Conference Session

Innovative Program and Curricular Development

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eugene Rutz, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

was required.Considering the existing solutions and the constraints faced in the implementation of anysolution, the collaborators concluded that none of the alternatives was able to provide thesolution needed while meeting the constraints. However, a number of the alternativessignificantly informed the selection of the most appropriate solution.Using what was learned through the process, the collaborators developed a project-based coursethat required students to work in teams to solve open-ended problems. Connections to math andscience content are reinforced through the projects and concepts learned in these courses aregiven a context in the physical world. Many of the projects require written reports andpresentations in order to further

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

William Shelnutt; Monica Lumsdaine; Edward Lumsdaine

approach usable at the fresh-man and senior levels and for multi-level, mutidisciplinary projects. The textbook will be pub-lished by mid-June through McGraw-Hill’s College Custom Series. The paper will describe theapproach and discuss experiences with different parts of the course content. By conference time,additional feedback from senior projects in technology will be available.The integrated approach has a double focus:• Develop the required thinking skills: visualization, cognitive models, communication, team- work, and creative problem solving. Industry as well as the ABET 2000 Criteria demand that engineers have these foundational skills.• Apply the skills in the twelve steps to quality by design. The textbook provides many practical

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Marjorie Skubic

to sensor-based control of mobile robots. Students are grouped into teams of 2-3people, representing multiple disciplines. Each team is assigned a robot kit, which includes asmall micro-controller board, motors, sensors, and technic lego parts. Programming projectsusing the kits are designed to stimulate creativity and exploration. The first three projects arestructured to promote incremental progress, culminating in the completion of a small,autonomous mobile robot. At the completion of each project, each group gives an oralpresentation and demonstration and also submits a written report that becomes part of the labmanual. For the final project, the class collectively designs an experiment on cooperative robots,redesigns the team robots as

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Parviz Famouri; Heather Collier; Brian Inman; Wils L. Cooley

Session 2525 COMPETITIONS AS A VEHICLE FOR TEACHING ENGINEERING DESIGN Wils L. Cooley, Parviz Famouri, Heather D. Collier, Brian Inman West Virginia UniversityAbstractThe Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at WVU has had an engineeringSenior Design Project sequence for nearly 25 years. During the 1997-98 sequence, oneundergraduate student design team participated in an IEEE regional design competition. Theteam members chose their project specifically with the intention of entering their design in thisregional competition, in contrast to

Conference Session

Design with External Clients

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiang Guo, California State University Los Angeles; Jose Macias, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Jimmy Hoo, California State University Los Angeles; Rony Velasquez, California State University Los Angeles; Maxim Fastovsky, California State University Los Angeles; James Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; SaeRom Hong, California State University Los Angeles

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

project. OurNASA senior design project Mission Assurance Management Environment is to increase thereliability, availability, and safety of unmanned aircraft, by focusing on implementing the JetPropulsion Laboratory, JPL, Flight Project Practices, FPPs, and Design Practices, DPs, in anintegrated software environment. This project enables the students at California State UniversityLos Angeles to understand the function and scope of the spacecraft mission assurance activitiesand to make contribution to NASA ESMD. During the senior design project implementation,students work with their advisor and NASA expert to conduct the research on mission assurancemanagement and improve their related technical background of the project, including

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonard Perry

meaningful the students need to apply the knowledge andinformation learned in the classroom in a real world environment. Service-Learning provides a“hands-on” opportunity for students to develop these skills.In the Fall of 2000, a community service project was identified with the Business ProcessRedesign (BPR) group at University of San Diego (USD). The Oracle corporation isimplementing new a enterprise resource planning system throughout USD. The BusinessProcess Redesign group assists each department at USD in defining and documenting of theircurrent as-is processes because the departments are overwhelmed with current day-to-dayoperations and do not have the time or expertise to document their current processes. During Fall2000 and Fall 2001, ISE

