Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Ashraf Ghaly; Megan Ferry

To Dam Or Not To Dam: An Insight Into The Environmental Politics Of Rivers Ashraf Ghaly, Ph.D., P.E. Professor of Engineering, Union College, Schenectady, NY 12308 Megan Ferry, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Modern Languages, Union College, Schenectady, NY 12308ABSTRACTIn today’s highly charged climate of environmental politics, decisions about building dams are extremelyhard to make. Simply put, those who have the authority to make such decisions are damned if they damand are also damned if they don’t! There is no easy answer to many of the questions related to damconstruction. No matter what the

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2017 ASEE Mid Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Peibo Guo, Conestoga High School; Kail Jialang Yuan; Zuyi Huang, Villanova University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Peibo Guo1, Kail J. Yuan2, Zuyi (Jacky) Huang3 1. Conestoga High School, Berwyn, PA, 19312 2. Radnor High School, Villanova, PA 19085 3. Department of Chemical Engineering, Villanova, PA, 19085Abstract: USA high-school students are falling behind their peers from other countries such asFinland and Korea in their mathematical performance. Solving ordinary differential equations(ODEs) is especially challenging to USA high-school and college students. It is thus necessary tore-generate the momentum of inspiring or stimulating high-school students to participate in moremath-related trainings or projects. In this work, we developed the first version of a web-basedtraining approach to

Conference Session

Classroom Practice II: Technology - and Game-Based Learning

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Rhudy, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus; Rungun Nathan, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #14446Fluids Friday! A Method for Improving Student Attentiveness and Learningin the ClassroomProf. Matthew Rhudy, Pennsylvania State University, Berks CampusDr. Rungun Nathan, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus Dr. Rungun Nathan is an associate professor and program coordinator for the mechanical engineering in the division of engineering at Penn State Berks. He got his BS from University of Mysore, DIISc from Indian Institute of Science, MS from Louisiana State University and PhD from Drexel University. He has worked in the area of Electronic Packaging in C-DOT (India) and then as a Scientific Assistant

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Diandra Leslie-Pelecky; Rochelle Payne Ondracek

Session 1380 ScienceWorks: a University-Based Science Outreach Group Rochelle Payne Ondracek, Diandra Leslie-Pelecky University of Nebraska - LincolnAbstractScienceWorks is a science and engineering outreach group at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, comprised of faculty, graduate students, undergraduates and community volunteers.We are brought together by one goal - to make science fun and accessible for everyone.ScienceWorks has developed over 30 modules that emphasize a range of scientific andengineering topics and guide the participants in discovery-based learning. Modules cover a

Conference Session

Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Peter

Engineering Educationaccessible with only a few lines of code. The goal is to have a system that can be harnessed by afreshman with very limited programming skills and technical knowledge. While using a serial interface is not that difficult, the tools available for doing so aredifferent between different operating systems. For this reason, all basic calls to the port arehandled through a class that has been written for Windows XP, since that is the most commonPC operating system today. A competent programmer could easily write a version of this classthat would work in Linux or any other OS without modifying any other parts of the program. The main issue we encountered once the system was running was that of handlingcommunication

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Muteb M. Alqahtani, Rutgers University; Arthur Belford Powell, Rutgers University

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Mathematics

Foundation, DRK-12 program, under awardDRL-1118888. The findings and opinions reported are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the viewsof the funding agency.For example, a line segment can be used as a radius to create a circle. These objects can bedragged around the screen, which allows the users to observe the consequences of their draggingto understand the relations among the different objects. Users act on geometric objects and DGEsreact to their actions in a manner that corresponds to engineered infrastructure that responds tothe theory of geometry [8, 9]. This co-active relationship between the environment and usersallows users to monitor and reflect on their activity. In an instrument-mediated activity in DGE,the environment

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2023 ASEE PNW Section Conference

Authors

Joseph P Hoffbeck, University of Portland; Dan Moldovan

Education, 2023 Design an Energy-Saving Device: An Engaging Module for a Laboratory CourseAbstractThis paper describes a new module that was developed and deployed in a sophomore circuitslaboratory course, how it was evaluated, and the results of student surveys addressing theeffectiveness of the module. The module challenges the students to design, build, anddemonstrate a simple device of their choosing that has the potential to save energy. In addition tolearning how to program a microcontroller, the objectives of the module are to give studentspractice in identifying real world engineering opportunities and to connect the class content tothe real world.The module is designed to engage the students by

