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Innovations in ChE Labs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Lefebvre; Stephanie Farrell

Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThis paper explains how these concepts can be introduced by improving undergraduate coursesand laboratories through the development of exciting, visually-appealing experiments. The useof visually-appealing materials has been shown to motivate and captivate students in biology andchemical engineering settings.4-9 Additionally, some elements of bioseparation (adsorption, ion-exchange, and chromatography) are difficult to teach in a lecture-based format, as these are rate-based, time-dependent processes.10 These experiments will improve instruction in this difficultarea by employing a range of colorful proteins with different biophysical

Conference Session

IP, Incubation, and Business Plans

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Andrew Clark

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”A technology-based business incubator (ETSU Innovation Laboratory) was established at EastTennessee State University in 2002 as a component of the university’s strategic vision andmission. It is the intent of this paper to review steps taken by ETSU that made the creation of abusiness incubator on our campus a reality and that this information may serve as a mini-casestudy for others wishing to pursue a similar path. Elements achieving the establishment of abusiness incubator include defining strategic intent (senior administration buy-in), establishing auniversity research foundation, risk mitigation procedures, marketing the incubator, utilization ofthe incubator as a teaching tool and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Carter; Catherine Brawner; Miriam Ferzli; Eric Wiebe

stepthem through the process, there is the Brief Tutor, which condenses the core information intofewer steps. Finally, there is the Self-Guide that presents all of the information contained in theTutor in the form of static web pages.Figure 3. The LabWrite Tutor.Notice in Figure 1 in the upper right corner that in addition to having a special site for students,there are also tabs for lab instructors and (at larger universities and colleges) for professorssupervising multi-section lab courses. These additional portions of the LabWrite site are inrecognition that the professors and instructors designing and running the labs are a criticalcomponent to a successful laboratory experience for the student. LabWrite is not meant to be a“self-teaching

Conference Session

Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Marshall

directional controlvalves (widely used, controls fluids).After the PLC overview, we proceeded to the programming software. The best methodfor teaching the software is via lab activities that require the students to develop ladderlogic programs designed to control a process. The six laboratory activities that weutilized are the: Industrial start cycle with an automated stop function; Conveyor systemwith indicating lights; Timing six sequential outputs; Automated palletized materialhandling system; Computerized parking garage; and the Vehicle intersection traffic lightcontroller. Page 10.1030.6 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Lamancusa; Laura L. Pauley; Thomas Litzinger

. Photos ofsome available facilities are shown in Figure 3. Since the facilities are shared by all departmentsin the engineering college, we may find that some heavily used facilities will need to beduplicated within the department. To engage students in the active learning components, many of these activities will be taughtby a faculty member. A detailed faculty teaching load analysis has been conducted with themodel of 60 students in lecture sections and 30 students in practicum or clinic courses. It hasbeen shown that faculty teaching loads will not increase if graduate teaching assistants are usedfor 1/3 of the practicum or clinic meetings to run laboratories. Faculty would be present duringmore open-ended activities of product dissection

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Naomi Tillison; David Hand

member from the previous group working with a given system helped explain the system operation to the new group; hence, students helped teach each other. Each team was required to submit a laboratory report after the completion of each unit process activity. • The students regrouped as a class for the next session, in which they were introduced to the fundamentals of air stripping before designing, operating, and analyzing the pilot- scale packed aeration tower. • For the final class period, each team presented a poster on a different unit process to members of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Professional Advisory Committee (CEEPAC).Based of the findings of the 2004 educational assessment, the

Conference Session

ECE Lab Development and Innovations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Mauritzen

, laboratory courses have strengthened this knowledge by allowing hands-onapplication. This tradition is further strengthened by teaching simulation techniques to thestudents. This Analyze/Simulate/Experiment philosophy allows students better catch theirmistakes as they are less likely to make the same mistake in all phases. The associations may beindicated as shown below. re Co pa m m pa Co

Conference Session

NEW Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Griffin, Texas A&M University at Qatar

and Jim Sajewski for their assistance, andthe students from MEEN 360.AuthorsDr. Richard B. Griffin has been at Texas A&M University for 27 years. He has taught a varietyof materials related courses. His research interests are corrosion and engineering education. Hehas participated in the National Educators Workshop for more than a decade.Dr. Terry S. Creasy has been at Texas A&M University for four years. He teaches materialsrelated courses in materials science. His research interests are in equal channel angular extrusionof short fiber/thermoplastic composites and shape changing polymer matrix composites.References1 Griffin, Richard, Terry Creasy, and Jeremy Weinstein, “Laboratory Activity Using Rapid Prototyping and Casting

