Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Krupar; George Suckarieh

Leadership and Teamwork Education for Engineering and Technology Students An Experiential Learning and Community Service Approach George Suckarieh, Jason Krupar University of Cincinnati1. IntroductionThe history of technical education in the United States over the last two hundred years can betraced back to the American Revolution; it evolved from both military and craftsmanship needs.Over the years, the trends in technical education changed from teaching of craftsmanship andbasic science, to assembly and design of sophisticated projects. The present trend in technicaleducation focuses on complimenting the design skills of

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Said Shakerin

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exhibition, Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education clockFigure 15 – (left) “Timetable” designed by Maya Lin, (right) close up of clock hands. Photos by Mahnaz Saremi and the author.Pye has designed water features and fountains for corporate and private clients29. Water is themedium of artistic expression for him. His works have appeared in large building projects suchas the British Pavilion at the 1992 World Fair in Seville, Spain and Mercury House in London,UK30. His recent projects have incorporated large-scale vortex motion.Shakerin designed a small-scale, decorative fountain that can produce letters of

Conference Session

Engineering Education: An International Perspective

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Saeed Foroudastan

development”. For this paper, sustainable development will be defined as,“The acting out of cultural and economic programs that would allow the currentpopulation to live off of the resource interest provided by environmental, economic, andsocial plans, concepts, projects, and innovations without lowering the value of resourcesfor the following generations.”It is obvious that the clear goal of business is to make money, but responsibility should bespread among international and national businesses that are contributing to the problemof pollution and anti-sustainability. Too many penalties for pollution are less than thecost for cleaning the problem, so often that the option of paying penalties is chosen overfixing the problem. For some companies

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lorena Basilio; Frank Claydon; Betty Barr; David Shattuck; Stuart Long; Jennifer Ruchhoeft

Session 1432 Summer Camp and Course Workshops for Sophomore Level Electrical and Computer Engineers Authors: David P. Shattuck, Frank J. Claydon, Stuart A. Long, Betty J. Barr, Jennifer L. Ruchhoeft, and Lorena I. Basilio Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Houston Houston, TX 77204-4005Abstract In response to a program supported by Texas engineering companies and the Texas stategovernment, we have begun a project to attempt to increase the number of graduates in

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Denny Davis; Kenneth Gentili

performance factors are consistent withthe creative problem-solving model described by Lumsdaine et al.7 and the project-basedintroduction to design by Dym and Little8. The teamwork attributes are consistent withthe cooperative learning model by Johnson et al.9 The communication attributes areconsistent with recommendations by the writing across the curriculum movement andsummarized by Bean10.Knowledge of the Engineering Design Process • information gathering/understand problem/customer needs • problem definition/goals or requirements defined • idea generation/brainstorming/creativity • evaluation/analyzing ideas/testing/design modeling • decision making/selection/planning • implementation/produce/deliver design to customer • process review

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Carlson

Technology in WorldHistory (6 volumes, Oxford University Press, forthcoming), I will outline in thispaper a framework for thinking about how people use technology to create andsustain their cultures. This framework--that people use technology to createabundance, order, and meaning--has proven useful in teaching about technologyin ways that don't privilege Western developments and conceptions oftechnology. This framework also permits us to treat Western and non-Westerncultures in a balanced or symmetrical fashion and thus help students understandthe impact that engineering can and will have in diverse cultures around theworld.An Overview of the Project It has been over thirty years since the last general history of technologyhas been published

Conference Session

Statistics in the CHE Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Valerie Young

part of a strategy to address thisproblem, our statistics course for juniors was redesigned with input from our faculty and fromindustrial members of the advisory board. The new course emphasizes software rather than handcalculations, introduces application and follows up with theory, and uses case studies fromindustry and from academic research. This course is not isolated in our curriculum. Statisticalanalysis is now a required part of projects in Heat Transfer and Kinetics, and continues to beemphasized in Unit Operations. In this talk, we reveal the motivation for emphasizing statisticsin our curriculum, the structure of the re-designed course, and the assessment methods beingused to gauge student learning in this course.Why Teach

Conference Session

Novel Courses for CHEs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

engaged in aneffort to develop and integrate applied drug delivery coursework and experiments throughout theRowan Engineering curriculum. This paper describes a senior/graduate level elective course indrug delivery, with descriptions of the course structure, organization and content, references,experiments and projects used in this course.Introduction Drug Delivery is a burgeoning field that represents one of the major research anddevelopment focus areas of pharmaceutical industry today, with new drug delivery system salesexceeding 10 billion dollars per year [1]. Chemical Engineers play an important and expandingrole in this exciting field, yet undergraduate chemical engineering students are rarely exposed todrug delivery through their

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Boyd; Alan Insleay; Geza Joos