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

J. William Shelnutt; S. Gary Teng

-thesis option or two elective coursesfor thesis option.EMGT 6142 Quality and Manufacturing Management (3)EMGT 6901 Advanced Project Management (3)MBAD 6141 Operations Management (3)MBAD 6161 Organizational Leadership and Behavior (3)MBAD 6164 Executive Communications (3) Page 7.1138.2MBAD 6195 Strategic Management of Technology (3) Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2342EMGT faculty

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert J. Albright P.E., University of Portland

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

that finding such an appropriate balancebetween depth and breadth of education, especially one with complementary aspects, is anongoing challenge. The balance point is not stagnant, but varies from time-to-time and place-to-place depending on societal needs and technological developments.The focus of this paper is to summarize our curricular changes, with their rationale, beginningwith the ones that apply to all of our School's curricula. The major changes include reinstituting acommon first-year of study to aid students in selecting a major, enhancing the capstone designsequence to encourage and facilitate more multi-disciplinary projects, and designating ninesemester hours of existing credits as "professional electives" that can be, for

Collection

2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Robert S. Woodley

2024 ASEE Midwest Section Annual Conference Failure Mode: An Engineering Capstone Case Study of Educating Despite Failures Robert Woodley1 1Associate Teaching Professor: Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri USA; rwoodley@mst.eduAbstractIn the modern engineering curriculum, the highlight of the students’ careers is the capstone classwhere they get to show off their abilities. However, the greatest learning tool they experience isfailure. Capstone projects can be challenging. In this paper, a case study of five

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Mohammadjafar Esmaeili; Ali Eydgahi

stated that theintroductory college classes in STEM are more theoretical students listening. Although these methodologies have beenoriented and freshman students have limited opportunities to widely used to teach college students, they are not adequate forgain hands on experiences with joy of the learning thought doing. new generation of college students who are intelligent, talentedIn another word, freshman students get demotivated through the and energetic [2-3].tedious teaching styles of faculty talking and students listening. Alot of studies have attempted to measure the success of project- Today’s students need to do more than just “sit and listen” tobased and active learning methodology that are

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Atadero, Colorado State University; Jody Paul, Metropolitan State University of Denver; Karen Rambo-Hernandez, Texas A&M University; Melissa Morris, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Christopher Griffin, West Virginia University; Christina Paguyo, University of Denver; Scott Leutenegger; Ronald Delyser; Robin Hensel, West Virginia University; Anne Marie Casper

and prepare for success in their engineering majors and future careers. Hensel holds a doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction, focusing on STEM teaching in higher education, and B.S. and M.A. degrees in Mathematics. Prior to joining academia, she worked with engineering teams and in project management and administration as a Mathematician and Computer Systems Analyst for the U. S. Department of Energy. She has over 30 years of experience teaching mathematics, statistics, computer science, and fundamental engineering courses as well as serving in several administrative roles within higher education. Throughout her career, Hensel has created a childcare facility at a federal research lab, coached middle school

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session: Pedogogy and Training

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Srikanth Gururajan, Saint Louis University; Samantha Carlowicz; Justin Fantroy, Saint Louis University; haochen rong, Saint Louis University; Claire Schuessler, Saint Louis University

their degree on thesuccess of their final capstone projects (specialization). Within some engineering programs, adisconnect can occur when the specialized interests of the student do not align well with therequired or offered course material. This paper identifies some areas where students had gaps intheir knowledge and experiences, as well as what they had to do to fill in those gaps. Themethods used to gather the reflections included a survey of alumni as well as expanded casestudies provided by the authors. The findings suggest that required course-tracks are lackinghands-on engineering experiences such as learning about manufacturing or the use of specializedsoftware programs. Further, some course-tracks focus on particular topics in

