Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Technical Session - Professional Practice 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brett Rocha, United States Military Academy; Scott M. Katalenich P.E., United States Military Academy

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

design of concrete structures.Mr. Scott M. Katalenich P.E., United States Military Academy Lieutenant Colonel Scott M. Katalenich is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY. He earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the United States Military Academy, M.Phil. in Engineering from the University of Cambridge, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Stanford University. He is a licensed Professional Engineer (Alaska), Project Management Professional, LEED Accredited Professional in Building Design and Construction, and Envision Sustainability Professional. His research interests include engineering

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division (ETD) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Esteban Andres Garcia, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Joseph Trapani, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Bobby Emmanuel-Okafor; Frank Fenner, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Milad Shojaee, New Jersey Institute of Technology ; Alex Blinder; Mohsen Azizi, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

control and fault diagnosis techniques in microgrids, renewable energy systems, mechatronics, and aerospace. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Emergency Sun-Tracking Solar GeneratorAbstractIn recent years, due to the growing electricity demand in modern societies and unforeseen naturaldisasters and catastrophic events, the number of power interruptions and outages has increased.The proposed emergency sun-tracking solar generator is designed and developed to address suchpower failure issues. The components used in this project and their functionalities are listed asfollows: (i) A photoresistor array measures the luminosity level of the sun; (ii) a microcontroller(Arduino UNO

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brendan Higgins, Auburn University; Laura Parson, North Dakota State University; Sushil Adhikari, Auburn University; Fredricka Saunders, North Dakota State University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Assessing change in research perceptions following participation in REU site focused on converting biological wastes into products of valueIntroductionThe overall goal of this project was to establish an NSF REU site that integrates undergraduatestudents in team-based research projects focused on converting biological wastes into products ofvalue. This site has operated for two summers at Auburn University and has graduated 19 REUfellows. Each fellow was paired with a faculty mentor, with the goal of being a part of aninterdisciplinary team-based research project. We hypothesized that this team-based approachwould improve the confidence and

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 4

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alejandra Noemi Vasquez, Tufts University; Trevion S Henderson, Tufts University; David Zabner, Tufts University

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT)

) demonstrated the strategic use of repetition when assigning grades, using a forloop to iterate over the elements of a dataframe. Conversely, Student 2 (Figure 2, Appendix A)implemented the same functionality using NumPy’s “select” function instead of repetition.Interestingly, both students attempted to use repetition, as demonstrated by the code Student 2commented out. Although both students produced code that passed the autograder, Student 2appeared to fail in their attempt to utilize repetition.We also analyzed data from student assignments in which students did not receive autograderfeedback. For example, in the final project, which is the key learning activity at the center of thispaper, students in teams of 3-4 were asked to place a new entity

Conference Session

Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Engineering with and for Community Partners

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katie Snyder, University of Michigan; Aditi Verma, University of Michigan

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

solutions.‬‭ ourse Overview‬C‭Therefore, this project seeks to bring community members into a first-year engineering course to‬ ‭establish community engagement as a best practice in engineering design. This course is required‬ ‭of all first-year engineering students at the university, and it uses a design-build-test framework.‬ ‭All sections feature two weekly Lectures, one 2-hour Lab, and one 1-hour Discussion. In most‬ ‭sections, students work to build products or processes as they learn key concepts about a specific‬ ‭engineering discipline (an electrical engineering section might have a project that centers on‬ ‭solar panels; a mechanical engineering course might have a project that centers on rovers).‬‭ tudents are also asked to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan M Lord, University of San Diego; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Starting with Circuits: Year 1AbstractThis NSF-funded Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) Improving Undergraduate STEMEducation (IUSE) project aims to integrate sociotechnical issues in electrical engineering (EE)curricula beginning with the Introduction to Circuits class. To prepare graduates for theworkforce, instructors must help students address the sociotechnical nature of engineering. Mostengineering instructors have been educated with a deep technical focus, have little experienceoutside of engineering, and feel ill-equipped to integrate sociotechnical issues. In this project, weaim to make it easier for engineering instructors to include sociotechnical issues in their coursesby developing modules (with detailed teaching guides and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Rush Leeker, University of Colorado Boulder; Lyndsay Rose Ruane, University of Colorado Boulder; Marlene Sulema Palomar, University of Colorado Boulder; Hannah Sanders, University of Colorado Boulder

