Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Takoi Hamrita

objectives, laboratory hardware and software and the set of experiments used willbe described in this paper.IntroductionMicroprocessor courses have typically been taught within electrical engineering departmentswith an emphasis on computer architecture and software development. Recently, a shift is beingmade from teaching microprocessor architecture and the design of software to the use ofmicrocontrollers in solving monitoring and control problems 1. Several NSF funded investigatorshave explored and demonstrated the potential of teaching microprocessor -based design courseswith an emphasis on mechatronic systems. Of particular interest are the courses developed inStanford, Iowa State, and Berkeley 2,3.We are aware of few engineering departments that

Conference Session

Labs and Experiments

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University; Katharyn E. K. Nottis, Bucknell University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Edward C Bent, Bucknell University; Rachel Cincotta, Bucknell University; Kyle Andrew MacDougall, Bucknell University Chemical Engineering Department

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

with the HECI,handouts, and instructions.AcknowledgementsThis work was funded by the National Science Foundation, DUE #1225031.Works Cited[1] Vigeant, M., Dahm, K., and Silverstein, D. 2017. The state of the chemical engineering curriculum: Report from the 2016 survey. American Association for Engineering Education.[2] Hofstein, A. and Lunetta, V. N. 1980. The Role of the Laboratory in Science Teaching: Research Implications.[3] Hofstein, A. and Lunetta, V. N. 2004. The laboratory in science education: Foundations for the twenty-first century. Sci. Ed. 88, 1, 28-54. DOI=10.1002/(ISSN)1098-237X.[4] Hofstein, A. and Kind, P. M. 2012 Learning in and from science laboratories. In Second International Handbook of Science Education,[5

Conference Session

Unique Developments in Engineering Technology

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Richter, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

AC 2007-1518: INFUSING AN INTERDISCIPLINARY AUTOMATIONEXPERIENCE IN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION.Donald Richter, Eastern Washington University DONALD C. RICHTER obtained his B. Sc. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from The Ohio State University, M.S. and Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Arkansas. He holds a Professional Engineer certification and worked as an Engineer and Engineering Manger in industry for 20 years before teaching. His interests include project management, robotics /automation and air pollution dispersion modeling. Page 12.892.1© American Society for

Conference Session

Research and Education in Radiation and Radiologic

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erich Schneider, University of Texas, Austin; Steven Biegalski, University of Texas, Austin; David Hearnsberger, University of Texas, Austin; Sheldon Landsberger, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Divisions

Nuclear and Radiological

Engineering Teaching laboratory andespecially the TRIGA research reactor. The Institute will therefore serve its students intwo critical ways: it will expand their experiential knowledge base in ways not possible attheir home institutions, making them more attractive and accomplished candidates foremployment or graduate studies, and it will heighten student interest in, and awarenessof, careers within the nuclear industry where their talents are sorely needed.We view this aggressive program as the kick-off for a prestigious, recurring Institute thatwill serve a very large body of students who do not have access to facilities comparableto those of the Nuclear Engineering Teaching Laboratory. In particular, we are excited toreach out to institutions

Conference Session

Freshman Experience in Engineering Technology

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Niaz Latif, Purdue University, Calumet; Akram Hossain, Purdue University, Calumet

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

the faculty members. SOTalso provided graduate teaching assistants at both locations to help the faculty members with theSDD pertaining to laboratory work and assignments. The teaching assistants helped with thecourse delivery in content area and related laboratories including the collection of hard copies ofthe assignments. The graduate assistants also helped with communication between the facultymembers and the students.To improve the quality of visual presentation at the remote locations, two Polycom cameras wereinstalled at the remote location (Figure 1b). The Document Camera and the Tablet PC were usedto show or demonstrate supplemental instructional and laboratory materials. One faculty memberextensively used the text book. The document

Conference Session

Energy Conversion and Conservation Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Cherif Megri, North Carolina A&T State University; Sameer Hamoush P.E., North Carolina A&T State University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

detect systems deficiencies, suchas leaks from units or within the systems.At the Department of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering (CAEE), indoorenvironment laboratory (directed by Dr. Megri), multiple HVAC systems, and teaching labs, havebeen connected to the BAS system of the University. The systems are: 1) Split-System Central Unit Heat Pump (SSHP): Supply flow into an occupied space as a mixture of return air and fresh outdoor air that has been filtered and then conditioned through heating or cooling coils, paired with a quiet and compact outdoor unit. As you likely gathered from its name, a split system means it has components that are located inside and outside the building. This volume of supply air

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Walsh; David Gibbs; Alan Demmons

