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Instrumentation and Measurements: Innovative Course Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Beams, University of Texas-Tyler

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Instrumentation

filter designed as asenior capstone design project in 2005.Project TUNA and Project TUNA II have been used as teaching tools to explain the principles ofphase-sensitive demodulation in both EENG 4309 (Electronic Circuits Analysis II) and EENG4302 (Measurement and Instrumentation Systems). Resources created in conjunction withTUNA II include an introductory tutorial on phase-sensitive demodulation and an Excelspreadsheet to automate the design process for quadrature networks.Schematic diagrams, parts lists, circuit-board layouts (in AutoCAD form) and the LabVIEWvirtual instrument code are available from http://ee.uttyler.edu/David_Beams/project_page.htm.Conclusion

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Mechanical ET Design & Projects

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Penrod, University of Dayton

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Engineering Technology

second grouping covers failure theories and fatigue. The thirdgrouping contains topics from machine design like the design of shafts, spur gears, springs,fasteners, shear pins, keys, couplings, seals, roller bearings, and plain bearings. The text for thecourse is Machine Elements in Mechanical Design by Mott1. As an integrating capstone-typeexperience, the students are required to complete a design project.Project DescriptionThe subject and scope of the project given in the Design of Machine Elements course variessomewhat depending on the instructor of the course. However, the project is typically the designof either a power transmission or a power transmission component. Either approach provides anexcellent vehicle for the student to integrate

Conference Session

Trend in Construction Engineering Education II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul Chinowsky, University of Colorado-Boulder; Hyman Brown, University of Colorado-Boulder

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Construction

expected that a broadknowledge foundation can be applied to specific projects. However, the authors propose thatPBL by itself is only the first step in revising engineering education in general and constructioneducation specifically. To enhance the education experience, educators should move furthertowards integrating the cognitive concept of broad knowledge application and transformation inall levels of courses and not limited to capstone experiences. Specifically, it is proposed thatconstruction educators adopt a cognitive concept that has emerged from the authors’ PBLexperience and introduced as the Knowledge Landscape approach. In this approach, students arerequired to solve project scenarios with a diverse range of external and internal

Conference Session

The Senior Experience: Capstone and Beyond

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott Yost, University of Kentucky; Derek Lane, University of Kentucky; George Blandford, University of Kentucky

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Civil Engineering

achieving success. Hence, doesplacing students in a group automatically lead to a level of success that individuals workingalone can not reach? Do students really know how to maximize the benefits of teaming? If theconditions lead to successful teams, how can it be determined that synergy occurs and the wholeis truly greater then the sum of individual parts?Surveying students in the capstone design course on their abilities to function in teams is onemechanism for assessing success in developing teaming skills. Several semesters ofobservations are presented and comparisons are made among students with formal teameducation as their team skills advance over the course of a semester. Results will be presentedfrom student surveys, faculty assessment

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Assessing Design Coursework

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Martha Green, Texas A&M University; Parag Ravindran, Texas A&M University; Rita Caso, Texas A&M University; Jeffrey Froyd; Xiafeng Li, Texas A&M University; L. Alan Minnick, Texas A&M University; Ram Shukla, Texas A&M University

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Design in Engineering Education

Senior Engineering Capstone DesignCourse Learning with a Variation on the TIDEE Design TeamReadiness Assessment I and IIAbstract:Efficacy of engineering design education in an interdisciplinary team-based course setting,with exposure to the broader concerns of business, finance and management, interestsmany educators. This paper reports on the use of design knowledge assessment patternedafter the Transferable Integrated Design Engineering Education (TIDEE) Design TeamReadiness Assessment (DTRA) I and II [1,2,3,4] to evaluate what aerospace, mechanical,electrical and computer science students learned about engineering design as a result ofparticipating in a Boeing-supported, two-semester, project-based senior capstone designcourse at Texas A&

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Integrative Projects in Aerospace Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sanjay Jayaram, St. Louis University

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Aerospace

2006-1989: BILLIKENSAT 1 – SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY’S FIRST CUBESATDESIGNSanjay Jayaram, St. Louis University Dr. Sanjay Jayaram is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department at Saint Louis University. His research interests include Autonomous Control System Design for ground and planetary vehicles, Robust and Adaptive Control. Page 11.274.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 BILLIKENSAT 1 – Saint Louis University’s First Cubesat DesignAbstract:Billikensat 1 is the first multi-disciplinary Senior Capstone Spacecraft Design project at ParksCollege of

