Conference Session

Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Gosink; Catherine Skokan

Engineering, Physics multidisciplinary project) 28% • Specialties within related disciplines (for example Molecular Biology, Cellular Biology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics in a combined project; or a program of Computer Science with Computer Information Systems and Computer) 28% • Science and/or Engineering and School of Education (for example Nanotechnology, Industrial Engineering, and K12 Teacher Preparation) 20% • Sensors and a science or engineering application (numerous biomedical projects partnering with electrical engineering through sensor technology; also many multidisciplinary engineering undergraduate laboratories with sensors) 7% • Engineering or science in

Conference Session

Labs, Demos and Software in Mechanics

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bradley Burchett

the laboratory with a physical systemthat has small non-linearities which prevent the student from obtaining an exact match betweenmodel and experiment. This work describes an experiment designed for the sophomore systemdynamics course offered at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. This lab uses acommercially available hardware system and a digital computer. By a clever combination ofvarious response data, and using known differences between effective masses, the effective inertiaof motor, pinion, rack and cart are estimated without requiring disassembly of the system.Typical results are shown.IntroductionThe mechanical engineering and electrical engineering faculty at Rose-Hulman (RHIT) arecurrently upgrading the system dynamics and

Conference Session

TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Satyajit Verma

student. Itcan also be considered as a contract between a student and the course instructor.Assessment ActivitiesTypical classroom assessment activities include mid-term and final examinations, quizzes,homework assignments, laboratory exercises and reports, project work and reports, oralpresentations etc. However, assessment activities need not be confined to the classrooms. Thecourse instructor usually assigns % weights to each of these assessment activities (e.g. 15% each Page 10.923.2for each exam, 10% for laboratory reports etc.). Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation in Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

extent to which thestudent population was receptive to different delivery styles. Audiovisual Aids such as PowerPoint Slides were used to study the students’ learning capabilities in the visual mode. Lectureswere also delivered to accommodate the aural mode of learning. Research reports, reading andwriting assignments were included to examine the reading mode of learning. Lastly,laboratory demonstrations, experiments and exercises were set up to encourage students to learnin the kinesthetic mode. Students were later examined on all the topics, quizzes were gradedand tabulated using a rubric based on Washington State University’s critical thinking rubric.The author has provided full details in Appendix A.ConclusionsDr. Hunter R. Boylan, who is

Conference Session

Engineering Education in Africa and the Middle East

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bahawodin Baha, University of Brighton; Ogai Ahmadi, Kabul University

Tagged Divisions

International

 introduction will have a major effect on education system. As the learning resources such as fully stacked  libraries  and  fully  equipped  computer  laboratories  are  rare  in  the  country,  careful planning is required to prioritize the introduction of ICT into the mainstream education including  Page 15.1251.3higher education.While  the  world  has  changed  dramatically  in  the  past  few  decades  and  will  continue  to  do  so with  an  accelerating  pace,  the  learning  environment,  i.e.  the  classroom  has  not  changed  but  it will change in the near future. The education system in Afghanistan must follow its international

Conference Session

Innovations in Civil Engineering Education II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tanya Kunberger, Florida Gulf Coast University; Robert O'Neill, Florida Gulf Coast University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

read, individual article presentations and laboratory activitydiscussions were also included. Over the course of the semester ten round table activitiesoccurred. Half of these were the entire class reading the same journal article or conferenceproceeding, two were students discussing articles they read on a topic of their choice, two were Page 15.502.3wiki activities centered around three separate articles, and one was a discussion focused on 2triaxial laboratory testing. Each discussion was centered on a topic that correlated to the currentlesson topics of the course. Unless otherwise stated

Conference Session

Newly Developed Engineering Courses

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Dobrowski, Purdue University-North Central

