Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Wosczyna-Birch

medial instrumentation (Becton Dickinson) are critical to the U.S. economy. To be successful these industries have embraced a global supply chain and a rate oftechnology change that presents enormous challenges to the regional workforce. Between 1990and 2000, although aerospace manufacturing employment in Connecticut dropped by 45%,productivity increased and wages for the average aerospace manufacturing worker went up 63%to $68,737. As the manufacturing workforce ages there will be a need to replace these highlyskilled & highly paid workers as well as for continuous upgrading in worker capabilities. The National Association of Manufacturers notes, in their recent report “KeepingAmerica Competitive: How a Talent Shortage Threatens

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

heattransfer principles and the concept of thermo-siphon heat recovery system. This paper presents anexperimental setup that will help the undergraduate mechanical engineering students inunderstanding the basic heat transfer processes by utilizing real life applications such as usingwaste heat from a window type air conditioner to heat water for residential and commercial use.Heat recovery from an air conditioner by thermo-siphon is attractive because it eliminates theneed for a circulating pump. This project was completed with the assistance of an UndergraduateSenior Project Grant from the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air ConditioningEngineers, Inc. (ASHRAE).I. IntroductionHeat transfer is a basic and very important topic that

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Sheinberg; Alberto Gomez-Rivas; George Pincus

Bachelor of EngineeringTechnology is designed to prepare professionals to asses and reduce the loss potential inindustrial settings with respect to fire, floods, tornadoes, explosion, and hazardous materialaccidents. The program provides the graduate skills and knowledge of current trends inindustrial safety, fire science, equipment operation in practice, and computer simulations.The curriculum provides a solid foundation in basic and technical sciences and includesapplied courses in facilities and catastrophe management. Courses offered by naturalSciences, Mathematics, Management, and Criminal Justice departments are also included inthe curriculum. Courses in other areas support the program, such as Human Factors inPsychology. Other technology

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Khaled Mansy

Session 2233 The Artificial Sky Laboratory at Oklahoma State University Khaled Mansy, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State UniversityAbstractUtilization of daylight is one of the most cost-effective energy-efficient strategies to design andengineer low-energy buildings. Integration between daylighting and electric lighting systems incommercial buildings results in a significant reduction in annual energy use and operating cost.As in other engineered systems, quantification of the performance of daylighting systems shoulddictate their design. In the US however, the majority

Conference Session

Leadership in the Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Martinazzi; Jerry Samples; Andrew Rose

Session 3615 LEADERSHIP 101 DEVELOPING THE LEADER IN ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY STUDENTS Robert Martinazzi, Andrew T. Rose, Jerry Samples University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown“The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is leadership.” General Dwight EisenhowerAbstractConventional wisdom defines leadership as a skill and as such it can be learned. The questionbecomes one of where to begin when teaching leadership skills? Researching the voluminousamount of leadership material

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chih-Ping Yeh

signal processing, etc. The current paradigm in the course instructionbuilds on a lecture prerequisite structure but ignores the need for a laboratory prerequisitestructure and integration. The laboratory for each individual course is designed to reinforcebasic concepts but typically has no larger purpose in the curriculum such as logically connectingto laboratory works completed in earlier or future courses. Since laboratory time is short andnew concepts must be emphasized, instructors are forced to use oversimplified set-ups forexperiments. As a result, students complete laboratory exercises in these courses withoutrealizing that they are all contributing to the development of truly integrated systems used in themodern industrial environment

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering III

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hung Nguyen; Charles McIntyre

(CD, zip, etc.) [2,5]. Currently, many engineeringand construction firms post project information on company or project specific web sites. Inorder to provide students with the “real world” experience of posting information electronically,the logical decision would be to require students to mimic the industry practices. The contentsof this paper, 1.) documents the traditional and revised course delivery system for CME 430 -Land Development, 2.) provides an overview of the mechanisms for evaluation and assessment,3.) explains some of the tools and techniques that have been developed at NDSU to assiststudents with web page development, 4.) provides student outcome data for a 3-year period, 5.)offers an analysis of the data, and 6.) formulates

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Young

colleges and universities. Appendix I lists all the EPprograms identified from an Internet search. All the programs share the same title -Engineering Physics - and include at least some physics and some engineering, but that isabout all they have in common. They differ in academic administration, relative amounts ofphysics and engineering, and both physics and engineering content. This paper looks at boththe differences and the similarities in all the programs in an effort to better define what ismeant by Engineering Physics.Most of the information for this paper was taken from the EP program web pages. (AppendixI includes the URL’s for the university home pages.) A total of 47 programs were identified.The web sites for 14 of the 15 accredited

