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Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

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2005 Annual Conference

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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

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Architectural Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Don Bury; Bruce Mutter

visible to the Dean and campusassessment office via password, and the lessons learned from data become part of thecontinuous improvement plan for the ARET program.2. IntroductionImplementation of a Web Curriculum in Architectural Engineering Technology(ARET)at Bluefield State College (BSC) will strengthen our capacity to continually improve thequality of undergraduate education for students seeking careers and graduate study inarchitecture, engineering and construction (AEC) professions. Implementation of ourcomprehensive technology-based approach will directly improve student opportunities togain access to high quality teaching and learning environments, while increasing both thenumber and diversity of underrepresented students, women

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kimberly Whelan; Sharon Jones

analytical abilities and leadership skills.8 Cranch also suggests that reduced total degree requirements will mean that the remaining science, mathematics, and engineering science courses are rethought, the quality and quantity of laboratory courses increases, and the number of technical elective courses is significantly reduced.8 In addition, the proposed program includes an increased number of humanities and social sciences courses, providing students with both breadth and depth in these areas.8 Along with changing the content of the undergraduate curriculum, Ernst suggests that the method of teaching engineering is also altered so that technical content is no longer isolated from the non-technical context; the two are intertwined

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Current Topics in IE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ozlem Arisoy; Larry Shuman; Katherine Thomes; Bopaya Bidanda

for undergraduate engineering students to spend part of their education in aninternational setting has been greatly increased. However, traditional engineering education andengineering courses typically have not been conducive to ‘study abroad’ type environments.This paper presents a case study where a basic Manufacturing Systems course taught at a campusin the United States within an engineering program has been adapted for teaching as part of theSemester At Sea program. General guidelines for adapting such engineering courses for globalrelevance are also presented. Finally, we show that student learning and student satisfaction didnot suffer (but actually improved).BackgroundThe Semester At Sea Program operated by the Institute for

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Curriculum Topics: Industrial ET/Industrial Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Mativo

Materials, 4th ed., Pacific Grove:CA. Thomson Learning Inc.2. Bodig, J., & Jayne, B.A., 1982, Mechanics of Wood and Wood Composites, New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold.3. U.S. Forest Products Laboratory, www.woodbin.com/ref/wood/strength_table.htm4. Ashby, M. F. & Cebon, D., 2001, Cambridge Engineering Selector: Case Studies in Materials selection, Great Britain: Granta Design Limited.5. Ashby, M. F., 2004, Materials Selection in Mechanical Design, 2nd ed., Great Britain: Butterworth-Heinemann Publication.BiographyDr. John M. Mativo teaches Materials and Product Manufacturing courses at Ohio Northern University.His university teaching experience totals 10 years, six of which he served as

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Programming for Engineering Students

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kishore Sirvole; Jennifer Mullins; Jeff Kaeli; Jason Snook; Hayden Griffin; Vinod Lohani; Jenny Lo

be discussed in this regard. A numberof surveys including a computer attitude survey, Alice pre-and post-test surveys were conductedduring Fall semester to assess the effectiveness of Alice instruction. We’ll briefly discuss ourfindings from the surveys before concluding the paper.Alice Programming SystemThe Alice system, which is provided free of charge (www.alice.org) as a public service byCarnegie Mellon University (CMU), provides a completely new approach to learningprogramming concepts. Alice uses a 3D Interactive Graphics Programming Environment to teachthe fundamental concepts of object-oriented programming. One of the major advantages ofusing Alice is the mitigation of syntax issues in lieu of teaching programming concepts. Asthose

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Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

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John McMasters

their money. Too many are turned off by what is offered. Employers continue to pay the full (often hidden) bill for teaching graduates what they need to know, but are not taught in school. There is a potential major savings for industry in investing early in the educational process, rather than paying the bill later.• Major opportunities for reform exist but remain to be exploited. Significant advances have been made in our knowledge of how people learn and develop, while new teaching methods and curricular organization have been demonstrated1, 2, but have not been widely accepted. Too little has changed in undergraduate engineering education delivery in the past 50 years.Much thought has been devoted in both industry

