Conference Session

Software and Hardware for Educators II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anne Clark, USAF Academy, CO; Brian Peterson, United States Air Force Academy

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

-Level Diagram.Mnemonic Encoding Operation NOP 0000 Do no operation. Takes 2's complement of the number in NEG 0001 the accumulator. Takes 1's complement of the number in NOT 0010 the accumulator. Rotates the accumulator data one bit to ROR 0011 the right (with wrap-around). Transfers the data from the accumulator OUT 0100 aaaa to the selected output port

Conference Session

Retention Strategies in Action Part II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

data (b) ≠ the ability to function in teams (d) ≠ understanding of professional and ethical responsibility (f) ≠ the ability to communicate effectively (g) ≠ a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning (i) ≠ a knowledge of contemporary issues (j) ≠ the ability to use some of the basic techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice (k).If these outcomes are clearly articulated and effectively assessed by the TYC program, this willhelp the program articulate smoothly with the engineering program(s) at the four-yearinstitutions. Community college programs are advised to work with their four-year partner(s) todevelop an assessment and evaluation process that

Conference Session

Innovative IE Curricula and Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Srinivas Chakravarthy

ofthe quarter to see how far the students feel that they have learned the concepts from the course.These questionnaires are designed to assess the students’ learning of the materials and theirawareness of the subject materials before and after taking the course(s). There are questions thatare common to both the questionnaires. The transfer of knowledge is one of the major ways ofassessing the students’ understanding of the concepts. To achieve this objective, the conceptsseen in the classroom need to be reinforced in such a way that the students can relate to situationsoutside the classroom. In this paper we will discuss some of the tools that we have been using in the courses andhow the students reacted in such an environment. The paper

Conference Session

Cooperative & Experiential Education Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rui Pan, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Johannes Strobel, Texas A&M University; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

. away in 15 weeks.Although much research has been conducted regarding workplace problems, howstudents experience workplace problem solving is still largely unknown. Since studentsare expected to be problem-solvers within the engineering workplace after graduation, itis important that they understand the nature of those problems that they will encounterand the specific challenges they are going to face in the real world.Not many researchers have investigated students’ perceptions of engineering workplaceproblem solving. Some of the existing studies we have found suggest that students mightnot have a good understanding of engineering workplace. For example, Jocuns, Stevens,Garrison, and Amos (2008)’s study indicates some students graduated from

Conference Session

Renewable Energy Topics

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ulan Dakeev, University of Michigan, Flint; Quamrul H. Mazumder, University of Michigan, Flint; Toufiq Hussain, University of Michigan, Flint; James Tristan Pung, University of Michigan-Flint

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

device with cone shaped wind guide attachment) respectively. Table 1: Descriptive statistics with and without the WTA Page 24.184.5 Table 2: t-Test statistics with and without the WTAThe t-Test yields the mean of the Category 1 approximately as Mean=3.28 m/s while the mean ofCategory 2 resulted in approximately Mean 2=4.29 m/s. The p-value obtained from the analysiswas p=0.000. less than the alpha level of 0.05, which indicates that there is significant differencebetween the average means of the wind velocities with the use of custom constructed WTA withthe cone shaped wind guide

Conference Session

New Course Development Concepts in ET II

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaron Alexander, Oklahoma State University; Kenneth Belanus, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

results to identify theresonant frequencies as part of their lab report.Introduction:A three-tiered structure serves as an excellent platform for students to conduct accelerometervibration measurements and analyze the acquired data with the ubiquitous Fast FourierTransform (FFT). While the concept behind the structure was originally developed at theUniversity of Pittsburgh at Johnstown 1, the current laboratory procedure has expanded theconcept by simplifying the structure, adding in an inexpensive adjustable vibration source thatallows for the exploration of multiple modes, and expanding the mounting possibilities of theaccelerometer(s).In conducting this lab, students gain experience with the mounting and use of accelerometers,learn about

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margret Hjalmarson, George Mason University; Jill K. Nelson, George Mason University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

: Contributions of Faculty to Student Engagement in Engineering. J. Eng. Educ. 97, 339–353 (2008).4. Shulman, L. Those who understand: Knowledge growth in teaching. Educ. Res. 15, 4–14 (1986).5. Loucks-Horsley, S., Stiles, K. E., Mundry, S., Love, N. & Hewson, P. W. Designing professional development for teachers of science and mathematics. (Corwin Press, 2010).6. Laurillard, D. Teaching as a design science: Building pedagogical patterns for learning and technology. (Routledge, 2012).7. Wenger, E. Communities of practice  : learning, meaning, and identity. (Cambridge University Press, 1999).8. Hjalmarson, M. et al. Developing Interactive Teaching Strategies for Electrical Engineering Faculty. in Proc. 120th ASEE Annu. Conf. (2013).9

