Conference Session

Out-of-School and Informal Activities

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara A. Christie, Loyola Marymount University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Engineering Laboratory. The highschool students purchase supplies for the mousetrap car from Home Depot and must keeptheir budget to $10. At night, students work on group projects that include designing andbuilding robots using LEGO Mindstorms NXT.To recruit students, we created a partnership between our College and five community-based out-of-school time programs in Southern California. By working with communityorganizations, we have reached highly motivated students who have a strong aptitude forscience and mathematics. Over the past 11 years, 233 students from 73 different highschools in the Greater Los Angeles Area have participated in SECOP. We have receivedover $500.000 in funding from foundations and engineering-based corporations

Conference Session

Adaptive and Supportive Learning Environments

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

W. Vincent Wilding, Brigham Young University; Thomas Allen Knotts IV, Brigham Young University; William G. Pitt, Brigham Young University; Morris D. Argyle, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering, Minorities in Engineering

student takes the feedback from all of their teammates, evaluates their own performance,and formulates a plan, consisting of a couple of goals dealing with these teamwork/leadershipskills, to focus on in the next team experience. This “next” experience will, except in the case ofthe Unit Operations lab, occur in the next semester. (The Unit Operations laboratory coursesincludes several projects allowing the cycle to be completed several times in each semester.) Atypical statement of this feedback and improvement plan assignment is shown in Table 2. Table 2. Feedback and Improvement Plan Assignment • Referring to the List of Leadership Qualities [in Table 1], provide for each member of your team a description of one or

Conference Session

Capstone Courses in Construction

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vivek Sharma, Texas State University, San Marcos; Vedaraman Sriraman, Texas State University, San Marcos

Tagged Divisions

Construction

project to facilitate comparison ofscheduling and estimating numbers with the industry.In addition to the traditional instructor based lectures, this course will also include lecturesdelivered by industry personnel and laboratory activities that may vary depending upon theselected project. This assures at least six hour contact time among the faculty, the industrypersonnel and students every week. After the lecture sessions, each team has been allotted timeto seek guidance from industry sponsors on specific aspects of the project. The course topicsinclude the following as shown in Table 1. Table 1: Course Topics Topic or Subject Description Introduction

Conference Session

Computers and Simulation

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaobo Peng, Prairie View A&M University; Blesson Isaac, Prairie View A&M University; Richard T. Wilkins, Prairie View A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

nanotechnology has nowbrought urgent challenges to undergraduate engineering education: How to integrate theemerging nanotechnologies into classroom teaching? How to prepare our students fortomorrow’s highly competitive global job markets? And how to maintain the US’s leadershipand dominance in science and technology in an era of globalization?Funded by Department of Education, a project is carried out to integrate nanotechnology into theundergraduate science and engineering curricula through a sequential preparation approach fromintroductory freshman to the advanced senior level. The curricula are reinforced by innovativecomputer simulations and state-of-the-art nanomaterials laboratory experiments anddemonstrations. The work presented in this paper is

Conference Session

Assessment in Graphics Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Burke, University of Limerick

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

not be visible in anyorthographic view of each design. This restriction was added to each brief to ensure thatstudents explored organic, complex form rather than employing familiar geometric shapes totheir designs. Students were required to submit the relevant CAD file as well as a 2Dphotorealistic rendered image of their solutions in each case. Hand drawn sketches were alsosubmitted if students chose to employ them.The study was conducted over four weeks and consisted of four, four hour computerlaboratory sessions (one session per week). Each task took two laboratory sessions tocomplete. All seventeen students attended the four sessions. The first of the two sessions ineach task consisted of instruction on using the surfacing tools in each

Conference Session

International Research Experience, Quality Improvement, and Programs/Curriculum Around the Globe

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Wolfsteiner, Munich University of Applied Sciences; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

International

is currently working as exchange professor at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.Dr. Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University Brian P. Self obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering mechanics from Virginia Tech and his Ph.D. in bioengineering from the University of Utah. He worked in the Air Force Research Laboratories before teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy for seven years. Self has taught in the Mechanical En- gineering Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, since 2006. During the 2011-2012 academic year, he participated in a professor exchange, teaching at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. His engineering education interests include

Conference Session

Spacecraft Design Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sanjay Jayaram, Saint Louis University; Michael A. Swartwout, Saint Louis University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

often aconsequence of our reaction to failures1. Hazard analysis which relies on engineering practiceand judgment to identify, classify, and manage risk has continued to have an important role inforeseeing and preventing critical system failure2, 3 . Failure’s role in engineering; including itsvalue in design, design revisions and failure as a source of engineering judgment has beenstudied4, 5. The continued failure of important complex systems has led to assess the question asto how the systems fail despite everything thought to be necessary in the way of process beingdone6.Several engineering curriculums do offer courses based on either laboratories or case studies tounderstand the importance of failures in design as a teaching aid7, 8, 9, 10

