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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

James Pearson

of the working prototype and the presentation of all documentation andmarketing elements. Team interaction in the course has been effective thoughsometimes frustrating to the student. Student response to the course has been positive.The course has provided a good preparation for the full-year senior design project. Thepaper also discusses creativity issues, the use of computer tools, the application ofreliability factors, student evaluation techniques, and some of the product designs.“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” PlutarchI. IntroductionThe engineering faculty at John Brown University began discussing a junior-leveldesign laboratory in 1990. Students were spending extensive amounts of creative timein the

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Neda Fabris

. Myron Tribus, former US Assistant Secretary of Commerce, and formerDirector of the Center for Advanced Engineering Study at MIT. This paper briefly describes thematerial covered in the course with emphasis on different projects and activities students areinvolved in.2. Scope of the CourseSince this was a new elective class, I had complete freedom in choosing material to be studiedand in developing the activities and projects. As a basis for the class I choose the book,“Automation, Production Systems, and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing” by M.P. Groover1.Although this book is not up to date on several subjects, and several chapters in the book are

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Mouring; S. Brown; P. Mead; M. Natishan; I. Goswami; C. Lathan; Linda Schmidt

Session 3325 BESTEAMS: Building Engineering Student Team Effectiveness And Management Systems L. Schmidt, P. Mead, M. Natishan/ C. Lathan, S. Brown/ I. Goswami/ S. Mouring University of Maryland, The Catholic University of America, Morgan State University, United States Naval AcademyAbstractThe current paper introduces the BESTEAMS Project. BESTEAMS seeks to transform theprofessional engineering environment into one comfortable for all by training engineering studentsto recognize and accept diverse learning, communication, and behavior styles in

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahnam Navaee

Engineering in collaboration with Armstrong Atlantic State University, GeorgiaSouthern University, and Savannah State University. In the summer of 1999 with the fundsfrom Georgia Tech, the computer laboratories and teachable lecture room facilities at GeorgiaSouthern University were updated and equipped with computer projection systems, Elmo units,SMART BOARDS and other instructional technology equipment to meet the demands of theGTREP program. The paper presented discusses the methodologies currently utilized in theseimproved facilities to enhance the teaching effectiveness of the instructors and the coursecomprehension of the students.During the fall semester of 1999, these methodologies were employed to provide instructions fora total of about two

Conference Session

Design in BME Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Gettens, Western New England College; Michael Rust, Western New Engalnd College; Diane Testa, Western New England College; Judy Cezeaux, Western New England College

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

simulation, internships and cooperative education, guest speakers,guest instructors, field trips, bioethics instruction and problem-centered instruction.5 AtBucknell, a four course sequence over the Junior and Senior Years was implemented in order tointroduce students to such skills as regulatory issues, teamwork, environmental impacts, formaldecision making, computer-aided design, machining, rapid prototyping, cell culture andstatistical analysis.4 Importantly these skills are taught and practiced prior to embarking on thesenior capstone design project.4 At the University of Virginia professional skills such as jobsearching, interviewing, written and oral communication, ethics, negotiation skills, leadership,intellectual property and

Conference Session

Innovative College-Industry Partnerships for the Future

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ana Elisa P. Goulart, Texas A&M University; Chris Corti, Ph.D., Cisco Systems, Inc.; Matthew Robert Hawkes, Cisco

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

Page 22.21.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 A College-Industry Research Partnership on Software Development for Undergraduate StudentsAbstractCollaboration means working together for a special purpose. When industry and academiacollaborate, their purposes may be very different, e.g., academia focuses on education andtheoretical research, and industry in general focuses on products and process efficiency.Therefore, it is not easy for faculty members in engineering programs to find collaborationprojects that represent a win-win situation for both industry and academia. Such projects canrepresent a major contribution to the education of our engineering students.In this paper, we

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum Innovations.

