Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ravi P. Ramachandran, Rowan University; Robi Polikar, Rowan University; Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; Robert M Nickel, Bucknell University; Richard J. Kozick, Bucknell University; Sachin Shetty, Tennessee State University; Ying Tang, Rowan University; Steven H Chin, Rowan University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

homeworkincludes reading assignments, analytical problems and software based questions.Examples are as follows: 1. Write a 700-1000 word synopsis of the article given below demonstrating your understanding of the article. You do not have to get into mathematical details. The synopsis should show your conceptual understanding. Article [15]: Amin Fazel and Shantanu Chakrabartty, An Overview of Statistical Pattern Techniques for Speaker Verification, IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, June 2011. 2. Write a MATLAB program that implements the LBG algorithm with the following inputs and outputs: Input: Training data vectors of any finite dimension, desired codebook size equal to a power of 2

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education (DEED) Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cyrus Habibi P.E., Minnesota State University, Mankato; Ronald R Ulseth, Iron Range Engineering ; Michael Richard Carlson

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Design in Engineering Education

(Outcome K). Each project is involved in design a system, prototype,components or a process to address an engineering problem (Outcome C). The projects aremostly multidisciplinary (occasionally single-discipline) and the students with differentbackgrounds form a team to work on their project (Outcome D).The first phase of each project is to understand, formulate the problem and the second phase is topropose solutions. All IRE students are required to complete these two phases (Outcome E). Abig portion of project deliverables is three to four presentations and final technical report. Aftereach presentation, the students are given feedback from all faculty and peers regarding bothpresentation and technical writing skills. Each section of their final

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

June Marshall; John Marshall

encourage them to get to know each other. • I use collaborative teaching and learning techniques. • I encourage students to participate in groups when preparing for exams and working on assignments. • I encourage students from different races and cultures to share their viewpoints on topics discussed in class.Encourage Active LearningLearning is not a spectator sport. Students do not learn much just sitting in classeslistening to teachers, memorizing pre-packaged assignments and spitting out answers.They must talk about what they are learning, write about it, relate it to past experiences,and apply it to their daily lives. They must make what they learn a part of themselves. • I ask students to present their work to the

Conference Session

Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ranky

support, the § individual’s interest and motivation, the § society’s pressure and support on all of us to do better all the time, and these factors are inextricably woven together. Thus, understanding is a construction that is unique to the individual living in a particular culture, including all stresses and service in the given culture.Puzzlement is one of the factors that motivates learning, and in our cases we haveincluded several interactive exercises to increase this kind of excitement and to encouragelearning.Social negotiation and the ongoing testing of the viability of existing concepts in the faceof personal (and group, peer, and team) experience are the principle forces involved inthe filtering

Conference Session

Teamwork, K-12: Projects to Promote Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Arvid Andersen

kind must be made explicit and exploited to the greatest possible extent for the benefit of the work process and the group report. The group itself solves communication and cooperation problems with the help of a third party, if necessary. The group must hold a meeting with the group adviser at least once a week.3. The result of the international teamwork is evaluated in the work process and the specialist contribution in the group report. The group must be able to document their competence in working together on a major project assignment. Great emphasis is placed on this point. As proof of this, every individual participant in the group must answer the following four questions in writing:1

Conference Session

Curriculum and Facility Developments for Innovative Energy Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abul K. M. Azad, Northern Illinois University; Clifford R. Mirman, Northern Illinois University; Avinash Varma Gadiraju; Chester D. Kolodziej, Freedom Field Renewable Energy, Inc.

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Mechanical Engineering Department at Wilkes Uni- versity. He is currently the Chair of the Department of Technology at NIU. His research areas are CAD, finite-element-analysis, and kinematics, both securing grants and writing publications. Mirman is actively involved in ASEE and SME.Mr. Avinash Varma Gadiraju, Mr. Gadiraju obtained his Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from the Andhra University in Vishakapatnam, India. He moved to USA, in 2009, in pursuit of his M.Sc. degree with the Northern Illinois University. He has received his M.Sc. degree in Computer Science, in 2011. While at NIU he was working as a Graduate Assistant and developed a number of web applications for Internet accessible

Conference Session

Women in IT Fields

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Crystal Hoyer; Crystal Eney

of supportive communities are twoof the major reasons women choose not to pursue computer science degrees.1As with most CSE programs across the nation, our institution struggled to increase the number ofwomen pursuing computer science degrees. In an attempt to address this problem we researchedsome of the possible approaches to stop women from opting out of the CSE curriculum. Cohoonstates that the presence of supportive peers can greatly aid in the retention of women in thisfield.2 One step we took to encourage women to pursue computer science was to create a onecredit seminar for women who would simultaneously enroll in introductory programming (CS1).One of the seminar leaders had participated in a Women in Science & Engineering (WISE

