Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; John L. Falconer, University of Colorado Boulder; David L. Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Ronald L. Miller, Colorado School of Mines; Debra Gilbuena, Oregon State University; Bill Jay Brooks, Oregon State University; Christina Smith, Oregon State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

recipient of several ASEE awards, including the Fahein award for young faculty teaching and educational scholarship, the two-time recipient of the Corcoran award for best article in the journal Chemical Engineering Education, and the recipient of the Martin award for best paper in the Chemical Engineering Division at the ASEE Annual Meeting.Dr. Ronald L. Miller, Colorado School of MinesMs. Debra Gilbuena, Oregon State University Debra Gilbuena is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engi- neering at Oregon State University. She currently has research focused on student learning in virtual laboratories. Debra has an M.BA, an M.S., and four years of industrial experience including a

Conference Session

Materials Curricula: Modeling & Math

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Katherine Chen

Session 3164 NiTi – Magic or Phase Transformations? Katherine C. Chen Materials Engineering Department California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407AbstractNiTi alloys possess exciting properties and are staples in materials demonstrations. The shapememory effect and superelasticity property of NiTi fascinate people, but actually requiresignificant materials knowledge to fully understand the phenomena. A laboratory dealing withphase transformations was thus developed to capitalize on the allure of NiTi for a junior/seniorlevel

Conference Session

Technology in Environmental Engineering Courses

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Carlos Ortiz

andfrom the student perspective. From the academic point of view we believe that we gained a betterunderstanding of the membrane process as a secondary treatment component, and its controlrequirements. This project also improved our laboratory capabilities allowing us to include themicrokjeldahl digestion and distillation systems as additional components of the academicmaterial. These pieces of equipment will help the implementation of new laboratory experiences,and their integration in the required environmental course for CET students, as well as in electivecourses. This project also exposed the demands of research on faculty in academic programsdedicated almost exclusively to teaching, and without the support of graduate programs inengineering

Conference Session

FPD 3: Retention

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sally J. Steadman, University of South Alabama; Gail D. Jefferson, University of South Alabama; Tom G. Thomas, University of South Alabama; Kuang-Ting Hsiao, University of South Alabama

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materials. A companion thread for the program is LabVIEWprogramming, which is integrated into each topic. Robotics and the associated programming areintriguing topics for the students and provide immediate motivation for studying engineering.The students explore instrumentation, sensors, and control using Lego Robots. They useLabVIEW to investigate material properties and behavior for metals, polymers, and composites.The LabVIEW and MINDSTORM combination provides immediate, visual, verification ofproject solutions. Each topic is introduced by a series of short lectures followed by hands-oninteractive laboratory sessions. The students quickly gain skills and facility with both tools,using creative approaches to accomplish the various assigned

Conference Session

Crossing the Discipline Divide!

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Warren; Abolghasem Shahbazi; Jianzhong Lou; Keith Schimmel

(such as Tone polymer by former Union Carbide)2, and polylactic acid(pioneered by Argonne National Laboratories). Although there are issues related to both cost andmonomer supplies, development of lactic acid based biodegradable polymers appears to be mostactive, and a number of commercial projects are under way.While there has been a lot of research on biodegradable polymers and increasingcommercialization of biodegradable polymers, the availability of educational materials on thisimportant subject are disproportionate to other areas of polymer education.3 There is anincreasing demand for skills in this area from companies involved in the research and productdevelopment activities of this class of polymers.4-6 Therefore, a biodegradable

Conference Session

Technology, Communications & Ethics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wise

grading schemes that ebb and flow in their accuracy. CPR applies theprocess of scientific peer review to education. Students perform research (study), write abouttheir “findings”, submit it for blind review (and act as reviewers themselves), and finally usepeer feedback to improve their understanding. All of this is possible without intervention fromthe instructor using CPR.This paper reports on part of a continuing study on the utility of CPR in engineering education.In this instance, CPR was introduced into a writing-intensive laboratory course in chemicalengineering. Students worked in teams, but were required to submit individually-craftedexecutive summaries using the CPR system. Assessment was based on instructor inspection ofstudent work

Conference Session

Experiences with the TTL Turbojet Engine

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth French

specified by Turbine Technologies Ltd. , manufacturer of the SR-30Turbojet Engine®. Throughout the history of the gas turbine one of the most interestingfeatures has been the theoretical ability for them to use a variety of fuels. Some earlyauthors even anticipated performance independent of fuel type. In the extreme, Tickell [2]reports applications for piston engines using used cooking oil ’straight’, after a startupperiod with conventional fuel. Commercial airplane engines do not have the liberty of using compounded vegetablefuels, due mainly to their auxiliary equipment, temperatures and pressures, standards andguaranteed performance, Mattingly [5]. The university laboratory is not bound by theseconsiderations and we continue to explore the

