Conference Session

Raising the Bar and Body of Knowledge

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Nelson; Osama Abudayyeh; Edmund Tsang; Molly Williams

—Small—Big Picture. This part of the curriculum is designed to provide the students with abroad overview of civil engineering systems, then to address design of individual components,and then move back to the big picture. This will be accomplished through the codes andspecifications course, the usual design courses, and capstone design. In the codes andspecifications course, students learn about the various design codes applicable to civilengineering projects—IBC, AREA, and AASHTO to name a few—and the application of thesecode to global design requirements. The intent is not to delve into the requirements for designbut rather study the requirements for systems. For example, students would study the globalrequirements for an office building

Conference Session

Research Methodologies – Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Sajadi, Virginia Tech; Nadia N. Kellam, Arizona State University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

am delivering this We’re really glad you’re here. news that, “We’re gonna have to find you a Just hold tight. Here’s some new job. We don’t know what it’s gonna be. training, we have to figure out Um, sorry, your product is going way.” where we’re going.” (Manager 2)The role is related to her capstone the option of just being 100% focused on his The manager talks about a late- career Ph.D. hire project, so she feels she has PhD [work] was no longer an option, it’s that is focused on a technical niche that they relevant experience to an exciting part because I’m excited, I’m are very passionate about. I

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Stephanie M. Gillespie, University of New Haven

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

, helping students to make connections, and ultimatelyfinding ways to create value through engineering. Multiple attempts at infusing EM have beenexplored and developed throughout recent years, including into first year engineering programs,capstone courses, elective courses, and other core technical courses. However, much of theshared faculty-examples of the new EM-infused content involves adding or revising an existingterm project, or revision of an entire course completely. These large time-investments in EM canbe effective, but faculty may be hesitant to alter their courses so substantially. By identifyingsingle-class opportunities to integrate pedagogically-sound practices that meet both EM andABET outcomes, faculty can excite their students

Conference Session

Remote Physical Laboratories: Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

John M. Sullivan Jr, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Ahmet Can Sabuncu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Valerie B. Smedile Rifkin, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kimberly Lechasseur, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Caitlin A. Keller, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

-AnywhereLaboratories – where students choose when they will perform their physical hardwareexperiments and where they wish to conduct these experiments. For this study students canperform all the physical experiments within their home environment using a variety of locallyavailable resources coupled with a box of sensors and controllers as part of an otherwise virtualor online course. Our idea of an online experimentation course was proposed in 2017. The initialexploration was the focus of a senior capstone project at the institution, where the idea andpotential implementations were tested.[6] The students performed a trade-space analysis ofavailable sensors, controllers and microcontrollers and selected a set that was roughly equivalentto the cost of

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christina L. Carmen, University of Alabama, Huntsville; Deborah Lynn Fraley, Women in Defense, TN Valley Chapter

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Women in Engineering

al., “Enriching K-12 Science and Mathematics Education Using LEGOs.” Advances in Engineering Education, Vol. 3, No. 2, Summer 2012.11. Haury, D.L. and Rillero, P. “Perspectives of Hands-On Science Teaching.” ERIC Clearinghouse for Science, Mathematics and Environmental Education, Columbus, OH, March 1994.12. Garrity, C., "Does the Use of Hands-On Learning, with Manipulatives, Improve the Test Scores of Secondary Education Geometry Students?" 1998.13. NASA Systems Engineering Handbook, SP-2007-6105, http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20080008301.pdf14. Carmen, C., “Integration of a NASA ESMD Faculty Fellowship Project within an Undergraduate Engineering Capstone Design Class,” 62nd

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division (SYS) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mengyu Li, University of Florida; John Alexander Mendoza-Garcia, University of Florida; Andrea Goncher, University of Florida

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Systems Engineering Division (SYS)

higher impact in their capstone design projects, and they might be better prepared to establishmore “useful” [19] interactions with their stakeholders.4.1 LimitationsThe findings from this study are limited by the number of participants in our sample and that is whygeneralizations cannot be made at this time. However, it is our intention to continue our study with a largergroup of participants to gain more insights. Another limitation is that students were working in a fictionalscenario given in an academic setting in this study. Engaging with stakeholders in a real-world environmentcan affect participants’ perceptions of who are the stakeholders and how to engage various stakeholders.Stakeholder identification and engagement from the student’s

