Conference Session

Elementary School Engineering Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen High, Oklahoma State University; Caroline Beller, Oklahoma State University; Pamela Fry, Oklahoma State University; Adrienne Redmond, Oklahoma State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Science and Engineering?AbstractDr. Karen High, faculty member in Chemical Engineering, was a Laboratory Instructorfor the fall 2005 Semester for CIED (Curriculum and Instruction Education) 4353 atOklahoma State University. The course is “Science in the Elementary SchoolCurriculum.” This course covers the purposes, selection and organization of content,teaching and learning procedures and evaluation of outcomes in elementary schoolscience and its participants consist of education students typically without anybackground in engineering or science.Approximately 75% of class time is devoted to laboratory activities and field experiencesthat promote the science content, process, learning theory, philosophy and curriculaappropriate for grades 1-8

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Giri Venkataramanan, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Annette Muetze, University of Wisconsin-Madison

serve the needs of localindustrial constituents in training students and developing technical expertise.Sponsoring businesses provide a nominal $10,000 per year membership fee to sustain theeducation and research program. The sponsorship includes industries ranging from smallbusinesses through multinational corporations from across the world. The relatively smallamount of annual sponsorship fee allows championship of the consortium by technical personnelat the businesses, thus effectively shielding the participation from being affected by short-termups and downs in the business cycles. The broad membership portfolio includes aerospacebusinesses, automotive industries, industrial automation manufacturers, national laboratories,semiconductor

Conference Session

Outstanding Contributions to ME

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Choate, Western Kentucky University; Kevin Schmaltz, Western Kentucky University; Stephen Howard, Western Kentucky University; Paul Graves, Western Kentucky University; Jonathan Martin, Western Kentucky University; Chris Kruckenberg, Western Kentucky University

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Mechanical Engineering

airflow test bench system was designed, built and tested for the undergraduate mechanicalengineering thermal fluids laboratory at Western Kentucky University. A two-semester seniorcapstone design sequence, ME 400 – Mechanical Engineering Design and ME 412 – MechanicalEngineering Senior Project, provided a four-member mechanical engineering student team withsufficient time to plan and execute this engineering process.The final airflow test system is primarily intended for instructional situations, but has thepotential for external industrial interaction as well. The system delivered by the project team isusable over a range of flows and system impedances. Primary benefactors of this test bed will befuture students in Mechanical Engineering Senior

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael John Hargather, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology; Shannon Hussan; Timothy W Jacomb-Hood, The Pennsylvania State University; Zachary Francis, Penn State University; Carly Seneca; Martha Quinlin; Raveen Fernando

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

to performthe experiments, and a guided approach to developing the necessary scaling relationships.Students completed a survey after performing the experiment which showed an increasedunderstanding of the importance and process of dimensional scaling.IntroductionUndergraduate engineering curricula are typically heavily loaded with traditional classroomlearning approaches and have a limited number of laboratory-based courses available to students.Many students, however, learn better from hands-on, laboratory-based courses and activities.Incorporating more laboratory courses into engineering curricula presents a separate challengedue to the cost of building and maintaining student laboratory facilities, space limitations, andthe small class

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M. Reza Emami, University of Toronto; Michael G. Helander, University of Toronto

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2010-1374: AN OUTLINE OF EDESIGNM. Reza Emami, University of Toronto M. Reza Emami, Ph.D. in robotics and mechatronics from the University of Toronto, worked in the industry as a project manager in 1997-2001. He is a professional engineer and has been a faculty member at U. Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies since 2001. He is currently the Director of Space Mechatronics group and Coordinator of the Aerospace and Design Laboratories at the University of Toronto.Michael G. Helander, University of Toronto Michael G. Helander received the B.A.Sc. in engineering science from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, in 2007. He is currently working towards the M.A.Sc. in

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hamed Farahani Manesh, Eastern Mediterranean University; Dirk Schaefer, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

environments and remotely/robotically controlled physical laboratory exercises for distance learning settings including associated pedagogies. Dr. Schaefer has published approximately 80 papers in journals, books and conference proceedings on Computer-Aided Engineering and Design as well as Engineering Education. In addition, he has substantial experience in curriculum development, ABET preparation and assessment. Page 15.111.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 A Virtual Factory Approach for Design and Implementation of Agile Manufacturing

Conference Session

Past and Future of Manufacturing Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Wells, North Dakota State University

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Manufacturing

and efficient part manufacturing methods and complete production systems for commercial and industrial products. The common theme for students is mastering process, production system and enterprise design procedures that are applicable to any product in any industry. Graduates have been successful in manufacturing enterprises that produce virtually every type of product -- literally, from spacecraft to foodstuffs. In addition to traditional courses, Dr. Wells leads innovation teams in two engineering venues: product realization and transforming laboratory research into commercial products. Dr. Wells’ active research lies in orthopedic implants, micro-assembly, micro-machining, circuit