Improve communications skillsAn ancillary goal of the effort is to provide teaching and mentoring opportunities for upper-class engineers andgraduate students.The course is presented in a modular fashion, involving teams of faculty and student assistants who present materialto the students, and subsequently engage them in laboratory study and open-ended problem solving experiences. Wedesigned this course to pander to the “tinkerer” in all humans. A mapping of human features rendered in proportionto the extent of their coverage on the cerebral cortex provides an interesting figure called the homunculus. Thisfigure has a tiny body with huge face and hands. It provides an explanation not simply for the value of laboratorybased instruction but also

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Arthur M. Clausing

Page 3.49.1tour of selected departmental laboratories, teaching and research, and student projects, forexample, Formula SAE cars. The course concludes three weeks before the end of the semester;hence, it is completed before these incoming freshmen face the final round of hour examinationsand final examinations. The faculty member and LA that are assigned to each section areresponsible for the laboratory periods and both attend all nine of these two-hour sessions. Thus,we have a ratio of one instructor for every ten students.The use of Learning Assistants has many advantages. Specifically:1. The small student-faculty ratio enables us to use active learning techniques that we have found to be very effective.2. Freshmen relate well to our upper

Conference Session

Computer Hardware

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark A. Hopkins, Rochester Institute of Technology (KGCOE); Alexander Michael Kibbe, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Education, 2014 Open-source hardware in controls education Abstract — In teaching undergraduate automatic controls, the laboratory experience is animportant and irreplaceable component. Historically, good platforms for a controls laboratoryhave been expensive, because the equipment has typically been very specialized for educationalpurposes. Moreover, the equipment often is not physically robust in the face of studentmanhandling, creating major difficulties and costs in maintaining such a lab. The advent ofinexpensive open-source controller hardware is revolutionizing this situation because it is nowpossible to have good controls-hardware capability at relatively low cost. The Arduino Mega2560, in particular, is supported by

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick Carzon, Franciscan University of Steubenville; Megan Elizabeth Mericle; Jessica Raley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Julie L Zilles, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics and Physics Division (EP2D)

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. We examined course materials to identify where writing is explicitly or implicitly referenced, the genres that were assigned, and writing concepts that were represented. Analyzing course materials allowed us to identify a wide range of activities and assignments related to writing. We observed that implicit references to writing are prevalent, writing activities are weighted toward upper-level classes, and the most common genres are related to laboratory activities. Writing concepts that occurred frequently in upper-level laboratory courses correspond to disciplinary values of precision and clarity, while concepts of novelty and evidence were infrequent. This

Collection

2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Peter LoPresti; Theodore W. Manikas; Jeff Kohlbeck

teach about the engineering profession and the field of electricalengineering. Activities included laboratories in electrical circuits, designing an electric car,soldering, a field trip, and discussion about ethics. Students worked in two and four-personteams, and made presentations on their experiences.The academy was evaluated using formal assessment instruments and faculty observations. Eachof the individual activities attained an overall rating of at least 4 on a scale of 1 to 5, with mostactivities rated at 4.5 or greater. A formal evaluation of the entire academy revealed ratings of4.5 or greater out of 5 on most aspects of the academy, though some areas indicated a need forimprovement, such as clarity of written materials and the

Conference Session

Professional Papers

Collection

2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

Priscilla J Hill, Mississippi State University; Bill B Elmore, Mississippi State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Professional Papers

interests: biotechnology for renewable energy and innovation in engineering education ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Implementation of MyOpenMath in Chemical Engineering InstructionAbstractOften when teaching large classes it is desired to have an automated online grading system forhomework and/or tests, and to have the option of giving each student a different set of parametervalues so that each student has a unique problem set. While some textbooks have onlineplatforms with question databanks for that purpose, many textbooks do not have anaccompanying online system. The textbooks that have the online question and grading systemare frequently expensive for students and limited to databank

Conference Session

New Pedagogical Approaches in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Butterfield, University of Utah; Kyle Joe Branch, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #15618Collaboration between Seniors and Freshmen on Senior Capstone ProjectsProf. Anthony Butterfield, University of Utah Anthony Butterfield is an Assistant Professor (Lecturing) in the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Utah. He received his B. S. and Ph. D. from the University of Utah and a M. S. from the University of California, San Diego. His teaching responsibilities include the senior unit operations laboratory and freshman design laboratory. His research interests focus on undergraduate education, targeted drug delivery, photobioreactor design, and instrumentation.Kyle Joe Branch

Conference Session

Instructional technologies - Simulations, VR, Remote Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University; Kevin Frank, Drexel University; Ayanna Elise Gardner, Drexel University; Richard Chiou, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

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 and graduate courses in ET Masters program. Also, she introduced the first experiential

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Division (CONST) Technical Session 3

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pranshoo Solanki, Illinois State University

Tagged Divisions

Construction Engineering Division (CONST)

