Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone Design

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam Kaplan, California State University, Northridge; James Flynn, California State University, Northridge; Sharlene Katz P.E., California State University, Northridge

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

project. This CubeSat project is being performed in partnership with the JetPropulsion Laboratory (JPL), a local employer of CSUN graduates.Section II of this paper describes the CubeSat project. Section III describes the project team andthe challenges in running a large multidisciplinary project. Section IV describes the projectmanagement approach of the software team and the relationship between the project and thecomputer science curriculum. Section V includes some assessment of this approach. Section VIpresents the conclusions.II. Description of the CubeSat ProjectA CubeSat is a miniature satellite (20 x 10 x 10 cm) capable of carrying an onboard experimentinto space. CubeSats are launched free of charge as part of government and commercial

Conference Session

Promoting Technological Literacy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College-Dublin

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

experiences in the mini projects in a provided) more substantial creative activity in which all the skills acquired could be utilised.Exhibit 2. The projects in order of their completion. 9 & 10 as planned are not included because they werenot completed. Reproduced from Owen, S and J. Heywood (1990) Transition technology in Ireland.International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 1 (1), 21 – 32. The evaluation includes a dailyaccount of what happened on the course. 12 males and 12 females in the age range 16 – 18 completed thethree week program which was completed in a custom built laboratory financed by the Irish

Conference Session

Construction Education Topics in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yutaka Sho, Syracuse University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

assistant professor of architecture at Syracuse University in New York. Page 24.670.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Home Experiments: EarthBag Construction as Teaching Tool in RwandaThis paper investigates the meanings of home and field in architectural and engineering designsin international development. Academic research in the humanities and science disciplines tendsto situate the home and the field opposite of research activities. The home is a stable andcontrolled laboratory for analyses and theorization while the field is where raw

Conference Session

Developing the Design Skillset

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Paul D. Mathis, Engineering Education

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Design in Engineering Education

Leader Senior Design, High School Engineering Design ProjectsRusty Male Civil Engineering Technical Problem- Global Engineering, Senior Solver DesignStan Male Chemical Engineering Lab Specialist/Solo Laboratory Research, Senior Worker DesignZachery Male Aeronautical Engineering “Operations Guy” Internship, High School Competition

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach and Out-of-School Time Engineering Programming and Research

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin Reed Campbell, Robert Morris University; Sarah Marie Riordan, Robert Morris University; Stephanie Abbott; Sarah Mukui Mutunga, Robert Morris University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

project helped me to learn what research is like. We run into many problems along the way, but we were able to cope with them and complete our project, and still have fun along the way What, to you, were the most important features of PGSS? Please explain.  Being in a setting with other driven, intelligent students who also wanted to be here allowed me to preform my best.  The laboratory experience and team project. It showed me what scientific research is really like. It allowed me to use equipment and technology not available at my high school.  The most important part was getting to work with equally brilliant people. I never

Conference Session

Integration of Engineering and Other Disciplines (Including Liberal Arts)

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Hennessey Wikoff, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Cynthia Wise Barnicki, Milwaukee School of Engineering; James R. Kieselburg II, Grohmann Museum at Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

and engineering classes would be held. Next, it wasdecided that the Museum project would also furnish new office space for the General StudiesDepartment. As a result, the Museum was to become a dynamic space; a laboratory for learningand a venue for the synthesis of art and engineering.Following two years of intensive planning and effort, the Grohmann Museum opened in Octoberof 2007 as the newest and arguably the finest Museum in Milwaukee, in addition to being to only Page 24.784.3Museum of its type in the world. Nowhere else will one find as comprehensive a collectionsurrounding the themes of art, engineering, and occupation. Subjects

Conference Session

Manufacturing Materials and Processes

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert L. Mott, University of Dayton; Ronald J. Bennett F.ASEE, F.ABET P.E., University of St. Thomas; Mark J. Stratton, SME; Mel Cossette, Edmonds Community College; Thomas G. Stoebe, University of Washington; Frank Zeh Cox, National Resource Center for Materials Tecnology Education

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Manufacturing

science, communications, and the many aspects ofpersonal effectiveness.The four pillars are capped with the titles shown above for the four major proficiencies expectedof graduates of manufacturing programs. Within the four pillars, the ten major subject areasmentioned earlier are arrayed to give more detail to the content included in academic degreeprograms. The lintel spanning the pillars emphasizes that laboratory experiences, quality,continuous improvement, and problem analysis pervade the manufacturing engineering field andintegrate its various facets.Below the titles of the major subject areas are lists for the detailed topics that make up thecontent of the programs. This list forms the basis for SME certification exams for

Conference Session

The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin Cohen, Lafayette College; Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College; Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt, Lafayette College