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

June Marshall; John Marshall

classeslistening to teachers, memorizing pre-packaged assignments and spitting out answers.They must talk about what they are learning, write about it, relate it to past experiences,and apply it to their daily lives. They must make what they learn a part of themselves. • I ask students to present their work to the class. • I ask my students to relate outside events or activities to the subjects covered in my courses. • I give my students concrete, real-life situations to analyze.Give Prompt FeedbackKnowing what you know and don’t know focuses learning. Students need appropriatefeedback on performance to benefit from courses. In getting started, students need help inassessing existing knowledge and competence. In classes, students need

Conference Session

Sustainable Energy Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Simon, University of Nevada, Reno; Ted Batchman, University of Nevada-Reno; Christine Taylor, Lewis and Clark University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

rising energy prices create a renewed opportunityto move U.S. public policy and engineering education in a mutually beneficial direction. Callsfor change in the way energy education occurs are certainly not new, and earlier expressions ofconcern are a good source for our current reflection. Writing in 1973, the highly respectedRepublican legislator Howard Baker pondered the then-current oil supply shortage.4 Heconcluded that well-developed education programs linking environmental attitudes with energyuse could have a strong and lasting impact on energy consumption behaviors in the country. Inthe 1970‘s, President Jimmy Carter advocated the development of energy education programs tochange students‘ perceptions of energy and alter patterns of

Conference Session

Technology-Enhanced Learning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Glenda Scales, Virginia Tech; Sharon Caraballo, George Mason University; James Groves, University of Virginia; Rosalyn Hobson, Virginia Commonwealth University; Linda Vahala, Old Dominion University; Catherine Amelink, Virginia Tech

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Continuing Professional Development

adding online students to their existing courses using NEW,and these efforts gradually expanded to allow students to complete an MS in Computer Science Page 15.687.4entirely online.The open-source NEW system has similar functionality to many widely-used commercialsystems for online synchronous course delivery. The primary interface is a computer-basedwhiteboard, which can be used to display slides, share images of running applications, write, ordraw. The system includes audio, so that the instructor's voice is broadcast along with theimages, and students in the distance environment who have microphone-equipped computers canparticipate via voice

Conference Session

Mechanical and Architectural Engineering Laboratories

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Toyama, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Reza Sadr, Texas A&M University at Qatar

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

advancement ofequipment whether due to increased enrollment or increasing functional capacity. Students aregiven the chance of using industry scale devices in the laboratory and are given increasingresponsibilities as the term progresses in terms of setting up equipment and writing their dataacquisition programs. The final culminating task is to simulate a set of previously conductedexperiments using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software packages.Historical Regional Teaching StyleThe Regional teaching styles have historically relied on rote memorization and reproduction, acarryover from the regional cultures as well as a result of the extreme pace of the modernizationthat has carried through much of the Region.4,7,9 The regional teaching style

Conference Session

Information and Network Security

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hetal Jasani, Northern Kentucky University

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Information Systems

for the LinksysStudents observe various MAC layer setting of Linksys wireless routers such as authenticationtype, CTS protection mode, beacon interval, DTIM interval, fragmentation threshold, and RTSthreshold. Students get knowledge about each of these parameters and how they affect theperformance of wireless networks. Students write a reflection report by including thoseparameters. 172.31.11.44/29 Lab Router Internet 10.255.1.1/16 10.255.1.2/16 Linksys Wireless

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lorraine Kisselburgh, Purdue University; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jonathan Beever, Penn State University; Justin L. Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Andrew James Iliadis; Andrew O. Brightman, Purdue University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

accreditation boards, professional societies, and societal views.7-9 2. Rapid changes in technology introduce novel ethical concerns that challenge or transcend existing codes of ethics of engineering professional societies.10,11 3. Engineering students experience a wide range of ethics pedagogy but still have lower levels of ethical reasoning than their peers.12,13 4. A coherent framework and effective pedagogy are critical for teaching ethics in an engineering context.14,15For our research project we proposed that for case-study analysis to be used as an effective toolto develop higher levels of moral reasoning in engineering ethics, it must be taught within acoherent framework for ethical decision-making that involves a

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irene B Mena, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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International

English speakers, language skills can be amajor challenge causing students to have difficulty taking notes, participating in class, andworking with their peers. Andrade also summarizes findings related to professors’ perceptionsof international students. Professors attributed lack of participation to cultural differences,whereas the students themselves attributed it to poor language skills. She also reports thatinternational students often preferred to work independently rather than in groups.The work reviewed by Andrade2 appears to be characteristic of much of the research oninternational students. It focuses on adjustment issues and relationships to academicachievement. In engineering education, participation of international students in active

