Conference Session

Computational Tools and Simulation II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas Roberts, Vanderbilt University; Greg Walker, Vanderbilt University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

(see Appendix A for problems). This was doneto determine if students would be more likely to use a simulation tool on additional problems ifthey were previously required to use the tool. Additionally the students were then asked if they feltthey benefited from the use of the tool or if it made a difference. Finally the students were assigneda design project where it was their goal to design a heat exchanger based on a specific problem(see Appendix A). The students were not required to use the tool, but they were reminded that thistool could be extremely useful in the design process.To collect data for this study two optional surveys were distributed to the class of 58 students toobtain their opinions of the tools being incorporated in the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Coffin; Catherine Almquist; Amit Shukla; Michael Bailey-Van Kuren; James Kiper; Christine Noble

active learning and requires the development of engineering problem solving skills. Develop projects to engage students in interdisciplinary team-based hands-on design problems. Develop first year activities that bridge the gap between engineering applications and the underlying mathematics and science. II.) Design and develop threads Identify the set of essential skills which will be for each major (existing and explicitly connected

Conference Session

The Nature of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Session 4

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James L. Barnes, James Madison University; Susan Kubic Barnes, James Madison University; Michael J. Dyrenfurth, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

also a co-principal of Barnes Tech- nologies International LLC. Prior to joining the faculty at James Madison University, Dr. Barnes was the Director of NASA RISE, a NASA research institute at Eastern Michigan University. Dr. Barnes has also directed a technology research center at The University of Texas at Austin and has served as President and CEO of two technology research companies. Dr. Barnes earned his baccalaureate and doctorate degrees at Virginia Tech and his masters at Virginia State University. Dr. Barnes has conducted many research projects, published numerous articles, and has authored several books in his research areas of Innovation, Problem Solving and Sustainability. His current research examines

Conference Session

Diversity Redefined: Nontraditional Views in Traditional Environments

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard R Harris, Northeastern University; Lauren Machunis, Northeastern University; William Tiga Tita, D'Amore-McKim Business School, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

of this DOIC program was incorporating Kolb’s Experiential LearningModel into the curriculum. Students visited different sites to conduct fieldwork in area villagesand cities. Project fieldwork consisted of local university peer-to-peer partnerships, site visitswith local families, businesses, and agricultural areas, interviews with field experts, andpreviously launched engineering projects being implemented through engineering capstonedeveloped products. Additionally, students participated on local excursions to expose them to adiversity of different areas within the country of Cameroon, including: Bali, Bamenda, Douala,Kribi, Limbe, Yaounde. Traveling in country allowed the students to understand both thechallenges and the opportunities

Conference Session

Future Career and Professional Success for Graduate Students

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiabin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Qunqun Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

Engineering Education Assessment (i2e2a). She ob- tained a B.S. in mathematics from Spelman College, a M.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Alabama, and a Ph.D. in Leadership and Policy Studies from Peabody College of Vanderbilt Univer- sity. Her teaching interests relate to the professional development of graduate engineering students and to leadership, policy, and change in STEM education. Primary research projects explore the preparation of graduate students for diverse careers and the development of reliable and valid engineering education assessment tools. She is a NSF Faculty Early Career (CAREER) and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) recipient

Conference Session

Distance Learning in Engineering Technology

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rigoberto Chinchilla, Eastern Illinois University; Oyindamola O. Idowu, Waukegan Schools District 60; Thomas C. MacMullen, Eastern Illinois University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

these courses.The need to design viable alternatives that allow students to access laboratory facilities remotelywithout losing most of the educational objectives, typically achieved in a face-to-faceenvironment, is increasing by the day.This paper describes a solution already implemented and tested in order to move a traditionallytaught routing and switching telecommunication course, to ONLINE-based instruction. Thedesign requires remote access authentication to the VMWare View system which is composed ofthree servers: The secure server, the composer server and the administrative server. Theseservers have been virtualized and reside on the hardware allocated for the project. The VMWareView system is housed in a cluster of eight Sun Server

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Kline, Western Michigan University; Betsy M. Aller, Western Michigan University; Ikhlas Abdel-Qader, Western Michigan University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

renewed for up to four years(eight semesters). The objectives of the project are to provide scholarships so recipients can givefull-time attention to academic studies and participate in student development activities withoutoutside employment distraction, and to provide professional development activities to connectscholarship recipients to other students and faculty, and to the engineering and applied sciencesprofessions. Each academic year, an S-STEM Scholar selects to participate in one of threeprofessional development programs: Student Organizations of Professional Societies,Undergraduate Research, or working towards placement in a Co-Op or Internship position.Criteria for scholarship awards include potential for academic success