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

permeability of traditional disciplinary boundaries. All fourengineering departments at our institution offer a large number of laboratory-style courses inwhich students gain hands-on problem solving and design experience; retaining this focus was apriority.As mentioned above, the Engineering Studies program administers the Bachelor of Arts inEngineering degree. The faculty of Lafayette College established the degree in 1970 with thegoal of producing graduates who could bridge the gap between engineering and the liberal arts.The mission of the program is: To provide a rigorous liberal arts curriculum built on an engineering foundation that prepares graduates to effectively address society’s increasingly complex challenges. Graduates

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids and Heat Transfer II

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica W. Clark, University of Maine; John R. Thompson, University of Maine; Donald B. Mountcastle, University of Maine

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

, University of Maine John Thompson is an Associate Professor of Physics and Cooperating Associate Professor of STEM Education, and a member of the Maine Center for Research in STEM Education at the University of Maine. He is co-director of the UMaine Physics Education Research Laboratory, a research group of over a dozen faculty, postdoctoral research associates, graduate students, and undergraduates. His research focuses on the learning and teaching of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics at the upper division, and student understanding at the physics-mathematics interface. He is very interested in cross-disciplinary studies of specific topics.Donald B. Mountcastle, University of Maine Donald Mountcastle is an

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Innovations in ECE

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George York, U.S. Air Force Academy; Erlind George Royer, Academy Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Research, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, USAF Academy, CO; Daniel Harold Harold; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

government laboratories are equal partners in developing solutions forunmanned systems.Objective 3: Develop and Articulate Unmanned System Requirements and Specifications1. I have knowledge about the current state-of-the-art commercially available unmanned systems.2. I understand how operational needs can translate to the technical requirements of a system.3. I can use a formal engineering design process to generate the specifications and performance measures fromhigh level requirements.4. I can separate the desired functionality from a specific design solution.5. I understand the importance of possessing both technical and operational skills to generate a requirement.6. I appreciate the need for testable or demonstrable requirements.7. I understand

Conference Session

Bringing Biology into Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Schaffer; Heidi Diefes-Dux; Jenna Rickus; Matthew Verleger

traditional textbook reading, with 11 of the 15 respondents statingthat the module was significantly better. The student who stated that the tool was somewhatworse than textbook reading stated that the ion transport tool didn’t provide the same level ofbackground information that a textbook would carry. All respondents found the online moduleto be as much or more preferable than a traditional lecture. As one student stated, “I am more ofa hands on person, so listening and taking notes is good, but then being able to apply thoseconcepts really helps me understand.” While the response was still positive, a few students stillpreferred traditional laboratory experiments, though as one student pointed out, “It is hard to seeion channels in a beaker

Conference Session

Innovation for ChE Student Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Willette; Larry White; Garry White

] Miles, T.H., The Fog Index: A practical Readability Scale, West VirginiaUniversity, http://www.as.wvu.edu/~tmiles/fog.html, (Date accessed 7/11/04).[24] Miller, R.L. (1999), Performance assessment of EC-2000 student outcomes inthe unit operation laboratory, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition,Session 3515.[25] Miller R. L., (1997), Using holistic grading to evaluate writing in engineeringclasses, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Session 2230.[26] NIST, National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce,http://webbook.nist.gov/chemisty/fluid/ ( Date accessed 11/23/03)[27] Peck, A., Nydahl, J.E., Keeney, C.K., (1999), Effective Strategies to Motivate Engineering Students to DevelopTheir Technical Writing Skills

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Bertozzi

Design and Graphics Process (2002)5. In their paper they also provide anengineering design graphics curriculum outline based on the digital design process. It consists ofeight laboratory modules and a two-week design project.We felt that this concurrent design experience was so important to our students’ engineeringeducation that in 1998 we expanded our existing engineering graphics course to a three-semesterconcurrent engineering design sequence.In their project work the students must make appropriate simplifying assumptions and do a Page 10.719.2manual analysis of their systems to determine things like maximum stresses and deflections

Conference Session

Problem-Solving & Project-Based Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Taryn Bayles

., L.C. Schmidt, and P. Meade, “Student Focus Group Results on Student Team Performance Issues”, Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 89, no. 3, 2000, pp. 269-272. 16. Biernacki, J.J., and C.D. Wilson, “Interdisciplinary Laboratory in Advanced Materials: a Team-Oriented Inquiry-Based Approach,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 90, no. 4, 2001, pp. 637-640. 17. Besterfield-Sacre, M., M. Moreno, L.J. Shuman, and C.J. Atman, “Gender and Ethnicity Differences in Freshmen Engineering Student Attitudes: A Cross-Institutional Study,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 90, no. 4, 2001, pp. 477-489. 18. Seat, E., and S.M. Lord, “Enabling Effective Engineering Teams: A Program for Teaching

