Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Jimmy Gandhi, California State University, Northridge; Ahmad R. Sarfaraz, California State University, Northridge; Sina Talebian, California State University, Northridge

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Engineering Management

community service learning course projectsand capstone course design projects. Students have access to the well-equipped laboratories,including computing laboratories with discipline-specific software that are essential toachievement of program objectives. (CSUN, 2014)This was further emphasized by Sorto (2008) when he stated that increasing competition in themarketplace as well as the need for improved productivity had put more of an emphasis on amore effective management of technical functions of a company. Moreover, in search of betterflexibility and efficiency, many companies have reduced the numbers and levels of managementpositions and instead are giving more decision making power to the teams at the operationallevels. In high tech companies

Conference Session

Improving Communication Skills in ME

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Chasnov

began expanding its programs from the traditional liberal arts programs toinclude education, business, nursing, and in 1990, engineering. The state of Ohio authorized the twomost popular engineering majors at that time, electrical and mechanical, for baccalaureate degreeprograms. Now a university, the 400-acre campus is home to about 3000 undergraduate and graduatestudents. Page 8.630.1 -1-MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AT CEDARVILLEThe mechanical engineering (ME) curriculum at Cedarville emphasizes hands-on experience boththrough many laboratory courses (13 total) and competition projects. The

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps II

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Farris; Jeffrey Ray

for Engineering Education Session 1491A description of the project deliverables and their due dates was presented. The first deliverablewas a detailed print of the assigned part. Dimensions, tolerances, datums and geo metricdimensions and tolerancing call outs were required. Students assigned to mating parts wererequired to review and approve each other's prints.Next students formulated process and inspection plans for each part. The process plan includedthe following information: 1. Machines required to manufacture the part. 2. The tooling and fixturing required for each machine. 3. The process parameters for each machine

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

John Anderson

materials. • It facilitates projects that are closer to actual engineering assignments in industry.I IntroductionOne of the classic problems in engineering and technology education has been how to breakthe students dependency on textbook solutions and introduce them to finding informationand fitting it to the solution of actual problems. Until recently this was left to a single"design course" experience. With ABET's emphasis on a "Capstone" experience for thestudents to synthesize their analytical skills with real problems there has been increasedattention on the problem of teaching students how to find information. Page 6.1119.1 Proceedings of

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert H. Mayer

students to gain sufficient knowledge to apply effectively the methodsand tools of the design engineer to accomplish a capstone design project in the follow-on course,EN462: OSED II.Given the breath of topical coverage, EN461 instructors are challenged to present the material ina way that integrates, rather than segregates, the various design topics. An effective avenue fordesign methods and tools integration was identified in recent documentation of two coral reefrestoration projects accomplished in the Florida Keys.1-3In 1989, the oilfield supply vessel M/V Alec Owen Maitland ran aground upon a living coral reefwithin the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. In an unrelated incident, during the sameyear, the M/V Elpis grounded on another reef

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

S. K. Gupta; M. R. Scanlon

theirredesigned product. The benefits of their redesign are evaluated, and an economic analysis isperformed to determine the feasibility of their design. The project culminates in a presentation oftheir redesign as well as a final report detailing their design work. Some products that have beenredesigned in the past are snowshoes, a boat trailer, and automobile leaf springs.Curricular Impacts: These curricular innovations have had a profound impact on material/processcombination students are selecting in their capstone senior design projects. For example, in thelast Winter quarter (19962) a student group designing a musical scale selected all-plastic partsjoined by advanced adhesives; another group designed an auto-focus camera lens assembly thatused

Conference Session

Innovative Instructional Strategies and Curricula in ECE I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cordelia M. Brown, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Yung-Hsiang Lu, Purdue University

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Electrical and Computer

Page 22.1412.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Teaming in an Engineering Programming CourseAbstractVarious formats of teaming have been explored in engineering courses. Engineeringcourses with teaming have varied from project oriented to capstone design to courses thattarget first year students. Laboratory oriented courses have also extensively utilizedteaming. The formation of teams has also varied from self-selected to instructor selectedto computer software team formation tool selected. Outside of pair programming, verylittle has been studied or reported on the benefits of students working on programmingassignments together. In an earlier study, a model for integrating teaming in

Conference Session

Incorporating Innovative Technologies into the Curriculum

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University; Tony Lee Kerzmann, Robert Morris University

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Manufacturing

assessment, sustainable product de- velopment, and active learning. Page 22.137.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Active Learning through SAE Baja CompetitionIntroductionActive learning is described as finding ways of engaging students in the learning process toimprove the results of the process. Active learning has become popular as an organizedmethodology in engineering education in the last few years. It is an important approach toprepare better engineers. Competitions, course projects sponsored by industry, capstone projects,laboratory exercises simulating real-life

