Conference Session

CAD Assessments, Trends and Applications

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Srikanth B Pidugu, University of Arkansas, Little Rock; Mamdouh M. Bakr, University of Arkansas, Little Rock; Swaminadham Midturi, University of Arkansas, Little Rock; George P Tebbetts, University of Arkansas, Little Rock

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Engineering Design Graphics

Evaluator for the past 15 years. He is a former Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow of Germany. He has over 35 years of teaching, research, and industry experience.Prof. George P Tebbetts, University of Arkansas, Little Rock George Tebbetts, P.E., is an Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Engineering Technology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Tebbetts holds an M.S. Mechanical Engineering from the University of New Haven, CT; and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A & M University. Page 23.230.1 c American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tomas Cavanagh; Richard Gilbert; Linda Austin; Edwin Goolsby; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

Florida.In the summer of 2003, Workforce Florida, Inc. awarded a $1.2 million contract to FloridaCommunity College at Jacksonville (FCCJ) and its partners from Florida academic institutions andindustry to develop a comprehensive training curriculum for three biotechnology disciplines:biotechnology laboratory technology, biomanufacturing, and regulatory affairs. This new coalitionof industry organizations, educational institutions, and other agencies, The Florida Consortium forBiotechnology Workforce Development, is chartered specifically to address one major issue;creating and sustaining a skilled biotechnology workforce.The Consortium consists of: • Three Florida community colleges – Florida Community College at Jacksonville (FCCJ), Santa Fe

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences and Funding

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nolan Hertel; Michael Shannon

lecture-based and provided thestudents with enough information to understand the course content. The main focus of thecourse was in three main areas; overview of the theory of particle accelerators, basic types ofsources and the monitoring/cooling considerations in source design. This course served asprerequisite to the radiation applications course. Figure 1 shows the course description andcourse goals from the 1997 Georgia Tech General Catalog and Table 1 presents the breakdownof lectures for the course.5Course Credit 3 Credit Hours (3 Lecture / 0 Laboratory)Course Description Particle Accelerators; radiation sources for

Conference Session

Instrumentation in the Classroom

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Tonkay

offers many types ofprograms to benefit society, including a teaching factory. While most partners are located closeto Detroit, Lehigh University is located in Bethlehem, PA. Lehigh has been a partner for 10 yearsand has tested many educational philosophies related to distance education during that time.The Greenfield Coalition learning system is predicated on the belief that students will learn fasterand will become more effective problem solvers if engineering education and practice areintegrated, and students actively participate in their learning1. Furthermore, students will benefitin their study of core subjects such as math, physics, and chemistry if they better understand howthe material relates to their experience in the factory.With

Conference Session

Computer Assisted Data Acquisition

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Preeti Nagarajan; Roman Stemprok

Session: 2526 Matlab numerical method application in student research Roman Stemprok and Preeti Nagarajan University of North TexasAbstractMatrices Laboratory is a versatile package that performs a multitude of mathematical calculationsinvolving signal-processing systems and control systems, and it has toolboxes for imageprocessing, neural networks and communication applications. This “hands-on” student researchintroduces a method of capturing the luminance of roadway scenes using a charge-coupled device(CCD) camera, and later, analyzing these images to calculate the spatial

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Rudy Rogers; Rebecca Toghiani

economic analysis of the prospective storage facility for a power plant. Their efforts in thepreliminary design predicted that a 2.25 million standard cubic feet storage facility could beeconomically competitive with conventional natural gas storage if multiple cycles per yearwere involved. Their in-depth analysis and first-hand laboratory experience proved to be aunique learning experience in energy storage problems.Community Service and Student DesignTo teach engineering capstone design courses, there are many approaches available as toprocedure and course content. One approach that we have found meritorious has been theinclusion of a community service component in the statement of the problem. By communityservice is meant an innovative design

Conference Session

Innovative Course Developments in Construction

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suat Gunhan, University of Texas, San Antonio; Yilmaz Hatipkarasulu, University of Texas, San Antonio