Conference Session

Lessons Learned From Design Projects

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mustafa Guvench

Programmable Digital Multimeter (DM 5120). All of theseinstruments are equipped with GPIB interface. A Pentium IV computer equipped with NationalInstrument's IEEE488.2 card controls the setup. A system schematic of the measurement setup is given inFigure 1. This is an extension of a “Computer-Integrated-Electronics” teaching laboratory setup whichwas featured to do automated measurement of I-V and C-V characteristics of semiconductor devices andsensors and, to extract SPICE parameters from them for undergraduate electrical engineering education atthe University of Southern Maine. Creative utilization of this standard test equipment for 2- and 3-terminal device measurements and their automation were reported earlier (see Guvench [4] and [5

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Engineering Education I

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman

industry requires a workforce with a wide range of capabilities. Certainly, it needsnuclear engineers. But it also needs mechanical, chemical, electrical, and other engineers with anunderstanding of nuclear science and technology. In addition, it needs health physicists orenvironmental scientists and engineers, chemists, geologists, and health professionals who havemastered the basics of radiation science.The Ohio State University has a graduate program in Nuclear Engineering which offers M.S. andPh.D. degrees and prepares its students for employment in utilities, research laboratories, nuclearmedicine, regulatory agencies, and so on. However, OSU’s Nuclear Engineering Program alsouses four other established programs to provide students from other

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian West

Engineering.Incoming freshmen for the fall 2002 semester were admitted into the engineering program, whiletransfer students only were accepted into the engineering technology program. The first two yearsof the new engineering program are in place, while almost the entire engineering technologyprogram is still operating. In spring 2003, no students, including transfer students, will beadmitted to engineering technology, and the first three years of the engineering program will bepopulated with students.Many issues must be explored when a school changes program curricula, such as which classes toupdate and transition versus classes to delete; pre-requisites and co-requisites; class sequences;laboratory sessions; classroom assignments; faculty loading; and many

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

N. Sundaresan; Devdas Pai

instrumentation lab. Initial setup (afterprocuring all the materials) should take the lab instructor about 2 hours. A single measurementcan be initiated and saved to disk in less than 3 minutes, allowing for all the students in a typicallab section to take their own data rather than share a single set of data for the entire class. Thisexperiment is offered to a sophomore-level laboratory class in mechanical engineering that focuseson measurements, instrumentation and manufacturing and addresses the first two topics in thatcourse.Introduction A piezoelectric material is basically a ceramic that outputs a voltage upon beingmechanically strained. Sensors made of this material are sensitive enough to generate signalswhen subjected to low-amplitude

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Johnson

selection, material source selection, and case studies in material design. The coursewas first offered in the spring of 2000. The computer system required orientation, and at leastone round of feedback before it was operational. Seven (of ten) Fridays were declared ‘virtualdays’ and work was required by the following Monday. Live feedback was possible, andMonday debriefings were held in conjunction with traditional lectures. Wednesdays weretargeted for traditional laboratory exercises.The students’ interests and the ease of Internet-access led to an increased variety and depth ofeffort in assignments compared to similar courses. Students could interact asynchronously,which generated a synergy that encouraged interesting interdisciplinary

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher T. Field; Brian Jenkins

appreciate the value of fundamental circuit theory. This motivational problem canbe a particular challenge at an institution like the U.S. Naval Academy, where the student istrained primarily as a naval officer and electrical engineering is a secondary pursuit.To provide a rationale for learning the theoretical concepts required in the course, we haverestructured our laboratories. In implementing new labs for the course, we’ve attempted to meetthe following goals: 1) Labs should motivate students through greater emphasis on the practicalmerit of the fundamentals. Using typical devices, with which students are familiar, such aslamps, batteries, loudspeakers, etc, is helpful. 2) Insure that the labs are conceptually integratedwith the course in a

Conference Session

Special Topics

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Moshe Hartman; Harriet Hartman

rates of the undergraduate degree in engineering.Staying in engineering during the undergraduate years is intricately tied to student satisfactionwith their major4,5,6,7. In a study of over 6000 women at 53 institutions, happiness with theirmajor was one of the main differences between those who stayed in engineering and thoseleaving it8.Previous research suggests that student satisfaction with their undergraduate experience ispositively affected by departmental atmosphere, including quality of teaching, class size, andfaculty support1,6,8, being able to work on research with a faculty member or independently1, and “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

