Conference Session

IE Curriculum Design

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harvey Svec, South Dakota State University; Harriet Svec, South Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

AC 2007-154: PROJECT REJUVENATION: A TIME-TESTED 1ST YEARMACHINE TOOL PROJECTHarvey Svec, South Dakota State UniversityHarriet Svec, South Dakota State University Dr. Harriet Svec has a background in Curriculum and Instruction and assisted with the curriculum rejuvenation of the project. Page 12.1204.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Project Rejuvenation: A time tested 1st year machine tool projectAbstractAn engineering prerequisite course for Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineers has stood thetest of time as it has changed with technology. The course laboratory project was originallydesigned

Conference Session

Micro-Technology and Nanotechnology

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maher E. Rizkalla, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Mangilal Agarwal, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Sudhir Shrestha, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis; Hazim A El-Mounayri, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Kody Varahramyan, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Paper ID #5817Impacts of New Modes of Instructions for Nanotechnology Education withinEngineering and Science ProgramsDr. Maher E. Rizkalla, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis Maher Rizkalla received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 1985. From January 1985 to September 1986, he was employed as a Research Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, and an Assistant Professor at Purdue University Calumet until September 1986. Then, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at IUPUI where he is now Professor and Associate

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shiwen Mao, Auburn University; Yingsong Huang, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University; Yihan Li, Auburn University; Prathima Agrawal, Auburn University; Jitendra K Tugnait, Auburn University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

packet switching. She is a member of Tau Beta Pi.Prof. Prathima Agrawal, Auburn University Dr. Prathima Agrawal is the Sam Ginn Distinguished professor of Electrical Engineering and the direc- tor of the Wireless Engineering Research and Education Center at Auburn University. Before arriving at Auburn University in 2003, from 1978 to 1998, she worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories at Murray Hill, NJ in various capacities. There she created and became the head of the new Networked Computing Research Department. From 1998 to 2003, she was assistant vice president of the Internet Architecture Research Laboratory and executive director of the Networking research department at Bellcore (Telcordia), at Mor- ristown, NJ

Conference Session

Sustainability and Hands-on Engineering Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Ross Pfluger P.E., U.S. Military Academy; Philip J. Dacunto, Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, United States Military Academy; Michael Hendricks, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

that the dispersion projectincreased their knowledge of Gaussian dispersion modeling for air pollutants. Students alsoreported that this project increased their familiarity with ArcGIS and that the project is a usefulinterdisciplinary coupling of environmental engineering and GIS. Page 24.52.2(1) Introduction Many introductory air pollution courses incorporate atmospheric dispersion into theircurriculum. One common approach for determining downwind pollutant concentrations is theGaussian dispersion model.4 Due to time constraints and conflicting project requirements, manycourses do not incorporate a laboratory or project concerning

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ravi P. Ramachandran, Rowan University; Robi Polikar, Rowan University; Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; Robert M Nickel, Bucknell University; Richard J. Kozick, Bucknell University; Sachin Shetty, Tennessee State University; Ying Tang, Rowan University; Steven H Chin, Rowan University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

, international journal articles, book chapters in research and pedagogical techniques. He is the director of the Cyber Defense and Security Visualization Laboratory. Page 23.327.1Dr. Ying Tang, Rowan University Dr. Ying Tang received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Northeastern University in P. R. China in 1996 and 1998, respectively. She also earned a Ph.D. degree from the New Jersey Institute of Technology in c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Paper ID #6010 2001. She is currently

Conference Session

Statics & Strength of Materials - A nice couple

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jamie Douglas, University of Wisconsin Colleges; Mark H Holdhusen, University of Wisconsin, Marathon County

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

using readilyavailable materials. The labs were developed using materials that had properties whichmimicked the behavior of traditional materials like steel or aluminum, but exhibited thosebehaviors at much lower applied loads and stresses. Most labs allowed for actual data to betaken and analyzed while a few labs qualitatively demonstrated the concept. These labs wereinitially integrated into an existing Mechanics of Materials course offered via both audiographicsand will be offered in conjunction with an online course in a coming semester. An assessmentwas given to determine how comfortable students were with laboratory concepts before and afterthe course. In addition, feedback was solicited after each lab to get feedback from students

