Paper ID #23745Applications Monday: Students Bring Real-Life Control System Experiencesinto the ClassroomDr. Rebecca M. Reck, Kettering University Rebecca M. Reck is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kettering University in Flint, Michigan. She completed her Ph.D. in systems engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign and her master’s degree in electrical engineering at Iowa State University during her eight years at Rockwell Collins and her bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with a mathematics mi- nor, from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 2005. Her areas of research include
Paper ID #18170Assisstive Technology for Freshman Design and K-12 OutreachDr. Devin R. Berg, University of Wisconsin, Stout Devin Berg is an Associate Professor and Program Director of the B.S. Mechanical Engineering program in the Engineering and Technology Department at the University of Wisconsin - Stout.Mr. Matthew Wigdahl, Oaklawn Elementary School Matthew Wigdahl is a National Board Certified 5th grade teacher using Design Thinking to empower his students to solve problems. He has taught elementary grades for 17 years.Ms. Charis Dawn Collins, Oaklawn Elementary School Charis Collins is a writer and teacher, specializing
Paper ID #17017Engineering Ambassadors: Bridging the Gap between Engineering and Ed-ucation Undergraduates and Middle and High Schools Students (Evaluation)Dr. Zahra Shahbazi, Manhattan College Zhahra Shahbazi is as an assistant professor of Mechanical engineering at Manhattan College. She earned a B.S. degree from the University of Tehran (mechanical engineering), M.S. from Amir Kabir Univer- sity of Techonology (biomedical engineering) and a Ph.D. degrees from the University of Conecticut (mechanical engineering). She also received a certificate in college instruction from the University of Connecticut. Her current
entrepreneurial engineers in the workforce. Dr. Ma teaches mechanical engineering courses at Saint Louis University and he inculcates entrepreneurial mindset in mechanical engineering students.Dr. Ahad Ali, Lawrence Technological University Ahad Ali is an Associate Professor and Director of Master of Engineering in Manufacturing Systems and Master of Science in Industrial Engineering in the A. Leon Linton Department of Mechanical Engi- neering at the Lawrence Technological University, Michigan, USA. He earned B.S. in Mechanical En- gineering from Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh, Masters in Systems and Engineering Management from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and PhD in Industrial En
Research Track, and co-founder of the KEEN Winter Interdisciplinary Design Experience. He currently serves as the Chair of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Biomedical Engineering Divi- sion (BED), the co-director of the Institute for Leadership in Technology and Management (ILTM) and is co-editor of the Morgan and Claypool biomedical engineering book series. Joe is the author of three undergraduate textbooks. His work has been featured on the Discovery Channel, TEDx, US News and World Report, and CNN Health. He has won the national ASEE BED Teaching Award, Bucknell’s Pres- idential Teaching Award, and is currently a National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Education Fellow and an
Big Data Analytics for Big Outcomes in Healthcare Hailey Michael and Shankar Krishnan, PhD Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston MAAbstract:The National Cancer Institute estimated that there were over 1.7 million new cancer patients inthe United States in 2018 and about a third of these patients will not survive. According to theWorld Health Organization, cancer is the second leading cause of death globally. Traditionalcancer treatments are expensive, and the high prices combined with the low survival rates couldturn patients away from going through appropriate cancer screenings and detection procedures.A significant issue within the healthcare system is the lack of personalization
AC 2007-1854: PROJECT-BASED APPROACH TO INTRODUCE BUILDINGSYSTEM DESIGN IN AN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUMMahmoud Alahmad, University of Nebraska-LincolnHerbert Hess, University of IdahoBrian Johnson, University of Idaho Page 12.1192.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Project Based Approach to Introduce Building System Design in an Electrical Engineering CurriculumAbstractThe current demand for engineers with fundamental understanding of systems design inbuildings is a growing niche in industry. Some universities are recognizing this need and areintroducing new courses and/or new programs to provide students with this