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bassem Ramadan; Karim Nasr

-time and as encountered. Theoreticalinformation is presented to support the understanding of knowledge as students apply inquiry-based learning. These modules are carefully designed to reflect traditional concepts but mademore exciting as students discover the need for the laws and principles. The paper documentssteps and challenges in implementation and presents formative and summative assessment datafor examining the effectiveness of the PBL approach.Introduction Problem-Based Learning (PBL) is teaching/learning approach which promotes criticalthinking utilizing real-life problems as the starting point. The practicality and relevance of theproblems serve as the motivation for solving them utilizing students as authentic investigators

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Changhong Lin; Ahmed Abdalla; Wayne Wolf

efficient use of memory, and often operate at low power levels. This paper describes our approach to teaching operat- ing system concepts in an embedded computing course, including some important aspects of embedded operating systems as well as lectures and labs we developed using Windows CE as an example embedded operating system.1 IntroductionEmbedded computing systems must often perform multiple complex tasks that require the media-tion of an operating system. Operating systems are complex objects that programmers and systemdesigners rely on to perform many functions. When designing embedded systems, the operatingsystem plays a somewhat different role and system designers

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Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jane Rohrback; Donald Carpenter; Lisa Anneberg; Andrew Gerhart

handles the planning, administrativeand promotion of the Exploration Days.The Exploration Days consist of high school students spending a half day on our campus duringa normal school day. During their time on campus, the high school students experience thevarious disciplines (or sub-disciplines) of engineering through a combination of presentations,interactive demonstrations, laboratory experiences, and hand’s-on activities. Depending on theexploration event, sessions have included utilizing a three dimensional river model to explorewatershed processes, demonstrations by the Mini-Baja and Formula SAE competition teams,destructive testing of concrete beams, ballistics experiments, programming of electrical circuitboards, and building a small

Conference Session

Experiences with Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Christensen; Scott Dunning

, American Society for Engineering Education”A final common challenge for faculty is to provide “hands-on” experience with new technologywhile teaching core concepts. Typically, this challenge is addressed through the inclusion oflaboratory sessions that reinforce concepts taught in lecture. Unfortunately, the laboratories havea tendency to be scientifically-oriented and are often completed on equipment that is notcommon to industry. Experiments are designed to minimize thee effect of assumptions on thestudents’ analysis of the experiment. This is an effective way to demonstrate a concept, but itdoes not represent a typical industrial environment.3The AMC SolutionThe AMC program was designed to meet all three challenges while also fulfilling the

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Computer & Web-Based Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brianno Coller

Page 10.136.7 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationinterface device (hid) compliant. There is no support for force feedback steering wheelsyet. TORCS provides a built in tool for calibrating joysticks/steering wheels.5. ClosingIn a recent article on the role of computing in education, G.V. Wilson writes [8]: Good computing practice is just as important to physical scientists and engineers today as good laboratory practice and sound mathematics. My experience has been that it takes a few months to teach a physicist, geologist, or biochemist enough to make a big difference in her

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Sherwood; Stacy Klein-Gardner

Gender Equitable Curricula in High School Science and Engineering Stacy S. Klein1, 2, 3,4, Robert D. Sherwood, 4 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN / 2University School, Nashville, TN / 3Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN / 4Department of Teaching and Learning, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TNAbstractAs part of a Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) supplement to the VaNTH EngineeringResearch Center for Bioengineering Educational Technologies (www.vanth.org), aninterdisciplinary group of secondary teachers and college faculty have

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Innovative Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chris Graunke; Jeffrey Will; Peter Johnson

advanceshave increased since that time, albeit slowly. Important advances include Christopher Dede’sapplication of visualization hardware to general scientific concepts [5] and the teaching ofelectromagnetics in particular with the well-known MaxwellWorld [6]. Other applicationsinclude education of elementary school students in basic zoological concepts at Georgia Tech [7,8], the NICE project for elementary education at the University of Illinois at Chicago [9]-[11],and engineering education research at East Carolina University [12]. This paper describes work done to study subjects in a statics class taught at ValparaisoUniversity as to the development of their ability to visualize in 3D. Four different media wereexplored, from paper-and

