Conference Session

Technical Session T1A

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2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

James R McCusker PhD, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Christopher John Brigham, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Afsaneh Ghanavati, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Full Papers

American Chemical Society, American Society of Microbiology and American Society of Engineering Education. In addition to teaching and research, Professor Brigham serves on the Wentworth Faculty Senate and the Biological Engineering ABET and Curriculum Development Committee.Dr. Afsaneh Ghanavati, Wentworth Institute of Technology Afsaneh Ghanavati received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Shiraz University, Iran in 1998, and the M.S. and the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, MA in 2012 and 2018 respectively. She is currently an assistant professor in the electrical and computer engineering program, school of engineering at Wentworth Institute of Technology. Her present

Conference Session

Computers in Education 2 - Programming 2

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Junhao Liao, University of Toronto; Haoran Zhang, University of Toronto; Jiaxing Li, University of Toronto; Yizhong Xu, University of Toronto; Hamid Timorabadi, University of Toronto

Paper ID #36720WIP - iCtrl - A Remote Login Software ApplicationJunhao Liao Junhao Liao is a fourth year Computer Engineering student at University of Toronto. Previously, he worked as a Teaching Assistant at University of Toronto and as a Software Engineering Intern in Qualcomm's Automotive Display Team. He is interested in software programming and User Experience designs. He is proficient with C, C++ and Python and familiar with JavaScript, PSQL, Intel FPGA Verilog and ARM Assembly(V7). Personal Website: https://junhao.caHaoran ZhangYizhong Xu Undergraduate student at the University of Toronto (2017-2022

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2003 GSW

Authors

Robert R. Bittle; R. Stephen Weis; Becky B. Bittle; David Yale

energy conversion and power distribution systems. During morningsessions, materials covering thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and electro-mechanical machinesare presented and discussed. Afternoon sessions in the laboratory are used to reinforce themorning topics and typically generate new questions for explorations. During the past twosummers, a complete energy conversion system consisting of a water wheel and a smallgenerator has been built and the performance characterized. A special emphasis is made oncharacterizing system losses. Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at Arlington Copyright  2003, American Society for

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Russell A. Aubrey; Dennis O. Owen; Jack Beasley

: Page 1.436.1. fitii’ } 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘@lll~c+.$ .1. Provide a rich and motivational technological environment that would encourage the students to further investigate possibilities in technology studies and careers.2. Develop a cooperative and involved relationship between the university faculty and the high school teaching staff. As stated in the paper, “Tech Prep: A Comprehensive Approach,” by James C. Wood and Diana M. Walter, Tech Prep programs involving an Associate Degree Institution must be a cooperative approach.1 a. Previous presentations by university faculty to high school

Conference Session

Computing Curriculum

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Bailey, Brigham Young University; Barry Lunt, Brigham Young University; Gordon Romney, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

Pusey’s statement concerning funding for a computer laboratory:“Harvard did not get to be where it is by spending old money on new things.”3It is possible that the Second World War delayed the academic progress of computing bydiverting academics such as Vannevar Bush and John von Neumann into national service;however the government resources that continued to be poured into computing followingthe war followed these scholars and others back to university laboratories upon theirreturn. The result was thriving university research at facilities that were well connected.The first academic computer activity consisted of course offerings to graduate studentsfollowing the war. At MIT, Caldwell began teaching a course in digital computers in theelectrical

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul G. Flikkema, Northern Arizona University; Rhonda R. Franklin, University of Minnesota; Jeff Frolik, University of Vermont; Carol Haden, Magnolia Consulting, LLC; Aaron T. Ohta, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Wayne A. Shiroma, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Sylvia W. Thomas, University of South Florida; Tom Weller, University of South Florida

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

experiment students use a commercial optical pulse sensor to measure theirpulse rates and resulting waveforms are observed on an oscilloscope. Students exploreanalog signal processing in the form of filtering and amplification. They construct asimple RC circuit to filter the pulse waveform and investigate the effects of a varyingtime constant on the information content (and noise) in the signal. An operationalamplifier is also used and students demonstrate the gain adjustment that is possible byselecting different resistor values. Students experience first hand the impact electricalcomponents have on signals from biological systems.Radiation from Wireless Devices - This module teaches systems-level thinking by givingstudents a pre-laboratory group

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ricky T. Castles, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

in K-12 outreach through sev- eral venues including Summer Ventures, high school STEM day, the N.C. Science Olympiad, a Math Science Partnership grant, volunteer work with a local literacy camp, Boy Scouts Robotics Merit Badge counseling, and teaching the science portion of VBS and children’s Sunday School at his local church. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Flipping the Microprocessors Classroom: A comparative assessmentAbstractAt East Carolina University (ECU), undergraduate students in an electrical engineeringconcentration within a general engineering program are required to complete a microprocessorscourse. This course has been

