Collection

2019 CIEC

Authors

Ryan Howe; Stanley Rader; Matthew Snyder

Session ETD 455in 2015-16 and featured construction of a trail bridge in the Maroon Bells Wilderness Area ofcentral Colorado. The project featured in this paper took place in the White River National Foreston the McCullough Gulch Trail near Breckenridge, CO. This site was chosen for a variety ofreasons; the trail sees traffic of more than 30,000 hikers annually and the existing bridge did notmeet Forest Service standards. The existing bridge, in fact, was a marina boat dock rampborrowed from the local county! These factors, along with the aesthetic preferences of the ForestService, created a legitimate design and construction challenge for USAFA Civil EngineeringStudents. Air Force Academy Civil Engineering cadets all go through initial

Conference Session

Technology Literacy for Non-Engineers

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Blake, Austin Peay State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

expect that to be the case.At my institution, the best hope for attracting students to a technological literacy course is tofocus initially on specific majors where an understanding of technology and of engineeringwould be directly applicable in the major itself. Here, one could seek assistance in reachingstudents from faculty advisors in these areas. A business major seeking eventual employmentwith a company that also hires engineers should see the wisdom of learning something aboutengineering and technology while in college. An English major specializing in technical writingshould be interested for the same reasons. In reading works to prepare to teach a technologicalliteracy course, one is struck by the number of scholars in history and

Conference Session

Redefining the Boundaries of Engineering and Liberal Education: Contributions to the Year of Dialogue

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Grimson, Dublin Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

withresources for understanding and addressing ethically significant problems that arise in theirwork, and to serve those who are promoting learning and advancing the understanding ofresponsible research and practice in science and engineering”7. Regarding Aesthetics, one mightrefer to the straightforward and very readable text by Alastair Macdonald, or to the deeper,“Engineering Aesthetics and Ergo-Aesthetics: Theoretical and Methodological Foundations” 8,9 .These and others not included here certainly support the notion that these branches of philosophyare considered to have strong relevance to engineering. Page 12.1453.7As the essence of

Conference Session

Direct Measures of Student Performance

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

revenues even though they cost more initially? McDonough advocates modeling a site as an ecosystem. What are some of the green design features of the Ford Rouge Plant?The students are also assigned to read and turn in a reflective memo on several articles posted onBlackboard20 21. The articles include examples of Leadership in Energy Efficient Design(LEED) construction projects, information about the LEED certification process and the USGreen Building Council (USGBC) website22, and booklet published by the Nature Conservancyon conservation site design23. All readings are posted in Blackboard and the students are askedto write either reflective essays or professional executive memos on the topics and submit themvia digital dropbox.The

Conference Session

Impacts of Public Policy on Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zarjon Baha, Purdue University; Bahawodin Baha, University of Brighton

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

for attaining individualachievements and development of the country. Education through high school wasbecoming more common throughout the country.Several institutions of Technical Vocational Education (TVE) were established in Kabuland other provinces. Due to the lack of technical facilities in the country, the developmentof Technical Vocational Education was slow compared to the general education of firstthrough twelfth grades. Most of the TVE institutions, especially the successful ones, wereestablished with the help of other countries such as the USA, the USSR, Germany, theUnited Kingdom, and others. Technical Education in Afghanistan was initiated at theuniversity level with the establishment of the Faculty of Agriculture and Engineering

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rudolph Eggert, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

AC 2008-1888: ACHIEVING TEAM WORK IN DESIGN PROJECTS:DEVELOPMENT AND RESULTS OF A SPREADSHEET TOOLRudolph Eggert, Boise State University RUDY J. EGGERT is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at Boise State University. His research interests include Engineering Design, Optimization, Design Theory and Methodology, Vehicle Design, Machine Design, and Probabilistic Analysis. In addition to conference papers and journal articles he authored Engineering Design, published by Prentice Hall in 2004. Page 13.141.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008

