamental Choice of an Economic Decision Benefits and Costs Net Future Value Net Present Value Net Uniform Value Internal Rate of Return Benefit/Cost Ratio Logical Relationships among Alternatives Multiple Alternatives Unequal Lifetimes Case Study: Mortgage Refinancing Taxes Types of Taxes Profit and Cash Flow Graduated Corporate Tax Structure Classical Depreciation Methods MACRS Methods Profit on the sale of an Asset Financing With a Loan Comprehensive Example Inflation Price Indices General Inflation Example Relationship between MARR and Inflation Actual and Constant Dollar Analysis

Collection

2011 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

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

Evaluating Retention of Engineering Problem Solving Skills of First-Year Engineering Students Heath A. Schluterman, Ph.D., Kellie Schneider, C. Richard Cassady, Ph.D. University of ArkansasAbstractOne of the overriding topics in education is determining how well students retain knowledgefrom a particular course. In this study, we wished to evaluate not only the improvement ofproblem solving skills during the Fall semester but also the retention of those skills to thebeginning of the Spring semester. Therefore, in the Fall Semester of 2010, we administered aPre-Test during the first week of the Introduction to Engineering I course. The Pre-Test contentincluded the

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Electrical ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tyson McCall; Corinne Ransberger; Steve Hsiung

the process of designing application programs startsfrom the individual module development through extensive testing, verification, andmodification. Applying these developed modules in a useful manner requires the links andintegrations that lead to the practical project implementation. Frequently, in students’ seniorproject designs and faculty’s research plans, the microprocessor/microcontroller resourcesbecome scarce or cause conflicts during the modules’ integration stage. To accommodate the shortfall of the resources and resolve any conflict state, severalchoices must be considered, such as the need to revise or totally rework the module, or apply themodule with additional circuit design. This article presents a proven concept that

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Justin Davis

Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” Often the professor is responsible for creating new labs, but creating new labsevery semester is impractical. Another option is to assign a student a special project ofcreating a new set of labs every semester, but it may take longer than one semester todevelop an entirely new set of labs depending on his/her proficiency level. The obvioussolution is to enroll more students to develop the labs, but if they are being paid, then costbecomes a factor. If they are taking a special class for it, such as independent study, thenthey are typically only allowed one semester per project. Managing independent studystudents also requires a

Conference Session

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Wheeler; Robert LeMaster

various evaluative instruments are presented along with adiscussion of some of the practical issues associated with creating and maintaining this particularinstructional delivery system. A brief background on the development of the courses ispresented along with a sampling of comments from student evaluations of the courses.BackgroundThe Bachelor of University Studies (BUS) degree originally was offered as an area ofconcentration within the University of Tennessee at Martin’s School of Arts and Sciences. As aresult of reorganization of the academic units in 2000, this program was developed into anindependent degree program under the direction of the Assistant Vice-Chancellor of AcademicAffairs. The BUS is an individualized degree program. It was

Conference Session

Increasing Enrollment in IE/IET Programs Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Wheeler; Robert LeMaster

various evaluative instruments are presented along with adiscussion of some of the practical issues associated with creating and maintaining this particularinstructional delivery system. A brief background on the development of the courses ispresented along with a sampling of comments from student evaluations of the courses.BackgroundThe Bachelor of University Studies (BUS) degree originally was offered as an area ofconcentration within the University of Tennessee at Martin’s School of Arts and Sciences. As aresult of reorganization of the academic units in 2000, this program was developed into anindependent degree program under the direction of the Assistant Vice-Chancellor of AcademicAffairs. The BUS is an individualized degree program. It was

Conference Session

FPD 10: Teamwork

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David W. Gatchell PhD, Northwestern University; Bruce Ankenman, Northwestern University; Penny L. Hirsch, Northwestern University; Adam Goodman; Koshonna Brown, Northwestern University Center for Leadership

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and after working in the automotive industry for five years, returned to graduate school for an MS and PhD in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests primarily deal with the design and analysis of experiments that are used to build models for physical systems or metamodels for simulated systems. Professor Ankenman is the co-director of the Segal Design

Conference Session

ME Division 3: Modern Tools and Methods in Structural Analysis and CAD

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qiuyan Li, Grove City College; George Richards, Grove City College

