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First-Year Programs (FPD) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Silverstein, University of California, Los Angeles

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First-Year Programs

every class.What students need to know about careers in engineeringThe Syllabus for Engineering 98, “What students need to know about careers inengineering” (hereafter referred to as E98) is contained in Appendix 4. This course is a series ofweekly lectures and outside of class projects. The lectures provide the background to support theproject activities, and the projects permit the students to experience the concepts and lessonspresented in the lectures. Each week includes an ungraded assignment.There are no grades, tests or exams. Passing the Pass/No Pass course is based upon subjectiveevaluation of participation. On the other hand, students have many opportunities to judge theirperformance relative to the other students from data presented

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Materials

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Kamal Hossain, Tuskegee University

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Mechanical Engineering

Professor and Research Faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). He served as a Technical Advisor for the senior design project at UNLV. He teaches CAD, cap- stone design, and solid mechanics courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. He has been involved with the capstone design program at TU since his tenure in 2008. His course design projects are sponsored by industry and government laboratory which include GM, JOHN DEERE, AFRL, and NUCOR. He is the Lead-Faculty Contact for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering Education (PACE) at TU. Page

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nikolai Dechev; William Cleghorn

the students are assigned a computer project which involves simulating a mechanismusing Working Model 2D software. The purpose of the project is to give students an opportunity todesign a mechanism without having to build a physical prototype, and to familiarize them withmechanism simulation software. Generally students have no previous experience using thissoftware. Therefore, one lecture session is set aside for students to be introduced to the software.Each project is designed such that it is difficult to solve analytically, thereby forcing the student toexplore the software while trying to solve the project. In order to minimize the number of differentsolutions for each project, mechanisms for which there is just one input are used. The

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melissa M. Bilec, University of Pittsburgh; Daniel Mosse, University of Pittsburgh; Margaret S. Smith, University of Pittsburgh; Jennifer L Cartier, University of Pittsburgh

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

research project, NSF EFRI-Barriers, Under- standing, Integration – Life cycle Development (BUILD). She has worked in the sustainable engineering arena since 2004. As the assistant director of education outreach in the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation, Pitt’s center for green design, she translates research to community outreach programs and develops sustainable engineering programs for K-12 education.Prof. Daniel Mosse, University of PittsburghDr. Margaret S. Smith, University of Pittsburgh Margaret Smith holds a joint appointment at the University of Pittsburgh as Professor of Mathematics Ed- ucation in the School of Education and Senior Scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center. Her research

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Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Sebern

measures: effort, size, quality, schedule measures Derived measures: yield, productivity, defect density, etc. Planning Proxy-based size and time estimation Task and schedule planning Quality Quality measurement and analysis management Code and design reviews Design documentation and verification Defect prevention Process Process improvement proposals (PIPs) improvement Project postmortem, with data analysis and “lessons learned” Table 1 Personal Software Process

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Interdisciplinary Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mativo; Arif Sirinterlikci

businessand pharmacy due to honors program requirements. Its main audience is second year honorsstudents with at least the introductory honors course (HONR 100 - The Discipline of Reason)under the belt. Topics are covered through lectures (40% of course time) complemented byreading assignments and homeworks, laboratory assignments and a quarter-long design project(60% of course time). Students are evaluated on their attendance and participation to classactivities, their performances on homeworks and laboratory assignments, a paper that activatesthe students’ imagination and creativity, and a successful completion and presentation of anopen-ended quarter-long design project.Upon successful completion of HONR 218, the students will gain

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Issues in Digital Signal Processing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thad Welch; Robert Kubichek

, “Communications Measurement Laboratory.” This new course was designed to reinforce student knowledge of their course work in signals and systems, digital and analog communication systems, and digital signal processing. The primary course objectives were to familiarize students with vector signal analysis and develop a thorough understanding of I and Q-based demodulation techniques. This paper provides an overview of this course and describes student projects that utilize a vector signal analyzer (VSA) to detect, localize, and record decimated I and Q data as would be available at the output of an intermediate frequency (IF) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) stage of a software defined radio (SDR).1 IntroductionThe

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Wosczyna-Birch

schools, half the teachers are high schools teachers, theother half are community college professors. Another group of teacher “leaders” wereselected this fall (2003) for another two-year program. The business areas targetedare engineering (including biomedical engineering), manufacturing and informationtechnology. The educators are required to participate in a one-to-two week paid summerexternship program to be followed by the submission of a curriculum report that reflectsthe externship experience and work-based learning activity. They are also required tosubmit an evaluation of student outcomes once the projects have been implemented.Other activities include company visits, and smaller workshops on topics that eitherhighlight a

