Conference Session

Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole DeJong Okamoto

describe the barrier(s) being overcome, the steps thatwill be taken to overcome those barriers, and the evaluation methods, as well as the long-termcurricular goals of the project. A variety of exemplary STEM materials should be examined andevaluated, and suggestions for implementation should be made. These projects should involveinput from both faculty and students. The proposals should not come from an individual butrather a group working together to conquer the problem identified. As with the first type ofproject, the materials and practices of other institutions that are to be evaluated should beidentified, and how they will help meet the goals of the project should be clearly discussed.Expected funding levels are up to $75,000.The program

Conference Session

Engineering Education: An International Perspective

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mulchand Rathod

Session 3560 ORGANIZING THE FIRST EVER CONVENTION OF ALUMNI OF SARDAR PATEL UNIVERSITY OF INDIA IN THE USA Mulchand S. Rathod, PhD, PE Division of Engineering Technology College of Engineering Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48202 SUMMARY During the summer of 2003, a group of alumni of Sardar Patel University (SPU), named after the first deputy prime minister of India, convened a team to organize the first ever alumni convention of SPU in the USA. This paper

Conference Session

What's New in Entrepreneurship Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Crago; Dale Flowers

Engineering Education Table 1: Numerical SummaryCore Courses in the Biomedical Entrepreneurship Program Course InstructorSemester Number Credits Title Evaluation(s) Evaluation(s)Summer (1) IIME 400 3 Professional Development 3.8 3.8Summer (1) IIME 405 3 Project Management 3.8, 4.1 4.0, 4.4Summer (1) IIME 410 3 Accounting, Finance and Engineering Economics* 2.4, 4.5 2.2, 4.8Summer (1) IIME 415

Conference Session

Technology, Communications & Ethics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Long

receive information indirectly.3) This is an example of a pause in conversation.4) Three members of the group are conversing together in rapid succession or simultaneously such that it is not clear who controls the flow of communication.5) One mentor and the faculty member speak simultaneously to one of the undergraduate students.6) Two separate conversations occur simultaneously dividing the grouping in two.Table 1 depicts the coding of a session. The events are numbered chronologically and markedby their start times. The type of each event is noted. Initials are used to indicate the speaker(s)and the recipient(s) (audience). Each event is then further classified, based on the form ofcommunication being employed

Conference Session

Computers in ME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sushil Chaturvedi

Performing Interactively a Thermo-Fluids Laboratory Experiment in the Virtual Domain S. K. Chaturvedi, A. O. Akan, T. Abdel-Salam and A. Priyadershini College of Engineering and Technology, Old Dominion University Norfolk, Virginia 23529Abstract This paper deals with the development of an experiment in the virtual domain for theundergraduate thermo-fluids laboratory in the mechanical engineering program. A physicalexperiment titled “Venturimeter as a Flow Measuring Device” is replicated as a computer-basedexperiment as part of the ongoing effort at Old Dominion University to develop web-basedlaboratories that would provide students hands-on experience in the virtual domain

Conference Session

Real-World Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Attila Yaprak; Ece Yaprak; Mulchand Rathod

Session 3563 INSTITUTIONAL ADAPTATION OF THE GREENFIELD COALITION’S CAPSTONE DESIGN COURSE Ece Yaprak, Attila Yaprak, Mulchand S Rathod Division of Engineering Technology/Business School/Division of Engineering Technology Wayne State University, Detroit, MichiganSUMMARY In most capstone design courses, students go through the complete design processstarting with a description of the problem and ending with a prototype. Many schools haveone or two-semester-long classes where students work in groups or individually. Thecapstone design course in the Division

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Chris Gwaltney; Mark Valenzuela

professor of civil engineering at the University of Evansville. He receivedthe B. S. degree in Communications and the B. S. degree in Civil Engineering from UE in 1978 and 1982,respectively. He received the M. S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1989. He hastaught courses in geotechnical engineering, construction management, and surveying at UE for the past 12 years.Mark Valenzuela, P. E., is an assistant professor of civil engineering at the University of Evansville. He receivedthe B. E. degree in civil engineering from Vanderbilt University in 1990. He received his M. S. and Ph. D. degreesfrom Cornell University in 1993 and 1998, respectively. He has taught courses in structural engineering,materials, transportation

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Thompson; Craig Gunn; Craig Somerton

Session 2425 The Role of the Faculty Advisor in the Capstone Design Experience: The Importance of Technical Expertise Craig W. Somerton, Brian S. Thompson, and Craig Gunn Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State UniversityIntroductionThe capstone design experience in the mechanical engineering program at Michigan StateUniversity is achieved through the Mechanical Engineering Design Projects course: ME 481.This course utilizes industrially sponsored design projects for which the company makes both afinancial investment ($3500) and a personnel investment (a staff engineer is

