Conference Session

Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Pastirik; Michael Robertson; William Singhose; Joshua Vaughan; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

appreciation of the skills required to construct acompetitive machine for the end-of-course competition. The main goal of the summer, however,was to allow him to determine if and how the Georgia Tech course content could fit into thelearning objectives of the physics curriculum.Mousetrap Car CompetitionDuring the Fall Semester, the physics teacher and the STEP Fellow adapted an older version ofthe Georgia Tech design competition as a six-week student project. Prior to the 2000-2001school year, the ME 2110 competition limited the students to mousetraps and gravity as energysources. In the high school competition, the goal was to design a car powered by mousetrapsthat would travel a specified distance and stop on a target. Students were grouped into

Conference Session

BME Technical Modules and Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Warren; Jason Yao

describes how this device and it features have been applied in classroom environmentsto stimulate student learning. Several examples are introduced in detail, including (a) a pulseoximetry laboratory/lecture pair for a bioinstrumentation course sequence, (b) data sources forcourse projects in Linear Systems (EECE 512) and Scientific Computing (EECE 840), and (c) aplatform upon which undergraduate honors research students can build. This approach can beextended to other devices and classes.II. Theory – Principles of Pulse OximetryPPG pulse oximetry relies on the fractional change in light absorption due to arterial pulsations.In a typical configuration, light at two different wavelengths illuminating one side of tissue (e.g.,a finger) will be

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fong Mak; Stephen Frezza

Goals and Methods of Electrical Conversion Chap 1 switching converters Review of Fourier Series Appendix E Power Semiconductors Chap 2 Homework or projects Class notes B) AC-DC Converter Diode Circuits Chap 3 Rectifier Appendix D Thyristor Chap 7 Controlled Rectifier

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Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Adams; William Manion

When Less is Mor e: Integr ating Technical Wr iting Instr uction in a Lar ge, Fir st-Year Engineer ing Cour se William P. Manion and David Adams Univer sity of Maine Abstr act Providing technical writing instruction within a large, first-year engineering course involves both logistical and imaginative challenges but can also yield substantive results. In the fall of 2003, the University of Maine initiated a new plan, called the Engineering Communication Project (ECP), to integrate technical writing instruction throughout the College of Engineering

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Maughmer

reports that we submitted to Boeing.Around the time that our summer fellowships ended, the National Academy of Engineeringreleased their report on The Ingenious Engineer of 2020.1 The NAE also used scenarios on agrand scale. One related to the effects of continued automation and commercialized bio-nanotechnology on a corporate lifestyle. One visualized a natural disaster – a tsunami caused byan asteroid impact, devastating the Pacific Northwest – brought home all too vividly by thecatastrophe in Asia at the end of 2004. A third envisaged global conflict with weapons of massdestruction. Our project is much less ambitious in scope, and is focused on how aerospaceengineering undergraduates must be educated starting this year. We note that the

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elias Faraclas; Catherine Koehler

The Engineering Decision Making Model: Its Importance as Applied through the Context of a World War II Simulation Elias W. Faraclas1 & Catherine Koehler2 1 School of Engineering, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering 2 Neag School of Education, Department of Curriculum & Instruction University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06268Abstract The NSF sponsored Galileo Project, at the University of Connecticut, aims to bringengineering education and experiences to high school level classrooms and curriculum. Inattempting to

Conference Session

Measuring Perceptions of Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Thompson; Jed Lyons

A Study Examining Change in Underrepresented Student Views of Engineering as a Result of Working with Engineers in the Elementary Classroom Stephen Thompson and Jed Lyons University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208 sthompson@sc.eduAbstractThis paper describes the results of a National Science Foundation sponsored Graduate TeachingFellows in K-12 Education project that was designed to increase elementary students’understanding of engineering, with an ultimate goal of increasing the probability of futureinvolvement in engineering fields. This project

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rasoul Saneifard

robot (“Tigerbot”). This robot has the ability to roam, avoid obstacles without human intervention, and is speech capable. The authors demonstrate how machines can be designed to be aware of their surroundings and adapt accordingly. In the future, artificial intelligence concepts employed in this project may be applied in the design of other machines that would assist humans in performing common household chores. This article represents efforts by students implementing knowledge acquired in a Capstone Senior Project course.IntroductionThe basic electronic transistor has steadily become smaller with a corresponding increase incapability due to the advancement of technology in the world of electronics. It

