Conference Session

Computer-based Measurements

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Rafiq Muqri, DeVry University, Pomona; Shih Ek Chng, DeVry University, Pomona; Furqan Muqri, University of Texas; Aceela Muqri, VCU School of Medicine

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Instrumentation

. Page 25.980.9The main point is that every great iOS iPhone or Android app starts with a brilliant idea, buttranslating that idea into actions requires planning. So before you can write any code, you haveto take the time to explore the possible techniques and technologies. The core infrastructure of aniOS app is built from objects in the UIKit framework. There are some resources that must bepresent in all iOS apps. Most apps include images, sounds, and other types of resources forpresenting the app’s content, but the App store may also require some specific resources. Youmay like to refer to iOS App Programming Guide 11 for further details. 4Objective-C also provides a dot

Conference Session

Ethical Cases and Curricula

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth R. Leitch P.E., West Texas A&M University; Rhonda B. Dittfurth, West Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

material in part or in total online for anengineering course. Dr. Leitch experienced eight of thirteen required courses for an MBA degree (2008-2009)online and saw that the same techniques applied there could also be adapted for an engineering ethics course. Theonline offerings in Summer Session I 2011 (engineering ethics and engineering economics) were the first of severalcourses that WTAMU sees filling a need for a student population with a large number of non-traditional andworking students. Many engineering faculty may be leery of online instruction because they have no experiencewith it. With careful planning, online courses offer flexibility to students and a possible new revenue stream inregard to distance learners that may never set foot

Conference Session

Online Learning

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael E. Auer, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences; Diana Vasilica Pop; Danilo Garbi Zutin P.E., Carinthia University of Applied Sciences

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

homeuniversities.Last but not least, the use of online experiments in online engineering learning environmentsenhances learning activities. In engineering education, the experimental part (and not onlysimulations) of courses should be increased. What students need is a plan for testing theexperiment under various conditions. Because of the need to repeat experiments, laboratorytime in traditional labs is often quite limited. However, students can work in remote labs 24hours a day and seven days a week, so the opportunity to gain access is greater than intraditional hands-on labs.Bibliography 1. M.E. Auer, I.Grout, K. Henke, R.Sfaric and D. Ursutiu, “A Joint Master Program in Remote Engineering” International Journal of Online Engineering (iJOE), Vol

Conference Session

Panel Discussion: Off the Record

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl B. Schrader, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Janelle Brown; Lynn Lubamersky, Boise State University; Leslie Madsen-Brooks, Boise State University; Patricia Pyke, Boise State University; Heidi Reeder, Boise State University

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Women in Engineering

a woman’s life andscientific details of her work. The panelists will present in monologue style, similar to the formatin Eve Ensler's play, The Vagina Monologues2. Page 25.1022.2The five historical women engineers and scientists who are currently planned as “panelists” are:  Lillian Moller Gilbreth, who was the first person to integrate psychology with engineering to improve human efficiency and was the first woman inducted into the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Society of Industrial Engineers and the Society of Women Engineers;  Emily Warren Roebling, who played an essential role in building the

Conference Session

Instructional Innovations and Global Issues in Architectural Engineering Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert J. Dermody A.I.A., Roger Williams University

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Architectural

“cables”or chains. Lessons on construction methods and stability in these early tensile structures are alsopossible.Figure 6. Thomas Telford, Figure 7. Menai Suspension Bridge, Anglesey, North Wales, 19251757–1834Other building types to study with respect to emerging architectural and structural planningdesign challenges include framed structures. Two influential contributions to the use of iron as aframing system for architecture are the Bibliothèque Ste.-Genevieve in Paris (1850), and theCrystal Palace in London (1851).5 The pioneering design and construction features of theCrystal Palace are well documented, providing students with plentiful material to study thisground-breaking structure. Many structural planning and design issues

Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Ruhala, Southern Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

effects of damping.In this paper, only the free vibration experiments, four in all, will be described in detail, as wellas their impact on the student learning outcomes for the course. These experiments weredeveloped and refined over several years. Each laboratory workstation can accommodate twostudents at a time. Student surveys have indicated that the laboratory experiments were effectivein understanding the theory and provide an increased level of intellectual excitement for thecourse. A subsequent paper is planned to describe the forced vibration experiments.IntroductionThere are two basic approaches to developing a vibrations laboratory for engineering students tostudy lumped parameter systems. One is to purchase a commercially available