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

efficient engineering practices. As a result, there is a strong demand for engineers with NDTexpertise, highlighting the need for its inclusion in undergraduate engineering education.Despite its significance, NDT is not commonly incorporated into mechanical engineeringundergraduate curricula. A survey conducted by the authors across seven ABET-accreditedmechanical engineering programs in the region (Western PA, Upper state NY, Eastern Ohio andWest Virginia) found that only one institution explicitly offers an NDT course. Several challengescontribute to this gap. Theoretical concepts central to ultrasonic NDT—such as wave propagation,signal generation, and signal processing—are typically covered in senior-year or graduate-levelcourses. Other NDT

Conference Session

Energy Education Courses, Labs, and Projects

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene Yeau-Jian Liao, Wayne State University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

. Page 25.1261.14Bibliography1. Tallon, D., Streit, R., Wang, C., Bakis, C., Randall, C., Lanagan, M., Anstrom, J., Jonassen, D., Marra, R. and Wakhungu J., 2001, “Graduate Automotive Technology Education in energy storage systems - GATE Penn State,” International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Lifelong Learning, vol. 11, no. 4/5/6, pp. 534-541.2. Keith, J., Miller, M., Opella, K., King, J., Meldrum, J., Green, C., Gwaltney, G and Bradley, S., 2006, “Engineering education in alternative energy,” Proceedings 2006 ASEE Annual Conference, 2006-191.3. Rouch, D. and Stienecker, A., 2007, “A Delphi study to project the future of alternative energy and its implication to engineering technology,” Proceedings

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Merredith D Portsmore; Martha N. Cyr; Chris B. Rogers

werethen able to conduct several experiments over the course of the semester in a relatively shortamount of time. To study frictional losses in pipes, for example, students used a graduatedcylinder, a light sensor, and a piece of Styrofoam to determine the time it took for water to flowfrom various heights through a piece of Tygon tubing. (Figure 16).Figure 16. Students used the RCX to start and stop the water flow and log the time it took for the Styrofoam wedge to cross in front of the light sensor and measured the amount of water in the Page 5.376.13 graduated cylinder.The fluid mechanics students were

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Mase

topics such as shear center and unsymmetric bendingof transversely loaded beams. Some topics are treated in a manner which requires the instructorto add material for more complete analysis. For instance, Shigley and Mischke do not coverradial stresses for curved beams. Students will quickly point out the advantage of this option assaving money by using a book for more than one class. Advanced mechanics of materials texts such as Boresi, Schmidt, and Sidebottom10 andCook and Young11 are good advanced mechanics of materials texts, but they can overwhelm thestudents. These texts are better suited for a graduate class in mechanics of materials. Books byUgural and Fenster12 and Budynas13 are more appropriate for an undergraduate student

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Schmaltz, Western Kentucky University

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Mechanical Engineering

heating project studies where the compost was placedinside the greenhouse were also investigated3.The team needed some knowledge of the leaf pile temperature distribution, duration ofcomposting process, and thermal properties of the pile to make system design decisions.Research data exists regarding thermal conductivity of leaf compost4, the range of piletemperatures possible with the variation of nitrogen content of the compost material5,6,7,and factors that affect the duration of the composting process8,9. However, there isconsiderable variability with all of these parameters. The design strategy toaccommodate this uncertainty has been to use appropriate analysis techniques to assessthe energy generation aspects of the heat transfer process

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg N Droge, Georgia Institute of Technology; Bonnie H. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; JillL L. Auerbach, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2012-5287: LABS APPROPRIATE FOR LECTURE-BASED INTRO-DUCTORY SYSTEMS AND CONTROLS CLASSES USING LEGO NXTAND LABVIEWGreg N Droge, Georgia Institute of TechnologyDr. Bonnie Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology Bonnie Ferri received her B.S. degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1981 and her Ph.D. degree from Georgia Tech in 1988. She is currently a professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Ferri works in the general area of control theory.JillL L. Auerbach, Georgia Institute of Technology Page 25.876.1 c American Society

Conference Session

Design Through the Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Chris Kobus

senior-level undergraduatestudents with a minority of graduate students. The course is a four-credit class, and involvesboth a lecture and a laboratory component. The lectures, however, do not introduce any newfundamental principles in the fluid and thermal sciences. Instead, the lectures serve to reviewand apply principles that have already been taught in introductory classes in thermodynamics,fluid mechanics and thermal energy transport. The laboratory component is strictly gearedtoward design, synthesis and evaluation, utilizing knowledge, and comprehension learned inprevious courses.The Fluid and Thermal System Design course was instituted in the 1970’s to be the primary fluidand thermal design experience for graduating seniors. As a four