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Syed Iqbal Omar P.E., Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Reza Nekovei, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Amit Verma, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; David W. Stollberg P.E., Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

from Vanderbilt University in 1990, and a Ph.D. degree in materials science and engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2000. In 2007, Stollberg joined the Electro Optical System Laboratory at the Georgia Tech Research Institute as a Senior Research Engineer in their Microelectronics and Nanotechnology Laboratory. He is also a materials science and engineering instructor for the School of Material Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research involves nanostructures and nanofabrication with carbon nanotubes, nanopowders, and nanometer thin films for various applications including ballistics, mechanical properties improvement, thermal barrier coatings, microbe protection

Conference Session

Capstone Courses

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Manish Paliwal, College of New Jersey; Bijan Sepahpour, College of New Jersey

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

generation of design-oriented exercises and development of laboratory apparatus and experiments in the areas of me- chanics of materials and dynamics of machinery for undergraduate engineering programs. Sepahpour did his undergraduate studies at TCNJ and has degrees from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He has served as the Chair of ASEE divisions of Experimentation and Laboratory Oriented Studies (DELOS) in 2006-07 and Mechanical Engineering in 2007-08. Sepahpour is an active member of ASME and ASEE. Page 25.100.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 A REVISED

Conference Session

Mechanics Concepts II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sinead C. Mac Namara, Syracuse University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

and Dollár argue for introducing new material bygrounding it in existing knowledge, being open to multiple modes of learning, and havingstudents begin to learn about forces, couples etc by working with those examples thatthey can perceive either by manipulating with their own hands or by viewing resultingdeformation or motion.9 They also argue for significant interaction and discussion in theclassroom. Williams and Howard discuss the value of a laboratory experience orclassroom demonstration in helping students learn the elementary statics concepts andfurther advise that students estimate and evaluate expected outcomes in advance.10O’Neill et al report on a successful lab lecture hybrid interdisciplinary mechanics coursethat uses longer

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James E. Globig, University of Dayton; Michael J. Kozak, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

University in 1983, and his master’s of science from University of Dayton in 2003. He teaches a number of lecture and laboratory courses in circuit analysis, semiconductor devices, and data acquisition and control.Prof. Michael J. Kozak, University of Dayton Michael Kozak is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology at the University of Dayton. He primarily teaches classes related to mechanical engineering technology, and his main research interest is in pedagogy. Page 25.1344.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 The Rubber Band Rule and Other

Conference Session

Active and Project-based Learning

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tony Lee Kerzmann, Robert Morris University; Eugene Joseph Werner Jr., GAI Consultants, Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

were fabricated in RMU’s a rapid prototyping laboratory, and werecreated similar to the turbine blades that were researched for the concept.6. All of the students onthe design team had little or no experience in rapid prototyping or with RMU’s fused deposition3D modeler. The students had to learn how to use the 3D printer, determine its limitations, anddiagnose any issues with their prototyped parts. The shaft was made of Stainless steel and waspurchased from a major distributor, while the shaft support was designed in SolidWorks with themajor design criteria of preventing vibration in the turbine and shaft, thereby maintaining Page

Conference Session

Developing Young Minds in Engineering: Part I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Blair J. McDonald, University of Texas, Pan American

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

attempt to get the new and at risk students to mingle with mature students and facultywithout enrolling them in a "special" program. The program's key objective is to get students toteach each other with mentors available to intervene only when necessary. In the Fall 2011 term,the project was started with virtually no funding. Laboratory space that was only being used20% of the time was made available to students to study in during the unused 80% of the classschedule.The motivation for this program and its objectives are discussed. Data collected following thefirst semester of operation is presented and discussed. Conclusions are drawn regarding theprograms impact on participating students.IntroductionStudents at every academic level are prone to

Conference Session

Capstone Projects and Experiential Learning

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott James Schneider, University of Dayton; Seth Jarek Peterson, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

5% System overview (block diagram) 10% Team Grade Hardware design and analysis discussion 23% HDL code correctness and professionalism 17% Software design and analysis discussion 20% Assembly code correctness and professionalism 15% Prototype demonstration 5% Laboratory notes 5% Individual Grade

