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Janak Dave; Thomas G. Boronkay

Session 2438 Using National Design Competition Projects as a Component of a Lower Division Design Course Janak Dave, Thomas G. Boronkay University of CincinnatiAbstractIt has been observed that Engineering Technology students learn better by doing/building things.Applying theoretical concepts to practical applications enhances their overall understanding.This is especially true in the area of Mechanical Design.In order to accomplish this, we, in the Mechanical Engineering Technology Department,University of Cincinnati, have incorporated National Design Competition

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Eric Campbell; Yolanda Guran

1997 Annual Conference Proceedings_____________________________________________ Session 3548 Should We Teach Chip Design in Electronics Engineering Technology Programs? A Senior Project Course in ASIC Design Yolanda Guran, Eric Campbell Oregon Institute of Technology/Analogy Inc. 1. IntroductionTeaching circuit design up to chip layout seemed exotic for Electronics EngineeringTechnology(EET) programs for many years in the recent past. Many educators believed thatcourses like VLSI Design or ASIC Design should be destined only for

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Barbara Blake Bath

written, are a major part of the course. Thestudents must apply their knowledge, be able to work in teams, communicate, manage a projectand their time, and think independently.Securing Projects: The projects may come from either faculty members or off campus contactswhich may be interested in sponsoring such a project. Early in the Spring semester, theinstructor will request such input. Usually there are more requests for projects than there arestudents to work on them. Some students have contacts for summer jobs which they want to usefor field session, but this experience must be more than just a summer job. Each such request ishandled on a case by case basis to insure students get the full benefit of completing a designproject.Characteristics

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Wessel Koning

some ofits effects on current EE course projects.1 Introduction.This paper describes an innovation, in part, of the teaching concept in the ElectricalEngineering’s (EE) project class at the Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden, (NHL),Department of Engineering. The basic reason for this innovation was the Board ofGovernor’s introduction of an elaboration on the teaching concept in the form of ten pointsof reference defined in three sub areas 1. In turn, the ten point of reference were the result ofan university-wide program to improve the feasibility and the quality of the course program.These points of reference are intended to stimulate a review, an evaluation and an impro-vement of the teaching and its effects on project-courses for second year

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Lisa A. Riedle; Jill M. Clough

Session 2326 Starting in Reverse Dr. Lisa A. Riedle, Dr. Jill M. Clough University of Wisconsin - PlattevilleReverse engineering, a group project utilized in the utilized in the University of Wisconsin -Platteville's freshman engineering courses. Three years ago the college of engineeringimplemented a freshman engineering course. There were a variety of objectives: retention,getting them involved in the college of engineering as freshmen, group projects, oral and writtencommunication skills, and design experience.The first year the course was taught

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Karen E. Schmahl

Session 3657 UNIQUE APPROACH TO TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN A QUALITY PLANNING AND CONTROL LABORATORY Karen E. Schmahl Ph.D., P.E. Miami University, Oxford, OhioIn recent years, Total Quality Management tools and principles have been increasinglyintroduced into engineering curriculum. This paper describes a unique approach to integratingTQM in the laboratory of a Quality Planning and Control course which had previously focusedsolely on statistical control of quality and precision linear measurement. The new approachincludes a team building component, Lab Development Project and TQM

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James vanPutten; Brad Mulder; John Krupczak

Session 1661 Multidisciplinary Student Experiences in a Liberal Arts Engineering Program John Krupczak, Jr., Brad Mulder, and James vanPutten, Jr. Hope College AbstractA two-semester senior undergraduate design sequence has been developed for an engineeringprogram in a liberal arts college. The courses provide a wide range of design experiencesincluding: study of structured design methodologies, individual and team projects, prototypeconstruction, communication of design results, incorporation of industrial design

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John T. Bell

programming and no VR experienceprior to starting their projects, and some of the students had not yet completed the relevantengineering courses. There have been fourteen students involved in the project to date, over halfof whom worked on the project for only a single term. This paper describes the experiences ofthis group, including the advantages and disadvantages to all concerned.The ProjectVirtual reality is a computer simulation technique that incorporates three-dimensional graphics,realistic sound, and often special devices to create an interactive immersive environmentdesigned to convince the user that the simulation is real. It is our belief that VR can become apowerful new tool in chemical engineering, and especially in undergraduate

