Conference Session

Experiences in Teaching Energy Courses

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Riddell, Baker College Of Flint; Anca Sala, Baker College Of Flint

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

inquiry.1. IntroductionAlternative energy (AE) has continued to be a hot-button topic for a number of years. Manycolleges and universities have consequently introduced courses on this topic, having a variety offormats: with1,2 or without3 experimental laboratories, project based4, or based on amultidisciplinary approach5. One issue when covering such a broad field is that many studentsnever get a complete picture on all that is involved or related to a given technology. To that end,with the support of our institution’s curriculum committee, it was decided to develop and offeran overview or introductory class for Mechanical Engineering students. The course must be insupport of the Program Outcomes adopted by our program (included in the Appendix

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

student’s load is measured in Value Unit (UV). The Value Units are the measureof intensity with which a course is taught, takes into reduces to a normalized number the numberof hours per week spent in lectures, laboratories, and the effort a student puts in its own time. Foreach semester, the student must register for the courses required by the plan of study, workloadvaries from 30 UV to 17 UV per semester, averaging 6 courses per semester.The first semesters courses are common and shared with students from other colleges, with arequirement of 31 UV in “General Education” courses. These include Philosophy, Writing,English, Sociology, Algebra, Trigonometry, Physics, and Chemistry. During the secondsemester, the student is introduced to the first

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeremy Linder; Murat Tanyel

senior author has developed a number of “toolkits”,computer simulations written in LabVIEW, to provide virtual laboratories in DSP andCommunication Systems courses. He is quite enthused about these toolkits, but how do thestudents regard them? A questionnaire taken in last year’s class resulted in positive comments aswell as constructive suggestions. This paper will report on the students’ involvement in thedevelopment of the Communication Systems toolkit through their feedback. It will summarizethe reactions of two different classes at different institutions to the same toolkit. It will alsoreport on the efforts taken to address the constructive suggestions and describe the effect ofstudent involvement on the project on learning in the

Conference Session

Simulations and Project-Based Learning II

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Miguel Bazdresch, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST)

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

approacheshave been reported in the discipline-based education research literature. One possibility is torestrict contents to theory. A course can also cover system theory and use simulation as a tool toenhance student understanding and to promote exploration in system design. There are well-regarded textbooks that support this approach.3,4It is also possible to use a numerical language as the basis of hands-on experimentation. Verylow-cost approaches, based on using a computer’s soundcard as an analog front-end, arefeasible.5 Other reported approaches digitize laboratory-generated signals, which are laterprocessed and analyzed by students.6Simulation software can be used at different levels of complexity. For example, block-diagramsimulations where the

Conference Session

Global Perspective and Experiential Learning in Civil Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Mueller PE P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Sue Niezgoda P.E., Gonzaga University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Page 24.642.2Teaching a course in environmental river mechanics / stream restoration provides an opportunityto incorporate experiential learning, as the direct experience of working in the field to collect andanalyze data is essential to a deeper understanding of stream processes. Throughout the course,we participate with the students in weekly field experiences of collecting measurements andvisual observations along Lost Creek, coupled with report submittals that analyze and reflectupon the work completed. Although the RHIT Civil Engineering department incorporateshands-on, laboratory activities in other courses, including Hydraulic Engineering, EnvironmentalEngineering, and Civil Engineering Materials, these are primarily conducted in an

Conference Session

FPD 2: Building Community

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mangilal Agarwal, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Maher E. Rizkalla, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Sudhir Shrestha; Kody Varahramyan, IUPUI

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

1985. From January 1985 to September 1986, he was employed as a Research Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, and an Assistant Professor at Purdue University Calumet until September 1986. Then, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at IUPUI where he is now Professor and Associate Chair of the Department. His research interests include solid State devices, VLSI signal processing, and electromagnetics. He is a senior member of IEEE and a PE registered in the State of Indiana.Dr. Sudhir ShresthaDr. Kody Varahramyan, IUPUI Dr. Kody Varahramyan received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1983. From 1982 to 1992 he was with IBM

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Andrew Smith P.Eng., Ryerson University

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

basic instrumentation systems, including both analog anddigital aspects. The laboratory component focuses on the development of a microcontroller-based instrumentation system that can provide readings to a PC and an onboard LCD fromswitches, accelerometers and load cells.The course is heavily-focused on hands-on work in the laboratory. From student feedback in2009 and 2010 it became apparent that there was a mismatch between the theoretical backgroundprovided in class and the practical work being undertaken in the laboratory. This is reflective of Page 24.739.3the general approach taken in Engineering classes. Engineering instructors are

