Conference Session

Project-based and Cooperative Learning in ECE

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig A. Chin, Southern Polytechnic State University; Garth V. Crosby, Southern Illinois University, Carbonale

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

proposed that thismethodology be implemented for an entire semester and have student grades comparedstatistically with a control group which is only exposed to the standard instructor-led exampleand individual homework scenario.IntroductionFor most college courses, it is a pragmatic reality that a significant portion, if not the majority, ofstudent learning must occur outside of the classroom in order for an instructor to cover theextensive content of these courses. Homework is an essential tool for promoting this outside-the-class learning process. In addition to this, homework provides an opportunity for a student todevelop problem-solving skills, which are essential in engineering and technology courses ofstudy.A typical method for teaching key

Conference Session

Integration of Research and Education in ECE

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

joshua fabian, Villanova University; Tyler A. Young, Villanova University; James Peyton Jones, Villanova University; Garrett Miles Clayton, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

® blocksets, as wellas by custom developed Embedded MATLAB® Functions. Due to the relatively low cost of theKinectTM sensor, as compared to other video and depth sensing solutions of comparable Page 25.906.9resolution, and the availability of drivers and MATLAB® and Simulink® functions and blocks,this development opens the door for many areas of research and development.5. ConclusionsThe VU-Kinect block helps realize the potential of the KinectTM sensor in teaching and researchby providing a seamless pathway from high-level Simulink designs to the low-level libfreenectdevice drivers. In particular, the block provides access to the RGB video and depth

Conference Session

Issues and Directions in Engineering Technology Education & Administration: Part I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Spang, Burlington County College; Vladimir Genis, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Grose10 involves role-playing and debates astools to sharpen student’s writing abilities. In this study, writing is considered as a creative formof designing.While educators are arguably more experienced in delivering pedagogy that relates to technicalskills, and subsequently measuring the effectiveness through outcomes assessment, this approachis significantly less familiar for the non-technical skills. Shuman et al.11 has addressed the issueand summarized recent work regarding both teaching and assessing these non-technical skills.Assessment, it should be noted, is of particular concern to educational institutions due to themore stringent requirements being placed on them by regional accrediting agencies, as well as byABET. The authors point

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Dick

Page 10.1091.2designing an imbedded system that would be used to implement a True RMS Voltmeter. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education v(t) vi A/D Converter microProcessor 7.23 voltsrms Displayv(t) is the laboratory voltage that is to be measured and vi is the sampled input signal.For this assignment, the sequence of samples, vi, will be drawn from a test file, and thedisplay will be the terminal window. This assignment can per presented to the students atseveral

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mahmoud Quweider, University of Texas, Brownsville; Juan Iglesias, U of Texas at Brownsville; Katherine De La Vega, University of Texas at Brownsville

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2010-1558: WOMEN-CENTRIC SENIOR PROJECTS FOR FEMALES IN THECOMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES FIELDSMahmoud Quweider, University of Texas, BrownsvilleJuan Iglesias, U of Texas at BrownsvilleKatherine De La Vega, University of Texas at Brownsville Page 15.1379.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Women-Centric Senior Projects for Females in the Computational Sciences FieldsAbstractThis paper presents a novel and creative approach to teaching a Senior Project course inComputer Science in a way that allows women to educate themselves about health, politics, andother social and well-being issues while at the same time fulfilling the

Conference Session

Think Outside the Box! K-12 Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brittany Luken, Georgia Institute of Technology; Stacey Mumbower, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. The weeklong TEC camp is Page 15.962.2designed to expose campers to a wide range of engineering disciplines early in their educationsin order to inspire campers to consider college majors and careers in these important fields. Thecamp is highly interactive with hands-on projects in areas such as webpage design, robotics,structural design, and transportation engineering. Campers are given the opportunity to exploreengineering through interactive courses, seminars and laboratories that are lead by Georgia Techprofessors and graduate students. Campers are encouraged to interact directly with the graduatestudents and to ask questions about life

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sue Ellen Haupt; Jessica Gregory

in-depth by working directly with the SWE members on their projects, then having the opportunity to teach what they have learned to the younger girls. The SWE members become involved in reaching out to the next generation of potential engineers. When the SWE members become active in helping others learn about science and engineering, they are more likely to feel camaraderie with their peers, mentoring each other, and thus are less likely to feel isolated and drop out of engineering. Thus, by this tiered mentoring approach, we are recruiting the younger girls into potential engineering careers and working to retain the college level women in their engineering programs. Planning for this project was done using a Logic Model formulation

