Collection

2007 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Kris G. Mattila

have they are selected at random from thosethat volunteer to be next. The next student must define the term and explain how it is related tothe previous term.Figure 2 List of Terms Used in Exercise Proceedings of the 2007 ASEE North Midwest Sectional Conference 4An “ideal” progression through the list of Figure 2 might be: Project Delivery Systems, Design– Bid – Build, Design Build, Construction Management, and CM@ Risk. This could then befollowed by the different types of contracts such as: Lump Sum, Unit Price, and Negotiated.However, “ideal” rarely happens and the progression through the list is at times unrelated

Collection

2007 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Michele H. Miller; Debra D. Charlesworth

experience.Average responses to those are summarized below.Question AvgIf you were able to fund your own graduate study (or won a fellowship that paid all 3.80your expenses), how likely would it be that you would choose a research project similarto the one you are currently working on (0 very unlikely to 5 very likely):How rewarding do you find your grad school experience? (0 not rewarding to 5 very 3.88rewarding)How challenging do you find your research project to be? (0 not challenging to 5 too 3.74challenging)Do you feel that success on your research project is mostly within your control or does 2.71it mostly depend on lots of other factors? (0 in my

Conference Session

Undergraduate Track - Technical Session V

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Monica Evette Allen, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Sandra Loree Dika, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Brett Tempest, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Miguel A. Pando, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Undergraduate Education

Engineering on the topics of soil-structure interaction and engineering characterization of geomaterials, Dr. Pando has been actively involved in teaching and mentoring students at both UPRM and UNCC, including 14 undergraduate civil engineering students through the NSF Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Program. Examples of his recent and ongoing engineering education research projects include the development of a Bridge to the Doctoral Program to attract Latinos to geotechnical earthquake engineering (NSF-NEES), use of a multi-institutional classroom learning environment for remote geotechnical engineering education (NSF-TUES), as well as a mixed methods study of the role of student–faculty relationships in

Conference Session

Make It!

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fatime Zahra El Fatimi, New York City College of Technology; Felicia Jeter, New York City College Of Technology; Kayla Leigh Natal; Ehab A. Ahmad; Ali Harb, New York City College of Technology; Andy Zhang, New York City College of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

advice students to build Mechatronics devices. Today my interests are in vision, voice recognition, data mining, and gaining more experience in the field of artificial intelligent.Dr. Andy Zhang, New York City College of Technology Dr. Andy S. Zhang received his Ph.D. from the City University of New York in 1995. He is currently the program director of a mechatronics project in the New York City College of Technology/CUNY. For the past 15 years, Dr. Zhang has been working on bringing hans-on mechatronics technology to the undergraduate engineering technology curricula and on helping high school students to learn mechatronics through FIRST Robotic Competition (FRC), First Tech Challenge (FTC), and other STEM events

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine C. Chen, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Lizabeth T Schlemer, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Emily E Liptow, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Jaclyn Duerr, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Helene Finger P.E., Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo; Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

State University, San Luis Obispo Lizabeth is a professor at Cal Poly, SLO in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. She has been teaching for 23 years and has continued to develop innovative pedagogy such as project based, flipped classroom, and competency grading. Through the SUSTAIN SLO learning initiative she and her col- leagues have been active researching in transformation in higher education.Ms. Emily E Liptow, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Emily Liptow is an AmeriCorps VISTA member at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. She is involved with a variety of diversity and inclusion efforts in the College of Engineering ranging from student support programs

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy L Freeman, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Pradip K Bandyopadhyay, Penn State University (Berks Campus); Mark Johnson, Pennsylvania State University ; Mikhail Kagan, Pennsylvania State University, Ogontz Campus; Ann Marie Schmiedekamp; Peter J. Shull, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona Campus; Catherine Cohan, The Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

engineering education, retention of underrepresented students, measurement, and assessment. She is currently a Research Associate on the Sustainable Bridges NSF IUSE project (Amy Freeman, PI). Previously, she was the project coordinator the the Toys’n MORE NSF STEP project (Renata Engel, PI). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017Sustainable bridges from campus to campus: Preliminary results from Cohort 1 (NSF IUSE #1525367) 04/04/2017 Sustainable bridges from campus to campus: Preliminary results from Cohort 1 AbstractThe impetus for the Sustainable Bridges from Campus to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard E Groff, Clemson University; Ian D Walker, Clemson University; Pamela E Mack, Clemson University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

in the next section. Each module has sixcomponents: 1) assigned background material, 2) a list of supplemental resources, 3) a lecturevideo, 4) a faculty conversation video, 5) a multiple choice quiz, and 6) a written discussionassignment. The assigned background material ranges from third party videos describing atechnology in more depth (such as [1]) to scholarly articles discussing related issues (such as[2]), to short stories illustrating relevant issues (such as [3]). A list of supplemental materials isposted along with the assigned background material. This list provides students with a startingpoint to dig further into a desired topic as well as find resources for the course project. Thelecture videos are 20-40 minutes long

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2016 ERC

Authors

Keith Roper

1-10 9 18 2013Research Centres Program Ireland to 8 6 12 2012Inst. Basic Science Research Centers S. Korea 8.5 10 50 2012Research Centres of Excellence Singapore ? 3+ 5 2007Mega Projects of Science Research China to 40 5 12 2006DFG Research Centers Germany to 14 12 4 2001Nat’l Research Programmes Switzerland to 3.3 6-7 14 1976 5 NCSES My Experience: Large NSF Proposals (as Program Director since 2012)Engineering

Conference Session

Works in Progress: Classroom Practice

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Dringenberg, Kansas State University; Ruth E. H. Wertz, Valparaiso University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

to engage with. Improving undergraduateengineering education requires a better understanding of the ways in which studentsexperience ill-structured problems in the form of engineering design. With specialattention to the experiences of first-year engineering students, prior exploratory workidentified two critical thresholds that distinguished students’ ways of experiencing designas less or more comprehensive: accepting ambiguity and recognizing the value ofmultiple perspectives.The goal of current (work-in-progress) research is to develop and pilot a self-reportinstrument to assess students’ relation to these two thresholds at the completion of an ill-structured design project within the context of undergraduate engineering education

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Camille Birch, University of Washington; Celina Gunnarsson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dianne Grayce Hendricks, University of Washington

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

thesetopics in-depth through in-class debates and an individual analysis of a topic of theirchoice. In the final team project, students design a science or engineering solution thatpromotes social justice.Students are introduced to topics in social justice through lectures, assigned readings,documentaries, discussions of current events, and guest speakers (Table I). Table I. Overview of Curriculum Week Topics and Class Activities 1 Introduction + Classroom expectations What does social justice look like? 2 Implicit Bias Representation: Who Identifies as a Scientist or Engineer? History of Sex/Gender and Sexuality in Science and Engineering 3 History of Disability in Science and Engineering

Conference Session

ERM Technical Session 18: Student Learning and Problem Solving

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Oenardi Lawanto, Utah State University; Angela Minichiello P.E., Utah State University; Assad Iqbal, Utah State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

.,goals), and of strategies to achieve those goals, respectively. These three types of metacognitiveknowledge influence students’ approaches to academic work.Tasks, which refers to “problems” in our research project, can be defined in terms of threeinterrelated characteristics: task purpose, task structure, and task components (Figure 1). Metacognitive knowledge about task purpose refers to students’ perception about the underlying reasons for solving the problem; Metacognitive knowledge about task structure

Conference Session

Biomedical Division Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd Freeborn, University of Alabama; Memorie Gosa, University of Alabama