Conference Session

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

notes and exercises, laboratory experiences (joining, physical testing, and metalography),and assignments.This progress report will focus on all aspects of this newly developed course including pedagogy,course content, and course structure. Results of course assessments and continuous improvementwill also be presented.Motivation and Need for CourseBefore introducing the details of the course, it is felt that one needs to better understand themotivation for creating a new upper level course. In this section of the paper the motivation forchanging undergraduate engineering will be reviewed. This section concludes by demonstratingthat there is currently a need to change the upper level courses. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ilan Grave

10.776.132 for the core. Similar loads are required in the other engineering majors offered. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”All students in Physics and Engineering at Elizabethtown College undertake in their freshmanand/or sophomore years three semesters in calculus-based physics. “College Physics II” (fourcredits) is dedicated mostly to electromagnetism. It includes a laboratory where students tackleexperiments in electrostatics and magnetostatics, and build some devices; in these lab studentsalso get an introduction to the oscilloscope and other basic lab measurement equipment, and acouple of

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Seth Bates; Patricia Backer

minicurriculumwas organized to be taught as problem-based group work that allows the students to developtheir analytical skills and work cooperatively as multidisciplinary teams to solve increasinglycomplex problems. The three courses are sequenced to provide the students with more complexprojects as they proceed through the three courses. This model for project-based, problem-basedlearning stems from seminal work done at Aalborg University in Denmark (Fink19). Figure 1shows the main principles in project-based learning as proposed by Fink. There are three steps tothis team-approach model: problem analysis, problem solving, and report/documentation. Thelectures and laboratory activities designed by professors in all three disciplines are integrated

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Young

critical role in the education strategydeveloped in the CDIO project (Berggren et al.2; CDIO Initiative Homepage3), an internationalinitiative that aims to develop a new model for engineering education, characterized by using theprocess of conceiving-designing-implementing-operating, i.e. the product lifecycle, as theeducational context. A prominent attribute of the CDIO initiative has been the design andimplementation of a new class of student workspaces (design studios, classrooms, study areas,laboratories) that enable student teams to design, build and test in project-based courses. This isin contrast to traditional student labs that are heavily oriented towards demonstrations(Gunnarsson et al.4; Wallin & Östlund5). The proper set-up

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Biswajit Ray

technology graduates1. Specifically, the referenced surveyindicates that employers want graduates with a working knowledge of data acquisition, analysisand interpretation; an ability to formulate a range of alternative problem solutions; and computerliteracy specific to their profession. Additionally, potential employers of our EET graduates arein the automated manufacturing and testing sector of the industry; and that motivated the creationof an instrumentation and data acquisition course2 based on a thorough review of experiment-based data acquisition-supported instrumentation courses at other institutions3-6. This three-credit course meets for two one-hour lectures and one three-hour laboratory per week. Thedistinction between lecture and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Head

an engineering design project.Course StructureThe Sophomore Clinic is a four semester hour course with two 75 minute lecture sessions andone 160 minute laboratory session each week. Faculty from the College of Communication are Page 10.1112.1responsible for the lecture sessions and engineering faculty supervise the laboratory. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education”In both the lecture sections and the laboratory the emphasis on teamwork in this course isexceptionally strong. The students

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paige Smith

for the levelof expertise brought to the research team by undergraduate students. Faculty with more openended, exploratory research found they had more difficulty managing and motivating thestudents compared to faculty with more specific projects. The most successful projects werethose that required a large number of “hands” and less experience, compared to those thatrequired a steep learning curve before students could be useful or productive in the lab.Mentors observed that the students often blamed themselves when things went wrong as opposedto understanding that setbacks are a natural part of the research process. For most of theparticipants this was their first experience with conducting actual research versus “canned”laboratory

Conference Session

Design Throughout the ChE Curriculum

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

studentsin all four disciplines. Indeed, the hallmark of the engineering program at Rowan University isthe multidisciplinary, project-oriented Engineering Clinic sequence.The Engineering Clinics are taken each semester by every engineering student at RowanUniversity. In the Engineering Clinic, students and faculty from all four engineeringdepartments work side-by-side on laboratory experiments, real world design projects andresearch. The solutions of these problems require not only proficiency in the technical principles,but, as importantly, require a mastery of written and oral communication skills and the ability towork as part of a multidisciplinary team which are essential skills for professional success [2, 3,4]. Rowan’s Clinic Program

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Schmalzel; A. Marchese; Jennifer Kadlowec; Shreekanth Mandayam; Stephanie Farrell

2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Session 1526multidisciplinary education through collaborative laboratory and course work; (2) teamwork asthe necessary framework for solving complex problems; (3) incorporation of state-of-the-arttechnologies throughout the curricula; and (4) creation of continuous opportunities for technicalcommunication [3]. The Rowan program emphasizes these essential features throughout thecurricula, beginning with the introductory freshman