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen D Alfrey, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Stephen Hundley, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Terri L. Talbert-Hatch, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; David J. Russomanno, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

is Co-Chair of the School’s Diversity Council and chair of the IUPUI Sophomore Student Success Committee. She also serves on various IUPUI committees related to student success and financial aid. She is a lecturer for Motorsports Engineering and also teaches a summer bridge class for STEM students living on campus. Dr. Talbert-Hatch serves as the Treasurer for the CEED Division of ASEE.Dr. David J. Russomanno, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis David J. Russomanno is dean of the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology and Professor of Elec- trical and Computer Engineering at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Before joining IUPUI, he was the R. Eugene Smith Professor and

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Marisa Exter, Purdue University; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Todd P. Shuba, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ji Hyun Yu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mindy Hart, EPICS; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Engineering and a minor in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue.Ji Hyun Yu, Purdue University, West LafayetteMiss Mindy Hart, EPICSDr. William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette William (Bill) Oakes is the Director of the EPICS Program and Professor at Purdue University. He is one of the founding faculty members in the School of Engineering Education with courtesy appointments in Mechanical, Environmental and Ecological Engineering as well as Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education. He has received numerous awards for his efforts at Purdue including being elected as a fellow of the Teaching Academy and listed in the Book of Great Teachers. He was the first engineer to receive the U.S. Campus Compact

Conference Session

ETAC/ABET RELATED OUTCOME BASED ISSUES

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel K. Jones P.E., SUNYIT; Mohammed Abdallah, SUNYIT

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Page 23.225.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Assessment of Communication and Teamwork Skills in Engineering Technology ProgramsIntroductionInstitutions of higher education have acknowledged that an effective teaching/learning processmust involve assessing and evaluating what and how much students are learning. Assessmentand evaluation leads to improvements in the educational experiences.ETAC/ABET Criteria 3.B.e. and 3B.g. require that graduates demonstrate effective skills inteamwork and communication.1 Therefore, the goal of this project was to develop consistent andefficient methods for assessment of students’ skills in these areas for different programs

Conference Session

Curriculum Development

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Keener; Anant Kukreti; Eugene Rutz

Environmental Engineering at theUniversity of Cincinnati (UC). He joined UC on 8/15/00 and before that worked 22 years at University ofOklahoma. He teaches structural engineering, with research in experimental and finite element analysis ofstructures. He has won major teaching awards and is internationally recognized in his primary research field.TIM C. KEENER Page 10.1380.9 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition 9 Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Tim C. Keener is a

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lennard Lema; Peter Baumann

suggestedwhich place design in the initial year to maintain interest 9, 10, 15, 17, 22, 32, 8, 9, 13, 15, 18, 26, or whichare laboratory-based 2, 4, 7, 12, or finally those which emphasize the development of problem-solving skills. 1, 4, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 22, 23, 24 Baylor University uses self-paced mastery of subjectmaterial as an interesting further refinement for a problem-solving course.24 During presentationof previous work1, interest was expressed in the team design project used in the introductorycourse at CCSU to reinforce several learned problem-solving principles and skill sets and toculminate the course with an experiential learning experience. This team project effort is similarin many respects to the Building Engineering Student Team

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Filsinger

Page 10.1371.3 Pipelined 5ns 13 65ns Table 3: Sample Performance Results for Previous Example Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationAs can be seen, a Pipelined implementation combines the short clock cycle length of the multi-cycle implementation with the low number of clock cycles found with the single-cycleimplementation. At least in the absence of branch and data hazards, the pipelinedimplementation represents the best of both worlds.Performance MeasurementThe goal of the laboratory

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Sauser

teaching the application of engineering principles, but behavioralskills in a team environment. Cowan showed the value of group learning in engineering coursescan halve the failure rate.2 Still, these courses are evaluated with traditional tools. McGourtystates that the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) criteria encourageinstitutional assessment efforts to focus on the measurement of student learning outcomes in asystematic and valid manner. McGourty goes on to state “few educational institutions have acomprehensive system for measuring program results in terms of student learning outcomes.”3One of the more common tools used to determine personal growth is through the use of self-assessment. The purpose of self-assessment is

Conference Session

Projects,Teams & Cooperative Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Hunter

theavailability of support facilities, such as labs and shops. Past topics have included the design oftrebuchets, sumo cars, hill-climbing vehicles, and rope climbing devices. While few of thesetopics meet all of the desired criteria mentioned above, they are all easy and inexpensive toimplement, require minimal lab/shop support, and are relatively inexpensive in terms of studentcosts.During the fall semester of 2003, there were three sections of BE 1210 with a total enrollment of401 students. Limited faculty resources and a lack of teaching assistants resulted in a singlefaculty member teaching all three sections. This scenario has been the norm for this course formany years. In an effort to again improve the team design project experience for the

