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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Robert Hood; Mark Jacobs; James Masi; Kayla McCaffrey

current laboratory wind tunnel. Itwill be for the purpose of instruction and simple research inthe fluid mechanics laboratory. This wind tunnel is used inthese projects to observe the start-up wind velocity ofshrouded, two-, three-, and multi-bladed horizontal axis wind Figure 2. Solid Works designturbine models. Flow patterns over the models will beobserved by using smoke, tuft, and Schlieren photography Accommodating the thickness of material without altering themethods. These observations are used to verify the Solid interior dimensions of the wind tunnel required carefulWorks modeling on each of the designs. planning and a

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Connor Needham; Jeremy Kacher; Mathias Boyle; Robert Hutchins; Susan Woodard

turbine design andThe team plans on giving back to the Roger Williams its functionality. This spot selection was also selected basedUniversity community by transferring the power generated by off of the prevailing winds at RWU. Most wind comes fromthe wind turbine to the electric car charging stations oncampus or by transferring the power generated to power the the north and south in this location and the parking structurelights for the parking garage and lot below. The team feels that will allow for undisturbed airflow as wind passes over the

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Tiago Martins Ribeiro; Raimundo Pereira da Cunha Neto

, they plan youdecreasing. The use of manual means to make products or form for an attack of a plantation or search of food.make deliveries as a quick way for the current market is not as In section II of this article will address concepts ofefficient as before. In this context comes the computer communication networks and their evolution in today's society.networks and its benefits to society today. Several current Section III is a new model of computational network that isapplications running on interconnected computer networks, so growing year after year, cloud computing. Section IVit is necessary to work together to improve current programs highlights the importance of

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2025 Northeast Section Conference

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Gowtham Raj Vuppari; Navarun Gupta; Ahmed El-Sayed; Xingguo Xiong

droughts, and altered of AI-based early warning systems, enhancing response timesprecipitation patterns have resulted in arid environments, and assisting policymakers and emergency responders inrendering trees extremely combustible. Intense winds, executing more efficient wildfire management methods. Theparticularly in areas susceptible to wildfires such as California, remaining tasks have been planned out as follows. The literatureexpedite the propagation of fires by transporting embers over is summarized in section 2; the proposed methodology fordetecting wildfire is explained in depth in section 3, the findings deep-learning architectures. The test results showed that theand

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2025 Northeast Section Conference

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Boluwatife E. Faremi; Javier O. Pinzon-Arenas; Amir Mohammad Karimi Forood; Josef Kundrat; Hugo F. Posada-Quintero; Ann Marie Hoyt-Brennan; Wendy A. Henderson

, University ofConnecticut, and the Faculty Pilot Grant Program, Penn Nursing, Universityof Pennsylvania. (a) (b) Fig. 1. Experimental view of the AIHT platform during experiments (a) Instance of a scenario illustrated with vignettes b) Trainee Nurse using the AIHT platform. of concept rather than definitive evidence. The planned expansion to 40 participants will provide a more robustEDA peaks compared to the trust-building phase, potentially evaluation of the

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2025 Northeast Section Conference

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Nusrat Zahan; Sidike Paheding

resolution,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Internationalimage models. We plan to investigate more sophisticated aug- Conference on Computer Vision, 2015, pp. 1823–1831.mentation techniques, such as generative adversarial networks [12] R. Timofte, V. De Smet, and L. Van Gool, “A+: Ad-[19] and adaptive transformations [20], with the goal of ap- justed anchored neighborhood regression for fast super-plying these methods to underwater super-resolution systems resolution,” in Computer Vision–ACCV 2014: 12thacross various aquatic environments. Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Singapore, Sin- gapore, November 1-5

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

Cory Mettler; Nathan Ziegler

implement will reduce the amount of material that can be covered.A study was performed to investigate the effects of implementing three easy to perform, easy toprepare active teaching methods. Initially, four outcomes were analyzed in this study, including: 1. Time spent on lesson planning will not increase by a significant amount. 2. The amount of course material covered will not decrease. 3. Student mastery of the course material will increase. 4. Student enthusiasm for course material will be greater during Active Teaching classes.The first part of this study, performed in Spring 2014, demonstrated that no significant increasein effort was required to prepare lectures that included these methods5; this included preparinglectures

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

Daniel Bullock; Edward Carl Greco; Jim D. Reasoner

student operation, robust, portable, and economically viable. In thispaper we describe the details of integration of our system into an existing introductory DCElectric circuits course and additionally, details of the planned study including implementationand assessment are discussed.KeywordsActive learning, DC Circuit Analysis, Portable Lab, Kinesthetic LearningIntroductionAt Arkansas Tech University (ATU) Electric Circuits 1 is an introductory engineering coursethat teaches students electrical concepts utilizing direct-current (DC) circuit analysis and basicelectrical devices. This course is designed to provide a foundation for a sequence of courses inalternating current (AC) circuits, electronics, electrical machines, and engineering design