Conference Session

ABET Issues and Capstone Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Milton Bryant; Paul Biney

homework, design projects,written reports, oral presentations, case studies, and laboratory work. Table 7 Sample Completed Form used to Indicate Outcomes being Assessed by a Particular Assignment FLUID MECHANICS ASSIGNMENT CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUTCOMES SPRING 2004 Title of Assignment: TEST 1 TOPICS COVERED BY ASSIGNMENT Test 1 covered the following topics: Χ Introduction to Fluid Mechanics topics including definitions

Conference Session

Interactive Technology in the Classroom

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Amrine; Caroline Kayser; James Swanson

Cincinnati:Like many colleges, the College of Engineering at the University of Cincinnati (UC) is movingin the direction of integrating technology into the learning experiences of our undergraduatestudents. For several years, UC has required each entering freshman to purchase a portablecomputer for use on homework assignments and class projects. Portable computers are requiredinstead of desktops so that students can bring them to classes, laboratories, and use them betweenclasses while on campus. In support of the portable PC requirement, UC has invested in awireless networking infrastructure. Although an early goal was to incorporate the use of PCsinto classes, most of the faculty has been slow to modify course content to directly integrate PCsinto

Conference Session

NEW Lab Experiments in Materials Science

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Harvey Abramowitz

aResearch Engineer at Inland Steel Research Laboratories and Visiting Professor at the University of Missouri, Rolla.He has also been a Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University. Dr. Abramowitz is a Professor of MechanicalEngineering and is responsible for the materials sciences courses. Currently, he is also the AIST Foundation Ferrous Page 10.1350.16Metallurgy Grant Professor. Major areas of research are the cryogenic treatment of steels and the treatment of wastestreams for metal recovery. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

Conference Session

New Learning Models

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan; Madara Ogot

whatthe cycle and why in lecture, having the students practice the how in an in class exercise, and then having them apply the what-if to an open ended problem, typically embodied in their design projects.Cooperative Student formed groups that they sat next to in class and also worked with for grouplearning projects. Numerous in class activities where used including problem-solving, research online, laboratory exercises, etc., where the students worked in their groups. Teaming skills and exercises were also taught and practiced including project management, group personality assessments, etc.Active learning

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Akhlesh Lakhtakia; Christine Masters; Judith Todd

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education • Bio-Micro and Bio-Nano engineered systems.Courses from other departments may be substituted with permission of the advisor.At the graduate level, the multiscale wave-materials interaction initiative is developing a newgraduate concentration and future graduate certificate program in laser-materials interactions.This program is being developed with collaboration among the engineering science, mechanicaland nuclear, industrial and manufacturing, electrical, and materials science and engineeringdepartments as well as the Electro-Optics Center (EOC), the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL)and the Materials Research Institute. The following five graduate courses are being

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Katie Sullivan

manufacture is not competitive with nonrenewable oil or natural gas resources.3 ChE4975, hydrogen sustainability, is designed to examine and actively engage a solution to thedevelopment of alternative fuel sources by developing a working prototype of a photoelectrochemical cell (PEC) that uses solar energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.It will produce hydrogen for laboratory gas chromatography applications and for fuel cellsthat are portable sources of energy fro sustainable vehicles to showcase the role ofhydrogen engineering in a sustainable economy in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area.3 The ultimate and long term goal of research of this sort is that the development ofan alternative fuel source would aid in the sustainability

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching & Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Stetler; Stuart Kellogg

-hours and istaught as a 1-hour lecture and a 2-hour laboratory session each week. In addition, severalcommon 1-hour meetings are held each semester where all students come together for a requiredprogram activity. During a typical academic year, the program sees approximately 370 students.Program Objectives and Outcomes:The program incorporates 5 learning objectives and nine course outcomes (Table 1), which arecontained on the syllabus for the students to purview and gage their progress. Further, courseoutcomes are mapped to ABET criterion 3:a-k (Fig. 1) and are used in the course assessment tomake refinements to the curricula.Assessment Processes and ToolsProgram curricula are assessed using a variety of tools, including: • personal web-based

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

undesired contaminants in the workplace. This topic can also be used with other Separations Topics such as their use in a manufacturing facility to separate a contaminant from laboratory/workplace environment (e.g., membrane process to reduce organic solvent vapors in air

Conference Session

Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tan-Yu Lee; John Dantzler; Robert Leland; Jim Richardson

their diagrams. 5. Most students did not show improvement in their ability to articulate the problem solving process. 6. Some students continued to speak negatively about their math and problem solving abilities, as if conforming to an established social norm.A key goal of our course is transfer of improved problem-solving ability to future coursework.We will compare performance on final exam questions in future Calculus and Physics classes ofstudents in the experimental and control groups.6. AcknowledgementThis work was supported in part from NSF Grant DUE-0341463 under the Course Curriculumand Laboratory Improvement – Educational Materials Development (CCLI-EMD) program as aproof of concept study.Bibliographic Information [1

