Conference Session

Improving Technical Understanding of All Americans

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Engstrom, ITEA/Cal U

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

focus on the NSF funded project entitled Invention, Innovation & Inquiry(I3). It will highlight how the project was formulated, the materials developed, results of fieldtesting and implementation, and future activities. Special attention will be given to how the I3project emphasizes the integration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in eachunit as student follow an engineering design process to solve a technological challenge. The I3program has developed 10 units of instruction that focus on the development of technologicalliteracy traits for students in grades 4-6. Page 13.811.2The study of engineering has increasingly

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janice Miller-Young, Mount Royal College; Sean Maw, Mount Royal College

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

knowledge is important, so are teamwork, communication and critical-thinking skills, as well as the ability to continually learn and stay current with ever-changingtechnology. First-year design courses have been added to the curriculum in an effort to introducestudents to what engineers actually do2,3 while they are also learning professional skills and theengineering design process4,5.Using design projects to teach engineering skills has been a major innovation in engineeringpedagogy6. There is strong evidence that team projects and problem-based learning inengineering design courses: • Maximize student achievement6-9; • Stimulate student interest in engineering10; • Motivate learning in upper division engineering science courses10

Conference Session

Hardware Descriptive Language Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harry Franz, University of Houston-Downtown

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

. The LabVIEW software is used for both the design and simulation of fire alarmlogic systems. In addition, the students use Honeywell commercial fire alarm control processorsto perform practical system setup programming for vendor specific applications. The focus ofthis paper is on the programmable logic control teaching techniques that are used in the ENGR-1403 course and the respective student exercise and project workThe students in the ENGR-1403 course have various levels of experience and academicbackgrounds. Students in the course often have experience in the installation or maintenance offire alarm systems. Typically the preponderance of the class students does not have a significantamount of experience using programmable logic. While

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wagdy Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

AC 2007-2290: INCORPORATING SYSTEM-LEVEL DESIGN TOOLS INTOUPPER-LEVEL DIGITAL DESIGN AND CAPSTONE COURSESWagdy Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia IEEE Senior Member Page 12.875.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Incorporating System-Level Design Tools into upper-Level Digital Design and Capstone CoursesAbstractThis paper describes the efforts to incorporate system-level digital design tools and state-of-theFPGA boards in the capstone design course sequence. This paper provides the details of twocapstone projects in the areas of digital communications and image processing. This paper alsodetails the challenges

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley State College; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy

Tagged Divisions

International

enjoyable topic for many students. Typically, the study of robotics has beenlimited to graduate level courses at big universities. In the last few years, the advent of smaller,less expensive robots has made it possible for smaller institutions to afford integrating robotics intheir undergraduate computer science and engineering curriculum.Over the years, robots have been used to teach computer science and engineering. Computerscience and engineering departments use robots in various ways: • Using robots in Introductory computer science education • An Introduction to Robotic Course • Using Robotics in Artificial Intelligence Course • Senior Capstone Design Project Course

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ricardo Jacquez, New Mexico State University; Veera Gnaneswar Gude, New Mexico State University; Michele Auzenne, New Mexico State University; Chris Burnham, New Mexico State University; Adrian Hanson; Jeanne Garland, New Mexico State University

. Hanson, New Mexico State University Professor, Department of Civil Engieering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM.Jeanne Garland, New Mexico State University Special Projects Coordinator, New Mexico Alliance for Minority Participation, College of Engineering, New Mexico State Universtiy, Las Cruces, NM. Page 11.796.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Integrating Writing to Provide Context for Teaching the Engineering Design ProcessIntroduction“Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering” is a junior course taught in the Civil Engineeringdepartment at New

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Hill, University of Hartford

undergraduate students. The coursepreviously did not have laboratory content. In considering how to increase the course content byone credit, to four credits, we first considered adding laboratory content, then chose to trysomething new and add studio content. Studio format is a method of teaching engineeringmaterial, using cooperative learning and hands on activities. With studio content, the coursechanged from being a bother to one that students truly appreciate.The term “studio format” has a range of meanings attached to it in the literature. We use theterm here to mean an instructor led scheduled time period that is not project oriented, usingcooperative and hands-on learning techniques. Courses are often taught entirely in the studioformat

Conference Session

INT. Engineering Education: Developments, Innovations, Partnerships, and Implementations

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saeed D. Foroudastan, Middle Tennessee State University; Courtney Thompson, Middle Tennessee State University

Tagged Divisions

International

addition to Foroudastan’s teaching experi- ence, he also has performed extensive research and published numerous technical papers. He has secured more than $1 million in the form of both internal and external grants and research funding. Foroudastan is the faculty advisor, coordinator, and primary fundraiser for EVP teams entering national research project competitions such as the Formula SAE Collegiate Competition, the Baja SAE Race, the SolarBike Rayce, the Great Moonbuggy Race, and the Solar Boat Collegiate Competition. For his concern for and ded- ication to his students, Foroudastan received MTSU awards such as the 2002-03 Outstanding Teaching Award, the 2005-06 Outstanding Public Service Award, and the 2007

Conference Session

Perspectives and Approaches to Teaching Simulation and Design-Based Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David L. Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Lisa G. Bullard, North Carolina State University; Warren D. Seider, University of Pennsylvania; Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Principles: Synthesis, Analysis, and Evaluation. He has co-ordinated the design project course for over 30 years involving projects provided by many practicing engineers in the Philadelphia area. He is recognized for research contributions in phase and chemical equilibria, azeotropic distillation, heat and power integration, Czochralski crystallization, nonlinear control, and safety and risk analysis. He has authored or coauthored over 110 journal articles and authored or edited seven books. Dr. Seider was the co-recipient of the AIChE Warren K. Lewis Award in 2004, and the recipient of the AIChE Computing in Chemical Engineering Award in 1992. In 2011, he received the AIChE F. J. Van Antwerpen Award, and in 2008, he was

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dhananjay Kumar, North Carolina A&T State University; Devdas M. Pai, North Carolina A&T State University; Courtney Lambeth, North Carolina A&T State University; Robin Guill Liles, North Carolina A&T State University; Narayan Bhattarai, North Carolina A&T State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

EDUCATION Dhananjay Kumar, Devdas Pai, Courtney Lambeth, Robin Liles, Narayan Bhattarai North Carolina A & T State University, Greensboro, NC 27214ABSTRACTThis National Science Foundation supported Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE)project takes into account the need for a better integration of theory, experiment, andapplications. We have reported three different approaches toward enhancing undergraduatenanoscience and engineering education with an emphasis on devices and systems. We are usingthe practical approach of direct engagement of the students in ongoing research in our advancedmaterials laboratories. Our first activity for enhancing nanoscience and nanoengineeringeducation was to introduce simple concepts of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mo Ahmadian, Eastern New Mexico University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #5932Influence of S-STEM Funding: Challenges and SuccessesDr. Mo Ahmadian, Eastern New Mexico University Dr. Mo Ahmadian is a professor of Electronics Engineering Technology at Eastern New Mexico Univer- sity. He also serves as ABET/TAC program evaluator for Electronics and Computer Engineering Tech- nology programs. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Before starting Ph.D. work, he worked three years as a project engineer. Page 23.745.1

Conference Session

Design Based Energy Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alamgir A. Choudhury, Western Michigan University; Jorge Rodriguez PhD, MBA, Western Michigan University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

absence of accurate mathematical model, experimental understanding of energyconservation and losses in a functional prototype of a product is a priori for a design process withemphasis on energy efficiency. To study the energy efficiency of designed product, a multipurposelaboratory equipped with thermo-fluid process components, sensors, data acquisition and analysis tools isbeing developed. It will allow installation and operation of the prototypes, and experimental study ofperformance of the components. Analysis of the experimental data will lead to optimization of geometry,materials and other design details of the components. The methodology will be practiced in undergraduatedesign projects and eventually incorporated in the product design

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Muthukrishnan Sathyamoorthy

fall semesters of the junior year and a part or the entiresummer between the semesters with industries. Several students from the departments ofelectrical and computer engineering, mechanical as well as chemical engineering areexpected to participate in this experiential learning program. Each student will have twomentors, one from the industry and the other is a faculty member from the student’s parentdepartment. The year-long program offers the student the opportunity to participate indesign projects at a level which is not possible with the more traditional summer orinternship employment. In addition to the design experience, students will have benefits incommunication skills, exposure to industrial standards, safety training and

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Laila Guessous

class project that combines a laboratoryexperiment with a CFD flow analysis. A series of labs/projects was developed to enablestudents to compare and analyze pressure and velocity measurements obtainedexperimentally in a wind tunnel to those generated using Fluent, a commercial CFDsoftware package. This paper, describes the setup and write-up of one of theseexperiments and class assignments, “Flow in a Venturi”. Results and lessons learnedfrom this course experience will also be discussed.Brief Course DescriptionThe CFD course described in this paper was first introduced at Oakland University in theFall semester 2001. The primary aim of this 4-credit hour course was to present thephysical and mathematical foundations of computational fluid

Conference Session

A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dale Long; Kevin Sutterer; Frederick Berry

newsletter, maintain membership information and lead thefaculty/staff mentoring team administering the program.Educational BenefitsHands-On Learning Models: The students work in teams to complete hands-on projects to learnelementary engineering and science principles. Examples include mousetrap-powered cars,where elements of force, aerodynamics and simplicity of design were crucial to developing asuccessful project; construction of ho t air balloons, where the students' efforts must consider heattransfer, aeronautics and teamwork; and constructing model bridges, where students learnedproject planning, cost effectiveness and computer techniques to build sturdy bridges.Learning That Science and Engineering Are Fun Career Fields: EXPLORE ENGINEERING

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Curriculum Issues

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

MD B. Sarder, University of Southern Mississippi; Shahdad Naghshpour, University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Park

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

processes hasbeen identified as one of the major competency gaps in engineering & technology education.Models such as Learning Factory and Manufacturing Integrated Learning Laboratory (MILL) aredesigned to improve students’ learning through hands-on experiences. The MILL model,developed by the Wayne State University, focuses on integrated learning. The core of the MILLconcept is the use of projects spanning multiple courses to help students gain hands‐onexperiences in design and manufacturing. It involves the coordination of realistic hands-onactivities in targeted courses around the unifying theme of designing and fabricating a functionalproduct. These activities are suited for easy implementation in a typical design andmanufacturing teaching

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching and Research in Physics or Engineering Physics III

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrian Ieta, Oswego State University College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

AC 2012-3350: IMPLEMENTATION OF AN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHCOURSEDr. Adrian Ieta, Oswego State University College Adrian Ieta received a B.Sc. degree in physics from the University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania, in 1984, a B.E.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Politehnica University of Timisoara, Timisoara, in 1992, and a M.E.Sc. degree and a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of the Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, in 1999 and 2004, respectively. He was with the Applied Electrostatics Research Centre and the Digital Electronics Research Group, the University of Western Ontario, where he worked on industrial projects and taught. He is currently an Assistant

Conference Session

Experiential Learning in BME

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Willits, Saint Louis University; David Barnett, Saint Louis University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

club (or how to find and read a research article), discussions on laboratory etiquette andresearch ethics. Participants were then integrated into their research mentors laboratory, andspent eight weeks on a research project. The program has two Peer Mentors, who areundergraduates with research experience, that live with the students and participate in theresearch project. The mentors are also responsible for additional social and academic activitiesduring nights and weekends. This paper describes the program, evaluations and critiques fromthe first year (from both research mentors and participants), as well as the challenges andopportunities the program presents to future “Research Experience for Undergraduates”programs. Surveys will continue

Conference Session

ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Kiefer; Nihad Dukhan

Session ???? Benefits of Undergraduate Research and Independent Study Dr. Scott Kiefer, Dr. Nihad Dukhan Tri-State University / University of Puerto Rico at MayaguezAbstract It can be very difficult for junior faculty members to find the time required to developnew courses and to establish a research program while continuing to dedicate the time necessaryfor students in their regular teaching load. One way to maximize the benefit of time spent is toteach small independent study courses with research projects that help prepare students forgraduate school and evaluate course material to

Conference Session

Curriculum in Electrical Power Engineering Technology

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shiyoung Lee, Pennsylvania State University, Berks

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

real world experiences which usually involves various motion controlcomponents. Therefore, various assignments using input/output (I/O) devices could be given tostudents to exercise development of ladder logic diagrams. But more dynamic applications withmotion control components are necessary to train and prepare students for the real world. Thedevelopment of the PLC controlled four-story elevator is the final project assignment forstudents in the advanced PLC course. This final project requires the following tasks: thedevelopment of interfacing software for the human machine interface (HMI) terminal, the designof a hoist using a stepper motor, the implementation of a position-sensing mechanism, thecompletion of a ladder logic diagram for

Conference Session

TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wei Zheng; Dong Young Jang; Donald Harby; Yuyi Lin

design course. The capstone course is a summary and reflection ofthe whole undergraduate curriculum. Therefore, internationalizing this course has special significance.The effort on this course will serve as the basis for discussion and exploration for internationalizing othercourses. In addition, it is reasonable to assume that engineering schools in different countries have somecommon requirements and expectations for graduating mechanical engineers, and some common practiceto achieve these requirements. There are some common practices in this course, including centering ofthe course around a capstone design project, organization of the students into design teams, and therequirement for team presentation and defense of their design at the end

Conference Session

Gender Perceptions and Girls in K-12 Engineering and Computer Science

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Ann Marasco, University of Calgary; Laleh Behjat P.Eng., University of Calgary

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, engineering design techniques can change student perceptionsof gender within STEM fields. We designed a series of creative projects that combine mandated science, mathematics,technology, English, social studies, physical education and fine arts courses with basic electricalengineering concepts. These projects were led across five schools by one of the femaleresearchers6. Over 350 local grade 5 students participated in the projects. Impressions held bystudents towards STEM were measured through quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews,both before and after the completion of the projects. These results are summarized in Table I.Table 1: Comparison of student percentages who responded “agree” or “strongly agree”Survey Question

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs and Curricula

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jane M. Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Leonardo Bedoya-Valencia, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Jude L. DePalma, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Nebojsa I. Jaksic, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Ananda Mani Paudel, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Hüseyin Sarper, Colorado State University-Pueblo; Ding Yuan, Colorado State University, Pueblo

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

to motivate students throughout the engineering science classes. Third year courses. Use exercises and projects in which students apply engineering knowledge to topics in sustainability. Fourth year courses. Ensure students’ knowledge of sustainability in the senior seminar and require that students consider sustainability in senior design projects.In each year we continue the previous strategies and add more, so that by the senior year, thestudents find sustainability a natural part of engineering and a natural view of the world. Explicitinstruction on sustainability is done as “bookends” with an introduction to the topic in the first

Conference Session

K-8 Engineering & Access

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Staszowski

effects of thepeer interactions that occurred within an early-childhood robotic learning environment.Specifically, which of the underling concepts of the curriculum were most often used as thefoundation of peer-interactions and how did those interactions appear to effect the children’sunderstanding of engineering methods and processes.Method The study was conducted as part of a larger research study on the interactions betweenculture, technology, and family-member/child interactions. This larger study, ProjectInteractions, was a conceptual modification of a research project conducted by Bers and Urrea(2002) entitled Con-science.3 Con-science studied the effect of programmable Lego technology

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Victor Giurgiutiu; David Rocheleau; Jed Lyons

SESSION #1526 Mechatronics/Microcontroller Education for Mechanical Engineering Students at the University of South Carolina Victor Giurgiutiu, Jed Lyons, David Rocheleau Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208, victorg@sc.eduABSTRACTThe Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of South Carolina has embarkedupon a project to enhance the Mechatronics/microcontroller education of non-EE engineeringstudents. NSF funds the project with cost-share by the Department of Mechanical Engineeringand the College of

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Dillard

microcontrollers, includinga project to add a meaningful hardware experience and providing a means for students toinexpensively program their MCU’s at home. We selected the PIC12F675 microcontroller and the PICkitTM 1 FLASH Start Kitdevelopment board from Microchip Technology, Inc. for our microcontroller studies. Teamsof students construct, code, debug and test complete design solutions at home and verify theirimplementation by real-time execution in class. The paintball chronograph project requireshardware and coding for both the PC and PIC12F675, focusing most of the pertinent coursematerial into a single effort. Course assessments show that the chronograph project was very successful and highlymotivational. Hardware construction was relatively

Conference Session

Multi-disciplinary Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kris Dick; Don Petkau; Danny Mann; Myron (Ron) Britton

drawings) and practical fabrication skills are emphasized throughoutall three courses. A high level of coordination between the three courses has been achieved,culminating in a joint presentation of the design projects at a formal technical meeting of theCanadian Society of Agricultural Engineering. This paper will discuss the details of this “DesignTrilogy” including some of the modifications that have taken place over the past four years.I. IntroductionSociety expects that engineers should be able to design practical solutions to problems.Employers hire engineers with the expectation that they can design workable, affordablesolutions to problems. It is the job of the university, therefore, to make sure that graduatingengineers are capable of

Conference Session

Engineering / Education Collaborations

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joel Weinstein

the central office and the new office located across the street which will allow claimsadjusters to update and submit claims information—including digital photographs—into acentral repository. The result is a project in which each student must learn a foreigntechnology, learn to work as a team, learn how to deal with the other disciplines, developa working business plan and deliver a working prototype to solve the problem. The resultsare impressive. The team figured out how to speak one another’s languages and producedan actual prototype demonstrating the synergistic combination of backgrounds andeducational experiences that were taxed into creating a remarkable solution in a shortperiod of time.By completing the project, engineering students

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Moriarty

following sections, we detail the coursedelivery method as well as a breakdown, by discipline, of team effort. We end with adiscussion of results and observations on improving the experience. II. COURSE STRUCTURE AND LOGISTICSThe design experience is offered as a required portion of a senior level Lab course. Allstudents participating in the solar car project and the three faculty advisors from eachdiscipline meet weekly as a group for one hour. The faculty select the teams prior to thefirst of these group meetings, in which the project is defined, constraints are given and theoverall course procedures are outlined. Teams are required to keep a logbook whichdetails the though processes, methodologies and design considerations

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhili (Jerry) Gao, North Dakota State University; Russell Walters, Iowa State University

extraction, storage, and calculations. ShockWave and 3D studio provide the tools to develop 2D and3D animation of transition from design to construction process. Cyclone allows students to perform laserscanning operations for existing projects or current construction sites and gather as-built graphical data tohelp the design process and construction management. OO-CAD together with other tools is used todevelop graphic specifications and guidelines for the construction process. After students obtain thesecomputer-graphic based skills, they will be able to graphically simulate and the operate constructionprocess in a simple, accurate, safe, and effective way. Also, more advanced construction simulation andintegration concepts could be created from