Conference Session

Information Literacy in First-year Courses and Co-curricular Experiences

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Brianna B. Buljung, Colorado School of Mines; Leslie Light, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

-ended problem solving program, and is working with others on campus to establish a broader integrated context for innovation and design. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work in Progress: Using a Second Intervention to Continue Improving Information Literacy Outcomes in a First Year Design ClassAbstractDoes a reinforcement lesson on scholarly and authoritative sources positively affect the qualityof students’ sources in the completion of an engineering design project? In the spring of 2017,the Design I information literacy team at Colorado School of Mines piloted a flipped lesson onevaluating sources in the first-year engineering design course

Conference Session

Virtues in Engineering Ethics Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sergio Guillen Grillo, University of Virginia; Bryn Elizabeth Seabrook, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

news and challenge of globalization for engineering education is the importance of questioning and studying one’s own identity as an engineer, including the knowledge one values and the broader social commitments one takes for granted in doing engineering work. The work of building such questions into engineering education is the responsibility of all engineering educators and the entire curriculum, including the most technical of technical courses and instructors. The big hurdle to overcome is to move these questions from the periphery of engineering curricula to their core.” [2]As Seabrook et al. examine in their comparative study, embedded courses within engineeringschools that draw from the field of

Conference Session

Partnerships in IE Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Emanuel

insures consistently higher quality results. This also tends to result in theteam solving the “real” problem rather than trying to make the problem a quality problem or afacility layout problem or an ergonomics problem. For a complete discussion of the organizationand management of the project course together with the impact on industry, see Emanuel (2001).Two communication experts also support the student team. The written communication expertteaches the Technical Writing class taken currently with the design course by all project teammembers and an oral communication expert who has over 12 years of experience working with Page 8.1109.1past

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marc McComb, Microchip Technology, Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

these labs are formatted, how to use them and the learningobjectives or benefits to the student that each provides. One lab will be chosen and dissected, toprovide the audience with an insightful overview of the general format used. Future labs willalso be discussed, to provide the audience with a clear understanding of the direction in whichthis program is moving.IntroductionThe Internet provides an opportunity for both educators and employers to offerquality educational resources for engineering students. Introductory learningmaterials developed by a manufacturer can supply students with unique insightinto a technology or process that complements what is learned in the classroom.Microchip’s Academic Program has recently dedicated a section of

Conference Session

Innovations in the Aerospace Classroom

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Wicks

. The frequency is established by thependulum. The gears integrate pendulum cycles per second into cumulative pendulumcycles that are displayed as time in seconds, minutes and hours. Pendulums were replaced by spring loaded oscillating flywheels for compactness andresulted in a time measuring instrument that people could carry on their person. It alsomade it possible to design an accurate clock for shipboard navigation, which was achievedby two generations of John Harrison’s family in England in the 1700s. Latitude in thenorthern hemisphere can be obtained by the angle to the north or pole star. Longituderequires comparing local time of star positions versus the star positions as a function oftime at a reference longitude such as the

Conference Session

Innovative Practices in NRE Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Monty Smith; Jerome Davis; Charles Bittle; Mitty Plummer

Session 0000 Building a Reactor Simulator as a Senior Project By Mitty C. Plummer, Monty Smith, Jerome J Davis, Charles C. Bittle University of North TexasI. Introduction.The Senior Design Project is intended to provide an “integrated educational experience”or capstone, for the engineering technology curriculum. As administered at the Universityof North Texas, the capstone “Senior Projects “ is a two credit hour, one semester course.The course concludes with a presentation of the students’ projects in which faculty,family members, business leaders, and other

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R.F. William Hollender, Montana State University; James Becker, Montana State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

, save for possibly a circulator will be used.Students will then be asked to compare their measurements on the system (range for a giventarget size/distance/velocity, minimum detectable signal, etc.) with appropriate calculations. Byhaving a fully integrated system, it is hoped that calculations will match reasonably well withmeasurements. To make this lab feasible the content regarding the Doppler will be moved toearlier in the semester and an additional Doppler board will be constructed. This board will befully integrated and will seek to improve the phase noise of the integrated VCO using additionalbias filtering as it is believed that phase noise associated with the VCO limited the performanceof the fall 2009 EE 433 Doppler system

