Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carlotta Berry

evaluate student performance based upon gender, major,class, requisite performance, and the number of times an introductory circuits course was taken.This circuits course is required by all engineering majors including civil, architectural,mechanical and electrical engineers and it is the gateway to all upper level courses. This datawill be used to determine general trends in student performance in order to redesign the courseand laboratory to be more successful. Success in this context is defined as a reduced attritionrate as well as increased student performance as determined by final grades. This document willpresent the results of the statistical analysis of the student data and the presence of anysignificant negative or positive

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Board; April Brown; Joseph Holmes; Hisham Massoud; Steven Cummer; Jungsang Kim; Michael Gustafson; Leslie Collins; Lisa Huettel; Gary Ybarra

(ISIP), whichreflects key concepts governing the future of electrical and computer engineering as wellas the active research areas of the majority of the ECE faculty.While the redesign encompasses the entire four-year curriculum, a particular emphasis ofthe redesign will be on the students' early years in the core curriculum when retentionissues are the most critical. Specifically, the foundation of the new curriculum will be afreshman-year laboratory-based design experience called “Fundamentals of ECE,” anddenoted ECE 27. This innovative course introduces concepts fundamental to the entireECE curriculum and their practical applications through a tight coupling of courseworkand a real-world design project and laboratory experience. Our project

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William White; George Engel; Cen Karacal; Ai-ping Hu; Jerry Weinberg

fieldsof engineering which are integral to robotic systems: Computer Science (CS), Electrical andComputer Engineering (ECE), Mechanical Engineering (ME), and Industrial and ManufacturingEngineering (IME). This is a two-year project supported by a grant from the National ScienceFoundation’s Division of Undergraduate Education under the Course, Curriculum, and Lab Ini-tiative – Adaptation & Implementation Program. The course adapts curriculum material fromCMU’s General Robotics Course2,14, from Swarthmore University’s and Bryn Mawr College’sRobot Building Laboratory Project (NSF CCLI Grant #9651472)10, from Drexel University’sResearch and Education Tools for Low-Cost Robots (NSF CISE Grant #9986105)6,7, from Buck-nell University’s Catalyst Team

Conference Session

IP, Incubation, and Business Plans

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Matthews; Morteza Sadat-Hossieny; Mark Rajai

conclusion.MissionThe virtual center promotes the opportunity to gain the knowledge and innovation skills to copewith the formidable technological, economic, social, and financial changes associated withcreating value from technological knowledge in an age of global competition. The focus of thecenter is on the rapid transfer of research, knowledge, and technology from the laboratory tothe marketplace.CPIC is ideal for professionals who: • Work in multi-functional, and perhaps global and virtual, product development teams. • Work in supply chain management or supplier partnering. • Are interested in general management of technology commercialization processes. • Work in technology transfer at a university, R&D laboratory, incubator

Conference Session

Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Ward; Robert Busch; Abhaya Datye; David Kauffman

our contention that a core of about twelve semesterhours of chemical engineering courses, together with appropriate chemistry, physics andmathematics, can provide the minimum basic material. There could then be ample room forstudents to complete their undergraduate education, including laboratory and design work, in achemical engineering specialty area program which would incorporate applications of the basiccore material and fundamental material for the specialty. This paper offers one version of aminimum core along with illustrations of how specialty areas would build on it.IntroductionThe field of chemical engineering is expanding. Chemical engineers are currently working insuch fields as biological processing, biochemical engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robi Polikar; Maria Tahamont; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

background about the topic oftenhesitate in electing a course in which they may very well find interest. Furthermore, as the num-ber of credits required for obtaining a BS degree decline over the years due to market pressures,so do the number of electives offered. Against this background, we propose another time-honored technique, under a new setting,as a paradigm specifically designed for integrating novel content material into existing curricu-lum: develop new laboratory exercises tailored to provide content specific knowledge that relateto the focus areas of existing courses. In our implementation, we use biomedical engineering(BME) as the novel content and the electrical and computer engineering (ECE) as the core cur-riculum, with two primary

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Davis

emotional element. A handful of profound learningexperiences requiring analysis and synthesis are vastly more lasting and important to studentsthan weeks spent skimming reams of superficial facts for memorization and recall.Translating these attributes of powerful, effective learning experiences into architectural termsrequires creativity and even a bit of humility on the part of the designer. But in early 2002, I hadan experience that led me to do some serious thinking about spaces designed for hands-on,exploratory learning. I happened to visit the new Aerospace Research Laboratory at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge. What especially impressed me about thefacility were the studios where engineering students gather to build

