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David G. Johnson; Jessica D. Sanders

Session 034 A Golf Ball Launcher: An Engineering Dynamics Project David G. Johnson, Jessica D. Sanders Mechanical Engineering Department University of New Mexico Gregory S. Mowles Mechanical Engineering Department University of New Mexico Abstract The purpose of this project was to design and build an apparatus capable oflaunching a golf ball. The apparatus was required to fulfill certain constraints as well asmeet the target objective

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Paul Ruchhoeft

Introducing Emerging Technology into the Engineering Curriculum Through Capstone Projects Paul Ruchhoeft Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Richard Bannerot, Ross Kastor, and Gangbing Song Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Houston AbstractIn the one semester, three engineering department, capstone design course taught in theCullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston, multidisciplinary teamswork on design projects provided by local industry and the faculty. A rich source of gooddesign problems associated with

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Shunmugham R. Pandian

Session 013 Playful Learning: Robotics and Mechatronics Projects for Innovative Engineering Education Shunmugham R. Pandian Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Tulane University New Orleans, LA 70118 AbstractThe knowledge in the field of engineering is growing at an exponential rate. With onlyfour years available for studying undergraduate engineering disciplines, this leaves manyemerging and even established sub-fields and courses beyond the reach of students. Thisis particularly

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John R. Chandler; John Rivera; A. Dean Fontenot

010 Creating the Engineering Bug in Elementary and Junior High School Students: Texas Tech University’s Engineering Outreach Program John R. Chandler, Ph.D.; John Rivera; and A. Dean Fontenot, Ph.D. College of Engineering, Texas Tech UniversityThrough Texas Tech University (TTU) College of Engineering (COE) Outreach efforts,local schools are participating in science and engineering projects as part of the TechUniversity Pre-college Engineering Academy Program©. The Center for Partnerships inScience and Technology and the College of Engineering have established a means forgetting fourth through ninth-graders excited about science, engineering, and

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Keyonn L. Pope

Session 011 Integrated Circuit Design and Layout For a Random Sequence Counter Using L-EDIT By: Keyonn L. Pope Electrical Engineering Department Southern University and A&M College Baton Rouge, LA. 70813 KLP1015@AOL.COMAbstractAnalysis and design of integrated circuits for a random sequence counter is realized usingPSPICE and L-EDIT. The project exposes the designer to the rigors associated withdesigning of integrated circuits and familiarizes him/her with contemporary methods ofdesigning. The project enhances

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Tariq A. Khraishi

Engineering EducationIn materials science education, there have been attempts reported in the literature to enhance theeducational experience of students3-7. However, most reported efforts typically revolve aroundcomputer use through enhanced graphics, animations, virtual experimentation, etc., which areagain factory packaged. However, it is not common to come up with open-ended problems, i.e.PBL, and let the students on their own define what the problem really is and solve it within somegiven guidelines, especially problems that involve hands-on type work. In this paper, the authorattempts just that by providing here a list of small project/assignment ideas that serve as PBLexperiments a materials science/engineering teacher can possibly assign to

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E. H. Shaban

, built, tested, and documented by each student atthe end of the semester. For the past decade this experience has enriched and prepared thestudents to embark in more challenging projects at the senior capstone design experience.

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Donald J. Bagert; Stephen V. Chenoweth

course involves the development in small teams of a requirements specification, fromproblem statement to delivery of both specification and a user interface prototype. Each teamwas assigned a faculty member (who was not one of the course instructors) to be their client.The same problem statement was given to each team and stakeholder; however, the clients weregiven free rein to add on to the requirements however they wanted to during the elicitationprocess by the student team. Both the class instructors and the client were involved in theevaluation of the deliverables.Feedback on the format used was generally positive from both students and clients. The authorsbelieve that those students that go on to take the senior project sequence are better

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Richard Bannerot; Ross Kastor; Paul Ruchhoeft

