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Conference Session
First-Year Programs: Maker Spaces in the First Year
Collection
2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Stephanie M Gillespie, University of New Haven; Goli Nossoni, University of New Haven
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
First-Year Programs
integrating the makerspace into the existing curriculum are discussed, as well asthe guidelines for the revised class periods and final project.This paper also provides an analysis regarding whether integration of a makerspace into a first-year engineering course positively or negatively impacted first-year students developing: 1) anengineering or maker identity, 2) technical skills, and 3) general engineering skills such ascuriosity, problem solving, and/or teamwork. Students completed pre/post surveys regardingprior makerspace experience, their first-year makerspace experience, engineering identity, andgeneral engineering skills. The survey results of students who participated in the maker-sectionsof the course are compared with survey results of a
Conference Session
Innovative Curriculum Development in EET
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Kathleen Ossman
complicatedmatrix manipulations and integral calculations. II. Modeling SystemsThe course begins with modeling of several types of systems including electrical circuits,mechanical translational systems, motors, a robot gripper, an inverted pendulum on a cart, andpitch control for a helicopter using both differential equations and state variable models 2,3.Students have been exposed to system modeling using differential equations and transferfunctions in the pre-requisite courses, but state equations are an entirely new concept. In courseassignments and in lab, students build models of systems in SIMULINK using both transferfunction blocks and state space blocks in order to better understand the similarities between thesesystem models. In MATLAB
Conference Session
Interdisciplinary Integration at the Program Level
Collection
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
MC Forelle, University of Virginia; Kent A. Wayland, University of Virginia; Bryn Elizabeth Seabrook, University of Virginia
Tagged Divisions
Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)
parts of the university. Reflecting on the 1955 Grinter Report, Sheryl Sorby, Norman L. Fortenberry, and GaryBertoline suggest a need for a revolution in engineering education, writing: “Over the years, we educators have done some tinkering around the edges, such as adding in a capstone design project, or replacing Fortran with other programming languages – but the basic structure of the curriculum remains unchanged even though our students can now find information on their phones that might have taken us hours to track down in the library.”3There is no doubt about the need for technical training, but how engineering educatorsincorporate nontechnical skills also has an impact on creating a well-rounded
Conference Session
Curriculum Development in Technological Literacy
Collection
2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Jayanta K. Banerjee, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering
together through a cordof nerves called corpus callosum. One half of the brain helps the other to build an even proportion ofreason and emotion [6]. A host of examples can be cited showing that many scientists develop passion inmusic, such as Einstein, Planck and Bose. Medical doctors spend pastime in painting; mathematicians andphysicists, like Bertrand Russell and Werner Heisenberg, are good writers; and wartime heroes, such asSimon Bolivar and Winston Churchill, are prolific authors. These artistic faculties are worth integrating inengineering education and in engineering practice.Arts and Aesthetics in Engineering PracticePracticing engineers in design firms are often criticized for not making much room for the artistic and theaesthetic
Conference Session
Curriculum Development in Electrical ET
Collection
2003 Annual Conference
Authors
Sean Daly; Roman Stemprok
Session 2648 HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE PC SKILLS APPLIED TO A SOUND CANCELLATION PROJECT Sean Daly and Roman Stemprok University of North TexasAbstractDeveloped societies experience an increased level of noise pollution. A Sound Cancellationproject was incorporated into a 2 hour-credit Electronics Specials Problems course. The activecontrol of sound is a solution by making an anti-noise for every known noise volume. The anti-noise signal will cancel itself along with the noise. A computer runs an adaptive noise controlalgorithm in assembly code. The program takes input
Conference Session
Curriculum Development in Information Technology
Collection
2003 Annual Conference
Authors
Wayne Jones; Robert Wright