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Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Phillips

initial semester of the student’s career.One project in the first semester ‘Introduction to Architecture’ course focuses on architecturalengineering, and consists of student teams designing and building a model structure that is loadtested. To test the effects of structural knowledge on the design process, three control groups ofstudents were established for the project, with each given varying amounts of structuralinformation for use in their design. The first group was provided no structural information andhad to rely on intuition, the second group was given limited information, and the third group wasgiven detailed information on structural concepts. The results of the study will be discussed, andrecommendations will be given on providing

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Tonkay

industrial and faculty mentors • Preparation and presentation of case problems • Access to official leadership transcript • Networking with industry partners, faculty, and peers • Use of ESC’s Collaboratory and meeting facilities • Opportunity to practice skills in projects, seminars and classesA Case for Leadership ExperienceOne of the most pressing issues facing companies today is the need for an increased number ofemployees who demonstrate positive leadership skills. Over 70% of top company executivessupported this statement in a study conducted by the Human Resources Institute1. Furthermore,only 8% of executives surveyed rated their employees’ leadership skills as “excellent.”2 Manycompanies do not have leadership training

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Clare Cook

Session 1520 Connecting Embedded Systems to the Internet Clare F. Cook Ferris State UniversityAbstractThis paper deals with a proof-of-concept project that will demonstrate how sensor data can beretrieved over data networks. The project also tries to achieve this goal in a cost sensitivemanner by utilizing open source software and low cost hardware. The concept is to provideenvironmental temperature sensing at a remote site and regularly update a web page with thistemperature. The display of the data is controlled remotely through a web browser

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jr., Richard Mines

author’s latest attempt to improvestudent learning by using PowerPoint presentations in a required undergraduateenvironmental engineering course at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. Statisticalanalyses using the analysis of variance was performed on student’s final grades when thecourse was taught in a traditional lecture format versus using the PowerPointpresentations for comparison. Overall course grades, design project grades, and finalexam grades were compared.II. MethodologyStatistical analyses employing the analysis of variance (ANOVA) test at the 95%confidence level were performed on student’s grades on projects, final exams, and finalgrades to assess if the PowerPoint presentations enhanced student performance.ANOVAs were performed

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

performing in is teamwork. We throw projects atstudents and then become frustrated when the process disintegrates into bedlum. Parker Palmerstates, “Everyone must be educated into a capacity for connectedness!” The process of moving Page 5.181.1from individual focused activities or following blind the orders of others must be developed intoa intelligent team mentality.There are many reasons upon which we can focus that lead us to believe incorrectly that everyentering freshman will work well on a team. The number of students who have participated inteam sports makes us believe that everyone will be oriented to being let loose as a team and

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Jones

early in their college experience. Many ET programsface the common challenge of recruiting and retaining qualified students. At the same time,substantial portions of the incoming students lack basic skills in math and science that are neededfor them to succeed in ET. Consequently, some introductory ET courses teach basic math andscience while exposing student to career opportunities in ET.This paper discusses the experience of faculty teaching Introduction to Engineering Technology,IET 120, over the past seven years. The course has gradually shifted from a pure lecture formatto incorporate hands-on activities, plant tours, and design-and-build projects. A questionnairewas developed to assess the effectiveness of the changes in the course. The

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carl White, Morgan State University; Clifton Sean Martin, Innovative STEM Foundation (ISF); Maisha Drew, Innovative STEM Foundation (ISF); Givon Forbes, Innovative STEM Foundation (ISF)

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Minorities in Engineering

exposed to critical thinkingprinciples, system engineering basics, and team-working skills. During the program, the CASHstudents conduct NASA-related research, complete a project, and present their findings in aresearch exposition at the conclusion of the summer program.For the 2010 program, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA-JPL) in Pasadena, Californiaworked with ISF over the spring and provided the CASH program with both a Solar-based and aTelecom-based project for its CASH students. These two projects allowed the CASH students towork in research areas relevant to NASA.Program DescriptionSelection of ParticipantsFor the first two years of the CASH program, students have been provided to the programthrough a partnership with the Bluford

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Teaching II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clark Hochgraf, Rochester Institute of Technology

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New Engineering Educators

little experience in scholarship but wouldenjoy working with a faculty member on research and publications. There are small steps that newfaculty can take in their classes that will help students be better prepared for scholarship. Forexample, conversion of a class project report from a generic format to a journal paper formatintroduces students to a logical and structured way of presenting information coupled with a processof multiple revisions. Results of using such an approach in a third year technical class are presented.The students’ efforts resulted in a professional-looking paper and a sense of pride in the finalproduct. IntroductionNew faculty members are often expected to produce scholarly

