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Capstone Design II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Wronecki, East Tennessee State University

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2007-1158: TEACHING VISUAL DESIGN THINKINGJames Wronecki, East Tennessee State University James A. Wronecki is a designer/educator with diverse experience product and digital design medias. Mr. Wronecki currently serves an Assistant Professor of Digital Product Design within the Digital Media Program and Technology Department at East Tennessee State University. He received his Masters of Industrial Design from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pa. He has also taught as an Adjunct Professor at The University of the Arts, Philadelphia University, and The Art Institute of Atlanta

Conference Session

Related Engineering Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Laurie Cormier; Kelly Clark; Emily Ryan

Session 1732 The Undergraduate Experience in Engineering Outreach Emily Ryan, Kelly Clark, Laurie Cormier Tufts University Center for Engineering Educational Outreach Tuesday, 9:24 am. No sooner have you sat down at the office computer then a pop up window tells you “You’ve Got Mail.” Throwing off your winter jacket and kicking your backpack beneath the desk, you settle back to see what they’ve got for you today. Julie wants further information on the Indus River Valley. Pat will be by at 2 to pick up his aquarium. Brian is looking to do an earthquake unit. Do any old

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Huong Vu; Dave Parent; Emily Allen

Session 3164/3264 Exploring Solar Cell Technology Emily L. Allen, Huong D. Vu, David A. Parent San José State University, San Jose, CAThe Spartan Solar Cell Project comprises a variety of activities for San José State Universityengineering students to learn about photovoltaic (solar cell) technology. Activities includeprocess design, layout and fabrication of solar cells; and testing and design with solar cells. Theultimate goal of this project is to produce Spartan Solar City, a model city which will be poweredby photovoltaic cells and will demonstrate various principles

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Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Dick

Session Number 2548 Robots and Microprocessors: Increasing Student Interest in Introductory Programming Gregory M. Dick University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownBackgroundInstruction in computer programming has been a required component of the EngineeringTechnology curriculum at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown (UPJ) since itsinception in the early 1970s. In the 1970’s the programming language was FORTRANand the primary goals of the course were to give the students a firm grounding in thebasics of: problem solving algorithm development program design

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Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Clair Nixon

Key Business Competencies for New Aerospace Engineers Clair J. Nixon Associate Dean Mays Business School Texas A&M UniversityIntroduction Curricula in most engineering schools fail to provide adequate training anddevelopment of future engineers in regards to basic business principles. The newlyminted engineers generally have excellent technical skills, but lack an understanding ofthe key business principles that drive the aerospace industry. After nearly 200 interviewsof aerospace engineers in the workforce, four key business competencies emerged as themost important skills for new

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

G Murphy; G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

The Integration of State Diagrams with Competency-Based Assessment G. Kohli, D. Veal, S. P. Maj and G. Murphy Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia g.kohli@ecu.edu.auAbstractHands-on units in Computer Networking technologies are increasingly popularamongst Computer Science students. However, to test the hands-on component it hasbeen found to be necessary to use Competency Based Assessment (CBA). The hands-on exercises can become outdated very quickly due to the rapid advancement oftechnology. To offset such effects the authors have developed an abstract high levelmodel to aid students’ conceptual understanding across a range of

Conference Session

Social Responsibility & Professionalism

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Goodwin

An Experimental Course for First-Year Students: Leadership in Engineering Mary E. Goodwin Iowa State UniversityAbstractA first-year leadership course was created for engineering students. The purpose of the class wasto develop stronger leadership skills in undergraduate engineering students early on in theircollege career. This was done by actively engaging students in leadership activities that gaveopportunities for practicing skills while also providing classroom instruction on leadershiptheories, issues, and concepts. Industry has expressed a need for graduating engineering studentsto have stronger leadership

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Kosky

sophomore engineering and science majors with prerequisites ofmathematics through calculus, a first sequence in physics, and one course in chemistry.Important goals were to bring the excitement of nanotechnology to students early in theirscholastic careers and to make them aware of the many opportunities for research and furtherstudy. The pedagogical challenges were several. We needed to: 1) reflect existing facultyinterests in engineering, physics, and chemistry, 2) integrate those faculty into a cohesiveteaching unit, 3) be intelligible to sophomores, juniors, and seniors, 4) serve a multidisciplinarystudent body, and 5) have assessable outcomes. In addition, no single ideal text was available soseveral sources of ancillary readings were