550 sometimesreferred to as a “Central Office in a box” functions as an Integrated Access Device (IAD) whereT1, Basic Rate Interface (BRI), and POTS lines can be terminated. Virtual Office C has aPrivate Branch Exchange (PBX); here, the Nortel Networks 1000 Business CommunicationsManager offers several useful features including automated attendant, unified messaging,voicemail, fax, and call center functionality. Future expansion at the broadband level envisionsthe addition of the Optera optical DWDM system manufactured by Nortel (see Figure 4 ). Page 8.1108.4 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual
Conference Session
Curriculum Development in Electrical ET
Collection
2005 Annual Conference
Authors
Walter Banzhaf
player, etc.) is used (instead of the DC power supply) to createthe voltage applied between the top and bottom Ohmic contacts. Then an audio amplifier (small,low power, with integrated speaker) is used instead of the voltmeter. The student varies thewiper position up and down the length of the rectangular resistor and notes how the soundloudness varies. It turns out that a linear resistor, such as this, makes a poor volume control:most of the variation in sound volume occurs in the very bottom of the wiper's motion, and therest of the wiper motion produces little perceived change in volume. This little experimentenables students to discover the logarithmic response of human hearing."Volume controls are different. The human ear does not respond
Conference Session
Design Education I
Collection
2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Priya Manohar, Robert Morris University
Tagged Divisions
Manufacturing
presents an opportunity for curriculum development where ServiceDesign and Development should become an integral part of the design education. Thetopic of service design and development must be viewed as a very important step increating value, delivering satisfaction to the customer and sharpen the competitive edgefor the manufacturers and therefore should become one of the focal points ofundergraduate engineering education.In accordance with the ideas outlined above, a new curriculum is developed to bridge theidentified educational gap by developing and delivering a three credit course called‘Product and Service Design’ in the Summer 2010 term. The developed coursecurriculum is described in detail in this paper. The curriculum includes the
Conference Session
Statistics in the CHE Curriculum
Collection
2003 Annual Conference
Authors
Valerie Young
board was that (1)a solid foundation in statistics is important preparation for industrial engineering practice as wellas for advanced degree work in engineering and (2) “solid foundation” means that graduates canselect and execute appropriate statistical techniques to analyze real data and interpret the results.In spite of having a statistics course in our curriculum, graduates did not leave with the solidfoundation we wanted. In particular, our seniors showed unsatisfactory ability to frame aproblem in terms of a hypothesis that can be tested statistically and unsatisfactory ability toselect an appropriate statistical test. New graduates were only beginning to operate at thedesirable higher levels of analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. As
Conference Session
Design in the ECE Curriculum
Collection
2009 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
L. Brent Jenkins, Southern Polytechnic State University
Tagged Divisions
Electrical and Computer
1.2A 10V ref ref (a) (b)Figure 13: Incorrect and Correct Approaches for Dealing with Current Sources in Nodal AnalysisProactive StrategyRemind students that nodal analysis is really an enhanced version of Kirchhoff's Current Law. Notethat since each equation represents the sum of the currents leaving its respective node, each of its termsmust either be a current or a "V over R" term. Distribute the flowchart in Figure 14 to integrate thethree sub-methods of nodal analysis into a coherent whole. Encourage students to develop a "sense"that writing a nodal equation through a voltage source is
Conference Session
Curriculum Development in Civil ET
Collection
2005 Annual Conference
Authors
David Border
Technology (formerly Conexant), Infineon Technology (formerly SiemensSemiconductor) AG, along with others. These chipsets are in turn supplied to manufactures ofGPS receiver sets. The receivers are of different end use and specialty. Some are common tointegrated automobile navigation systems, integrated marine navigation systems, aircraftnavigation systems and so forth. Some are destined for applications found in location-basedservices (LBS). Page 10.213.2A number of proprietary systems, found in the moderate price market consumer electronic LBS Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &
Conference Session
NSF Grantees Poster Session
Collection
2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Tiago R Forin, Rowan University; Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Harriet Hartman, Rowan University; Kauser Jahan P.E., Rowan University; Ralph Alan Dusseau P.E., Rowan University; Parth Bhavsar, Rowan University; Jeff Hand; Theresa FS Bruckerhoff, Curriculum Research & Evaluation, Inc.
