Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natalie Mladenov, Kansas State University; Tara Kulkarni, Norwich University; Mara London, Gonzaga University

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Environmental Engineering

initial investmentin time is likely to be cut substantially the next time the activity is used, as instructors gainexperience and confidence. For example, planning the rubber egg activity (Table 4) in Fall 2013required time for acquisition of materials, set up of the demo, development of lecture notes to tiein to course content on the carbonate system, and rehearsal with the activity to ensure it wouldproduce anticipated results, a total of ~ 1.5 hours committed to preparing for the activity. In thespring 2014 semester, the amount of class preparation devoted to this activity was approximately20 minutes.4. ConclusionsIn general, student attitudes indicated they were receptive to the use of demonstrations, videosand other in-class activities

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James L. Hanson PE, California Polytechnic State University

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Civil Engineering

various phases of project to assure steady progress throughoutthe term on the projects.3) Provide template for manuscripts that requires students to produce a document of a highlyspecific configuration.4) Distribute the final papers to promote cross-pollination of ideas and allow content to beincluded as part of course content (e.g., final examination). In addition, provide opportunity forstudents to present their work as an oral presentation. These together promote students teachingstudents. Watch for errors in presentations and/or papers and delicately highlight such errors tothe class.5) Plan on increased grading time earlier in the term (paper drafts) as compared to conventionalend of term projects, increased administrative tasks related to

Conference Session

FPD 9: First-Year Projects

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lindsay Corneal, Grand Valley State University

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First-Year Programs

andmaking presentations, all while working as a part of a team. This project was designed to meetmany of the course objectives as well as to develop skills that will be needed in many of theirfuture engineering classes.This paper presents an overview of the project and individual assignments as well as theoutcomes and feedback from the students that participated in the project. The plans for furthermodifications and improvements to this project and assignments will also be presented.IntroductionThe Introduction to Engineering course at Grand Valley State University (GVSU) is a one creditcourse that is designed to be an introduction to engineering as a career. It discusses the majorfields of engineering and the typical responsibilities of an

Conference Session

Continuing Professional Development Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Geoffrey L Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Leslie Crowley, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Continuing Professional Development

scholarship. We plan to have at least one member of the SIIPadministration team present at each of these meetings to provide just-in-time faculty training andto facilitate the agreed upon evaluation efforts of the faculty. Additionally, this constant presencewill allow the administration team to better publicize and celebrate the efforts and successes ofthe faculty communities.We believe that this new administrative structure for SIIP can create a new paradigm for facultydevelopment and the sustainable adoption of evidence-based pedagogies. Rather than focusingon changing the practices and beliefs of individual faculty, the goal of faculty development willbe to change the practices and beliefs of faculty communities. We believe that this new

Conference Session

Design Teamwork

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech; James J. Pembridge, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Cory Brozina, Virginia Tech; Benjamin David Lutz, Virginia Tech; Jintana Nina Phanthanousy, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Design in Engineering Education

through the decision-making process and providing probing questions, guidance via experience (i.e. recountingapproaches the faculty member uses in his/her own work), or direct instruction. Conflictsassociated with miscommunication, though rarely identified in the interviews, also followed thisapproach, though if the miscommunication involved only a subset of the team, the instructorwould target only those students.With respect to the other team issues that arose, the responses were more variable. Workloadimbalances, for example, were sometimes addressed with the whole team, in which the instructorhelped the team strategize an effective project management plan to more evenly balance theworkload. In other cases, though, the instructor addressed

Conference Session

Engineering Management In The Classroom

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alireza Kabirian, California State University Northridge; S. Jimmy Gandhi, California State University, Northridge; Ileana Costea, California State University, Northridge; Ahmad R Sarfaraz, California State University, Northridge; Mark Rajai, CSUN

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Engineering Management

another 5 courses and then also work on a capstone project (3credits).In addition to the structure of the online program, the courses offered as part of this onlineprogram are unique as compared to other online EM programs in the following ways.The course titled, “Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Management,” will be created tocater to students in the online program and will teach students to use all the latest tools online tocreate their business plan, thus making it relevant of the 21st century.The course titled “Strategic Management & Global Marketing for Engineers” is a course offeringa unique combination of skills that need to be taught to engineering managers and will offered tostudents through this course.The

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Ellingson, U. of St. Thomas, School of Engineering; Kundan Nepal, University of Saint Thomas; Megan Rose McGill, University of St. Thomas; Mitchell J Hoffmann, University of St. Thomas

