Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Adams; William Manion

curricula. Civil Engineering Materials Laboratory (CIE 111) was the first course to incorporate the new plan. CIE 111 is a 1-credit laboratory component of a basic course in civil engineering materials, incorporating topics in material variability, plastics, metals, wood and concrete. Historically, students produced five full academic lab reports during the semester, with less than satisfactory results for the most part. Recent enrollment growth (to around 100 students) introduced further complication. The new ECP approach replaced the academic lab reports with five case-based memo assignments, which allowed for more specific instructional goals, more meaningful feedback to students and a

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carlotta Berry

evaluate student performance based upon gender, major,class, requisite performance, and the number of times an introductory circuits course was taken.This circuits course is required by all engineering majors including civil, architectural,mechanical and electrical engineers and it is the gateway to all upper level courses. This datawill be used to determine general trends in student performance in order to redesign the courseand laboratory to be more successful. Success in this context is defined as a reduced attritionrate as well as increased student performance as determined by final grades. This document willpresent the results of the statistical analysis of the student data and the presence of anysignificant negative or positive

Conference Session

Using Technology to Improve IE Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Davis; Paul Stanfield

educational reform without thedevelopment of model curricula. Without proper planning and forethought, changes will be madein apiecemeal manner; lacking any examination of the motivation for change, the factors that haveresisted change, or the unintended consequences of the changes being considered 10.2. Virtual EnterpriseThe NC A&T State University Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering VirtualEnterprise (VE) is a full scale manufacturing supply chain, integrated using informationtechnology, and producing actual product. Departmental laboratories are organized as businessdepartments within an information system-integrated enterprise. The VE departments, theirfunction, and conceptual structure can be seen in Figure 1 with the physical

Conference Session

Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Demel

Program (IEP) and the Freshman EngineeringHonors (FEH) Program. These new programs retain part of the traditional material but add inhands-on laboratory experiences that lead to reverse engineering and design/build projects. Therelational practices – teamwork and project management, along with report writing and oralpresentations and ethics have assumed important roles in this program. The programs aredesigned to have faculty from all of the degree granting departments teach freshmen. Theseprograms were developed to improve the retention and early decision to stay or leave for newfreshmen and to lay a foundation to better address some of the ABET 2000 accreditation criteria.Retention has improved markedly. This paper provides a brief description

Collection

ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023

Authors

Buket D Barkana, University of Bridgeport; Ioana A. Badara, University of Bridgeport; Navarun Gupta, University of Bridgeport; Junling Hu, University of Bridgeport; Ausit Mahmood, University of Bridgeport

Tagged Topics

Diversity

science students an opportunity to participate in authentic research experiences with faculty and graduatestudents. It has two components as lecture and research activities. Students spend two to four hours per week workingon research projects as a team. Introduction to Scientific Research is cross-listed among Computer, Electrical,Mechanical Engineering, and Computer Science programs. The course objectives are (1) To identify real-worldproblems and survey their broader impacts, (2) To brainstorm possible solutions to real-world research problems, (3)To apply the scientific method while solving a real-world research problem, (4) To develop basic laboratory skills andsafety procedures relevant to the project, (5) To communicate scientific

Conference Session

Active Learning in ECE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott L. Post, Bradley University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

for each of their courses. That is to say, in a given discipline-specificcourse, it is not easy for an instructor to find resources that provide easy-to-use active learningactivities for their courses.While the author was on sabbatical at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, he had theopportunity to teach a course in Electronics Technology for Mechanical Engineers. This courseused laboratories in both the electrical and mechanical (mechatronics) engineering departments.The course was to cover basic analog circuit theory, an introduction to digital circuits, and Page 24.971.2instrumentation and measurements for mechanical engineering

Conference Session

Innovations in Pedagogy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amit Janardhan Nimunkar, University of Wisconsin Madison; Xuan Zhang, University of Wisconsin - madison; Mehdi Shokoueinejad, University of Wisconsin Madison; John G. Webster PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Biomedical Engineering

