Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael A. Swartwout, Saint Louis University; Sanjay Jayaram, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng.

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

teaching tools have been implemented elsewhere [5, 6, 7]; we areinterested in creating opportunities for students to experience project failures – and thenovercome those failures.We have developed a two-semester course sequence for entry-level engineering students (i.e.freshmen and sophomores), giving them a chance to learn from failures (and success). The firstsemester is a 2-credit course, consisting of a 1-credit classroom lecture and a 1-credit laboratoryelement; the second semester is a 1-credit laboratory course. The classroom portion is a seminar-style presentation of systems engineering tools such as requirements flow, work breakdownstructures, design drivers, trade studies and risk assessment. For the laboratory portion of bothsemesters

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Buchanan

a satisfactory level of competence in the areas of teaching, scholarship and servicein preparation for going up for promotion and tenure. TeachingSince teaching is the most important area for an engineering technology faculty member, anyschool that has engineering technology should establish a teaching culture. In this environment,excellence in teaching delivery in the classroom and laboratory should be expected as the sinequa non. In addition, a method to continually assess student learning, in addition to the normalgrading system, should be established. There should also be a method for ongoing curriculumand laboratory development in all courses, so as to maintain the state of the art in the

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John P Puccinelli, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering

their lab that tied in directly with the learningobjectives of their module. Additional applications were presented at the end of the course in afew 30 min biomaterial presentations from the handful of graduate students in the course.Throughout the semester, the graduate students performed literature research projects which threecheck points in which specific parts of the project were assigned. These check-points coincidedwith the hands-on laboratories performed by the undergraduate students (the majority of the class).Hands-on ActivitiesThe content of each module ended with a hands-on laboratory for the undergraduates that was heldin our dedicated biomaterials and biomechanics teaching laboratory. The large class was split intotwo groups. One

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark McDermott, University of Texas, Austin; Jacob Abraham, University of Texas, Austin; Mihir Ravel, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

to provide an“active learning” approach using a common set of platforms for both virtual and physical Page 14.270.2prototyping.Course Sequence OrganizationCourse 1 - Basic VLSI DesignThis course focuses on teaching the student the building blocks of VLSI systems. The studentsuse the Weste & Harris book “CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective” asreading material to support the lecture material. There are three laboratory assignments thatprovide the student with the necessary capabilities to design and layout CMOS integrated circuitsusing a virtual prototyping platform from Cadence Design Systems. There is a class projectwhich

Conference Session

Modern Software Measurement Techniques

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Neuman, Queensborough Community College; David Lieberman, Queensborough Community College; Don Engelberg, Queensborough Community College; Alex Flamholz, Queensborough Community College; Paul Marchese, Queensborough Community College; George Tremberger, Queensborough Community College; Tak Cheung, Queensborough Community College

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Instrumentation

grant on designing remote laser laboratory for teaching techniciansDon Engelberg, Queensborough Community College Don Engelberg is a Professor of Physics at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York. His research interests include nuclear physics, laser physics, and education. He was awarded several NSF grants and is currently serving as PI on a NSF grant in laser physics education.Alex Flamholz, Queensborough Community College Alex Flamholz is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York. His research interests include bio-physics, electronics, and education. He worked in photonics research and

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raenita A. Fenner, Loyola University Maryland; Peggy O'Neill, Loyola University Maryland

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

improve technical writing instruction in laboratory courses, a multidisciplinary team ofprofessors in the departments of Writing and Engineering (1) developed a curricular frameworkthat integrates common practices of teaching technical writing in tandem with existing engineeringlaboratory courses and (2) trained a set of students to be Engineering Writing Fellows (EWF),undergraduate engineering students who tutored peers in their technical writing assignments. Thispaper will share the student and instructor opinions of these initiatives employed in the LinearCircuits Analysis Laboratory course. Analysis of the initiatives was conducted via student surveyand comparison of student writing pre and post EWF tutoring. Results show students

Conference Session

Software & Web-based Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tom J. Zajdel, University of California at Berkeley; Michel M. Maharbiz, University of California at Berkeley

