Conference Session

Contemporary Instrumentation Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Robertson, Arizona State University; Barbara Rampel, Arizona State University; James Edwards, Raytheon

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

curriculum without massive restructuring.Maintaining educational relevanceEvery technology-focused educational group goes to great lengths to maintain thecurrency and relevance of its programs. The most common methods are: Receive advice from an Industry Advisory Board. The process works well, especially if meetings are held more than once per semester and the industry members carry their message into the class-room as guest speakers and act as hosts for company visits. Through conferences, research and applications-focused partnerships. Opportunities for hands-on experience and student involvement through internships and projects follow. Provide a series of short courses for industry. The issues are

Conference Session

The Year of Dialogue: What We Have Learned So Far

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. P. Mohsen, University of Louisville; Ronald Barr, University of Texas at Austin

Tagged Divisions

Campus Representatives

E17. Think Globally, Educate Global Engineers √ √ √ √ √ 5 D18. SEE has Many Aspects Besides Rigorous Educational √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ 8 E Research19. ASEE Should Produce a Report on SEE √ √ 2 D20. Look at Chemistry and Physics Education for examples √ √ 2 E21. K-12 STEM Education and Engineering Student √ √ √ √ √ √ √ 7 B Recruitment.22. Try Active Learning, Hands- on, Project-based, Adaptive

Conference Session

Topics in K-12 Engineering

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Lee, University of South Florida

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

– neutral – positive impact. Responses were converted to numerical values by simply measuring their lengths in millimeters from the left end of the line, providing numerical results that ranged 0 to 120. A one-way analysis of variance was conducted on the rating scale means for each professional category using Tukey’s multiple comparison procedure.In the second section, basic demographic and viewing behavior was sought, including: ‚ Status in school (junior or senior) ‚ Gender ‚ Type of high school environment (regular high school, magnet program, or IB program) ‚ Projected academic path (pre-engineering, pre-science including pre-med, other, undecided, or no plans to attend college) ‚ Whether

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jan Rinehart, Rice University; Sherry Woods, University of Texas at Austin; Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Rice University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

in Engineering Programs and Advocates Network) President from 2002-2003. She received her M.S. in Higher Education Administration from Texas A&M University and a B.S. in secondary education from Abilene Christian University.Sherry Woods, University of Texas at Austin Sherry E. Woods, Ed.D., is Director of Special Projects in the College of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. Her responsibilities include promoting the College’s faculty development and continuous improvement efforts. Prior to assuming this position in 2001, she served as Director of the Women in Engineering Program at UT Austin for over six years. Dr. Woods received her B.A. in Social Science

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy VanAntwerp, Calvin College; Richard Braatz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

should study SPC, gives a brief tutorial onSPC, and provides some simple exercises for students that would be appropriate forlaboratory or homework use.Intr oductionProcess control is inherently multidisciplinary. It is used in a wide variety of industries,including automotive and consumer products manufacturing, aerospace, semiconductordevice manufacturing, bulk chemical manufacturing, and refining. Industrially, a processcontrol project draws on economics and software engineering in addition to the variousengineering disciplines that may be involved. Generally, industrial controls projects(large or small) require multidisciplinary teams to be successful. Control engineers comefrom a variety of fields including mechanical, aerospace, electrical

Conference Session

Focus on Emerging Topics Around the World

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen Bursic, University of Pittsburgh; Kim Needy, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

AC 2008-1701: IMPLEMENTING INTERNATIONAL REQUIREMENTS INUNDERGRADUATE INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING PROGRAMSKaren Bursic, University of Pittsburgh Karen M. Bursic is an Assistant Professor and the Undergraduate Program Director for Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to joining the department she worked as a Senior Consultant for Ernst and Young and as an Industrial Engineer for General Motors Corporation. Dr. Bursic has done research and published work in the areas Engineering and Project Management and Engineering Education. She is a member of IIE and ASEE and is a

Conference Session

Novel Energy Applications in Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Swedish, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

