Collection

2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Edward F. Glynn; David W. Dinehart; Shawn P. Gross; Francis P. Hampton; Bridget M. Wadzuk

50-minute lecture periods CEE 3500 Fluid Mechanics Junior Fall 3 cr. 3 50-minute lecture periods CEE 3902 Civil Engineering Materials Junior Fall 2 cr. 1 50-minute lect. & 1 2-hr lab CEE 3911 Fluid Mechanics Laboratory Junior Spring 1 cr. 1 3-hr lab Proceedings of the 2007 Middle Atlantic Section Fall Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 2The current sequence begins in the spring semester of the freshman year and extends to the spring of thejunior year. Villanova has a common

Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Richard J.H. Gash; David Fedroff

on the first day of instruction, students are encouraged to explore how the use ofsupplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) can increase the amount of recycled content in theconstruction of a building. This theme continues as the students are required to develop and implement aplan to optimize the amount of granulated ground blast furnace slag, fly ash, and silica fume that can beincluded in a concrete mixture without adversely affecting characteristics such as strength, stiffness, andworkability. After gathering data through hands-on laboratory testing, the students prepare a reportrecommending an optimal SCM content. This instruction method can fit easily into the existing curriculum of most undergraduatereinforced concrete design

Collection

2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kalyan Mondal

believe that students become well prepared for the real world by learning the tradeoffsbetween different approaches to the design and mastering them in a hands-on laboratoryenvironment.Microcontroller Architecture and Assembly Language ProgrammingOur students take a course on microcontroller based design as the sixth-semester course afterthey have learnt about the architectures of Intel 80xxx series microprocessors and theirprogramming in assembly language. They also learned in their fifth-semester microprocessordesign course the disassembly, memory, and register viewing processes. So in this course weintroduce students with microcontrollers that get used in the design of many embedded systems.A hands-on laboratory is an integral part of this

Collection

2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Antonio F. Mondragon-Torres

system should have some of the following characteristics:ultra-low power, security, robust, reliable, accurate, cost-effective. Throughout theMicrocomputers course, the instructor emphasized and gave examples on how to use the availabletechnology to think in terms of energy awareness, making smart products, communicateinformation using secure techniques, and how to perform computations on demand rather thancontinuously in order to save power. Unfortunately on a single course, and with no previous knowledge of microprocessors andmicrocontroller systems, we were not able to fully teach and cover ultra-low power applications,other than couple laboratory exercises and lectures to show how the microcontroller can enter asleep state and just wake up

Collection

2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Richard J.H. Gash; David Fedroff

on the first day of instruction, students are encouraged to explore how the use ofsupplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) can increase the amount of recycled content in theconstruction of a building. This theme continues as the students are required to develop and implement aplan to optimize the amount of granulated ground blast furnace slag, fly ash, and silica fume that can beincluded in a concrete mixture without adversely affecting characteristics such as strength, stiffness, andworkability. After gathering data through hands-on laboratory testing, the students prepare a reportrecommending an optimal SCM content. This instruction method can fit easily into the existing curriculum of most undergraduatereinforced concrete design

Collection

2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Michael A. Jackson; Thomas Schulte; Nathaniel Kane; Elaine Lewis; Surendra Gupta; Santosh Kurinec

processes, electro-deposition, chemical mechanical planarization, I-line and deep UV wafer steppers, Perkin ElmerMEBES III electron beam mask writer, and device design, modeling and test laboratories. Theprogram remains the only ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology)accredited Bachelor of Science program granting a degree in Microelectronic Engineering. Theprogram, which includes 5 quarters of required co-op, currently has over 130 undergraduatestudents. The Co-op is a program commences after the second year, and students alternateschool with paid employment in the semiconductor industry. The laboratories at RIT include thelargest university clean room for IC fabrication and are partially supported by our industrialaffiliates

