Conference Session

Engineers & Mathematicians Communicating

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zack Bowles; Philippe E. Tissot; Jeremy Flores; G. Beate Zimmer; Alexey L. Sadovski; Carl Steidley

Water Level Forecasting along the Texas Coast: Interdisciplinary Research with Undergraduates. G. Beate Zimmer, Philippe E. Tissot, Jeremy S. Flores, Zack Bowles, Alexey L. Sadovski, Carl Steidley. Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX 78412.Abstract:While pure mathematics makes it sometimes difficult to involve undergraduates who have notyet completed the higher level math courses in research projects, research in applied mathematicsis generally more accessible to these students. We present an example of an integrated researchenvironment including faculty, research professionals and students which has facilitated theproductive

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve York

Session 2525 TEAM BUILDING THROUGH EARLY DESIGN/BUILD OPPORTUNITIES FOR FRESHMAN ENGINEERING STUDENTS Steven C. York and Katharine Davenport Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ABSTRACTTeamwork is crucial to the success of any large engineering project. The AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology (ABET) and employers have stressed theimportance of incorporating teamwork skills within the engineering curriculum. AtVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, this is being implemented using aseries of hands-on and early-design projects during

Conference Session

Computer Science-related Programs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Korey L. Sewell, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Jeff Ringenberg, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

parallel programming or object-oriented design. It is also well known that engineering students are more likely to pursue andcomplete CS degrees if they perform well in their freshman programming courses. Consequently,the importance of stimulating long-term CS interest at the K-12 level cannot be understated.K-12 CS programs that dwell on the high-level benefits of a CS career can sometimesoverwhelm new students. Typically, these programs will introduce students to recent researchprojects or high-end products in the market. While these methods inspire interest in CS, they canalso be discouraging when students realize their introductory work (e.g. basic programming) isso far away from the advanced projects that were introduced.Alternatively

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Cardenas; Patrick Little

in a self-taught mode with guided computerexercises to the other extreme in which students work on open ended design projects under amentor who encourages and comments on ongoing work, and guides the students to engage invisual and creative application of principles. In light of this range of reported experiences, it maybe useful to review the experience of other, less technical, disciplines’ approach to studio, andthen consider a set of specifications offered initially by Kuhn in the context of architecture.1.1 Characteristics of Studio EducationOne could look to any of the artistic disciplines for insights into studio education, as suggestedby Walker and Jennings, above. A number of papers have, for example, considered the role andpurpose

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Eckehard Doerry; Bridget Bero; David Hartman

corporate design contents, placing increasing emphasis onindividual problem-solving creativity, interdisciplinary collaboration, and teaming and projectmanagement skills. NAU’s Design4Practice program explicitly teaches these skills within anovel curriculum centered around a carefully crafted sequence of project-oriented courses. Thispaper discusses our efforts to extend the program to provide international training opportunities,including integration of the Design4Practice curriculum with that of partner institutions abroad,support for joint projects, and international teaming in interdisciplinary project-oriented courses.1.0 IntroductionA characteristic feature of economic change in the last decade has been the growing trendtowards globalization

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Nigel Middleton; Debra Lasich; Barbara Moskal

period in theAmerican Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998. This number wasincreased for another three year period, to 195,000 through the American Competitiveness in theTwenty-first Century Act of 2000 12. After the year of 2003, it is hoped that the availability ofU.S. trained scientists and engineers will increase to the level that is necessary to fill theavailable positions. The project described in this article is a direct response to the currentshortage of U.S. scientists and engineers. One manner in which to increase the overall pool oftrained scientists and engineering majors is to increase the participation of underrepresentedgroups within these fields 9, 10, 13.Colorado School of Mines (CSM) is dedicated to the belief

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Davis

thinking of industrial experience as what they didwith a company many years ago. Everyone must start seeing both academic education andemployment experience as a project of life-long learning. According to many, the cornerstone of building a strong education curriculum isbalancing practical experience based knowledge with academic inquiry.3 Then why is not thesame required of the faculty, that is, a blending of industrial experience with academicknowledge, thereby fusing practical applications with theory. This would strengthen the ties, andredefine the boundaries between education and practice in the preparation of professionals. Amore professionally involved faculty would also improve the interaction between industry andacademia, and

