Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

, aLightweight Fighter Design Project, a Glider Design Project, homework, two exams and acomprehensive final exam. The desire was to update the course with new approaches to teachingintroductory aeronautics. The framework for change came as a result of a Kern EntrepreneurialEngineering Network (KEEN) Innovating Curriculum with Entrepreneurial (ICE) MindsetWorkshop. Since 2007 Baylor University has been involved with the KEEN. KEEN is “a nationalpartnership of universities with the shared mission to graduate engineers with an entrepreneurialmindset so they can create personal, economic, and societal value through a lifetime ofmeaningful work” [1]. This is accomplished by incorporating entrepreneurially minded learning(EML) into the classroom

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division: Self Efficacy

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua L. Hertz, Northeastern University

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First-Year Programs

naturally uncomfortable towork on open-ended problems, because it feels risky to proceed along an ambiguous solutionpath. Nevertheless, some students seem to be more confidently uncomfortable, ready and willingto begin working on open-ended problems. We sought in this study to understand the factors thatmake a student better able to begin work on these projects without directed guidance from theinstructor. Here, this student ability is ascribed to, in part, a student’s ambiguity tolerance andself-efficacy on open-ended problems. A survey instrument to measure ambiguity tolerance and self-efficacy on open-endedproblems was created and subject to internal validation. Students taking a 2-course sequence ofrequired, foundational courses over

Conference Session

Humanitarian and Sustainability in a Global Engineering Context

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rodolfo Valdes-Vasquez, Colorado State University; Caroline Murrie Clevenger P.E.; Laura Thornes; Svetlana Olbina

Tagged Divisions

International

Paper ID #24532Cross-cultural Collaboration Inspired by a Sustainable Building Course inCosta RicaDr. Rodolfo Valdes-Vasquez, Colorado State University Rodolfo Valdes-Vasquez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Construction Management at Colorado State University. He is committed to advancing research and teaching in the sustainability of infrastructure projects. He believes that educating the next generation of professionals will play a pivotal role in making sustainability a standard practice.Dr. Caroline Murrie Clevenger, Caroline M. Clevenger is an Associate Professor and Assistant Director of Construction

Conference Session

A Technology Potpourri I

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bin Hu, Old Dominion University; Steve C. Hsiung, Old Dominion University; Matthew B. Kersey

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, andcompatibility. There are needs of an intelligent device that can be flexible enough to beintegrated into any type of engineering systems. It is particularly demanding in the scale ofcomplexity of those large-scale engineering systems. This is also true in many engineering issuesoccurring in different Navy systems. This proposal is aimed to address these issues bydeveloping an intelligent mobile sensing platform that integrates intelligent sensors (e.g., Lidarin this project) with necessary peripherals and makes it portable and customizable for differentapplications. Lidar is a range measuring sensor that uses laser signals to detect and measure thedistances and angles to the surrounding objects. Lidar has been used in variety of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott W. Campbell, University of South Florida; James Franklin Wysong Jr., Hillsborough Community College; Peter Stiling, University of South Florida; Gerry G. Meisels, University of South Florida; Robert L. Potter, University of South Florida

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

this grant, he advised over 500 individual calculus students on their course projects. He was given an Outstanding Advising Award by USF and has been the recipient of numerous teaching awards at the department, college, university (Jerome Krivanek Distinguished Teaching Award) and state (TIP award) levels. Scott is also a co-PI of a Helios-funded Middle School Residency Program for Science and Math (for which he teaches the capstone course) and is on the leadership committee for an NSF IUSE grant to transform STEM Education at USF. His research is in the areas of solution thermodynamics and environmental monitoring and modeling.Dr. James Franklin Wysong Jr, Hillsborough Community College Dr. James Wysong has