Collection

2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Julie Ford; Robinson Ford; Dominic Gallegos; Casper Huang

, test, and refine gravity-powered cars. With a budget of $500 per team (thanks tofundraising efforts initiated by the 6th grader), each of the four teams had freedom to design andbuild a unique car. The program successfully culminated in a race on the New Mexico Tech campusgolf course in April. Building on last year’s success, this year’s program has extended to include 15middle school students, representing three area schools. The goals for the Soapbox Derby Programare to teach middle school students the engineering design process through a hands-on project. Theprogram provides the college student coaches with the opportunity to serve as mentors for the nextgeneration of engineers. IntroductionAs

Conference Session

Preparing Engineering Students for International Practice

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Korth, Brigham Young University; Owen Carlson, Brigham Young University; Mason Webster, Brigham Young University; C. Greg Jensen, Brigham Young University

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International

. Table 1: Proposed engineering/language program layout. Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Traditional Traditional Engineering/General Completed at Return to U.S. language and language and ed. courses taught via partner institution. university. cultural courses. cultural courses. video conference by a Classes and International foreign faculty member project. capstone project. from a partner institutionYears 1 and 2: Basic Language ClassesThe first two years of the

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

: the mission, the nature, extent, and relevant benchmarks of this collaborative effort (i.e., effort to close the gap between academia & its industrialpartners). Training, capstone courses, consulting by faculty and joint research projects, aimed atserving the interest of both parties (academia & the industrial partners) are also addressed. Atthis critical juncture, if engineering faculty and program planners, would slant curricula andprograms more in the direction of “industrial relevance” and the “practice”, it would help a greatdeal in equipping engineering graduates with the “tools of the trade” thus lessening the burdenon the industries.In this endeavor, the author draws on his own experience as a faculty member in the Arab

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

John, Jr. Lipscomb

Page 4.155.1represent other MET programs that are currently scrambling to get on the Web.The curricula of the sample were analyzed and twenty topic areas were identified as follows:Safety, Ethics, Sr. Project (Capstone), Engineering Economics, H.V.A.C., Thermodynamics(and heat transfer), Electronics (and instrumentation), Fluid Mechanics, Strength of Materials,Statics, Dynamics, Kinematics, Machine Design, Materials, CNC programing, Quality Control,Manufacturing (machining and manufacturing processes), Solid Modeling, CADD, andGraphics (manual). Within each curriculum, the number of hours devoted to each of thesetopics were counted and an average per program was calculated. This process yielded thepopularity of each topic.To define the breadth

Conference Session

Astronautics and Space Technology

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Joslyn

Session 2521 Student Design, Development, and Operation of Sounding Rockets at the United States Air Force Academy Thomas B. Joslyn Kenneth E. Siegenthaler Department of Astronautics United States Air Force AcademyAbstractThe FalconLAUNCH program is a unique, dynamic rocket launch vehicle researchprogram that serves as a capstone course for Astronautical Engineering majors at theUnited States Air Force Academy. The goal of the program is to give students theopportunity to “Learn Space by Doing Space.” The program results in a rocket

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Teodora Rutar; Steven Beyerlein; Phillip Thompson; Lawrence McKenzie; Denny Davis; Kenneth Gentili; Patricia Daniels; Michael Trevisan

where they show offtheir capstone design projects. Furthermore, they are asked to make a journal entry analyzingtheir individual performance with the rubric suggested by Figure 3 and outlining a personal planof action for elevating their skills to the next level. They are also asked to speculate whyengineering students typically score much lower on the teamwork and communication sectionsthan the design process sections and are asked to suggest actions that could be taken across thecurriculum to improve performance in these areas.At Seattle University some freshman classes take the instrument as an ice-breaker in thebeginning engineering course. This experience initiates fellowship among their peers and helpsstudents see the big picture of what

Collection

2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Charles McIntyre; Gary Smith

AnalysisAfter consulting with the Vice President of Academic Affairs, representatives from InformationalTechnology Services (ITS), and various Department Heads, it was decided that the existingclassroom designated as CIE (Civil and Industrial Engineering) 102 should be the spacededicated to the CCL. At that time CIE 102 was designated as a university classroom whichcould be used for any class from any department or college. The room consisted ofpermanently floor-mounted tables with fixed chairs. Seating capacity was listed at 60. Ourconceptual plan called for a complete remodel of the entire room. This renovation would includenew reconfigurable furniture, instructional technologies (computer, projection system, Internetaccess, document camera, etc