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Biomedical

stopping of breathing during sleep (under Prof. Webster supervi- sion). He is also Teacher Assistant for courses in Medical instrumentation design and Bioinstrumenation Laboratory. His research interests are the design of physiological sensing technologies and the signal processing techniques.Prof. John G. Webster PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Biomedical Engineering John G. Webster received the B.E.E. degree from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA in 1953, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA in 1965 and 1967, respectively. He is Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, USA. In the field of medical

Conference Session

Bringing Industrial Applications into the Classroom

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

chemicalengineering majors. The course is also open to juniors and other engineering / sciencemajors when space is available. It is a four-credit course, meeting twice weekly for twohours. This block schedule was adopted in order to allow flexibility in the use of classtime, as described below. It is a “permission” course, having no formal pre- or co-requisites listed, although the course relies on students’ coursework in mass and energybalances, heat transfer, thermodynamics, and chemistry to a significant extent.We wanted to have a food-safe laboratory available as part of this course so that studentscould not only prepare and assess food products, but also taste what they had made. Westrongly suggest that anyone wishing to bring this course to their

Conference Session

Themes in Renewable Energy and ET

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Florian Misoc P.E., Southern Polytechnic State University; Tommy D Ball; Austin B. Asgill, Southern Polytechnic State University; Cyril B Okhio P.E., Southern Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

thatcomplement traditional teaching methods. Course and laboratory development are discussed,and project selection and management is emphasized. This analysis was done to predict theeffectiveness of project-based instruction for programs related to power generation, ingeneral, and to renewable energy, in particular.Two different courses were examined and their course learning outcomes compared to theexpected, statistically predicted outcome. Both courses were structured as lecture-lab-project,where the laboratory experiments were sufficient in number and complexity to consolidatethe topics addressed during lectures, while the projects selected were intended to coversufficient number of topics addressed through the first half of the course, as the

Conference Session

Advancing Equity in Engineering Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin C. Flores, University of Texas at El Paso; Audrey Boklage, University of Texas at Austin; Maura Borrego, University of Texas at Austin; Emily Violet Landgren, University of Texas at Austin; Karina Ivette Vielma, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Ernest Chavez, Colorado State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

theseoutcomes extend to individuals from outside educational institutions (i.e., industry and DoEnational laboratory professionals) (National Academies, 2017b).Yet poor mentoring practices are still prevalent. In the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate(Golde et al., 2006), researchers explored best practices for developing graduate students asstewards of their respective disciplines. Upon examination of current practices, researchersrecognized that undesirable Darwinian strategies pervaded their departmental mentoringpractices. Examples of these theories include: ● the osmosis theory (students learn by reading good research and being near faculty who are doing high-quality research); ● the sink or swim theory (students are thrown into their

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 7

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen Watkins-Lewis, Morgan State University; Heather Dillon, University of Washington; Rebecca N. Sliger, Tacoma Community College; Bonnie J. Becker; Erica Cline; Cheryl Greengrove; Petronella A. James, Morgan State University; Angela Edes Kitali; Adrienne Scarcella

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

achievement, retention and leadership in science and engi- neering among students of color. She is currently in partnership with a number of institutions, including the University of Washington Tacoma. Dr. Lewis is affiliated with the Meyerhoff Scholars Program, where she has lectured incoming cohorts on race, science, and social Justice.Dr. Heather Dillon, University of Washington Dr. Heather Dillon is Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington Tacoma. Her research team is working on energy efficiency, renewable energy, fundamental heat transfer, and engineering education. Before joining academia, she worked for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a senior research

Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Richard B. Mindek

control, and remote I/O.Today, PLC’s are used in all facets of industry, provide a broad range of functions, can be programmedusing a desktop personal computer, and can be purchased for as little as several hundred dollars. Withsuch broad use in industry, wide-ranging application in engineering related fields and availability to usersat all levels, it is imperative that engineering educators provide young engineers with a fundamentalunderstanding of the operation and capabilities of PLCs. This task has recently been undertaken withinthe Mechanical Engineering Program at Western New England College, through the building of a PLCplatform and development of a PLC laboratory. This laboratory is unique in that it is designed to allowstudents to self