Conference Session

Issues in Engineering Technolgy Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Terence Geyer, Eastern Washington University; William R Loendorf, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

for bothstudents and faculty.IntroductionThe courses covered in this report give a representation of the various class instructional modesexperienced by Engineering Technology students (lecture-nonmathematical, lecture-mathematical, lecture/lab, lecture/discussion) and span the full range of types of studentworkload, as well as instructor grading demands. The project was conducted using twoinstructors who were attempting to gain a better control of all of the demands placed on studentsand faculty in our changing economic realities in higher education. In most colleges that have ahigh amount of transfer students, it has become increasingly more difficult to estimateenrollment numbers and program/course demand in a timely manner. While students

Conference Session

Practical Teaching in Manufacturing – 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenifer Blacklock, Colorado School of Mines; Derrick Rodriguez P.E., Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

 and  understand  basic  manufacturing  topics  in  the  classroom.1  For  this  reason,  it  is  essential  for  ME  undergraduates  to  understand  how  parts  and  components  are  manufactured,  with  the  goal  of  developing  better  engineers  and  designers.      With  the  incorporation  of  several  open-­‐ended  design  challenges  and  hands-­‐on  projects  throughout  Field  Session,  specifically  related  to  manufacturing  topics,  students  begin  to  learn  the  following  concepts  early  on  in  the  undergraduate  curriculum:  1)  proper  dimensioning  and  tolerancing,  2)  manufacturing  tolerances,  3)  material  selection  4)  automated  manufacturing  techniques,  5)  manual  manufacturing  techniques,  6)  CAD-­‐CAM

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Technical Session 10: Paying Attention to Retention

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steffen Peuker, California Polytechnic State University; Nova Alexandria Glinski Schauss, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

developed linking student development focused first-year coursesand a project called “Design Your Process of Becoming a World-Class Engineering Student”.The project is set within first-year engineering orientation courses that pair academic successstrategies with engineering college knowledge. Through the project students are challenged todesign their individually tailored learning process to have a significant impact on their academicsuccess by improving the students’ skills, confidence, and motivation to succeed in engineering.The approach is currently implemented in over 30 institutions nationwideError! Reference source notfound. . The results from two four year institutions— Oregon State University and University ofAlaska Anchorage—one

Conference Session

Exploring the Entrepreneurial and Innovation Mindset

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Miles J, Mabey, Arizona State University; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Micah Lande, Arizona State University; Steven Weiner, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

courses, and studies the use of context in both K-12 and undergraduate engineering design education. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Education (2010) and M.S./B.S. in Electrical and Com- puter Engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Jordan is PI on several NSF-funded projects related to design, including an NSF Early CAREER Award entitled ”CAREER: Engineering Design Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society” and ”Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?,” and is a Co-PI on the NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments grant ”Additive Innovation: An Educational Ecosystem of Making and Risk Taking.” He was named one of ASEE PRISM’s ”20 Faculty Under 40” in 2014, and received a Presidential Early

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas Rees Sattele, Ohio State University; Krista M. Kecskemety, Ohio State University; Kadri Akinola Akanni Parris, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

holder of a Master’s Degree in Transportation Engineering and received his Doctorate in Civil Engineering (Geotechnical) with a concentration in Pavement Design, both at OSU. In addition, he holds Project Management Professional (PMP) certification with the Project Management Institute (PMI). Dr. Parris is actively involved in curriculum design, introduction of innovative pedagogies of engagement and the practice of engineering education through teaching several courses across the department. He is integrally involved in the design and delivery of the Pre-Freshman and Cooperative Education Program and others of that ilk at OSU, as a part of his specific interest in soft skill development, diversity, recruitment and

Conference Session

ERM Technical Session 2: The Study of Identity in Engineering Education

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Meagan R. Kendall, University of Texas, El Paso; Luis Miguel Procter, University of Texas, El Paso; Anita Patrick, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

traditional department than for students in thenon-traditional department. However, students in the non-traditional department showedstatistically significantly higher levels of collaboration compared to the traditional department.This work contributes to the ongoing conversation about engineering identity development bybeginning to explore the pedagogical approaches that impact students’ engineering attitudes.Implications of results are discussed.MotivationThe purpose of this research paper is to ascertain the impact course activities that areintentionally designed to develop engineering identity in students has on engineering identitydevelopment. The overarching goal of this project is to help students persist in engineering,particularly those