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division New Ideas Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Jablonski, Bucknell University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

as a whole class, and after the first week eachgroup is required to meet with me for one hour outside of class. Before the first class meetingtime students are expected to complete a course blog post telling a little about themselves andwhy they chose to take the course. This practice gets them into the habit of completing thefrequent blog prompts that are used to keep students engaged with the course even though weonly meet as a group formally one each week.In the first class they get a crash course from our Small Business Development Center regardinghow to establish a business, how to write a business plan, and how to prepare the relatedfinancial documents. I do this up front because I want students to know what to expect regardingthe

Conference Session

Capstone Courses and Project Based-Learning

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diana Bairaktarova, The University of Oklahoma; Mary K. Pilotte, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Nathan McNeill, University of Colorado Boulder

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Mechanical Engineering

effective means of meeting ABETcriteria [4]. In the traditional engineering classroom, students focus almost solely on the technicalaspects of engineering problem solving. Project-based learning can provide opportunities forstudents to be exposed to the broader context of engineering problem solving [7, 9]. Perkins [10]suggests that students learn best when they experience the “whole game” associated within acontent area. Situated in real-life examples, Perkins idealizes seven principles to engage studentsin their own learning process. These principles range from exposing students to the entire contextof a subject area, to working on so-called hard parts of the problem, getting students outside of theclassroom, and gains in peer learning from team

Conference Session

Construction Education Topics in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Cherif Megri, North Carolina A&T State University

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Architectural

the troubleshooting is a“reactive” problem solving (Baker & Dugger, 1986). The design involves more innovation,where the troubleshooting involves the recognition that technology encompasses (Baker &Dugger, 1986).More recently, Design is defined by Nielsen (2003), “A Problem is basically impression of atension or a contrast between two conditions: Condition of Desires and Actual Condition”. Thesuccessful design of an item transforms a condition of “Desire” (or need) into one of “Actuality”.These definitions are supported by Jonassen (2004) when he writes “First, a problem is anunknown entity in some context”, and “Second, finding or solving for the unknown must havesome social, cultural or intellectual value”. He then adds one vital

Conference Session

Design Tools and Methodology I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Kathryn Thompson, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; Beunguk Ahn, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

including the presentation and discussion (10%) • The final paper based on the writing, figures, references and appendices (20%) • The technical evaluation based on the content of the final paper (20%) • The prototype / proof of concept based on its purpose, method, and results (10%). Page 25.11.3Approximately half of the deliverable grades focus on the design process and outcomes of thestudent projects while the other half focus on the students’ abilities to communicate and discusstheir ideas. The grading juries assign these scores. Homework assignments, attendance, classparticipation, and peer review scores determine the last 20% of the

Conference Session

State of the Art in 1st-Year Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Walker; Hayden Griffin; Tamara Knott; Richard Goff; Vinod Lohani; Jenny Lo

learn and use: events (using keyboard or mouse strokes toinitiate code), sound as part of their programs, and tools to facilitate sharing of code for a team-based Alice project. For the first time, a team-based programming project was part of thesyllabus. Students worked in teams of 3-5 students to generate a computer game that waspresented to and evaluated in part by their peers. Also, unlike previous semesters, instructorswere encouraged to grade programming assignments during class. Alice is a very visualprogramming environment which eases grading. Details of Alice instruction are presented in acompanion paper.9From the viewpoint of the department head, implementation of Alice has been fairly smooth.One of the worries of administrators is

Conference Session

Ethics Classes: Creative or Inefficient

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christy Moore; Stephanie Bird; Steven Nichols

professional responsibility is addressed in the College. The committee beganby conducting a curriculum review of courses offered to undergraduate engineeringstudents at the University of Texas and several peer institutions that include topics ofethics, technology and society, professional responsibility, and leadership. The goal ofthat preliminary investigation was to establish a better sense of what pedagogicalmaterials exist in the field and what sorts of material would be helpful. As a result of those explorations, the PRiME Project was conceived. The practicalaim of the project, which is funded by the Chair for Free Enterprise, is to compile anddevelop web-based teaching modules that tackle the complex issues involved in training

Conference Session

Problem-Solving & Project-Based Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen High; Ben Lawrence; Cynthia Mann

important tasks involved with engineering product andprocess design. This course is also part of a larger effort towards introducing students toentrepreneurship concepts.During the multi-week design project portion of the course, students are given a vaguely wordedopen-ended market-driven design problem, and asked to find a solution. The problem is basedaround food, such as pizza or ice cream, and is designed to be fun. Group dynamics, projectplanning, problem definition, brainstorming, experiment design, and creativity are some of themajor points discussed. The project culminates with the student presenting their solutions totheir peers and demonstrating any prototypes they developed.IntroductionCollege students typically do not see engineering as

