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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Scott Shepard

The Incorporation of Extracurricular Innovations into Engineering Technology Laboratory Components Dr. Scott Shepard Department of Engineering Technology University of Central FloridaI. IntroductionStartling advances in the laboratory components of a variety of undergraduatecourses in Physics, Chemistry and Engineering have recently become adaptablefor use in Engineering Technology. We will focus on laboratory modules thatutilize optics (originating from various scientific; Electrical Engineering; andChemical Engineering curricula) but the methods of applying our procedures toother laboratory components will also be discussed. Some

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Farouq Alhourani

Computer Aided Design & Graphics by teaching students with hands-on type of educational practices and laboratory exercises in the area of FMS. A MiniCIM 3.2 Amatrol has been selected as the equipment to teach FMS. This equipment is used to modify the curriculum and nine courses and labs in the IET department to enhance the students’ learning. The FMS project serves also as a starting point to accomplish a six-year development plan of the Manufacturing Laboratory in the IET department. The goal is to complete a fully Computer Integrated Manufacturing system in six years. The strategy used is aligning students’ class projects and/or students’ senior projects with the goals of the Manufacturing Laboratory. These class projects

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Seymour Blank; John Hudesman; Robert Armstrong; Ed Morton; Adam Moylan; Neisha White

needs of these under-prepared students have focused on teachingcontent courses together with a variety of academic/study skills strategies. These have met with limitedsuccess. Our department has recently (2005/2006 academic year) received a National Science Foundation(NSF) Course Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Phase I grant to apply “Self-RegulatedLearning” (SRL) to two engineering technology courses. SRL involves teaching students a new way ofunderstanding their learning process and how to monitor and manage it. The SRL process includes an on-going three-phase cycle: (1) planning, (2) practicing and (3) evaluation. During the planning phase,students assess prior performance, set goals and choose appropriate learning strategies

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ashraf M. Ghaly; Michael J. Bogino

Union College. This will be one of very few Liberal Arts courses with a technical laboratory component. The goal of the laboratory exercises is to give each student, particularly those studying Liberal Arts, a hands-on experience of a technical nature. The course uses seven of the most sophisticated structures ever built to illustrate the technical aspect behind building such structures. The construction of each of the selected structures was shadowed by stories of political, economical, and environmental dimensions. The course intends to cover these aspects for each structure in addition to the technical aspect too. Because Liberal Arts students may lack the necessary background to sufficiently comprehend the

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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James A. Sinclair; Kamal Shahrabi; Ali Setoodehnia

getting “too old” in the process.Nuclear FusionIn nuclear fusion, two light atomic nuclei join to create one heavy nucleus. This happens naturally within the cores of moststars, where temperatures and immense pressures are high enough to overcome the force that causes nuclei to repel eachother, as well as break the strong force that binds protons and neutrons together. In such conditions, hurtling nuclei fusewhen they collide. At that time, a new nucleus forms, releasing neutrons, protons, and other sub-atomic particles –neutrinos and positrons, as well as large amounts of energy. In today’s scientific laboratories, scientists hope to generatelarge quantities of energy, by applying these principles. Their major goal is to create nuclear reactors

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Eric Granlund; Sohail Anwar

Structure and AssessmentMET 210W is a three credit hour course that meets for 5 hours a week and is divided intolecture and laboratory time. As stated above it is the goal of the course to provide eachstudent with the necessary concepts and procedures to properly design and performanalysis of common machine elements in mechanical systems. Prerequisites for thecourse include statics, strength of materials, kinematics, and dynamics. Some sort ofAutoCAD or Pro-Engineer software experience is also necessary along with MS-Officeskills in creating engineering drawings and reports.The text book used in the course is Machine Elements in Mechanical Design, 4 th edition,by Robert L. Mott, 7. The authors feel this text does a great job in addressing all

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Keith M. Gardiner

equivalent of 18 fifty-minute lecture sessions together with practical engineering laboratories for two afternoons aweek. The class usually accommodates between 150 and 175 students, they are dispatched ingroups about 25 strong to each of Lehigh’s seven engineering departments where they work insmall teams undertaking innovative problem solving assignments for half the semester. In mid-semester elected or appointed representatives from each group present their discoveries andconclusions to the whole class; groups are then re-configured and the process repeats for thesecond half of the semester. This way every student ha s an experience with the faculty andfacilities in two departments, but every student learns about the experiences of their peers

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Justin Highley

6being presented through the case study methodology. Some examples of student presentationsinclude superchargers / turbochargers, anti-lock braking systems, hybrid vehicles, and high flowexhaust systems. As seen in the syllabus, the course also incorporates three laboratory exercises in order toreinforce the theoretical concepts taught in the classroom. The first lab, the internal combustionCFR lab, employs four spark ignition engines that enable the user to vary the compression ratioand spark timing angle for various types of fuels (87 and 110 octane). Prior to the lab, eachengine is set to a different compression ratio and connected to an oscilloscope that displays thepressure and volume trace of the engine cycle. The students (in

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Erdogan M. Sener

1. Barcala, M., Ahmed, S.M., Caballero, A. and Azhar, S. 2003. The 4D-CAD: a powerful tool to visualize the future. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Structural and Construction Engineering, 23-26 September, 2003, Rome, Italy. Vol. 3, pp. 1979-1982. 2. Berglund, A., Mats, D., Hedenborg, M., and Tengstrand, A. 1998. Assessment to increase students’ creativity: Two case studies. European Journal of Engineering Education, March 1998. Vol. 23. Issue 1 pp. 45- 55. 3. Berver, E., Jerse J.O., Fowler D.W., and Wheat, H.G. 2003. Laboratory and field observations of composite – wrapped reinforced concrete structures. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Structural and Construction Engineering, 23

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William E. Kelly; Theodore A. Bickart; Richard J. Forselius

built on the ABET requirement for engineering programs and NSS objective 11.The United States Standards Strategy (USSS) was recently released and it calls for expanded and strengthened efforts to assistuniversity and college programs in their efforts to educate students on standards and conformity assessment [3]. The USSS isessentially an update of the NSS.The ANSI CoE has been assisted in its work by a number of US standards developers including ASTM International (ASTM) , theAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the AmericanSociety of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Underwriters Laboratories (UL) and others. This effort has also had broad participation andsupport from federal

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Chong Shen; Zhongwei Zhang; David Lai

connection. For instance,hundreds of Java simulations were created at the National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU)Virtual Physics Laboratory. Many physics teachers use these Java simulations in their teaching. Holliday from the Western Carolina University recently implemented few Java Applets thatillustrate some of important concept of network by using animation. The applets and accompany-ing materials addresses four network concepts: packet encapsulation, packet fragmentation, errorcontrol and media access. All these applets has been applied to the class of computer network. Butthe AQM concept is not mentioned in this paper [10]. 33 Network simulation modelOur simulation package is based on the

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Mark Miles; C.M. Chewar

encouraging inventive problem solving. This paper examines the effects of methods that allow students in an introductory level engineering course to use their creativity and inventiveness to solve problems, an approach referred to as inquiry arousal. The approach used in this research was to modify a certain number of laboratory requirements to allow the student to apply an open-ended problem solving approach to obtain a solution. The goal of the assigned problems was to allow the student some flexibility to be creative while demonstrating fundamental mechanics. The authors obtained data and evaluated the effects of this approach through grade performance and student feedback. This paper attempts to measure the effects that