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

making capabilities. While the top studentstoday would have been top students twenty, thirty, etc. years ago, it seems that the “average”student has seen a decline in their skills. Teaching a course in Materials Testing for twenty years Page 15.1006.2has been a source of great pleasure and searing frustration. The course itself is wonderful in that itreinforces the theoretical background that the students have been taught in the prerequisite courses,while simultaneously exposing the students to hands on testing with real world applications. Thegoal of the class is for the students to take data derived from laboratory tests and put the raw

Conference Session

BIM and Other New Construction Practices

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Hildreth, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Bruce Gehrig, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Construction

. 3. Exhibit knowledge and skills consistent with the expectations of a practicing construction manager. 4. Articulate the viability of creative and realistic solutions to defined problems and projects. 5. Recognize the value of diversity and identify ethical and societal issues in business and technical tasks. 6. Solve complex problems utilizing discipline specific expertise: i. Utilize graphical techniques to produce engineering documents. ii. Conduct standardized field and laboratory testing on civil engineering and construction materials. iii. Utilize modern surveying methods for land measurement and/or construction layout. iv. Determine forces and stresses in

Conference Session

Design for Community

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edmund Tsang

Michigan University Engineering Design Center for Service-Learning whichsponsors the project.The Initial Design Page 9.383.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright c 2004. American Society for Engineering Education”In the mid-to-late 1990’s when the primary author was an associate professor of mechanicalengineering at University of South Alabama, he adopted the service-learning pedagogy inteaching the first- year “Introduction to Mechanical Engineering”1. In ME 101, students workedin teams to design and build laboratory equipment and

Conference Session

BME Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry McIntire; Ka-yiu San; Ann Saterbak

flowthrough a bone graft, oxygen consumption in bone, and toxin accumulation in a laboratory boneimplant. The principles of mass balances are illustrated first for open, non-reacting, steady-statesystems. Systems with multiple inlets and outlets and then systems with multicomponentmixtures are considered. More complex multiple-unit systems are illustrated by a two-compartment model of the kidney and by a wastewater treatment facility. Systems withchemical reactions, such as respiration, are explicitly covered. Terms such as reaction rate andfractional conversion are defined. Finally, dynamic systems such as drug delivery are addressed.Conservation of energy is the topic of Chapter 4. The challenge problem explores different typesof energy and how

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Wanke; Stephen Williams; Michael Scheuerell; Glenn Wrate

andsterile academic laboratory, but in practical, industrial settings.Student involvement in this particular project began after the proposal was awarded but beforethe design of the experiment started. Under direct faculty supervision, undergraduate engineeringstudents coordinated testing efforts among the various constituencies on the project, designed theinstrumentation system used to collect data, installed the instrumentation system at the plasticmanufacturing facility, and finally collected data and assisted in data reduction and analysis.Hopefully this paper will provide a model for similar projects involving undergraduateengineering students in the energy conservation area.Experimental DesignA simplified system diagram is shown in Fig. 1

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve C. Hsiung, Old Dominion University; John M. Ritz, Old Dominion University; Ece Yaprak, Wayne State University; Thomas B. Stout, Tidewater Community College; Richard L. Jones, Old Dominion University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

North Dakota in 1986 and Kansas State University in 1988, and PhD degree from Iowa State University in 1992. Steve can be reached at shsi- ung@odu.edu.Dr. John M Ritz, Old Dominion University Professor of STEM Education, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VADr. Ece Yaprak, Wayne State University Dr. Ece Yaprak is a Professor of Engineering Technology in the College of Engineering at Wayne State University. Her areas of interest include computer networks and communications where she has pub- lished extensively. She has held engineering positions at General Electric and Ford Motor Company, and research fellowships at NASA (John Glenn, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Ames Research Center, and the Johnson Space Center) and

Conference Session

ME Curriculum and Assessment

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fazeel Khan, Miami University; Kumar Vikram Singh, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

created for completion by students and fourexternal faculty. The latter were invited to participate in the project based on their expertise ineducational research and prior work on NSF Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement(CCLI) and Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science (TUES) projects. The ComEx Student Survey was co-developed by ComEx project personnel and the E&ACenter and administered online. This instrument consisted of three subscales with a total of 29items designed to obtain information about students’ experiences in using the ComEx Studios.The “Effectiveness of the ComEx Exercise/Activities” subscale consisted of nine items on a 5-point Likert-type scale ranging from strongly disagree (1) to strongly agree (5