interfaced to the overall system control.System interfacing through a controller area network (CAN) bus is standard inautomotive systems. The increasing complexity of sub systems is requiring validationtesting before inclusion into the system. This leads to test procedure concepts such ashardware in the loop and software in the loop.The development of the vehicle is a complex, large team, multidisciplinary project withstudents primarily from mechanical engineering, electrical and computer engineering.The majority of the team members are enrolled in a two-semester senior design sequencein either Electrical or Mechanical Engineering. Some graduate students and volunteersalso participated in the program. The project last longer than the courses. In
AC 2007-2273: THE INSPIRES CURRICULUM: ENGAGING FUTUREENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTSGreg Russ, University of Maryland-Baltimore County Gregory Russ graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2006 with a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is currently pursuing a MS degree in Chemical Engineering with a focus on Engineering Education, also from UMBC. He is a member of several prestigious honor societies, most notably the engineering honor society, Tau Beta Pi.Jonathan Rice, University of Maryland-Baltimore County Jonathan Rice is a graduate student in the Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department at UMBC. He received his Bachelors degree from UMBC in May 2006
2006-2654: EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING FOR INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERINGCURRICULUMSandra Furterer, University of Central Florida Sandra L. Furterer, Ph.D. is the Assistant Department Chair in the Industrial Engineering and Management Systems department in the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Central Florida. Dr. Furterer’s research and teaching interests are change management related to application of Lean Enterprise and Six Sigma, as well as engineering education.Jessica Jenness, University of Central Florida Jessica Jenness is an IEMS Masters student in Quality Engineering at the University of Central Florida. She has a Bachelor’s of Science in Statistics from UCF
processes was designed,developed and constructed by a multidisciplinary capstone senior design team. This experimentalapparatus is currently being used to demonstrate to undergraduate students air-conditioningprocesses such as cooling, heating, and humidification. The level of cooling, heating, orhumidification is being monitored and controlled using a PC-based control system which consistsof LabVIEW and data acquisition unit. This paper provides details about the integration of theelectrical/electronic component and the control system.I. IntroductionThe assessment results of the mechanical engineering program at Indiana University-PurdueUniversity Fort Wayne have shown that the mechanical engineering curriculum lacks “high tech”equipment and
2006-1701: EMBEDDING THEORY AND PRACTICE OF TECHNOLOGY GROUPMANAGEMENT IN AN INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE/ENGINEERINGGRADUATE PROGRAMKen Vickers, University of Arkansas Ken Vickers is a Research Professor in Physics at the University of Arkansas, and has served as Director of the interdisciplinary Microelectronics-Photonics Graduate Program since April 1998. He worked for Texas Instruments from 1977 through March 1998 in integrated circuit fabrication engineering, and has authored thirty issued patents. He received BS and MS degrees in Physics from the University of Arkansas in 1976 and 1978 respectively.Ron Foster, University of Arkansas Ron Foster is a Research Associate Professor at the University
AC 2007-136: TO ENCOURAGE AND EXCITE THE NEXT GENERATION OFENGINEERS THROUGH HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION PROJECTS FORSPACE EXPLORATIONAyanna Howard, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Ayanna Howard has a strong commitment to advancing research centered around transplanting human “smarts” into robotic systems. Her research has resulted in over 60 written works in a number of projects – from landing on Mars to autonomous rover navigation. To date, her unique accomplishments have been documented in over 12 featured articles - including being named as one of the world's top young innovators of 2003 by the prestigious MIT Technology Review journal and in TIME magazine’s "Rise of the Machines" article in
AC 2007-160: CURRENT TOPICS IN REHABILITATION ENGINEERINGPaul King, Vanderbilt University Paul King is a long time member of the engineering faculty at Vanderbilt University. He has an appointment in both Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, with past joint appointments in Anesthesiology and Orthopedics and Rehabilitation. His primary area of endeavor is the teaching of design.Mark Richter, MaxMobility Mark Richter is the director of MAX mobility, an assistive technology R&D company, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Richter’s research interests include: wheelchair design, propulsion technique
