Conference Session

Issues and Direction in ET Education and Administration: Part II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carmine Balascio, University of Delaware

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

departmental laboratory space for teaching laboratory-rich ET subject matter.≠ Recruitment of faculty who can contribute to a general ET program when hiring decisions are based primarily on the ability of a potential tenure-track faculty member to support the research mission of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources – a mission that does not specifically include research related to ET.≠ Recruitment of faculty in a department with no doctoral program and only a fledgling master’s program.The role of adjunct faculty, future evolution of the ET program at UD, and implications forprograms in more conventional settings are also discussed.Introduction:The history of the general ET program at the University of Delaware (UD) goes

Conference Session

Software Engineering Teaching Techniques

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janusz Zalewski, Florida Gulf Coast University; Andrew Kornecki, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Jerzy Nogiec, Fermi National Accelerator Lab

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

, Fermi National Accelerator Lab Jerzy Nogiec is the Software Development and Support Group Leader at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and an adjunct professor of Computer Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology. His research interests, in addition to software engineering education, include distributed systems and data acquisition systems. Page 14.1152.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Teaching Software Development for Modern Real-Time Data Acquisition and ControlAbstractModern data acquisition and control systems, in the most demanding

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Parker; Walter Buchanan

. However, they may burden the student with a need to apply thealgebra of circuit analysis to more complex circuits than the traditional curriculum. The need is to applymathematical models (for example, simultaneous equations) to various example circuits in DC and AC circuitanalysis. The authors describe a teaching strategy and a curriculum model which uses a circuit simulator towork with circuits as if they had laboratory test instruments available, giving the flavor of a real laboratory, andmathematics software which permits students to interact with mathematical solutions to obtain graphical,numerical and symbolic results. Such a curriculum brings the mathematics of circuit analysis into the sameframework of interactive discovery as the rest of

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

H. Paul Haiduk; Donald J. Bagert; Ben A. Calloni

all the major programming constructs and data structures within a syntax-directedenvironment. The user can then generate syntactically correct code for any one of several text-based languagessuch as C++ and Pascal. More recently, work on adding object-oriented extensions to BACCII for use in thedata structures/object-oriented programming (CS2) course was undertaken, resulting in BACCII++. Recent research involving BACCII had included the development of a complete set of course materials forthe use of BACCII++ in teaching both CS1 and CS2 using C++. Laboratory courseware, tutorials and othermaterials were developed. An experiment, addressing the question "Can icon-based programming languages beused to teach first-year programming concepts

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Nick Zelver; John Sears; Bill Costerton

science and engineering, and (3) assist in thedirect transfer of research discoveries from university laboratories to industry. The graduate program of the Center for Biofilm Engineering (CBE) currently includes 45 graduatestudents in Engineering (26), Letters and Science (16), Agriculture (1), and Business (2), representing 10different academic graduate programs. These academic programs all have different pedagogic traditions andtheir graduate degrees have different criteria but each student is registered in his/her home department andsubscribes, with his/her thesis advisor, to the traditions of each discipline. Because the CBE involves facultymembers in a wide spectrum of different degrees of involvement, from total integration to

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Russell A. Aubrey; Dennis O. Owen; Jack Beasley

active learning in the classroom. They indicate that when students are actively involved in learning, they learn more than when they are passive recipients of instructions. “2 Three to four activities per session, each of thirty to forty minutes duration, seem to provide the best mix of challenge and diversity. Activities that required more time to master presented attention span problems for the high school students. They tended to lose interest. The number of high school students participating in the program required breaking the class into several smaller groups. Laboratory facilities available at the Anderson and Muncie Purdue sites can accommodate ten to twenty students per activity and maintain an acceptably low student to