Session: 3430, paper 727_ Development of a Modularized Co-constructivist Learning Environment for Electrotechnology Gary Boyd, Geza Joos, Allan Insleay Education, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada / Industrial Electronics, Vanier College, Montreal, CanadaAbstractThis paper outlines our POWERGUIDE project to develop a new computer basedlearning environment to help University and College students develop a deeperunderstanding of industrial Electrotechnology. This subject includes electromagnetic andelectromechanical devices and

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Michele Casey; Kevin Torres

Session 3550 Electrical Engineering Technology Experiences for Kindergarten Students Kevin Torres, Michele Casey Penn State Erie, The Behrend College/Creekside Christian SchoolAbstractAn outreach project has been designed and implemented to provide kindergarten students withengineering technology experiences. In engineering education much has been done in outreachto middle school students and high school students. But very little is being done to reach out toK-6 and practically none for kindergarten students, especially in the field of engineering.This paper describes electrical engineering

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; Greg Salamo

and to the microEP director. c) A student requirement to become proficient in a standard software suite (word processing, spreadsheet, electronic communications methods, project management, etc). d) Expedited student placement with faculty for research to assure maximum exposure to research during the master’s program. e) Assigned student responsibility to manage some aspect of group interests (class schedule coordination, seminar selection, software management, etc). f) Multi-day industrial style training seminars in structured innovation processes and processes to promote inventiveness

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Valerie E. Taylor; Rudolf Eigenmann; Renato Figueiredo; Nirav Kapadia; Luis Vidal; Jose A.B. Fortes; Jan-Jo Chen; Alok Choudhary

researchers from academia and industry. Access to the network-computing system, including account requests, document retrievaland actual execution of tools, is obtained entirely through standard, web-based interfaces.The emphasis is on exposing the students to the functionality and nature of tools, while elim-inating the need for time spent in securing access to machines, accounts, documentation, andlearning unfriendly interfaces. The result is a system that supports the integration of a largenumber of tools in undergraduate classes, while minimizing the overheads of installing andlearning a tool and nding resources to run it. Our work is part of an NSF-funded project on combined research and curriculum devel-opment. This paper describes the

Conference Session

Capstone Experiences in OME Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Consi

also challenging to teach. In particular, itis difficult to introduce the field to beginning engineering students – they seem to have to know Page 7.751.1so much in order to begin to “get wet”. For the past four years we have tackled the problem of “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”engaging students in our exciting field through the use of a seminar class that introduces oceanengineering via a hands-on project experience.The course is entitled “Build a PVC ROV!” (MIT course 13

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps I

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Harris; Sunday Faseyitan; Robert Myers; Pearley Cunningham; Winston Erevelles

longerdominated by the steel industry. Manufacturers in the region now exhibit significant diversity inmaterials, processes, and technology thereby challenging the educational system that needs to bein place to prepare the regional workforce.At a time when manufacturers cannot recruit a sufficient number of skilled workers, there is asegment of the region's workforce that is under-employed and often working in the service andretail sectors for much lower wages. The projected retirement attrition rate of 5% per year in themanufacturing sector further exacerbates this situation. This disconnect in the deployment of theregional workforce was the impetus for an effort targeting the recruitment and education of thekind of workforce demanded by the region's

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Laboratories

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seunghyun Chun, University of Texas, Austin, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Bruce McCann, University of Texas, Austin; Ariane L. Beck, University of Texas, Austin; Eric Dean, National Instruments; Alexis Kwasinski, University of Texas at Austin

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

of Texas at Austin in 1975. He then joined Schlumberger where he held R&D and manufacturing management positions in the U.S. and France. Dr. McCann was President of two global business units within Schlumberger and retired in 1999. Since that time, he has served as an Adjunct Professor in the ECE Department at The University of Texas at Austin where he teaches circuit analysis, design, engineering economics and project management.Ariane L Beck, The University of Texas at Austin Dr. Ariane L. Beck is the Assistant Chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineer- ing at The University of Texas at Austin. She received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Meehan, Virginia Tech; Robert W. Hendricks, Virginia Tech; Cortney V. Martin, Virginia Tech; Peter Doolittle, Virginia Tech; Justeen Olinger, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

Department.Cortney V. Martin, Virginia TechPeter Doolittle, Virginia Tech Director for the Center for Instructional Development and Educational Research, and Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at Virginia Tech.Justeen Olinger, Virginia Tech Student Assistant with the NSF-CCLI Grant at Virginia Tech. Page 22.994.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Lab-in-a-Box: Online Instruction and Multimedia Materials to Support Independent Experimentation on Concepts from CircuitsIntroductionA project known as Lab-in-a-Box (LiaB) was developed in 2004 as one of the

