Conference Session

Curriculum in Civil Engineering Technology

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Lambrechts, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

CE and CET has been to instill in the graduating seniorthe ability to enter the workplace with sufficiently full bag of civil engineering ‘tools’ so that thenew graduate can productively undertake straightforward design assignments in that first monthon the new job. At least that has been our goal for graduates from the Wentworth CET program.We also want the CET graduate to know how the tools work, although not necessarily be able toderive the basics equations from first basics of physics and intergral calculus.A significant element in our educational model at Wentworth is the extensive use of‘experiential learning’ through use of laboratory sessions in many fundamental and CE designcourses, as noted on Table I with the (L) indication. These

Conference Session

International Initiatives, Partnerships, Teaching Strategies & Collaborative Networks (IUCEE, IFEES, LACCEI.... )

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andy Ward, Ohio State University; Ann Christy, Ohio State University; Robert J. Gustafson; Jessica D'Ambrosio; Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

International

Mobile and Online Laboratories for Engineering Education and Research in Africa Florida Atlantic The Laboratory at Distance for Education and Research (LAB@DER) that aims University to set up an online laboratory brokerage system that offers: 1) learning scenarios and tools to create distributed users’ interfaces that meet the standards pertaining Télé-université/UQAM, learning objects and distributed hardware in the loop (HIL) systems cooping with Canada the new “Internet of things” research trend; 2) mechanisms that allow user interfaces storage and their

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rick Williams, East Carolina University; Stacy Klein-Gardner; Loren Limberis; Stephanie Sullivan, East Carolina University

newlycreated concentration in bioprocess engineering provides an excellent opportunity to developand implement a novel curriculum based upon proven pedagogical approaches designed toengage the students and improve their mastery of concepts. There are four main objectives ofthis NSF funded (DUE-0737198) Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement project:utilize proven techniques to develop nine instructional modules for three bioprocess engineeringcourses (three modules per course); develop common themes to integrate subsets of thesemodules between two or more courses, while ensuring portability to other programs; assess theeffectiveness of the instructional modules; and disseminate the results so other programs canincorporate the modules into

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Moderick Greenfield, Eastern Michigan University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

many currently developed courses is an added advantage of the proposed program;no additional faculty is needed. The courses will be taught by faculty with degrees inengineering and physics. The Physics Department offers sufficient laboratory space fortraining engineers.Moreover, the program should attract local 2+2 transferees from several communitycolleges that are offering pre-engineering two-year degrees. These programs are expectedto have completed two courses of calculus and calculus-based physics.The future proposed program is expected to meet EAC/ABET accreditation. Studentscompleting the program are expected to meet all requirements need to obtain jobs withinthe state and federal government agencies. Many engineering jobs in

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Denis Proulx

, they also have the opportunity to visit the industrial partners. This allows them to see, question, verify,and corroborate the different aspects of a multifunctional design project. While visiting a snowmobilemanufacturer, students were briefed on the role of the marketing department in that company. They later hadthe chance to tour a research laboratory, talk with the researchers concerning the nature of their work, and lookthrough an electronic microscope. Students were introduced to a production environment while visiting agarage door manufacturer. “How many doors can you build in one day?”. “What happens if there is a powerfailure?”. “What does that automated machine do?” Finally, they visited a company making rubber strippingfor car doors

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Gordon W. Couturier

student enrollment and financial difficulties until the Fall of 1995. Duringthis time perio~ a Superbowl raffle and reception of a senior class gift aided in purchasing the CASE tool,the C/CH development tool, the SUN server and 2 workstations. A Hewlett Packard gift provided a10BaseT hub to set up the initial network. With the recovery of enrollment in 1995, the university was ableto complete the financial matching portion of the NSF grant.The NSF grant was for laboratory equipment only. With the lack of fi.mds, the co-project directom andseveral upper-class students had to learn the SUN SOLARUS operating system and CASE tool on their own.Luckily, the SOLARUS OS is a UNIX system and one of the project directors was reasonablyknowledgeable in