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Roman Stemprok

simulation using the latest microprocessor technology. The laboratory exercises includedfeedback and control systems, computer control in process and real time simulation. Researchactivities outside the classroom included computer-based activities and power engineeringlibrary research. The gender mix of students was about 50/50. This teaching experience posed anumber of questions in terms of the use of existing resources (electronics hardware and software)to direct transfer of previously developed technologies at a new university, or to develop theprograms that followed the increase of faculty skills.I. IntroductionThe Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities, Inc. (MUCIA) was selectedby the Ministry of Education-Malaysia to

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Sema Alptekin; Reza Pouraghabagher; Patricia McQuaid; Daniel Waldorf

Session 3563 Teaching Factory Sema E. Alptekin, Reza Pouraghabagher, Patricia McQuaid, and Dan Waldorf Cal Poly - San Luis ObispoI. IntroductionAcademia must develop a new approach to teaching in order to better prepare engineering studentsto function efficiently and adjust readily within the framework of the factories in the real world.Some engineering programs emphasize theory, while others emphasize application as isolatedblocks. The "Teaching Factory" being developed at Cal Poly combines both theory andapplications. It

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Roman Z. Morawski; Jerzy Woznicki; Andrzej Krasniewski

Session 3460 Dilemmas of Financing Higher Education in Poland Roman Z. Morawski, Jerzy Woźnicki, and Andrzej Kraśniewski Warsaw University of Technology, PolandAbstractThe paper is on the methodology of financing higher education, being currently discussed bythe Polish academic milieu. A legal and economic background of the discussion is outlinedand several options for the future system of financing higher education are presented, viz.options proposed by the Ministry of National Education and by the Conference of Rectors ofAcademic Schools in Poland

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Mahammad Najafi; George Yang

Session 2647 IMPACT OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION TO LOCAL INDUSTRIES George Yang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Technology Mohammad Najafi, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Technology Missouri Western State College, 4525 Downs Drive, St. Joseph, MO 64507AbstractIn this paper, the history of a newly-established two-year manufacturing engineering technologyprogram is presented. Impact of the program to the local community has been characterized bystudent population, student employment situations, and on-going collaboration with localindustries. Statewide and local need assessment

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Cal Caswell; Mel I. Mendelson

Session 2563 Integrated Product Development in the Classroom Mel Mendelson, Cal Caswell Loyola Marymount UniversityAbstractA course entitled, "New Product Design and Development" was introduced to meet the needs ofindustry and to address reform in engineering education. It was modeled after a similar onetaught at MIT; however, it had distinctly different features. The course used multi-discipinaryteams and product planning to create commercial products. Our course emphasized teambuilding, marketing, design, prototyping, and the business aspects of launching a new product onthe

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15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE)

Authors

Krista M Kecskemety, The Ohio State University; Tyler James Stump, The Ohio State University; Peyton OReilly, The Ohio State University; Sydney Cooper, The Ohio State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

first-year engineering student experiences, faculty experiences, and the research to practice cycle within first-year engineering.Tyler James Stump, The Ohio State University Tyler Stump is a first year Ph.D. student in the Department of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University. Tyler received his B.S. in Biosystems Engineering at Michigan State University in 2022 and received his M.S. from Michigan State University in 2023 also in Biosystems Engineering. His engineering education interests include assessment instrument development & validation, computing education, and first-year engineering course design.Peyton OReilly, The Ohio State University Peyton O’Reilly is pursuing her B.S. in Biomedical

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2024 CIEC

Authors

N. Athula Kulatunga; Daniel Sampaio

to maintain a healthy energy consumption profile of ports and be sustainable. First, allenergy consumers in a port must be identified and categorized using energy auditing tools.Energy analysis tools reveal machines and operations that place unnecessary demand on the gridand consumption trends, plus energy conservation measures that help renewable energyintegration and greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction. The electrification of the transportation sectorwill increase the electrical demand (kW). New geospatial data and EPA data are helpful indeveloping better energy conservation opportunities for a given port location. The paper showshow the above techniques can provide greener energy solutions to US ports.IntroductionThe composition of shore power