Conference Session

IP, Incubation, and Business Plans

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Archibald; Michelle Clauss; James Dupree

engineering students and one or two businessstudents. They work together on the project during both the fall and spring semesters. Aformal business plan is developed and submitted to the Annual Business PlanCompetition near the middle of the spring semester. The plan is presented to judges frombusinesses near the end of the semester. Entrepreneurial topics are taught in requiredcoursework, including the fall and spring semester Capstone Design courses andEngineering Economy. Topics specific to writing a business plan are included in thelatter course. Many students also take a one-credit course on writing business planswhich is offered by the Business Department. Results of the competition indicate thesuccess of the program. In 2004, mechanical

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Orono; Stephen Ekwaro-Osire

following example of application represents only the firstphase of the evolutionary design paradigm, the one of information recovery. The choice of themachine used is flexible – preferably one with a good balance of mechanical, electrical, andchemical components. For these reasons, the authors chose a two-cycle gas weed trimmer. Thismakes it easier to introduce the freshmen to the interdisciplinary nature of engineering design.Currently, the authors are implementing this paradigm at IUPUI.6.2. Course arrangement The reverse engineering project was introduced as a hands-on project in freshman course“Introduction to Engineering”. The course has three parts, which include Matlab, Pro/Engineer,and electrical circuits. The project is arranged in

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Mohammadzadeh

Session 3666 Design of a Low capacity Evaporator of a Refrigeration Unit Alireza Mohammadzadeh Padnos School of Engineering Grand Valley State UniversityOverviewThis project has been assigned to students in their first course in thermodynamics, in anattempt to satisfy the ABET requirement of enhancing the design contents of engineeringcourses. Although, refrigeration cycle is studied in thermodynamics classes andtextbooks1, 2, 3 the details regarding the performance of each component of the cycle andits effect on the other parts of the refrigeration system is

Conference Session

TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramesh Narang

Industry stakeholders Co-op employer Course-Level Employer survey Course Learning Outcomes Graduate survey Graduate exit IET204 IET224 IET267 IET310 survey a1 a3 a2 a3 Capstone b b b b project c f d c evaluation e h f d Course f k g e assessment g i f summaries k

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rodney Handy; Kevin Schmaltz; Robert Choate

graduate student in environmental science, as well as two mechanical engineering facultymembers and an environmental science faculty member. The students participated in all phasesof the project from initial site visit to report completion and follow-up.The facility of concern manufactured a fluff pulp and super absorbent polymer product. Toassure product quality, a relative humidity range between 30 and 50 percent was required.Relative humidity conditions well above the 50% maximum value were experienced during thesummer months due to a significant negative pressure differential induced by process equipmentinside the facility. A quantification of the problem and potential solutions were sought toprovide better overall control of the facility

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ochs

such grant, from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,focuses on the development of an entrepreneurship minor open to all undergraduates,including all engineering students. The sixteen-credit minor has been developed and willbe implemented by a cross-disciplinary faculty committee with faculty representativesfrom engineering, business, arts and sciences, the Integrated Product DevelopmentProgram (IPD) [Refs 1-4], the Integrated Business and Engineering Program (IBE) andthe graduate MBA vSeries seminars on new venture creation. The undergraduate minorprogram consists of four new courses and one existing prerequisite. The pedagogicalapproach is project based experiential learning, with support from the University’s SmallBusiness Development Center

Conference Session

Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

D'Arcy Randall; Hillary Hart

engineering faculty, who typicallyresist the kind of course content associated with liberal arts. Grose also notes a complementary“hurdle” of humanities and social science professors’ reluctance to form interdisciplinary teamswith engineers.At the University of Texas at Austin, however, humanities-trained faculty in the College ofEngineering are joining forces to create teaching modules that could be used not only in theirown communications courses, but also in technical classes by their engineer colleagues. Funded by the Chair of Free Enterprise, the Professional Responsibility Modules forEngineering (PRiME) project aims to facilitate the integration of such topics as Ownership ofInformation, Credibility of Sources, Teamwork, and Leadership into