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Magin; Margery Osborne; Bruce Bertram; Bruce Wheeler

, write up, andsubmit their computer laboratory reports at one sitting at a campus computer site. A drawback of the exercises was their restriction to a single computer platform, which necessitated moststudents to visit the campus computer sites even if they had network linked computers in their dorm rooms.For that reason we are replacing the exercises with equivalents which are integrated into the course webpages.Conferencing and Bulletin Boards We have used conferencing software (PacerForum) in the first course offering and found that it wasuseful for exchange of files in group projects. Students were able to post their term papers, andsuccessively and successfully edit them into finished documents. However, with the small class it

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Lynn Kiaer

, mechanics, electricity and magnetism, twoquarters of general chemistry, engineering statics, graphical communication, computer science andengineering design. It has served approximately one fourth of the entering class of first year students for thelast six years. From the inception of the program, many of the synchronicities between mechanics anddifferential calculus have been well-exploited. In the past two years, additional opportunities to coordinate thetreatment of chemical kinetics, electricity and magnetism, and integral calculus have been identified, and anumber of classroom, laboratory and homework experiences have been designed to assist students inunderstanding the relationships between these topics. A number of these activities are

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert M. Briber; James Lochary; David I. Bigio

) which include non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, polymer processing, laminar mixing theory,polymer characterization, polymer blends, etc. The topics are introduced in logical order as they areneeded for the project and as they are brought up by the students in response to their needs for makingprogress on the project. The course combines work in the classroom, at the industrial manufacturing site and in on-campus laboratories. The classroom time is spent developing the basic background needed tocommunicate on the topics, anchor teaching of key concepts, formulating the project and presentationsby guest lecturers (largely from industry).Introduction One of the most common complaints heard from engineering students, particularly at the

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

D.E., Lt. Col. Randall K. Liefer

built a full scale construction laboratory wherecadets experience building design and construction methods by doing it themselves. The AeronauticalEngineering Department teaches flight test by putting cadets in Cessnas and having them do flighttest. Those of us teaching Astronautical Engineering, here and at other schools around the country,face an especially difficult challenge in this regard. We can’t put our students in space and it is verydifficult and expensive to put their projects there. Space educators and experimenters are nothing if not innovative. They’ve used a variety ofmethods to get student projects into space, close to space, at least, into a regime that’s a lot like space.Sounding rockets in a variety of sizes are used

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

E. J. Mastascusa

. 48-50.BiographyE. J. MASTASCUSA, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Bucknell University, also taught at theUniversity of Wyoming. His interests include development of an interdisciplinary computer-assistedcontrols laboratory, modelling and simulation in control systems, and development of electronic modules forintroductory EE material. Page 1.333.4 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings ‘o..,yyRc,:

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

William R. Conrad; Earl F. Brune; Elaine M. Cooney

be used with a common schematicentry point. This paper explains the actual program fiuwtions that allow CapFast to be used as a schematic entry to 2interface with PSpice , for an analog circuit, and with CUPL3 for a digital circuit to be programmed in a PLD.Students use the software as a prelab exercise. Then the actual electronics laboratory was conducted to veri~the simulation tool. The students were pleased with the experiments because they could do computersimulation using the schematic as the entry point. Using a schematic as the entry point for electronicscomputer simulation programs is an advantage over writing the netlist files by hand. CapFast is a schematiccapture program which intetiaces with a variety

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Widmer

remember in a technical class to include basis in the course. Thestudent is not far removed from high school and still cannot see the light at the end of tunnel. How and wherewill the student potentially apply the knowledge from the course? Associate some application or variedexperiences that students can identify with in the very first class session. The automobile has to be the mostoverworked application and article of identity used in technical courses. Try other ideas such as processesused to manufacture household products or even services. Association is a very powerful tool and can be usedto gain the attention of the learner in every single lecture or laboratory session.Do not omit the obvious The obvious for one person may not be