Conference Session

Curricular Developments in Energy Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick Cunningham, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

of the membrane and quantifying the impact of this change.This set of topics ranges from technically oriented material to macro-level material. For example,comparing life-cycle analyses engages the broader issue of fuel cell benefits and viability. Thethree projects selected by student teams were: characterizing fuel cell start up transients,computing the area of solar panels, and explaining heat transfer and thermal management in fuelcells. Each student team was responsible for developing and delivering a one class period lessonon their topic. As an intermediate assignment, students were required to complete a lesson planand list of sources. After it was graded and returned, the lesson plan was used to foster an

Conference Session

Curriculum in Mechanical Engineering Technology: Part II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

B. Sridhara, Middle Tennessee State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

team project provides students with anopportunity to design fabricate and test the resonators. However, this project and one industrialvisit cannot make up for a semester-long laboratory activities. We are in the process ofdeveloping a dynamic vibration absorber and plan to make it a required laboratory activity in thefall of 2010.In the fall of 2009 our students learned to use a new software and obtained the frequencyresponse from the time-domain data. They were creative and voluntarily fabricated resonatorsusing new materials such as Delrin and Elkonite. One team has made a helpful recommendation Page 15.329.14that we increase the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick Tebbe, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Stewart Ross, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Jeffrey Pribyl, Minnesota State University, Mankato

facility type, the topics covered by these problems will spanseveral chapters or topics in a traditional textbook. This will allow problems to be used from asingle scenario throughout the semester. A greater sense of cohesion and continuity in thematerial will therefore be generated.Following the proof-of-concept development plan, the skill-based problems will take the form oftraditional homework problems and will emphasize the development of specific skills, such as Page 15.606.6 Table 2: Selection of Full and Mini Scenario Facilities Full Scenarios (5 facility types) Campus Facilities Plant including Co-generation Power

Conference Session

Capstone Design Projects

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brent Guenther, Wright State University; Bruce Rahn, Wright State University; Mark Falknor, Wright State University; Adam Kelly, Wright State University; Bin Wang, Wright State University; Zhiqiang Wu, Wright State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

reception of the videoafter one minute of launching. We believe this to be a result of the poor performance of the USBTV tuner card along with the receiving antenna. We were not able to securely mount thereceiving directional antenna and therefore not able to receive a video signal the entire time. Theremainder of the system worked exactly as planned. This was proved through what the PV-500DVR was able to capture and what we received via the Basic Stamp. On the ascent and descent,the DVR showed successful video switching at 40,000 and 60,000 ft. During the flight the BasicStamp would send a packet of information once per minute and we noticed the video switchingoccurred exactly when it was expected. The flight path for the video transmission can be

Conference Session

Project-based Education in Energy Courses

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick Tebbe, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

thebase of the chimney reached daily maximums over 50 degrees Fahrenheit. With the assistance ofvisiting faculty from the MSU Urban Planning Institute (who were also working in Ghana at thetime) the students were also able to learn a great deal about material and manufacturing methodsavailable in the local villages for future constructions. Page 15.1121.9 Figure 6: Completed prototype solar chimneyFigure 7: Small scale solar chimney in Ghana. Figure 8: Taking test data with a Ghanaian student

Conference Session

Early Engineering Design Experiences

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Garrett Clayton, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Brainstorm Test design Choose an idea Modify the design BuildThe given examples all contain steps of the engineering design process. For example, one modelfor the engineering design process uses the steps1: • Recognize the Need • Define the Problem • Plan • Gather Information Page 15.802.5 • Conceptualize Different Ideas • Evaluate the Alternatives • Select the Preferred Alternative • Implement the Selected Design.As can be seen, the student design models appear in the textbook engineering design processmodel shown