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosa Cano; Howard Kimmel

intensity that iscurrently possible.Systemic reform means changing the way teachers teach and students learn. There is acritical need to restructure the methodology of teaching science and mathematics. Thetraditional way of teaching is through reading from the textbook and doing problems throughrote memory of formulas and facts. Laboratory experiences are then used to verify "thefacts" stated in the textbook. There is no substitute for actually doing science andmathematics. We need to integrate the content and teaching strategies. Students need tolearn from their own experiences rather than just listening to lectures and then passivelyverifying those facts stated in textbooks through laboratory activities.Professional development of teachers

Conference Session

Three P's in Introduction to Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; Robert Montgomery

seventhsemester students, and/or were repeating the class.One instructor taught both small lecture sections and another taught the large lecture section.The traditional section followed the standard schedule for ENGR 106 of two 50-minute lecturesessions and a 110-minute laboratory. Both small sections followed a schedule of a single 110-minute lecture session and a 110-minute laboratory. The single longer lecture period was utilizedto reduce the time lost for distribution and collection of laptops. Weekly material coverage wasthe same for all lecture sections, as were other aspects of course administration.For the experimental lecture section, a mobile LAN consisting of 25 wireless-equipped laptopcomputers, a wireless access point unit, and a security

Conference Session

Novel Courses for CHEs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

InformationThe title of the undergraduate (senior level) course is “Fundamentals of Controlled Release”, andthe title of the graduate course is “Controlled Release Theory, Technology and Applications”.Students registered for these courses meet together during a common class meeting time. To beconsistent with the level of the courses, students registered for graduate credit have additionalresponsibilities on take-home assignments, laboratory reports, exams, and the semester project.Both courses are three-credit courses, and meet once per week in the evening for approximatelythree hours.There is no required textbook for the course. Required reading and supplemental materials areassigned periodically throughout the semester, and students obtain this

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Salahuddin Qazi, State University of New York, Institute of Tech, Utica, New York and Mohawk Valley Community College; Robert C. Decker, Mohawk Valley Community College

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

education. He is a member of IEEE.Robert C Decker, Mohawk Valley Community College Mr. Robert C. Decker is a Professor in the Center for Mathematics, Engineering, Physical Science, and Applied Technology at Mohawk Valley Community College in Utica, NY. Mr. Decker is Co-Principal Investigator in the NSF-CCLI project ”Instructional Laboratory for Visualization and Manipulation of Nanoscale Components Using Low Cost Atomic Force Microscopes” with Professor Salahuddin Qazi of the SUNY Institute of Technology in Utica, NY. Page 22.1668.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

P. David Fisher; Diane Rover

faculty members resided in different buildings, hindering interactions and cooperation.2. The CpE program was patched together using existing CpS- and EE-coded courses and had no distinctive qualities.3. Through the internal self study, the following areas were identified as having deficiencies warranting academic-program revisions: a. Use of high-level languages in the curriculum; b. Formal integration of hardware-software issues; c. Use of contemporary engineering design tools; and d. Major engineering design experience.4. The two electrical-engineering laboratories that serviced the CpE program were outdated.5. Only weak interactions existed between the employers of CpE graduates and the CpE faculty.6. Only weak

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Vincent R. Capece; William E. Murphy; G. T. Lineberry; Bonita L. Lykins

exception of the director, will be filled in a special-title series. These positions are primarily upper division nine-month teaching appointments. However, due to thenature of the Paducah program, these appointments involve additional assignments, including studentrecruitment from local high schools and the business community, undergraduate laboratory and Page 5.222.3computer software development, assistance with summer job placement for students, and professionaldevelopment. The traditional responsibilities involving instruction, academic advisement, anduniversity service also apply. Because of these unique responsibilities and the

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy C. Scott; John P. O'Connell

students lack essential connections between scientific/technologicaldescriptions and physical behavior of real systems. We believe that a successful first course inengineering thermodynamics must address these issues by careful and comprehensive pedagogyand assessment. This paper describes our approach that involves laboratory workshops.In our course is taken principally by mechanical and chemical engineering majors. For it, wehave developed nearly a dozen 1-hour laboratory sessions to augment classroom activities and tofacilitate student growth in connecting descriptions to behavior. These include 1) simple customdevices such as piston/cylinder systems and instrumented spray bottles of refrigerant, 2)"familiar" household devices such as bicycle

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas R Phillips

the same way? Now we will turn to some basic comparisons of the threesystems.Credit Systems: Mexican courses carry 6 to 10 units, usually two units or credits for each hour oflecture, and one unit for each hour in laboratory or working groups. Some schools assign units forthe time spent on practical work, class projects, or outside assignments. In general, a 6-unit courseis three lecture hours per week without a laboratory, while 8-unit courses have three hours of lectureplus lab or practical work. Mexican semesters can be as long as 18 weeks, with 2 weeks for Page 2.308.2examinations. Thus, a 6-unit course represents about 48 hours of