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bradley Bowen, North Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

American Society for Engineering Education, Atlanta, GA.5. Silverstein, S. The Effects of Teacher Participation in a Scientific Work Experience Program on Student Attitudes and Achievement: A Collaborative Multi-site Study. http://scienceteacherprogram.org/SWEPTStudy/index.html36. Barrett, D. & Usselman, M. (2006). Assessing the Long Term Impacts of Scientific Work Experience Programs for Teachers. Annual Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education, Chicago, IL.7. Barrett, D. & Usselman, M. (2005). Experience to Impact: A Comparison of Models of University-Based Summer Internships for High School Teachers. Annual Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education, Portland, OR.8

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Abul Haque; Afsaneh Minaie

method discussed previously 6, we found that to represent a segment, 3×3 matrix issufficient. In order to increase the efficiency rate, we tried to increase the matrix size. We firststarted with a 10×10 matrix, which was found to overflow during training session. So wecontinued with reduced sized matrices. After some continual experiment, we came to theconclusion that 7×5 was the best-fit matrix for our purpose. Here a 1 in the corresponding matrixcomponent represents occurrence of each segment and the rest of the components are representedby 0’s. thus we had to use only 35 neurons in the input layer to represent a sample input. TheKohonen layer is trained in unsupervised training method, which is done by machine-generatednoises involves

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real World Concepts

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanton Cort; Gary Wnek

for its generous support of TiME.Bibliography1. National Innovation Initiative Final Report (2004): http://www.compete.org/pdf/NII_Final_Report.pdf2. “The Innovation Economy,” Business Week 75th Anniversary Issue, October 11, 2004.3. The Institute for Management and Engineering (TiME): http://www.tiime.case.edu.4. Cooper, R. G., Winning at New Producgts, 3rd ed., Basic Books, New York (2001)5. Ulrich, K. T. and Eppinger, S. D., Product Design and Development, 3rd ed., McGraw-Hill Irwin, New York (2004)6. Crawford, M. and Di Benedetto, A., New Products Management, 7th ed., McGraw-Hill Irwin, New York (2003)7. Koen, P. A., Ajamian, G. M., Boyce, S., Claman, A., Fisher, E., Fountoulakis, S., Johnson,A., Puri, P., and Seibert, R., “Fuzzy

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Ostheimer

data.ECE Score SheetPortfolio 1D#_____________This portfolio meets the following outcomes at the level of competence indicatedPersuasive Cover Letter _/2pts 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Course # Page #s Highly Skillful Competent Minimally Less than Unmet Not Skillful Competent Competent Attempted1. Procedural Document _____ _____ _____ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______2. Problem Statement _____ _____ _____ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______3. Proposal

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer/Communications ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Koontz

offer attenuation less than 0.2 dB/km.The introduction of optical amplifiers and wavelength-division multiplexing in the 1990’sexpanded the capacity and reach of fiber optic telecommunication systems dramatically. For “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Page 10.627.1 Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”example, Lucent Technologies’ Lambda Xtreme transport system can operate at 2.56 Tb/s (2.56trillion bits per second) over a distance of 1000 km or 1.28 Tb/s over a distance of 4000

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Setoodehnia; Ali Kashef; Mark Rajai; Akbar Eslami

give them ample opportunities and time to participate in this provenmethod of gaining work experience in their academic education.Bibliography[1] Sovilla, S. E., “Co-op’s 90-Year Odyssey,” ASEE Prism, 1998. pp.18-23.[2] Martinez, R. (2000). Recognizing the accomplishments of the National School-to- Work Opportunities Act(on-line document, http://www.stw.ed.gov/pr/taskforce.htm).[3] Brand, B., Partee, G., Kaufmann, B., and Wills, J., “Looking forward: School to work principles and strategiesfor sustainability”, Washington: American Youth Policy Forum, 2000.[4] Hamilton, M. A. and Hamilton, S. F., “Building strong school to work systems: Illustrations of keycomponents”. Ithaca, N.Y.:Cornell Youth and Work Program, 1998.[5] Hamilton, M. A. and

Conference Session

Problem-Solving & Project-Based Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Harper; John Demel; Richard Freuler

the numbers.Currently the mathematics, engineering and physics faculty members do not shareexplicitly a common approach to categorizing problem types and how to solve them.This work in progress is focused on having these faculty members discuss problemsolving, decide on a common approach, and present problem solving as an integratedtopic in each of the three course sequences. This paper will describe the process ofdetermining a consistent approach to problem solving, the planning necessary forimplementation in 2005-06, and an assessment process to compare a pilot group tocontrol group(s). The ultimate goal is to make the learning process more efficient for thestudents and to aid them in seeing more connections between their