Shelter Health Family Cars Education Transportation Starbucks A decent version of Word Once the list was projected onto a screen so all could see it, the instructor went througheach of the items, and showed in each case how what was listed was important because it was ofuse to the individual who suggested it. For example, Starbucks is useful because its productkeeps the student awake for studying, or provides a pleasing venue for meeting with friends. Thestudent who suggested religion said that it gave him peace of mind. The instructor asked if thispeace of mind is worth

Conference Session

Computer Simulation and Animation I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Reising, University of Evansville; Mark Randall, University of Evansville

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

same signal with additive noise can be used todetermine the time delay between the transmitted pulse and the return pulse. Such a procedure isrelatively easy to rationalize intuitively. (The scheme may also be viewed as filtering the returnsignal with a matched filter, but the convolution of the signal with the impulse response of thematched filter may be harder for students, especially those who have studied neither linearsystems nor digital filters, to grasp.)A computer simulation of the cross-correlation detection process was originally assigned as agraphical programming project in a computer software class. The simple model used in theassignment assumed a sinusoidal signal of adjustable duration as the transmitted pulse and adelayed

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Felipe Arango, Stevens Institute of Technology; Gonca Altuger, Stevens Institute of Technology; El-Sayed Aziz, Stevens Institute of Technology; Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology; Sven Esche, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

, several small-scale design projects and a series of laboratory exercises. While thehomework and design assignments are carried out individually, the students work in teams on thelaboratory exercises, wherein they perform the experimental procedures and then compute theresults and prepare a laboratory report. In the pilot implementation of the game-based laboratoryenvironment during the fall 2007 semester, 12 students were enrolled in the class.Traditional Hands-on Laboratory ModeAmong other experiments, the laboratory component of the class comprises several experimentsusing an industrial plant emulator14, which in the past were carried out in the traditional hands-onfashion, i.e. with the students being present in the laboratory facility housing

Conference Session

Foster Excellence

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Goang-Shin Liaw, Alabama A&M University; Pabitra Saha, Alabama A&M University; James Foreman, Alabama A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

AC 2008-1145: PREPARING MINORITY ENGINEERING STUDENTS TO PASSTHE FUNDAMENTALS OF ENGINEERING EXAMINATIONGoang-Shin Liaw, Alabama A&M University Dr. Goang-Shin Liaw is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Alabama A&M University located in Huntsville, Alabama. He is currently a NASA Administrator’s Fellow, Cohort 10. He has served as Chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering for more than sixteen (16) years and as Interim Dean of the School of Engineering and Technology from 1990 to 1992. Dr. Liaw has been heavily involved in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for many years. He has planned, directed, and executed more than ten research projects at Alabama A&M University

Conference Session

Assessment of K-12 Engineering Programs and Issues

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Carpinelli, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Howard Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Linda Hirsch, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Levelle Burr-Alexander, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Ronald Rockland, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Mark OShea, CSU Monterey Bay

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

of Chemical Engineering and Executive Director of the Center for Pre-College Programs at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He has spent the past thirty years designing and implementing professional development programs and curricula for K-12 teachers in science and technology. At the college level, he collaborates on projects exploring teaching methodologies and assessment strategies in first-year college courses in the sciences, engineering, and computer science.Linda Hirsch, New Jersey Institute of Technology LINDA S. HIRSCH is the Program Evaluator in the Center for Pre-College programs. She has a doctoral degree in educational psychology with a specialty in psychometrics and a Masters

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Theodore Branoff, North Carolina State University; Eric Wiebe, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

contact and lack of communitybuilding opportunities as reasons why they eventually left the program 1,2.In this current pilot project, we were interested in exploring how a hybrid offering of ourintroductory engineering graphics course might constructively address instructional efficiency,learning flexibility, and student engagement concerns while still delivering an instructionallyeffective course. This initial exploration is part of our ongoing instructional design study lookingat leveraging best-in-class technologies and instructional strategies for effective graphics Page 13.602.2instruction.MethodologyFor this study, three laptop sections of

Conference Session

Course-Based Approaches to Entrepreneurship

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Weaver, University of Detroit Mercy; Nassif Rayess, University of Detroit Mercy

