Conference Session

What's New in Dynamics?

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Wang; Oguz Soysal

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

discussion. Students are involved in the classactivities, peer tutorial, and discussion of the exercise problems and real world examples.The assessment includes course surveys from the students, the scores on the quizzes andtests and final exams. The result shows the student strength and limitation in the areas ofmathematics, physics and engineering science. The paper presents the result from thecourse assessment and the plans for continuous improvement to achieve ABET learningoutcomes and objectives in mechanical engineering program.IntroductionThe course ENES 221 – Dynamics is a fundamental course in mechanics for sophomoremechanical engineering students at Frostburg State University. The prerequisites for thiscourse are Calculus II and Statics

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Edwards, Pennsylvania State University-Erie

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

pressure readings. This does however come with an educational price tag. Students need to learn to read analog gauges. It is important to teach the students how to properly read the gauges, and to emphasize that they need to be careful to get as accurate a reading as possible. The plan is to make the change to digital. Page 12.55.8 • Currently the students take data manually. The plan is to add differential pressure transducers and to use low cost USB based data collection modules to collect the data. This will allow the students to take more readings in a shorter period of time. It is always good to have

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter J. Schubert, IUPUI; Steven Anthony Zusack

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

department and has never had a SEDS chapter.However there is a small but engaged Space Grant organization on campus, funded in part byNASA. One of the authors of this paper is the director of the Center for Renewable Energy oncampus with a strong interest in Space Solar Power (SSP), and has a history of NASA funding.This confluence of interest gave rise to the desire to found a new SEDS chapter.Shortly after the SEDS call-out, the group was contacted by the director of the Indiana SpacePort1 inviting an experiment to be launched in a sounding balloon. By responding to this, thenascent group devised an experiment, planned it, launched it, and analyzed the outcomes. Bothscientific and educational results are presented herein.II. Student

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joyce Allen, National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Paper ID #7087Connecting Rural Teachers and Students to Nanoscale Science and Engineer-ing through Teacher Professional DevelopmentMrs. Joyce Allen, National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network Joyce Palmer Allen is the assistant education coordinator for the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) and works at the Nanotechnology Research Center at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her job includes planning, developing and implementing educational outreach programs in nanotech- nology and representing the NNIN Education and Outreach office at local and national conferences and meetings. She also helps to

Conference Session

Crossing Boundaries - Service Learning and Interdisciplinary Teams

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip A. Dunn Jr. P.E., University of Maine

Tagged Divisions

Construction

building, built in1999, in a professional office park area of Bangor, Maine. This building was professionallydesigned and built through a volunteer construction manager who contracted for the mosteconomical services. Several amenities were not included in the original contract and continuedmaintenance was not planned for the facility.Construction management students have performed several community service projects at thefacility that required design, procurement of materials and equipment, and physical manpower.These projects have saved the Agency several thousand dollars and have greatly improved thefacility.The building is divided into thirds with a state licensed daycare at one end, social services in thecenter, and alternative education

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Salvatore Morgera; Hanqi Zhuang

able tonavigate to the lab site to witness the progress of the laboratory development. We plan tooffer an undergraduate course on WIC in the coming summer semester. Page 8.217.1A. IntroductionThe rapid growth of the World Wide Web provides tremendous commercialopportunities. International Data Corporation has projected that 46 million Americanswill buy $54 billion worth of goods annually by 2002 using the Web. Morgan StanleyDean Witter estimates sales of anywhere between $21 billion to $115 billion annually by2005 [1].While e-commerce is starting to take off at a rapid pace, network infrastructure is alsofollowing suit. In a recent issue of IEEE

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Christe

classes includestatistical calculations of discussion board posts, conduct interviews of experts in the student’slocation, research projects, on-line journals, and the development of a portfolio of electronicworks.MethodsIn the television show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” why is it not assumed that the “phone afriend” will always get the question correct? Would it not be in the player’ best interest to havethe friend surrounded by reference books? Of course the designers of the questions at the gameshow know this and plan for it. Look at the design of the questions. Mainly, look at the amountof time provided to look up the information. Clearly these are limiting factors in the success ofthe lifeline provided. Lastly, examine the format of the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gene McGinnis; Denise Theobald-Roberts

great ideato get girls involved. I loved the hands on and getting us involved. Some people don’t thinkabout engineering as jobs—great way to publicize.” The scouts were all very enthusiastic aboutthe workshop regardless of their interest in an engineering career.The possibilities are endless in introducing young girls to engineering. It has been shown thatmaking this introduction in the high school years is often too late since the girls have notdeveloped an interest in math and/or science. Christian Brothers University School ofEngineering plans to develop and offer opportunities for young girls to be exposed to engineeringand science.CBU School of Engineering first plans to meet with girl scout leaders to discuss their interest in

