Conference Session

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies: Bring-Your-Own-Experiments 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bridget M. Smyser, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

highly beneficial to thestudents, but it is also beneficial to the instructor and teaching assistants. The instructors need todo much less hands on work during the lab sessions, and can instead guide, suggest, and answerconceptual questions. Since it is virtually impossible to break the apparatus, short of dropping iton the floor, it is possible to let even large numbers of students touch and explore the equipment.An added unexpected benefit was the increase in the number of students who asked to borrowthe strain gauge indicator boxes for capstone design projects and student competition teams.Prior to the new experiment, very few capstone design students incorporated strain gauges intotheir design. Despite having taken the Measurements course

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ku-Yen Li; David Cocke; John Gossage

industry and in allsubsequent chemical engineering courses. A pathfinder course, Computer Aided Modelingand Simulation (CAMS), links problem-based learning goals to existing computermodeling and simulation packages with interactive examples that introduce the students tofundamental principles in Kinetics, Thermodynamics, Momentum Transfer, Heat Transfer,Mass Transfer, Process Control and Plant Design. This Pathfinder Course converges to asenior year capstone course – Advanced Analysis. The prototype educational materials,designed to maximize the utilization of computer modeling and simulation packages forconstructivist student learning, are being tested for student performance in subsequentcourses and co-op experiences. The pedagogical theory of

Conference Session

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kelly Adams; J. Filatovs; B. Kailasshankar; Devdas Pai

behavior and of manufacturing processes are, in most engineeringcurricula, typically imparted in engineering science type courses early in the curriculum. Theactual usage of this information in the design process is left to the capstone machine designprojects and engineering design courses. There is a disconnect between the learning of the earlyyears and the real-world product design work that follows. This is natural, because fundamentalclasses talk in generalities – materials, for example, are classified broadly as metals, ceramics,polymers and composites and their general structure, mechanical and physical properties arediscussed. Likewise, manufacturing processes are broadly classified into forming, solidification,removal and joining. It is

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paula Zenner; Charles Van Karsen

futurecoursework.ConclusionsStudents have mixed opinions when asked to evaluate the new integrated lab during the chair’sexit interview. They feel that the course is a lot of work for only two credits but they commentthat it is a worthwhile experience. Educational outcomes progress has been noticed in the secondsemester senior design requirement. Students now have knowledge and hands-on experience ofexperimental techniques and they incorporate and utilize them in the development and testingstages of their capstone design project. Students are requesting laboratory equipment from thiscourse to perform experiments and performance measurements on their senior design projects.This course specifically addresses ABET Program Outcomes and Assessment (Criterion 3)2 a, b,f, g, i and

Conference Session

Educational Trends in Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Mickelson

experience the probability that a student or graduate would have, on average,to actually take those key actions in seven settings: the engineering workplace, the cooperativeeducation/internship workplace, the traditional classroom, the laboratory, the capstone designcourse, professional-related extracurricular activity and non-profession related extra curricularactivities. Examples of these results are illustrated for two ISU Competencies in Figures 5-6.Figure 5. The opportunity to develop and demonstrate analysis & judgmentFigure 6. The opportunity to develop and demonstrate communication Page 7.1292.6“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael A. Paolino; Leonard A. Van Gulick

Session 2260 INTERNATIONALIZATION OF THE LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ENGINEERING CURRICULUM Leonard A. Van Gulick, Michael A. Paolino Lafayette CollegeAbstractThree key features serve to internationalize the Lafayette College undergraduate engineeringcurriculum. Semester-long study abroad opportunities for students in all Lafayette B.S. engineering degree programs. A five-year, two-degree program in which B.S. engineering students acquire in-depth knowledge of a foreign language and culture and complete a semester-long capstone experience working abroad