Collection

2015 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Elena V. Brewer; Anthony P. Dalessio

others.The financial barrier of building a laboratory for this discipline is prohibitive for mostinstitutions. It can range from hundreds of thousands of dollars for a modest teaching lab toseveral million dollars for a teaching cleanroom. The Electrical Engineering Technology (EET)department at Erie Community College was able to procure the grant funding to build such alaboratory. A Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and sputter coater were acquired to begininfusing nanotechnology into the EET curriculum. The next step involved building asemiconductor fabrication course utilizing industry-standard equipment for top-down fabricationof nanoscale devices and the characterization equipment required to measure them. Both stepswere funded though Carl

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Madina Mansurova; Darkhan Akhmed-Zaki; Anna Pyrkova

. video and demonstration of practical tasks implementation,University defines its own list of disciplines and elective followed by comments on the used technology, approachescourses according to the labour market requirements. The and methods; results analysis of practical tasksresults of the surveys influence also on the contents of elective implementation, possible errors analysis, providing knowledgecourses which are included in the Annually Catalogue of for practical implementation.elective courses. For acquired knowledge application by the student can be used: laboratory practice

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Richard J.H. Gash; David Fedroff

on the first day of instruction, students are encouraged to explore how the use ofsupplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) can increase the amount of recycled content in theconstruction of a building. This theme continues as the students are required to develop and implement aplan to optimize the amount of granulated ground blast furnace slag, fly ash, and silica fume that can beincluded in a concrete mixture without adversely affecting characteristics such as strength, stiffness, andworkability. After gathering data through hands-on laboratory testing, the students prepare a reportrecommending an optimal SCM content. This instruction method can fit easily into the existing curriculum of most undergraduatereinforced concrete design

Collection

2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

Jordan N. Foley; John W. Thompson; Meaghan M. Williams; W. Roy Penney; Edgar C. Clausen

the Bernoulli Balance to model fluid systems.Keywordsventuri meter, Bernoulli balances, laboratory experiments, fluid mechanicsIntroductionLaboratory practice, where students design and conduct experiments in support of classroomactivities, is an essential part of the educational process. It has been shown that a majority ofengineering students learn best when exposed to hands-on exercises and activities.1 A variety ofnovel techniques have been described in the literature for delivering lab content to the studentsincluding the use of the Kolb’s experiential learning cycle in conjunction with a virtuallaboratory,2 combining LEGO® Dacta building blocks with LabVIEW™ software3 and the useof hands-on demonstrations in place of full-scale lab

Conference Session

Energy Conversion, Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE) Technical Session 4

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Teodora Rutar Shuman, Seattle University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE), Energy Conversion

contentclarifications. Lab periods are used for online laboratory exercises and analysis, project check-ins, and periodic reflection. The labs contain pre-lab assignments and in-lab exercises. Pre-labshelp students prepare for in-the-lab brainstorming. The in-the-lab work includes watching avideo of the lab components, brainstorming the solutions, watching the lab video conducted bythe faculty, and doing a group analysis of the results. The learning outcomes intended for theonline labs are the same as in-person labs. Occasionally, a few minutes are allocated forreflection during lab periods aimed at increasing inclusion and a sense of belonging for allstudents.The one offering of the online labs is compared to two offerings of in-person labs, one precedingand

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division Technical Session - Best Diversity Paper

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karl Kienitz; Rubens Afonso, Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica; Wesley Oliveira, Institute De Aeronautica Ita; Flávio Luiz Cardoso-Ribeiro, Institute De Aeronautica Ita

three main curricular components, namely: a) Classroom activities (classes) – students are required to complete at least 144 credits, with each credit2 being equivalent to a 50-minutes lecture or supervised laboratory experiment. In the Institute’s Catalog [8], every year the CTP publishes a list of the eligible courses offered. As of 2022, 41 courses are listed, out of which: i. two are offered as optional undergraduate classes, one by the Electronics Engineering and the other by the Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Program; ii. 39 are offered as graduate courses, out of which 19 are from the Electronics and Computer Engineering Graduate Program, 19 from the