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Conrad Tucker, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Soundar Kumara, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Design” (SBD) program, Dr. Tucker supervises students from Penn State during the summer semester in a two-week engineering design program at the ´ Ecole Centrale de Nantes in Nantes, France. Dr. Tucker is the director of the Design Analysis Technology Advancement (D.A.T.A) Laboratory. His research interests are in formalizing system design processes under the paradigm of knowledge discovery, optimization, data mining, and informatics. His research interests include applications in complex sys- tems design and operation, product portfolio/family design, and sustainable system design optimization in the areas of engineering education, energy generation systems, consumer electronics, environment, and national

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

John Syers

Teaching Error Correction to Core IT Students via Video Supplementary Instruction MAJ John Syers Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996AbstractThe introduction to programming can be very difficult for students, particularly those who haveno IT background. Understanding and correcting syntax errors is an integral part ofprogramming, yet this topic is often given only perfunctory mention in course curriculums.The goal of this study is to determine whether providing supplementary instruction to students isan effective means of teaching error correction. It also

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Craig Prather, Auburn University; Stuart M. Wentworth, Auburn University

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Electrical and Computer

University Stu Wentworth received his electrical engineering doctorate from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1990. Since then, he has been with Auburn University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, specializing in electromagnetics and microelectronics. He has authored a pair of undergraduate electro- magnetics texts and has won several awards related to teaching. He is the department’s undergraduate Program Director and Chair of its Curriculum and Assessment Committee. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Design of Experiment in a Junior Level RF Systems LabInspired by discussions at the 2016 American Society of Engineering Educators (ASEE)Conference and

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jiaxin Zhao

Session 1566 Teaching Finite Element Analysis as a Solution Method for Truss Problems in Statics Jiaxin Zhao Indiana University–Purdue University Fort WayneAbstractFinite Element Analysis (FEA) is a very powerful tool that is used in virtually every area in thefield of Mechanical Engineering and many other disciplines. It is beneficial for the mechanicalengineering students to have exposure to this tool as early as possible and as frequently aspossible in their engineering education. The earliest time comes when they are taught the trussproblems in Statics

Conference Session

Emerging Computing and Information Technologies II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yujian Fu P.E., Alabama A&M University; Peter J. Clarke, Florida International University; Nelson Barnes Jr, Alabama A&M University

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Computing & Information Technology

, Alabama A&M University Prof. Barnes has performed a variety of technical projects including: Providing system specifications, hardware/software compatibility assessments, software design, software development and integration ex- pertise for an assortment of systems; Developing goals and objectives for business process management and technology integration; Ensuring reliable software integration across multiple platforms for various programs; and Architecture development for an assortment of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Application systems. His research interests are in the areas of Mobile Device Development, Software Engineering, Software Project Management, and Information Systems Analysis

Conference Session

Improving Communication Skills in ME

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Theresa McGarry; Edward Young; Elisabeth Alford

Page 8.1057.3the assessment process and therefore provides them an opportunity to learn self-assessment.“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Therefore, we argue that interaction patterns in conference grading help to promote the deeplearning of both cognitive and meta-cognitive writing skills, and conference grading is thus animprovement over written comments in regard to writing process development.Assessing both product and processA third area in which the traditional assessment method could be improved relates to theprofessor’s evaluation of this kind of development. That is, in addition to the very important goalof

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Davis

Engineering and Computer Science and anAssociate Department Head for Computer Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. In Spring 2000, she wasawarded the College of Engineering’s Wandamacher Teaching Award for Young Faculty, the ECECS Department’sRestemeyer Teaching Award, and Engineering Tribunal’s Professor of the Quarter Award. She is a Senior member ofIEEE and an ABET Computer Engineering program evaluator.Dr. Davis received a B.S. degree in Computer Sciencefrom Loyola University, New Orleans in 1985 and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University ofLouisiana, Lafayette in 1987 and 1990, respectively. Page 6.451.8

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

Authors

Nicholas Hosein, UC Davis; Lee Michael Martin, University of California, Davis; Andre Knoesen

Tagged Topics

Diversity

student success in a blended-model engineering classroom. ASEE, 2018. [5] Reid Bailey and Michael C Smith. Implementation and assessment of a blended learning environment as an approach to better engage students in a large systems design class. age, 23:1, 2013. [6] C Mirjam Van Praag and Peter H Versloot. What is the value of entrepreneurship? a review of recent research. Small business economics, 29(4):351–382, 2007. [7] Tom Byers, Tina Seelig, Sheri Sheppard, and Phil Weilerstein. Its role in engineering education. The Bridge, 43 (2), 2013. [8] Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Angela Shartrand, and Teri Reed. The role of entrepreneurship program models and experiential activities on engineering student outcomes. Advances in

Conference Session

Innovative and Computer-Assisted Lab Studies

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Helgeson, University of Tennessee-Martin

