Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jan Machotka, University of South Australia; Zorica Nedic, University of South Australia; Andrew Nafalski, University of South Australia; Ozdemir Gol, University of South Australia

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

and non-conventional topologies. He has a strong© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 which integrate emerging active materials and non-conventional topologies. He has a strong interest in innovative approaches to engineering education and has published widely in this field. His teaching responsibilities have included courses in electrical machines, engineering design, renewable energy and virtual instrumentation. He has received national and international awards for excellence in research, teaching, engineering education and community service. He is the author and co-author of some 300 publications. He is currently an Associate Professor and discipline head of

Conference Session

Computer Applications in Energy Conversion

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; Ayhan Zora, Deere and Company

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

thus the students are given the opportunity to familiarize themselves with theoperation of software packages that most likely they will use after they join the workforce. Asubstantial portion of the classroom projects in engineering technology curriculum that requirethe use of advanced software tools has been increased in many higher institutions for bothundergraduate and graduate levels.Emerging virtual applications may enhance understanding both theoretical and appliedexperiences of engineering technology students by supporting laboratory experiments. Easy5,AMESim are some of the well known system modeling, analyzing, and simulation software toolsthat offer solutions to many problems in mechanical, hydraulics, pneumatics, electrical

Conference Session

Innovation in Engineering Leadership Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dean H. Lang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Andrew Michael Erdman, The Pennsylvania State University; Meg Handley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Leadership Development Division

in a curriculum underconstant pressure to cover broadening technical fields. Often these leadership courses areoffered as options on top of existing requirements, resulting in students taking additional credits,at significant cost to them. The Engineering Leadership Development (ELD) Program at Penn State University hasoffered an 18 credit minor in Engineering Leadership Development for over 20 years, with over600 graduates. While approximately two times that many students have benefitted by takingcourses in engineering leadership during that period, it still represents a fraction of the more than20,000 who have graduated from the College of Engineering in the same time span. Further,anecdotal evidence has shown that, while many

Conference Session

New Learning Paradigms II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Hahn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Alan Hansen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

effective when it reflects an understanding of learning as multidimensional, integrated, and revealed in performance over time. Learning entails not only what students know but what they can do with what they know; it involves not only knowledge and abilities but values, attitudes, and habits of mind that affect both academic success and performance beyond the classroom.• Assessment works best when the programs it seeks to improve have clear, explicitly stated purposes.• Assessment requires attention to outcomes but also and equally to the experiences that lead to those outcomes.• Assessment fosters wider improvement when representatives from across the educational community are involved. Assessment is not a task for

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Hossein Mousavinezhad, Western Michigan University; Liang Dong, Western Michigan University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

, wireless engineering and computer engineering seminar. He was co-PI for a DSP grant funded by the NSF. He has received other NSF and government grants in addition to equipment grants from Texas Instruments in support of his teaching/research activities in the DSP field. He is on NSF panel reviewing proposals and was on an NSF review panel in October 2002 recommending curriculum guidelines for Computer Engineering (A Volume of the Computing Curricula Series, 2006, ACM and IEEE).Liang Dong, Western Michigan University Dr. Liang Dong received the B.S. degree in applied physics with minor in computer engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 1996, and

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeanette Chipps, Montana State University ; Suzanne G Taylor, Montana State University; Nicholas Lux Lux, Montana State University; Elizabeth Nelson, Montana State University

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

Paper ID #42723Board 157: Design of a Geospatial Skills Camp for Rural Youth (Work inProgress)Dr. Jeanette Chipps, Montana State University Jeanette Chipps is an assistant teaching professor at Montana State University and the educator professional development lead at the Science Math Resource Center.Suzanne G Taylor, Montana State UniversityDr. Nicholas Lux Lux, Montana State University Dr. Nicholas Lux has is an Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction in MSUˆa C™s Department ˆ He has of Education. His teaching and