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 4 - Innovating Engineering Education through Industry and Community Partnerships, Maker Spaces, Competitions, Research Initiatives, and Experiential Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jeremy Straub, North Dakota State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative and Experiential Education

years.The paper concludes with a discussion of the program’s efficacy and participant benefits.Planned future changes and activities are also discussed.2. BackgroundThis section presents prior work in two areas relevant to the current study. First, prior work onexperiential education and project-based learning is presented. Next, prior relevant work incybersecurity is discussed.2.1. Experiential Education & Project-based LearningUndergraduate research experiences, as the name would suggest, fall squarely in the category ofexperiential education. Undergraduate research is a project, with answering the identified researchquestions as its key goal (from students’ perspectives). For educators, undergraduate researchprojects seek to provide students

Conference Session

Engineering Without Borders: Programs Involving Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton; Eger Bill; Phillip Aaron, University of Dayton; Charles Schreier, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

International

communication, leadership and business skills.Furthermore, globalization in industry makes international experience an important, but oftendifficult to implement part of the engineering curriculum.1, 2 Experiential learning can be implemented into the engineering curriculum in a variety ofways including co-ops, internships, project and problem based learning, laboratory experiencesand service-learning. However, integration of international experience into an already packedengineering curriculum can be a little more difficult to attain. Study abroad, internationalinternships and co-ops and international service-learning represent some of the ways in whichengineering academia has provided international experiences for some of its students

Conference Session

Integration of Engineering and Other Disciplines (Including Liberal Arts)

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arthur Felse, Northwestern University; Igor Kourkine

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

education has been noted by the National Academyof Sciences 4 and echoed in the “Engineer of 2020” report of the National Academy ofEngineering5 and more recently in President Obama’s strategy for American innovation6.Following the lead of the NAS and NAE, several universities have launched a variety oftechnology commercialization and entrepreneurship programs – short courses, workshops, cross-disciplinary courses, commercialization projects, and others7.This paper describes a sequence of three technology commercialization courses in the Master ofBiotechnology Program at Northwestern University. We developed these courses based onrecommendations of our industrial advisory board, our interactions with business developmentprofessionals, previously

Conference Session

New Concepts for Alternative Energy Courses and Concepts

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kendrick T. Aung, Lamar University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

for Engineering Education, 2012 Integration of System Thinking, Engineering Reasoning and Decision Making Skills in Design of Thermal Systems CourseAbstract Design of thermal system is in essence a Capstone design class for thermal andenergy systems. One of the major difficulties encountered by instructors in theseCapstone design courses is that many senior students do not have adequate preparation inapplying design skills such as critical thinking, engineering reasoning, and decisionmaking to successfully complete their design project. In this paper, the process ofintegrating system thinking, engineering reasoning and decision making skills intoDesign of Thermal Systems course is

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zachary Cody Hazelwood; Saleh M. Sbenaty, Middle Tennessee State University

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

Paper ID #10699Designing, Building, and Testing an Autonomous Search and Rescue Robot— An Undergraduate Applied Research ExperienceZachary Cody Hazelwood Cody Hazelwood is currently a software developer at the Alpha High Theft Solutions division of Check- point Systems. He received the B.S. degree in Professional Computer Science from Middle Tennessee State University in May 2013. He currently does freelance projects involving mobile software develop- ment, microcontroller applications, and electronics. He enjoys learning about and testing ways to improve people’s lives with technology.Dr. Saleh M. Sbenaty, Middle Tennessee

Conference Session

Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Antonette T. Cummings P.E., Purdue University; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

students from across campus worktogether on long-term projects that benefit the local or global community. Project work centersaround the engineering, technology, and computing needs of a community partner, butinterdisciplinary team interaction is an integral element for project success. Students mayparticipate in EPICS multiple semesters and participation for multiple consecutive semesters on aproject team is encouraged. Teams are composed of first year students through seniors from anydiscipline, as well as graduate students in a few select disciplines such as audiology or industrialdesign.Most EPICS projects last at least one-year, although partnership with the communityorganization continues for several years. Projects are intended to solve

