Conference Session

Design Through the Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Beaman; Philip Schmidt

traditionally had been heavily laboratory-oriented,but many lab courses went by the wayside to make room for more science and math. It is alsoworth noting that, up to this time, most young people came to engineering studies with aconsiderable amount of hands-on experience acquired by building and fixing engineered systems(cars, radios, appliances) and therefore a substantial body of conceptual understanding of howthings work. This conceptual foundation provided a good framework on which to build atheoretical base of engineering science.The emergence in the '70s of mainframe computers as engineering tools produced a demand forprogramming skills, and the introduction of programming and computing courses further forcedlab studies out of the curriculum

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brenda A. Haven, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott; Michael Kenneth Fabian, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Alexander James Herring, General Electric - Aviation; Marissa Pinnola, Purdue University; Devan DUPLICATE Berg, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

thispropulsion curriculum unique. The opportunity for students to take the design out of thecomputer and on to the test bench improved their understanding of the design process. Thecourse timetable and deliverables were the responsibility of the students, helping to transitionthem to an engineering employment experience.Course StructureThe Propulsion System Detail Design course is a 4 credit hour course that meets twice a weekfor a total of 5 hours per week of lecture and laboratory time. The detail design course lecturescovered component specific issues that had not been examined elsewhere in the curriculum. Thefirst offering of the jet engine detail design course focused on compressors and rotatingmachinery. The lectures were front-loaded in the

Conference Session

Recruitment, Retention, and First-year Programs in ECE

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dale Anthony Carnegie, Victoria University, Wellington; Craig A. Watterson, Victoria University, Wellington

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

student intake, numbers of graduatesand industry involvement are an order of magnitude greater than VUW‟s.One mechanism to begin this association of VUW with engineering has been to create, incollaboration with our WelTec partners, a series of eight promotional posters to be insertedinside secondary school science and technology laboratories, mathematics class rooms andcareers advisors‟ offices. These posters need to be informative and professional in appearanceso that teachers will want to host them, but they must also strongly identify VUW with an areaof “digital” engineering. We are not concerned that WelTec will also feature on these posterssince (as discussed) VUW attracts a different student cohort.In the absence of dedicated engineering

Conference Session

Assessment and Accreditation in Engineering Management

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pawel Pawlewski, Poznan University of Technology; Zbigniew J. Pasek, University of Windsor

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

Main process designPPL Process Develop practical base for process Logistics process Level 1 –Design design using simulation software design sem. V (lectures & laboratory)PPL Industrial Prepare project proposal for Models, Level 1 –project industry. Form consulting Proposal for sem. VI company (8 students). Project industry realization in industry. industrial projectPSPL Process Base for process management and Proposal for Level 2Management & optimization using specialized factory

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shumon Alam; Matthew Sadiku; Cajetan Akujuobi

Development, Training and Implementation of Test Automation for ADSL Interoperability and Reliability Studies Cajetan M. Akujuobi, Shumon Alam, and Matthew Sadiku Center of Excellence for Communication Systems Technology Research Electrical Engineering Department, Prairie View A&M University P.O.Box 4078, Prairie View, Texas 77446 Cajetan_Akujuobi@pvamu.edu, Shumon_Alam@pvamu.edu, sadiku@ieee.orgAbstractAt Prairie View A & M University (PVAMU), we developed a new Broadband (High-Speed)Access Technologies Research Laboratory (BATRL) over the last few years. This laboratory isused in helping our

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Al-Ansary; Andreas Christoforou; Ahmet Yigit

Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationcurriculum. Specifically task groups at the college level have been formed to study in depththe teaching practices and content with regard to major design experience, communicationskills, and laboratory pedagogy, because of clear evidence from all constituents indicating theneed for improvements. The following sections include sample results of direct and indirectmeasurements of program outcomes as well as corrective actions proposed to improve theprogram.Program Assessment – Direct MeasurementsAt the course level, instructors individually perform the initial assessment. The mainassessment tool used is the Instructor Class Evaluation Form7. This form reports the gradedistribution as well

Conference Session

Design, Creativity and Critical Thinking in the Chemical Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill B. Elmore, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Engineering Analysis (a three-credit hour studio offered each spring) , our freshmen,in a class size of 80-100, are engaged in a seamless, two-semester problem-based learningexperience.Course structure to accommodate PBLThrough a series of “Team Challenges” (i.e. design projects and experimentation) our freshmancohort engages in activities focused on fundamental STEM concepts and applications to helpthem better visualize and understand the path they have started on to enter engineering practice.Figure 1 illustrates the range of topics covered in Learning Outcomes established for the firstyear experience. To enable sufficient time obviously needed to cover such a broad range oftopics, the Analysis course comprises one credit hour of laboratory and two