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Will Kim; Jeffrey Tisa; Peter Jansson

buildings for several days at a time anddevelop a very good profile of what is happening without the commitment of permanentlyinstalling expensive measurement resources. In an age that is increasingly dependant ontechnology, power outages have become nearly intolerable. Therefore, this power monitor wasdesigned to make its installation and removal electrically transparent to all except the user(s).System Development The power meter design has revolved around low-cost and ease of use as high priorities. Thecomponents are such that all data capture and storage is done internally and currently may onlybe viewed through a device connected via RS-232. The device will appear as an ordinary “blackbox” that sits conveniently by the area to be measured

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Somnath Chattopadhyay

employed in the instruction. The student responsesfrom these activities and projects were quite favorable.Bibliography[1] Voland Gerard, Engineering by Design, Addison Wesley. 1999.[2] Hauser, J. R., and Clausing, D., “The House of Quality,” Harvard Business Review, May-June 1988, pp.63-73.[3] Raju, P. K., and Sankar, C. S., Introduction to Design Through Case Studies with CD-ROMSupplements, Tavaneer Publishing Company, 2003.[4] Raju, P. K., and Sankar, C. S., Della Steam Plant Case Study: Should The Turbine Be Shut Off? with aCD-ROM Supplement, Taveneer Publishing Company, 2000.[4] Raju, P. K., and Sankar, C. S., Crist Power Plant Case Study: Planning for a Maintenance Outage witha CD-ROM Supplement, Taveneer Publishing Company, 2000.SOM

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell

, J. and P. J. Moore, The Process of Learning, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (1993). 3. Felder, R. M. and L. K. Silverman, “Learning and Teaching Styles in Engineering Education,” Engineering Education, 78, 674-681 (1988). 4. Felder, R. M., “Meet Your Students 6. Tony and Frank,” Chemical Engineering Education 29(4), 244-245 (1995). 5. Felder, R. M., “The Effects of Personality Type on Engineering Students Performance and Attitude,” Journal of Engineering Education, 91(1), 3-17 (2002). 6. Wankat, P. C., and F. S. Oreovicz, Teaching Engineering, McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York (1993). 7. Newell, J. A. “Hollywood Squares: An Alternative to Pop Quizzes,” Proceedings of the 1999 AIChE

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Murtuza Aluminiumwalla; Mohammed Haque

. Page 9.124.8 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliogr aphy 1. Haque, M.E. "Web-based Visualization Techniques for Structural Design Education" American Society for Engineering Education, 2001 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Section 2793 Multimedia, Albuquerque, NM, (2001). 2. Haque M.E., Vamadevan A., Duraimurugar S., and Gandlur Y. Java and VRML based Interactive Reinforced Concrete Design Course Studio. American Society for Engineering Education, ASEE 2000 Annual Conference Proceeding, Section 1315 Use of Computer Technology to Enhance CE Education

Conference Session

Computer Based Measurements

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Weining Feng; Alberto Gomez-Rivas

S δ L Figure 1: A simply supported beam with symmetric overhang (L - beam length, S - span between the two support points, δ - overhang length) Page 10.171.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationK1 is the so-called transformed fundamental root of the frequency equation and can benumerically calculated through a specific iterative procedure as detailed in [1]. Note thatthe value of K1 depends only on the

Conference Session

Pedagogy

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rajinder Chauhan; Gukan Rajaram; Devdas Pai

ILLUSTRATING ENGINEERING CONCEPTS WITH A HOUSEHOLD WATER FILTER G. Rajaram, D. M. Pai and R. S. Chauhan Department of Mechanical Engineering North Carolina A&T State University 1601 E Market Street, Greensboro, NC 27411AbstractFiltration and other methods of treatment of household drinking water supplies have becomecommon in order to prevent the potential health hazards that can be caused by the untreated tapwater. Filtration is been done at several stages based on the requirements from the governmentbody, using different types of water filters. The most common small scale water filters used

Conference Session

Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Francisco Aguiniga; Hector Estrada

tensorial transformation laws derived using Figure 1. Theresulting stress transformation is: σ x  C 2 S2 − 2SC  σ L     2 σ y  = S C 2 2SC  σ T  (2) τ xy   SC − SC C − S  τ LT   2 2  where, C = cos θ and S = sin θ. With this result, the constitutive relation in terms of laminate coordinates is2: σ x  Q 11 Q 12 Q 16   ε x