Information Graphics and Engineering DesignAbstractDocumentation for engineering design requires succinct project descriptions, often withinformation and data visualizations. In an effort to expose students to these types ofvisualizations students were asked to summarize each individual chapter of a technology-basedbook of their choice using a different visualization method. This exercise exposed students to awide range of methods and gave them tools for future engineering project document design. ThePeriodic Table of Visualization Methods1 website was used as a starting point for the types ofvisualizations students could explore. This site is an e-learning site focusing on visual literacy:the ability to evaluate, apply, or create conceptual visual
formthe foundation of engineering. Focusing on applications in biological systems to teach theseconservation laws provides a new and unifying approach to the introductory, interdisciplinaryfundamentals course in Biomedical Engineering departments.Chapters 1 and 2 provide exposure to bioengineering problems and motivation for a quantitativeengineering approach. The manuscript begins with a basic review of engineering calculationswith an emphasis on elaborating the physical variables, which are introduced in the context ofdifferent biomedical technologies. The fundamental framework of the conservation laws isdescribed in Chapter 2.Chapters 3-6 cover conservation of mass, energy, charge, and momentum in biomedical systems.Each chapter begins with a
is needed.This paper reports on the ongoing effort to build an Artificial Sky Dome for the School ofArchitecture at Oklahoma State University. The paper discusses the technical challenges facedby the team in charge of designing the Artificial Sky Dome. Challenges that relate to thestructure of the dome, uniform distribution of light sources, avoiding the star effect, effect ofinternal reflections, models of different sky conditions, control of sky luminance, and the needfor a post-construction calibration of the lighting control system. The construction of theArtificial Sky Dome is expected to be completed by the end of summer 2005. This laboratory isfunded by the National Science Foundation, Division of Undergraduate Education, (CCLI)Course
Brigham Young University. DOGMA is a Javabased system that allocates Java programs (jobs) to unused workstations. AlthoughDOGMA currently has over 700 desktop workstations available for use overnight, therewere several issues which impeded wide acceptance. These included robustness of theimplementation, maintainability, and management issues. Many of these issues have beenovercome in the most recent implementation.This paper will discuss DOGMA including its basic design and the current status of theproject. We will also discuss alternatives for its future evolution. It is interesting toobserve that many of the unresolved issues are of little interest as Computer Scienceproblems but may be of great interest to Information Technology
Session 2532 Outcome Assessment at the U. S. Military Academy Lisa A. Shay, Bryan S. Goda, Peter Hanlon, and John D. Hill Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996 {lisa.shay/bryan.goda/peter.hanlon/john.hill}@usma.eduAbstract - The United States Military Academy (USMA) recently had seven of its programsfavorably reviewed by the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) and the ComputingAccreditation Commission (CAC) of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET). The favorable comments of the
Ethics 101 Marilyn A. Dyrud Oregon Institute of TechnologyIntroductionEthics training, now somewhat formalized as ABET EAC criterion 3f and TAC criterion2i, is by necessity becoming a more integral part of engineering and technology curricula,whether via stand-alone ethics courses or inclusion in technical courses and programs.Instructors new to the field, however, may find themselves in a quandary as to coursecontent and methodology; ethics is an enormous and ancient field of study, and tailoringphilosophical content to fit a technical class poses a challenge. Pedagogy in philosophy,too, varies a great deal and tends to be
Session 2550 Enrichment Experiences in Engineering (E3) For Teachers Summer Research Program Angie Hill Price, Karen Butler-Purry, Robin Autenrieth, Jan Rinehart, Naomi Gomez Dwight Look College of Engineering, Texas A&M UniversityAbstractWith funding from NSF, faculty from Texas A&M University have developed an outreachprogram aimed at providing secondary school teachers with laboratory experiences with facultyresearchers. The overall mission of the project is to excite, empower, and educate public schoolteachers about engineering so they in turn will excite, empower, and educate young people theycome in contact with