Conference Session

Progress in Manufacturing Education I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian W. Anthony, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; David E. Hardt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

professional degree offered by the ME Department at MIT and is the culmination of many years of course and curriculum development. Prof. Hardt served as Director of the MIT Laboratory for Manufacturing from 1985 - 1992 and as En- gineering Co-Director for the MIT Leaders for Manufacturing Program from 1993 to 1998. Since 1999 he has bee the co Chair of the Singapore MIT Alliance (SMA) Program: ”Manufacturing Systems and Technology”, a research and teaching collaboration with Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Prof. Hardt also serves as the Graduate Officer of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Misty L. Loughry, Georgia Southern University; Richard A. Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Hal R. Pomeranz, Deer Run Associates; Wendy L. Bedwell, University of Central Florida, Institute for Simulation and Training; Rebecca Lyons, University of Central Florida, Institute for Simulation and Training; Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kyle Heyne, University of Central Florida; Tripp Driskell, University of Central Florida; David J. Woehr, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

-labs, and student workshops. For a decade, he has been the key developer of reform of the experimental-based curriculum in his department. Most of his courses and laboratories involve instructor-assigned teams and guided instruction for students to become more effective team members. He is a founding developer of the CATME/Team-Maker System, a free, web-based system that helps faculty assign students to teams and conduct self- and peer-evaluations. He collaborates with his technical communications colleagues in developing scaffolded communications activities for use in his disciplinary technical courses.Mr. Hal R. Pomeranz, Deer Run AssociatesMs. Wendy L. Bedwell, University of Central Florida, Institute for Simulation

Conference Session

K-12 Teacher Professional Development

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

theparticipating societally-focused engineering technology laboratories at USC, middle and highschool teachers and students will collaboratively learn how scientists help us address importantquestions that are ethnically and culturally relevant to advancing academically successful,healthy, and sustainable urban societies.An emphasis on science and health, and the technology associated with these subjects isconsistent with the goals for school reform in our state.12 Hence, our teacher training is focusedon the interdisciplinary nature of health and science education to develop content area literacythrough a student-centered curriculum, thereby promoting teachers’ and students’ understandingand application of engineering, health, and science research in

Conference Session

Software and Web-based Learning in ECE

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph P. Hoffbeck, University of Portland

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

learn. It can be very helpful to motivate the studentsby showing how the material is used in real systems. Simulations are an effective and easilydeployed method, but they do not have as direct connection to the real world as real systems.However most real communication systems are very complex, and it is often difficult to utilizethem in a class. Some laboratory experiments have been based on the USRP because they can beused to build communication systems that run in real-time without the need for building lowlevel hardware and software1,2.The USRP is an open source hardware platform provided by Ettus Research3. It converts radiofrequency (RF) signals to digital signals that can be processed by a computer, and also convertsdigital signals from

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Santosh Chandana Golagani, University of Texas, San Antonio; Moosa Esfahanian, University of Texas, San Antonio; David Akopian, University of Texas, San Antonio; Can Saygin, University of Texas, San Antonio

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

AC 2012-3546: TEMPLATE-BASED IMAGE PROCESSING TOOLKIT FORANDROID PHONESMrs. Santosh Chandana Golagani, University of Texas, San AntonioMr. Moosa Esfahanian, University of Texas, San AntonioDr. David Akopian, University of Texas, San Antonio David Akopian is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas, San Antonio (UTSA). He joined the UTSA in 2003 where he founded the Software Communication and Navigation Systems Laboratory. He received the M.Sc. degree in radio-electronics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1987 and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Fin- land, in 1997. From 1999 to 2003, he was a Senior Engineer and Specialist with Nokia

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip Wankat

distribution: 13 quizzes (lowest dropped) 10% Computer laboratory grade (7 labs) 15% Homework (9 assignments) 15% Tests (3 tests, 20% each) 60%The first test score was increased by ten points to off-set a low average. This resulted inseveral students having a test score above 100. Students were assigned to groups for thecomputer laboratory and were encouraged to work in groups on the homework. Thishelped to harness the power of groups to help students learn. The downside was thatsome students undoubtedly copied the homework solutions without understanding them.If doing homework assignments helps students learn the

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Luces Faulkenberry

the foodarrived then, the group began their meal.As dessert began Dr. Curtis Johnson, Professor of Electrical-Electronics Technology at theUniversity of Houston, began his talk on his adventures in Azerbaijan. Dr. Johnson was inAzerbaijan on a Fulbright Scholarship. His task was to set up a computer laboratory with accessto the World Wide Web. Dr. Johnson said that was not an easy task in a developing nation. Healso described the higher education system in that nation. The talk was interesting andinformative.Dr. Larry Brillhart, Associate Dean of Applied Technology at North Harris College, conducted adiscussion on topics of interest to the group. First, everyone introduced themselves to learn whowas there, where they were from, and what

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Tomás Gómez; Maria Velasco; Joséantonio Turégano

distorted picture.As an alternative, computers offer the possibility to perform graphics with a very precisecalculation of thermodynamic properties and to analyze them in a variety of contents within thecourse work of engineering thermodynamics. Page 6.1055.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationII. Objective and main features of ThermografIn our initial studies exploring the educational potential of personal computers, we began byconstructing a set of laboratory simulations10 and tools11