Conference Session

ECE Design, Capstone, and Engr. Practice

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mustafa Guvench

modules.The same design procedure has also resulted in successful OpAmp designs with both NMOS andPMOS input versions using MOSIS 2-micron N-well CMOS technology. This latter technologyis used by the author in his "ELE 444 Analog VLSI Design" course at the University of SouthernMaine for teaching. Figure 5 is displaying the frequency response (both phase and magnitude),on a recently acquired HP 4194A Gain-Phase Analyser, of a sample PMOS input OpAmpdesigned by the author as an example for class use. This OpAmp, as observed from the screenshot, yielded 63 degree phase margin at 1.26 MHz unity gain frequency. In the presentation, anexample of the OpAmp design procedure and calculations will be demonstrated using theMathCad file developed. (see

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Culbreth

engineeringstudents often have difficulty in working with these devices.To help our students better meet the needs of local industry, a mechanical engineering coursewas developed to teach students to use microcontrollers, to integrate sensors and actuators withthese devices, and to connect to larger computers for communication with the user. The coursewas taught in the spring semester of 2000 to a class of undergraduates and master’s students.In addition to this course in microcontrollers, computer technology is integrated into a number ofour undergraduate mechanical engineering courses. The introductory engineering course has acompanion laboratory course1 that introduces Microsoft Office, Mathsoft Mathcad, andAutodesk Autocad. They are also required to take

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Melanie Basantis; Zenaida Otero Keil

team project courses. Many clinics are funded by industrialpartners. The Clinics are a vehicle for teaching students technical material related to theirspecific project. In addition, they provide opportunities for developing communicationand team building skills. Rowan engineering students develop in the classroom andlaboratories many of the skills they need in industry. Faculty is mainly responsible forintegrating these components into the classroom, laboratories and projects. The faculty benefits from the Internship Program from the industrial contacts thatresult in projects, financial and in-kind support, and research opportunities. There havebeen several examples of additional projects that have been identified by student

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Naseem Ishaq; Salahuddin Qazi

education at a community college. The department of electricalengineering technology is a part of the School of Information Systems and EngineeringTechnology and offers Bachelor s degree programs in electrical engineering technology,computer engineering technology, and photonics. A Master of Science in Advanced Technologyis jointly offered by the departments of electrical, mechanical and industrial engineeringtechnologies.The SUNY Institute s electrical engineering technology curriculum includes theoretical issues,but our objective is to teach students to use current, state of the art equipment and emergingtechnologies to solve practical design and application problems. State of the art equipment andlaboratories are critical for the electrical

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Bradley E. Bishop; George E. Piper; Richard T. O'Brien

system identification throughimplementation and tuning of a PD controller. This design project has been integrated into thejunior level curriculum in the Systems Engineering department at the United States NavalAcademy.1. IntroductionIt is well known that classroom discussion of the theory of control can be greatly enhancedthrough appropriate experimental investigations. Students unable to grasp the concepts offeedback and system response through lectures are often more receptive to hands-ondemonstrations and investigations. Further, many topics relating to the process of system designare difficult at best to teach in a lecture format. It is extremely challenging to motivate in theclassroom the difficulties of real implementation of control

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Day; Robert Douglas; Dean Lance Smith

held several section and chapter offices in the IEEE and other engineering organizations.He received the Teetor Award from the SAE for outstanding teaching and three service awards from the MemphisSection of the IEEE. He is a registered engineer in Texas, Louisiana, and Illinois and holds an FCC GeneralRadiotelephone license with a ship radar endorsement.ROBERT DOUGLASRobert Douglas received a B.S.E.E. from The University of Mississippi in 1962 and an M.S.E.E. from TheUniversity of Houston in 1967. He has taught engineering technology at Mississippi State University, and iscurrently an Associate Professor of Engineering Technology at The University of Memphis. Mr. Douglas has been aManager of Systems Engineering for Ingalls Shipbuilding

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert H. Mayer

” course has been carried over andsupplemented by an additional requirement that students develop a web page (for posting on theInternet) that summarizes their findings. Although the majority of class sessions are lectureoriented, ample time is set aside for student presentations, guest speakers, field trips to localwater and wastewater treatment facilities, occasional participation in locally-held professionalconferences, and several laboratory exercises dealing with pollution measurement anddispersion. At least one class section (of approximately 20 students) has been offered everysemester since course inception in academic year 1996. Student evaluations have beenconsistently favorable and score appreciably above the norm

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Wood; Mustafa Guvench

would be excited. Note that actual waveforms applied to the stators are invertedand amplified up to 200 volts. For instructional demos to a group of students, rather than doing thedemonstration on an actual micromotor which has to be viewed under a microscope, the demo can bedone on a larger scale display consisting 12 LEDs (one standing for each pole) and arranged uniformlyon a circle on a printed circuit board. Such a display , since it would be driven at low voltage, helpsavoid the danger of high voltage shock to the students and can be viewed by the whole groupsimultaneously in a small classroom or teaching laboratory, . For latter use the high voltage inverters andtheir high voltage DC source are turned off. Instead, another twelve

