Conference Session

Innovations in Electrical Engineering Courses

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicole P. Pitterson, Purdue University; Ruth A. Streveler, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

on concrete tasks and concepts which the abstract nature of AC circuits does not easilycomply with. As a result, improper instructional approaches to complex concepts such as ACcircuits causes deep rooted misconceptions when students attempt to assimilate the newknowledge of AC circuits with their current DC circuits framework. In order to increase studentsunderstanding of AC concepts, a new approach to instruction and course delivery is required inwhich AC circuits are taught as an entirely new concept while appealing to students’ inductiveand deductive reasoning ability.Model for curriculum redesignThis five step model being suggested for the use of redesigning the curriculum to increasestudents’ understanding and retention of AC circuit

Conference Session

Explorations in Mechanics Pedagogy

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shawn P. Gross, Villanova University; David W. Dinehart, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

required mechanics sequence in a new integrated format to sophomores beginningwith the Fall 2009 semester. As shown in Table 1, the classical sequence of coursework insubjects of Statics, Dynamics, Mechanics of Solids, Fluid Mechanics, and Civil EngineeringMaterials was replaced with a series of three four credit courses. An overview of this curriculumrestructuring process is provided by Glynn et al.1 and Wadzuk et al.2 A Body of Knowledge(BOK) approach was used to identify the key concepts to be included in the three new courses.3 Page 26.780.2  Table 1 – Old and new mechanics curricula in CEE at Villanova University

Conference Session

Assessment in Engineering Graphics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Theodore J. Branoff, North Carolina State University; Eric N. Wiebe, North Carolina State University; Mark Anthony Shreve, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

online instruction for preparing technology education teachers and engineers. Along with teaching courses in introductory engineering graphics, computer-aided design, descriptive geometry, and instructional design, he has conducted CAD and geometric dimensioning & tolerancing workshops for both high school teachers and local industry.Eric N. Wiebe, North Carolina State University ERIC N. WIEBE, Ph.D. Dr. Wiebe is an Associate Professor in the Graphic Communications Program at NC State University. He has authored or co-authored four texts on technical graphics and has been involved in Computer-Aided Design (CAD)/3-D modeling development and use since 1986. He has also worked on the integration of scientific

Conference Session

Involving Undergraduates in Research

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yusuf A Mehta, Rowan University; Ralph Alan Dusseau P.E., Rowan University; Ravi P. Ramachandran, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

for the international graduate students in improving their communication skills, providing experience in leadership and management skills, and hence developing their overall confidence.3) The undergraduate research experience, if provided within the curriculum, could serve as an excellent vehicle to promote research in institutions with strong undergraduate education focus.AcknowledgementThis work was supported by: a) The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, NY, under contract FA8750-10-C-0249, b) The National Science Foundation through the Grant DUE-1122296, c) The New Jersey Department of Transportation, d) The Federal Aviation Administration, and e) Delaware River Port Authority.References 1. P. Shuster, and C

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Margaret Bailey; Ozer Arnas

ME majors enrollin Thermodynamics (EM 301) during their junior year, while approximately half enroll inEnergy Conversion Systems (ME 472) during the fall semester of their senior year.While most institutions do not possess the same mission and goal as the United StatesMilitary Academy, most do share the same desire and requirement to improve curriculumstructure, integration, and assessment. Accordingly, the ABET EC2000 Criteria forcurricular objectives and content states the following 2(1): I.C.2 “(Curricular) objectives are normally met by a curriculum in which there is a progression in the course work and in which fundamental scientific and other training of the earlier years is applied in later engineering courses

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jenelle Piepmeier; Kenneth Knowles; Bradley Bishop

Page 7.1193.1course. In order for us to adequately discuss these methods, Section II addresses t he curriculum into Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationwhich they are integrated. Section III discusses a forward and inverse kinematics assignment usingprecompiled mex function for robot control. Section IV presents a Jacobian-based controlassignment using the serial port capabilities of MATLAB. II. BACKGROUND Midshipmen in the Systems Engineering Major at the USNA take an interdisciplinarycurriculum with an emphasis on control systems and dynamics. During their first -class (senior)year

