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TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramesh Narang

a spirit of professionalism with ethical and social responsibility. There is arelationship established between the program objectives and the program outcomes2.Each course in the curriculum has established learning outcomes which are listed on the coursesyllabus along with their relationship to the program outcomes. The matrix table relating someof the courses in the curriculum to the specific program outcomes is shown in Table 1.Table 1 Matrix Relating Each Course in the Curriculum to Program Outcomes.Courses Program Outcomes a1. a2. a3. a4. a5. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. i. j. k.ETCS 101 X

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Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ana Kennedy; David Ollis

theirreading, speaking, and writing skills in Spanish. In particular, we survey how the lab component contributes to achievement offour of the six student learning objectives, namely that students will: 1. Learn vocabulary commonly used in engineering and technology context, 2. Develop the ability to comprehend and use Spanish in settings invariably encountered in our technological society 3. Interact in a more formal setting such as the presentation of a technological/culture project to class and guests, and 4. Explain in the target language the workings of a technological device. We conclude with lessons learned and plans for a final version

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K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Jordan; Rosalind Hale; Renee Akbar; Ramona Travis; John Fulwiler

science that hasbecome so important in helping students process the content to make learning meaningful andapplicable to everyday life.Despite providing children with more rigorous curricula, holding teachers to higher standards,and making schools accountable for achievement, the pace of improvement has been slow,especially for minority students. The impetus of the reform movement centered on decreasing, ifnot eliminating, the results of the disparities in curriculum, instruction, and expectations found inschools and classrooms that especially serve minority students (Oakes and Wells, 1998)1.Teacher quality in particular, has been found to be the biggest discrepancy. High poverty/highminority schools employ a disproportionate number of teachers

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Computer & Web-Based Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stewart Prince; Robert Ryan

-builtgraphical objects onto the screen thus significantly reducing programming time [1].Visual Basic has evolved from the original BASIC language. It now contains many newstatements, plus keywords which relate directly to those found in the Microsoft WindowsGUI. Students beginning to learn Visual Basic can create powerful applications using afew keywords yet the language lends itself to powerful advanced programming and fitswell into the engineering curriculum.Visual Basic supports the Integrated Development Environment (IDE), a workingenvironment that integrates program design, editing, compiling, and also debugging intoa common environment. Other programs would have each function in a separateprogram, making development more difficult.The API allows

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ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

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Rasha Morsi; Wael Ibrahim

offering electrical, electronics, and digitallaboratories via distance learning is presented.Review of Undergraduate and/or Graduate Engineering Degrees Offered OnlineThe fast and continuous growth of online education coupled with the results of the Sloan-Csurvey has spurred several questions about distance education; 1. Is this fast growth in online education a representative of all disciplines? 2. Is online education suitable for all disciplines? 3. Would Baccalaureate institutions offering engineering disciplines see more value in online education to their long-term strategy if hands-on experience is resolved?To attempt to gain more insight in the growth of online education and its correlation withengineering disciplines, the

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New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Abul Haque; Afsaneh Minaie

that was formulated here for the improvement of the recognition incorporated the Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering t Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationconcepts of grid method 6, regional search method 8, and most prominently, the segmentation andfeature extraction method 7, and the Counterpropagation Neural Network (CPN) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 torecognize the Bangla digits one and nine. The simulation result suggested a significantimprovement in the recognition rate of Bangla digits one and nine using our technique.2. Methodology2.1 SegmentationThe most important part of a

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Nanomaterials for Learners of All Ages!

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2005 Annual Conference

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Amanda Runciman; Lisa Christensen; Katherine Chen

for 7th and 8th grade students. We create an imaginary place onncampus called “MatEland,” complete with several different attractions to visit during theparticipants’ journey. A passport is issued to every participant, and each page highlights adifferent attraction or activity in our labs (Figure 1). Each attraction has a creative name such as“Metropoglass” or “Planet of the Shapes.” When each person visits an attraction, they received astamp in their passport (Figure 2). Many of the attractions are popular demonstrations used bymany others1-3, but here, they are just reformatted into a fun package. We have the Mayor ofMatEland (a current Materials Engineering student) give a welcome speech and an introductionto the activities. A visitor book

