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2015 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Katie Knowles; Nick Bovee; Duc Le; Keith Martin; Mollie Pressman; Jonathan Zimmermann; Rick Lux; Raymond Ptucha

multidisciplinarysenior design teams will enable the cart to drive autonomously in controlled and naturalconditions respectively throughout the campus. The cart will include advanced sensing andvision technologies for navigation, and use advanced audio and vision technologies tocommunicate with passengers. This paper will describe several factors to consider when formingcapstone engineering student design teams in academia, and then discuss specific issues whendesigning a large autonomous vehicle. Detailed design considerations and safety issues alongwith the actual steps and parts necessary to convert a golf cart into a remote controlled vehicleare covered. The paper will conclude with year two and three plans to convert the golf cart into afully autonomous

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

John E. Patterson

Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Northeast Section ConferenceSystem VariationIn examining available online plans, several plans utilize differing materials. This research isbased on the premise of using low cost materials and incorporating repurposed recyclablematerials. Jose Alano and his family have constructed a system using PolyethyleneTerephthalate (PET) bottles (soft drink bottles) and used black painted tetra pack cartons (milkcartons). The basic system has a CPVC pipe inside a PET bottle (which functions as the glazing)with the tetra pack carton cut in a manner in which the carton makes contact with the pipe as acollector plate (Figures 1 and 2)3. Both the pipe and the tetra pack cartons are painted matteblack to

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

, theinstitution. In this study, a section of freshman architecture design professional needs to understand 3-and construction management students is divided into two dimensional (3D) objects. This includes how 3Dgroups. Each group is given a spatial reasoning ability pre- objects are viewed in component form (exploded andtest. One group is then assigned to build scaled energy progress construction views), sections, plans,efficient framing models (physical models), while the other rotations and a variety of views (such as perspective,group is asked to develop 3D computer graphic models of aresidential structure. At the end of the semester, both walk-through and

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Leslie Chandrakantha

teachingpreliminary assessment shows that student learning is complex concepts of statistics. He used spreadsheet simulationenhanced by incorporating this approach in the classroom. to calculate the power of the tests as a planning tool. Hagtvedt et al. [7], [8] have developed a VBA based application tool Index Terms: ANOVA, Data Table, F statistic, that is integrated into Excel spreadsheets to simulate samplingResampling. distributions and confidence intervals. Their assessment showed that the students who used their

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Richard Steven Colon; Prabir Patra; Khaled Elleithy

interesting Further development, will be the software component thatto see the reference of a "mastermind" who plans and directs.) has the difficult task of performing “Concept Correlation”.Search word: inscription From the three randomly selected words, we now have a list ofConcept: write concepts. Which of the concepts should be selected? OurConcept: inscriptionConcept: epigraph/n/an_engraved_inscription selection criteria should be based upon some cohesionConcept: inscription/n/letters_inscribed_on_something between the concepts and potential for

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Adedamola Akinsanya; Christian Bach

- social ideas and involving considerations of product, planning,established part of the marketing vocabulary in universities, pricing, communication, distribution and marketing research.”government agencies, private nonprofit organizations, and This is deemed as the origin of social marketing [21]. A recentprivate for-profit firms. [1-10]. However, it is still undergoing definition and more accurate description has been put forwardthe constant improvement that is inherent in any field. This as the “adaptation of commercial technologies to programspaper seeks to better capture the concept that is social designed to influence the voluntary behaviour of targetmarketing and includes an example that which links

Conference Session

Professional Papers

Collection

2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

M. A. Karim P.E., BCEE, F.ASCE, M.ASEE, University of West Florida

Tagged Topics

Professional Papers

20 0 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 Attendance (%) Figure 6: Trend of grades with attendances for C2-Sp24Study LimitationsThe findings presented in this study provide a lucrative basis for more extensive follow-up researchusing a larger data set, which would also enable the use of a wider set of other influencing factors.In order to assess students’ starting level and course plans in an appropriate manner, a test and aquestionnaire, respectively, could be used at the start of the course under investigation. Thegeneralizability of the findings of this study is limited to the

Conference Session

Student Papers

Collection

2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

Faiza Akram, Mississippi State University; Andrew Zheng, Texas A&M University; April Guo-Yue, Mississippi State University; Cooper Medved, Mississippi State University; Claire Johnson, Mississippi State University; Asad Waqar Malik; Samee U Khan, Mississippi State University

Tagged Topics

Student Papers

Wireless Communication.Andrew Zheng, Texas A&M University Andrew is currently a junior at Texas A&M University pursuing a major in Computer Science with an emphasis in Statistics, and a minor in Mathematics. After graduation, he hopes to continue onwards into graduate school, where he can combine his interests of solving complex problems with his desire to help others. His multidisciplinary research interests are varied, though his prior experience consists of AI/ML, Computer Vision, and Edge Computing.April Guo-Yue, Mississippi State University April Guo-Yue is an undergraduate at Mississippi State University, majoring in Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering. She plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Computer