Conference Session

Design Throughout the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dustyn Roberts P.E., University of Delaware; Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Sparkfun Inventor Kits and peripheral sensors.The Cage is home to all of our hand tools (e.g., portable drills, Dremels, sanding equipment,wrenches) and several benchtop tools (e.g. belt sander, drill press), as well as prototyping space.The Universal VLS4.60 laser cutter lives in the Hack-A-Torium next to a fume hood, severallarge work tables, and a lot of project storage bins. The Pit has room for group work and a walllined with desktop computers, as well as two lounge areas for more casual collaborations. TheTest Lab houses our sensor inventory and two large tension testing rigs, and the MechanicalSystems Lab is home to three out of four of our laboratory courses. Finally, the Hive is primarilyused for teaching assistant (TA) office hours and

Conference Session

Engineering Design Graphics Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Theodore J. Branoff, Illinois State University; Kevin L. Devine, Illinois State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

University Kevin is the Program Coordinator for the Engineering Technology major at Illinois State University. His primary teaching assignments are in engineering graphics, industrial robotics, and CNC program- ming/machining. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Students’ Understanding of Datum Reference Frame Concepts in a GD&T Course: Student Outcomes Across Multiple SemestersAbstractTEC333-Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing addresses two of the overall programoutcomes in the Engineering Technology program at Illinois State University. These outcomesinclude utilizing 2-D and 3-D computer-aided design systems to create drawings and models forproducts, machines

Conference Session

Successful Grant Proposals

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Richter, Eastern Washington University; JEFFREY DONNERBERG, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

2006-2224: UTILIZING INDUSTRIAL PARTNERSHIPS TO CREATESUCCESSFUL GRANT PROPOSALSDonald Richter, Eastern Washington University DONALD C. RICHTER obtained his B. Sc. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the Ohio State University, M.S. and Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Arkansas. He holds a Professional Engineer certification and worked as an Engineer and Engineering Manger in industry for 20 years before teaching. His interests include project management, robotics /automation and air pollution dispersion modeling.JEFFREY DONNERBERG , Eastern Washington University JEFFREY L. DONNERBERG obtained his B. Sc. in Industrial Education and Technology from Bowling Green State

Conference Session

Mechanical Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matt Gordon P.E., University of Denver; Bradley S. Davidson, University of Denver; Corinne Shirley Lengsfeld, University of Denver

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

economics and ethics, and graduate finite elements, numerical methods, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, plasma fundamentals and gas dynamics.Bradley S. Davidson, University of Denver Bradley Davidson is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering and director of the Human Dy- namics Laboratory at the University of Denver. He holds a BS in civil engineering from Tennessee Tech, an MS in engineering mechanics from Virginia Tech, and a PhD in biomedical engineering from the Vir- ginia Tech–Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences. His research in musculoskeletal biomechanics emphasizes measurement of human movement and motor control, with applications in the lumbar spine stability, total knee

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Miller; Mara Wasburn

by Women in Technology students. Its purpose was to give thehigh school girls who participated an understanding of the various majors available in the Schoolof Technology through tours, presentations by women faculty from each discipline, a questionand answer session with students, and hands-on laboratory experiences. In this paper, we willpresent an overview of the organization; discuss the lessons learned from the first Women inTechnology Workshop, and suggest strategies for developing such workshops into vitalcomponents of efforts to recruit more high school girls into the fields of technology, engineering,and science.IntroductionThere have been many programs that have succeeded in attracting more women into the fields ofscience

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in Engineering Technology

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charlie P. Edmonson, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Facilities Layout course wasredeveloped to incorporate the use of the software. The newly designed course is currently beingtaught, so the paper will also discuss the students’ evaluations of the new software and theredeveloped course.IntroductionIn the mid-nineties, the Engineering Technology Department at the University of Dayton decidedto eliminate certain laboratory courses and integrate the laboratory exercises into the associatedlecture course. The Facilities Layout Design lecture/laboratory courses were the first courses toimplement this initiative. One of the reasons for implementing this initiative was the lowenrollment in the combination lecture/laboratory courses since the courses had to be taken as co

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

classes, a 55-minute period, but the total creditfor each laboratory is only 1 UV regardless of the actual time spent. A professor teaches lecturesclasses, and either a professor or a technician instructor teaches the laboratories.Table 2 presents a list of the courses offered at UF and UNAH. A comparison of course-by-course based on content is made. The left side of the Table 2 shows an example of the necessaryundergraduate courses for obtaining 131 credits at UF (degree requirement). The Right side ofTable 2 shows the courses that students are required to take under the plan of study at UNAH.The total at the bottom of Table 2 shows the difference in the number of credits and number ofcourses required to complete the civil engineering degree at