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rajnish Sharma, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

present the method of solutionand grasp the theoretical ideas in practice to use it for multifaceted analysis of the controlproblem given in its nonlinear version as a real-world problem. Finally, author presents a studyof students’ assessment, grasping capabilities and challenges to make it thorough and rewardingfor undergraduate research experiences in Systems Dynamics & Controls and AerospaceEngineering.1.0 INTRODUCTIONIn the curriculum of the Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences, there are twocompulsory courses on Control Systems; one is purely on learning the linear (classical) controlmethods very first time and the other course is on familiarizing the concepts of classical controlin the laboratory settings integrated with a

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

KaMing Lai; James Webb; Robert Hendricks

Lab-in-a-Box: Experiments in Electronic Circuits That Support Introductory Courses for Electrical and Computer Engineers Robert W. Hendricks, Ka Ming Lai, and James B. Webb Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USAAbstract:The objective of Lab-in-a-Box is to give the student hands-on experience with wiring andanalyzing simple circuits, but in such a way as to allow the experiments to be performed at homeor at a study table with simple, relatively inexpensive, student-owned equipment rather than in atraditional university laboratory. Each

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Walker; Susan Magliaro; Michael Alley; Hassan Aref, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Alex Aning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Hayden Griffin; Mark Sanders, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech; Richard Goff; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jenny Lo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jean Kampe, Michigan Technological University

-level “program” (somewhat similar to our local Science & Technology StudiesProgram or our new School of Biomedical Engineering & Science), governed by faculty from allparticipating units, that will oversee the degrees. As a part of the creation of the Program, whichis currently being referred to as the “Education-Engineering Collaborative” (EEC), we plan toredefine and include our existing Technology Education graduate program, which has beenranked as one of the top such programs in the nation. This is not a radical combination, since asengineers, we feel an instant kinship when we visit the Technology Education laboratories andsee wind tunnels and polymer fabrication equipment in use. We have employed two TechnologyEducation Ph.D

Conference Session

TIME 8: Materials, MEMS, and Nano

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ben Rogers

University ofNevada, Reno and provides a forum for synthesis of concepts from numerous scientific andengineering programs with a focus on nanotechnology. The course also implements the novelstrategy of presenting a microcantilever transducer as the “bridge” linking the micro- and nano-domains. Ongoing research in atomic force microscopy, as well as biological and chemicalsensing, is integrated into course material and laboratory experiences. The course in this wayprovides an example of an effective, highly pertinent small system.More detail about the course will be presented later, but we will first focus on the broadereducational strategy to which it belongs.2.0 Unifying Educational Strategy: Mapping Content to All AudiencesThe material

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter

equations. Students learnthe concepts of the plane wave, wave reflection and transmission, boundary conditions, andpenetration depth. These principles are then applied to waveguides, antennas, and free spacewave propagation. The final subject of the course is an introduction to RF communication links.Basic communication system architectures are presented and the concepts of noise, signal-to-noise ratio, and link budgets are introduced. This paper will discuss the course curriculum andthe laboratory in detail.Introduction In today’s industry where many electronic systems operate at increasing frequencies, anunderstanding of fundamental electromagnetics is becoming not only a desired trait but also arequirement for the entry-level engineering

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Cecelia Wigal

.20Many engineering courses require students to compose documents (such as laboratory reports,activity reports, and project reports) and to verbally present project findings or laboratoryresults. However, Walvoord expresses that engineering faculty, although they know that writingis important are often reluctant to “teach” writing to their students. The faculty worry that theirknowledge of technical writing and verbal communication and their ability to constructivelyrespond to student work is limited and their ability to constructively provide feedback to thestudents is inadequate. 19 In addition, many schools and programs do not recognize thedifference between what is being taught in introductory composition courses and industry’sneeds. Ramey

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vera Galishnikova; Thomas Maleck; Paul Streng; Jason Merrill; David Prestel; Darren Mason; Ronald Harichandran

Engineering in Volgograd, Russia. This program successfullyaddresses such academic challenges in engineering education as the inherent verticalstructure of scientific curricula, courses with laboratory requirements, ABETaccreditation, and accelerated summer course calendars. Engineering disciplinesincluded are civil engineering, environmental engineering, mechanical engineering,chemical engineering, statistics, and construction management. Also featured in thisprogram is a unique curricular collaboration between the humanities and engineering.The paper also discusses the program’s treatment of such logistical issues as studentsafety, moving large groups of students through a cultural landscape where Russianlanguage proficiency is a necessity, as well