Paper ID #39795Learning Concrete in Construction Management Course through BowlingBallProjectProf. Pranshoo Solanki, Illinois State University Dr. Pranshoo Solanki is a full professor in the Construction Management program of Department of Technology at Illinois State University. He received his doctorate in civil engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 2010. The overall theme of Dr. Solanki’s research is innovative construction materials and methodologies which can be used for building a sustainable civil engineering infrastructure. Dr. Solanki mainly teach courses in the area of construction materials and design

Conference Session

Pedagogy in Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Hirshfield, University of Michigan; H. Scott Fogler, University of Michigan; Chris Barr, University of Michigan

of a student that might drive their interest in learning about processsafety is their perception of its importance in their future career. Based on interactionswith students while teaching safety, the authors argue that student perceptions of theimportance of safety within industry tend to differ from most industries' safety cultures.This discrepancy can be somewhat supported by a study of laboratory safety attitudeswithin academic, government, and industrial researchers [13]. In this study, self-reported PPE compliance behavior varied greatly between industry labs wherecompliance was higher than academic labs. Lab coat and eye protection compliancewas 87% and 83% in industrial labs compared to 66% and 61% academic, respectively.While not

Conference Session

Electrical Engineering Technology Design Projects & Curriculum

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Youakim Al Kalaani, Georgia Southern University; Frank Goforth, Georgia Southern University; Shonda Bernadin, Georgia Southern University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

significant difference in test scoresbetween students using computer simulation and those who are using traditional lab equipment.However, combining both practices in a hybrid environment5 can offer clear advantages sincestudents will be able to compare their simulated results with actual experimentations. Therefore,our electronics courses were redesigned to use Multisim in conjunction with traditional labactivities. Multisim6 is a popular simulation program used by many engineering educators for itsfriendly interactive features. It has virtual instruments resembling actual laboratory environment.Course AssessmentsContinuous improvement is an important issue for Engineering Technology programs because itdefines the framework for assessment and

Conference Session

Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ted Thiede; James Hereford

practical experiences with sufficient breadth.k. Usability in student projects. The purchase of expensive equipment for perhaps one use in a given year may be wasteful. Since students are required to do projects, it is nice if the measurement equipment supports their other work in design and research.3. Development of Mechanical Engineering LaboratoriesMost mechanical engineering departments have extensive laboratory facilities that have beendeveloped through years of grant-funded research. When this equipment is no longer needed forresearch it becomes available in the teaching labs. In the MSU program, mechanical engineering Page 8.322.4labs

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

Authors

Duc Hoai Tran, CSULB; Hen-Geul Yeh

and laboratory section. They weretaught through synchronous mode during fully online instruction. There was a total of 135students attending these courses with 55% average responding rate, meaning that there were 74students responding to the courses' survey.The survey's gathered data, Table I, sought to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of ourimplemented teaching approach, and provide insight into how students felt about our onlinecourses. The likert scale used in the survey was 1-6, where 1 was strongly disagreed and 6 wasstrongly agreed. The average mean scores were high suggesting that students enjoyed the onlinelearning experience.Table 1. Survey questions and descriptive analysis. Question Question Text

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Carter; Catherine Brawner; Miriam Ferzli; Eric Wiebe

stepthem through the process, there is the Brief Tutor, which condenses the core information intofewer steps. Finally, there is the Self-Guide that presents all of the information contained in theTutor in the form of static web pages.Figure 3. The LabWrite Tutor.Notice in Figure 1 in the upper right corner that in addition to having a special site for students,there are also tabs for lab instructors and (at larger universities and colleges) for professorssupervising multi-section lab courses. These additional portions of the LabWrite site are inrecognition that the professors and instructors designing and running the labs are a criticalcomponent to a successful laboratory experience for the student. LabWrite is not meant to be a“self-teaching

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs and Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Feng Jao; Khalid Al-Olimat

/freeshare.html.Meeting the instructional needs of students to learn the material is the keystone of every effectiveprogram. The tools of educational technology and software hold tremendous potential forimproving both teaching and learning processes. Cohen et al [1] performed analysis of 74studies that compared visual-based instruction with traditional instruction. They found thatstudents learned more from visual-based instruction than from traditional teaching. It is evidentfrom the paper by Powell et al [2] that computer based instruction may be the key to improvingthe grade point average of students. Bartsch and Cobern [3] found that PowerPoint presentationcan be beneficial to students’ learning. Papers [4-8] reported that those who integrate technologyin the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Young

goal is to produce graduates with the technical background tounderstand both the devices being produced and the processes by which they are manufactured.This bachelor's degree program includes coursework from the traditional disciplines of electrical,chemical, materials and industrial and systems engineering, as well as a laboratory coursesequence in which integration of the disciplines is explicitly achieved. A detailed description of Page 7.34.1“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division - General Technical Session 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven F Barrett, University of Wyoming; Ivo Wambeke