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Cecilia La Place, Arizona State University; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Division

as far west as Southern California to as far east as Pennsylvania.Dr. Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus SHAWN JORDAN, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of En- gineering at Arizona State University. He teaches context-centered electrical engineering and embedded systems design courses, and studies the use of context and storytelling in both K-12 and undergraduate engineering design education. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Education (2010) and M.S./B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Jordan is PI on several NSF-funded projects related to design, including an NSF Early CAREER Award entitled ”CAREER

Conference Session

Technical Capacity Bldg for Developing Countries & Service Learning

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Jordan, Baylor University; Glenn Blalock, Baylor University; Walter Bradley, Baylor University; Cynthia Fry, Baylor University; Anne Grinols, Baylor University; Brian Thomas, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

International

cellular telephone industry, primarily in the field of microwave filters, duplexers, and other passive circuits. His current interests are in appropriate technology for developing countries, in particular, rural electrification schemes using renewable sources such as solar photovoltaic, micro-hydro, Page 13.1359.1 small wind power, and biogas. Since 2005 he has been taking small teams of engineering students to locations in Kenya and Honduras to implement engineering service projects for marginalized and/or impoverished groups. He is the co-founder of a student organization called

Conference Session

The Senior Experience: Capstone and Beyond

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Niehaus, University of Cincinnati; Anant Kukreti, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

executed as a three-quarter IntegratedDesign Sequence (IDS) course, offered in conjunction with a practicing professional engineer(client), and other practitioners and faculty members acting as mentors. IDS is an innovative andambitious three-course series focusing on a single design theme with multiple components thatencourage interaction among traditional CEE specialty areas (e.g., construction, environmental,geotechnical, structural, transportation, water resources). Students work in design teams, like adesign firm, and submit feasibility, design and construction plans, and associated cost estimatesfor a real-world project. Students must interface with a “client” and a group (consisting of 6 to 8members) of “industry advisors” or practitioners

Conference Session

Product Development and Manufacturing

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jay R Porter, Texas A&M University; Joseph A. Morgan, Texas A&M University; Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, instrumentation, and entrepreneurship.Dr. Joseph A. Morgan, Texas A&M University Joseph A. Morgan has over 20 years of military and industry experience in electronics and telecommunica- tions systems engineering. He joined the Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution Department in 1989 and has served as the Program Director of the Electronics and Telecommunications Programs and as the Associate Department Head for Operations. He received his BS degree in electrical engineering (1975) from California State University, Sacramento, and his MS (1980) and DE (1983) degrees in in- dustrial engineering from Texas A&M University. His education and research interests include project management, innovation and

Conference Session

Enhancing Engineering Management

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Philip Mayhorn, Univerisity of North Carolina, Charlotte; Ertunga C Ozelkan, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

Paper ID #7075Partnering With Students to Continuously Improve the Systems Engineering& Engineering Management ProgramDr. Jonathan Philip Mayhorn, Univerisity of North Carolina, Charlotte Dr. Jonathan Mayhorn currently works for AT&T as a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt where he coaches those who lead projects to improve processes in the Construction and Engineering Department. He recently became a certified Project Management Professional. Jonathan also serves as an Adjunct where he teaches four classes in the Systems Engineering & Engineering Management Department at the University of North Carolina at

Conference Session

Two-year College Potpourri

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; Karen Wosczyna-Birch, CT College of Technology; Charlotte B. Forrest

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

, she has served as Executive Director of the South Carolina Advanced Technological (SC ATE) Center of Excellence, leading initiatives and grant-funded projects to develop educational leadership and increase the quantity, quality and diversity of highly skilled technicians to support the American economy. Craft currently serves as Principal Investigator (PI), Mentor-Connect: Leadership Development and Outreach for ATE; PI, South Carolina National Resource Center for Expanding Excellence in Technician Education (SCATE); Co-PI, ATE Regional Center for Aviation and Automotive Technology Education Using Virtual E-Schools (CA2VES); and Co-PI, Centers Collaborative for Technical Assistance (CCTA). The SC ATE Center is