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Vavrek

: Wt ⋅ Pd st = ⋅ K o ⋅ K s ⋅ Km ⋅ K B ⋅ K v (1) F⋅Jwhere st = bending stress (psi) Wt = tangential force (lb) Pd = diametral pitch (1/in.) F = face width of tooth (in.) J = geometry factor Ko = overload factor for bending strength Ks = size factor for bending strength Km = load distribution factor for bending strength KB = rim thickness factor Kv = dynamic factor for bending strengthThe bending stress should not exceed the design stress value based on the material selected. sat ⋅ YN

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Joe Hartman

themselves.Accordingly, we adapted an actual problem that a team of engineers had solved previously forthe Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) - the Mode-Select (Mode-S) Enroute Air TrafficControl System. This problem was chosen for the following reasons: • It could be solved in a number of different ways. • It could be described by top-level blocks. • It was a project previously managed and known in detail by the instructor. • It required knowledge of redundancy and reliability to solve the problem.Reliability is a key element in the design of a multiprocessor computer for critical applications.The normal way to achieve the high reliability is to use redundancy techniques. Therefore, inaddition to introducing the basic elements of a computer, the

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Pierre Chauvet; Gilbert A. Chauvet

physiological mechanisms to global function, in such a way that:1. A unique conceptual framework with general principles and concepts specific to biology are used, which provides: The same common bases for interpretation of biological phenomena; The same bases for, ultimately, improving biological knowledge. It will be shown that this is obtained using a specific formalism (the S-Propagator Formalism) to traverse levels of organization, and to study couplings between sub -systems in the organism.2. The results of simulations under the usual form of mathematical curves simultaneously associated with what happens in physical reality, e.g. injection of current at a given point across the membrane simultaneously with the recorded

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Duff

Session 2793 Experiences with a Paced Web-Taught Course in Numerical Methods in Engineering William S. Duff Department of Mechanical Engineering Colorado State UniversityI. Introduction and BackgroundIn the fall semester 2000 we instituted a paced completely Internet taught sophomore level numericalmethods course for engineers. Prior to this, in the fall 1999 and spring 2000 semesters, the course wastaught in a completely traditional manner. The transition to an Internet course was made in a

Conference Session

Cross-Section of Construction Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean Paradis

starting from the signing of the contract to the final deliveryof the project. Students are grouped in teams representing the consultants, the generalcontractor(s) and the subcontractor(s). The teacher represents the owner(s). During the semesterthe teacher creates situation where the students have to use all their knowledge to solve theproblems. At the end of each activity, the teacher reviews the events with the students andcomments if necessary1. We have been organising this course for the last five years using astandard class room and a computer laboratory for the part of the work involving computersoftware. Recently we decided to design a special laboratory that would be used for this courseand for other project management courses involving

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole DeJong Okaniti

subsequent weekly homeworkassignments, students are required to complete a minimum of one problem per week using EES.This process familiarizes the students with the program before the project(s) start, allowing themto focus more on the optimization process. In addition, the students can start to look at how toanalyze the effects of properties on their system. For example, the students could be required toplot thermal efficiency verses compression ratio for a simple Otto cycle homework problem.Then by the time the first project is introduced, looking at the effect of cycle properties on itsperformance will not be a new concept. When the first project starts, a second class period isspent in the computer lab where students are taught to use parametric

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

James Barrott

the early 1900’s, the company lost its competitive edge in the black powder market.Three du Pont grandsons purchased the company and began producing products throughsuccessful synthetic fibers research. A worldwide revolution in materials science research andproduct development began when Dupont researchers invented Nylon in 1938. As new materialswere invented, Dupont opened production facilities all over the world including a nylon fibersplant in Chattanooga, Tennessee supporting the carpet industry in Southeast Tennessee andNorth Georgia1. Page 6.1163.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Yokomoto; Maher Rizkalla

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education” · An energy source forces a constant current of 2 A to flow through a light bulb for 10 s. If 2.3 kJ is given off in the form of light and heat energy, the voltage drop across the bulb will be e) 230V f) 115V g) 110V h) None of the above · A stove element draws 15A when connected to a 120 V line. In order to consume an energy of 30 kJ, the connection must last for: i) 33.3 s j) 66.6 s k) 16.67 s l) None of the aboveLevel 2. Problems that require the executing of a basic procedure

Conference Session

Best Zone Paper Competition

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M. Rizzo, University of Vermont

