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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Vislocky; Cecil Beeson

Session 2586 Let’s Build a College Level Technology Club Cecil E. Beeson, Dr. Michael Vislocky University of Cincinnati ClermontI. Introduction This paper covers the history of and planning for the formation a Technology Club at the University of Cincinnati Clermont. The idea for such a project was hatched during discussions about existing high technology programs at the college. A club to eventually serve technological inquiry and experimentation across the various curricula was a natural extension of offerings at the college. This project, currently in an early stage of

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward H. McMahon

Session 3425 Engineering Design and Common Household Devices Edward McMahon The University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaAbstractMost design is redesign. Some might suggest this is an overstatement, while others may say alldesign is redesign. An engineering manager at a large appliance manufacturer told me, "Someengineers, fresh out of school, think they are going to be working on innovative, far out, projectsand are disappointed when asked to work on a redesign of one our standard products". Onecomponent of our junior level methodology course is and individual project is aimed at

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Gray; Robert Weissbach

curriculum Satcomtechnology. This year, two industrial sponsored senior design projects involve electricalengineering technology (EET) students. These projects provide the students involved withhands-on Satcom experience in solving real-world industrial problems. In the first project,one EET student is working with two electrical engineering (EE) students as interdisciplinaryteammates to test the link margin effects of a Satcom receiver due to environmentalconditions such as rain, snow, ice, etc. In the second project, two EET students are alsoteamed with two EE students to test bit error rates for a newly-designed Satcom receiver. Inthe future, it is anticipated that the need for technologists who understand Satcom systemswill allow Penn State

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Adrezin; Michael Nowak; Donald Leone

advisor, each student sought a laboratory in his/her area ofinterest. The research is structured as two course equivalents (100 hours each). “BiomedicalEngineering Capstone Research I” was designed to immerse the student in a wide range oflaboratory functions. “Biomedical Engineering Capstone Research II” is designed to give thestudent in-depth experience by functioning as an engineer on a project, either ongoing in thelaboratory or being developed.Grading of each course is via written and oral reports, as well as laboratory supervisor input.The first course requires the writing of a report on the experience, while the second requires aformal research paper in the style of journal articles.The experience from these courses has been excellent for

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Dongmei Gui; Jens Jorgensen; Joseph A. Heim

constructing a repository of information and resources for design andmanufacturing educators will provide the core around which the long term, and what we believewill be the most influential, goal of the project will be undertaken: creating a forum, a publicmeeting place for open and on-going discussions of issues important to those involved ineducation and employment of manufacturing and design engineers. Research we are conductingin parallel with the construction of the Forum and Workshop will help us gain a betterunderstanding of how these technologies can be used most effectively to expand and extendcollaborative efforts of faculty, industry and students. Our mission is to create an infrastructurefor collaboration. We have identified three primary

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerard N. Foster

Session 1547 Using Sound and Music in Technology Gerard N. Foster Purdue University - School of Technology at KokomoIntroductionThis paper presents work aimed at adding the aspect of sound, and music, to technicaldemonstrations, presentations and projects. The focus of this work is to explore themathematics and technology of sound at a basic level, to create a background for laterexperimentation. To enhance the apparent relevance of technology to everyday concerns, thehuman voice and musical instruments are employed as sources of sound. It is postulated that bystirring the

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Bailey; Richard DeBlasio; David Freeman; Rommel Simpson; Devdas Pai

year; sometimes, even later.In this paper, the authors describe a novel collaborative effort between freshmen students andmore-experienced students (sophomore, senior and graduate students), in developing anexperiment of relevance to industry and commerce. The experienced students collaborated indeveloping the test apparatus and test procedures. Then they mentored the freshmen inconducting the test, collecting data, analyzing the results and generating recommendations.The objective of this experiment was to measure the greatest height from which aluminumbeverage cans may be dropped without appreciable damage to the can structure. The project wasdivided into different tasks, and the tasks distributed to three classes in various

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Woldt; Mohamed Dahab; Bruce I. Dvorak; Dennis Schulte

Session 3151 Partners in Pollution Prevention Internship Program: Success Stories and Lessons Learned Bruce I. Dvorak, Wayne Woldt, Mohamed Dahab, and Dennis Schulte University of Nebraska-Lincoln An innovative internship program in pollution prevention (P2) has been developed at theUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). This program contains educational, research andextension components and has been successful in the first year of its four-year project period.The Partners in Pollution Prevention program is funded by the US EPA, Region VII (Nebraska,Iowa, Kansas, and

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 7

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Djedjiga Belfadel, Fairfield University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