Conference Session

Student Enrollment, Attendance, Retention, and Graduation in Engineering Technology Programs

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald C. Richter, Eastern Washington University; Jason K Durfee, Eastern Washington University; Doris M Munson, Eastern Washington University; Terence Geyer, Eastern Washington University; William R Loendorf, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

instruction.TECH208 Survey of Electricity - is a traditional first lecture/lab course in electronics andelectrical circuit analysis. The attendance is taken with a daily sign-in sheet. The course has atwo-hour weekly laboratory.TECH 393 Technology in World Civilization - is a traditional lecture-nonmathematical course.Attendance is taken through the use of a daily roll call. This is necessitated because the class istaught in one location and broadcast by simultaneous interactive television to three additionalremote locations. This class is structured as four hours of lecture per week. Page 23.43.4TECH 320 Non-Metallics - is a lecture/laboratory mode of

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; Joseph Morgan

tool to enable theEET/TET Programs at Texas A&M University to investigate methods for offeringdistance education laboratories. To accomplish this, a course (Computer-basedInstrumentation and Control) was chosen as a testbed for developing remote laboratories.This course offered unique challenges requiring innovative solutions. In this course,students learn the basics of computer-based instrumentation including analog and digitaldata acquisition, software-based signal conditioning, and industry standardinstrumentation platforms. A paper discussing the use of the mobile platform technologyto support distance education laboratories has recently been submitted to the InternationalJournal of Engineering Education. Through this course

Conference Session

Raising the Bar and Body of Knowledge

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Nelson; Osama Abudayyeh; Edmund Tsang; Molly Williams

problems they experience daily,and introduces tools for engineering computation. These tools include spreadsheets andMathCAD. The curriculum does not include a computer science programming course becausethe concepts of solution logic, including looping and decision-making, can be taught effectivelyin MathCAD, and it is a tool that can be used effectively in all subsequent engineering courses.The second part of the freshman engineering sequence is Civil Engineering Measurement. Thiscourse continues the introduction to civil engineering through laboratory measurement ofphenomena associated with the different areas of civil engineering. To the greatest extentpossible, the laboratory exercises will deal physically with phenomena addressed in later

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Kelley; Mark Talbot; Jeffrey Starke; Michael Butkus

• Laboratory testing 2004 • Finalize Design • Final plans and • Analyze prototype with • Use prototype reactor specifications challenge water in class laboratory • TBD Spring 2004 • New Design Project Figure 3 The Project Organization and MilestonesEV490This is the capstone engineering course in the curriculum for the students. Students havecompleted pre-requisite courses, as shown in Figure 1, that serve to increase

Conference Session

Active and Project-based Learning

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joakim Sigurd Wren, Linköping University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

motivation and learning can be achieved by making the students moreactive and in charge of their learning, which for example can be stimulated by involvement in“hands-on” activities like experiments and laboratory work 2. A project focusing on humanbody thermodynamics was developed as a complement to the traditional content of classicalengineering thermodynamics. The underlying idea was to exploit the general interest inhealth, food, fare and workout shared by many students, thus making the subject moreinteresting while at the same time extending the course to a wider arena. The project was usedin engineering thermodynamics courses for 4 different engineering programs at LinköpingUniversity, Sweden.During the project, the students worked in groups

Conference Session

Assessment & Continuous Improvement in ET: Part II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Danley, Drexel University; Vladimir Genis, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

AC 2010-116: CONTINUOUS QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROCESS FORAPPLIED ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM AT DREXELUNIVERSITYWilliam Danley, Drexel University William Danley, Drexel University Dr. William Danley, Clinical Assistant Professor Applied Engineering Technology in the Goodwin College, Drexel University, taught and developed undergraduates courses in thermodynamics, thermal system design, fluid mechanics, thermal, pneumatics and hydraulics laboratories, materials engineering, analytical chemistry and engineering economics. Prior to returning to academia, he worked in industry for a number of Fortune 500 companies and was granted four patents relating to spectrometers and electrochemical