Conference Session

Professional Papers

Collection

2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

Alexis P. Nordin, Mississippi State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Professional Papers

creating a good writing process for themselves—one termed this as “white-page phobia,” e.g.: • “I struggle to start with an empty page. [….] In short, I am not great at the planning stage of writing when it [the topic] doesn’t just automatically click for me.” • “I need a good writing routine.” • “I will sometimes fall down research holes while writing, which can delay or derail the writing process.”8. Students also said page requirements had negative impacts on their writing: • “I end up having difficulty expressing my thoughts over a long format, and it makes me struggle to meet requirements for length of assignments.” • “I think ‘wordy’ writing is [a] habit formed by many of us having word minimums for essays in

Conference Session

Student Papers

Collection

2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

Sierra Milligan, University of Georgia; John Ray Morelock, University of Georgia

Tagged Topics

Student Papers

. device efficacy and issues. • Ability to identify & address • Ability to plan a biomedical objectives of biomedical lab project. activities.Post-Lab • None • Knowledge about biomedical • All other topics and skillsSurvey device tests with respect toResults: biomechanics. • Ability to perform industry- level biomedical research.The final lab reports provided valuable insight into the students' progression in self

Conference Session

Track 3: Technical Session 5: Technology and Society: Incorporating ethics, inclusion, and societal understanding into computer and technology and engineering education curriculum design.

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2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Carrie Prior, Excelsior University; James Tippey, Excelsior College

Tagged Topics

2025 CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

a frequent presenter and publisher on internationalization, strategic planning, globally focused academics, and Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL). Carrie is a 2019 Fulbright recipient and holds an Ed.D. in the Design of Learning Environments from Rutgers University.James Tippey, Excelsior College ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Technology and Society Incorporating ethics, inclusive belonging for excellence, and societal understanding into computer and technology and engineering education curriculum design(2025). CoNECD Conference, February 9-11, 2025, San Antonio, TX Session Outline

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Marie-Pierre Huguet; Tom Haley; Sehnaz Baltaci-Goktalay

Design BriefAt our institution, one of the most powerful tool that we use to design courses is the design brief. It is a highlevel design documents that maintains consistency with other courses, and adherence to sound instructionaldesign principles, and to specific instructional rules. It provides an instructional blueprint for thedevelopment and implantation of activities pertaining to the course. It is both a record of planned activitiesand a guide for the development and implementation of a course.It is composed of six main areas: General information about the course, an overview, a section dedicated tothe tools and technologies selected, another to the design of the user interface for the Web-based component,a third dedicated to the content

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Christopher W. Swan; Julia Carroll

installation, with agoal of construction to begin as early as Summer 2008. The team had to address the design ofthe bio-digester within the physical, operational, and economic constraints of the farm. Duringthe project, the team became familiar with the construction process in the rural Vermont area andhow it pertains to this project. For the team, the learning objectives included designing thevarious components of the bio-digester unit, evaluating input alternatives to optimize methaneproduction, and developing an implementation plan for the digester considering a new KISSprinciple (Knowledge + Innovation = Sustainable Systems). Public Communication of Longfellow Bridge Rehabilitation This project required developing an effective

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Diana Schwerha; Chang Liu; Sertac Ozercan; Tripura Vadlamani; Lev Neiman

students could complete theirhomework in two hours. Some students said that they like having time over several days to completeassignments. This suggestion is being taken into consideration for future projects. It could be possible todesign a game so that students could complete it at their own pace over the course of several days.Future research will focus on expanding the content and creating games that are more visual in nature.The use of interactive graphics will be utilized to help those students who learn better by visual methodsand provide alternative ways of learning. We plan to investigate more efficient ways to download studentscores and facilitate team interaction. In addition, we plan to investigate the use of Second Life foradditional

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

client needs. Then careful planning is importantbetween the teacher and the client with additional consultation with other professionals asneeded before the assignment statement is drafted and given to the students. Sometimes studentstake an active role in developing project goals and tasking but it is important to monitor andredirect when necessary to keep the project on track. Intermediate deliverables are extremelyhelpful to keep students on track and to give some feedback on their progress and redirection asneeded.It is important to be upfront with clients about the limitations of educational class projects at theundergraduate level. Most clients are not teachers and they may not be fully aware thatmentoring students through projects means

