Conference Session

Labs, Demos and Software in Mechanics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bradley Burchett

://www.ecpsystems.com 2. Burchett, B. T., and Layton, R. A., “An Undergraduate System Identification Laboratory”, Proceedings of the 2005 American Control Conference, Portland, OR, June 8-10, 2005.Author BiographyBRADLEY T BURCHETT is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He teaches courses on the topicsof dynamics, system dynamics, control, intelligent control, and computer applications. His research interestsinclude non-linear and intelligent control of autonomous vehicles, and numerical methods applied to optimalcontrol. Page 10.985.11 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

Innovations in Civil Engineering Education II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tanya Kunberger, Florida Gulf Coast University; Robert O'Neill, Florida Gulf Coast University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

read, individual article presentations and laboratory activitydiscussions were also included. Over the course of the semester ten round table activitiesoccurred. Half of these were the entire class reading the same journal article or conferenceproceeding, two were students discussing articles they read on a topic of their choice, two were Page 15.502.3wiki activities centered around three separate articles, and one was a discussion focused on 2triaxial laboratory testing. Each discussion was centered on a topic that correlated to the currentlesson topics of the course. Unless otherwise stated

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Walsh; Sean Pearson; Jeffrey Cotton; Jane Hall; Robert Caverly

educational enterprise.To keep engineering courses relevant, faculty often bring in current topics to their undergraduateclasses. In the ideal world (or department), faculty engaged in research will teach undergraduatecourses in the same discipline area. Bringing in research work performed by undergraduatestudents into undergraduate courses has the important benefit that the coursework is still fresh inthe undergraduate student's mind. The key benefit a faculty member has when integratingresearch results from undergraduate students is by observing how the undergraduate researchstudents learn the necessary research material based on the foundation concepts originally usedin the classroom. From these observations, the faculty mentor can determine the

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ricardo Molina; Claudio da Rocha Brito; Melany Ciampi

of Energy; Symbolic and Numerical Computer; Electronic;Operational Systems; Construction Techniques of Programs; Antennas and microwaves; FormalLanguages and Automata; Communication Systems; Digital Laboratories; Electrical Materialsand Processes. Page 6.21.4 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education4th. Year: Digital Systems; Automatic Control; Digital Communications; Software Engineering;Hydraulic, Thermal and Electrical Machines; Graphic Computer; Teleprocess and ComputerNetwork; Digital

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Lozano-Nieto

graduation.Students are exposed to “real-world” practices, extending what they have learned in ourclassrooms and laboratories. They are aware that their professional success in their first years inindustry depends on how confident they feel about their technical abilities as well as their actualknowledge. Internships in industry serve both cases, expanding their knowledge and giving themthe confidence that they need to be successful. However, while everybody agrees that aninternship experience in industry is a key component in undergraduate education in engineeringand engineering technology, it certainly requires more planning and preparation than traditionalclasses. Some faculty may feel overwhelmed by the logistics involved in preparing an internshipwhich

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

George A. Perdikaris

Session 1359 COMPUTER CONTROL OF MACHINES AND PROCESSES George A. Perdikaris, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-ParksideAbstractA method is presented for controlling machines and processes by a microcomputer. Examplesof a motor drive plant (machine) and a heating plant (process) are presented. The computercontrolled systems are designed and simulated using the language SIMULINK.1 The motorcontrol system is implemented in the laboratory. Results obtained from computer simulation arecompared with laboratory findings.I. IntroductionIndustrial automation incorporating computers

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Bernard Hoop; Eric W. Hansberry; Gerard Voland

as forinadequate and/or incomplete science literacy.It is our contention that student-centered interaction and engagement is particularlyeffective among students who do not perceive themselves threatened by, or at anintellectual disadvantage to one another. In this paper, we describe an attempt toengage students in the development of science activities for lay science students in twodifferent non-threatening ways within a traditional classroom lecture format. The first isby means of a design project of a science laboratory for lay science students in anengineering graphics design course. The second is by means of student-centeredinteractive-engagement methods in an introductory physical science course to promoteconceptual understanding in

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Terra Smith

home staff, family members of residents, and health care surveyors wasfluids being inappropriately prepared for residents on swallow disorder (dysphagia) diets.Residents with dysphagia may take longer to swallow than normal, therefore, thickened fluidsmay be prescribed to determine inexpensive procedures for monitoring fluid consistencies, to usestatistical consistencies, and to promote training of the health care students on use of foodthickeners. The project was conducted at four sites: two long-term care facilities, the mechanicalengineering laboratory, and the food product development laboratory. Phase I was a preliminarystudy to determine appropriate data collection methods for a long-term care facility. Phase II,conducted in the