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

Arash Jahandideh; Samaeh Aminikhangahi; Ali Salehnia; Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan

dynamic programming wasdeveloped and implemented to assess the sustainability of a project and possible pathway toreach certain product. The generalized algorithm proposed in the present study enables allindustries to model and carry out LCA analysis of their products in both economic andenvironmental aspect. The authors plan to add social analysis part to current model and alsovalidate the model using real world data.References[1] G. Finnveden, M. Z. Hauschild, T. Ekvall, J. Guinée, R. Heijungs, S. Hellweg, A. Koehler, D. Pennington, and S. Suh, “Recent developments in Life Cycle Assessment.,” J. Environ. Manage., vol. 91, no. 1, pp. 1–21, Oct. 2009.[2] W. Kloepffer, “Life cycle sustainability assessment of products,” Int. J

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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Sara E. Wilson

defense. The Bioengineering PhD program at the University of Kansasthe qualifying exam requires a student to examine a peer-reviewed publication and present thatresearch and its limitations both written and orally. The comprehensive exam requires thestudent to prepare their research plan as a proposal (following the model of an NIH grantproposal) and defend that proposal in an oral presentation to their dissertation committee.Additional stages of assessment are during entrance to the program (measuring preparation), atregular (annual) student progress reviews, and after graduation from the program. Measures thatare assessed through this process include:Entrance – Assessing preparation for graduate research Undergraduate GPA

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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Steve E. Watkins

Science and Technology includes two sessions on professional ethics. The firstsession is a formal overview of ethics as related to engineering work and it is focused on appliedethics as part of a profession. Example case studies related to electrical and computerengineering and general profession life are included. Selected slides from the introduction andsummary of the “Engineering Ethics” presentation is given in Appendix B in Figure 2. Thesecond session is a presentation of case studies for teams of students to analyze. This assignmentis tracked as part the department’s ABET assessment plan that is related to student outcome (f)“an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility [1].”The objectives of the ethics seminar presentation

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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Brian Sandford

Hispanic culture, traditions, slang, the workplace dialect including curse wordsand their meaning, as well as the perspective on what parts of the formal grammatical Spanishlanguage actually fits into the everyday Spanish which native speakers routinely use. Theinstructor not being a native speaker also serves to avoid overwhelming the students in thatspeaking a foreign language as a second language takes special planning and learning strategiesnot generally needed when a person's first language is acquired. Additionally, the instructorunderstands the challenges that students face in learning a foreign language as the instructor hasbeen in the same or similar position. As a result the course is structured to be empathetic to thestudent's level of

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

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expression,communication skills, technical skills, self-confidence building, computation skills, engineeringfundamentals, organizational skills, leadership skills, planning skills, professional ethics, andengineering judgment. Even though the main intent of a Capstone design course is to provide theskills and attributes mentioned above to senior engineering students, majority of the students donot demonstrate these skills in their Capstone design courses. It is the authors’ strong beliefs thatexperiential learning model should be incorporated much earlier in an engineering curriculum inorder for the students to experience engineering design process and design skills, supported bythe recent findings by Conger et al.8. According to Kolb6, “Learning

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Mohammad Amin; Gordon Romney; Pradip Dey; Bhaskar Sinha; Debra Bowen

- 3questions. This survey form also allows students to write their comments. Survey participations in onsiteclasses are always found to be higher in number than the online classes. The university requires that thissurvey be distributed by one of the students and the instructor is requested to leave the classroom.Survey data is analyzed by the NU Office of the Institutional Research and Assessment (OIRA). Asummary of the survey data with student comments are made available to the respective instructors,department chairs and school deans for review and comments. The authors of this paper always reviewtheir course survey reports from OIRA carefully and adjust their future teaching plans by improving theirpedagogical approach to teaching and adopt

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Frank Sanchez; Cheng Chen

ofprogramming in Matlab/Simulink, performing simulations, and gathering and interpretingnumerical data. Weekly logs were to be kept in which the work, results and future plans weresummarized. The student researcher was required to submit a brief project proposal for approvaloutlining the description of the project and the approach to be taken. A more detailed proposalwas presented later in which the description, methodology, approach, constraints, tasks andtentative schedule of the project were outlined. The purpose of the proposal was to ensure thatthe student researcher remained organized and maintained the requirements of the senior designproject throughout the course of the semester. The student was required to submit written andoral presentations