) program, aimed at promoting undergraduate research. Theprogram offers students the opportunity to engage in voluntary research, receive stipends, andaccess paid residency dorms. It contributes to academic growth and practical experience,enhancing communication skills, presentation abilities, resilience, teamwork, and problem-solving capabilities.The program spans eight weeks from June 1st to July 27th. Students are required to dedicate 20hours per week to their respective research projects and attend weekly seminars organized by thedean's office on important topics such as responsible conduct of research training, intellectualproperty rights, regulatory aspects of research including Institutional Review Board (IRB) andInstitutional Animal Care

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Venkateswaran Nallaperumal; S. A. Chickamenahalli

Session 3659 Lathe Instrumentation utilizing LABVIEW S. A. Chickamenahalli, Venkateswaran Nallaperumal Wayne State UniversityAbstractThis paper presents an innovative instrumentation project that consists of instrumentation on alathe using National Instruments Data Acquisition (NIDAQ) tools and display using Labviewsoftware. The aim was to carryout real-time measurement and display acquired waveforms on aPC screen and also store these waveforms for later use. This work is part of a NSF fundedGreenfield Coalition’s New Manufacturing Engineering curriculum project. Sensing and displayof

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Ohland; Richard Layton

Session 3530 Comparing the Reliability of Two Peer Evaluation Instruments Matthew W. Ohland, Richard A. Layton University of Florida / North Carolina A&T State UniversityAbstractThis paper presents an analysis of student peer evaluations in project teams to compare thereliability of two different evaluation procedures. The project teams consist of junior-levelstudents in a mechanical engineering design course taught by Layton for five semesters in 1997,1998, and 1999.The peer-evaluation instruments were used by students to evaluate their teammates’contributions to the team’s deliverables—oral and

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert W. Nowlin; Rajeswari Sundararajan

-enforced through a series of mini-projects and a major final projectin which students learn to apply their VHDL knowledge on a commercial grade VHDLsimulator. Another benefit that this course has engendered is that several of the graduatestudents have used their knowledge of the language to incorporate it as either a major orsupplemental portion of their masters' projects. INTRODUCTION The microprocessor and with it the PC has invaded every business and many homes.Many designs today are incorporating embedded processors or their first cousins, themicrocontroller. Even the old standby analog world is becoming more and more digital. Thepressure on designers in industry today is to design products and bring

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High School Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas Oppliger, Michigan Technological University; Jean Kampe, Michigan Technological University; Valorie Troesch, Michigan Technological Univeristy

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

from grades 9-12engage in authentic, inquiry-based STEM learning. Students participate on teams organized asvirtual companies that develop products or services. Team projects are STEM-based andcontinue for one or more academic years. Teams are coached by specially-trained high schoolteachers who are paid similarly to athletic coaches. At the conclusion of their HSE experiences,we expect that HSE team members will demonstrate proficiency in applied workforce skills; willbe more disposed to enter STEM related careers; and will be better prepared to successfullyundertake the training needed for these careers. An HSE implementation is a partnership amongthe team, its home institution, a university partner, and industry and community sponsors

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer-Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Chasnov

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

the adiabaticcompressor are isolated from their power sources. In an effort to complete the picture for ourstudents, design of power plants was added to the course content of thermodynamics formechanical engineering students (MEs). The Single Rankine Reheat power plant will beconsidered here for our discussion. Efficiencies along the energy conversion path are computedand projections are made for the use of alternative fuels in the supply chain.Students, rather than simply learning how to compute entropy changes for individual processsteps, learn how to place a “value” on their thermal systems. By design, the “value” is basedboth on economics and ethics.IntroductionMechanical Engineers are facing a challenge in today’s marketplace in areas of

Conference Session

Student Engagement in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maher Rizkalla, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; MIchael Knieser, ILSI; Mohamed El-Sharkawy, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

immunity), drivability, speed, etc ≠ Short channel considerations: mobility degradation, hot electrons, electromigration, Page 15.974.3 aluminum spiking, etc. ≠ Introduction to IC CMOS fabrication, layout, design rules, and CAD tools. ≠ Layouts for logic gates and memories using L-Edit Software [2] (PC based lay out tools) ≠ Lab components with Catapult [3]: Catapult work flow, getting an algorithm ready for synthesis, understanding interface synthesis, streaming, integrated system C verification flow, using memories in catapult C, Loop pipelining. ≠ Project samples: o DCT o Matrix manipulation

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Roemer, University of Utah; Debra J. Mascaro, University of Utah; Eric R. Pardyjak, University of Utah; Stacy Bamberg, University of Utah