Tagged Divisions

Construction

MEPdrawings are then highlighted and the procedures for their analysis are presented in a systematicorder including the differentiating aspects of various systems. The laboratory portion of themodule concentrates on performing quantity takeoff, digital or manual, where the results aretranslated into work scope sheets. The paper further explains the detailed scope identificationmethodology for each system and their integration into estimating course context.IntroductionConstruction science and management graduates are expected to work in a dynamic workenvironment performing various tasks including planning, estimating, scheduling, and managingthe construction process. The graduates are also expected to be familiar with work scopes for allconstruction

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Renat Letfullin, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

in the fieldof nanobiomedicine; and have been accepted into graduate medical physics programs. Based onthe new course Principles of Nanomedicine, a set of interdisciplinary laboratories has beendeveloped and offered for Rose-Hulman students by the Department of Physics and OpticalEngineering (PHOE) and Department of Applied Biology and Biomedical Engineering, whichcover the basic principles and practice of photonics, laser physics and nanoscience to addressfundamental questions in health science.We have organized and managed research on biophotonics and nanomedicine at RHIT for sixyears (2004-2010), during which time 40 undergraduate students have participated in a widerange of cancer-related projects. Currently, we are developing a

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Giolma; Farzan Aminian; Djaffer Ibaroudene

by an MIT “Handy Board,” with optical en-coders and IR sensors as inputs. Starting from a fixed position, the robot finds its way to a given destination coordi-nate while avoiding randomly placed obstacles along the path. The project is an excellent teaching and learning ex-perience due to the multiple disciplines involved: logic, electronics, control, programming and mechanics. In addi-tion, the project provides the students with a relatively realistic professional experience involving financial and timebudgeting, management, meeting of deadlines, making presentations and writing reports.IntroductionProbably due to the interdisciplinary nature of the program, design has been an integral part of the undergraduatecurriculum in Trinity’s

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Terrence P. O'Connor

joint project wasdesigned which involved students from a laboratory physics class (P309: ModernPhysics Laboratory) at Indiana University Southeast (IUS) and students in thePurdue Electrical Engineering Technology program (located on the IUS campus)enrolled in an electronics course (EET 257: RF and Power Electronics ). The IUSphysics students constructed three antennas designed to be sensitive in theULF/ELF frequency ranges. The Purdue students designed and constructedamplifying and filtering circuitry for the antennas as a part of their work in EET.The physics students were also responsible for recording and analyzing the data.To date the project has involved over 30 students and continues to be veryeffective in presenting meaningful research

Conference Session

Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace and Successful Graduates for a Flat World: What Does It Take?

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard; Martina Trucco, Hewlett-Packard; Rich Friedrich, Hewlett Packard

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International

program description Post doc research fellows must be US citizens, nationals or legal permanent residents, and possess an engineering Ph.D., Sc.D. or other earned doctoral degree recognized in U.S. academic circles as equivalent to the engineering Ph.D. within three years of their date of application. They must devote their full time to the approved research programs and must be in residence at the sponsoring host laboratory during the entire period of their award. No additional monetary aid or other remuneration may be accepted by the research fellow from another appointment, fellowship, part-time teaching, research or other outside work. Host companies are required to provide a mentor for each research fellow. Each mentor is

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jiaxin Zhao

, respectively. These two signals were then hooked up directly to the dataacquisition hardware. A LabVIEW program was written to acquire the signals and then generatethe stress-strain curve in real time using the built-in calibration equations for load and elongation.IntroductionComputer data acquisition is more and more widely used in today’s undergraduate laboratorycourses. While the newly acquired laboratory equipment likely will have the computer dataacquisition built into it, it is the old equipment that presents a challenge to institutions of how tomodernize it with computer data acquisition. Going back to the equipment’s originalmanufacturer or other vendors for a retrofitting package with computer data acquisition is onepossible solution, which

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Lillie

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationFigure 4: Image of the working project PEDA LCD ProjectLab StepsThe following steps are followed and documented for each laboratory. 1) Analysis 2) Design 3) RTL Coding 4) Test-bench Coding 5) Verification 6) Validation 7) Lab report write upTopics covered and reinforced each Lab 1) Coding Guidelines – The coding guidelines for both Digital System design and Principals of Electronic Design Automation are reviewed with the students at the beginning of the quarter. All labs are graded based on the coding guidelines. 2) Code Reviews – Students are chosen at random to perform a code review on a