Collection

2023 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Randy Hurd; Dustin Grote

for Engineering Vibration ClassAbstract: Lab-centered instruction is a critical component of engineering pedagogy. The creationof effective lab-centered assignments is more difficult than creating theory-only assignments dueto additional requirements including space, equipment, software, and maintenance. Smartphones,and their embedded sensors, provide an alternative method for students to collect instructive datawithout the extensive requirements of traditional in-person laboratory spaces. Smartphoneapplications such as “Phyphox” enable the user to interact with smartphone sensors to view anddownload data. This approach is especially beneficial for adding lab assignments to classes withoutdedicated lab space, such as upper-division technical

Collection

2022 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Rajarajan Subramanian, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

universities such as Purdue University, University of Puerto Rico, University of South Florida,and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Some of them end up working for US Corps ofEngineers national laboratories (Acosta, 2004).Involvement in Undergraduate Research Experiences (URE) is related to considerably increasedpersistence and improved academic performance of students in science, technology, engineering, andmathematics (STEM) disciplines. UREs have shown to promote students’ sense of project ownership,self-effectiveness, and scientific identity. The advantages derived from URE have a very good impact onminority students and their improved STEM retention (Vater, 2019).Case Studies:Case study 1: University of Cincinnati Structural

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nathaniel J. O'Neal, Naval Postgraduate School; Matthew A. Porter, Naval Postgraduate School; Christopher Adrian Martino, United States Naval Academy

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

understanding of how these newer materials are affected by long-term use and exposure toadverse conditions. This not only increases general confidence in the ability of the devices to beimplemented into hazardous systems, but also allows for failure analysis to be iterated on infuture designs. Educating students on the importance of reliability testing can be difficult due to thetypical ways students are exposed to devices and systems in classrooms and laboratories.Students, especially at the undergraduate level, are often exposed to devices/systems just afterlearning about them. Laboratory exercises are often geared towards normal system performanceand rarely contain fault analysis. When fault analysis is examined in a classroom environment

Conference Session

Leadership Perspectives in Engineering Technology

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Richter, Eastern Washington University; William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

courses are taught by individuals with extensive academic knowledge butrather limited industrial experience. They are theoretical experts but often lack the practicalexposure that is also required to be a successful practicing engineer. Even the assignments,laboratory experiments, and projects reflect this academic slant to their engineering education.Traditionally this is how engineering classes are taught focusing on theoretical solutions tohypothetical problems. The real world engineering perspective is classically absent or minimal atbest from the coursework and curriculum. However, the importance of this real worldengineering experience cannot be overlooked.Two seasoned engineering professors in the Engineering & Design (E&D

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II: Practical Perspectives on Teaching and Assessment

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luke Niiler; David Beams

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

. We make the followingobservations from Fig. 1: • Organization was noticeably improved; this could probably be attributed to the fact that all assignments in this sample were laboratory reports were apparently created using standardized guides or templates. • Neither author noted much change in the quality of the content of laboratory reports. This is somewhat surprising, given the expectation that students at this level would be adapting to the idiom of their professional communities of discourse. A possible explanation is that wide discrepancies in participants’ writing samples were noted, and this range of responses was reflected in the overall rating. • Evaluations of mechanics showed problems

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yong Tao, Florida International University; Yiding Cao, Florida International University

traditional teaching laboratory courses with design, build,and test (DBT) activities. In particular, the following principles and methods are adapted: ahands-on experience integrated to abstract concepts discussed in lectures, a clear linkage toindustrial applications, and Design Build and Test (DBT) projects. Specifically, two DBT coursemodules are developed: the heat exchanger and scaled building air-conditioning system. Theproject attempts to improve the relevance of the stand-alone ME lab course to the lecture coursesthrough the execution of DBT activities. This adaptation enhances students’ learning of thermalscience subjects by providing students an enhanced, open-ended design problem experience inthe mid-stage of the curriculum rather than

