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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Charles H. Forsberg

Use of Knowledge and Skill Builders (KSBs) in a Measurements Laboratory Course Charles H. Forsberg Hofstra UniversityKSBs (“Knowledge and Skill Builders”) have been successfully used in design activities formiddle and high school students. This paper discusses their use in a college level engineeringlaboratory course. Suggestions are also given for their potential use in other courses.BackgroundDesign activities greatly enhance the technological knowledge of students of all grade levels.A typical design process includes the steps of: Problem definition, including constraints;Research and investigation of possible solutions; Generation of alternative

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Deran Hanesian; Angelo J. Perna

grade students, 11 and 12 years old, who have completed Introductory FEMME) • Senior FEMME (8th and 9th grade students, 13 and 14 years old, who have completed FEMME Continuum)• Chemical Industry For Minorities in Engineering (CHIME, 7th and 8th grade students, 12 and 13 years old)• Upward Bound, Mathematics and Science Program (9th-12th grade Newark, NJ minority High school students, 14-17 years old)These K-12 programs have a strong emphasis on laboratory safety and “hands-on” learning with Bench Scale, Freshman Engineering Laboratory and SeniorChemical Engineering Pilot Plant scale experiments. The programs have beenvery successful over the years with approximately 80 percent of the K-12students enrolling as

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Graham Walker

An Experimental Process Course Graham Walker Mechanical engineering department Manhattan College1 Introduction In many industrial environments today an engineer is expected to perform tests or simpleexperiments. This will become ever truer in the future as more and more design is done offshore andoutsourced to countries such as India and China. Consequently, it will become even more important forfuture engineering graduates to be familiar with testing and experimental procedures. A typical engineering curriculum has a number of laboratory courses distributed throughout itsfour years

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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R. Barat; G. DiBenedetto; T. Boland

Self-Rating Scale (0 = none, 5 = a lot)Course Objectives and StructureThe overall objective of our ChE FED course is to give freshman and transfer students an introductoryengineering design experience combining experimental and computational tools that is FUN!Specifically, the students will learn to work successfully in a team; to plan effectively; to design,engineer, and construct a working system that uses available resources, meets required objectives, andoperates within stated constraints; and, finally, to report on their results.The chemical engineering FED course meets three hours per week for fourteen weeks (one semester). Itis divided into laboratory and computer components. Each week, the students typically spend 1-2 hoursworking in

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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James Finne; John Carpinelli; William Barnes

demonstration board. The paper also discusses whywe chose an assembly language over a higher level programming language for the introductorycourse and the set of laboratory exercises that guide the student through the learning process in athird semester engineering technology course.Goal and SituationThe goal is to teach an Introduction to Microprocessors course to third semester EngineeringTechnology students in a way that will catch their interest and provide a background on whichsubsequent courses can build. At Middlesex County College, Introduction to Microprocessors isa 3 credit course taught in a 14 week semester. Classes meet for 2 lecture hours and 3 laboratoryhours each weekMCC previously used a lab manual developed by Prof. Steve Foster

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Kalyan Mondal

do require working knowledge of the tools needed for the work. By highlighting thevisual feedback aspect of graphical techniques, system level simulation, and complex designsthroughout the course, we have been able to demonstrate the criticality of tool usage inapplication development. We assign homework problems that need to be solved usingMATLAB. Additionally we assign multiple projects based upon MATLAB and work with thestudents in the laboratory to take their fear out of the usage of the tool and turn them into toolchampions. As an example, our speech processing projects demonstrating the effects ofdecimation, interpolation, sound mixing, and filtering using MATLAB provide almost real timefeedback (via sound playback) helping students

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Hassan A. Kalhor; Mohammad R. Zunoubi

minimum efficiency standards for electricalequipment. Legislatures now require the manufacturers of electrical equipment to design,manufacture, and sell only the equipment that meet these minimum standards. They cannot go bythe minimum cost criteria of old times. Many national laboratories and research institutions areexperimenting with new techniques to make conventional equipment such as generators,transformers, transmission and distribution lines, electric motors, and electric lights moreefficient. Many states now subsidize the purchase of high efficiency equipmentThere are many ways by which loss can be controlled and the efficiency of electrical equipmentcan be raised. The objective of this talk is to introduce the engineering students to

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Shari J. Klotzkin; Howard S. Kimmel

Using Working Model Simulations in a First Statics Course Shari J. Klotzkin (Cincinnati, Ohio) Howard S. Kimmel (NJIT, Newark, NJ)IntroductionIntegration of computer activities into the engineering classroom enables students to gain hand-on activelearning experiences without the expense of laboratory experiments. In addition, they can gain valuableexperience with exercises that are closer to practical real-world problems than those that can be solvedwith pencil, calculator and paper. These kinds of problems enhance the students’ understandingcomplement the textbook problems because students would focus on analysis and interpretation of theresults. Students feel

