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Kenneth Van Treuren

Session T1A4 Mechanical Engineering Laboratory: A Capstone Senior Course Kenneth Van Treuren Engineering Department Baylor University AbstractThis paper characterizes the current Mechanical Engineering Laboratory course taught atBaylor University. As a course typically taken in the last semester of their senior year,student review topics taught in the fluids/thermodynamics stem of the mechanicalengineering program, as well as learn new experimental techniques. For approximatelythe first half of the course, each week

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W. Roy Penney; Nathaniel S. Weston; Megan V. Park; Edgar C. Clausen; Dave C. Marrs; Anthony M. Scalia

Session F1B4 Laboratory/Demonstration Experiments in Heat Transfer: Thermal Conductivity and Absorptivity Measurement Edgar C. Clausen, W. Roy Penney, Dave C. Marrs, Megan V. Park, Anthony M. Scalia, Nathaniel S. Weston Department of Chemical Engineering University of Arkansas AbstractOne excellent method for reinforcing course content is to involve students in laboratoryexercises or demonstrations which are designed to compare experimental data with dataand/or correlations from the literature. As part of the requirements

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Randall D. Manteufel; Ramon Rodriguez; Kerry O’Connor; Jason Torres

Session T2C1 Laboratory Demonstration of Pump Energy Savings Using a Variable Frequency Drive Kerry O’Connor, Ramon Rodriguez, Jason Torres, Randall D. Manteufel Department of Mechanical Engineering and Biomechanics The University of Texas at San Antonio AbstractA team of undergraduate students have designed, built and tested a new laboratory experimentusing a variable frequency drive (VFD) to regulate the speed of a motor-pump combination in afluid piping system. The VFD allows the pump speed to vary by controlling the

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Mary Mary; Emee Ermel

Session F1C1 PVT Simulation: An Innovative Approach to the Traditional Laboratory Experience Emee Ermel and Mary Crawford The University of Texas at Austin AbstractPetroleum engineering is based on the complex relationship between fluids and reservoirs, sounderstanding the behavior of reservoir fluids is fundamental for every petroleum engineer.Pressure-volume-temperature (PVT) measurements on hydrocarbon mixtures provide crucialinformation that aids engineers in evaluating reservoirs and designing oil recovery

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Jose Amieva; Apolinar Zapata

Session T2A1Visualizing Abstract Calculus Concepts by Performing Virtual Electronic Laboratory Experiments Jose Amieva, Apolinar Zapata Engineering Technology Department University of Texas at Brownsville AbstractTeaching calculus has been a big challenge for the Educational Community. Manyschools and instructors fail to recognize that students have different learning styles.There is a noticeable resistance to change the traditional methods of teaching calculus bynew methods that incorporate techniques that makes learning

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W. Roy Penney; Lauren N. Leach; Jeffrey R. Dorman; Edgar C. Clausen; Daniel E. Fluornoy; Alice K. Keogh

Session T4B4 Laboratory/Demonstration Experiments in Heat Transfer: Laminar and Turbulent Forced Convection Inside TubesEdgar C. Clausen, W. Roy Penney, Jeffrey R. Dorman, Daniel E. Fluornoy, Alice K. Keogh, Lauren N. Leach, Department of Chemical Engineering University of Arkansas AbstractLaboratory exercises or demonstrations which are designed to compare experimental datawith literature correlations are excellent methods for reinforcing course content. As partof the requirements for CHEG 3143, Heat Transport, and CHEG 3232

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James J. Dooley; Bernard L. Newman

Session T4B1 Application of A Modern Distributed Control System in a Chemical Engineering Laboratory Bernard L. Newman and James J. Dooley Department of Chemical Engineering University of Louisiana at Lafayette Lafayette, Louisiana AbstractModern distributed control systems are a valuable teaching tool in chemicalengineering and control engineering laboratories. Compared to earlier systems,the entry cost has been greatly reduced, making these systems affordable foralmost all engineering schools

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Tim Coppinger; Hesham Shaalan

. The teach pendant is a hand-heldterminal used for controlling the robot and peripheral equipment connected to the same robotcontroller. The teach pendant is most practical for moving the axes, recording positions, andsending the axes to recorded positions. Laboratory ExercisesThe goal of the laboratory sessions is to analyze and verify the theoretical ideas learned in theclassroom. Some experiments require written reports. In such cases, the report is always dueone week after the experiment is performed. Late reports are not normally accepted.The robot was mounted to a 30 inch square plywood base to perform the laboratory assignments.A gravity feeder and two wooden fixtures that contain holes placed in

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James E. Cross

Session F1B1 Getting A Jump Start With the TI TMS320C6713 Digital Signal Processor James E. Cross Electrical Engineering Department Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA. 70813 Email: cross4153@aol.com Phone: (225) 775-4153 ABSTRACTSouthern University is upgrading its Digital Signal Processing Laboratory with Texas InstrumentsTMS320C6713 (C6713) Digital Signal Processor Starter Kits (DSKs). The

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Kevin M. Nickels

Department at Trinity University is a unique one. We offer a broad-based curriculum with a grounding in the “fundamentals” of electrical, mechanical, and chemicalengineering, along with some specialization through disciplinary electives. Students earn a B.S. inEngineering Science, and customize their program with help from their academic advisor. Moredetailed information on the program is given in a paper by Uddin1.The “fundamentals” courses, required of all engineering majors, include (in the electronicsportion) Electric Circuits, Electric Circuits Laboratory, Electronics I, and Electronics I Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi

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Wayne N.P. Hung; V. Jorge Leon

-skills to effectively working with offshoremanufacturers. In the lower-level courses, the basic manufacturing courses taught and illustratedifferent processes while emphasizing on the scientific foundation and introducing of emergingtechnologies. Laboratory exercises emphasize understanding, exploring, and integrating ratherthan following a rigid procedure. Frequent discussion of new technology innovation encouragesstudents to explore new technologies in advanced courses. The senior and graduate courses givein depth knowledge and prepare students for research in emerging fields such as micro/nanomanufacturing that help to shape the future products in biomedical, aerospace, and others. Inaddition to the discipline-specific hard-skills, the

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Terry Creasy; Richard B. Griffin

Engineering was looking forways to do this in a creative manner. Students many times see activities within separate classesas disconnected from other classes or even from a later activity within the same class. Over thepast several years Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University has collected a variety ofequipment that we have placed in an area that is called the Product Realization Laboratory.1,2 Inan effort to satisfy all of the above customers, the Casting Design Challenge was developed andwill be discussed in this paper. The objective of this activity is to enable students to design acomponent using solid modeling methods, prepare a rapid prototype model, produce a sandcasting, and test the part in competition with other

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S. Ozcelik; M. A. Faruqi; M. A. Abudiab

analyses. An ELA for ethicseducation is presented. This approach should lead to more effective teaching of ethics inour programs. IntroductionMost programs for teaching ethics are based on behavioral approaches1,2. Students arenormally presented with a case study and a code of ethics, and are told that specificactions violate specific sections of a code. Very frequently, the results of the case studyare included, so the students are not given the freedom to participate in the decisionprocess. A prepared case study leads to the laboratory procedure, and the conclusionsstated as part of the case study corresponds to the results that the students must get ontheir laboratory computation sheets. Such case studies

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H. Randolph Holt

“hands-on” academic programs, like those in engineering technology, require laboratory courses or components within courses to acquaint students with actual hardware components, instrumentation, and software. Breadboards are used to serve as a way of connecting devices in electrical and electronic programs. Breadboards like the one shown in Figure 1 are often used to make connections easier. Spring-loaded entry

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Clay Naito

Session F2D4 Freshman Level Design – Bridge Building Project Clay Naito Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Lehigh University AbstractTo provide a stimulating introduction on the concepts of Structural Engineering to freshmenstudents, a hands-on laboratory based course on bridge design and construction was developed.The course provides an overview of strength of materials, structural analysis, computer aideddesign, and construction over a six week period. Material testing laboratory

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Jorge E. Navarro; Apolinar Zapata

calculus real life problem, there are not specificdirections like: find the area of the region bounded by the function f(x), the x-axis, theline x = a, and the line x = b. Real life calculus problems are introduced by a command:design the cheapest container which satisfies these specifications of volume and shape; orby a necessity: I have to find the center of mass of this machine part.In real life and in engineering and science courses, students need to know and be able touse calculus facts and procedures as quickly as possible. However, research1 makes itclear that how mathematics is taught is as important, or even more important than themathematical concepts being taught. Teaching mathematics through laboratory activitiesis an important way for

