Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Bramhall, Sheffield Hallam University; Keith Radley, Sheffield Hallam University

Tagged Divisions

International

years experience in video and media production. His current role is to promote and facilitate innovation in the curriculum, working with teaching staff in the use of digital video and media to enhance the student learning experience. Page 12.1207.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Promoting Learner Autonomy in EngineeringAbstractThis paper will report on a current project that is being conducted within one of the UKCentres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETLs): ‘The Centre for PromotingLearner Autonomy’, at Sheffield Hallam University. The paper will outline the role of

Conference Session

Technology Integration in the Classroom for Manufacturing II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Smith, Purdue University; Niaz Latif, Purdue University; Stephen Elliott, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

quickdecisions related to scrap, re-work, and poor performance, thus reducing the production costs.For this project, a single production assembly line was chosen at a tier-one automotivecomponents manufacturing plant. A visual data system was implemented on a high-volumeproduction line and thus provided the manufacturer with productivity and quality performanceinformation quickly. After the implementation, the quality and productivity of the productionline were observed to be significantly higher. The average number of defects was reduced by30%, and the average number of parts produced per person per hour was increased by 5% for theproduction line.Sharing the project with undergraduate/graduate students in the manufacturing field will helpstudents

Conference Session

New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Farrar, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Michael Todd, University of California-San Diego; Phillip Cornwell, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

AC 2007-41: THE ENGINEERING INSTITUTE: A COLLABORATIVEGRADUATE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH PROGRAMCharles Farrar, Los Alamos National Laboratory Chuck Farrar has 25 years experience as a technical staff member, project leader, and team leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory. While at Los Alamos, he earned a Ph. D. in civil engineering from the University of New Mexico in 1988. He is currently working jointly with engineering faculty at University of California, San Diego to develop the Los Alamos/UCSD Engineering Institute with a research focus on Damage Prognosis. This initiative is also developing a formal, degree-granting educational program in the closely related areas of validated

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hong Zhang, Rowan University; Ying Tang, Rowan University; Courtney Richmond, Rowan University; Patricia Mosto, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

extended and real-time, continuous andinteractive data collection of a water body. In this paper, we will discuss a junior/seniordesign project of developing an Interactive Mobile Aqua Probing & Surveillance(IMAPS) system capable of continuously monitoring water properties and wirelesslycommunicating with a base station. The completed aqua probe system can be employedby scientists, educators and anyone interested in the study or monitoring of aquaticecosystems. Within a year, beginning in spring 2005, the design has evolved from a proof-of-concept prototype to a large pontoon-style robotic probe. Although the project is still on-going, exciting results have already been obtained in initial tests and applications. Themost recent pontoon

Conference Session

Innovative Partnerships

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Caroline VanIngen-Dunn, Arizona State University; Debra Banks, Consultant

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Two Year College Division

begun between the Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona StateUniversity and five community colleges belonging to the Maricopa County Community CollegeDistrict. Funded by a joint grant from the National Science Foundation, each with their ownbudget, the collaborators set out to develop a program that would interest and supportcommunity college students in engineering, ease their transition to a large university, andcontinue to support them after the transfer, especially for the first year. The program also wasdesigned to especially encourage and support women and underrepresented minority students.The program is called METS: Maricopa Engineering Transition Scholars. Most of the plans forthe project as proposed have been successful, including a

Conference Session

Integration of Manufacturing and Society

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jaby Mohammed, Petroleum Institute

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

. Since then, the Programhas enjoyed excellent support and grown to over 1,000 students on three campuses.There are three campuses for the governor’s scholars programs and they are housed in thevarious Universities (Public and Private Universities) in Kentucky.There are many engineering schools in the nation that conduct summer school for students sothat it provides a pre-college experience that challenges and promotes STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) experience. Many schools use this as a recruitmenttool to get the students from all around to experience the taste of campus life, experience handson projects, and with related experience. Valencia Community College offers a more specializedAssociate degree in pre-engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shawn H Maison, Central Michigan University and Bangor Township Schools; Adam J. P. Bauer, CMU; Steven Shapardanis, Central Michigan University; Thomas Stuart White; Ze Zhang; Bingbing Li, Department of Chemistry, Science of Advanced Materials Doctoral Program, Central Michigan University ; Qin Hu, Central Michigan University; Tolga Kaya, Central Michigan University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Michigan University (CMU). Prior to joining CMU, From 2007 to 2010, Dr. Kaya was a post-doctorate associate at Yale University. From 1999 to 2007, he was a research and teaching assistant at Istanbul Technical University. In 2007 he became a consultant at Brightwell Corp. He was a senior VLSI analog design engineer and project coordinator at Microelectronics R&D Company from 2000 to 2006, and a visiting assistant in research at Yale University from 2004 to 2005. Dr. Kaya received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronics Engineering from Istanbul Technical University in Istanbul, Turkey. His research interests in electrical engineering and applied sciences are analog VLSI circuit design, MEMS sensors and energy