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vassilios Tzouanas, University of Houston, Downtown

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

to Control andInstrumentation Engineering Technology students at the University of Houston –Downtown. Theobjective of this course is the computer aided design and optimization of process operations.Processes are selected from major industrial sectors such as chemical, refining and bio-processes.Modeling and simulation of these processes is facilitated by using the Aspen Engineering suite oftools. Such tools are widely used by the process industries to design and optimize processoperations. By completing this course, students learn about different processes, equipment andoptimization techniques. Groups of three to four students work together on team projects. Theorganization, execution, and results from such projects demonstrate the skills

Conference Session

Research on Engineering Design Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leslie Reed, Purdue University; Michael J. Dyrenfurth, Purdue University, College of Technology, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

AC 2011-1383: AN ASSESSMENT OF CREATIVE CAPABILITIES IN TECH-NOLOGICAL DESIGNLeslie Reed, Purdue University Ms. Reed is the founder and CEO of Reed Environmental, Inc., a comprehensive safety, industrial hygiene and environmental consulting firm founded in 1989. She is presently working on a PhD in Technology from Purdue University.Michael J. Dyrenfurth, Purdue University, College of Technology, West Lafayette Michael Dyrenfurth is professor in the Department of Industrial Technology at Purdue University. He is co-PI of the DETECT and Atlantis Concurrent MS degree projects. Active in international aspects of the profession, he teaches and researches in the areas of technological innovation, technological literacy

Conference Session

Enhancing CE Learning Through Use of Technology

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Alhassan, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne; James Welch, Indiana-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW)

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

packages available to professionals.Allowing students to learn the software step by step (modeling, analysis, and design) in asequential approach through successive interrelated core and elective courses (StructuralAnalysis, Reinforced Concrete Design, and Steel Design), supplies the students with thefundamentals needed to tackle large projects on their own. This paper illuminates the variouslearning projects that were given to the students in the courses mentioned above. The papercontinues with a demonstration to a practical application as civil engineering students usedSAP2000 to design a pedestrian bridge for the required capstone senior design course. Theproject allowed the students to further explore the various design capabilities of SAP2000

Conference Session

Pedagogy

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Musa Jouaneh

A Study of Learning Styles and Team Performance Musa K. Jouaneh1 Department of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881Abstract This paper reports on a study that was performed over a 4-year long period in which theperformance of undergraduate mechanical engineering students on a team project, enrolled in asenior mechanical systems course at the University of Rhode Island, was correlated with theirlearning styles as measured by the Brain Dominance Model. To measure the learning style ofeach student, the Brain Works program

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Classroom Tips

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mayer

Session 1339 Rate of Return – Must We Bother? Robert H. Mayer United States Naval AcademyAbstractRate of return (ROR) is a widely accepted criterion for determining the economic viability of anengineering project or other investment alternative. Similarly, incremental rate of return (IROR)is often used to choose the best alternative among several. Accordingly, most engineeringeconomy textbooks provide appreciable instruction in ROR and IROR applications, oftencovering one or two chapters of text. As a result, computation of the ROR is certainly

Conference Session

Design in the Engineering Core

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Josue Njock-Libii

. This paper discusses the main reason that led to the introduction of design in this course, the process that was followed to achieve integration of design, examples of projects that were carried out by students, the benefits and disadvantages that have been identified, and the author’s assessment of the whole experience. 1. Reason for adding design into the course: Need for reform Design was added to the first course in fluid mechanics to respond to the criticisms of engineering education that were prevalent in the literature at the end of the 1980's and the beginning of the 1990's. People who wanted reform criticized engineering education. They charged that graduates of American Engineering

Collection

2023 ASEE GSW

Authors

Nelson Fumo

workforce gaps in buildings specializations. Therefore, the initiative seeks to inspire the nextgeneration of building scientists. The author of this paper became a member of the Professor Teamfor the 2022-2023 Program Challenges by implementing a project development activity in thegraduate course MENG 5318 – HVAC. Four teams of four students participated in the challenge. Thechallenge topics were “It’s Electric,” “Curb Your Carbon,” and “Sustainable and Resilient.” Studentsin the course participated in the Curb Your Carbon challenge. The project ideas proposed by theinstructor were in the topic of Evaporative Cooling. The project ideas were an opportunity for studentsto put in practice the material learned in the course, as well as an opportunity

