Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

David J. Beebe

instrumentation. The second is taught duringthe fall of the senior year and covers digital signal processing. A design project in the second course requiresstudents to synthesize the concepts from both courses and use them to design and build a completeinstrumentation system. John Webster’s text, “Medical Instrumentation,” is used for the first course andWillis Tompkin’s text, “Biomedical Digital Signal Processing,” is used for the second course 1,2.NEED FOR HANDS-ON LABORATORY EXPERIENCE “Engineers put things together to make things that haven’t been around before.” - Joe Bordogna,NSF. Assuming this description of what engineers do to be accurate, an engineers training should bestructured to allow the prospective engineer time to do engineering

Conference Session

Construction 3: Beyond the Academy: Leveraging Partnerships, Internships, and Outreach

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James W. Jones, Ball State University

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Construction

Paper ID #17644University as Partner: Building Professional Relationships between Construc-tion Programs and Their InstitutionsDr. James W. Jones, Ball State University Dr. James W. Jones is the Construction Management Program Director and an Associate Professor in Ball State University’s Department of Technology. He has taught in the areas of leadership and construction management for more than 14 years and has more than a decade of experience managing construction projects in both field and office environments. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 University as Partner

Conference Session

Getting Into Graduate School

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University

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Graduate Studies, Student

in your applicationmaterials and/or recommendation letters include:  Research experience (volunteer or paid work in a lab; independent study with a faculty; extensive research or design projects completed as part of coursework; research or problem solving skills developed through internships or work experience)  Industry experience (volunteer or paid internships; opportunities to solve problems, test equipment, investigate materials, give presentations, work in a team, etc.)  Leadership experience (serving as an officer in student organizations; organizing an event or activity; leading a research or project team, etc.)  Teamwork skills (working effectively with others to solve problems or complete

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zachary Holman, Arizona State University; Michelle Jordan, Arizona State University; Jenefer Husman, University of Oregon; Kate Fisher; Tiffany Rowlands, QESST

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #20028REU Site: Solar Energy Research for the Terawatt ChallengeProf. Zachary Holman, Arizona State UniversityDr. Michelle Jordan , Arizona State University Michelle Jordan is as associate professor in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State Uni- versity. She also serves as the Education Director for the QESST Engineering Research Center. Michelle’s program of research focuses on social interactions in collaborative learning contexts. She is particularly interested in how students navigate communication challenges as they negotiate complex engineering design projects. Her scholarship is grounded in

Conference Session

Teaming & Collaborative Learning

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tejasvi Parupudi, Purdue University; Sarah Knapp, Purdue University; Amelia Chesley, Purdue University; Nathan Mentzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Dawn Laux, Purdue Polytechnic Institute

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Educational Research and Methods

students’ effectiveness as team membersworking together on a final design project and presentation. A new integration program wasimplemented for six sections of a Design Thinking course during the Fall 2016 semester, whileanother six sections of the introductory Design Thinking course were taught without the formalintegration. In both classes, a multi-part team project was assigned for the last half of thesemester. Teams were periodically asked to rate each team member’s performance using theComprehensive Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness (CATME) tool. By analyzing theresults of this peer evaluation in integrated versus non-integrated format of the course, weexamine the student contributions and grades in the final project and their

Conference Session

Biomedical Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark A. Ruegsegger, Ohio State University

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Biomedical

Paper ID #9730Work in Progress: International BME Capstone and Summer Design Expe-rienceProf. Mark A. Ruegsegger, The Ohio State University Mark Ruegsegger is currently an Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of Biomedical Engi- neering at Ohio State University. He has a curricular focus on the Senior Design capstone course, which includes multi-disciplinary teams of BME, Mechanical Engineering, Occupational & Physical Therapy, and other Medical and Engineering disciplines. Each project team builds a device that provides assis- tance to those with disabilities, or projects with other clinical or

Conference Session

Make It!