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Korchak; David Swanson

improving manufacturing profitability A secure public funding base Availability of competent and experienced staff Unbiased recommendations Responsiveness to the needs of industry Excellent leadership and management Accurate evaluation systems Cost effective delivery systems Political and industrial support Links to training, education and research Defined plans and objectivesBiographical InformationDR. DAVID H. SWANSONA guest researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology from the Georgia Institute ofTechnology. Former director of the Economic Development Laboratory. Directed the Center for IndustrialResearch and Services at Iowa State University and several

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhongming Liang

,identification, and visual servoing and navigation,1 the manufacturing technology department sees theimportance of teaching fundamentals of machine vision. It has been a difficult topic to teach since it involves anumber of concepts that many students in manufacturing technology programs are not familiar, especiallywhen laboratory support was not completely ready. In the spring and the summer of 1995, with help of a student majoring in electrical engineeringtechnology, the author used the basic vision system to develop a number of experiments for robot vision. Theyinclude thresholding, image binarization, edge detection, object recognition, image feature extraction andrandom object picking. This paper will briefly discuss all the

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert O. Harger

), imageprocessing (e.g., motion blur removal, character recognition, Markov random field generation for textures),adaptive filtering, adaptive equalization, wireless voice communication, QAM communication with v34 protocols(accompanied by actual implementation on DSP chips in a contemporaneous laboratory course), and manyothers. The limitations of Mathcad for large data sets is sometimes encountered: but learning to fit the problemto the computer is a valuable professional skill. For many students, their project presentation is their first quasi-professional presentation and the relaxed atmosphere is helpful. Communication outside of class is mainly by email. Traditional office hours are held, with the bookrunning on a laptop computer with an

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

William Messner; Dawn M. Tilbury

to the complete index of the tutorials, the list of Matlab commands, and the NationalScience Foundation, which provided funding for this project.to not only to other types of software, but also to the use of laboratory equipment. Somepossibilities are discussed in Section 6.3 Structure of the TutorialsThe tutorials are designed to help students learn how to use Matlab for the analysis anddesign of automatic control systems. They cover the basics of Matlab, the most commonclassical control design techniques (PID, root locus, and frequency response), as well as somemodern (state-space) control. A “page” here refers to one Web page; each page will typicallytakes up a few screenfuls on a monitor

Conference Session

Mentoring and Development of New Faculty

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Llewellyn, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology; Richard Millman, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

research to communities beyond the laboratory and address the work’s possible“Broader Impacts” to society. NSF CAREER awards and many of the NSF Research Centergrant solicitations are even more explicit, requiring that grantees craft educational initiatives thatare based in best practices, bring the academic research to the broader community, and positivelyimpact the pipeline of students pursuing science, technology, engineering and mathematics(STEM) education and careers. For new faculty, and even veteran faculty, these requirementsfor creative educational initiatives that significantly affect a community outside the confines ofthe laboratory can be very daunting. This paper addresses how to design an effective educationalplan that incorporates

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education III

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Buket Barkana, University of Bridgeport; Navarun Gupta, University of Bridgeport; Lawrence Hmurcik, University of Bridgeport

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

, and develop asynchronously9.In engineering education, there are two major types of courses: theoretical and experimental.Theoretical courses are usually held in the classroom. All the students sit and listen to theinstructor. Experimental courses are usually held in the laboratory, and students can movearound freely. Theoretical courses are predominantly an auditory environment in which thecurriculum, textbooks, teaching methods, and the teachers themselves are sequential. The over-reliance on auditory-sequential methods in these courses works against the visual-spatiallearners. Laboratory courses are predominantly a kinesthetic environment. The students who arevisual-spatial learner face disadvantages in mastering material in the normal

