Conference Session

Track 2 - Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Aaron Brown, Metropolitan State University of Denver; Duane B Swigert, Metropolitan State University of Denver

Tagged Topics

Curriculum and Lab Development

landing mechanism for the Mars Science Laboratory Rover Mission AKA Curiosity. Mechanism design work for Hubble Robotics and on Global Precipitation Measurement Instrument Missions. Additionally, Professor Brown has worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology designing test equipment to measure stress-strain relationships to superconductor perfor- mance. His past work on the tethering landing mechanism used to lower the Mars rover Curiosity to the Red Planet’s surface is part of a $2.5 billion program NASA says will assess whether the Gale Crater area of Mars has ever had the potential to support a habitable environment. Professor Brown runs the NASA Space Grant program at MSU Denver. His current

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lehman; Asad Yousuf

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Session xxxxReferences1. “Practical Electronics for Inventors” by Paul Scherz McGraw-Hill 20002. “Student Manual for the Art of Electronics” by Thomas C. Hayes and Paul Horowitz Harvard,Cambridge University Press 19893. “Pros and Cons of replacing discrete logic with programmable logic in introductory digital logiccourses” by Kevin Nickels Trinity University ASEE Annual Conference Session 25324. “A Proven Different Approach to Teaching Linear Circuits” by Albert J. Rosa and Roland E. ThomasUniversity of Denver/USAF Academy Proceedings

Conference Session

Mathematics Potpourri

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Schmeelk, Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Branch

0 -0.5 -1 -1.5 -2 0 0.5 1 1.5Bibliography 1. Berglund, G.D., A Guided Tour of the Fast Fourier Transform, IEEE Spectrum, (July 1969), 41- 52. 2. Budrikis, Z. L., & Hatomian, M., Moment Calculations by Digital Filters, AT&T Laboratories Technical Journal, 63, No.2, (February 1984), 217-229. 3. Cochran, W. T., & Cooley, J., W., & Favin, D., L., What is the Fast Fourier Transform? Proceedings of the IEEE, 55, No. 10, (October 1967), 1664-1674. 4. Gabel, R. A., & Roberts, R. A., Signals and Linear Systems, Wiley, NY (1980). 5. Harris, F

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Pierre Trotignon; Ian Simpson

(Air Liquide, Michelin, L’Oréal, Pechiney…)· energy (TotalFinaElf, nuclear energy…)· technology (Alcatel, Alstom, Dassault, Sagem, Thomson…)· communications (Hachette, Havas, France Télécom, Vivendi…)· food/drink (Lyonnaise des Eaux, Pernod-Ricard…).Excellence in engineering education· strong scientific and technological course content· world-renowned laboratories, teachers and researchers (the “Fields Medal”, the equivalent of the “Nobel Prize” in mathematics, has almost found a permanent home in France)· engineering courses in France generally also include elements of the social sciences and training in management.Industrial involvement· engineering programmes in France include training-periods in industry which are integrated

Conference Session

Assessment in Large and Small Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Terry; W. Vincent Wilding

of ourconstituency groups in the development of our educational plan to respond to EC2000; and 2) todescribe the new course and its educational goals and benefits for our chemical engineeringstudents.IntroductionDuring the development of an educational plan for students in the Chemical EngineeringDepartment at Brigham Young University, we, along with our faculty colleagues, identifiedseveral topics that we felt were being treated insufficiently in our curriculum.1-2 Many of thesewere listed in ABET’s Engineering Criterea 2000 as desirable student outcomes. These includedengineering ethics, industrial and laboratory safety issues, environmental concerns, leadershipand teaming principles, and other issues involving how chemical engineering

Conference Session

New Programs and Textbooks in BME

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman

medical and research staff. In addition, several staff members at the nearby Oak Ridge National Laboratory, local area physicians and representatives of biomedical product manufacturers have expressed interest in collaborative research. A broadly-based BME interest group has been identified and a series of meetings coordinated by the BME program has been initiated to explore joint research in several focus areas in which there is substantial regional strength. § Funding agencies with programs encompassing the BME field have been targeted for grant solicitation. In particular, grant applications have been directed to the Whitaker Foundation which

Collection

2024 ASEE North East Section

Authors

Sunil Dehipawala, City University of New York, Queensborough Community College; Lexi grace Robinson; Harsha Rajapakse; Tak Cheung

reflection, multi-disciplinary learning accomplishments, ground-breaking innovations, collaborative studies, entrepreneurship, intellectual and ethical responsibility, and service to the scientific, national, and international communities.Prof. Tak Cheung Tak Cheung, Ph.D., professor of physics, teaches in CUNY Queensborough Community College. He also conducts research and mentors student research projects. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Synchrotron X ray absorption student projects in community college and gateway for chemical engineering related educationAbstract:A Synchrotron radiation student project in our community college consists of data collection,data

Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Moustapha Diab, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Uche Ezechi, University of Delaware; Mohamad Dyab, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Madhumi Mitra Ph.D, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

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Ocean and Marine

institute at OU. He earned his bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering at University of Maryland Eastern Shore where he worked on several academical and research projects.Dr. Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore Abhijit Nagchaudhuri is a Professor in the Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences at Univer- sity of Maryland Eastern Shore. Dr. Nagchaudhuri is a member of ASME and ASEE professional so- cieties and is actively involved in teaching and research in the fields of engineering mechanics, robotics, and control systems; precision agriculture and remote sensing; and biofuels and renewable energy. Dr. Nagchaudhuri received his bachelors degree from Jadavpur University in Calcutta

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mei Zhang, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering; Amy B Chan Hilton, Florida State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

, andcreates opportunities for undergraduates to pursue nanotechnology related research activities. Inthe first NanoCORE project, we focused on introducing nanoscale science and engineering intothe undergraduate curriculum through short teaching units, which we refer to as “nanomodules,”within existing courses. Students also had opportunities for more in-depth nanotechnologytraining by enrolling in technical electives and participating in undergraduate research. Theprogram has made a noteworthy impact on our undergraduate educational content andexperience.2 With the NanoCORE II project, we have extended the program by expandingstudent-learning opportunities to include additional hands-on and laboratory activities. TheNanoCORE II topic areas and

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries (ELD) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alison Bradley, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; R. Daniel Latta, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Meg Harkins, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

completely in library instruction sessions in the future. Sarah Clarkand Susan Chinburg3 created a model for comparing groups of students who received differingtypes of research instruction within a single large-scale course, allowing others to adopt theirmodel to compare a set of students receiving library instruction with a control group that did not.Finally, Virginia Young and Linda Ackerson8 developed a program to conduct bibliographicevaluation of large numbers of student papers by trained staff members, allowing a larger samplefor evaluation than a single librarian or instructor could manage individually.  Collaboration between librarians and teaching faculty    The professional literature in librarianship clearly illustrates both the need to

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Peg Pankowski

included.IntroductionApplications for accreditation, along with accreditation visits, are stressful times for all collegesand universities. The previous NWCCU accreditation visit to the college yielded arecommendation that student learning outcomes be defined and consistently assessed for allprograms of the college and that the assessments clearly inform the planning process of thecollege to drive improvement. At that time, the college adopted a framework for assessment thatattempted to link programs to the college mission. Engineering technology faculty had listedspecific student outcomes such as “construct, test and verify the operation of various digitalcircuits” and indicated that tests and laboratory reports would be used as measurement devices.Unfortunately

Collection

2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Fabricio Braga Soares de Carvalho; Orlando Rocha Baiocchi; Robert Friedman

administrative and lab staff who are dedicatedto the educational success of nearly 440 matriculated and non-matriculated students in itsprograms. Over 600 students have completed Institute programs and have been awardedUniversity of Washington undergraduate and graduate degrees.The vision of the Institute derives from its unique public-private partnership in higher education,one charged with serving as a catalyst for generating energy and interest in computing &engineering disciplines. Its goals include developing and enhancing faculty teaching and researchwhile increasing students’ communication and collaboration skills; expanding and diversifyingstudent enrollment; continuously developing, assessing and improving its program offerings

Collection

2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Yanwu Ding

with some measurement noise in the speaker’s signal. Students will identify the frequency components of the noise and try to remove them by filtering. Each student is given a distinct pair of speaker and listener signals in the project.  Data set 3: Measurement signals in the gearbox of a wind turbine from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The data is recorded by a number of sensors at the gearbox, as shown in Figure 3, to monitor the operation of the turbine and to detect signs of possible failure (especially if a turbine is more than 20 years old). The data was provided by WSU faculty in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Although a

Collection

2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

James A. Ejiwale

. According to McPherson7 (2005) “Service learning is a method of teaching throughwhich students apply their academic skills and knowledge to address real-life needs in their owncommunities.” Eyler & Giles4 (1999) highlighted the importance of service learning as “a formof experiential education where learning occurs through a cycle of action and reflection asstudents work with others through a process of applying what they are learning to communityproblems, and at the same time, reflecting upon their experience as they seek to achieve realobjectives for the community and deeper understanding and skills for themselves.” It is essentialtherefore to provide a structured environment in which participants will be able to discover theirown styles of