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

required freshman design sequence, the required junior mechatronics sequence, and electives in musculoskeletal functional anatomy for engineers and medical instrumenta- tion and physiology. She is interested in the use of technology in the classroom and improving student outcomes through hands-on and interactive experiences. Page 22.102.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 A SPIRAL Learning Curriculum for Second Year Students in Mechanical EngineeringAbstractIn this course development project funded through an NSF CCLI Grant, we aredeveloping, implementing

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharon Johnson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Venkat Allada, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Susan Pariseau, Merrimack College

Operations, Industrial, and Manufacturing CurriculaAbstractThe objective of this project is to develop hands-on curriculum materials demonstrated toimprove students’ ability to apply lean process design ideas and to use data to support decisions,and to create an effective model for their use in a variety of academic settings. While theprinciples of lean design are straightforward, designing an effective process is a creative activitythat requires innovative thinking. Academic programs have been most successful in teaching thescience behind lean, but less effective in providing opportunities and activities to support design.To build on successful lean training programs in industry, the academic PI’s are collaboratingwith a management consulting firm

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session 2 - Student Development

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2012 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Haeseong J. Jee, Hongik University

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Track 1 - Student Development

likely to solve the given problems easily and effectively[Duetsch, 1949] andsimilar research results can be found elsewhere[Parrenas 1993, Ediger 1996, Johnson & Johnson1999, Taur & Harackiewicz 2004]. It has been also insisted that the maximum effect ofengineering education can be acquired by structuring education system rather than the educationitself and, accordingly, students under the well organized team collaboration are likely to becomemore eligible to adjust themselves to the competitions with other teams when performing theclass project[Attle & Baker 2007]. The students of MSID at HIU have long been educated via acooperative engineering design specific curriculum appropriate to the needs. Three major coursesof MSID targeting

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2022 CIEC

Authors

Grant Richards; Nicole Otte

laboratoryrequires industry insight and expertise to ensure that applications, technologies, configurations,and use cases align with standards and industry trajectory.Purdue University and Endress+Hauser USA have a well-established history of partnering toincrease awareness of the process sector and deliver improved learning experiences capable ofpresenting real-world challenges in the classroom and laboratory [3]. The first collaboration wasin 2014 with a capstone project, the Purdue Integrated Process Education System (PIPES). Thefully operational system was designed and constructed during a yearlong capstone projectundertaken by senior students in Purdue’s Manufacturing Engineering Technology degreeprogram, later serving as a teaching and learning tool

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2024 ASEE PSW Conference

Authors

Marwan N. Youssef, California State University, Long Beach

careers.Teaching such a class at the undergraduate level is recommended and should be carefullyplanned and implemented. Most RC textbooks focus on RC “Element” design, i.e. beam, column,slab, walls, etc. Hardly any discussion of practical RC building system design is mentioned.To address a system approach of teaching RC Design, a class project can be implemented as partof the course. Students work together in groups of 3 students or less to accomplish the task.Such an assignment, with the professor leading the way, students will learn how to incorporatethe design of structural elements into a practical structural system, such as a multistory building.Students will learn, enjoy, and really appreciate a practical challenge applying what is coveredin RC

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Odesma Onika Dalrymple, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Srividya Kona Bansal, Arizona State University; Ashraf Gaffar; Randi Michelle Taylor

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

-sourceweb-based tool that will guide individual or collaborating STEM educators, step-by-step,through an outcome-based education process as they define learning objectives, select content tobe covered, develop an instruction and assessment plan, and define the learning environment andcontext for their course(s). It will also contain a repository of current best pedagogical andassessment practices, and based on selections the user makes when defining the learningobjectives of the course, the IMODTM system will present options for assessment and instructionthat aligns with the type/level of student learning desired. While one of the key deliverables ofthe project is the software tool, the primary focus of this initiative is to advance the

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries (ELD) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alison Bradley, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; R. Daniel Latta, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Meg Harkins, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Engineering Libraries

, students in this course have been offeredthe option of attending a hands-on library workshop and receiving extra credit on a relatedproject report. Since several hundred students enroll in over 25 sections of this course each fall,the workshop format was developed as an alternative to traditional one-shot library instruction,which is not practicable on this scale. To better assess how the workshops were serving thestudents in these large classes, a group of instructors from the class and the engineering librarianworked together to evaluate student success with research projects and overall informationliteracy within the freshman engineering curriculum. The first initiative was to design a citationstudy assessing submitted projects for quality and

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2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Thomas McKean; Gary Bates; LaShall Bates; Ranil Wickramasinghe