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Said Shakerin

Session 2793 An Undergraduate Research Project: Experimental Investigation of Drag Reduction for a Cylinder with an Attached Fin William Cook and Said Shakerin1 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories / University of the Pacific Livermore, CA / Stockton, CA wcook@llnl.gov / sshakerin@uop.eduKey words: drag reduction, wind tunnel, load cell, fin, undergraduate researchAbstractAn example of an undergraduate research project carried out in the area of fluid mechanics isreported in this paper. This project can also be used as a

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Harvey Abramowitz

workers. Thisincludes the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Handbook, which only liststhe static load limits. Therefore, a standardized dynamic load procedure was developed. Basedon this procedure, an experiment is described, which can be used as a laboratory exercise for acourse in strength of materials.IntroductionIn recent years, attention has been directed to the effects of dynamic loading on solid-sawn andcomposite wood planks. Interest has multiplied because the scaffold platform material is theweakest link of any temporary structure. Because current platform design is based on staticloading,1 this procedure does not consider normal platform usage. Common usage alwaysincludes application of dynamic loading, such as

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Thompson

students identify a need foran academic workshop, a session is scheduled one night each week. The sessions are open to allengineering students, but are held in one of the residential units thus making it more convenientfor students in the engineering center. A workshop facilitator is assigned to each course.Facilitators are teaching assistants who are very competent in the course material and are provenhigh quality instructors. These persons work closely with the course instructors to coordinateacademic workshop activities with the course. The facilitators provide explanations of difficultconcepts and assist students to develop good problem-solving techniques. The facilitators do notsolve assigned problems for the students, but help students to

Collection

2024 ASEE-GSW

Authors

Eman Hammad, Texas A&M University; James K. Nelson Jr. P.E., Texas A&M University; Yuehua Wang, Texas A&M University - Commerce; Heather Manley Lillibridge, Texas A&M University; Chris Scarmardo, Texas A&M University

plenum providing access to the outer walls and external shielding to enable any studies with minimal impact on the building environment. The facility was designed and constructed as a typical residential unit, including electrical and plumbing infrastructure. The IoT Apartment environment can be retrofitted with consumer IoT devices and equipped with an IoT gateway, and security hub. This provides an ideal environment for research projects to test, develop, and evaluate solutions. • SCADA Laboratory: the SCADA laboratory is constructed with infrastructure services and special RF shielding (Faraday cage) to enable a wide range of cybersecurity research and teaching activities. • Texas Cyber Range

Collection

2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Estelle M. Eke

programming languageincluding C and C++, (ii) engineering materials, (iii) circuits and (iv) engineering mechanics –statics. The mode of course delivery is two 50-minute lectures and a 3-hour laboratory per week.Emphasis was on the introduction to numerical computation and assigned problems were solvedon a PC/Workstation. Tests and final exams that rely heavily on computation were used toevaluate student performance; laboratory reports were used to assess writing skills. It wasobserved that a typical class was made up of two types of students; those who enjoyedprogramming, and students who considered programming as drudgery and were not motivated todo more than the minimum amount of work required to get a passing grade. The latter group alsohad

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Alessandro DiMarco; France Marquez; Wilson Tsz-Hon Kowk; ShuaiXiang Zhang; Sunil Dehipawala; Andrew Nguyen; Tak Cheung

-experimental evolution report on suggested that the laboratory investigation of the thermo-elongation factor EF-Tu structural stability results using the stability of elongation factor EF-Tu protein by circularancestral protein sequence reconstruction modeling has been dichroism data would provide an opportunity to rewind theused in teaching community college pre-engineering students to tape of life using ancestral protein reconstruction modelingdo research. A project analyzing free energy and Shannon approach [1]. Furthermore they reported that the insertion ofentropy of the engineered DNA sequences would benefit students an ancient version of EF-Tu in Escherichia coli (E. coli