Conference Session

Programming and DSP Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jordan Rosenthal; James McClellan

Session 3220 Animating Theoretical Concepts for Signal Processing Courses James H. McClellan, Jordan Rosenthal Georgia Institute of Technology / MIT Lincoln LaboratoryAbstract: Although most topics in Digital Signal Processing (DSP) are highly mathematical, most experts possessknowledge of these concepts that is primarily graphical. Therefore, we have developed a variety of multimedia adjunctsfor use in an introductory signal processing course at Georgia Tech to teach abstract concepts. These same multimediatools are also valuable in senior-level and graduate DSP courses. Among the available

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

U.S. graduates in science, mathematicsand engineering is a complex problem that requires the participation of many parties,engineering schools have a critical role to play to improve engineering student retention.Engineering students face unexpected difficulties to complete their program. Without beingcomprehensive, among them we can list the following: a) Ineffective advising both in theacademic curriculum and regarding the profession, b) low quality of teaching; c) unavailabilityof faculty members; d) length for degree in excess of four years; and e) low grades in sciencecourses (Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry) that are prerequisites to major engineering* (See also: Karan Watson, “Retention of Undergraduate Students in Engineering

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Lars Cederqvist; Jed Lyons

-classlaboratory experiments that provide data to analyze with MathCAD or Excel. The third activity is ateam design project that is best performed around Halloween. Student feedback indicates that thesesimple hands-on activities effectively introduce students to fundamental engineering concepts.IntroductionThe Introduction to Engineering course at the University of South Carolina includes the learningoutcomes that the students: demonstrate knowledge of engineering; demonstrate the ability to use asuite of computer applications; and function on a team to complete a freshman design experience.An active-learning approach has been taken to develop these outcomes.“Full-Body Contact Statics” is an in-class laboratory experiment. The students apply static loads

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Davis; Frank Severance; Damon Miller

Neural Systems. 1992, West, St. Paul.3. Bell, Mathematics, Queen and Servant of Science, an extract published in Newman, The World of Mathematics, Vol. I, pp. 517-518, Dover.4. Ross, J. and Wie, C.R., Utilizing Internet Technologies to teach laboratory courses, IECON’99 Conference Proceedings, pp. 121-5 vol I., 1999, IEEE.5. URL: http://www.xicor.com/pdf_files/an124.pdf6. URL: http://www.ni.com/ Page 6.171.14 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationKEVIN DAVISKevin Davis received a M.S

Conference Session

Manufacturing Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pavel Ikonomov, Western Michigan University; Alamgir A. Choudhury, Western Michigan University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

at Vir- tual Reality Center Yokohama, Japan, Associate professor at Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of technology, Japan, Vis. Professor at UCLA and NIST. He has extensive industrial and teaching experience in different countries university research centers and companies. He is considered and expert in CAD/CAM, robotics, and Virtual Reality simulation for industry and nanomanufacturing. Dr. Ikonomov published more than 100 papers in journal, proceedings, a book and severs chapters in books, a patent.Alamgir A. Choudhury, Western Michigan University Alamgir A. Choudhury is an Associate Professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan. His MS and PhD are from

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David B. Benson, Kettering University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

transfer breaks down.Methodology The research being conducted under the NSF’s Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Page 22.1071.5Improvement Program (CCLI) consists of “pre-test” assessment at the start of a term of studentcapability in pre-requisite knowledge and skills (integration, differentiation, dot product,equilibrium conditions, etc.) across the curriculum. Student responses to these assessmentquestions are analyzed to determine the approach which each student took in addressing theproblem and to identify aspects of their thought processes: this is especially important in thoseproblems where the students answered the assessment questions

Conference Session

Ethical Issues II: Academic Integrity and Student Development

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Narciso F. Macia P.E., Arizona State University, Polytechnic; Robert W. Nowlin, Retired

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

capture the multitude of teaching/learning environmentsused by a department in educating their students. This can be adapted by any university, and witha small amount of data collection and analysis can show an accurate view of how their variousengineering programs are similar and/or different regarding the mix of laboratory experiences,application-based learning and theoretical learning. Figure 4 shows a possible comparison ofthree programs. Again this particular diagram is not the result of an objective effort, obtainedby tabulating the number of hours used in the various modalities of instruction (i.e. laboratory,lecture, group-work, etc.). This diagram is of a more anecdotal nature, and one used for an actualcomparison would depend on the