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Lisa Wang

practicingengineers stated generally on the assessment forms that the projects were rigorous in thetechnical contents and that the students were passionate and confident in sharing their technicalwork. In terms of students’ grades, they were assigned on the basis of report and presentationquality, not only in terms of technical content but also in terms of knowledge integration.Limitation of the Present Study and Future WorkDue to the tremendous amount of work in the expansion of the curriculum and development ofthe learning activities and assignments, as well as the design and construction of the teststructures (specimens) , only limited assessment work was conducted. In the future, bothqualitative and quantitative assessment strategies are planned

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Ding Yuan; Nebojsa Jaksic; Jude DePalma

to be reserved for the instructors todevelop additional labs for higher level engineering classes. However, one EV3 brickmalfunctioned in late November. Consequently, the reserved set had to be used for the Spring2014 semester. It was later found that the brick needed a firmware upgrade only, whichalleviated the concern. Necessary third-party support for the EV3 is still under way. Forexample, the current LabVIEW for LEGO Mindstorms module doesn’t support the new EV3bricks. According to one of the product support engineers at the NI LabVIEW R&D section23,the new module is planned to be released in the first half of this year. Therefore, more advancedLabVIEW-based projects will have to wait until the supporting function blocks

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Manoochehr Zoghi; Hernan Maldonado; Syreeta Martinez

advising. A survey, conducted by LCOE in fall 2013,reported that one of the most useful services provided to them was thorough robust academicadvising. The Pathways program provides academic advising to an average of 15 students perweek throughout each semester. Over 240 students were provided academic advising servicesduring fall 2013 semester. LCOE advising includes help on academic plan development, courseenrollment, unit loads, program requirements, prerequisites, graduation requirement reviews, aswell as intrusive academic advising for students that are academically at-risk. Students that seekacademic advising through the Pathways program are more likely to make positive progresstowards graduation and graduate in a timely manner. The academic

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Martin Koch

freshman level course with no prerequisites. Itis a three-hour, one unit course that meets for 10 weeks and is taught in a lecture/activity format.The mission of the course is to teach engineering students about the wide array of processes thatcomprise the metal casting industry. This is done through a combination of traditional lecture,interactive computer tutorials/ case studies, traditional foundry lab experiences and the use ofCAD/CAM systems to produce CNC milled patterns and AM produced patterns and molds.Our engineering programs are hands-on. We firmly believe that the educational experiences aregreatly enhanced by projects and the making of things. In the evolution of the course it becameapparent that the need for careful planning to avoid

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Devin D. Cook

Programming Language uses readable operators Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education/Pacific South West Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 164such as AND, OR, etc. This contrasts with the C Programming Language which uses moresymbolic notation such as &&, ||, etc.If students plan to transition to major language, the question arises: which family should beused? Depending on the student's learning path, one set of operators will be compatible, whilethe other will not. To make it easier for students to take either path, Flowgorithm supports bothsets

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Gregg L. Fiegel; Nephi Derbidge

and final examinations constitute the primary summative assessment approacheswe use to evaluate student learning. Examinations include multiple-choice, short answer, fill-in-the-blank, and true-false prompts and are written to address both concepts and problem solving.For a typical examination, a student will have approximately 2 hours to complete 25 to 30questions. Before the examination, as part of a short 5- to 10-minute review session embeddedwithin a scheduled lesson plan, we identify which learning outcomes will be addressed. We thendevelop the examination with the goal of evenly distributing the questions among the specifiedlearning modules and outcomes.Summary of Quiz ResultsTable 4 summarizes quiz results for twelve offerings of the

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Bryan J. Mealy

College Textbook Cost Study Plan Proposal." Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance (2006).3. Mealy, B.J., Parks, B., “Work in Progress: PLD-Based Introductory Digital Design in a Studio Setting”, Proceedings: 37th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, 2007, Milwaukee, WI, pp. F1C-1 – F1C-2.4. Mealy, B.J., "Work in Progress: Computer Design for Intermediate-Level Digital Systems Course”, Proceedings: 36th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, 2006, San Diego, CA, pp. 19-20. Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Alireza Farahani; Lu Zhang

variable with applications to curve sketching, related ratesproblems, optimization and area of the bounded regions on the plan. 3.1 Limits and continuityA free form input dialog in Wolfram alpha allows for an easy and intuitive computation of limits. 2x  1To evaluate a limit expression such as lim we can use the basic limit notation and enter x  3 x  3the query limit as x->3 [(2x-1)/(x+3)] in wolfram’s query box. As shown in figure 8, Wolframdisplays its interpretation of the queryfollowed by the answer. The system alsoproduces a plot of the function with thevalue of the limit clearly marked on thegraph. Just below the plot is a tab

