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Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Anand Srinivasan; Steve Shooter; Soundar Kumara; Robert Stone; Timothy Simpson; Janis Terpenny

orrecommendations presented in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflectthe views of the National Science Foundation.References 1. Meyer, M. H. and Lehnerd, A. P., The Power of Product Platforms: Building Value and Cost Leadership, Free Press, New York, 1997. 2. Robertson, D. and Ulrich, K., “Planning Product Platforms”, Sloan Management Review, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 19-31, 1998. 3. Otto, K. N. and Wood, K. L., Product Design, 2001, Prentice Hall Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ. 4. Wheelwright, S. C. and Clark, K. B., 1992, “Creating Project Plans to Focus Product Development”, Harvard Business Review, Vol. 70, pp. 70-82. 5. Feitzinger, E. and Lee, H.L., “Mass Customization at Hewlett-Packard: The Power of

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George Morgan; Gene Gloeckner; Ahmed Khan

Students’ Perceptions of the Importance of the Faculty Technical Currency in Their Learning/Success in a Technology-Based Baccalaureate Program Ahmed S. Khan Department of EET DeVry University, Addison, IL 60101 Gene Gloeckner George Morgan School of Education, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523AbstractDuring the last two decades, the pace of technological change has transformed the globaleconomy into a knowledge-based or innovation-based economy, in which organizations are

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karim Muci; Jonathan Weaver

Sometimes the task of defining the scope of a senior design project is completely left upto the faculty member(s) that will be supervising a given project. Also, when a company issponsoring a project, sometimes it is allowed to basically define on its own the scope of theproject that will be assigned to the students. Although there needs to be some room for flexibilitywhen defining the scope of a particular project, in general both approaches stated above are farfrom adequate. It is important to keep in mind that a capstone senior design project must be morethan a project that requires some technical expertise in a particular engineering discipline; it mustbe a meaningful and carefully defined learning experience for the students. As with any

Conference Session

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

tried to create rudimentaryvideo games in their free time. As educators, we should jump for joy when we find students"playing" with a tool we have introduced to them, for it is that playtime that often leads to self-directed, experiential learning that goes beyond the course objectives and turns the students intoactive learners just for the sake of knowledge. And the more palatable the knowledge, thegreater success we can expect in the education of students in the future.AcknowledgementThe support provided by two NSF grants (i.e., award #s 0342000 & 0431779) is sincerelyacknowledged. The guidance and support of Wanda Dann, Steve Cooper, Randy Pausch, and theentire Alice development team at Carnegie Mellon University is also greatly

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Hladysz; Robert Corey; JASON ASH; Glen Stone; Dale Skillman; Charles Kliche; Larry Stetler; David Dixon; Larry Simonson; Stuart Kellogg

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Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Everly

the signals at TP1 and TP2are nearly in phase on the oscilloscope. Slowly adjust the oscillator ten-turn potentiometer untilboth signals are in phase (overlap). The frequency displayed on the counter is the crystal seriesresonant frequency, fS. Record this data together with the peak reading on the RF detector. Thebatch of nominal 3.579 MHz TV color burst crystals yielded an average series resonantfrequency, fS =3.579578 MHz.The motional capacitance, Cm, is calculated from the formula given by Brink [9]. Where: 2C1 (f Cap − f S ) Cm = (1) fSCapacitor

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fong Mak; Stephen Frezza

Hall, 2004. 3) Marc E. Herniter, Schematic Capture with Cadence PSpice, Prentice Hall, 2001.Reference Texts: 1) Mohan, Underland, Robbins, Power Electronics Converters, Applications, and Design, 2nd Edition, Wiley, 1995.Course Policies: ….Grading Policy: Identified passing criteria Passing Objective Criteria: To receive a passing grade in this course, all students must meet the following minimum criteria demonstrating how well they have mastered the course learning objectives. Each objective is assigned one or more Key Assignments, which will be graded specifically on the course objective(s) and related program

Conference Session

Web-Based Laboratory Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Olsson; Lars Håkansson; Johan Zackrisson; Ingvar Gustavsson; Henrik Åkesson

instrument front panels are used to control and read theinstruments by means of remote control. To avoid potentially serious student mistakes e.g.overloading a component the teacher can preset limits to the source voltages which areaccessible to students. The teacher can also restrict student circuits by, for example, dictatingminimum impedance in loops created with aid of the components provided. The number ofnodes provided on the virtual breadboard is adequate for experiments in undergraduateeducation. The laboratory is always open and can be used by registered students and guest usersalike. The time-sharing scheme used allows simultaneous access for up to 8 client PCs. A 56kbit/s modem and MS Internet Explorer are all that are required. The

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Voigt; Nathan Shenck; Delores Etter; Thomas Salem; Samara Firebaugh

engineering module developed this year into one such project.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank the departmental technical support staff, in particular JerryBallman, Daphi Jobe, Erich Keyes, Bill Stanton, Ken Walsh and Mike Wilson, for their Page 10.10.11assistance with supporting the course. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society of Engineering EducationBibliography[1] S. Sheppard and R. Jenison, "Freshmen Engineering Design Experiences and Organizational Framework," International Journal of

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Scoff

. Thewires were categorized according to length and function. Where before, the studentswere always searching for the right type and length of wires, the wires were now easy tofind. As an added benefit, the wires were always returned to where they belonged, andthe students developed a sense of responsibility for taking care of the lab. As a matter offact, the morale and attitude of the students improved. The students did not have anymore equipment available than before the re-organization, but now it could be easilyfound.Then there was the matter of getting rid of some of the old equipment that was in the lab.There was reason to believe that certain items were just stored in there. There was a1950’s vintage overhead projector. Someone had donated

Conference Session

Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Manhire

Provost Sharon Stephens Brehm.In addition to holding discussions and considering testimony, the TELC gathered voluminousundergraduate grade data across many cohorts of the University. Undergraduate grades were col-lected for the fall quarters (terms) of 1993 and 1999 for the University en masse as well as for thefollowing sectors: the chief academic divisions (colleges) of the University, course levels (i.e.,the freshman, sophomore, junior and senior levels), faculty tenure status (i.e., tenured faculty,non-tenured tenure-track faculty and faculty not eligible for tenure) and faculty sex.The TELC’s findings were reported to the provost in June of 2000.46 Here however, only find-ings for the University' s Russ College of

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shuhui Li

-phase inverter for AC machines. The bi-positional switch of a power-pole is used to represent the same functionality of a practical electronic switch under the idealswitching condition, making it much easier and faster for students to understand and analyzefundamental characteristics of switch-mode power electronic converters. P o w e r P o le s Figure 2. Switch-mode converter and its power-pole representation in electric drive systems A corresponding hardware implementation of the switch-mode converter is shown inFigure 3 [5, 6]. The drives board has been designed to enable a variety of experiments on AC/DCmachines and have introduced digital control and DSP technologies by using Simulink

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ritsuko Izuhara; Hideo Miyata; Toshiyuki Yamamoto; Kazuya Takemata; Masakatsu Matsuishi

C lassification Price S ound Features S ecurity S till picture Topics Transm ission speed Virtual Zoo C hildren G am e A

Conference Session

Integrating Materials and Manufacturing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

S tr a in Figure 5: Stress Strain Behavior of 1050 Steel Untreated, Annealed at 1200F, and Annealed 0 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 at 1650F Strain Figure 4: Stress-Strain Behavior of Copper Annealed at 1200F and work hardened.Figure 4 shows the effect of work hardening. In this case the tensile test was interrupted at astrain of about 25% and then a new tensile test was performed as if the bar were as received.Note, that yield strength of the work hardened specimen is much higher than the fully annealedspecimen. Figure 5 shows the affect that annealing temperature has on the strength

Conference Session

Assessing with Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew J. Wiesner; Jonathan P. Mathews; Sarma Pisupati

consequences. Onestudent utilized 13 attempts, during 55 minutes of effort for one particular quiz. Effortthat would have been better spent comprehending the material rather than the “try untilyou succeed” approach lacking the comprehension. It is permitted for the student toaccess the notes or any other electronic source in search of the answer(s). Nearly all theclass obtained 100% for these quizzes (enhanced (directed) learning opportunities). Thisparticular quiz contained the 20 questions from a question bank of about 40 questions.Often this activity was immediately prior to the deadline. Another companion paper, inthese proceedings, discusses the procrastination issue and consequences.Table 1. Time on Task for quiz submission(s) and submission

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yin Chen; John Sharon; Constantin Chassapis; Sven Esche