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven York; Lynn Nystrom; Elizabeth Joyce; Michael Gregg; Richard Goff; Jeffrey Connor

experimental approach. A significant challenge in providingthese activities to approximately 1,200 students per year is paying for the materials. Over theyears the Department of Engineering Education (formerly the Division of EngineeringFundamentals) has relied upon the generosity of the Student Engineers’ Council to provide alarge percentage of the money needed to buy supplies for these projects.This paper discusses and details the significant contribution that the Student Engineers’ Councilhas made to the first year engineering program at Virginia Tech over the years, including howthey have raised tens of thousands of dollars each year and what freshman projects the moneyhas supported.Background of the SECThe Student Engineers' Council (SEC) was

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bryan Laffitte; David Ollis

‘Nintendo’ and fuel-injection has created a ‘black box’ syndromeamong incoming students. Although there are a few particularly gifted students who roseto the occasion and learned to ‘hack’ their way into the hermetically sealed objects oftheir youth, and can now function well in both the design school and the engineering lab,most educators find this a difficult gap to bridge. Within the Design College, thissituation has tended to result in student projects that fall short of achieving maximumresults in terms of products technical aspect. There are also instances where the technicalconcept of a student’s project may be possible, or even innovative, but it is difficult toconfirm this with certainty. The present NSF-sponsored development allows

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cheryl Willis; Susan Miertschin

Information TechnologyPrograms being developed through the Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC) of ABET.While higher education faculty have recognized the need for individuals with skills related toteaming by incorporating content about teaming into courses and by requiring students tocomplete team projects, it is a challenge to create for students an electronic collaborationenvironment resembling what they may encounter in a modern workplace.Modern workplaces incorporate technologies that enable high speed sharing of information andprovide workers with mobile information devices and wireless access to communicationnetworks. Because of these enabling technologies, virtual workplaces are more and morecommon. A virtual workplace is comprised of

Conference Session

Mechanics, Machine Design & Mechanisms

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Baker

as either ME-599 or ME-699. The difference inrequirements is that students taking it as ME-699 must select a research oriented courseproject which requires a seminar offered to the rest of the class. ME-599 students areassigned a less intensive project, and do not provide a seminar. In the first courseoffering in Spring, 2004, there were seven undergraduate students enrolled in Paducah,three undergraduates in Lexington, and six graduate students in Lexington.II. Course Description and GoalsThis course includes both theory and application for various computer-based methods foranalyzing mechanical systems. The primary software tools used are ANSYS andMATLAB. It is not necessary that a student have previous background in FEA, or inusing the

Conference Session

Capacity Building: Engineering for Development & Megatrends

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russel Jones

successfully piloted an ambitious entrepreneurshipprogram for a group of its students, consisting of formal instruction and an internship with a successfulMoldovan entrepreneur. This paper describes the project and the place of the program within theframework of the new International Center for Entrepreneurship in Moldova. The authors present thisreport with reference to the challenges of teaching entrepreneurship in a former soviet socialist republic,one which today is struggling to find its feet in the fast moving global economy.Introduction: The Republic of MoldovaEntrepreneurship education has taken on a new role in the past several years, as the internationaldevelopment community has begun to realize its importance in rebuilding and reorienting

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Turner; Joseph Hoffbeck

immediatefeedback on whether they have correctly understood the theory, and allows the students to beactive learners. An example project is described that allows the students to implement the audioprocessing tasks of flanging, chorusing, and reverb without any programming, and allows thestudents to hear the results in real-time.Background Digital signal processing (DSP), like many courses in engineering, is very theoretical andmathematical, yet has many practical and interesting applications. Often the course is taught in adeductive style where the general theories are presented and then applications of the theories areexplored. Until they study the applications, many students find it difficult to follow themathematical presentation of the theory

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Moeller; Margaret Pinnell; Bernard Amadei; Angela Bielefeldt; Robyn Sandekian

relating technology and science to society or human needs at Worcester PolytechnicInstitute10. At some institutions, students completed service-learning projects in farawaycountries, while others tackled projects in local communities.Workshop attendees reiterated the importance of conveying the message to students that“developing communities” are not just “over there.” Students need to realize that a large numberof people struggle to meet their basic needs even in the largest cities in the United States.In fact, according to Anthony Cortese11, President and Co-Founder of Second Nature, 90% of theU.S. economy focuses on meeting people's wants, not their needs. At the same time, the world isdealing with the following vital issues

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Soled; Laura Koehl; Nicholas Harth