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Miller; Jeffrey Morehouse; Edward Young; David Rocheleau; Jed S. Lyons

paper describes a plan to develop aunique capstone laboratory course that provides this experience. The course, EngineeringSystems Laboratory will be based upon an integrated sequence of laboratory experiments on anautomobile and its subsystems. The automobile is chosen as the system to study because it iscompact, relatively inexpensive and in the direct realm of experience of most students. Moreimportantly, its many complex subsystems provide opportunities for the students to apply thespectrum of their mechanical engineering knowledge, including the principles of mechanics,dynamics, thermodynamics, heat transfer, and controls.INTRODUCTION An integral part of the undergraduate mechanical engineering curricula at the University ofSouth

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Cremin

perspective of autopilots, speech recognition and synthesis, and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) technologies, Areas of avionics from the communication disorders perspective of hearing and speech disorders and augmentative and alternative communication4, Ideas for Avionics/EET capstone design, special topics, and lab experiments are presented.IntroductionAlthough the fields of Communication Disorders and Avionics might seem disparate, they in facthave a common interest, viz. communication (human and electronic). Communication Disordersand Avionics view communication from common and disparate perspectives. CommunicationDisorders focuses on the nature of human disorders of speech and hearing and utilizes electronicsfor

Conference Session

Freshman Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul LaPlume; Michael Ruane

thestations. We currently have students working to make the test stations controllable over theInternet, using free LabVIEW web tools, to increase the availability of the systems.‘Introduction to Engineering’ (Exploring Hidden Worlds) is only one application of the High TechTools and Toys Lab. This facility will eventually support a new elective course in subsurfaceimaging (planned for spring 2003). Senior capstone design projects in subsurface imaging (e.g. anacoustic imaging system for characterizing different piezo acoustic source configurations) alreadyuse HTTTL stations, and this activity is expected to grow. Finally, the HTTTL will be a resourceto graduate students needing to try various imaging hardware and software for their research.We

Collection

2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

R. Barat; G. DiBenedetto; T. Boland

responsibility to society and the environment. These abilitiesare contained within the program outcomes of ABETii.Undergraduate engineering programs now typically include a freshman design experience. There are anumber of modelsiii. Some examples of such courses are listed here. At Northern Arizona University,students are introduced to current design software such as CAD, equation solvers, and spreadsheets. AtDrexel University, the course focuses on the design process and its applications in engineering through aseries of lectures and projects. There are also linkages to freshmen humanities courses. At the Universityof Wisconsin at Madison, students work in teams to determine customer needs, propose solutions, anddesign and test final products.The

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Postcard Session (Best of WIPs)

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Gordon Browne, The University of Illinois Chicago; Anthony E. Felder, The University of Illinois Chicago; Adrian P. Defante

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

Harding and McPherson suggested that over 80 percent ofemployers desire an applicant pool of engineers with fundamental knowledge of finding,applying, and developing standards [2].Our study design is functionally an approach to apply principles of Bloom’s Taxonomy to theeducation of consensus standards. All current standards curricula at the UIC, and most of thatidentified in biomedical engineering education literature [3, 4, 5] focuses on recognition andunderstanding (i.e., the lowest levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy). Capstone design courses mayrequire the incorporation of standards during the design process or verification testing butapproach and standard rigor can be widely varied. Recognition of appropriate standards is quitevaluable for engineers

Conference Session

Innovation In Teaching - II

Collection

2022 ASEE Zone IV Conference

Authors

Amin Malek, California State University, Bakersfield; Robert Hernandez

Tagged Topics

Conference Submission, Diversity

Delivered Course”, in 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2017 [8]. Devanshi Shah, Elisabeth Kames, et. All, “Examining the Differences in Student Motivation for Industry Projects and Non-Industry Projects in Senior Capstone Design”, in 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2019 [9]. Savage, Nick, et al. “Motivation of Engineering Students in Higher Education.” Engineering Education, Vol. 6, 2011 [10]. Gero, Aharon, and Gershon Abraham. “Engineering Preparatory Programs: Students’ Academic Motivation.” In Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA), Queen’s University Library, Nov. 2018. [11]. Malek Mohammadi, A., & Hajrasouliha, A., & Cleary