Tagged Topics

Council of Sections

of Vermont (UVM) incorporated systems thinking and asystems approach to engineering problem solving within their programs. A systems thinkingapproach regards social, environmental and economic factors as necessary components of theproblem solution. Because it is a whole systems approach it also encompasses sustainability. Wehave integrated systems thinking in the following ways; 1) new material has been included intokey courses (e.g. the first-year introductory and senior design courses), 2) a sequence of threerelated environmental and transportation systems courses have been included within the curricula(i.e., Introduction to Systems, Decision Making, and Modeling), and 3) service-learning (S-L)projects have been integrated into key

Conference Session

Descriptions of Curricular and Model Development

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Morgan M. Hynes, Tufts University; Elsa Head, Tufts University; Ethan E. Danahy, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

implementation.    Bibliography1. Vygotsky, L. S. (1978). Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.2. Bell, P., & Davis, E. A. (2000). Designing Mildred: Scaffolding Students’ Reflection and Arguemntation Using a Cognitive Software Guide. In B. Fishman & O’Connor-Divelbiss (Eds.), Fourth International Conference of the Learning Sciences (pp. 142-149). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.3. Linn, M. C. (1995). Designing computer learning environments for engineering and computer science: The scaffolded knowledge integration framework. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 4(2), 103-126.4. Scardamalia, M. (2002). Collective cognitive responsibility

Conference Session

New Faculty Development

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

would allow them to learn more about what they know. Professors whileteaching would also be involved in the learning process. All involved would benefit. As one writerput it, “I think mentors should be role models, BUT a role model who hasn't forgotten where s/hecame from, how s/he got to where s/he is now and always looking back to see if s/he can help thosethat came from the very same place.”3 Everyone has had to write and engineering faculty continue tohave to produce text throughout their careers. By taking their own travels through communication asa means to get engineering students to look at their own tasks, a bond can form that allows for theimprovement of student text.ProcedureHow does one approach a situation where the faculty is to

Conference Session

Arduinos, Microcontrollers, Inexpensive Robotics, and Other Tech Bytes

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Tremberger Jr., Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Raul Armendariz Ph.D., Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Helio Takai, Brookhaven National Laboratory; Todd Holden, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Shermane Austin, Medgar Evers College, CUNY; Leon P. Johnson, Medgar Evers College, CUNY; Paul J. Marchese, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; David H. Lieberman, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Tak Cheung, Queensborough Community College, CUNY

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

advancedstudents with better working memory capacity 4. An illustrative example is discussed asthe following. A normalized standard deviation is used customarily to represent the GPSsignal S4 index. 2 ∑ (x − x ) x S4 = N ⋅ x2where x denotes the mean, x is the current CNR (Carrier/Noise) value, and N is the totalnumber of samples or the sample window. To simplify the implementation, it would be Page 25.197.5 s-diff[] + = avg*avg - 2*CNRtemp*avg + CNRtemp*CNRtemp; cumsum[] += CNRtemp;where ‘x += y’ means ‘x = x+y’. The cumsum[] is a cumulative sum of the CNR values,divide it

Conference Session

Design Cognition II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cyrus Habibi P.E., Minnesota State University, Mankato; Ronald R. Ulseth, Itasca Community College

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

this paper, we describe a scaffolding scheme that helps student managetheir learning during academic semester. In this scheme, students were given a deadline for eachcompetency, instead of having only one end-of-semester deadline for all 8 of their competencies,which is usually the last day of classes. The results show that the proposed time allocation planbetter helped students complete their competencies at the end of the academic semester.1. IntroductionProject-Based Learning (PBL) as well as problem-based learning was first established in themid- 1950’s and has been effectively used in Medical schools 1. It has since been adopted in avariety of educational fields such as Engineering, Science, Business, Education, Law, etc. 2,3,4. Itis

Conference Session

Motivation and Self-Efficacy

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hannah Kolar, Arizona State University; Adam R Carberry, Arizona State University; Ashish Amresh, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

experience in computing improves computing self-efficacy.Universities should obtain this data from students to identify when material should beadded to a course that allows all students to be brought up to speed on their computingskills before launching into STEM-based majors. Future investigations utilizing this toolwill attempt to understand the impact of computing self-efficacy on student performance,i.e. time to complete a task and academic achievement.Bibliography1. Bandura, A. 1995. “Self-Efficacy in Changing Societies.” Cambridge University Press.2. Bandura, A. 1997. “Self-efficacy: The exercise of control.” New York, NY: W.H. Freeman and Company.3. Baker, D., Krause S., and Purzer S. Y. 2008. “Developing an instrument to measure

Conference Session

Panel Session: Case Study Teaching in Computing Curricula

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Salamah Salamah, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Thomas B. Hilburn, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