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Matthew Hayes; David Pittner; Bryon Formwalt; Daniel J. Pack

robotics: design and gait control of a six legged robot, design andnavigational control for a mobile robot, and autonomous helicopter control. Thestudents agree that an undergraduate research project is a valuable ‘bridge’ betweentheir undergraduate academic careers and the next stages of their lives, working as AirForce engineers or continuing the academic path to graduate school. The paper presentsthe three different student perspectives on the subject of undergraduate researchregarding the value, the drawback, and the type of research which can be performedgiven the constraints of time and advanced knowledge. The paper will also include theopinions of the faculty mentor concerning the observations made by students. Inaddition, the paper will

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Dr. Martin Pike

Session 1268 Session 1268 Design Using Spread Sheets By Dr. Martin Pike Purdue University AbstractDesign is an important factor in Mechanical Engineering and Technology programs. The morerealistic the design project, the better the learning experience is for the students. Often, designrequires many iterative calculations and “what if” parametric studies. For these types ofprocesses, spread sheets have been useful in

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Tom Zickel; Gary B. Randolph; Ronald Goodnight

determined their final learningobjectives, interim benchmark targets, and individual responsibilities in fulfilling these contracts.At each benchmark 360O evaluations were performed including team peers, instructor and labassistants to provide timely feedback allowing for student and team improvement. Preliminaryresults indicate (1) improved learning, (2) increased acceptance of responsibility, and (3) asignificant understanding of how team members must function to attain the desired results.INTRODUCTIONThe andragogical methodology for college engineering students has been found to be superior toother teaching methods.2 Once a foundation has been established, students develop self-directed,team oriented projects, plus final and interim learning

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Tom Mase

topics taughtin a prototypical class. However, one third of the class time and one third of the finalgrade is devoted to a design project. These projects are meant to help build the student’screative thinking and design skills. Students gain experience in solid modeling,enhancing their ability to work in multi-functional teams, and refining their presentationskills. This paper discusses the class structure, sample projects, and an evaluation of onesuch course. I . INTRODUCTION GMI Engineering & Management Institute (GMI) is an ABET-accredited privatecollege offering degrees in electrical, industrial, and mechanical engineering, as well asmanagement systems. Recently, degree programs in applied mathematics

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Douglas E. Hirt

, reinforcing concepts currently being learned, and lookingahead to future material. The process described here is an open-ended design project that isassigned in a junior-level course on fluid flow and heat transfer. In the process, cooling water ispumped from a river, through a condenser on a distillation column, and then to a cooling tower.The students' job is to select the most cost-effective pump and piping for this flow system. Thisproject involves teamwork, decision-making, and the use of spreadsheets, and along the way thestudents gain a little knowledge about economics. The students also begin to take a broader viewof design. Rather than focusing solely on the pump, they realize that the presence of processelements upstream and downstream from

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V.J. Deleveaux; C.O. Ruud

competencies extend beyond technical ability to include: effectivecommunication skills, planning and prioritization, time management, working in teams, andknowledge of the financial aspects of the business [Helms, 1995]. Unfortunately, thesecompetencies are among those identified as key weaknesses of the engineering graduate. Hood,Sorensen and Magleby [Hood,1993] list the weaknesses identified by industry to include: 1)weakcommunication skills, 2) poor perception of the overall project engineering process, 3) little skillor experience working in teams, 4) a narrow view of engineering and related disciplines, 5) nounderstanding of manufacturing processes, and 6) a lack of appreciation for consideringalternatives. At a recent “Voice of Industry

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K.A. Korzeniowski

electrical circuit theory class. Since much of engineering designculminates in a manufactured product, the ability to read an engineering drawing should be adeveloped communication skill. This would promote communication between engineers during theentire design process, thus advancing the progress of the design paradigm termed “concurrentengineering”. These skills can be taught by integrating engineering drawings into existing designprojects. This paper describes the integration of graphics and rapid prototyping into an electroniccircuit design class and the outcome of the project. I. Introduction In the context of concurrent product engineering, the end result of an engineering design isa

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Mark J. Sebern

Session 1532 Evolving an Undergraduate Software Engineering Course Mark J. Sebern Milwaukee School of EngineeringAbstractMany undergraduate software engineering courses combine team projects with discussion ofdevelopment cycle concepts. It can be difficult to connect these elements in a coherent way, especiallywhen the lecture is a broad survey and the project is sharply focused on meeting the needs of a client.This paper describes the evolution of a senior software engineering project course that incorporatesiterative development of a classroom example and an object-oriented