Conference Session

Curriculum & Student Enrollment II

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason K. Durfee P.E., Eastern Washington University; William R. Loendorf, Eastern Washington University; Doris M. Munson, Eastern Washington University; Donald C. Richter, Eastern Washington University; Terence Geyer, Eastern Washington University; Martin William Weiser, Eastern Washington University; A. Hossain, Eastern Washington University; Hani Serhal Saad, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

/laboratory mode of instruction. Attendance is takenthrough the use of a daily sign-in sheet. This class is structured as two hours of lecture and sevenhours of lab per week.TECH 341 Strength of Materials - is a lecture and mathematically intense course. Attendance istaken daily by distributing a roll to the students requiring their signature to be marked as present.METC 102 Introduction to Engineering Graphics - serves as a pre-college skills course forstudents that come to the department without any previous high school or employmentexperience in technical drawings. The class is a lecture format. This class is unique in the studyin that the grading is Pass/Fail. Attendance is taken daily by distributing a roll to the studentsrequiring their

Conference Session

Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lauren D. Thomas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

demonstratedthe importance of research experiences for the preparation of eventual graduate students. At thepre-graduate level, themes related to network access and the role of the institution in facilitatingintellectual experiences were important for the study participants. At the graduate level, identity-trajectory reiterated the need for careful design of the research laboratory, and the importance ofnetworks for graduate student success.Overview of literatureIdentity-trajectory, introduced by McAlpine 8,10 is a theoretical framework used to understand theprofessional development of graduate students and early career academics through threestrands11: network, intellectual and institution. Network focuses on the relationships andresponsibilities that

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Curriculum Exchange

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Tubesing, University of St. Thomas

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Paper ID #9355LEDs & Lamps – A Friendly Affordable Gateway to Electrical Exploration(Curriculum Exchange)Mr. Andrew Tubesing, University of St. Thomas Andrew Tubesing is Laboratory Manager for the Electrical Engineering program at University of St Thomas in St. Paul, MN. He also serves on the faculty of the UST Center for Pre-Collegiate Engineering Education. Andrew has taught university courses in circuits, electronics, and engineering design for more than a decade. Prior to his academic career, Andrew spent 12 years as an engineer in the broadcast and telecommunications fields. Andrew holds a BA from St. Olaf College

Conference Session

Astronautics and Space Technology

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Melton; Michael Micci; Deborah Levin; Charles Croskey; David Spencer; Sven Bilen

development. LionSat is a multi-disciplinary space systems project involving several departments ofThe Pennsylvania State University, including the electrical, aerospace, and mechanicalengineering departments. The project also includes students from the College of Science and the Page 10.1166.1College of Education. The Communications and Space Sciences Laboratory (CSSL), located oncampus, is serving as the coordination center for the project. The research conducted by the Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society from

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Farrell

students to multidisciplinaryengineering principles through application to drug delivery systems. This project modifiesmeasurement techniques and laboratory experiments widely used in the pharmaceutical sciences,to teach engineering principles. Material from the seven modules is being integrated verticallyinto the curriculum beginning with the Freshman Clinic, then fundamental Engineering courses,followed by Junior-Senior Clinic research projects, and finally advanced level electives onpharmaceutical topics. At the freshman level, students are engaged in the scientific discoveryprocess with exciting hands-on analysis of commercial drug delivery systems. In more advancedcourses, students design and formulate drug delivery systems and investigate