Conference Session

Experiences with Experiential Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Turpin; Donald Richter; William Loendorf

are generally verylow, and time.The basic concept is to construct a human powered vehicle out of 90% paper products (byweight). The remaining 10% can be any type of material and is limited only by the imaginationof the designers. There are two parts to the overall competition, the first tests the vehicle’sperformance while the second gauges the team’s presentation skills. These events are treated asseparate portions of the overall competition, although participation in both events is required.Participation in this engineering design project helps to develop student excellence in teamwork,communication, and creative problem solving [5, 6, 7].Awards are presented for both categories: vehicle performance and team presentation. The firstplace

Conference Session

Research On Student Teams

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

Conference a paper [1] reported on the characteristicsof a “good (individual) team player.” The data were based on a horizontal study of twoengineering design courses, one at the sophomore level and the other at the senior level. Theindividual performances of 214 students working on 57 projects during the 2002-3 academicyear were evaluated. Individual demographic, academic, personality, and personal data, as wellas interest and skill levels, were gathered from the four classes. The conclusions reached arelisted below: The better team players tended to be older with more work and more engineering related work experience. The better team players tended to have better drawing abilities and were better self-critics of their

Conference Session

Technology and Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Kadlowec; Dexter Whittinghill; John Chen

Concepts Learning Using Technology for Rapid Feedback and Student Engagement John C. Chen,* Jennifer A. Kadlowec,* and Dexter C. Whittinghill Departments of *Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics Rowan University, Glassboro, NJAbstractIn this project our goal is to improve student learning in the foundation mechanics course Statics.In this case improved learning is defined as knowledge retention (durability) and knowledgeapplication in a different environment (transferability). We aim to do this by providing rapidfeedback to students of their understanding of key concepts and skills being presented. Thefeedback system acts as the focal point and

Conference Session

Current Topics in IE Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jackson Denise; Charles Aikens

methodology, and roadblocks and keysto success.1.0 Making the CaseThree decades ago industrial engineering departments were commonplace throughout industry.These departments, and the IE’s who staffed them, played a role similar to that of a consultant. Ifa department had a problem, or simply was looking for a better way to do or measure something,it would contact the IE department, and the project would be assigned to one of its engineers.IE’s gained a reputation as trouble-shooters or efficiency experts, because they possessed a set ofskills that enabled them to analyze processes and systematically design better, more efficient Page

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ilan Grave

Systems” and “Control Systems,”required for computer engineering majors and elective for all other students. “Control Systems”is emphasized for Computer Engineering also in view of an extensive activity in robotics that ismanifested though senior projects and participation in national College-team competitions.“Circuit Analysis” is usually taken by students in their sophomore or junior year, while“Electronics” is usually taken by junior or senior students.Course content and formatCollege Physics II, as mentioned above, is dedicated mostly to electromagnetism. It includes alaboratory where students tackle some classic experiments such as Faraday’s ice pail experiment,build their own devices such as a capacitor, a can-based Van de Graff generator

Conference Session

Manufacturing Program Innovation

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Johnson

latest continuous improvement system was in the creation, definition and linkage of thesevarious items. The focus of this paper is on the evaluation and update of these items after theyhave been in place long enough for us to realize what we should have done in the first place. Asis true in many projects you only discover how you should have approached the work when youare 90% complete and take a moment to step back and evaluate the results.Developing the Original Program Educational Objectives:The original educational objectives for the program were developed based on the long standinggoals of the department and program and additional input from constituent groups. These initialProgram Educational Objectives (PEO’s) are shown below.Graduates

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Erdogan Sener

necessitates that construction education also focus on human behavior of diverse people in the construction industry from different cultures and backgrounds to prevent conflicts, failures, and jeopardizing of safety. Tithius and Fellow 31 emphasize the need to be aware of the relationship between culture, project organization and technology within the context of a management tool that integrates contact, contract, and conflict. Control of the interrelationships between different cultures involved in a construction project becomes very important since differences in function and conduct of different parties can lead to conflicts. So not only is it important that we get our students used to working in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Farrell

undergraduate chemical engineering students are rarely exposed todrug delivery through their coursework. To provide students with the skills directly relevant tothe evolving needs of the pharmaceutical industry, this project will develop and integrate applieddrug delivery coursework and experiments throughout the Rowan Engineering curriculum.To design and produce a new drug delivery system, an engineer must fully understand the drugand material properties and the processing variables that affect the release of the drug from thesystem. This requires a solid grasp of the fundamentals of mass transfer, reaction kinetics,thermodynamics and transport phenomena. The engineer must also be skilled in characterizationtechniques and physical property testing of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Alvin Lester; Bruce Mutter