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stan Harris

than if they did not experience such additional laptop computer applications. Advantage: Faculty Potential administrative pressure applied to faculty to use computers in instruction may be reduced. • Students who do not acquire the prescribed laptop computer in a timely manner may request special accommodation, e.g., the opportunity to complete the Q/E on a university personal computer in a computer laboratory. Disadvantage: Student Students who are granted special accommodation to complete Q/E on a university personal computer in a computer laboratory may need to determine availability of computer labs and of personal computers during Q/E time. Disadvantage: Student

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert LaFarge; Chaouki Abdallah

students majoring in STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields and consisted of a four-week term. Eachweekday had 6 hours containing a blend of lecture and laboratory activities. The activities weredivided into two tracks: technical and non-technical. The technical track consisted mainly ofSOE faculty members making presentations on either their research areas or areas of expertise.The non-technical track consisted of the skill/information building activities.The Diversity Programs and the Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering (EECE)Department in the School of Engineering were responsible for the Bridge Program. Chaouki T.Abdallah (Graduate Advisor for EECE) was responsible for obtaining the faculty and other

Conference Session

Where Are Tomorrow's Civil Engineers?

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tarek Rizk; Donald Carpenter; James Hanson

Page 8.509.4Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright2003, American Society for Engineering Educationwhich made for a comical load test with students standing on chairs). The award for mostvolumetric office space went to a team that ingeniously utilized cantilever structures.Geotechnical Engineering Activities A number of geotechnical engineering activities were conducted over the duration of twosessions of the program. Most geotechnical engineering activities were selected from the SoilMagic program developed through the sponsorship of ASCE. The Soil Magic program is aseries of laboratory experiments that demonstrate many of the underlying principles of soilmechanics

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Figliola; Beth Daniell; Art Young; David Moline

laboratories. We address the questions:“What do we want to accomplish?” and “So how might we do this effectively and efficiently?”As part of Clemson University's Writing-Across-The-Curriculum Program, English departmentconsultants worked with Mechanical Engineering faculty and graduate assistants on technicalwriting pedagogy. We report on audience, genre, and conventions as important issues in labreports and have recommended specific strategies across the program for improvements.IntroductionPedagogical questions continue about the content, feedback and methodology of the technicallaboratory writing experience in engineering programs. In fact, there is no known prescriptionfor success, and different programs try different approaches. Some programs

Conference Session

Outreach and Freshman Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nadia Craig; Michelle Maher; Walter Peters

concepts, complex systemconcepts, and experiential learning about these simple and complex systems.Tools:To incorporate tools that the students will use in engineering school and in their career, wepresented the class with tools to model simple systems. Computational tools and informationtechnology were presented in the “Pit and Pit’um Laboratory.” Problem solving tools werepresented using problems from higher level engineering courses and simple systems weremodeled using a projectile motion problem.The “Pit and Pit’um Laboratory” took place in the computer lab during three class sessions.These lab sessions were used to introduce the students to computer software including MicrosoftWord, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Knight; Jacquelyn Sullivan; Lawrence Carlson

Session 3553 Staying in Engineering: Impact of a Hands-On, Team-Based, First-Year Projects Course on Student Retention Daniel W. Knight, Lawrence E. Carlson and Jacquelyn F. Sullivan Integrated Teaching and Learning Program and Laboratory College of Engineering and Applied Science University of Colorado at BoulderAbstractThis study evaluates the impact on student retention of the First-Year Engineering Projects(FYEP) course at the University of

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert J. Voigt

material we wanted to cover.V. Hands on LearningThe task of fitting a large amount of material into a short span of time simply meant that we werenever going to get into depth in any one area. This was both disappointing and difficult. Inaddition, the first time this course was taught the students came from ten different majors. As afree elective, it was up to their academic advisers as to whether or not it fit their course matrix.The challenge was then how to describe some rather complex topics in terms which all wouldunderstand and develop meaningful laboratories which would re-enforce the material covered inthe lecture. There is not enough space in a conference paper to describe all of the methods usedin the course so I will highlight those

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffery M. Saul; Rhett J. Allain; Duane L. Deardorff; David S. Abbott; Robert J. Beichner

Reproduction Service, ED 377038.13. Hake, R., (1998). Interactive-Engagement vs. Traditional Methods: A six- thousand-student survey of mechanics test data for introductory physics courses. American Journal of Physics, 66(1): p. 64-74.14. Hake, R.R., (1992). Socratic pedagogy in the introductory physics laboratory. Physics Teacher, 30: p. 546-552.15. Heller, P., T. Foster, & K. Heller. (Year). Cooperative Group Problem Solving in Laboratories. in International Conference Undergraduate Physics Education. of Conference.16. Hestenes, D., M. Wells, & G. Swackhamer, (1992). Force concept inventory. Physics Teacher, 30(3): p. 141-158.17. Holcomb, D., (1994). How will the introductory university physics