Conference Session

Remote Pedagogy in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua Gargac, Ohio Northern University

THORS and lecture exam THORS - GD&T Final exam period: TED talk presentations None2. Self-learning component: THORS curriculumTHORS courses were first integrated into the course during the Spring ‘17 semester. Over thepast four years, the number of assigned THORS courses and frequency at which they wereassigned was adjusted (Tab. 3). Consistency of course length was initially an issue for THORScourses because some required only four hours to complete, while others required over 14 hours.As such, students were initially given three weeks to complete each course during the Spring ’17semester. In an attempt to increase the academic rigor of the course, the number of requiredcourses was doubled for the next

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Economy

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Dryer; Paul Kauffmann; William Peterson

the program. While thetypical student has an engineering degree from an ABET accredited program, students withengineering technology degrees, degrees in other technical disciplines, and students who arewilling to makeup deficiencies in preparation (typically, a lack of a sufficiently rigorous Page 8.1185.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationmathematics background to include calculus through integral calculus or differential equationsand a calculus bases statistics course) are accepted

Conference Session

Research Experience in Stormwater Management

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Walter McDonald, Virginia Tech; Randel L. Dymond, Virginia Tech; Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Tech; Daniel S. Brogan, Virginia Tech; Debarati Basu, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

-supported research and learning systems, hydrology, and water resources. In a major ($1M+, NSF) curriculum reform and engineering education research project from 2004 to 2009, he led a team of engineering and education faculty to reform engineering curriculum of an engineering department (Biological Systems Engineering) using Jerome Bruner’s spiral curriculum theory. Currently, Dr. Lohani leads an NSF/REU Site on ”interdisciplinary water sciences and engineering” which has already graduated 56 excellent undergraduate researchers since 2007. This Site is renewed for the third cycle which will be implemented during 2014-16. He also leads an NSF/TUES type I project in which a real-time environmental monitoring lab is being

Conference Session

Teamwork & Assessment in the Classroom

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell

. Sternberg, "Progressive development of oral and written communication skills across and integrated laboratory sequence," Chemical Engineering Education, vol. 31, pp. 116-119, 1997.[32] P. Elbow, "Teaching thinking by teaching writing," Phi Delta Kappan, pp. 37, 1983.[33] N. Van Orden, "Is writing an effective way to learn chemical concepts?," Journal of Chemical Education, vol. 67, pp. 583, 1990.[34] P. C. Wankat, "Reflective analysis of student learning in a sophomore engineering course," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 88, pp. 194, 1999.. Page 8.406.9 Proceedings of the 2003

Conference Session

Pedagogical Innovations in Laboratory Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alyn Marie Turner, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Sandra Shaw Courter, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Shirley Dyke, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

testing methods, suchas distributed hybrid testing, where various components of a single structural system are tested at Page 22.883.5geographically distributed sites. Video and data can be streamed in real time to laboratories andusers around the country for analysis and simulation through the Real-time Data Viewer (RDV)developed by NEES.ii The current evaluation study is a part of a larger project, an NSF funded Phase 2 Course,Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) project. The purpose of this project, inrecognition that integration of the fundamental concepts of hazard mitigation is not currently acomponent of traditional civil

Conference Session

Big Picture Questions in BME

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicole L. Ramo, University of Michigan; Aileen Huang-Saad, University of Michigan; Barry Belmont, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering

and Schatzberg [15] point out that definitions are fundamental to philosophy, and our philosophy, whether explicit or not, determines how we educate [16]. More practically, definitions serve as objectives, helping to determine the ultimate aims of education. Thus, definitions may provide insights into how and why engineering education is this way and not that.”As Linsenmeier states in his 2003 IEEE article on biomedical engineering [5], “in order tospecify curriculum, we need to specify the field in which we are trying to provide an education(pg. 33).” Indeed, many of the reports offering suggestions for core BME content begin with adescription of biomedical engineering and how it is distinct from [5], [6], or