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Ismail I. Orabi

very brief recap of last week's project status. Also present items from the previous week identified by the instructor as needing revision or greater depth. • Present - current progress on the weekly deliverables including significant achievements and major problems. • Future - near term plans. Include action items as suggested by the instructor during the current presentation 1. Midway status Presentation: This is an oral update on your project. Attendees include fellow classmates and perhaps a few experienced designers. Students are given 20 minutes to present their progress plus 5 minutes for questions and answers. The majority of the presentation’s time is spent in

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Andrzej Zarzycki

variations of the same original model. Studies byD’Arcy Thompson [ 4] immediately recall the phenotypical-visual transformability of distinctdesigns. When coupled with Dürer’s proportional studies of humans [figure 1], they track ananalogous conceptual trajectory of phenotypical developmental changes in an individual. Whilethis progression is well demonstrated in evolutionary biology and explains the progression ofspecies, an analogous conceptual framework is just beginning to be used in design and artisticpractices. [ 5]Drives for architectural ideas“In conceptual art,” according to Sol LeWitt, “the idea or concept is the most important aspect ofthe work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning anddecisions

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Christopher Palmieri; Judith Hooymans; Cole Gingrich; Tooran Emami Ph. D.; Aaron Dahlen; Joseph Staier

. Indoor Laboratoryresults are presented in Section III. Future plan issummarized in Section IV. The conclusion of this paper is Fig. 2. Modeling of the 6 motors for heading and position controlspresented in Section V. Heading II. FUCNTIONAL DESIGNSA. Construction Design Position Position The first task is to actually build the craft thatautonomously maintains position and heading set by theuser. The first step is to build the exterior of the craft. Thecurrent design of the vessel shows in Figure 1. Fig. 1. Dynamic

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

A.M. Annan; C. M. McLain; M. E. Perham; D. N. Robear; D. J. McLaughlin

otherwise, to the excitement of electrical engineering topics.included, it is expected that the kits will cost $110, whichequates to $55 per student when considering one kit per twostudents. At this point, our plan is to keep sufficient supply ofparts in inventory so that during the summer months, we can ACKNOWLEDGMENTSassemble the ~100 kits needed for the fall semester. The The authors appreciate and gratefully acknowledgeassembly and distribution will be done by the set of ~ 5 the participation of 170+ UMass MIE students in the pilot run of this course; their feedback, collaboration, and friendshipundergraduate

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2025 Northeast Section Conference

Authors

Dinh Cuong Nguyen; Dan Tenney

Science 1 The most frequently applied theory was the Theory of Planned American Economic Review 1 Cogent Engineering 1 Behavior (TPB), which appeared in numerous studies, Economics of Transportation 1 indicating its relevance in understanding consumer intentions Renewable Energy: An International Journal 1 and decision-making [32], [33], [34]. These theories provided SAE International Journal of Sustainable frameworks for understanding the psychological and social Transportation, Energy, Environment

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2025 Northeast Section Conference

Authors

Bushra Rayyan Qadri; Arthur McAdams; Peter Cavanaugh; Dan Tenney; Ali Baker

them. The projects of Things (IoT) startup company for their final project. Theyalso include a report out to the class so both the student and the were required to present a progress update and project plan atteam can demonstrate their learning in a peer review process. midterm and showcase their results during the final presentation. Corporate culture project: Cross disciplinary teams areformed with both business and engineering students included The startup company, Foot Traffic Stats, offers an IoTon each team. The team goal is to analyze several device that tracks foot traffic in specific locations. This

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2025 Northeast Section Conference

Authors

ZANNATUN NAYEEM; Tauhid Uddin Mahmood; Dan Tenney

integration tools, including ETL (Extract,management. From figure 2, good governance begins with the Transform, Load) processes and cloud-based tools, offersestablishment of a well-structured plan that allocates specific scalability and adaptability to support the increase in theroles to the data stewardship to have responsibility to uphold demand for data [7]. Figure 3 showed that automatedthe integrity of the data and protection of the data. To provide pipelines increase efficiency, eliminate the errors associatedaccessibility and usability, the organization must have with manual intervention, and provide smooth transmissionstandard formats of the data that can easily integrate into other between the different

Conference Session

Faculty Development Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaping Li, University of Michigan; Maartje E. D. Van Den Bogaard, Iowa State University; Lea Marlor, University of Michigan; Laura Carroll, University of Michigan; Cynthia Finelli, University of Michigan