Conference Session

What's New in Engineering Economy

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Sullivan; Lawrence Ambs; Julia Sullivan; John Dixon; Janis Terpenny

Session 2139 The Engineering Economics of Energy Use and Capital Investment Janis P. Terpenny, Lawrence L. Ambs, John R. Dixon, Julia L. Sullivan,1 and William G. Sullivan2 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA1/ Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA2AbstractA potential capital investment involving energy use or energy conservation is always incompetition with other possible uses of the same available capital. The competition may comefrom other energy related projects, or from proposals for, say new

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Capstone and Design

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jamie Szwalek, University of Illinois at Chicago; Yeow Siow, University of Illinois at Chicago; Jaqueline Oxmara Rojas Robles, University of Illinois at Chicago

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

, the quality and quantity of the support staff, in particular undergraduateteaching assistants, were found to be more crucial than anticipated and a robust recruitmentprocess became necessary. The high-stake design project in ME 250 changes each semester toprevent students from obtaining a set of solutions or project reports from prior terms, so teachingassistant training is continuous. The specifics of each problem encountered will be described inthe paper, along with lesson learned on how best to handle each situation and create a structurewhere continuous improvement can be made sustainable.Keywords: first year design, mechanical engineering, Arduino, project-based engineering1 IntroductionME 250 is a first-year design course offered at

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth A. Debartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology; Wade Lee Robison

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

Paper ID #22376Risk Management and Ethics in Capstone DesignDr. Elizabeth A. DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) Elizabeth A. DeBartolo, PhD is the Director of the Multidisciplinary Senior Design Program at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where students from Biomedical, Computer, Electrical, Industrial, and Mechanical Engineering work together on multidisciplinary teams to complete a 2-semester design and build project. She received her graduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and has worked at RIT since 2000.Prof. Wade Lee Robison c American Society for

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katja Holtta-Otto, University Of Massachusetts-Dartmouth; Pia Helminen, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK); Kalevi Ekman, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK); Thomas Roemer, University of California-San Diego

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

multiple functions in Understanding of PD costs and economy creating a new product (e.g. marketing, finance, industrial design, engineering, production). Ability to work out project plan and schedules, manage resources, manage risks, complete a Ability to coordinate multiple, interdisciplinary project successfully, and communicate and tasks in order to achieve a common objective. document effectively. Reinforcement of specific knowledge from other courses through practice and reflection in an action-oriented setting

Conference Session

Novel Courses and Content for ChEs II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margot Vigeant, Bucknell University; James Maneval, Bucknell University; Michael Prince, Bucknell University; Michael Hanyak, Bucknell University; William Snyder, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

, incorporating economics, process simulation, control, Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering Educationtransport, material and energy balances, thermodynamics, safety, and ethics (among otherelements). Due to the scope and scale of these projects, they are generally completedthrough calculation and simulation only.Senior design at Bucknell University is a two-semester sequence composed of two four-credit courses. In this paper, we describe how we moved from the traditional seniordesign sequence, in which both semesters focused on a single simulation-based design ofa styrene plant for a simulated company to one

Conference Session

IT-based Instructional Technologies

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clifton Kussmaul, Muhlenberg College

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

Engineering Education, 2008 Open Source Software to Support Student Teams: Challenges, Lessons, and OpportunitiesAbstractTeam projects have a long history in education, with an extensive literature. Appropriate toolsand procedures can support team projects, and open source software tools present specificopportunities and challenges. Open source software (OSS) generally refers to software that isdistributed without charge and with the original source code, so that anyone can fix defects, addenhancements, or otherwise modify the software and share their changes with others. Thus, OSScan be freely installed on any number of computers, and modified by faculty and students withappropriate knowledge, but it may include