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Laurent Simon; Piero Armenante; Rajesh Dave

, teachers, school administrators,and parents from New Jersey’s inner cities. For the past several years, professional enrichmentworkshops for HS science teachers and science department chairs1,2 have been made available through theCPCP.High school teachers who participate in other professional development activities at NJIT will also bemade aware of this unique opportunity. The Center sponsors a one-day seminar, which includesinteractive presentations, laboratory experiments, demonstrations, and lecture modules at the New JerseyInstitute of Technology. This year, the topic is Learn about Pharmaceutical Techniques. Theknowledge, ideas, notes, and teaching material for activities acquired by teachers in attendance should beeasily implemented in the

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Br. Henry Chaya

optimization, MIPs single-cyclemachine, pipelining, memory systems, peripheral interfacing and RAID. We rely on the MipsItsimulator for programming assignments.ChallengesSome of challenges we faced were limited Internet bandwidth, student acceptance of a new mode oflearning, language differences, and limited financial and laboratory resources. The biggest technicalchallenge was the limited bandwidth.Currently Bethlehem University has a single 1 Mbit/sec Internet connection for the entire campus at a costof $1200 per month. During the hours students are on campus, all downloads of audio or video contentmust be blocked. This restriction made any sort of synchronous interaction with students impractical

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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L. Kuczynski; C. McGuinness; S. Farrell; B. G. Lefebvre; C. S. Slater

Engineering Clinics The Engineering Clinics are taken each semester by every engineering student at RowanUniversity. In the Engineering Clinic, students and faculty from all four engineeringdepartments work side-by-side on laboratory experiments, real world design projects andresearch. The solutions of these problems require not only proficiency in the technicalprinciples, but, as importantly, require a mastery of written and oral communication skills andthe ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team which are essential skills for professionalsuccess 2, 3, 4. Rowan’s Clinic Program integrates these diverse challenges of “real-world”projects with pedagogically valuable hands-on learning experiences 5, 6 and technicalcommunications7, 8, 9

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Stephanie Farrell

synergistic interaction between industry and academia through the RowanEngineering Clinic Program. A case study is presented presented from the student perspective,focusing on the educational and professional benefits to students who have worked on theseprojects.1.1 Engineering Clinics The Engineering Clinics are taken each semester by every engineering student at RowanUniversity. In the Engineering Clinic, students and faculty from all four engineeringdepartments work side-by-side on laboratory experiments, real world design projects andresearch. The solutions of these problems require not only proficiency in the technicalprinciples, but, as importantly, require a mastery of written and oral communication skills and

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Josephine Lamela; James Finne; Karen Ford; Deborah Iacontino

wrenches, pliers, etc.) and a variety of measuringtools. The area was equipped with a bench milling machine, miter saw and two drill presses.We had, at our disposal a CNC milling machine, lathes, grinders and sanders.The suggested building materials were plywood, ¼” phenolic (scrap contributed by a localmanufacturer), and 2 x 3 metal building studs. Other materials were available and, within limits,we were able to supplement the stores. A variety of standard hardware was available (sheetmetalscrews, machine screws, nuts & bolts, pop rivets, etc.). The hardware available was acombination of laboratory supplies from MCC and the stock of hardware loaned toTechXploration by a local high school FIRST Robotics team.For controls we chose Parallax

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Howard Kimmel; John Carpinelli; Rosa Cano; Angelo Perna

will be impacted earlier and with a greater intensity that is otherwisepossible.Since its inception, the Pre-College Center has sought to become a driving force in providing increasingaccess to scientific and technological fields to all students. Through its careful and thorough planning thePre-College Center has been remarkably successful in reaching those populations that are traditionallyunderrepresented. The Center’s models for success bring academic opportunities to children who needthem most in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) areas, as well asdevelopment and dissemination of resource materials, standards-based classroom lessons and practices,laboratory experiments and demonstrations to teachers to integrate

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Phil Dacunto P.E.; Mike Hendricks

ArcMap, students began work on an atmospheric dispersion project.There were two objectives for the project: (1) enable students to visualize the cause and effectrelationships inherent in the Gaussian plume model (what happens when we increase stability, forexample); and (2) familiarize students with the use of information technology, particularly networks, tosolve a problem. The project consisted of both an individual and group component. The individualcomponent focused on objective one, while the group portion was oriented on both objectives. Studentsconducted the project during work periods in our department’s Geospatial Sciences Laboratory, whichcontains twenty networked workstations loaded with Matlab and ArcMap. In the individual