Conference Session

Biomedical Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raquel Perez Castillejos, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Biomedical

students for productive careers in research—either in academia orindustry—by means of (a) introducing students to the research process; (b) mentoring students tobecome independent, intellectual thinkers; and (c) teaching the art of technical communication.With their application form, students select two of the 4 tracks, which helps matching selectedapplicants with research projects in their favorite topics within neural engineering.Each student research team has a research project and receives the support of one main facultyadvisor, one graduate coach, and two or more supporting faculty advisors who work in a similararea of research as the main faculty advisor. The main faculty advisor defines the generalhypothesis/ goal of the research project

Conference Session

Instrumentation Technical Session I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Asad Yousuf, Savannah State University; Jarvis Brewer T, Savannah State University; Mohamad A. Mustafa, Savannah State University; Alberto G De La Cruz, Savannah State University; Faraz Muhammad Yousuf, 3D Imaging Developer

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

of Technology (Georgia Tech) this fall as an Electrical and Computer Engineering major. Yousuf specializes in basic computer programming, website design, computer graphics design, file mapping, and various other basic component of computers. Yousuf has attended various engineering seminars at Georgia Tech. and NASA, received the ”Best in Festival” award at the International Student Media Festival for website design, and was an intern at the local IT company Speros. During this wireless robot project, Yousuf was asked to create a 3D drawing of the with approximate dimensions. Using Solidworks, the 3D CAD drawing was completed in the duration of two days

Conference Session

Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD) Technical Session: Engineering Leadership in Industry

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica J. Li, University of Toronto; Andrea Chan, University of Toronto; Elham Marzi, University of Toronto; Emily Moore P.Eng., University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

the specific context of engineering consulting by studying one mid-size, Canadianengineering services firm. More specifically, the research question we seek to address is who isidentified as a leader inside engineering consulting firms and why; for example, what skills,qualities or other attributes are recognized within the firm? By examining engineering leadershipin situ, we acknowledge the prospect that “engineering leadership” may be impacted by thecontext in which it is practiced. This work will support engineering educators in furtherunderstanding engineering leadership, particularly for Capstone, design, and other problem-based, project-based courses where students are meant to be situated in replicated professionalpractice

Conference Session

Best of Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Courtney Pfluger, Northeastern University; Susan M Lord, University of San Diego

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

challenges that are important for all engineering students toconsider.ExamplesChemical Engineering at Northeastern UniversityAn international, interdisciplinary, month-long, faculty-led program in Brazil, focused onsustainable energy was designed to provide experiential learning opportunities todiscuss technical engineering concepts in relation to social, cultural, and environmentalissues. A holistic pedagogical framework was used to develop the program’sdeliverables and educational content. The three main program elements are coursecontent, company/government/community visits, and a company project. Thepedagogical elements were combined and scaffolded to ensure that the learningoutcomes from the courses connected to the site visits and were applied

Collection

2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Anne E. Mohan; Enrique Sola; James Patrick Abulencia

project is the most comparative experienceto that of the industrial workplace. During this project, students are given the opportunity,usually as a team, to utilize all of their previous coursework to accomplish a common technicalgoal. However, this project only covers one year. Industrial partnering can be used to prepareengineering students throughout their scholastic career for an ever-growing industrial setting. Apartnership between a college or university and a company can give students exposure to avariety of industries, allowing them to make well-informed decisions when actively seekingemployment. Such a relationship also has the potential to blossom into a recruiting process forthe college involved. There are an infinite number of ways to

Conference Session

The Big Picture in Engineering Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dina Verdín, Purdue University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

convergent parallel mixedmethod design, collecting both quantitative and qualitative data, simultaneously, to answer tworesearch questions 1) What trends are Program Officers seeing in the Broader Impacts criterionand 2) Which Broader Impacts statements are being addressed in Project Summaries submitted tothe National Science Foundation. The quantitative approach consisted of examining 82 awarded Project Summaries in theEEC division to obtain a quantifiable assessment of the extent to which PIs who applied to EECaddressed the Broader Impacts suggestions outlined in NSF’s Proposal and Award Policies andProcedures Guide. The qualitative approach involved interviews of four program officers from theEEC division regarding the trends in addressing

Conference Session

FOCUS ON EXHIBITS: Welcome Reception & NEW THIS YEAR! 2018 Best Division Paper Nominee Poster Session Sponsored by Engineering Unleashed

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Reeping, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

ASEE Headquarters

programming students through various K-12 educational activities. Dr. Estell is a Member-at-Large of the Executive Committee for the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET, and also serves as a program evaluator for the Engineering Accreditation Commission. He is also a founding member and serves as Vice President of The Pledge of the Computing Professional, an organization dedicated to the promotion of ethics in the computing professions through a standardized rite-of-passage ceremony. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Partnering to Develop Educational Software Applications: A Four-Year Retrospective StudyIntroductionSeveral years ago, a project

Conference Session

The Best of Computers in Education

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Reeping, Virginia Tech; John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

the Executive Committee for the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET, and also serves as a program evaluator for the Engineering Accreditation Commission. He is also a founding member and serves as Vice President of The Pledge of the Computing Professional, an organization dedicated to the promotion of ethics in the computing professions through a standardized rite-of-passage ceremony. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Partnering to Develop Educational Software Applications: A Four-Year Retrospective StudyIntroductionSeveral years ago, a project was added to the first-year programming sequence at Ohio NorthernUniversity that focused on

Conference Session

Instructional Design

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Naveen Seth, New Community College at CUNY; Donald P. O'Keefe, Farmingdale State College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

AC 2012-4088: INTEGRATING INNOVATIVE PEDAGOGIES INTO EN-GINEERING ECONOMICS COURSESDr. Naveen Seth, New Community College at CUNY Naveen Seth is a founding faculty member in business at the City University of New York’s New Commu- nity College. He has also taught at Pratt Institute in the Construction Management Program. At Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology, he headed the Aviation Management programs and also taught engineering economics in the B.S. program in engineering.Prof. Donald P. O’Keefe, Farmingdale State College Donald P. O’Keefe has 15 years experience teaching at the college level. He taught courses in engineering graphics, quality control, and project management

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Division (CONST) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raissa Seichi Marchiori, University of Alabama; Siyuan Song, The University of Alabama; Sepehr Khorshid, University of Alabama

Tagged Divisions

Construction Engineering Division (CONST)

professionals isleading universities to adapt their curricula and provide adequate BIM training for the next-generation professionals. The senior design class is a core course for last-year students in manyArchitecture, Civil, and Construction engineering programs. Students are given opportunities towork on a real building project through multiple class activities, BIM software, and lectures bypractitioners. The goal of this research was divided into two parts: 1) Evaluate the teachingmethods for delivering BIM topics in a senior design class. A questionnaire survey was distributedto students; 2) Fill the gap about the need for more research to be conducted on the solutions forimplementing BIM in the AEC industry. The existing research may have

Conference Session

LEAD Tech Session #2: Assessing and Evaluating Engineering Leadership Development.

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Latorre, University of Florida; Elizabeth Meier, University of Florida

their personal lives. The students aresurveyed after each of seven guest lectures using quantitative and qualitative measures. Resultsshow that students reported valuing these trainings with respect to each category, with the valueto their professional careers being the highest ranked. This study shows students approve oflearning leadership topics through guest lectures even when assigning varying degrees of valuefor each lecture and each of the three categories. However, students do not understand how thesetopics can relate to their project such that they can apply these trainings for the development ofthe skills. This study will help define better practices for leadership education within engineeringcurriculums to help determine whether

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 7: Making

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sherri Youssef, The Ohio State University; Meagan Eleanor Ita, The Ohio State University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, The Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