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Richard B. Mindek

control, and remote I/O.Today, PLC’s are used in all facets of industry, provide a broad range of functions, can be programmedusing a desktop personal computer, and can be purchased for as little as several hundred dollars. Withsuch broad use in industry, wide-ranging application in engineering related fields and availability to usersat all levels, it is imperative that engineering educators provide young engineers with a fundamentalunderstanding of the operation and capabilities of PLCs. This task has recently been undertaken withinthe Mechanical Engineering Program at Western New England College, through the building of a PLCplatform and development of a PLC laboratory. This laboratory is unique in that it is designed to allowstudents to self

Collection

2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Richard B. Mindek

control, and remote I/O.Today, PLC’s are used in all facets of industry, provide a broad range of functions, can be programmedusing a desktop personal computer, and can be purchased for as little as several hundred dollars. Withsuch broad use in industry, wide-ranging application in engineering related fields and availability to usersat all levels, it is imperative that engineering educators provide young engineers with a fundamentalunderstanding of the operation and capabilities of PLCs. This task has recently been undertaken withinthe Mechanical Engineering Program at Western New England College, through the building of a PLCplatform and development of a PLC laboratory. This laboratory is unique in that it is designed to allowstudents to self

Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Koenig; Masoud Rais-Rohani; Thomas Hannigan

. Encourage development of design skills in problem solving and experimentation, illustrative of various fundamental areas of aerospace engineering.4. Enable students to develop proficiency in written, oral, and graphic communication in the development of formal reports, and informal and formal individual presentations and papers.5. Promote engineering ethics, personal integrity and responsibility and professionalism in the conduct of laboratory activities and individual projects.6. Develop teamwork and leadership skills through laboratory experiences.Because of the number, scope, and diversity of topics and related activities, we sought to spreadthe curriculum over three semesters as opposed to one done elsewhere4. Each course combineselements

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 9: Online Learning Environments

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tara Esfahani; David A. Copp, University of California, Irvine

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

Laboratories and an adjunct faculty member in Electrical and Computer Engi- neering at the University of New Mexico. His broad research interests include engineering education, as well as control and optimization of nonlinear and hybrid systems with applications to power and energy systems, multi-agent systems, robotics, and biomedicine. He is a recipient of UCSB’s Center for Con- trol, Dynamical Systems, and Computation Best PhD Thesis award and a UCI Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentorship. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Time Management and Self Efficacy in Different Learning

Collection

ASEE-NE 2022

Authors

Kai Ren, Wentworth Institute of Technology

], Matlab-based instruction[7], and conceptual questions for assessment [8]. Novel approaches regarding teaching antenna-related courses were investigated as well [9]-[13].In [9], an antenna laboratory course with helical and discone antenna design projects was proposed.In [10], a theory simplified antenna course with focusing on design, simulation, and measurementusing a low-cost portable kit was presented. In [11], design and measurement of dipole and Yagiantennas were embedded into undergraduate EM course to provide better understanding of EMfield theory. In [12], a four-patch methodology in teaching antenna theory was implementedthrough delivering theoretical analysis, solving problems using derivations and Matlab, gaininghands-on experiences

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bilal Ghosn, Rice University

understanding and training in this manner will help reinforcetheir newly developed statistics skills.In an effort to reduce student anxiety, the majority of the assignment grade was attributed tocompletion. However, a student’s grade on the assignment was negatively affected if theydemonstrated minimal or weak effort on the assignment.Assessment PlansTo evaluate the value and efficacy of this intervention, we are evaluating numerous factorswithin the course and effects on downstream courses in which statistical analysis is a key part ofstudent assessment. This includes assessing the students across a multi-course sequence, whichincludes two of our laboratory courses in Systems Physiology (following semester) and TissueCulture (following academic year

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering: Design and Labs

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Manish Paliwal, The College of New Jersey; Bijan Sepahpour, The College of New Jersey

development of laboratory apparatus and experiments in the areas of mechanics of materials and dynamics of machinery for undergraduate engineering programs. He has advised on over forty (40) Senior Design Projects and his teams of students have received five (5) National Championships and three Best Design Awards. In the recent years, he has challenged himself with the creation of an effective methodology for successful Invention and Innovation. He was part of a 14-member multi-disciplinary team to design and create the "Society, Ethics, and Technology (SET)" course at TCNJ in 1994 and has taught multiple regular and Honors sections of this course since then. He led a multi-disciplinary team of faculty from TCNJ's School of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark A Chapman, University of San Diego