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Richard Hoehn; Dr. Saleh M Sbenaty

, American Society for Engineering EducationAt the University of Houston (UH) in the Engineering Technology program, senior project wasoffered within Micro-controller Interfacing course (ELET4308) for several years. This was onesemester course with a laboratory consisting of few experiments and then the group project.Teams were formed and each team was assigned a different project. Recently the name of thecourse has been changed to ‘senior project’ and format has been slightly changed. This campushas a large percentage of commuter students with part time or even full time jobs. This situationled to consider this proposal of evaluating the indigenous resource.At PVAMU senior project is a two-semester course (ELET4082 and ELET4092) and carriestotal 4

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Mohan Ketkar

, American Society for Engineering EducationAt the University of Houston (UH) in the Engineering Technology program, senior project wasoffered within Micro-controller Interfacing course (ELET4308) for several years. This was onesemester course with a laboratory consisting of few experiments and then the group project.Teams were formed and each team was assigned a different project. Recently the name of thecourse has been changed to ‘senior project’ and format has been slightly changed. This campushas a large percentage of commuter students with part time or even full time jobs. This situationled to consider this proposal of evaluating the indigenous resource.At PVAMU senior project is a two-semester course (ELET4082 and ELET4092) and carriestotal 4

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Jim Farison

, nondestructive materials evaluation and optical copying. Image processing, including image enhancement, analysis and compression. Student specialization through assignments and project. (3-0) Course Content SelectionComputer applications are characteristically of interest to engineering students, so an imagingcourse has a lot going for it right away. Associated with that, images are inherently visual andnaturally compatible with computer manipulation and storage. They naturally have the potential forinterest, even fun, for students.On the other hand, many engineering students are more interested in hardware and laboratories thanthey are in mathematics (even computer-based math) and computational manipulation

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Scott Starks; Sally Blake; Eric MacDonald

Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationtopics that are not normally offered during the regular academic year. By completing all threesummers of TexPREP, students will have received instruction in following subjects: • Logic and Its Applications to Mathematics: A daily lecture class required of Year 1 participants. • Visual Calculus: A visual, hands on approach to calculus concepts for Year 1 participants. • Algebraic Structures: A daily lecture class required of Year 2 participants. • Introduction to Engineering: A four-week daily lecture/laboratory class with topics in Engineering. This component incorporates design projects for

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Richard Bannerot

particularly the strong support for a “Learning Laboratory”(statement #7) by all (but especially females [column 3] and Hispanic [column 5]) andthe “steep” learning curve experienced by the females. (Ten of the eleven female students“strongly disagreed” (The eleventh simply “disagreed”.) that they had “considerableprevious experience” with their component (statement #5), and yet as a group theyprovided the strongest agreement that they “learned a lot.” (statement #2)) .Table 2 also presents survey results for three ethnic groupings. For the most part theirresponses fell between the responses of the males and females indicating that the issuesaddressed in the survey are more gender than ethnicity related. Please respond to the following statements

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Hesham Shaalan

, identify the appropriate solution, design the system, and then test it.This paper describes the laboratory environment and the project guidelines, and presentsthe student project implemented in the Spring Semester of 2004. IntroductionPLCs are used extensively in a wide range of industrial applications1. Because of thisfact, the Control Systems Engineering Technology students are required to take a coursethat focuses on this topic. Students in this course are required to complete a final project.This project requires that students design, program, and implement a system thatsimulates a real world application of the PLC.Students were allowed to use any of the ideas and techniques discussed in class to

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Rita Caso; Kristi J. Shryock; Jo Howze; Jeffrey Froyd; Arun R. Srinivasa

process. Also in many cases, students, through working on projects,often perceive the relevance of mathematics and science and see how what they have learned inthese courses might be applicable to their current project. Another, less frequently usedalternative is a first-year course built around discipline, laboratory-based learning experiences[10]. The goal of this alternative is to help first-year students better understand the nature of thedifferent engineering disciplines through carefully crafted experiential learning experiences.Given that one of the challenges faced by the first-year engineering curricula at TAMU was thelack of understanding of engineering practice, EAPO selected the project-based approach. Thedesign challenge could be

