Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Todd Mosher

compares planning a course with planning a research project. For TheAerospace Institute this analogy has been modified to an analogy between course design andsystems engineering, which is a concept very familiar to its instructors. This paper walksthrough this methodology and offers suggestions for implementation that should be useful in avariety of educational environments. Examples are provided throughout to illustrate theconcepts. INTRODUCTIONThe Aerospace Institute was established in July 1994 to integrate key corporate educationalresources toward The Aerospace Corporation vision to be the world’s leader in space technology,planning and system engineering. Since then as a part of their charter, The

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

David E. Clough

ControlLaboratory ComponentBuilding in the laboratory component of the control course was a measurable task. The firstchallenge was an organizational one: How do 60 students complete 15 different lab projects?This was accomplished in the following way: ¾ two lab sections meeting once per week for 3 hours, 30 students each ¾ 10 groups of 3 students per lab section ¾ 5 duplicate experiments, allowing 10 experimental sites per lab session ¾ 3 5-week rotations, with student groups doing a "round robin" of projects within eachThe organization of 3 rotations allowed for a progression of themes, the same ones from theoriginal course design: ¾ basic instrumentation ¾ dynamic testing ¾ controller implementationThere are also several content

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

John D. Whittaker; Ted G. Eschenbach

Marketing Construction Project Project Planning Management Administration Production Research & Business Development Management Figure 1 from the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers (CCPE) TaskForce Report on the The Future of Engineering, July 1988 page 32 Job Function % Design 20.43 Project Management 16.67

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Solarek, University of Toledo; Hong Wang, The University of Toledo; Allen Rioux, The University of Toledo; William Evans, The University of Toledo; weiqing sun, The University of Toledo

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

AssessmentThe CSET program utilizes an assessment process that relies on multiple measures andmultiple evaluators. Data used to demonstrate achievement include but are not limited to: • course grades (each term) • representative samples of student work (periodically) • co-op surveys of students and employers (each semester, an increasing number of students) • placement data (employment and graduate school) (annually) • class surveys (each semester) • senior capstone projects and reports • graduate exit survey (each semester) • feedback from alumni (annually)The assessment process follows the basic procedures as follows: • Course Assessment Data • Responsible Personnel: Program

Conference Session

Information and Network Security

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alireza Kavianpour, DeVry University; Ricardo Monterrosa, DeVry University; Rammy Badran, DeVry University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

pin Socket HeaderAnalog Port – 20 pin Socket HeaderCAN PORT – CAN 0 I/O with 1M Baud TransceiverLCD Module and Keypad PortsEasy Power Connection and Tap points’Back Ground Debug (BDM) Port – 6 Pin standardPower Specifications: 7 to 25VDC input to 5V Power SupplyOperating Power: 60ma @ 5V Page 15.222.6Data Flow Diagrams:This project has at least three processes. The first process is for reading the tag and sendinginformation to the database. The second process is when the tag is located at one of the threereaders. The third process is a GUI allowing a passenger to search his name or tag (Figure 2). Begin

Conference Session

Technological Literacy and K-12 Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Klenk, Duke University; Gary Ybarra, Duke University; Anne D'Agostino, Compass Consulting, LLC; Ed Maxa, North Carolina Cooperative Extension; Kate Guerdat, North Carolina Cooperative Extension

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

North Carolina State University. She provides statewide training and curriculum assistance for counties in 4-H delivery modes and conducts research on best practices of 4-H delivery strategies for youth development programming in order to develop and deliver training to County providers. Page 15.671.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Impacts of Engineering in 4-H After-School ProgramsAbstractTechXcite is an informal, project-based engineering program for middle school students beingimplemented initially in after-school settings. The program is a partnership between the PrattSchool of

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Rodhouse, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Benjamin Cooper, Savant LLC; Steve Watkins, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

are perceived to be too complicated to learnat a young age. Opportunities for pre-college students to learn programming concepts can helpdevelop critical thinking and problem solving skills that will enhance their educationalexperiences. Also, conceptual understanding of programming techniques in one language canaid in learning other languages. This project developed an integrated series of programmingtutorials for using Squeak Smalltalk. Squeak Smalltalk is an open-sourced, object-orientedprogramming language that is being used for educational software and through the One-Laptop-per-Child initiative as well as for database and multi-media applications. The intent of thetutorials is to allow anyone, no matter their current programming

Conference Session

IE Applications and Systems

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jane Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Abhijit Gosavi, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

engineering based on systems theory.We now discuss each of these meanings.1. INCOSE: According to INCOSE (International Council on Systems Engineering),13 “Systems Engineering is an interdisciplinary approach and a means to enable the realization of successful systems. It focuses on defining customer needs and required functionality early in the development cycle, documenting requirements, then proceeding with design synthesis and system validation while considering the complete problem.” Practitioners of system engineering in this meaning focus on one-time, large projects with a definite start and end, where a new system is to be designed and created to meet customer needs. Practitioners focus on industries such as information