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Sarkis Babikian, Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology; Terry K Beesoon, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology; Shouling He, Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology; Hossein Rahemi, Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 3D Printer from Scratch Made with e-WasteASTRACTIn this project we present our idea about building a 3D printer based on the recycled electroniccomponents. The motivations for us to work on the project are (1) 3D printing technology asnext industrial revolution has caught wide attention around the world. With the development ofthe technology, a custom part that would previously take a great deal of time and money for aprofessional manufacturer to produce can now be made much quicker at a very low cost.Particular for college engineering education, students can produce different innovative parts fortheir new designs for robots or unmanned aerial vehicles using a self-made

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Effects on Student Learning

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Doanh Van, Union University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Definition 0 No evidence of achievement 1 Limited evidence of achievement 2 Adequate evidence of achievement 3 More-than-adequate evidence of achievement 4 Substantial evidence of achievementThere is a very good synopsis,3on the definitions of rubrics which also referred to the manyreasons as to why rubrics should be employed.4Our old rubrics as shown above lack the clarity as to what to give the scores on.The D.O.S couldbe explained as follow: for each of the outcome under consideration, the assessing faculty wouldexamine the specific evidence (test, homework, project, paper, etc.) of student work and

Conference Session

Socio-Technical Issues in Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Kenny Feister, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University, West Lafayette; David H. Torres, Purdue University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

Paper ID #16905Integrating Ethical Considerations In DesignDr. Megan Kenny Feister, Purdue University, West Lafayette Megan is a postdoctoral researcher in EPICS at Purdue University with a Ph.D. in Organizational Commu- nication from the Brian Lamb School of Communication from Purdue University. Her research focuses on design, organizational identity, identification and socialization, team communication, innovation, and technology. She is currently working on an NSF grant examining ethical reasoning and decision-making in engineering project teams, and examining the relationship between teams and individuals in engineer

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christian Kreiter MSc, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences; Danilo Garbi Zutin P.E., Carinthia University of Applied Sciences; Michael E. Auer, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences

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Computers in Education

Paper ID #15475WORK IN PROGRESS: A Study on Student Feedback Regarding the Us-ability of Online LaboratoriesMr. Christian Kreiter MSc, Carinthia University of Applied SciencesMr. Danilo Garbi Zutin P.E., Carinthia University of Applied Sciences Danilo G. Zutin is currently a Senior Researcher and team member of the Center of Competence in Online Laboratories and Open Learning (CCOL) at the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences (CUAS), Vil- lach, Austria, where he has been engaged in projects for the development of online laboratories, softtware architectures for online laboratories and online engineering in general. Danilo

Conference Session

Analysis of Effectiveness and Impacts of Graduate Programs: Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Wayne Coots, Purdue University; Sarah Knapp, Purdue University; Amelia Chesley, Purdue University; Nathan Mentzer, Purdue University; Dawn Laux, Purdue University

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Graduate Studies

from each subject, Technology,Communications, and English, collaborate and weave the curricula together to form thoseexplicit connections. An example of this collaboration is a final project that is developed acrossall three disciplines and presented as a culmination of their work in all three courses.The purpose of this paper is to explore research methods and assess the validity of using theEngineering Design Process Portfolio Scoring Rubric (EDPPSR) to analyze students’ finaldesign journals in both integrated and non-integrated sections. This Rubric is intended tomeasure students’ abilities to document their design processes. For this paper, multipleresearchers evaluated artifacts using the EDPPSR evaluation rubric. This pilot study will

Conference Session

Graduate Education in Engineering Technology

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bimal Nepal, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne (Eng); Jihad Albayyari, Indiana-Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

will learn and get hands-onexperience with quality engineering software which will be enhanced further by working onsemester projects involving analysis of real world projects and published case studies. Further,the paper also outlines the teaching modules and modalities to enhance the learning outcomes ofthe subject.Course objectives and outcomesThis course will expose students to modern quality philosophies and advanced qualityengineering techniques. Topics include fractional factorial design, advanced statistical processcontrol techniques, and correlation and regression analysis to understand the relationshipamongst quality factors. The course will prepare students to take positions such as lead qualityengineer or engineering technologist

