Conference Session

Software and Hardware for Educators I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fadi Obeidat, Virginia Commonwealth University; Ruba Alkhasawneh, Virginia Commonwealth University; Jerry Tucker, Virginia Commonwealth University; Robert Klenke, Virginia Commonwealth University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

/software modules and a flexible monitoring for application’ssignals-of-interest, which in turn, enables students enrolled in an embedded systems class tointeract directly with software and hardware components via monitor interface allowing aninteractive debugging for the system-under-development. Moreover, as an implementation ofproblem based learning in engineering education, the project itself is a practical implementationof an embedded system that aims to walkthrough basic skills needed in embedded systemsdesign.IntroductionField Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have been used in many embedded applications dueto their ever-increasing level of performance, low cost, and re-configurability. For example,FPGAs have been used to accelerate a wide

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Gilbert; Robert Poth, Douglas L. Jamerson Jr. Elementary School; Robin Little, Douglas L. Jamerson Jr. Elementary School; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

business. DLJCME uses theengineering design process and its associated engineering projects as the foundation of aninstructional strategy to help its students gain important conceptual understandings as well asdevelop secure problem solving skills. At Jamerson, design activities emphasize designchallenges that rely on mathematics and science skills also being taught at each grade level aswell as any relevant knowledge and skills developed, learned, and secured in earlier grades. Thisapproach prompts inquiry and analysis as well as discourse among students and teachers. It alsoleads to project concept closure which is seldom accomplished in many trial and error designefforts. A vision of the schoolwide curriculum is illustrated in Figure 1, which

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mahmoud Quweider

Enrichment Laboratory) whichwas funded through a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). As the Labneared completion, with involvement from the CS/CIS faculty and students, and wasfully funded, we started looking into institutionalizing the outcomes of BCEIL through itsmany individualized lab modules. This paper looks closely at the dissemination as well asthe implementation efforts that are being taken in order to achieve the department’sinstructional goals through BCEIL. These efforts have allowed the faculty to reevaluateand to rejuvenate the currently used projects and lab modules by dressing them up in astate of the art networking and simulation environment; additionally, many new labmodules were created and specifically used based on

Conference Session

Past and Future of Manufacturing Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

-graduation education, developing a specialized degree program, internships/cooperative educa-tion/apprenticeships, project work, graduate studies, or other related changes. The author is notsuggesting any approach over another. Variations in curriculum demands are typically related toregional manufacturing emphasis, state of the economy, demands for emerging knowledge, per-ceived needs, academic research interests, etc. The average of the results have been calculatedusing a value of 0 for ‘eliminate’ and ‘4 for major addition’. Table 1: Education Questions by Topic no major eliminate decrease

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mauro

Session - 1420 A Robot-Based Computer Engineering Module for Manhattan College’s Intro to Engineering Course Robert Mauro Electrical and Computer Engineering Manhattan College Riverdale, New York 10471IntroductionDuring the past two years the School of Engineering at Manhattan College introduced a newformat for its Freshman Introduction to Engineering course. Instead of centering around a singlesemester-long engineering design project, the course was modified to include

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Senay Purzer, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

that Motivated the Development of the MERIT KitToday, more than 50% of science and engineering faculty require their undergraduate students toparticipate in collaborative group projects (National Science Board, 2008). Current trendssuggest that this percentage will increase (Project Kaleidoscope, 2006). The results of researchon the impact of cooperative and collaborative learning methods on student learning at theundergraduate level are also promising. Hake’s (1998) study involving six-thousand studentsprovides robust evidence that interactive teaching methods involving group work are moreeffective than traditional teaching methods. In addition, ABET requires that all accreditedengineering programs demonstrate student attainment of outcomes

Conference Session

Educational Research

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Lattuca, Pennsylvania State University; David Knight, The Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

, multidisciplinaryapproaches involve “the simple act of juxtaposing several disciplines” and make “no systematicattempt at integration or combination” (p. 9). In other words, multidisciplinarity concatenatesdisciplinary knowledge (Klein, 1996)14, or presents it in “serial fashion” (Richards, 1996)15, butdoes not synthesize or integrate the various elements of disciplinary knowledge into a cohesivewhole. Those working in a multidisciplinary manner are presumed to behave as disciplinaryexperts, representing their discipline to others but not seeking to alter it in any way as a result oftheir interactions with experts from other disciplines.Because the individual contributions of two or more disciplines can be discerned in theseresearch and teaching projects

Conference Session

Manufacturing Processes Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Slifka, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST)