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

the alumnus request a team was formed to make the course, laboratoryexercises and the physical laboratory a reality. The team consisted of the faculty membercurrently teaching the industrial controls course, a graduate student who would be developing thelaboratory exercises for his graduate project, the alumnus, the department staff engineer and thedepartment senior technician who would plan and supervise the laboratory renovation andlaboratory equipment purchase [9].”In the next section we detail the methods used by students in developing their service learningproject: a Concrete Curing Box (CCB) for use in a high school STEM recruiting and enrichmentprogram.MethodsIn this section we discuss the methods used by the student team to develop

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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

2005 GSW

Authors

Jorge E. Navarro; Apolinar Zapata

calculus real life problem, there are not specificdirections like: find the area of the region bounded by the function f(x), the x-axis, theline x = a, and the line x = b. Real life calculus problems are introduced by a command:design the cheapest container which satisfies these specifications of volume and shape; orby a necessity: I have to find the center of mass of this machine part.In real life and in engineering and science courses, students need to know and be able touse calculus facts and procedures as quickly as possible. However, research1 makes itclear that how mathematics is taught is as important, or even more important than themathematical concepts being taught. Teaching mathematics through laboratory activitiesis an important way for

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum and Outreach

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Eschenbach; Eileen Cashman

environmental science majors via hands-onprojects, case studies and active learning. The air resources module is taught over a three-weekperiod in a fifteen-week semester. The module curriculum is delivered over 6 lectures and two3-hour laboratory periods. This paper describes the lectures, labs and out of class activities. Thepedagogical approach incorporates web-based teaching strategies including Just-in-TimeTeaching (JiTT), developed by physics instructors and used by many different disciplines. Aftercompleting assigned readings, the students take online quizzes that summarize these readings.The lecture period is used to clarify misconceptions that were discovered in the students’responses to the online quizzes as well as present new material

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Cheng; Daniel M. Chen

, tools, and methods of rapid deployment technology such as simulationinto current curricula and programs of engineering technology requires the academic study of thechanges, challenges and demands faced by today’s industries. Along with the efforts ofcurriculum development, state-of-the-art hardware and software components must be available toenhance the capability of existing teaching and laboratory facilities. Often undergraduatestudents in engineering technology programs graduate and leave for industries without enoughknowledge and experience about rapid deployment technologies due to limited laboratoryfacilities and inadequate financial resources. Partly addressing these issues, this paper describesthe authors’ initial experience of

Conference Session

Physics Education Research (PER) Relevant for Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mel Sabella, Chicago State University; Stephanie Barr, Chicago State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

, “Assessing student learning of Newton's Laws: The Force and MotionConceptual Evaluation of Active Learning Laboratory and Lecture Curricula”, Am. J. Phys., 66 (4), 338-352,(1998).17 See M.S. Sabella and G.L. Cochran, "Evidence of Intuitive and Formal Schemas in Student Responses: Examplesfrom the Context of Dynamics,", PERC Proceedings 2003 (AIP Publishing, MD, 2004.).18 F. M. Goldberg, and J. H. Anderson, “Student Difficulties with Graphical Representations of Negative Values ofVelocity,” The Phys. Teach. 27 (4), 254-260, (1989).19 A. Van Heuvelen, ALPS Kit: Active Learning Problem Sheets, Mechanics; Electricity and Magnetism (Hayden-McNeil, Plymouth, MI, 1990).20 A. Van Heuvelen and X. Zou, “Multiple Representations of Work-Energy

Collection

2005 GSW

Authors

Wayne N.P. Hung; V. Jorge Leon

complement the theory, students are encouraged to explore and integrate rather than following rigid step-by-step instructions. There are more teaching assistants in a laboratory for efficient utilization of the laboratory time and equipment. In all cases, the objective is to understand a manufacturing process capability and its limitation rather than to train students to master a specific technical skill. 4) Expose to globalization. Internet resources and information technology are used extensively for information dissemination and research. We are in the process to form virtual teams with senior students from different departments at TAMU and

Conference Session

Mid Atlantic Papers

Collection

2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

Authors

Ethan Patrick Adams, Penn State University: Berks Campus; Patrick Joseph Scanlon; Joseph Torres, Penn State Berks GenCyber; Tricia Clark, Penn State Berks; Terence Laughlin, Blue Mountain High School; Abdullah Konak, Penn State Berks

Tagged Topics

Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

Berks TRICIA K. CLARK, M.S., Instructor and Program Coordinator for the Information Sciences & Technol- ogy degree program at Penn State Berks. Teaching interests include programming, information security and first-year experience. Research interests include exploring ways technology can be integrated into teaching and promoting STEM education opportunities to K-12 students.Mr. Terence Laughlin, Blue Mountain High SchoolDr. Abdullah Konak, Penn State Berks Abdullah Konak is a Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity Berks. Dr. Konak received his degrees in Industrial Engineering, B.S. from Yildiz Technical University, Turkey, M.S. from Bradley University, and Ph.D