Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sylvia Alexander

educationis responsive to the needs of business, including the wider community, where this willlead to wealth creation. Current activities include:-· The Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) providing funding to support large, strategic collaborative projects that increase the capability of academic institutions to respond to the needs of business and strengthen business/higher education Page 7.689.1 partnerships;Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering Education· The University Challenge Fund providing seed

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lonnie Harvel; Monson Hayes

windows-based program. Finally, the textprocessing procedure is linked to the graphic interface via Windows API (ApplicationPeripheral Interface) calls.Index Structure In engineering a powerful and effective information retrieval system, we can consideraccessing content that comes from a variety of different sources. Initially, however, ourproject is only concerned with extracting and accessing information, i.e., words, that appearsin prepared slides (postscript). The Classroom 2000 Project (now known as eClass), on theother hand, considered a variety of other sources, including transcriptions of handwritteninformation, transcriptions of voice, titles of we b pages that have been visited during alecture, and annotation that is added by the

Conference Session

Web Systems and Web Services

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Denis Gillet

emphasizesthe use of content rather than document oriented notes; it enables users to easily edit notes thatcan contain any format supported by Web browsers, e.g. text, images, graphics, manuscripts,measurements, charts, or multimedia objects. The ELJ enables educators to supervise students’progression with their assignments and provides them with some assistance and tutoring. It alsointegrates information related with the experimentation preparation.The ELJ paradigm is currently validated in the framework of the eMersion project 8, which aimsat developing at EPFL (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne) hands-onresources for flexible learning in engineering education focusing on remote manipulation of realsetups and Web-based simulation

Conference Session

New/Emerging Technologies

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Chenghsin Liu

observed twostudents sharing one workstation in CAD classes in certain state-funded universities.The advent of Internet and Intranet allows engineers to communicate with each other in acooperative process (often called "collaborative engineering”) on the same project to come upwith the best design. In fact, this engineering environment pulls in all engineers, productmanagers, manufacturing engineers, and marketers to the same project. They all have access tothe system. However, problems arise for students in the design class in terms of collaboration.The first problem is that most collaborative environments now available for product design focuson the collaboration between different designers who work on different parts of the sameproduct. This

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Leffel; Glenda Scales; Cheryl Peed

line instruction video the phoneTo assess the need for new courses to offer to practicing engineers, company representativeswere asked to name their three preferred course topics for enhancing the engineers’effectiveness. Respondents identified leadership/soft skills, project management softwarecourses and information technology as preferred course topics for enhancing engineers’effectiveness. According to Bowman and Farr, “Employers are calling for [engineering]graduates who are not merely expert in design and analysis, but who possess the leadershipskills to apply their technical expertise and to capitalize on emerging construction andinformation technologies, management models, and

Conference Session

MINDing Our Business

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Sterkenburg

Chicago, Gary, Hammond, and the Lake Station target area. The goal ofthe introductory aviation course was to interest young people in the aviation industry, which istraditionally underrepresented by minorities. The students were exposed to all three componentsof the Aviation Program: Flight training, maintenance technology and business management.They were introduced to aerodynamics, propulsion, airframe structures and aircraft syst ems. Aqualified pilot taught them the basics of flying a B-727 full motion flight simulator, and theymade a flight in a light aircraft. As a final hands-on project the students built an aluminumwinglet section. Last summer the faculty organized field trips to a major air carrier maintenancefacility and an Air Force

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Radcliffe

different set of learning activities.Students on-site do not have lectures but are supported by access to lecture and other learningresources through a combination of paper-based and web-based delivery. As this is their finalyear, many of their courses are integrative and applied in nature, including an individual thesisproject worth one quarter of the grade for the year.A typical study program for the semester on-site includes thesis, professional development, oneapplied technical course and one other project or technical course. Each engineering disciplinehas a slightly different variant on this pattern. Being on-site has distinct advantages for thelearner, including being able to see how theory-based content from courses in earlier years fits

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in MET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Karas; Vladimir Sheyman; Mulchand Rathod

- channel data acquisition system for pressure This paper deals with development of a sensing and pressure drop assessment and a 486special leak and flow test apparatus. This CPU 166 MHz PC unit were used.apparatus would be used to check the reliabilityand performance of an innovative pneumatically Three individual channels were used inoperated injection valve for liquid molding the experimentation. The software used is anapplications. Also included are the results of application generator Windows based programvarious tests. This design is an example of one of called Visual Designer that enabled real-timethe author’s senior project carried out to fulfill BS

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ward; Eugene Simmons; Michael Doran

develop their robotic projects. This paper will outline the goals of thecourse, the approach taken, problems encountered and solutions used along with lessons learned.Introduction: This paper describes a new course developed to provide students with the opportunity toapply knowledge gained in earlier Artificial Intelligence (AI) courses to a more tangible domain. Page 7.1264.1In this new special topics course, students, working in small groups, are required to design and Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconected World