Conference Session

New Learning Paradigms I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Oakes, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

, such as the electrical engineering capstone course where all students participatein a service-learning assistive technology project. They have also integrated service-learning into engineering science courses with project work that varies in size and scopeas a function of the curricular constraints for the respective courses. This approach, at acollege level engages community partners with the support structure at the college leveland reduces the overhead that many faculty encounter starting their own projects.The SLICE project objectives are stated as: ≠ Integrate service-learning into the engineering curriculum at UML so that everystudent is exposed to service-learning in every semester of their experience in everydepartment at UML

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Efforts in Upper-level Courses

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy R McJunkin, Idaho National Laboratory; Craig G Rieger, Idaho National Laboratory; Aunshul Rege, Temple University; Saroj K Biswas, Temple University; Michael Haney, University of Idaho; Michael John Santora, University of Idaho; Brian K. Johnson, University of Idaho, Moscow; Ronald Laurids Boring; D. Subbaram Naidu P.E., University of Minnesota Duluth; John F. Gardner, Boise State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

 instructors plan to attempt to augment the participation from the disciplines outside ECE by incorporating short modules in core classes of the subject areas of human factors, cybersecurity, and other relevant disciplines to introduce the concept or ResCS and encourage participation in the ResCS course. To provide more in depth exploration and completeness of projects the ResCS course will have an optional second semester structured as an undergraduate capstone or graduate thesis support to encourage completion of concepts into implemented designs. The team seeks to disseminate the successes of the course and the Grid Game to other universities and continue to encourage related disciplines at universities to participate in this interdisciplinary

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 4

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tobias Rossmann, Lafayette College; Martin Johnson

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

, and measured risk [3]. Faculty have incorporated the entrepreneurial mindset[4], head/heart alignment and passion finding, creativity, and an innovators identity [5] into variouselements of experiential and project based courses. Capstone design instructors often teach tenetsof entrepreneurship to their design teams to build “soft skills” and develop “well-rounded”engineers [6]. These activities are both necessary for ABET accreditation as well as desired by theengineering workforce.In addition, employers seek more creative, entrepreneurial engineering graduates. Increasingly,they believe that gaining knowledge beyond traditional engineering curriculum is more importantthan discipline knowledge [7]. In addition, learning creativity and

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce Maxim, University of Michigan - Dearborn; Thomas Limbaugh, University of Michigan - Dearborn; Jeffrey Yackley, University of Michigan - Dearborn

activities and team projectswith in-person students. The activities created for this project are grounded in the researchliterature on student engagement [1].Active LearningEngineering educators regard experiential learning as the best way to train the next generation ofengineers [4]. Towards this end, it is reasonable to believe that the interaction practiced in activelearning can improve software engineering education at the undergraduate level and betterprepare students for the experiential learning that comes with their capstone projects [3].Active learning is “embodied in a learning environment where the teachers and students areactively engaged with the content through discussions, problem-solving, critical thinking, debateand a host of other

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory Kulczycki, Virginia Tech; Steven Atkinson, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Division

of IT or the technical side. All students taking thecourse are required to have a basic introduction to Java. The course is completely online, andstudent-teacher interaction comes primarily from Q&A discussion boards (Piazza) and one liveQ&A session per week (WebEx). The course revolves around a semester-long project in whichstudents develop a mini e-commerce web application complete with the design andimplementation of the web interface, the database, and the application business logic.In this paper, we talk about how the course evolved when the developer joined the educator toteach the course. We focus on six important facets of the experience: (1) the initial conditionsthat allowed the collaboration to be successful, (2) the

Collection

2018 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Yasser Salem, Cal Poly Pomona; Felipe J. Perez, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Building using Fiber Composite Jacketing Yasser S. Salem1 and Felipe J. Perez2 1 Professor, Civil Engineering Department, Cal Poly Pomona 2 Associate Professor, Civil Engineering Department, Cal Poly PomonaAbstractAs a senior capstone project, students worked on the vulnerability assessment and seismic retrofitof a six-story non-ductile reinforced concrete dual system building comprised of perimeter non-ductile reinforced concrete moment frames and non-ductile core shear walls. Students were giventhe as-built plans and specification of an existing building in Southern California that is consideredto be at risk, from an earthquake resistant standpoint. Students performed