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

successfully employed to grade these projects through the design of a rubric thattolerated differences in robot designs. Though the approach described in this paper has workedfor an introductory lab with simple circuits, the authors suggest that more complex hardwarecourses would require virtual laboratories or remote-controlled equipment to properly teach thematerial. However, carefully curated kits could introduce students to new fields beyondelectronics with a powerful hands-on approach that may inspire additional study.Though MOOC courses must contend with high attrition rates and low participation rates, theeffort is worth it for those people that they reach. Those students that did not finish this coursehave shared gratitude and appreciation for

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Devenport; Terry Wildman; Glenda Scales

2004-307 THE ENGINEERING STUDY GROUP INITIATIVE AT VIRGINIA TECH: INVOLVING ENGINEERING FACULTY IN THE DISCUSSION AND EXPLORATION OF EDUCATIONAL ISSUES William J. Devenport, Glenda R. Scales, Terry M. Wildman Virginia TechAbstractAn initiative to promote the formation of voluntary study groups amongst engineeringfaculty at Virginia Tech is described. The groups provide an opportunity for faculty tofreely discuss and exchange their teaching ideas and collaborate with more and lessexperienced colleagues, thus reducing the isolation they often experience

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Adrian Villalta-Cerdas, Sam Houston State University; David E. Thompson Ph.D., Sam Houston State University; Steven L. Hegwood, Sam Houston State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

eligible to teach the course. 2) Teaching assistants: the Department of Chemistry hire teaching Instructors assistants for the laboratory courses, and the TAs are required to hold one office hour per lab section. 3) General Chemistry Laboratory Coordinator: the instructor was invited to participate and implement the designed course. 1) STEM majors taking General Chemistry I during fall and spring semesters. 2) Recruitment: posting of information on STEM Center website and email Participants incoming students during summertime

Conference Session

Reaching Students: Innovations to Curriculum in ET

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

C. Richard Helps, Brigham Young University; Mark Patterson, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

the content layer would change significantlyhowever. When a course redesign is accomplished, it makes sense to put the content specific Page 13.825.3issues at the lowest level (homework, classroom examples, laboratory exercises, etc) and leavethe organization issues unchanged.ObservationsKnowledge acquisition and participation are the two prominent metaphors that guide ourthinking about learning and relevant instruction. The first of them represents an individual andthe latter a social basis of learning. Problem-based learning, case-based teaching, learning bydesign and cognitive apprenticeship powerfully emphasize anticipation and

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Oerther

anational challenge. At the University of Cincinnati, the author has begun to address thischallenge by developing a new course entitled, “Molecular Methods in EnvironmentalEngineering.” The objective of the course is to teach students to adapt techniques from molecularbiology to address important issues in environmental engineering. A hands-on laboratory formatencourages students to develop scientific questions, learn appropriate methodology, conductcareful experimentation, analyze data, and draw conclusions worthy of presentation to peers.Although the initial offering of this course to well prepared graduate students was considered asuccess, future offerings must continue to address the daunting challenge of providing asupportive, yet independent

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Technical Session 4: Digital Learning Part II

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Robert L. Avanzato, Pennsylvania State University, Abington

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

-Based Educational Mobile Robotsin ROS,” J Intell Robot Syst 77, 281–298, 2015. Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-013-0007-4[Accessed April 26, 2020][7] S. Schiffer, et al (ed.), “Teaching Robotics with ROS,” European Robotics Forum 2018 WorkshopProceedings of the Workshop on Teaching Robotics with ROS (held at ERF 2018), Tampere, Finland,March 15th, 2018.[8] R. L. Avanzato and C. G. Wilcox, “Work in Progress: Introductory Mobile Robotics and ComputerVision Laboratories Using ROS and MATLAB,” 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt LakeCity, Utah. June 2018. Available: https://peer.asee.org/30072 [Accessed April 26, 2020][9] N. Rosillo, N. Montés, J. P. Alves, and N. M. F. Ferreira, “A Generalized Matlab/ROS/RoboticPlatform

