Conference Session

Perspectives and Approaches to Teaching Simulation and Design-Based Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca K. Toghiani, Mississippi State University; Hossein Toghiani, Mississippi State University; Larry Everett Pearson, Mississippi State University

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Chemical Engineering

at MSU, including Pro- cess Control, Transport Phenomena, Reactor Design, Engineering Materials, Thermodynamics, both Unit Operations Laboratories and graduate courses in Advanced Thermodynamics, Transport Phenomena and Chemical Kinetics. He performs research in the areas of catalysis, fuel cells and nanocomposite materials.Dr. Larry Everett Pearson, Mississippi State University Page 23.468.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Efficient and Effective Instruction in Process Simulation across the Chemical Engineering CurriculumAbstractOne

Conference Session

Training and Mentoring of Graduate Teaching Assistants

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tershia A. Pinder-Grover, University of Michigan

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Graduate Studies

inquiry learning approach in an introductoryphysics class resulted in higher student performance on concept inventory tests.9 In this study,students were asked to make predictions or define hypothesis, then they were able to view ormanipulate a laboratory demonstration. These research studies are only a few of the possibleevidence-based research that could be presented to new TAs. Other research describing thebenefits of active learning on retention, performance, and attitudes have also been considered for Page 23.136.4this overview. 4,13,23During the active learning presentation, the participants also watch a short video clip of a GSI orTA

Conference Session

Broadening Participation

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine M. Cunningham, Museum of Science, Boston; Cathy P. Lachapelle, Museum of Science, Boston

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Conference Session

Social Media and In-class Technology: Creating Active Learning Environments

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xin Chen, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Computers in Education

design class using open-ended questions and identified aspects of theirexperiences that could lead to improved student retention in engineering13. Using multiple surveyinstruments, Demetry and Groccia evaluated and compared mechanical engineering students’experiences in two introductory materials science classes with one implementing active learningand cooperative learning strategies14. Torres et al. presented students’ experiences of learningrobotics within a virtual environment and remote laboratory, where students knowledge wasassessed via automatic correction tests and students opinions were collected using self-evaluationquestionnaires15. Grimes et al. evaluated civil engineering students’ experiences in a visualclassroom named VisClass

Conference Session

Computer-based Measurements

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bridget M. Smyser, Northeastern University; Kevin McCue, Northeastern University

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Instrumentation

AC 2012-3291: FROM DEMONSTRATION TO OPEN-ENDED LABS: RE-VITALIZING A MEASUREMENTS AND ANALYSIS COURSEDr. Bridget M. Smyser, Northeastern University Bridget M. Smyser is an Assistant Academic Specialist and Director of Laboratories, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering .Kevin McCue, Northeastern University Page 25.655.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 From Demonstration to Open Ended: Revitalizing a Measurements and Analysis CourseAbstractThe course entitled Measurements and Analysis with Thermal Science Application is a requiredcourse

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Projects and Applications

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Antonio Francisco Mondragon, Rochester Institute of Technology; Jeanne Christman, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Engineering Technology

for prototyping and debugging.Educational platforms currently available are in the form of microcontroller populated boards(hard core processors) or programmable logic device boards. In the later, students can instantiatea configurable, soft core processor comparable to the one provided in the former. This leaveseducators with two distinct options for teaching embedded systems and low level programmingcourses (Note: there can be hard core processors within a programmable logic device, howeverthis paper is referring to a hard core processor as a stand-alone component).This paper is a dialogue between two faculty members, one defending design using hardcomponents, assembly and laboratory testing, and the other using soft components

Conference Session

Advances in Assessment of Communication and Interdisciplinary Competence

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Arlene Ann Russell; Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University; Chester G. Wilmot, Louisiana State University; Boz Bowles, Louisiana State University; David R. Voltmer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; W. Todd Monroe, Louisiana State University; Warren R Hull Sr. P.E., Louisiana State University; Dianne Raubenheimer, Meredith College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

first science laboratory course. Typical general chemistry labmanuals devote an introductory section or an appendix to graphing procedures, including explicitdirections for layout, format, and data presentation, and newer manuals support technology toolsand encourage students to use them to prepare graphs of their experimental data. However, moststudents have not internalized the principles of scientific graphic, but rather resort to the defaultoptions of the “chart” tools of Excel, a program designed for marketing and advertising, not forscience. Page 25.744.5The goals of the assignment were not only to test the upload feature, but also to

Conference Session

Enhancing Recruitment and Retention in Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith Walters; Keisha Walters