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Research

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Doheny-Farina, Clarkson University; Fa-Gung Fan, Xerox Corp.; Xiangwei Liu, Clarkson University; Cetin Cetinkaya, Clarkson University; John Mclaughlin, Clarkson University; Suresh Dhaniyala, Clarkson University; Jeffrey Taylor, Clarkson University; David Schmidt, University of Maryland-College Park; Kambiz Nazridoust, Clarkson University; Goodarz Ahmadi, Clarkson University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

interface for the module for Brownian particle motions in cross flows.Module III, Experimental The course sequence includes several experimental modules. One mainexperiment is the measurement in the aerosol wind tunnel with the use of Particle ImageVelocimeter (PIV). The aerosol wind tunnel is located in the Turbulence and MultiphaseFlow Laboratory at Clarkson University. The laser used was a 120mJ Nd:YaG laserwith a 20° adjustable width sheet generator. In this experiment, the sheet width was 0.5 Page 11.981.4mm. The digital camera that was used was a Kodak ES1.0 MegaPlus camera. The 3camera

Conference Session

Standards Based Approaches to K -12 Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Merrill, Illinois State University; Vincent Childress, North Carolina A&T; Rodney Custer, Illinois State University; Craig Rhodes, North Carolina A&T

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. Teamwork is very important in order to succeed at engineering design.3. Becoming an engineer demands dedication.Among the highest rated (mean = 4 for very useful) parts of the Bridges workshops andprofessional development were: • What engineers do • Steps in the design process • Tours of engineering design firms • Students’ perspective on engineering • Communication skills in engineering • Engineering sciences • Engineering laboratory exercises • Engineering design results • Women in engineering • International design.Among the most low rated (mean = 3 for useful; not very low at all) workshop components are: • Principles of statics • Design process in industry • Principles of kinematics, dynamics • Gears and

Conference Session

Design Projects

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Schultz, University of North Dakota; William Semke, University of North Dakota; Douglas Olsen, University of North Dakota; Arnold Johnson, University of North Dakota; Ofer Beeri, University of North Dakota; George Seielstad, University of North Dakota

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

discussed his interest in the BugHunter payload and why he needs mosquito populationsamples for his research on biogeography, and Dr. Nilles introduced the participants to potentialbiological pathogens that could use an airborne detector flown as a UAV payload to protectagainst bioterrorism. Two NASA experts were also brought to campus to meet the students. Dr.Adam Steltzner, Flight Systems Chief Engineer with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,California, talked about his experiences in helping to design and build JPL’s twin rovers, Spiritand Opportunity. Dr. Steltzner discussed the rovers’ development, testing, and recent trip to theRed Planet. In the “Marsapalooza” tour sponsored by JPL in 2004, he talked to over 10,000 K-12students, and

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Jones, Southwest Tennessee Community College; James M. Northern, Southwest Tennessee Community College

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

areconverted to PowerPoint presentations and more problem-based case studies that support criticalthinking, interactive learning, and team/peer instruction are added. The Engineering Technologycurriculum has many problem-based courses and laboratory exercises that can be used to supportactive and collaborative learning while using the wireless tablet PC.The wireless capability of the tablets allows for the quick conversion of a regular classroom to acomputer lab. All that is required is the wireless tablets and an access point connected to theInternet if Internet access is desired. The instructor can use the tablet PC and projector to makepresentations. Using the pen input, the instructor can easily annotate PowerPoint slides duringthe presentation

Conference Session

Meeting ABET Requirements

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Bannerot, University of Houston

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

23 3.96 0.69 integral calculus avg 4.04 st dev 0.14 3 12 6 2 23 3.30 0.80 I feel that I am prepared for MECE 3369 (mechanics of solids) and MECE 3336 (dynamics)As noted above, course surveys such as the ones already described in this document are notsufficient to demonstrate learning. Once it has been determined which Outcomes are to beassessed in which course, the next step is to determine exactly what type of assignments will beused to directly assess student learning related to these designated outcomes. Possibilitiesinclude specific homework assignments or problems, projects, laboratory