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil and Architectural Engineering Technology

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol Considine, Old Dominion University; Vernon Lewis, Old Dominion University

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Engineering Technology

AC 2007-2133: INTRODUCING FRESHMEN TO CONSTRUCTION ESTIMATINGAND SCHEDULING USING K’NEX BRIDGE KITSCarol Considine, Old Dominion University Carol L. Considine is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Technology at Old Dominion University. She joined the faculty of Old Dominion University in fall 1999. She has fifteen years of industrial experience in construction estimating and project management. She received her B.S. in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech and her M.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.Vernon Lewis, Old Dominion University Vernon W. Lewis, JR. P.E., Senior Lecturer, is Program Director of Civil Engineering Technology at Old Dominion

Conference Session

Communication and Professional Skills in BME

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Willis Tompkins, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Naomi Chesler, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Walter Block, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Kristyn Masters, University of Wisconsin-Madison; William Murphy, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Mitchell Tyler, University of Wisconsin-Madison; John Webster, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Biomedical

engineeringcurriculum at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This sequence of courses provide a platformfor students to develop and improve their oral and written communication skills. After taking afreshman engineering design course, each student admitted to biomedical engineering in thesophomore year does a team design project each semester for six sequential semesters. Theteams work on progressively more challenging real-world projects submitted by clients fromaround the university and from industry. While advancing their technical and problem-solvingskills through successive projects, the students also learn interpersonal and publiccommunication skills through this experience.IntroductionBeginning in 1998, we started teaching a sequence of design courses

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Phillips, University of Guelph; Michele Oliver, University of Guelph; Bill Van Heyst, University of Guelph; Douglas Joy, University of Guelph; Warren Stiver, University of Guelph

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Computers in Education

design projects andultimately as alumni. Is the introduction in second year working? Are our senior students andalumni using CAD/CAE intelligently or are they using it as a black box? We opted to use recentcapstone design projects to provide some initial feedback. These projects have been conducted Page 11.340.3by students who have experienced our second year courses.Capstone design projects at Guelph are identified and developed by the students and completedin a single semester. Teams are typically made up of 3-4 students. Actual product development,prototyping and industrial collaborations are encouraged. Each design team has a faculty

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Yoder, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Bruce Black, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Electrical and Computer

developments of comparing the use of LabVIEW (agraphical programming language) to MATLAB (a text-based language) in teaching discrete-timesignal processing (DSP).This paper presents the results of using both methods in a junior-level introduction to DSP class.The students who enter this class have had a course in continuous-time signals and systems butno DSP theory background. The class uses the text “Signal Processing First”, by McClellan,Schafer, Yoder, published by Prentice Hall, to introduce discrete-time signal processing. In thepast, a series of MATLAB based mini-projects were used in addition to homework to reinforce theDSP concepts. The new version of the class uses the same mini-projects except that they arebased on LabVIEW.Several quarters

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David L. Soldan, Kansas State University; Don Gruenbacher, Kansas State University; Noel N. Schulz, Kansas State University; Blythe A Vogt PE, Kansas State University; William Bowes Hageman, Kansas State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

. She has a total of over nineteen years of teaching experience including other schools such as Michigan Technological University, University of North Dakota, and Virginia Tech. Noel is active in teaching, research and service. She enjoys teaching electrical engineering and power engineering topics to students. In research and graduate studies, she has been very active having graduated 40 MS and 12 PhD students; published 160 papers and 2 book chapters; and brought in over $10 M in external research through individual and collaborative projects including an U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER award. She has been active in the IEEE Power & Energy Society serving as Secretary from 2004-2007, Treasurer