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Troy E. Kostek

connectedvia a LAN) can communicate with one another using DDE. With the large variety of Windows-based dataacquisition and control software available, DDE plays a vital role in the integration of today’s automatedmanufacturing systems. As educators of students that will be entering the complex world of automatedmanufacturing, it is important to introduce the concepts of DDE and to teach how DDE can be used as anintegration tool. This paper describes the fundamentals of DDE and provides two case studies of how DDEis used as an integration tool in laboratory-based manufacturing courses at Purdue University. .-. Clients and Servers In any one particular DDE conversation, there is one server (also called

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Ratan Kumar; Phillip R. Foster; George W. Watt

North Texasto bring the Mechanical Engineering Technology (MEET) and the Manufacturing EngineeringTechnology (MFET) programs closer together so that the students in either discipline getsignificant exposure to both design and manufacturing functions. A project to manufacture testequipment for laboratory use was selected as a means of demonstrating the usefulness ofconcurrent engineering. This selection had some advantages since the fixtures, tools, devices,and test specimens could be used in other labs, thus reducing the laboratory operating costs, andat the same time giving the students realistic problems to solve in the process of learning vitaldesign and manufacturing functions. ActivityThe faculty

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Strategies in Engineering Graphics

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

AC 2009-60: DESIGN UNDER ALTERNATIVE INCENTIVES: TEACHINGSTUDENTS THE IMPORTANCE OF FEATURE SELECTION ANDORGANIZATION IN CADMichael Johnson, Texas A&M University Johnson is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M, he was a senior product development engineer at the 3M Corporate Research Laboratory in St. Paul, Minnesota for three years. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Johnson’s research focuses on design tools, specifically, the cost modeling and

Conference Session

Assessment and Continuous Improvement in Engineering Technology: Part I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara Christe, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Elaine Cooney, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

outlines and textbooks for all courses required for graduation. Sufficient examples of student work in technical, mathematics, and science courses must be available to the visiting team for the entire campus visit. The examples should show a range of grades for assignments, including homework, quizzes, examinations, drawings, laboratory reports, projects, and samples of computer usage in technical courses. Examples must also be presented to demonstrate compliance with the requirement for student competence in written and oral communications.1To meet this directive, student assignments such as quizzes, homework assignments, laboratoryreports and tests, related to a particular course, were typically duplicated and

Conference Session

New ET Curriculum and Teaching Methods

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Neuman, Queensborough Community College; David Lieberman, Queensborough Community College; Don Engelberg, Queensborough Community College; Alex Flamholz, Queensborough Community College; Paul Marchese, Queensborough Community College; George Tremberger, Queensborough Community College; Tak Cheung, Queensborough Community College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

currently serving as PI on a NSF grant on designing remote laser laboratory for teaching techniciansDon Engelberg, Queensborough Community College Don Engelberg is a Professor of Physics at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York. His research interests include nuclear physics, laser physics, and education. He was awarded several NSF grants and is currently serving as PI on a NSF grant in laser physics education.Alex Flamholz, Queensborough Community College Alex Flamholz is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York. His research interests include bio-physics, electronics, and education. He worked in

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Ollis, North Carolina State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

SamuelFlorman, Kreisler-Borg Construction, author "Engineering and the Liberal Arts" 2. "Seeing your discipline as inherently bidisciplinary". Example: DavidBillington (NAE), Princeton,civil engineering as "structural art", author: "TheInnovators" 3. "Cross-college Collaboration:" Example: Our NSF-funded NCSUcollaboration to use an engineering device dissection laboratory to enhance achievementof student learning objectives for courses taught in our Colleges of Humanities and SocialSciences (Foreign languages: Spanish and French), Design (Industrial design studio), andEducation (Technology Education track).Introduction Among the eleven ABET EC 2000 criteria1 is found the requirement that everyengineering graduate have “an

Conference Session

Computing Curriculum

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Bailey, Brigham Young University; Barry Lunt, Brigham Young University; Gordon Romney, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

form in this era, even among the early adopters of the technology.Rather, computer laboratories were formed, usually within electrical engineeringdepartments. Computer access was reserved for graduate students and faculty.Interesting enough, several of the early computer adopters were not among the first toform academic computer science departments. For example, Harvard’s early researchinto mechanical devices may have delayed its adoption of the more capable digitalelectronic devices when they later became available. In addition, several of the firstuniversities with computers were from the Ivy League, and such institutions are oftenreluctant to support applied science rather than liberal arts, as was illustrated by Harvardpresident Nathan