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mativo; Arif Sirinterlikci

environments • Utilizing emerging technologies such as muscle wires, air muscles, micro- and nano- controllersInitially ONU technology and engineering student body was chosen as the main target audiencesince the focus areas were mechatronics and robotics. However, art majors and minors did showstrong interest during promotional activities. They were subsequently recruited. Students who arenot in the honors program were also allowed to register depending on the number of availableseats within fifteen seat capacity limit of the Honors Program.This paper elaborates on the HONR 218 – Animatronics course through its description,objectives, curriculum, and delivery structure including laboratory assignments. Examples ofstudent work are also

Conference Session

Problem-Solving & Project-Based Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Harper; John Demel; Richard Freuler

; EnvironmentalEngineering. He coordinates and teaches for the First-Year Engineering Program. Dr. Demel earned hisB.S.M.E. at the University of Nebraska (1965) and his Ph.D. (1973) in Metallurgy from Iowa State. Hewas the institutional Principal Investigator for the Gateway Engineering Education Coalition 92–03.RICHARD J. FREULERRichard J. Freuler is Associate Director of the Aeronautical &Astronautical Research Laboratory at OhioState. He also coordinates the Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors. Dr. Freuler earned his BS inAeronautical Engineering (1974), his BS in Computer Science (1974), his MS in Aeronautical Engineering(1974), and his PhD in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering (1991), all from Ohio State.KATHLEEN A. HARPERKathleen A. Harper is a

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa Rosenstein; Jeffery Donnell; Christina Bourgeois

160 students,distributed across eight studio sections, this course can require upwards of 30 hours a week forpreparation, actual studio time, and subsequent grading.Experimental MethodsThis required junior-level class introduces students to the practical issues of measurementequipment, measurement methods, and data analysis. Students attend a lecture and a laboratorysession each week, usually completing ten laboratory projects over the course of a semester.Working in teams of two, students prepare written reports to document each project, and thesereports are evaluated by teaching assistants.For this course, the Webb Program coordinator delivers one lecture each term, describing theappropriate editor settings for page design and display

Conference Session

Computer Based Measurements

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Narciso Macia

-basedcontrollers such as LabVIEW. This set-up can also be used by graduate students to investigatesecond-order-type effects. This hardware has been effective in enhancing student understandingand retention of control system theory.IntroductionThe teaching of control systems is enhanced by supplementing the lecture material withlaboratory activity. The laboratory activity should reinforce the theory presented in class byproviding a platform in which the theory can be applied. This paper summarizes a series oflaboratory activities dealing with a closed-loop, position control system that utilizes dual DC-solenoids as the drivers, and PC as the controller. This work is an update of a similar positioncontrol system that utilized a single DC solenoid and an op

Conference Session

Faculty Development II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Miller; Maher Murad; Robert Martinazzi; Andrew Rose

together to attend a Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Educationworkshop may also work to the favor of being selected since the workshop organizersmay be more interested in faculty from institutions where a strong interest in theworkshop exists.One example of how cooperation between faculty members in the different disciplineshas helped untenured faculty develop their teaching at UPJ resulted from the staggerednature in which the new faculty were hired. Limited funds are available each year forlaboratory equipment. New faculty members, however, have been able to purchase newequipment for their laboratory through

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward F. Crawley; Doris Brodeur

design experience, based on knowledge and skills one at an advanced level acquired in earlier coursework. 6. Workspaces and laboratories that support and Criterion 6. Classrooms, labs, and equipment encourage hands-on learning of product and system must be adequate to accomplish program building skills, disciplinary knowledge, and objectives, foster faculty-student interaction, teamwork abilities encourage student professional development 7. Learning experiences that support the acquisition Not addressed of technical knowledge as well as the professional knowledge, skills, and values that support product and system building competencies 8. Teaching

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ciletti; Gregory Plett

great success using LEGO robotics to teach the basics ofengineering to freshman engineering students. The LEGO kits provide a technological mediumfor hands-on learning of engineering design and problem solving without requiring college-levelknowledge of mathematics or the sciences. Supported by a grant from the UCCS Teaching andLearning Center, we have together designed and implemented a new freshman course Introduc-tion to Robotics. We co-developed this course, and co-teach it. It has an on-line course reader,an on-line integrated set of laboratory exercises (with pre-lab assignments), and a comprehensivefinal design project where students must generalize from their lecture and lab experiences to usetechnology to solve a design problem.Why