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

meant to be a substitute to rigorous courses onEntrepreneurship. The aim is to raise the interest level among the students, make them aware ofthis important field and give them an overview of the subject. The hope is that they wouldchoose to study Entrepreneurship either as a minor degree or as a set of elective courses. It is inthose courses that the all important hands-on training and actual project work will take place.There is a great ancillary benefit to these case studies in that they allow the student to betterappreciate the usefulness of what might be initially construed as a boring and dry technical topic.It is that mutually beneficial relationship that makes it easier for a course instructor to give up acontact hour of his/her class

Conference Session

Engineering for Nonengineers: Ideas & Results

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Neeley, University of Virginia; W. Bernard Carlson, University of Virginia; Sarah Pfatteicher, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Bruce Seely, Michigan Technological University; Douglass Klein, Union College; Ronald Miller, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

effort by recognizing that“Innovative courses are not easily transportable or transferable. When new faculty are asked totake on these courses, they are more likely to create their own than to pick up on the coursecreated by the pioneers” (Steen, 1999, p. 5). Instead of seeking to create a series of coursesdesigned to be exported to other faculty institutions, our approach focuses on enhancingsubstantive interdisciplinary interaction among faculty and tapping into faculty professional andscholarly interests—areas in which the New Liberal Arts projects often succeeded (Steen, 1999,p. 5).Specifying the Knowledge and Abilities Required to Achieve TL OutcomesThinking about course designs requires specifying the things that a person who has

Conference Session

K-12 Programs for Girls and Young Women

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joan Kowalski, Penn State University - New Kensington; Tracie L. Brockhoff, Penn State University - New Kensington

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

encourage and guide them in preparation for matriculation into engineering, engineeringtechnology, or science.The fifteenth annual FIRSTE Program was held on May 15-16, 2007. Students were exposed tointensive hands-on workshops designed to stimulate interest and provide a realistic view ofengineering and science-related careers. The young women had an opportunity to work on acomputer-aided design project, perform practical laboratory applications, and participate inscientific exploration – skills essential to engineering practice.The River Voyager provided a unique opportunity for the students to experience practical usageson modern technology as related to the world around them. Crew specialists met with the groupto demonstrate how trusses, dams

Conference Session

Assessment

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick Terenzini, The Pennsylvania State University; Lisa Lattuca, Pennsylvania State University; Matthew Ohland, Purdue Engineering Education; Russell Long, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

AC 2008-1851: APPLES AND ORANGES? A PROPOSED RESEARCH DESIGN TOEXAMINE THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN TWO MEASURES OFENGINEERING LEARNINGPatrick Terenzini, The Pennsylvania State University Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior Scientist in the Center for the Study of Higher Education.Lisa Lattuca, Pennsylvania State University Associate Professor of Education and Senior Research Associate in the Center for the Study of Higher EducationMatthew Ohland, Purdue Engineering Education Associate Professor and Director of First-Year Engineering in the Department of Engineering EducationRussell Long, Purdue University Director of Project Assessment

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Minh Cao, Wichita State University; John Watkins, Wichita State University; Richard O'Brien, U.S. Naval Academy

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

proportional-derivative(PD) compensator. From this procedure, design procedures for unified notation lead,proportional-integral (PI), proportional-integral–derivative (PID), and PI-lead compensator weredeveloped. With this proposed approach, students can concentrate on the larger control systemdesign issues, such as compensator selection and closed-loop performance, rather than theintricacies of a particular design procedure.Once students learn the unified design process discussed above, it is important that they get anopportunity to apply it to design and laboratory projects. Most real life examples require designiterations. The Graphical User Interface (GUI) developed in this paper not only makes thisfeasible, but also makes this an excellent

Conference Session

Measuring Success of Graduate Program Components

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gerald Crain, University of Oklahoma; James Sluss, University of Oklahoma; Monte Tull, University of Oklahoma; Samuel Lee, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

faculty collaborate to assure thatcontemporary courses are offered in a manner sufficiently timely to enable students to contributeto research in their selected area of focused study. Core graduate courses that contribute broadlyto the areas of research focus (i.e., Digital Signal Processing contributes broadly toCommunications, Radar, Bio-Engineering and other technologies) will be offered on a morefrequent basis. Faculty members are encouraged to include projects for deeper learning andopportunities for students to present their work orally to their classmates and their peers.Students are given opportunities to and are strongly encouraged to publish and present their workin Scholarly fora. Students who engage in developing peer reviewed