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Davis

emotional element. A handful of profound learningexperiences requiring analysis and synthesis are vastly more lasting and important to studentsthan weeks spent skimming reams of superficial facts for memorization and recall.Translating these attributes of powerful, effective learning experiences into architectural termsrequires creativity and even a bit of humility on the part of the designer. But in early 2002, I hadan experience that led me to do some serious thinking about spaces designed for hands-on,exploratory learning. I happened to visit the new Aerospace Research Laboratory at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge. What especially impressed me about thefacility were the studios where engineering students gather to build

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gene Harding

oscilloscopes and logic analyzers) 5 Probability and statistics (probability distribution functions), Gaussian distribution, mean, standard deviation Clock recovery, unit interval Logic analyzer laboratory (if available) 6 Jitter measurements (period, cycle-cycle, n-cycle, TIE) Jitter measurement displays (histogram, trend, spectrum, eye diagram, bathtub curve) Real time DSO jitter software (Agilent, Amherst, LeCroy, Tektronix) Distinguishing and quantifying different types of DJ Introduce BERTs and sampling oscilloscopes Jitter analysis laboratory 7

Conference Session

MIND Education Trends

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Omnia El-Hakim

fostering socialresponsibility, community service and scholarly research that contribute to the social, economicand cultural well being of the Navajo Nation. CO-AMP has moved quickly to achieve program effectiveness within the participatinginstitutions and among its tribal partners, and has entered into several collaborative efforts withexisting federally- and state-funded programs, professional non-profit organizations,corporations, and government agencies/laboratories. Also, CO-AMP has aimed for thecontinued institutionalization of its programs through in-depth communication and collaborationwith CO-AMP partner institutions and with Colorado Institute of Technology (CIT) activitiesinitiated by Colorado Governor Bill Owens. CO-AMP’s

Conference Session

Advancing Manufacturing Through Outreach

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Liou

in the hope ofimpacting the career choices of their students. Some high school students alsoparticipated in the workshop. The material presented in the workshop included CADmodeling, rapid prototyping, and lean manufacturing. Some industrial representativescame to the workshop to interact with the teachers and students on the prospectives ofadvanced manufacturing technologies. The participants also toured manufacturingresearch laboratories on campus and two local manufacturing facilities. This paperdetails the experiences of both the participants and facilitators of the workshop.I. IntroductionIt is a common misconception that jobs in the manufacturing industry consist of onlymachine operators. However, industry’s needs are much broader

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Dahm

textbooks [1,2] on relatingtheory to industrially relevant chemical reactions. There is an ongoing effort at RowanUniversity to integrate these new tools and ideas into the chemical reaction engineeringcourse. This paper describes reaction experiments that have been developed, and howthey are intended to complement other activities in the course.The Rowan chemical reaction engineering class has a weekly 3-hour laboratory period,which, until recently, has been devoted to virtual experiments conducted usingPOLYMATH, HYSYS and ASPEN. These computer laboratories are valuable becausethey illustrate many of the same concepts as wet-lab experiments with less substantialtime, cost and space requirements. Students can use a simulation to explore

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Nastasi; Leslie Brunell; Keith Sheppard

, American Society for Engineering EducationThe Product-Architecture Digital Media Laboratory supports the Masters program. Thelaboratory focuses on advanced digital design environments including geometricmodeling, interactivity, scripting languages and virtual reality. The laboratory is equipedwith a full Computer Aided Three-dimensional Interactive Application (CATIA) suite.Interactive Digital Media is explored using scripting capabilities in Maya, ActionScripting and Rhino and the laboratory includes a full set of ceiling mounted cameras,blob tracking devices and projection systems for full scale performative environmentstudies. Three dimensional scanning technologies are explored using a wide array ofdevices including a Cyrax - Lidar type

Conference Session

ABET Issues and Capstone Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kendrick Aung

group of students to discuss the project, to keep trackof the progress, and to learn the problems. During the semester, each design group makes twoprogress presentations followed by the question and answer session. At the end of the semester,the students complete the final report and make the final presentation of their design.Descriptions of the Projects The author has guided 8 design projects during the last three years at Lamar University.Only two projects from these classes were discussed in this paper. The first project involved thedesign of a laboratory-scale test stand for demonstrating air-conditioning processes using theSenior Design Grant from American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-conditioningEngineers (ASHRAE

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Arthur Brodersen; Cordelia Brown

and final phases were applied to all students in theIntroduction to Digital Logic course. The second phase was applied to selected sections of thecourse. In the initial phase, students in all sections of the course were administered the Index ofLearning Styles Questionnaire, a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and a laboratory experiencessurvey. In the second phase of the learning model, the students in the selected sectionsparticipated in weekly learning sessions. The weekly learning sessions provided students withpractice problem sets and a structured environment to collaboratively practice problems anddiscuss Introduction to Digital Logic concepts. The final phase of the learning model evaluatedthe performance of students in both environments

