Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Srboljub R. Masala; Kevin W. Biggar; Colin Geissler

anindividual test should not exceed in duration the length of regular laboratory class – 3 hours.However, additional material may be included for students who choose to explore the contentfurther. The total time estimated for students to spend on the virtual experiment was limited toabout 5 to 6 hours. This is what is normally needed to conduct the physical test and to write thelab report.The learners analysis showed a very homogeneous group in terms of age (third year ofundergraduate studies), gender structure (male / female about 60 / 40 %) and attitudes and goals(the course is a compulsory one).The learning task was the most difficult to deal with. We postulated there were two possibleways to develop this courseware. In most general terms: either

Conference Session

Technological Literacy for Undergraduate Students

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak, Hope College; Lauren Aprill

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

supplies fit in a box which can be readilyshipped. This allows colleges to borrow, rent, or lease rather than own the equipment.Laboratory procedures and questions can be modified to better suit the needs of either andintroduction to engineering or a technological literacy course for non-engineers. Testing wasbased on subject matter content tests administered to the students before and after completing theprojects. Students completing the projects show statistically significant increases in contentknowledge related to the project topics. A method of assessments is also being explored thatinvolves having each student design and construct his or her own simple version of some of thetechnological devices studied. This work was supported by the

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Faculty Development

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas E. Allen, Bucknell University; Steven B. Shooter, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

professional programs, there is an increased recognition for the need toprepare professionals who not only have mastered specialized technical knowledge, butalso transcendent skills such as cultural understanding, global awareness, emotionalintelligence, and creative right-brain capabilities—perspectives often at the center ofliberal arts offerings and that could be effectively imparted to students in the professionalprograms through greater integration. For example, in the case of engineering programsin the U.S., graduates with this latter set of skills should be better prepared to compete ina global workforce comprised of engineers educated elsewhere and possessingcomparable levels of technical preparation. Integration of the liberal arts with

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching and Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Davis; David Socha; Valentin Razmov

discussing results or designing solutions. Finally, we believethat the reflective practices that are valuable in any learning environment are especially valuablein situations with the potential for high inner conflict. Thus, conflict is only one of many aspectsof learning.In the next sections, we describe how we structured a software engineering course to facilitatelearning in the face of the types of conflict typical of large team projects.3. The CourseWe applied these models in a 9-week course in software engineering at the junior undergraduatelevel, open only to computer science or computer engineering majors. There were 22 students* –two of them graduate students. Nine were women and thirteen were men. The teaching staffconsisted of one lecturer

Conference Session

COED: Mechanical Engineering-related Topics

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter L. Schmidt PE, University of Evansville; Philip Andrew Lax, University Of Evansville

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has served as a research associate and as an instructor at Vanderbilt University. He has also worked at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, Indiana; at Precision Rubber, now part of Parker Hannifin in Lebanon, Tennessee; for CDAI in Atlanta, Georgia and at UTC / Carrier in Lewisburg, Tennessee. Dr. Schmidt is a member of the ASEE and a li- censed professional engineer in Tennessee and Georgia. He is also a member of ASME, ASA and INCE. Dr. Schmidt’s research interests include aeroacoustics and ultrasonics, and has authored several journal and conference papers on these subjects.Mr. Philip Andrew Lax, University Of Evansville Philip Lax is currently a

Conference Session

Experinces in Manufacturing Engineering Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Holloway, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

Paper ID #18363Innovative Manufacturing Education Experience for First-Year EngineeringStudents: Using a Seminar Course and Volunteerism to Enhance Manufac-turing SkillsMr. Eric Holloway, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Eric Holloway currently serves as the Senior Director of Industry Research in the College of Engineering at Purdue University, where he focuses on industry research in the College of Engineering. From 2007-2013, Eric served as the Managing Director and the Director of Instructional Laboratories in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. As Director, he was in

Conference Session

ENT-1: Innovative Approaches to Student Engagement and Belonging in Engineering

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Peponis, Lawrence Technological University; Eric G Meyer, Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

from large/stationary systems controlled bykeyboards to light wearable (or implanted) devices that allow for new ways of interacting withinformation. To keep pace with these advancements, biomedical engineering education is shifting towardstheory-practice necessities of engineering professions, inclusion of “real-world” problems that respond tosociety’s needs and greater exposure to digital models, fabrication and programming. To this weemphasize “Innovation” as a quintessential mindset that distinguishes engineers who discoveropportunities, draw from multi-disciplinary capabilities to create solutions and create real world value. Toadvance this mindset in biomedical engineering curricula, we provide a concrete case study of a coursedesigned

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Richards

course to another is one of the effects most sought after by educa-tors and one of the most difficult to produce (or at least observe) in our students. Rugarcia,Felder, Woods, and Stice in an excellent article1 on the future of engineering, stress that bothcomponents of engineering education—knowledge and skills—should focus on the big picture.This issue was also discussed in a recent white paper on thermal systems education2.Now recall your first days as a graduate student. As you reviewed notes from a week of classes, itsuddenly dawned on you that you had just spent the entire week developing the same set of equa-tions—possibly the differential form of the conservation equations for mass, energy, and momen-tum—in all your courses. The

