Conference Session

Communication, Professional Development, and the Engineering Ambassador Network

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shannon Marie Aippersbach, Pennsylvania State University; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

the editor of the web-site ”Rethinking the Design of Presentation Slides,” the first Google listing for the search term ”presentation slides.”Dr. Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University Page 23.671.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 How Slide Design Affects a Student Presenter’s Understanding of the ContentIntroduction Engineering faculty often have their students create presentations about projects as ameans to have the students learn the content. For example, many design courses, such asPurdue’s EPICS,1 have student teams

Conference Session

FPD 9: First-Year Engineering Courses, Part III: Research, Sustainability, and Professionalism

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leonardo Bedoya-Valencia, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Ding Yuan, Colorado State University - Pueblo; Jane M. Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo

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First-Year Programs

projects through various sources such as NASA, the Department of Homeland Security, NSF, and the Colombian Research Institute. He also have several years of experience working as a consultant for pharmaceutical and energy companies in the U.S. and Latin America.Dr. Ding Yuan, Colorado State University - Pueblo Ding Yuan received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in industrial automation from Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning, China, in 1998 and a Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from New Jer- sey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, in 2006. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Colorado State University-Pueblo.Dr. Jane M. Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo Jane M

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Walter W Schilling Jr., Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

. There is obviously a need for formalprograms for future training. However, with the ever shortening relevancy of technical skills, tobe successful in the workplace, students also must be strongly motivated self-learners.4,5 Page 23.764.2Many techniques have been tried to improve the ability of students to be self-directed learners.Mandatory attendance at professional society meetings, service functions, free-form labactivities, and project based learning all aid in this process6. For these activities to be successful,however, students need to learn how to differentiate the quality of sources by being exposed todifferent forms of media. The

Conference Session

Measuring Impact: Libraries, Librarians, Instruction, and Institutions

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. White, Queen's University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

personal content are included in engineering librarian profiles?  Is there a difference between profiles of librarians with faculty status and librarians Page 24.11.2 without faculty status?2. Literature ReviewAcademic librarians in the mid-1990s were quick to recognize the web’s potential to serve as avehicle for communicating information about their professional roles and responsibilities. Inearly 1996, a time when libraries were just beginning to develop their websites, Day andArmstrong reported1 on the use of web-based librarian profiles as part of a pilot project at IllinoisState University to teach faculty about the internet and

Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy Webb, Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering Boise State University; Inanc Senocak, Boise State University; Dazhi Yang, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

simulationsWe used the Wolfram Mathematica software to create the interactive educationalsimulations to help students understand some difficult scientific concepts and phenomenaat a micro level. Some of our simulations were adapted from the publicly availablesimulations at the Wolfram Demonstrations Project website1. The simulations we createdadopt major simplifications to the underlying theory of each concept to enableinteractivity while emphasizing the fundamental operations of the emergent process in avisually realistic fashion. For the purpose of our project, pairs of simulations were madeto depict a process at the molecular level and to show the same process operating at thecontinuum level.TemperatureIn the engineering textbooks which we reviewed

Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University; Yumi Kahori Nakagawa; George Roskovich, Florida Atlantic University

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

styles of learning while attempting to keep students engaged, there stands a promisingoutlook for positive change in the retention of information. By fostering a non-intimidating atmosphereand conveying information in a way that requires little to no pre-requisite, there is a possibility not onlyfor aiding existing students in computer engineering but also for the encouragement for a generalaudience to be introduced to concepts that otherwise seemed exclusive. The work is in the preliminary stages and there is much analysis to be conducted as well asfurther development of the methods employed. However, the feedback so far is positive. The project ispart of a larger scope at ____ University to teach other key concepts in the same vein

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremiah J. Neubert, University of North Dakota; Deborah Worley, University of North Dakota; Naima Kaabouch, University of North Dakota; Mohammad Khavanin, Professor of Mathematics at University of North Dakota

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

note that the questions not only help the students find themathematical solution to the problem, but also often ask them to think more deeply about thesolution. For example, students may find that a structure is not designed correctly and are thenasked how it could be changed to meet the desired design specifications. This process requiresthem to not only solve the equation, but they must also understand its meaning and know how tomanipulate it. An example problem from one of the modules is provided in Fig. 1; the moduleproblem sets can be obtained via the project website12. Page 23.275.3 Search and Rescue

Conference Session

CEED - Technical Session 1

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

___ Demonstrations ___ Essays ___ Projects ___ Formal Reports ___ Lab Reports ___ Other (memos, progress reports, feasibility studies, correspondence) Please specify__________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________Please list below communication problem areas for yourself and possibly other students as well(please use 1 for major problem area and 2 for minor problem area). ___Grammatical, spelling, and punctuation ___Organization of paper or presentation ___Expression of ideas ___Logic ___Support of ideas ___Lack of technical comprehension ___Introduction or conclusion ___Transitions ___Proper