Collection

2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Kayla Thompson; Matthew Garett Young, Arkansas Tech University

performed using a standard multimeter with acapacitance check function. Students must bring the capacitor to the instructor of at the front ofthe room in order to have their capacitor tested. A running total of capacitor measurements isdisplayed to the entire class by way of a document camera projected to a screen, or by loading aquick spreadsheet showing the information in a projected format. The “winning” strategies seemto be students or student teams that work toward a cylindrical capacitor configuration, thoughstudents tend to try out many different configurations. It was not formally recorded how manyiterations students worked through, however teams or students obtaining the highest capacitanceseem to try at least 3 or more configurations

Collection

2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

Authors

Marvin Gayle; Danny Mangra

Tagged Topics

Diversity

as the work of the individual. If groups of students are working collaboratively on acommon project that is allowed, collusion occurs outside of this context. The possession anduse of prohibited notes, books and material during examination and impersonation. There areother methods of deception as well. These include impersonation, which is a concern in anonline environment and contract cheating. These are examples of violation of the spirit of theacademic integrity policies and may be helpful if these are discussed with the class, defined andpresented to the students as such.What are common mitigation strategies? Inside the LMS are integrated features and tools toassist the instructor to developing some strategies to mitigate some of the

Collection

2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

Authors

Amitabha (Amit) Bandyopadhyay P.E., State University of New York, College of Technology at Farmingdale

exposures made sure that thearchitecture faculty's preoccupation with classicism and technology was supplemented with at leastsome, albeit not well-formed, questions of relevance and ideology though they were still conceivedin terms of neo-rationalism. History was chronological and modernity an inevitable state of beingthat was to be accepted without question. However, there was a conspicuous absence of anti-historicist monumentality in student projects done at that time, and this promised to be a significantdeparture and set the school apart from others [1].Unfortunately, this phase lasted only a few years. Had the Department of Architecture remained withthe Faculty of Fine Arts its history would probably have been different. The teachers of

Collection

2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

Authors

Thomas S. Soerens, Messiah University

Create an assessment in addition to the standard IDEA forms o Invite open-ended feedback from studentsIt is possible that turning the ungraded tasks into graded assignments could lose the researchgroup aspect and feel of the model, but this would tighten up some of the inefficiencies in coursedelivery by this model. Inspired by the esprit de corps of the spring hazardous waste class, for afall upper level course with small enrollment of nine, the course project had loosely defined rolesin the hope that students would step up and run with the project. As it turned out, a couplestudents stepped up, but most others used the looseness to avoid doing their share of the project.So it could be that the spring group was the exception or maybe

Collection

2003 GSW

Authors

Ray Bachnak; Carl Steidley; Korinne Resendez

networking technologies and development of measurement hardware andsoftware have turned PCs into platforms capable of continuous remote monitoring andcontrol of devices using the Internet. This capability makes proper and timely analysis ofdata possible. One of the projects that use the equipment and software in the ControlSystems Laboratory involves developing a virtual laboratory environment that allowsstudents to perform experiments from anywhere the Internet is available. This isespecially useful for offering courses online and giving students access to the equipmentoutside of class time. A software program that facilitates the developments of this typeof environment is LabVIEW [1-6]. LabVIEW provides an easy and efficient way topublish

Collection

2003 GSW

Authors

Ronald E. Barr; Justin Cone; Robert J. Roselli; Sean P. Brophy

toolthat allows the instructor to poll the class on important topics during a live lecture. Each studentis issued a handheld responder that looks like a television remote-control device. The facultymember can pose a multiple-choice question to the class during a lecture, and each student inreturn presses a button corresponding to their answer to the question. Using a classroomcomputer or laptop hooked up to a projector, the CPS registers all the responses to the question,calculates class data, and then projects it onto the screen. This paper reports some initialclassroom experiences using the CPS during a one- hour lecture on the biomechanics of the IronCross gymnastics maneuver. The lecture was presented in a series of Powerpoint

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2003 GSW

Authors

Edward S. Kolesar; Matthew D. Ruff

isreasonable to project that the continuous microhinge concept could also be adapted to elementsnot attached to the substrate, thus affording an even higher degree of freedom for realizing morecomplex three-dimensional MEMS structure. IntroductionThe seamless integration of conventional microelectronics with three-dimensional, micrody-namic, mechanical components is one of the prominent goals of microelectromechanical systems(MEMS) technology [1]. Conventional microelectronic integrated circuit (IC) processing ispredominantly a two-dimensional fabrication technique. On the other hand, many MEMSmicrosensor and microactuator applications require three-dimensional components [2]. SinceMEMS technology is an

Collection

2003 GSW

Authors

Ken Van Treuren

mechanical engineering curriculum at Baylor University. In thermodynamics, the basics ofthe first and second law are discussed and an introduction to the Brayton cycle is accomplished.The students learn about the individual components, such as the compressor, combustor, andturbine, and link these components in a cycle at the end of the course. All engineering majors atBaylor University take this course and they could accomplish a gas turbine laboratory at thispoint in the curriculum. In the follow-on advanced thermodynamics course, mechanicalengineering students learn more about the Brayton cycle and what modifications would improvethe cycle efficiency. They also learn more about applications of the cycle and do a preliminarydesign project for power

Collection

2008 GSW

Authors

Victor Gallardo; Mequanint Moges; Enrique Barbieri; Aymara Boggiano; Carlos Ramirez

theconduction of labs and lectures4,5. This effort was initiated with the CLABS project which revampedthe sophomore and freshman labs in the ET department6.HOP ProcessThe implementation of the online training module is based on two general components: the genericand specific training modules. The generic training modules consist of various modules that addressthe methodological issues that are common to all members teaching at the university level regardlessof their course’s subject. On the other hand the specific training modules will set up standardpractices and approaches to the delivery of specific course contents in each department. In the latercase each participating department will be responsible in the development and implementation

Collection

2008 GSW

Authors

Ronald E. Barr; J.P. Mohsen; Jane M. Fraser; Amir Karimi; Nelson A. Macken; John A. Stratton; John J. Uhran, Jr.; Sandra A. Yost

Research19. ASEE Should Produce a Report on SEE √ √ 2 D20. Look at Chemistry and Physics Education for examples √ √ 2 E21. K-12 STEM Education and Engineering Student √ √ √ √ √ √ √ 7 B Recruitment.22. Try Active Learning, Hands- on, Project-based, Adaptive √ √ √ √ 4 C Teaching, etc.23. Summer Engineering and Science Camps for Students √ 1 B24. Establish Engineering Assessment Measures for

Collection

2008 GSW

Authors

Nripendra Sarker; Cajetan M Akujuobi

after graduation.To accredit a program, ABET is very much particular on multiple methods to assess the strengthof the program. Institutions seeking accreditation usually go through hurdles in finding multiplemethods of assessment and to map them to the objectives of the programs. Continuing studentperformance is traditionally assessed by quantitative method in which numerical scores areassigned on quizzes, home works, projects and tests. ABET considers this as a single assessment,as it is an acceptable indicator of performance of the graduates in the future. This paper discussesseven different methods of assessments for Criterion 3 - Program Outcome. With the exceptionof the traditional method of course assessment, survey questionnaires for the

Collection

2008 GSW

Authors

Edward Crowley

modules. The primary cryptographic toolkits employed in ourlabs are OpenSSL and Cryptool.The OpenSSL crypto toolkit is available for Linux and Windows platforms. BecauseOpenSSL is available on the Knoppix LiveCD, it is especially easy to incorporate intolaboratory modules. The OpenSSL Project defines itself as “… a collaborative effort todevelop a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured, and Open Source toolkit implementingthe Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocolsas well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library…” [7] OpenSLL is freelyavailable under an Apache style license.CrypTool, an educational tool, was developed at University of Darmstadt.[1] With aWindows interface, CrypTool contains