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Dahm, Rowan University; Dom Acciani, Rowan University; Jennifer Courtney, Rowan University; Chenguang Diao, Rowan University; Roberta Harvey, Rowan University; William Riddell, Rowan University; Bernard Pietrucha, Rowan University; Paris von Lockette, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

in 1999. His interests include the physics of polymers and numerical computational methods in materials science. Page 11.359.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 CONVERGING-DIVERGING APPROACH TO DESIGN IN THE SOPHOMORE ENGINEERING CLINICAbstractThe Rowan University Sophomore Engineering Clinic is a two-semester sequence intended toteach engineering design and communication. Historically, the course has been taught withsemester-long projects, one in the fall and one in the spring. An example from the fall 2003 and2004 semesters was the Hoistinator project. Student teams of 4-5 were challenged

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and Innovation in First-Year Programs

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chao Wang, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

of meaningful work, KEEN (Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network)started a movement of fostering an entrepreneurial mindset in young engineers. This paper willdiscuss the experience and evaluation of incorporating entrepreneurial mindset learning in afreshman Introduction to Engineering course.Introduction to Engineering is a one-semester 2-credit hour freshman lecture and lab coursefocusing on teaching engineering design process, with students completing a half-semester longmulti-disciplinary design project. In addition, technical concepts such as engineering drawing,MATLAB and basic disciplinary knowledge are taught along with the introduction of “softskills” such as communication, teamwork and project management. This paper will discuss

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Elizandro, Tennessee Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

regional economic development in the UpperCumberland. The implementation was based on Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge, theAppalachian Regional Commission definitions of Program Areas, and the Morrill Land GrantAct of 1862 with an expanded definition of economic development.A cohort of industrial engineering seniors were instrumental in the design and development ofthe system. Similar to an AmeriCorps VISTA engagement, a characterization of the studentperspective is the opportunity to strengthen an organization so it can continue to serve the needsof the community after the project has ended.The system includes an organizational platform, a strategic planning process based onquantitative measures of regional employment, and a methodology for

Conference Session

Experiential Learning Initiatives

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lei Miao, Middle Tennessee State University; Jamshid E Farzidayeri, Middle Tennessee State University; Walter Boles; Ahad S. Nasab P.E., Middle Tennessee State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

cooking.Dr. Walter BolesDr. Ahad S. Nasab P.E., Middle Tennessee State University Dr. Ahad Nasab received his PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1987. He then worked as a research scientist at the Center for Laser Applications of Physics Research Group of University of Tennessee Space Institute. In 1991 he joined the faculty of Middle Tennessee State University where he is currently the coordinator of the Mechatronics Engineering degree program. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 An indoor Bocce game played by autonomous robotsAbstract: This paper presents a course project assignment in an upper-division engineeringcourse: Controls and Optimizations. Students

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tristan M. Ericson, York College of Pennsylvania; Stephen N. Kuchnicki, York College of Pennsylvania

Tagged Divisions

Materials

independent study over developingan advanced course was quite positive. It was important to have interested and dedicatedstudents on this project, which was ultimately fairly time-consuming. It was also essential toextend the work across two semesters to successfully complete all phases of the project: design,build, create specimens, test, and analyze data.1. IntroductionUndergraduate research is a great mechanism for students to apply their basic skills, developexperimental methods, and to address challenging and difficult problems. Kuh [1] identified thisas one “high-impact” educational experience. Research forces students to wrestle with a problemin much more detail – and for a much longer amount of time – than the majority of theundergraduate

Conference Session

FPD2 -- Highlighting First-Year Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Schimmels, Marquette University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

engineering skills associated with design andcommunication and on personal characteristics associated with good teamwork and effectiveleadership. Small group discussion related to course readings are used to increase studentunderstanding of abstract engineering concepts. Design projects are used to facilitate studenttransfer of their understanding to new contexts.The course sequence has been piloted in the Mechanical Engineering program and was shown tobe quite successful with regard to student achievement and student satisfaction. Plans are beingmade for college-wide implementation of a similar freshman experience emphasizing skill andpersonal characteristic development.1.0 IntroductionThe issues of engineering student engagement and persistence and