Prototyping11 Cost Estimation / Product Development EconomicsAcknowledgementThis project is sponsored by the National Science Foundation under grant number 0234016. Thissupport is gratefully acknowledged.Bibliography1. Ulrich, K. T. & Eppinger, S. D., Product Design and Development, 3rd Ed., McGraw-Hill, 2004.2. Hazelrigg, G. A., Systems Engineering: An Approach to Information Based Design, 1996.3. Esche, S. K. & Chassapis, C., Integrating Concepts of Decision Making and Uncertainty into Engineering Design Education, 33rd ASEE/IEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2003.4. Esche, S. K. & Chassapis, C., SGER: A Framework for Adapting Decision Based Scientific Principles in Engineering Design, NSF Proposal, 2002.5

Conference Session

BME Technical Modules and Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Alan Sahakian

average student rating was for thisconcept was 2.5, which is below 3, indicating that students thought this concept was notmade visible to them through out the demonstration. Page 10.177.6 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education The extent to which the NMR/MRI demonstration made the concepts become visible to students La rm o r F re quency- v is ible 4.3 R F puls e s a nd f lip

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheldon Jeter

models. This uncertainty of a model is the range of uncertaintyabout the systematic dependence of the dependent variable on the independentvariable(s). Unfortunately, none of the popular texts reviewed for this paper adequatelyaddress polynomial models and their uncertainties, probably because polynomial modelsseem to be common mostly in engineering applications. In contrast, polynomial modelsare not so common in fields such as medicine and social sciences that seem to attractmore interest from professional statisticians. Nevertheless, it has been shown elsewhere(Jeter, 2003) that Error Propagation Analysis (EPA), which is already familiar to mostexperimental engineers, can be used to find the uncertainty of both linear and

Conference Session

Faculty Development II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca Bates

2000 ASEE AnnualConference & Exposition.6 Mentoring for Academic Careers in Engineering: Proceedings of the PAESMEM/Stanford School of EngineeringWorkshop, E. Riskin, M. Ostendorf, P. Cosman, M. Effros, J. Li, S. Hemami, R. M. Gray, eds., September 25, 2004,.7 N. C. Chesler & M. A. Chesler, “Mentoring Women Students in Engineering: Lessons Learned from theSociology of Gender,” Proc. of the 2001 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.8 N. C. Chesler & M. A. Chesler, “Gender-Informed Mentoring Strategies for Women Engineering Scholars: OnEstablishing a Caring Community,” Journal of Engineering Education, January 2002.9 C. A. Limbert, “Chrysalis, A Peer Mentoring Group for Faculty and Staff Women,” NWSA Journal, 7(2), 1995,86

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Roli Varma

(1.5% of U.S. population),Native Americans are seldom represented in the assessment of racial disparities in IT. Mostimportantly, once Native Americans’ land stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean andfrom the Arctic Circle to the tip of South America. But, over the years, their lives have beendisrupted and they have been dislocated.20 With the rise of information society, NativeAmericans face another danger of being left behind.Most scholarly work has been on the gender gap in science and engineering (S&E). It isgenerally assumed that many of the reasons that discourage women from S&E education andcareers apply to under-represented minorities. When scholars have studied under-representedminorities in S&E, they have

Conference Session

Labs, Demos and Software in Mechanics

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2005 Annual Conference

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Scott Hendricks; L. Glenn Kraige; Don Morris

Session 3568 Unified Lecture Software for Statics, Dynamics, and Mechanics of Deformable Bodies L. Glenn Kraige, Scott L. Hendricks, and Don H. Morris W. S. "Pete" White Chair for Innovation in Engineering Education/ Associate Professor/Professor and Assistant Department Head Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg VA 24061 USAAbstractThe history and current budget-driven challenges of teaching the basic engineering mechanicssequence are

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Que Nguyen; Jennifer Tafoya; Catherine Skokan; Barbara Moskal

workshop 0 3 10 2 1 1 4 1impact theinstruction youprovide in yourclassroom?To what extent didyour students benefitfrom the engineeringknowledge that you 0 4 9 2 0 1 6 0gained by attendingthe summerworkshop(s)?To what extent were More middleyou satisfied with school levelthe types of activities thatengineering 0 1 8 6 0 0 3 4 tie into stateexercises presented

Conference Session

Nanomaterials for Learners of All Ages!