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

areexpected to be able to apply dynamics, differential equations, Fourier series, and LaplaceTransforms. The prerequisites to the course are differential equations and dynamics. To recruitcivil engineering students we emphasize that this course will give them a significant advantagefor studying structural dynamics in graduate school. This has proven to be the case, as severalcivil students have continued on to very good graduate programs in this area. Typically thecourse has 18-24 students, with a maximum of 24 based on the laboratory capacity. This pastfall there were eight civil engineering students and 14 mechanical engineering students.There are five main goals for the course:1. Derive the differential equations of motion for single and multi

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Dean; Carol Considine

with the home campus located in Norfolk,Virginia. Established in 1930 as the Norfolk Division of the College of William and Mary, today itenrolls over 20,000 students in 66 baccalaureate, 67 master’s, and 23 doctoral programs. TheUniversity is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Collegesand Schools and its engineering and engineering technology programs are accredited through theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. Page 8.160.1“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Vijay Kanabar; Virginia Greiman; Jim Cormier

Communication and Collaboration in an Online Masters Degree Vijay Kanabar, Associate Professor, Boston University Virginia Greiman, Assistant Professor, Boston University Jim Cormier, Lecturer, Boston UniversityAbstract Communicating with students and encouraging collaboration poses a major challenge in distanceeducation. In this paper, the authors present lessons learned from an online master’s degree program; eachhad successfully developed courses to teach engineers and managers project management at a distance.The first section introduces online learning and illustrates the tools and interactive technologies used tocommunicate with students. The second

Conference Session

Faculty Development Medley!

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Federica Robinson-Bryant, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide; Narcrisha Norman, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide; Yuetong Lin, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Faculty Development Division

Paper ID #31503Examining the Needs of Adjunct Faculty in a Distance Education Frameworkin Higher EducationDr. Federica Robinson-Bryant, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide Dr. Federica Robinson-Bryant is an Assistant Professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s World- wide Campus. She is the Program Chair for the Master of Systems Engineering program in the Depart- ment of Engineering and Technology. She is also Past Chair of the ASEE Systems Engineering Division and is serving in other capacities throughout the ASEE community.Dr. Narcrisha Norman, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide Dr

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2013 GSW

Authors

Oscar N. Garcia; Garima Bajwa; Cynthia L. Claiborne; Shanti R. Thiyagaraja; Mohamed Fazeen; Eric H. Pruett

 express the program pthat runs in M and produces s as an output. The smallest possible L(p) for a given s over allprograms and all machines that outputs s is the Kolmogorov measure of information in Xrelative in complexity to M represented as: KM(s) = min(L(p))+CM where CM is the number of bitsthat it takes to describe the machine M, a quantity that is independent of s. Since a Turingmachine may simulate any other machine, it may be used to estimate CM except that we cannot Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright 2013, American Society for Engineering Educationbe sure of a

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2004 GSW

Authors

Charlotte Welch Smith; Bonita Butner; James Gregory

Session 005 E-COACH: Successful Career Advising Tool for High School Juniors Charlotte Welch Smith Counseling Department Frenship High School Jennifer Spurrier Higher Education Program Educational Psychology and Leadership Texas Tech University James Gregory Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies College of Engineering Texas

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ahlgren

to validate results of previous ones.In [6] Professor Verner disclosed three important survey results: (1) that almost alluniversity and high school students report significant progress in project-related skillsthrough participation in the fire-fighting contest; progress in their project skills, due toparticipation in the fire-fighting robot project; (2) that progress in general (theoretical)skill was less than progress in technical and teamwork skills; and (3) that most studentsreported that the contest challenge increased their interest in science and engineering andmotivated them to specialize in science and engineering. Another important outcomewas that several key participants indicated the need for refreshment of the contest tasks

Conference Session

Reflection

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amber Dale Levine, Stanford University; Tua A. Björklund, Aalto University Design Factory; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

graduate design and education related classes at Stanford University, she conducts research on engineering education and work-practices, and applied finite element analysis. From 1999-2008 she served as a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, leading the Foundation’s engineering study (as reported in Educating Engineers: Designing for the Future of the Field). In addition, in 2011 Dr. Sheppard was named as co-PI of a national NSF innovation center (Epicenter), and leads an NSF program at Stanford on summer research experiences for high school teachers. Her industry experiences includes engineering positions at Detroit’s ”Big Three:” Ford Motor Company, General Motors Corporation, and

Conference Session

ERM: Systematic Reviews!