Conference Session

POTPOURRI

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Duke Mejia Bulanon, Northwest Nazarene University; Stephen A. Parke P.E., Northwest Nazarene University

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

interned with the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, then spent the first several years of his career with IBM Microelectronics in Essex Junction, VT, where he worked in semiconductor R&D on five generations of IBM’s memory chip technologies. In 1989, he was awarded an IBM PhD Fellowship and began full-time study at the Uni- versity of California at Berkeley. He fabricated and studied nano-scale silicon-on-insulator transistors, and received the PhD degree from UC Berkeley in 1993. He transferred to the IBM Semiconductor R&D Center in Fishkill, NY where he became a team leader in the IBM/Toshiba/Siemens TRIAD multi- cultural technology development project. In 1996, he left IBM for an entrepreneurial academic start

Conference Session

Robotics and Automation I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Sarkis Babikian, Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology; Shouling He, Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology; Hossein Rahemi, Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

period of studyingrobotic kinematics, students will derive the angular values of joints and test their designs usingthe platform so that they can visually understand how a robotic manipulator works. In thejunior-level course, Mechatronics I – Industrial Automation, students will see the demonstrationof how a robotic manipulator is explored in the industrial manufacturing assembly line with theplatform. Moreover, students are encouraged to integrate similar designs, i.e. a robotic arm withthe universal jamming gripper, in their future course projects to demonstrate how a roboticmanipulator works in the manufacturing industry.In order to discuss the built educational kit in detail, we will describe our work in the followingsteps: In the next

Conference Session

Best of Computer in Education Division

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Smitesh Bakrania, Rowan University; Sean Banger

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

available shortlyfor download from iTunes App Store for the iPad. We expect to receive critical feedback fromeducators to inform future development and direction for evaluA+. Currently in its first iteration,evaluA+ promises to become an important instructional technology as more features are added.Background and InceptionThe inspiration for the app came while grading technical reports prepared by students for theirterm projects at the end of Fall 2011 term. The students were provided grading rubrics prior tothe assignment submission date and asked to submit a PDF version of their final report via email- all in the effort to eliminate hard copies for assessment purposes. During the evaluation stage ofsuch an assignment, an instructor would

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division - General Technical Session 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Oscar Antonio Perez, University of Texas at El Paso; Mike Thomas Pitcher, University of Texas, El Paso; Pedro Arturo Espinoza, University of Texas, El Paso; Hugo Gomez, University of Texas, El Paso; Virgilio Gonzalez, University of Texas, El Paso; Herminia Hemmitt, University of Texas at El Paso; Randy Hazael Anaya, University of Texas, El Paso; Peter Golding, University of Texas, El Paso

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Computers in Education

the impact of student learning on the following classareas: class assignments, homework, quizzes and exams. Variances between the cohorts wereassessed as part of the second and third semester exams. Three years of results enablinglongitudinal comparison are now possible. This research project has yielded data in a field that hasnot been previously explored within the associated demographic environment. The data gatheredon the comprehension and student perceived value of iPad use in the classroom has been analyzedand very interesting results are presented within this paper. Continuous quality improvement of theinstruments and use is included

Conference Session

Teaching with Technology

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caleb H Farny, Boston University; Sean B Andersson, Boston University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

. Typically 5-7instructors are involved with the course throughout the academic year. Student assessment Page 23.134.2includes weekly problem sets and quizzes, a semester-long truss design project, two midtermexams, and a common final exam. Weekly tutoring assistance is provided by graduate teachingfellows (GTFs) across multiple sections.The vision for restructuring the course arose from several key deficiencies. As a service coursethat introduces all students in the College of Engineering to the basics of engineering analysis, itis vital that the material taught to the students be delivered in a coherent fashion and on auniform level. Section-to

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Cooley

first summarizes the design and behavior of the TCS/computer that makesstraightforward and inexpensive exploration of a desktop computer’s thermal behavior possible.It then proposes a pedagogical approach to the exploration of thermal systems such as this thatwould be appropriate in a 2-year engineering technology program.TCS/Computer DesignTo present a viable computer project to a class for laboratory-based analysis, the computer shouldbe both generic and inexpensive. An older system of modest speed and capability was selected.This system began its life as a basic circa mid-1990s desktop IBM clone containing a 166megahertz Pentium 1 processor, 2.8 GB hard drive, Verge video card, 12X CD drive, and a250W power supply. Software consisted of the