Collection

2003 GSW

Authors

Amir Karimi

the course.Course Transfer Audit: Transfer credits from community colleges and other universitiesare reviewed and approved by the engineering advisors and department chair for quality andtopic coverage. When students want to apply course work completed at other institutions fortransfer to UTSA, the student files are initially processed through the Transfer Evaluation Unit inthe Office of Admissions and Registrar. Typically, courses designated by Texas CommonCourse Numbers (TCCN) are automatically accepted. These include the 42 SCH of CoreCurriculum requirements and lower division courses such as calculus, physics, and introductoryengineering courses. For upper division courses, students requesting transfer credit must providesufficient

Conference Session

Project-Based Student Learning: Part I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Everly, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

AC 2009-1048: FREQUENCY RESPONSE OF RF TRANSCEIVER FILTERS USINGLOW-COST VECTOR NETWORK ANALYZERJames Everly, University of Cincinnati James Everly, University of Cincinnati James O. Everly is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology at the University of Cincinnati. He received a BSEE and MSEE from The Ohio State University in 1969 and 1970, respectively. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a registered professional engineer in the state of Ohio. He is currently Chair of the IEEE Cincinnati Section, and in 1997 he received the IEEE Professional Achievement Award. He has held several research and management

Conference Session

Software Engineering Teaching Techniques

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Salamah Salamah, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Steve Roach, University of Texas, El Paso; Omar Ochoa, University of Texas, El Paso; Veronica Medina, University of Texas, El Paso; Ann Gates, University of Texas, El Paso

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

number of correct properties in LTL as those who are introduced to LTL using the traditional approach. The research hypotheses were defined as: • Students who are introduced to LTL using the new approach identify, on the average, larger Page 14.192.9 number of correct mapping between an LTL formula and a set of traces of computations and 8 the truth value of running each of these traces against the LTL formula as those who are introduced to LTL using the traditional approach. • Students who are introduced to LTL using the new approach define, on the average, larger

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

William Messner; Dawn M. Tilbury

. (Northwestern) • I’m currently taking a controls course and I was confused on how the zeros and poles effected the root-locus - your tutorial was very helpful. Thanks... (Virginia Tech) • This is a very nice initiative and I hope you will be able to expand it. (University of Texas) • Very good idea to teach using WWW. I hope more people will use your concept. I think the whole course or other courses could be taught in that way. (Quebec) Industrial representatives to whom we have shown the tutorials have also been veryimpressed; they see the tutorials as an excellent way to bring their employees up to speed onthe latest software tools. For retraining purposes, the Web-based tutorials are much moreattractive than books with the

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education: Intercultural Awareness and International Experience

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dietmar Tatzl, FH JOANNEUM, University of Applied Sciences

Tagged Divisions

International

originated during my English as aForeign Language (EFL) classes in the Bachelor and Master of Science Programme inAviation at the FH JOANNEUM, University of Applied Sciences, Graz, Austria. Even thoughthey were initially created for non-native speakers of English, they may be equally employedwith native-speaking students in subject-specific tertiary education and experiencedprofessionals preparing for a work assignment abroad. Raising the cross-cultural awareness ofstudents means introducing and sensitizing them to such issues through which interculturaldifferences and similarities may be perceived, discussed and acknowledged. The four topicsselected are work, national stereotypes, food and gender because these ideally fit in with ourpurpose and are

Conference Session

International Exchange/Joint Programs in Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Masakatsu Matsuishi, Kanazawa Institute of Technology; Wayne Sanders, Rose Hulman Institute Of Technology; Kazuya Takamata, Kanazawa Institute of Technology; Tetsuro Furukawa, Kanazawa Institute of Technology; Loo Ching Nong, Singapore Polytechnic