Conference Session

Sustainability in Engineering Curricula

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary McCormick, Tufts University; Kristina Lawyer, Michigan Technological University; Meredith Berlin, University of Colorado - Boulder; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University; Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jonathan Wiggins, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

experiences. One approach,sustainable engineering through service learning, appears to have pedagogical advantages, buthas yet to be rigorously explored. This paper outlines an approach to evaluate if such anadvantage exists. Our goal is to determine if (and how) service learning provides an appropriatemethod to instill sustainable engineering educational outcomes in engineering students. Servicelearning has been shown to enrich students’ learning experiences and to be intrinsicallymotivational to engineering students. Consequently, we are evaluating the outcomes resultingfrom the explicit integration of sustainable engineering and service learning in engineeringeducation. Sustainable engineering via service learning efforts, both curricular

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Urban; Debra Banks; Mary Anderson-Rowland

. Thetechnologies consisted of autonomous robots that were relatively easy to build and Pocket PCswith an integrated wireless capability in order to access the Internet. The paper includes thebackground information on the course, technologies, and the applicability. In addition, studentexperiences with the tools are also covered in the paper.I. IntroductionThe effective use of computer applications is essential for incoming freshman engineeringstudents. However, there are some entering freshman engineering students who lack thecomputing skills necessary to be productive in the beginning courses. The lack of skills can beattributed to a variety of reasons, such as an impoverished pre-college environment orinattentiveness to the details when the opportunity

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Madara Ogot

, August/September, 1993, pp. 14-162. National Science Foundation, ‘SHAPING THE FUTURE: New Expectations for Undergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology’ Arlington, VA, (NSF 96-139), 1996.3. Shepard, S. D., ‘Mechanical Dissection: An Experience in How Things Work’ Proceedings of the Engineering Page 7.1134.6 Education Conference on Curriculum Innovation and Integration, 1992. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society of Engineering Education4. Lamancusa, J, M

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Bruno; Alistair Greig; Robert Mayer; Jennifer Waters

Shipbuilding.The mission of ACCeSS is establishing an international design environment where thedisciplines associated with hull, machinery, weapon and control system design can be broughttogether within the context of the total ship system design, thereby facilitating the creativeknowledge development, educational changes and discipline integration required for trueinnovation. Secondly, ACCeSS seeks to utilise this unique education and research environmentin the recruiting, training and long-term career development of the best and brightest youngengineers in the US (and UK). The latter initiative is expected to contribute to countering thecontinued downward trend in recruitment and retention in the marine industry being experiencedin both countries.1.1

Conference Session

Ethics in different disciplines

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert M. Brooks, Temple University; Jyothsna K. S., St.Joseph's College, Bangalore, Department of English; Amithraj Amavasai

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

. Herkert, J. R. (2002). “Continuing and Emerging Issues in Engineering Education.” The Bridge, 32(3).7. McEachron, D, Vaidya, S., and Ake, S. 2009. “A model for Integrating Ethics into an Engineering Curriculum”,AC 2009-898, ASEE National Conference, Austin, Texas.8. King, P. M., and Kitchener, K. S. (1994). “Developing Reflective Judgement: Understanding and PromotingIntellectual Growth and Critical Thinking In Adolescents And Adults.” San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.9. Riley, D. (2008). “Ethics in Context, Ethics in Action: Getting Beyond The Individual Professional inEngineering Ethics Education”. Smith College. American Society for Engineering Education.10. Dyrud, M. A. (2005). “Ethics 101”. Oregon Institute of Technology. Proceedings of the 2005

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

one of the first urban publicuniversities to require a significant core curriculum for undergraduates. This core consisted of54 hours of courses divided among three tiers: general introductory knowledge, discipline-specific knowledge, and knowledge integration. The University also imposed a new graduationrequirement: satisfactory performance on an exit examination in writing. The core curriculumremains. However, in 1999, the Texas Coordinating Board for Higher Education mandated thatall public universities permit portability and transferability of the core curriculum; UH thusreduced its core to conform to those adopted by others. The exit writing exam was discontinuedin Fall 1999 when it was determined that the effort and expense were not

Conference Session

Experiments in Remote-access Laboratories

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Hyder, Georgia Institute of Technology; Brian Post, Georgia Institute of Technology; Dirk Schaefer, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

, allowing simple assimilationwith computers. If there is a reason to avoid computer-equipment integration, cameras can beused to monitor a display. An experiment can be designed to give a student control, while fixingcertain parameters. Students can then take the data derived from their observations and crunchthe numbers. Take the example of measuring the speed of light. The setup has fixed distancesbetween signal origin and receiver, but allows the student control of the output. In this case, thestudents still need to apply critical reasoning skills, but most of the data is available on theircomputer screens [10]. Page 14.29.6Simple

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Soda

descriptions an importanteducational asset. We have developed a set of step-by-step instructions demonstrating advancedsimulation skills based upon those developed earlier in the curriculum. For El Engr 281, we shiftthe focus to file management skills, model library assignment, repeated part placement, data busnaming, connection to data buses, marking and assessing digital signals, re-formatting simulateddata, and identification of high impedance or indeterminate output signals. Using thisinformation, our students are easily able to save, retrieve and modify their schematics as well asbetter display and interpret their simulation results. El Engr 281’s unique simulation requirements have spurred the development of perhapsour most unique

Conference Session

Curricular Developments in Energy Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ray Miller, University of Cincinnati; Max Rabiee, University of Cincinnati; Elvin Stepp, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

promote the topics that should be included in PowerEngineering Technology Programs. The paper will focus on the technical description of arecently approved new Associate Degree in Power System Engineering Technology at theUniversity of Cincinnati. This new program started in the fall of 2006, and was created largelydue to the request from industry professionals. The program is jointly presented by the Electricaland Computer Engineering Technology, and Mechanical Engineering Technology departments atthe University of Cincinnati. The paper also presents a proposed formation of an Energy Centerwhich will extend the current associate level curriculum into a baccalaureate degree in PowerSystems Engineering Technology. Other degrees including nuclear

Conference Session

Advancements in Sustainable Manufacturing Practices

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhenhua Wu, Virginia State University; Pamela Leigh-Mack, Virginia State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing Division (MFG)

-axial Kistler accelerometer, which canmeasure vibration in X, Y, and Z directions. These two types of sensors are typical for machiningdynamics, and can also be extended for other potential applications on machine tools, machinedproducts, and cutting tools as summarized in Table 1 [10]. The adoption of a dynamometer andaccelerometer enriches the curriculum in our Manufacturing Automation course. In that course,we have one chapter introducing analog sensors to students. Nevertheless, we previously focusedon low cost sensors such as thermocouple and RTD due to restriction of equipment, a dynamometercost approximately $65k to $70k, and an accelerometer costs from $700 to $2000. Now, we canconnect these sensor measurements with machining dynamics

Conference Session

Measuring Perceptions of Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Thompson; Jed Lyons

was discovered that the students in thisteacher’s classroom were highly involved in integrating technology across the curriculum andalso worked with a Fellow who was majoring in computer science. Both of these factors werebelieved to have an impact on students’ perceptions of the ways that engineers use computers intheir work.These results show students’ post-drawings focused less on tools used to construct buildings,bridges and cars. They also show fewer students referenced building when describing what the Page 10.92.7engineers were doing. Both of these changes were found across all groups of student. Proceedings of the 2005 American