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Rafic Bachnak; Korinne Caruso; cody ross; Carlton Prewitt

summary. Thesummer program includes presentations at high schools, invited speakers, field trips,hands-on laboratory activities, and science and technology exhibits1 [9]. Specifically, theprogram involves attracting 11th grade students to attend a two-week Science andTechnology workshop. At this level, students are ready to make decisions that affectthem for the rest of their lives; selecting the college they wish to attend and choosing the1 This project is funded in part by the CSREES-USDA, award # 2002-38422-12160field of study they wish to pursue. It is anticipated that this innovative approach,focusing on the 11th grade, can serve as a model for other Hispanic-Serving Institutionsand for future national efforts.The workshop is designed to

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Vanessa Svihla; Ronald Barr; Marcus Pandy; Anthony Petrosino

challenges, they were organized into four topical areas: 1. The Iron Cross (IC), one challenge; 2. The Virtual Biomechanics Laboratory (VBL), three challenges; 3. Jumping Jack (JJ), three challenges; and 4. The Knee, one challenge.The same instruction and testing methodology was used for each of these topical areas. First,some general background lectures on the topic were given using Powerpoint slide showsprepared by the first author. The students then took a pre-test and completed an affect survey Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

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Amir Karimi

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationEngineering Seniors Survey: A survey is conducted every semester in the capstone designcourse to assess the opinions of graduating seniors on their success in achieving programoutcomes and on their attitudes toward the department. The results of the surveys are reviewedand summarized by the Chair and senior faculty and presented to the entire faculty at thedepartmental meetings.Student Exit Interview: The department chair interviews a diverse pool of graduating studentseach semester. Students provide feedback on their educational achievements, quality ofinstruction, facilities, laboratory equipment, and future plans. They also make suggestions onhow to improve the

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Yavuz S. Tunc; Malur N. Srinivasan

9 4 Mechanical Properties of Bulk Nanomaterials 9 Application of Nanostructured Materials: 5 Tungsten Carbide Parts 3 Sensors 3 Nanocomposites 6*The number of hours shown includes the time allotted for lectures and seminarsNo laboratory program is planned for the present, but once experience is gained in teaching thiscourse, time will be made available for some simple demonstration experiments as typicallydiscussed

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Thomas J. Krueger; Ronald E. Barr

2005, American Society for Engineering Education References1. Boronkay, T. G., and Janak, D. “Introduction of Finite Element Methods in the Lower Division Mechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum.” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Milwaukee, WI, 1997. Session 2238.2. Cole, W.: “Graphical Applications: Analysis and Manufacturing”. Engineering Design Graphics Journal, Spring, 1999, pp 43-49.3. Howell, S.: “Finite Element Analysis in a Freshman Graphics Course?” Engineering Design Graphics Journal, Winter, 1993, pp 29-32.4. Juricic, D., Howell, S., Jenison, R., and Barr, R. “Extending Engineering Design Graphics Laboratories to have a CAD/CAM Component – Part II

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Ross Kastor; Robert Askew; Richard Bannerot; Paul Ruchhoeft; Elena Poltavtchenko; Colley Hodges; Chad Wilson; Cari-Sue Wilmot

Materials. The Director of Technical Communications Across the Curriculum redesigned and clarified the guidelines for laboratory reports; commented on students’ reports to aid the instructor; and presented to the course on cohesion in engineering documents, one of the students’ weak areas. • CIVE 6311: Graduate Seminar in Civil Engineering. The Director presented to two sections on effective engineering presentations. Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationTable 1: Results from Fall 2004 End of the Semester UH Writing Center

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Rosa Jeanette De Leon; Randall D. Manteufel; Alfred Vitela

Potential PointsIEQ Prerequisite 1 requires minimum air quality levels in the building. The Engineering Buildingwas designed to follow ASHRAE Standard 62. Verification of systems operation and measurementof CO2 levels in classrooms and laboratories is necessary to ensure that outdoor air levels complywith the standards. This reinforces the recommendation made in EA Credit 5.1-5.3. Option one ofIEQ Prerequisite 2 requires that smoking be prohibited in the building and that outside smokingareas be located at a minimum 25-foot distance from any entryway, window, and outdoor air intake.Although smoking is not allowed inside the Engineering Building, the current smoking regulations Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Gulf-Southwest