Conference Session

Cultivating Professional Responsibility

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ford; Nancy White

. The Problem Consider the following hypothetical based on the collapse of the Bonfire at Texas A&MUniversity on November 18, 1999 and modeled on “Joe the Engineer” from the Texas Board ofProfessional Engineer’s ethics exam. Joe graduated from the engineering program at TexasA&M in 1992. While earning his degree Joe participated in several of the many traditions thatmake school spirit an important part of the Texas A&M culture. As an engineering student hewas very interested and active in the annual Bonfire that was built and burnt in preparation forthe football game with the University of Texas. Even though he had no previous constructionexperience Joe volunteered to cut and load the logs during the fall of his freshman year

Conference Session

Critical Thinking and Creative Arts

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Helen Donis-Keller, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Liberal Education

Global Century (2007), acknowledges theneeds for all college students to prepare for twenty-first-century challenges by gaining fouressential learning outcomes: 1) knowledge of human cultures and the physical and natural world,focused by engagement with big questions, both contemporary and enduring 2) intellectual andpractical skills, including inquiry and analysis, critical and creative thinking, written and oralcommunication, 3) personal and social responsibility, including foundations and skills forlifelong learning, ethical reasoning and action, intercultural knowledge and competence and 4)integrative learning, including synthesis and advanced accomplishment across general andspecialized studies. For Engineering students in particular

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hui Shen, Ohio Northern University; Vishal R. Mehta, Ohio Northern University

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Materials

Engineer, Hindalco Industries, Dahej, India. Shift in-charge of daily smelter operations at primary Copper plant. 2000-2010: Research Assistant, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ, USA. Fabricated and characterized High k dielectrics in semiconductors. 2004-2006: Graduate Teaching Assistant, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ, USA. Taught applied physics lab to first year and second year students. 2010- 2013: Post- doctoral Fellow National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden Colorado, USA. Fabricated and characterized Photovoltaic/Solar cells and mentored graduate students. 2014-2016 (spring): Assistant Professor-College of Engineering and Technology, Northern New Mexico

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Technical Session 6: Hands-on Projects and Spatial Skills

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin Emery Mertz, Arizona State University; Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University; Chao Wang, Arizona State University

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First-Year Programs

course was designed and developed will be described.Next, the effectiveness of the course will be discussed in terms of student perceptions of thecourse and their ability to meet course learning outcomes as well as qualitative gradecomparisons with the onsite version of the course that this online course was modelled after.Finally, concluding remarks, areas of future development (including scalability concerns), andsuggestions for others who are developing similar courses will be given.BackgroundArizona State University has a long history of offering flexible study options to students. Itstarted its distance-learning programs thirty years ago by offering programs to corporate sitesthrough interactive TV networks and satellites. Since 2002, ASU

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Projects and Applications

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Antonio Francisco Mondragon, Rochester Institute of Technology; Jeanne Christman, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

prototyping in their undergraduate studies,they reach the graduate level and even the workplace lacking the ability to perform hardwaredebug and testing; critical skills for product development. Additionally, since the students are notused to building prototypes, their assembly skills are deficient and even a simple connection ofless than ten wires can end up unstructured and difficult to debug.Faculty are often in the position of having to decide which approach to use to teach an embeddedsystems design class. In this paper a position will be taken on each side, debating the merits ofeach type of system. One side will defend hardware design, programming, prototyping andtesting, while the other will defend the programmable, single platform approach

Conference Session

Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Tappan, Eastern Washington University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

Paper ID #17110Experiencing Real-world Multidisciplinary Software Systems Engineering throughAircraft Carrier SimulationProf. Dan Tappan, Eastern Washington University Dan Tappan is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Eastern Washington University. He has been a professor of computer science and engineering for 11 years, before which he spent a decade in the defense industry as a software and systems engineer, mostly involved in the modeling and simulation of weapon systems. His main research areas are software and hardware systems engineering, especially for aviation and military applications with embedded

Collection

2023 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Shahab D. Mohaghegh, West Virginia University

Paper ID #40400Engineering Application of Artificial IntelligenceProf. Shahab D. Mohaghegh, West Virginia University Shahab D. Mohaghegh, a pioneer in the application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the Exploration and Production industry, is a Professor of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering at West Virginia University and the president and CEO of Intelligent Solutions, Inc. (ISI). He is the direc- tor of WVU-LEADS (Laboratory for Engineering Application of Data Science). Including more than 30 years of research and development in the petroleum engineering application of Artificial Intelligence and

Conference Session

1st and 2nd Year Instruction in Design

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irene B. Mena, University of Pittsburgh; William W. Clark, University of Pittsburgh; Ellen M. Moe