Conference Session

Curriculum for Green Materials

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natalie Becknell, Garver Engineers; Micah Hale, University of Arkansas; Seamus Freyne, University of Oklahoma; Stephan Durham, University of Arkansas; Anthony Lamanna, Tulane University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

of theclass. The remaining 40 percent is divided between steel and wood. The laboratory exercisesalso focus on mixing and testing concrete.Project RequirementsDepending on the size of the class, groups of 4 to 5 students are formed (typically the same astheir laboratory groups). The groups are allowed to use any material in the civil engineeringlaboratory for their Greencrete mixture. The available materials, costs, and properties are shownbelow in Table 2. Table 2. Available Materials and Properties. Absorption Material Cost/ton Specific Gravity

Conference Session

Capstone Courses I

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Sanders, Kettering University; Mark Thompson, Kettering University; Mohamed El-Sayed, Kettering University; Lucy King, Kettering University; Michael Lindquist, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering Constituent Committee

electromechanical principles through studying the mechanics and electronic controlof these components. They discuss the nature of the product, the design principles andconstraints used, the material selection, and the manufacturing processes. The IME-100 courseincludes IME laboratories where freshman students learn to perform basic manufacturingprocesses. These processes provide them the skills necessary to manufacture a RoboBug. TheIME-100 course also has an ECE laboratory component where freshmen students build a circuitto be placed on a small robot. The robot is then used in the course to demonstrate systemintegration and simple programming in an effort to coordinate a walking motion

Conference Session

Improving ME education: Broad Topics

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kim Shollenberger, California Polytechnic State University; James Widmann, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

eight years at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, before joining the faculty at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, as an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Currently she teaches thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics. Her research is in the area of multiphase flows and computational modeling of thermal-fluid systems. Page 11.1168.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Student use of Textbook Solution Manuals: Student and Faculty Perspectives in a Large Mechanical Engineering DepartmentAbstractAnecdotal evidence

Conference Session

Projects in Manufacturing Curriculum

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael G. Mauk, Drexel University; Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Shraman Kadapa, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

been used by us inengineering courses and laboratories, either as demonstrations or student hands-on work forundergraduate Engineering Technology programs. These courses include: 1) undergraduateEngineering Materials, 2) CNC machining operations, 3) Rapid Prototyping, 4) Introduction toNanotechnology, 5) Robotics, 6) Quality Assurance, and 7) Renewable Energy Engineering. Aslaboratory exercises, each instrument can be learned in a time frame of 30-60 minutes. With theexception of the AFM, most of these instruments range in cost from $100 to $1000, and can bereadily interfaced with a laptop computer. We emphasize concepts related to correlating andcollaborating measurements by different techniques. Further, many of these techniques can bedone

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Curtis Cohenour P.E., Ohio University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

engineer and project manager. He joined Ohio University in 2002 as a research engineer working for the Ohio University Avionics Engineering Cen- ter. He has worked on projects covering a wide variety of avionics and navigation systems such as, the Instrument Landing System (ILS), Microwave Landing System (MLS), Distance Measuring Equipment (DME), LAAS, WAAS, and GPS. His recent work has included research with the Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, aimed at understanding and correcting image geo-registration errors from a number of airborne platforms. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017Teaching Finite State Machines (FSMs) as Part of a Programmable Logic Control (PLC

