Conference Session

Innovative IE Curricula and Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Taylor; Jacqueline Mozrall

, manufacturing processes, layout, and ergonomics to name a few. The students are alsoprovided with a set of tools/software to learn and use throughout the integrated sequence thathave been identified by faculty, students, and co-op employers as key tools for IndustrialEngineers, namely AutoCAD, Access, MS Office, and MS Project. The classroom andlaboratory experiences are supplemented with plant tours, common case studies, and a variety ofdemonstrations. Analysis techniques are typically taught in team-based, application formats thatprovide the student with exposure to the methods, which has been shown to increase theenthusiasm of students. The main thrusts of the new curriculum are active learning and exposure,with details and theory to follow in more

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Wong; Stephanie Blaisdell; Paula Leventman; Anna Swan; Katherine Ziemer; Rachelle Reisberg

tomiddle schools. Models are being developed to demonstrate concepts that encourage girls andboys to explore STEM (science, technology, engineering and math). Each primarily female teamincludes engineering faculty, middle school teachers, industry volunteers, and undergraduatestudents. Teams are creating flexible curriculum activities that are classroom tested anddocumented for national dissemination.Funded by a three-year NSF grant (HRD GSE 0217110), the collaboration is in its second year.Pilots are underway with assessment points to incorporate lessons learned from classroomtesting. Each team selected different concepts to develop: - NU’s project has students using basic science concepts and the 8 steps of the engineering design

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 2

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mayer

Session 3642 Engineering Management Technology Transfer in Naval Engineering Curricula Robert H. Mayer United States Naval AcademyAbstractThis paper will describe new project management opportunities within the ocean engineering andnaval architecture programs at the U.S. Naval Academy. Specifically, engineering managementskills and techniques have been adapted to naval engineering settings and included in a newproject management area of concentration.One elective course, in particular, introduces students to various inventory

Conference Session

Capstone Course in Industrial Technology

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Ray Diez; Luke Huang; David Yearwood

Session Number 3250 CHARACTERISTICS OF AN INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY CAPSTONE COURSE CLAYTON RAY DIEZ, DAVID N. YEARWOOD, LUKE H. HUANG University of North DakotaIntroduction An undergraduate program may normally provide students with about 40 coursesin the process of preparing them for training towards a profession. While these coursesare spread out in different fields, it is often a challenge for students to effectivelymaximize the application of knowledge learned from theses course to carry out aprofessional project. Yet, it is precisely what is expected of graduates. On the other hand,after several years of

Conference Session

Design And Manufacturing Experiences I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Hunt; Eduardo Ortega; David Miller; Alfred Striz

. It is propelled by a N-size solidrocket engine and is expected to climb to about 22,000 ft with a maximum speed of Mach 1.5.The instrumentation includes an accelerometer, temperature and pressure sensors to measure thelocation and behavior of the shock wave during the supersonic flight phase, and strain gauges forthe determination of the structural behavior of the rocket. This rocket was finally launched inNovember of 2003.At various times during the planning, assembly, and instrumentation phases of the project,participants included local high school students, college students from sophomores to graduates,and an OU alumnus with high-power rocketry experience. Students participated in various ways:on a voluntary basis, by signing up for a

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Baker; David Silverstein

actually needed to know how to apply seemingly abstract techniques toreal science and engineering problems. This shortfall in retention leads to additionalwork on the student's behalf and often a slowdown in the progress of a class to ensureadequate time is spent on a topic. While the responsibility to learn this material lies withthe student, it nonetheless impacts the quality of the student's education.This project is designed to address the problem by modifying student attitudes towardslearning calculus by presenting examples in the context of engineering and scienceproblems. The examples would be adapted from the actual sorts of problems engineersand scientists will encounter later in their course of study, but presented with all theemphasis

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Plichta; Mary Raber

Page 6.999.1 Copyright @2001, American Society for Engineering EducationThe Enterprise Program includes an extensive multi-year, multi-disciplinary design experience.Within this option the college/university establishes a number of engineering/business entities,called enterprises, and students choose to join the company and work with other students and fac-ulty to make the enterprise a successful venture. Each Enterprise, for the most part, operates muchlike a real company in the private sector. The employees (students) solve real-world problems,perform testing and analyses, make recommendations, build prototypes, manufacture parts, staywithin budgets (real and imaginary), and manage multiple projects. The objectives of

Conference Session

CAD Applications in MET Courses

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mukasa Ssemakula

for selecting particular processes. Thelaboratory portion involves team projects that help students gain hands-on experience withselected manufacturing processes. The projects start with simple components that can be madeon a single machine such as a lathe or a mill, and progress to the manufacture and assembly of afully operational model engine. This approach introduces students to the issues involved inputting together a non-trivial assembly. The projects also expose students to the idea of workingin teams, a skill that is highly sought by industry.IntroductionThe high cost of setting up a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility means that universitiesusually have to make difficult choices about the resources they dedicate to courses