Conference Session

Engineering Education Ties and Engineering Programs in the Middle East and Latin America

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas J. Dimmitt, Petroleum Institute; Jaby Mohammed, Petroleum Institute; David Moore, Petroleum Institute

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International

communication. The paper will also discuss activities andstrategies that are used in these technical communication courses. As a result ofthe various strategies used at the Petroleum Institute, the quality of writing in thefinal senior design projects have improved significantly.IntroductionMost universities in the US are multidisciplinary, presenting challenges in the technicalcommunication curriculum[1]. Technical communication programs are addressing thisissue by building partnerships with programs in mechanical engineering and industrialengineering as has been discussed by Wojahn, et al.[2] This paper describes and examinesthe technical and professional communication competency strategies taught at thePetroleum Institute (PI) of Abu Dhabi in the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Graham Walker; Henry Chaya

Session 2525 A "Real-Life" Interdisciplinary Capstone Design Course. Henry Chaya, Graham Walker Manhattan College Riverdale, New YorkAbstractA new interdisciplinary design course has been developed. A unique feature of this course is theparticipation of alumni who have been involved with engineering practice for a number of years.These alumni assume the role of clients for the design project. Their involvement added uniqueinsights to the real practice of engineering design. It also greatly enhanced student interest in thecourse.I

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald W. Garrett; Paul L. Stephenson III

Session 1463How a Course in Statistical Process Control Can Utilize Real-time Data from an Industrial Production Facility Paul L. Stephenson III and Ronald W. Garrett Grand Valley State UniversityAbstractEngaging students as active learners in applied statistics courses and getting them to thinkcritically about the workings of a full-scale production facility is a difficult task. Yet it isan important challenge that educators face when teaching a statistical process controlcourse.This challenge has been addressed at GVSU by giving students an opportunity toparticipate in projects and to interact

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Pedro Febles Cortez; John Dahlstrom; Chris Mattus; Aleksander Malinowski; Gary Dempsey

using simple microcontroller circuits. A Web server is used to provide the clientapplication to the operator. Since the decision was made, that Java2 would be the only targetimplementation language both client and server are platform independent.The engineering objective is to perform robust real time manual control over the Internetconnection characterized by varying bandwidth and latency. Although the presented system iscompletely different from full size professional robots, the problems encountered by seniorstudents designing it are similar to ones faced by design engineers at NASA who prepare fullsized vehicles for their trip to Mars. The current version of the project can be visited at the Website at http://sant.bradley.edu/~olekmali

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

S. A. Chickamenahalli; Rutledge Ellis

Session 1333 DEVELOPMENT OF A TMS320C30 DSP BASED CONTROLLER FOR A POWER CONVERTER S.A. Chickamenahalli, Rutledge Ellis Wayne State University/VisteonAbstract: This paper presents an undergraduate research project that involved the design,development, testing and installation of a DSP based controller for a power converter. Theparallel interface for a Texas Instruments TMS320C30 Digital Signal Processor (DSP)established to devise an economical real-time interface is discussed. Derivation of signals for thepower devices of a single-phase topology of the power converter

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Lang-Wah Lee; Tamer Ceylan

prerequisite courses in Thermodynamics, Fluid Dynamics, AppliedThermodynamics, and Heat Transfer. The course is equipment-intensive. Students conductexperiments on test setups such as steam turbines, wind tunnel, centrifugal pump, refrigeration, heatexchanger, and compressor. To implement design education in this course, one needs to consider thefollowing questions: (1) What constitutes as design activity in the lab course and how to implementit? (2) How much design content should be included in the course? (3) What type of equipment isneeded? This paper will first discuss these important questions, followed by a brief description onsome typical design projects and discussion on the advantage and drawbacks of various approaches

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian S. Mitchell

added and removed since the inception of the course.For example, linear regression was covered the first year, but was removed in subsequent yearssince essentially the same material is covered in Stoichiometry. Experimental design wasintroduced, including factorial analysis, but was removed in 1996 to make room for moreengineering economics and an expansion of the design project. One-hour lectures on safety andengineering ethics are also incorporated as time allows. The majority of the class, however, isdevoted to the five areas described above. Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences byMendenhall and Sincich1 is currently the textbook for this course.Descriptive statistics, probability fundamentals and probability distributions are covered