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert M. McAllister; Matthew Sanders

personal essay by a certain Page 8.1211.2deadline. In writing the personal essay, applicants express the reasons for participation as well aswhat they expect to gain from the program. In addition, the personal essay also shows applicants’interests in science as well as their career interests and goals. This one page essay is a vital part ofthe selection process.The programs catch students at an age when they should be beginning to make career decisions.We do not believe that any child truly dislikes these subjects; rather we see the fault lying in theapproach used to teach these subjects. A "hands-on" teaching approach can often improve

Conference Session

Industry-Based Projects

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Rothaupt

criticisms leveled at engineering schools by the Societyof Manufacturing Engineers in their Curricula 2000 Report1 and the Manufacturing EducationPlan: 1999 Critical Competency Gaps2 document and in other papers which alleged that schoolsoffer too few “practical” and “hands-on” courses. Stout has a rich tradition of teaching studentstechnical skills that can only be taught in laboratory experience. By integrating theory and Page 9.727.1Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Educationexperimentation with

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Barrett; Steve Kuennen

-on construction activitiesas an introduction to the curriculum.Structural engineering, which is often considered one of the more theoretical and abstract of thecivil engineering disciplines, warrants increased hands-on activities to help bridge the gapbetween design theory and the actual behavior and construction practices students encounter(Morreau 1990). This paper discusses one particular activity within our summer programdevoted to introducing students to structural engineering through the design, construction, andtesting of a full-sized reinforced concrete beam at the Air Force Academy’s Field Engineeringand Readiness Laboratory

Conference Session

Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jendrucko; Anthony English; Monica Schmidt

preferences for design projects, but faculty make the final team as-signments. Faculty identify options for design projects prior to the beginning of the Fall semes- Page 8.790.1ter. At the first class meeting, students are presented with the design project options and then Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationsurveyed to identify their interests in specific projects and to list their elective courses. Requiredpre- or corequisite courses include Biomaterials, Biomechanics, and the BME Laboratory

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Ed Clausen; Carolyne E. Garcia

our students presented.ABET Value and UseThe portfolio has value to the outcome and assessment program: 1) as a documentation tool forassessing all 11 outcomes and 2) as a tool for setting program content, particularly withtechnical and humanistic/science electives. Student narratives about their experiences in thesecourses can help the Department determine if they are of value to our students. For example,student dissatisfaction with the Technical Communication service course, as well as theindication it was producing minimal results, led the Department to implement its own emphasisin teaching technical writing and presentation skills, integrating them into the laboratory anddesign classes

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Harwood; David Shaw

Session 1625 Practical Application of FEA in Freshman Design using Senior Student Mentors David W. Shaw, Richard F. Harwood Geneva College, Beaver Falls, PennsylvaniaAbstractThis paper presents the results of three years of work on an innovative means of addressingseveral important aspects of the Freshman Design course (EGR 101). In an effort to address thebalance of teaching engineering design and decision skills with new technical skills, freshmandesign teams were paired with senior engineering students taking the Finite Element Analysiscourse

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gershensen; Carl Wood; Joseph Clair Batty

, American Society ofMechanical Engineers, New York, NY (1995)7. Manufacturing Infrastructure: Enabling the Nation's Manufacturing Capacity, National Science and TechnologyCouncil Committee on Technological Innovation (1997) phone 202-456-6100J. CLAIR BATTY is Professor and Department Head of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Utah StateUniversity in Logan, Utah. He teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in Thermodynamics and Heattransfer. He and his graduate students are currently conducting research in the thermal management of spacesystems at Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory. He received the Sc.D. degree in MechanicalEngineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969.JOHN K. GERSHENSON is an

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Marjorie Davis; John Palmer; Helen Grady; Clayton Paul; Allen F. Grum

would flesh out the elements of the curriculum. These teams labored throughout 1995-96under the direction of Dr. John Palmer, whose project management efforts kept teams on trackand ensured regular feedback from teams to the whole faculty. We surveyed students to get theirhonest feedback on different elements of our curriculum, teaching styles, and expectations. Acrucial area for change was the Freshman Engineering Sequence, and Ms. Helen Grady wasselected to chair that pivotal committee. Negotiation became the imperative as we worked outmany disagreements and conflicts, both within the School of Engineering and among our facultycolleagues in other schools that provide service courses in mathematics, physics, chemistry, andhumanities/social

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott R. Short

included in the curriculum. In an effort to minimize the number of credithours required to graduate yet still cover these two important topics, the Department of Mechani-cal Engineering at Northern Illinois University is incorporating statistics in the laboratory sectionof their required materials science course. This match is a natural one because the laboratoryprojects require data acquisition, reduction, and statistical analysis. Probability paper plots andRockwell hardness tests are used to introduce the student to the fundamental building block ofstatistics, the frequency distribution. An often-overlooked graphical statistical technique, the useof probability paper plots, is a potent teaching tool.Introducing Statistics to StudentsStatistics