Conference Session

New Collaborations

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Strife, West Virginia University

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Engineering Libraries

of their use of WebCT to deliver instructional online tutorials to engineeringstudents at Drexel University (2007)10. These are options that we can explore as we go along.Two options for creating online video tutorials are Captivate and Camtaisia. One selects theoption based on availability and whether or not it fits the need of the project.OverviewAt the beginning, it was decided that tutorials would be done by department, would be accessiblefrom the libraries webpage, and would not be embeded in any Ecampus course modules at thisstage. We selected chemical engineering to work on first since one-shot sessions were regularlypresented to senior chemical engineering students working on their capstone projects. TheEngineering and Patents

Conference Session

Developments in Chem Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christi Patton; Daniel Crunkleton

ChE Students and Automotive Design Competitions: Tips and Techniques for Student Involvement Daniel W. Crunkleton, Christi L. Patton University of TulsaChemical Engineering Design CompetitionsChemical engineering students have several opportunities to participate in designcompetitions, sponsored by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and otherorganizations. Several departments, including that of the authors, have integrated theAIChE National Student Design Problem into the capstone design experience for seniors.AIChE also sponsors design competitions, such as the Chem-E Car competition. This isa fun and lively contest that pits universities against

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2013 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Gonca Altuger-Genc

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING COMPONENT FOR A MECHANICAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY COURSE Gonca Altuger-Genc gencg@farmingdale.edu SUNY Farmingdale State College 2350 Broadhollow Road, Farmingdale, NY, 11735Abstract: ABET criterion 3.h for Baccalaureate Degree in EngineeringTechnology state that students have “an understanding of the need for and anability to engage in self-directed continuing professional development” uponcompletion of their program. In an effort to meet the ABET outcome and tointroduce students to self-directed learning, a semester project is developed to beimplemented in the senior level

Collection

2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Christopher L. Reitsma

that is programmed in PBASIC.Despite the amount of resources in programming and circuits provided by the vendor, theactivities need augmentation, or reinvigoration. The incorporation of common devices such asTV remotes, flashlights, gaming controllers and RC controllers provide students the opportunityto analyze and apply simple circuits with programming. These implementations and associatedactivities allow the operation of a robot and actuators in a semi-autonomous or tele-operatedmode, through the use of various sensors, communication systems and programming techniques.At the end of the course with a capstone project, students demonstrate the application of variousaspects of electrical engineering through a small-scale robotic

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Michael S. Lehman

University Economic Development Association (UEDA).Building a new Master's of Engineering in Technical EntrepreneurshipLehigh University, a private research university located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania has anational reputation in engineering, as well as entrepreneurship. Looking back almost twodecades, the undergraduate Integrated Product Development (IPD) capstone course sequence inthe P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science won a curriculum innovation awardin 1996 from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Over fifteen years later, theNational Academy of Engineering of the National Academies selected Lehigh’s IPD offerings,and the newly-created Baker Institute for Entrepreneurship, Creativity, and Innovation, as anexemplar

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Arron Pabst; Stephen Williams

design ofthe control system is presented in detail with particular emphasis on the event-driven programstructure.IntroductionThis paper describes a capstone electrical engineering technology (EET) senior projectaccomplished as a joint effort between the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) and theMilwaukee School of Engineering. The project was funded by grants from the NationalInstitutes of Health. The two-quarter project consists of an independent study to form abackground into the methods and hardware involved in EPR systems, with a second quarterdevoted to software development of the actual control system.The goal of the project is to provide control capability by way of a LabVIEW virtual instrumentutilizing GPIB connectivity. The

Conference Session

Reimagining Engineering Ethics

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jessica Koehler, Wake Forest University; Olga Pierrakos, Wake Forest University ; Michael Lamb, Wake Forest University; Alana Demaske, Wake Forest University; Carlos Santos, Wake Forest University; Michael D. Gross, Wake Forest University; Dylan Franklin Brown, Wake Forest University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

because of the open-ended nature of the activity [30]. Sinceproject-based learning is often done in teams, students engage in reflective dialogue and weighvarious perspectives that further promote critical thinking. Students are also given moreownership over their learning process than they would with traditional course pedagogy, whichfacilitates positive motivations [29], [42]. Capstone design projects, required of all ABET-accredited programs, is just one example of such open-ended, team-based projects. 6Providing real-world scenarios with no right or wrong answers provides an ideal context forstudents to learn how to apply critical thinking to