Conference Session

Controls, Mechatronics

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Viveca Deanes; Olakunle Harrison

teams to make good first starts, yet still be involved in learning independent of the instructor • Plan to be flexible regarding shifts in product design specifications and deliverables • Be reasonably familiar with the operation and nuances of primary components used in hands-on exercises and projects to reduce student frustration • Be proactive in dealing with team related problems • Make adequate provisions for hardware failuresV. SummaryFor most ME students, the mechatronics course is their first real hardware experience withelectronic and electrical devices in a non-laboratory environment. Most laboratory exercises arepresented in such a way that students seldom have to engage in the kinds of

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Baker

lecture material based on a standard Page 10.511.2textbook10, laboratory testing, and use of the ANSYS finite element software “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education”package. The process involves moving from simple lumped spring-mass systems,to continuous systems (beams), for which there are closed-form solutions fornatural frequencies, and finally to a slightly more complex system, a compressorstator vane, for which the system natural frequencies can only be obtainedthrough modal testing or finite

Conference Session

Issues in Engineering Physics

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James McNeil

, averaging just 15 credits per semester in thejunior and senior years1. A traditional physics program will contain core elements frommathematical physics, intermediate mechanics, intermediate electricity and magnetism, thermaland statistical physics, quantum mechanics, electronics, and advanced laboratory methods. Wecompressed these traditional core physics courses into the sophomore and junior years leavingseven electives in the senior year. These curricular changes coupled with a high level oftechnical literacy typical of physics students provided the flexibility needed to allow motivatedstudents to pursue a wider spectrum of engineering and applied science graduate tracks. The first track is for the 30% or so of our students intending to

Conference Session

ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Forsberg

straight-forward, but tedious. It is believed that a laboratory experiment specifically designed toillustrate dimensional analysis would increase the students’ interest in the subject andwould significantly enhance the students’ comprehension of the technique.Accordingly, we have developed an experiment dealing with natural and forcedconvection from heated horizontal cylinders. There are three cylinders of differentdiameters, each having an internal electric heater. The heat transfer rates from thecylinders to the surrounding fluid can be changed by varying the power input to the Page 10.42.1heaters. Steady-state measurements are made of the power

Conference Session

Crossing the Discipline Divide!

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Niebuhr

Table 1. Winter 2000 Failure Analysis Course OutlineThe course was taught as a two laboratory / one lecture mode, which gave ample time forstudents to complete their projects but lacked sufficient time for lecture on advanced topics. Thefirst week in lecture and lab introduced students to the expectations and deliverables for thequarter. Beyond that the labs were loosely structured with students working in parallel to eachother, with the instructor available for consultation. The lecture topics covered included: • NDT, non-destructive testing. This review covered details of each method and focused specifically on the equipment / methods available for use in class. • Fracture modes: brittle, ductile; DBTT in steel

Conference Session

Curriculum Development

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Goodarz Ahmadi

,and the centerline fluid velocity. Figure 2. User interface for the module for Brownian particle motions in cross flows.Module III, Experimental The course sequence includes several experimental modules. One mainexperiment is the measurement in the aerosol wind tunnel with the use of Particle Image Page 10.986.3Velocimeter (PIV). The aerosol wind tunnel is located in the Turbulence and MultiphaseFlow Laboratory at Clarkson University. The laser used was a 120mJ Nd:YaG laserwith a 20° adjustable width sheet generator. In this experiment, the sheet width was 0.5mm. The digital camera that was used was a Kodak ES1.0 MegaPlus camera

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Eppes; Peter Schuyler

to offer two Bachelor of Science programs: Electronic Engineering Technology(EET) and Computer Engineering Technology (CET), with the addition of specific tracks withinthese two programs.Curriculum ChangesThe first step in our process was to evaluate our current curricula and identify its strengths andshortfalls. This was a very difficult and labor intensive process. Discussion was begun amongstthe faculty and our industrial advisory board concurrently. The curricula and the individualcourses were evaluated down to the topic level in both the theory and laboratory portions of allcourses. Our technology program, as most technology programs are by nature, is designed toequip graduates with “hands-on” skills that make them immediately useful in