Conference Session

Hardware Descriptive Language Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Hill, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

currently being developed. This spring semester graduate studentswill be involved in its further implementation. We will incorporate student feedback to furtherimprove the toolkit.Bibliography1. C. Chandrasekara and A. Davari, “Inverted Pendulum: An Experiment for Control Laboratory,” Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth Southeastern Symposium on System Theory, page(s): 570-573, 2004.2. J.L. Newcomer, “A Design Project Based Approach to Teaching Automatic Control Theory to Mechanical Engineers,” 28th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, volume 3, issue 4-7, page(s):1242-1245, November 1998.3. L. Vlacic and M. Brisk, “Advances in Control Theory 2000,” A Proceedings Volume from the 5th IFAC/IEEE Symposium, Queensland

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Andrea Gregg, Pennsylvania State University; Catherine G. P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University; Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University

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Graduate Studies

Paper ID #32460Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Online Graduate EngineeringEducation: Learning-Centered Vision, Administration, and Course DesignDr. Andrea Gregg, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Gregg is the Director of Online Pedagogy and an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Penn State Me- chanical Engineering department. She facilitates faculty development to maximize teaching and learning efficacy throughout the ME curriculum, with a primary focus on online learning. She is also respon- sible for leading quality instructional design for residential and online offerings; facilitating an activity community

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Teresa J. Cutright, University of Akron; Rebecca Kuntz Willits, University of Akron; Linda T. Coats; Debora F. Rodrigues, University of Houston; Lakiesha N. Williams, University of Florida

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

of Science in Biological Engineering from LSU. She completed her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at Mississippi State University (MSU). She was the first African American to obtain a graduate degree in Biological Engineering from Louisiana State University, and the first African American to obtain a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Mississippi State University. Dr. Williams is an Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida. She directs the Tissue Mechanics, Microstructure, and Modeling Laboratory (TM3). Her team studies the mechanics of biological tissues and organs using experiments and computational tools. While a faculty at Mississippi State, she was recognized by Mis

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G. Enriquez, Canada College

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

potential to provide an ideal venue forapplying previously proven collaborative teaching and learning techniques commonly used insmaller engineering laboratory and discussion sessions to a larger, more traditional lecturesetting. Currently, the range of use of Tablet PCs in the classroom includes enhancing lecturepresentations,13,14 digital ink and note taking,15 E-Books (books in electronic format) that allowhyperlinks and annotations,16 Tablet-PC-based in-class assessments,13,14 and Tablet-PC-basedclassroom collaboration systems such as Classroom Presenter,17 Ubiquitous Presenter,18NetSupport School,19,20,21,22 and DyKnow.23As part of the ONE-STEP program a Summer Engineering Teaching Institute (SETI) will beheld to help California community

Conference Session

Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gianina Morales, University of Pittsburgh; Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile; Emily C. Rainey, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

-centered engineering design for 1) supporting and engaging students with community needs asthey learn disciplinary practices and 2) advancing social change through the teaching andlearning of engineering.IntroductionDesign is recognized by practitioners and educators as an essential attribute of engineering [1],[2]. In recent decades, human-centered design (HCD) has arisen as a method for developingdesign thinking in engineering. This approach to design places human needs at the center ofdesign processes, valuing users’ experiences and perspectives as fundamental for the solutionscreated [3], [4]. Barlow and Levy-Bencheton describe HCD as “the opposite of the mad scientistscenario, in which a solitary genius working in a laboratory comes up with a

Conference Session

K-12 and Outreach

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Leigh S McCue, George Mason University; Stacey Rathbun, George Mason University Television; Ali Khalid Raz, George Mason University; Daigo Shishika, Department of Mechanical Engineering, George Mason University; Cynthia Smith PhD, George Mason University; Erin Hagarty, George Mason University; Richard Wood, George Mason University ; Cameron Nowzari, George Mason University; James Yang, George Mason University; Erin Williams, George Mason University

Tagged Topics

Professional Engineering Education Papers

Center. Dr. Raz research and teaching interests are in understanding collaborative autonomy and devel- oping systems engineering methodologies for integrating autonomous systems. Raz’s research brings a Systems Engineering perspective, particularly inspired by complex adaptive systems, to information fu- sion and artificial intelligence/machine learning technologies that form the foundations of collaborative and integrated autonomous systems. Prior to joining Mason, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Purdue University School of Aeronautics and Astronautics where he taught courses in aerospace systems design and led research projects for introducing machine learning techniques in high-speed aerospace systems. He

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Outreach and Retention

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Leigh S. McCue, George Mason University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

biases. Asnoted in a recent Physics Today article on student evaluations of teaching (SETs), “The degree ofdisparity varies by discipline, course, level, institution, and other factors, but across the board,SETs penalize women, underrepresented minorities, nonnative English speakers, and older andphysically less attractive instructors of both sexes,” (Feder, 2020).It is therefore of great interest to better understand the conscious or unconscious biases present inmodern day students with respect to race and gender. Through understanding the biases of currentstudents, one can better anticipate the intervention needs of the future workforce. For example, arecent study of nursing and psychology students identified an implicit bias against

Conference Session

International Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Junyi Ying, Shanghai Guanghua College (High School); Cyrus Safai, Salt Lake Community College; Junior Onyeagba, University of Utah; Nick M. Safai, Salt Lake Community College; David Richardson, Salt Lake Community College; Peter Joseph Iles, Salt Lake Community College; Rajan P. Kochambilli, Salt Lake Community College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

International

- ucator of the Year Award 2004. • Utah Engineers Council, UEC: Engineering Educator of the Year 2005 award, in recognition of outstanding achievements in the field of engineering and for service to society. • SLC Foundation; Salt lake City, Utah: Teaching Excellence Award 2004. • American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE): Chapter faculty Advisor recognition award 2002. • Computational Sciences and Ed- ucation; recognition for outstanding contributions and for exemplary work in helping the division achieve its goals1998. • Engineering Division; recognition for outstanding contributions and for exemplary work in helping the division achieves its goals 1995. • Science and Humanities; recognition for outstanding

Collection

2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Chaoyi Wang; Michael Frye; Sreerenjini Nair

The Practices of Play and Informal Learning in the miniGEMS STEAM Camp Chaoyi Wang, Dr. Michael Frye, Dr. Sreerenjini Nair Autonomous Vehicle Systems Laboratory, University of the Incarnate Word 4301 Broadway Street, San Antonio, Texas, 78209, the United States E-mail: chwang2@student.uiwtx.edu Abstract on providing learning and research opportunities for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics underrepresented communities.(STEM) play an important role in the educational reform miniGEMS has developed very fast in the past threeand global economy. However, STEM

Conference Session

Learning Needs and Educational Success

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen Crosby, Southern University; Samuel Ibekwe, Southern University; Guoqiang Li, Southern University; Su-Seng Pang, Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge; Kun Lian, Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices (CAMD)

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

education activities will be disseminated through the development ofinterdisciplinary and cutting edge science/technology based curriculum, involvement of theundergraduate and graduate students in the year-round research projects, exposure of the state-of-the-art laboratory facilities, workshops for integrating computer and simulation techniquesand through community services that involve high school students. With the active involvementof the investigators who are responsible for propagating the technology and knowledge obtainedfrom this project into class teaching, mentoring, students advising and human resourcedevelopment. The team hopes it is preparing and educating the next generation of highly skilledpersonnel that can be successfully

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald W. Smith; Robert Bowman; Carole M. Mablekos

must teach not only technical "facts" but a broader "system" understanding, which isessential to improved productivity and performance. Curriculum development activities thereforeneed to be structured around need for technicians to be educated in more depth and for engineersto be educated in more breadth. Workers at all levels need to develop analytical, problemsolving, and communication skills. The theoretical knowledge presented in engineering andtechnical curricula thus need to be continually re-aligned with real-life manufacturing activities.Also needed are industry-driven courses that include workplace skills enhancement, teamworktraining, concurrency, horizontal project management. Finally, as current master techniciansretire (an