Applied Research and Technology (CART), this work describes the research processused to measure our capability to provide an online version of our program. Mid-careerprofessionals interested in completing degree requirements without having to attend on-campusclasses represent a new student target for our civil engineering technology program.Quality assurance is paramount. The paper addresses the development of this new deliverymethod. The curriculum is designed to operate in an interactive web-based environment forsubmission of coursework, concept diagrams, drawings, reports, and assorted forms. Classdiscussions, conferencing, forums and real-time project reviews will utilize current “chat-room”technology and newly emerging conference software

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Catalano

Tutoring with College Success & II Effort of Arts & Program Sciences Figure 1. The Freshman Year Program at the State University of New York at BinghamtonLiterature Review Freshman engineering programs can be categorized using many differentschemas. For the present work, the following model is offered: (1) Introductory lecture orseminar format; (2) “Skills-based” program housed in a separate department; and (3)“Project-based” model, typically placed in the context of a common freshman yearenrollment. Each approach has its own set of strengths and weaknesses. As the StateUniversity of New York at Binghamton’s engineering program has

Conference Session

Novel Upper-Level Materials Curricula

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rajiv Asthana; Richard Rothaupt; Danny Bee

on density and porosity in single-action compaction, 2) the spatialvariation of density and porosity within a part prepared using double-action compaction, and 3)the effect of sintering atmosphere on densification (using Fe and Cu metal powders).3. The ExperimentHigh-purity alumina (doped with 0.05% MgO) was chosen for the student project because it isthe best studied ceramic. The alumina powders specified as RC-HPF DBM were provided byReynolds Metals Company (Bauxite, AR). The average particle size (from sedimentationanalysis) was 380 nm, and the specific surface area (from the BET method) was 8.19 m2.g-1;these data were supplied by the manufacturer. The powder size analysis from sedimentation testshows that ∼60% powders are finer than

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter

these examples, a relevant course can bedeveloped.Course Curriculum Approximately three years ago, interest of the EET/TET programs at Texas A&M beganto grow in the area of electromagnetics and RF electronics. At the time, more and more fundedstudent projects involved some level of wireless communications hardware, and it becameobvious that the students had a fundamental lack of knowledge in that area. While some specificEM and high frequency applications such as basic transmission lines and antennas were beingaddressed in various courses, overall the students lacked an appreciation for the concepts neededto successfully understand and design high frequency systems. Thus, it was decided that allbasic EM related concepts would be

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chia-Jeng Tseng

focus on the syntax for describinglogic blocks such as combinational circuits, flip-flops, and simple finite state machines as well ashow a synthesizer may infer logic from a VHDL description. Most students, even after theyhave learned the language features, still encounter tremendous difficulty when they begin to usethe VHDL to describe a digital system for synthesis. In this paper, we describe the essence ofmodeling digital functions and present a powerful concept, called clocking schedule, for writinga VHDL program for RTL and logic synthesis. This technique facilitates seamless integration ofall the modules in a digital design. A motion-guide project is used to demonstrate theapplications and effectiveness of the technique to RTL and logic

Conference Session

What's New in Industrial Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Saumitra Mishra; Boris Ramos; Amy Zeng; Arthur Gerstenfeld; Sharon Johnson

observed in senior projectsthat students often could not articulate the underlying principles of lean design (at least initially),and they failed to understand the links between various tactics and the conditions necessary fortheir success.We also examined the Introduction to Industrial Engineering courses at a number of schools.Many schools have created such introductory courses in the engineering disciplines to reduceattrition rates by linking traditional mathematics and science topics to applications [1]. Whilesuch courses in IE have provided an effective overview of the discipline, course materials andtextbooks do not focus on process design or the impact of lean ideas (see, for example, [14]). Aswith lean topics, project-based courses that

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Lundstrom; Ram Chandran; Arnaldo Mazzei

working. Kettering University is currently engaged in reforming itscurriculum to meet some of these demands. The objective of this paper is to discuss two new corecourses that were developed in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the area of multi-disciplinary dynamic systems in order to reach this goal. The idea is to teach these courses using aunified approach to systems, with hands-on laboratory experience and system simulation usingsoftware tools like MATLAB®, and focusing on an inquiry-based problem-driven approach. Thisis a team effort and a number of faculty members from the ME Department will be involved inexecuting this project. Upon completion of these courses, the students should be able todemonstrate a good understanding of

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosa Buxeda; Ramon Vazquez Espinosa; Jorge I. Velez; Lueny M. Morell