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

tailored quiz,instructors can determine the student’s current level of understanding relating tomanufacturing, and part design. The questions and subsequent discussions allow theinstructor to establish a common foundation that each manufacturing process can be builtupon. Issues relating to a manufacturing companies department structure and theirinterrelationships are also presented at this time. Industry like projects and testingmethods are detailed along with the resulting benefits. Also discussed is the use of activelearning through the use of Mind Mapping and by leveraging the student’s use of theInternet and exposure to engineering entertainment media. Mind Mapping is used both bythe student and the presentation of material by the instructor

Conference Session

Potpourri of First-Year Issues

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin Flores, UTEP; James Becvar, UTEP; Ann Darnell, UTEP; Helmut Knaust, UTEP; Jorge Lopez, UTEP; Josefina Tinajero, UTEP

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

management.Motivated by a successful experience in a general chemistry course, we have implementedworkshops based on the Peer Led Team Learning (PLTL) model that engages every engineeringstudent enrolled in the introductory chemistry, mathematics, and physics courses through aguided-process and inquiry-based strategy utilizing small group settings. For this purpose wereplaced one hour of lecture with a two-hour small-group workshop. Workshops are guided byan advanced undergraduate peer leader who has successfully completed the course with a gradeof A or B. The courses included in this project are pre-calculus, general chemistry 1 and 2,mechanics, and fields and waves. We anticipate that the implementation of PLTL will result inimprovements in learning that

Conference Session

FPD 6: Course Content and Educational Strategies

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian M. Frank P.Eng., Queen's University; Behnam Behinaein Hamgini, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen's University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen’s University Page 24.280.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Collaborative cloud-based documents for real-time bi-directional feedback in large lecture activitiesAbstractThis paper presents a pilot project that uses cloud-based documents to provide bi-directional feedbackon open-ended contextualized activities. The course setting is a first year engineering design andprofessional practice course of approximately 700 students, taught in three sections, at Queen’sUniversity, a medium-sized research-intensive

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Curriculum Exchange

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shakira Renee Hobbs, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Odesma Onika Dalrymple, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

campus Shawn Jordan, Ph.D.is an Assistant Professor in theDepartment of Engineering atArizona State Univer- sity. He is the PI on three NSF-funded projects: CAREER: Engineering Design Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society (EEC 1351728), Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?(EEC 1329321), and Broadening the Reach of Engineering through Community Engagement (BRECE)(DUE 1259356). He is also Co-PI on one NSF-funded project: Should Makers be the Engineers of the Fu- ture?(EEC 1232772), and is senior personnel on an NSF-funded grant entitled Workshop: I-Corps for Learning (i-Corps-L). He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Education (2010)and M.S./B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineeringfrom Purdue

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Spencer S. Kim, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT); Sunday O. Faseyitan, Butler County Community College

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

premiere teach- ing award at RIT. Dr. Kim has directed numerous undergraduate research projects and several students won the first place in the undergraduate and graduate research competitions at the 2012 and 2013 GPEC (Global Plastics Environment Conference; Division of Society of Plastics Engineers).Dr. Sunday O. Faseyitan, Butler County Community College Page 24.655.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Green Plastics Laboratory by Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL)INTRODUCTIONSustainability, industrial ecology, and green

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vladimir Mitin, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Athos Chariton Petrou, SUBY at Buffalo

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Engineering Education, 2014 Hands-on and Virtual Labs for Juniors’ Course on Applied ElectromagneticsIn current submission the authors report on a workshop that was organized as part of the effortson the outreach program of the NSF/TUES funded project “Synergy of educational tools forteaching electromagnetic fields and waves: lab experiments, educational Java applets, numericalmodeling, textbook with power point presentations”. Professors from the College of Nanoscienceand Engineering, University at Albany; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,Binghamton University; Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, SyracuseUniversity; and Canisius College of Buffalo, who participated in

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

engagement in large-scale, real-world projects. She has been working with the EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) High team to un- derstand whether participating in service-learning engineering projects at the high-school level increases student knowledge about and interest in working in the field of engineering.Dr. Monica E Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette Monica E. Cardella is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University and the Director of Informal Learning Environments Research for INSPIRE (the Institute for P-12 Engineering Research and Learning). She has a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Puget Sound and an MS and PhD in Industrial Engineering from the

Conference Session

Micro-Technology and Nanotechnology

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hisham Hegab P.E., Louisiana Tech University; James D Palmer, Louisiana Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