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Enno Koehn, Lamar University; Venkat Kadupukotta, Lamar University; Sandeep Tirunagari, Lamar University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

AC 2010-369: GLOBAL CONSTRUCTION: INDIAEnno Koehn, Lamar University Enno “Ed” Koehn is Professor of Civil Engineering at Lamar University. Dr. Koehn has served as the principle investigator for several research and development projects dealing with various aspects of construction. He also has experience in the design, scheduling, and estimating of facilities. He has authored/co-authored over 200 papers in engineering education, as well as the general areas of civil and construction engineering. Dr. Koehn is a member of ASEE, AACE International, ASCE, NSPE, Chi Epsilon, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and is a registered Professional Engineer and Surveyor.Venkat Kadupukotta, Lamar University

Conference Session

Robotics Curriculum

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Fred Looft, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Gretar Tryggvason, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Taskin Padir, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Lance Schacterle, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

WPI graduate, it will be possible to get a better sense of their professional success.The third measure, program assessment, is well underway, as discussed in the next section.3. Assessment ProcessThe assessment process is motivated top-down in an effort to improve upon the program’ssuccess in meeting its objectives. The goal is to continuously improve the quality of educationwhile keeping the overall curriculum on trajectory.3.1. Continuous Improvement ProcessThe continuous improvement process forms feedback loops that include objectives, faculty,courses and projects, students, and student work as shown in the figures below. RBEFigure 2. Curricular revision flow.The Accreditation Coordinating Committee

Conference Session

ABET Accreditation, Assessment, and Program Improvement in ECE

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra A. Yost, University of Detroit Mercy; Elizabeth Roberts-Kirchhoff, University of Detroit Mercy; Pamela Zarkowski, University of Detroit Mercy

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Outstanding Teaching Award, and also serves on the ASEE Projects Board.Elizabeth Roberts-Kirchhoff, University of Detroit Mercy Elizabeth Roberts-Kirchhoff is Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. She also serves as Director for Assessment for the University and is a member of the University Assess- ment Team and the Faculty Development Team. She has been an involved in revision of biochemistry curricula including the implementation of project-based laboratories.Pamela Zarkowski, JD, MPH, University of Detroit Mercy Pamela Zarkowski is currently Professor and Academic Vice President at the University of Detroit Mercy (UDM). She is former Executive Associate Dean of the University of Detroit

Conference Session

Web-based Learning in ECE

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dale Buechler, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

answered adequately without being able to share the same piece of paper.In our SV offerings, we have experimented with web conferencing software to obtain equivalentoffice hours for distance students and found that this was successful, provided that both theinstructor and the student had tablet PCs. Unfortunately the cost of tablet PCs provides a barrierto both students and to academic institutions. In response to this need, a Scholarship of Teachingand Learning Project (SoTL) was designed to investigate the use of a relatively inexpensivetechnology, pen tablets, to improve the access of place-bound students to assistance frominstructors and fellow students. Each participating student in the fall section of analog electronicswas provided with a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tzu-Liang Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso; Ryan Wicker, UTEP; Rong Pan, Arizona State University; Carolyn Awalt, The University of Texas at El Paso

capabilities). Dr. Wicker’s current research interests are in the areas of advanced manufacturing (focused on layered manufacturing), tissue engineering (including scaffold fabrication, polymer synthesis, and in vitro and in vivo testing), and experimental fluid mechanics (with recent emphasis on cardiovascular flows). Dr. Wicker has published in excess of 100 refereed articles, provided more than 50 technical presentations at conferences and meetings, and managed more than $8 million in funded projects from agencies such as NSF, DoD, DoE, NASA, Sandia National Laboratories, and others, including a variety of corporations. Courses taught include topics in the thermal sciences.Rong Pan, Arizona State

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Lanning, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Wahyu Lestari, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Shirley Waterhouse, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

, corrosion, impact, composite materials failure,statistical analysis of failures, non-destructive evaluation (NDE), and structural healthmonitoring. Typically, these topics are not presented in undergraduate engineering degreeprograms, especially in a laboratory-based format. A significant amount of new learningmaterials has been created and is being made publically available through course webpages. Inaddition, student learning assessments and project evaluation tools are being constructed,including a short concept inventory exam. Select portions of the laboratory component are beingassembled into a module on engineering failure for the yearly Aerospace Engineering SummerCamp held at the Prescott campus of Embry-Riddle, exposing high school