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

) and Multi-Choice Questions (MCQs) have beendesigned to assist in testing students’ safety awareness as well as testing the results of the effortsof staff in helping to inculcate such awareness.I. IntroductionDemands for more work relevant education 14 can have important safety implications. ComputerInstallation & Maintenance (CIM) is a hands-on unit introduced by the computing sciencedepartment at ECU. This unit was derived from the results of surveys of employers in the area ofComputer and Network Support and surveys of third year computing science students at ECU.The CIM unit has a weekly two hour theory lecture and an accompanying two hour hands-onworkshop session. Depending upon such factors as the available dedicated laboratory space

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marvin Needler; Ken Jr. Jannotta; William Lin; Richard Pfile

two types of networking with designs ofinteroperable protocols and proper network architectures.In this paper, we discuss the impact of this trend on the design of curriculum in theComputer Engineering Technology program. We also report our initial attempt inassimilating these two networks from the curriculum point of view. The related coursematerial and associated laboratory exercises used in this initial attempt and theirimplementation in the higher-level curriculum in Computer Engineering Technologyprogram are discussed. Page 9.780.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition

Conference Session

BME Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wagner; Daniel Cavanagh

the students to utilize teamwork skills in a lab environment 5. To introduce the students to basic engineering methodologies such as proper graphing, report writing, and data analysis 6. To introduce the students to open-ended laboratory exercises in a teamwork environment.The overall order in which material is presented in the seminar was based upon the generalpathway of drug delivery into the human body. This pathway includes the following generalcomponents: 1) route of drug introduction; 2) dissolution of a drug in solid form; 3) diffusion ofthe drug into the bloodstream; and 4) transport of the drug throughout the circulation. Thesegeneral components were utilized to demonstrate the application of fundamental

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanics Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Wirgau; Abhinav Gupta; Vernon Matzen

processor for saving, visualization, and distribution to remoteclients. This visualization includes an oscilloscope displaying the accelerations from both thetable and the structure residing on the table. Further visualization will be made by way of avideo camera. Finally, the code must be made safe from unauthorized usage and the universitynetwork must be protected. This paper outlines the implementation of the project using thevibration experiment.IntroductionUse of laboratory equipment is essential in allowing students to visualize and better understandthe concepts taught in classes such as structural mechanics. In a conventional classroom setting

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman; Robert J. Gustafson; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

laboratory exercisesin a variety of engineering disciplines.Throughout the 1996-97 school year, members of the Task Force had attended faculty meetingsin each engineering department to gather information on what weaknesses faculty members hadnoticed in the backgrounds of their upper division students and what topics should be includedin the Engineering Fundamentals course. Drafts of course syllabi were circulated to faculty forcomments.In 1997-98, the Dean expanded the Task Force to include faculty members from all departments,academic advisors, college staff personnel, and a student representative, and charged the groupwith developing the plan to implement Engineering Fundamentals. More meetings withdepartment faculty were held, and in April 1998

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Valerie E. Taylor; Rudolf Eigenmann; Renato Figueiredo; Nirav Kapadia; Luis Vidal; Jose A.B. Fortes; Jan-Jo Chen; Alok Choudhary

' universities, several tools are being incorporated in courses at the juniorand senior levels by using a web-based network computing system as a computational andeducational resource. This system is called PUNCH Purdue University Network ComputingHubs. PUNCH provides access to a pool of computers, installed tools and their documen-tation and educational material virtual laboratory" experiments and homeworks from Page 5.477.1any machine capable of browsing the web. The set of installed tools include simulators ofcaches, pipelined datapaths, multiprocessors, instruction sets, compilers, program analyzersand trace generators analyzers developed by

Conference Session

ET Interdisciplinary Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

P. James Moser; Biswajit Ray

laboratory facilities. In addition, the department began making contacts withindustry leaders to determine the characteristics of an effective applied physics program.The Ben Franklin Technology Partnership is an agency of Pennsylvania government, set up toconnect industries with colleges and universities for mutual benefit. The Ben FranklinTechnology Center in Bethlehem was able to provide contacts for us in over twenty businesses inour region, mainly in the electronics field. With the support of our Dean of Arts and Sciences,we began making visits to electronic manufacturing facilities, an essential action in helping us tounderstand the issues faced by industries.We explored with industry personnel, the need for varieties of academic subjects