Conference Session

New Topics in IE Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jamie Workman-Germann, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Heather Woodward-Hagg, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

(case by case) and cannot be described as a process. With that being said, how can someonefrom outside the healthcare profession come in and make these dramatic improvements?It is often difficult for non-manufacturing individuals to grasp concepts and terminology relatedto processes (inputs, outputs, variables, etc). The key is finding a way to show people that whatthey are doing is a process and an integral part of a much larger process all together. And, by notbeing consistent in their tasks or protocols, they are actually introducing more variation into thesystem than needed. This variation is what the customers end up seeing and remembering and soapplying Lean Six Sigma methodologies is actually the best way to make dramaticimprovements

Conference Session

Online and Remote Teaching

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Dallal, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

Paper ID #39379Does student performance decline in online classroom setup? A study ofstudents’ performance in ECE controls classDr. Ahmed Dallal, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Dallal is an assistant professor at the department of electrical and computer engineering, University of Pittsburgh, since August 2017. Dr. Dallal’s primary focus is on education development and innovation. His research interests include biomedical signal processing, biomedical image analysis, computer vision, machine learning, networked control systems, and human-machine learning. ©American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Zia; Roger Seals

program’s facilitation of the integration ofresearch and education, an important strategic objective of NSF. In recent funding cycles theDirectorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) and the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, andEconomic Sciences (SBE) have also provided modest amounts of co-funding. As the programcontinues to develop there are natural opportunities to broaden NSDL’s disciplinary coverage inareas of interest to other NSF supported disciplines; engineering presents one notable area ofopportunity. The program has also co-funded a number of international digital library researchefforts that feature a significant educational component. While NSDL has no formal internationalfunding agreements, this area bears attention given that the

Conference Session

Laptop/Handheld Computing in Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Roy McGrann; Abraham Howell

are toour society by bringing the science to the students through the use of such learning agents asrobots. Robots can facilitate learning by intriguing and holding onto the student’s interest.Working directly with the robots can help students to formulate an improved knowledge andunderstanding of the importance and relevance of science and math. All the work discussed in thispaper has been developed through the implementation of several experiments developed atBinghamton University for use in local middle schools.Introduction The research discussed in this paper is focused on developing a robot and curriculum thatcan be easily integrated into the math and science courses of 5th and 6 th grade students. Theprototype robot for this

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Stern

, American Society for Engineering Educationmounted in a closed circuit open test section wind tunnel shown in Fig. 4. The airfoil is providedwith 29 pressure taps located in an airfoil cross section. The measured pressures used tocalculate the pressure and lift coefficients. Pressure and lift coefficients are normalized with thefree-stream velocity. Integration of the measured pressure distribution over the airfoil’s surfaceused to calculate the lift force. Bernoulli equation used to determine the free stream velocitymeasured with a Pitot tube. The lift force independently measured with a load cell. Liftcoefficients calculated for Re = 143,000 and several angles of attack up to the stall angle. Fig. 4 Airfoil flow

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kuo Hung Huang, National Taipei University of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

international organizations worldwide (Anthony, 2002; Ministry ofEducation, 2010). It has also become the principle for national reformation and socialdevelopment in most countries. During the last few years, the learning requirements of adultlearners have increased in conjunction with the number of higher education organizations;university administrators began to value the function of extension education (Cowan andPinheiro-Torres, 2004). In 1991, fifty colleges and universities were operating in Taiwan. In2011, the number of colleges and universities was as high as 145, a three-fold growth rate. All145 colleges and universities have established extension education centers. Moreover, 19extension education institutions have an Architecture Department

Conference Session

Educational Trends in Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Mickelson

Competency MatrixValidationThe contributions by the constituents in developing this unique set of assessment tools forcooperative education and engineering internship were very important. Use of these toolspresents an opportunity for our students to derive value from their workplace experiences andsignificantly enhance their academic preparation for the practice of engineering at theprofessional level. The assessments provided by these tools will significantly enhance our abilityto ensure that the value our students derive from these experiences is measured, understood andfactored into the quality management of our curricula. Without proper validation of theassessment tools, little significance could be given to the use of the tools.To validate the

