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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Kelly; Theodore A. Bickart; Pamela Suett

Session xxxx Incorporating Standards in Capstone Design Courses William E. Kelly, Theodore A. Bickart, Pamela Suett The Catholic University of America/ Colorado School of Mines/ The American National Standards InstituteIntroductionThe ABET Criteria for Engineering programs require students to incorporate engineeringstandards in the culminating design experience; recent changes continue thisrequirement.1 The United States National Standards Strategy (NSS) calls for increasedefforts to educate future leaders in engineering, business and public policy on the valueand

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Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

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Georgios Anagnostopoulos

since 1976. This effort, through theactive involvement of a targeted group of affiliate Universities, will address some of these needs.3. MethodologyEMD-MLR’s main approach is to involve undergraduate students into Student Design Project(SDP) teams with each team working on an individual machine learning project with a definiteresearch orientation. The term “SDP” refers to senior design projects in engineering disciplinesor capstone course in computer science disciplines. Each team consists of 4 undergraduatestudents (3 from a group of seniors at FIT or UCF and one sophomore student from BCC andSSC, respectively). Each SDP team is advised weekly by at least one EMD-MLR faculty and, ifneeded, will is more frequently by a Ph.D. student mentor

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Capstone/Design Projects: Information/Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Samuel Colwell; Richard Warren; Rich Warren

verify its functionality. For the next two to three weeks, the students are givenprescribed labs to perform with their trainers. These labs get the students to use the pushbuttons,the PWM module, the A/D module, the EEPROM, and the LCD. The remainder of the semester(about four weeks) the students are allowed to develop their own projects that must meet somebasic criteria. While the entire experience with the PIC microcontroller was exciting for thestudents, this phase brought out the most enthusiasm amongst the students. Students who hadshown little interest in the labs prior to working with the PIC showed great excitement andmotivation when allowed to create their own project. Having the seniors show their projects toother underclassmen also

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Capstone/Design Projects: Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Robert Mueller

the necessary temperatures with less lower power as compared to heating atatmospheric pressure. This paper presents the design and implementation of a vacuum furnaceautomation project that was done as an Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology capstonesenior design project. The automation was designed for a vacuum furnace that previously hadonly manual controls. The upgrade included additional instrumentation and a LabVIEW HMIfor process monitoring and control, data collection, and recipe entry. This project wassupervised by the Electro-Optics Center of Penn State University’s Applied ResearchLaboratory.Senior Project CourseThe senior project is a capstone project course taken in the final term of the 4-year Bachelor ofScience in

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Capstone/Design Projects: Information/Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Paul Chanley; Michael Pelletier

. Eachstudent is required to submit individual lab reports. This combination of hands-on lab work withcourse lectures strengthens the students’ knowledge in basic digital logic circuits.Changes in Digital Logic LabThe most significant changes to the Digital Logic Lab were the introduction of both designprojects and design assignments. In the fall of 2004, two design projects were given in thesemester. The process of deductive learning was implemented by introducing a specific designproject. Over the course of the semester, various experiments were studied and then used as Page 10.480.1Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education

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Capstone/Design Projects: Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael E. Hay; Recayi Pecen

create a stable energy future for the state of Iowa. Local industries suchas Deere and Company, WBM Marine of Waterloo, Square-D Inc, and Rockwell-Collins Inc.also support the project.This paper describes detailed design and construction of a solar-electric powered boat. Thisincludes sub-systems such as; a fiberglass hull, an electromechanical drive system, pulse-widthmodulated (PWM) based speed control, and custom made photovoltaic cell modules usingcommercially available cells. The project has been an excellent asset to the capstone seniordesign class offered for the EIET and Manufacturing Technology majors at UNI. Studentsinvolved in the project have gained knowledge and skills in electrical and mechanical areas.They also improved their

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Capstone/Design Projects: Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Andrew Vavreck; Rebecca Strzelec

for Engineering Educationcampus is one of four campuses of Penn State to offer a BS in EMET, and at Altoona, theprogram emphasizes manufacturing and automation.1 The students gain skills in a wide varietyof technologies and have available state-of-the-art laboratories, including CAD, controls, andautomation. A machine shop and projects area are also available. The projects area is used forannual student design competitions, including SAE Mini Baja and the ASME Student DesignContest and for student projects as part of the EMET capstone design course.One of the most useful tools students have to help with the development of their capstone designprojects or student design competitions is the fused deposition modeling (FDM) system. TheFDM allows