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Cathie Scott; Carolyn Plumb

new tools to evaluate theeffectiveness of writing instruction and the preparedness of students to write on the job.At the University of Washington, we have embarked on a portfolio assessment project thatinvolves collecting writing samples and other indicators of the engineering student writingexperience. Through this program, we hope to gain a better understanding of what students arelearning about written communication; we also plan to use the data from the project to establishclearer performance outcomes for our writing program.This paper describes the goal of the project and the rationale behind our decision to adoptportfolio assessment. In addition, it describes the information being collected and the processbeing used to collect this

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Milan Degyansky

Session 3592 GENDER EQUITY STUDY OF FEMALE CET STUDENTS/GRADUATES AT GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY MILAN E. DEGYANSKY GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY In 1995 five universities in Georgia (Georgia Southern University, the University ofGeorgia, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia State University and Clark Atlanta University)and the AAUW of Georgia received a three year $800,000 National Science Foundation grant fora collaborative project titled Integrating Gender Equity and Reform (InGEAR.) The projectinvestigated educational approaches

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Brizendine

. Yet, the author’s observation about software is that it cantake on a life of its own - students can get bogged down in the computerassignments, and faculty get bogged down addressing hardware and softwarequestions at the expense of the fundamental concepts of the course. Still, itremains the author’s parallel desire to furnish cogent computer/video experiencesexpected by the MTV- or X-Generation10 while stealthily conveying thefundamentals necessary to evaluate and solve real problems and meanwhile,discern bad output – hence, the impetus for undertaking this experiment.Software Series in Civil Engineering Technology: An Independent LearningExperiment (SSCETILE)The project described in this paper, the Software Series in Civil

Conference Session

Emerging Areas: Biotechnology, Microtechnology, and Energy

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thuyoanh Truong, California State Universtiy, Long Beach, Department of Chemical Engineering; William Ferguson, Department of Chemical Engineering, California State University, Long Beach; Roger C. Lo, California State University, Long Beach, Department of Chemical Engineering

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Chemical Engineering

analysis time, muchlower sample and reagent consumption (in the nanoliter range or less), and enhanced systemperformance and functionality by integrating different components onto microfluidic devices1-2.These applications are usually called micro total analysis systems (!TAS) or lab on a chip (LOC)3-4 . Since its debut in the 90s5-7, microfluidics technology has made significant progress andgradually moved from pure research projects to commercialized products, such as AgilentTechnologies’ 2100 Bioanalyzer for biomolecule analysis8, Caliper Life Sciences’ LabChipsystems for biomolecule analysis and drug discovery9, and Fluidigm Corporation’s BioMarksystem for real-time PCR10.We notice that from the microfluidics technology industry (especially

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Andrew Hale; Roger Rohrbach; Larry Stikeleather; John Parsons; James Young; Susan M. Blanchard

to increasethe application of basic principles of fluid and heat transfer to biomedical applications andconsequently to reduce the application of these same principles to agricultural situations. Thishas primarily been accomplished through the semester long special projects rather than withchanges in the organization of the lectures or laboratory periods.Prior to 1997, special projects were assigned which integrated the concepts of resistance to flowthrough a system, performance of pumps or fans, heat transfer, and psychrometrics through aproblem involving a batch grain drying system. Beginning in 1997, the emphasis of the specialproblem was shifted to a study of the flow of blood through the human vascular system, theperformance of the

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Ying Lu; Vincent Singh; Steven Palmer; Sarah Bergstrom; Nicolai Ramler; Mikir Bodalia; Martins Innus; Jami Meteer; Contessa DuBois; Aleli Mojica-Campbell; Martha E. Sloan; Ashok Goel

Session 2532 Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Design, Modeling and Simulation of GaAs-Based High-Speed Integrated Circuits Ashok Goel, Martha Sloan, Sarah Bergstrom, Mikir Bodalia, Aleli Mojica-Campbell, Contessa DuBois, Martins Innus, Ying Lu, Jami Meteer, Steven Palmer, Nicolai Ramler, Vincent Singh Department of Electrical Engineering Michigan Technological UniversityAbstractIn this paper, the research projects carried out by the ten undergraduate students selected forthe NSF funded undergraduate summer research site established at the

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph A. Shaeiwitz

usual, faculty would be certain to be teaching higher-ordercognitive skills. Instead of being on the receiving end of teaching, often passively, studentswould be more actively involved in learning and assessment.Skills Development over Time. The Chemical Engineering Department at West VirginiaUniversity was one of the first to implement vertical integration of design through thecurriculum. We first implemented use of a single design project for all courses taken in thesophomore and junior years in 1988.10,11 Since students move through our curriculum togetherand we only offer courses once per year, it is easy for students to work on one progressivelymore complex project over four semesters. The project counts as part of the grade for all