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Education, 2023 US-Sweden Bioinformatics IRES Year 2: Improving Student PreparednessAbstractThis National Science Foundation (NSF) International Research Experience for Students (IRES)site centers around a common theme of bioinformatics. Students selected for this program spend10 weeks at the Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) in Stockholm, Sweden using anddeveloping bioinformatics tools to analyze ‘-omics’ (i.e. genomic, transcriptomic, andproteomic) data generated from human subjects. Since the program’s inception, a significantamount of effort has been made developing programming to prepare students for their researchprojects. Specifically, technical training sessions focused on coding languages and

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Schulz, Georgia Institute of Technology ; Suzanne Stathatos, The California Institute of Technology; Cassandra Shriver, Georgia Institute of Technology; Roxanne Moore, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON)

professional ethics; 8. and explain the importance of professional licensure.In this paper, we discuss several connections, not just with these SDG connections and CivilEngineering. Still, we especially believe that the case studies of edge computing and machinelearning give direct connections to applying probability, analyzing and solving problems,conducting experiments, and designing a process in civil engineering contexts, all discussedabove.Environmental Engineering CurriculumFor emerging environmental engineers to meet the SDGs, students will need to: 1. Have hands-on laboratory experiments; 2. Analyze and interpret data from their experiments in more than one central environmental engineering focus area, e.g., air, water, land, and

Collection

2022 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Randy Kelley

ofunderstanding contact resistance for engineering students. It also incorporates an analyticalmethod for helping the understanding of this phenomenon. This experiment was intended forstudent learning and not for scientific rigor. There are just too many variables that are notcontrollable in a classroom setting. The lecture on heat transfer can explain the concept, but aphysical demonstration enhances learning objectives. Heat transfer lectures do not normallyhave associated laboratory classes. This experiment can easily be conducted in a class roomwithout extensive laboratory equipment. This type of teaching method promoted active learningas the primary learning objective.[3] Allowing students to actually see a problem and thenformulate a solution

Conference Session

Faculty Development 2: COVID-19 Impact on Faculty

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Maria Chierichetti, San Jose State University; Patricia R. Backer, San Jose State University; Laura E. Sullivan-Green, San Jose State University; Liat Rosenfeld, San Jose State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Faculty Development Division

questions were based on the students’survey developed by the researchers at Georgetown and HEDS [14-15] , and modified accordingto the peculiar aspects of our university. Because many of the engineering classes at SJSUinclude laboratories, projects or other group experiences, we wanted to create our own survey toask faculty members about these experiences. The research questions of the study are: 1. What are the impressions of faculty members to the learning environments in engineering courses after the switch to remote learning in Spring 2020? 2. What was the impact of the switch online in Spring 2020 to lab classes?COVID-19 forced many universities to transition quickly to remote teaching. Since Spring 2020,there was been many articles

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division Poster Session (Works in Progress)

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Eric Gary Fuller, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering

, medicine, andmore. For example, an “Engineering Education Island” virtual world was created via SecondLife [3]. This island featured a virtual laboratory with multiple floors and exhibits such as ACgenerators and DC motors. For creating detailed laboratory exhibits Second Life might be anideal platform. However, users must download software and register for an account, and thecreation of scenes is a labor-intensive task for the instructor. For simple, ready to use scenes tohost small group discussions Mozilla Hubs is a more efficient platform for both instructors andstudents.Figure 1: Mozilla Hubs poster session example. Two students are in a virtual forestdiscussing a draft of a senior design poster. Instead of having all eyes on all participants

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Praveen Meduri, California State University, Sacramento; Lawrence David Landis, Intel Programmable Solutions Group; Perry L. Heedley, California State University, Sacramento; Tyler Sheaves, Intel Corporation