Conference Session

CoED Mechanical Engineering Topics

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Michael Mahoney, Penn State Berks ; Rungun Nathan, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Health at Work.Dr. Rungun Nathan, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus Dr. Rungun Nathan is an associate professor and program coordinator for the mechanical engineering in the division of engineering at Penn State Berks. He got his BS from University of Mysore, DIISc from Indian Institute of Science, MS from Louisiana State University and PhD from Drexel University. He has worked in the area of Electronic Packaging in C-DOT (India) and then as a Scientific Assistant in the Robotics laboratory at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He worked as a post-doc at University of Pennsylvania in the area of Haptics and Virtual Reality. His research interests are in the areas of unmanned vehicles particularly

Conference Session

Using Real-World Examples

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Felipe Euyoqui Mojica, University of California, Merced; Po-Ya Abel Chuang, University of California, Merced; Uriel Ruiz

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

electrolysis, thermal management, loop heat pipe, two-phase heat transfer and fluid flow, and porous material. Prof. Chuang received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from National Cheng-Kung University in Taiwan. In 2003, he received his doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering from Penn State University. In 2004, Prof. Chuang led research projects at Penn State as a Postdoctoral Scholar to study water distribution in a PEM fuel cell using neutron radiography sponsored by both General Motors and Toyota Motors. Between 2005 and 2011, Prof. Chuang worked at the fuel cell laboratory in General Motors leading efforts in material development, cell integration, and stack diagnostic. Between 2007 and 2011, Prof

Conference Session

Research Experiences at Two-year Colleges

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul B Golter, Washington State University; Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University; Jeffrey Laube, Kenai Peninsula College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

Paper ID #19048Developing a working 2-year/4-year research program: experiences from thefirst year of a collaborative ATE grant.Dr. Paul B Golter, Washington State University Paul B. Golter obtained an M.S. and Ph.D. from Washington State University. His research area has been engineering education, specifically around the development and assessment of technologies to bring fluid mechanics and heat transfer laboratory experiences into the classroom. He is currently a Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Ohio University.Prof. Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University Prof. Bernard J. Van Wie received his B.S., M.S

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Wednesday Potpourri

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Ann Marasco, University of Calgary; Mohammad Moshirpour, University of Calgary; Mahmood Moussavi, University of Calgary

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

run during a 13-week fall semester, and in recentyears have had an enrollment total averaging 800 students. A second offering is made availablein the spring or summer semesters, usually with a much smaller class size.Prior to July 2015, ENGG 233 followed a traditional lecture format. Content was deliveredduring three one-hour lectures each week in a large theater-style format. Students practiced theirapplication skills in C++ programming during a two-hour weekly laboratory period withguidance from graduate student teaching assistants. In 2015, the faculty decided to redesign thecourse with emphasis on algorithmic thinking and exploratory, applied learning [Pears, 2007].The language of focus was changed to Processing, a Java-based language

Conference Session

Manufacturing Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nikki Larson, Western Washington University; David Frye, Western Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

application.Previous Course Content:Since 2012 the content of the Introduction to Composites (PCE 372) course consisted of lecturetopics, a prescribed laboratory exercise, and two projects. The lecture content covered a largevariety of topics but had its focus in room temperature materials and processes. An AdvancedComposites course was (and is) also part of the curriculum and focused more on classicallamination theory and elevated temperature materials and manufacturing process.The prerequisite for the introductory course is an introduction to polymers and processing thatmainly focused on the basics of polymer chemistry and thermoplastic materials. The goal of theintroductory composites course is to enable the students to understand the basics of

Conference Session

Mechanics Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Sonya Dick, California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo; Jay Tyler Davis II, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Bradley Wash, California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

Paper ID #25896Teaching Mechanics Concepts Using a Motion Analysis SystemDr. Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Brian Self obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech, and his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Utah. He worked in the Air Force Research Laboratories before teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy for seven years. Brian has taught in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo since 2006. During the 2011-2012 academic year he participated in a professor exchange, teaching at the Munich University of

Conference Session

International STEM Education: International Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sanjeev Adhikari, Kennesaw State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