Conference Session

Astronautics and Space Technology

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Melton; Michael Micci; Deborah Levin; Charles Croskey; David Spencer; Sven Bilen

educationalprogramming available to students of diverse backgrounds and academic interests. Oureducational goal is to prepare students at the undergraduate and graduate levels for productivecareers in technical and nontechnical fields relating to space systems and science. The LionSatmission introduces relevant hands-on opportunities to students through design problems, sciencequestions, case studies, research investigations, leadership experiences, organizational issues,etc. LionSat introduces meaningful and realistic project examples into the classroom andlaboratory, which enhance student learning. The LionSat mission was selected as a participant in the University Nanosat-3 (NS-3)program, which is a joint program between the American Institute of

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bugra Koku; Ali Sekmen

teaching an introductorycourse on Mechatronics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Middle East TechnicalUniversity. This course attracts students from multiple disciplines. Being offered at the thirdsemester, rather than focusing on theoretical aspects of different disciplines, this course focuseson the system integration aspect of Mechatronics systems and emphasizes this with hands-onlaboratory exercises and a semester project. The semester project requires the design andconstruction of a simple closed loop system. To make the programming aspect of these projectseasier, it is intended to develop the necessary software on a PC rather than an embeddedplatform. To facilitate this, a software package is developed. With the help of this

Conference Session

Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Peter

all. A separateultrasonic tracking system has also been designed that utilizes two microphone ‘ears’ withaccompanying electronics to provide the capability of determining the direction of an ultrasonicbeacon. Each robot can then utilize this information to influence how to act – whether to follow,or run away, or make position decisions based on the origin of the sound. An additionaltechnical improvement has been made by replacing the standard AA battery power source with aset of lithium-ion batteries, thus extending operating time to several hours.Introduction As a project for the Seattle Pacific University Electrical Engineering Department’s JuniorDesign course, the three-member Mindstorms Lobotomy team created a system for wireless

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paige Smith

. Aimed primarilyat women, the program targets incoming first year students, undergraduates, graduate students,and faculty. RISE SRT is a ten-week team-based research experience. The team structureincludes a Faculty Mentor, a Graduate RISE Fellow (a graduate student currently working withthe faculty member on the identified research project), an Undergraduate RISE Fellow (anundergraduate student familiar with the faculty member’s research), and up to four RISEScholars (undergraduates new to the project recruited nationally). Since the program began insummer 2002, ten research projects have been completed.Over the past two years the research experience has been assessed from a variety of perspectives,including a series of focus groups (e.g., RISE

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy Reffeor; Jeffrey Ray

Session 1566 Incorporating Experimental Design in a Mechanics of Materials Course Wendy Reffeor, Ph.D., Jeffrey L. Ray, Ph.D. Seymour and Esther Padnos School of Engineering Grand Valley State University Grand Rapids, MI 49504AbstractA necessary part of any engineering design is the development of specifications that define itsfunction. Once these specifications are developed, testing of that design to ensure it meets thedesign specifications is essential. At Grand Valley State University, we have incorporateddesign and build projects into

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Barrie Jackson

practical “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”engineering modules, rather than long tedious set laboratories. Although there were someinevitable “teething problems”, the program was a considerable success. This program wasexpanded until now it is APSC100, Applied Science 100, and is offered to all first year students.These projects are a quite eclectic lot being developed across most of the departments in thefaculty. A typical project that was developed jointly between Chemical Engineering and theChemistry Department is described. This particular project deals with a novel modification tothe

Conference Session

Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Trivett, University of Prince Edward Island; Stephen Champion, University of Prince Edward Island

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

AC 2012-5195: USING ONLINE OPEN-INNOVATION CHALLENGES TOINTRODUCE DESIGN IN FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING COURSESDr. Andrew Trivett, University of Prince Edward IslandProf. Stephen Champion, University of Prince Edward Island Page 25.1434.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Using Online Open-Innovation Challenges to introduce Design in First-Year engineering coursesIntroductionProject-based courses in first-year provide the first exposure to design in many engineeringprograms in North America, and around the world. The first project a student encounters cancolor their view of the profession for