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Dillard

discrete components and common integrated circuit chips. It has evolved to an embeddedsystems approach based on the PIC12F675 microcontroller. The salient features of thePIC12F675 are listed in Table 1. Table 1. Key Features of the PIC12F675 Core Architecture Peripherals 8-bit data bus Two timers 8-pin package 10-bit SA-ADC Harvard bus structure One analog comparator Orthogonal RAM 8-bit EEPROM for data storage Direct, indirect and relative addressing Internal 4 MHz oscillator To exercise the PIC12F675 to its

Conference Session

What's New in Engineering Economy

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Justin Chimka; Alisha Youngblood; Heather Nachtmann

; National Research Council, 1995), such as datacollection and estimation, provide the motivation for this research. The fact that an effectiveestimation curriculum does not currently exist has been acknowledged (Moore, 1997; Goyal, et al.1997) along with recognition of the challenge of developing effective estimation pedagogy(Goyal, et al, 1997). Until now, education-related engineering economy research has focused onsolution methodology and lacks an emphasis on data modeling and estimation.Our research goals are to understand engineering student estimation processes and developeducational materials to improve engineering estimation pedagogy. The research phases (asshown in Exhibit 1) include

Conference Session

Experiential Learning in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jeffrey Stransky, Rowan University; Caleb Hill; Robert John McErlean, Rowan University; Jacob Willetts, Rowan University; Landon Bassett, University of Connecticut; Daniel D. Anastasio, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Daniel D. Burkey, University of Connecticut; Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Cheryl A. Bodnar, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Teaching Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University where he teaches courses in Senior Design, Unit Opera- tions, Transport Phenomena, Material & Energy Balances and Mathematical/Computational Methods. Dr. Cooper’s research interests include effective teaching, process safety education and conceptual learning.Dr. Cheryl A. Bodnar, Rowan University Dr. Bodnar is an Associate Professor in the Experiential Engineering Education Department at Rowan University. Her research interests relate to the incorporation of active learning techniques such as game- based learning in undergraduate classes as well as integration of innovation and entrepreneurship into the

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division: Best of Works in Progress

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware; Marcia Gail Headley, University of Delaware; Amy Trauth, University of Delaware; Laura Meszaros Dearolf; Margo Donlin, University of Delaware; Kelsey Neal, University of Delaware; Kayla Pariser; Judson Wagner

engineering curriculum, including CAD, mechanics, and capstone design; and she is the Co-Director of the UD Mechanical Engineering MakerSpace, The Design Studio. She is the Co-Founder and President of The Perry Initiative, a non-profit organization dedicated to diversifying the pipeline in engineering and medicine through hands-on learning.Marcia Gail Headley (Data Scientist) Dr. Headley is a Data Scientist at the Center for Research in Education and Social Policy (CRESP) at the University of Delaware. She specializes in the development of mixed methods research designs and strategies for integrating quantitative and qualitative research approaches. Her work has been published in the Journal of Mixed Method Research. In

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Keat; Michael Larson

Session 2366 The State of Mechanical Engineering Design Education: Results of a Web-based Survey Michael C. Larson, William D. Keat Tulane University, New Orleans, LA / Union College, Schenectady, NYAbstractA web-based survey of mechanical engineering programs was conducted, with the assistance ofASME, to assess the manner in which design is spread across the curriculum. Forty-six schoolsresponded to the survey, which consisted of 18 questions per design course identified by theschool. Specific emphases were given to defining: (1) the nature of the freshman

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard LaRoche; R. Muralikrishnan; Barbara Hutchings

to customize the exercises or create their own to tie directly into theexisting curriculum. Fluent is working with university professors worldwide to develop a libraryof FlowLab exercises which would be available freely through the Internet. Below are theoverall educational goals for the FlowLab framework:• Reinforce basic concepts of fluid mechanics and heat/mass transfer using computer simulation• Use computing exercises to augment and complement existing laboratory-based curriculum• Expand the learning experience with real-world applications of fluid flow and heat/mass transfer• Expose students to CFD and CFD concepts – an increasingly important skill in the job marketCustomizing FlowLabFlowLab is designed to fit easily