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Baheej Nabeel James Saoud; Brian P. Self; Jim Widmann; Alexa Coburn; Jeffrey Phillip Georgette

otherunderstand concepts. The team then performs the experiment, discusses the results, and attemptsto explain what occurred and why. Once they reach a conclusion, the students are presented witha second scenario and repeat the process: predict-discuss-observe-explain. The instructor andteaching assistants move throughout the classroom during the cycle and gauge the classes’ levelof comprehension. Subsequent class discussions led by the instructor depend on how well the classunderstands the concepts. The process is repeated for a total of four scenarios. Applying thisactivity plan to the Spool IBLA, we ask questions such as, “If you pull lightly on the string wrappedaround the inner diameter of a spool, in which direction do you think the spool will

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

John T. Tester

the laboratory. Thosewho wrote explanations had similar reasons: they enjoyed being able to create the code necessary tocreate a fabricated product. It is noted here that the product-oriented CNC labs were canned codes,created by the instructor and given to the students.Anecdotal Observations and Future PlanningThe author plans to offer the vise as the laboratory focus in the next academic year (Fall 2015). Asthe laboratory becomes more elaborate, a philosophy of ‘change one thing and evaluate’ is takinghold. The major change for the next offering will be to incorporate the CNC programming into a labwhere the student-programmed, CNC-milled feature will be milled onto the back of the long jaw.This feature may be the university name, a logo, or

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2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Sandipon Chowdhury, West Texas A&M University; Swastika Bithi, West Texas A&M University

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Engineering Education 4groundwater management, enabling effective planning and mitigation strategies. By integratingtheoretical concepts with practical applications, students gain a comprehensive understanding ofhow water dynamics operate in natural and controlled environments.The concept of displacement plays a pivotal role in water height measurement, illustrating howthe addition of solid materials such as sand, gravel, or beads affects water levels. When thesematerials are introduced into a confined volume of water, the water is displaced, causing its levelto rise. This principle is rooted in Archimedes' Principle, which states that the volume of waterdisplaced is equal to the volume of the

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2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth R. Leitch P.E., West Texas A&M University; Colton Atkins, West Texas A&M University; Benton Allen, West Texas A&M University

perceptions of useful and challenging characteristics.” Internet and Higher Education, vol. 7, 2004, pp. 59-70. doi:10.1016/j.iheduc.2003.11.003.2. Gallego Sánchez, M.C., et al. “Relationships among relational coordination dimension: Impact on the quality of education online with a structural equations model.” Technological Forecasting & Social Change, vol. 166, 2021. doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120608.3. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology, “2024 National Educational Technology Plan.” Washington, DC, 2024.4. Kim, J., Merrill, K., Xu, K., and Sellnow, D.D. “My teacher is a machine: Understanding students’ perceptions of AI teaching assistants in online education.” International Journal of Human-Computer

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2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Mengqi Monica Zhan, University of Texas at Arlington; Grace Ellen Brannon, The University of Texas at Arlington; Liwei Zhang, The University of Texas at Arlington; Frank K. Lu, The University of Texas at Arlington

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degree plan choices: A qualitative study with engineering and communication students," submitted to the International Communication Association's Annual Conference, 2025.6. E. L. Deci and R. M. Ryan, "Self-determination theory," in Handbook of Theories of Social Psychology, vol. 1, pp. 416-436, 2012.7. M. S. Eickholt, "The effect of superiors' mentoring on subordinates' organizational identification and workplace outcomes," Master’s Thesis, West Virginia University, 2018.8. K. Kricorian, M. Seu, D. Lopez, and others, "Factors influencing participation of underrepresented students in STEM fields: Matched mentors and mindsets," International Journal of STEM Education, vol. 7, no. 16, 2020.9. S. L. Kuchynka, A. E

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2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

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chen pan, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Thuy Khanh Nguyen, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Chunjiang Qian, The University of Texas at San Antonio

resources, allocates a portion ofits facilities and administration (F&A) overhead funds, and pursues external partnerships andgrants. This diversified funding strategy ensures steady support for future student cohorts. Byembedding financial planning into its framework, EZ-RA establishes a scalable model that balances Proceedings of the 2025 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX Copyright  2025, American Society for Engineering Education 5accessibility with long-term sustainability.By combining centralized resources, streamlined processes, credit recognition, and

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2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

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Dani Fadda, University of Texas at Dallas; Wooram Park, University of Texas at Dallas; P.l.stephan Thamban; Oziel Rios, University of Texas at Dallas

/instructor to get their project proposal approved and their criticaldesign report reviewed. During the review, teams present their fabrication plan. They often consider3D printing to fabricate their entire project or most of their parts. Laser cutting has rarely beenproposed except for a few instances where truss members were laser cut. The instructor/TA providesthe teams with suggestions on how the design can be fabricated more effectively. While 3D printingoffers the ability to make certain parts that are difficult to fabricate in a relatively cheap and in a shortamount of time, they need not be employed all the time.There are several instances where the instructor/TA found the choice of 3D printing unnecessary. InFig. 2 (a to d) we present sample