Conference Session

Software and Hardware for Educators I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fadi Obeidat, Virginia Commonwealth University; Ruba Alkhasawneh, Virginia Commonwealth University; Jerry Tucker, Virginia Commonwealth University; Robert Klenke, Virginia Commonwealth University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

peripherals, adopting IP cores, and handling interfacing andsynchronization issues.Planned future work includes integrating more components in this infrastructure such as sensors,actuators and digital/analog convertors to allow students to practice other skills in the field ofembedded systems. We plan also to exploit this infrastructure to introduce hardware designconcepts in other computer engineering courses such as digital logic design and computerarchitecture where the students will be able to implement these concepts directly on the hardwareand visualize the results via the monitor. Page 15.1268.9References1. Z. K. Baker and V. K. Prasanna

Conference Session

Construction Classroom Development

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Whitney Lutey, Montana State University; Penny Knoll, Montana State University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

Constructors (AIC) Exam results and in-class assessment.3. Student attitudes towards safety and their belief that safety is common sense, intuitive knowledge.In addition, the paper offers a brief overview of our current approach to teaching constructionsafety, our plans for course improvement, and recommendations for safety education for similarprograms.This paper follows a similar thread to Peterson1 on student knowledge of and attitude towardsafety. Specifically, we wanted to investigate the safety culture of outgoing graduates of theprogram, reflecting the goal of the National Occupational Research Agenda’s NationalConstruction Agenda: research goal 8.1.2: Evaluate how safety and health cultures influence keyconstruction industry subgroups. In

Conference Session

Technology-Enhanced Learning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diarmuid McCarthy, University of Limerick; Niall Seery, University of Limerick; Seamus Gordon, University of Limerick

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

Curriculum. 1997, Trinity College Dublin: Dublin. p. 124.5. DES. Taoiseach launches €150m plan for "smart schools". 2009 [cited 2010 5th January].6. DES. Project Maths "breaks new ground" in approach to curricular reform 2008 [cited 2010 5th January].7. Lane, D., Seery, N., Gordon, S., The Understated Value of Freehand Sketching in Technology Education. Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 2009. 73(3): p. 13-22.8. DES, Leaving Certificate Design and Communication Graphics Syllabus. 2007, National Council for Curriculum and Assessment: Dublin.9. t4. About t4. 2006 [cited 2010 January 5].10. Keays, P., National Co-ordinator t4. 2010: Galway.11. t4, In-service attendance database Des, Editor. 2009: Galway.12

Conference Session

Instructional Strategies in AE Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stan Guidera, Bowling Green State University

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Architectural

Sorby, S. (1999). Developing 3-D Spatial Visualization Skills. Engineering Design Graphics Journal,Vol 63, No 2.5 Gobert, J. (1999). Expertise in the Comprehension of Architectural Plans (Knowledge Acquistion and Inference Making)". Visual and Spatial Reasoning in Design (JS Gero &B Tversky, Ed.)6 Arnheim, R. (1986). A plea for visual thinking. New Essays on the Psychology of Art. University of California Press, Berkeley,CA, (p. 135-152).7 Esparragoza, I.,(2004), Enhancing visualization skills in freshman engineering students. Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting and Conference of the ASEE Engineering Design Graphics Division,21-23 November, 2004 Williamsburg, VA.8 Potter, C. and Van der

Conference Session

Clearing up Student Misconceptions in Materials

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Rosenblatt, Ohio State University; Andrew Heckler, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

strength is given by the stress needed to breakthe material. True or False?” This suggests that giving students the plots by themselves does notnecessarily transfer to an overall understanding of the mechanical properties. While this is notparticularly surprising, it is important to keep in mind when planning instruction, test questions,and so on for a course.Conclusion and Summary of FindingsWe reported here on student difficulties in understanding the mechanical properties of metals andon pilot instructional materials designed to help students overcome these difficulties. While weare not the first researchers to report students’ difficulties in understanding mechanical properties,our research adds to the exisitng literature on students