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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session
., Newell, J. A., “Baseball stadium design: Teaching engineering economics and communication in a multidisciplinary setting.” J. SMET Education. 2001(2): 9–12.5. Sukumaran, B., Jahan, K., Dorland, D., Everett, J., Kadlowec, J., Gephardt, Z., Chin, S., (2006). “Engineering Clinics: An integration of research into the undergraduate engineering curriculum.” Published in Developing and Sustaining a Research-Supportive Curriculum: A Compendium of Successful Practices, Edited by Kerry K. Karukstis, Prof. of Chemistry, Harvey Mudd College and Timothy E. Elgren, Prof. of Chemistry, Hamilton College.6. Riley, D., Slaton, A., and Pawley, A.L. Inclusion and Social Justice: Women and Minorities in Engineering. Cambridge Handbook of Engineering
Conference Session
Design in the Curriculum
Collection
2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Amit Janardhan Nimunkar, University of Wisconsin, Madison; John P. Puccinelli, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Matthew S. Bollom; Willis J. Tompkins, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Tagged Divisions
Biomedical
. For more advanced skills, such asSolidWorks, the students were required to review selected online materials and tutorials beforethe lab period. Students were tested on these materials through online quizzes before coming tolab.C. Design ProjectOne of the aims of the course is to integrate the various skills acquired in the lab portion of thecourse into an open-ended guided design project thus combining the professional and technicaldesign skills taught in the course. The students were divided in groups of 6-8 students, and all thestudent groups worked to solve the same design problem. We devised a multidisciplinary projectthat utilized all the skills taught in lab covering to some extent all five BME tracks: 1. MedicalInstrumentation, 2
Conference Session
Curriculum Development in Technological Literacy
Collection
2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering
Paper ID #28845Small Teaching via Bloom’sDr. Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary Dr. Marjan Eggermont is a Teaching Professor and faculty member at the University of Calgary in the Mechanical and Manufacturing department of the Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary. She co-founded and designs ZQ, an online journal to provide a platform to showcase the nexus of science and design using case studies, news, and articles. As an instructor, she was one of the recipients of The Allan Blizzard Award, a Canadian national teaching award for collaborative projects that improve student learning in 2004. In 2005
Conference Session
Design in the ECE Curriculum
Collection
2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
James Shey, United States Naval Academy; Ryan Rakvic, United States Naval Academy; Thomas Salem, United States Naval Academy; Samara Firebaugh, United States Naval Academy
Tagged Divisions
Electrical and Computer
Technology in 1997 and 2001, respectively. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the United States Naval Academy. She has conducted research in several areas of Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) including microscale chemical reactor systems, integrated photoacoustic spectroscopy, microwave switches, variable thermal radiators and microscale robotics. Page 15.998.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Project-Based Thematic Learning though a Multicourse Multidisciplinary Robotics ProjectAbstractThe
Conference Session
Design in the ECE Curriculum
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Mark Cambron, Western Kentucky University; Walter Collett, Western Kentucky University; Stacy Wilson, Western Kentucky University
Tagged Divisions
Electrical and Computer
projects in an undergraduate project-based curriculum will also be presented.Role of Design CoursesThe EE Program includes a five course design sequence. The first design course, EE 101,introduces students to the university and the EE program. Students are taught how to solder andto how to use the departmental prototyping facilities. Students are exposed to programming inBASIC, MATLAB and HTML. Student teams design and build a small robot.6The second design course, EE 200, further builds on the project-based mission. Students learn toconstruct circuits using the departmental print circuit board facilities. Students continue todevelop programming skill with PSPICE and MATLAB. Students design and build a clock.During the third design course, EE 300
Conference Session
Curriculum in Engineering Leadership Development
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Lynne Cowe Falls, University of Calgary; Robyn Paul, University of Calgary; Gord Aker P.Eng. PCC, Logical Leadership
Tagged Divisions
Engineering Leadership Development Division
Paper ID #13727Developing a New Generation of Leadership at the University of CalgaryCase Study on the Maier Student Leadership ProgramDr. Lynne Cowe Falls, University of Calgary Lynne Cowe Falls, PhD, P. Eng., FCAE, FCSCE, is an Associate Professor in Civil Engineering at the Schulich School of Engineering, the University of Calgary. She is a co-author of over 30 technical papers and several books in the area of pavement and infrastructure management and most recently of Current Pavement Management. With over 20 years in industry prior to joining the University of Calgary, she is a Vice-President and Board Member of the
Conference Session
Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET
Collection
2005 Annual Conference
Authors
Robert Edwards