Conference Session

REU at VaNTH & Graduate Programs in BME

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Quint

, and conclude with a description of our plans for thefuture.Curriculum Students in the program are required to take three courses focusing on different aspects ofbusiness administration. These courses are offered by the Bachelor of Science in BusinessAdministration (BSBA) program in the Business School and are, therefore, courses intended forjunior- and senior-level business majors. While these courses normally require IntroductoryEconomics as a prerequisite, the Business School has agreed to waive that requirement forstudents in the BME Graduate Minor program. Still, the BME Department advises studentsapplying for the program that they should take a course in Introductory Economics prior tobeginning the business coursework. The required

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lawrence E. Whitman, Wichita State University; Karen V. Reynolds, Wichita State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

the engineering discipline, which should stimulate and helpmaintain their interest during the first year. Providing mentors for scholarship recipients within their specific engineering discipline.The college has enrolled in an e-mentoring service called “Mentornet.” This service providesmentors on both a local and a national basis. This mentoring, in addition to planned interactionwith upperclassmen, provides new students with connections to the engineering culture and anopportunity to get quick answers and feedback from their peers. Scheduling classes in cohorts. Students are scheduled as a cohort group during their firsttwo years (actual advising takes place with their faculty mentor, but the planned scheduleprovides that most

Conference Session

Making Headway: Two-year/Four-year Curriculum Alignment and Also U-G Research

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

public University to submit and jointlymanage a CIPAIR NASA grant to improve the engineering curricula at both institutions bycreating new NASA inspired courses and/or improving existing courses by infusing them withNASA related materials. An important part of the program was the development of anundergraduate research plan that would help students relate their NASA sponsored research withSTEM course content and classroom activities. This partnership was intended to utilize thedominant transfer path for engineering students from our two-year college to complete theirbachelor degree.An intense advertising campaign was initiated in the early spring of 2010 to recruit qualifiedstudents and the results exceeded our expectations by a substantial

Conference Session

Structure and Form in Architectural Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Dermody, Roger Williams University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

projects by working in plan only.Students quickly learned via the graphical method whether their initial design ideas werefeasible. They could also compare their design proposals with their peers by evaluating the forcepolygons of similar systems drawn to the same scale. Another benefit of the graphical method isits usefulness in revising proposed forms for structures. The students can use the force polygonsgenerated to increase the efficiency of their designs by manipulating the form diagrams and Page 15.616.4corresponding force polygon. Arches and/or trusses that were too shallow had extremely highforces in their members as was evident in their

Conference Session

Innovation and Measuring Success in Graduate Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Glenda Scales, Virginia Tech; Shreya Kothaneth, Virginia Polytechnic and State University; Dale Pokorski, Virginia Tech; David Bailey, Virginia Tech; Catherine Amelink, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

classroom buildings have access to the wireless network. Oneobstacle that hindered some faculty members from using the TabletPC in class was thatsome of the older classrooms did not have enough power outlets for students to chargetheir TabletPCs. To overcome that, the College of Engineering plans to provide eachclassroom with a box of extension cords so that each student and faculty member willhave access to constant power.The Faculty Development Institute (FDI) at Virginia Tech University offers free trainingcourses to faculty members on how to use the TabletPC and its various functions. TheCollege of Engineering also provides additional support to faculty members who show aninterest in using TabletPCs in a classroom environment. The Instructional

Conference Session

POTPOURRI

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University; Paymon Sanati-Mehrizy, University of Pennsylvania; Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Chad Dean, Utah Valley University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

mining has been applied in a successful industry to produce actionable results. Next theylook at machine learning and the data mining process. The next topic is business understanding,the process of determining the data mining goals and producing plans to achieve them. Thecourse then gets into the standard course topics of association rules, linear regression, clusteringand graphs and then looks at how data mining is used on the web, in the field of medicine, andsocial network sites. The course ends with a discussion of data mining ethics, past data miningblunders, how to plan successful data mining projects, and students’ projects presentations.Applied Data MiningApplied data mining combines theory with hands-on application. This method is

Conference Session

Social Responsibility & Professionalism

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christi Luks

Tar Creek to sample the waterand test the samples in a series of experiments of their own design. The students thenevaluate remediation methods and propose their plan to correct the problems that theyfound through the experimental testing. This project gives the students a practicalappreciation of safety and the environment and an opportunity to apply their skills to areal-life problem. As a result of this project, student retention was improved and studentsgained a lasting sense of responsibility for the global environment.Background Tar Creek has received national attention since it was established as a top priorityby the EPA Superfund in 1983. As such, it is an appropriate topic for an introductorycourse in chemical engineering that