Conference Session

Post BS Entrepreneurship Education Needs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Borchers, Kettering University; Sung Hee Park, Kettering University; Michael Harris, Kettering University; William Riffe, Kettering University; Massoud Tavakoli, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

new courses. Whena general faculty survey in 2006 asked faculty if they believed entrepreneurship was an importanttopic for our students, there was general agreement. However, the challenge we discovered is tofind points where faculty can and will insert entrepreneurship in the curriculum. In late 2008, we formulated a plan to teach entrepreneurship across the curriculum.Beginning with the “writing across the curriculum” movement in the 1980’s, the literaturereveals that many disciplines have mounted “across the curriculum” movements. These includewriting, mathematics, critical thinking, citizenship, ethics and other fields. Such efforts areespecially appropriate for topics such as entrepreneurship that are application oriented and

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hui Shen, Ohio Northern University; Richard F. Miller, Ohio Northern University; David Sawyers, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

research needs a significant amount of supportand supervision from faculty members. However, faculties in undergraduate programs like theMechanical Engineering Department at ONU have heavy teaching, advising and servicerequirements. Usually one faculty member teaches six or more courses an academic year inaddition to committee service, academic and capstone project advising, lab instruction, andprofessional development. In addition, due to that absence of graduate students, faculty membersalso do their own grading, hold office hours, and run their own labs. Therefore, it is difficult forfaculty members to also find the time required to closely supervise undergraduate researchassistants. However, with proper planning and accommodations

Conference Session

Global Engineering Models: Developments and Implementations

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rocio Chavela Guerra, Purdue University; Monica Cox, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

International

policy in the Page 15.378.6 Spanish-speaking world. Current Issues in Language Planning 2006, 7 (1), 95-125.11. Wenger, E. Communities of practice: A brief introduction. http://www.ewenger.com/theory/index.htm (accessed March 15th 2010).12. Allendoerfer, C.; Bates, R.; High, K. A.; Meadows, L.; Masters, K.; Stwalley, C.; Adams, R. S. In Special session - Communities of practice in engineering education: How do we investigate diversity and global engineering?, Frontiers in Education Conference, Milwaukee, WI, IEEE: Milwaukee, WI, 2007; pp S1E1- S1E2.13. Borrego, M.; Streveler, R.; Chism, N.; Smith, K

Conference Session

Design Projects across the Curriculum

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harold Henderson, United States Miliary Academy; Joel Dillon, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

manufacturing machinery and machinecomponent design. The second course in the sequence, ME404, is dedicated to learning andapplying the design process. ME404 covers the process from gathering customer requirementsto creating and implementing a test plan to ensure the product successfully meets thoserequirements. The students work through an in-class example based on an illumination deviceand develop their own solution to a storage container out of class. They are required to producea prototype of their container using skills from ME403. The final course, ME496, is dedicated toa senior group capstone project that the student selects. This course allows the student to applythe design process to a more complex problem and relies heavily on the

Conference Session

Computational Tools and Simulation II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Edwin Garcia, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

-- the content of thelesson, b) determining the acceptable evidence of learning also called the assessment method,and c) planning the experiences and instructional approach or pedagogy. Usability aspects werealso analyzed. We decided to use this backward design as a framework because it encompassesall elements that should be involved in any instructional intervention.Students reported that they used OOF to generate plots and read values (47%), to generate data(41%), and to implement models provided by the instructor (41%).Learning Outcomes (content) - This section focuses on the general experience students had,relevance of the content to whether students thought the simulation tools were relevant to theirareas of interest as well as their level

Conference Session

Standards For Future Engineering Practitioners

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce Harding, Purdue University; Paul McPherson, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

applicable to theproduct. Lectures would be a combination of discussing fundamental methods in findingappropriate standards. Industry representatives would be invited as guest lecturers to instructabout current projects requiring such skills and knowledge. Through a paper and presentation,students would present their findings and provide detailed explanations about why suchstandards were necessary for the product to operate efficiently and effectively. However, it is recognized that while a two-term course would be desirable from theauthors’ point of view, such a commitment might be difficult with many current plans-of-study.As such the modular- or case studies-approach might be a better fit in a particular curriculum. If a stand-alone

Conference Session

Embedded System Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sven Bilen, Pennsylvania State University; Okhtay Azarmanesh, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

maintain a database of public safety emitters in a region,including the emitter location, physical layer parameters such as modulation type and transmitfrequency, and an association to which emergency team is using this frequency and waveform.At least 20 different emergency response teams will be trying to coordinate their activities.4,5The tools the students are using for this Challenge are a combination of what they have used in Page 15.556.5their first two Challenge solutions. They are using MATLAB for the initial design simulationsand later, during the design phase, they plan to implement it in hardware using USRP boards,transferring their codes