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Nadia Kellam, Arizona State University; Susannah Davis, University of New Mexico

ways that structuraland normative power relations tend to be reproduced [13-16]. In this paper, we investigate aresearch question: • How and over what/whom do faculty engaged in departmental change efforts express agency in this process, with attention to structural, cultural, normative, and interpersonal power relations?Our aim is to characterize hallmarks of consequential agency in change-makers’ talk. This studybrings together efforts from three NSF EEC-funded projects representing five grants, drawingtogether methods and theories across these projects.Theoretical frameworkWe bring together theory on framing agency and intersectional power to support our study aims.First, an intersectional approach to understanding power

Conference Session

ETD - STEM Issues in ET I

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Khalid Zouhri, University of Dayton; Philip Appiah-Kubi, University of Dayton; Kayla Nulph, University of Dayton

senior design capstones were also significantly affected by the pandemic as virtualcommunication, reduced technology access, and social distancing became part of the equation.Goldberg (2020) explained in his senior design course that, “if the lack of prototyping resourcesprevents completion and delivery of the final prototype, we may need to be flexible and modifythe scope of individual projects and course deliverables”[5]. No access to campus facilities suchas laboratories prompted some universities, for example the University of Virginia, to useresources like gamified virtual lab simulations “to enhance student experience and create a moreengaging and effective learning environment” in addition to providing asynchronous material fora

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Veronica M. Catete, North Carolina State University, Raleigh; Isabella Gransbury; Marnie Hill; Devin Jean; Brian Broll; Akos Ledeczi, Vanderbilt University; Tiffany Michelle Barnes; Shuchi Grover

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

. The modulefollows an entrepreneurship approach, modeled after the successful Engineering Projects inCommunity Service (EPICS) engineering design process, where students research an issue intheir own community and design a program to help people solve it [6]. Through these activities,students learn many valuable lessons including the role of community service in society, thesignificant impact that their engineering skills can have on their community, and that assistingothers leads to their own substantial growth. The module teaches design, planning, codeversioning, collaboration, and aspects of human-computer interaction (HCI) and usability. Thefinal product serves as a capstone project for the course. Industry volunteers and local

Collection

2005 GSW

Authors

M.K. Balasubramanya

their students attain "… an ability to design a system,component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as …ethical(responsibility)…", and "…an understanding of professional and ethicalresponsibilities". Similar accreditation criteria exist for the other undergraduate programsin engineering technology, computer science and applied science. Texas A&MUniversity-Corpus Christi, which offers a B.S. program in engineering technology,requires all students to complete a junior level capstone core course in ProfessionalEthics. The origin of this course can be traced back to the Challenger explosion in 1986,when faculty discussion began regarding the inclusion of such a course in the curriculum.The novel feature of

Conference Session

Works in Progress: Classroom Practice

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Dringenberg, Kansas State University; Ruth E. H. Wertz, Valparaiso University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

to engage with. Improving undergraduateengineering education requires a better understanding of the ways in which studentsexperience ill-structured problems in the form of engineering design. With specialattention to the experiences of first-year engineering students, prior exploratory workidentified two critical thresholds that distinguished students’ ways of experiencing designas less or more comprehensive: accepting ambiguity and recognizing the value ofmultiple perspectives.The goal of current (work-in-progress) research is to develop and pilot a self-reportinstrument to assess students’ relation to these two thresholds at the completion of an ill-structured design project within the context of undergraduate engineering education

Collection

2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

Authors

Rafic Bachnak P.E., Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College

experiments on campus, six experiments that involved analysis andsoftware simulation, and a final project with an oral presentation. Some final projects includedhardware and software while others were limited to circuit design and software simulation. Thispaper briefly describes six remotely performed exercises that used Multisim to perform circuitanalysis and simulation and help students learn the course material. While there were severalchallenges, overall students were able to perform the experiments and successfully complete afinal project.IntroductionA report by the United Nations estimated that closures of schools and other learning spaces dueto the COVID-19 pandemic impacted 94% of the world’s student population in 2020 [1]. Thisincluded a