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering

guiding questions tostructure the sessions; and (iv) including multiple sessions with the same clients over time toobserve changes that may result from the therapies.Capstone Projects: Future iterations of this program will task students with identifying clinicalneeds from their shadowing experiences, propose a possible solution, and encourage them topursue those solutions during their own Capstone Design courses. Capstone design projects areubiquitous in engineering education, aimed at promoting practical and real-world projects duringan undergraduate’s education [7], [8]. The pairing of this shadowing experience with CapstoneDesign is expected to increase student engagement and satisfaction; supported by results fromprevious clinical immersions

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heather Shipley, University of Texas, San Antonio; Rena Bizios, University of Texas, San Antonio; Krystel Castillo, University of Texas, San Antonio

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

enroll and persist in highereducation, this project combines scholarships with other forms of academic and professionalsupport to ensure student persistence and completion of a B.S. Engineering degree. Providingresources and educational opportunities for undergraduate engineering students will help themattain their Bachelor of Science degrees in Engineering in a timely manner and encouragestudents to pursue graduate degrees in sciences and engineering along with increasing anddiversifying the technical workforce in our region. The overall objective of the program is beingaccomplished by creating an Undergraduate Engineering Scholarship Program; creating aworkshop series on Critical Thinking, Professional Development, and Research; and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gloria J. Kim, Northwestern University; Robert A Linsenmeier, Northwestern University; Timothy Reissman, University of Dayton; Mary Beth Finch, Northwestern University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

were particularly important for meeting more complex learning objectives [6].Based on HPL and CBI, VaNTH produced a large number of interactive courseware modules inbiomechanics [7, 8], bioinstrumentation [9], systems physiology [10, 11, 12], design [13, 14],biosignal analysis [15, 16], biotechnology [17, 18], and biomedical imaging [18, 19].For this NSF-funded project (2015 – present) in the Engaged Student Learning track ofImproving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE), we proposed to enhance and expandexperiential learning modules in the domains of biosignals and systems analysis andexperimental design. There were two reasons behind this choice. First, most fundamental coursesin several engineering majors offered during the middle years

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre- College Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lawrence E. Whitman, Wichita State University; Alex Petersen, STEMpact2020; Christopher D Wyant, Wichita East High School

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

the lack of this guidance intheir social circle.High impact STEM mentoring is needed for mentors to have a lasting impact on our nation. Thispaper will focus on converting STEM professional volunteers into roles as mentors. This paperwill describe efforts to increase the number of mentors in a mid-sized urban community. Thepaper will discuss the levels of commitment and the level of intensity of desired by the mentors.I. Introduction and MotivationMentoring is critical to success in any field. Chubin1 found that mentoring was a strong factor instudents desire to study STEM. There is much in the engineering education literature regardingmentoring in the STEM fields. Many of the articles reference individual projects that are mademore

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rohit Bhargava, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Marcia Pool, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Andrew Michael Smith, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; P. Scott Carney, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois; Dipanjan Pan

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

, students will participate in the Frontiers in Cancer Research discoverycourse in which TED-style talks on cancer research are delivered, followed by facilitateddiscussion. Through this course, students will (1) gain an understanding of the current themes incancer research, (2) be introduced to faculty members who mentor undergraduate researchers, Page 26.1774.3and (3) develop skills in reading and discussing scientific articles. In their second semester,students will begin a research project with a faculty mentor and continue expanding on thisproject through their time in the program or until completion (similar to typical undergraduateresearch

Collection

2014 ERC

Authors

Farnam Jahanian

• automation. 60 new awards (35 projects) Image Credit: • • Dependable $30M+ operation investment with high assurance of reliability, safety, security, and usability. • Serves multiple key national priorities: transportation, energy, healthcare, and critical MicroStrain, Inc. • infrastructure. 2 Frontiers in CPS Energy and Industrial