4334 capstone design course, required of all students in the Departmentsand Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. This paper describes thechallenges and the specific problems encountered and the changes, i.e., solutions, thathave been implemented. The capstone design course that existed in 1998 had beenessentially unchanged since 1981. The Pre-Existing CourseThe pre-existing course was a one-semester, 3-hour credit course that was offered everyfall and every spring on an alternating day-night schedule by a single instructor. Teamsof four students were assigned (through a bidding process) a project. About 80% of theprojects were provided and sponsored by local industry and a majority of them

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Julian H. Kang; Narendra Nigudkar

4D campus model. Some suggestions to overcome theselimitations and the merit of the 4D campus model in learning construction planning andscheduling will also be discussed. IntroductionIn construction planning, a project is broken into identifiable work packages to build alogical network among these packages. The process of building the logical networkrequires reading drawings, visualizing structures in mind, finding relationship betweenactivities, and estimating the duration required to complete each activity. Therepresentation of the logical network has long been made by a CPM network or a bar chart.However, students often find it difficult to intuit construction schedule by reading two-dimension (2D

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Brian Nutter; Tanja Karp; Sunanda Mitra

Session XXXX Use of the Texas Instruments DSP Starter Kit (DSK) in Electrical Engineering Education Brian Nutter, Tanja Karp, Sunanda Mitra Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Texas Tech University AbstractTexas Instruments produces a cost-efficient Digital Signal Processor (DSP) systempackaged as the DSP Starter Kit (DSK). This system provides all the hardware andsoftware necessary to develop and to test a wide variety of signal processing applications.Faculty members within TTU ECE regularly assign projects

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Tariq A. Khraishi; Larissa Gorbatikh

usually translates toassigning design project(s) to groups of students11,12. Such design projects are by definition open-ended and have no unique answer or solution. The students thus have to invoke their imaginationand try to integrate a host of previous classes (i.e. previous knowledge) in order to solve theproblem at hand. This form of learning is considered the ultimate form since it is a replica of realengineering practice. It is worth noting that PBL is already existent in many engineeringcurricula, most notably through senior design courses. It is not common, however, inintroductory engineering classes, like Dynamics, which are typically lecture-based.This paper discusses the efforts by the two authors at coordinating a PBL experiment

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Jenna Terry; Paul Ruchhoeft

departments in theCollege: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and MechanicalEngineering. The course is centered around the activities of up to twenty-fivemultidisciplinary teams composed of four students each as described in two recentpapers6,7. Apart from the requirement for the completion of projects and the validation oftheir results, the main emphasis of the course is instruction in technical communicationsand project management. This paper will focus on the improvement achieved in theinstruction of technical communications and will describe the development of arelationship between the Cullen College of Engineering and the UH Writing Center8. TheWriting Center is involved in many activities including assessment

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E. H. Shaban

Session 004 Integrated Circuits Design Course to Satisfy ABET Design Requirements in Electrical Engineering E. H. Shaban Electrical Engineering Department Southern University Baton Rouge, LA 70813 AbstractAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) requires that electricalengineering graduates must be able to solve open ended theoretical problems and providepractical design engineering solutions for projects utilizing the knowledge they gainedfrom the

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M. M. Darwish; M. H. Akram

070Transforming Passive Listeners to Active Learners in the Engineering Classrooms M. M. Darwish and M. H. AkramIn the traditional approach to college teaching, most class time is spent with the professorlecturing and the students watching, listening, and taking notes. Students are usuallygiven individual assignments and are not exposed to group work/projects until theirsenior year. This type of traditional instructor-centered teaching process has proven to beless effective as compared to the use of active and cooperative learning methods.Transforming passive and individualistic learning into active learning is the mostchallenging form of teaching. Active learning can revitalize students-faculty interactionby

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Luciana R. Barroso; Jim Morgan

. Childs, Leland T. Jordan Professor of Mechanical Engineering(details on the course were presented previously under the title: Developing A New Differential-Equation-Based Dynamics/Vibration Course, 1 at ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section 2001 ANNUALCONFERENCE "Changing the Engineering Profession" March 28-30, 2001, Texas A&MUniversity, College Station, TX.). The course emphasizes model development and the use ofgeneral kinematic equations and differential equations of motion for problem solving. Theauthors have adapted the course content to incorporate civil engineering examples andapplications, and to place more emphasis on vibration. Course projects are based on realisticcivil engineering examples, with an emphasis on the assumptions required to