Conference Session

Use of Technology to Improve Teaching and Learning

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Alley, Virginia Tech; Madeline Schreiber, Virginia Tech; Katrina Ramsdell, Virginia Tech; John Muffo, Virginia Tech; Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

question then arises: Issuch a design the most effective at having the audience retain the main assertion of theslide? According to Robert Perry of Hughes Aircraft and Larry Gottlieb [2] of LawrenceLivermore National Laboratory, the answer is “no.” Since the 1960s, Perry has argued fora succinct sentence headline on presentation slides. Following Perry’s lead, Gottlieb hascome to the same conclusion at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. Although the sentence-headline design is the standard at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, the design is seldomused outside of that laboratory. In The Craft of Scientific Presentations, Alley [3]presented an argument for using succinct sentence headlines. More recently, Jean-lucDoumont [4] and Cliff Atkinson [5

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; John C. Kelly Jr., North Carolina A&T State University; Mohamed F. Chouikha, Howard University; Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University; Petru Andrei, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Mandoye Ndoye, Tuskegee University; Abdelnasser A. Eldek, Jackson State University; John Okyere Attia P.E., Prairie View A&M University; Dianna Newman, University at Albany-SUNY; Kathy Ann Gullie PhD, University at Albany-SUNY; Ali Reza Osareh, North Carlina A&T State University; Lisa D. Hobson, Prairie View A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

middle school, high school, and community college students to expose and increase their interest in pursuing Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields. Dr. Astatke travels to Ethiopia every summer to provide training and guest lectures related to the use of the mobile laboratory technology and pedagogy to enhance the ECE curriculum at five different universities.Prof. Petru Andrei, Florida A&M University/Florida State University Dr. Petru Andrei is Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Electrical and Com- puter Engineering at the Florida A&M University and Florida State University (FAMU-FSU) College of c American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Projects in Manufacturing Curriculum

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael G. Mauk, Drexel University; Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.); David English; Michael Naceri Hazm

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

experience in curriculum development. Dr Husanu developed laboratory activities for Measurement and Instrumentation course as well as for quality control undergraduate and graduate courses in ET Masters program. Also, she introduced the first experiential activity for Applied Mechanics courses. She is coordinator and advisor for capstone projects for Engineering Technology.Mr. David English David English received and Associate in Electrical Technology Degree from New England Institute of Technology, presently David is about to complete his Electrical Engineering in Technology Degree from Drexel University. David has been employed in the power generation field for the past 10 years. The facility where David is presently

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anu Osta, Rowan University; Jennifer Kadlowec, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

consisted of a set ofhands-on laboratory experiments on material testing while for spring 2016 a non-hands-onproject was assigned. For spring 2016 the students were required to simulate a material propertyor a basic manufacturing process using any finite element analysis software, or write a shortreview article on a topic closely related to the subject of materials and manufacturing. It was 3intended to add enrichment to the learning experience beyond the confines of the traditionalclassroom and positively impact a students’ academic performance. This would also lead todevelopment of better pedagogical practices by the engineering faculty, help the college to bettermeet the ABET objectives by

Conference Session

Division Experimentation & Lab-oriented Studies Electrical Engineering and Circuits

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carl Iolani Pettiford, Liberty University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Domestic Undergraduate Engineering Students," in 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC, 2011.[2] C. Ciocanel and M. Elahinia, "Teaching Engineering Laboratories Based On A Problem Solving Approach," in Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Pacific Southwest Annual Conference, 2008.

Conference Session

Technical Session 8: Virtual Reality

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maryam Mirabolghasemi, Mississippi State University; Michael Andre Hamilton; Parker Jones, Mississippi State University; David Cole, Mississippi State University; Emily S. Wall , Mississippi State University; Raed Jaradat, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

, risk, reliability, and vulnerabilityin critical infrastructures with applications to diverse fields ranging from the military to industry. His pub-lications appeared in several ranking journals including the IEEE Systems Journal, and the Computers& Industrial Engineering Journal. His total awarded projects exceed $ 4.2 M including National ScienceFoundation (NSF), Department of Defense (DOD), Industry, and other Research Laboratories. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Understanding the Effectiveness of Using Virtual Reality to Support Teaching Drilling Trajectory ConceptsAbstractAs technology in the classroom gains popularity, the interest in virtual reality (VR) in