Conference Session

Track 1b - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Marjaneh Issapour, State University of New York, Farmingdale; Gonca Altuger-Genc, State University of New York, Farmingdale

Tagged Topics

Curriculum and Lab Development

the weekdays, andeach day faculty and students meet twice for 3 hour classes. By the end of the STEM andEnergy Leadership program, students will complete a total of 60 hours of classes which willinclude theoretical and hands-on work as well as components of active learning. This programaims to increase students’ familiarity with engineering, engineering majors, energy, challenges inthe field of energy along with global challenges in sustainability, energy and engineering.Certain projects will require students to work in teams which will also give them the opportunityto work with other students towards a shared goal. Page 20.19.4Summer Outreach

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Eppes; Peter Schuyler

PHY121 EN241 Basic Science AUC EN481English I Phys I Phys II English II (Lab) Elective Tech Writing3303 4336 4336 3303 4336 3303 3303 ECT121 ECT231 ECT36x AUC AUCET111 Electronic Intro to Prog II Elective ElectiveIntro to ET Circuits Semicond C1101 4336 4336 3224 3303 3303ECT111 ECT122 ECT 222 ECT242 ECT471 ECT472Intro to Digital I Digital II Microproc I Sr Project Sr ProjectElectronics

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Social Responsibility & Professionalism

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas DiStefano; P. Aarne Vesilind; Richard Kozick; Thomas Rich; James Baish; Xiannong Meng; Margot Vigeant; Daniel Cavanagh

½ Engineering as a Overview of 210 12-15 profession engineering and each discipline6 ½ - 10 Seminar #1 Discipline related 27 12-1510 – 13 ½ Seminar #2 seminar 27 12-1513 ½ - 15 Engineering and society Ethics 210 21 The first course module introduces engineering and each of the six engineeringdisciplines taught at Bucknell. It also features a team-project in which students suggestimprovements to campus to enhance mobility for persons who use

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in BAE

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Christy

inventions as well as his paintings. Many engineering students think thatany time spent on non-technical subjects is not beneficial to their future careers. Over two years,the author assigned essays specifically inviting students to reflect on these attitudes. Fewer thanhalf expressed an appreciation for the value of their general education courses, especially in artsand humanities. This goal of this project was to explore Renaissance learning within a biologicaland agricultural engineering (BAE) program. The primary methods included weekly essayassignments and an annual departmental poetry contest. As a component of regularly assignedhomework, weekly essays were assigned to BAE seniors to give students the opportunity toreflect on various

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Visser; Carrie Steinlicht; Teresa Hall

prototyping(RP) laboratory and service bureau at SDSU and through educational courses, seminars andconsortium member meetings.8Since its inception, the GPRPC has served the members through product prototype constructionand modification, technical seminars and specialized in-plant training, and industrial design anddevelopment projects by MNET students and staff. The six primary objectives of the GPRPCproject are: 1. Provide access to and hands on training for students and partners in rapid prototyping equipment both on-site and via the Internet. 2. Provide a venue whereby students and educators can cooperate with industry leaders and potential employers in the design process. 3. Provide a venue whereby partners can

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas H. Miller; Susan Frey

course.In 2001, Dr. Miller joined CH2M HILL as a flex staff employee, starting with a sabbatical, andhe has worked in that capacity to the present time during summers, and at times during theacademic year. He has been involved with seismic rehabilitation of buildings, bridge projects,and anti-terrorist/force protection design of facilities for the U.S. Air Force.Class Economics and FundingThe economics of providing this course exemplifies a true Oregon community project. OregonState University (OSU) provides the venue, a lecture room in the Civil Engineering Building,Apperson Hall. OSU also supplies transparencies, audio equipment, computer access, projectors

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Phillips

“Bridging the Information Gap in the Comprehensive Design Studio” John J Phillips, PE Oklahoma State UniversityAbstract:The culmination of a students design education at Oklahoma State University’s School ofArchitecture is experienced in the nine credit hour comprehensive design studio. The approachused in teaching this studio is a team concept, with four different faculty members specializing inarchitectural design, mechanical systems design, and structural systems design. Additionally,separate courses in project management and environmental controls design (as elective courses)are closely linked in the same semester. The scope of the comprehensive design

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Afshin Ghajar; Ronald Delahoussaye

Engineering at Oklahoma State Universityoffers MAE 4243, “Gas Power Systems”, as a required course for the Aerospace Engineeringdegree and an elective course for the Mechanical Engineering degree. Student use of software toanalyze and design gas turbine systems has been an important part of this course since 1988.Use of software has been particularly important in the “design project” phase of the course. Thesoftware in use for many years was developed in the DOS environment and lacked many of theease-of-use features now commonly available in MS Windows style programs. In addition, thesource code for the program was not available to allow faculty and students to correct perceivedweaknesses in the program. The primary goal of this project was to

Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shreeekanth Mandayam; Beena Sukumaran; Kauser Jahan; Yusuf Mehta

field, yet undergraduate engineering students in civil and environmental engineering arerarely exposed to digital imaging through their coursework. The College of Engineering atRowan University received funding from NSF to integrate digital imaging technology (DIT) inour undergraduate engineering curriculum. Faculty from all engineering disciplines withexpertise in DIT participated in this exciting project to develop hands-on experiments forundergraduate engineering students. Experiments developed were such that all engineeringdisciplines would benefit from the endeavor. Certain digital imaging experiments havegenerated a lot of excitement in the Civil and Environmental Engineering program as many ofthe laboratory experiments are extremely

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Miller; Joyce Pittman; Virginia Elkins; Max Rabiee; Eugene Rutz

content development anddelivery and discuss the impact it had on engineering technology education.Course / Content DevelopmentContent was developed to support a course in Flexible Automation offered in the College ofApplied Science. The content was developed collaboratively among educational technologyexperts in the College of Engineering, faculty from the College of Applied Science, and expertsin instructional design in the College of Education. The project sought to develop content thatwould appeal to a variety of student learning styles and thus better engage the students in thelearning process1. The various modes of instruction developed during the project werecategorized as: • Read It – text and illustrations to appeal to visual

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Craig

write. The planning stageis logically followed by a stage in which thought is developed and supporting evidence ismarshaled. Experienced writers quickly grasp that these two stages are not discrete. Thethird stage, however, is most effective when it is discrete. In this third and last stage of adocument, writers review for technical accuracy, correct the language at a sentence level,and then attend to the final editing, revision, and proofreading.And lastly, different writing tasks are more effective when they're linked to theappropriate stage of writing and to the cognitive tasks within that stage. For example, asection establishing background and significance can be written early in the project whenit is foremost in the graduate student's

Conference Session

The Computer, the Web, and the ChE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

G.T. Lineberry; David Silverstein

) engineering education(University of Louisville, Murray State University, and Western Kentucky University), alongwith the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) and selectedindependent colleges (e.g., Kentucky Wesleyan) to develop a collection of offerings of pre-engineering courses at community colleges across the state. The courses have been selected toallow students graduating from two-year programs to then enter four-year programs andcomplete an engineering degree within two additional years.As part of this project, the specific needs of certain courses have been considered in the redesignof distance-learning classrooms in order to provide an effective instructional environment. Oneof the courses to be offered is “Process

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Cathryne Stein

whether Botball will be used as anextracurricular or classroom project. We’ve noticed teams tend to range in size from 5-20 students, with some students focusing on the website project, some the programming,and others the mechanical engineering.The point of Botball is for kids to do things for themselves, to experiment, and to learnfrom the experience. All Botball robots are student designed, built, and programmed.Mentors give guidance and help with project management, but they do not program orbuild the robots. At the tournaments, the pit area is roped off and no adults (other thanKISS Institute staff) are allowed in. An Oklahoma team counts their robots’ points at the end of the match.At the end of the six weeks of building time

Conference Session

New Programs and Textbooks in BME

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Alan Sahakian

as a pilot project in the Winter quarter of 2001 in BME 383,Cardiovascular Instrumentation, at Northwestern University. Development has continued basedon that experience and it will be used again in the Winter quarter of 2002. Page 7.402.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationConclusionsWe have developed and evaluated a module on cardiac signal processing for use in a senior (orgraduate) level course in instrumentation. It is accompanied by web-based tools whichdemonstrate some

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Miller; Stephen J. Walsh; James J. Brickley

. Seniors enrolled in capstone design earn four credits,and play the role of founders of a high-tech company. Development of the company’s “product”is the basis of the capstone design project. The one-credit students are “ground floor employees”of the start-up companies. This model allows EEP to fit easily within the already crowdedundergraduate curriculum at NC State, and provides a framework for developing teamwork andleadership skills, mentoring of underclassmen by seniors, and a “real world” experience thatgives the students a feel for life in a start-up company.The EEP model places a great deal of emphasis on the leadership role of the senior st udents.They are told up front that this is the major difference between pursuing capstone design in

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching and Learning

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Khalid El Gaidi; Diane H. Soderholm; Doris Brodeur; Dava Newman

4.11 Recognize the importance of the societal context in CDIO System engineering practice. Skills 4.12 Appreciate different enterprise cultures and work successfully in organizations. 4.13 Conceive engineering systems including setting requirements, defining functions, modeling, and managing projects. 4.14 Design complex systems. 4.15 Implement hardware and software processes and manage implementation procedures. 4.16 Operate complex systems and processes and manage