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

attack.Field Trip to Mississippi State UniversityThe Mississippi Governor’s School is held at the Mississippi University for Women, a primarilyliberal arts institution located in Columbus, MS. As part of the course, all of the students weretaken on a one-day field trip to Mississippi State University, located approximately 20 milesaway in Starkville, MS. The students were given guided tours of three research facilities. Thefirst was the Aerospace Engineering wind tunnel laboratory. The tour included both a subsonicand supersonic wind tunnel. The students were shown a demonstration of drag in the subsonictunnel, including a demonstration of the effects of dimples on the drag for a sphere, a topic thatwas later discussed in more detail during the

Conference Session

Creativity and Innovation in Engineering Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Camarda, NYU; Sven Bilen, Pennsylvania State University; Olivier de Weck, MIT; Jeannette Yen, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jack Matson, Pennsylvania State University

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Design in Engineering Education

butwere interspersed with hands-on-learning activities to build on lessons taught by more traditionallectures. Guest lectures, laboratory experiments and fun exercises were also included to helpstimulate creativity and build team esprit de corps. A pre-class questionnaire was created andadministered to ascertain the self-perceived creativity quotient of the students and to alsodetermine the various levels of experience and discipline expertise. This was used to pre-determine teams and, thus, ensure diversity as well as to equally distribute key skills necessary toaddress the course problem/challenge. The faculty team decided on an “ice breaker” that wasrelated to the actual problem. The students were introduced to each other during

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone Design

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael P. Frank, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering; Kamal E. Amin, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Okenwa I. Okoli, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Sungmoon Jung Ph.D., FAMU-FSU College of Engineering; Robert A. Van Engelen, Florida State University; Chiang Shih, Florida A&M University/Florida State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

projects are appropriate to run as full-fledged interdepartmental multi-discipline efforts,the course coordinators must use their judgment, and be somewhat selective.Collaborations with Non-Engineering Departments Over the years, a number of Senior Design projects at our College have also involvedcollaborations with departments outside of the engineering school, thereby further extending themultidisciplinary reach and scope of our program. For example, for the last three years, two of our departments (ECE and ME) haveengaged in a partnership with Florida State’s department of Earth, Ocean & AtmosphericSciences department, and two of its associated research laboratories, to have teams of ourengineering students develop various new

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashland O. Brown, University of the Pacific; Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Joseph J. Rencis P.E., Tennessee Technological University; Jiancheng Liu, University of the Pacific; Kyle A. Watson, University of the Pacific; Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Rachelle Kisst Hackett, University of the Pacific; Paul Henry Schimpf, Eastern Washington University; Chuan-Chiang Chen, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Ismail I Orabi, University of New Haven; Firas Akasheh, Tuskegee University; John J Wood, U.S. Air Force Academy; Brock U Dunlap, University of Texas, Austin; Ella R. Sargent, University of the Pacific

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Cairo Institute of Technology. Dr. Orabi has received a number of research awards from the state of Connecticut, Untied Technologies, and NSF. In 2010, he was awarded an NSF-grant proposal in collaboration with eight colleges to Improved Learning for Undergraduate Engineering Programs for $600,000. He has established two laboratories: the Materials Testing Laboratory sponsored by the National Science Foundation, and the Engineering Multimedia Laboratory funded by AT&T. Dr. Orabi was awarded the ASEE Instrumentation Division Best Paper Award in 2000. He was a visiting professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) from 1996 to 1998. He is a member of ASME and ASEE.Dr. Firas Akasheh, Tuskegee

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Rowe

coherent fashion in accordance with the specified guidelines.These are the ILOs for the project, and to demonstrate the achievement of these ILOs studentsundertake the following set of low stakes assessment tasks (along with their phasing during theUK academic year): • Submission of a Risk Assessment and Project Specification (November). • Maintenance of a laboratory/project log book (weekly review) • An interim Oral Presentation (early January) • Submission of an interim report (half way through the project timescale at the end of January) • Demonstration (May) • Final Oral Presentation and Q&A session (May) • Final Written Report (end of April)Custom and practice within the

Conference Session

Teaching Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Goff; Jeffrey Connor; Jean Kampe

active classroom learning, we have also developed out-of-classwork/questions for the exercises that offer individual reflective components to compliment andstrengthen the in-class learning experience. Along with a review of the exercises that highlightsthe learning objective and student response to each activity, the paper offers notes on deliverylogistics that have been successful in our classrooms and an account of the expenses associatedwith each exercise. The worksheets that we have created for these activities are provided as anappendix to the paper for reader use, and solution keys to the worksheets are available from theauthors upon request.Introduction In the past, experiential learning was often reserved for formal laboratory

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Lynn Alpert; Jacqueline Isaacs

”developing ethics workshops for nanotech students as well as mid-career industry professionals.The goals of the workshops are to introduce the AIR (awareness, investigation and response)model18 of ethical inquiry to participants. This model will be presented both as a proven tool toassist them in processing the ethical issues that may arise during their own laboratory research,and as a teaching tool for use with the students, graduate assistants, technicians under theirsupervision.CHN-affiliated faculty at the University of Massachusetts Lowell are designing curricula that usenanotechnology as a framework for examining the entire range of societal issues associated withemerging technologies. For example: faculty in the Department of Work Environment

Conference Session

Systems Approach to Teaching ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Masciadrelli; Nicholas Massa; Gary Mullett

rather than facilitate student learning. In short, they “teach the way theywere taught” 5, lecturing, developing assignments and tests, and assigning grades. Students movethrough a standard sequence of self-contained courses taught in isolation where they learn tosolve problems within the narrow context of individual courses6. Laboratory courses are oftentaught using a “cookbook” approach, not affording students sufficient opportunity for criticalthinking and synthesis of knowledge; connecting what they have learned to prior knowledge orexperience and applying what they have learned in new applications and/or novel situations.Upon completion of core coursework, students are often expected to synthesize the knowledgegained in each course

Conference Session

Teaching Team Skills Through Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Shooter; Soundar Kumara; Robert Stone; Timothy Simpson; Janis Terpenny

are many. Forinstance, product dissection has been successfully used to help students identify relationshipsbetween engineering fundamentals (e.g., torque and power) and hardware design (e.g., a drill)7.It has also been used to help teach competitive assessment and benchmarking8,9. Productdissection is part of the freshmen Product and Process Engineering Laboratory at North CarolinaState University where users take turns playing the role of user, assembler, and engineer10.Sheppard11 was among the first to develop a formal course in product dissection at StanfordUniversity (http://www-adl.stanford.edu/), and a similar course in product dissection wasdeveloped as part of the Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership between Penn State

Conference Session

Advisory Boards & Program Assessment

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Teresa Cutright; Helen Qammar

constituents provided the impetus tothe faculty for changing the required laboratory courses. Previously, the required HydraulicsLaboratory and Engineering Materials Lab were comprised of simply observing laboratoryphenomena. After reviewing the alumni data and student evaluation results, the courses werechanged to contain more hands-on experiments for the students. In addition, instructors nowprovide written feedback on student lab reports. Students really appreciated these changes andgave extremely positive responses in subsequent course evaluations. However, these specificchanges would not have been made if the alumni data and student evaluation had not establishedan irrefutable trend.In other situations, course modifications are primarily faculty

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Purvesh B. Thakker; Gary R. Swenson

adesign specification, 3) prepare a design schematic, schedule, and parts list, 4) order andassemble parts 5) perform functional and specification tests, 6) demonstrate functionality to thecustomer, 7) formally present the project, and 8) prepare a final report suitable for publication.The projects are built in a dedicated Senior Design Laboratory, which has 14 dedicated computerworkstations, parts lockers, and state-of-the-art testing tools. We are also fortunate to have adedicated parts shop, which stocks electrical components for most needs. Additionally, parts thatare not available can be purchased. A mechanism was needed to provide communication

Conference Session

Course Assessment in ET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Hager; Ronald Land

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Gorman; Edmund Russell III; Donald Brown; William Scherer; Kathryn Neeley

stresses effective group interaction, problemsolving, and synthesis. A capstone project features a high level of interaction with a client Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education Page 6.520.1outside of a university setting, where an undergraduate thesis traditionally has tended to minimizeclient interaction and to take a university laboratory or library as its primary setting. A well-written thesis requires a clear focus, and so does a successful capstone project, but in the formercase the students

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Jones, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Carmen R. Zafft, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; John Sutton, RMC Research Corporation; Lance C. Pérez, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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NSF Grantees

Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at UNL. From August 2008 to August 2010 he was a Program Director in the Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF) where he worked on the Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service (SFS) program, the Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program, the Advanced Technology Education (ATE) program and the Math and Science Partnership (MSP) program. His research interests are in the areas of error control coding, wireless communications, sensor networks and engineering education. He received his BS de- gree in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia and the MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering

Conference Session

Hey You: Effectively Engaging Students in the Classroom

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Glenn W. Ellis, Smith College

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

compaction. • Become familiar with: laboratory soil tests and field sampling and improvement techniques. • Improve your communication and group skills by participating in a discourse in knowledge building.Established in 2000, the Picker Program is the first engineering program at a women’s college inthe United States and one of only a small number of engineering programs set within a liberalarts college environment. The 2010 enrollment of the EGR 340 was 12 women (three seniors,five juniors and four sophomores) and included ten engineering and two geology majors. EGR340 introduces students to the engineering behavior of soil within the context of a variety of real-world applications such as constructing dams, roads and buildings