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Aura Gimm

, W. C., “Template Synthesis and Magnetic Manipulation of Nickel Nanowires,” J. Chem. Ed. In press. Page 10.1448.72. Optical Transform Kit by George C. Lisensky, Arthur B. Ellis, and Donald R. Neu. Institute for Chemical Education (ICE) Publication 90-002R. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education3. LED Color Strip Kit developed by Jonathan Breitzer, S. Michael Condren, George C.Lisensky, Karen J. Nordell, Cynthia G. Widstrand, and Arthur B. Ellis Institute for Chemical

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Murat Tanyel

. The last two hours were devotedto a mini project which the students completed under the supervision of the instructor. Thestudent(s) who finished first earned a diecast car. The notes used were an electronic version of apast book aimed at freshmen7 revised from a previous experience8. Figures 2 and 3 depictexamples of student mini projects.Figure 2: The front panel of a signal generator. The students designed this front panel in session 1.Figure 3: Front panel of a sine generator students implemented in session 5. Page 10.695.6 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Glenn Steele; Judith Schneider

is very appropriate for most engineeringapplications, then the "large sample assumption" [6] applies and the 95% confidence expression for Ur is 2 2 U r = 2 br + s r (2)The systematic standard uncertainty of the result is defined as J J -1 J br = ∑θ i bi + 2 ∑ ∑θθ 2 2 2 i k bik (3

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shana Smith

A Low Cost Virtual Reality Human Computer Interface for CAD Model Manipulation Abhishek Seth, Shana S. Smith, Mack Shelley, Jiang Qi Iowa State Univeristy Department of Mechanical Engineering/ Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering/ Statistics Department/ Statistics Department Ames, IA 50011Introduction Present CAD systems use 2D computer interfaces, e.g. a standard display monitor, keyboard,and mouse, to generate and interact with CAD models. However, the 2D nature of a standardmonitor, keyboard, and mouse, tend to restrict interaction with complex 3D models

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nuno Delfino; Calvin Cutshaw; Brian McGee; R. Mark Nelms

Saddle River, NJ, 2003.2. F. G. Martin, Robotic Explorations: A Hands-on Introduction to Engineering, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River,NJ, 2001. Page 10.349.7 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for engineering Education”3. J. W. Dally and S. J. Reeves, Introduction to Engineering Design, Book 7: Projects, Skills and LEGO Challenges,College House Enterprises, Knoxville, TN, 2001.4. B. S. Heck, N. S. Clements, and A. A. Ferri, “A LEGO Experiment for Embedded Control System Design,” IEEEControl Systems

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Abul Haque; Afsaneh Minaie

method discussed previously 6, we found that to represent a segment, 3×3 matrix issufficient. In order to increase the efficiency rate, we tried to increase the matrix size. We firststarted with a 10×10 matrix, which was found to overflow during training session. So wecontinued with reduced sized matrices. After some continual experiment, we came to theconclusion that 7×5 was the best-fit matrix for our purpose. Here a 1 in the corresponding matrixcomponent represents occurrence of each segment and the rest of the components are representedby 0’s. thus we had to use only 35 neurons in the input layer to represent a sample input. TheKohonen layer is trained in unsupervised training method, which is done by machine-generatednoises involves

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanton Cort; Gary Wnek

for its generous support of TiME.Bibliography1. National Innovation Initiative Final Report (2004): http://www.compete.org/pdf/NII_Final_Report.pdf2. “The Innovation Economy,” Business Week 75th Anniversary Issue, October 11, 2004.3. The Institute for Management and Engineering (TiME): http://www.tiime.case.edu.4. Cooper, R. G., Winning at New Producgts, 3rd ed., Basic Books, New York (2001)5. Ulrich, K. T. and Eppinger, S. D., Product Design and Development, 3rd ed., McGraw-Hill Irwin, New York (2004)6. Crawford, M. and Di Benedetto, A., New Products Management, 7th ed., McGraw-Hill Irwin, New York (2003)7. Koen, P. A., Ajamian, G. M., Boyce, S., Claman, A., Fisher, E., Fountoulakis, S., Johnson,A., Puri, P., and Seibert, R., “Fuzzy

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Ostheimer

data.ECE Score SheetPortfolio 1D#_____________This portfolio meets the following outcomes at the level of competence indicatedPersuasive Cover Letter _/2pts 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Course # Page #s Highly Skillful Competent Minimally Less than Unmet Not Skillful Competent Competent Attempted1. Procedural Document _____ _____ _____ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______2. Problem Statement _____ _____ _____ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______3. Proposal