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Komarek, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daria A. Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

production 2. Lawbooth Makes legal consultation easy with an online platform 3. GoodEats Meats Brings local, high-quality, smoked barbecue to our Boulder and beyond 4. Innate Introduces information display to your bathroom mirror 5. Kitables Puts all of the components for your next DIY project in one, organized container shipped to your door 6. Pallas, Inc. Mitigates hair loss in chemotherapy patients with a novel cold cap technology 7. Surya Conversions Produces hybrid conversion kits for auto-rickshaws in developing countries 8. Vektor Tech Automates the

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bruce

areas described by objectives given in [2]. Many influences are involved Page 8.369.5in a student’s education, and the design experience described here is only a part of that education. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society of Engineering EducationHowever, I take some pride in learning that several external faculty reviewers commented thatmany students from this cohort executed some of the most successful capstone projects in recentyears. Finally, students in this initial offering were seen in the student common

Conference Session

Systems Approach to Teaching ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Masciadrelli; Nicholas Massa; Gary Mullett

completing a capstone-type project, an approach antithetical to way peoplereally learn. As a result, learners often learn content with little or no regard for the world inwhich the knowledge is to be applied. This approach is analogous to having all of the requiredbuilding materials delivered to construction site but having no blueprint to work from – howdoes it all fit together?The goal of engineering technician education should not be limited to the transfer of knowledgefrom instructor to student, but more importantly the development of proficient individuals;individuals who have a well-organized knowledge base and skills set that they can apply to solvereal-world problems and who are ready to learn and adapt as technology changes7

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saúl Enrique Crespo Sánchez, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM); Miguel X. Rodriguez-Paz, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM); Luis Hernandez Carrasco, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM)

government institutions. Teaching Structural Design Topics such as Design of Steel Structures and Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures, also Structural Engineering Capstone Project. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comA Challenge-based Teaching model for Structural Analysis Courses with StrategicIndustry PartnersAbstractIn this paper we present a challenge based teaching model for Structural Analysis courses withinthe framework of our education model, namely Tec21 in which some courses are taught with theparticipation of an industry partner. The content of this course is usually complex and someprinciples and concepts are difficult for

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brent Nelson, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

domains. This trio will be referred to as ‘the facilitators’. Page 13.253.3The goal of the course was to give the students the opportunity to practice BID, so the primaryassignment for the class was a semester-long design project, constituting 65% of the students’course grade. Students were given complete freedom to choose the topic, with the onlyrequirement being that their project had to utilize principles taken from some biological source.The teams gave a proposal presentation in the middle of the semester on their project topic, andthis allowed an opportunity to give guidance and a preliminary assessment to the students. Thefinal product

Conference Session

Technical Session: Pedagogical Strategies and Classroom Techniques for Teaching Assistants

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen W. Crown, University of Texas, Pan American; Ana Alanis, University of Texas, Pan American ; Jose Luis Chavez Jr., The University of Texas, Pan-American; Joel Guadalupe Montemayor, University of Texas, Pan American; Ricardo Montemayor, University of Texas, Pan-American; Haidy Enid Soto, University of Texas, Pan American

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Student

teaching methodology of the courses is Challenge Based Instruction (CBI)because of its proven effectiveness over traditional lecturing. The course subjects developedincluded Water Science, Computer Aided Design (CAD), and Systems Modeling. All threecourses were administered to returning TexPREP fourth year students.At the beginning of each course, students were given the challenges of building a Stirling engineusing items that can be found at home, designing and constructing a solar car, and creating awater theme park for the Systems Modeling, Computer Aided Design (CAD), and Water Sciencecourses respectively. They were then guided through a series of lectures, mini projects, andassessment exercises to help them obtain the necessary knowledge to

Conference Session

FPD2 -- Highlighting First-Year Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynnane George, U.S. Air Force Academy; Robert Brown, U.S. Air Force Academy

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First-Year Programs

will provide an overview of the Engineering 100 curriculum, the systems engineeringdesign process taught, and a description of the capstone boost glider project. Since this is nowthe seventh year the course has been offered, course development, feedback, and improvementsto the course will also be discussed. The detail in this paper is intended to provide enoughinformation for others to use a similar model for course development.IntroductionThe purpose of Engineering 100 is twofold. The primary purpose is to introduce first-yearstudents to the USAFA engineering disciplines in the context of the systems engineering designprocess. Students integrate these disciplines using a semester-long boost glider design project.They must use aeronautical

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Cavicchi, Grove City College

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2008-3: INTEGRATION OF PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERPROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE INTO CONTROL SYSTEMS COURSESThomas Cavicchi, Grove City College Thomas J. Cavicchi received the B. S. degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1982, and the M. S. and Ph. D. degrees in electrical engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana, in 1984 and 1988, respectively. He is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Grove City College, Grove City, PA, where he teaches year-long courses on digital communication systems, digital and analog control systems, and the senior labs (including co-teaching the senior capstone design projects). He also has recently taught

Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Schmidt; David Bigio; Linda Schmidt; Paige Smith

8.506.3students as they approach the completion of their senior capstone team experience. While this isProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationthe "ideal," the independence of the modules allows faculty members to "pick and choose" themodules they feel are most appropriate to a given project or class. Initially, we worried aboutredundancy, both in terms of students being exposed to the same module twice or overlap interms of the material across levels of the curriculum. However, in practice, "one shot learning" isnot usually effective for subject mastery. Depending on the circumstances, an individual

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Narayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marilyn Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Aerospace

the emphasis is on getting to depth in every aspect, while obtaining perspective and learning the essentials quickly.The roots of this project started in the 1990s, as industry and government hiring and trainingpatterns changed drastically from the large weapon-system programs of the Cold War to thesmall-team, multidisciplinary contract-hunting environment. The traditional curriculum hadlinear course sequences in different discipline streams, coming together in senior-year“capstone” design experiences. During the Cold War era, large-company recruiting emphasizedcorporate training after school. To prepare students for the small-team environment that came upin the 1990s, we moved towards increasing comprehension levels, and enabling students

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fadi Kurdahi, University of California, Irvine; Judy Shoemaker, University of California, Irvine; John LaRue, University of California-Irvine

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Electrical and Computer

described in this paper: (1)course-embedded assessment which makes use of assessment results already being collected aspart of regular coursework, and (2) a scoring rubric for assessing program outcomes related tothe required senior design project. Assessment results from 2004-05 indicated that a relativelysmall percentage of students achieve some of the program outcomes. After making adjustmentsto the curriculum, assessment results from 2005-06 indicated that the vast majority of studentsachieved all the program outcomes.BackgroundThe Computer Engineering program resides in the department of Electrical Engineering andComputer Science (EECS) in The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at the University ofCalifornia, Irvine. As of Fall Quarter 2005

Conference Session

Changing the Engineering Classroom

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reid Bailey, University of Virginia

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Educational Research and Methods

those students who did not remember the class well would be less likely to participate inthe study.Future work directions could minimize selection bias and expand scope. To reduce selectionbias, all students could be surveyed at the end of the class (not 2-3 years later). While aninterview during the term would introduce its own problems (i.e., students could be influencedby feeling like the interview could affect their grades), adding questions to the anonymous end-of-course evaluation could be a viable mechanism to get responses from everyone in the class.Expanding the scope of the work beyond exploring why learning improved in the class,following students to their capstone projects to investigate their problem formulation behaviorswould also

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Nagel, James Madison University; Melissa Aleman, James Madison University; Kelly Sadel

. Benitz, L. Yang, “Adapting a community engagement project in engineering and education to remote learning in the era of Covid-19,” Advances in Engineering Education, vol. 8, no. 4. p. 1 – 8, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://advances.asee.org/wp-content/uploads/COVID%2019%20Issue/Text/AEE- COVID-19-Benitz.pdf [12] J. Tsen, “The effects of Covid-19 on mechanical engineering senior capstone design student self-efficacy and projects,” in 2021 ASEE Virtual Ann. Con., 2021. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/37857 [13] B. A. Harris, “The importance of creating a ‘sense of community’,” Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, vol. 8, no. 1, p. 83 – 105, May 2006. [Online

Conference Session

Labs & Hands-on Instruction II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pong P. Chu, Cleveland State University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

themas a cohesive framework to connect and integrate the individual courses. The lab framework willkeep the lecture content intact but update the experiments and projects to make students aware ofthe big picture, help them to relate the individual subjects, and apply and integrate the previouslearning in a new context. The labs spread over all hardware related courses, including freshman engineering,introductory digital systems, advanced digital systems, computer organization, embeddedsystems, hardware-software co-design, and senior capstone design. The complexities andabstraction levels of the experiments and projects gradually grow as students progress throughthe curriculum. The key concepts are repeated in different courses with increasing

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kemper Lewis, University at Buffalo - SUNY; Deborah A. Moore-Russo, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Omar M. Ashour, Pennsylvania State University ; Timothy W. Simpson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Xaver Neumeyer, Northwestern University; Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic; Wei Chen, Northwestern University

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NSF Grantees

requirement to an early cornerstone or later capstone design experience as a result,making these courses an ineffective “catch all” for many ABET requirements. In this paper, weaddress this issue in a novel way by synthesizing concepts from archaeology with advances incyber-enhanced product dissection to implement new educational innovations that integrateglobal, economic, environmental, and societal concerns into engineering design-related coursesusing product archaeology.1 Introduction and MotivationOutcome h in the requirements of ABET [1] has become a significant challenge to manyengineering departments. Providing effective, useful, and engaging educational experiences tounderstand the global, economic, environmental, and societal impact of