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

David R Finley

students entering the program each year, retention is a critical issuefor the viability of the program in a primarily “tuition-driven” budgeting environment. Threefull-time faculty members, with the support of a laboratory technician and a half-time secretary,teach all core courses in the ChE curriculum. Thus, the teaching load for faculty is 12 credithours per semester. No special allowances are made for laboratory or design courses. This loadis reduced to 9 credit hours per semester for the departmental chair.II. What Do I Do?As departmental chair, workday activities can be grouped into four major categories: teaching,mentoring, administrating, and consulting/research. This list is rank-ordered based upon timetypically spent on task. However

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Gaile Griffore; Craig Somerton

being moreeffective for learning than non-project courses [2]. In fact, in Figure 7 the project courses areidentified separately from courses that include laboratories or the lectured based engineeringscience courses. As one might expect from the literature [3,4,5], the learning assessment rating isnearly always better for a project-oriented course versus a non-project course for the sameteaching evaluation rating. This gives some credence to the learning assessment rating as anindication of student learning. The authors are somewhat surprised that a similar observationcannot be made in comparing the courses that include laboratory experiences to the lecture basedengineering science courses.Student Drop RateOne piece of data that is often

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Rich

Laboratory. The completed arch exceeded their design load under actual testing to failure. (See Figure 2.) Figure 2 Testing to Failure of the 39-Foot Arch Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 6.679.5 Copyright ©2001, American Society for Engineering EducationIII. 1999-00 Project: Re-Design America’s First Water Powered WaterworksQuestions:* Where was the first powered waterworks in America?* Why wasn’t it in Boston, New York or Philadelphia?The answer to the first question is Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (5). The answer

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Sanjeev Khanna; Christopher Jenkins

bonding, crystal structure, elastic behavior, plastic behavior, fracture, etc., which haveprofound implications in the design of structures. Such an approach highlights the importance ofthe tension test, and the students can better visualize and apply the concepts to designingoptimum and reliable structures. After passing through the lectures covering the concepts shownin Figure 1 the students should be in a position to answers questions, a sampling of which isgiven in the section ‘Evaluation of Student Learning’.Laboratory experiments should be conducted and explained in the context of three importantbranches, namely mechanics, materials science, and design. Thus a suggested outline forteaching the three subjects in the context of the tension

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ram Mohan; Siamack Shirazi; Ovadia Shoham; Mei Zhuang; Marilyn Amey; Krishnamurthy Jayaraman; Keith Wisecarver; George Chase; Ed Evans; Charles Petty; Andre Bernard

from nine laboratories at Michigan State University, The University of Akron, and theUniversity of Tulsa. The objective of the program is to teach undergraduate and graduate studentspractical use of multiphase computational fluid dynamics (CFD).The impact of multiphase flow research on solving practical engineering problems is an integralpart of the learning experience. Industrial participants in the project provide specific designproblems related to emerging technologies. Specific projects suggested by the industrial sponsorsfor the first cycle are: Performance of a large tank separator (Chevron), Optimization of designand operation of degassing tanks (Dow Chemical), Optimization and Comparison of hydrocycloneshapes (Krebs Engineers), Mixing

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Saunders; Donald Grove; Charles Reinholtz

to a tangible end. Another response was that the mechatronics approach providedan excellent perspective of what is available in the laboratory for prototype development. Yetanother student pointed out that the mechatronics approach promoted greater interest of realworld applications of one’s knowledge. There were no real disadvantages noted.2) Why did you choose to work on a mechatronics project?The reasons students cited for wanting to work on a mechatronics project varied. One reason wasto increase their understanding of how the design project would actually function. Anotherreason was the hands-on implementation and creation of the prototype from a basic design. Onestudent cited that many of today’s mechanical devices were augmented by

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis W. Derby

students, responsibilities as graduate research faculty, and as an adviser to studentProceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition. Page 6.80.3Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education.organizations. Whereas the related activities may not bear direct relationship to classroominstruction, they contribute to the nurturing of students. It is advisable to briefly describe theseresponsibilities so as to provide some idea of the time spent in these activities. For example, ifthe faculty person is in charge of a research laboratory with several research assistants, adescription of

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Han Bao; David Dryer; Derya Jacobs; William Swart

, 4) provide experience for design of products in a virtual environment using 3D modeling and visualization, as well as planning, scheduling, control and implementation of a virtual product development project, 5) provide experience in constructing product prototypes, and 6) provide an understanding for the potential applications and limitations of current virtual product development tools.The course was offered as a 2 credit-4 hour laboratory course using tools and facilities availableat Old Dominion University. As part of an extensive distance learning capability, the Universityand the College use various distributed course delivery and communications tools withfunctionality including asynchronous message board, synchronous chat