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sinead C. Mac Namara, Syracuse University; James K. Guest, Johns Hopkins University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

AC 2012-4324: TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION: THE USE OF CUTTINGEDGE NUMERICAL METHODS IN TEACHING STRUCTURES TO AR-CHITECTS.Dr. Sinead C. Mac Namara, Syracuse UniversityProf. James K. Guest, Johns Hopkins University Jamie Guest is an Assistant Professor of civil engineering at Johns Hopkins University. His research and teaching interests focus on topology optimization and structural engineering. He received his M.S.E. and Ph.D. from Princeton University and B.S.E. from University of Pennsylvania, all in civil engineering. Page 25.1363.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 The Use

Conference Session

Writing and Technical Communications

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lance R Curtis, University of Maryland, College Park

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

engineering coursecontent [14]-[15]. Researchers have also shown that the final course grades in engineeringcourses improve with the intervention of regular writing assignments [6]. The literature contains research into the effect of including regular writing assignments ina wide range of specific engineering courses [6]-[7], [10]-[17], [19]-[20], and some researchershave reported positive benefits from integrating writing faculty as team instructors in engineeringcourses [18] as well as placing writing centers directly within an individual engineeringdepartment [21]. Yet a concentration of interest among researchers appears to center on theinfluence of including regular writing assignments within engineering statics courses [6], [11],[16]-[17

Conference Session

Experiences in Teaching Energy Courses

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ilya Grinberg, Buffalo State College; Mohammed Safiuddin, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

, materials and technology, managementskills, and energy. Without the large amounts of energy consumed by the production system, themodern economy, and the high standard of living it provides, cannot be sustained. One of themajor sources of energy for the economy is electricity. Therefore, its production, transmissionand distribution constitute a critical infrastructure of a modern economy. Taking New York Stateas an example, energy delivered in the form of electricity accounts for approximately 24% ofenergy consumed, not counting the transportation sector3. Note that transportation sectoraccounts for 35% of total energy use. With electricity being the most versatile form of energy,developing the technical talent to address the issues of its

Conference Session

Back to Basics in Mechanics

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Malmgren, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

-machinery) prior to teaching Mechanical Engineering Technology. Page 11.1338.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 THE “BACK TO THE FUTURE” EXPERIENCE OF GRAPHICAL ANALYSISAbstractGraphical analysis has always been an integral part of the medley of techniques to solveengineering problems. In the past, the accuracy of the graphical analysis solution was limited bythe precision of the instruments associated with producing it. Rudimentary tools such as pencils,scales, protractors, T-squares, planimeters, slide rules, etc., provided a solution within acceptablelimits of error. However, the

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rose Marra; Charu Sharma; Mieke Schuurman; Barbara Bogue

remain part of a pioneering group. A conclusion in a literature review of assessment inengineering education reinforces the need for better data collection: “college and universitiesshould pay more attention to retention and graduation data” as well as gather more evaluationand research on effectiveness of programming. (8)Moreover, while the need for better assessment is generally recognized, the integration ofassessment into activities from conception of an activity or course and continuing well beyondthe end is still rare. Major barriers to better assessment practices are the expense of mountinggood assessments and analysis and the need for assessment expertise. More complex questions,post-survey instruments, qualitative studies and tracking

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Brigham; Angran Xiao; Kenneth Bryden

that they can further explore and comprehend what is learned inthe classroom. Educators also suggest that, especially in the engineering fields, the content andeducation methods must be reformulated to meet students’ diverse learning styles. Some students learnwell with verbal and written instruction and are comfortable with the traditional education methods,“while visual oriented students find it hard to capture the information without seeing the illustration ofconcepts” [2, 3]. Therefore, it is a challenge to provide versatile and integrated learning tools to supportdifferent learning styles and self-paced learning.We believe virtual reality (VR) is an innovative platform that can greatly improve traditional engineeringeducation. VR is

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yakov Cherner, ATeL, LLC; Ahmed Khan, DeVry University; Amin Karim, DeVry University; Gary Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

AC 2009-2163: SIMULATION-BASED VIRTUAL AND HYBRID LABORATORIESFOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS EDUCATIONYakov Cherner, ATeL, LLC YAKOV E. CHERNER, Ph.D., is the Founder and President of ATEL, LLC. He combines over 25 years of teaching experience with extensive experience in writing curricula and developing educational software and efficient instructional strategies. Dr. Cherner develops new concepts and simulation-based e-learning tools for STEM education that use real-world objects, processes and learning situations as the context for science, engineering and technology investigations. He also proposed and implemented the pioneering concept of integrated adjustable virtual laboratories and designed

Conference Session

General Topics in Graduate Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Virginia Tech; Lisa DuPree McNair, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

). Sydney, Australia: IEEE.10. Cole, D.J., Ryan, C.W., & Fran, K. (1995). Portfolios across the curriculum and beyond. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.11. Cyr, T., & Muth, R. (2006). Porfolios in doctoral education. In P. Maki & N. Borkowski (Eds.), The assessment of doctoral educational (pp. 215-237). Sterling, VA: Stylus.12. Strivens, J. (2007). A survey of e-pdp and e-portfolio practice in UK Higher Eduction. Higher Education Academy. Retrieved from http://www.recordingachievement.org/higher-education/articles.html13. Lorenzo, G., & Ittleson, J. (2005). An overview of e-portfolios. Retrieved from http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=ELI300114. Delandshere, G., & Arens, S. A

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Harwood; Al Rudnitsky

Learning about Scientific Inquiry Through Engineering Jessica Harwood, Al Rudnitsky Smith CollegeThe broad question addressed by this study is "how should ideas from engineering be integratedinto the school curriculum?" Efforts to include engineering in the K - 12 curriculum haveincreased considerably in recent years. Many of engineering's educational advocates hold theposition that engineering should not be a "stand-alone" school subject or, at the very least, not beexclusively so. This paper is a case study of integrating engineering into the existingcurriculum. The more focused questions addressed here include "what does engineering bringto

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Postcard Session (Best of WIPs)

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Fuchs, Cornell University; Alexandra Werth, Cornell University; Jonathan T. Butcher, Cornell University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

Paper ID #42383Work in Progress: Evaluating the impact of student cognitive and emotionalresponses to real-time feedback on student engagement in engineering designstudiosDr. Stephanie Fuchs, Cornell University Dr. Stephanie Fuchs is an Active Learning Initiative (ALI) Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at Cornell University. She received her Ph.D. in Biological Engineering from Cornell University, where she focused on developing glucose-sensitive materials for electronics-free insulin delivery devices. As an ALI postdoc, her work focuses on developing and implementing engineering studio

Conference Session

Teaching Methods in Mechancial Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca L Norris, University of Oklahoma; Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma; M. Cengiz Altan, University of Oklahoma; J. D. Baldwin, University of Oklahoma; Wilson E Merchán-Merchán, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

description of thesecourses to include the topics covered in the training sessions, thus making them an essential partof the course content.What We Hope to Achieve: We want to expose our students, faculty, and staff to inclusion anddiversity issues of which they might not be aware. By requiring students to go through training inboth the sophomore and seniors years, we hope to achieve maximum impact. The early exposureas sophomores will give the students a chance to apply the concepts they learn throughout theiracademic careers, while the second round of training as seniors will serve as a refresher coursebefore they begin their team-based senior projects and, later, enter the engineering workforce.We specifically designed this training curriculum to