Collection

2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Parameswar Hari

solving skills and critical thinking in introductoryphysics courses. In this paper we discuss a new approach to teaching problem solving and criticalthinking skills to physics and engineering physics students. We propose a new method in whichphysics students are asked to evaluate different solutions to a given problem and decide why aparticular solution is the correct one compared to various other approaches leading to the exactlysame final answer. This technique could facilitate critical thinking in students taking introductoryphysics courses.IntroductionPhysics is traditionally considered a difficult subject to master because of the high degree ofproblem solving skills demanded in learning the subject. Besides requiring a high level

Collection

2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Josephine Lamela; James Finne; Karen Ford; Deborah Iacontino

around every corner.Fasteners failed. Circuits burned. Mechanisms did not function. How were we to measuresuccess in the face of failures?We used every failure as a learning experience, praising the failure for what we could learn fromit and teaching about what causes the failure. The goal was to make failures safe, and to makethe students comfortable with accepting the failure of their design and using that failure to createa larger success. This was design as an iterative process.Nuts and bolt issuesThe student teams were given a box of tools. The tools anticipated the processes that they wouldneed to fabricate their projects. The tools included a variety of cutting tools (saws, knives, pliers,etc.), a variety of gripping tools (adjustable

Collection

2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Paul B. Crilly; Richard Hartnett

Navigation course where phased arrays areused to localize signals, indicates that students who did this experiment had better intuition and solidunderstanding about this subject than those who simply did simulations. It was especially gratifying toobserve their reactions when the perceived sound volume went from loud to almost complete silence withonly inches of movement. Thus we transformed an abstract set of equations into a sensory experience.While the 8-element array provides further confidence that the theory matched the experiment results, itwas much easier to perform the experiment using the 4-element array. This experiment will be integrated into the laboratory portion of the antennas course at the U.S. CoastGuard Academy where additional

Collection

2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

John Mirth

Format The teaching experiment described herein was carried out in the “Mechanical SystemsDesign” course taught at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville (UWP). This is a junior/seniorlevel course that serves as a precursor to Senior Design. Key elements of the course include acomprehensive “design and build” project, and a lecture focus on developing the completedesign process. In the semester studied, students in the course were required to design and build alaboratory experiment to demonstrate the functioning of a mechanical system. The premisewas that the experiment would become part of a “lab kit” to be used in conjunction with an on-line presentation of the Mechanical Systems Laboratory course taught at UWP. Students worked on

Collection

2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Reza Raeisi; Deepak Anand

perform the following operations: 1. Reading the temperature sensor. 2. Use RS232 serial protocol to load temperature data to the wireless antenna. 3. Use RS232 serial protocol to unload temperature data from the wireless antenna. 4. Display the sent temperature on LCD screen and alerting with sound warning in case of emergency.The Dragon12-Plus trainer is a low-cost, feature-packed training board from Freescale HCS12microcontroller family. It incorporates many on-board peripherals that make this board verypopular trainer for teaching microcontroller course in universities around the world.RF Module (HAC-UM96)The HAC-UM96 is designed to be a low cost and high performance radio modem. It is a UARTdevice; data is framed according

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Kevin John McDonnell; Anne Joan Caraccio; Nithin Susan Abraham; Nicholas Alexander Ruffini; Susan Gallardo; James Patrick Abulencia

waterborne infections and diseases. It is therefore necessary thatsomething be done to help those in need. One way is through the use of Service Learning. This method of teaching is meant tohave a two-fold outcome. First, it gives students the opportunity to help others in need, whilehelping them become more aware of serious socio-economic and quality of life issues. 1Secondly, it helps the students to continue to learn with hands on experience, by taking what theyhave been taught, and applying it to real world situations. To initiate this Service-Learning project, students and professors from two schools:Manhattan College in Bronx, NY

Collection

2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Ryan Ferguson; Richard Lupa; Bradford Powers; Henry Whitney; Salah Badjou

A Low-Cost Lightweight, Low-Profile Portable Solar Tracker Ryan Ferguson Richard Lupa Bradford Powers Henry Whitney Salah Badjou, Ph.D. Department of Electronics and Mechanical Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA 02115 Session Topic: Teaching project based courses and design courses, including senior design course AbstractThis paper describes the design and construction of a novel lightweight, low-profile solar

Collection

2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Daniel Domato; Marco Castaldi; James Patrick Abulencia

materials such as wood andMunicipal Solid Waste, and has been identified as a potential source of energy because it isrenewable and abundant. Gasification is one process that can be used to extract energy out ofthis biomass. Typically used with fossil fuels such as coal, gasification of biomass can generatesyngas, which is a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen. Despite the increasing popularity of green engineering, full stand-alone coursesaddressing this topic would be difficult to insert into the already full chemical engineeringcurriculum. One potential way to expose students to green engineering is through the seniorlevel unit-operations laboratory. To this end, a new unit-operations lab experiment centered on the biomass

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Marissa Buell; Nehad Dababo; Rene Figueroa; Peter Moala; Amelito Enriquez; Kanjun Bai; Hamid Mahmoodi; Cheng Chen; Kwok-Siong Teh; Hamid Shahnasser; Wenshen Pong; Hao Jiang

importance for many electricalengineering (EE) disciplines. Nationwide, it is a required course in the EE undergraduatecurriculum. In spite of its importance, most students perceive the circuit course as one of the mostabstract courses in the undergraduate curriculum1. This perception is largely attributable to thefollowing reasons: 1) the classical approach of teaching circuit principles is based on linearalgebra and complex number. The traditional chalk/blackboard instruction is in many casesdifficult to follow for students with weak mathematics skills and they often feel lost; 2) studentsperceive the course is “too theoretical”, therefore, irrelevant for their education2. Students loseinterest in the course as soon as they fail to see how the

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

R. Joe Stanley; Stuart W. Baur

% 0Semi-StateConstruction Professionals 10.8% 13(architecture, surveying, etc.)Education Teaching and 5.0% 8LecturingEngineering/Technology/Industry 72.5% 87Health & Safety 1.7% 2Human Resources and 0% 0RecruitmentHumanities 0.8% 1Hotel, Catering 0% 0Insurance and Pensions and 0% 0Actuarial workLanguages (teacher, interpreter, 1.7

Conference Session

FPD 6: Course Content and Educational Strategies

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lydia Prendergast, Rutgers, School of Engineering; Eugenia Etkina, Rutgers University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

experiences that engage the student in learning include active learning pedagogies.Active Learning Pedagogies: Teaching and learning methods need to evolve to meet the needs oftoday’s students. Traditional or deductive teaching methods like lecturing (or chalk and talk) androutine problem solving have been in place for centuries, and have been shown to be ineffectivein helping students learn.3,25,30,33,34 Conversely, inductive or active learning pedagogies are likelyto be more effective.35 Active learning is an instructional style where the student is activelyengaged in constructing her/his own knowledge in an environment created by the instructor asopposed to passively listening to the instructor transmitting the new knowledge. Active learningreform

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Il-Seop Shin, Western Illinois University; Eun Go, Western Illinois University; Colin Ross Harbke, Western Illinois University; Thomas Mark Scaife, McGraw-Hill Education

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

CMOS In- tegrated Circuit designer and a system engineer at NewLANS, Inc. in Acton, Massachusetts until 2010. He became a Visiting Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida in 2010. Since August 2012, he has been with the School of Engineering at Western Illinois University, Quad Cities as an Assistant Professor of Engineering. His current academic interests include project-based learning with real-world problems, training in critical thinking for students to improve efficient problem solving skills, and enhancement of interactive teach- ing/learning inside and outside classroom. His main research interests are integration of high performance

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jae Hoon Lim, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Rachel Saunders, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Peter Thomas Tkacik, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Jerry Lynn Dahlberg Jr., University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Madison Elizabeth Levan, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Military and Veterans

Peter Tkacik is an Professor of mechanical engineering within the motorsports focus area. His largest area of research is in the engagement of military veterans and early career engineering college students through hands-on learning activities and exciting visual and experiential research programs. Other research activi- ties are related to the details of the visual and experiential programs and relate to hypersonics, tire testing, color-Schlieren shock and compressible flow imaging, and flows around multiple bodies in tandem.Dr. Jerry Lynn Dahlberg Jr, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Jerry Dahlberg is an Assistant Teaching Professor and Chair of the College of Engineering Senior Design Committee at the

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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

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

computers”. Provide several options including erroneous options to determine if participants can recall types of engineering that are relevant to the given context area (based on 5d). Consider open-ended responses for this question (per Rob Lillis feedback).Outcome 2: Direct - Feedback from pre-  Complete rubric addressing student‟s ability to relateLink math and engineering outreach math and science knowledge to engineering relatedscience knowledge program teaching team exercises. Rubric

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christianna Irene White, Iowa State University, Institute for Transportation; David J. White, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

. (Iowa State University 2000), all in civil engineering. He has been on the faculty of the de- partment of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at Iowa State University of Science and Technology since 2001, and currently holds the rank of Associate Professor and is the holder of the Weg- ner Professorship. Dr. White is the Director of Earthworks Engineering Research Center at Iowa State University and is in charge of the Iowa State University Geotechnical Mobile Laboratory. Dr. White has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in introduction to soil engineering, foundation analysis and design, experimental testing, soil behavior, and soil stabilization and compaction. Dr. White has research interests