Move and Shake: A Hands-on Activity Connecting Engineering to the Everyday World for Secondary Students Laura A. Koehl, Suzanne W. Soled and Nicholas B. Harth, Colleges of Education and Engineering, University of CincinnatiAbstract One of the main goals of Project STEP (Science and Technology EnhancementProgram) is to design, develop, and implement hands-on activities and technology-driveninquiry-based projects, which relate to the students’ community issues, as vehicles toauthentically teach science, mathematics, engineering and technology skills. The Moversand Shakers Lesson Plan was a three-part activity that helped students connectengineering principles to the design of buildings that

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ahlgren

his colleague Igor M. Verner have assessed the educationalimpact of the contest through an annual survey; assessment results have been reported in[2] – [6] for example. In [6] Professor Verner described a change in the goals of thesurvey and discussed survey validity: The survey goals have moved from a focus on general information and contestant feedback about their robot projects to analyzing and evaluating learning experiences and outcomes. The survey validity has been increased through the following actions: (1) increasing survey population by making it a part of the contest registration procedure, (2) Comparing students’ self-assessment and teachers’ evaluation data, (3) Using a subsequent survey

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Adams

important concepts.Modern farm equipment is “increasingly being controlled by digital electronics, yet manymechanical engineering programs have not incorporated this into the curriculum1". From theeducational standpoint, a physical model may appeal to students more than a graphicalrepresentation.2 Page 10.1352.1The Mindstorm project was developed as a robotics invention system. LEGO began workingwith electric motors as far back as 1962, and by 1977 had a project TECHNIC involving gears Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society

Conference Session

TYCD 2005 Lower Division Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Tackett; Cheng-Hsin Liu; Ken Patton

Session 1526 Curriculum Development for Rapid Prototyping Ken Patton and Paul Cheng-Hsin Liu, Saddleback College/ California State University, Los AngelesAbstractThis project (NSF ATE DUE 0302314) is in its last year of a three-year project. It was fundedJuly 1, 2001. The focus of the grant is to develop curriculum to train technicians in the use ofsolid modeling as a “Time Compression” tool to help manufacturers and designers reduce cycletime to market. Curriculum is broken down to modules covering such topics as history,processes

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Dolan

curriculum.To satisfy these objectives, we developed the course around a theme of “The Great DesignChallenge,” a small design project that incorporates multiple facets of design education.The Great Design ChallengeThe selection of a design challenge is a core element of the course. Examples of first year designprojects ranging from detailed engineering design development to reverse engineering tocomprehensive design activities to community service learning experiences have been suggestedas models.1-4 Our evaluation of a methodology for introducing design considered these optionsin detail and also considered the USP intellectual community requirements, the multidisciplinarymakeup of our class, budgetary restraints both for the course and for the

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marie Johnson; Jason Lynch; Michael Butkus

exercises, and course projects are associatedacross the program using this framework are provided. By presenting environmental engineeringtopics oriented along a common theme that is known by the student and reinforced throughoutthe program of study, these students will be better equipped to solve complex, environmentallyrelated problems and better prepared for specialization in future graduate studies.Introduction Founded in 1802, the United States Military Academy (West Point) was the nation’s firstengineering school. Over the years as missions and requirements changed West Point broadenedits academic diversity and is no longer strictly an engineering school and today offers majors in31 different academic disciplines that culminate in a

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Sterian; Bruce Dunne; Andrew Blauch

to conductsignificant course projects that go beyond simulation to involve actual design and build.Our experiences indicate that teaching C programming is a good choice for engineering students.In order to justify our choice, we describe the evolution of programming instruction in ourcurriculum from low-level languages to higher-level languages to object-oriented approaches.We had found that teaching a low-level language has limited scope (i.e., it must be processorspecific) and consumes too much class time while teaching an object-oriented language yieldslimited skills. Others have shared our concern that an introductory programming course usingJava to develop GUI’s, for example, does not develop necessary skills in algorithmic problem

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fanyu Zeng

courses. Then they will take a specially designed Microsoft Office core course toconcentrate on Microsoft Office Suite software including Microsoft Word, Excel, Access,PowerPoint, Outlook and Project. After that they will have to revisit these contents inother coursers so that they will be directed to some difficult topics in Microsoft OfficeSuite software. The program will provide students with a series of CIS courses to coverevery aspect of Microsoft Office Suite software. Another key component in this programis to offer students the opportunities to learn how to integrate Microsoft Office Suitesoftware to develop their technical skills to a higher level.The ultimate goal of this enhanced CIS curriculum is to help college students reach ahigher