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kissock; Rebecca Blust

theclient with specific recommendations to save money by reducing energy waste or productioncosts. Each recommendation presents the current state a recommendation of the estimatedsavings, the estimated project cost, and the estimated simple payback. Last year, facilities fromThe University of Dayton Industrial Assessment Center reported savings on average of $136,000per year based on an assessment.II. Student LearningCommunicationA critical element in a successful career is the ability to communicate effectively; transferringinformation clearly and accurately is important for the students to learn. Through the IAC,students are given the opportunity to become effective communicators by extensive practiceconveying written and oral technical

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Oerther

, American Society for Engineering Education • 2001: The lectures were interesting and informative. I learned a great deal, and my ideas about environmental engineering and science have been positively affected by the knowledge I have gained. • 2001: Your perspective. We will never see “cutting edge” developments in a book. • 2001: The whole structure of the course is similar to a research project. • 2001: The best aspect was carrying the concepts from the classroom to the lab in a manner relevant to our field. Also, having a class that is new gives a fresh perspective into the future of environmental engineering. • 2002: The availability of the professor to answer student questions

Conference Session

Engineering Education; An International Perspective

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Bittner

Center, a United States Department ofTransportation research, education, and outreach center funded through the UniversityTransportation Centers Program of the Research and Special Projects Administration, organizedthe Workshop. Sponsors included the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Marquette University, the Wisconsin, Ohio, and Michigan Departments ofTransportation, among others. The mix of academia and practitioners on the organizingcommittee assisted in the development of a program that reflected the needs and motivations ofeach organization in the area of diversity encouragement. For the purposes of this Workshop,transportation was not limited to traditional civil engineering-based opportunities.Several

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Frontiers

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ristroph

history. Numerous textshave provided software supplements for years, and now posting lecture notes on web sites is notunusual. Terpenny, Sullivan, et al have taken this concept one step further. They reviewed webrelated learning issues and a developed a virtual classroom [1] for engineering economics thateven allows for open ended projects with industrial interaction [2]. Their web site [3] allows stu-dents to interactively select among a variety of topics and even take multiple choice quizzes.Prompts congratulate correct answers and provide general guidance for wrong answers. The current project restricts its focus to equivalence modeling to allow interaction at anequation level much as would occur in a professor's office. The following

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Kelly

. According to the most recent report by the U.S. TradeRepresentative, the European Union continues to be the U.S.'s largest trading partnerand, as such, is a large market for US goods and services.NIST has a number of publications that students can use to learn about EU Directivesthat could affect their design project. NIST Special Publication 951 gives an overview ofthe European process. 5 A table is included which shows the product fields affected by thenew approach. Some areas covered by directives include: medical devices, constructionproducts, machinery, and low voltage equipment.A series of reports are available dealing with directives in different sectors which studentscould consult for details specific to their project area. These documents

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilburn Clouse

ideas into a business venture.This research is part of an ongoing research project between the Entrepreneurship EducationForum at Vanderbilt University and the School of Engineering Tennessee TechnologicalUniversity (TTU) to investigate ways of developing teams to think creatively andentrepreneurially. This is part of TTU's NSF grant on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Thispresentation will report on the activities related to developing cross-discipline entrepreneurshipteams and the process related to taking ideas for the mind to the market place. Project objectiveare as follows:Project Objectives1) The introduction of the idea of an Entrepreneurship Team2) The development of an Entrepreneurship Team3) The development of a series of activities

Conference Session

K-20 Activities in Materials Science

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Amanda Young; Richard Brow

school students.As part of the project, UMR undergraduates are developing and testing self-contained kits fordistribution to high schools. The kits will contain all of the materials and supplies needed forhigh school teachers to perform experiments and controlled demonstrations that illustrateimportant scientific principles in an entertaining manner. Laboratory exercises based on slipcasting and glass melting have been prepared for the kits. These hands-on activities give a basicunderstanding for what ceramic materials are and how they are produced. They emphasize theapplication of science (chemistry and physics) to form common raw materials into usefulproducts. At the end of the funding cycle, an example kit, written instructions, and an

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Control Applications

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marcus Soule; Bruce Segee

devices require a voltage higher than that of the supply voltage, most HBridge chips contain high side driver circuitry that is transparent to the user.As an educational project the design of an NMOS exclusive H-Bridge was undertaken.This will implement simple circuitry and consist of common, easily obtainable components.This paper will demonstrate the design of the H Bridge and high side driver and willdiscuss, in depth, component choice, design considerations, and effectiveness of thisparticular circuit.1. IntroductionOften in an industrial environment power must be delivered to high voltage devices. Thismay include as simple a task as turning on and shutting off power to the load, but may alsorequire bi-directional control of power through the