Conference Session

Communication Skills in Aerospace Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Crossley; Melanie Thom; James Thom

broad andvague nature of the requests to improve these skills as part of an undergraduate curriculum. Aresearch study conducted over five years by the first author compared the specific skillsrequirements provided by industry practitioners to the published perceptions of engineeringeducators regarding the desires of industry practitioners.1 The resulting lists of skills from thetwo cohort groups (industry practitioners and engineering educators) were then compared to theobserved behaviors of nine different semesters of a senior engineering design course.Summary of the ResearchPurpose. At the onset of the study, the researcher observed that educators and practitioners wereengaged in activities to improve the skills with which engineering

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Beth Kolko; Linda Whang

published research. The authors of this paper work as a professor and anengineering librarian respectively, and in our work we have watched as both undergraduate andgraduate students struggle to adapt to an increasingly electronic environment for research. Asstudents come to rely on the Internet to access resources, they are often not critical consumers ofinformation, and they often do not differentiate among resources gained via university-subscribed databases versus resources that reside outside such databases and are part of the‘open’ Web.This paper examines strategies for instructing students about the variety of resources availablefor online research and the necessity of differentiating among database-related resources andindependently posted

Conference Session

Strategic Issues in EM Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anita Callahan; Paul Givens

perhaps even a BSEM which is an ABET accredited degree. TheEngineering Management curriculum integrates well with the Industrial Engineering degrees andeach adds a synergistic effect than makes each degree better than if it were the only one. The MSEM program has reached beyond the borders of the state of Florida. Althoughwas originally intended to serve the place-bound engineer in the sixty-eight counties, studentshave completed their degrees from as far away as South Carolina, North Carolina, Ohio,Colorado, California, Colorado, Washington, Connecticut, and Israel. Requests for informationon the program arrive daily from countries including India, Chile, Columbia, Venezuela, andChina. It is truly becoming a global degree. Test

Conference Session

Frontiers in Engineering Economy

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Neal Lewis, University of Bridgeport; Ted Eschenbach, TGE Consulting; Joseph Hartman, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

process by laying out the alternatives in a clear manner. These topics should be taught inthe undergraduate course. Risk management is a necessary part of project funding, and this isappropriate for the undergraduate curriculum. Inclusion as an application of decision trees is alogical and worthwhile application, and we are pleased to see that most authors include thematerial in their texts.Use of options analysis should be reserved for graduate courses. Use of options analysis inmulti-stage project analysis is a fairly limited area, and is still not fully understood (althoughthere is available literature that may allow you to calculate a project value). Where this is taught,the current methods need to be accompanied by the concerns and

Conference Session

Seeking Resilience and Learning to Thrive Through Engineering Education

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claudio Cesar Silva de Freitas, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Zachary James Beyer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Hassan Ali Al Yagoub, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

language-learning [10], and the adoption of CPthrough humanistic lenses [11] as a means of contributing to the development and well-being oflearners in these contexts [12]. Throughout this paper, we describe our experience building fromprior work and applying CP elements in the curriculum. We also describe student and courseoutcomes as a result of our integration of CP elements. As this is a classroom application study, we have broad objectives (not empirical researchquestions) that we address in this paper. The first objective is: (1) What aspects of theintroductory engineering course (intended outcomes, assessments, and activities) werecontextually aligned to opportunities and constraints in the Azraq refugee camp? The tworemaining

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shivram Sankar; Chetan Sankar; P.K. Raju

interconnectedness. Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education is seen as important notonly for researchers but also for a diverse, technologically literate workforce and for an educatedand informed citizenry (National Science Board, 2000; Cost Engineering, 1996). Despite theobservation that America's basic research in science, math, and engineering is world class, itseducation is still not mature. Too many students leave STEM courses because they find themdull and unwelcoming. Too many new teachers enter school systems unprepared, without reallyunderstanding the relevance of STEM courses to the development of scientific and technologicalliteracy in students. They also lack the excitement of discovery and the confidence and ability