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Electrical and Computer

://turtlebot. com/last visited (2011): 11-25. (accessed March 14, 2013)[7] Kinect for Windows Website: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh973075.aspx (accessed March 14,2013)[8] Robot Operating System (ROS) Wiki Website: http://www.ros.org/wiki/ (accessed March 14, 2013)[9] Quigley, Morgan, Brian Gerkey, Ken Conley, Josh Faust, Tully Foote, Jeremy Leibs, Eric Berger, Rob Wheeler,and Andrew Ng. "ROS: an open-source Robot Operating System." In ICRA workshop on open source software, vol.3, no. 3.2. 2009.[10] Chitta, Sachin, Benjamin Cohen, and Maxim Likhachev. "Planning for autonomous door opening with a mobilemanipulator." In Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2010 IEEE International Conference on, pp. 1799-1806. IEEE,2010

Conference Session

Curriculum Development

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan E. Powers, Clarkson University; Jan DeWaters, Clarkson University; Suresh Dhaniyala, Clarkson University; Mary Margaret Monica Small, Clarkson University Office of Educational Partnerships

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

electricity is generated from coal. However, because NYS asa whole ranks very high in electricity consumption, there is still a concern and still a significantneed to reduce electricity related GHGs.AssessmentThe assessment plan for this project focused primarily on evaluating the effectiveness of the newinstructional modules by measuring changes in targeted content and personal competencies andattitudes related to global climate change among participating students. We also evaluatedsimilar changes among teachers who participated in the two summer institutes. Both groups wereassessed using quantitative Climate Literacy content and attitude competence surveys that wereadministered pre- and post-course (for students) or workshop (for teachers

Conference Session

Implementing Transfer, Exchange, Research Programs and Professional Development; in Asia and Far East

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey S. Cross, Tokyo Institute of Technology; Kikuo Kishimoto, Tokyo Institute of Technology; Hisakazu Mihara; Masahiko Hara, Tokyo Institute of Technology

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International

exchange model appears well suited notonly to attract talented US university students to Tokyo Tech in Tokyo, Japan, but from variousresearch universities worldwide. From 2013, we plan to track the inbound and outbound researchexchange students to find out how this program impacted them and assess the learning outcomesin greater detail.AcknowledgementsWe wish to thank the US National Science Foundation Tokyo Office Heads from 2009-2013,engineering faculty at Brown Univ., Univ. Washington-Seattle, Univ. Minnesota-Twin Cities,Univ. Wisconsin-Madison, Univ. California-Berkeley and many others for advice andsuggestions on the content of the summer research exchange program. We also wish to thankTokyo Tech’s President Prof. Yoshinao Mishima, Executive

Conference Session

Instrumentation Technical Session II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

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Instrumentation

Paper ID #6350Programmable Logic Controllers: Essential and AffordableDr. John Marshall, University of Southern Maine John Marshall received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University and is the Departmental Internship Co- ordinator at the University of Southern Maine. His areas of specialization include Power and Energy Processing, Applied Process Control Engineering, Automation, Fluid Power, and Facility Planning. Page 23.989.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013

Conference Session

Electrical Energy Courses, Labs, and Projects I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Al DUPE Mundy, United States Air Force Academy; Andrew Laffely, US Air Force Academy; Bryan John Cooper, United States Air Force; George York, U.S. Air Force Academy; Herbert L. Hess, University of Idaho, Moscow

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

accessible withminor effort. People interested in the mechanical aspects of the vehicle can clearly see how things areconnected and how they work. The vehicle has up to 1500 lbs. of towing capability, and can haul ouroff-road trailer which houses the energy harvesting and storage system.B. Vehicle Electric. We use a 325V LiFePo battery system to power a three-phase AC motor via a highpower DC-AC converter/controller. In addition to the high voltage system, the vehicle also uses astandard 12V system for lights and ignition.C. Energy Harvesting and Storage System. Housed in an commercial-off-the-shelf off-road trailer, thisportion of the EES is currently at the prototype stage and plans to harvest energy from a combination ofsolar, wind, and human

Conference Session

Integrating Curriculum and Labs in Engineering Technology Programs

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhibin Tan, East Tennessee State University; William H. Blanton, East Tennessee State University; Qianru Zhang, East Tennessee State University

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Engineering Technology

the students in achieving such kind of goals. The remaining of the paper is organized as the following: the second section will give details about the system hardware and software. The third section introduces some background information about EEG signal processing. The forth section will discuss the plans of how to implement the system and make it work. The last section will be the summary of the main points of this paper.II. Hardware and Software of the System The complete system consists of: 1) an EEG data acquisition device, 2) a host PC that runs the software ( Biopac Hardware API, MATLAB, CCS) for program developing, results displaying, and data exchange with the DSP and

Conference Session

Instrumentation Technical Session I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Akram Hossain, Purdue University, Calumet (Tech); Mohammad A. Zahraee, Purdue University, Calumet (Tech)

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Instrumentation

PACKAGING MACHINERYMANUFACTURERSThe concept developed in this work saves both time and money for an OEM in several ways. Thefollowing are three of many scenarios that the OEM has plans to use the proposed work.Scenario one: a packaging machine located at a customer site is not functioning properly andrequires debugging. In this case packaging machine designers/developers all need to travel tocustomer site to fix the problem. If two or three such machines are having problems, it becomesmore difficult for this set of design/development engineers to go to all three sites and fix theproblem. In each of these cases travel time, travel expenses and availability of a particulardesign/development engineer become limiting factors. Scenario two: ability to

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division - General Technical Session 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven F Barrett, University of Wyoming; Ivo Wambeke

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Computers in Education

the alumnus request a team was formed to make the course, laboratoryexercises and the physical laboratory a reality. The team consisted of the faculty membercurrently teaching the industrial controls course, a graduate student who would be developing thelaboratory exercises for his graduate project, the alumnus, the department staff engineer and thedepartment senior technician who would plan and supervise the laboratory renovation andlaboratory equipment purchase [9].”In the next section we detail the methods used by students in developing their service learningproject: a Concrete Curing Box (CCB) for use in a high school STEM recruiting and enrichmentprogram.MethodsIn this section we discuss the methods used by the student team to develop

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Misty L. Loughry, Georgia Southern University; Richard A. Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; rebecca lyons; Daniel M. Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kyle Heyne; Tripp Driskell, Institute of Simulation and Training; David Jonathan Woehr, University of North Carolina Charlotte; Hal R Pomeranz; Eduardo Salas, University of Central Florida; Andrew Caleb Loignon, UNC - Charlotte; Shirley C Sonesh, UCF

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

. TEAMWORK TRAINING: The educator training begins with the introductory module. This module explains what constitutes good training and how we are going to follow the information, demonstration, practice, and feedback framework throughout all of the educator and student training modules. It also lists the modules that are planned. All training will be accessed via a web browser. A draft has been developed and is under review by the team. TECHNICAL TRAINING: The technical training will consist of a series of mini training videos that demonstrate how to perform each teamwork task. Researchers at UCF are identifying tasks that are available to each user and organizing these tasks hierarchically based on

Conference Session

Software Engineering Outreach: Industry, K-12

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Thomas B Hilburn, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Richard E Fairley, Software and Systems Engineering Associates (S2EA)

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

Page 23.1074.6acquire in-depth knowledge in an area of concentration. GRCSE includes two exampleconcentrations: Systems Engineering Management (SEM) and Systems Design and Development(SDD).The CorBoK was developed so that it comprises approximately 50% of the curriculum. Forpurposes of planning curriculum content, GRCSE estimates 480 hours as the total number ofcontact hours needed for a SE master’s program. Consequently, using the 50% guideline,CorBoK instruction is presumed to take approximately 240 contact hours. Table 2 provides anexample:• Approximate contact hours and percentages of the 50% devoted to CorBoK are provided for each part.• Since Part 3 represents a significant portion of the 50%, distribution by knowledge area is

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wagdy H Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia; Nian Zhang, University of the District of Columbia

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

implementation platforms; iii) sharpening students’abilities to design and implement complex systems using these tools; iv) provide students withskills that can help them long-life learners and successful professionals.The organization of this paper is as follows. Section 2 provides brief descriptions of the least-mean-square (LMS) algorithm and the Recursive Least Squares (RLS) algorithm. A listing of themost-used variations of LMS and the RLS algorithms is also provided along with briefstatements of their advantages and disadvantages. Section 3 provides a list of resources availableto our students and details our plan to introduce adaptive filtering concepts and implementationsto our undergraduate students. Section 4 provides the details of an active

Conference Session

ECE Curriculum Improvement

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cordelia M Brown, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Dimitrios Peroulis, Purdue University; Greg Lammers, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Electrical and Computer