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ollis

bar code scanner,bicycle, compact disc player and burner, facsimile (FAX) machine and scanner, electricand acoustic guitar, Internet search engine(as virtual devices), internal combustionengine, video camera and digital camera, photocopy machine, satellite TV, optical fibersfor communication and medicine, and water purifiers The present paper reviews our pilot year experiences, including(1) description of existing (non-engineering) course modification to allow inclusion of device use and dissection for enhancement of course objectives,(2) choice of lab devices (from our menu of twelve) to match the cultures and content of each course,(3) arrangement of teaching manpower to allow provision for student lab assistants

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EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

JoDell Steuver; Donna Evanecky

/cover.html retrieved on January 2, 2005.2. Bacall, R. Management fads: things you should know. http://www.work911.com/articles/mgmtfad.htm retrieved on October1, 2004.3. Ponzi, L. J. & Koenig, M. (October 2002). Knowledge management: another management fad? Information Research, 8, 1. http://informationr.net/ir/8-1/paper145.html retrieved on January 2, 1995.4. Ponzi, L. J. & Koenig, M. (October 2002).5. Gabor, A. (1990). The Man Who Discovered Quality. New York: Penguin Books6. Deming, W. E. (July 1996). The New Economics, 25-65.7. Gabor, A. (1990). 588. Barry, M. Succeeding in business through marketing fads. Retrieved February 2, 2005, from www.maxbarry.com/writing/bits/marketing.html9. Gladwell, M. (2000). The Tipping Point: How

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Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Sebern

CMM, which has evolved into the Capability MaturityModel Integration (CMMI)1, provides a framework for software development organizations toimprove the quality of their processes and the resulting products. While the CMM and CMMIfocus on the organization as a whole, Humphrey also wanted to scale software engineeringprocess down to the level of the individual software engineer. His research convinced him thatmany elements of a highly mature software process could in fact be applied to individual work;the PSP is the product of that research and of the continuous refinement and evolution that hastaken place since its introduction.The key elements of the Personal Software Process are presented in Table 1. Process Base

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New Endeavors

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ollis

course was developed around six light-based devices: barcode scanner, compact disc player, optical fiber communication and probes, photocopier,video camera (and VCR recorder), and ultraviolet (UV) light driven water purification.1,2This inexpensive lab was assembled for less than $5,000, and has been utilized for newengineering students in the following formats over a ten year period: (1) two week summer camp1,2 (1993-1994) (NSF-SUCCEED) (2) semester length “device dissection” lab3,4 (1995-1996) (3) in combination with an English writing course3 (4) (part of) summer minority eng’g. orientation (40 students) (5) six hour/semester (1 device) experience for all 1,100 entering engineering freshmen

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Capstone/Design Projects: Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Burbank

Copyright© 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationin the design of systems (d), an ability to function effectively on teams (e), an ability tocommunicate effectively (g), and an ability to understand professional, ethical and socialresponsibilities (i) 1.As an ECET senior project, the wheelchair navigation system required the senior to integratemicrocontrollers, sensors, programming, and power supplies and to consider the packagingissues. As at most universities, these components are studied in separate courses, and the seniorproject is the first opportunity for the integration of these topics and the synthesis of a system.The collaborative nature of this project required the WCU senior to communicate with gradeschool teachers and the

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Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa Frehill

engineering, including the removal of overt barriers towomen’s participation (a direct result of this) and increasing industrial and government pressureon educational institutions to provide a diverse workforce. The graphs in the figures, below,illustrate the changes over the past few decades in women’s representation among doctoralrecipients of engineering degrees. Figure 1. Number of Engineering Doctoral Degrees Awarded, 1970-2001, by Sex 6000 5000 4000 Females 3000 Males 2000 1000 0 1965

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Architectural Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Suining Ding

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education 1. Step one: basic 3-D AutoCAD command demonstration by the instructor 2. Step two: students follow the tutorial text book working on the assignment which is so-called in class exercise 3. Step three: students work on the project without any cultural or historical reflection requirement 4. Step Four: Advanced 3-D project without any cultural or historical reflection requirements on project.The Rationale of Integrated Approach to teach 3-D AutoCADThe integrated approach of teaching 3-D AutoCAD is to engage in the dialogue betweenarchitecture history and the built environment