Conference Session

Micro-Technology and Nanotechnology

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hisham Hegab P.E., Louisiana Tech University; James D Palmer, Louisiana Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Paper ID #7847Assessment and Accreditation of a Nanosystems Engineering Degree at LouisianaTech UniversityDr. Hisham Hegab P.E., Louisiana Tech University Dr. Hegab is Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies and professor of Mechanical Engineering at Louisiana Tech University. He has previously served as the program chair of Microsystems and Nanosys- tems Engineering and provided leadership in developing the B.S. in Nanosystems Engineering program. He has taught lecture courses and laboratories at the undergraduate and graduate level in areas of thermal design, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, microsystems

Conference Session

CAD Assessments, Trends and Applications

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Srikanth B Pidugu, University of Arkansas, Little Rock; Mamdouh M. Bakr, University of Arkansas, Little Rock; Swaminadham Midturi, University of Arkansas, Little Rock; George P Tebbetts, University of Arkansas, Little Rock

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

assess specific student outcome(s).We selected a first yearcomputer graphics course to satisfy criterion (f) of the associate of science (AS) degree. Per toETAC of ABET, student outcome (f) requires that the program must demonstrate students’ability to apply written, oral, and graphical communication in both technical and non-technicalenvironments; and an ability to identify and use appropriate technical literature.Structure of Computer Graphics Course The first year computer graphics course at UALR is a traditional engineering drawingscourse and the course incorporates the use of modern tools such as AutoCAD. This course is forthree semester credit hours with 30 contact lecture hours and 45 laboratory contact hours in asemester. The

Conference Session

FPD 7: First-Year Engineering Courses, Part II: Perceptions and Paradigms

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Esmaeili, University of Dayton; Ali Eydgahi, Eastern Michigan University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Paper ID #7138By the Students, for the students: A New Paradigm for Better Achieving theLearning ObjectivesMr. Mohammadjafar EsmaeiliDr. Ali Eydgahi, Eastern Michigan University Dr. Eydgahi is a professor in the school of Engineering Technology at Eastern Michigan University. He has supervised a number of graduate thesis and undergraduate projects in the areas of Unmanned Vehicle Design, Sensor Fusion, Speaker Recognition Design, Virtual Reality and Visualization, Digital Signal Processing, Control Systems, Robotics and Systems Automation. He has an extensive experience in curriculum and laboratory design and development

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tomas Cavanagh; Richard Gilbert; Linda Austin; Edwin Goolsby; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

Florida.In the summer of 2003, Workforce Florida, Inc. awarded a $1.2 million contract to FloridaCommunity College at Jacksonville (FCCJ) and its partners from Florida academic institutions andindustry to develop a comprehensive training curriculum for three biotechnology disciplines:biotechnology laboratory technology, biomanufacturing, and regulatory affairs. This new coalitionof industry organizations, educational institutions, and other agencies, The Florida Consortium forBiotechnology Workforce Development, is chartered specifically to address one major issue;creating and sustaining a skilled biotechnology workforce.The Consortium consists of: • Three Florida community colleges – Florida Community College at Jacksonville (FCCJ), Santa Fe

Conference Session

ABET Issues and Capstone Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Davis; Craig Hoff

design. Decliningenrollments forced universities to reduce program length. In order to accomplish this,many programs reduced application oriented courses and laboratories.1 This shift hasresulted in an increasing gap between what engineers are expected to know and how theyare to perform in industry, and what universities are teaching.2 Engineers in industryspend much time working on complex system integration, yet few engineering graduatesunderstand this process.3 Reference 2 adds “the state of education in this country,especially in science, engineering and technology, has become a matter of increasingconcern to many of us in American industry.”In order to meet the professional needs of industry, engineering educators must place arenewed

Conference Session

BME Introductory Courses

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Samantha Richerson; Daniel Cavanagh

introductory course, we have implemented a newteaching approach which is centered on the integration of lecture and lab. The underlyingmotivation of this new approach is to enhance retention of the fundamental concepts by studentsthrough the concurrent offering of lecture and hands-on laboratory experiences. We believe thatthis methodology has several benefits over traditional course formats where lecture andassociated labs may be presented days apart. These benefits might include the ability to quicklyaddress student misunderstandings which may arise during lecture, immediately reinforcecomplex technical concepts through hands-on activities and to provide the students with a realworld application of the concepts. To implement this course, we

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences and Funding

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nolan Hertel; Michael Shannon

lecture-based and provided thestudents with enough information to understand the course content. The main focus of thecourse was in three main areas; overview of the theory of particle accelerators, basic types ofsources and the monitoring/cooling considerations in source design. This course served asprerequisite to the radiation applications course. Figure 1 shows the course description andcourse goals from the 1997 Georgia Tech General Catalog and Table 1 presents the breakdownof lectures for the course.5Course Credit 3 Credit Hours (3 Lecture / 0 Laboratory)Course Description Particle Accelerators; radiation sources for