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Balmer

new millennium(see www.olin.edu). Their emphasis will be on providing a rigorous preparation in engineeringscience, team-based design, communications, independent projects and research, and principlesof business management and entrepreneurship*. Finally, in June, 1996, Robert A. Lutz, President and CEO of Chrysler Corporation (currentlyChairman of GM North America), made the following comments to a national engineeringcollege advisory committee5: "Five or six years ago Chrysler Corporation once again found itself in very serious trouble. And the reason had to do with our companies thinking. We weren't taking a holistic approach to how we ran our business. Our functional hierarchies had become ossified-, inter- and intra

Conference Session

Laptop/Handheld Computing in Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Shamamy

selectengineering materials with certain properties. Students are required to complete all theseassignments and submit a hard copy of their work. These assignments are all begun in class,with the instructor starting the assignment and projecting the work on a screen for all to seewhile the students work on their individual laptops. The assignments are too long to becompleted in class so the students must finish them outside of class. In spite of the increasedcomputer literacy of our students, it has been observed that all of these exercises introducestudents to new computer skills.I. IntroductionThere is heavy demand today for college graduates to possess a high level of computer literacy.Graduates are expected to understand the traditional programs found

Collection

2022 CIEC

Authors

Gary Mullett

, during the sametime period, a meeting with the NSF paved the way for the college to apply for and be awarded afairly large grant to develop an NSF ATE Center for telecommunications technology building onthe earlier NSF ATE project grant. These events have been documented elsewhere [4], [5], [6]and will not be repeated in any great detail here. Suffice to say that faculty from the ElectronicsGroup developed the NSF proposal for the NSF ATE Center which was originally known as theNortheast Center for Telecommunications Technology (NCTT) and was renamed the NationalCenter for Telecommunications Technology (same acronym) and finally became the InformationCommunications Technology (ICT) Center. These same faculty ran the Center as Co-Directors.All of

Collection

2023 ASEE GSW

Authors

Nathan K. Mitchell; Aburi Anil Kumar

needed to get students to think more deeply about what theyare designing, implementing, or building. In the liberal arts, faculty often ask students to identify atopic for a project and then reflect on why this topic is important to them personally or the fieldusing the 3Y’s. Students can connect their own motivations for studying something to the coursematerial. These questions can be adapted to engineering education. In courses with difficult-to-understand material, instructors can ask students to connect conceptual tools to problems they careabout or to larger course questions. Students perform better when their motivations are peeked. Atthe design stage, students can ask what motivates them to solve a particular engineering problem andto

Collection

2024 ASEE North East Section

Authors

Caprice Abigail Pramana, State University of New York, Canton; PS Dhanasekaran, State University of New York, Canton

experience for 27 years, in design, research and manufacturing of electro mechanical systems, such as design of various types of gear and gear boxes, antennas and light and heavy fabricated structures, for communication, TV telecast, natural disasters management and Telemedicine application. Dr PS, designed and manufactured various types of antenna’s weighing from 200 pounds to 100,000 pounds. He was also actively involved in configuring the antenna controls and selection of motor and motor controllers. Dr PS, has advised senior/capstone projects over 5 years. Has reviewed papers for ASEE, SAMPE, ASME and SME. dhanasekaran@canton.edu ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024

Collection

2024 ASEE North East Section

Authors

PS Dhanasekaran, State University of New York, Canton

co-authored a text book chapter and research papers on machining of composites. He has a di- verse industrial experience for 27 years, in design, research and manufacturing of electro mechanical systems, such as design of various types of gear and gear boxes, antennas and light and heavy fabricated structures, for communication, TV telecast, natural disasters management and Telemedicine application. Dr PS, designed and manufactured various types of antenna’s weighing from 200 pounds to 100,000 pounds. He was also actively involved in configuring the antenna controls and selection of motor and motor controllers. Dr PS, has advised senior/capstone projects over 5 years. Has reviewed papers for ASEE, SAMPE, ASME and

Collection

2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Tanjina Afrin, Virginia Military Institute; Matthew K Swenty P.E., Virginia Military Institute; Rebekah L Martin, Virginia Military Institute; Charles D Newhouse P.E., Virginia Military Institute

Military Institute Matthew (Matt) Swenty obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Civil Engineering from Missouri S&T and then worked as a bridge designer at the Missouri Department of Transportation. He then went to obtain his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at Virginia Tech followed by research work at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center on concrete bridges. He is currently a professor of civil engineering and the Jackson-Hope Chair in Engineering at VMI. He teaches engineering mechanics, structural engineering, and introduction to engineering courses and enjoys working with his students on bridge related research projects and the ASCE student chapter. His research interests include engineering licensure