makes an excellent example of an open thermodynamics system. Figure 1shows the energy terms that are involved in a first law analysis. For a steady state condition thetotal energy in must equal the total energy out. In this lab the students attempt to measure all ofthese energy terms and then compare the energy in with the energy out to show that the hairdryerobeys the first law. Page 10.85.1 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education
Conference Session
Pre-College: Fundamental Research in Engineering Education (1)
Collection
2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Debra Brockway, Educational Testing Service
Tagged Divisions
Pre-College Engineering Education Division
the Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education (CIESE). She also taught high school science, where she first be- came interested in the potential of engineering for engaging students and increasing their understanding of science concepts. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017  Integrated Science and Engineering Design Assessment to Support Teaching and Learning (Fundamental)Abstract Engineering design has become an integral part of K-12 science education with therelease of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and their adoption by almost 20 states.Both the core ideas and practices in the new standards include engineering design
Collection
1998 Annual Conference
Authors
Reginald G. Mitchiner; John T. Tester
for plastic product design, withoutdevoting major resources towards such an effort?2 Course Structure AlternativesWe see two alternatives for incorporating plastic product design in our curriculum: a) Integrate the material in one or more existing courses. b) Create a new, separate course, devoted to the topic.The first alternative appears to be the easiest to implement on the surface, but has severaldisadvantages. The second alternative may seem more difficult to integrate into an existing courseoffering, but will likely provide long-term benefits to both the students and the department.2.1 Integration into Existing CoursesWe use our own Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME) at Virginia Tech as a basis forexploration. There are
Conference Session
Curriculum Development in Information Technology
Collection
2003 Annual Conference
Authors
Russell Olsen; Jeffrey Peterson; Stephen Renshaw; Joseph Ekstrom
, UT. He received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from BrighamYoung University in 1974, 1976, and 1992. During nearly 30 years of industrial experience he has beenVP of Engineering, CTO, Chief Scientist, and Director of Engineering at various companies.STEPHEN R. RENSHAW is an Instructor of Information Technology at Brigham Young University inProvo, UT. He received a B.S. and an M.S. in Computer Science from Brigham Young University in1985 and 1987. Prior to instructing full time he experienced 13 years within industry in variousInformation Technology areas including: telephony, process control, system integration, networking, andhealth care computing
Conference Session
Innovative Curriculum Development in EET
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Jerome Tapper; Walter Buchanan
addressing a need in the industrial sector. It was arequirement that course related cooperative-work assignments play an integral role in this newcurriculum. The idea was to not only create a new curriculum of courses, but a “new” andmodern way of presenting the materials in these courses. This was the “birth” of the “Lecture-Laboratory” venue at Northeastern University. This venue allowed students to gain technicalexpertise via standard lectures along with “hands-on” experience during the same class period. Itcalled for the application of the “engineering team” design process to solve design andapplication problems.It was proposed that an Industrial Control Systems program be initiated as the first of theseexperimental courses. While clearly the
Conference Session
Curriculum in Engineering Leadership Development
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Mohammadreza Ostadali Makhmalbaf, Virginia Tech; Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., Virginia Tech
Tagged Divisions
Engineering Leadership Development Division
andconstruction students.Discussion of findingsThe results of curricular components show that there is an emphasis on the development oftechnical competencies in civil engineering curricula in comparison to the development ofemotional intelligence skills. In addition, while improving communication and professional skillsis an integral part of leadership development, much of this skill development is postponed until thecapstone course.41 In capstone courses, students learn and practice how to collaborate with otherstudents and perform in teams. Capstone courses enhance students’ communication skills, such aspresentation skills, and improve their understanding of ethical and social concerns associated withthe engineering field. The findings show that the
Conference Session
Curriculum Development in Computer ET
Collection
2003 Annual Conference
Authors
William Lin; Richard Pfile
;Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education”anchoring stones, and it is a rather straightforward task to extract various objectives intocourses without having to first compile an exhaustive objective list.VI. Application of the objectives in CpET programAfter most of the necessary skill-sets are identified and some objectives have beendeveloped and compiled through sample exams from certification programs, we selectedrelated courses in our CpET program for the implementation of appropriate objectives.The selection of proper objectives for various courses is based on the level and thestructure of the course offered in the curriculum. In this section, we use two courses atassociate degree level as examples
Conference Session