Conference Session

IE Program Design II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Furterer, East Carolina University; Sandra Furterer, University of Central Florida; Abeer Sharawi, University of Central Florida; Luis Rabelo, University of Central Florida; Lesia Crumpton-Young, University of Central Florida; Kent Williams, University of Central Florida; H. Gregg St. John, EMG Consulting

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

engineering, including six sigma, benchmarking • Enterprise Resource Management, Customer Relationship Management • Statistical Methods for Industrial Engineering • Ergonomics, Human Integrated Systems / Usability, Human Computer Interface • Object Oriented Simulation • Performance Management • Financial Engineering • Leadership, Team Building & Facilitation, Organizational Behavior • Operations Research • Project Management • Service Enterprise • Knowledge Management • Design for Six Sigma, New Product DevelopmentC) Experiential Learning Capstone (6 hours)The senior design experience will be a two-semester, hands-on, project-based experienced withindustry that provides the students with an

Conference Session

Issues of Cooperative Education I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

ROBERT GRAY, Penn State Erie

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

learning and the opportunities that may be available for additional career development after graduation. 6. Organize and effectively manage an industrially-based project a) Students, in a team environment, demonstrate that their system design meets specification requirements. b) Students demonstrate that their system was completed within budgetary constraints. c) Students submit a final written report and oral presentation that detail overall requirements, design, implementation, and results for their capstone design project. Page 13.1135.4On-Campus and Off-Campus Learning TopicsThe course

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aldo A. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; Bonnie H. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; Robert S. Kadel, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

gratefully acknowledge the support of the National Science Foundation awardnumber 1626362. Dr. Abby Ilumoka is the program manager. The authors offer their sincerethanks to all of the students that have participated in the Vertically-Integrated Projects team onHands-On Learning at Georgia Tech..References:[1] N.G. Holmes and C.E. Wieman, “Introductory physics labs: We can do better,” PhysicsToday, Vol. 71, No. 1, 38 (2018); doi: 10.1063/PT.3.3816[2] M. Koretsky, C. Kelly, and E. Gummer, “Student Perceptions of Learning in the Laboratory:Comparison of Industrially Situated Virtual Laboratories to Capstone Physical Laboratories,Journal of Engineering Education, Vol 100, No. 3, pp 540-573, 2011.[3] A. Hofstein and V.N. Lunetta, V.N., "The Laboratory in

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session III: Collaboration

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diane L Peters PE, Kettering University; Anne M Lucietto, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

with them; often,these collaborations are each run separately and therefore can be considered to be separatecollaborative efforts. Such collaborations often focus on providing projects for students, for theircapstone design course or a similar class. One example of this is Olin College. Another model iswhen a university has a strong experiential learning program that features co-op or internshipexperiences, such as the co-op program at Kettering University, Drexel University, or theUniversity of Cincinnati. Collaborations may also focus on the professional development offaculty members, as at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.Olin College (www.olin.edu)As in all engineering programs, Olin College students perform a capstone project. In the

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Strategies Beyond the Classroom

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reneta Davina Lansiquot, New York City College of Technology; Hong Li, New York City College of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

was the only girl in class among guys but over theyears I’ve worked past this.” Another student noted, “Professors speeding along courseworkbecause majority of the students which [sic] are dominantly males who already work in this field,already know this. Not giving enough time or breaking it down clear enough for you to actuallylearn what is being taught. It’s just being shown.” Yet another female student pointed to “Timemanagement since I am a housewife” as a major challenge. 90 80 70 60 50 Male 40 Female 30 20 10 0 Individual in- Team projects capstone project other class practiceFigure 3

Conference Session

Experiences of Underrepresented Students in Engineering

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Manuel Jimenez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Luisa Guillemard, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Sonia M. Bartolomei-Suarez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Oscar Marcelo Suarez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Aidsa I. Santiago-Roman, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Nayda G. Santiago, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Carla López del Puerto, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Pedro O. Quintero, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Nelson Cardona-Martínez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