Conference Session

Mentoring Women and Minorities

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Dunfey; Julie Salisbury; Erik Rushton; Brian Gravel

is important tocommunicate ideas in a manner that will be interesting and comprehensible to a wide range ofpersonalities. Communicating exclusively with engineers requires technical descriptions withhigh levels of detail; however this is not the case with all individuals on a project team. Amanager wants to know how much money you are spending, and why you are spending it. This Page 8.231.4information is directly related to your design, but warrants a completely different explanation “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American

Conference Session

Motivating students to achieve

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramesh Gaonkar

no teaching. If we include learning is an int egral part of teaching, Shannon s model fallsshort in representing the teaching. However, Shannon s model with feedback, known as theShannon-Weaver model, can represent the teaching-learning process, and this model is verysimilar to the model of an engineering system. This paper describes both the Shannon s originalmodel and modified model with feedback and compares the modified model with theengineering systems model. It draws analogies between the engineering model and classroomactivities and student activities and suggests various lessons t hat can be learned from theengineering model to improve teaching and learning.* Supported by NSF ATE Project DUE 99-50019

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Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramesh Gaonkar

no teaching. If we include learning is an int egral part of teaching, Shannon s model fallsshort in representing the teaching. However, Shannon s model with feedback, known as theShannon-Weaver model, can represent the teaching-learning process, and this model is verysimilar to the model of an engineering system. This paper describes both the Shannon s originalmodel and modified model with feedback and compares the modified model with theengineering systems model. It draws analogies between the engineering model and classroomactivities and student activities and suggests various lessons t hat can be learned from theengineering model to improve teaching and learning.* Supported by NSF ATE Project DUE 99-50019

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Butt; Sam Ramrattan; Alamgir Choudhury

experiments in the laboratory and downloading process data in remotecomputers using the web. Most of these developments were geared toward laboratory practicesin under graduate programs.At Western Michigan University a project was undertaken to access a real time process from theclassroom, monitor the process data, use them for teaching process analysis and make decision torectify the out of control process as part of classroom learning in the graduate level processmonitoring and control class. As a result, the students will be familiar with the process of makingkey decisions based on on- line statistical analysis of a real process and observe the effect of thecorrective actions on a out of control process without leaving the classroom. This will

Conference Session

Web-Based Instruction

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mufazzal Arif; Mitchel Keil; Jorge Rodriguez; Alamgir Choudhury

utilize the complete sequence or only agiven subset of the methodology. This aspect is of great value to students because theycan make use of a specific procedure to study and check the material and problemscovered in lecture during a semester, or they can use the entire Module to do a completestress analysis while they are working on lab projects, where they need to perform analysisand redesign tasks while putting systems together.The module has been implemented in Mathcad, with the use of Visual Basic as a controlconsole and to display options for graphical interface to visualize results. The type ofproblems that can be dealt with in the implemented module are generic statically-determined beam problems, which are the typical problems that

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Serdar Tumkor; Ali Sekmen; Recayi Pecen; Ayhan Zora; Ismail Fidan

. Page 8.657.2Although most of these systems included some representation of a relevant knowledge base “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education”(data, algorithms, and rules), the high cost of utilizing this knowledge and extreme difficulty ofmaintaining it made such systems useful only for special large applications or projects wherecosts could be justified. However, a modern KBS can be implemented on an inexpensivecomputer platform and contains software tools that permit a novice or apprentice to perform thetasks normally reserved for a professional with a higher degree of training. In other words

Conference Session

Simulation Courses & BME Laboratories

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

E. Jansen

)Abstract The domain of biophotonics/biomedical optics continues to increase in importance for manyareas of Biomedical Engineering, Medicine, and the Life Sciences. Whatever the ultimate goal ofthe use of light in medicine and biology, the initial interaction and distribution of light withinbiological tissue is fundamental. Students at all levels have considerable difficulty with many ofthe concepts that govern light distribution in tissue. To address these conceptual difficulties, newparadigms in the learning sciences advocate approaches that actively engage the students inmodels of challenge-based learning. The goals of this project were: 1) implementation of a challenge-based learning module,based on the laser treatment of a Port Wine

Conference Session

Effective Teaching to Motivate & Retain

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julio Davalos

selected fundamental principles with existing oremerging teaching technologies can be beneficial for improving the quality of learning andteaching in the classroom. In addition to the obvious benefits for students and the satisfaction Page 8.469.1Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationderived by the instructor, the experience and knowledge gained through efforts directed toimproving teaching can be effectively combined with research interests and evolve intointegrated research-educational projects This paper describes an