Conference Session

Curriculum Development

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

MD B. Sarder, University of Southern Mississippi

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

companies will face labor shortages and future regional economicdevelopment will be hampered.Logistics Transportation is a multidisciplinary applied science and engineering program. Highschool students are not familiar about this promising filed. Without creating an awarenessprogram in the K12 system, a consistent supply of students in logistics transportation program inuniversities will not be realized. Due to the tremendous need of this profession, we havedesigned a secondary curriculum in logistics transportation for high school students with the helpof public and private funding. The curriculum design consists of six modules of lectures, handson projects, and educating the K12 educators. The lecture modules and hands on projects aredesigned to

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Norb Delatte

lifelong learning. Threeapproaches for bringing forensics and failure case studies into the civil engineering curriculumare available. These are stand-alone forensic engineering or failure case study courses, capstonedesign projects, and integration of case studies into the curriculum. Since it is not practical toadd another required course to the crowded civil engineering curriculum, the latter approach willbe more practical for most undergraduate programs. Some cases have been developed and usedin courses at the United States Military Academy (USMA) and the University of Alabama atBirmingham (UAB), as well as at other institutions. Currently an NSF-funded research project isunderway at UAB to develop and disseminate case study materials. Under

Conference Session

Statistics in the CHE Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerardine Botte

was achieved by using a combination of the followingtechniques: real life examples, classroom projects (individual and group), brainstorming,computer-guided sessions, and a special-interest course project. The special-interestproject used hobbies of the students to enlarge their enthusiasm for the course; forinstance, one of the students worked on a project to use fractional factorial design toimprove her performance in her hammer throw competition; another student used thesame technique to improve her performance when playing tennis. Examples of the case-studies developed for the course, classroom, and take-home projects will be presentedand discussed, including their impact on the students. Some of the special interestprojects developed by

Conference Session

Graduate Education in ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Jane Parmentier; Rajeswari Sundararajan

its effects on societies and their economies, and how, in turn, socialchange influences technological advance. Thus, engineering students are exposed to graduatelevel theoretical foundations in the social sciences, and liberal art students are exposed to coursesin information technology software, transportation systems, technology forecasting, andsustainable energy studies. Because of the unique multidisciplinary curriculum that combinestechnology, social sciences, and international and comparative studies, students in this programare able to choose elective courses and theses or applied project topics from a wide variety offields, depending upon their academic backgrounds, strengths, and interests. The experience ofimplementing this

Conference Session

ETD Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

B. Sridhara

information obtained at this conference and from several other sources theundergraduate research committee stated its mission as to promote, facilitate and showcaseundergraduate research in the sciences at MTSU. In 1994 October, our first call for researchproposals from CBAS students was sent out and grants were awarded to meritorious proposals inDecember. In 1996 it was decided to hold a college level undergraduate research symposium inthe spring of every year to showcase student research including those projects funded by theURC.II. Undergraduate Research Grant Process The URC which has one chair and eight other members normally meets twice in the fallsemester. In the first meeting we discuss the last year’s undergraduate research

Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shyam Aravamudhan, North Carolina A&T State University; Diedrich A. Schmidt, North Carolina A&T State University; Hany Nakhla, North Carolina A&T State University

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

, assembly and demonstration project named Perseus II, sponsored by the Office of theSecretary of Defense’s Rapid Reaction Technology Office (RRTO). The goal of this challenge-based engineering project was to explore if a team (a) with just a general background inengineering (role filled by undergraduate students), (b) modest resourcing and (c) in a relativelyshort period of time, could assemble an underwater vehicle to perform a specified mission. Theproject culminated with the operational demonstration of the underwater vehicle in a dive lagoonand the acquired engineering skills. Ultimately, we believe this project uniquely exposedundergraduate students, including minorities, to challenging real-world ocean engineeringproblems so as prepare or

Conference Session

Distance Learning in Engineering Technology

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve C. Hsiung, Old Dominion University; John M. Ritz, Old Dominion University; Ece Yaprak, Wayne State University; Feng Jao, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

team of researchers4, in addition to the push by their institutions to move coursesand programs into a distance learning environment. These faculty sought external funding toassist them in their research to find solutions to delivering hands-on technical content coursesusing the advantages provided through electronic instructional delivery technologies. The technologies developed and used by these researchers were supported by a three-year, proof of concept, National Science Foundation project. The initial year’s work explored theneeds for developing such a training platform to use in delivering instruction, so students couldparticipate in laboratory activities guided by faculty, plus an additional design of operationalmicrocontroller

Conference Session

Construction Materials and Technologies

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rui Liu, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Yilmaz Hatipkarasulu, University of Texas at San Antonio