. Page 25.1023.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012Panel Session –Case Study Teaching in Computing CurriculaMassood Towhidnejad, Salamah Salamah, Thomas HilburnEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical University600 S. Clyde Morris Blvd.Daytona Beach, Fl, 32114towhid@erau.edu, salamahs@erau.edu. hilburn@erau.eduAbstractThe use of case studies is an effective method for introducing real-world professional practices into theclassroom. Case studies have become a proven and pervasive method of teaching about professionalpractice in such fields as business, law, and medicine. Case studies can provide a means to simulatepractice, raise the level of critical thinking skills, enhance listening/cooperative learning skills

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Stanley; John Hackworth

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education"Figure 3. Timing voltage of 555 astable circuit as generated by Multisim.Bibliography1. A. Ebeling and S. Bistayi, "Wired Degrees Forbes’ 20 top Cyber-U.s," Forbes Magazine, June 16, 1997.2. W. D. Stanley. Operational Amplifiers with Linear Integrated Circuits, 3rd Edition. Columbus, Ohio: Merrill(1994).3. J. R. Hackworth, "A Video-Taped Laboratory in Electrical Power and Machinery." ASEE 2001 AnnualConference Proceedings.JOHN R HACKWORTHJohn R. Hackworth is Program Director for the Electrical Engineering Technology program at Old DominionUniversity. He holds a B. S. Degree in Electrical Engineering Technology

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Muelller

application; in general, the NN’s output predictionimproves as the number of hidden layers and hidden layer neurons are increased.Once the architecture of the NN is determined, the initial neuron weights are randomly chosen. TheNN is then trained by presenting it with many sets of training data where a set consists of a value foreach input and the corresponding desired output(s). From this training data, the NN calculates(learns) the input weights for each neuron so that the NN output closely matches the correspondinginput for each point in the training data. This learning process is an iterative back propagationalgorithm. The learning process is terminated when the NN’s predicted output(s) matches the desiredoutput(s) for each set in the training

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Bogdan M. Wilamowski; Aleksander Malinowski

University, approximately 75 students accessed thesystem 1790 times during fall of 1998. In 1999, 55 students accessed the system 1470 times inspring of 1999 and 100 students 2100 times so far in fall of 1999. The utilization of the system isapproximately 23 times per student per semester and appears to be similar each semester. Thepeaks of its use are observed just around midterms and final exams due to students waiting fortheir grades to be posted before they receive their tests back, or final grades in the mail.Bibliography1. Sweet, W. and Geppert, L., “http:// It has changed everything, especially our engineering thinking,” IEEE Spectrum, January 1997, pp. 23-37.2. Camposano, R.; Deering, S.; DeMicheli, G.; Markov, L.; Mastellone, M.; Newton

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Bradford Cross; Susan M. Morgan; Mark P Rossow

, and the Department secretary will be responsible for reminding faculty tocollect the material and will organize and file the materials.Each portfolio is divided into sections. These sections are: • a table of contents • an introductory statement of purpose for the portfolio and an overview of material included • a reflection on or evaluation of portfolio contents and outcome(s) measured by faculty members • student materials.A typical table of contents contains the following sections: introduction and statement ofpurpose, reflection on and evaluation of content, and student materials and summaries ofevaluation forms. Following is a typical introduction and statement of purpose; this example isfrom the

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Sterian

inner product are pre-sented next. To illustrate these concepts, we frequently make use of both the vector space of con-tinuous polynomials over [ , ] with the inner product: 〈 S ( [ ), T ( [ ) 〉 = ∫ S ( [ )T ( [ ) G[ (2.1) and the space of finite-length discrete-time sequences of complex numbers with the inner product: 1– 〈 S [ Q ], T [ Q ]〉 = ∑ S

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

A. R. Zaghloul

associated domain(s), an assessmentplan logically follows. i. Cognitive Domain. The cognitive domain is the one where the student’s cognitive activities are structured. Starting with the knowledge level and ending with the evaluation level of Bloom’s taxonomy, this domain is used to analyze the lab experience of the student. 1 ii. Affective Domain. The affective domain is the one that describes the attitudes of the student toward the subject matter, education, and lab activities. This domain is very important in setting the ground rules for the lab environment. It greatly affects the student performance and education without being clearly visible. 2 iii. Psychomotor Domain

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Shafaat Qazi; Sam Gile; Mustafa Guvench

Session 1359 Automated Measurement of Frequency Response of Electrical Networks, Filters and Amplifiers M.G. Guvench, S. Gile and S. Qazi University of Southern MaineAbstract:This paper describes the design, operation and use of a PC controlled automated frequency responsemeasurement system using the standard bench-top test equipment available in undergraduateelectronics laboratories. The system described employs the waveform data acquisition and processingcapabilities of digital oscilloscopes to extract amplitudes (rms or peak), periods, frequencies