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harold Evensen, University of Wisconsin - Platteville

Paper ID #36775Specifications Grading in General Physics and EngineeringPhysics CoursesHarold T. Evensen (Professor of Engineering Physics) Hal Evensen has been a Professor of Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville since 1999, where he has led ABET accreditation efforts and served as Program Coordinator. His research interests always involve students and range from carbon nanotube electronics and nanopatterned graphene to automated control of grazing dairy herds. He enjoys teaching courses in Sensors and Electric & Magnetic Fields, and has developed a new, project-based course for first

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Katie Torrey; James Hertel; Douglas Oppliger; Gretchen Hein; Glen Archer; Jason Keith

was beneficial. Thereason become more clear when the students were asked to solve this problem using aspreadsheet in the next class session.During the next class period, students were introduced to using spreadsheets as an engineeringtool. The material balance problem was revisited in a three part spreadsheet assignment. Appen-dix A contains the spreadsheet assignment description.In the first part of the analysis, student teams completed a study of how much fruit and sugarwere required to make 1 lb of jam for different kinds of fruit (strawberry, raspberry, apricot andapple). After the spreadsheet portion was completed, they had to answer questions that requiredthem to consider the reason behind their answers.In the second part of the

Conference Session

Using a Real-Options Analysis Tutorial in Teaching Undergraduate Students

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John A. White Jr., University of Arkansas

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

elective for industrial engineering majors andis occasionally taken by graduate students. The prerequisite for AdvEngEcon is EngEcon. As such,several students are juniors, but the majority are seniors.As taught for many years, AdvEngEcon typically began with a review of material covered inEngEcon: annual worth, future worth, present worth, and rate of return methods of comparingmutually exclusive investment alternatives, after-tax comparison of investment alternatives underinflationary conditions; and replacement analysis. Additional material in AdvEngEcon included: costestimation; capital planning and budgeting; break-even, sensitivity, and risk analysis; decisionanalysis; analytic hierarchy process; and real options. The textbook adopted for the

Conference Session

Hands-on Materials Science and Engineering

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harvey Abramowitz, Purdue University Calumet

Tagged Divisions

Materials

AC 2008-1952: BASSWOOD BRIDGESHarvey Abramowitz, Purdue University Calumet HARVEY ABRAMOWITZ Harvey Abramowitz received a BS in Materials Science, and MS and EngScD degrees in Extractive Metallurgy/Mineral Engineering, all from Columbia University. After graduating, he was a Research Engineer for Inland Steel, where he worked on metal recovery from waste streams. He is currently Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University Calumet. Prof. Abramowitz teaches courses in materials science and engineering, solid waste management, introduction to engineering design, and the freshman experience

Conference Session

Motivating students to achieve

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Davis; David Socha; Valentin Razmov

Conference Session

Raise the Bar – Visions for the Future, Bodies of Knowledge, and Accreditation Vicissitudes.

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stuart G. Walesh P.E., S. G. Walesh Consulting

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

. Engineeringsocieties were invited to comment and contributions were received from IEEE-USA,AIChE, ASCE, and the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers(ASABE) and incorporated into the working outline. The American Council ofEngineering Companies (ACEC), ASME, the American Society of Heating,Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), and AAEES were alsoinvited, but did not provide comments prior to the October 2013 completion ofEngineering Body of Knowledge.However, ASME offered comments after publication. NSPE hopes that other societies,whether or not they have already commented, will do so in response to their study of theEBOK and thoughts about its possible implications for them.Descriptions of the capabilities and example

Conference Session

Preparing a Modern Aerospace Workforce

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sven Bilen; Lisa Brown; Mieke Schuurman; Timothy Wheeler; Julio Urbina

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

AC 2008-1102: ADDRESSING AEROSPACE WORKFORCE NEEDS: THE IMPACTOF HANDS-ON SPACE SYSTEMS PROJECT EXPERIENCES ON CAREERCHOICESSven Bilen, Pennsylvania State University SVEN G. BILÉN is an Associate Professor of Engineering Design, Electrical Engineering, and Aerospace Engineering at Penn State. He is the Chief Technologist for Penn State's Center for Space Research Programs and Director of the Student Space Programs Lab. He is member of IEEE, AIAA, AGU, ASEE, URSI, and Sigma Xi.Mieke Schuurman, Pennsylvania State University MIEKE SCHUURMAN is an engineering education research associate with the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education in the College of Engineering at The

Collection

2006 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Scott C. Smith, University of Missouri - Rolla

functions were developed for incorporation into a senior-level elective /graduate-level course on Digital System Modeling with VHDL. The lecture notes includeddiscussion of both bounded-delay and delay-insensitive asynchronous paradigms, highlightingthe differences between the two and comparing each to the synchronous, clocked paradigm, asoverviewed in Section 2.1. Following this general discussion, one specific asynchronousparadigm, NULL Convention Logic (NCL), was studied in detail. This included a generalintroduction to NCL, as overviewed in Section 2.2, as well as specific presentations andassignments on the fundamental NCL components (i.e. registration, combinational logic, andcompletion detection), input-completeness and observability, dual