Curriculum Issues in Software Engineering
Collection
2005 Annual Conference
Authors
Massood Towhidnejad; Thomas Hilburn
How does Software Engineering fit into a College of Engineering? Thomas B. Hilburn, Massood Towhidnejad Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University hilburn@erau.edu, towhid@erau.eduAbstractSoftware Engineering (SE) is a new degree in most academic environments. Currently, there areless than 25 undergraduate SE degrees offered by US universities, and only six have beenaccredited by ABET. There are a number of challenges for faculty and departments who areoffering these SE degrees. Some of these challenges include a) finding qualified faculty, b)designing an appropriate curriculum that serves the stakeholders needs, c) satisfyingaccreditation criteria
Collection
2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference
Authors
Hong Li; Ashwin Satyanarayana
Abstract—Computer System Technology is an there are a large number of careers that graduates from ITenormously vibrant field that emerged at the end of the programs enter [8]. Those careers show an enormous diversitylast century as our society experienced a fundamental and the knowledge base and skill sets required for eachchange from an industrial society to an “information consequently vary widely as well. The curriculum shouldsociety.” This in turn demands changes to the curriculum therefore be designed in a way that gives an institutionof Computer Systems degree programs at colleges and considerable freedom in tailoring the curriculum to the needsuniversities so
Conference Session
Curriculum in Telecommunications Engineering Technology
Collection
2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Kim Nankivell, Purdue University, Calumet; Joy Colwell, Purdue University, Calumet; Jana Whittington, Purdue University, Calumet
Tagged Divisions
Engineering Technology
justifications were measured only that they were the impressions of themanagers surveyed. It was pointed out “that the integration of training management and coursecontent delivery systems provided a means for easier assessment of training effectiveness”. 37This evaluation process is an integral part of these training programs.As suggested by Piccoli, Ahmad, and Ives (2001) virtual learning environments (VLE) can beused for IT technology skills training. This preliminary research suggests that these VLEs canprovide organizations an “effective means to update the IT skills of their work force”.38 VirtualLabs (VL) have become more prevalent in current research. The Rochester Institute ofTechnology39 and Drexel University40 have created essentially Virtual
Conference Session
Teaching and Assessing Sustainability and Life Long Learning
Collection
2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Claire L. Antaya, Arizona State University; Melissa M. Bilec, University of Pittsburgh; Piervincenzo Rizzo, University of Pittsburgh; Amy E. Landis, Arizona State University
Tagged Divisions
Civil Engineering
Paper ID #6817Incorporating Sustainability into the Civil Engineering curriculum via crosscourse collaborationsClaire L. Antaya, Arizona State UniversityDr. Melissa M. Bilec, University of PittsburghDr. Piervincenzo Rizzo, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Piervincenzo Rizzo earned his Laurea—M.S. equivalent—in Aeronautical Engineering at the Univer- sity of Palermo, Italy in 1998. After serving in the Italian Army Corps of Engineering, Dr. Rizzo moved to the U.S.A. where he earned a master’s degree in 2002 and a Ph.D. in 2004 in Structural Engineering at the University of California at San Diego. In September 2006 he became an
Conference Session
Design in the ECE Curriculum
Collection
2007 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Douglas Williams, Georgia Institute of Technology; Robert Butera, Georgia Institute of Technology; Selcuk Uluagac, Georgia Institute of Technology; Matthew Clark, Georgia Institute of Technology; Andy Deck, National Instruments; Michael Torba, National Instruments; Steven Trahan, National Instruments
Tagged Divisions
Electrical and Computer
AC 2007-1791: COOPERATIVE UNIVERSITY/INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT OF AFRESHMAN ‘INTRODUCTION TO ECE DESIGN’ COURSEDouglas Williams, Georgia Institute of Technology Douglas Williams is Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Affairs in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech.Robert Butera, Georgia Institute of Technology Robert Butera is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Chair of the Interdisciplinary Bioengineering Graduate Program at Georgia Tech.Selcuk Uluagac, Georgia Institute of Technology Selcuk Uluagac is a Ph.D. student in Georgia Tech's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.Matthew Clark, Georgia Institute of Technology
Conference Session
Design in the BME curriculum
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Eileen Haase PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Tagged Divisions
Biomedical Engineering
memorization. The iterative thinkingprocess required to achieve even partial success in solving ambiguous problems not only activelyengages students, but has also been shown to improve learning and retention [4].Developing collaborative problem-solving skills, starting with the transformative freshmen year,provides students with the outlook and tools crucial for academic and professional success [5],[6]. Integrating design into the first semester exposes students to the complex process of creating,assessing, selecting, and realizing an initial prototype [7, 8]. By incorporating a fun foam coredesign project, students gain exposure to the design process such that many of them arecomfortable designing their own equipment for their final project. More