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tony Keller; Jeff Frolik

Experience course (EE/ME 001) is offered during theSpring semester as a follow-on to ENGR 2: Graphical Communication (CAD). EE/ME 001consists of a 1-hour weekly lecture and a 2.75-hour laboratory session. There is a single lecturesection for all students and several labs sections (capped at 20 students each). Both ECE and MEfaculty and staff are closely involved with this course ensuring a balanced, interdisciplinaryflavor. Teaching assistants from both departments mentor students during the laboratory portionof the course.Lecture Component The once a week, one hour lecture component focuses on topics related to theengineering profession, engineering design, electrical-mechanical systems, and wireless sensorsnetworks (Table 1

Conference Session

ChE Department and Faculty Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Valerie Young

have a basis for evaluating the quality of the contribution. In contrast,professional review committees are able to rely on peer review of proposals and journalpublications when evaluating the quality of a faculty member’s contributions in technicalresearch. For faculty who invest time and effort to develop learning objects because they feel itis “the right thing to do”, it would be pleasant to have a mechanism for broad dissemination andpeer review of these contributions. This is one step to increase the respect for teaching asresearch and research on learning in engineering programs.The Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT,www.merlot.org) is a database of educational resources, primarily for post-secondary

Conference Session

State of the Art in 1st-Year Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Walker; Hayden Griffin; Tamara Knott; Richard Goff; Vinod Lohani; Jenny Lo

assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Education in the College of Engineering atVirginia Tech. She received her Ph.D. in chemical engineering at Carnegie Mellon and her B.S. in chemicalengineering at Tulane University.RICHARD M. GOFF is an associate professor and assistant department head of the Engineering EducationDepartment in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. He is also the Director of the Frith FreshmanEngineering Design Laboratory and the Faculty Advisor of the VT Mini Baja Team. He is actively involved inbringing joy and adventure to the educational process and is the recipient of numerous University teaching awards.VINOD K. LOHANI is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia

Conference Session

New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michele Perrin

that the equipment is permanentlyinstalled in their spaces. In most universities, however, large lecture halls are shared by anumber of professors teaching a variety of courses. Leaving laboratory equipment in thesespaces is not practical or feasible. Most modern lecture halls, however, have computerizedaudio-visual projection equipment permanently installed. These sensors are small enough to fitinto a pocket or briefcase making them as easy and convenient to carry into the lecture hall as apiece of chalk.Another reason computer-based sensors have not been widely used during lectures lies in thelearning curve associated with most new software and trying to conduct a meaningful andsuccessful demonstration within the lecture time frame. Clark

Conference Session

Faculty Development II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Keith; Adrienne Minerick

, collaborative camaraderie as well asequipment and laboratory conduct policies may be foreign. Just locating simpleresources can be challenging. Overall, the new faculty member must acclimate quickly inorder to effectively communicate with fellow faculty and administrators on a daily basis.In this paper, the authors will discuss some of the unexpected experiences encountered attheir institutions with regard to teaching and research, then provide suggested courses ofaction on how to prevail.IntroductionThe common challenge facing almost every new faculty member is to get tenure. A newfaculty member is expected to teach at or above their institution’s average, do researchabove their institution’s average, and perform some level of service. Although

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Igor Verner

assignments, develop instructional units (on subjects related to theseassignments), and practice teaching them using the project method.The course is given in the departmental laboratory of technology. It consists of three modularparts. The first part includes lectures and laboratories. The lectures consider pedagogicalaspects of experiential learning and subjects related to systems and control design. Thelaboratory activities include the following: (1) assembling sensor systems and implementingfeedback control processes; (2) computer aided design and producing machine parts; and (3)programming robot manipulations. The second part of the course focuses on roboticsprojects. The third part of the course is students' practice in teaching robotics to

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Adams

for Engineering Educationand structural pieces. By 1984, LEGO set up a partnership with the Media Laboratory at MIT.LEGO launched a computer control product in 1986, and computer controlled robots quicklyfollowed.The LEGO Mindstorm kits have been used to teach a variety of robotic techniques in highschools and universities. The United States Military Academy uses the same product “to teachfundamental computer programming concepts and introduce the concept of autonomousvehicles”3, and to introduce students to computer simulation.4 The US Naval Academy usesreconfigurable kits (such as the LEGO kit) to provide students with an introduction to robotics,emphasizing open-ended solutions.5 Competitions have been created to allow students todevelop

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Murat Tanyel

Tanyel is a professor of engineering at Geneva College. He teaches upper level electrical engineering andbiomedical engineering courses. Prior to Geneva College, Dr. Tanyel taught at Dordt College, Sioux Center, IAfrom Aug. 1995 to Aug. 2003. Prior to 1995, he was at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA where he worked for the 4Enhanced Educational Experience for Engineering Students (E ) project, setting up and teaching laboratory andhands-on computer experiments for engineering freshmen and sophomores. For one semester, he was also a visitingprofessor at the United Arab Emirates University in Al-Ain, UAE where he helped set up an innovative introductoryengineering curriculum. Dr