Conference Session

Sustainability and Hands-on Engineering Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bradley A. Striebig, James Madison University; Stephen Keith Holland, James Madison University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

Paper ID #8583Examining water quality in the Chesapeake Bay: A hands-on sustainabilityactivity for 5th to 7th gradersDr. Bradley A. Striebig, James Madison University Dr. Striebig is a founding faculty member and first full professor in the Department of Engineering at James Madison University. Dr. Striebig came to the JMU School of from Gonzaga University where he developed the WATER program in cooperation with other faculty members. Dr. Striebig is also the former Head of the Environmental Technology Group at Penn State’s Applied Research Laboratory. In addition to Dr’ Striebig’s engineering work, he is also a published

Conference Session

ETAC, ABET, & STEM Programs

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University; Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

synchronous and asynchronous operation. 9. Use modern computer tools for digital design/verification using VHDL. 10. Understand the characteristics of modern programmable logic devicesCurriculum Modules:Hands-on learning is infused into a sequence of instructional modules, each module has anassociated laboratory exercise to enforce the learning experience of students. The curriculum iscomposed of eight modules to allow students to pick and choose components to match his/or herlearning needs. All of the laboratory exercises are conducted using The Altera® Development andEducation (DE2) board [10] which provides an ideal vehicle for learning about digital logic,computer organization, and FPGAs. The following is a description of each module

Conference Session

Construction Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ifte Choudhury, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

number of 35 sites, 7 each from five climaticzones in the United States, were randomly selected for the study. The data for heatingand cooling degree days was collected from published sources. Energy cost savingsestimates for BIPV roofing at 35 different locations were done using a simulation modeldeveloped by National Renewable Energy Laboratory. A general linear model was usedto find out the effect of heating degree days, cooling degree days, and location of thebuildings on energy cost savings.The results of the analysis indicate that energy cost savings for residential buildingsusing BIPV roof tiles are affected by heating degree days and location of a building.Cooling degree days did have any relationship with energy cost savings.Key words

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin William Weiser, Eastern Washington University; Hani Serhal Saad, Eastern Washington University; Kyle Frederick Larsen P.E., Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

ratheran introduction to project management and spreadsheets as an Engineering design tool. The classhas a very strong hands-on component using Microsoft Excel and MS Project. The students arethen required to use both tools in their later courses, particularly in their laboratory courses andplanning/tracking of the Capstone Design course. These students also take a Technical Writingcourse from the English Department to prepare them for report writing.We use several assignments of increasing difficulty to expose the students to Excel as a designtool and Project to organize and track a project. The quarter culminates with small teams ofstudents using both tools to design, plan, and track a virtual project of their choice such asstarting a small

Conference Session

ME Curriculum and Assessment

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michele Miller, Michigan Technological University; Jeffrey Allen, Michigan Technological University; Jason Blough, Michigan Technological University; James P. De Clerck, Michigan Technological University; William J. Endres, Michigan Technological University; Scott A. Miers, Michigan Technological University; Ibrahim Miskioglu, Michigan Technological University; Gregory M. Odegard, Michigan Technological University; Charles D. Van Karsen, Michigan Technological University; Paul J. Van Susante, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

integrate a number of content threads in the second and third years: application of core course concepts; programming, modeling, and simulation; laboratory skills including instrumentation, measurement, data acquisition, data analysis and experiment design; structured design process; making and tinkering; communication. 2. It reduces the number of core courses and increases the number of technical electives.Table 2 summarizes the change in the credit distribution. “Practice” in the old curriculumconsisted of four laboratory courses (5 credits) and a junior level engineering design processcourse (3 credits). The new curriculum replaces these with a sequence of four courses that spanthe 2nd and 3rd years. In the ME core, the