Conference Session

Ethical Perspectives on the Grand Challenges of Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M Riley, Smith College

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

of engineering.For those interested in engineering ethics and the delivery of engineering ethics curricula, theGrand Challenges offer a rich field of proposals. While ethical questions associated with many ofthe topics have been addressed elsewhere,10-15 the descriptions of the Challenges mostly do notinclude ethical analysis.This paper, along with others in this session, takes the risk of asking some hard questions of theGrand Challenges. Underlying the Grand Challenges project is a presumption that, having beenselected, the fourteen Challenges are not only important undertakings, but also that they shouldgo forward. But are they necessarily morally imperative? Are they necessarily for the greatergood? Ought they be undertaken at all? Such

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Teaching I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephan A. Durham, University of Colorado, Denver; Wesley Marshall, University of Colorado, Denver

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

ideas for class activities, projects, and other methods ofengaging students.Teaching is a skill that few faculty excel at upon becoming an Assistant Professor. Becauseengineering educators are hired as teachers does not mean they instantaneously become effectiveteachers. Some people are “born teachers” and know how to teach by intuition (4). Though itmay be a slow process, others must learn how to teach effectively. Some faculty consistentlywork to improve their teaching by finding better ways of engaging students in their classes whileothers spend their careers teaching unproductively. One growing set of resources are theteaching workshops, videotaped lectures, and teaching consultants that many universities nowoffer. However, these programs

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tom Weller, University of South Florida; Jeff Frolik, University of Vermont; Paul G. Flikkema, Northern Arizona University; Wayne A. Shiroma, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Carol Haden, Magnolia Consulting, LLC; Rhonda R. Franklin, Univeristy of Minnesota

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NSF Grantees

; received the B.S. degree from the University of Hawaii, the M.Eng. from Cornell University, and the Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder.Carol Haden, Magnolia Consulting, LLC Carol Haden is a Senior Consultant for Magnolia Consulting, LLC, a small woman-owned research and evaluation company based out of Charlottesville, Virgina. For the past eight years, she has specialized in the evaluation of informal and formal STEM education programs. Dr. Haden has evaluated projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation, NASA, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Arizona Board of Regents, and the Arizona Department of Education.Rhonda R. Franklin, Univeristy of Minnesota Rhonda R. Franklin is an

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stella A Quinones, University of Texas, El Paso; Benjamin C. Flores, University of Texas, El Paso; B. Lush, University of Texas, El Paso; Gabriel Della-Piana, Evaluation Consultant ; Denise Carrejo, Ph.D., University of Texas, El Paso Center for Institutional Evaluation, Research, and Planning

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NSF Grantees

El Paso (UTEP) in 1990 after receiving his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University. He is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Acting Dean of the Graduate School. He has held several administrative positions including Associate Dean for Graduate Studies for the College of Engineering, Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and Interim Chair of the Computer Science Depart- ment. Dr. Flores is an expert in retention strategies for non-traditional undergraduate and graduate students in the STEM disciplines. From 1999 to 2007 he was the Project Director of the NSF supported Model Insti- tutions for Excellence Initiative. Currently he is Director of two

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary E. Sunderland, University of California, Berkeley; Joonhong Ahn, University of California, Berkeley; Cathryn Carson, University of California, Berkeley; William E. Kastenberg, University of California, Berkeley

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Ethics and the Impact of Technology on Society for ten years before retiring, and is actively engaged in teaching young faculty how to teach engineering ethics. He is currently prin- ciple investigator for an NSF Grant entitled: Making Ethics Explicit: Relocating Ethics to the Core of Engineering Education. Page 23.881.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Making Ethics Explicit: Relocating Ethics to the Core of Engineering EducationAbstractOur project is motivated by the expanding and at times controversial literature that

Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Hergenrader, University of Southern California; Jihie Kim, University of Southern California; Erin Shaw, University of Southern California

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

approach3,but here, we will focus mainly on frustration itself and its effects. We will first examine whetheror not the location of frustration in a discussion thread impacts various features of it, includingthe number of posts in a thread, how many users are actively involved, and the average firstresponse times of posts.We will then proceed to examine the effects that frustration has with posts close to a deadline. Itis intuitive to declare that students normally do not start assigned projects right away; in fact, it issafe to say many do the majority of the work close the deadline. After verifying that frustrationoften appears in posts made close to a deadline, we will determine whether first responses arrivewith more urgency in this situation

Conference Session

ABET: Reflections on Accreditation

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan Fries, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Sree Kalyani Lakkaraju, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Brad Cross, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Susan M. Morgan, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Andrea L. Welker, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

project, the importance of professional licensure and continuing education, and/or other professional practice issues.ABET Civil Engineering Outcomes and Program Criteria are part of a living document. As civilengineers continue to define the needs of future engineers through documents such as theAmerican Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Body of Knowledge (BOK) 1,2, these outcomes andcriteria are updated by ABET 3. In response to the most recent update of the ABET CivilEngineering Program Criteria, the objective of this study was to find how civil engineeringdepartments in the United States: measure the multiple items in the new mathematics and science program criterion, interpret “the ability to apply” within the new