18 Mathematics and Basic Sciences 39 General Education 30The engineering fundamentals courses consist of a project-driven freshman engineeringcurriculum taken by all engineering majors at Louisiana Tech University as well as fundamentalcore courses in statics and strengths of materials, electrical circuits, thermodynamics,engineering materials, electronics, and measurement and instrumentation. These engineeringcourses range from two to three semester credit hours and are sophomore to junior level courseswithin the curriculum.The microsystems and nanosystems engineering courses are engineering courses that provide thestudents a greater depth of knowledge within this

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Bailey; David Beams

are involved in the 2004 production: a self-propelled electrically-driven sleigh (usedto transport Clara and the Nutcracker to the Land of the Sweets) and a microcontroller-basedgrandfather clock used during the Christmas party scene and the battle between the toy soldiersand mice. This relationship has provided projects (both for senior design and independent study)to engineering students while exposing them to a segment of the performing arts; conversely, ithas exposed persons in the arts community to engineering. The development and use of thesestage props are described in this paper, as well as how they have earned favorable publicity forthe College of Engineering.A brief history of an unlikely collaborationTyler Junior College (TJC) is a

Conference Session

A through K and Beyond

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Dettman

.Armed with this wealth of information, the faculty ultimately had to determine the specifics ofhow to assess the outcomes considering some specific issues surrounding the WKU CivilEngineering program, including the following: 1. The CE faculty consists of only 4 people, therefore, the assessment workload cannot be burdensome, 2. The WKU Engineering programs are project based which the faculty must be evident in the outcomes assessment process, 3. The programs are going through their first EAC of ABET accreditation, therefore the opinion was that the Criterion 3 requirements must not only be met, but comfortably exceeded to avoid any possibility of a deficiency in this area.Based on the necessary background information

Conference Session

Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Lehman; David Stone; Mary Raber

”education. Our faculty members strive to be mentors, our academic programs stress learninghand-in-hand with application, and our students learn to inquire and discover knowledge.Michigan Tech’s Enterprise Program is one example of the innovative approach to education theuniversity is known for. The Enterprise Program combines education and experiential learningthrough interdisciplinary teams of undergraduate student working together to address real-worldproblems of significance to industry. The Enterprise curriculum is a 20-credit, 3-year experiencewhich consists of 1) participation in the operation of a business (project work) and 2) completionof concentrated course material (instructional modules) designed to provide key information,processes and

Conference Session

MIND Education Trends

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Newell

campus, experience university lifewhile attending classes, tours and working on a group project in their major.The targeted pool of potential candidates was limited to students who would be newstudents to ASU Engineering in the fall of each year. Students had to have a transfer orhigh school GPA of 2.75 on a 4.0 scale and possess a desire to pursue a baccalaureatedegree in engineering or the applied sciences. Students were required to submit thefollowing items in order to apply for program participation.• Application Form• Official copy of high school and transfer transcripts• Copy of their incoming schedule at ASU• Demographic informationIII. Participants:Letters of invitation were generated to all minority students who had applied

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Baraniuk; Ray Wagner; Patrick Frantz; Lee Potter; Hyeokho Choi; Douglas Jones

fragmented market and rapid hardware obso-lescence. Freely available open-content materials that enable and promote both local customizationand further development by a community of educators offers a fresh approach to lab text develop-ment that can surmount these barriers. In this paper, we overview a joint effort organized by theConnexions Project to develop a large pool of DSP lab modules sufficient to serve as the complete,stand-alone text for several types of DSP lab courses.1 IntroductionDigital signal processing (DSP) laboratory courses are difficult to serve with conventional commer-cial textbooks. First, the market is relatively small, thus precluding a major investment by authorsand publishers in the hope of a substantial commercial

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Beheler; Wayne Jones

solutions that combine and integrate equipment from differentmanufacturers as well as various types of technology to create a real solution, all under thesupervision of one or more instructors and advisory council members as indicated. Studentsmust document their design and findings, and this documentation becomes a part of the students’portfolios.Each project requires the students to perform several or all of the following functions: ‚" Survey the site, interviewing employees of the company and determining the characteristics of the problem being addressed ‚" Perform feasibility studies ‚" Design a solution ‚" Evaluate the design ‚" Test the solution ‚" Implement the solution ‚" Document the solution in a form suitable to

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chih-Ping Yeh

potential transfer students. However, if they havenot developed the skills required to identify the resources and form supportive relationships thatwould enable them to persist through the transfer process, the loss is inevitable.3. Project Overview: Page 9.1294.2 The analysis of student background characteristics was used as guideline for developing“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2004, American Society for Engineering”the plan of operation for the Tech Scholars Learning Community. The overall strategy adoptedto improve transfer rates of the target