Tagged Divisions

International

sites are to be created. With thecreation of these, the need to provide more modern public transportation will arise.Based on the information obtained from survey and research, the following DesignSpecification was derived: 1) The overall design of bus stop should be handicap-friendly with all necessary features. 2) The safety of commuters should not be compromised at bus stop. 3) Commuters should have a clear view of arriving buses at bus stop. 4) POB should be handicap-friendly with all the necessary features. 5) Bollards should be aesthetically pleasing and be able to act as a warning sign.The design team generated many design concepts, evaluated them, and selected themost promising one by using the Decision Matrix method shown in

Conference Session

Engineering for Social Justice

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven VanderLeest, Calvin College

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

2006-85: JUSTICE AND HUMILITY IN TECHNOLOGY DESIGNSteven VanderLeest, Calvin College Steven H. VanderLeest is a Professor of Engineering at Calvin College. He has an M.S.E.E. from Michigan Tech. U. (1992) and Ph.D. from the U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1995). He received a “Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers” Award in 2004 and 2005 and was director of a FIPSE grant “Building IT Fluency into a Liberal Arts Core Curriculum.” His research includes responsible technology and software partitioned OS. Page 11.851.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Justice and

Conference Session

What's New in Mechanics of Materials?

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hartley T. Grandin, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

1955 and an M.S. in 1960 in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from the Department of Metallurgy, Mechanics and Materials Science at Michigan State University in 1972. E-mail: hgrandin@rcn.com and hgrandin@wpi.edu.Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas Joseph J. Rencis is currently Professor and Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arkansas. From 1985 to 2004 he was in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His research focuses on the development of boundary and finite element methods for analyzing solid, heat transfer and fluid mechanics problems

Conference Session

Electrical ET Curriculum

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Hsiung, Old Dominion University; Jeff Willis, Utah State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

2006-386: A NEW APPROACH IN MICROPROCESSOR/MICROCONTROLLERCOURSES/LABORATORIES MATERIAL DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENTSteve Hsiung, Old Dominion University STEVE C. HSIUNG Steve Hsiung is an associate professor of electrical engineering technology at Old Dominion University. Prior to his current position, Dr. Hsiung had worked for Maxim Integrated Products, Inc., Seagate Technology, Inc., and Lam Research Corp., all in Silicon Valley, CA. Dr. Hsiung also taught at Utah State University and California University of Pennsylvania. He earned his BS degree from National Kauhsiung Normal University in 1980, MS degrees from University of North Dakota in 1986 and Kansas State University in 1988, and a PhD

Conference Session

Progress on Raising the Bar

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Ressler, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

,environmental, and economic constraints are fundamentally changing the practice of civilengineering today. Yet many academic institutions are ill-equipped to respond to thesechallenges, because of severe credit hour limitations that have been imposed on the four-yearbachelor’s degree in recent years. Consequently, the bachelor’s degree is becoming increasinglyinadequate as formal academic preparation for the professional practice of civil engineering.In response to this situation, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Board ofDirection adopted Policy Statement 465 in October 1998. This initial version of the policy statedthat the Society “supports the concept of the master’s degree as the First Professional Degree for

Conference Session

Design Projects

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cesar Luongo, Florida A&M/Florida State University; Chiang Shih, Florida A&M/Florida State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

further significance is the growth in industrial participation. When the course was started in1999 we had only 2 projects (12%) sponsored by an outside industrial partner. We have Page 11.1116.5consistently increased that percentage and today we are running close to all projects with anindustrial sponsor (close to 90%). We feel this is the limit and will not try to achieve 100% ofindustrial sponsorship. There are many instances of valuable projects that we would like topursue with the class that do not involve industry, such instances include service-orientedprojects (community-based), projects involving spin-offs from research activity by our

Conference Session

Meeting ABET Requirements

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Bannerot, University of Houston

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

2006-831: CONTENT ASSESSMENT AT THE COURSE LEVELRichard Bannerot, University of Houston Richard Bannerot is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston. His research interests are in the thermal sciences and in engineering design education. For the past fifteen years he has taught the required "Introduction to Design" course at the sophomore level and has been involved in the teaching of the department's capstone design course. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Texas. Page 11.356.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 20062006-831: CONTENT