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexander Struck Jannini; Zeynep Akdemir, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Muhsin Menekse, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

the recipient of the 2014 William Elgin Wickenden Award by the American Society for Engineering Education. He is also selected as an NSF SIARM fellow for the advanced research methods for STEM education research. Dr. Menekse received four Seed-for-Success Awards (in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2021) from Purdue University's Excellence in Research Awards programs in recognition of obtaining four external grants of $1 million or more during each year. His research has been generously funded by grants from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), Purdue Research Foundation (PRF), and the National Science Foundation (NSF). © American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Additive Manufacturing Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren Rosen, Drexel University; Yalcin Ertekin, Drexel University; M. Eric Carr, Drexel University; Bret Alan Davis, Intel; Michael Cassidy, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

architectural and manufacturing Sciences depart- ment of Western Kentucky University. He was a faculty at Trine University teaching mainly graduate courses as well as undergraduate courses in engineering technology and mechanical engineering depart- ments. He is currently teaching in Engineering Technology Program at Drexel University. His area of expertise is in CAD/CAM, Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machining, rapid prototyping and qual- ity control. His research interest includes sensor based condition monitoring of CNC machining, machine tool accuracy characterization and enhancement, non-invasive surgical tool design, reverse engineering and bio materials.Mr. M. Eric Carr, Drexel University Mr. Eric Carr is an

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Ohland; Cynthia Finelli

Session 3230 Peer Evaluation in a Mandatory Cooperative Education Environment Matthew W. Ohland and Cynthia J. Finelli Clemson University / Kettering UniversityAbstractPrevious studies with a majority white student population [1] and with a majority black popula-tion [2] demonstrated that peer ratings to assess individual performance of team membersshowed no effects relating to gender but significant effects relating to race. For this study, thestudent population is majority white, but is from Kettering University, an institution that requiresparticipation in a cooperative education program

Conference Session

Social Dialogue on Diversity and Inclusion

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Urmi Ghosh-Dastidar, New York City College of Technology and the City University of New York; Diana Samaroo, New York City College of Technology and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; Armando Dominguez Solis; Sandie Han, New York City College of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

LinkedIn accounts, for instance) and through their participation in variousresearch activities, we also observe student growth in establishing their professional STEMidentity.IntroductionThe National Science Foundation (NSF) S-STEM program [1] provides scholarships to highachieving financially needy students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. TheCity Tech’s S-STEM project “Advancing Student Futures in Science, Technology, Engineering,and Mathematics” supports students in five associates and baccalaureate majors (Applied Math,Computer Science, Biomedical Informatics, Chemical Technology, and Applied Chemistry).This work-in-progress project provides comprehensive support in multifaceted ways: (1)financial support through

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas Barendt, Case Western Reserve University; Nigamanth Sridhar, Cleveland State University; Kenneth A. Loparo, Case Western Reserve University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

, mobile, analytics, loadtesting, security. A novel application of DevOps tools to incrementally deliver multi-platform(systems) solutions each week is discussed. Finally, lessons learned from several offerings of thecourse are presented, along with challenges, opportunities and successes, and directions forfuture work.KeywordsInternet of Things, IoT Education, Raspberry Pi, MQTT, Security, Analytics, DevOpsIntroductionForecasts for the growth in the number of connected devices are staggering. One report [1]predicts 8.4 billion connected things in use worldwide in 2017 and 20.4 billion by 2020. Thescale of this growth makes it critical that computer science and engineering students and othersin related fields are instilled with the core concepts

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Hurst, UMBC; Shawn Grimes, Digital Harbor Foundation; Darius McCoy, Digital Harbor Foundation; Nicholas Carter, UMBC; William Easley, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Foad Hamidi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Gabrielle Salib, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Modeling Education in High Schools and After-school Programs.To better understand trends and obstacles in mainstream classrooms we interviewed 15 highschool students who had taken 3D printing classes in school or after-school programs, and 7instructors who had taught these classes [2]. These interviews highlighted the significantchallenges balancing time and technological resources. We identified shortcomings with existingsoftware including the need to support student success, design tools with meaningful metaphors,and ease the transition from novice to expert user.Making and 3D Printing in Formal EducationWhile past work has studied the looked at the impact STEM and STEAM (Science, Technology,Engineering, Art and Math) in learning environments

Conference Session

Topics at the intersection of Aero and Naval Eng.

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Konstantin Matveev, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

individual.The participating students are recruited from the entire Mechanical Engineering pool atWashington State University, which amounts to several hundred students. Junior-level students,including those with excellent GPA and/or special skills, demonstrate the highest interest in thisopportunity. About 15 students were interviewed for each position. Our top priorities in choosingresearch assistants are their strong motivation, a degree of potential dedication to the project, andhardware skills, especially marine-oriented. For example, two of our students have previouslybuilt their own hydroplanes, which is a sub-category of air-assisted class of marine craft. Thestudent performance in this program was found to be insensitive to the student GPA.The