Tagged Divisions

Construction

introduction of a BIM course to a construction management programwith a diverse student body. The course is structured as a lecture-lab combination where thefundamental concepts and implementation issues are discussed in the lecture portion. In the labsessions, the students are asked to complete individual projects and present them in differentformats. The purpose of this paper is to provide a sample structure to deliver BIM content.Feedback from the students, instructor observations, and recommendations for the computerexercises are also included in the paper.IntroductionAs Building Information Modeling (BIM) becomes a standard practice in the Architecture-Engineering-Construction industry, many universities and colleges offering a

Conference Session

ETD Design II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nina Robson, Texas A&M University; Ibrahim Savas Dalmis, Namık Kemal University; Vasil Trenev, Bulgarian Academy of Science

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

semester, the students worked in teams and in collaboration with a specificdisabled person, with physical therapists at the local hospitals, as well as with the disabilityservices at Texas A&M University to better understand the barriers faced by the disabled on adaily basis. Based on lessons learned, in the Fall of 2010, the students in the Mechanical DesignApplications II class were presented with a new challenge.The current paper compares the student perception, as well as the instructor’s involvement andplanning in both semesters. Preparing students to actively participate in the learning process, bemore responsible for their own learning in order to become lifelong learners [10] were the maingoals of both projects. Since students who are

Conference Session

Building New Communities

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Smith; Ronald Miller; Ruth Streveler

significance of the work, the process used, and what was learned 4. Has significance beyond the individual context 5. Breaks new ground or is innovative 6. Can be replicated or elaborated upon 7. Is judged to be meritorious and significant by a rigorous peer review process.In response to calls such as this and the urgent need for rigorous engineering education researchconducted by engineering faculty knowledgeable about the state-of-the-art in education researchmethods, the National Science Foundation has funded “Rigorous Research in EngineeringEducation: Creating a Community of Practice” (DUE-0341127). The goals of this project are to:• Create and present workshops for engineering faculty on conducting rigorous research in engineering

Conference Session

Controls, Mechatronics

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Viveca Deanes; Olakunle Harrison

scope of considerations practicing engineers face when designingcontemporary products that involve electromechanical devices. In this paper the authorsdescribe various approaches used in teaching this multidisciplinary course. Build-and-testexercises are used to help students gain a better understanding of technical concepts covered inthe course, thus promoting a sense of accomplishment with real world experiences. Students’ability to retain knowledge of concepts taught is improved when the opportunity exists todemonstrate what has been learned. The projects and exercises, as well as the way in which theyare executed, are designed to enhance students’ decision-making skills and promote goodengineering judgment. One course project discussed in

Conference Session

Novel Upper-Level Materials Curricula

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rita Caso; Jeff Froyd; Dimitris Lagoudas

difficult to assess. As the workby Hestenes and Halloun on the Force Concept Inventory has shown, students may pass scienceand engineering courses but still retain alternate conceptions about the topics presented in thecourses. Therefore, substantial interest in concept inventory assessment instruments for manyengineering subjects, e.g., materials, signals and systems, fluid mechanics, has been generatedand numerous projects are underway. Since smart materials are being introduced intoundergraduate engineering curricula, assessing students’ understanding of these smart materialswould be reasonable. Therefore, two new concept inventories, one on shape memory alloys andone on piezoelectric materials, are being developed as part of a Combined Research

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knecht

Session 2131 CAN PEERS BE USED EFFECTIVELY TO ASSESS TEAMS: TASK/TEAM FUNCTION OBSERVATIONS DURING TEAM BUILDING EXERCISES Robert Knecht Colorado School of MinesAbstract – This presentation describes a model used to illustrate functions that team membersassume during teambuilding exercises. The Design (EPICS) program introduces teams ofengineering students to design, technical communications and teamwork processes through anopen-ended, client-based project. Teams conduct a series of exercises in which half perform theexercise

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Mullenax

need to find out the specifics of each faculty member’s interestsand figure out where your interests and theirs overlap well.Ideally, you should talk to other members of any potential advisor’s research group beforedeciding to join. If the faculty member has no other grad students, talk to the elder grad studentsin the department and find out why. As the only grad student working for a faculty member youwon’t have to fight for time to meet with her/him, but project funding may be a liability (see infofollowing).Not only research interests but also interpersonal styles will affect the success of your workingrelationship with your research advisor. If you are a global learner who mulls over problems andthen produces a flurry of activity to come

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering III

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daryl Orth

Session No. 2221 Utilizing Educational Delivery Systems in a Mechanical Construction Course Daryl L. Orth, Ph. D. Purdue University Department of Building Construction Management West Lafayette, IndianaIn education, a delivery system is the organizational approach the instructor uses to deliver,organize, present, or communicate his/her instructional message or topic to the learners (Dickand Carey, 1996)1. The four most common delivery systems are non-projected media