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Incorporating Projects into the Curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Louis Everett, University of Texas-El Paso

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Mechanical Engineering

, Vibration and Design. In a very real sense, thecontrols class serves as a “mini” capstone course. Projects in the class can require the students toexercise the knowledge they have gained in all these subjects. According to the most recent ABET report, the concepts covered in the prerequisite courseare: 1. Free vibration, harmonic motion, viscous damping, modeling and energy methods, stiffness, measurement, and stability. 2. Harmonic excitation of undamped and damped systems, alternative representations, base excitation, rotating unbalance, and measurement. 3. Impulse response function, response to an arbitrary input, response to an arbitrary periodic input, transfer methods, shock spectrum, and

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Mechanical/Manufacturing ET Design Projects

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary Drigel, Miami University

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Engineering Technology

University for 5 years. He can be reached at drigelgs@muohio.edu, Miami University, 4200 East University Blvd., Middletown, OH 45042. Page 11.654.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 From Project Planning to National Champion - BUV Design, Build and WinAbstractThe process in which senior Mechanical Engineering Technology students at Miami Universityplanned, designed, built, tested and ultimately won a national design competition for a BasicUtility Vehicle (BUV) is described. Included in this process are a Project Management Course(ENT 316) and two Senior Design capstone courses

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Mechanical/Manufacturing ET Design Projects

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gregory Watkins, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Michael Smith, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

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Engineering Technology

project.IntroductionDuring the senior year, mechanical engineering technology students take a two-course sequencein senior design, which acts as a capstone course for the program. The capstone course exposesthe students to open-ended problems and also provides a framework for their evaluation.1 Eachyear, students are challenged to formulate a project that is complex enough to meet therequirements, but not so complex that it cannot be completed. The ubiquitous car jack has beendesigned numerous times, while an aircraft that runs on hydrogen fuel is probably too ambitiousfor even the most dedicated team of students. Selecting a project is further complicated by moststudents' lack of industrial experience, and the associated feel for what is appropriate andmanageable

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Design Projects in ET

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Otieno, Northern Illinois University; Abul Azad, Northern Illinois University; Radha Balamuralikrishna, Northern Illinois University

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Engineering Technology

FACULTY COLLABORATIONIntroduction Simultaneous engineering is principally geared toward accelerated product developmentthrough interdisciplinary teamwork. Organizations such as the Society of ManufacturingEngineers (SME) and the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) haveeither directly or indirectly emphasized that undergraduates in the discipline should be wellprepared in all aspects of teamwork and possess a certain degree of breadth and depth ofexposure to various bodies of engineering that are exemplified in present day machines andconsumer products1,2. Interdisciplinary projects have been used in engineering or engineering technology toaugment instruction in capstone-type courses. Researchers in education

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Incorporating Projects into the Curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shanzhong (Shawn) Duan, South Dakota State University; Li Qian, South Dakota State University; Teresa Hall, South Dakota State University

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Mechanical Engineering

2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Portland,OR.10. Kane, T.R. and Levinson, D.A. (1985). Dynamics: Theory and Application. New York: McGraw-Hill.11. Kane, T.R. and Levinson, D.A. (2000). Dynamics Online: Theory and Application with Autolev. OnlineDynamics, Inc.12. LaCourse, D. (2003). Virtual Prototyping Pays Off. Cadalys Manufacturingt, May 1.13. McPhee, J. (2006). http://real.uwaterloo.ca/%7embody/#Software.14. Mitiguy, P. and Reckdahl, K. (2005). Autolev Tutorial version 4. Online Dynamics, Inc.15. Muci-Kuchler, K. H. and Weaver, J. M. (2005). Using Industry-Like Product Development Projects inMechanical Engineering Capstone Design Courses. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for

Conference Session

A Serving Profession: Service Learning in Civil Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Hanson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Robert Houghtalen, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Jesse Houghtalen, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Zachary Johnson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Matthew Lovell, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Maria Van Houten, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering

client companies began to expand. In fact, project solicitation is rare; moreproject requests come in each year than can be fulfilled.The client-based projects are vetted and teams are selected early in the academic year. Projectproposals by potential clients are received in August. The best projects are retained based onscope of work, variation in civil engineering disciplines, and faculty and client interest. Studentsvote on their top five choices based on project abstracts during the first week of class (moreprojects are available than teams). Teams of four are selected by the faculty based on studentinterest and team considerations.The capstone design experience lasts a full year. The projects commence with a client meetingand a site visit