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Akbar Eslami

2004-1186 session 1793 Gel Time and Temperature for Two Thermosetting Resins Steven D. Gordin, Akbar M. Eslami, Howard L. Price Department of Technology Elizabeth City State University Elizabeth City NC 27909AbstractThe results of an investigation of gel time and temperature of two thermosetting resins have beenused to design a laboratory experiment for an undergraduate materials science course. Theexperiment is part of a larger effort to establish an undergraduate program in

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Griffin, Texas A&M University at Qatar

included a laboratory and a manufacturing course thatcontained a laboratory. As part of this activity, we decided to increase the design activity andmaterial selection within the new course. Starting in fall 2002, we made a copy of a materialsselection program, CES-4œ (Granta Design Limited) available to each student taking the course.A number of activities were devised to help the students become familiar with the program. Theculminating activity was for each laboratory group to design a children’s playground. They wereto select the materials and the manufacturing processes for a playground that could handle 20 to40 children from the ages of 2 or 3 to about 12 to 13 years old at one time. The Parks andRecreation Departments of both communities

Conference Session

Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Seals

proposal.IntroductionDUE’s grant programs generally fall into one of two broad categories; i.e., curriculumdevelopment or workforce preparation. Of the two, faculty members, particularly newfaculty members, have historically shown greater interest in the former. Depending on thetype of educational program being served, the Division administers two major programs:Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) and Advanced TechnologicalEducation (ATE). These programs are described in detail below.With two exceptions, the remainder of DUE’s grant programs are directed at workforcepreparation and expansion. The specific workforce preparation and expansion programsare: Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics Scholarships (CSEMS); FederalCyber Service

Conference Session

TIME 3: Thermal Systems

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ella Fridman

direction to the exhaust gases decreasing an efficiency of the cycle.4. Lab simulations are used as a culminating activity that helps students to developskills in the higher levels of learning in the Bloom’s taxonomy: Analysis, Synthesis andEvaluation. The lab simulations have been designed with sound pedagogical goals inmind. The simulation portion of the Learning Tool is well integrated into other learningactivities, and the simulations as authentic and interactive as possible6. The followingexample involves experiments with the 7-stage Armfield Centrifugal Compressor, modelFM 12. It is a small-scale radial flow rotodynamic machine that is available in ourThermal/Fluid Science laboratory

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nam Kim

students in theprocess control laboratory experiments. A simple circuit to turn on/off an electric bulb orelectric heater can be used for real-time tuning. The initial controller setting of three keycontroller parameters [proportional gain (KC), integral time constant (τI), and derivative timeconstant (τD)] can be computed using the major tuning approaches such as Ziegler-Nichols,Cohen-Coon and Tyreus-Luyben methods.The robustness of the tuned parameters has been tested for a disturbance in the set point as wellas in the process. Each of these disturbances is illustrated graphically to demonstrate itsperformance. This approach provided students an instant quantitative guideline as to how goodthese tuning methods are for a given

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Matis; Linda Ann Riley

Session 1526 Teaching Theoretical Stochastic Modeling Courses Using Industrial Partners and Their Applied Problems Timothy I. Matis, Linda Ann Riley New Mexico State University Department of Industrial Engineering P.O. Box 30001 – MSC 4230 Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001 This paper describes a pilot project funded by the National Science Foundation’s CourseCurriculum and Laboratory Improvement program that addresses the common learningchallenges of engineering students enrolled in an undergraduate stochastic processes

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Thorndyke; Timothy J. Anderson; Matthew Ohland; Guili Zhang

Calculus 2 Physics Phys1Hon Honors Physics with Calculus 1 Phys2Hon Honors Physics with Calculus 2 Phys1Lab Physics with Calculus 1 Laboratory Phys2Lab Physics with Calculus 2 Laboratory ChemIntro Introduction to Chemistry Chem1 General Chemistry 1 Chemistry Chem2 General Chemistry 2 Chem1Hon Honors General Chemistry 1 Chem1Lab General Chemistry 1 Laboratory Chem2Lab General

Conference Session

Instrumentation in the Classroom

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Tonkay

to understand the basicconcepts involved in measuring signals, converting them to a different form and controlling asimple system. Most of the activities developed are accessible from the Internet so studentsanywhere can have concepts reinforced through computer-based activities. The activities varyfrom viewing animations to interacting with programs, to working with interactive Excelspreadsheets. The activities are meant to supplement actual laboratory experiences that normallyoccur in engineering curricula.Greenfield Coalition Curriculum ApproachTo implement the concepts of experiential learning and allow students to more easily acquirecore competencies, Greenfield Coalition developed a unique approach to design coursematerials. An

Conference Session

Computer Assisted Data Acquisition

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Preeti Nagarajan; Roman Stemprok

Session: 2526 Matlab numerical method application in student research Roman Stemprok and Preeti Nagarajan University of North TexasAbstractMatrices Laboratory is a versatile package that performs a multitude of mathematical calculationsinvolving signal-processing systems and control systems, and it has toolboxes for imageprocessing, neural networks and communication applications. This “hands-on” student researchintroduces a method of capturing the luminance of roadway scenes using a charge-coupled device(CCD) camera, and later, analyzing these images to calculate the spatial

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Satish Ranade; Howard Smolleck

sponsored by a local utility and a National Laboratory. They will thenconsider employment with the power industry or the Electric Utility Management Program(EUMP) graduate electric program here at New Mexico State University (see description below). This first year of experience has allowed us to test and refine the program. Our objectivesand observations are described in this paper. We are pleased with the results so far and areactively looking at a group of students, possibly even larger (if additional support from othercompanies permits) for the coming year.2. History of electric power engineering at NMSU Electrical study at NMSU can be traced back to the late nineteenth century. Establishedas the land-grant college of the state of

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert M. McAllister; Matthew Sanders

bothstudent attitude and performance in math and science, preparing them for a comfortable learningexperience of engineering fundamentals. This way both programs involve young women inclassroom activities, hands-on experimentation in the laboratory, and problem solving withcomputers. In laboratories close attention is placed on proper laboratory and research technique.This will prepare the students for both group and independent work. The hands-on laboratorycomponent of the programs is meant to attract and retain the interest of the young women. Forexample, students were taught to use a Thermoformer Machine to produce a plastic product usingthe Visual Basic Program that they wrote in order to produce a Mickey Mouse image. In addition,the programs

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rana Mitra; John-David Yoder; Michael Rider

. These are ME 311, Processof Mechanical Design, ME 341, Manufacturing Processes, and ME 371, Numerical Methods.Traditionally, the Numerical Methods course has been case-study focused, the manufacturingclass has had a laboratory component in which students are given hands-on experience with basicmanufacturing techniques, and the design course has included a project.Ohio Northern University has implemented a continuous improvement process. While the fulldetails of this process are not important here, it is noteworthy that, as part of this process, facultymeet quarterly to review faculty and student comments during Course Outcome Assessment.During our meeting after the fall quarter of 2001, The author discussed several of the problemsnoted after

Conference Session

Activities for the Materials Classroom

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Masi

intrinsically conductive and semiconductive polymers have allowed designersthe liberties of flexibility and conductivity to meet needs from batteries to solar cells. This papergives an overview of this search past, present, and future and the synthesis of promising newcomplex polymer building blocks which can yield conductive, semiconductive, luminescent,ferro-, ferri-, and super-paramagnetic materials for devices of the future in power, storage,displays, and communications devices. The use of these materials to produce electrically activepolymeric materials has changed our way of thinking about how to fabricate devices withproperties heretofore unrealizable. There are three laboratory exercises described in this paper.They have been given both as in

Conference Session

Industry-Based Projects

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Rothaupt

criticisms leveled at engineering schools by the Societyof Manufacturing Engineers in their Curricula 2000 Report1 and the Manufacturing EducationPlan: 1999 Critical Competency Gaps2 document and in other papers which alleged that schoolsoffer too few “practical” and “hands-on” courses. Stout has a rich tradition of teaching studentstechnical skills that can only be taught in laboratory experience. By integrating theory and Page 9.727.1Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Educationexperimentation with

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Johnson

information is communicatedfrom the device to each assembly workstation using a specialized wireless infrared system with aprogrammable microcontroller. This proof-of-concept project was one of several components ina Manufacturing Engineering Technology senior capstone course. The resulting device wasgiven the name “Smart Pallet” by Dr. Wesley Baldwin who also presented the original conceptfor the project.Background:The operating environment for this project is a student constructed computer integratedmanufacturing (CIM) laboratory. A 15 foot by 6 foot oval assembly line track is the centralcomponent in the CIM laboratory. Assembly workstations are positioned at several pointsaround the outside perimeter of the assembly line track. In addition, GE

Conference Session

NASA Fellowship Program

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sid Wang; Kenneth Roberts; Joseph Monroe; Ajit Kelkar; Devdas Pai

undergraduateenvironment at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. This program isdesigned to significantly improve undergraduate education in the areas of mathematics, science,engineering, and technology (MSET) by directly benefiting from the experiences of NASA fieldcenters, affiliated industrial partners and academic institutions. The three basic goals of the program were enhancing core courses in MSET curriculum,up-grading core-engineering laboratories to compliment upgraded MSET curriculum, andconduct research training for undergraduates in MSET disciplines through a sophomore shadowprogram and through Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) programs. Since the inception of the program nine courses have been modified to