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Davis; Wayne Sarasua

than ideal.Geomatics Course TopicsTopics covered in the Geomatics course and associated laboratories are summarized in Table 1.Additional discussion of the topics is presented in the following sections. The course can betaught as a 3-unit 15-week semester course (includes 14 2-hour laboratories) or a 4-unit 10-weekquarter course (includes 9 3-hour laboratories). Optimal class size would be in the range of 50students or less for lecture, with laboratories comprised of 15 students or less allowingapproximately five three-student lab crews, depending on equipment constraints. Larger classesare viable with additional teaching assistant resources. Currently, Clemson teaches a singlesection of a maximum of 72 students with 3 laboratories of 24

Collection

2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

Authors

Kyle Frederick Larsen P.E., Eastern Washington University; Nm A Hossain, Eastern Washington University; Hani Serhal Saad, Eastern Washington University; Abolfazl Amin, Utah Valley University; Heechang Bae, Eastern Washington University

, thermodynamics, heattransfer or other engineering laboratory experiments.(5) A Rockwell Hardness test and/or tensile test on number of specimens should be measuredand used for statistical inference, quality control analysis, etc.(6) Two Independent Samples and Paired Sample Tests using examples,such as comparing airpressure gauges (analog and digital) to determine if they yield the same average psi readings.(7) Simple Linear Regression and an Introduction to Multiple Linear Regression collecting thedata of the travel distance of rubber bands of different widths.(8) A final group project chosen by students to demonstrate various applications of statistics inan engineering setting.References1. S. Bisgaard, “Teaching Statistics to Engineers”, The American

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Maja J. Mataric, University of Southern California; Shaobo Huang, University of Southern California; Svetlana Levonisova, University of Southern California

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

in STEM education. She teaches courses in re- search design, measurement theory, critical pedagogy in STEM and courses in learning and instructional theory. She extensive expertise in assessment, psychometrics, advanced quantitative analyses, and mul- timodal research design. She is active in many professional associations in the engineering and science education, teacher education, distance learning, program evaluation and special education fields. She has been the principal investigator on several federal grants through the US Department of Education, the National Institute of Health, and the National Science Foundation.Dr. Maja J. Mataric, University of Southern California Maja Mataric is professor and Chan

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

ZT DENG; Xiaoqing (Cathy) Qian; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo; Zhengtao Deng

) Homework assignments, (2) Quizzes, (3) Exams, (4) Class Attendance, (5) Design Project and laboratory written reports, (6) Design Project Oral Presentation, (7) Computer Simulation using FORTRAN, C, MatLab, Labview, (8) Prototype development, (9) Laboratory Testing / Project teamwork. (10) Course assessment (by students), (11) Instructor’s teaching performance evaluation (by students

Conference Session

COED Modulus Topics

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Damitu Robinson, University of California, Davis; Nicholas Hosein; Andre Knoesen, University of California, Davis; Akash Kashyap

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education Division (COED)

, and as a result, experienced significant hurdles with the remote learning switch. In this paper, the impact of an internally developed smartphone application called KarmaCollab is evaluated alongside the incorporation of socialized teaching and course gamification. We will look at UC Davis Electrical and Computer Engineering laboratory courses and the impact KarmaCollab had on the online course format. The relationships between course grades, KarmaCollab app engagement, student self-reported sentiment via an end-of-quarter survey, and teaching staff interviews are presented to showcase interesting remote learning insights. Introduction The COVID-19

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Marc Hoit; Matthew Ohland

more structured academic and social learning environment.2) Provide engineering applications and introduce the engineering thought process early on.3) Search for models that are sustainable, cost effective and exportable.4) Match teaching and learning styles (e.g. cognitive and active learning).5) Develop an advanced learning laboratory to provide optimal physical facilities.This project plans to expand the use of engineering applications and design into the first two years ofpreparatory work. Providing an education with such an emphasis is expected to attract and retain engineeringstudents by showing applications of the math, physics and chemistry they have learned. Since this program isdesigned to use the existing