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H. R. Myler

institutions of higher education; and increase collaborative efforts betweenTexas universities, engineering and computer science departments, and private companies. Aprimary vehicle of this purpose is the awarding of grants for projects to strengthen instruction in Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas Tech University Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationengineering and computer science and to institute recruitment, development, and retentionprograms for students in these programs.In April of 2002 the Lamar University Department of Electrical Engineering was awarded aTETC grant titled Launching the Texas Engineering

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Mohammed E. Haque; Murtuza Aluminiumwalla

Session XXXX A Virtual Walk-through of a Reinforced Concrete Building Construction Mohammed E. Haque, Murtuza Aluminiumwalla Department of Construction Science Texas A&M University AbstractFor construction engineering and management students, visits to construction sites complementour classroom instruction ideally. However, various complicating issues, such as unavailabilityof construction projects during the academic semesters and impracticality, due to theconstruction site risk for a large group of students, makes it

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Jerry Dwyer; Katherine Hitchcox

math clubs designed to encourage greater participation of women in math, scienceand engineering. The models have formed the basis of a course offered to practicing teachersand also have been presented at teacher workshops. Lesson plans have been designed fordifferent topics. Teacher feedback and assessment are considered an important aspect of thisdevelopment program. IntroductionThis paper describes a set of science and engineering models used by the authors in K-12classrooms. The models have been used as enrichment activities in regular classrooms and alsoas special projects in math clubs designed to encourage greater participation of women in math,science and engineering.The models have also formed the

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Richard Bannerot

ASEE-GSW2004-043 Who are the Good Team Players: Part II Richard Bannerot Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Houston AbstractWorking in teams, especially on multidisciplinary projects, is becoming more and morecommon in engineering as well as in other work environments. However, despite theimportance of “team-work” in engineering, there is little data on the characteristics of“good” and “poor” team players. This paper presents the second set of results from anongoing, horizontal study of this issue in two engineering design courses, one at

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M-A Demuynck; D. E. Edwards; M. M. Holt; R. H. Cox

faculty tostudent ratio for the department is less than 20. The smaller classes and close faculty-studentrelationships provides extra support needed by many students to complete their program of study atTWU. Texas Tech University (TTU), TWU’s partner in the current project, is a comprehensive state-supported university with approximately 25,000 students. The College of Engineering has 9departments, a current enrollment of approximately 2,300 undergraduate students, 500 graduatestudents, and 100 faculty members. The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering currentlyhas approximately 525 undergraduate (B.S.) students and 90 graduate (M.S. and Ph.D.) students, with21 faculty, 6 staff, and approximately $3.7 million in funded research

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William E. Simon; Terrence L. Chambers

board, student, alumni and employer inputs, the interface with universityadministration, national trends in engineering education, and communications and teamwork arediscussed, and the results of this faculty team project are presented.The lessons learned and changes made in the assessment and measurement process, and theresulting modifications of the curriculum, should assist in insuring long-term continuous Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference 1 Texas Tech University Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationimprovement of the program in order to continue providing competent engineering graduates fortoday’s

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N. N. Sarker; M. A. Ketkar

, college, and as well as by any accreditation authority.This spreadsheet system can be modified or updated any time to suit the individualcourses and tastes. This paper describes the steps of developing of an Excel grading fileassuming some usual weight distribution for a course. It starts with a blank spreadsheetand shows the development of the automatic grading system by using some functions,such as, AVERAGE(), SUM(), COUNTA(), COUNTIF(), LOOKUP(), STDEVA(),MEDIAN(), MODE(), and MIN(). Once these functions are in effect, the only jobremains for the instructor, is to input the raw numerical scores on homework, project ortest into the sheet. With each entry of scores at any time throughout a semester, the sheetshows the current letter grades of

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M-A Demuynck; D. E. Edwards; W. J. Zimmermann

bewomen by the year 2005, those choosing engineering are too few and far between. A variety ofreasons have been offered for this phenomenon, and despite many interventions designed toencourage talented females and minorities to pursue careers in engineering and other sciences,the participation rate is not drastically changing. Clearly additional avenues must be pursued. Based on the thesis that reaching students through the Internet enhances the educationalprocess, Texas Womans’ University formulated a project designed to develop independent,interactive web-based learning modules for use with mathematics and computer sciencecourses. These modules offer always-available and convenient tutorial support to studentsenrolled in supported courses

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Seshagiri Rao Hoskote; Enno “Ed” Koehn

cardiovascular diseases linked to pollution in 36 Indiancities. (Study conducted by the Center for Science and Environment, New Delhi). Thisphenomenal increase in actual and projected traffic and the concomitant growth in thenumber of vehicles have not only led to congested roads and higher accidents in urban areasbut also exposed the environment and the society to the baneful effects of vehicularpollution. Two-wheelers and cars are said to be the principal contributors to vehicularpollution, accounting for nearly 90% of total emission loadsAt present, pollution caused by vehicle emissions account for a plethora of diseases in humanbeings and is now considered as one of the most potent threats to human health. Air qualityin urban areas in particular has

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Bonnie Boardman; Lynn Peterson

-Southwest Annual Conference Texas Tech University Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationDuring one of the sessions dealing with the topic Creativity and Design, a poster session washeld. Research projects from all engineering departments were showcased using posters, withfaculty and/or graduate students on hand to describe the project and explain results. Studentsfrom the class were expected to circulate among the posters, and gather information about one ormore of the projects. An average of 30 minutes was allocated for this activity. Students werethen asked to write a summary of one of the projects in 100-150 words. For a class of 200students, approximately 15

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Rafic Bachnak; Korinne Caruso; cody ross

number of manufacturing andprocessing industries are involved in the delivery of the program. The workshops aredesigned to introduce students to college life, involve them in hands-on activities, andencourage them to pursue science and engineering careers. Our goal is to make theactivities undertaken by this project an integral part of the recruiting and training effortsand expand them to reach a larger geographical area and a higher number ofunderrepresented students. The paper will describe the program and present the results ofsummer 2003 workshops. IntroductionThe current US workforce is comprised of 77% White, 4% Asian, and 19% Minority.According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the National

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Mohammed E. Haque; Salim Saherwala

principles.McManus, and Segner (1991), are of the view that visualization will take many forms in theconstruction industry. The generation and manipulation of three dimensional models of aproposed project using sophisticated three dimensional modeling techniques to hypotheticallybuild and test a facility while it is still in the design development stage is one of the importantuses of visualization. Senior designers, construction managers, and client specialists use themodel to "visualize" both the construction and operation of the facility. Critical interferences areprevented; inefficiencies are minimized; errors are corrected in magnetic memory rather than insteel; and client decision makers are duly impressed. Superintendents can even finish a job

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Ms. LaQuasha M. Morgan; Ms. Faye Moore,; Dr. David A. Kirkpatrick

participating students. Our organization has looked intothis matter by trying to encourage student professional society interaction with thetechnology industry. We feel that all engineering technology departments will benefitfrom advancement in the curriculum. The most common feedback we have obtained tosupport or better this effort for the advancement in curriculum is by including industryfocus in all courses and include new technologies, include project management as aprerequisite to senior design projects, and structure curriculum to produce graduates who“hit the ground, running” in entry-level positions with industry or in government service. Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference

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Mario G. Beruvides

applications, understanding studentlearning styles, class participation and active learning are key issues to educators. 1 Engineeringprofessors have long known and valued the efficacy of exercises that include practicalapplications. Hands-on training (actual project work) is much appreciated by students. Providinghands-on experiences with respect to mechanical or electrical apparatus is much easier to do thanit is with subjects such as advanced economic analysis or many other engineering managementsubject matter. Experiencing management situations is important for engineering students inconsidering that most engineers in the workplace will have to handle management issues sooneror later. “Many students come to engineering studies with little