Conference Session

NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Carriere

Page 10.984.2play critical roles in academe by integrating research, education, diversity, outreach, and “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2005, American Society For Engineering Education”industrial collaboration, NSF views ERCs as change agents for academic engineering programsand the engineering community at large.2. Department-Level Reform of Undergraduate Engineering Education (DLR) - providesan opportunity for institutions to compete for planning and implementation grants to assistdepartmental and larger units in engaging faculty in the scholarship of learning and teaching ona department wide basis, in developing, implementing

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Programs and Courses Session 5

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael (Mick) J. Bates, Waynesburg University; Donald Ken Takehara, Taylor University; Hank D. Voss, Taylor University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

business plan competition and on-campus incubator. Dr. Bates served as a board member and past executive committee member on two economic development organizations. His nearly 20-year business career revolved around high tech start-up companies in the contact center industry. His international experience includes an exchange to Guatemala during college, living in Germany for three years, business trips to various European countries, and in his time with Taylor University and Waynesburg University, research, speaking, and education travels to China, Laos, South Korea, Thailand, East and West Africa. Dr. Bates is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, holds an MBA from Regent University, and a

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Curriculum Exchange

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua M Coriell, Cyber Innovation Center; Krystal S. Corbett, Cyber Innovation Center

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

of angle measurement Closing Cartesian Coordinates Designing and planning the layout of a city Closing Matrices Encrypting and decrypting messages with matrices

Conference Session

Student Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Marie Reck, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Student

replaced or the one (or two) of the DC power supplies couldbe made available for students to use to complete the exercise. The impact of the use of this kitto student outcomes has not yet been assessed and is planned in future work.1. H. Klee and J. Dumas, “Theory, simulation, experimentation: an integrated approach to teaching digital control systems,” Education, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 37, pp. 57-62, 1994.2. K. A. Connor, B. Ferri and K. Meehan, “Models of mobile hands-on STEM education,” in 120th ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Atlanta, GA, 2013.3. D. Millard, M. Chouikha and F. Berry, “Improving student intuition via Rensselaer’s new mobile studio

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Curriculum Exchange

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrian Lee, Central Illinois Technology and Education Research Institute

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

topic and software operation. By forming a social, collaborative environment, the Girls CREATE program encouragesfuture interest in science, engineering, and technology through the strengthening of creativewriting skills. The instructional material is intended to teach the students how to identify, plan,solve, and portray solutions to the types of problems scientists and engineers encounter inpractice using a hands-on, three-dimensional building approach. By utilizing modern technologyand software, the program’s curriculum includes projects designed to prepare students for theirfuture academic careers and teach them about the role of technology in society.List of Engineering Topics: 1. Environment: e.g., air pollution, recycling, clean

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sudarsan Rangan, Texas A&M University; Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

andthis disconnect results in bad experiences for all. In this paper we discuss student expectationsfrom an internship experience, and the responsibilities of the business in terms of meeting thesestudent expectations. We will also discuss ways to structure and plan the internship so that thebusiness can better assess the potential and the capabilities of the intern. This can help businessesavail the internship experience as an extended job interview to hire good candidates – candidateswith organization specific training that fit in with the organizational structure and culture. II. Intern ExpectationsInternships do not mean just “busy work” anymore – whether it was running errands, filingdocuments or clerical work; students now have real

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Ostheimer

department also hired a writing expert todesign, develop and teach the communication component of these classes; thus alleviating theneed for ECE faculty to direct and formatively assess student writing. After ten years ofemphasizing writing, at least in the senior year of the ECE curriculum, and in response to theABET 2000 requirement that program outcomes be measured, the department, in 1999, begandeveloping plans to design an assessment process capable of evaluating how well the ECEcurriculum was actually preparing our graduates to write for their future careers. In this paper,we will describe first the series of steps that led to the establishment of the assessment design,then present and discuss our observations from five years of this

Conference Session

Serving the Information Needs of Engineering Technology Educators

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peggie Weeks; Maryanne Weiss; Mark Pagano

subtle—and sometimes not so subtle—changes in philosophy. For example,the popular Six Sigma methodology5 being used by many industries today has at its coreDMAIC: Define, measure, analyze, improve and control. This is in many ways similar to theoriginal CQI PDCA cycle: Plan, Do, Check, Act. At the heart of philosophies like Six Sigma iscontinuous improvement: a systematic pursuit of excellence and satisfaction of the needs ofconstituencies in a dynamic and competitive environment.It is easy to count the number of courses taught, list how many faculty are professionalengineers, how many have PhDs, etc. It is even relatively easy to list topics “covered” in eachcourse. And it is a straightforward task to list a program’s equipment, and how many