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Russell R. Barton; Robert P. Smith; José L. Zayas; Craig A. Nowack

more dynamic discussion of casestudy issues. Unfortunately, these results did not last the entire semester. The remaining discussions werestill healthy, but they lacked the edge gained from the team building activities. Faculty/curriculum assessment has been through course evaluation questionnaires. At UPRM thelectures have been evaluated by the students as a feedback mechanism to insure continuous improvement.overall, the students rated the course as a very interesting, but exhausting experience. Reasons for this feelingincluded the range of topics covered (too large), the readings (too extensive), and the projects (too fuzzy, toolengthy). Many students compare the amount of work to that of a capstone design course. Students enjoyedthe

Conference Session

Design in Manufacturing

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Tomasi, Alfred State College; Margaret Weeks

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

principles of theinformed design problem solving methodology to assist them in their Capstone Project. Duringthis two semester learning experience, students are continuously rendering and refining the scopeof their projects to align with their Gantt charts and budgets. During the 2004-2005 academicyear, a student named Chris Scott from Portville, New York used the informed design process inan intriguing way. Chris wanted to design and develop an affordable prosthetic arm for peoplewithout insurance. The informed design process served as his road map as he generated a host ofalternative designs. The first designs considered using pneumatics and hydraulics for speed andstrength. However, additional research illustrated these design options would not

Conference Session

Electrical ET Curriculum

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alfred Ducharme, University of Central Florida

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

troubleshooting are taught.Students get an in-depth view of how photonics are manufactured in both small and high volumein the photonics industry today.Photonics Communication8The main topic of this course is modern photonic communication systems such as fiber optics.The course covers topics from basic fiber optic operation to large scale communication systemscurrently employed in the modern world.Senior Design - PhotonicsThe Senior Design course is the capstone course required by all graduation engineeringtechnology students. Students enrolled in the BSEET-Photonics program are required tocomplete a project that utilizes photonics.ConclusionsThe BSEET-Photonics program was approved by the State of Florida in April 2003. In the Fall2004 semester the

Conference Session

Learning Outcomes and Pedagogical Strategies: Problems of Alignment

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Madeline Polmear, University of Colorado, Boulder; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Nathan E. Canney, CYS Structural Engineers Inc.; Chris Swan, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life and the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach at Tufts. His current engineering education research interests focus on community engagement, service-based projects and examining whether an entrepreneurial mindset can be used to further engineering education innovations. He also does research on the development of reuse strategies for waste materials. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Faculty Perceptions of the Most Effective Settings and Approaches for Educating Engineering and Computing Students About Ethics and Societal ImpactsAbstractTeaching students about ethical responsibilities and the societal

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noemi V. Mendoza Diaz, Texas A&M University; So Yoon Yoon, Texas A&M University; Jacques C. Richard, Texas A&M University; Tanya Dugat Wickliff, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

2000students since its inception.Dr. Wickliff is blessed to work daily in the area of her passion – developing young professionals – in herrole at Texas A&M University. She is a Professor of Engineering Practice. At Texas A&M University,she has taught Capstone Senior Design, Statics & Dynamics, Engineering Ethics, Engineering Leadershipand Foundations of Engineering courses. She has also taught Project Management and Risk Managementcourses for the University of Phoenix.Dr. Wickliff has been honored with University of Houston’s Distinguished Young Engineering AlumniAward, the Black Engineer of the Year Career Achievement Award for New Emerging Leaders and fea-tured in several publications. She has presented keynote addresses, facilitated

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiahui Song, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Douglas Eric Dow, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Joseph F. Santacroce P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

during post doctorate research positions at the Uni- versity of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan), and Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN). He has taught classes for and been an advisor on capstone senior design projects for Wentworth students in the programs of electrical engineering, computer engineering, electromechanical engineering, and biomedical engineering.Mr. Joseph F. Santacroce P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Girl Scouts STEM DayAbstractGirl Scouts STEM day is a program at Wentworth Institute of Technology to help 4th or 5th gradestudents explore STEM fields. The event is organized

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

PS Dhanasekaran, University of Minnesota, Duluth; Ping Zhao, University of Minnesota, Duluth