Conference Session

Design for Community

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Darrell Gibson

Technologywhere she teaches design, controls, graphics, and mechanical measurements. Her BS and MS are from theUniversity of Tennessee in Nuclear Engineering and her Ph.D. is from Georgia Institute of Technology inME. She has also been an Associate Professor at Christian Brothers University. Her industrialexperience includes Oak Ridge National Laboratories and Chicago Bridge and Iron. She is a registeredPE.J. DARRELL GIBSON is a Professor of M.E. at Rose-Hulman Inst of Tech where he teaches design,noise control, and structural mechanics. His BS and MS are from Purdue in Aero Engineering and hisPh.D. is from the University of New Mexico in ME. He has also been an Associate Professor at theUniversity of Wyoming and a Visiting Professor at Colorado State

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramesh Chawla

/Answers (1 point) • ORAL GRADE (12 points) Page 9.958.5 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education MINI DESIGN PROJECT 2 DESIGN OF A COMMERCIAL-SCALE CONTINUOUS PROCESS FOR A GOURMET-QUALITY FOOD DISH • BACKGROUND: Batch processes in batch reactors (such as pots & pans, ovens, etc.) are used for preparing most gourmet foods in a food laboratory (kitchen). The

Conference Session

Multimedia Engineering Education: Distance & Service Learning, Web-based Projects

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ismail Fidan

delivery methods (lecture,laboratory, face-to-face discussion) to include educational options ranging from web-basedcourse supplement to the complete delivery of courses online4,5. The choices that faculty mayconsider range from simply posting a syllabus to creating web-based content to enhanceclassroom instruction to exclusive online delivery.While the primary focus of web-based delivery has been in the development of standalone web-based distance education courses, more faculty members are beginning to use the web tosupplement and enhance classroom instruction, creating “hybrid courses”1,4,6. The author haschosen to supplement a traditional face-to-face on-campus CAD (Computer Aided Design)course with an online supplement using WebCT. These

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cheryl Willis; Susan Miertschin

Construction Management Technology, ElectricalPower, Information Systems Technology, Consumer Science and Merchandising, Logistics, andTechnology Leadership and Supervision. In addition, UH is recognized as the most ethnicallydiverse major research university with no single majority group in its student body. Thus, thestudent population served is heterogeneous with respect to a number of factors including priorcomputer experience. IST faculty members have chosen to use a variety of technologies thatsupport collaboration with students in the course. Technologies used with students include e-mailand discussion boards through the centralized interface provided by WebCT, Web logs, ad-hocnetworking using Tablet PCs in a Mobile Learning Laboratory, and

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafiqul Islam

tradition ofaddressing this issue of entrepreneurship in our curriculum by the universities and colleges is thesenior capstone project. But the author thinks that the recent tendency of developing coursesaimed at teaching entrepreneurship must be accelerated throughout the United States andbeyond. The ultimate outcome will enable the engineering and technology graduates to work forsomeone or to start their own companies. This will benefit the society by reducing burden ofunemployment. Entrepreneurship in the engineering and technology curriculum is presented hereafter studying from different perspectives.Global Accreditation of Engineering and Technology ProgramIt is a familiar fact that we are not producing enough engineers and technologists from

Conference Session

ETD Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Westrom

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineeringwell known that “doing science” results in basic understanding and long term retention, and yetthere has been a steady movement away from “hands-on” to lecture and ineffectivememorization.GoalsThere are four major goals for this model K-12 program. 1. To provide for these needs with a program that has the potential for being available in every public and private school in America. 2. To make a systemic change both in participation and in assumption of responsibility in teaching Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology, (SMET). It is imperative to get local colleges

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Wong; Stephanie Blaisdell; Paula Leventman; Anna Swan; Katherine Ziemer; Rachelle Reisberg

and statistics on occupations by gender. During theworkshops, teams discussed how to teach material that traditionally favors boys in a genderequitable manner, and assembled criteria for gender equitable methods. At the workshops, eachteam started to work on units to pilot in their respective 8th grade classes. Following theseworkshops, each of the four schools held several teacher training meetings (mini workshops)where the middle school teachers participated in the development and were trained in thedelivery of the pilots.Each of the four teams’ projects are outlined in the sections below.Northeastern University Project – The Great Orange Squeeze4Northeastern University’s project has students using basic science concepts and an 8

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Stanford; Donald Keating

ensure the supply ofdomestic graduate students for academic research and teaching positions at the nation’s research universities,accelerated efforts also must be undertaken to better ensure the further graduate development of a strong U.S.engineering workforce in industry responsible for leading the process of engineering for creating, developing,and innovating new technology for competitiveness. The National Collaborative Task Force was established in 2001 as an initiative of the Graduate StudiesDivision of ASEE to meet the need for transformation. The purpose of this paper is to help awaken the senseof urgency for government, industry, and universities to work together in reshaping professionally orientedgraduate education to strengthen the

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Roe

goals of the HSTI are to: 1) Facilitate the teaching of fundamental scienceand math skills through high technology applications and presentation techniques, and 2)Increase students' awareness and appreciation of the interdependence of science, mathematics,technology, and society. To accomplish these goals HSTI has formed an interdisciplinary teamthat develops educational modules that integrate into the existing science and mathematicscurriculum. These HSTI modules are based on the merger of science and mathematics preceptswith technology derived from these disciplines.A key component in this initiative is the teacher who is responsible for the delivery andinterpretation of the curriculum. Interactions with regional high school faculty over the

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Kenrow

in maintaining anIC fabrication laboratory.We propose using professional Technology CAD (TCAD) simulation tools [1] as a powerful, yeteconomical aid in teaching undergraduate students about silicon wafer processing,semiconductor device physics, and device operation.Who uses TCAD?TCAD simulation tools are widely used throughout the semiconductor industry to speed up andcut the costs of developing new technologies and devices. Since a decade the R&D departmentsof semiconductor companies have incorporated TCAD in their design process, and recently themanufacturing sector has begun to utilize TCAD as well, e.g., to analyze the impact of ICprocess variation, and to investigate possible IC process optimizations as well as for

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheryl Sorby

: Introduction to Engineering GraphicsGN131 was a 2-credit course in the fundamentals of engineering graphics. The course formatincluded 2 two-hour laboratory periods per week. In each lab, the topic for the day was introducedduring the first 20-30 minutes of the period. Students then worked problems on the topic for theremainder of the time. Solutions to the problems were available so that they had immediate feed-back on their level of understanding of the topic. The course was completely sketching based--nodrawing instruments were utilized by the students. The topics included in the course were: points,lines and planes in space (cartesian definition), points, lines and planes in space (descriptivegeometry definition), pictorial sketching, object

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Braddom; Charles Campbell; Shad Reed; Robert Floersheim

society, instructors have anunprecedented ability to touch their students outside of the classroom through well designed andmaintained web media. Supplemental course websites (websites intended only to supplement –not replace – conventional teaching) are rapidly becoming more the rule than the exception forundergraduate level courses. We should note that we have a student-body that is fairly tech-savvyand definitely well-connected. Each student has a computer with LAN connection to the Internetfrom his room, and beginning this year, entering students will have a wireless PDA and wirelesslaptop computer linked by campus-wide, wireless network coverage. Currently in the Departmentof Civil & Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military

Conference Session

Design for Community

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Traig Born; Joel Glidden; Ann Wright; Andrew Wright

Session 2003-1604 FIRST in Engineering: Elements of Mechanical Design Andrew Wright, Ann Wright, Traig Born, Joel Glidden University of Arkansas at Little Rock/Hendrix CollegeThe role of design in engineering education and the teaching of design has changed overthe past several decades. In the specific case of mechanical design, increasing emphasis hasbeen placed on mechanical analysis rather than on design methodology. This can be seen inthe dominance of mechanical analysis in mechanical design or machine design textbooksand the relatively light (or non-existent) treatment of how to make design decisions. Thereasons for

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lucy King; Jacqueline El-Sayed

twoauthors agreed upon teaching the courses with one common design and manufacturing classproject. The department heads were briefed and they agreed to accommodate with common labschedules. The collaboration not only spans the academic departments, but also administrationoffices for scheduling and room assignments, and information technology office to help set upBlackboard, an interactive learning software, to facilitate student / instructor communication. Theauthors drafted a sequence of combined class meetings where interdisciplinary teams of studentscan be formed, where teams can design their products (one product per team), do detailed Page

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Harold Underwood

teaching institutions may lack the equipment,techniques and experienced personnel employed by a larger research entity. The SummerFellowship Program (SFP) provides the opportunity to form a type of temporary partnership.Under management of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), the NationalAeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) annually offers the SFP to full-time engineeringand science educators in the United States, as an opportunity to participate in NASA’s currentresearch efforts.1 Over the years, both NASA and participating faculty have benefitted from theSFP by realizing some of NASA’s primary objectives for the program, such as: ... to increase the quality and quantity of research collaborations between NASA and