Conference Session

International Division (INTL) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jorge Ivan Rodriguez-Devora, University of Georgia; David Emory Stooksbury, University of Georgia; John Ray Morelock, University of Georgia; Sonia J Garcia, University of Georgia; Animesh Paul, University of Georgia; Deborah Moyaki, University of Georgia

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

International Division (INTL)

Paper ID #43262Board 130: An International, Bilingual Engineering Design Course: Faculty/StudentExperiences and Lessons LearnedDr. Jorge Ivan Rodriguez-Devora, University of Georgia Dr. Rodriguez serves as the industry capstone project coordinator for the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia. He is a faculty member of the School of Environmental, Civil, Agricultural and Mechanical Engineering.David Emory Stooksbury, University of Georgia I am an atmospheric scientist with a background in agriculture, astrophysics, and applied statistics that turned up in an engineering program. My major engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hakan Gurocak, Washington State University, Vancouver; Xinghui Zhao, Washington State University; Kristin Lesseig

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

engineering students. The course contains active learning and project-based learningcomponents. Specifically, a smart flower pot device was integrated into the lectures of the courseas an active learning platform. In addition, the course incorporates team projects involving designof smart products. The agile method, often used in software development companies, isintroduced to the mechanical engineering students to manage their project development process.The paper concludes with assessment details from the first offering of the new course.1 IntroductionToday, there are many consumer smart products in our lives such as smart door locks, bike locks,smart kitchen appliances, irrigation controllers, smart thermostats (e.g. Nest), and Amazon Echo,just

Conference Session

Enhancing Instructional Effectiveness in Civil Engineering: Case Studies

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fernando Fonseca, Brigham Young University; Steven E. Benzley, Brigham Young University; James Nelson, Brigham Young University; A. Woodruff Miller, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

to include management issues in thecurricula, and 3) the ASCE vision for civil engineering in 2025 to include leadership, teamwork,public policy, and management as educational outcomes.Some advantages of the MS management option include (a) a structured mentoring experiencefor graduate students, (b) an effective means to acquire projects for the undergraduateculminating design class, and (c) a forum that allows practicing engineers to share professionalexpertise directly with students. In addition, students gain an understanding of how technicalproficiency must be meshed with business acumen to have a successful career in engineeringmanagement.IntroductionThe American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has become a strong advocate

Conference Session

Track 1b - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Valentina Cecchi, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Mona Azarbayjani, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Brett Tempest, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Topics

Curriculum and Lab Development

). The purpose of the competition isboth educative – educational experience for the participating students, for the general public, forthe building industry and the policy makers – and research oriented – encouraging multi-disciplinary collaboration towards development of new technologies and methods.The paper discusses the educational experience of the students participating in this internationalcompetition, focusing on the engineering undergraduate students. It describes the planimplemented for integrating the Solar Decathlon into the required curricula within theengineering, architecture, and business departments. A project as large and diverse as this onerequired accommodating curricular development at various levels and within various modes

Conference Session

Outstanding Contributions - Mechanical Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Debra Mascaro, University of Utah; Stacy Bamberg, University of Utah; Robert Roemer, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

. degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University. He teaches courses in engineering design, and is interested in integrating the use of design projects and active learning throughout the curriculum to improve engineering education. Page 15.778.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Integration and Reinforcement of Engineering Skills Beginning in the First-Year Design ExperienceAbstractAs the first step in implementing a Student-driven Pedagogy of Integrated, Reinforced, ActiveLearning (SPIRAL) throughout our Mechanical

Conference Session

New Trends in Graduate Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Preston McCrary; Chip Ferguson; Aaron Ball; Wesley Stone

industry, government, and graduateengineering/technology education. Leaders in each arena are engaging in dialogue centered onstrengthening the competitiveness of remaining industry and developing regional resources tosupport entrepreneurial startups. Leaders and scholars argue that a robust strategy includescollaborative engagement projects which create innovative technologies (intellectual property), ahighly trained and creative professional workforce, and resources which support entrepreneurialstartups. The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into efforts being made by WesternCarolina University (WCU) and its graduate Engineering Technology (ET) program tosimultaneously foster professional growth in its students and meet the technical

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Harold Evensen; Paula Zenner; Edward Lumsdaine

as the capstone course taught to on-campus students.This constraint represented a major challenge, not only because the distance-learning studentshad different educational backgrounds and experience levels, but because the content had to bedelivered in one semester (e.g., Spring 2004), whereas the on-campus students had two semesters(e.g., Spring 2004 and Fall 2004) to complete their projects. Other challenging differencesincluded project selection, team formation, team project monitoring and final course assessment.The instructional team also faced the challenges of integrating their teaching approaches andstreamlining the topics and reading materials required of all students, while placing an increasedemphasis on creative thinking and the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Carpenter; Harvey Smith; Murali Krishnamurthi

appreciation of environmental issuesby engaging them in an integrated approach to learning math, science, business, law, social, andengineering concepts. Environmental management systems are “next generation” responses toenvironmental problems that go beyond regulatory compliance by integrating interdisciplinaryscience, quality management and systems engineering practices to redress point, non-point andprocess aspects of pollution. A significant challenge of the project is to design the learningmodules so that students can better understand and experience first hand the benefits ofenvironmental management in real-world settings by interacting with students from diversedisciplines and professionals. The project team is assisted by an advisory team

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 6: Curriculum Development and Pedagogical Strategies

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dave Kim, Washington State University, Vancouver; Lurana Crowley, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

Students in an Introductory Mechanical Engineering Course toSucceed in StaticsAbstractThis research explores scaffolding strategies employed at Washington State UniversityVancouver to support first-year students in succeeding in an introductory mechanicalengineering course, with a particular focus on their subsequent performance in Statics. As inmany undergraduate engineering programs student retention has been a concern, especially in thelower division of the mechanical engineering program. In the past two years the introductorymechanical engineering course has been redesigned to prepare students for the rest of theirengineering curriculum by incorporating several design projects, involving senior students andfaculty as mentors, and giving

Conference Session

Faculty Development Division (FDD) Technical Session 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yonghee Lee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Jay Mann, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Chris Migotsky, University of Illinois

Tagged Divisions

Faculty Development Division (FDD)

fundamental understanding of the research area andthe basis for our study's objectives: (1) to better understand how engineering faculty membersperceive their participate in communities of practice for teaching innovation supported by anannual funding program and (2) to make the program better to enhance the communities ofpractice. The findings from previous studies provide a foundation for understanding thepotential impact of the EIP program on student learning outcomes, faculty development, andinstitutional change.MethodsIn Fall 2023, we conducted a faculty survey to examine how engineering faculty perceived theirexperience in the education innovation program.We aim to investigate how faculty members evaluated their experience on the EIP projects

Collection

2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Joseph C. Musto; Vincent C. Prantil

modeling and computer simulation. This paperdetails a unique course experience developed in the Mechanical Engineering Program at MilwaukeeSchool of Engineering that integrates topics from a traditional modeling/numerical methods courseinto a systems-level design project. The term-long design effort incorporates a structure wherestudent design teams are led through a complex systems-level modeling exercise, and then use theirmathematical model to optimize the design of a complex system. Both the philosophy of coursedevelopment and example project applications are presented. Conclusions are presented indicatingthat both an increased understanding of theoretical aspects of modeling and an increased appreciationfor the role of modeling and simulation

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Gordon Romney; Pradip Dey; Mohammad Amin; Bhaskar Sinha

authors1,2,3,4,5,6. This has been an on-going process for seven years,and has made SOEC an agile “incubator”. The emphasis upon “Agility” in engineering andsoftware development was signaled by the Agile Manifesto in 2001. Seventeen industry softwareengineers declared a change in the software development process. Thomas, one of the group ofseventeen, became a noted Ruby on Rails evangelist and publisher8. Rails invites agility. Agilesoftware development, unlike the rigid, sequential “waterfall” model for software development,consists of development methods based on incremental and iterative steps. In agile development,project requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between cross-functional teams.It facilitates adaptive planning, development

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2023 IL-IN Section Conference

Authors

Brandon Fulk; Kyubyung Kang

. Dillenbourg (1999) assisted in defining approaches, techniques, and125 language to describe collaborative learning, which brings guided structure to the concept-126 network development. Fulk et al. (2019) implemented case-based and collaborative127 learning to CEM sophomores and high school seniors.128129 Project-based learning (PBL): Hmelo-Silver (2004) discussed the definition of the PBL130 approach; the "teacher acts to facilitate the learning process rather than to provide131 knowledge." The goals of PBL are intended to assist students in developing: (1) Flexible132 knowledge, (2) Effective problem-solving skills, (3) SDL (self-directed learning), (4)133 Effective collaboration skills, and (5) Intrinsic motivation. In addition

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division (IND) Technical Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bopaya Bidanda, University of Pittsburgh; Gajanan Hegde

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Industrial Engineering Division (IND)

hegde@pitt.eduABSTRACTThis paper presents the development and teaching of a university level course for college seniors andgraduate students on Frugal Engineering and Value Analysis. We developed and offered the course toboth business and engineering students. Here, we present the need for teaching frugal engineering in anengineering curriculum. Value Methodology or Value Engineering, along with Quality Engineering, arekey components of frugal engineering. “Wicked” problems and their challenges are also presented inthis course, along with wicked problem-solving strategies. While the concepts behind Value Engineeringwere developed in the 1940s and frequently applied in industrial, manufacturing, construction, anddefense projects, they are rarely

Conference Session

Experiential Learning in Mechanics

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seyed Mohammad Seyed Ardakani; Joshua Ellis, Ohio Northern University

Paper ID #37894Dynamic 3D- Printed Statics Modeling Kit and In-ClassActivitiesSeyed Mohammad Seyed Ardakani Dr. Ardakani is an assistant professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and the Coordinator of Statics for the T.J. Smull College of Engineering at Ohio Northern University. He has previously served as Project Engineer at Englekirk Structural Engineers and Lecturer at South Dakota State University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno. His research interests include seismic performance and design of reinforced concrete structures, computational

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 12: Work-in-Progress Postcard Session #1

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Siwei He, University of Toronto; Hamid Timorabadi, University of Toronto; Afshin Poraria, University of Toronto

Paper ID #37526Work In Progress: Reversi: A Platform for TeachingProgramming LanguagesSiwei He (Student) Siwei is a fourth-year undergraduate student at University of Toronto. He works on research projects in file system, debugger, and machine learning application. Before that, he had experience in projects related to FPGA and worked as an FPGA software engineer intern at Intel. Siwei is an active contributor in the GNU GDB project. Github: @Louis-HeHamid S Timorabadi (Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream) Hamid Timorabadi received his BSc, MASc, and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Tan, Texas Tech University; Luke LeFebvre, University of Kentucky; Tim Dallas, Texas Tech University; Changxue Xu, Texas Tech University; Jnev Biros

Africa, Asia, and Central America to provide much needed educational content to entire classrooms using picoprojectors. In 2008, he established Class on a Chip, Inc. to commercialize an array of micro-experimental devices for use in engineering, physics, and MEMS classes. In 2014, he established a new class in the Whitacre College of Engineering, Technology Start-up Lab, which takes students through a process to develop their own technology projects for commercialization. Each summer, he teaches a class entitled Solar Energy, which includes a hands-on solar energy design project. Dr. Dallas has served as the principal investigator for two National Science Foundation sponsored Scholarships in STEM (S-STEM) projects, a

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 12: Work-in-Progress Postcard Session #1

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cyril Okhio, Clark Atlanta University; Sade Tramble, Kennesaw State University; Amy Buddie, Kennesaw State University; Ayse Tekes

Society of Professional Engineers, Cobb Chapter, a Member of the American Society of Engineering Educators ASEE, and a Member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, USA. Dr. Okhio has carried out experimental and numerical investigations of, and developed statistical analysis tools and computer codes, for the numerical simulation/calculation of complex flows. He has been co-PI in a few successful research efforts including those related to NASA, WPAB, GE, NSF, NRO, ARO, ORNL, Honeywell, KCP, to name a few. He has also been the co-PI on Department of Energy sponsored Project called Minority Serving Institution Partnership Project MSIPP on Advance Manufacturing which involved the (1) use of research activities to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Moreland, Purdue University, Northwest; Kyle Alexander Toth, University of Dayton; Nicholas Walla; Chenn Q. Zhou, University of Dayton; Tyamo Okosun, Purdue University, Northwest; Armin Silaen

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

, and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, USA. She joined Pur- due University Northwest in 1994 after three years of industrial experience. Dr. Zhou has more than 38 years of experience in the areas of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), combustion, energy, multiphase reacting flows, and air pollution control. She is on the cutting edge in the integration of computer simu- lation and virtual reality visualization for solving real world problems. Dr. Zhou has conducted a large number of funded research projects totaling over $25 million and collaborated with many experts from over 140 organizations including academia, K-12 schools, national laboratories, and various industries (e.g

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Holly Golecki, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Tashia Lewis

for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comTeaching Materials Science and Engineering in the K12 Classroom: Food as aBuilding Material (Work in Progress)AbstractBaking and cooking in K12 classrooms provide opportunities for teachers to form practicalconnections for students in chemistry and physics. Experiments can be conducted safely at home,school, or camp. Additionally, materials are readily available, and low cost. Culinary advances inmolecular gastronomy allow us to think even further about how we can engage students in theengineering design process using food as a building material. This paper details theimplementation of a science and cooking project into a K12 STEM classroom. To

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2022 ASEE - North Central Section Conference

Authors

Anju Gupta, University of Toledo; seyed alireza rozati, The University of Toledo

. Gupta’s current collaborators span from National Institute of (NIH), Oak Ridge and Idaho National labs, Ohio Aerospace Institute (OAI), Masten Space, and Materion. She has served as an ad hoc reviewer for NSF, NASA, ACS proposals, and several high impact scientific journals. She is an active member and volunteer of AIChE, ACS, NATAS, and ASEE. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Magnetic Field Homogeneity of Helmholtz Coil integrated with a Hotplate for High Temperature Sintering: A Multidisciplinary Senior Design Project Chaitanya Mahajan 1, Seyed Alireza Rozati 2, Anju Gupta 2

Collection

2010 North Midwest Section

Authors

Christopher R. Carroll

applications in which the S12’s Fuzzy Logiccapabilities are used.During Spring semester, 2010, a Design Workshop course was offered in which students usedthe S12 microcontroller to implement applications of Intelligent Control. Based on theexperience of teaching that workshop, a similar Design Workshop course is scheduled for Fallsemester, 2010. This paper will include some results from the design projects conducted duringthe Spring workshop as examples of Intelligent Control applications using Fuzzy Logic.The Freescale S12 processor is probably the most popular general-purpose 16-bit microcontrollercurrently on the market. It is used as the focus for microprocessor/microcontroller courses inmany Electrical or Computer Engineering programs across the

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Design in the First Year

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Courtney Hollar, Boise State University; Sondra M Miller, Boise State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

design process because ENGR 180 has no prerequisites. Throughvarious projects and in-class activities, students are made aware of the significance. As a resultof the course’s learning outcomes, oral communication is the focus of the class rather thantechnical writing.Boise State University has not previously offered a course that focuses on communicationthroughout the design process. The State Board of Education has requested for undergraduatestudents to graduate with specific competencies in oral communication. ENGR 180 was designedto emphasize the importance of oral communication as an engineer.In early 2018, the State Board of Education (SBOE) mandated the four state universities in Idahorequire a Foundations of Oral Communication (FC) course