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

F. Pinto; E. Sheybani; Singli Garcia-Otero

S. Garcia-OteroAbstractThe Goddard Electro-Magnetic Antenna Anechoic Chamber (GEMAC) is a world-class facility formeasuring radiation patterns of antennas and other microwave devices and instruments.. Anechoicmeans neither having nor producing echoes and is a shielded room whose walls have been covered with amaterial that absorbs so much of the incident energy that it can simulate free space. The anechoicchamber measures the isotropic (all directions) gain pattern of an antenna. These measurements are takenat different angles and frequencies. Goddard Anechoic chamber has been used for decades to test bothprototype and flight antennas affiliated with Goddard missions and outside entities. This paper presentsthe procedure and findings to

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Zhao Zhang

AUTOMATIC ORTH-FACI G ROBOT WITH COMPASS MODULE A D CLOSED-LOOP CO TROL Zhao Zhang zhang@missouriwestern.edu Missouri Western State University 4525 Downs Drive, Saint Joseph, MO 64507 Abstract: A digital compass module is added to Parallax Boe-Bot, an educational robot. A proportional closed-loop control system is implemented on the BASIC Stamp microcontroller. By comparing the compass sensor output with the set point (north), the controller will control the speed of two servo motors. The two servo motors will turn clockwise or counter clockwise. The robot

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

re-examine the historical basis for the core computational skill set and assess thedegree to which it has met the needs of industry for modeling, design, and construction. Weidentify technology trends such as scripting languages (e.g., Python and Ruby), modernnumerical programming (e.g., Matlab), and Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools (e.g.,Revit and Sketchup) that, to be available and effective for industry, must have a curricular basisfor CE graduates. Finally, we provide recommendations for incorporating modern tools intoboth introductory engineering computing courses and senior level design courses.IntroductionComputational skills have been an integral component of engineering education for decades.Long before digital computer

Collection

2009 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Michael Casey

re-examine the historical basis for the core computational skill set and assess thedegree to which it has met the needs of industry for modeling, design, and construction. Weidentify technology trends such as scripting languages (e.g., Python and Ruby), modernnumerical programming (e.g., Matlab), and Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools (e.g.,Revit and Sketchup) that, to be available and effective for industry, must have a curricular basisfor CE graduates. Finally, we provide recommendations for incorporating modern tools intoboth introductory engineering computing courses and senior level design courses.IntroductionComputational skills have been an integral component of engineering education for decades.Long before digital computer

Conference Session

Engaging Students in Learning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amir Salehpour, University of Cincinnati; Sam Antoline, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

from their textbooks and then they were asked to created 3-Dmodels. These models were then fabricated on an in-house rapid prototyping machine. Studentsperformed the experiments on their models and compared the results to the calculated results.Initial feedback from the students has revealed that modeling, fabricating, and testing some ofthe textbook problems enhanced their learning of the concepts. This provided a relevant transferof skills for the students from solid modeling to physical problem solving. An additional benefitof this technique is exposure of the students to the design process early in their curriculum.IntroductionThere is a large amount of work in the literature addressing different means of effective teaching.Most of the

Conference Session

Computational Tools and Simulation III

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Stanley, Kettering University; Gianfranco DiGiuseppe, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

AC 2010-2160: AN EFFICIENT WAY TO INCREASE THE ENGINEERINGSTUDENT’S FUNDAMENTAL UNDERSTANDING OF THERMODYNAMICS BYUTILIZING INTERACTIVE WEB BASED ANIMATION SOFTWARERichard Stanley, Kettering University Dr. Richard Stanley has been a faculty member of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Kettering University (Flint, MI) since July of 1999, where he holds the rank of Associate Professor. He earned his BSME from The University of Michigan in 1990, his MSME from Wayne State University in 1996, and his Ph.D. from Wayne State University in 1998. His primary interest is to develop web-based internet animation software, which can be used to enhance the engineering student’s understanding of

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramesh Chawla

3651 Use of News Stories as Case Studies for Teaching Engineering Analysis Ramesh C. Chawla Department of Chemical Engineering, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059 Chawla@scs.howard.eduAbstractFreshman engineering students take a two-course sequence of Introduction to Engineeringcourses in their first two semesters. The first course is a general course common to all disciplinesand the second course is discipline-specific.In the first course, the students are introduced to various topics including career options invarious engineering fields, communication skills, ethics, intellectual property

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electr-Mech ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Powers; Mary Fran Desrochers