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Wells; Jeffrey Mountain; Donald Goddard

hands-on engineering experience.Since full-sized production equipment can be prohibitively expensive, we have used portabledesktop equipment in this project. Initial costs for individual apparatus have ranged from $4,000 Page 6.620.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationto $20,000, depending on the sophistication of the machine and optional features. Ongoing costshave been limited thus far to consumables such as machining stock and plastics. The machineshave been mounted on mobile

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

David J. Ahlgren; Igor Verner

contest-oriented curricula they have generated. Because robot design is an interdisciplinary process,contest-oriented curricula share a "threaded" approach in which the primary assignment--todevelop an optimal robot for the competition -- is declared as the general goal of the curriculum.This goal threads knowledge and skills through the various disciplines taught in the course,creating a purposeful, project based learning process.The paper presents experiences of the authors in developing robotics curricula at undergraduatecollege and high-school levels. We compare contest-related curricula, learning subjects, robotdesigns, and learning outcomes. Our assessment is based on educational surveys developed bythe authors and administered at the 1999

Conference Session

Structural Education Applications in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Orla Smyth LoPiccolo, State University of New York, Farmingdale State College

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

Management StudentsAbstract:To design projects most efficiently, architecture and engineering students need to develop theirspatial reasoning in order to augment their ability to visualize and manipulate two-dimensionaland three-dimensional objects. At our institution, architectural engineering and constructionmanagement students collectively attend 2 non-design courses (Graphics I (manual drafting) andMaterials and Methods of Construction I courses) in their freshmen year. Other than briefexercises, such as the incorporation of a field trip to a construction site, a soil sieve test lab, andprovision of material samples and construction videos in the classroom, both of these courses areheavily dependent on two and three-dimensional graphics to

Conference Session

Hands-on Laboratory and Design Experiences in Environmental Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sudarshan T. Kurwadkar, Tarleton State University; Daniel K. Marble, Tarleton State University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) including theability to conduct laboratory experiments and the ability to critically analyze and interpret data inmore than one major environmental engineering focus area. This paper discusses threeenvironmental engineering undergraduate research projects that were funded through internalgrants and completed between 2009 and 2011 by individual students under the mentorship ofenvironmental engineering faculty. At the completion of their research projects, studentspresented their research work through a variety of poster presentations at symposiums andconferences and through publication in peer reviewed technical journals. The researchexperience, research methodology, problem formulation

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Leslie Dorworth; Barbara Mania-Farnell; Susan Scachitti

overcoming gender-related issues common in business environments. The instituteaims to do this by providing pertinent education and information, appropriate networkingopportunities and experiences, and general support in aiding leaders as they develop essentialskills that will support lifelong success.The institute resulted from the efforts of various faculty members and administrative staff atPUC who hold a stake in the TEAMS fields. Their interest in gender equity prompted an officialcommittee to be formed under the PUC Women’s Studies program in 1996. The committee hasevolved over several years conducting focus groups and coordinating various projects within thecommunity. Eventually, their focus turned to the important subject of leadership

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Les Kinsler; David Delker

microprocessor-based controlapplication. The industry partner agreed to allow the C programming class to write theapplication as a class project. This project required the students to incorporate interrupts, timing,signal monitoring, real-time calculations, and extensive interfacing to input and output devices.This paper focuses on the unique interaction between students and industry and the benefits thatthis real-world process brought into the course and into the academic program.IntroductionApplications in C Programming for Engineering Technology, CMST 222, is a course designed tointroduce non-Computer Science Technology majors to the C language. Most of the students inthis class have limited exposure to third-generation programming languages. Applied

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Xudong Yu; William White; Scott Smith; Keqin Gu; Jerry Weinberg; Cem Karacal; George L. Engel

LEGO RCX platform isparticularly interesting in this respect. From the electrical engineering perspective, it provides avariety of pre-constructed sensors as well as motors. From the mechanical engineeringperspective, robot bodies can be constructed from the simple building blocks of standard andspecialized LEGO parts, which include gears, axles, and hinges. Finally, from the computerscience perspective, there are a variety of programming languages available that support inputfrom sensors and output to motors, including numerous languages that require no previousprogramming background.4With the development of these inexpensive and accessible platforms, robotics projects providean opportunity to directly interact with technology, as well as an

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald R. Hosey; R. Gregg Bruce; Lester K. Eigenbrod; Hansjoerg Stern

approach to capstone application of the principles taught in thedesign, materials, mechanics, fluid power, and manufacturing undergraduate course sequences.The course utilized a student teamwork-oriented approach to accomplish three design projects andemployed additional faculty to discuss such topics as inventiveness, concurrent engineering,teamwork & supervision, life cycle design, manufacturing cost, product safety, and professionalethics.2 Course Objectives Several primary objectives were established, following faculty recommendations from curriculumand mechanics subcommittees and from members of the Industrial Advisory Committee. The firstwas to emphasize the fundamental elements of the design process. Faculty members withexpertise in

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Prawit Rotsawatsuk; Anil Sawhney; Andre Mund

Session 1315 Enhancing Construction Engineering Education Using Internet based Tools Anil Sawhney, Prawit Rotsawatsuk, and André Mund Western Michigan UniversityAbstractThis paper describes the work being performed as part of a three-year project that has beenfunded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Western Michigan University (WMU).The goal of the project is to enhance the undergraduate construction engineering education.Enhancements will be accomplished by developing: 1) an Internet-based Interactive ConstructionManagement Learning System (ICMLS) and 2

Conference Session

Inclusive Horizons: Shaping Diverse Pathways in Engineering and Design Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allison Murray, Marquette University; Lisa Chase, Marquette University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

human-centered design approach, (2) the intersection of socialjustice and design thinking, and (3) the implications of design choices on historicallymarginalized groups. Course artifacts, student reflections, and instructional team reflections areused to understand the growth in mindset of the students and instructor through this course.Additionally, these resources are used to present key learnings for future implementation.This project focused on examining systems. Groups historically excluded from engineering,including people of color, disabled, LGBTQ+, and women, were recentered through the humancentered design process. Students evaluated engineering systems for exclusion and ideated on thesource of these design flaws. In doing so, they

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Raffaello D'Andrea

Session: Mobile Robots and Interdisciplinary Design 2220 Robot Soccer: A Platform for Systems Engineering Raffaello D’Andrea Cornell UniversityAbstractThis paper describes a project course at Cornell University aimed at educating students inSystems Engineering. The multidisciplinary nature of the course is a great vehicle forhighlighting some of the key components of Systems Engineering, including System Design,Systems and Technology Integration, Systems Analysis, and System Engineering Management.The class is comprised of twenty-four students from Mechanical Engineering, ElectricalEngineering, Operations Research

Conference Session

Build Diversity in Engineering Graduate Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ali Ansari, Virginia State University; Jahangir Ansari, Virginia State University; Krishan Agrawal, Virginia State University; Arthur Fridrich, Virginia State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

AC 2010-584: IMPACT AND MERIT OF THE VSU HBCU-UP ON THEUNDERGRADUATE STEM EDUCATIONAli Ansari, Virginia State UniversityJahangir Ansari, Virginia State University Associate Professor of Manufacturing EngineeringKrishan Agrawal, Virginia State University Professor of MathematicsArthur Fridrich, Virginia State University Page 15.666.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010AbstractThe article presents the overall impact of a NSF grant under the Historically Black Universitiesand Colleges Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP). The alignment between the goals of theUniversity’s Strategic Plan and then objectives of the HBCU-UP project is analyzed. The

Conference Session

Computer Science Applications

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Li, Northern Arizona University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

describeshow we integrate the hands-on component into the course work to enhance the learningof the core data mining topics. The hands-on projects give students an opportunity tocarry out experiments that illustrate core concepts in a realistic setting. In addition, theopen-source data mining tool, RapidMiner, is introduced to assist students to explore and Page 22.85.2digest various data mining processes and algorithms.The rest of this paper is organized as follows. Section 2 describes the background of thedata mining course offered in Fall 2010. It lists the core topics covered in this courseoffering as well as the hands-on experiments to support course

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sinead MacNamara; Clare Olsen; Laura Steinberg, Syracuse University; Samuel Clemence, Syracuse University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

AC 2010-1951: INSPIRING INNOVATIONSinead Mac Namara, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITYClare Olsen, Syracuse UniversityLaura Steinberg, Syracuse UniversitySamuel Clemence, Syracuse University Page 15.746.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Inspiring Innovation1. IntroductionThis paper describes a course at Syracuse University that brings together architecture andstructural engineering students for a joint architecture and engineering design seminar.This course forms part of a larger NSF funded project aimed at increasing innovation andcreativity in engineering curricula. The principal aim of the overall project is to findstrategies to foster and reward