Conference Session

Teaching about New Materials

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Johnson; Mary Vollaro

developmentopportunities for faculty and students, effective educational and outreach programs, andindustry/academia collaborations.ASEE Materials Division EffortsIn order to create a record of the activities of the Materials Division, the session information forthe last five years has been tabulated below 3,4,5,6. From this data, assessment efforts can berefined, trends in our technical field as well as within our membership may be identified, andbetter planning by the Materials Division officers and members for future conferences may befacilitated.Session # ASEE 1999 DESCRIPTION3: # PAPERS (25 abstracts total)0564 NEW Experiments 71364 Matl’s Eng. In the Real World 31464

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanford Thomas; Donald Keating

competitiveness during the last four decades and the nation’s professionally orientedfaculty at the nation’s schools of engineering and technology have been undervalued, under rewarded, andunderdeveloped as well. This situation will continue, in all probability, unless corrective change ispurposefully planned and put into action. Although the advancement of fundamental scientific research,the training of future academic researchers, and the development of research-oriented faculty is crucial tothe nation’s scientific strength, so is the advancement of creative engineering practice, the furtherprofessional education of the U.S. engineering workforce for leadership of creative technologydevelopment and innovation in industry, and the development of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Don Bury; Bruce Mutter

identified in the ARET Department's TAC-ABET Continuous Improvement Plan (CIP),program outcomes have been devised to describe what graduates of a degree program will beable to demonstrate and know when they graduate. The skills and abilities identified in theprogram outcomes are measures of the quality of the program and can have a significant impacton the validity of the degree. Professional experience through an internship program, whetherconducted in an office or through a program such as this, can enhance a student's understandingof the career field and practice, ultimately creating a better quality student. The process ofobtaining professional internships in a rural area is significantly more difficult than in largerurban areas. Economic

Conference Session

Industry-Based Projects

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Rufe; Tracy Tillman; Bob Lahidji

and sells theproduct. Students in each class form a small business, select job functions, and performthe responsibilities of those respective job functions.MFG 316 students generate original product concepts. The products developed mustcontain at least five discrete components. The class votes on the "best" concept and theremainder of the semester is spent developing a prototype, bill of materials, tooling, etc.The MFG 316 class forwards its concept to MFG 421 Manufacturing EngineeringAnalysis. MFG 421, further develops the product forwarded from the previous MFG 316classes. Students in MFG 421 form a small business and select job functions such asdesign engineering, marketing, finance, sales, production planning, packaging, quality,and

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Manuel Toledo-Quinones

project explores a license plate recognition system (LPRS) to monitorthe presence of mini-buses at TU stations as a way to automatically maintain a database withrecords on their quality of service. The database can also be used for other administration orplanning purposes. The other project described consists in the development of a prototype for amulti-modal automatic route planner. The route planner will use real-time information from GPSequipped vehicles. In addition historical data and heuristics will help users plan their trips byefficiently combining buses, rapid transit and walking.Program DescriptionTren Urbano (TU) is a heavy rail transit system currently under construction in the San JuanMetropolitan Area of Puerto Rico. The first phase

Conference Session

Pre-College Initiatives in Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Pauline Sexton; Monique Wade; Bevlee Watford

engineering. • It was helpful exposure to engineering as a discipline. It helped me look in that direction (Architecture). I plan to apply to VT.ConclusionsThe focus of the camp is to introduce middle school students to engineering in a fun and excitingmanner. Even if campers chose not to pursue an engineering career, the camp accomplished itsgoal by exposing the students to engineering at a young age.Overall, there does appear to be a connection between the campers’ experience and theirdecisions in higher education. Even though campers may decide against a career in engineering,they still have a working knowledge of what engineering is and the opportunities that it offers.This allows campers to return to their schools and communities and

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Taylor

Educationteam projects. At the Idea Fair, select companies are invited to present ideas for products orservices that may have commercial value. For those that generate significant student interest,interdisciplinary student teams are formed to develop the product or service. The participatingcompanies provide materials, guidance, and encouragement. The projects also provide credit fordesign or technical elective classes. Students may also form teams around their own entrepreneurialideas. A business plan competition is held each year with a small cash award. Vision of the Jack Hatcher Engineering Entrepreneurship Program • The engineering student who is in business can receive the education and experience to pursue a technical/business