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard A. Kolk; Claudio Campana; Jun Kondo; Devdas Shetty

curriculum incorporates a language-neutralteaching approach for mechatronics system design courses that links the educationalexperience more closely with the processes and projects found in industry. Mechatronicseducation at the University of Hartford focuses on four categories; components (sensorsand actuators), computer interfacing electronics, systems (modeling, analysis,simulation, and control), and language-neutral visual programming environments forimplementation. The last category is especially important when one considers the extentof general software knowledge in mechanical engineering and the complexity of thelanguage based software development process for developing real time embeddedapplications. The goals of this paper are to describe

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy N. Chang; Daphne l. Chang

running this course for seven consecutive years, the followingobservations are, invariably, made: 1. A bimodal distribution exists between theory and experiment: Students achieving the best classroom scores do not always perform well in a free structure design- based experimental project. Similarly, students who rank in the lower quartile for classroom performance may excel in the experimental project. 2. Composition of team members significantly affects the quality of the experiment. Standard indicators such as GPA do not strongly correlate with the experimental outcome. 3. Strong classroom participation does not correlate with overall course success.Administering the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator during

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Justin R. Chimka; Karen M. Bursic; Cynthia Atman

design process "as a map for how to get from the need for a specific object to thefinal product " (p. 3) and notes that "The designer's knowledge of the process and the problem'sdomain determine the path" (p. 4). All engineers design, whether it be a factory layout, a newcomputer system, a major construction project, an improved production process, an electronicsubassembly or a new material. It is the core of the engineering profession. Wright 24 notes that"engineering design is as varied as the engineering profession, and it is as broad as the problemsfacing humankind. An engineer's designs may be as small and intricate as a microchip for acomputer system or as large and complex as a space shuttle" (p. 95).* This research was made possible in

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald A. Lessard

low level softwareconcepts needed are introduced in laboratories 2,3 and 4. Laboratory 5 has the studentsdesign their own software to be added to the robot command set. This allows simulationof the Sojourner Rover operation on the surface of Mars. Other real world applicationsare also discussed. Later laboratories introduce the issues critical to using the MCX11deterministic event-driven multitasking Real Time Executive. The design is pushedbeyond system limits and the consequences of failure analyzed. Finally, the interfacebetween the assembly and the ‘C’ code is presented so that the students can implementand test the flood fill maze solving algorithm on the robot. A final project as a seconddesign experience has students apply the

Conference Session

Innovative Laboratory Approaches in ECE Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph P. Hoffbeck, University of Portland

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE), Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

built-inmicrophones). It displays an input level meter, which is helpful for setting the input gain. It hasmechanisms for setting the input and output gain and measuring the gain of a filter. It alsoincludes an indicator that alerts the user if their DSP algorithm is taking too long and is violatingthe real-time schedule. The starter code is available for free from the author.The course assignments include exploring the demonstration algorithms and writing and testingseveral real-time DSP algorithms including mono passthrough, record and playback, generatesinusoids, finite impulse response (FIR) filters, infinite impulse response (IIR) filters, andDiscrete Fourier Transform (DFT). The course also includes a project where each student selectsan

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division Curriculum Development

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed Gharib, Texas A&M University; Michael A. de Miranda, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

and teaching methods.The paper presents the degree curriculum, integrated technology used, skill set taught to students,examples of project-based courses, external student training, and the future outlook and challengesfor the program. This paper will provide clear pathways for establishing similar programs atengineering schools worldwide.IntroductionSTEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education will play a vital role inshaping the future of technology development [1]. In an increasingly complex and technologicallydriven world, implementing STEM skills in K-12 education is crucial for fostering innovation,critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills. In addition to early preparation of studentsfor a wide

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Case Studies in Design Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kate Mercer, University of Waterloo; Jennifer Howcroft, University of Waterloo

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

the University of Waterloo. The goal of the event was to facilitatecapstone engineering students connecting with diverse biomedical stakeholders to gain livedexperience insight and expertise to inform their final year design projects. This multi-stage eventwas intentionally designed to address known challenges with student-stakeholder interactions byincluding capstone team applications, student-stakeholder matching, a preparatory workshop,and finally the student-stakeholder conversations themselves.This paper presents a foundation for an evidence-based student-stakeholder interaction modelthat enables students to build needed skills and include stakeholders successfully in their designprocess by (1) presenting a multi-step student-stakeholder