Conference Session

Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Deepti Suri

Session 1732 Softwar e Quality Assur ance for Softwar e Engineer s Dr . Deepti Sur i Assistant Pr ofessor Depar tment of Electr ical Engineer ing and Computer Science Milwaukee School of Engineer ing Milwaukee, WI 53202 sur i@msoe.eduAbstract: Software Quality Assurance (SQA) is an important aspect of Software Engineering(SE) but there exists a wide variety of ways in which this topic is covered in an undergraduatecurriculum at various

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

M. Grant Norton; Charles Pezeshki

obsolete.Because of the cost differential between engineering services in the U.S. and othercheaper alternatives in countries such as India, U.S. graduates will need to have a value-added increment to justify their higher salary requirements. In this paper, the authorstake a case study approach toward understanding the educational needs of mechanicalengineers that academia supplies to various multi-national corporations, and suggest acurricular revision roadmap necessary to accommodate these changes. In particular, thevehicle to carry these curricular changes to fruition is the same set of tools that industry iscurrently using—PLM software. In the PLM environment, students can quickly access avariety of analysis and design tools that offer the ability to

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and NSF's PFI

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; John Ahlen; Ron Foster; Greg Salamo

Document: 2004-2124 Division: Entrepreneurship Early Progress Indicators: an Innovation Incubator Ron Foster, Ken Vickers, Greg Salamo, and John Ahlen University of Arkansas/Arkansas Science and Technology AuthorityAbstract:The goals of a novel Innovation Incubator (I2) are to simultaneously enhance on-campuseducation and research as technology commercialization activities are deployed. The Incubator isbeginning a third year of operations, and it is appropriate to look for early indicators of progressrelated to the effort. It is generally accepted that real evaluation of early and seed-stageinvestments cannot be completed for several years. However, qualitative assessments can bemade on the

Conference Session

Teamwork, K-12: Projects to Promote Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Chesney

Session 2003-122 From Egg Drops to Gum Drops: Teaching Fourth Grade Students about Engineering David R. Chesney The University of MichiganAbstractStudents remember 80% of what they do and 20% of what they hear. With this premise in mind,the author developed an active approach to educating a classroom of fourth grade students inmultiple areas of engineering. The intent is minimally, to increase interest in math and science inthe young students. Optimally, the students will pursue engineering as a career. Hands-onactivities were used to

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George Bugliarello

largest portion of the Gross National Product. Services are ever more dependenton technology and are being revolutionized by it. However, engineering schools have focused toa much lesser extent on services than on manufacturing, and virtually not at all on the areas ofretail and finance that dominate the service sector. The very large role and scope of technologyin services present major engineering challenges, ranging from systems architecture to a focus onthe customer that is unprecedented in engineering curricula. Graduate curricula in financialengineering and in supply chain and retail, as well as targeted undergraduate internship programsin the retail industry at Polytechnic University exemplify a response to these challenges.IntroductionThe

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Ray Price; Jonathan R. Dolle

by department, muchof the material in the course covers other areas as well, ranging from campus health services toweb page construction. This paper will first provide an overview of the content and structure ofthe Engineering 100 program from the perspective of a first year student, then from theperspective of a student facilitator, and finally from an administrative point of view. In addition,it is a goal of this paper to convey some of the educational philosophy that has driven thisprogram forward over the last six years and, in our opinion, made it so successful.IntroductionEach fall at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) over 1,100 new engineeringstudents begin their careers as engineers. In their first semester, every

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Walter W. Schilling Jr., Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Design in Engineering Education

publications in refereed international conferences and other journals. He received the Ohio Space Grant Consortium Doctoral Fellowship and has received awards from the IEEE Southeastern Michigan and IEEE Toledo Sections. He is a member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society and ASEE. At MSOE, he coordinates courses in software quality assur- ance, software verification, software engineering practices, real time systems, and operating systems, as well as teaching embedded systems software. Page 25.501.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Effective Assessment of

Conference Session

New Concepts for Alternative Energy Courses and Concepts

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Max Rabiee P.E. P.E., University of Cincinnati

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

AC 2012-3239: USING MATLAB TO TEACH ELECTRIC ENERGY COURSESDr. Max Rabiee P.E., University of Cincinnati Max Rabiee earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Kentucky (U.K.) in 1987. He has taught electrical engineering and electrical engineering technology courses full-time and part-time for more than 30 years, and he is currently professor in the School of Electronic and Computing Sys- tems (SECS) in the College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) at the University of Cincinnati (UC). Rabiee is a registered Professional Engineer (since 1988) and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE). He is also a member of the American Society of Engi