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S. Gokhale; J. Aldrich

Concord Community Development Corporation (CCDC), teamed up for an innovative undertaking in community partnership. The pilot project involved the rehabilitation of an abandoned, three-room house located near the IUPUI campus. Students enrolled in a senior level design course elected to tackle this project in lieu of the traditional “Semester-End Design Project” required in the class. This paper will describe some of the lessons learned from this pilot project and attempt to provide a blue print for the integration of similar community projects into the engineering technology curriculum.IntroductionDr. Ernest Boyer, President of the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching, describesthe “New

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Richard C. Anderson; Michael R. Duffey; Michael McDermott

factors. However, this type of experience isoutside the scope of most project-based engineering design courses. In this paper, a one semestergraduate course in “Production Design” is described which attempts to replicate these complexinteractions across multiple teams typical of the product realization process (PRP) in industry.Student teams conduct feasibility studies for small/medium-sized production facilities to assessthe technical and economic viability of new high-tech products. Students are divided into threeto five interacting teams, each with complementary functional responsibility for productredesign, production planning, materials and purchasing, human and plant resources, andeconomic and strategic planning. This paper focuses in

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Fahmida R. Masoom; Abulkhair M. Masoom

equipment. Involvement of undergraduate engineering students ofdifferent levels in research projects with different levels of guidance from faculty or engineersfrom industry has been found to have positive outcomes.At the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, several initiatives have been undertaken to exposeundergraduate engineering students to engineering design. Apart from the conventional upperlevel engineering design courses and senior capstone design courses, the most recent initiativehas been the introduction of design at the freshman level in the Introduction to Engineeringcourse required for all incoming freshmen. Another undergraduate research program - PioneerUndergraduate Research Fellowship (PURF) initiated about a half dozen years ago

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Thomas R Phillips

competitions for multilateral exchange program grants. These come under the NorthAmerican Mobility in Higher Education program, and the European Community/U.S.A. JointConsortia for Cooperation in Higher & Vocational Education. There seems to be increased interestin international student and faculty exchange at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Oneexample is NSF support for the GE3 Program of the Institute of International Education (IIE), aprogram of academic exchanges and internships among some 40 U.S., Austrian, French, andGerman institutions. FIPSE also funds a faculty exchange program that directly complements GE3.This paper is based on the author’s experiences in evaluating several FIPSE and NSF-fundedexchange projects, reviewing

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T.R. Kurfess; M.L. Nagurka

Sesssion 0575 Session 0575 Fostering Strong Interactions Between Industry and Academia T.R. Kurfess, M.L. Nagurka Georgia Institute of Technology / Marquette UniversityABSTRACT This paper highlights a number of key issues in the development and execution of jointuniversity-industry engineering projects. Government funding reductions have lead to decreasedsupport of university research and economic forces have driven corporations to reduce or elimi-nate internal R&D centers. These are two driving factors

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Lang-Wah Lee; Tamer Ceylan

backgroundknowledge, students cannot work effectively on designing thermalsystems. The design component of the course is conducted by studentdesign teams with emphasis on real-life projects. Before theintroduction of problem-based-learning method, each team wouldwork on a semester-long project, most of them sponsored by localindustries. The themes of these industrial projects were oftenquite diverse and did not present a common topic to be covered inlectures. The lecture thus became a subject-based learning [2]which is not conducive to long-term retention of knowledge. Theproblem-based learning, on the other hand, is an effective methodto address this issue.2. PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING IN THERMAL SYSTEMS DESIGN Problem-based learning is a student

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Sub Ramakrishnan; Mohammad B. Dadfar; Jeffrey A. Francis

primaryvehicle to get this information to the customer while the back end database and client-servertechnologies are used to process the information and deliver them to the web client. Therefore,the need for people with expertise in the areas of client-server technology and web foundations isbecoming increasingly more important.An undergraduate course in data communications and networking can provide students withconceptual information of the client-server paradigm along with providing students with somehands-on experience. By building web enabled client-server applications as part of theirclassroom projects, students will be able to bridge the relationship between client-server conceptsand delivery of information over the internet. We believe that an