Conference Session

Mechanics Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amitabha Ghosh, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

significant contributor in teaching of the solid mechanics courses. For the past ten years, he has been involved heavily in educational research at RIT and has also served as the coordinator of the Engineering Sciences Core Curriculum (ESCC) in Mechanical Engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Challenges in Teaching Ideal Flows to ME Students concurrently with Senior DesignAbstractStudents in mechanical engineering need to learn important analytical and mathematicalconcepts of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) if they wish to choose a career in fluidmechanics. However, these tools are challenging to learn and are not always interesting to moststudents

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

. Andthe new Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) was formed in 2011 to bring a newprofessional sustainability credentialing and project certification framework to the civilinfrastructure engineering profession.Paralleling the development of sustainability in civil engineering practice, approaches to teachsustainability concepts in the civil engineering curriculum also have been created. Initial interestwas partly driven by sustainability being added as part of the ABET accreditation criteria for allbaccalaureate level programs, specifically Criterion 3 (Program Outcomes). Criterion 3(c) statesthat programs must demonstrate their students attain: “an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet

Conference Session

FPD 7: Beyond Course Content

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Ocif Love, Northeastern University; Susan F. Freeman, Northeastern University; Daniel Allan Sullivan, Center for STEM Education, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

observations and from the first-year engineering students’ ownobservations and feedback about their experiences. As a result of faculty members’ experiences,observations and reflections, 15 success factors have been identified for first-year engineeringstudents and engineering faculty to consider before implementing meaningful service-learningengineering projects in an urban community. The purpose of this paper is to share these 15success factors with other engineering educators who may be considering STEM educationservice-learning projects in their curriculum, especially those who will be initially managing theprojects all by themselves. “What Sticks” refers to what has been successful and meaningful forboth the first-year engineering students and

Conference Session

Two-year College Division: Authors Address Transfer Matters-Part I

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Cooley Jones, Louisiana State University; Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

, and the demographics werediverse with respect to race/ethnicity but lacked female representation (Table 1). PROGRAM ACTIVITIESWithin the framework of the scholarship program, activities were initiated during the first yearand refined and expanded during years two and three. The overall goals of these programs wereto promote the success of the scholarship recipients and engage potential BRCC engineeringtransfer students. Given that all allotted scholarship were not filled during the 2012-2013 year,significant efforts were continued to recruit BRCC transfer students for the 2013-2014 year.These activities included outreach to BRCC, seminars, advising and promotion of employmentopportunities. The efforts were effective as 20 students applied

Collection

2019 ASEE Zone I Conference & Workshop

Authors

Elena Brewer; Anthony Dalessio; Sarah Giersch; Nancy Louwagie

Collaborative Course Delivery as a Strategy to Sustain Niche Technology Programs Elena Brewer1, Anthony Dalessio1, Sarah Giersch2, Nancy Louwagie2 1 SUNY-Erie Community College 2 Normandale Community CollegeAbstractVacuum technology is critical to research and advanced manufacturing industries such assemiconductor and nanotechnology. To meet rising industry demand for qualified techniciansworking with vacuum equipment, SUNY Erie Community College (SUNY Erie) considereddeveloping a Vacuum Technology program or adding vacuum courses to existing ElectricalEngineering Technology and Nanotechnology programs

Conference Session

Direct Measures of Student Performance

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allen Estes, California Polytechnic State University; Stephen Ressler, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

.” Similarly, if a program seeks to developsome additional ability in its graduates—say leadership, creativity, managerial skill, or ability toconduct research--the program is encouraged to create an associated program outcome. Suchadditional outcomes will also need to be assessed, but since they are unique to the program, they areunlikely to receive the same level of scrutiny as the Criterion 3 a-k outcomes.b. Document constituency input. There are a variety of ways to obtain input from constituents,which include advisory board meetings, surveys, interviews or industry visits. The means is not asimportant as documenting the process. Minutes of advisory board and faculty meetings, summaries of