Conference Session

Novel Methods in Engineering Ethics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carlos Bertha, U.S. Air Force Academy

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

thesecond portion of this presentation: using case studies in class.How to Use Case StudiesRecommendations provided fall into two categories: on the one hand there is preparation andpresentation (here the advice will be quite mechanical), and, on the other hand, we have Page 15.657.4suggestions for effective casuistic analysis.Preparation and PresentationFor short illustrations, movie clips, etc., the faculty member is probably the only one who needsto prepare. Longer and more complicated cases, however, may require student preparation andin these cases prior planning is key. Give students ample notice regarding what they need to do(read a case

Conference Session

Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Gosink; Catherine Skokan

of the abstract of each project.Analysis of the DataUsing the search word “multidisciplinary”, 528 funded projects were located. The spreadsheetdata provide a rich source of information. The following analysis only presents a portion of thatwhich can be gleaned from the Fast Lane data bank.In the next four sections, we investigate some of the facts provided through analysis of thespreadsheet. Although the projects can be categorized generally as four themes: emergingengineering concepts, engineering science, basic engineering, andhumanities/business/engineering combinations, they can also be sorted according to thedisciplinary participants in the multidisciplinary plan. Annual trends in funding levels formultidisciplinary projects were also

Conference Session

Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Gosink; Catherine Skokan

designed a mitigation plan for homeowners and distributed apamphlet on health concerns and well water. Many of the residents who had thought that theirgroundwater was contaminated and were purchasing bottled water were relieved to learn thattheir water was safe.An international example involved the design and construction of an onion storage facility inSenegal. The population of 1200 in the rural community of Rao, about 19 km south of St. Louisin Northern Senegal, is sustained by agricultural activities mostly in growing purple onions. Theselling price of this vegetable, which is widely used in Senegalese kitchens, is very low at thetime of harvest as the supply is greater than the demand. Thus the farmers must sell their onionsat below-cost rates

Conference Session

BME Potpourri

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Cutbirth; Brett Hughes; Sundararajan Madihally

Laboratory (UOL)offered in the Fall of the senior year. In tandem with this course, students are enrolled in anoptional “Introduction to Biomedical Engineering” course. In UOL, students work in teams of three, on three different projects. Teams are assignedby the instructors and care is taken to avoid repetition of members in more than one project.While assigning the project, the bio-related projects are allocated preferentially to the studentseither enrolled in the biomedical course or committed to the Bioprocess Engineering courses. Page 10.822.1Each project covers a 5-6-week period. It includes a week of planning which has to be

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tze-Chi Hsu; N. Yu

Taiwan”, Proceedings of ICEE, 1997.(4) Jennie Y.J. Wu, “Strategic Planning of Engineering Educational Programs in Ministry of Education, Taiwan”, Proceedings of ICEE, 2000.Professor TZE-CHI HSU received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1990. His research interests focuson experimental and computational solid mechanics, including tribology and metal forming, and engineeringeducation. He was the Director of the International Cooperation Department at the National Science Council,Taiwan, from 1999 to 2001. He is now the Secretary General of Yuan Ze University.Dr. N. YU received his Ph.D. from University of California, San Diego, in 1992. His research interests focus onmicromechanics of advanced materials and

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rasoul Saneifard

seminars in the above-mentionedareas in major oil industries like Exxon, Shell, ARCO, and Texaco. Research interests includeapplied electromagnetics, instrumentation, computer hardware and software designing, andnumerical methods.Oyekunmi Akanni Fakunle received a BS degree in Electronics Engineering Technology fromTexas Southern University in 2003. His accomplishments include Team Leader of a group ofsenior students that built an autonomous mobile robot for a Senior Electronics Project class,winner of the First Place Business Plan at the 2001 MOOT Corporation Venture Competition atClark Atlanta University, and Third Place winner at the Inaugural HBCU Business PlanCompetition