Session 2793 An Engineering Experiences Course for Non-Calculus FreshmanCharles R. Standridge, Shirley T. Fleischmann, Harold T. Larson, Paul D. Johnson Grand Valley State UniversityAbstractWe have developed and taught several times an engineering experiences course for our non-calculus ready freshman students. Students, usually in teams, perform a series of active learningexercises that expose them to typical engineering tasks, to the various engineering disciplines, andto engineering ethics. Reading assignments allow them to explore engineering successes andfailures of the past as well as strategies for doing well
Session 3425 The Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design Experience at Union College Prof. Nicholas Krouglicof Union College Department of Mechanical Engineering Schenectady, NY 12308AbstractDesign of Mechanical Systems (MER-144) is a project-oriented course that provides a capstonedesign experience for the mechanics area of the mechanical engineering curriculum at UnionCollege. Choosing an appropriate design project for this course, one that integrates all of
professional developmentissues. We have organized daylong programs about the job search and challenges for beginningfaculty. We’ve also organized panels of professors from smaller teaching institutions. Secondly,we facilitate panels for undergraduate students about the application to and choosing of agraduate program. We promote the increased involvement of underrepresented minority groupsin higher education through workshops for faculty and graduate students that discuss how todevelop a better classroom climate. We organize outreach programs to area inner city juniorhigh schools to encourage the students to think about the possibility of studying engineering orsciences in college. Finally, we are committed to the continuous improvement of the
Session 2525 Supporting Collaborative Teams in Engineering Education Francis C. Li, James A. Landay, Anthony D. Joseph University of California at BerkeleyAbstractProblem-based learning techniques involving small collaborative teams of students are widelyregarded as being effective in teaching engineering design courses. However, the heavyrequirements upon the teaching staff to support and coordinate such teams typically limit thesecourses to small numbers of students. In this paper, we describe the design of a computer-basedtool for supporting small collaborative teams with the ultimate
Session 2620 LEGO Robotics in Engineering Philip Lau, Scott McNamara, Chris Rogers, Merredith Portsmore Tufts UniversityAbstractStudents learn the most about robotics when they have hands-on opportunities to build andprogram. At the college level there are a myriad of options, in terms of materials, that can beused in a robotics course. Two highly successful courses, offered at the freshmen and seniorlevel, have been taught at Tufts University using LEGO elements, the RCX (the programmableLEGO brick), and ROBOLAB, a graphical programming language based on
been the most popular course offered throughout the Young Scholarprogram. A Peek Inside the Computer, a class on computer software and hardware ,was developed this past summer for the first time. Both courses were filled to capacity,and generated very positive feedback. Every session involves hands-on activities, withlecture content tailored to the lab. This paper will describe the typical students, thecurriculum and projects, and important points to making this and similar programssuccessful.Introduction:The K-12 students of today are potentially the college students of tomorrow. In manycases, their math and science classes may be weak, and they may have littleunderstanding of engineering and technology. The IEEE has identified one of its
Session 3232 The Effect of Study Journals on Student Performance and Attitudes in an Electrical Engineering Course Cameron H. G. Wright, Donna E. Peterson, Parris C. Neal Department of Electrical Engineering U.S. Air Force Academy, CO Cindy L. Lynch Independent Scholar New Concord, KYABSTRACTOne hundred and eighty nine students enrolled in a sophomore electrical engineering circuitsclass were asked to keep a journal of their study habits
Session 2263 Experiences in Integrative Research and Education Projects with Undergraduate Engineers Winston Erevelles Kettering UniversityIntroductionAcademic careers offer engineering faculty an array of activities that they are expected toparticipate in - these include teaching, research and publications, laboratory development,student advisement, accreditation documentation, committee work, and service to professionalorganizations, to mention a few areas of involvement. Time constraints, the diversity in the setof responsibilities, and
Session 1608 Session 1608 Sprints vs. Marathons: Two Potential Structures for Assigning Engineering Design Projects. Paul D. Schreuders, Arthur T. Johnson University of Maryland, College ParkAbstractWhile a major goal of an engineering education is the preparation of students for solving “realworld” problems, actually assigning these problems is rarely possible in a teaching environment.A number of different strategies exist for structuring student projects, so that they prepare thestudents for