Conference Session

Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Shooter, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

of a company’snew product is a competitor who will completely tear apart, scrutinize, analyze and test in orderto benchmark against their own offering. A Bucknell University Alumnus (class of 98) has donejust that for his company that has catapulted their product to $40 million in annual sales in justtwo years. This paper will describe a three week module that is incorporated into aninterdisciplinary Introduction to Engineering course. The module uses product dissection andreverse engineering as the guiding principle to establish improved design requirements and makesuggestions for better designs. Nine fifty-minute lectures and three two-hour laboratories areused to show how a simple, every-day product like a stapler has many opportunities

Conference Session

Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Shaw, Geneva College; Murat Tanyel, Geneva College

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

AC 2008-2386: LESSONS LEARNED FROM A MULTI-FACETED FRESHMANDESIGN PROJECT: SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT, ELECTRONICS,MECHANICAL CONSTRUCTION, SOFTWARE-HARDWARE INTERFACE ANDECONOMICSDavid Shaw, Geneva College David W. Shaw is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Geneva College. He received his B.S.M.E. in 1983 from Geneva College and his M.S. (1986) and Ph.D. (1988) from the Ohio State University. His research interests include measurement and modeling of thermal properties of materials and teaching the design process in undergraduate engineering classes. He has developed courses and laboratories in heat transfer, fluid mechanics, instrumentation, and freshman design. He has been active in sponsoring

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Willis, Southern Methodist University; Paul Krueger, Southern Methodist University; Alice Kendrick, Southern Methodist University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

. Page 14.1227.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 The influence of a research experiences for undergraduates program on students’ attitudes toward engineering researchAbstractThe results of the second year study of a National Science Foundation Research Experiences forUndergraduates (REU) Site are presented in this paper. The program recruited studentsnationwide to participate in hands-on experimental research in a mechanical engineeringdepartment for eight weeks in the summer of 2008. The program matched 10 students withfaculty and graduate student mentors in several mechanical engineering laboratories, includingexperimental fluid dynamics, micro-sensors, laser micromachining, and advancedmanufacturing

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

William P. Darby; Nancy Shields; H. Richard Grodsky

and have high expectations for students, role models from the targeted minority populationgroup, and parent involvement.12 Furthermore, successful program strategies seem to involve an integratedapproach to mathematics and science, peer support systems, encouraging students to work in teams, a focus onhigher level cognitive skills, practical applications of mathematics and science, enrichment activities thatemphasize the scientific process, “hands-on” laboratory activities, and a focus on real-life problems.12 Inaddition, there seems to be some agreement that remedial programs do not appear to be as successful asenrichment programs.9 A new partnership of the University of Missouri-St. Louis and Washington University, the

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert M. Edwards; Kwang Y. Lee

Session 1626 COMBINED RESEARCH AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT FOR POWER PLANT INTELLIGENT DISTRIBUTED CONTROL Kwang Y. Lee, Robert M. Edwards The Pennsylvania State UniversityABSTRACT An NSF combined research and curriculum development project was conducted from 1992 to 1996.New graduate courses on 1) Power Plant Dynamics and Control and 2) Power Plant Intelligent DistributedControl were developed and presented. The capstone course Power Plant Intelligent Distributed Controlcovered advanced subjects and laboratory experiments

Conference Session

Energy Efficiency and Capstone Projects

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University; Richard Chiou, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

as designing and testing of propulsion systems including design and development of pilot testing facility, mechanical instrumentation, and industrial applications of aircraft engines. Also, in the past 10 years she gained experience in teaching ME and ET courses in both quality control and quality assurance areas as well as in thermal-fluid, energy conversion and mechanical areas from various levels of instruction and addressed to a broad spectrum of students, from freshmen to seniors, from high school graduates to adult learners. She also has extended experience in curriculum development. Dr Husanu developed laboratory activities for Measurement and Instrumentation course as well as for quality control undergraduate

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Elliott Bryner, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Daniel Dannelley, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

laboratory courses and gas turbine engine component design.Dr. Daniel Dannelley, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Applied Instrumentation Course for Undergraduate Thermal- Fluid SciencesAbstractThis paper explains the development of an applied instrumentation course for Mechanical andAerospace Engineering students at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University that focuses on theuse of probes and sensors to make measurements in thermal-fluid systems and using themeasurements of fundamental properties to determine derived quantities common in engineeringtesting.The thermal-fluid sciences lecture and lab builds on the