-efficacy beliefs and outcome expectations [1].The belonging component includes a set of activities to develop professional identity and senseof belonging. Activities such as establishing learning communities through project-orientedengineering teams, aim at developing freshmen and sophomores’ interactions with seniorstudents via capstone and design-oriented courses. These interactions are structured around twoone-credit courses, Introduction to Engineering (INGE-3001) and Introduction to LearningCommunities (INGE-3002).In the formative component, interventions in the form of talks and soft-skill workshops are aimedat training students using well-known high-impact educational practices [21]. Trainings basedon the Affinity Research Group (ARG) model

Conference Session

Innovations for the Senior Year of the ME Curriculum

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory Davis, Kettering University; Craig Hoff, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

of real engineering systems. Further, students mustbe exposed to professional standards and organizations, governmental regulations, teamdynamics, and societal concerns. In short, students must be afforded the opportunity to practiceengineering, learning how to apply the underlying scientific principles to the design of thesesystems. Working on applied research projects can meet these challenges.The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) annually conducts a series of collegiate designcompetitions where students from Universities throughout the world compete. Many schoolsintegrate these competitions into the capstone design course. Capstone projects are valuable inthis regard, but taking these projects one step further to the point of doing

Conference Session

Best Practices in Existing College-Industry Partnerships

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Baukal, John Zink Institute; Joseph Colannino, John Zink Co. LLC; Wes Bussman, John Zink Institute; Geoffrey Price, University of Tulsa

Tagged Divisions

College-Industry Partnerships

Industry sponsors senior design projects to produce some type of product ofinterest to them while simultaneously educating students by allowing them to apply theirknowledge and skills to an actual problem.16 Some universities have used industry tohelp teach senior design courses as part of capstone projects;18 Lehigh University refersto these adjuncts as “Professors of Practice.”19 Industry can sponsor research projectswith faculty that also include student workers. Industry can also provide facilities forstudents to conduct research if these are not available at the university. Industry canprovide formal mentors for university students and participate in supervisory thesiscommittees for graduate students,11 including sponsoring industrial theses

Conference Session

Embedded Systems and Mobile Computing

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Rafiq Muqri, DeVry University, Pomona; Brian Joseph Lane

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

computer engineering capstone senior project. As such this paper concerns problem solvedand lessons learned while conducting the design and testing; the paper also describes the firsthand experiences of the student who integrated and developed the Mac Bluetooth interface. Oneof the downsides of typical mobile robots is that they can’t travel safely over rough unknownterrain. The key feature of this ATSV is that it can travel over uneven and vegetated groundwhile remotely-controlled.Autonomous Terrain Sensing Vehicle has three different settings that a user can selectphysically from the keypad on the HC12 board or from a GUI that has been designed tocommunicate via Bluetooth. The vehicle has sonar that detects if there is an object ten inchesfrom

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Constans, Rowan University; Mariaeugenia Salas Acosta; Jennifer Kadlowec, Rowan University; Bonnie L. Angelone, Rowan University, Department of Psychology

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

of the “hardware” for the HPT (air engine,planetary gearset, tachometer, etc.) in earlier semesters. The control system is the “capstone” forthe five-semester design project, which has been described in an earlier publication [1]. Thispaper describes the development of the “faculty prototype” of the control system, and givespreliminary results of implementing the control system design project in the classroom.IntroductionToyota has been recognized for developingcutting-edge hybrid systems. Specifically, theyhave developed and implemented the ToyotaHybrid System (THS) which combines agasoline engine and an electric motor, with theadvantage of not requiring external charging.According to the Toyota [2] the THS II systemachieves nearly twice

Conference Session

ME Laboratories and Undergraduate Research

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brock Philip Ring, University of Central Oklahoma; Evan C. Lemley, University of Central Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

 fields.In this paper we describe our efforts at the University of _________ to design and implement a lowcost PIV system. The design has progressed iteratively: first as a summer project for incoming freshmenas a part of an extant National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Talent Expansion Program (STEP)Grant, then as a part of undergraduate research (UGR) as part of several local UGR student grants,then for senior capstone design projects aimed at design of systems to make quality measurements tosupport our overall research goals. Details of design, costs, strengths, and challenges are presented. Wenow seek to engage students with PIV, our initial ideas regarding this direction are discussed.IntroductionExperimental fluid dynamics is a field that is