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kai Li; Xin Tang

remote side, our approach offers students great freedom in supportingvarious remote environment and experiment designs.1. IntroductionNowadays, information security plays a critical role in computer-based information systems.According to a 2004 CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey, all investigatedorganizations experienced security incidents at different levels over the last year. Amongcountermeasures to be considered, network security training was rated as very important byseventy percent of the organizations investigated.Widely accepted to be of paramount importance within the network security field, intrusiondetection systems (IDS) look for suspicious behavior by constantly monitoring what is takingplace on a system. However, IDS itself

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Teaching Software Engineering Process

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Vallone

previously worked together. On the other hand, students tend to be unfamiliar withhow to create effective teams, frequently using familiarity as the #1 criteria, rather than skills ordiversity. The net affect has been some dysfunctional teams and in a couple of cases, teamswithout key skill sets (e.g. someone with leadership skills).Several of the weaker teams have been easy to spot from as early as the second or third class.But, there have been some interesting surprises too. One team that appeared to be highlydysfunctional turned out to be the top performer as measured by delivered functionality, qualitylevel and schedule performance. This team was especially noteworthy because of the processthey went through to gel, starting the course with major

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Engineers & Mathematicians Communicating

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elton Graves

UsefulnessThe responses to the questions were marked as strongly agree (SA), agree (A), neutral(N), disagree (D), and strongly disagree (SD). For statistical purposes strongly agree wasequivalent to a 1 and strongly disagree was equivalent to a 5. About half of the questionswere asked in a negative manner. These questions are referred to with an “a” after thequestion number. For example u14a means than question seven was asked about“usefulness of mathematics” and was worded in a negative way. Note that all 54 studentsanswered every question.ResultsBelow are the results of the survey relating to the usefulness of mathematics in theundergraduate education of students attending Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.Question

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ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

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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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Bailey; David Beams

the Dean of the College authorized funding. The completed design was usedon-stage in December, 2001. Figure 1 shows the sleigh on-stage in the 2002 production. (Theplywood sides were replaced prior to the 2001 production with new sides of dense polystyrenefoam in the shape of swans, making them both lighter and much more aesthetically pleasing).Fig. 1. Sleigh being driven on stage in the 2002 production of The Nutcracker. Page 10.519.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationA plywood

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shanmugalingam Easwaran

operation that takesany two numbers (a and b) and produces a third number (c = a x b).Likewise, discrete convolution (denoted by an operation symbol *) is defined as a mathematicaloperation that takes any two digital signals or sequences (represented as {x[n]} and {h[n]}) andproduces a third digital signal or sequence ( {y[n]} = {x[n]} * {h[n] } ). Here, in general terms,any digital signal or sequence is represented by {s[n]}. It is a collection of sequentially indexedand ordered set of numbers, i.e., {s[n]} = {…, s[-1], s[0], s[1], s[2], ..., s[k], …} where s[k] is thevalue of the discrete signal or sequence at index “k”. The operation of discrete convolution isdenoted and defined by the equation3-8

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Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leslie Brunell

local organizations. Page 10.510.3During the 2000– 2001 academic year, Stevens was approached by the Korean War Veterans “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Association of Hudson County to help them design and construct a memorial in Jersey City, NewJersey. Two of the Civil Engineering students worked with the veterans, stone workers and theCivil Engineering faculty to design the monument (Figure 1), generate construction drawingsand set up construction guidelines for building the memorial

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Integrating Materials and Manufacturing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

K. Ted Hartwig; Richard Griffin, Texas A&M University at Qatar

development of the course atconferences.1, 2, 3 A question that has bothered the faculty is whether or not the students havegrasped the concepts we hope to have them develop from doing the laboratory activities. One ofthe ways of doing this is to use a standardized test that enables the students to be compared on a Page 10.460.2 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”year to year basis. This paper will describe the development of the test and compare the results tocourse objectives and ABET outcomes

