General ASEE Conference Schedule
Student Poster List
Friday Afternoon Wrokshops
Student and Faculty Papers - Saturday Morning Schedule
Student and Faculty Papers - Saturday Afternoon Schedule
List of Workshops and Tutorials (Times and Locations to be announced)
1. Using LabVIEW for Problem Solving in Engineering Education
Presenters: Lesley Yu (Academic Field Engineer), Erik Fogleman (Field Sales Engineer), National Instruments, Inc.
Modern day engineering problems are often multidisciplinary. In addition to knowing the fundamentals, it's necessary for engineering students to identify and address the relationships between components in a system to derive a suitable solution. LabVIEW is a graphical programming environment that allows an engineer, using their system level intuition, to translate the system diagram of an engineering problem into a computer program. It also provides easy access to hardware which allows an engineer to leverage the power of different technologies quickly. This workshop will introduce the LabVIEW environment and discuss how it's used to allow students to experience a breadth of engineering concepts and go through various phases of problem solving (design, prototype, implement, verify). This process will be applied to multiple disciplines such as Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering.
2. What Every Engineer Should Know About Writing (1 pm - 2:30 pm)
Presenter: Alice N. Stitelman, Ph.D., President, Stitelman Associates
Did you know that engineers spend, on average, more than 30% of their time writing? This workshop helps engineers write more effectively by providing a few practical strategies to make your documents clearer, easier to read, and more results-oriented. Dr. Stitelman teaches writing programs to technical professionals at major organizations throughout the United States and Asia. Her clients include the U.S. Navy, Pitney Bowes, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
3. The Urgency for Systems Engineering Education
Presenter: Theodora Saunders, Sikorsky Corp.
Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary approach which translates customer needs into a structured set of system requirements, allocates these requirements to lower level system elements, synthesizes the system architecture, develops and verifies integrated balanced system solutions to satisfy customer needs. As the complexity of systems is increasing, there is an urgency to educate and develop systems engineers who will be capable of integrating diverse activities, processes, methods, tools and people throughout the product life cycle.
This presentation will provide an overview of the Systems Engineering process and its implementation focusing on the skills and the competency for Systems Engineering practitioners. Both the formal university education as well as the industrial education of systems engineers will be discussed. Future directions in educating systems engineers will be recommended from a systems perspective to include: creative thinking, team collaboration skills, communication skills, understanding of social, economic, and environmental impact of engineering decisions, commitment to process and product quality, and continuous improvement.
4. Linking Supply with Demand (1 pm - 2:30 pm)
Presenter: Steve Andrade, Battelle; Henning Seip, SkillPROOF
This workshop would discuss and frame engineering talent pipeline issues in CT, drawing on some of the information we presented this fall on workforce supply and demand for graduating engineers in CT; we would also present the SkillPROOF job information portal which is currently under development for the state of CT
5. Growing the Next Generation of Innovators (3:15 pm - 4:45 pm)
Presenters: Steve Andrade, Battelle; Karen Wosczyna-Birch, Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing, CT College of Technology; Bruce Dixon, Ct Pre-engineering Program; Michael Mino, Ct Career Choices, Center for 21st Century Skills at Education Connection (to be confirmed); Gregory C. Kane, CT Department of Education
This workshop would present and discuss project based learning efforts and innovative curricula that are showcased at the CT Student Innovation Expo by Ct Career Choices, Ct Pre-engineering Program; Project Lead The Way Technology Student Association and others.
6. Workshop and panel discussion on Engineering Education for Grades 7-12 [Flyer]
Presenters: Researchers and practitioners in the field of Engineering Education
Program includes Invited talks, A panel discussions regarding grades 7-12 engineering curricula, Presentations of some engineering applications, including nanomaterials, signalprocessing, sports engineering, algorithms and electric safety, School of Engineering laboratory tours, providing hands-on experiments for the participants.
7. Robotics and Automation in the Global Economy (3:00 pm - 5:00 pm)
Presenters: Dr. Paul Botosani; Chris Craciun; Dr. Tarek Sobh; Bill Sicary, Gary; Gulemi; Dan Blanck, FESTO Corp; Bala Krishnamurthy, Aeolean, Inc.; Dr. Simon Hill, Aeolean Inc., David Bodine, Mark Michael.
From “Non-Technical Factors Influencing Automation Decision” and “A Technical Approach to Factory Automation” to “Automation Training in Education” the workshop will show the “Automation Revolution” in our time. In same time it will cover Dr. Joseph F. Engelberger’s robots to topics like “Background and application of Puma and Unimate Robots” , “Four Different Robots: Control, Autolearning, Vision and Communication” and “Recent Robotics Advancement” to show some of the main components of Automation. In the end the workshop will have a panel discussions regarding the trends and future of Automation.
8. Tutorial: Closed loop communications PLC-VFD (Programmable logic control-variable frequency drive)
Presenters: Jigar Pandya, Ketankumar Patel, Amit V. Patel
VFD or variable frequency drives are motor drives which have the advantage of changing their torque, speed, directions to meet the needs of the moment.For example, if the motor runs with no load, the speed is maintained at a preset value based on the frequency of an applied control signal. Suppose that later the motor’s load increases as it lifts an object. To increase the torque for the motor, the control signal’s frequency is proportionately increased.
9. Tutorial: Integration of a Robotics Arm in an Automated Conveyor Line
Presenters: Jigar Pandya
The major task of this study is to establish the communication and movements of Robotics Arm using Mitsubishi Movemaster RV-M1 series robotics kit. Developing PLC logic for direct communication with Roboware software for the automation picks and place product form the conveyor belt. Learning control position of the air cylinder movement by adding reed switches in control logic of PLC.
10. Engineer Your Future - Mock Interview Workshop
Presenters: Jani Pallis and SWE UB student members.
The Society of Women Engineers proposes to host a 1-hour workshop on job interview skills. Learn how to prepare for interviews, respond in the interview and correspond after the interview. This will be a panel session. Members of the panel will include SWE professional members from throughout the SWE New England Region.
Attendees are asked to bring their resumes. Three workshop attendees will be asked to volunteer for the mock interviews for potential engineering or information technology positions. The panel will provide interactive feedback during the session to each candidate and the audience.
Learn:
· Confidence
· Communication skills
· How to demonstrate your analytic, organizational and time management skills
· How SWE’s online career center can help you?
11. Using Virtual Machine Emulation for Teaching Robotics and NC Programming and to Promote Careers in Manufacturing
Presenters: Thomas W. Scotton, Chris Pfeiffer, Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology,Inc.; Brian Kindilien, CCAT
There is a recognized shortage of highly skilled people to fill the technical positions available in the field of manufacturing. The National Tool Manufacturing Association (NTMA) estimates that there is a shortage of approximately 40,000 people. As the baby boomer generation begins to retire, this shortage will continue to increase. We believe that there is a need to inspire our young people to consider the possibilities of filling these career opportunities. Our young people are very familiar and comfortable with the use of synthetic virtual environments for their entertainment purpose, and because of this, we believe that online Virtual Environments that show how Modeling and Simulation tools are currently being used to design products and their functionality, designing the manufacturing processes to build the parts and assemble them, as well as generate electronic work instructions for the shop floor. In this presentation we will show several examples of Modeling and Simulation software tools that can be used to teach students the concepts of design and manufacturing, with a focus on a web-based machining emulation environment to teach Numerical Programming (NC) for machining of parts.