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Capstone/Design Projects: Information/Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Loker

students with some text instructions already pre-coded to generate the appropriate HEX codes. This would help the students have more time tofocus on applications.An additional recommendation for this project would be to replace the remote computer with amicrocontroller that has a serial port for interfacing to a Bluetooth device. Softwaredevelopment for the microcontroller could be achieved by using assembly language or a higher-level programming language. However, it may also be necessary to provide pre-codedinstructions to help reduce the level of difficulty and time needed for programming themicrocontroller.Finally, this project could also be expanded into a capstone design project by utilizing the aboverecommendations and many Bluetooth

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Capstone/Design Projects: Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Scott Danielson; Jerry Gintz

automationinto their capstone projects. Capstone, a senior year project course, is intended to integrateelements of the student’s academic program into a single comprehensive project. The project,typically solicited from local industry, is an actual manufacturing problem requiring aninnovative solution, allowing the students an opportunity to demonstrate their understanding ofmanufacturing competencies. Introduction to Automation, MET 451, provides the students theskills necessary to evaluate and, when practical, integrate automated solutions when resolvingthe complexities of their Capstone project.MET 451 Laboratory WorkstationThe laboratory component of MET 451, Introduction to Automation, utilizes specially designedworkstations to provide students a

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Estell; Juliet Hurtig

. Page 10.1360.3 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationIV. Fall Quarter: Senior Design SeminarThe senior capstone project is not the student’s first exposure to formal design work; however, itdoes challenge students to draw from all of their previous coursework and complete a design thatis large enough in scope to require a team effort and a six-month time period. To begin thiscapstone process, there is a two-credit hour fall quarter course, ECCS 404: Senior DesignSeminar, which meets once a week for a 50-minute lecture. The two key course objectives are: • Participate on a team design

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Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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H. Jung; Anthony de Sam Lazaro; Amanie Abdelmessih

An Integrated Concept-to-Prototype Capstone Design Experience Amanie N. Abdelmessih, Ph.D., Anthony de Sam Lazaro, Ph.D., Isaac H. Jung, Ph.D., PE Mechanical Engineering Department Saint Martin’s School of Engineering Lacey, WA 98503-1297AbstractThe objective of the two-semester Capstone/senior design program, at Saint Martin’sMechanical Engineering Department, is to prepare student- engineers for the workforce byhaving them participate fully on a design team to solve an open-ended real-world design problem.Students design, then build/assemble their project. For the senior design project

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Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steven Reyer; Stephen Williams; Owe Petersen

competition concerns.Our “course within a course” style also includes guest specialists working with the students ontopics such as safety, ethics, standards, resume and interviewing techniques, and evenprofessional behavior. A “trade show” with a prototype and poster competition completes thecourse’s professional experiences. Employer response to the efforts has been very positive andencouraging.I. IntroductionThroughout the Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (EE) program at MSOE, design isstrongly integrated into many courses. These projects are generally short-term, and involveindividual or two-student teams. The projects lead to the major capstone design experience,Senior Design, which is a three-quarter course sequence: EE-407/8/9

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ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Gregory Davis; Craig Hoff

2005-2130 The Integration of Hands-on Team Projects into an Engineering Course to Help Students Make the Transition from Student to Professional Engineer Craig J. Hoff, and Gregory W. Davis, Kettering UniversityThere is considerable concern that current engineering education practices do notadequately prepare students for the practice of engineering. This statement goes farbeyond the often stated requirements that to be successful in their careers engineeringgraduates must have good communication skills, must be able to work inmultidisciplinary teams, etc. There

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ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kendrick Aung

capstone classes for the last three years in theDepartment of Mechanical Engineering at Lamar University. The paper presented difficultiesand problems encountered in completing these projects from the viewpoints of both instructorand students. Each project and the problems associated with it were discussed in details. Theexperiences and lessons learned from these projects are applicable to most capstone designprojects and thus, the paper will be beneficial to other instructors teaching capstone designclasses.Introduction Senior capstone design classes represent the penultimate experience for undergraduatestudents in completing their bachelor degree. These classes require higher learning skillsinvolving analysis and synthesis of knowledge and

Conference Session

Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Hochstein; William Janna

FRESHMAN-SENIOR COLLABORATION IN A CAPSTONE DESIGN COURSE John I. Hochstein, William S. Janna Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Memphis Memphis TN 38152ABSTRACTAn innovative capstone design course titled “Design of Fluid Thermal Systems,” involves groupsof seniors working on various semester-long design projects. Groups are composed of 3, 4 or 5members that bid competitively on various projects. Once projects are awarded, freshmen enrolledin the “Introduction to Mechanical Engineering” course are assigned to work with the senior designteams

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Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mohamed El-Sayed; Lucy King; Matthew Sanders; Jacqueline El-Sayed

recently taken. Traditionally, at Kettering University, eachdepartment conducts its own capstone experience within the confines of the discipline. In the lastfew years, a few engineering faculty members from ME and Manufacturing programs atKettering University have been cross-training engineering students from Manufacturing andMechanical engineering programs to work as interdisciplinary teams. For example, (1) Roboticsand Machine Components Design (MCD) courses had a common project in designing,fabricating and implementing a robotic gripper in the assembly of flashlights;4 (2) Automationand Design of Experiments had a common project in designing the experiments to producemachining parameter values for the best quality of a turned workpart. (3) An

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DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steven Beyerlein

Role of Axiomatic Design in Teaching Capstone Courses Edwin Odom, Steven Beyerlein, Christopher A. Brown, Daniel Drew, Lloyd Gallup, Sam Zimmerman, and Jeremy Olberding University of Idaho/Worcester Polytechnic InstituteAbstractHelping undergraduate engineering students learn effective design practices that are applicable tothe modern workplace is one of the most complex challenges of engineering education. Onestrategy to help students master open-ended design projects is to use a systematic process.However, students often want to jump past the front end of the design process and thiscompromises the quality of the final product. This paper examines the suitability of

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Nathan Dees; Megan Perkey; Karen Davis; Nicholas Harth

Session 1510 STEPing into the Classroom: An Alternative Capstone Experience Karen C. Davis, Megan L. Perkey, Nicholas B. Harth, Nathan Dees Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH 45221-0030This paper describes the experiences of three Electrical Engineering seniors who chose analternative to a traditional capstone design project; they applied their undergraduateengineering education in high school math and science classrooms as NSF STEPFellows. Project STEP: Science and Technology Enhancement Program is sponsored bythe

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International Developments & Collaborations

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2005 Annual Conference

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Donald Harby; Yuyi Lin

chipbased logic controller, PLC and general purpose CNC controllers with application examples arepresented.Students who have taken this course welcome such a totally different approach. In a typicalmechanical engineering curriculum in Asian countries, teachers and students spend much longertime in studying sub system design. For example, Machine Element Design course will contain aweek long project to design a speed reducer in great detail. A jig design project will be includedin a Manufacturing technology course which not only teaches detailed step by step processplanning but also special tool design for the established process. When the students and facultycome to the capstone design, it is more an integration process to pull together and

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steven Northrup

A Need for Developing Continuous Improvement Plans for Capstone Project Management – Both Students and Faculty will Benefit Steven G. Northrup Western New England College snorthru@wnec.eduAbstractOne of the most important shifts in engineering education, brought about by the adoption of theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology’s (ABET’s ) Engineering Criteria 2000, isthe framework of continuous improvement. Department-level self-evaluation narratives addressusing feedback to monitor and improve the education process and thereby improve the students’learning outcomes

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Pedagogy

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Pezeshki

Session 2566 Managing a Capstone Design Clinic—Strategies for Pedagogic and Financial Success Dr. Charles Pezeshki School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-2920 pezeshki@wsu.eduMany ABET-certified programs in mechanical engineering have a team-orientedpracticum involving projects generated by outside industrial sponsors that are supportersof the university. A smaller subset of these programs are financially successful, andgenerate

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kevin Bower; Timothy Mays

attitude and personality driven, a significant component involves the appropriateunderstanding and expectations of members representing other engineering disciplines that workon the same design project. The Citadel in Charleston, SC is a military college with traditionalcivil and electrical engineering programs. Traditionally, ocean and marine engineering subjectcontent has only been introduced in a few classes as related to faculty experience. During theirfinal semester, students select and take one of four Capstone courses that include (1) structural,(2) environmental, (3) transportation, and (4) site development. Students in these courses worktogether on multidisciplinary teams to design roadways, subdivisions, buildings, bridges, and awater

Conference Session

IP, Incubation, and Business Plans

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2005 Annual Conference

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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

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Accreditation

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kenneth Brannan; Kevin Bower

Implementing Self-Directed Problem Based Learning in a Multidisciplinary Environmental Engineering Capstone Class Kevin C. Bower and Kenneth P. Brannan Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering The CitadelAbstractThe Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Citadel offers three differentcapstone classes during the second semester senior year. In an effort to meet ABET 2004-2005Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs Criterion 3(d) requiring students to work in multi-disciplinary teams, the department has developed an artificial project that incorporates a “real-world” feel and integrates the three disciplines

Conference Session

Service Learning Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Moeller; Margaret Pinnell; Bernard Amadei; Jay Shah; R. Scott Summers; Angela Bielefeldt; Robyn Sandekian

;www.mines.edu/academic/epics/ values, society & decisions; environment, resources, science & technology; international studies.University of Dayton, OH. Engineering ETHOS provides international service internships as wellin Technical, Humanitarian as through collaborative research and hands-on classroomOpportunities of Service (ETHOS) projects that support the development of appropriatequickplace.udayton.edu/ETHOS technologies for the developing world.Georgia Tech. School of Civil & Courses include: Lab for Sustainable Design & Construc-Environmental Engineering. tion; Sustainable Issues for

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Entrepreneurship, Design, and PBL

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ken Ports

and tools for technology commercialization and entrepreneurship 6. Create start-up, technology-based, revenue-generating ventures that will create jobs in Brevard County, FloridaCourses Supporting the ProgramCourse 1: Senior Design – This is the series of three System Design capstone core courses,beginning with Junior Design in the spring of the Junior year, which focus on conceiving,defining, designing, validating and demonstrating innovative new product ideas. System DesignI and System Design II are taken in the Fall and Spring terms of the senior year. The studentswork on cross-functional teams and learn by participating in and delivering results for businessplanning, new product development, project management, project

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Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

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Donald Peter

all. A separateultrasonic tracking system has also been designed that utilizes two microphone ‘ears’ withaccompanying electronics to provide the capability of determining the direction of an ultrasonicbeacon. Each robot can then utilize this information to influence how to act – whether to follow,or run away, or make position decisions based on the origin of the sound. An additionaltechnical improvement has been made by replacing the standard AA battery power source with aset of lithium-ion batteries, thus extending operating time to several hours.Introduction As a project for the Seattle Pacific University Electrical Engineering Department’s JuniorDesign course, the three-member Mindstorms Lobotomy team created a system for wireless

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ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Cathy Qian; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo; Zhengtao Deng

pipe and channel flows Lecturing, supplemental for incompressible fluid: CALCULATE pressure drop in Pipe reading, virtual laboratory Knowledge flow. ANALYZE flow pattern, APPLY to channel flow. experiment (LABView), Repetition 4 DEFINE and CALCULATE drag and lift. ANALYZE and computer simulation, Analysis COMPARE laminar flow, turbulent flow. SOLVE pressure simulation tutoring, Application drop for laminar and turbulent flows. projects, problem solving, Evaluation study session, photograph of flow

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ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jiunn-Chi Wu

Session 3266 – ABET Issues and Capstone Design Design of Curriculum and Assessment of Student Learning for ME Courses Based on EC-2000 Jiunn-Chi Wu1, Pei-Fen Chang2, Yeong-Sh, Chen3, Shyi-Jeng Tsai1, Niann-I, A. Yu3 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering 2 Graduate Institute of Learning and Instruction, National Central University, Jhong-Li, Taiwan 3 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yuan-Ze University, Jhong-Li, Taiwan, ROCI. Introduction The ABET EC-2000 [1] has caused engineering

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Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

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Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu

the undergraduate curriculum of the Electrical and ComputerDepartment, the Engineering Technology Department and the Computer Science Department.Our proposal, “Deep Space Exploration using Smart Robotic Rovers”, was selected for fundingand we established our first interdisciplinary team of students and faculty to develop a smartrobotic rover.During the last two years, students and faculty participating in this program have developed arobotic rover that has successfully accomplished the initial goals of the project. The rover iscapable of climbing 30o inclines, rotating about its center axis, strafing, and maneuveringdiagonally while maintaining stability. It was also designed to protect the vital internalcomponents from outside contaminants