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Education, 2024 PALAR IN PIECES: AN INFORMAL FRAMEWORK TO ENCOURAGE MULTIFACETED ENGAGEMENT J. Rush Leeker, L. MacDonald, S. Roudbari, L. Ruane, M. Palomar INTRODUCTION PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2 Action Learning (AL): METHODOLOGY Centers on a 'learning by

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division (SWED) Technical Session #1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Marasco, University of Calgary; Milana Hayley Grozic, University of Calgary; The University of British Columbia; Yves Pauchard, University of Calgary; Mohammad Moshirpour, University of Calgary

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Diversity

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Software Engineering Division (SWED)

, c) to develop lifelong learning capacity through real-world projects andindustry-based training, and d) to train well-rounded software engineers adept in industry-relevant professional skills.This paper will detail the development and implementation of the consultation and redesignprocess, including final curriculum content changes and related delivery recommendations.Consultation ProcessThe taskforce consulted several subcommittees and stakeholder groups to adequately assess thechanging landscape of software engineering. These stakeholder groups included faculty memberswithin the department, faculty members in related departments who may be impacted by thecourse changes, industry advisors, and faculty administrators. Consultation was done

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 6

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nada Elfiki, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University; George Toye; Micah Lande, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Felix Kempf, King's College London; Lauren Marie Aquino Shluzas, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

Technology from the Technical University of Munich, with specializations in Mechanical Engineering, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Finance. She is also an alumna scholar of the entrepreneurial qualification program at Munich’s Center for Innovation and Business Creation (UnternehmerTUM). Professionally, Nada currently works as a Senior Corporate Strategy Manager at a SaaS company. Her student practical experiences include roles as venture capital investment analyst, startup strategy consultant and entrepreneurial coach, alongside being team lead for innovation projects in the automotive industry.Dr. Helen L. Chen, Stanford University Helen L. Chen is a Research Scientist in the Designing Education Lab in Mechanical

Conference Session

Stimulating Broader Industrial Participation in Undergraduate Programs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Randel L. Dymond, Virginia Tech

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College Industry Partnerships

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 The Land Development Design InitiativeIntroduction and BackgroundA large team of professional engineers has rallied around a call for participation in thedevelopment of a new emphasis in land development design within a Department of Civil andEnvironmental Engineering (CEE) at a major land-grant institution. Land development design isthe process of planning, design, and construction of infrastructure and facilities for residential,commercial, industrial, institutional, recreational, and government projects. Land developmentengineers must have strong knowledge about comprehensive plans, zoning, conceptual design, aswell as the engineering background in water resources

Conference Session

Nanotechnology/RFID

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jai P. Agrawal, Purdue University, Calumet; Chandra Sekhar, Purdue University, Calumet; Rosetta G. Davis

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Engineering Technology

directed project that attempted to improve upon these manual permit-ting processes by incorporating RFID technology. The result is a digital tracking permittingsystem that eliminates the need for large amounts of paper, provides centralized data access,and greatly reduces the opportunity for human error. This project not only allows a worker tomore easily locate a permit, but also provides a visual representation of where the work as-sociated with that permit is being performed.Refinize company is likely to implement throughout its refinery organizations a standardizedpermit-to-work system, called the Control of Work (COW), utilizing RFID to track operatorrounds. Operator rounds are instances where the unit operator physically enters the unit

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hirak C. Patangia, University of Arkansas, Little Rock

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NSF Grantees

AC 2011-2122: DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL LEARNING MATERIALSFOR GREEN ENERGY EDUCATION CENTERED AROUND A PHOTO-VOLTAIC (PV) TEST STATIONHirak C Patangia, University of Arkansas, Little Rock Dr. Hirak Patangia is a Professor of Electronics and Computer in the College of Engineering and In- formation Technology at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock.He has served the University in various administrative positions including interim dean, associate dean, and department chair before returning to full-time teaching and research.He is a strong proponent of undergraduate research and many of his pub- lications include undergraduates as coauthors..With NSF funding, he developed a project based freshman engineering course for

