Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Hasenberg

Page 10.404.1being offered in scholastic year 2004-2005 at PSU. The remaining themes study Chaos & Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering EducationCommunity; The Columbia Basin; The Constructed Self; Cyborg Millennium; ForbiddenKnowledge; Meaning & Madness at the Margins; Pathways to Sustainability & Justice; and Sex,Mind & the Mask. Themes are developed by a team of three to four instructors and are teamtaught, with each of the instructors having the primary responsibility for a main session.Design & Society utilizes the problem posing method, discussion, and writing-intensive nature

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering and More

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jared Berrett

Yeargan, engineering professor at the University of Arkansas and 2001 President of ABET,suggested that creating standards and teaching technological literacy is ”not about getting morestudents into engineering, its about getting the right students into engineering.” (Gorham, 2002)By teaching technology for all, like Brad Thode does in Wood River Middle School, perhaps wemight better encourage young engineers and achieve a more technologically literate citizenry.Conclusion Though this paper represents a sliver of a view into the case study of Brad Thode and histeaching practice, I hope it has served a purpose of creating interest and opening up minds to thepossibility of elevating the education of our children to the highest potential of

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Leland

Self-Explanation in an Introductory Electrical Circuits Course To Enhance Problem Solving Robert Leland Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of AlabamaWorked out examples play a prominent role in engineering education. Learning from examplesrequires active processing that often does not occur in our students, creating an illusion ofunderstanding that can result in poor test performance2. How students process examples canhelp or hurt them. Many students try to mimic examples without understanding them, and haveinaccurate pictures of their own understanding. Students who truly understand

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dyani Saxby; Saeed Foroudastan

. This is especially true for complex Page 9.796.3terminology that may be dispersed throughout the class readings. Additionally, Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationprofessors should keep in mind that some topics may be difficult for internationalstudents to fully comprehend if they involve issues that are specific to the United Statesor a particular city. Another interesting revelation in this study was that one of thestudents felt that although he could understand the instructor most of the time, he

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alene Harris; Chad Washington; Patrick Norris

Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education7. Cross, P.K. & Steadman, M.H. (1996). Classroom Research: Implementing the Scholarship of Teaching. San Francisco, California: Jossey-Bass.8. Harris, A.H. & Cox, M.F. (2003). Developing an observational system to capture instructional differences in engineering classrooms. Journal of Engineering Education, 92, 4, 329-336.9. Stallings, J. (1977). Learning to Look. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company.10. Bransford, J., Brown, A.L. & Cocking, R.R. (Eds.) (1999). How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.11. Harris, A.H., Cordray, D.S., &

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Manuel Toledo-Quinones

Session 1532 Understanding Loading in Feedback Amplifier Analysis Manuel Toledo-Quiñones Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez, Puerto RicoIntroductionThe application of negative feedback concepts to the analysis and design of electronic amplifiersis widely recognized as one of the most important subjects in electrical engineering curricula.Most electrical engineering students are exposed to feedback theory in courses primarily focusedon systems and automatic controls

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Riley

Session 970 Applied Green-Building Technologies: An Interdisciplinary Public Scholarship Course David Riley; PhD and Elizabeth Workman Department of Architectural Engineering, Penn StateAbstractBuilding construction operations significantly contribute to the degradation of the environment,through both the consumption of non-renewable natural resources and the generation of waste.Awareness is increasing, however, of design and construction strategies that can help reduce theenvironmental impact of the built environment, leading to rapid growth in the popularity of“green

Conference Session

Potpourri of Engineering Mathematics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Siegenthaler

Session 3565 Advanced Mathematics Preparation for Graduate School of Undergraduate Science and Engineering Students Kenneth E. Siegenthaler Department of Astronautics United States Air Force AcademyAbstractThe difficulty of inspiring spring-semester senior science and engineering students totake another elective advanced mathematics course is well known. Mathematical Physicstaught from a text such as Mathematical Methods for Physicists by George B. Arfken andHans J. Weber has a particularly bad reputation among undergraduates. But any

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Cyr; Bonniejean Boettcher; Bree Carlson

the four summer high school satellite Page 9.757.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationprograms held at the partnering universities (24 teachers per university.) With this achievementin mind, 118 teachers would have been trained directly through the PCET program to introducethe engineering design process into their classrooms. With an average class size of 20, thismeans that potentially 2,800 high school students in Massachusetts could be exposed to theengineering design process during