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Srikanth Pidugu

consisted of instruction in lecture and laboratory format. Theinstruction involved four 90-minute sessions delivered on four days. The first session was alecture by the speakers from ADED, ADEQ, and Entergy. This was followed by three sessionsby UALR faculty members and an undergraduate student on fuel cell principles and theory,applications, and “hands-on” experiments. Each of the last three sessions included 30-minute in-class lectures and 60-minute “hands-on” experimentation.“Hands-on” Instruction using Fuel Cell Equipment In order for students to have “hands-on” lab experience, a total of six different fuel cellkits were used. These included a simple fuel cell device known as “mini-fuel cells” todemonstrate the principle of fuel cell

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Primus Tillman; Keith Johnson

it isdeveloped.To fulfill the EDG vision, current ETSU President Paul Stanton saw the need to obtain additionalspace and facilities to accommodate and house the growing technology and the expanding bodyof students who exhibited an increasing desire to purse digital media studies. ETUS partneredwith several industries to obtain hardware and software resources at minimal cost that enabledthe transformation of a basic print facility into an advanced visualization laboratory. ETSU’srapid response to the increased demand and the acquisition of adequate resources enabled itsdigital media program to continue growing and expanding.Digital media expertise contributes significantly to highly technical careers and economicdevelopment. For example

Conference Session

Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Burton

studentsin the Electronics 1 course, which the author was teaching in second semester. As new videoswere produced they were made available to the class, thus providing an opportunity for valuablefeedback which could be quickly incorporated into subsequent productions.Blackboard, which is a networked learning environment and part of RMIT’s Learning Hub,provides access to the University’s streaming server. It is a tool used for on-line teaching andproviding access to course material, including lecture notes, problem sets incorporating workedproblems, laboratory assignments and learning guides. Any student or lecturer can viewinstructional content, collaborate with other educators, evaluate academic performance andaccess learning resources, via this

Conference Session

ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wally Peters; Michelle Maher; Nadia Craig; Veronica Addison

toemphasize both the simplicity and complexity of the problems that they will encounter asengineers. The Shewhart Cycle was used as a tool for continuous learning and improvement inthe design of this course.9 The Shewhart Cycle consists of four continuous steps: Plan, Do,Check, Act, and then repeat as necessary. If we discovered that the students did not learn whatwas intended in the check portion of the cycle, we would move through the cycle again underslightly different conditions. The syllabus reflects the Shewhart Cycle, because it leaves roomfor change by keeping the subjects somewhat vague, such as “Pit and Pit’um Laboratory” orComplex Systems (see the class web page at http://www.me.sc.edu/courses/U101E/). Thisallowed room in the course for

Conference Session

Innovations in ChE Labs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Zollars; Jim Henry

provide. With the advent of high-speedInternet communications an alternative approach to providing hands-on experiences hasbecome possible – remote operation of real equipment. Such remote operationexperiences are fully learn-by-doing with nearly all the positive and negative aspects oftrue hands-on laboratory work. Such an approach can, however, be frustrating forstudents at the remote site if the equipment malfunctions.During the past two years the process control class at Washington State University(WSU) was taught using both of these approaches. Computer simulations for processidentification and control were provided using Control Station®(http://ww.controlstation.com). Remote operation of actual equipment for the samepurposes was provided

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Murat Tanyel

projects. 12. To develop skills in locating information resources (library and other). 13. To introduce some of the computer tools and laboratory equipment available in the department.The list of objectives is a tall order for a course that meets for two “lectures” a week, onMondays and Fridays and a three-hour lab period on Wednesdays. Traditionally, the lab periodshave been used for special topics related to the design project in the beginning and to theplanning and construction of the project in the latter part of the semester. The lectures arefocused on the subjects from the textbooks4-6 and some in-house papers. Topics covered in thelectures are: 1) Team Work, Personality Type, Conflict Resolution; 2) Keys to Success

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Heenan; Hector Estrada

Engineering Department) has averaged 270 admissions applications per year over thelast two years. Freshman admission into the program is limited to an average of 78 students or29% of the applicants according to Dr. Edward Gibson2, former Associate Chairman forArchitectural Engineering. The main reason for limiting enrollment of freshman students Page 10.455.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationaccording to Dr. Gibson is limited space, including laboratory and studio facilities. The studentswho are not

Conference Session

Design Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Arnaldo Mazzei

) per week, with four hours oflecture or, when the course requires, a lecture and a laboratory (both consisting of two hours).For basic design courses, where no laboratory is included or in-class activities are not required,the two-hour lecture blocks can be more efficiently utilized if part of the block is used for studentlearning of the material presented by the instructor instead of using the entire block just forinstructor presentation.This paper presents a simple idea for achieving this goal. The idea was implemented and testedin three distinct engineering courses, namely ME-309 (Vibrations), MECH 210 (Mechanics I –Statics), and MECH 310 (Mechanics III – Dynamics). For evaluation purposes, student feedbackand comments are included in the