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robi Polikar; Robert R. Krchnavek; Raul Ordonez; Peter Jansson; John Schmalzel; Shreekanth Mandayam; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

this project are available on the Web (seehttp://engineering.eng.rowan.edu/~ravi/nsf_control/nsf_control.html). This work is supported bya grant from NSF (CCLI DUE #9950882).An Integrated Communications, Signal Processing and VLSI Laboratory This “proof of concept” project is an effort by the ECE Department to configure a novelmethod of teaching the junior level Communications (COMM), Digital Signal Processing (DSP)and Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) courses using a common framework. These threecourses are taken concurrently during the spring semester of the junior year. There has been a historical division and separation of the fields of Communications, DSPand VLSI in ECE education. This separation makes it harder for

Conference Session

Innovations in Promoting Technological Literacy I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Simona Dana Dimitriu, Pat Neff Middle School - Northside Independent School District (NISD); Thomas Gadsden Jr., Our Lady of the Lake University

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

AC 2012-4249: E 4 E: ENGINEERING FOR EDUCATORSDr. Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College Dan G. Dimitriu has been practicing engineering since 1970 and taught engineering courses concurrently for more than 20 years. He has been the coordinator of the Engineering Program at San Antonio College since 2001. His research interests are: alternative fuels, fuel cells, plastics, and engineering education.Simona Dana Dimitriu, Pat Neff Middle School - Northside Independent School District (NISD) Simona D. Dimitriu practiced engineering since 1981 for 20 years and following a graduate degree in education started teaching science since 2007 and math since 2002. She has been involved in numerous initiatives to integrate

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 5: Work-in-Progress Part 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carlos Landaverde-Alvarado, University of Texas, Austin

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

instructors; these random team assignments try to best simulate the typical teamformation conditions in postgraduation experiences [15].The projects laboratory is divided in two interdependent sections: (a) students complete fourpilot-plant type laboratory experiments for which they produce different report types (referred as“standard experiments”), and (b) they simultaneously develop a research project (referred as“class projects”) that is self-directed which is the focus of our teamwork training. During thecompletion of class projects, students propose their own research, create individual and groupproposals, build their own theory, and complete their experiments in their proposed scheduled; inaddition, they report to a teaching assistant who acts

Conference Session

Experiential Learning in BME

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Willits, Saint Louis University; David Barnett, Saint Louis University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

AC 2010-1038: EARLY CAREER BIOENGINEERING RESEARCH EXPERIENCEFOR UNDERGRADUATESRebecca Willits, Saint Louis University Rebecca Kuntz Willits is an associate professor of Biomedical Engineering at Saint Louis University and has developed courses in Transport Phenomena, Biotransport, Drug Delivery, Tissue Engineering, and Design of Laboratory Experiments. She was the 2009 Director of BE@SLU, an NSF-sponsored REU in Bioengineering.David Barnett, Saint Louis University David Barnett is the Chairperson of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Saint Louis University, as well as the Director of the 2010 BE@SLU program

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yusuf Mehta, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

permitted. The limited laboratory space and equipment does not providesufficient hands-on experience for all the students. Several universities have a situation similarto that of Rowan University, and this makes teaching core courses like civil engineeringmaterials very challenging. The author re-designed the course to ensure that every studentactively participates in the laboratory and understands the material behavior. The number oftopics covered in this class was divided into four major areas, timber, aggregates, asphaltconcrete and cement concrete. The course was modified to address the concepts required toconduct laboratory experiments and its practical applications. The objectives of the laboratoryexperiments were well defined, but it was up

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention and Diversity in Engineering Technology

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Blust, University of Dayton; Mark Patterson, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

to have certain questions relating to the subject eitherbefore or after the class. The questions indicate a good understanding of the topics discussed in class.Some additional aspects that were noticed were that the Chinese students learn by doing, are taskoriented, know how to get things done, and want to fully understand the theory before being asked toverify it in the laboratory. It was noticed in a few classes that the students didn’t want to start the labuntil they fully understood the theory behind the experiment. They often learn by watching theirclassmates around them, and then by doing. This helps to reinforce their knowledge. Theyparticipate in plant tours and are eager to always learn more.Challenging AspectsBased on the teaching