Conference Session

Safety and Sustainability in the ChE Classroom

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura P Ford, The University of Tulsa; Gary A Aurand, Penn State University; Chris Barr, University of Michigan; Frank Bowman, University of North Dakota; Hema Ramsurn, The University of Tulsa; Janie Brennan, Washington University in St. Louis; Tracy L. Carter, Northeastern University; Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; Luke Landherr, Northeastern University; David L. Silverstein P.E., University of Kentucky; Stephen Ward Thiel P.E., University of Cincinnati; Bruce K Vaughen P.E., American Institute of Chemical Engineers; Troy J. Vogel, University of Notre Dame

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

Chemical Engineering at Penn State University. He earned a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina State University and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Prior to joining Penn State in 2018, Dr. Aurand was on the faculty in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at the University of Iowa for over two decades. In addition to teaching chemical process safety, Dr. Aurand has extensive experience with all aspects of teaching and managing undergraduate chemical engineering laboratory courses. He also has taught design, thermodynamics, and energy courses multiple times.Dr. Chris Barr, University of Michigan Dr. Christopher Barr is the instructional laboratory

Conference Session

Technology in the ECE Classroom

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Frederick C Berry, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Mohamed F. Chouikha, Howard University; Dianna Newman, University at Albany/SUNY; Meghan Morris Deyoe, The Evaluation Consortium; Gavin Anaya; William Brubaker, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

through grad school generallyrequires expensive, complex equipment and thus is typically built around elaborate facilities withwell-trained staff support. Mobile Studio Pedagogy (using the Mobile Studio Desktop softwareand the I/O board) makes it possible for instructors and students to participate in hands-onlearning to any place they have a computer. Mobile Studio gives them access, at any time andany place, to a full electronics laboratory for the price of a textbook; students have a portablelab in which tinkering is again possible; requiring only a spark of interest - not a big budget.With a good start provided by interested and dedicated teachers, student accomplishments areonly limited by their imagination. Since the Mobile Studio provides

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Robert Wyatt; Emir Jose Macari

soilmechanics theory and hands-on experience in laboratory testing of soils. The Soil-MIST (ModelInstruction and Simulated Testing) program was developed to combine the two, by teachingtheoretical concepts of constitutive modeling in the more familiar context of laboratory strengthtests. It is an outgrowth of a proposed “virtual reality” soil testing environment1. As such, abeta version of the software was first developed in Summer 1997 as simply a test simulator,where the user supplied data to define the soil to be tested, to specify the loading and drainageconditions, and to control how results were displayed. The Modified Cam Clay (MCC)constitutive model was used to predict results.The initial version of Soil-MIST had three data input screens

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Rama K. Vedachalam; George L. Engel

everything from MOS transistor theory and CMOSprocess technology through circuit and logic design, up to and including the design andsynthesis of digital systems using a hardware description language in a one-semesterintroductory course in VLSI design. Topics addressed in this paper include course content,laboratory exercises, final design project, and the overall effectiveness of using state-of-the-art,industry-standard CAD tools in helping to teach VLSI design to first-time students.I. IntroductionThis paper describes the experiences of a teaching assistant and an instructor in EE 484: DigitalVLSI Design during the Spring ’98 semester at Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville(SIUE). The course is fast becoming a popular elective for

Conference Session

Structure and Form in Architectural Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cole McDaniel, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Graham Archer, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Architectural

structure that bear little resemblance to reality.Unfortunately, the construction of a computational model is typically one of the first tasks ayoung engineer is asked to perform. In order to address this issue, the authors are constructing aseries of experimental and analytical laboratory exercises which challenge the student‟sconfidence in computer results. In the current work, forced vibration tests of the building areperformed to obtain both the natural frequencies and the resulting mode shapes. In this paper,the procedure to experimentally determine the mode shapes is described. The student predictionsof the building response before and after experiencing the ambient and forced vibrationlaboratories are then examined. One might think that

Conference Session

Green Renewable Energy and Engineering Technology

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian G. Belu, Drexel University; Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University, Goodwin College of Professional Studies, Engineering Technology Program

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

. Thisrequires the development of innovative curricula, new courses, and laboratories to educateengineering students to work in this rapidly developing industry. This paper presents thedevelopment of a multi-disciplinary course on alternative energy technology. The motivation forthe course is outlined and a detailed description of the topics covered in the course is given.Sample student projects, and students’ responses, as well as the students’ evaluations to thecourse are also presented. The course is a part of our new projected renewable energyconcentration of the Engineering Technology (ET) program at our university. The course is alsooffered as an elective for the new graduate ET program at our university.IntroductionEnvironmental concerns, the