2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conference Membrane Research Experiments for High School Students as an Introduction to STEM Research Thomas McKean1, Dr. Gary Bates2, Dr. LaShall Bates2, Dr. Ranil Wickramasinghe1 1 University of Arkansas/2Northwest Arkansas Community CollegeAbstractA Research Experiences and Mentoring (REM) program was hosted for high school (HS) studentsby the Membrane Science and Technology (MAST) Center at the University of Arkansas. Thestudents completed introductory membrane research projects designed to provide an introductioninto the research process. Further, the

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2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Lin Zhang

skills andknowledge. This article introduces the curriculum for Engineering Physics majors at theUniversity of Central Arkansas. A deep learning based students’ project of autonomous racingvehicle is showcased in this article.KeywordsArtificial intelligence, deep learning, curriculum design.IntroductionArtificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping our world especially through the blast of deep learning.Deep learning models are getting more and more powerful to impact our daily lives (such asChatGPT) and to make novel scientific findings (such as AlphaFold) [1], [2]. The collegestudents in this generation are living in another time of technology revolution powered by AI. Asthe undergraduates (especially those majoring in engineering) showing

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy B Chan Hilton, University of Southern Indiana

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Faculty Communities Exploring Data and Sharing Their StoriesMotivation and Project OverviewThis NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE: EHR) Institutional andCommunity Transformation (ICT) capacity-building project is designed to support faculty tocollaboratively explore questions on student learning and success in introductory and gatewayundergraduate STEM courses, such as early engineering courses as well as prerequisite math andscience courses. The project is motivating faculty to consider evidence-based teaching strategiesby including them as co-designers of learning analytics tools and storytellers inspired by the dataand their reflections. Learning analytics uses data about learners and learning to draw

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 7

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abdullah Ibrahim, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Roudha Saif Al-Khaldi, Texas A&M University, Qatar; Doaa Elamin Emam; Yasser M. Al Hamidi, Texas A&M University, Qatar; Marwan Khraisheh, Texas A&M University, Qatar

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

Engineering and Arts majors. It sheds the light on how engineering students can beprepared to become ‘outside the box thinkers’ by interacting and working on commonprojects with students from the arts and design majors. The collaborative effortsrevolved around the aspects of “design thinking”, an innovative and broad project basededucational model that uses a systematic approach towards problem solving. Withtraditional engineering education, students are accustomed to breaking down theoreticalproblems and solving them using standard procedures. Although such a way of teachinginstils analytical and methodological thinking, but it is not enough to prepare studentsto be creative in solving future problems. Research shows that engineers who practiceone

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2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Nhut Tan Ho

A Framework for Improving Learning and Retention in a Diverse Student Population Dr. Nhut Tan Ho Department of Mechanical Engineering California State University, Northridge AbstractMeeting the projected U.S. engineering workforce needs for increased representation ofunderrepresented minorities will be challenging due to the poor retention and academicperformance of too many minority engineering students. As a response, this psaper describes anapproach built upon an innovative undergraduate education initiative pioneered by MIT calledConceive-Design

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2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Nathaniel Jensen; Philip Brach; Ahmet Zeytinci

1 PEER ASSESSMENT (JURY) OF EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING Nathaniel Jensen, Civil Engineering Technician, FHWA Philip Brach, Ph.D., P.E., F-NSPE Distinguished Professor, Emeritus Ahmet Zeytinci, Ph.D., P.E., Professor University of the District of Columbia Washington, DC Abstract The use of a student’s work experience involving the investigation, inspection, collection, and analysis of data for the rating of park service bridges in the United States, is presented as a Senior Capstone Project for Civil

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Michael P. Hennessey

: mphennessey@stthomas.edu Abstract The project-based undergraduate J-term course Kinematics and Mechanism Design is described, both technically and from a pedagogy point of view. In this course students discovered the kinematic car, a classic example of a nonholonomic mechanical system that everyone can relate to; especially mechanical engineering students. Technical work entailed kinematic modeling using    MATLAB /SIMULINK and CAD modeling and visualization using SolidWorks along with corroborating experimental work using scale model vehicles (i.e. Jeep Liberty SUV, Allis

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Lang Wah Lee; Tamer Ceylan

teachers' scope of learning, provided them the background knowledge to develop aninterdisciplinary approach to teach mathematics and science, and made subject contents moreinteresting and stimulating to middle school students. Moreover, the design experience alsohelped teachers develop a project-oriented, hands-on approach to foster students' ability inproblem solving and lifelong learning.INTRODUCTIONThe shift from an industrial to information society in the U.S. called for reforms in mathematicsand science education. Two new education standards, the National Science standards [1] andthe National Mathematics Standards [2], were proposed by the National Research Council(NSC) and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), respectively