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ravel Ammerman, Colorado School of Mines; Pankaj Sen, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

offer power engineeringcurriculum at the undergraduate level, commonly use computer aided simulation techniques toenhance laboratory teaching. The use of a computer aided simulation package like PowerWorldis very effective at helping students learn the complex processes involved in power systemplanning. PowerWorld Simulator is a powerful visualization tool; the animation capabilities helpthe students understand the complexity of the power-flow problem.Students, in general, lose interest in a course that focuses entirely on computer simulationtechniques and computer software. Consequently at CSM, we have taken a very differentapproach to developing our Advanced Energy Systems Laboratory. A special feature of ouradvanced laboratory is the

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Thompson; William Riffe; Laura Rust; Brenda Lemke; B. Lee Tuttle; Henry Kowalski; Douglas Melton; Lucy King; Jacqueline El-Sayed

managerial pole. Potential departmental barriers are discussed andpossible ways of quenching faculty and departmental traditional cultures are introduced. Thestructure for the lecture and laboratory sessions, the timing, the logistics of shuffling studentsfrom one area to the next are ironed out. Common times for lecture and labs are established.Students also work in teams to perform projects. Students are evaluated in the separatedisciplinary areas as well as on a final integrated project where they are asked to combine aspectsof mechanical design with electronic control and manufacturing processes. The assessmentprocess will also be described. Fun objects are used in the laboratories, such as; battery operatedmechanically animated pig

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Petersen; Richard Hughey; David Meek; Alexandra Carey

engineeringdesign of different classical bus architectures, and discuss various CPU’s and peripherals. In thelaboratory students’s design and build their own custom microprocessor projects using thepopular and versatile 68HC11, an embedded CISC (“complex instruction set computer”) CPU.This laboratory particularly needs an adroit understanding of the HC11’s software architecture,i.e. its unique assembly language. Giving students a better introduction to HC11 assemblylanguage would allow us to concentrate more on hardware system architecture and advancedsoftware programming techniques like mixed assembly and C, which has routinely been taughtin the laboratory since 1995.Based on these diverse needs, we took the unusual step of deciding to teach two

Conference Session

Work in Progress: Hands-on Activities

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ilhem F. Hakem, Carnegie Mellon University; Richard Tang, Carnegie Mellon University; Michael R. Bockstaller, Carnegie Mellon University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

feedback joysticksfor the emulation of a ‘rubber extension’ experiment. The opportunities for students to explorematerial property changes in response to defined microstructural changes are described. Finally,we elaborate the implementation of the device in a laboratory course on Colloids, Polymers andSurfaces that is being offered at the Chemical Engineering Department at Carnegie MellonUniversity.IntroductionWhen selecting materials for engineering applications, considerations of ‘mechanical properties’typically play an important role. Teaching of the ‘Mechanical Properties of Materials’ is thus atopic that is of fundamental importance to all engineering disciplines. The discussion typicallystarts with the consideration of the materials

Conference Session

Civil Engineering in the Classroom

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Parker, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

ClassroomAbstractThis paper will describe recent innovations in the Fluid Mechanics course (CE3300) at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Platteville. The innovations include learning activities and feedbackmechanisms. Specifically, the innovations are: “Challenge Problems”; in-class “physicalmodels”; a “Create-A-Lab” exercise; and an effective grading rubric for laboratory reports.Significant Learning ExperiencesIn “Creating Significant Learning Experiences” (Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2003) by L. Dee Fink,guidelines are provided to help instructors create significant learning experiences for theirstudents. The basis of Fink’s model is the concept of “integrated course design.” In anintegrated course, the Learning Goals, Teaching and Learning Activities, and Feedback

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Kosky

local partner industrial and academic institutionsincluding IBM, General Electric R&D, RPI, Wadsworth Center (a New York state laboratory),and the Albany NanoTech Center. Six expert outside speakers delivered key lectures. Through a recent NSF-NUE grant, we are developing nanotechnology-teaching modulesto expose students to methods of synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials, and a web-based undergraduate textbook on nanomaterials. Page 9.627.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for