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

-signal integrated circuits for companies including Intel, Sacramento (formerly Level One Com- munications), Crystal Semiconductor, and Harris Semiconductor. In 2003 he joined the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at California State University, Sacramento, while continuing to consult with industry on a part-time basis. In 2005 he co-founded the Mixed-Signal Design Laboratory (MSDL) at Sacramento State with Professor Thomas W Matthews. His interests include high-speed data converters, low-jitter clock generation and distribution, high-speed serial data communications, switched- capacitor circuits for analog signal-processing, low-voltage analog design in deep sub-micron CMOS processes, and mixed

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

G. L. Pratt; K. R. Kaufman; L. F. Backer; J. Walter; M. Ziejewski

the EMA test cycle will soon be initiated. Dr.Everett Pryde, Research Leader, Oilseed Crops Laboratory,Northern Regional Research Laboratory, USDA, Peoria,Illinois is cooperating on these tests. The EMA AlternateFuels Committee is monitoring these tests. Twelve tractors are also being operated in NorthDakota fields on blends of sunflower oil and diesel fuel.Flower Power, Inc., P.O. Box 26, Grand Forks, ND 58201, issponsoring the project and NDSU is providing the dataanalysis. John Deere, Allis-Chalmers, and J.I. Case arethe manufacturers represented in the program. The tractorsrange in power from 120 hp to 250 hp. Six tractors arebeing run on a 25% blend of sunoil and diesel fuel. Theremaining tractors operate on a 50% blend. A

Conference Session

Empathy and Human-Centered Design 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Alexander Pagano, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Saadeddine Shehab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Leon Liebenberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

assumptions and concepts as they aredeveloped, allowing students to make informed judgments. However, these benefits rely on thesuccessful implementation of human-centered design activities in engineering classes. This oftendepends on the graduate teaching assistants (TAs) who lead discussion or laboratory sections. Thiswork-in-progress paper describes the implementation of a human-centered design activity thatintroduces human-centered design to students in a Design for Manufacturability course. It exploresthe TA’s experiences in implementing this activity and the impact of the activity on students’understanding of the role of human-centered design in design for manufacturability in engineering.MethodsDesign This study is part of a design

Collection

2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Aleksandr Sergeyev; John Irwin; Adrienne Minerick

) for therequired masters-level courses. To accommodate the distance, laboratory components will betaught in a week-long format on campus in a condensed fashion at a time that is most convenientfor the students. This hybrid (online lectures and in-person hands-on training) approach will notonly attract industry representatives but will also provide additional flexibility to the studentscurrently enrolled in the degree.International students and the students from other universities will be able to enroll in the MSdegree of Mechatronics based upon their earned BS degree, admittance by the graduate school,and approval of the graduate advisor. The approval will be based on comparing the individuals’transcripts with the current requirements for

Conference Session

Labs and Experiential Learning

Collection

2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

Authors

Rustin Webster, Purdue University, New Albany

Tagged Topics

Labs and experiential learning

Webster* Purdue University rwebste@purdue.edu ABSTRACT A free professional certification exam was adopted as an ad hoc individual remote lab in anintroductory course on the study of polymers and composites after the course was transitioned toremote education due to the COVID-19 virus pandemic in the spring of 2020. Attempting theCertified SOLIDWORKS Associates – Additive Manufacturing (CSWA-AM) exam andwatching the prerequisite 10-part online video learning path helped to replace student learningthat traditionally would have come from various other hands-on laboratory activities. Twenty-five engineering technology (ET) students

Collection

2007 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Qingli (Barbara) Dai

(Unigraphics NX) into the curriculum ofstrategically selected academic partners worldwide. Michigan Tech was one of only twoU.S. universities selected for the initial four academic program partner sites. Proceedings of the 2007 ASEE North Midwest Sectional Conference 1Today NX is the key CAD/CAM/CAE software used in our mechanical engineeringcurriculum and utilized in our laboratories [1]. It is integrated throughout our curriculumbeginning with the first year, to learn solid modeling using NX. Sophomore students useNX in the lab portion of the course “Integrated Design and Manufacturing” to create thetool paths to produce a designed part. Junior students use NX in the Product Realization Iand II courses. Senior students use NX in