Conference Session

Current Issues in Computing

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jose Solarte; Denise Jackson

. ManagementInformation Systems (MIS) support management by providing information for decision making.They facilitate the capture and storage of data relevant in describing processes and in measuringthe effectiveness of their results; the manipulation of that data; and the reporting of informationsuch as actual and expected performance. Information technologies (IT) are used in all of theseIS activities. IT help to improve both the efficiency and effectiveness of organizationalprocesses and departmental functions by integrating their operations, redesigning processes,improving networks and overall cost-effectiveness, and increasing total systems effectivenessthrough business scope redefinition1.Service Quality is generally identified as the measure of success an

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Anderson, U.S. Naval Academy; Richard Buehrer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY, and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING. Page 13.200.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 An Undergraduate Research Experience: Wireless Propagation and Position Location in a Forest EnvironmentAbstractOver the past several years, the undergraduate curriculum at many universities has been evolvingto incorporate laboratory exercises and research projects to reinforce and support traditionalclassroom lectures. In particular, involving undergraduates in meaningful research projects is akey to providing them with the hands-on activities students are

Conference Session

Pedagogical Approaches in Construction Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Talat Salama, Central Connecticut State University; Namhun Lee, Central Connecticut State University; Glynis Fitzgerald, Central Connecticut State University; Lee W. Lee, Central Connecticut State University; Mary M. McCarthy, Central Connecticut State University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

education, there has been lack of measures toaddress the fundamental integrity of the online learning environment. This results in lack ofacceptance of online degrees by potential employers12. In addition, only a few faculty membersaccept the value and legitimacy of online education13. To address this issue on academic integrityin online education, the WCET developed, in 2009, a statement of best practice strategies topromote academic integrity in online education. The statement is organized into five discretesections: institutional context and commitment, curriculum and instruction, faculty support,student support, and assessment and evaluation14.The Council of Regional Accrediting Commissions has developed the interregional guidelinesfor the

Conference Session

M3B: Learning in Context 2

Collection

2019 FYEE Conference

Authors

Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University; Alicia Baumann, Arizona State University; Gary Lichtenstein, Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

FYEE Conference - Paper Submission

senior systems engineer at General Dynamics C4 Systems. She is now part of the freshman engineering education team in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State Uni- versity. Currently, she focuses on enhancing the curriculum for the freshman engineering program to incorporate industry standards into hands-on design projects. She is an instructor for the Introduction to Engineering program, Engineering Transfer Success program, Engineering Futures program, and the Electrical Engineering department at ASU. She is a multi-year winner of the Fulton Top 5% Teaching Award and Badass Women of ASU. Her philosophy boasts incorporating large scale systems engineering techniques into collegiate engineering

Conference Session

Works in Progress: Classroom Practice

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tracy A. Bibelnieks Ph.D., University of Minnesota Duluth; Kristen S. Gorman, University of Minnesota; Brian D. Gute, University of Minnesota Duluth; Joshua W. Hamilton, University of Minnesota Duluth; Elizabeth M. Hill, University of Minnesota Duluth; Alison B. Hoxie, University of Minnesota Duluth; David A. Saftner, University of Minnesota Duluth; Andrea J. Schokker, University of Minnesota Duluth; Pete Willemsen, University of Minnesota Duluth

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

a teaching and learning community that spans the disciplines. 3. Dedicating time in departmental faculty meetings to first personalize the vision of this proposal for their department and then to share teaching pedagogies tried in classes as well as techniques for implementing classroom changes, thus creating learning organizations within each department.The three routines described are focused on continuous learning and improvement. They developnew ideas that lead to changes. Furthermore, they make continual changes to the overallstructure, seek grassroots innovation, and involve people with different views, thus increasingbuy-in among the major stakeholders. The passing of expertise in integrating active learning intoSTEM curriculum is

Conference Session

Service Learning in Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Leah Jamieson; Carla Zoltowski; Frank DeRego; Lynne Slivovsky; William Oakes

outcomes ofthe EPICS courses. An ongoing practice by all EPICS students is to keep a notebook which they are encouraged toinclude reflections and reactions to their meetings and the work that is being done over the semester andwhen meeting with their community partners. The design notebooks have become the primary means todocument and collect written reflections. Students also compose individual reflection statements to beincluded in the end-of-the-semester final report. Reflections activities have been integrated with the evaluation process as well with students settingpersonal goals for their experience in the third week of the semester. At the middle and end of thesemester, students are required to complete a self-assessment where they

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Economy Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gunter Sharp; Jack Lohmann

thenpresents the principal issues in creating the new course and in its evolution leading to thecreation of an electronic audiovisual textbook. The paper then provides a description of thecourse as it will be delivered in its new all-electronic format beginning in the fall of 2002 as wellas some observations from the experiences of the instructors during the last three years. Theinstructors offer six suggestions for those contemplating substantial internet-based instruction fortheir courses.Rationale for an Internet-Only Course for On-Campus StudentsISyE 3025, Engineering Economy, is a required, 1-credit hour internet-only sophomore/junior-level course in the industrial engineering baccalaureate curriculum at the Georgia Institute ofTechnology. It is

Conference Session

Evaluation: Diversity in K-12 and Pre-college Engineering Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherina V Tarnai-Lokhorst P.Eng., FEC, Camosun College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

,like the New Jersey Project. This 1986 conference developed an inclusive curriculum that beganas distinct women’s studies and evolved into curricular integration of race, ethnicity, class andgender, introducing both content and methods. By 1996, the project grew to involve more than100 faculty members in two- and four-year higher education institutions; it was followed by theCurriculum Mainstreaming Teaching Initiative that involved faculty from New Jersey, Maryland,Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, California and Tennessee.History textbooks in British Columbia tended to add content about women’s issue in sidebarsand asides from the main text. This “filler feminism” trivialized the contributions of women anddepicted a subservient, lessor role

Conference Session

Works-in-Progress Postcard Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brittany Lynn Butler; Daniel D. Anastasio, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Daniel D. Burkey, University of Connecticut; Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University; Cheryl A Bodnar, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Phenomena, Professional Development / Ethics and Mathematical / Compu- tational Methods. He is the recipient of various teaching and educational research awards, including the 2015 Raymond W. Fahien Award from the ASEE Chemical Engineering Division. Dr. Cooper’s research interests include effective teaching and assessment, conceptual and inductive learning, integrating writing and speaking into the curriculum and professional ethics.Dr. Cheryl A Bodnar, Rowan University Cheryl A. Bodnar, Ph.D., CTDP is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Experiential Engineering Education at Rowan University. Dr. Bodnar’s research interests relate to the incorporation of active learn- ing techniques in undergraduate classes as

Conference Session

New Topics in IE Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sreekanth Ramakrishnan, SUNY Binghamton; Justin Sturek, SUNY Binghamton; Sumit Parimoo, SUNY Binghamton; Krishnaswami Srihari, SUNY Binghamton

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

decision-making faster andaccurate. The user needs to input the keyword of the high school name and the search enginereturns all high schools having the keyword entered. The user can then further narrow down thesearch by entering the nearest city or state where the high school is located.The third DSS was developed to determine the school and curriculum code of an applicant.Again, the personnel at the data entry stage were required to do a manual lookup on paper-basedsources, which was both time consuming and error-prone. This DSS would significantly reducethe amount of time used to determine the curriculum code of the applicant.The three systems mentioned above were integrated into a single system referred to as EZLookup. All the three functions

Conference Session

Trends in Accreditation and Assessment

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Ronald R. Ulseth, Itasca Community College; Bart M. Johnson, Itasca Community College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #16543On the Use of Outcomes to Connect Students to an Engineering Identity, Cul-ture, and CommunityProf. Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato Rebecca A. Bates received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington in 2004. She also received the M.T.S. degree from Harvard Divinity School in 1993. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Integrated Engineering program at Minnesota State University, Mankato, home of the Iron Range and Twin Cities Engineering programs. She is also a program director at the National Science Foundation for TCUP and HBCU-UP in

Conference Session

Supporting Diversity in Engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas Edwards, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeremy Lingle; Jessica D Gale, CEISMC Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

as part ofthe project, and designed curriculum to implement the project in their classrooms for theupcoming school year.The applied global context the Math4-OR (MIG)/CTAE project is a year-long academic servicelearning project to design, prototype and test solar panels to provide electricity for a ruralcommunity college in a township of South Africa. The community college is a Further Educationand Training (FET) school,affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopalian Service andDevelopment Agency (AME-SADA). AME-SADA has an explicit goal to start a solar power-based farming project at the community college. The Math4-OR (MIG)/CTAE project uses thisservice context to define the initial unit challenge problems and their pacing for the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell

Session 1793 Innovative Strategies for Teaching Graphics Communications – Designing Residential and Commercial Properties in an Introductory Course David S. Cottrell Pennsylvania State University at HarrisburgIntroductionThis paper describes the integration of design projects during the Fall Semester, 2003,into the curriculum of an introductory graphics communications course at Penn StateUniversity at Harrisburg. These projects served a double purpose of reinforcing topicstaught in the classroom as well as introducing students to the engineering design processwith their

Conference Session

Freshman Experience in Engineering Technology

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

JungHun Choi, Ohio University; Wieslaw Grebski, Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton; Kenneth Dudeck, Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

series and parallel. Basic relay logic can be applied to the control of an electrical system.2.1.5 Miscellaneous Part: Electrical Engineering Technology Profession and Electrical Systems Early in the course outline the various fields in Electrical Engineering Technology Profession such as power, electronics, computers, robotics, and automation. It can be shown how the curriculum introduces students to the fundamentals of each. After graduation, students will be able to pursue their interests in greater detail by continuing the education toward a BS degree, or choosing employment in a company that specializes

Conference Session

Research Experience in Stormwater Management

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

curriculum of an engineering department (Biological Systems Engineering) using Jerome Bruner’s spiral curriculum theory. Currently, Dr. Lohani leads an NSF/REU Site on ”interdisciplinary water sciences and engineering” which has already graduated 56 excellent undergraduate researchers since 2007. This Site is renewed for the third cycle which will be implemented during 2014-16. He also leads an NSF/TUES type I project in which a real-time environmental monitoring lab is being integrated into a freshman engineering course, a senior- level Hydrology course at Virginia Tech, and a couple of courses at Virginia Western Community College, Roanoke for enhancing water sustainability education. He is a member of ASCE and ASEE and

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian Belu, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

with hardwareand instrumentation helps students to deeper understand the physics behind theengineering problems and to acquire skills required in industry. Further, a workingknowledge of visualization and simulation tools used during the laboratory providessupport for creative circuit analysis, evaluation and synthesis. A simulator is a powerfulway to test new ideas without difficulties associated with circuit implementation andbuilding. The laboratory complements and supplements the lecture course, whichcurrently follows the text by Mohan [4]. This text does a particularly good job ofexamining the principles of power electronics from an integrated and top-downviewpoint. The many examples and problems provided in the book are an

Conference Session

Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Doreen Lawrence; Barbara Oakley

An Alternate Route For a Career Related to Engineering Education: A Kumon Franchise Doreen Lawrence†, and Barbara Oakley†† † Kumon North America, Inc. Glenpointe Centre East- 5th Floor, 300 Frank W. Burr Blvd, Teaneck, NJ, 07666/ ††School of Engineering and Computer Science, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, 48306 AbstractKumon North America, Inc. (KNA) is North America’s largest supplemental educationprovider. In studying the relation between KNA and engineering, it has been found thatnearly ten percent of all Kumon mathematics instructors have left successful engineeringpositions to run their own Kumon

Conference Session

Distance Learning in ET Programs

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Pickard, East Carolina University; Jimmy Bill Linn, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

accessto physical lab equipment.One hallmark of an engineering technology program is hands-on laboratory experience. In fact,the criteria for accrediting engineering technology programs specify that theory courses shouldbe accompanied by coordinated laboratory experiences. A laboratory course accompanies almostevery electronics engineering technology course in the IET curriculum at East CarolinaUniversity. In these laboratories, students design and construct electronic circuits and machines,then use electrical test equipment to measure the characteristics of the constructed circuits andmachines to compare their findings with theory presented in the corresponding lecture courses. Atypical hands-on laboratory station provides the student with a

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shonda Bernadin, Georgia Southern University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

. Page 12.85.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 A Paradigm for Assessing Student Learning in an Introductory Digital Signal Processing CourseAbstractThis paper presents research on designing and incorporating assessment measures for evaluatingstudent learning in an introductory digital signal-processing (DSP) course. We teach Electricaland Computer Engineering (ECE) students the first two years of their engineering curriculum inan engineering studies transfer program. One of their required courses is an introductory DSPcourse, which our students take during the second-year of their program. Due to themathematical intensity of this course, traditional ECE programs offer the first signal

Conference Session

Using Research in Engineering Ed

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Pedro E. Arce, Tennessee Technological University; Sahera Yasmin Abumariam, Tennessee Tech University

Tagged Topics

Professional Engineering Education Papers

or subject matter (the modeling of the cancer tumordomain) are guided by the Catalytic Pellet4 that works as the “microscopic” level of the applicationto the learning topic. More details about the learning process and how it works are presented inthe section below.A Dual Level Learning ApproachAs indicated, the learning process in this contribution is driven by two levels of guiding tools forthe students. In Figure 1, we present an overview of the key levels of the processes integrated inthis learning approach. The students guided by the Foundry follow and overall strategy to learnand apply concepts related to the modelling of the transport in cancer tumor domains; the detailson how to apply the principles associated with the different

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Amro Taibah; Mohammed Haque

square foot (PPSQFT)for this analysis to minimize variation within the sample. An initial regression was conductedincluding a variable accounting for the year-sold for each observation. All PPSQFT values werethen transformed to 2000 value.Data Collection: The data, obtained from the Multiple Listing Services (MLS), includes pricedata, structural attributes data, and address information. A local real estate broker provided datastrictly for research purposes. The MLS data was validated and integrated with data from theBrazos County Appraisal District (BCAD). After cleaning, validating, and integration, only datathat have complete records has been deemed suitable for this analysis.Study variables: The variables included in the analysis are defined

Conference Session

STEM Issues in ET

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; David E. Thompson, Sam Houston State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

paper describes an effort to replicate best practices at Sam Houston State University in theimplementation of a cross-disciplinary course designed to provide students from diversedemographics with a more effective ramp into undergraduate research. The specific aim of thecourse was to provide students from diverse backgrounds with a curriculum designed to buildcommunity, introduce students to research faculty, and to counteract a perceived lack of researchreadiness. The student learning goals for the course included providing opportunities for studentsto: study key historical examples of excellent research; interact with faculty researchers whoperform projects across the STEM disciplines; and to explore the similarities and differencesbetween

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

on committees, in taskforces, and inemployment where knowledge of Safety and Health (S&H) practice and law is needed, hence thiscould be regarded as a generic requirement. The authors therefore proposed that S&H practiceand law be included as an integral part of national computing societies’ core curricula for theeducation of computing science professionals. This could be additional to topics currently listedsuch as software legalities & safety and ergonomics 10. On the CIM unit S&H is addressed via:• CIM Workshop and Workplace Safety.• Legal Issues.• Hazard Awareness.2. CIM Workshop and Workplace SafetyThe hands-on components of the CIM unit are delivered via thirteen two-hour weekly workshopsand each of these

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yunfeng Wang, The College of New Jersey; Christopher Ault, The College of New Jersey; Teresa Nakra, The College of New Jersey; Andrea Salgian, The College of New Jersey; Meredith Stone, Independent Evaluator

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Page 15.166.3practices: theme-based learning and student-centered pedagogy.3.1 Theme-based learningTheme-based learning “shifts the role of curriculum from mastery of disciplinary content to thecritical integration of multiple bodies of knowledge relative to a specific question.”1The theme of our course is to develop robotic and/or graphic conducting systems to direct anorchestra. In order to fulfill this theme, students need to learn related subjects from severaldisciplines instead of a single one. At the very least, they need to equip themselves with notionsof robotics from mechanical engineering, conducting theory and practice from music,abstract/multimedia animation from IMM, algorithms, data structures, and artificial intelligencefrom