Sciences.Maartje E. D. Van Den Bogaard (Research Fellow) Maartje Van den Bogaard holds a MSc. in Education Science from the University of Groningen and a Ph.D. from TU Delft, both in the Netherlands. She studied student success using linear and complex models and was awarded the Outstanding Dissertation Award by the International Society for Educational Planning. Maartje worked as a senior consultant in curriculum and instruction at Leiden University and served as head of program at the TU Delft STEM Education and Communication graduate program. Maartje has extensive experience in STEM, medical and teacher education. Currently she is a research fellow at Iowa State University.Lea K. Marlor Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Kamran Abedini

appropriatelyengineering education can be planned and how the requirements suggested by the Engineer of2020 can be implemented in a “First Year Experience” type courses. An example of theapplication is provided to properly show the process of learning through re-engineering a productby showing the correlated possible scientific and engineering learning matters affiliated with theproduct design, testing , manufacturing and evaluations.IntroductionEngineering education traditionally has been much segmented consisting of many courses beingtaught as independent subjects. It is typically divided into core, electives, support courses andGeneral Education categories. In many instances a student spends the first two years takingsupport and general education courses and

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Bhaskar Sinha; Pradip Dey; Gordon Romney; Mohammad Amin; Debra Bowen

analysis, Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 514problem solving techniques, advanced IT design, and IT management. The mission of theprogram is reflected in the Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs) as follows (ref: www.nu.edu):1. Demonstrate an ability to set up and integrate local and remote server and workstation computers with proper user authentication to preserve user privacy and confidentiality.2. Demonstrate the ability to plan an integrated system that involves computer applications to satisfy

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Tania Martinez; Amado Flores-Renteria; Jasmine Flores; Jolani Chun; Cheng Chen; Hezareigh Ryan; Wenshen Pong; Nilgun Ozer; Hamid Shahnasser; Hamid Mahmoodi; Amelito G. Enriquez; Albert Cheng; Kwok-Siong Teh; Xiaorong Zhang

plan 4.69 Working as a part of a team 4.56 Writing a technical report 4.50 Creating a poster presentation 4.63 Making an oral presentation 4.50Question: Tell us how much you agree with each of the following statements. Activity 2014 The internship program was useful. 4.56 I believe that I have the academic background and skills needed

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Rita Melgar; Anthony Nash; Mou Sun; Carmen Tepeu Yoc; Maral Amir; Cheng Chen; Amelito G. Enriquez; Hao Jiang; Hamid Mahmoodi; Wenshen Pong; Hamid Shanasser; Kwok-Siong Teh; Xiaorong Zhang

undergraduate students in a team perform the task of designing a braininspired neural network for edge detection and test their design using a real live camera feed totheir system and producing a live video display showing the detected edges. The design involvesmodeling and implementation of simple and complex neural cells for edge detection along fourorientations of 0, 45, 90, and 135 degrees. The simple cells are modeled by Gabor filters andcomplex cells by a max pooling approach. The models are implemented in Matlab environmentand a webcam is used to obtain a live visual input for testing. The internship is planned over 10weeks and the intern students are assigned a graduate student mentor. This paper presents thedetails of the project, research and

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Elaine Gilbert

RFI process and to offer possible strategies to reducing the cycle time.The RFI process must first be defined and analysed in order to find areas whereimprovements could be pursued. One method of analysis is to apply the principles of leanconstruction, presented by Lauri Koskela, such as building continuous improvement into theprocess, reducing the amount of steps, parts, and linkages, and increasing processtransparency4. Once the lean construction principles are established, a plan can be devised inorder to apply these principles to the RFI process in an effort to increase the processefficiency.One method of applying the lean construction principles to the RFI process is to create adiscussion forum format for RFI submittals. Having the

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Norman Ettedgui; Joe Cooney; Brian LaBar; Ernest Frimpong; Gilbert Szeto; Amelito G. Enriquez; Kwok-Siong Teh; Cheng Chen; Hamid Mahmoodi; Wenshen Pong; Hamid Shanasser; Xiaorong Zhang

each arm), this command starts the car when the car isoff, and stops the car when the car is on. When the car is on and the user pulses their right armthis increases the speed of the car, when the left arm is pulsed it decreases the speed of the car.When the car is on and the right arm is held, the car turns right for the duration of the hold, andvice versa when a left hold is performed. Finally we plan on implementing a double pulsecommand for when the car is not moving forward that will cause the car to go in reverse. Figure 2. A representative EMG signal showing the difference between a hold and a pulse, as well as the threshold value.B. Implementation of the Motor Control ModuleThe motor control module is

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Estelle M. Eke

is executed via the NXT. Occasionally a situation arisesthat demands that both the instructor and the group of students work as a team to resolve theproblem. This allows the instructor to be included in the student’s plan and refrain frominterjecting a sophisticated solution that may be above the student’s level of comprehension.These situations benefit both the student and the instructor and can only be obtained fromexperience.IntroductionSince the Fall 2009 semester, the approach used in teaching the course Introduction to TechnicalProblem Solving (ME 105) has been based on the model discussed in the paper ComputerApplications in Mechanical Engineering2. The mode of delivery is two 50-minute lectures and Proceedings of the 2015