Conference Session

Introducing Active Learning into ME Courses

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibrahim Olwi, King Abdulaziz University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

. Sometimes when we teach our courses, we tend to lose sight of the fact that each courseis but one element in a learning sequence defined as a curriculum. The closer therelationships are among courses, curriculum, and planned out of class activities, the moreeffective the learning experience will be for the students2. The paradigm shift initiated by theappearance of ABET engineering accreditation criteria EC 2000, see Ref. [3], imposed oncourse designers to keep in mind this relationship between these three educational aspects. Acourse has to be designed, taught and assisted to address program objectives and outcomes.2. Active LearningThe instructor can make the most of a classroom by turning it into active learning. The setupin the classroom would

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Shawn Addington, Virginia Military Institute

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

AC 2007-245: SIX YEARS AND THOUSANDS OF ASSIGNMENTS LATER: WHATHAVE THEY LEARNED, AND WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?J. Shawn Addington, Virginia Military Institute J. Shawn Addington is the Jamison-Payne Institute Professor and Head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Virginia Military Institute. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He teaches courses, laboratories, and undergraduate research projects in the microelectronics and semiconductor fabrication areas; and, he remains active in curriculum development and engineering assessment. He is a registered professional engineer in the

Conference Session

Creating and Maintaining Effective Communication Learning in the Curriculum

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregg L. Fiegel, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

disciplines (i.e. environmental,geotechnical, structural, transportation, or water resources) during the research and design phasesof the project.In redesigning the capstone design experience to be more team focused, we recognized the needto provide the students with additional training and practice in teamwork and interpersonalcommunication. Faculty, employers, and alumni had historically assessed student abilities in theaforementioned non-technical areas as low, when compared with technical abilities such asproblem solving, designing, interpreting data, and conducting experiments. To prepare ourstudents for success, we therefore developed a three-part, month-long lesson on interpersonalcommunication. The lesson includes group activities

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer L.W. Carter, Case Western Reserve University; Brian Yuhnke Jr, Case Western Reserve University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

preparation for real-world applications of knowledge such as group collaboration.They also appreciated the focus on student and faculty dialog versus traditional lecturing. Thefacilitators of the Active Learning Faculty Fellowship are currently working on compiling data topresent a full assessment of the classroom space in the future.With regard to this particular MSE introductory course, the indirect assessment of the classroomindicates that the active learning space is both functional and exciting for student learning. Thisconclusion comes from instructor journaling, student interviews, and outsider shadowing duringteam-based learning activities. The initially planned course structure only included active-learningactivities every other Friday, but

Conference Session

Arduinos, Microcontrollers, Inexpensive Robotics, and Other Tech Bytes

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly Grau Talley P.E., Texas State University, San Marcos

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

AC 2012-3343: HANDS-ON PROJECT-BASED LEARNING ON A SHOESTRINGBUDGET: YOU DON’T HAVE TO BUY A ROBOTICS KITDr. Kimberly Grau Talley P.E., Texas State University, San Marcos Kimberly G. Talley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology at Texas State University, San Marcos, and a licensed Professional Engineer. She received her Ph.D. and M.S.E. from the University of Texas, Austin, in structural engineering. Her undergraduate degrees in history and construction engineering and management are from North Carolina State University. Talley teaches courses in the construction science and management program, and her research focus is in active learning and project-based learning in engineering and

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

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

-class portion of the experiment was quite easy and could be performed in a 50-minuteclass period. The students adjusted to the user-interface very quickly. There were only twoproblems encountered worthy of note. The first was that students had a difficult timeinterpreting the idea of sustained oscillations. Many of them initially ramped up the proportionalgain past the marginal stability point and hit a limit cycle due to the saturation. The otherdifficulty that we experienced was when we modified the LabVIEW VI to make it moreversatile, we added additional local variables. The memory management of additional variablesincreased the computation time, thereby changing the values of the Ziegler-Nichols gains.Purposeful changes in the delay can be