Conference Session

Track 3: Technical Session 2: Using a Collective Impact Approach to Establish a Center for Equity in Engineering Focused on Graduate Education: Lessons Learned from Phase I

Collection

2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Teirra K Holloman, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Natali Huggins; Julia Machele Brisbane, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Walter C. Lee, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Michelle D Klopfer, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; David B Knight, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Tremayne O'Brian Waller, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jeremi S London, Vanderbilt University

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

, structural, and pedagogical changes needed to transform their institution’s College of Engineering...” 4 This project was created in response to an updated NSF BPE solicitation, specifically a Track 4, phase 1 grant with the aim of creating a Center for Equity in Engineering.Phase I projects are focused on establishing the infrastructure necessary to“stand up” the CEE within their College of EngineeringNational Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018.★ Expected to have a duration of at least 24 monthsGraduate STEM Education for the 21st Century. Washington, DC: The★ Proposed budget not to exceed $1.2M.National★ RequireAcademies Press

Collection

2022 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Jan DeWaters P.E., Clarkson University; Kathleen Kavanagh, Clarkson University; Seema Rivera

STEMteacher or faculty from Clarkson’s Institute for STEM Education, to assist students with seeingtheir projects through to fruition. Students and mentors work together to develop their ideas intoworkable lesson plans that are tied to the New York State education standards. Final lesson plansand supporting materials (PowerPoint presentations, recorded videos) are submitted forevaluation and formally presented to an audience composed of judges and members of thecampus community and general public. Last year, our judging team consisted of middle and highschool students, local teachers, pre-service teachers enrolled in Clarkson’s Master of Arts inTeaching (MAT) degree program, and faculty. Prizes are awarded to all entries, with largerprizes for

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2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Dax Amburgy, Ohio Northern University College of Engineering; John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

of The Pledge of the Computing Professional, an organization dedicated to the promotion of ethics in the computing professions. Estell is Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Ohio Northern University, where he currently teaches first-year programming and user interface design courses, and serves on the college’s Capstone Design Committee. Much of his research involves design education pedagogy, including for- mative assessment of client-student interactions, modeling sources of engineering design constraints, and applying the entrepreneurial mindset to first-year programming projects through student engagement in educational software development. Estell earned his BS in Computer Science

Conference Session

Information Literacy Programs for First-Year Engineering Students

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Meagan C. Ross, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Michael Fosmire, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ruth Wertz P.E., Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

focuses on design problem-solving, collaborative learning, and assessment research. Page 22.1016.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Lifelong learning and information literacy skills and the first year engineering undergraduate: Report of a self-assessmentIntroductionABET accreditation requires engineering students to attain “a recognition of the need for and an ability toengage in lifelong learning.” (Outcome 3.i). i Engineering Change ii , a report of the effect of ABET’s EC2000program found a fifty percent or greater increase in design projects, open

Conference Session

Special Session Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the MATE International ROV Competition

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jill M. Zande, Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

technical reports,poster displays, and engineering presentations that are evaluated by working professionals fromSTEM fields. Through the process of preparing for the events, the students gain technical aswell as troubleshooting, teamwork, project management, and communication skills. Theprogram is a comprehensive “package” of learning that has the added benefit of exposingstudents to ocean-related career opportunities and showing them the pathways to those careers –a critical step to meeting ocean STEM workforce needs.BackgroundA number of prior reports have identified significant problems in educating, recruiting, andretaining U.S. workers for scientific, technological, and operational careers.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Thelack of appropriately

Conference Session

Experiential Learning in ECE

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Peyton Jones, Villanova University; Connor W. McArthur, Villanova University; Tyler A. Young, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Science Foundation,MathWorks and Nokia sponsored project aimed at exploiting these developments for practicaluse and benefit in the classroom. Specifically, the paper describes a new toolchain whichenables students to access the hardware capabilities of the 32-bit LEGO NXT brick from withinthe Matlab / Simulink environment, and to automatically generate and cross-compile thenecessary code for real time autonomous implementation. LEGO hardware I/O is represented inthe Simulink design mode as blocks for accessing motors, encoders, push-buttons, ultrasoundsensors, light sensors and more. Blocks have also been developed to allow the LEGO target tocommunicate in real time with a host computer over USB or BlueTooth communications. Thetoolbox enables

Conference Session

Public Policy in Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Adams, Virginia Commonwealth University; Rosalyn S. Hobson, Virginia Commonwealth University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

process from the early conceptual phase through final project review.  Trace the steps needed to prepare the documentation used to call for bids and enter into a construction contract.  Determine the productivity of relatively simple cyclical field operations and understand the techniques that are used to analyze and improve them.  Prepare a construction cost estimate for a relatively simple operation and understand how this estimate is carried forward into the