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

KaMing Lai; James Webb; Robert Hendricks

resistors varying from 1 Ω to 1MΩ • A kit of components that includes resistors, capacitors, inductors, LEDs, transformers, batteries, and battery connectorsAll components are available from Electronix Express13. Typical costs for the items are: digitaltrainer–$90; DMM–$27; toolkit–$5; TrueRTA–$0; wire kit–$4, and resistor kit–$6. We haveselected the components such that the first seven items may be used in three additional courses:ECE 2504—Introduction to Computer Engineering; ECE 3004—AC Circuit Analysis; and ECE3504—Digital Design I. Only a different component kit is required for each of these courses.This course-specific bag of parts varies from $10 to $19 for each of the four courses. The costof Lab-in-a-Box amortized over

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Transitioning to an Academic Career

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Dunn

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NEW Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Griffin, Texas A&M University at Qatar

sand casting, and test the part incompetition with other students.Equipment and Materials 1. Solid modeling software (Solid Works® is what MEEN at TAMU has available.) 2. Rapid Prototyping Facility (A Z-Corporation unit is what MEEN at TAMU has available.) 3. Casting Facility (We have a green sand casting laboratory.) 4. Milling Machine available to prepare part for mechanical testing. 5. Mechanical testing machine.Introduction With the impetus from ABET, the faculty, and former students to include more designwithin the curriculum, the Materials Division within Mechanical Engineering was looking forways to do this in a creative manner. Students many times see activities within separate classesas disconnected from other

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Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Bertozzi

engineering schools. Beginning in the fall of2005 the College will begin offering B.S. degrees in both mechanical and aeronauticalengineering.Maintaining interest has been a major concern for some time in engineering education. A studydone by the Higher Education Research Institute (1993)1 determined that only 51% of studentswho started in engineering remained in the major. The study found that the number one reasonthe students gave for changing their major was a loss of interest in engineering.Elaine Seymour and Nancy M. Hewitt have written the book, Talking About Leaving (2000)2.The data they collected show that approximately 40 percent of undergraduate students leaveengineering programs and that these losses occur among the most highly qualified

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Research On Student Teams

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

Conference a paper [1] reported on the characteristicsof a “good (individual) team player.” The data were based on a horizontal study of twoengineering design courses, one at the sophomore level and the other at the senior level. Theindividual performances of 214 students working on 57 projects during the 2002-3 academicyear were evaluated. Individual demographic, academic, personality, and personal data, as wellas interest and skill levels, were gathered from the four classes. The conclusions reached arelisted below: The better team players tended to be older with more work and more engineering related work experience. The better team players tended to have better drawing abilities and were better self-critics of their

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Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tony Casalena; Matt Weinstein; Borna Ghavam; Blake Robertson; Karen Thornton; David Barbe; James Green

on an input/output model in whichthe input is undergraduate students with a strong entrepreneurial drive; the system is anincubator-like entrepreneurial community environment and a variety of resourcesincluding education, networking, teaming and mentoring; and the output is students withsubstantial entrepreneurial knowledge and experience in operating real companies. Thispaper profiles four venture models operated by current Hinman CEOs students includingstudents who are creating both high-tech and low-tech for-profit businesses.1. IntroductionThe Hinman Campus Entrepreneurship Opportunities (CEOs) Program is a unique andaward-winning, living-learning program at the University of Maryland, College Park,launched in Fall 2000 and offered to

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Askew; Cari-Sue Wilmot; Colley Hodges; Richard Bannerot

, borers, taps, etc.) are also demonstrated. A handout isprovided which describes the operations of all the standard shop tools. Shop drawings arediscussed from the machinist’s perspective. There is also a demonstration of an NC machine.Additional details on the content and operation of the class can be found in Reference 1. The restof this paper will focus of the evolution of the technical communications content of the course.As noted above for the major team project, a formal written Final Report has been required sincethe initiation of the course. For about the past ten years two formal, written progress reports arealso required. Each team makes a twenty-minute, PowerPoint presentation to present their“case” and to sell their device at the end

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stewart Prince; Robert Ryan

conclusions aboutthe relative merits of each approach.The geometry for the case study was originally inspired by designs for Formula-SAE engine inletsystems created by students in the senior capstone course. In these inlets, a converging sectionleads to a throat size mandated by SAE rules, and then a diffuser section leads to a manifold. Forthe pedagogical goals of this assignment, the throat was stretched out into a long constantdiameter section, and dimensions were changed to reflect convenient values. A picture of thegeometry used is shown in Figure 1. Figure 1 Flow Geometry Used For Analysis Page 10.469.3An