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark L. Smith; Kenneth E. Rowe; Carlos R. Morales; Rick L. Homkes

Session 3575 New Engineering Faculty For The New Millennium A/Prof. Rick Homkes, A/Prof. Carlos R. Morales, Mr. Kenneth E. Rowe, A/Prof. Mark L. Smith Purdue UniversityAbstractThree new faculty members team up to relate their experiences moving from industry toacademia. Major topics include teaching, laboratory development, service, publishing, and thebalancing of time among these areas. The teaching area includes incorporating industrialexperiences into classroom preparation and making the transition from industrial presentationsto academic teaching

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps II

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Ramers

molding and metal casting, and deep drawing. After studying their selected processes, thestudents had to figure out how to provide the forces, heat, fluids, motion, geometry, etc. to thematerials they chose for objects used to demonstrate their processes.One student modified a polishing wheel in the Materials Laboratory to provide centrifugal forcesand designed and built the means to hold the mold to the wheel shaft to demonstrate vertical spincasting. Using a vacuum former as a model, a group of students built their own pressure formingsystem. Another group used silicon rubber to make molds to cast small parts of materials withmelting temperatures under 400oF. They designed and built molds with sprues and runners,machined patterns or used common

Conference Session

Programming and DSP Potpourri

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Delores Etter; Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

-Madison, WI Abstract Many digital signal processing (DSP) topics are difficult for undergraduates to internalize, but studies have shown that demonstrations and laboratory experiences can facilitate the process. In the past, many barriers prevented including real-time DSP hardware in an undergraduate curriculum. This paper describes a pedagogical model the authors have developed which includes theory, demos, lab exercises, and real- time DSP experience using Matlab, C, and real-time DSP hardware that overcomes the barriers. This model has been very successful.1 IntroductionA common complaint heard from electrical engineering (EE) undergraduates

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachel Shinn

, vibration, mass properties, communications,sensor testing and propulsion (among others), generally require elaborate and expensiveequipment. Such equipment is generally outside of the budgetary range of an undergraduateuniversity. Using modest resources, the instructor must develop experiments that streamline thesetests for illustration purposes, and simplify the tests to illustrate key principles.This paper covers the experiments we have found helpful in meeting these goals and compareswhat we have done in our space lab to what has been done in other undergraduate aerospaceprograms.I. IntroductionThe US Naval Academy1, Virginia Tech2 and the US Air Force Academy3 have all implementedsome form of space laboratory experience for their undergraduate

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Phillips; Jon Fricker; Paul Palazolo; Norman Dennis

this database extensively in planning afield and laboratory investigation program to characterize soil properties needed for the design oftheir facility.Paul Palazolo has customized the computational and project elements from “Sooner City” intohis undergraduate Civil Engineering Computation course at The University of Memphis withextension of the authenticity of the programming to relate to actual engineering audiences. Page 6.1138.1 "Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2001, American Society for Engineering

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Lin; Hal Broberg

(EET), with options incomputer engineering technology. There are about 200 students majoring in EET andover 1100 students have received Purdue EET degrees from IPFW during the past 36years. The average age of ECET students is approximately 28 and most are employedfull-time while taking courses toward their degrees.The first two Internet courses offered in ECET were presented during the Fall 2000semester. Both courses introduce programming languages. One, EET/CS 114, usedVisual Basic 6 to teach introductory windows programming and is structured as a lecturecourse, with no scheduled laboratory. The other, EET 205, uses Microchip PIC Assemblylanguage to introduce assembly language programming and is structured as a lecturecourse with an assigned

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza S. Abhari; Friederike Mund; Anestis I. Kalfas

Session 1625 Integration of Software Tools into a Multi-disciplinary Undergraduate Student Design Project Friederike C. Mund, Anestis I. Kalfas, Reza S. Abhari Turbomachinery Laboratory Institute of Energy Technology Swiss Federal Institute of Technology 8092 Zurich, SwitzerlandAbstract This paper presents a pilot scheme for the integration of modern state-of-the-artturbomachinery design tools into project-based education of undergraduate students. This efforthas been part of a

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Earl Owen

assignmentsand/or laboratory experiments are outlined for the students, and tests are scheduled to verify thateach topic has been learned as prescribed. All students are required to learn the same topics, atthe same rate, and in the same way, under the false assumption that all students will share theteacher’s orientation, pace, and learning style. In a student-motivated approach, on the otherhand, students take primary responsibility for their own learning. They decide, within theconstraints allowed, what they will learn, in what order and manner. In the classroom sessions,the instructor outlines and contextualizes a body of knowledge; flags ideas, theories, andproblems for students to consider; suggests activities and experiments to aid learning