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Denton; Heather Cooper

Laboratory Activity(ies) 1,2 Vibration Fundamentals (SDOF) Natural frequencies, damping in cantilever beams Forced vibration and isolation 3,4 Vibration Instrumentation – Transducer mounting effects Sensors, Meters, and Analyzers 5 Data Acquisition and Introduction to semester project Interpretation 6,7 Unbalance and Dynamic Visit to precision balancing facility for balancing demo Balancing Single and two-plane balancing 8 Vibration in Bearings Bearing vibration measurement 9,10 Vibration due to Misalignment, Laser alignment demo at

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Sexton

Session 2004-1840 TEACHING ENERGY SYSTEM DESIGN USING COMPUTER SIMULATION Michael R. Sexton Mechanical Engineering Department Virginia Military Institute Lexington, VirginiaAbstractThis paper describes the use of system simulation in teaching the design and optimization ofenergy systems at the undergraduate level. A case study involving the optimum design of avapor compression refrigeration system is presented. This project was selected from senior levelcourses in Energy Conversion Design

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

puszynski jan; David Dixon; Bhavani Puli; James Munro

phenomena. The present paperreports the details of our DBT experiment involving design of a packed column for gasabsorption. The project was undertaken by the faculty of the chemical engineeringprogram at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSM&T) and was fundedby the National Science Foundation and the Dow Corning Foundation. Page 8.51.1The goal of the present experiment is for students to design, build and test a gasabsorption process. As with other DBT experiments, students must make choicesbetween competing alternatives and are expected to make their decisions based on validengineering design modeling and sound economic

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Renee Rogge; Joan Burtner

quite good. The new president was quite enthusiastic and veryoptimistic. She began the meeting with an extensive list of projects she planned to initiate duringher reign. Her enthusiasm was contagious. A volunteer list was distributed and many of thosepresent signed up to work. As the year went on, however, enthusiasm on the part of themembership began to wane. Although the president had taken responsibility at the beginning ofthe fall term for setting up two service projects, she had not finalized arrangements beforeChristmas. In a meeting with the faculty advisor, the president explained that the fall term courseswere too demanding, and as the term progressed she became more involved in her studies. Thepresident assured the advisor that

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tracy Volz; David McStravick

training accuracy. Because the experiments in the fluidscollaborated in the planning and evaluation of lab frequently require the use of Bernoulli’sthis report writing project. They critically equation, units can be a problem for thereviewed these initial reports and provided students. Much of the equipment presents datafeedback to guide students’ revisions. In in English units, and dimensional conversionsaddition, they were available to consult with are frequently required; plus handling lbm andstudents on their experimental lab reports. lbf can lead to problems for many of the After several semi-successful attempts, library students. To defuse this potential problem,research reports

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven L. Cohen; Dennis P. Slevin; David I. Cleland; Kim LaScola Needy; Heather Nachtmann

the pedagogy of enterprise governance: Content, Delivery andMaterials. We conclude with a discussion on how the proposed model can be adapted to fit thespecific needs of an engineering management program.1.0 IntroductionThis paper extends the discussion of an ongoing research project on the study of enterprisegovernance that was introduced at last year’s ASEE conference in Charlotte, North Carolina.Last year’s presentation generated a lot of interest and positive feedback which encouraged us topresent further findings from this work at the 2000 conference. Please refer to the Appendix fora description of this feedback.Effective governance practices are essential to the success of both corporate and nonprofitenterprises. Engineering

Conference Session

Innovations in Freshman Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Teodora Shuman; Greg Mason

members, Seattle University and Central KitsapHigh School developed a “learning community”. The “learning community” brings togetherstudents from three different classes from both university and high school to participate in aquarter-long design project. This “learning community” is described herein.The remainder of this paper is divided into five sections. In section two, the overall goals andobjectives of the learning community are presented. Section three provides an overview of thecourses participating in the learning community. Section four discusses how the learningcommunity was implemented. Section five presents the assessment results. Conclusions andrecommendations are provided in section six.II. Learning Community ObjectivesThe goal of

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mileta Tomovic; William Szaroletta; Bruce Harding

and documentsexamples of both faculty and student integration of modeling-based projects. A faculty surveyperformed in Fall 2001 indicated strong Purdue University MET faculty support for the directionpreviously set forth. Of the six CAD software packages surveyed, two packages indicated anincreased future utilization, while four indicated decreased future utilization in PurdueUniversity’s MET department.Examples of this 3D CAD integration using solid modeling will include formal and informal classprojects and extracurricular activities, as well as the development and final outputs of a number ofopen-ended design projects spanning from freshman through graduate level. Other examplesinclude the modeling and animated operation of mechanical