Conference Session

The Nuts & Bolts of TC2K

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Lin; Harold Broberg

• In recent years, we found that our students lack of industrial experience, unlike those students in late 90's. To improve project successful rate, we are investigating the need of adding a project management course before two capstone courses. It was discussed in many curriculum meeting, and will seek inputs from Industrial Advisory Committee members in April 1, 2004's meeting. • We also decided that the class meeting format change ECET 490/ECET 491 class format to have regular weekly meeting • Improve senior design support • Purchased 24 computers in Fall 2003 for networking laboratory, and 9 computers for circuit laboratory in Spring 2004V. Summary and ConclusionsThe continuous improvement is a never-ending process

Conference Session

Minorities in Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

G. Padmanabhan

College College College Community College Program development Teaching over IVN Laboratory development

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Natasha Beretvas; John Pearce, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

traditional lecture / class notes model is needed to help students reason about topics that arenot in their everyday experience and thinking. One instructional strategy that helps engineeringstudents go deeper in their thinking about the functional aspects of electrical circuits is showingthese effects through the use of real-time devices.We have not been able to use real-time demonstrations in class effectively, and certainly not inour larger classes. A real-time prototyping and development system that is an ideal teaching aid,called ELVIS (Electronics Laboratory Virtual Instrument Suite) 3 has been developed byNational Instruments (Austin TX). This apparatus uses real circuit devices on a breadboardconnected to a PC through ADC (Analog Digital

Conference Session

Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Mark Pullen

simple and robust, functioning in almost any Internet environment • To be accepted, the system must make online teaching and learning easyScalable network delivery: In 2001 our laboratory took on the challenge of creating a solutionthat meets this challenge. We have created Network EducationWare (NEW) primarily fromopen-source software that is available with no license fee to all. The tools with which we startedwere created for use with Internet multicasting5, where one station sends an identical message tomany others. This approach is sometimes called peer-to-peer operation because all computershave identical ability to send to each other. It offers a simple model for scaling to large numbersof participants and has attracted talented

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Fox

outcomes described above. The presentation is organized intocourse aspects - first semester, course aspects – second semester, and course evaluation.Course Aspects – First Semester The course was originally developed in 1998 as a single spring-semester course but wasrevised in the 2000-2001 academic year to a two-semester sequence: Senior Design A and SeniorDesign B. In the fall semester of their final year students take the lecture course Senior DesignA, during which the planning and preparation of the robotics project take place. In the followingspring semester students take the lecture-laboratory course Senior Design B, during which the

Conference Session

STEM and ECE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Khosrow Ghadiri, San Jose State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

59% passage rate from theprevious year’s traditional face-to face lecture class. Fall semester 2012 flipped classroominstruction was augmented with enhanced content and problem-based learning in Spring 2013,resulting in a passage rate of 87%, while the content of the course nearly doubled. For Fall 2013,an in-class laboratory segment using National Instruments myDAQ was added to the Spring2013 version of the course to include the hands-on approach. The passage rate of 91% wasachieved. It appears that adaptation of high quality MOOC content using a blended approach inconjunction with a highly structured, in-class team-based, problem-based and hands-on approachcan produce significant benefits in effectively improving student learning and

Conference Session

Assessment of Learning in ECE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexander Ganago, University of Michigan; Sudarshan Sivaramakrishnan, University of Michigan; Robert Matthew DeMonbrun, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

students may enjoyopportunities to reinforce course topics through hands-on learning, such as what would be foundin classroom laboratories. Others might benefit more from practice problems that allow them toreinforce course topics through problem solving. Providing a plentiful variety of choicesbenefits students in picking and choosing how they might best learn course concepts7.Third, course concepts should be designed to encourage interest, and thus, stimulate intrinsicmotivation among students. Providing course materials and activities that are applicable andmeaningful to students’ future coursework and/or careers encourages students to becomeinterested in course topics because they are closely related to future goals. Fourth, studentsshould

Conference Session

Electrical Energy Courses - Labs and Projects

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tan Ma, Florida International University; Osama A. Mohammed, Florida International University; Brandy Louie Serrano, Florida International University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

Systems, Energy Conservation and Alternate Energy Sources and smart grid power system design and optimization.Prof. Osama A. Mohammed, Florida International University Dr. Mohammed is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and is the Director of the Energy Systems Research Laboratory at Florida International University, Miami, Florida. He received his Master and Doctoral degrees in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 1981 and 1983, respectively. He has performed research on various topics in power and energy systems in addition to computational electro- magnetics and design optimization in electric machines, electric drive systems and other low frequency environments. He performed multiple research projects for

Conference Session

Student Learning, Problem Solving, & Critical Thinking 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ben D Radhakrishnan, National University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Student- Centric Learning), promoting Leadership in Sustainability and Management Practices. He is also an Affiliate Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, focusing on the energy ef- ficiency of IT Equipment in a Data Centers. Before his teaching career, he had a very successful corporate management career working in R&D at Lucent Technologies and as the Director of Global Technology Management at Qualcomm. He initiated and managed software development for both the companies in India. He holds MS in Engineering and MBA degrees. Page 24.140.1 c

Conference Session

Engineering Leadership Development Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregg Morris Warnick, Brigham Young University; Joshua Schmidt, Brigham Young University; Anton E. Bowden, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Leadership Development Division

rise to a new idea or a modification of an existing abstract concept. 4. Active Experimentation– The learner applies them to the world around them to see results. Figure 1 – Adapted from Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle (Kolb, 1984)11Experiential learning is not a new approach within engineering education as it is a commonmethod utilized within technical courses utilizing laboratory experiences to provide students“hands on learning”. However when it comes to developing leadership within engineers, toooften a lecture-based approach is utilized. Most college instructors teach through lecturesbecause that is the way they were taught and where they are most comfortable or they just have

Conference Session

Topics in Computing and Information Technologies

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Manaz Rusi Taleyarkhan, Purdue University; Oluwatosin Alabi, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Thomas J. Hacker, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

and education aimed at reducinglosses from earthquakes NEEScomm, the headquarters for NEES located at Purdue University,operates a network of 14 earthquake engineering laboratory sites located at universities acrossthe United States, which can be used for testing in-place or through the Internet. NEES providesspecialized equipment to the civil engineering community such as shake tables, geotechnicalcentrifuges, a tsunami wave basin, unique large-scale testing laboratories, and mobile andpermanently installed field equipment 4.The goal of the study described in this paper is to determine users’ practices and perceptions ofthe attributes of the NEEShub based on their current experience. The guiding research questionfor this study is: How do

Conference Session

Teaching and Assessing Sustainability and Life Long Learning

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diane L. Bondehagen, Florida Gulf Coast University; Claude Villiers, Florida Gulf Coast University; Yusuf A Mehta, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

course evaluation.20In order to establish the foundation and environment to encourage and motivate the studentstowards self-directed learning, both the Fluid Mechanics and CE Materials courses wereredesigned. Prior to the 2011 semester, the students in CE materials conducted laboratoryexperiments in four modules on aggregates, concrete, hot mix asphalt and steel. They Page 23.223.7analyzed the data and wrote lab reports for each of the perspective modules. This approachgave the students an opportunity to learn how to conduct professional laboratory tests basedon standard specifications and to then write professional reports. In 2011

Conference Session

State of the Art in 1st-Year Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Walker; Hayden Griffin; Tamara Knott; Richard Goff; Vinod Lohani; Jenny Lo

0431779).References[1] Griffin, Jr, O. Hayden, Fox, E. A., Ribbens, C. J., Walker, T. D. L., Davis IV, N. J., Goff, R. M., Lo, J. L., Lohani, V. K., Gregg, M. H., and Barnette, D., “Work in Progress – A Freshman Course for Engineering and Computer Science Students.” Proceedings of the 34th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers In Education Conference, Savannah, GA, October 20-23, 2004.[2] Goff, R.M. and Gregg, M.H., “Redesign of a Freshman Engineering Program for the New Millenium,” ASEE Southeastern Regional Conference, Orlando, FL, April 6-8, 1998.[3] Goff, R.M. and Gregg, M.H. "Why Hands-on Design? A First Year Hands-on Design & Dissection Laboratory", 1998 Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) National Design

Conference Session

Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Milo Koretsky

Integrating Micro and Nanoscale Materials Processing into the Core ChE Curriculum - Examples in Radiation Heat Transfer Milo D. Koretsky Department of Chemical Engineering Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331-2702IntroductionThe chemical engineering department at Oregon State University (OSU) is committed todeveloping strength in microelectronics processing within a context of the fundamental skills ofthe discipline. In this vein, we are integrating examples from this industry into the classroom andthe laboratory.1 These topics are not only useful towards the

Conference Session

First-Year Design Experiences

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Scott Moor

students. This project can becompleted with inexpensive and readily available tools and materials. It provides opportunitiesfor the students to use good engineering analysis in their designs and opportunities for studentsto exercise creativity.Wind chimes have been proposed and used as a project or laboratory in a number of physics andmathematics courses. In this paper I review the approach and results of using a wind chimedesign in a first-year “Introduction to Engineering Design” course. In a portion of this coursestudents are asked to design, construct and test a wind chime. They are provided with anequation to predict the frequency of their chimes that is based on a solution to the fourth-orderwave equation. Students select their desired chime