(FYEP) to better prepare students to identify problems and develop solutions aspracticing engineers.BackgroundUpon joining the network, our initial EML implementation efforts focused on restructuring thedesign-build project of our standard course sequence in the FYEP by centering it around the 3Cs.This began by visiting other KEEN institutions to understand how EML is implemented in theirfirst-year engineering courses [12]–[14]. Following these visits, various concepts from the 3Cswere explicitly added to the course curriculum to ensure students were becoming familiar withthe 3Cs and actively applying them in their project work.As it currently stands, the standard course sequence consists of two courses where the secondcourse (ENGR 1182) is

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2008 GSW

Authors

Richard Bannerot

Session XXXX 3-4 A Solar Still for Sophomore Design Richard Bannerot Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Houston AbstractA six-week long team project (design, build and test a solar still) conducted in asophomore design course is described. Eight stills were constructed and then testedduring a four-hour period around solar noon under very good solar conditions. Theperformances of the individual stills were

Conference Session

Embedded System Design

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alex Doboli, State University of New York-Stony Brook; Eddie Currie, Resonance Publications, Inc.; Patrick Kane, Cypress Semiconductor Corporation; Dave Van Ess, Cypress Semiconductor Corporation

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

development of newteaching material and activities (courses, student design projects, and research) related to mixed-signal embedded system design11,12. The developed material includes the following: • Complete course material for a one-semester course on embedded mixed-signal systems. The course is designed for senior undergraduate students and first-year graduate students in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). This material is due to be published as a textbook and is available at www.cypress.com . For an evaluation copy please contact cuap@cypress.com. Page 13.927.3 • Related laboratory material was

Conference Session

Design Communications

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharad Oberoi, Carnegie Mellon University; Susan Finger, Carnegie Mellon University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

engineering design projects bring together knowledge from differentsources. They collaborate among themselves, share design knowledge, and negotiate with eachother, faculty members and the client, in order to create engineering artifacts. This process ofteninvolves reuse of previous knowledge and the creation of new knowledge within the context ofthe problem. Such knowledge building is a key process skill that engineers need to acquireduring their education.Ideally in team projects, students co-construct the knowledge necessary to realize their designsthrough the process of proposing, counter-proposing, questioning, arguing, agreeing, anddissenting. A major problem student teams face is learning how to organize and share ideas. Thisfrequently results

Conference Session

Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Smitesh Bakrania, Rowan University; William Riddell, Rowan University; Krishan Bhatia, Rowan University; Leigh Weiss, Rowan University; Kevin Dahm, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

. Page 14.1375.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 WIND TURBINES TO TEACH PARAMETRIC DESIGNA project in which teams of students are asked to design and build horizontal axis wind turbinerotors is presented. The goal of each team was to develop the greatest electrical power outputgiven the constraints of wind velocity, swept area, a specified hub and mounting. In practice, thedesign of wind turbines is extremely complex. Therefore, to make the project tractable tosophomore level undergraduates, significant constraints were placed on the problem statement,which allowed calculations to inform teams’ decisions. To evaluate design instances withoutconstructing rotors, the students developed a computer program to predict

Conference Session

Integrating Additive Manufacturing Practices in Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tony Fan, Wayne State University; Gene Yeau-Jian Liao, Wayne State University; C. P. Yeh, Wayne State University; Jimmy Ching-ming Chen, Wayne State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

medicalresearch are available in the market such as EnvisionTEC 3D-Bioplotter, however they areusually extremely expensive. Collaborating with the medical school, this project will design andbuild new extruding systems on a low-cost RepRap machine. One RepRap Prusa i3 printer ismodified able to extrude independently two different hydro-gels dedicated to the stem cellresearch. The modification is expected to utilize other 3D printing methods to create parts. Thisis a team's Capstone Design Project with students involved to promote and extend theapplications of 3D printing. Student working processes of design, hardware modification, as wellas testing procedures will be observed and recorded. The project activities, the testing results,and the students