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Koehnemann; Barbara Gannod

meet with customers to prioritize requirements, estimate resources, and produce an iteration plan.Simple Design The system design should be as simple as possible so that it is easy to understand, implement, and change.Testing Programmers as well as customers write test units. Software is tested incrementally and frequently, and tests must be passed before development can continue.Collective Code Ownership Anyone on the development team can modify any part of the system at any time. Thus, there are no delays in making changes while waiting for others to submit important modifications.Refactoring Refactoring is rewriting code to remove duplication and to simplify the code. As code is added incrementally, redundancies and

Conference Session

ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kraemer; Bijan Pashaie; David Probst

requiring physics or engineering physics majorswould be of interest to our majors because one of our engineering faculty members would needto be involved in order to provide the engineering design content.The first few weeks of the course are spent covering introductory topics. The first week is spentintroducing the problem, clarifying expectations and processes for the course, and discussingresources for conducting research on the problem. The second week focuses on communicationsissues such as writing styles, written and oral communication within the group and to others Page 9.1090.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for

Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

Engineering Education The following comics problem is another non-technical introductory problem to the“Eight Dimensions”. Students were asked to write down solutions, first without the methodologyand later with it. In the beginning the average number of ideas was about five per student.However, when students were asked to use the methodology and its sub strategies to findsolutions, the number of ideas generated by each student varied from 15 to 35. These includeideas that are “unacceptable, non-feasible, expensive, too imaginative, unmarketable, useless,etc.”The comics problem Every morning T and G sit on the opposite sides of the table trying to read the samecomics section of the newspaper at the same time.Q: How can they both read it

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Carney; Michael Nolan; James Lampe; Raymond Thompson

include:currency, use of public transportation, a specific museum, etc. All of these presentations will becombined into a text prior to departure. Each student will receive this booklet as well as otherpertinent information. It will, in effect, become a custom guidebook for the trip. During the trip,students must keep detailed notes about their assigned topic. At the conclusion of the trip, theywill be responsible for writing a paper that details their assigned topic. They must also write acomprehensive evaluation of the trip from their perspective. This book will be compiled (with Page 8.43.4 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Diggelman; Michael McGeen

required to do a research project on a subject of theirchoice and to write a report (five pages maximum per person) summarizing theirfindings, on which they make a brief presentation (less than 10 minutes) to the class.These presentations are peer-reviewed by their classmates.We decided to take an inclusive approach to developing course content on materials andgive members of the department an opportunity to participate in the sifting andwinnowing process later. The first working draft of AE-1231 included a list of all of theconstruction materials covered in the three existing courses. All of the lecture notes fromthe existing courses were sorted by construction material and included in the draftoutline.ASTM standards referenced in previous

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Narasingarao Sreenath

global issues—from climate change to AIDS, demographictransition, aging, carrying capacity, resource use (E.g.: water, energy, labor) etc.Dominant relationships, hierarchical modeling and techniques for combining thequantitative with the qualitative are used. A teaching tool has been developed withmodels and real-life data, which the students use in classroom exercises, as well as on aresearch project as a course requirement. The approach has been used for several years inundergraduate, university-wide course. The opportunity is provided for the students tointeract with peers in foreign countries on the selected global issues via the Internet. In Section 2 we will discuss the methodology used. Hierarchy and multilevelmodeling approach is

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian S Macherone; Jagdish T. Gajjar; Cherrice Traver

element of the design and engineering process was stressed with a particular emphasis oncommunicating ideas to peers as well as those of other disciplines.The last week was used for public presentations of the project to an audience that was completelyunfamiliar with the project. The objective was to leave the spectators with an understanding ofwhat the team was attempting to accomplish, the problems encountered, the solutions devisedand the final results.Lab time was used initially to build the prerequisite knowledge base for each project team.Topics of these lessons and exercises covered a diverse range including electronics to supportsensors and signal conditioning, microprocessor programming, Unix and WWW programmingand the mechanical design

Conference Session

Learning and Assessment I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sriram Sundararajan, Iowa State University

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Mechanical Engineering

50 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings and two invited book chapters. He serves on the conference committee for the International Conference on Wear of Materials and has been recognized for his accomplishments with the Young Engineering Faculty Research Award and Early Achievement in Teaching Award at Iowa State University. He received his B.E. degree in mechanical engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (India), followed by M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. He is a member of ASEE, ASME, and ASM

Conference Session

Student Development and Assessment in IE Programs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yaseen Mahmud, Morgan State University; Masud Salimian, Morgan State University

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

extend them to realworld problems. Since assessment of student development in three of the above four categoriesis not an easy task, the majority of schools[6] that offer OR courses have their main focus on theimplementation of the third item (developing operational skills).Based on that, students learn how to perform the simplex method, its iterations, write the dualproblem, and perform sensitivity analysis with or without the use of software. An instructorspends many hours trying to teach the procedural steps which are tedious, repetitive, and requirecareful attention to the details, but it is easy to learn.The concepts, on the other hand, require a higher learning mechanism and instructorstraditionally find insufficient time for such