Collection

2014 ERC

Authors

Linda Horton

2015 Budget g Highlights: g g  New computational materials research will develop codes for design of functional materials.  Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) continue at the FY 2014 level.  Two Energy Innovation Hubs continue:  Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) will be in its fifth project year.  Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR) will be in its third year.  National Synchrotron Light Source-II (NSLS-II) transitions to operations; NSLS ceases operations.  Li Linac C h Coherent t Light Li ht Source-II S II (LCLS-II) (LCLS II

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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Oziel Rios; Dani Fadda P.E.

to ensure their design satisfies the functional The activity is considered simple to implement, requirement and constraints.requiring only a computer station with CAD software In the rest of this paper, a more detailed description ofavailable in most engineering schools. Continuous the activity is provide as well as observations andimprovements to the project are made based on faculty assessments of the activity. Results from a student surveyobservations and assessments, as well as a survey are also presented.administered to the students. 2. Description of Project1. Introduction

Conference Session

Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Cottrell, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

imminentshortage of scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians; further, female high-schoolstudents show little interest in pursuing careers related to engineering.1 This lack of interest maybe a significant factor in understanding the “Extraordinary Woman Engineers Project” whichreported that currently fewer than 10% of the nation's engineers are women in spite of the factthat girls do not lag behind boys in grades or test scores in either math or science.2 The program presented by this paper represents perhaps part of the solution to thisparadox by investing in the female youth of today through proven hands-on learning techniques.3This paper reports on a local initiative by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte to investin

Conference Session

The Evolution of Engineering Economy

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Hartman, Lehigh University; David Enke, University of Missouri

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

; and Missouri-Rolla, which has a certificate program.Northwestern University no longer offers a course in “engineering economy”. Rather, they offera course in “Economics and Finance for Engineers” which is described as “Principles ofcorporate finance; financial decisions of firms; value; risk and return; investment and capitalbudgeting decisions under certainty and uncertainty; performance evaluation.”2 Clearly, this is amix of topics that would be found in corporate finance and traditional engineering economycourses. However, not all of these topics would be covered in a typical engineering economycourse. While engineering economy has at times focused more on project evaluation througheconomic analysis, considering the effects of depreciation

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics and Global Issues

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roobik Gharabagi, St. Louis University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

). Professional and ethical responsibilities (ABET outcome f), engineeringdesign process, and ability to design a product to meet desired needs within realisticconstraints (ABET outcome c) are introduced in a required freshmen engineering coursecalled “Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering” (EENG-101). Legal andethical aspects of engineering are further emphasized in the sophomore and juniorelectrical engineering courses. As a major part of senior year experience ECE studentsare expected to be engaged in two sixteen week senior design course sequence, Design I(EENG-490) and Design II (EENG-491). Students are expected to be involved in majorinterdisciplinary design projects. In Design I and Design II various aspects of engineeringdesign are

Conference Session

NAFP Panel Discussion

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Goang-Shin Liaw, Alabama A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Technology, and a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Dr. Liaw has been heavily involved in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for many years. He has planned, directed, and executed more than ten research projects at Alabama A&M University with contract values in excess of two million dollars. He has authored over 50 technical articles, reports, and papers as a result of his research work. Dr. Liaw’s current research interests are to apply nanotechnology in water and air purification systems in the Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) for the International Space Station and future Lunar Habitat

Conference Session

Reaching Students: Innovations to Curriculum in ET

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sergio Sgro, Eastern Kentucky University; Steve Freeman, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

reveal from one’s personal dimension through images, models, or analogies. • Application: ability to effectively use the information in different contexts. • Perspective: ability to see the big picture through creative critique. Page 13.1155.4 • Empathy: ability to value another’s feelings, perspective, or worldview. • Self-knowledge: ability to perceive our own prejudices as shortcomings.The facets of understanding are not to be confused with the types of assessment, such as informalchecks, observations, quizzes/tests, academic prompts, or performance tasks/projects, but rather,the six facets of understanding are, “a

Conference Session

Continuous Improvement & Assessment of ET Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jung Oh, Kansas State University-Salina; Beverlee Kissick, Kansas State University-Salina