. Industryrepresentatives will be consulted throughout the process to ensure that the planned changes areconsistent with what students will be expected to know upon commencing their careers.Future research questions will include generalizing the results obtained here to other areas ofElectrical and Computer Engineering, as well as other engineering disciplines. Does providing abroader experience early in a student’s career lead to increased learning, interest, and retention?If so, how can we develop these broad curricula while maintaining the depth that is expected ofengineering graduates?More research questions will also arise when the community aspect of these courses isconsidered. What is the appropriate mix of inverted learning courses and traditional lecture

Conference Session

Activities and Assessment for “Awkward ABET Outcomes”

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norb Delatte P.E., Cleveland State University

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Civil Engineering

facilities.Cleveland has a number of historic bridges crossing the Cuyahoga River downtown. One of theprojects reviewed the design and construction of two important bridges, using resources from theCleveland Memory Project13 including an eBook Bridges of Metropolitan Cleveland 14. Theseresources provided structural plans and construction records.The course covered Carnegie, steel, and metallurgical engineering2. Another student projectfocused on the role of Cleveland in transporting iron ore and in manufacturing steel, as well assome key local structures that made extensive use of steel. The environmental impacts of steelmanufacturing were also discussed.One project looked at the societal and environmental costs and benefits of dams, includingeffects on

Conference Session

K-12 and STEM Programs in Engineering Technology

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Tillman, The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

of the activities a short interview took place asking the participants about theirreactions to the intervention. The findings from this pilot study are primarily intended forthe purpose of determining implications for the design and development of supportmaterials for other teachers desiring to build their own DIY interactive digitalwhiteboards are presented, should the intervention be determined to be feasible.As a discussion of data collection methods that will be utilized in the larger line ofinquiry, it is planned that data collection for this line of inquiry will include task basedinterviews, questionnaires, surveys, focus groups, and observations. Task basedinterviews: Task-based interviews will take place at the beginning and end of

Conference Session

Visualization tools, modeling abilities and grading models

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hosein Atharifar, Millersville University of Pennsylvania; Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; James Richard Knapp Sr., Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

. Figure 15 – ResponsesAs demonstrated in Figure 15, our participants from industry also disagree that “2D drawingskills are only needed for Drafters.” Comparing this result with Figure 8, there is a strongresemblance on the view points of the faculty and engineers on this topic.4.2. Current trends in Industry (esp. multi-tasking) demands both 2D & 3D skills for Drafters &Designers. Figure 16 – ResponsesAgain, similar to Figure 9, we observe that our practicing engineers also believe that 2D and 3DCAD skills are needed for both designers and drafters. Therefore, when planning for curriculumupdates, our engineering programs, mainly mechanical design, construction, and similar subjects,should incorporate

Conference Session

Real and Virtual - "New" Approaches to Teaching "Old" Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James P Abulencia, Manhattan College; Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University; David L. Silverstein, University of Kentucky

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Chemical Engineering

Format:Final: Export the video to a common electronic format (.mp4, .mpg, or .avi, for example) and submit toDr. Vigeant either on CD / DVD or memory-stick. Hand in a cover sheet indicating: a) an outline of theanswers to the four points addressed in the video b) an introduction aimed at me explaining why this isimportant. Plan to share your work in class by showing the video to your classmates.Timeline: - Wed, 3/28: Initial personal reflection due. - Wed, 4/4: One page summary plus storyboard/script. - Wed, 4/18: Rough-cut (un/semi-edited video footage) due for feedback; feedback on other teams’ rough-cut due on Friday, 4/20 (email directly, cc-ing Vigeant) - Thurs, 4/26: Final project due, by email

Conference Session

The Civil Engineering Technologist and the Civil Engineer – What’s the Difference?

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas A. Lenox, Dist.M.ASCE, American Society of Civil Engineers; James J O'Brien Jr., American Society of Civil Engineers

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Civil Engineering

and/or construction layout; o apply fundamental computational methods and elementary analytical techniques in sub- disciplines related to civil engineering. o plan and prepare documents appropriate for design and construction; o perform economic analyses and cost estimates related to design, construction, operations and maintenance of systems associated with civil engineering; o select appropriate engineering materials and practices, and

Conference Session

FPD 2: Retention

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marisa K. Orr, Louisiana Tech University; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Richard A. Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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First-Year Programs

that with respect to industrial and systems, one institution may be disproportionatelyinfluencing the results.ConclusionComplementary to single institution studies8-11, this multi-institutional study finds that a requiredintroduction to engineering course can be beneficial to undecided students in making an informeddecision and help retain all students in engineering. Additionally, a required introduction toengineering course has significant effects on the way that undesignated students sort into majors.Future work will incorporate interview data to better understand this phenomenon from thestudent perspective. We also plan to look at outcomes for students who opted to take anintroduction to engineering course when they were not required to do