Conference Session

Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Thompson; William Oakes

that is suited to their mission. They thusneed the help of people with strong technical backgrounds. Service learning links these twoneeds and provides a means to enhance both the community and undergraduate education. While service-learning has been well established in many disciplines in higher education,engineering as a whole has been much slower to adopt the pedagogy (Tsang 2000). There areexamples of service-learning that have been effectively integrated and used in an engineeringcontexts [ Duffy, J., Tsang, E., and Lord, S]. Examples include first-year introductory courses[Hobson,Tsang], capstone senior design courses [Catalono], multidisciplinary approaches[Nagchaudhuri, A., Eydgahi, A., and Shakur, Coyle 1997] and integration of co

Conference Session

Experiences with the TTL Turbojet Engine

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth French

about 80[kRPM] . The JET-A fuel averaged an angularacceleration of 4.50+/- 0.20 [kRPM/s] and the biodiesel from unused oil averaged 3.50+/- 0.44 [kRPM/s]. The engine acceleration using biodiesel from used oil was about 15%less than that of biodiesel made from unused oil, but unfortunately the fuel was depletedbefore the formal tests were run.ConclusionsTTL includes in their operations manual [4] a variety of acceptable fuels; JET-A, A-1, B,4,5,8, heating fuel oil, diesel kerosene and ‘gaseous fuel system’. The JBU tests haveextended the fuel menu to biodiesel made from unused or lightly used vegetable basedcooking oils. The extension to themenu of fuels for the SR-30 engine is to develop abroader educational experience. Beyond the testing

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Anderson; Heather Cooper

Purdue University. This course, Plastics ManufacturingSystems (MET 490), is a capstone-type course for students interested in machine design andmanufacturing. It focuses on the design of plastics manufacturing equipment. Since most plasticsmanufacturing processes contain some thermal control, this course was a good test bed for theheat transfer module.In order to provide a baseline for assessment of the module, some questions were posed tostudents in the first class period. These were: 1. If oil is flowing through a heated pipe, what is (are) the heat transfer mode(s) by which Page 8.414.3 heat is transferred to the oil?Proceedings

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ku-Yen Li; David Cocke; John Gossage

Heat Kinetics S Transfer Transfer c o u r Mass Plant Process s Transfer Design Control

Conference Session

How We Teach Problem Solving?

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

Academy Press.McKenna, A., McMartin, F., Terada, Y., Sirivedhin, V., and Agogino, A. (2001) “A Framework for InterpretingStudents' Perceptions of an Integrated Curriculum,” Proceedings, ASEE Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM.McInerny, S., Stern, H.P., and Haskew, T.A., 1999, “Applications of Dynamic Data Analysis,” IEEE Transactionson Education, 42:4, 276-280Roedel, R. J., El-Ghazaly, S., and Aberle, J.T. (1998) “An Integrated Upper Division Course in Electronic Materialsand Electromagnetic Engineering -Wave Phenomena for Electrical Engineers,” Proceedings, Frontiers inEducation, Tempe, AZ.Roedel, R. J., El-Ghazaly, S., Rhoads, T.R., and El-Sharawy, E. (1998) "The Wave Concepts Inventory - AnAssessment Tool for Courses in Electromagnetic

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell

Session 1793 Innovative Strategies for Teaching Graphics Communications – Designing Residential and Commercial Properties in an Introductory Course David S. Cottrell Pennsylvania State University at HarrisburgIntroductionThis paper describes the integration of design projects during the Fall Semester, 2003,into the curriculum of an introductory graphics communications course at Penn StateUniversity at Harrisburg. These projects served a double purpose of reinforcing topicstaught in the classroom as well as introducing students to the engineering design processwith their

Conference Session

BME Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Christensen

capillaries veins 0 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 time (s) Fig. 2. Typical plot of pressures during one heart cycle at five nodes around the systemic CV loop using Matlab simulation. After obtaining computer simulation results for typical healthy human CV parameters,the students must research three common CV abnormalities: anaphylactic shock, left heartfailure, and hypovolemia. Each student must describe the physiological

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Keshav Varde

Session 1794 Effects of Pre-Freshman Program for Minority Students in Engineering Keshav S. Varde College of Engineering and Computer Science University of Michigan-Dearborn Dearborn, MichiganAbstractThe College of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan-Dearborndecided in early 1990s to increase, retain and graduate more minority students than in yearsbefore. A study was conducted to determine specific areas in engineering programs that impactedstudents’ success; it revealed that students

Conference Session

Integrating Math in Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Surendra Gupta

83.444 83.500 83.443 0.689 0.138 Variable Minimum Maximum Q1 Q3 Hardness 82.000 84.900 82.900 83.950 Page 8.505.3 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationThe histogram is unimodal and fairly symmetric. Thus, the mean and standard deviation are thepreferable measures of center and spread for this sample.After the sample(s) have been examined, students