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

wide information literacy instruction and collaborator’sprofessional development. The collaborators’ regular meetings to discuss, evaluate, and reflectthe information literacy themed projects have produced campus-wide information literacyperception assessment, inter-institutional grant activities to promote information literacy acrossthe curriculum and seamless integration of information literacy instruction into the course viacourse assignments. For example, the project process and progress of University GeneralEducation general chemistry course information literacy assignment for engineering technologystudents have been shared in various professional communities.5,6,7 In this paper, the authorsexamine their journey to create the successful

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical Engineering Technology

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Zecher, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

− k 2 k 2  u3   F 3  Figure 1 Typical one-dimension spring element problem with its corresponding stiffness matrixModeling techniques that focus on the following topics are emphasized: mesh size, convergence,aspect ratio, poorly shaped elements, boundary conditions, and the use of symmetry. Theremainder of the course deals with the use of various element types and different solution types.Most of these example projects consist of preparing and analyzing finite element models of partsthat have known theoretical solutions. This approach gives students “theoretical benchmarks”against which they can compare their FEA results and also allows them to observe how changesto their models

Collection

2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

Authors

Rafic Bachnak P.E., Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College

experiments on campus, six experiments that involved analysis andsoftware simulation, and a final project with an oral presentation. Some final projects includedhardware and software while others were limited to circuit design and software simulation. Thispaper briefly describes six remotely performed exercises that used Multisim to perform circuitanalysis and simulation and help students learn the course material. While there were severalchallenges, overall students were able to perform the experiments and successfully complete afinal project.IntroductionA report by the United Nations estimated that closures of schools and other learning spaces dueto the COVID-19 pandemic impacted 94% of the world’s student population in 2020 [1]. Thisincluded a

Collection

2008 GSW

Authors

Alireza Kavianpour; William Nguyen; Paul Wagner

, and convenient way. This method requiressimple setup by the users. Design SpecificationFigure 1 displays different parts of this project. In this project 16-bit Micro-controller 68HC12,DSP board by Texas Instruments, Liquid Crystal, Keypad, Speaker, and a Microphone are used.The audio feedback suppressor is designed to do real-time filtering noise of an audio signal usingDSP. The 68HC12 is used as the mean of interfacing with the users and display system status.The 68HC12 interfaces with a keypad and a LCD. The keypad is for the user to select thefiltering modes to improve the quality of the audio output. The LCD is to display the welcomemessage as the system power up and the user selection mode. In this

Conference Session

FPD7 - Global Warming & Sustainability for First-Year Students

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Blair Rowley, Wright State University; Kumar Yelamarthi, Central Michigan University; Thomas Bazzoli, Wright State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Instrumentation and Web Design-III – Final Project Assigned 7 Circuits and Engineering Math 8 Timers, Flip Flops and other ICS, Exam-II 9 Temperature Satellite and How Things Work Launching Temperature Satellite, Recording, Analyzing Data, and 10 Presentation of Final Project – Plane Flying EndsThis course structure was changed to incorporate the common book “An Inconvenient Truth”DVD, provide two new lectures and two new labs on global warming issues. In addition, thewriting intensive portion was changed to a focus on issues on global warming of interest toengineers. The revised course is presented in Table 2

Conference Session

Computer Simulation and Animation II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Avanzato, Pennsylvania State University, Abington Campus

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

initiatives in Second Life, and thethird goal was to evaluate the challenges of utilizing Second Life with students from an Page 13.1067.2instructor’s perspective.This class of 14, first-semester, traditionally-aged students represented a variety ofmajors, including science, information sciences and technology (IST), engineering,computer science, business and physical therapy. None of the students had any priorexperience with Second Life virtual worlds. The course, entitled “Information, People,and Technology,” explores the nature of digital technologies and their impact on society.The 15-week, project-based course comprised of 3 modules: podcasting and