Conference Session

Nuclear and Radiological Division Technical Session 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wade R. Marcum, Oregon State University; Steve Reese, Oregon State University; Robert A. Schickler

Tagged Divisions

Nuclear and Radiological

is a multifaceted research facility specializing in research related to the nuclear sciences. The facility houses unique ca- pabilities including the 1.1 MW Oregon State TRIGA Reactor (OSTR), gamma irradiator, thermal hy- draulics testing laboratories, radiochemistry laboratories, and extensive radiological spectral and counting equipment. His research focus includes neutron radiography, MCNP, and reactor dosimetry. He obtained a PhD from Colorado State University (1997) in Radiological Health Sciences and a BS from Oregon State University (1991) in General Science. He also holds a Senior Reactor Operating license for the OSTR. He is certified by the American Board of Health Physics and is a member of the

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Sundar Krishnamurty; Robert Gao; John Ritter; Donald Fisher; Janis Terpenny

, requirements, supporting links, contact information and serves as a repository forproject descriptions and presentations. Two graduate students, whose research is in the area ofassistive technology, are available to senior students for questions, maintain the web resources,and are responsible for the implementation and maintenance of equipment and technology in ourgrowing AT student design laboratory. Page 6.871.5 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education Table 1

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Gurbax Singh; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

Interactive Video Network (IVN). All laboratories and some of theupper division electives are taught on site.Minority University Research and Education Division (MURED) of NASA has awardeda three year (2000-2002) grant titled “Pre-College Activities For Enhancing MinorityParticipation in Engineering”, to help reinforce UMES mission to improve therepresentation of minorities and women in mathematics, sciences, technology and inparticular, in the field of engineering. The funding not only complements the UMESmission to actively recruit and retain minority, women, and economically disadvantagedstudents but is also intended to help the growth of the UMES engineering program.This paper describes the “Summer Engineering Bridge Program (SEBP)” at UMES

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Edward Howard; Joseph Musto

strengths and capabilities of MSOE.These types of programs have existed in various forms for decades; they traditionally followed atypical classroom model, where a combination of lecture and laboratory demonstration was usedto highlight engineering topics. Page 6.1047.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationDuring the 1998-1999 academic year, an effort was undertaken to re-engineer the mechanicalengineering outreach offerings. Review of background literature indicated that the mostsuccessful

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mitzi Vernon; Richard Goff

Page 6.1109.11Figure 11. Painting vehicle with cover and on site Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationConclusions and AssessmentThis collaborative effort between Engineering Fundamentals and Industrial Design is acontinuing project. We have received previous grant funding from the Center for Excellence inUndergraduate Teaching (CEUT) at Virginia Tech. The grant was awarded for development ofan annual joint endeavor between engineering design graphics and the sophomore design studio.The recent completion and dedication of the Frith Freshman Engineering Design Laboratory andaccompanying donations

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Goddard

are capable and truly oriented towards engineering because ofthe natural effects of attrition on the less motivated students. It is the upper division students thathave “the best stuff” coming out of laboratory experiments and design projects to present asartifacts for the high school students. The presentations that have been done by this author arisefrom incorporating a requirement of participation for all the senior design students and juniorlevel machine design students. In both of these courses, as taught at The University of Texas atTyler, there is a team based design project. The presence of such a project is a key requirementto establish involvement.The third “Who” relates to the audience for the presentations. Which high school

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin M. Hubbard

. Biographical InformationKEVIN M. HUBBARD is an assistant professor in the University of Missouri-Rolla's Engineering Managementdepartment. He also serves as the Manufacturing Engineering academic advisor, and as the Computer IntegratedManufacturing Laboratory Director. He teaches and conducts research in the areas of manufacturing processes andmanufacturing system control and integration. Page 3.203.8

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Leslie Lahndt-Hearney

. Thus, these fields ofengineering experienced a real need to have curricula where efforts were placed toward researchand development for the creation of new theory and techniques, and other curricula where effortswere placed teaching engineering practice and improving practice oriented technology. The Page 3.577.1divergence of theory and practice is perhaps most obvious in the fields of electrical engineeringand electrical engineering technology.There are, however, some fields of engineering that were virtually unaffected by the moonlaunch of the 1960’s, and perhaps the most obvious of these is the field of civil engineering (CE).Yet, despite