Conference Session

Innovation for ChE Student Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfred Carlson

moreintermediate goals. The students were only juniors and probably were used to solvingshorter (homework) problems. My feeling is that they had trouble pacing themselvesthrough these longer problems and would have benefited from some instruction ondividing up a problem and organizing a “plan of attack”.) The students were expected tocome to class but were free to come and go to the library or the lab to look overequipment related to the machinery they were asked to design. A few talks were given bythe instructor in the laboratory when requested or to start a new problem. (For examplewe have a refrigeration unit in the lab and the instructor demonstrated and lectured on theunit.) A course website was made available to the students which had the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Kowalski; Adam Kowalski; Frank Kowalski

microcomputer- based laboratories.” American Journal of Physics 65: 45-54.9. Sokoloff, D.R. and Thornton, R.K. (1997). “Using interactive lecture demonstrations to create an active learning environment.” As in CP399, “The changing role of physics departments in modern universities: Proceedings of ICUPE.” Redish, E.F. and Rigden, J.S, (eds.). The American Institute of Physics. Available online at http://www.psrc-online.org/classrooms/papers/mestre.html.10. Breslow, L. (2000). “Active learning, part II: Suggestions for using active learning techniques in the classroom.” Teach Talk Article appearing in the MIT Faculty Newsletter Vol. XII, No. 3, accessed online at http://web.mit.edu/tll/published/active_learning_2.htm.11. Mazur, E. (1997

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Dantzler; James Richardson; Tan-Yu Lee; Robert Leland

exercises.We were pleased to see an interaction between Math ACT scores, our course and post testperformance. In a future study we might consider the impact of Math ACT scores, MathPlacement scores (given to freshmen at University of Alabama), and pre and post testperformance. Probably more interesting to engineering educators would be evidence ofimproved problem-solving ability in future courses. We plan to compare problem solvingperformance on final exam questions in future Calculus and Physics classes of students in theexperimental and control sections.6. AcknowledgementThis work was supported in part from NSF Grant DUE-0341463 under the Course Curriculumand Laboratory Improvement – Educational Materials Development (CCLI-EMD) program as aproof of

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ernest Tollner; David Gattie

understanding with living systems. Theequation of state notion for living systems is further discussed under a separate heading.The quasi-static processes is an idealization that is applicable to all thermodynamicsystems that can never be satisfied rigorously in the laboratory but can be approachedwith almost any degree of accuracy with nonliving systems. The applicability of thequasi-static approach to the study of the living system is debatable, as has been alluded toearlier.The far-from-equilibrium notion has been characterized by 1) failure in the linearphenomenological laws (e.g., Fourier’s, Stoke’s, Fick’s, Ohm’s, etc.) to transportrespective constituents; and, 2) the development of self-organized structures for energydissipation. The 5/3ds law

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Matthews; Perry Heedley

during the summer of 2004, at which time it was possible to dedicate a laboratory space tothe design teams. Students were also encouraged to share problems and solutions through aspecial web page. The authors strongly recommend that for any effort involving IC design, alaboratory space equipped with the relevant CAD tools be set aside for student interaction.ReviewsThe authors found that it was necessary to go over the general format and purpose of designreviews before the students' first presentations. One of the primary purposes for the reviews is toallow the assembled team and other experts to assess design decisions made and to spot potentialproblems with implementation details. Hence the reviews should be highly organized, and visualaids

Conference Session

Measuring Perceptions of Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Thompson; Jed Lyons

, collaborations between university-based STEM personnel and K-12 teachers, and inquiry-based instruction.Dr. Lyons is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Carolina and the Directorof the South Carolina Center for Engineering and Computing Education. He teaches laboratories, design, andmaterials science to undergraduates, graduate students and K-12 teachers. He researches engineering education,plastics and composites. He is the principal investigator for the GK-12 program. Page 10.92.14 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Teaching Engineers to Teach

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Quadrato; Ronald Welch

teaching principles, and process, an environment to practice the applicationof these principles. Even though the content and process articulated in the T4E model hadevolved and been passed down through participation in ISW, they were very consistentwith the literature which included Lowman’s 3 two-dimensional model of teachingeffectiveness and Wankat and Oreovicz’s 4 compendium of learning principles. The T4E workshop eventually consisted of teaching pedagogy seminars,demonstration classes, and laboratories where the participants presented two classes totheir peers acting as students and assessed by a senior mentor. The seminars presented inT4E covered the following principles: use structured organization of content to guide thelearner; use