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stefani A. Bjorklund; Norman Fortenberry

more time students spend on the task of learning, the more students willlearn [4, 15-17]. This concept does not imply, however, that the period of learning must occurcontinuously for several hours. Indeed, while total amount of time on task is important, it is alsohelpful to break up long class periods with activities, breaks, and repetition of material alreadycovered [15, 22]. Very little research has focused specifically on time-on-task for engineeringmajors, yet opportunities to do so are available as engineering students can spend a great deal oftime in classrooms, laboratories, and even study or homework groups.G. Respecting Diverse Talents and Ways of Thinking Though mentioned by Chickering and Gamson [4], discussion about the

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Aminul Karim; Yakov Cherner; Ahmed Khan

current with respect to the fast pace of technological advances in thefield is another challenge for faculty.5College and university professors can address these challenges by using the simulation andvirtual experiments. With the availability of broadband technologies, which offer high data rateconnections, simulation-based e-learning is rapidly becoming a significant and effective elementof the teaching and learning process. The use of virtual systems enables students engaged indistance learning to master practical skills at any time and at any place.II. Active Learning Suite (ALSuite)To address pedagogical and laboratory needs, an advanced simulation-based e-learning software,“Active Learning Suite” (ALSuite) has been developed. It uses real

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Hamilton; Gregor Novak; Evelyn Patterson; Brian Self

the idea, but different students willgrasp different aspects of the subject matter. By presenting the answers from different studentsthe instructor can build up an understanding of the complex idea. In this way, students feelgreater ownership of the course, come better prepared to class, and have more productiveinteractions with the professor. Examples of the use JiTT in undergraduate physics will bepresented and a framework for applying the techniques to Mechanics described.IntroductionThe physics educational community has long been at the forefront of innovative pedagogy.Instructors have developed interesting hands-on demonstrations, laboratories, and examples tophelp motivate and teach their students. The Force Concept Inventory(1) has

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jameson Wetmore

such belt use makeoccupants safer because of the belts, but it would also make air bag safer because people wouldbe in a safe and predictable position should the bag deploy.Second, engineers continued to experiment with air bags in the laboratory. They continued to tryto replicate a variety of crash scenarios. They ran tests to see the effects of hitting trees, hittingcars at different angles, and side collisions. They also continued to broaden the array of testingdummies that they used. They conducted a number of tests on dummies designed to replicatewomen of different weights and stature, children, and babies in child safety seats.And finally, the auto safety community also carefully tracked the performance of air bags on theroad. NHTSA, the

Conference Session

Computing Tools for Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Garth Thomas

Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Education ”course, but a new designation as GENE 111 Software Tools for Engineers was provided in theSpring 2003 semester.Course DevelopmentOnce it was agreed that a new course was needed, the next major decision was the content of thecourse. It was decided that Excel® would be used because spreadsheet use is so common andthat particular software was available in all of the computer laboratories. It was also decided thatVisual Basic for Applications (VBA® ) programming would be taught since it extends thecapabilities of Excel® , provides a platform to teach some generally useful programmingconcepts, and Co-op students and new graduates were reporting that they used VBA® in theirwork. Mathcad® was

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Norma Mattei

tours of national research laboratories. The workshop started with governmentspeaker presentations from the NSF engineering directorate, the Air Force Office of ScientificResearch (AFOSR), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), NASA, and the NSF Division ofUndergraduate Education. Each speaker summarized the emphasis of their agency's programsand described opportunities available for funding from their organizations. The next threesessions focused on the Dynamic Systems and Controls Program technical areas of: 1) controls,2) vibrations and acoustics, and 3) dynamics diagnostics. These sessions started with a keynotespeaker who presented an overview of prominent research challenges in their emphasis area. Thekeynote speakers were selected because

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Miller; Charles Winton

, the majority of the projectsresulted in creative, and for the most part successful robots, and enthusiastic students.4 An AI Robotics CourseAt the University of North Florida, the Botball kit has been used for the past 2 years to support acourse in AI robotics offered by the Department of Computer Science. Cross fertilization withME occurs at the graduate level with exploration of mobile robots interacting with stationaryrobot manipulators. The term AI robotics (Murphy [12]) is used to emphasize robotics thatfocuses on mobile robots operating under conditions of uncertainty. The Botball kit provides anideal means for establishing and maintaining an effective support laboratory for an upper levelmajor elective in AI robotics, providing hands

Conference Session

Visualization and Computer Graphics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Study

: Page 9.232.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ø 2004, American Society for Engineering Education 1. High school diploma or GED - All applicants must either graduate from high school or have a GED. 2. Subject-matter Requirements - Purdue has established subject-matter requirements in English, math, and laboratory science; students who graduate from high school starting in 2004 will have foreign language requirements as well. Minimum requirements for engineering are: ‚" 6 semesters Academic Math (algebra, geometry & trig

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Woodruff; Farhad Reza

class discussion, laboratory and lecture activities. The students aregiven turns at playing the roles of owner, designer and contractor in studying the same project.The Department of Civil Engineering and Construction at North Dakota State University utilizesreal-life projects for senior design drawn from the nearby community4. This type of project isknown as service-learning. Service-learning can assist students in seeing the relevance of theacademic subject to the real world. Students are able to fill unmet needs in the communitythrough direct service which is meaningful and necessary.The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the United States Air ForceAcademy has adopted an integrated engineering curriculum approach5. Students

Conference Session

Faculty Development II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Miller; Maher Murad; Robert Martinazzi; Andrew Rose

together to attend a Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Educationworkshop may also work to the favor of being selected since the workshop organizersmay be more interested in faculty from institutions where a strong interest in theworkshop exists.One example of how cooperation between faculty members in the different disciplineshas helped untenured faculty develop their teaching at UPJ resulted from the staggerednature in which the new faculty were hired. Limited funds are available each year forlaboratory equipment. New faculty members, however, have been able to purchase newequipment for their laboratory through

Conference Session

Topics of Interest-Nuclear Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Deinert; K. Bingham Cady; Joshua Barratt; Erich Schneider

Visualization of Coupled Spectral and Burnup Calculations: an Intuition-building Tool Erich A. Schneider*, Joshua G. Barratt, K. Bingham Cady and Mark R. Deinert *Los Alamos National Laboratory, P. O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545 / Cornell University, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850AbstractIn this paper, we present a fast, user-friendly computational tool for the calculation andvisualization of coupled neutron spectra and fuel burnup calculations. This tool, V:BUDS(visualize: burnup, depletion, spectrum), was designed to derive scenario-dependent

Conference Session

Computing Tools for Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahnam Navaee

and to place gridlines and shading on the spreadsheet. Producing a document whichcollectively displays the problem sketch, problem input, numerical output, and the plots in theattractive format as illustrated in Figure 7 is not easily possible using MATLAB. Page 10.209.10 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 7. An EXCEL Workbook Developed for Analyzing a Beam Subjected to a Combined LoadLabVIEW SoftwareLabVIEW, acronym for “Laboratory Virtual Instrument

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bugra Koku; Ali Sekmen

conducted by Piguet et al. have shownthat students are motivated most when they are given the chance to apply theory in practice anddesign a machine (i.e. a robot) [6]. Practical aspects of a course (hands-on labs and projectassignments) generally attract curious students to the course. Studies have shown that up to 90%of what we see and touch is remembered whereas only 10-15% of what we hear remains.Therefore, beyond having the potential to attract curious students, hands-on laboratory practice isvery important in order to facilitate learning of the theoretical information presented inclassroom. Kolb defines learning as a process whereby knowledge is created through thetransformation of experience [7]. Evidently the best way to experience

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Obadiah Ritchey; John Clark; Jim White; Tim White; David Barnhart; Jerry Sellers

course that fulfills the space systems requirement is Astronautics 331, SpaceSystems Engineering.EyasSAT Project Description and HistoryDue to USAFA-wide curriculum changes in the fall of 2002, our Space Systems Engineeringcourse had to be re-scoped from two semesters to one. Upon a thorough review of the coursecurriculum, the opportunity arose to modernize the hands-on laboratory portion of the course.The vision of “students working in teams to build a micro-satellite over the course of a semester”was soon realized by a team of government and contractor engineers and given the project nameof EyasSAT. The name EyasSAT was the logical choice, as “eyas” is the term for a baby falcon,implying that this experience prepares them for the FalconSAT

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Betz

nature. This was to be a new kind of student competition, designedaround a different model than that was currently being used. It was to integrate a specific type ofknowledge that was learned in a very formal way that could be used as a tool in the design anddecision making process. In short, there was a great deal of idealism as to the goals andcontribution it would make in changing the culture of design competitions and in a broader sensethe dialogue in technology education.The competition was a two-part activity. The first part consisted of a series of learning modulesthat introduced various theoretical engineering concepts similar to a science laboratory course.Students tested, measured, recorded, charted and answered various questions