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Conrad, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

implemented solution because engineering programs already havecourses in place where they can (and often do) introduce PM concepts. For example, at theauthor’s university, each engineering student will take the following courses during their collegecareer: • Fall, Freshman year, Introduction to Engineering • Spring, Freshman year: Introduction to their discipline (i.e. Electrical Engineering) • Fall, Junior year: Professional Development • Fall, Senior year: Senior Design (capstone project): project development and definition • Spring, Senior year: Senior Design (capstone project): project implementationMany other universities have the same types of courses. However, while many programs do agood job introducing students to some

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bradley Bishop, U.S. Naval Academy; Carl Wick, U.S. Naval Academy; George Piper, U.S. Naval Academy

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Computers in Education

previous experiences in the course, providing students with added experienceand insight into their craft as roboticists. This exercise is also extremely beneficial in otherways, especially for students who are about to undertake a capstone senior design project.Students are frequently asked to develop and carry out a novel design project as part of theircapstone experience without ever having an opportunity to do so on a smaller scale. This projectis intended to provide experiential support for these future capstone efforts.Experience has shown that this sort of student-driven, open-ended project requires a great deal ofinstructor flexibility, deep familiarity with available components, and ready suggestions forpotential projects. But, for

Conference Session

Assessment & TC2K Methods

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ahmed Khan, DeVry University-Addison; Robert Lawrence, DeVry University

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Engineering Technology

anintegrative senior project, where students work in teams to solve a real world problemrelated to their major. Students demonstrate a wide range of competencies during thecourse of the project, making the direct measurement of student academic achievementvia the senior project (EET-410L) and a companion general education capstone course,(HUMN-432) a major part of assessment effort, and overall continuous qualityimprovement (CQI) process at DeVry. Student outcomes assessment at DeVry serves asthe "check" function in the "Plan-Do-Check-Act" model for CQI (see Figure 1), whichemphasizes the iterative and ongoing nature of the process. A number of direct andindirect indicators are also established against which the student learning/performanceoutcomes are

Conference Session

Security

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yu Cai, Michigan Technological University; Guy Hembroff, Michigan Technological University

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Information Systems

are required to complete a capstone senior design projectduring their final year. The senior design project affords students the opportunity to applytheir individual technical skills and knowledge on a real world project, as well as developtheir problem solving skills, communication skills, and teamwork skills.DDoS attack has become a rapidly growing threat to today’s Internet. A large number ofDDoS detection and defense mechanisms have been proposed to combat the problem.In this paper, we present the design and implementation of an Information Technology seniordesign project named DDoS Attack, Detection and Defense Simulation. In this project, weaim to set up test bed and configure the network environment to simulate the “real-world”DDoS

Conference Session

Practice/Partnership/Program Issues

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edmond Saliklis, California Polytechnic State University

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Architectural

experiences. • Faculty members should be careful both with selecting projects and selecting students. This is telling because selectivity is highlighted by their award winning paper.Selectivity, or “putting a fence around” undergraduate engineering research projects isthe focus of this paper. Such selectivity or delimiting of projects is critical to a successfulexperience for both the faculty member and the student. Before discussing these items in detail, it may be helpful to itemize what does notconstitute a research project. Senior design projects such as capstone projects typicallyare not considered research, since they usually work on a design problem that can beotherwise classified as large, complicated class assignments

Conference Session

A Serving Profession: Service Learning in Civil Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nathan Gartner, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; John TIng, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Oguz Gunes, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Xiaoqi Zhang, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

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Civil Engineering

way tointegrate activities designed to strengthen abilities in technical subject matter with otherwiseseparate activities focused on the above (ABET) aspects of student development.While service-learning has been well established in many disciplines in higher education [1],engineering has been slow to adopt the pedagogy [3, 4]. Recently, efforts have been made toimplement S-L in engineering contexts. Examples include civil and environmental engineeringcourses [5]; first-year introductory courses [6, 7]; capstone senior design courses [8];multidisciplinary approaches [9, 10]; and the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS)program at Purdue University [11]. However, it appears no program in engineering has service-learning spread

Conference Session

Sustainable Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janet Baldwin, Roger Williams University

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Environmental Engineering

treatment and water resources which would benefit greatly from thisfirst-hand experience. In addition, a design project for the senior capstone design course couldbe modeled on this project.Specifically, this project can be a learning tool to illustrate the determination of sustainability. InCriterion 3 Program Outcomes and Assessment, the ABET Engineering AccreditationCommission identifies skills that engineering graduates should possess. These include the abilityto design a system with realistic constraints including sustainability, economic, social, political,and manufacturability [3]. These constraints tend to be hard to incorporate into a design projectwhen the student is primarily focused on the technical aspects. My plan is to use this

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Collaborations and Interactions

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wenlung Li, National Taipei University of Technology; Jhy-Cherng Tsai, National Chung-Hsing University, TAIWAN; Wei-Chung Wang, National Tsing-Hua University, TAIWAN; Cheng-Kuo Sung, National Tsing-Hua University, TAIWAN; Jennie Wu, Ministry of Education, TAIWAN

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International

Education (MOE) has initiated the ‘The Research and EducationAdvancement Project’ (REAP) to assure both quantity and quality of the manpower can meet theneeds. The major goal is to re-arrange the educational resources in such a way that they can bemore efficiently used while the quality of graduates can be further raised. Firstly, several so-called the “strategic industries” are identified depending on the country’s economy plans. In themean time, the programs that matching with those strategic industries are initiated one afteranother by MOE. Unlike the traditional educational programs, the REAP emphasizes the inter-university collaborations. Among these many capstone programs in REAP, the precisionmechatronics program, started in 1997, includes

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Bannerot, University of Houston

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Design in Engineering Education

2006-832: HOW WOMEN PERFORM ON INDIVIDUAL DESIGN PROJECTSCOMPARED TO MENRichard Bannerot, University of Houston Richard Bannerot is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston. His research interests are in the thermal sciences and in engineering design education. For the past fifteen years he has taught the required "Introduction to Design" course at the sophomore level and has been involved in the teaching of the department's capstone design course. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Texas. Page 11.704.1© American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Introductory Materials Engineering Courses of 2020

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology; Melissa Zaczek, Rochester Institute of Technology; Cory Hoffman, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Materials

seniors indicate that manystudents feel their failure analysis project was the only project they had prior to capstone designwhere they truly had free reign to perform anything other than a “canned” experiment.The paper will outline the process for meshing project content with lecture and lab material, andsome examples of student work will be presented.Background – Materials Science CourseThe Materials Science course at RIT is taken in the winter or spring quarter of the second year,typically either with Mechanics of Materials or in the immediate preceding or following quarter.Materials Science is a three-credit course (30 contact hours) with a one-credit lab, while mostother RIT-ME lab courses are four-credit lectures with one-credit labs

Conference Session

What's New in Dynamics?

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter Avitabile, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Tracy Van Zandt, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Jeffrey Hodgkins, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Nels Wirkkala, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

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Mechanical Engineering

in their educational career.Real engineering problems are rarely solved by “looking up answers at the back of the book”.Yet many engineering courses are taught this way and students feel that they can push the “resetbutton” after each class since they do not see the integration of all the material until late in theirundergraduate career through the capstone experience. This is too late for them to realize theimportance of earlier course material.A Dynamic Systems laboratory-based, hands-on project has been implemented which attempts toaddress many of the issues identified above. This series of projects is described in the followingsections

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Malicky, University of San Diego; Ming Huang, University of San Diego; Susan Lord, University of San Diego

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New Engineering Educators

learning is often not made in the literature, although it is helpful to distinguish them when trying to determine which pedagogy is most appropriate for a given instructor and course. The most common implementation of project-based learning in engineering is for capstone design courses.• Inquiry-Based Learning: The organizing principle for inquiry-based learning is the scientific method; as such inquiry learning is most commonly used in labs. Students observe a carefully selected phenomenon, develop a hypothesis about that phenomenon, develop an experimental procedure to test their hypothesis, perform their experiment, evaluate their results, and reflect on their learning. Learning is again student-centered, interactive

Conference Session

Design Projects in Wind and Solar Energy

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alvin Post, Arizona State University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

problem. Ingeneral, there is at least the potential that these fluids could contaminate the pumpedwater or otherwise enter the environment. Furthermore, they can be expensive, and arerarely available where ‘appropriate technology’ is needed.Two separate student-designed pumps are presented that seek to overcome theselimitations. They were developed as part of 2-semester ‘Capstone’ design project classes.In one, air separates a small charge of working fluid from well water, reducing thepotential for contamination. The other pump is designed to boil water at lowertemperatures than might otherwise be necessary, by use of an inverted water column, andis useful when water need only be lifted a few meters. An alternative to this design is alsosuggested

Conference Session

Design Projects in Wind and Solar Energy

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Recayi 'Reg' Pecen; Francis Praska, University of Northern Iowa; Ashraf Al-Qassab, University of Northern Iowa

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

. Proceedings, November, 1999.[27] Pecen R., Hall T., Chalkiadakis F., Zora A., “Renewable Energy Based Capstone design Applications for AnUndergraduate Engineering Technology Curriculum”, Proceedings of 33rd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE)Conference 2003, Session S1E, Boulder, CO, November 5-8, 2003.[28] Pecen R., O’Meara Ron, Zora A, “Design and Construction of a Solar Powered Outdoor Digital Display as aSenior Design Project”, Proceedings of the ASEE 2004 Annual Conference and Exposition, EngineeringTechnology Division, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 22-26, 2004.[29] Iowa Energy Center Wind Assess. Data for Iowa, http://www.energy.iastate.edu/renewable/wind/assesment

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Design in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jose Guevara, University of Puerto Rico; Ismael Pagan-Trinidad, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Didier Valdes-Diaz, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Eileen Pesantes, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Francisco Maldonado-Fortunet, University of Puerto Rico; Miguel Pando, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez

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Design in Engineering Education

2006-1605: INCORPORATION OF A COMPREHENSIVE DESIGN EXPERIENCEIN THE INTEGRATED ENGINEERING PROJECT DESIGN MODELJose Guevara, University of Puerto Rico Dr. Guevara is an associate professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico, he is leading the work to make improvements to the capstone course and helping also in the improvements to the curriculum. He has also work as a structural consultant for a wide variety of projects including commercial, residential, industrial, transportation, marine facilities as well as the tren urbano.Ismael Pagan-Trinidad, University of Puerto Rico-MayaguezDidier Valdes-Diaz, University of Puerto Rico-MayaguezEileen Pesantes, University of Puerto Rico

Conference Session

What's New in Statics?

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shane Palmquist, Western Kentucky University

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Mechanics

project-basedlearning in the classroom. Numerous engineering projects have been incorporated into theclassroom including the egg drop catcher and the balsa wood bridge projects to name a couple1.The general purpose of these projects was to demonstrate what is learned in the classroom and toencourage creativity and teamwork. Most of the projects attempt to simulate a development,design and analysis experience. While there is value to this approach, there is a greater need toexpose students to real life engineering projects rather than a simulated project. Unfortunately,real life engineering projects are typically left to the senior capstone course2,3. However,engineering students upon entering college need exposure to real life projects to better

Conference Session

Integrating Research Into Undergraduate ECE Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Wicker, U.S. Air Force Academy; Erlind Royer, U.S. Air Force Academy; Allen Arb; Daniel Pack, U.S. Air Force Academy

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Electrical and Computer

Engineering Education, 2006 A Multi-Disciplinary Senior Design Project Using Cooperative Unmanned Aerial Vehicles1. AbstractTo improve our response to U.S. Air Force requirements, the Department of Electrical andComputer Engineering at the U.S. Air Force Academy has integrated multidisciplinary teamprojects into its two-semester capstone design course. In this paper we present a case study ofone of our multidisciplinary projects for the 2005-2006 academic year; developing a system ofcooperative unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Some of our instructional methods include just-in-time teaching, team faculty mentoring, and requiring timely scheduled oral and writtenreports, to name a few. The goal of the project is to have

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Teams and Teamwork in Design

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory Davis, Kettering University; Craig Hoff, Kettering University

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Design in Engineering Education

4. Reasons cited for not participating in SAE student activities.When asked to provide ideas on how to increase student participation in Kettering SAEactivities, these alumni offered the following advice: 1. Offer course capstone credit for participation in the competition projects. For many students receiving credit for the time spent to develop the project vehicles could be justified, if they received course credit for their effort. It would in effect allow them to ‘double-dip’ on their time commitments. Said one student, “Is it possible to get some minimal credits for fulfilling tasks as part of the team?? Linking activities to some sort of educational credit would allow a higher priority.” 2. Integrate SAE