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Willie E. (Skip) Rochefort

needed to solve some of them.Unfortunately.....the only way we have found to teach students the engineeringapproach to process analysis is to have them practice it, repeatedly, until theyget it."From their assessment it appears that the challenge facing the instructor is toprovide sufficient "practice" at problem solving to make the studentsproficient, while providing sufficient additional stimulus to keep the studentsexcited about chemical engineering. We have addressed this challenge in ourMaterial Balances course by providing the students with a quarter long projectbased on a an actual chemical engineering process. The process that has beenused for the past three years is the Ford-Wixom Material Balances MultimediaModule developed by Prof

Conference Session

Integrating Hands-On Technology and Project-Based Learning in Engineering Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Branimir Pejcinovic, Portland State University; Melinda Holtzman, Portland State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

engineering education, microwave absorber design, ferroelectrics, photovoltaics, THz sensors, signal integrity, and semiconductor device characterization, design, and simulation. He is a member of IEEE and ASEE.Dr. Melinda Holtzman, Portland State University Melinda Holtzman received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno. She is a Teaching Assistant Professor and undergraduate advisor in the ECE department at PSU. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Tinkercad - Not Just for Kids1. IntroductionCovid-19 caused a great deal of disruption across all levels of education largely by forcingteachers and students to quickly adapt to some

Conference Session

Industrial Collaboration and Applications

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert J. Durkin, IUPUI

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

AC 2011-237: PARTNERING SMALL BUSINESS NEEDS WITH ENGI-NEERING TECHNOLOGY EDUCATIONRobert J Durkin, IUPUI Teaches Engineering Technology courses in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Technology at IUPUI. 30+ years in manufacturing as an Engineer, Engineering Manager and General Manager of Production. 2 US patents BSEE - Indiana Institute of Technology MBA - University of Notre Dame, Magna Cum Laude Page 22.1142.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Partnering Small Business Needs with Engineering Technology

Conference Session

Information Systems and Computing Potpourri

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Guy Johnson, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

Mobile GIS and GPS software. Additionally, thiscourse provides students with the opportunity to plan and implement field surveys in a teamenvironment, as well as perform laboratory-based geospatial data analysis on informationcollected in the field. The course emphasizes the integration of geospatial technologies for fieldsurveys. Topics include: • Principles of Global Positioning Systems (40%) • Data accuracy requirements (10%) • Mobile GIS software (10%) • Field mapping planning and implementation (20%) • Location-based services and asset tracking (20%)Educational and career outcomes • Students will be able to describe the principles of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) location measurement • Students will be

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Bahador Ghahramani

Corporation that are similar in theirrequirements. They all are based on five 8 week cycles sessions - 2 Winter, 2 Fall, and 1Summer. Their requirements are similar to the non-thesis programs consisting of 33 semestergraduate credit hours. These programs are mostly on site and convenient for the students toattend.MULTIMEDIA INITIATIVES EMGT has been a leader in transmitting and teaching its outreach courses through state-of-the-art multimedia technologies. These courses appear coast-to-cost via satellite TV,superimposed and projected against multimedia images. This multimedia technology relies on arevolutionary IBM Interactive Multimedia Classroom (IMMC). The IMMC system coordinatesand integrates a variety of multimedia components and allows

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Measurement Innovation

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

AC 2010-786: SMART GRID, CLEANTECH, SENSOR NETWORKS COME OFAGEGary Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College Mr. Gary J. Mullett, a Professor of Electronics Technology and Co-Department Chair, presently teaches in the Electronics Group at Springfield Technical Community College in Springfield, MA. A long time faculty member and consultant to local business and industry, Mr. Mullett has provided leadership and initiated numerous curriculum reforms as either the Chair or Co-Department Chair of the four technology degree programs that constitute the Electronics Group. Since the mid-1990s, he has been active in the NSF’s ATE and CCLI programs as a knowledge leader in the wireless

Conference Session

Design with External Clients

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ismail Orabi, University of New Haven

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

vibrations and dynamic systems and control. Professor Orabi has taught courses in both undergraduate and graduate level Mechanical Vibrations and Engineering Analysis, and undergraduate level thermodynamics, Measurement Systems, Capstone Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics and Introduction to Engineering. He has established two Laboratories: the Materials Testing laboratory sponsored by the National Science Foundation, and the Engineering Multimedia Laboratory funded by AT&T. He is a member of ASME and ASEE. Page 15.503.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Enhancement of