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Corradeschi; Raymond Carr; Lewis Natiello; Donald Carlucci; Albert Messano; Keith Sheppard

introductory design experience with some linkageto a concurrent Graphics course2. Elements of teaming, project management, economics andeffective communication are included. The second half of the course is focused on a major teamproject to build a robot that can negotiate obstacles and fulfill a prescribed task in competitionwith the robots from other teams. The project introduces students to sensors, algorithmdevelopment and microprocessor programming, and it is also fun! The design sequence continuesin the 2nd semester of Freshman year with a design course that strongly links to a Mechanics ofSolids lecture course3. The third design course links to the Thermodynamics and EnergyConversion course4. These design laboratories further advance the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David L. Soldan, Kansas State University; Noel N. Schulz, Kansas State University; Don Gruenbacher, Kansas State University; Rekha Natarajan, Kansas State University; Blythe Marlow Vogt, Kansas State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

faculty in architectural engineering and construction science and management at Kansas State University in Jan. 2008. She received her B.S.A..E from K-State in 2001 and com- pleted her M.S.A.E. from K-State in 2010 related to curriculum development in architectural engineering and construction science with regards to building information modeling. Vogt is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering with an emphasis in engineering education/outreach under the supervision of Dr. Noel Schulz. During 2001-2008, Vogt was employed full-time with Affiliated Engineers, Inc., a national engineering consulting firm in Madison, Wis. where she held several roles, including project manager, project engineer

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joe Hartman

nearly all engineering development contracts. TheRFP specifications used in the courses are adapted from actual equipment specifications used inthe procurement of major system development, such as a redundant air traffic control computersystem and a digital telephony switch.Teams are chosen by the instructor and, as far as practical, contain equal numbers of ComputerScience, EE students, graduates, and undergraduates.The major benefits of the RFP methodology and the significant award (exemption from the finalexam) are: • Generating an extremely high level of interest, which is a key to learning. • Developing lively and interactive project presentations, since each team has worked on the same design

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Julio Urbina; Hirak Patangia

An Assessment of the Impact of Exploring Engineering Through An Experiential Learning Course on Student Attraction and Retention Julio Urbina and Hirak Patangia Donaghey College of Information Science & Systems Engineering University of Arkansas at Little Rock jvurbina@ualr.edu; hcpatangia@ualr.eduAbstractWith funding from National Science Foundation, a project-based experiential course has been introducedat the freshman level to acquaint students with the engineering field, and to attract students intoengineering technology from the general pool of undeclared majors at the university. The course

Conference Session

ECE Lab Development and Innovations

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hazem Refai; James Sluss

principles and to expose students to research tools that can be used in carrying out their capstone research projects. Through a series of sequential laboratory modules, students learn to setup and configure simple to complex computer networks and to effectively employ commercial software tools for network design and performance analysis. Near the end of the course, working independently, each student is required to complete a final project that assimilates much of the reinforced and/or newly acquired knowledge and skills. This paper provides a detailed description of the laboratory course and its key project modules.1. IntroductionThe University of Oklahoma - Tulsa offers a Master of Science in

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathy Enger; Sudhir Mehta

, and student affairs staff who are participating in this project. • Conducting workshops for instructors, faculty advisors, student affairs staff, and student mentors. • Randomly selecting a cohort of 25 students from a group of freshmen in a particular discipline who have volunteered to participate in this project. Four, eight, and sixteen cohorts will be selected in the first, second, and third year of the grant respectively. Each cohort will be residing in a close proximity (not as roommates) within in a residence hall. • Forming learning communities, each one consisting of a group of 25 students, one faculty advisor, other instructors who are teaching this group of students, student

Conference Session

Minorities in Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrea Ogilvie

in academia and industry. Hosted by the EqualOpportunity in Engineering (EOE) Program for more than 11 years, this paper captures lessonslearned over the years and describes how to create a successful undergraduate research programon your campus. Along with an overview of the TREX program and its benefits, the followingessential program components are covered in detail: program funding, partnerships with faculty,promoting the program, the application and selection process, student placement, managing theprogress of multiple research projects, and project close out requirements. In addition, studentperspectives on the benefits of the TREX program have been incorporated into this paper.The EOE Program at UT Austin was established in 1970 for