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles V. Camp; Anna P. Phillips; Paul Palazolo

. The first would be skills that could be integratedinto the student’s course work beyond the entry level. These skills included surveying, othermeasurement skills, data collection and analysis, and computer skills including spreadsheets andprogramming. The second area of focus was on communication with a focus on writing and oralpresentations.In response to the goal of increased communication skills, traditional lecture-style instructionwas extensively supplemented by a series of projects that the students completed in groups. Eachproject was designed to utilize all of the skill and learning components selected for emphasis inthe sequence. As the students proceeded from the first class through the third class, they wereexposed to similar

Conference Session

Alternative Energy Laboratory Experiences

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Narayanan M. Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

the mass market potential of the latter offers the way toadvance the former, while the technical excellence of the former offers the way to make thelatter successful in the mass market. This is the combination of opportunity and challengemotivating the project behind this paper. The thoughtful reader is reminded that innovationsin engineering education sometimes have to go beyond classroom teaching, and that archivalpublications should reference, rather than repeat, material already presented in prior papers.Hence, for such items as detailed course outlines, student comments, etc., references toprevious papers are given to published work. The pedagogical aspects are in relatingknowledge and learning across disciplines and skills. They require

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Dianne Martin; Edmund Tsang; Rand Decker

4,5,6,7, except thatservice learning provides the context for the design projects.The service learning project is carried out with the partnership of the Mobile County SchoolSystem and provides students enrolled in "Introduction to Mechanical Engineering" with real-lifecustomers in their design projects -- a team of two middle-school teachers. The students areinformed about a need in the community (the schools) for more resources to support hands-on ofmathematics and science in middle-schools in Mobile County 8, and they are tasked withdesigning and producing manipulatives/instruction modules that satisfy the need of their teachercustomers for implementing hands-on activities to teach mathematics and science.To make the process "real-world" like

Conference Session

Enhancing Engineering Math with Technology

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

D. Reinhard

evaluators are being asked to provide evidence of successfulteaching and learning. The few evaluation efforts to date have focused primarily on documentinglong term outcomes assessed by standard testing methods, however very little effort has beenmade to establish valid ways of improving design and use as it occurs. An additional area ofconcern arises from the use of technology to support curriculum when there is a lack ofknowledge of impact on students’ cognitive schemas. This paper presents the findings of a five-year project, known as Project Links, 1 conducted at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, fundedunder the National Science Foundation initiative Mathematics Across the Curriculum. As part ofthis grant, 33 interactive technology-supported

Conference Session

CAD Applications in MET Courses

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ted Loso; Raj Desai; Dave Baird; Craig Downing; Gary Frey

, andindustry are examined. While the time constraints placed on both the students and the instructorsis a problem, the benefits are great enough to make this cooperation worthwhile. The use ofadvanced technology is expensive but there are various ways to defray the cost of thistechnology to both education and industry. Cooperative ventures of this kind result in moreideas going into production, increase student learning, and help small-scale production facilitiesincrease their profitability.IntroductionThe purpose of this study was to determine effective ways to improve student’s problem solvingskills. It was thought that the Rapid Prototyping and design of industrial projects would bevaluable in increasing the translation between 2-D drawings and

Conference Session

Robotics, Mechatronics, and Control Systems - Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael A. Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Taskin Padir, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

, and S.M. in Electrical Engineering in 1980 and the Sc.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1987 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Gennert is interested in Computer Vision, Image Processing, Scientific Databases, and Programming Languages, with ongoing projects in biomedical image process- ing, robotics, and stereo and motion vision. He is author or co-author of over 100 papers. He is a member of Sigma Xi, NDIA Robotics Division, and the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council Robotics Cluster, and a senior member of IEEE and ACM.Dr. Taskin Padir, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Page 23.1049.1