Conference Session

Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ying Tang

AbstractThis paper focuses on the project of design and simulation of a disassembly-to-order system that providesa unique “hands-on and minds-on” research experience for undergraduate students. This project iscompleted by a multidisciplinary group of faculty and students from Electrical & Computer Engineeringat Rowan University and Computer Science and Computer Engineering at Pacific Lutheran University(PLU). In such a system, the disassembly of discarded products is processed to satisfy certain demandsfor parts and/or materials, while economic and environmental goals are achieved. Two scenarios in thesystem are analyzed and their performance is compared.1. Introduction Due to the increased awareness of the state of environment by consumers

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rhona Moore; James Strueber

introducing them to the breadth anddepth of their chosen field. In addition, the assignments have been structured so as not to require gradingin order to be effective. Page 9.1429.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe Theory--Learning and Teaching StylesAllan A Gatthorn in Curriculum Renewal suggests that writing can be used as a method of learning.“The idea of using writing as a method of learning is grounded in sound theory, as Yinger and Clark2have noted in Reflecting Journal Writing

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Morris, Brigham Young University; Dawn Conniff; James Ledlie Klosky, United States Military Academy

AC 2004-555: CREATING MORE TIME IN A DAY: EFFECTIVE USE OFE-COMMUNICATION TO ENHANCE STUDENT LEARNING AND OPTIMIZEINSTRUCTOR TIMEDawn Conniff,James Ledlie Klosky, United States Military AcademyMatthew Morris, Brigham Young University Page 9.352.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2004 Session # 1793 Creating More Time in a Day: Effective Use of e-Communication to Enhance Student Learning and Optimize Instructor Time J. Ledlie Klosky, Matthew R. Morris, Dawn E. Conniff United States Military AcademyAbstractThe

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Leland

A Teaching Module for the Nyquist Stability Test Using Cooperative Learning Robert Leland Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Alabama Box 870286 Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 rleland@coe.eng.ua.edu AbstractWe describe a three-class instructional module using cooperative learning to teach theNyquist stability criterion in an undergraduate controls class. This effort brings moderneducational methods, specifically cooperative learning, into a mainstream

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Engineering Practice

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marian Stachowicz; Rocio Alba-Flores

Session 1048 Fuzzy Mobile Robots: A Student Design Workshop Rocio Alba-Flores, Marian S. Stachowicz Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Minnesota Duluth, MN 55812 ralbaflo@d.umn.edu, mstachow@d.umn.eduAbstractThis paper describes the Design Workshop course offered at the Electrical and ComputerEngineering Department (ECE) at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). This workshopcourse is one mechanism by which students

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Gehringer

Page 8.480.8deadline. This strategy is motivated by a desire to students doing all kinds of assignment soonProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition 8Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationafter each lecture, so that, e.g., while Lecture 10 is fresh in their minds, some students will bemaking up problems, some will be annotating, and some will be creating animations. Thisinsures that I get problems, animations, etc. over a wide range of lectures, rather than having allsubmissions concentrated on the lectures that were covered near the time an assignment wasannounced.Figures 6 and 7 show the assignments I recently gave in my masters-level parallel

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tracy Volz; David McStravick

idea that he or sheexperimental work. To counter these could derive a result with 8 significant figures. Atdeficiencies, a new lab course procedure was this session it was emphasized that in the fluidsinitiated. In this program, the students are lab 3 significant figure results are probablyrequired to write initial library research reports somewhat optimistic and data should be recorded with this in mind. This problem with thethat focus on some facet of significant figures, correct use of significant figures is furtherunits, or error analysis. These reports are

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: A Potpourri

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Monica Bruning

Session 1396 Why NOT Engineering – Perspectives of Young Women and the Influence of the Media Monica J. Bruning Iowa State UniversityOverviewThis pilot study is developed to assess how young women (10 th grade girls) come to know theengineering profession. The study analyzes young women’s career exploration approach and theinfluence that the engineering language and imagery has upon the young women as they explorethe profession. The pilot study employs a qualitative research design and utilizes feminist theoryto better understand the