Conference Session

Thinking About the Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Mark H. Somerville, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; David E. Goldberg, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Kerri Ann Green, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Educational Research and Methods

overview of the course and guidelines, they immediately beganto discuss their goals and aspirations for the semester and wrestled with what activities theyshould pursue. For the first learning agreement, they decided to focus first on improving theirdesign skills and using professional engineering design tools. They completed laboratory andsimulation assignments well in advance of their peers, chose to study elective topics that gavethem multiple perspectives on the optimal design of circuits, and choose to complete anambitious design project (The course instructor said, “If they can complete that project, theycertainly don’t need me.”). The team connected well, met regularly, and remained on taskduring their scheduled meeting times

Conference Session

New Classrooms, New Challenges II: Assessing Non-traditional Approaches

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Kenneth J. Williamson, Oregon State University; Jeffrey A. Nason, Oregon State University; Goran Jovanovic Ph.D., Oregon State University; Chih-hung Chang, Oregon State University; Adam Z. Higgins, Oregon State University; Craig M. Gates, Oregon State University; Richard Mark Roehner, Oregon State University

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Chemical Engineering

Faculty GTA GTA GTA GTA Page 25.1443.3 GTA GTA Figure 1. Weekly class structure for a typical studio course.to reinforce content from the lecture that was delivered the day before. A few of the activitiesinvolve “virtual laboratories” where students collect data on their computers. Students each fillout an individual worksheet, but are often allowed to work in groups for all or part of the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Vijay Arora; Lorenzo Faraone

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 4 - Engineering for One Planet & Sustainability Innovation

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mackenzie Booth, Cedarville University; David Brian Dittenber P.E., Cedarville University

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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON)

and then equipping them with the ability to engage that workwith competence and insight. Learning taxonomies are tools that can be used to categorize thecognitive levels at which learners are engaging with material as a means of providing structureand metrics to the educational process, with achievement at higher levels of a taxonomygenerally corresponding to the desired intellectual abilities for practicing engineers [1, 2, 3].The general consensus among engineering educators has long been that creative, practical, andactive educational methods are needed in order to produce engineers who are well-prepared forthe workplace. Presenting students with problems and projects, laboratory experiences, designchallenges, group work, and other

Conference Session

Enhancing Instructional Effectiveness in Civil Engineering: Case Studies

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald W. Welch, University of Texas, Tyler; Clifton B. Farnsworth, University of Texas, Tyler

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

material on the white board versus PowerPoint to build board contentwhile using questioning techniques, etc. Then the faculty completed the same lessonusing Camtasia screen recorder software (voice over PP and/or a talking head). Thefaculty team assessed the quality of these techniques and determined what was missingfrom the ASCE ExCEEd Teaching Model within the distance education products. Basedon the assessment by the faculty, the team determined what adjustments in teaching stylewere needed to increase the quality of instruction using the available distance educationplatform. The ultimate goal was to provide the best quality instruction no matter themedium. The real challenge will be laboratory lessons where the students usually need tosee the

Conference Session

Int. Engineering Education: Developments, Innovations, and Implementations

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sebastian M. Pfotenhauer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Joshua Jacobs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Julio A. Pertuze, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Daniel T. Roos P.E., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dava J. Newman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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International

molecules Patents M4. Computational Analysis of high-throughput data Biosystems Science & Differential equation modeling Engineering Course Sequence and structural bioinformatics M5. Laboratory Rotation I Experimental and research lab techniques in bio-engineering Communication, cooperation and research skills in research environments M6. Laboratory Rotation II Experimental and research lab techniques in bio-engineering

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation of K-12 Engineering Programs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology; Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; Shauna O'Hurley, Rochester Institute of Technology; Robert P. Lillis, Evalumetrics Research; Betsy Khol, Women in Engineering; Robert D. Garrick, Rochester Institute of Technology; Jeanne Christman, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Engineering and Public Policy, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

they already know and careabout 3) demonstrate that women can make a positive impact on the world with a career inengineering. WIT is currently surveying past participants to see if the increased positiveperception is maintained over time.Women in Technology has hosted a Girl Technology Workshop 2-3 times per year since the2008 academic year. This workshop is led by female Engineering Technology students with Page 22.1671.14support from female faculty members. The workshop introduces engineering concepts to 4th -7thgrade girls through a series of interactive laboratory experiments. The day-long workshops wereoriginally exclusively offered

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Anton Pintar

. Some aspects of HYSYS/HYSIM are relatively “user friendly”; other aspects are veryintimidating, especially to sophomores and juniors. HYSYS/HYSIM achieves copyrightprotection by requiring that an electronic security device called a “dongle” be attached to themouse port. These dongles occasionally disappear from the computer laboratories ormalfunction. Fortunately, MTU has a site license for HYSYS that requires only one dongle onthe server for the network. However, each non-networked computer requires its own dongle. Page 2.436.2OBJECTIVES OF THE COMPUTER PROJECTSThe use of Process Flowsheet Simulation Software was accomplished by assigning one