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

recently worked on a scholarly project with the author.The author concludes that embedding scholarship in the ET curriculum is very desirable andsuggests some ways and means to facilitate and nurture student scholarship in ET.IntroductionSeveral institutions with Engineering and Engineering Technology (ET) programs now requirescholarship of their faculty,1, 2, 3 including those institutions for which teaching has always beentheir primary focus. Since many of these institutions have mostly undergraduate programs, theyalso now require that faculty scholarship involve undergraduate students and be integrated intothe student learning experiences in order for the scholarship to be meaningful. An example ofthis trend appears in the 2004 Rochester

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Caroline Cochran; Kanthasamy Muraleetharan

discussed.1. OverviewThe dam design competition was created to expose high school students to the cutting-edgetechnology implemented in the finite element computer code TeraScale_Dysac. In addition tocreating excitement in the students toward engineering, the project aided the traditional highschool curriculum by giving team building experience and requiring higher level learning skillsin the students. The web-based nature of TeraScale_Dysac has the potential to bring similar Page 10.689.1experience to remotely located high schools. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Anderson; Janice Singleton

challenges. Several things drive the interest of industry and suppliers to involve the academiccommunity in technology research. First, there is an opportunity to expose students and faculty tocurrent issues, processes and procedures in use in industry. Not only do the students directlyinvolved in the research benefit from this, but also students who are exposed by assisting,observing, discussing and listening to the challenges of the project derive benefit. Engineeringdevelopment projects, particularly when they must be integrated back into a company’s ongoingoperations, offer an opportunity for faculty to develop and integrate procedures and projectmanagement principles that are current and realistic into their teaching materials and frame

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engr. Educ. II

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Lachance; Allen Estes

Session 2121 K’NEXERCISE: INTRODUCING STUDENTS TO THE KEY PARTICIPANTS IN THE DESIGN-CONSTRUCTION PROCESS Allen C. Estes, Eric M. Lachance, and Stephen J. Ressler United States Military AcademyABSTRACT The design-construction process is complex and involves key players who mustcommunicate and work together for a project to be successful. The owner, architect, projectmanager, construction contractor, sub-contractors, vendors, and lawyers all have key roles,unique perspectives, individual motivations and vested (but sometimes competing) interests in agiven project. Without first

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmad Smaili

needed to envision, design, and build mechatronic devices. Thisarticle presents a model used in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the AmericanUniversity of Beirut (AUB) to educate mechanical engineers to become mechatronicsgeneralists. The various elements of the model are not necessarily new 4, but the way they are tiedis believed to be. The model also satisfies many of the educational outcomes stated in the ABETEC2000 Criterion 35.Mechatronic Education at AUBGoals and ObjectivesTraditionally, ME students receive primarily discipline specific training and have very fewopportunities to work on interdisciplinary team projects. They are trained to design mechanicalsystems for motion, strength, and other criteria, but receive little or no

Collection

ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Sofia M Vidalis, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College; Rajarajan Subramanian, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College

experience forclassroom use and projects. This cutting-edge approach in education not only prepares them forsuccess in the field of civil engineering but also allows them the skills to thrive in a rapidlyevolving technological landscape.Overall, this paper will cover the benefits of using VT in civil engineering courses and show someexamples of how students have used these. The combination of all these VR programs with Revitin civil engineering offers each student a dynamic and innovative learning environment that fosterscreativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills. This approach not only enhances studentengagement but also prepares them for the challenges and opportunities present in the modernengineering industry.Keywords: Virtual

Collection

2023 PSW

Authors

Tatyana Ryutov

basics of human genetics, precision medicine, various cryptographicmethods, and statistics. The course includes writing assignments and oral presentations.A self-proposed semester-long project allows the students to select either a research-oriented or implementation-oriented direction. Project-based learning enables students to learn communication, problem solving, and criticalthinking skills [20], [23]. Student can select topics their interested in, which makes them more engaged andmotivated. Students can select topics their interested in, which makes them more engaged and motivated. Thisresults in a more effective learning [15], [17].Course Enrolment StatisticsOut of 37 enrolled students, 17 were female and 20 were male.The table 1 shows the

Conference Session

Hands-On Learning in ET I

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Immanuel Edinbarough, The University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley; Jose Jaime Taha-Tijerina, The University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

conducted to measure friction and wear rate betweenmaterials. Also, these evaluations should consider temperature, humidity, and other criticalconditions that could affect the results. The data collected should be analyzed to determine theeffects of various metals and components on friction and wear. Finally, the results should becompared to theoretical predictions.The engineering technology curriculum envisioned this project as part of experiential learning.The project team should discuss the results and draw conclusions based on the data. They shouldthen present their findings and make recommendations to the appropriate stakeholders. Finally,they should demonstrate teamwork, proper scheduling and organization that ensures the successof the