Session 2532 Remote Sensing and GIS Option: Integrating Research and The Learning Factory Model Lueny Morell, Ramón Vázquez Espinosa, Jorge I. Vélez-Arocho, Rosa Buxeda University of Puerto Rico at MayagüezAbstractThe University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM) has established, through NASA Grantnumber NCC5-340, the Partnership for Spatial and Computational Research (PaSCoR). Themain goal of this 5-year project is to strengthen academic programs and integrate research at theundergraduate level in various science, math and engineering/technology (SMET) disciplines,following the

Conference Session

multim engr edu;dist.,servi&intern based

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Wright; Andrew Wright

ofstudent apathy, lack of engagement, and inability to complete a project. 9 Usuallyengineering service learning is applied to developing products to improve conditions forthe handicapped. 10, 11, 12 The community need addressed in this paper is motivating andpreparing pre-college students for training in science and engineering.A service learning based course must incorporate several critical components. 9 Academiccredit must be assigned only for the educational components of the course and not for the“extra work” imposed by the service. The service facilitates learning, much likehomework. The educational goals and the service expectations must be clearly articulatedfor both the students and the beneficiaries of the service at the beginning of the

Conference Session

International Engineering Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Webert Lovencin; Adnan Javed; Fazil Najafi

institutions. Each school aims atdisseminating the most effective engineering education, by coordinatingtechnological/scientific areas of national, economical and social interests of thecountry. Civil Engineering education at UF primarily focuses on technicalexcellence, communication skills, and a well-rounded general andinterdisciplinary education. In comparison, NUST focuses on balanceddistribution of theoretical knowledge, practical and fieldwork to address real lifecivil engineering projects. The major curriculum of each school differs based ontheir socio-economical characteristics, national and industrial needs, and theavailability of natural resources. Although the overall curriculum structure mayappear different but the basic underlying

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Martin Trethewey; John Gardner; Thomas Litzinger

per week for 3 hours and thecourse was designed so that most of the work was accomplished in class; this was an intentionalaspect of the design to avoid overloading already busy students.At the beginning of the semester, students were presented with the learning objectives for thecourse, which were: • Students will apply theoretical knowledge from core Mechanical Engineering courses to an engineering system. • Students will demonstrate effective professional skills, including communication, team, and lifelong learning, in conducting their team project, in design reports, and presentations.The students were asked to decide what type of project they would like to undertake to achievethese objectives. After some

Conference Session

Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Arthur Brown, Penn State University ; Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Human Development specializing in Educational Technology Leadership. Her work focuses on projects that measure and assess student perceptions of learning related to their experiences with engineering course innovations. She is a faculty development consultant with previous experience in instructional design and instructor of the Graduate Assistant Seminar for engineering teaching assistants. Page 22.906.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011  Integrating Ethics into Undergraduate Environmental Science and Economics Education Abstract Good

Conference Session

Innovative Program and Curricular Development

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carolyn A. Vallas, University of Virginia; Juliet J. Trail, University of Virginia, Center for Diversity in Engineering

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

as a program administrator in the UVA School of Engineering & Applied Science, Ms. Trail served as a project manager and administrator for the UVA School of Medicine. Juliet is also a doctoral candidate with the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the UVA Curry School of Education, studying university organization, leadership, program evaluation and collaboration. Page 22.1251.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 RET Program Yields Elementary, Middle, and High School Teaching InnovationsIntroductionThe Research

Conference Session

Mentoring Minority Students

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine S Grant, North Carolina State University; Tuere Bowles, NC State University; Olgha Bassam Qaqish, North Carolina State University; Rex E Jeffries, North Carolina State University; Barbara Smith, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Mathematics Advanced Placementcourses and more than six times as many in Science Advanced Placement courses. On the flipside, the numbers of African-American males in both engineering and sports is woefullydisproportionate to their presence in the population of the United States. In 2012, African-American males made up 4% of the currently enrolled male students in engineering according tothe National Science Foundation (2012) 1. While the above statistics are focused on African-American males, there are similardisparities in the educational achievement gap for other URM students; this project will impact across section of students. One survey noted that 40% of underrepresented STEM professionalsreport that they have been subjected to

Conference Session

Out-of-School and Informal Activities

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul A. Klenk Ph.D., Duke University; Gary A. Ybarra, Duke University; Rodger D Dalton Jr, Techsplorers

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

oper- ated a private tutoring business that served hundreds of students and developed curriculum for the electric circuits lab. While attending graduate school at Duke, he coordinated the Techtronics after-school pro- gram at Rogers Herr Middle School in Durham, N.C. The excitement of working with younger students led Dalton to create Techsplorers in 2009. Techsplorers is an engineering enrichment program that oper- ates summer camps at three locations in Raleigh and Chapel Hill in addition to online learning via HD streaming videos and electronics project kits. Page 25.297.1 c