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce V. Mutter, Bluefield State College

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Engineering Economy

AC 2011-1041: USING PEN-BASED TABLET PC TECHNOLOGY TO IM-PROVE INSTRUCTION IN ENGINEERING ECONOMICSBruce V. Mutter, Bluefield State College Bruce V. Mutter is the founder and CEO of the Center for Applied Research & Technology, Inc. (CART) and teaches project management and engineering economics at Bluefield State College as an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Technology. Page 22.1628.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Using Pen-Based Tablet PC Technology to Improve Instruction in Engineering EconomicsAbstractA Center

Conference Session

Multimedia and Distance Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald H. Rockland, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Howard S. Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology; John D. Carpinelli, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

anddistance delivery2, but this paper will focus on using these systems strictly for face to faceclasses.One of these systems, Moodle, has been used for two years in three Electrical and ComputerEngineering Technology courses at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Of the three courses,one is a senior design capstone project course, one is a traditional lecture course, and one is acombination of lecture and laboratory. This paper will describe the attributes of this coursemanagement system, and how it can be effectively incorporated into a face to face course. Someof the attributes that will be described in this paper include: Students can upload assignments, and be able to see their grade, comments from the instructor, and have their

Conference Session

Pedagogical Innovations in Laboratory Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Chiou, Drexel University; Yongjin (James) Kwon, Ajou University; Robin Kizirian, Drexel University; Matthew Dordai; Bret Alan Davis, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

in Philadelphia and his B.S. degree in Computer Engineering with a minor in Computer Science at the University of Hartford in Connecticut. He is currently serving as a research assistant at the Engineering Technology department at Drexel University. Robin has been involved in various projects funded by Pfizer, NASA, NSF and Department of Education. His areas of research include Embedded Systems, Mechatronics, Efficient Solar Energy Systems, Internet-based Quality Control and 3-D Online Education.Matthew DordaiBret Alan Davis, Drexel University Bret Davis is pursuing his B.S. degree in Engineering Technology at Drexel University in Philadelphia. He is currently serving as a research assistant at the Engineering

Conference Session

Methods, Techniques, and New Programs in Graduate Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diane L. Peters, University of Michigan; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

context.Theme #1: Importance of non-technical skillsAndrew acknowledged how important technical skills were, but emphasized the development ofnon-technical skills such as communication, project management, and networking were criticalto his success, and a key differentiator between him and traditional students. I feel a lot more confident about things like giving presentations or writing reports, like those things don’t stress me out at all, whereas I see they stress out a lot of other, you know, younger students, and for me it’s sort of second nature, it’s not a big deal. I feel a lot more comfortable as far as knowing how to talk to other people sort of in a networking way versus when I was getting my masters’, I didn’t

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel W. Walsh, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Lanny Griffin, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Robert S. Crockett, California Polytechnic State University

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Graduate Studies

University Lanny Griffin received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Davis in Materials Scienceand Engineering. He also has a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Currently, he is a Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. He is also on the Mechanical Engineering faculty of the US Military Academy at West Point as an Army Reserve Officer. Dr. Griffin’s research interests are in bone mechanics and biomaterials and has been the Principal Investigator of several projects from the Army, DOD, and NIH.Dr. Robert S Crockett, California Polytechnic State University

Conference Session

ECE Division Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher S. Greene, University of Saint Thomas; Paul Ian Nyombi, University of Saint Thomas

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

, converting the input to an 8-bit parallel signal.• The digitized input signal is fed (in parallel) into eight of the Spartan 3’s I/O ports.• The signal is processed by the digital filter that has been programmed on the FPGA, and output through eight additional I/O ports forming an 8-bit register.• The filtered digital output is then passed to the digital-to-analog converter IC.The versatility of this system is its greatest strength – any digital filter that can be built andsimulated using Xilinx’s Simulink blockset can be implemented on this system. Any analoginput can be used, with adequate output resolution for frequencies up to about 100 kHz.The major hardware components used for this project included the Maxim ADC0820 analog-to-digital

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University; Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; Fred Scheu, College of Lake County

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

US academic institutions currently have a curriculum component inhardware description language and programmable logic design [3]. To effectively meet the nextgeneration’s workforce needs, the electrical and computer engineering technology curriculummust be current, relevant, and teach technology that is widely used in industry. To meet this goal, Page 22.504.2we propose a curriculum development project for university- and community college-basedprograms that will develop new courses in logic design and hardware modeling using VHDL andField Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Logic Design to teach students current marketable logicdesign skills.One