Conference Session

Design Tools & Methodology II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Kendra Crider, U.S. Air Force Academy; Kristin L. Wood, University of Texas, Austin; John J. Wood, U.S. Air Force Academy

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Design in Engineering Education

Mechanical Engineer- ing at Wright State University and his B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 1984. Dr. Wood joined the faculty at the United States Air Force Academy in 1994 while serving on active duty in the U.S. Air Force. After completing his Ph.D. in 2002, he returned to the Air Force Academy where he has been on the faculty ever since. The current focus of Dr. Wood’s research is the continued development of empirical testing methods using similitude-based approaches. This ap- proach provides significant potential for increasing the efficiency of the design process through a reduction in required full-scale testing and an expansion of the projected performance profiles

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Prusak

. Difficulties encountered by non-traditional studentsThe major difficulties are related to the availability of time for homeworks and projects. Also,students working full time miss entire classes or parts of it due to full time work obligations(emergencies, overtime, travel). The below described observations of shortcomings and Page 4.364.5advantages of non-traditional students in comparison to full-time students were made insophomore, junior and senior level courses having a mixed population of full-time and part-timestudents. The courses are either required or

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher E. Rizkalla; Charles F. Yokomoto; Zina Ben Miled; Paul Salama; Mohamed El-sharkawy

• The MOS transistor with considerations for short channel devices, secondary effects such as mobility saturation with the electric field and degradation with the temperatures, hot electrons, electromigration, and aluminum spikes.• Simple logic circuits with CMOS technology with the use of Pspice simulation to study the circuit performance.• Introduction to IC fabrication, layout and design rules.• Use of L-Edit on PCs, and Mentor Graphics on HP/Sparc workstations• Project. A typical project is an 8-bit shift register in a 40 pin package.Part II: Printed Circuit Board AssembliesThe basic challenge in the remaining 10 weeks of the course is to teach students enough aboutmanufacturing technology, circuit board layout

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

James Stice

has some observations which should be added to the mix. Last year, Karl Smith told us about the development of cooperative learning. One of thestrengths of that technique is team-building, which involves training students to function asteams with the requirement that group members feel a sense of positive interdependence andindividual accountability. They need to be trained in the process to develop the requisite socialskills, the ability to engage in group processing, and the knowledge of how to deal withcontroversy. It turns out that groups of students have been used in laboratory courses andsenior design projects for decades before cooperative learning arrived on the scene--not,perhaps, very effectively, but the idea was there

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

S. A. Chickamenahalli; M. Bolepalli; Venkateswaran Nallaperumal; Chih-Ping Yeh; Bonnie Shelnut

of suchdevelopments. This project involved developers, specialized in electrical engineering,responsible for the technical content, an industry partner to provide feedback and inputs onmaterial relevant to manufacturing, instructional technologists to insure ease of visual learning,specialists to help in devising modes for assessing learning of CBI material, graphic designers tocreate professional drawings and figures, multimedia specialists to develop animations based onwritten descriptions of the developers, and authoring tool experts to develop the material onAuthorware and Flash screens.1. Introduction The growing need for improved education in technical fields has led to the developmentof innovative methods of instruction

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

William Darby; Richard Grodsky; Joseph Pietroburgo; Nancy Shields

, laboratories, and the design project were also evaluated by the students. Thefindings revealed a highly significant increase in mathematics scores, significantly greaterknowledge of the field of engineering, and greater family support to study engineering over theseven-week program. There was also a less dramatic, but positive increase in commitment tostudy engineering. The engineering activities were well received by the students.BackgroundOverall, undergraduate engineering enrollments have been declining, while at the same time thedemand for engineers has been increasing. Many are concerned that America will not have a Page 4.53.1sufficient supply of

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael J. Hinton; Charles N. Eastlake