2148 Teaching Instrumentation for MET and EET using LabVIEW™ software with Vernier® and National Instruments® hardware Desrochers, M., Powers, M. Michigan Technological UniversityAbstract:Measurement, data collection and interfacing are a critical part of the everyday manufacturingand engineering world. It is important that today’s technology students are exposed tomeasurement and data acquisition. This paper summarizes two courses, one from theMechanical Engineering Technology curriculum and one from the Electrical EngineeringTechnology curriculum, where LabVIEW

Conference Session

Lab Experiments & Other Initiatives

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Sekmen

/industry partners come together with faculty members to design projects for the courseswe offer. A typical project for a course is shaped with collaboration of the faculty and thecorresponding industry partner for that course to fit it into the course contents and objectives.Industry partners actively participate in developing project, evaluating students’ progress,guiding students, communicating with students, and assessing students’ performances. This kindof active learning highly improves the student learning outcomes by providing additionalmotivation, professionalism, feedback from real industry partners, and strengthening team spiritamong our students. The DoCS has successfully completed three (3) such projects in Fall-2003and Fall-2004

Conference Session

How are We Faring with EC2000?

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daina Briedis

to know and are able to do by the time of graduation,the achievement of which indicates that the student is equipped to achieve the programeducational objectives1. The objectives guide the program in a broad sense, and outcomes relatemore directly to specifics about student learning in the program. These definitions will be used inthis paper.Observations on Institutions and ProgramsAs the typical visit cycle begins, the first major piece of evidence for accreditation offered by aprogram is its self-study. Over the past three years it has been observed that the preparation ofprogram self-studies has been spotty and inconsistent2. Some self-studies provide useful

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kip Nygren

revolutionary ways. Correspondingly, these technologies will alsoprofoundly change the nature of engineering education with the advent of computers that exceedthe processing capability of the human brain, high quality virtual reality, and molecularmanufacturing, among other possibilities. Equally unsettling for many is the notion thattechnological progress is advancing exponentially and, therefore, the pace of change isincreasing. Education is the best possible solution for successfully responding to acceleratingtechnological change and engineering education programs are particularly well suited to inspirethis response. Engineering programs must set the example for students and society by becoming“learning organizations” and by embracing a process of

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2024 ASEE PSW Conference

Authors

Huihui Qi, University of California, San Diego

● Workshop title: ○ Designing and Implementing Oral Exams: How to Make Them Work and How They Can Positively Impact Your CourseObjectiveThe objective of this workshop is to provide participants with evidence-based information andresources on how to implement oral exams in engineering courses to make a positive impact onstudent learning. Based on results from a three-year National Science Foundation(NSF)-funded research project, we will share the benefits and challenges of implementing oralexams in engineering classes, as well as lessons learned regarding the design andimplementation of oral exams. Our goal is to provide participants with tools and resources forconsideration when implementing oral exams in their

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph R.V. Flora

Session 2451 Asking Students to Design their Own Laboratory Experiments Joseph R.V. Flora University of South Carolina – ColumbiaAbstractAn undergraduate environmental engineering laboratory class was revised to include an openexperiment in addition to traditional experiments. Each student group identified a problem,designed an experiment to address the problem, performed the experiment, and documented theresults with a laboratory report. The topics selected were remediation of acid mine drainage,evaluating different absorbents for oil spills, evaluating water quality of campus

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Cliff J. Schexnayder; Avi Wiezel

2I. INTRODUCTIONToday the world is facing unprecedented challenges in almost every field. At the sametime new information transfer systems and technologies are bursting forth. Teaching is adomain that has developed and changed slowly across history. Today, however, teachingis facing new challenges and opportunities due to these new information transfer systems.Teaching per say is not the question. The question is transferring knowledge. This paperdescribes the use of World Wide Web (WWW) technology as a tool to improve thequality and efficiency of transferring knowledge.The teaching delivery method has a great impact on the amount of knowledge transferredfrom the teacher to the student. There is ample evidence that some delivery

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Peng Su; Zhengping Wu

. Under the condition of unknowingrouting policies of BGP neighbors and their uplink ASes, it is uneasy to understand to learn howto build a multi-homing environment and deal with congestion problems. Especially, somemistakenly announced prefixes on the Internet will continuously increase routing table andimpact police-based routing. Therefore, this paper tries to analyze the whole adjacencies ofautonomous systems running on the Internet, their relationships as well as the prefixesannounced from every AS, and store them into a database. As a result, the whole topologyamong ASes becomes clearer, and then it is more practical to learn the way of building newnetworks, refining them and making a trouble shooting. Keywords: BGP, autonomous systems