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James A. Mynderse, Lawrence Technological University; Jeffrey N. Shelton, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

derived from a graduate-level course inmechatronics that both authors have taught separately for Purdue University’s School ofMechanical Engineering (Purdue). The authors share a doctoral advisor, who developed theoriginal course at Purdue. As colleagues in both research and teaching, the authors have engagedin frequent collaboration regarding instruction in mechatronic design. While the pairing of asmall, private university with a large, public university is unusual in regards to studentpopulations, the authors used common lecture materials and laboratory experiments to minimizedifferences in student populations. Differences in student response to the PBL implementationare expected and further work will be needed to analyze those differences.An

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 1: In the Classroom

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reza Kamali, Utah Valley University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

, the manufactureris responsible for the type approval of the sold system. If the system is custom made or ismanufactured in a university laboratory, the specifications should be extracted or measured usinghigh precision tools. Most manufacturers and universities outsource them. Average cost of thetest is around 6000 $ and makes these measurements expensive. The required system data arealready covered in most Communications System and Circuits courses2020,21.Some of these technical characteristics such as protection ratios and power spectral densities canmake significant effect on interference level and propagation model. Among device data, antennahas an important effect. To provide this data, frequency users should learn the fundamental of

Conference Session

ECE Distance Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Phyllis R. Nelson, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Shailesh Sujanani, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Jolly Kuo, Cal Poly Pomona

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

these key circuit analysis concepts at any time during their academic career.We intend to improve learning and retention by providing engaging interactive online resourcessuch as lectures notes, examples, simulations, and practice problems. These learning materialsare completely online to help beginning electrical engineering students learn, and they can alsobe accessed by students in subsequent courses to refresh their knowledge of these topics at anytime.IntroductionStudents in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) receive instruction in both lecture andlaboratory settings. Laboratory exercises offer students immersive experiences designed toencourage problem solving skills in a real-world environment. Through observation, the ECEfaculty

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary B. Vollaro, Western New England University; Michael Brennan

Tagged Divisions

Materials

engineering student, with background in mechanics of materials,materials science, and basic laboratory techniques, a project based on the strategy of materialsselection developed in the work and texts of Michael Ashby will be shown to mesh with theacademic outcomes required of the senior project course itself. The student work, highlighted inthe blue shaded boxes, will show the design process of an all–mountain ski. The design work andadvisor insight will be discussed in parallel as the facilitation of the one-semester project for anindividual student is as important as the advisor’s ability to provide guidance and assess that thecourse outcomes are met.As you begin your discussion with your student, be sure they do have some ‘expertise’ in thearea

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Poster Session & Unit Operations Lab Bazaar

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William M. Clark, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Nicholas Janeiro Medeiros, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Donal James Boyd; Jared Snell, WPI; Lucas J Brutvan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #7252A Computer-Controlled Biodiesel ExperimentDr. William M. Clark, Worcester Polytechnic Institute William Clark is an associate professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He holds a B.S. from Clemson University and a Ph.D. from Rice University, both in Chemical Engineering. He has taught thermodynamics, separation processes, and unit operations laboratory for over 25 years. In addition to research efforts in teaching and learning, he has conducted disciplinary research in separation processes.Mr. Nicholas Janeiro Medeiros, Worcester Polytechnic InstituteDonal James

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ram Mohan; Narayan Radhakrishnan; Guoqing Tang; Kenneth Murray; Ajit Kelkar

study scientific or engineering problems.CSE has emerged as a powerful and indispensable method to analyze a variety of problems inresearch, production and process development, and manufacturing. Computational modeling andsimulation is being accepted as a third methodology in scientific discovery processing andengineering design, complementing the traditional approaches of theory and experiment. Manyexperiments and investigations that have traditionally been performed in a laboratory or the fieldare being augmented or replaced by computational modeling and simulation. Examples includeweather and climate modeling 1, fossil fuel combustion simulation 2, engine and vehicle design 3,materials development 4, aircraft design 5, electronic design