Session 2206 The Construction and Flight Testing of a Scaled, Remotely-Piloted, Flight-Test Vehicle Michael J. Hinton, Charles N. Eastlake Cessna Aircraft Company/Embry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityAbstractThe high cost of prototype flight testing can be a limiting factor in the optimization of newdesigns as they proceed from the drawing board to the flight line. The use of low-cost scaledmodels to predict full-scale prototype performance is the focus of this project. It will be shownthat by strictly following geometric and dynamic scaling criteria, the scaled aircraft’s

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Ann McCartney; Maria A. Reyes; Mary Anderson-Rowland

, profitability, quality and manufacturing; economic analysis; flow charting; sketching CAD; and teaming. A term design project is included2.This course is the first course that an engineering student will usually take in their curriculumand is a four semester hour, open-ended design course. The course has three components;laboratory, projects and modeling with six contact hours3.Initial PlanningThe critical elements of the MEP Summer Bridge Program were to introduce the incomingstudents to the campus, university life, and the engineering curriculum. When the planning forthe program began, the MEP determined that there were five program goals that needed to beincorporated into the curriculum of the two week program. These goals were quickly

Conference Session

The Influence of Cooperative Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jim Wojciechowski, Grand Valley State University; Charles Standridge, Grand Valley State University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

use of Excel; engineering terminology, mechanisms anddevices; and the engineering design process. This knowledge was applied duringthe co-op experience to customer relationship topics such as meetingrequirements, using design standards, satisfying machine footprint constraints,and writing documentation that was understandable to all constituents. Generalcurricular knowledge was also applied to technical issues such as calculating thethrust force of a pneumatic cylinder given its bore size, stroke length, andsupplied air pressure. The professional development gained each co-op semesterbetter prepared the student for the ensuing curricular education experience invarious ways including assurance that no curricular assignment, project, or task

Conference Session

Signal Processing Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yuan-Lin Chen, MingChi University of Technology; Shun-Chung Wang, Lunghwa University of Science and Technology

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Computers in Education

atMingchi University in Taiwan. The evaluation results from the students measured before andafter using the approach are very encouraging which demonstrate its efficiency and success.The goals of micro-controller application coursesThe goals of presented teaching approach for micro-controller application course are thatstudents should gain knowledge of the principle of micro-controller operations and could designa real-world application project based on micro-controller topics. The period of the micro-controller application course at Mingchi University in one semester is a total of 51 hours (3 hoursper week times 17 weeks.) The syllabus of this industry-oriented micro-controller course isdescribed in Table 1. We teachers have already integrated

Conference Session

Computational Tools and Simulation I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julio Garcia, San Jose State University; William Cruz, National Hispanic University

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Computers in Education

AC 2010-383: A TECHNOLOGY-ASSISTED SIMULATION OFDISTRIBUTED-TEAM IT SOLUTION DEVELOPMENTJulio Garcia, San Jose State UniversityWilliam Cruz, National Hispanic University Page 15.106.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 A Technology-Assisted Simulation of Distributed-Team IT Solution DevelopmentAbstractUsing HP mobile technology, students transformed their vision of teamwork then designed andimplemented IT solutions addressing challenges posed through lecture and lab. In addition,faculty members not immediately involved in the grant learned how to use technology by seeingits use in the project classroom.The goals of this study were how

Conference Session

Computer and InformationTechnology-Related Issues

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jorge Rodriguez, Western Michigan University; Alamgir A. Choudhury, Western Michigan University; Brian Dragone

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Engineering Technology

aspects of biological systems. In the biomechanics field we havespine biomechanics and orthopedics, which deal with studying musculoskeletal systems.Students were exposed to these two areas, parametric solid modeling and biomechanics, in thecontext of a Design Senior Project. One of the most critical problems that doctors andresearchers encounter is the lack of effective tools to study, in this case, the human spine. Thetypical approach is to perform studies with cadaver spines, or with some highly-regulated in-vivostudies on animals. Both alternatives have benefits but they have many limitations as well, thusthe need for other tools that will help in their studies.The objective of this project was to create a fully parametric three-dimensional

Conference Session

Online and Web-based Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Lesko, East Carolina University; John Pickard, East Carolina University