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

David R Finley

Session 2275 Tips for Greasing the Tenure Track 3 David R. Finley Tri-State UniversityAbstractUtilizing knowledge gained from participation in NSF’s New Century Scholars (NCS) Workshopat Stanford University as both a scholar (1999) and subsequently a senior scholar (2000), bestpractices for new engineering faculty are identified based upon the author’s four years ofpersonal experience in academia. This third paper in the series, all by NCS senior scholars,provides the perspective of an engineering educator at small, private, undergraduate

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Hart; Marvin Adams; K. Peddicord; Ian Hamilton; Beth Earl; Alan Waltar

Session ???? Turning the Tide on Nuclear Engineering Undergraduate Enrollment Alan E. Waltar, Marvin Adams, Ian Hamilton, Ron Hart, Lee Peddicord, and Beth Earl Texas A&M UniversityThe steep drop in undergraduate enrollments in nuclear engineering since the early 1990s is aserious threat to nuclear engineering in the U.S. and to the leadership that the U.S. has shown innuclear matters around the globe. Without a feedstock of fresh nuclear engineers into thenational nuclear infrastructure, America is on a clear course of self-destruction of an extremelyvaluable capability.As a consequence, substantial efforts have

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack

Session 0458 Linux Workshop Session Hugh Jack (jackh@gvsu.edu) Grand Valley State UniversityAbstractLinux is a free UNIX clone that was developed by volunteers around the world. Although Linux isalmost a decade old, it went largely unnoticed by the general public until a couple of years ago.Since then it has become very popular with individual users, universities and large corporations.For example, IBM has made it a major part of their business strategy for server hardware. Manysoftware companies already offer Linux versions of their software

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn Dyrud

Session 1347 Ethics Education for the Third Millennium Marilyn A. Dyrud Oregon Institute of TechnologyAbstract A variety of technological disasters in the 1980s, including Challenger, Bhopal, andChernobyl, has prompted a renewed interest in teaching engineering ethics at the college level.This paper offers a discussion of need, subject matter, methodology, and resources to enabletechnical instructors to integrate ethical issues into their courses without sacrificing technicalcontent.Introduction Higher education in America, notes Steven McNeel, “was

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 4

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly Lechasseur, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kristin Wobbe, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Sarah E. Stanlick, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

Paper ID #41524Beyond PBL: The Value of Stacking High-Impact PracticesDr. Kimberly Lechasseur, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Dr. Kimberly LeChasseur is a researcher and evaluator with the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She holds a dual appointment with the Center for Project-Based Learning and the Morgan Teaching and Learning Center. She holds a PhD in Educational LeadershipDr. Kristin Wobbe, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Co-Author: Kristin Wobbe, PhD Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies Worcester Polytechnic Institute Co-Author: Robert Traver, Ed.D. Undergraduate Studies, Teaching Professor Worcester Polytechnic

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 5

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rania Al-Hammoud, University of Waterloo; Ona Egbue, University of South Carolina Upstate; Siwakorn Wisawakornwisit, University of Waterloo; Tesse Klompstra; Aotian Guan, University of Waterloo

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

Paper ID #43371Analysis of the Impact of University Academic Requirements on EngineeringStudents’ OutcomesDr. Rania Al-Hammoud, University of Waterloo Rania Al-Hammoud is a lecturer and the current associate chair of undergraduate studies at the civil & environmental engineering department at university of waterloo. Dr. Al-Hammoud has a civil engineering background with research focusing on materials and the rehabilitation of reinforced concrete structures. She also has passion for engineering education and has published widely in this area. She cares about the success and well-being of her students, thus always being

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 4

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laurie Sutch, University of Michigan

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED)

Paper ID #41276Professional Competency Development through Reflection (Work-in-Progress)Laurie Sutch, University of Michigan Laurie is an experienced administrator in higher education as a director and program manager, workshop presenter, and facilitator of interactive learning experiences. Currently in the College of Engineering Undergraduate Education office at the University of Michigan, she supervises Spire, a program designed to help students develop professional competencies such as teamwork, communication, etc. She has presented at a variety of conferences, and has published several articles on gameful competency