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gaston N'Guerekata; Solomon Alao; Shurron Farmer; Craig Scott; Pamela Leigh-Mack

this problem. This paper presents a freshman mathematics course reformaimed at reducing Calculus I preparation time by at least one semester, improving pass rates andultimately increasing the retention of engineering and computer science students. TheDimensions of Learning pedagogy, the use of technology and performance assessment are themain components of the framework used. A wireless mobile classroom was the keytechnological feature used in the redesign. The innovative Pre-Calculus course (IPC) redesignwas performed by a multidisciplinary team of faculty from the Schools of Engineering, Scienceand Education. The project design, implementation aspects, assessment techniques andevaluation results are given. The first course offering shows a

Conference Session

Design and Manufacturing Experiences II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Bowman

Teaching Aircraft Design to Undergraduate Students in a Mechanical Engineering Program Dr. W. Jerry Bowman Brigham Young University Provo, Utah 84602Abstract This paper describes informal methods used to teach aircraft design to undergraduates ina traditional Mechanical Engineering program. Freshman and sophomore students areintroduced to the topic by way of a club environment where they do a series of design, build, andfly projects. This paper will provide details about the specific design projects assigned and themethod used to introduce the students to aircraft design.Introduction

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhanmin Zhang; Susan Tighe; Gerardo Flintsch; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

assignments or projects; encouragement of relationships and cooperative efforts among the private sector and universities; and emphasis on “engineer-in-training” programs so that succession planning can occur. • Professional organizations can support universities by offering research grants, collaborating with teaching programs by providing guest lecturers and case studies for possible use on assignments or projects, and facilitating cooperative ventures between the private sector and universities. Professional organizations could also take the lead in the development of standardization of definitions for infrastructure management and related terminology. • The

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Massie

design a specific (given) alternative solution. Instead, one should first dig deeper with the client to determine the underlying problem to be solved. Proper definition of the overall problem makes it possible to take a broader view in later life-cycle steps so that there is a greater chance of selecting (and selling) an optimum solution to that underlying problem. On a larger project, one will probably have a multi-background team representing the client in this stage; this can make this life-cycle stage more challenging. This will - in turn - motivate a need to be able to work in and lead a multi-disciplinary team. An impeccable professional reputation will be an asset at this point too.2. Determine its design or performance

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Massie

compromise. One approach is to make it clear to the guest that some basics are important to the context of the course and encourage the guest to present information on the new project via a video, for example.3. The guest fails to show up - the nightmare of every course organizer. This provides an excellent opportunity for the course leader to demonstrate creativity. On the very few occasions on which this has occurred, the course leader has to fill in things in one way or another: • If this is the last class for the session, the subject may simply be dropped for the day and possibly re-scheduled for a later session. • In one case the course leader has filled the hour himself. This involves first admitting that the topic

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Lin; Harold Broberg

Focus groupswere that the top four additional education and training program needs were: basiccomputer training, MCSE certification, development in information technology andprogramming, and E-tools and web development. Graduates of the proposed programwill be well versed in all four of these areas.Nationally, the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projects Industries with the fastestwage and salary employment growth for the period 2000-2010 and the number onegrowth industry is projected to be Computer and Data Processing Services with anaverage annual growth of 6.4%9. The BLS also maintains a table of fastest growingoccupations. Data from this table10 is shown in Table 3 and indicates that occupations forwhich graduates of this program may

Conference Session

Experience with Experiential Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Adam McGough; Coral Nocton; Ken Patton; Ismail Fidan

, tooling, and robotics).Although this technology has been advancing swiftly in teaching, training, and learning,it is still in its infancy. Since this vital technology is very important for the progression ofthe manufacturing industry, an NSF grant has been awarded for the RP Education (DUEAward Number 0302314: Technician Education in RP and Virtual ManufacturingTechnologies). Project team members organized a workshop on Training the RP trainersat San Diego City College from July 27 to August 1, 2003. Tennessee Tech University(TTU) faculty and assistants attended this workshop because TTU was in the process ofbuilding a RP Lab and organizing workshops for high school students/instructors. Thispaper intends to report learning practices, adaptations

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Fitzhugh; Robert Goodrich; Ronald Lessard; Jacques Beneat

Session 2220 Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition Security Experience R. Lessard, R. Goodrich, J. Beneat, S. Fitzhugh Norwich UniversityAbstractSupervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are deployed in power andcommunication utility, transportation, and financial infrastructures. These infrastructures arepotential targets of cyber-terrorism and protecting critical infrastructures against terrorist attacksis a national and international priority. Norwich University’s first year “Professional Projects”course sequence is designed to give computer and