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hong Zhang

thecomponents, then ask them to design a blimp gondola using the software like Labview andSolid Works. Besides, in the courses like Control, Wireless Communication, andDynamics, etc., the blimp will also be able to serve as a flexible yet powerful teachingplatform. With this common experiment center, the students will save a lot of preparationtime to become familiar with the system, and will be able to study the new knowledgedirectly and quickly. 5. Summery In Rowan University, we designed and supervised a blimp project to promote project -based hands-on minds-on engineering education. It is managed and conducted withprogressive approaches. The first phase of the project was conducted by a student team within the framework ofthe junior/senior

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sinead C. Mac Namara, Syracuse University; James K. Guest, Johns Hopkins University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

AC 2012-4324: TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION: THE USE OF CUTTINGEDGE NUMERICAL METHODS IN TEACHING STRUCTURES TO AR-CHITECTS.Dr. Sinead C. Mac Namara, Syracuse UniversityProf. James K. Guest, Johns Hopkins University Jamie Guest is an Assistant Professor of civil engineering at Johns Hopkins University. His research and teaching interests focus on topology optimization and structural engineering. He received his M.S.E. and Ph.D. from Princeton University and B.S.E. from University of Pennsylvania, all in civil engineering. Page 25.1363.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 The Use

Conference Session

Engineering, Ethics, and Leadership

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Marincel Payne, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Kenneth W. Lamb P.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Seth Claberon Sullivan, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS), Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

their teams on challengingproblems also promotes psychological safety in their teams [4].With these thoughts in mind, we began to be curious about the state of psychological safety andstudent engineering teams. This work in progress builds upon two pilot studies presentedpreviously and expanded to include data from additional universities [5,6]. In addition to beingcurious about benchmarking the psychological safety of student engineering teams, we were alsocurious to understand if we can improve psychological safety on underperforming teams. Each ofthe universities participating in this study provides leadership or teaming development training tostudents in some way. Therefore, we are curious if these efforts lead to improvements

Conference Session

Engineering, Ethics, and Community Engagement

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tucker Krone, Washington University in St. Louis; Seema Mukhi Dahlheimer, Washington University in St. Louis; Sandra Payton Matteucci

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

Paper ID #41379Engagement in Practice: Innovating a Project-Based, Community EngagedCourse for Engineering Students that Fosters Ethical ThinkingProf. Tucker Krone, Washington University in St. Louis Tucker Krone joined the faculty in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis in 2017. He teaches statistics, ethics, publication writing, communication, and community engaged courses. Tucker emphasizes engineering and statistics as forces for equity and social justice. Tucker Krone’s current passion focuses on integrating community engagement, social justice, equity, diversity and inclusion into

Conference Session

Assessment in Engineering Graphics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amanda Varricchio, Daniel Webster College; Theodore J. Branoff, North Carolina State University; Melissa Kelly, Daniel Webster College; James O'Donnell; Joseph A. Donovan, Daniel Webster College; Nicholas Bertozzi, Daniel Webster College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

AC 2011-2210: DEVELOPMENT OF EDGD WEBSITE AUTOMATED LEARN-ING AND ASSESSMENT RESOURCESAmanda Varricchio, Daniel Webster College Amanda Varricchio is a recent graduate of Daniel Webster College with a Bachelor’s Degree in mechanical engineering. She was honored for her academic achievement by being named to the Presidents List and has severed as captain of the softball team for the past two seasons. She is currently employed by Pratt & Whitney Aircraft as an associate test engineer.Theodore J. Branoff, North Carolina State University Dr. Branoff is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology Edu- cation at North Carolina State University. A member of ASEE since 1987, he has

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven VanderLeest

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education1 http://www.asee.org/about/publications/profiles2 “Should We Mandate the Master’s?” ASEE Prism, v9, n1, September 1999, pp. 20-21.3 Bloom, B. S. Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: Handbook 1, Cognitive Domain. Longman, New York, 1956.4 VanderLeest, Steven H. “The Built-in Bias of Technology,” Proceedings of the 2004 American Society forEngineering Education (ASEE) Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, June, 2004.5 Gardner, H. Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. New York: Basic Books, 1983.6 Gardner, H. Intelligence Reframed. New York: Basic Books, 1999.7 Dienes, Z. and Altmann, G, “Transfer of implicit knowledge across domains? How implicit and how abstract

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Anderton; Karim Salman

the way our methodology is implemented. The CPU is implemented on anAltera FPGA/CPLD Flex10K device using schematic approach with the AlteraMAX+Plus II software CAD. The design was simulated and tested using Altera UP2board.IntroductionCPU design for engineering/engineering technology students varied widely in objectivesand approach1-7. For a long time, block diagrams of simple CPUs have been used inbeginning computer courses, mainly to allow students to visualize how a CPU functions.To meet this need, many textbook authors1,6,7 have devised simple CPUs at the blockdiagram level to illustrate how instructions are executed and data are manipulated.Obviously, omitting many of the circuit details allows an overall understanding that isusually

Conference Session

Integrating Mathematics and Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome McCoy; Leslie Keiser; Michael Kessler; William Potter; Peter LoPresti; Donna Farrior; Shirley Pomeranz

Enhancing Interdisciplinary Interactions in the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences: Year I Shirley Pomeranz, Peter LoPresti, Michael Kessler, William Potter, Jerry McCoy, Leslie Keiser, Donna Farrior The University of TulsaIntroductionA team of faculty members in the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences at The Universityof Tulsa (TU) has begun work on a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Course,Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Project (Proposal # 0410653). This projectuses Interdisciplinary Lively Application Projects (ILAPs)1 as a vehicle for strengtheningconnections among the science, engineering, and mathematics

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Schleicher; Aubrey Hunt; Sean Brophy; Christopher Garay; Cynthia Paschal; Stacy Klein-Gardner

Teaching X-ray Imaging in the High School Physics Classroom: Safe, Hands-On and Inexpensive Instruction Christopher D. Garay1, Aubrey A. Hunt1, Stephen M. Schleicher2, Sean P. Brophy1, Stacy S. Klein1, 3, 4, Cynthia B. Paschal1, 4, 5 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN / 2Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, MO / 3University School, Nashville, TN / 4Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN / 5Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Nashville, TN A new hands-on curriculum developed at

Conference Session

Innovations in Freshman Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachel Callison; Bob Lorence; Dan Budny; Kate Thomes

Session: 3553 Simulated Conference Meets Academic, Advising, and Library Goals for Freshman Engineering Students Dan Budny, Rachel Callison, Bob Lorence, and Kate Thomes University of PittsburghAbstract – First-year engineering students hold a mock professional conference designed to meetthe instructional objectives of the Freshman Program’s academic and advising components, andthe Engineering Library at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Engineering. The AnnualSustainability Conference is the result of collaboration between these three groups that creates astudent-centered

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Kiefer

courseofferings. Teaching independent study courses of six to eight students does not require thecourse material to be completely polished, and the students can be evaluated without spending alot of time grading written homework or exams. Furthermore, the students can be used todevelop projects and handouts that will later be used as hands-on laboratory exercises orclassroom demonstrations. At the same time, the students are getting the background necessaryfor them to be valuable to a research program.This paper presents the results of teaching an independent study course in mechatronics to agroup of six mechanical engineering students. The course included both undergraduate andgraduate students working in teams of two. The first ten weeks of the course

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sudhir Mehta

/EVAL/Handbook/handbook.htm. [March 30, 2001]. 11. NRC. (2000). How people learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School (expanded edition). National Research Council’s Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Developments in the Science of Learning and Learning Research and Educational Practice. National Academy Press, Washington, DC. Full text can be found at http://books.nap.edu/catalog/9853.html. [March 30, 2001]. 12. NRC. (1999). “Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology,” A report from NRC, http://books.nap.edu/catalog/6453.html. [March 30, 2001]. 13. NRC. (1996). “From Analysis to Action: Undergraduate Education in Science

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ricardo Molina; Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

. At the end of the program the students have solidknowledge of basic science courses, basic engineering courses and specific engineering courses,besides the experience acquired with the development of projects in partnership with enterprises.I. IntroductionPeople live today in a world of no frontiers, with complete new values, a global world, in themiddle of post industrial revolution, neo liberal policies and no jobs. The challenge in Brazil, likeany other Country of West World is to form professionals with scientific minds to developscience and technology in according to the complexity of modern day-by-day life. Science andtechnology has to promote the progress of contemporary society drawing a complete new future.It is essentially, to make