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

A. J. Baker; Z. Chambers; M. B. Taylor

/laboratory materials. The web site(http://cfdlab.engr.utk.edu/551w) was specifically designed and developed to support Page 4.268.1functionality requirements for distance and off-campus local students, as well as "resident"students located in the Internet teaching laboratory at UTK.This paper details the pedagogical and technical innovations created to enable this functionality.The remote (and local) environment requires no more than a “respectable” PC with adequatesound card and some additional (inexpensive and free) software. Two way live communication isenabled via a chat room3, and networked email connects all students, support

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Edmund Tsang

implemented at the University of South Alabama with a grant from the NationalScience Foundation Instrumentation & Laboratory Improvement (ILI) program in Fall,1995. The laboratory course uses a discovery approach to teach students about someconcepts of materials science and manufacturing to carry out a design project involvingmechanical forming. The design project consists of the design and production of MardiGras medallions. Since the Mardi Gras tradition was started in Mobile, Alabama, thisdesign project provides a local tie-in to the student's learning experience. Details of thecourse have been described elsewhere1. Unlike engineering analysis, assessing student learning in engineering designposes a special challenge because there are

Conference Session

Aerospace Curriculum and Collaborations

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leigh S McCue, Virginia Tech; Joseph A. Schetz, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

emphasis on research and graduate study. His research interests cover all aspects of aircraft aerodynamics and design, an experimental and theoretical fluid dynamics, with a particular emphasis on high-speed flows and propulsion. Dr. Schetz is the author of 3 books, 5 chapters in other books and more than 300 refereed papers and Editor of a three-volume handbook on fluid dynamics and fluids machinery. He has received several major research and literature awards from national professional societies, Virginia Tech and other universities, and he is a Life Fellow of both AIAA (1985) and ASME (1980). One of his books is a highly-regarded textbook, and he has won awards for classroom teaching. A current total of 65 PhD

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shalin Mehta, Arizona State University; Jayaraman Jayaraman Thiagarajan, Arizona State University; Photini Spanias, Arizona State University; Karthikeyan Ramamurthy, Arizona State University; Andreas Spanias, Arizona State University; Robert Santucci, Arizona State University; Susan Haag, Arizona State University; Mahesh Banavar, Arizona State University

, Salt Lake City, Utah.7. A. Spanias et al, “Teaching genomics and bioinformatics to undergraduates using J-DSP,” in Proceedings ofIEEE ASEE-2004 Conference, June 2004, Salt Lake City, Utah.8. V. Atti, A. Spanias, C. Panayiotou, and Y. Song, “Teaching digital filter design techniques used in high-fidelityaudio application,” in Proceedings of IEEE ASEE-2004 Conference, June 2004, Salt Lake City, Utah.9. A. Spanias, C. Panayiotou, and V. Atti, “Graphical design of frequency sampling filters for use in a signals andsystems laboratory,” in Proceedings of 34th ASEE/IEEE FIE-04, Oct. 2004, Savannah.10. A. Spanias, R. Chilumula, C. Huang et al, “A Collborative Project on Java-DSP involving Five Universities,” inProceedings of ASEE Annual Conference and

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yong-Kyu Jung

impacts on realistic, pre-industrial experiences at the early stage ofengineering education are also discussed.IntroductionTo teach embedded processor system design, students generally take a series of digital designcourses. For instance, courses on Digital Fundamentals and Logic Circuits [1] followed byComputer Architectures [2] are typically taught in the classroom. To accelerate the practicallearning process in the classroom, rapid digital system design [3] using field-programmable gatearrays (FPGAs) is often added to the existing curricula. Using FPGA-based prototyping requireslearning at least one hardware description language, such as VHDL or Verilog HDL. However,we are continuously challenged not only to reduce the time for teaching the

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Developments

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Madhumi Mitra; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

utilized at present on this tract with uniformapplication of fertilizers and seedlings. No special irrigation or weed managementtechniques are currently used. The overall objective of the first phase of the ECPA effortsat UMES will be to develop baseline data via systematic record keeping, whilecontinuing with the current farming practices. This data will be valuable in the future toα Associate Professor, Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciencesβ Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Sciencesδ Dean, School of Agriculture and Natural Sciencesε GIS Laboratory Coordinatorφ Lecturer, Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences (Aviation Program

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Magedy Salama; M Kazerani; Khaled Nigim

Page 7.1262.1can be simulated without sufficient background knowledge. “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Education” Session # 1433 (Energy Programs and software Tools) The use of GPMS provides a flexible tool for the teacher to integrate the theory withproblem solving techniques. Several articles focused on the practicality of using GPMS for awide range of topics in the electrical engineering discipline. The emerging trend is towardspaperless classrooms and laboratory setups. Reference [1] demonstrates the use of GPMS as alink to enforce