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #15017Designing a Big Machine: A Description and Assessment of a Mechanical En-gineering Design ProjectIrene B. Mena, University of Pittsburgh Irene B. Mena has a B.S. and M.S. in industrial engineering, and a Ph.D. in engineering education. Her research interests include first-year engineering and graduate student professional development.Prof. William W. Clark, University of PittsburghEllen M. Moe c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Designing a Big Machine: A Description and Assessment of a Mechanical

Conference Session

Innovative Assessment Techniques in Civil Engineering Courses

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven J. Burian, University of Utah; Shannon K Reynolds

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

. For example, the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy andEnvironmental Design (LEED) rating system has served this purpose in capstone designcourses13,14, as well as technical design courses8. Other studies have met sustainability courseobjectives using the LEED rating system through projects focused on sustainable energysystems15 and collaboration of multidisciplinary students on a single project16. These pastapplications have found knowledge and student satisfaction to be improved due to theapproaches taken to teach sustainability. The ISI EnvisionTM Rating System has also found Page 24.1348.3recent use in civil engineering

Conference Session

Software Applications in ET Programs

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maddumage Karunaratne, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

developed in house.At this university, electrical engineering technology (EET) and computer engineering technology(CET) majors always take one semester course on computer programming so they can be effective inusing embedded controllers and other programmable devices, later in their curricula or in industryafter graduation. It is a C based programming course with few projects appropriate for second yearengineering technology students. CET majors further study Java, Ada, and C flavored languages intheir curricula. EET majors do not have opportunity to learn other languages although some of themwould program – using proprietary languages- Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) aftergraduation in industrial settings.Several of follow on courses taken

Collection

2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Pranav Bhounsule; Deborah Chaney; Lorena Claeys; Randall D. Manteufel

that students who did service learning had ahigher motivation and also showed better ABET outcomes. Schuetze et al. [6] also found in theirqualitative study at the University of Texas at San Antonio the reciprocal learning benefits forundergraduate students mentoring Hispanic students in preparation for FIRST® Roboticscompetitions. They concluded that robotics clubs nurture aspirational and self-efficacy on allparticipating members of the learning environment. Specifically, they found that protégés andmentors expressed a better understanding and an increase in STEM knowledge as well asaffirmation towards STEM education and careers goals.In this paper, we present some of our experiences and findings from incorporating a SLcomponent to an

Conference Session

Mechanics Education Programs and Projects

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Hennessey, University of St. Thomas

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Mechanics

AC 2008-565: STATICS AND DYNAMICS PROJECTS EMPHASIZINGINTRODUCTORY DESIGN AND MANUFACTURINGMichael Hennessey, University of St. Thomas DR. MICHAEL P. HENNESSEY is a tenured Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering within the School of Engineering. He has taught over 15 different courses in mechanical engineering at the undergraduate and graduate level and has written 33 papers in research (kinematics, dynamics and control of mechanical systems and related areas of applied mathematics) and mechanical engineering education, including the presentation of 10 papers at ASEE conferences (National (3), along with North Midwest (6) and St. Lawrence (1) sections

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David C. Che, Geneva College; David Allen Clark, Geneva College; David W. Shaw, Geneva College; James S. Gidley, Geneva College

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2012-3714: LESSONS LEARNED FROM STARTING AN SAE BAJAPROGRAM IN A SMALL LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGEDr. David Che, Geneva College David Che has been an Associate Professor of mechanical engineering at Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Penn., since 2008. He currently is also the Director of the Pinkerton Center for Technology Development at Geneva College. He received his B.S.E in precision engineering from Harbin Institute of Technol- ogy, P. R. China, his M.S in mechanical engineering from Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, and Ph.D in mechanical engineering from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. He worked as a se- nior research/project engineer at General Motors Corporation from 1997-2005. He also served as

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hyun Kim

taken concurrently with thecompanion lecture course, MECH 4835, Thermal Fluid Applications. The lecture and laboratorycourses are the last of the sequential courses in the area of fluid thermal sciences, which studentsmust take to satisfy the graduation requirements [4]. Therefore, the courses must cover a varietyof fundamental and applied subjects in thermodynamics, fluid power, and heat transfer. Theexperiments are almost equally divided into application oriented experiments and the ones thatreinforce students’ understanding on fundamentals of thermodynamics and heat transfer. Onsuccessful completion of the course, students are expected to acquire an ability of: 1) analyzing asample for thermodynamic properties by proximate and calorimetric