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Computers in Education

AC 2010-2204: DATA IN DEPTH: WEB 3-D TECHNOLOGIES PROVIDE NEWAPPROACHES TO THE PRESENTATION OF COURSE CONTENTCharles Lesko, East Carolina University Charles Lesko is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Technology Systems, College of Technology & Computer Science at East Carolina University. He received his BS at the US Naval Academy; he holds a MS in Forensics from National University and a second MS in Computer Information Systems from Boston University; his PhD is in Applied Management from Walden University. His current teaching and research regime focus on strategic technology management and communication, information technology project management, and virtual reality

Conference Session

International Forum Poster Session & Welcome Reception: Sponsored by Quanser and Cypress Semiconductors

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2012 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Christina Kay White, University of Texas, Austin; Joules Webb, Transformation 2013 Texas STEM Center

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ASEE International Forum

and implementation of innovative interdisciplinary cur- riculum framed within the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) identified Grand Challenges of the 21st Century. Curriculum development and implementation is based on scientifically-based models of professional development focusing on best practices, curriculum alignment, project-based learning, design-based learning and instructional coaching support to foster implementation of lessons learned. Eq- uitable access to rigorous content for all students while meeting the mandates of state curriculum standards is a major goal of Joules’ work. She supports the development of regional, state, and national STEM in- novation networks to stay current with curriculum

Conference Session

Reception & Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Vasiliy Grigoryevich Ivanov, KAZAN NATIONAL RESEARCH TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY; Svetlana Vasilievna Barabanova, Kazan National Research Technological University; Mansur Galikhanov, Kazan National Research Technological University; Alina Guzhova, Kazan National Research Technological University

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ASEE International Forum

and professional educational level and quality to up-to-date business requirementshas been revealed. There is a long-felt need of complex modernization of ProfessionalEducation System.Concept of Long-term Socio – Economic Development of the Russian Federation for thePeriod up to year 2020 determines important goals of Educational System developmentincluding establishing of world-class Research and Education Centers that integrate advancedresearches and educational programs and meet the staff and research challenges of nationalinnovation projects. Other important goals are establishing of national qualification structureadjusted for potential requirements of innovation-driven advanced economic growth andoccupational mobility, reforming of

Conference Session

Novel Methods in Engineering Ethics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jill May, Illinois Institute of Technology; Daniel Gandara, Illinois Institute of Technology; Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology

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Engineering Ethics

AC 2010-1825: THE CREATION AND VALIDATION OF MEASURES FORETHICS IN CROSS DISCIPLINARY STUDENT TEAMSJill May, Illinois Institute of Technology Jill May is a graduate student in Industrial/ Organizational psychology within the Institute of Psychology at Illinois Institute of Technology. She is serving as an IIT site project manager on NSF grant DUE 0817531,which supports the research reported in this paper.Daniel Gandara, Illinois Institute of Technology Daniel Gandara is a graduate student in Industral/ Organizational psychology within the Institute of Psychology at Illinois Institute of Technology. He is an IIT site manager for NSF grant DUE 0817531, which supports the research reported in

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Haig Vahradian; Veekit O'Charoen; Teresa Hall

interest may be observed. The wide variety of tooling and fixtures are difficult to cover withina single quarter (or semester), especially if consideration of related topics on gaging, cuttingtools, and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing are included. The need for interactiveteaching tools for discreet technical fields such as modular fixturing in tool design applications isindicated and as a result, ToolTRAIN© was introduced as a solution to this problem.1This paper illustrates the outcomes of a research project in integration of multimedia coursewarein modular fixturing concepts, in which the traditional lecture on this topic was replaced by amultimedia courseware. ToolTRAIN© software was used in the area of MET and IT courses atWestern

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Wild; Kevin Firth; Brian Surgenor

requiring excessive time commitments on the part of the students and excessiveresources from the department [2]. In terms of structure, the course is now organized toprovide a combination of lectures, tutorials and laboratories at the beginning of the term, thatculminate in a team project at the end of the term. The project requires a group of students to Page 10.890.1work in a cooperative fashion to create a team of mobile robots, a team that must perform a Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering