Paper ID #28711Mini-Project Explorations to Develop Steel and Concrete Gravity SystemDesign SkillsDr. Ryan Solnosky P.E., Pennsylvania State University, University Park Ryan Solnosky is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Architectural Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University at University Park. Dr. Solnosky started at Penn State in July of 2013 and has taught courses for Architectural Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Pre-Major Freshman in Engineering. He received his integrated Professional Bachelor of Architectural Engineering/Master of Architectural Engineering (BAE/MAE) degrees in
Development from the Tech- nological Institute of Merida. His areas of interest are innovation practices in organizations, ICT and knowledge management.Dr. Jennifer Jill Kidd, Old Dominion University Dr. Jennifer Kidd is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Old Dominion Uni- versity. Her research interests include engineering education, computational thinking, student-authored digital content, classroom assessment, especially peer review, and diversity issues. She currently has sup- port from the National Science Foundation for two projects related to engineering education for preservice teachers.Dr. Stacie I Ringleb, Old Dominion University Stacie Ringleb is an associate professor in the
them learn how to solve an ill-structured problem. It was observed that students indicated that classes they had taken (89%), internshipexperiences (61%) and personal experiences (56%, including non-internship work experience andbackground knowledge) positively impacted their problem solving processes. For classes taken, civil engineering classes including senior design, geotechnicalengineering, and water-related civil engineering courses as well as class design projects werementioned as helping students familiarize themselves with the ill-structured problem solvingprocess. Students stated that in their classes they had been given an ill-structured problem whichhelped them learn the problem solving process (eight students, 44
Foundation for two projects related to engineering education for preservice teachers.Dr. Orlando M Ayala, Old Dominion University Dr. Ayala received his BS in Mechanical Engineering with honors (Cum Laude) from Universidad de Oriente (Venezuela) in 1995, MS in Mechanical Engineering in 2001 and PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 2005, both from University of Delaware (USA). Dr. Ayala is currently serving as Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology Department, Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA. Prior to joining ODU in 2013, Dr. Ayala spent three years as a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Delaware where he expanded his knowledge on simulation
theyoften view some of the videos while writing their homework answers for the week.With as much content as the C.E.Materials course contains, it has been considered essential touse weekly quizzes to measure student learning/retention on a week to week basis. Each quizcontains 20 to 25 questions, most of which require brief explanations or are fill-in-blank.Retention at the end of the semester is gauged by a comprehensive final exam, which contains10 questions from each of the 12 semester quizzes.Learning Models:While there are a number of learning models widely discussed and applied, such as project-basedlearning, online learning, personalized learning, and so on. Three that appear to be more popularamong engineering educators are the active
became involved in Additive Manufacturing (AM) in 2006, initiated AM option under the Manufacturing curriculum and set up the AM Lab in 2014. Because of his background Dr. Chen has been involved in many student capstone projects. Prof. Chen is a Fellow of the Tennessee Academy of Science. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Student Learning Outcomes through Senior Capstone Experience AbstractOver several years of advising graduate and undergraduate Electrical Engineering Technologystudents at Austin Peay State University, students have been required to solve open-ended realworld problems in their respective engineering disciplines prior to
moderncomputer hardware and software. This effort will focus on developing an integrated solution of adigital electronics project that will be based on a hybrid environment in which the design andexperiments will be simulated and tested in virtual as well as with real electronics components.Students’ outreach program in this study is to motivate students to enroll in ElectronicsEngineering Technology program.IntroductionTraditionally, many institutions world-wide supports the teaching model in which the studentslearn circuit theory by participating in lectures, and acquire a deeper fundamental understandingthrough complimentary experiments. The laboratory experiments presents a design challengethat requires students to apply theory from lectures using
AC 2007-1053: A CAPSTONE ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS PROJECT FORELECTRONICS ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY MAJORSDavid Pocock, Oregon Institute of Technology DAVID N. POCOCK is an Associate Professor and is the Curriculum Coordinator and head of the Analog Block of the Electronics Engineering Technology department at Oregon Institute of Technology in Klamath Falls, OR. His main research interests are semiconductor device modeling, infrared focal plane arrays, nuclear radiation effects, and web-based real electronics labs for distance education.Kevin McCullough, Oregon Institute of Technology KEVIN MCCULLOUGH is a Senior at Oregon Institute of Technology in the Electronics Engineering Technology
addition to the wind tunnel course, this laboratory is also utilized to some extent in five othercourses in the curriculum, including AET 210, Measurement & Testing, AET 300, AircraftDesign, AET 432, Applied Heat Transfer, MET 434, Applied Fluid Mechanics and MET460/461, Capstone Project. This facility has become an essential element of the MMETdepartment curricula not only for students within the aeronautical concentration, but within othermechanical concentrations and the Manufacturing Engineering Technology program. Inaddition, students from all MMET department programs are involved in applied projects ofinterest to the engineering industry.Facility DevelopmentA perfectly funded engineering or engineering technology program that focuses on
course emphasizes how students with differentvalues can work together productively. Team members must learn to respect the differing values Page 12.1383.4among their members. For example, students who perform at different academic levels and withdifferent degrees of personal motivation have to be able to work effectively together to completetheir design projects successfully. Likewise, the course does not attempt to enforce politicallycorrect attitudes; however, students must understand how expressions of sexist or racialinsensitivity or bias may affect their professional future. The students also are asked to evaluatewhat these issues mean in
University Calumet ILIJA KARAMACOSKI graduated with a B.S. degree in EET in fall 2005 and is currently working as an engineer for CS industry. Page 12.301.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 TACTILE AND AUDITORY STIMULI SYSTEM A SENIOR DESIGN PROJECTAbstractThis paper describes the design and development of an instrumentation system to studythe human response time while driving an automobile to visual, auditory and tactilestimuli. The human response time to the applied stimuli along with results from otherongoing research projects will be used in the development of safety features in
toevaluate the level of learning that the students display in a longitudinal study. By comparing theresults of similar courses inside and outside of specific departments, instructors have theopportunity to adjust their courses to improve the students educational experience. Tying theEngineering Science Courses together with a realistic and interesting project, such as windturbines, is intended to increase student interest and create a desire to further their education aswell as increase their learning levels. Bloom’s Taxonomy1,2,3 was selected as an assessment tool for this project. It is one ofthe most identifiable tools for examining student’s cognitive skills. In this case the cognitiveskills are the learning levels and critical thinking
Education, 2008 Interdisciplinary Capstone Design Program A Case StudyAbstractTo advance interdisciplinary engineering, an all college multi-disciplinary senior design programwas initiated. The initial project was a two year effort to design an automated transit system forthe campus. The first semester was a planning stage to establish vehicle, route and infrastructureparameters. The planning semester was followed by three semesters of sequential design.Students enter the program at various stages of development and must complete defined portionsof the overall project. The program places emphasis on documenting work, picking up workinitiated by others and communicating design objectives
AC 2008-565: STATICS AND DYNAMICS PROJECTS EMPHASIZINGINTRODUCTORY DESIGN AND MANUFACTURINGMichael Hennessey, University of St. Thomas DR. MICHAEL P. HENNESSEY is a tenured Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering within the School of Engineering. He has taught over 15 different courses in mechanical engineering at the undergraduate and graduate level and has written 33 papers in research (kinematics, dynamics and control of mechanical systems and related areas of applied mathematics) and mechanical engineering education, including the presentation of 10 papers at ASEE conferences (National (3), along with North Midwest (6) and St. Lawrence (1) sections
AC 2008-718: COMPUTER-CONTROLLED INSTRUMENTATION PROJECTS BYSOPHOMORE-LEVEL EET STUDENTSMichael Dutko, Bloomsburg University Mike is a junior in the EET program at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. He recently completed his co-op experience in designing electromechanical systems with Beck Actuators. Mike is looking forward to professional work in high-power electromechanical systems after graduation.Cathy Auburger, Bloomsburg University Cathy is a junior in the EET program at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. She recently completed her co-op experience in automated manufacturing systems with Harley-Davidson. Cathy is looking forward to professional work in a high-tech
Student ProjectAbstr act:It can be fairly expensive to equip a heat transfer lab with commercially available devices. It isalways nice to be able to make a device that provides an effective lab experience for the students.It is an extra bonus if the device can be designed as a student project, giving the studentsworking on the device both a real design experience and a better understanding of the principlesinvolved with the device and the associated lab exercise.One example of such a device is a 2-dimensional heat conduction device which was designedand built as a student senior design project by mechanical engineering technology students atPenn State Erie, The Behrend College. The device described in this paper allows the students todetermine
to faculty, faculty to students,and students to students. Comparisons can be made between integrated and non-integratedteams.IntroductionA lot of progress has been made in recent years in improving engineering education, e.g.,emphasizing communication skills, working in teams, integration of computer-aided engineering(CAE), and capstone/senior design projects. Previous work by the authors has focused onimproving the integration of CAE1,2,3,4 into mechanical engineering programs. The goal of thispaper is to document efforts to improve the experiences of students working in project designteams. The strategy is to create integrated project teams from machine design, product design,and manufacturing courses to design and build a wide variety of
AC 2007-2001: DEVELOPMENT OF ENGINEERING CONNECTIONSENVIRONMENTS TO CONTEXTUALIZE ENGINEERING CONTENT MODULESDarryl Morrell, Arizona State UniversityRobert Hinks, Arizona State UniversityMark Henderson, Arizona State University Page 12.533.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Development of Engineering Connections Environments to Contextualize Engineering Content ModulesIntroductionThis paper describes the creation of a learner-centered, project- and problem-based environment forlearning foundational engineering science topics; this environment has been named an EngineeringConnections Environment (ECE). The ECE is implemented in the
industrial problems typical of those in which engineers would dependupon mathematics for solutions. This approach is based upon WPI's project-based style ofeducation, one that employs the engineering approach to problem solving broadly across thesciences and mathematics.This project oriented curriculum, introduced over 30 years ago at WPI, has facilitated a majorchange in mathematics education. In the past ten years WPI faculty have developed a successfulmodel that introduces real-world, industrial, projects in mathematics education, at all levels frommiddle school to the Ph.D. program and faculty research. The faculty and students affiliated withthe Center for Industrial Mathematics and Statistics have developed project collaborations withover 30
research focus is in the areas of Biomedical and Process Control Instrumentation and Clinical Engineering.Michael Segura, Purdue University-Calumet MICHAEL I. SEGURA is an alumnus of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Department at Purdue University Calumet. Michael earned his Bachelor’s Degree in ECET in 2005 with distinction. Michael’s Ethernet enabled Wi-Fi mailbox project was selected by the ECET faculty as one of the best senior design projects for the Spring 2005 semester. He is currently employed with ETS, Inc., in Indianapolis, Indiana, as a Product Engineer in the engineering department. His duties include designing new and improved, listed or recognized
is progressively introduced to explain experimental results or to addressnecessary design issues as they arise. The course is further structured around a semester teamdesign project in which students gradually develop their own airplane design (a glider model)based on the aerodynamic principles, and practical design topics, that are introduced throughoutthe semester. Subsequently, each design team constructs a working model of their glider design,and these models are flight tested at the end of the semester. Course topics introduced during thesemester include basic wind tunnel testing and instrumentation, airplane stability and tail design,wing and fuselage design, basic propeller theory, and introductory numerical vortex paneltheory, along
2006-1409: A STUDENT PROJECT EMERGING FROM A TRIPARTITEFACULTY COLLABORATIONAbul Azad, Northern Illinois University DR. ABUL AZAD is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Technology of Northern Illinois University, USA since July 2001. He completed his PhD in 1994 from the University of Sheffield, UK, which was sponsored by the Commonwealth Scholarship, UK. Subsequently he worked with the University of Sheffield and University of Portsmouth (UK) with various capacities. His research and teaching interests include Internet-based physical experiments, mechatronics, real-time computer control, adaptive/intelligent control, and mobile robotics. Dr. Azad has over 75 referred journal and
withModelSim for design simulation.The paper first describes the contents of FPGA logic design course, it also presents how this coursecan build the infrastructure of qualified senior students to conduct SoFGPA research project at theSchool of Technology.2 Course ObjectivesDue to increase demand of FPGA designers, the course major objectives are to give the students ofElectrical Engineering Technology program the opportunity to learn and experience logic designusing FPGA. This will create a pool of informed electrical engineering technologists from whichindustry can draw their potential staff. This common pool of students will be given the opportunityto conduct research in hardware design and modeling of the basic building blocks of SoFPGAresearch
has adifferent lab session time. Outside of scheduled meeting times, students can access thelab 24x7.The course final grade is based on lab assignments, quizzes, mid-term exam, finalexam and semester project. The mid-term exam includes one lecture exam and one labexam, same for the final exam. In the lab exam, student is required to demonstrate his/ her skills and abilities of programming, problem solving and troubleshooting withinthe classroom.We utilize WebCT [3] as the teaching platform in this course. All assignments arehanded out and turned in electronically via WebCT. Lecture materials are alsoavailable through WebCT and course web site.The topics covered in the course and timeframe for each topic are listed below: ‚ VB.NET
Department at Texas A&M University. He received his Ph. D. degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering (1989) from University of Michigan. His research interest is in real-time distributed computing systems, network performance and security, medical informatics, and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Dr. Liu teaches Microcomputer Systems (CPCS 462) course.Angie Price, Texas A&M University Angie Hill Price, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology program at Texas A&M University, where she has been on the faculty for 14 years. She has taught the Mechanical / Manufacturing Technology Projects course for the last
2006-1959: ASSESSING STUDENT COMPREHENSION IN A WINDOWS 2003SERVER PROJECT THROUGH THE USE OF A PORTFOLIOGary Steffen, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne Gary currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology at IPFW. Previously, he served 10 years as the Manager of Electronic and Computer Support specializing in computer networking. Gary received a Mater’s degree from Ball State University in 2000 and recently completed the “Information and Security Assurance Certificate” at Purdue University sponsored by the NSA. His current areas of interest include local area networking, network security and wireless networking
2006-1989: BILLIKENSAT 1 – SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY’S FIRST CUBESATDESIGNSanjay Jayaram, St. Louis University Dr. Sanjay Jayaram is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department at Saint Louis University. His research interests include Autonomous Control System Design for ground and planetary vehicles, Robust and Adaptive Control. Page 11.274.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 BILLIKENSAT 1 – Saint Louis University’s First Cubesat DesignAbstract:Billikensat 1 is the first multi-disciplinary Senior Capstone Spacecraft Design project at ParksCollege of
hands-on experiences in telecommunications networks analysis and thevarious aspects related to the administration and management of such networks. A primary goalof the program from its inception has been to develop a capstone course in which studentsdemonstrate their competence gained via the program by the successful completion of a teamproject and associated report.This paper discusses the development of the telecommunications project course as a capstonecourse for the TCET program at SPSU. The most recent project involved the setting up of avoice-over-IP (VoIP) network using Cisco routers and equipment available in ourtelecommunications laboratory. The VoIP network operated over a Frame Relay (FR) cloud andincorporated security aspects into
Professor of Engineering at East Carolina University. Prior to joining ECU, he was a faculty member and program coordinator at Milwaukee School of Engineering. Howard has fourteen years of industrial experience in design and project engineering functions. He received BS and MS degrees from Virginia Tech, and his PhD from Marquette University. Howard is a registered Professional Engineer in Wisconsin. Page 11.1413.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Using the ASME Professional Practice Curriculum Within an MET Capstone ExperienceAbstract:The Capstone Experience in