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

chapter and research papers on machining of composites. He has a diverse industrial experience for 27 years, in design, research and manufacturing of electro me- chanical systems, such as design of various types of gear and gear boxes, antennas and light and heavy fabricated structures, for communication, TV telecast, natural disasters management and Telemedicine application. Dr PS, designed and manufactured various types of antenna’s weighing from 200 pounds to 100,000 pounds. He was also actively involved in configuring the antenna controls and selection of motor and motor controllers. Dr PS, has advised more than 40 senior/capstone projects. One of his project won the national award from Airforce Research Laboratory

Conference Session

Design Thinking and Creativity

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tom Elliott Spector, Oklahoma State University; Stan Carroll, Oklahoma State University; John J. Phillips, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Figure 4: The resulting theatre box and section through the theatre.User Stories as a Programming and Design tool for Architecture 5In the following year, the capstone studio project was a combination food pantry and homelessyouth shelter for a provider in a nearby urban center. This project presented the prospect of userstories from several perspectives—that of the food pantry clients, the organization’s skeletalstaff, homeless teens, and the volunteers that do much of the work of unloading, sortingpackaging and stocking the pantry shelves.All students were required to volunteer at the food pantry to experience the volunteers’perspective. This also gave them a chance to

Conference Session

Engineering Design Graphics Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Bradley James Schmid, University of Saskatchewan

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

before the course was introduced while Afterindicates measurements taken after the first offering of the course.In a follow-on transportation course, a road design lab assignment that had historically beencompleted using manual drawing methods is now being completed using Civil 3D with littleinstruction in Civil 3D required for students to complete the assignment.Several student teams in the fourth-year capstone design course are making use CAD extensivelyin the projects for the creation of design drawings, calculations such as cut and fill and for reportand presentation graphics. In some cases, these teams have learned additional software such asRevit to complete structural drawings entirely on their own with confidence gained from theprevious

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter J. Schubert, IUPUI; Steven Anthony Zusack

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

majorsworking together. These kinds of projects would require students to reference informationlearned in specific courses and thus encourage students who have not yet taken these courses todo so. The final question results were, overall, very promising. It was surprising to see a studenthad an overall unpleasant experience. However, since the survey was done anonymously, it isimpossible to ask the student for more follow up. For future projects, the student reactions surveymay have a section for a brief paragraph explaining any suggestions for changes. This sectionwill help eliminate the surprise and confusion of a response like this.VI. SummaryThe Space Scream experiment became the capstone event of Space Day 2012. All of the 350 inattendance watched

Conference Session

Thermal Sciences

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lin Lin, University of Southern Maine; James W. Smith, University of Southern Maine; Stephen Knittweis

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Page 23.302.9the refrigeration cycle, again, at what cost? This unit is certainly cost effective, and has thepotential to deliver hands-on experience to students.AcknowledgementThe authors gratefully acknowledge the work of Anthony Newton, a former mechanicalengineering major who began the initial modification of the air conditioner and Peter Juarez,a senior mechanical engineering major who helped with the construction.References[1] Hands-on experience with a turbojet engine in the thermal science laboratory course. Messiha Saad, ASEE2008 conference proceedings AC2008-1960[2] Thermal Science capstone projects on mechanical engineering. Nihad Dukham, and Mark Schumack.ASEE 2011 conference proceedings AC2011-1278[3] Thermal-fluid sciences course

Conference Session

Graduate Education and Undergraduate Research-related Issues

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sidi Berri, New York City College of Technology; Andy Zhang, New York City College of Technology; Gaffar Barakat Gailani, New York City College of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

prototyping lab. Capstone courses at both the AASand the B.Tech levels incorporate multidisciplinary research projects. Students publish andpresent their achievements in regional and national conferences. More students are able to startinternships with the local industry. Some have been able to obtain challenging positions in thefield after graduating with an AAS in MECH or IND or while finishing their BTech.This new direction of the MECH department has also increased both enrolment and retentionrates. Students spend more time at the department doing extra-curricular projects. Undergraduateresearch is an excellent tool to attract more and better quality students to enroll in thedepartment. More faculty members are starting to get involved with