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Amir Karimi

theexisting foundation course work in the engineering curriculum. A total of 114 UTSA studentsparticipated in this survey. The majority (110) were upper division (91) or graduate student (19).When asked to identify major factors influencing the learning process in the engineeringfoundation course work, student responses were as follows: “good teachers (94%), “goodtextbook” (78%), problem solving sessions (70%), “small class size” (65%), and “studentinterest” (63%). To improve the quality of education, students suggested assigning well-prepared professors to teach the foundation courses. More hands-on laboratory experience wasalso recommended.Table 3. Analysis of mechanical engineering student retention and progress Fall 1996 1

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bonnie H. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; JillL L. Auerbach, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

questions and assistance forinstructors.Keywords: Distributed lab, active learning, finite state machineIntroduction:Laboratory experiments are an essential source for instructors who want to include activelearning instructional methods in their engineering courses, yet the format is often not well suitedto incorporate into lecture-based courses. Lab experiments are generally performed in labcourses in centralized locations. A new extension to the laboratory experience is distributedlaboratories, which consist of experiments that can be conducted in a variety of locations such asa standard classroom, common area, or even a dorm room. As such, they can be incorporatedinto traditional lecture courses or distributed from decentralized locations.The

Conference Session

How Are We Preparing Our Students for the 21st Century Workforce?

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald H. Brown, Marquette University; Thomas F. Quinn, Marquette University; George Corliss, Marquette University; Jay R. Goldberg, Marquette University; Mark Nagurka, Marquette University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

Wooster (Ohio) and his Ph.D. in mathematics from Michigan State University. He has taught and worked at the Uni- versity of Nebraska, Lincoln, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Argonne National Laboratory, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany), Compuware Corp., and Mar- quette University, as well as in several industrial and consulting positions. His research interests include scientific computation and mathematical modeling, guaranteed enclosures of the solutions of ordinary differential equations, industrial applications of mathematics and scientific computation, numerical opti- mization, automatic differentiation, and software engineering. He teaches courses in

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Schultz; Darryl Sale; Chang-Hee Won; William Semke; Arnold Johnson

thisinitiative is called the Scorpio project.The concept for Scorpio, the first in a series of planned microsatellite launches, stemmed from aproposal to NASA for student-centered satellite missions by the Upper Midwest AerospaceConsortium (UMAC) at the University of North Dakota (UND). The proposed UMAC mission –designated the “Crop Explorer Research and Education Satellite” (CERES) – generated considerableinterest within the Department of Electrical Engineering regarding the possibility of designing andbuilding orbiting satellites on the UND campus. This effort was also inspired by the ongoing“CanSat” project within Stanford University’s Space Systems Development Laboratory (SSDL), inwhich operational satellites are designed and constructed to fit

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Don L. Dekker

currentintense interest in the results, and were added quickly to the summer projects. Theprojects and the students working on them are listed below. The Junior/Seniorclassification is for the 2000-2001 school year. When they were interviewed, they weresophomores and juniors.Binder Strength on the Road Chad Wendell, Senior ME Jason Koch, Junior CEBinder Strength in the Laboratory Kevin Hendrickson, Senior CE Tara Strahle, Junior CESlab Fracture Testing James Laser, Senior ME Nate Stevenson, Junior CECold Mix Workability Jim Kubicek, Senior ME Aidan Kunkle, Junior MEResilient Modulus Testing for Cold Paving Meg Lyman, Senior ME LaSandra Tucker, Junior

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Nora Christianson; Henry Russell

Session XXXX Representation of Women and Minorities in the Science and Engineering Disciplines Nora P. Christianson, Henry P. Russell U.S. Army Research Laboratory Adelphi, MarylandAbstractThe United States (U.S.) Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has aggressively pursued workforcediversity by establishing a corporate Diversity Advisory Board and a Minority OutreachProgram. In cooperation with the Equal Employment Opportunity and Human ResourceManagement offices, these