Conference Session

Improving Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anita Gandolfo; Ken Alford

Session 2230 Helping Teachers to Teach – Ideas from West Point Kenneth L. Alford, Anita Gandolfo United States Military AcademyIntroduction1Every summer the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York loses nearly one-fourth of its faculty. While this turnover is intentional (returning our junior military officers tothe Army), with such a high and constant turnover rate, we have had to figure out how toeffectively teach teachers to teach in order to maintain the high quality education we provide forour cadets. Many of West Point’s

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Cathryne Stein

, an engineering outreachprogram in which students design, build, and program small autonomous mobile robots.Examples of how Botball may help to draw a diverse population into engineering andcomputer programming will be discussed.IntroductionRecently, over 180 teams of students came together in regional tournaments across thecountry to match their two autonomous, but cooperative, robots against other teams’robotic duos in a game of programming, design, strategy, and engineering skill. Most ofthese regional tournaments took place on college campuses. But the participants weremiddle and high school students who had designed, programmed and built these robots aspart of an engineering outreach program called Botball.These middle and high school

Conference Session

Unique Lab Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Bollick; Ajit Kelkar

Session 2002-1993 Introduction to Fatigue in Riveted Joints and Adhesively Bonded Joints Ajit D. Kelkar and Ronnie L. Bolick Department of Mechanical Engineering North Carolina A&T State University Greensboro, North Carolina 27411IntroductionA new hands on approach in laboratory experimentation at the undergraduate level in themechanical engineering curriculum presents comparison of the mechanical properties: includingTensile Strengths, Ultimate Strengths, Elongation and Fatigue Life at ambient temperature,between specimens

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Olakunle Harrison

Session____ STIMULATING STUDENT INTEREST USING AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Olakunle Harrison Mechanical Engineering Department Tuskegee University, AlabamaAbstractThe subject of automotive systems remains an enduring area of great interest to manymechanical engineering students. This paper presents a pilot mechanical engineering course thatstimulates student interest to a high degree. Significant advances in engineering methods, tools,and practices over the years have resulted in tremendous quality improvements in

Conference Session

Control in the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Clough

discrete andbatch manufacturing, they have been ignored traditionally in the academic circles of automaticprocess control, the latter focusing primarily on large-scale, continuous processing.Only a minority of today’s ChE students are finding employment in the traditional chemical andpetroleum industries. Many more are entering the job market in pharmaceuticals, specialtychemicals, biotechnology, and microelectronics. The programmed-logic controller predominatesin these sectors. Yet the typical process control course today still reflects continuous processingand PLC’s are largely ignored. This situation calls for change.At the University of Colorado, we have introduced a module in our control course(Instrumentation & Process Control, CHEN 4570

Conference Session

Making Elementary Engineering Work: Lessons from Partnerships and Practice

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine M. Cunningham, Museum of Science

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2011-893: MAKING ELEMENTARY ENGINEERING WORK: LESSONSFROM PARTNERSHIPS AND PRACTICEMUSEUM OF SCIENCEChristine M Cunningham, Museum of Science Dr. Christine Cunningham is a Vice President at the Museum of Science, Boston where she oversees curriculum development, teacher professional development, and research and evaluation efforts related to K-16 engineering and science learning and teaching. She is the founder and director of the Engineering is Elementary project. Her work focuses on making engineering and science more relevant, understand- able, and accessible to everyone, especially marginalized populations such as women, underrepresented minorities, and people with disabilities. Christine received a joint BA

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zeshan Hyder, Virginia Tech & UET Lahore; Zulfiqar Ali, Virginia Polytechnic State University; Janis P. Terpenny, Virginia Tech; Richard M. Goff, Virginia Tech

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2011-2484: EMPLOYING ENGINEERING DESIGN TOOLS FOR DE-SIGNING/REDESIGNING OF COURSESZeshan Hyder, Virginia Tech & UET Lahore Zeshan Hyder is a PhD student in Mining & Minerals Engineering Department, Virginia Polytechnic In- stitute & State University, Virginia. He has completed his Masters Degree from University of Engineering & Technology Lahore, Pakistan and is currently working in Virginia Center for Coal & Energy Research (VCCER) under supervision of Prof Dr. Michael Karmis for research in Underground Coal Gasification.zulfiqar Ali, Department of Mining & Mineral Engineering,Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State universityVA, USA.Janis P. Terpenny, Virginia Tech Janis Terpenny is a