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Akram Hossain, Purdue University - Calumet; Nirjhar Das Sharma, Purdue University - Calumet; Gautam Agarwal, Wynright Corporation

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

. He is a senior member of IEEE and he served in IEEE/Industry Application Society for 15 years at various capacities. He served as chair of Manufacturing Systems Development Applications Department (MSDAD) of IEEE/IAS. Currently, he is serving a two-year term as the chair of the Instrumentation of ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education). He authored over 29 refereed journal and conference publications. In 2009 he as PI received NSF-CCLI grant entitled A Mechatronics Curriculum and Packaging Automation Laboratory Facility. In 2010 he as Co-PI received NSF-ATE grant entitled Meeting Workforce Needs for Mechatronics Tech- nicians. From 2003 through 2006, he was involved with Argonne National Laboratory

Conference Session

Student Motivation and Faculty Development

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Huettel, Duke University; Michael R. Gustafson II, Duke University; Joseph C. Nadeau P.E., Duke University; David Schaad, Duke University; Michael M Barger, Duke University; Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #13662A Grand Challenge-based Framework for Contextual Learning in Engineer-ing: Impact on Student Outcomes and MotivationDr. Lisa Huettel, Duke University Dr. Lisa G. Huettel is a professor of the practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineer- ing at Duke University where she also serves as associate chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies for the department. She received a B.S. in Engineering Science from Harvard University and earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Duke University. Her research interests are focused on engineering education, curriculum and laboratory

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hamza Kadir, Purdue University Calumet (College of Technology) Alumni; Md Jubair Hossain, Purdue University Calumet (College of Technology); Nirjhar Das Sharma, Purdue University Calumet; Suraiya Jannat Khan, Purdue University Calumet; Akram Hossain, Purdue University Calumet (College of Technology)

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

Paper ID #11218PROGRAMMING A SIX AXIS MOTOMAN HP3C ROBOT FOR INDUS-TRIAL SORTING APPLICATIONMr. Hamza Kadir, Purdue University Calumet (College of Technology) Alumni Hamza Kadir, M.Sc., currently works as a Controls Engineer in the Packaging Machinery OEM indus- try. He completed his Masters from Purdue University Calumet, majoring in Mechatronics Engineering Technology. He conducted his M.Sc. Directed Project at the Nick and Nancy Wilson Mechatronics En- gineering Technology Laboratory. This project involves integration of modern automation tools for an intelligent part sorting system. He has previously worked with use of

Conference Session

Graphics and Visualization

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jon Duff, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

centers or laboratories wereinterviewed using a standard survey instrument. These centers represented science, medicine,engineering, art, and social science disciplines. Of particular interest were original andcontinuing funding models, the organizational structure of each facility, the profiles ofparticipating faculty, and the relationship of the centers’ research activities with undergraduateand graduate academic programs. This paper develops three models based on the sampledcenters, describes the topology of visualization activities, and draws preliminary conclusionsfrom the survey data.Introduction Data visualization has become an important tool in technical education and practice aswitnessed in technology, the sciences, medicine

Conference Session

Undergraduate Aerospace Design – General Topics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Biezad, California Polytechnic State University; Joon Kim, Lockheed Aircraft Co

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

CurriculumAbstractThe Aerospace Engineering Department at Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, is inthe later phase of a dynamic experiment to revitalize its “hands on” approach toundergraduate engineering education and bring it better in line with evolving accreditationstandards. Part of this plan is to introduce commercially available aircraft manufacturing andfabrication “kits” into its laboratory curriculum. This has been largely accomplished, and thechallenges of the initial phases of this task were presented in a previous publication. Thispaper presents how the lessons learned and resulting innovative learning experiences arebeing integrated throughout the aerospace curriculum with a critical eye towards meetingaccreditation standards. These