Conference Session

Innovations in CE Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kristine Martin; Kenneth Leitch; Jeffrey Will

of student learning andwill be the subject of future study. The low cost of these systems point to their increasinguse in classroom and laboratory settings. Integration of this technology into educationmust be predicated upon proper methods and associated software. In this work, weintroduce the concept that visualization software in conjunction with virtual realityhardware may form an important extension to two areas of civil engineering education,and shows great promise for the future.References[1] P.C. Wankat and F.S. Oreowicz, Teaching Engineering. New York: McGraw-Hill,1993.[2] J.D. Will and E.W. Johnson, “Scientific Visualization for Undergraduate Education,”in Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Turner; Joseph Hoffbeck

, John S.; O'Donovan, Thomas E., Using SIMULINK as a design tool, ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Jun 16-19, 2002, p 8505-8517. 12. Bolton, Robert W.; Zoghi, Behbood, Enhancing system dynamics instruction for technologists with simulation, ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Jun 22-25, 2003, p 11408-11411. 13. Avitabile, Peter; Goodman, Charles; Hodgkins, Jeff; White, Karl; Van Zandt, Tracy; StHilaire, Gary; Johnson, Tiffini; Wirkkala, Nels, Dynamic systems teaching enhancement using a laboratory based hands- on project, ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Jun 20-23, 2004, p 4129-4144. 14. Avitabile, Peter; Goodman, Charles; Van Zandt, Tracy, Development of a measurement system for response of a second

Conference Session

Crossing the Discipline Divide!

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Krumholz; Robert Martello; Jonathan Stolk

course, and we elucidate the importantrole the course plays in our engineering curriculum.IntroductionIn the fall of 2003, two faculty members at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering beganteaching a new course offering, titled Paul Revere: Tough as Nails. Referred to as a “courseblock” due to the fact that it was twice the size of a typical undergraduate course, Paul Revere:Tough as Nails attempted to accomplish several key learning objectives:• Teach students to pose questions and solve materials science and historical problems in an interdisciplinary manner, using the content, methods, and perspectives of both fields to achieve a greater contextual and qualitative understanding of common topics.• Encourage students to control

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Chouikha; Don Millard

Electronics”, Proceedings of 1997 Frontiers in Education Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, November 1997.14. Holmes, M., “Breaking down traditional disciplinary boundaries in the classroom,” Selected Papers from the 13th International Conf on College Teaching and Learning, 75-96, (J. Chambers, ed.), FCCJ, Jacksonville, 2002.15. D.A. Kolb, Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1984.16. Hagler, M., “Laboratory Exercises for Analog Circuits and Electronics as Hardware Homework with Student Laptop Computer Instrumentation”, International Symposium IGIP / IEEE / ASEE 2004, September 27-30, Fribourg, Switzerland.17. R.M. Felder and L.K. Silverman

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Young

critical role in the education strategydeveloped in the CDIO project (Berggren et al.2; CDIO Initiative Homepage3), an internationalinitiative that aims to develop a new model for engineering education, characterized by using theprocess of conceiving-designing-implementing-operating, i.e. the product lifecycle, as theeducational context. A prominent attribute of the CDIO initiative has been the design andimplementation of a new class of student workspaces (design studios, classrooms, study areas,laboratories) that enable student teams to design, build and test in project-based courses. This isin contrast to traditional student labs that are heavily oriented towards demonstrations(Gunnarsson et al.4; Wallin & Östlund5). The proper set-up

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci

instructor to establish a healthyand balanced base of theory and practice.Previously the department owned out-dated electronics workstations (experimenters) and asimulation package that was not current and suitable for integration with hardware. Sincepractice is an important part of the program just like any other technology program,laboratory activities took a good portion of the two courses mentioned above. There waslimited time available for simulation, hence the students lacked computerized design andanalysis skills. This paper elaborates on the efforts of improving the quality of electricity andelectronics education with the help of simulation and virtual instrumentation tools.The author obtained 9 NI (National Instruments) ELVIS (Educational

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tolga Duman; Cihan Tepedelenlioglu; Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola; Venkatraman Atti; Andreas Spanias

elective UG course entitled “Introduction to signal processing forcommunications research,” is being developed for Fall 2005. Evaluation and assessment procedures are inplace to evaluate the modules and measure the success of our objectives.* This work is sponsored by the NSF CRCD-EI award 0417604. Page 10.19.1 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”1. IntroductionTraditional undergraduate (UG) topics in electrical engineering and computer science rely on structuredclasses, laboratories