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Carroll

matters, and in those situations, the iPAQ is a handy tool for accessing globalinformation.Information StorageWith 32 megabytes of storage in the iPAQ, lots of information can be packed into thesmall, handheld device. Having this information readily available to students in class orin laboratories greatly eases their need to look up details that would otherwise requirechecking reference books or even traveling to the library. This capability was used inseveral classes during Fall, 2001, as an easy way to make the iPAQ devices useful tostudents in their coursework. Information as simple as tables of ASCII character codes orprotocols for standard interfaces were valuable resources for students in ComputerScience classes. Students in the

Conference Session

Assessment in Large and Small Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Valerie Young

typically a report, either oral or written. Grading andassessment of this work is complex, involving both the quality of the technical content and thequality of the presentation. This type of work also provides a high density of assessmentinformation because of its complexity. Rubrics provide a framework for structuring andquantifying this assessment information. Rubrics, if made available to the students, should alsogive students a rationale for the grades they receive and an opportunity to evaluate and improvetheir own work prior to submission. (See, for example, Walvoord & Anderson, 1998 1.)Grading in our senior Unit Operations Laboratory is now entirely rubric-based.2 We have beenpleased with the rubrics as a foundation for assessment in

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2022 CIEC

Authors

Mauricio Torres; Ying Shang; Zakariya Al Hamouz

facilitiesThe laboratory equipment for the programs is being acquired with funds from the EDA grant [5]awarded to Indiana Tech as well as a donation from a graduate of the mechanical engineeringprogram. The equipment selected is representative of the most common 3D printing processesfor polymers and metals. The list is depicted in Table 2 Proceedings of the 2023 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2023, American Society for Engineering Education ETD 475 Table 2. Equipment for the additive manufacturing laboratory

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2024 ASEE-GSW

Authors

Nelson Fumo, The University of Texas at Tyler

into STEM - The Second Experience Dr. Nelson Fumo Mechanical Engineering Department The University of Texas at Tyler AbstractThis paper presents the journey of participating in the JUMP (Join the discussion, Unveil innovation,Make connections, Promote tech-to-market) into STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering andMathematics) competition for the second time. The initial experience was presented at the ASEEGulf Southwest Conference 2023, highlighting that the JUMP into STEM is a dynamic buildingscience competition organized by national laboratories with the support of the Department ofEnergy. The

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

R. Asmatulu; E. Asmatulu; A. Yourdkhani

is one of the fastest growing fields. It is basicallyfabrication, manipulation, and characterization of materials at the nanoscale (usually between 1and 100 nm), which will significantly affect economic, educational, and social developments inall areas, such as engineering, science, defense, biomedical and biology [1]. It is also one of theleading technologies for educational revolution in the new millennium. Nanotechnologyeducation is being offered by many universities around the globe for the integration of allengineering and science courses for the future generation [1]. Several nanotechnology programsand centers in the U.S. have been undertaken by the government and by private sectors tointensify the teaching, research, and development

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Bryndol Sones; Frank Wattenberg

classrooms have evolved into activity-based studios for student learning and assessment, and Physics Education Research (PER) has emerged as a research field at many universities. This philosophical change in the way teachers think about student learning has been accompanied by new classroom technologies that included video analysis techniques, student response cards (clickers), and a robust suite of sensors that bring classrooms and laboratories to life with the ease of plug-and-play data acquisition. PASCO Systems is one such sensor suite adopted at West Point in its introductory physics and math courses. In the context of studying a vertical spring-mass system, a motion sensor that uses the echo of

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Lawrence Fong; Brian P. Self

tobe a motivational and fun way to help students learn about rigid body dynamics. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 284IntroductionAt Cal Poly, students have always been encouraged to utilize a hands-on approach towardslearning. In our coursework, we have found that real-world type of problems help students learnthe material more effectively, as well as prepare them for careers in engineering. Throughout allthe laboratories and student projects, Cal Poly's "learn by doing" motto is evident - in how weapply the principles of engineering towards realistic

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Gautham Das; Rishi Cariappa

investigations where undertaken and various geotechnicaltests were conducted. Students assisted in obtaining soil samples and were involved in both thefield and laboratory geotechnical testing.Student Activities and InnovationsStudents were involved from preliminary investigations to all aspects of design and constructionof the road. One of the initial activities was to survey the existing ground surface and make surethat the road blend into the existing ground. Certain parts of the road were laid out previouslyhowever the road had to be modified to meet the existing requirements as set by MOST.Students were involved in all surveying activities; a rotary level was used to determine theground surface elevations. Once the elevations were identified and