International

local towns people (students) attend the school where on the weekends he sends trucks into themountains to pick up students who have no or little access to education so they can attend school.The school taught basic subject material but lacked skilled trades training.This was an eye-opening moment for what opportunities will these students have to live and thrivein the year 2030 and beyond. Armed with this information SKY ventured out to make a differencein the training needs of the kids in this community. SKY launched a project that would convertand recycle shipping containers into skilled trades laboratories (Figure 1). Recruiting threeAlabama schools, SKY committed to supplying the community of Belfate, Honduras with fourcontainer classrooms

Collection

2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

Authors

Nebojsa I Jaksic P.E., Colorado State University, Pueblo; Trung H Duong, Colorado State University, Pueblo

drawn.Previous WorkIn general, the importance of hands-on laboratory experiences in engineering education isemphasized in many learning theories. For example, according to “Kolb’s Experiential LearningCycle1” students learn best if they follow a cycle (or a spiral) consisting of four steps (axes):experiencing (concrete experience), watching (reflective observation), thinking/modeling (abstractconceptualization), and applying/doing (active experimentation). Within the context of activerobotic experimentation, both reflective observation and active experimentation are claimed asessential parts of the learning process. Kolb’s learning cycle has been used in many engineeringeducation programs such as civil2-4, mechanical4, chemical2, 3, 5, industrial6

Conference Session

Green and Sustainable Manufacturing Practices

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso; Aditya Akundi, University of Texas, El Paso; Hoejin Kim, University of Texas, El Paso

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

technology at Korea Tech in 2008 and a master degree in manufacturing engineering technology at Oregon Institute of Technology in 2014. His research interests are focused on 3D printing of piezo-, pyro-, and dielelectric materials for pressure/temperature/strain sensors and energy storage. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 4D Printing of Pressure Sensors Devices for Engineering EducationAbstractThis paper elaborates on the development of laboratory project modules in the Industrialmanufacturing and systems engineering department at The University of Texas El Paso based onFour-Dimensional (4D) printing technology. These modules are aimed at introducing the studentsto interdisciplinary

Conference Session

ET Pedagogy II

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Garth V. Crosby, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

experiences be evaluated?A study of two groups of students in a Digital Fundamentals lab-based course is presented. Bothgroups of students completed identical experiments and differed only in the environment and testequipment used to conduct the experiments. The on-campus students completed the labs in theregular semester in the physical laboratory facility on campus. The online (distance education)students also completed the lab in the regular semester during the same time period as the on-campus students. However, the online students used breadboards and miniaturized testequipment and portable power supplies. Both groups were supplied with the same componentssuch as integrated circuit chips. Both groups were assigned lab partners and encouraged to

Conference Session

ET Pedagogy I

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher David LeBlanc, University of New Hampshire; Donald J. Plante, University of New Hampshire

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

engineering analysis.In 2013 UNHM established the Engineering Computing Laboratory (ECL). Initially the ECLwas intended to house the Senior Capstone project laboratory for Engineering and ComputingTechnology students. The 1,900 square foot facility was funded by a private foundation and hasseveral workbenches outfitted with electronic work stations and light material fabricationequipment. In 2016 a 3D printer laboratory was added, currently there are eight 3D printers and atable top CNC machine, shown in Figure 1. Initially the facility was secured and onlyEngineering and Computer Technology students were allowed badge access to the space whilethey were enrolled in a capstone project class. As students, other faculty, and staff became awareof the

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara Kaye Jones, Iowa State University; Mani Mina, Iowa State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

students this opportunity, especially if done in an in-class orlaboratory setting. Laboratory courses give students a more hands-on approach to the conceptsand skills they are learning, making it a great time for individual and group reflection. However,if reflection is to be implemented within the laboratory setting, it is critical that the workload ofthe laboratory is not significantly increased. Adding a reflective portion to laboratory exerciseswithout revising the other activities will most likely contribute to students becoming overworked,which is detrimental to the very thing trying to be accomplished. This is discussed more later.Overall, this evolution towards making connections and reflective learning necessitates a shift inthe mindset