Conference Session

Outreach and Recruitment

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Pinkham; Cathryne Jordan; Lisa Peterson

without the support andpartnership of corporate and federal partners who have participated in the past and currently:Bechtel Corporation, the Boeing company, EE Just, the Environmental Protection Agency, Ernst& Young, Fluor Hanford Inc., the Ford Motor company, IBM, Intel Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the National Science Foundation (NSF),Sandia National Laboratories, Shell, Siemens and Westinghouse Hanford company. The Collegeof Engineering and its departments have also contributed funding, and faculty have mentoredmany students. NSF’s Alliance for Minority Participation funding has been critical to thecontinuity of this program. Costs for the program are given in the following table

Conference Session

BME Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yu Song; Niranjan Chakravarthy; Leon Iasemidis; Andreas Spanias

. Introduction Research in genomics is expected to provide information that will lead to the preventionand cure of many diseases. Recent findings on DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) sequences andmicroarrays provide great promise in this direction. Bioinformatics research involvescontribution from a number of allied fields such as genetics, statistics, signal processing etc.Consequently, it is necessary to develop educational tools to introduce these concepts toundergraduates. ASU researchers developed an exemplary laboratory tool for use inundergraduate courses such as Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and Bioinformatics, to introducestudents to recent research trends in genomic signal processing. In conjunction with thepreviously developed J-DSP

Conference Session

Innovations in Systems Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Dwan; Robert DeMoyer; Carl Wick; George Piper

circuit needed to make the thermistor voltage range compatible with theembedded computer A/D converter. The software aspect is the development of the Ccode within the embedded control computer that makes the computer act as a thermostat.A relay to switch the hair dryer is provided. In summary, the Introduction to Systems Engineering course provides thestudents with theoretical, computational, and simulation tools that will be of usethroughout their major. The laboratory exercises are designed as a preview of simulationand control, and are done in such a way to provide a positive and useful experience at astage in their major when the theoretical basis for what is being done is not fullydeveloped.SYSTEMS ENGINEERING CORE COURSES

Conference Session

TIME 3: Thermal Systems

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Scott

distances from the airsource provide for Reynolds number variations. Experiments and test objects are described fortransient heating and cooling of spheres and free and forced convection from a heated disc. Theeffects of free stream turbulence on forced convection can also be demonstrated. A web site isgiven from which the manuals and details of the rig may be obtained.IntroductionExperiments to illustrate the phenomena of forced and free convection are a very important partof engineering heat transfer courses. The need for such laboratory work is increasingly importantas more of our students arrive with little or no practical experience.Several commercial equipment rigs may be purchased for external free and forced convectiondemonstrations. While

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Josue Njock-Libii

engineering; Lightner, Carlson,Sullivan, Brandenmuehl & Reitsma (2000)17, the concept of a living laboratory in Colorado; andWesterberg & Subrahmanian (2000)43, product design.D. Senior year: Capstone Design courses. These courses are offered toward the end of theundergraduate career of students to allow them to integrate what they have learned. Typically,they solve a practical problem that is both substantial and relevant. Capstone design courses aretaught in a wide variety of approaches. Two sample references to capstone designs are: a casestudy in which senior designs were supervised and evaluated by practicing engineers at theuniversity of Oklahoma (Knox, Sabatini, Hughes, Lambert, & Ketner, 1998)16; and Capstonedesign courses in the

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fanourios Chalkiadakis

the operation of software packages that most likely they will have touse after they join the workforce. In that spirit, the Department of Industrial Technology hassupported the efforts of the EIET faculty for curriculum development with significant classroomrenovations, installation of new multimedia equipment and purchase of laboratory apparatus,including hardware and software tools.Due to the intensity of the program, a substantial portion of the classroom projects that requirethe use of advanced software is assigned mostly to senior and graduate students in the form ofindependent studies, and/or final projects. In addition the authors use frequently these software