Conference Session

Computer & Web-Based Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Rhode; Allen Jaedike; Michael Hennessey

presented. The CAD projects vary widely, e.g. as characterized by the geometric features present in the parts,assembly structure, number of parts in the assembly, overall complexity, physical scale, industry represented, inaddition to coloring and other presentation and viewing issues. The primary purpose of this effort is to elegantlyshowcase the body of quality work generated in a relatively compact manner to permit an enjoyable perusal andreflection that may be of use to others teaching future CAD courses or others, such as students interested in CADwork in a BSME program. In addition, one can see the natural evolution of the course since it was first taught overthe past 3 ½ years. The projects demonstrate the application of CAD knowledge

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Information/Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Paul Chanley; Michael Pelletier

for degrees inElectronic Technology; Fundamentals of Digital Logic is required in several other programs; allthree courses are available as electives in Engineering Science and are highly recommended forstudents in Computer Engineering.Prior to the fall, 2004 semester, Fundamentals of Digital Logic included an introduction to digitallogic design using Karnaugh maps, yet the accompanying Digital Logic Lab did not includelogic design. Also prior to fall, 2004 in the laboratory portion of Digital Electronics, there weresome labs where Karnaugh maps were used to design simplified circuits (limited to 4 inputvariables) which were then built with TTL logic chips.Fundamentals of Digital LogicFundamentals of Digital Logic covers Boolean algebra

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Genalo

. D. in Applied Mathematics with Systems Engineering emphasis in 1977, served as Chair forFreshman Programs and DELOS Divisions, and runs the Toying With TechnologySM Program at Iowa State.CELESTE E. OGRENis a junior in elementary education from Marcus, Iowa. She works in the Toying With TechnologySM Laboratory asan undergraduate teaching/laboratory assistant. Her interests include integrating engineering and technologyconcepts into the elementary education curriculum and helping preservice teachers become more aware of theopportunities available to incorporate these important subject areas into their every day curriculum. Page

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

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2005 Annual Conference

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Elizabeth Thompson; Harold Broberg

Selection of Processor, Language, and Labs in Introductory Microprocessor/Microcontroller Courses Harold L. Broberg, Elizabeth Thompson Indiana University-Purdue University Fort WayneAbstract:The hardware and software used in introductory microprocessor/microcontroller coursesin electrical and computer engineering (ECE) and in electrical and computer engineeringtechnology (ECET) curricula is of general interest to faculty in these disciplines.Information on processors, languages, and laboratories used in teaching fifteen ECE andeleven ECET courses was collected using university/college syllabi and other materialavailable via the Internet. The choices made are presented in

Conference Session

Issues in Digital Signal Processing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

. 4148–4151, May 2002. Paper 4024 (invited).[6] C. H. G. Wright, T. B. Welch, D. M. Etter, and M. G. Morrow, “Teaching DSP: Bridging the gap from theory to real-time hardware,” ASEE Comput. Educ. J., vol. XIII, pp. 14–26, July 2003.[7] T. B. Welch, C. H. G. Wright, and M. G. Morrow, “Experiences in offering a DSP-based com- munication laboratory,” in Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Digital Signal Processing Workshop and the 3rd IEEE Signal Processing Education Workshop, (Taos, NM (USA)), Aug. 2004.[8] Texas Instruments, Inc., “C6713 DSK,” 2004. http://focus.ti.com/docs/toolsw/folders/ print/tmdsdsk6713.html.MICHAEL G. MORROW, P.E., is a Faculty Associate in the Department of Electrical and Computer En-gineering at the University of

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ganesh Venayagamoorthy

DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COURSE FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy Real-Time Power and Intelligent Systems Laboratory Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Missouri – Rolla, MO 65409, USA gkumar@ieee.orgAbstractThis paper presents the design, implementation and experiences of a new three hourexperimental course taught for a joint undergraduate and graduate class at the University ofMissouri-Rolla, USA. This course is unique in the sense that it covers the four main paradigmsof Computational Intelligence (CI) and their

Conference Session

Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Lagace; Earll Murman

THESIS MATHEMATICS CONTEXT – Industrial Experience Figure 1 – Representation of Aero-Astro Program in Aircraft Systems EngineeringThe System Design and Management (SDM) program is designed to educate technicallygrounded leaders for enterprises concerned with complex products and systems. The degreetherefore requires and builds upon strong disciplinary backgrounds with the curriculum stressingfundamentals through the teaching of relevant concepts and tools. The overall program, as Page 10.143.3represented in Figure 2, builds upon a curriculum that combines technical