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eugene Niemi

human-powered submarine projects in previous years (seeRef. 2). A number of graduates from the program had gone on to work in such organizations asthe Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Electric Boat, and the Office of Naval Research. In order toformalize this past experience for the new IGS program, and also to provide increased courseopportunities for students in Mechanical Engineering, it was decided to create a new technicalelective in Ocean Engineering, to be offered at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Thesequence of events was to include a sabbatical leave for the author to develop additionalbackground in this field, followed by creation and offering of the courses. The sequence usedcould be used by any college or university to develop

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

MICHAEL HOLTZ; Chandra Sekhar; Ashfaq Ahmed; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

Session 1311 INTERNET BASED LESSON AND TEST DELIVERY, AUTOMATIC GRADING AND RECORD KEEPING SYSTEM Omer Farook, Chandra R. Sekhar, Jai P. Agrawal, Ashfaq Ahmed and Michael Holtz Purdue University CalumetABSTRACTThe paper describes the “Internet Based Lesson and Test Delivery, Automatic Grading and RecordKeeping System”. This system is conceived and designed as part of the Senior Design Project ofElectrical Engineering Technology curriculum during a two-semester course offering. These twocourses are the capstone courses in Electrical Engineering Technology curriculum offered in 7th and8th semester. This

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael S. Pritchard; Edmund Tsang

societalcontext.” Most literature on engineering ethics and, to a lesser degree, on societalaspects of technology, focuses on the negative of wrongdoing, its prevention, andappropriate sanctions of misconduct. This paper proposes a more positive approach toteaching engineering ethics and social impact of technology via service-learning byoffering justifications for the pedagogy based on engineering codes of ethics. This paperexamines reflection issues in engineering, without which the full benefit of the service-learning pedagogy cannot be realized. The paper concludes by offering suggestions onreflection course materials for three types of service-learning projects found commonlyin engineering.Service-learning is “a form of experiential education in

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jagannathan Sankar; Juri Filatovs; Devdas Pai

Session 2425 Integration of Materials Science into an Industrially-Sponsored Engineering Design Course D. M. Pai, G. J. Filatovs and J. Sankar NSF Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures Department of Mechanical Engineering NC A&T State University, Greensboro, NC 27411AbstractAn industrially-sponsored aluminum product design elective course offered over the past six yearshas dealt with a range of design projects principally chosen from the transportation and structuralfield. Engineers from industry present the

Conference Session

Student Learning and Assessment I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Wroblewski, Boston University

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Mechanical Engineering

factors of real-life applications.This approach is vital for reinforcing basic principles (Newton’s Laws in Mechanics, First andSecond Laws in Thermodynamics, etc.). But, by itself, it ignores the interconnectivity of theseconcepts and how they are interwoven in the fabric of real engineering problems—i.e., system-level engineering. This big-picture view is often covered in capstone design courses, butcapstone design projects themselves cover a broad spectrum of applications, and don’t guaranteethat all students leave with the same exposure to system-level integration and interactions.In addition, the development of engineering science core concepts relies upon pre-requisite pathsthat allow advanced topics to be built upon more basic concepts

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James L. Hanson, California Polytechnic State University; David J. Elton, Auburn University; Kirk Vandersall, Arroyo Research Services

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NSF Grantees

AC 2011-2384: INCORPORATING VARIOUS LEARNING STYLES IN AGEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORYJames L. Hanson, California Polytechnic State University Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering DepartmentDavid J. Elton, Ph.D., P.E., S.M., Auburn University Dr. Elton is a professor of Civil Engineering at Auburn University. He has taught geotechnical courses for over 25 years.Kirk Vandersall, Arroyo Research Services Managing Director of Arroyo Research Services. Vandersall has over 20 years of experience in leading evaluations and policy studies at the federal, state and local levels, and providing a range of profes- sional services for education organizations. STEM-related work includes current projects funded by