Conference Session

...by Design

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Mangold, University of California, Berkeley; Stefanie Robinson, University of California, Berkeley

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

should be part of the initial conversation to consider the life cycle impact ofproducts or processes that are being developed.The module developed not only introduced the students to engineering, but also allowed them toapply the principles of engineering to their everyday lives as well as assist in teaching thestandards required by the state. One of the biggest benefits the teachers identified was that theframework could be adapted to any project that was already part of their curriculum andprovided the students with lifelong problem-solving skills and strategies. The teachers expressedenthusiasm about how easily they could integrate the EDP into their already existing curriculumand adapt their lessons plans to fit the form of the EDP. The

Conference Session

Engineering Leadership Development Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Toby Egan, Purdue School of Engineering & Technology

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

. Leading psychologically secure environment can be double-edgedbecause while constructive outcomes may develop, leaders/managers are placed in a position ofhaving to recognize employee feedback out of alignment with their plans and/or vision. Despitethe pressures and complications it entails, leaders need to support dissent while, concurrently,allaying the temptation to dispatch their power and authority in cases when doing so mayencumber perceived psychological safety. Information exchange may provide opportunities forethical behavior and the formation of interpersonal between leaders and followers and amongfollowers. 17 By role modeling and reassuring followers that individual rent seeking, socialundermining, and other obstacles to forming

Conference Session

FPD 7: First-Year Engineering Courses, Part II: Perceptions and Paradigms

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brooke Morin, Ohio State University; Krista M. Kecskemety, Ohio State University; Kathleen A Harper, Ohio State University; Paul Alan Clingan, Ohio State University

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First-Year Programs

classroom in a large enrolment introductory physics course: a case study," 2012.7. G. C. Gannod, J. E. Burge, and M. T. Helmick, "Using the inverted classroom to teach software engineering," in Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Software engineering, 2008, pp. 777-786.8. C. Papadopoulos, A. Santiago-Román, and G. Portela, "Work in Progress–Developing and Implementing an Inverted Classroom for Engineering Statics," in Proceedings–40th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, 2010.9. R. J. Gustafson, J. A. Merrill, A. W. Fentiman, R. J. Freuler, and J. T. Demel, "Developing and Implementing a Facilities Plan for a Freshman Engineering Course Sequence," in Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Teaching - Best Practices

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Masud Salimian, Morgan State University; Yaseen Mahmud, Morgan State University; Avis L. Ransom, Morgan State University School of Engineering

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Manufacturing

. As staff for the Dean of the School of Engineering, she develops projects, plans and implements strategies and develops and documents reports, newsletters and proposals. Page 23.1245.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Theme-based Teaching / Learning: A New Approach in Teaching Manufacturing ProcessesIntroductionOne of the most challenging aspects of teaching manufacturing processes is the lack oflaboratory equipment for the vast variety of the processes and techniques involved. In fact,economically, it is impossible to acquire the vast

Conference Session

Innovative IE Course Content

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John P. Mullen, New Mexico State University

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

with the client, plan and carry outdata collection, analyze the data, and make a report. As with the modeling exercise, studentsshare the reports with each other via our course management system. This serves to transfer theconcepts developed through simulated data to the real world. Frequently students tell me thatthey are surprised how similar the real-world study is to the simulated one.ObservationsUnfortunately, these graduate-level engineering classes are sometimes low in enrollment. Evenwhen class sizes run between 20 and 40 students, if many students had already developed a levelof stochastic awareness prior to starting the course, sample sizes would be small. Nevertheless, Ido have some indications of success:For example, in a current

Conference Session

Innovative IE Course Content

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin W. Kile, Quinnipiac University

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

Paper ID #7590Using Informal Oral Presentations in Engineering Classes: Training Studentsfor the ”You Got a Minute” MomentDr. Justin W. Kile, Quinnipiac University Dr. Kile is an associate professor of industrial engineering Quinnipiac University and is also serving as the interim chair of Quinnipiac University’s Department of Engineering. Prior to joining Quinnipiac in 2012, he was an associate professor and program coordinator for the Industrial Engineering program at the University of Wisconsin – Platteville. His research interests include material handling, facilities planning, and logistics. Additionally his