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Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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James Higley; Jana Whittington; Joy Colwell

New Text Adopted New Software Teaching Method New Laboratory Equipment Lab Material Update Teaching Initiative Other Description of Condition Prior to / After Update: Rick Rickerson and Jim Higley each taught this course this semester, and all data is pooled. We tried modifying the class project to have the individual groups pick topics, and it went well. There was a good variety of projects. We'll do this again next semester. Assessment Method Used to Evaluate Short or Long Term Results: Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering

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TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lennard Lema; Zbigniew Prusak; Peter Baumann

, structures and systems. All three programs providerelevant applied experience within the academic environment through laboratory and classroomprojects and experimentation. The programs also provide elective relevant industrial experiencevia cooperative education. The mission of the programs differ within the specialization by focuson thermodynamics, design and development, or CNC programming, production planning andquality control, or structures, project management and supervision.The Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (TAC of ABET) TC2K criteria calls for a continuous quality improvement plan. Inresponse the faculty and Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) for the engineering technologyprograms

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Mentoring Graduate Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Fisher; Stephen Thompson; Jed Lyons

material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.0086427. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the authors.Biographical InformationDr. Lyons is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Carolina and the Directorof the South Carolina Center for Engineering and Computing Education. He teaches laboratories, design, andmaterials science to undergraduates, graduate students and K-12 teachers. He researches engineering education,plastics and composites. He is the principal investigator for the GK-12 program.Dr. Fisher is a Research Associate in the College of Education’s Office of Program Evaluation. He received his PhDin

Conference Session

New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan; Madara Ogot

students attribute to it. A component of course quality is thedelivery or presentation of the course content. This study focused on developing strategies toimprove this aspect of course quality. Often in engineering, instructors focus more on what theybelieve is good for the students (and they are often correct), but do not adequately take intoaccount the students’ point of view on the instructional delivery methods and the entireeducational experience. This often results in gaps or mismatches between student expectationsand learning preferences, and faculty expectations and teaching preferences. Stedinger [1] illustrates how these gaps can be overcome if faculty members helpstudents to better articulate what is working and not working for

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ChE Department and Faculty Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerri Burke; William Krantz; Joel Fried

applications. The goals of thisREU Site program are the following: • To provide a motivational research experience for promising undergraduates • To encourage women, minorities, and physically disadvantaged students to pursue graduate studies • To expose undergraduates to exciting research challenges in membrane science and technology • To facilitate the learning of research methods, laboratory skills, safety awareness, critical thinking, problem solving, research ethics, organizational skills, and oral and written communication skills • To provide an enjoyable and meaningful social/cultural program for the students • To provide financial support for undergraduate students during the summer • To couple

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Dahm

10.1361.1Apparatus and procedures for each of these experiments have been completed andpresented in previous NSF Grantee’s Poster sessions. In the spring of 2005, for the first Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationtime, both experiments will be integrated into the undergraduate chemical reactionengineering course. This paper will describe the use of the experiments in the classroom.IntroductionThe pedagogy of teaching chemical reaction engineering is continually advancingthrough the use of new computational tools such as POLYMATH and MATLAB;interactive computer applications; and a new emphasis in

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Improving Statics and Dynamics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Baker

; Exposition, American Society for Engineering Education, (2000).2 Pardue, S., and Darvennes, C., “A Modular Approach to Vibrations”, Proceedings of the2001 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, American Society for EngineeringEducation, (2001).3 Murphy, K., and Orabi, I., “Structural Response in the Frequency Domain UsingLabview”, Proceedings of the 2001 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, AmericanSociety for Engineering Education, (2001).4 D’Souza, S., Scott, N.W., and Stone, B.J., “A Student Controlled Two-Degree ofFreedom Vibration Laboratory”, Proceedings of the 1998 ASEE Annual Conference &Exposition, American Society for Engineering Education, (1998).5 Kukreti, A., “Use of a Small-Scale Models Testing Laboratory to Teach

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ME Education Poster Session

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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

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Industrial Collaborations

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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