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James E. Simon

opportunity to seethree-dimensional deformation, develop a feel for forces in materials, and experience some of theways that the building process influences planning and design decision-making. It is believedthat these projects are adaptable to a range of architectural engineering courses and topics.IntroductionEngineering and architecture faculty employ a wide variety of assignments to simulate theexperience of designing and constructing buildings. Most often these are small models orsegments of the process, but some1 attempt the construction of entire structures. The centralobjectives of these projects are (1) To help students synthesize and attach physical meaning tothe qualitative and quantitative elements of their academic coursework and (2) To

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Mark A. Shields; Bryan Pfaffenberger

students.TCC 101, Language Communication in the Technological Society, reflects the Division'slengthy experience in this area; for example, the course stresses speaking as well as writingskills, and teaches students how to adapt their messages to the specific audiences that theywill encounter in engineering organizations (including technical peers, technical managers,non-technical executives, and the general public). We chose this course to serve as thefoundation for an experiment in adapting the communications curriculum to the new needsof engineering organizations.The Engineering Career Orientation Project (ECOP), required of all students in ourexperimental sections, is based on the Research Interview Project (RIP), in which TCC 101students

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Sema E. Alptekin

within Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo's Industrial and ManufacturingEngineering (IME) program is underway. A model "Mechatronics Design Studio" has recentlybeen developed to support the Mechatronics and Manufacturing Automation courses and coursemodules offered at the IME Department. Our approach to the development of Mechatronics focusis presented in section II. Select student projects are documented in section III followed by anoverview of the Mechatronics Design Studio in the last section of the paper.II. MECHATRONICS FOCUSSeveral courses are being modified and new course modules in Mechatronics are beingdeveloped within Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo's Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering programin order to create a better understanding of how new

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Massoud Tavakoli; Gary Hammond; Jawaharlal Mariappan; Henry Kowalski

, manufacturing and analysis in an introductory course. Also, aseries of constraints which are developed to induce more realism into the pedagogicalenvironment are described. Finally, quality control, time and budgetary issues are addressed.INTRODUCTIONFor more than 20 years, the Mechanical Engineering sophomores at GMI have been taking acourse entitled "Introduction to Design." The main objectives of this course have always been tolearn the design process and apply it to a realistic design project where a device is designed,manufactured and entered into a competition. This is a 3-credit course (1 hour of lecture and twotwo-hour labs) offered every term, which consists of 11 weeks of instruction and one week offinals.For the past three years, we have

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Vivek Badami; Mike Allen; Johnny Graham; Howard Phillips; David Schmidt; Curtis Ensley; Art Edwards; Silvia G. Middleton; Kimberly A. Buch; J. William Shelnutt; Patricia Tolley

) through feedbackand continuous improvement, evolution of the course sequence to meet the changing needs of allstakeholders, while maintaining the integrity of the foundational purpose. ENGR 1201 is an introductory two-semester hour course in which students are assignedto multidisciplinary teams to work on a semester-long conceptual design project whilesimultaneously receiving instruction and assignments in basic computing skills, personaldevelopment, team skills and tools, project planning, creative problem solving, introduction todisciplines, professional practice, and technical presentations. With few exceptions these topicsare related to the semester design project, and exercises are designed to complement the project’sprogress. The

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Clifford R. Mirman

project where the engineer must usenumerical work and experimental methods. In the Mechanical Engineering program at Wilkes University,students of senior standing must take a capstone design laboratory course which integrates the stems ofthe program into a semester long design project incorporating a laboratory and numerical component.The ability to set-up and apply both experimental and numerical analysis to a design problem, andinterpret the results, is very important to the mechanical engineering student. The results of this projectsare presented both in written and oral form to fellow students, faculty, and industry. The combination ofanalysis techniques in the different areas of mechanical engineering give the students a completeintroduction

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Saleh M. Sbenaty

Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies at MTSU has participated forthe first time in Sunrayce 95 through its entry SOLARAIDER III. The biennial solar car race isdesigned to promote the use of renewable energy sources, the efficient use of energy, andinnovation in engineering and technical education. The author has served as a faculty advisor tothe undergraduate student team overlooking the design, construction, and testing of the solar car.Benefits of this project to MTSU students, the younger generation in particular, and the public ingeneral are described below.INTRODUCTION Sunrayce is a biennial solar car race sponsored and organized by General Motors (GM),Electronic Data Systems (EDS) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE