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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Deepti Suri; Eric Durant

Teaching Requirements through Interdisciplinary Projects Deepti Suri, Eric Durant Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Milwaukee School of Engineering 1025 North Broadway Milwaukee, WI 53202-3109 {suri, durant}@msoe.edu AbstractRequirements Engineering (RE) is the process of determining, analyzing, documenting,validating, and maintaining the services and constraints of the systems that need to be designed.Because of the high importance of RE in the design of software systems, the need to exposestudents to

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Kris G. Mattila; Dennis Johnson

Otter River Partnership and Project Kris G. Mattila 1, and Dennis Johnson 21 Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan Technological University,Houghton, Michigan 49931; PH (906) 487-2523; mattila@mtu.edu2 Associate Professor, Environmental Science and Studies, Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA16652, JOHNSON@juniata.eduAbstract In 1999, an unusual partnership approach to river rehabilitation was instituted onMichigan’s Otter River. Three organizations: the Michigan Civilian Conservation Corps, theMichigan Department of Natural Resources and Michigan Technological University cametogether to work jointly on improving the Otter River’s fish habitat and reducing sediment

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Charles McIntyre; Hung Nguyen

Senior Design Project Delivery via Student Generated Web Sites - "Lessons Learned" Charles McIntyre and Hung Nguyen North Dakota State UniversityIntroductionIn traditional “project-based” courses (senior level design and capstone courses), the finalproducts are typically paper-based reports and plans (CAD drawings) which include informationrelated to the design and construction aspects of the project. On occasion, the final projects aresubmitted in some form of electronic format (CD, zip, etc.) [2,5]. Currently, many engineering andconstruction firms post project information on company or project specific web sites. In order toprovide students with the “real world” experience

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Jay R. Goldberg

Benefits of Industry Involvement in Senior Design Courses Jay R. Goldberg, Ph.D., P.E. Marquette University Milwaukee, WI Senior design courses teach students about the product development process,project management, and teamwork. Industry involvement in senior design coursesreinforces the importance of these processes and skills and benefits students,faculty, and participating companies. Representatives from industry can participate in senior design courses asguest lecturers, curriculum advisors, and design project sponsors. As guestlecturers, practicing engineers provide a relevant, practical real-world perspective

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Arjun Makhijani

-being—is growing.IEER is partnering with students, faculty, and their communities in a project to developcurricula for community colleges, colleges, and universities. These curricula will bewidely used to educate students about the engineering and scientific aspects ofinternational security and the environment. As an example, a curriculum that wasdeveloped for use at East Tennessee State University will be discussed.Participating faculty develop curricula for entire courses as well as modules that fit intoexisting courses, such as in physics, chemistry, biology, engineering design,environmental studies, security, peace studies, health, geography, and history. Thesecurricula are geared for freshmen and sophomore college students, and for

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Michael P. Hennessey

To promote creativity and inspire innovation through the use of unstructured and open-ended problems, the design project for Machine Design this past year at St. Thomas was based on a national collegiate design contest: the 2003-4 ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Student Design Contest, Mine Madness. Mine Madness entails designing and manufacturing a vehicle from scratch to retrieve simulated mines from a simulated minefield within an allotted time. Students embarked upon an exciting educational journey which is documented (through text, photos, and available video) from the professor’s perspective; starting with project inception through course end, to the official design contest itself at the

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John Mirth

What are They Thinking? – Assessment and the Questions Students Ask John A. Mirth, Ph.D. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering University of Wisconsin – Platteville Platteville, WI 53818 608.342.1642 mirth@uwplatt.eduAbstract This paper presents an assessment method whereby an instructor can gain insight into howa student is thinking about a project. The method relies upon the submission of a series ofindividual progress reports during the course of a semester. Each progress report is submittedas the set of questions that the student has

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Lang Wah Lee; Tamer Ceylan

teachers' scope of learning, provided them the background knowledge to develop aninterdisciplinary approach to teach mathematics and science, and made subject contents moreinteresting and stimulating to middle school students. Moreover, the design experience alsohelped teachers develop a project-oriented, hands-on approach to foster students' ability inproblem solving and lifelong learning.INTRODUCTIONThe shift from an industrial to information society in the U.S. called for reforms in mathematicsand science education. Two new education standards, the National Science standards [1] andthe National Mathematics Standards [2], were proposed by the National Research Council(NSC) and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), respectively

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James W. Boggs; R. Chris Williams; Kris G. Mattila; Todd Scholz

Civil and Environmental Engineering Michigan Technological University Houghton, Michigan 49931 mattila@mtu.edu (906) 487-2523 phone (906) 487-2943 fax 4 Todd Scholz, Assistant Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering Michigan Technological University Houghton, Michigan 49931 scholz@mtu.edu (906) 487-2804 phone (906) 487-2943 faxABSTRACTIn the fall semester of 2000 a student program was established at Michigan TechnologicalUniversity in which significant team projects and business elements replace part of thetraditional engineering curriculum for a project-based approach to learning. Scholarships areavailable to students who participate in the Pavement Design

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Arron Pabst; Stephen Williams

Instrumentation Control for Pulse EPR Spectroscopy Arron Pabst Stephen WilliamsMedical College of Wisconsin Milwaukee School of Engineering Milwaukee, WI Milwaukee, WIAbstractA collaborative project is described involving the Milwaukee School of Engineering and theMedical College of Wisconsin, and the National Institutes for Health. The purpose of this projectis to design and implement a computer-based instrumentation control system for an electronparamagnetic resonance (EPR) spectrometer utilizing pulse excitation. Background informationon the application of EPR spectroscopy in the context of this project is provided. The

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Christopher R. Carroll

engineering disciplines, but no one discipline is anobvious focus for the design, and no specialized engineering knowledge is required to completethe task. These are true design experiences, but no one category of engineering student has anyparticular advantage. This is the type of design project that will be assigned in the courseEngineering Professionalism.Another attribute of the design side of this course is the fun that students should have. Studentsmust enjoy this course. Otherwise, it will be viewed as a necessary obstacle to an engineeringdegree at UMD. The design experience in this class should inspire students to apply theengineering skills developed in their particular program, without requiring any specificknowledge from any particular

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Birbal Singh; Matco Papic; Johnny Iaquinta

1 Design of a Rotating Tool for Pipe Flash Removal Birbal Singh, Matco Papic, and Johnny Iaquinta Department of Mechanical Engineering Lakehead University Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada P7B 5E1 Phone: (807) 343-8628 Email: Birbal.singh@lakeheadu.caAbstractThis paper presents the design of a rotating tool cutter to remove radial flashaccumulated on the outside diameter of pipes due to the upsetting of pipe ends in orderto prepare them for external threading. The project was undertaken to assist amanufacturing

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Robert Edwards

and labs into one integrated learning experience.V. Obtain New Equipment:As stated earlier, new equipment in this field can be expensive, so innovative methods neededto be used to obtain the necessary equipment. Student senior projects were used extensively tobuild some of the equipment, and the school obtained both an infrared camera and Flothermsoftware for use in the labs.The first piece of equipment to be added was a low speed wind tunnel (Figure 1), built as asenior project. At the same time the wind tunnel was being built another student senior projectteam was building an air flow bench (Figure 2). These two pieces of equipment wereconstructed at low cost and are extremely useful for a variety of lab tests (see section VII).Other

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Ester B. Johnson

$375.00.Students work on engineering related projects. The project for Summer 2002 was toinvestigate and understand the works of a Rube Goldberg project as exemplified in theWisconsin Rube Goldberg Contest, sponsored by the College of Engineering andApplied Science.The Pre-College component was to address students in the Pre-College program(elementary and middle school students) as being a mentor for them as they see anindividual that can set academic goals and achieve them while participating in otheractivities and in the community.Industrial Scholars Program - envisions a model approach for recruiting, retaining, andproviding minority engineers to local companies. The Industrial Scholars Program is anew and innovative joint scholarship

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Chris Papadopoulos; Adeeb Rahman; Josh Bostwick

pedagogical materials fail to engage students incritical thinking. We believe that these examples are representative of typical situationsencountered by students and instructors at many institutions, and that they provide a clear andaccurate assessment of some fundamental issues that must be addressed.Anecdotes from Student Questions. In the last two years or so, several of our formerstudents have visited us to ask questions pertaining to their current course projects. Strikingly,although their questions varied in topic, all questions fit a disturbing pattern. In each case thestudents began by saying “we just have one question,” implying that only one ‘simple’ obstaclestood in the way of completing their project. After a few minutes of

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Joseph W. Hurst

demand for a skilled talent pool of technologically literate workers.Changes over the past several years have forced organizations to reinventthemselves and individuals to re-educate themselves. No company or employeecan afford to ignore today’s workplace challenges, including the shifts fromtraditional job roles to innovative training that assesses and develops new humancapacity.The new economy is an environment of constant change. It places value onbroad knowledge and skills, flexibility, cross-training, multi-tasking, teaming,problem solving, and project based work. Organizations today have anunderpinning of technology that supports the very basic systems of theiroperations from the front office to the production floor. Workers are expected

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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John Mirth; David Kunz

Asking Better Questions – Making Connections Through Developing Inquisitiveness John Mirth, Ph.D. David Kunz, Ph.D. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering University of Wisconsin – Platteville Platteville, WI 53818 “Could it be the questions tell us more than the answers ever do?” – Michael CardAbstract: The nature of engineering education tends to put students in a problem-solvingenvironment. Given a particular challenge, the student becomes focused on obtaining asolution to some homework problem, exam question, lab experiment, design project or othertask. Such exercises provide

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Anoop K. Dhingra; Al Ghorbanpoor; Joe Rauter

et al. (1997)describe the Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership project that was sponsored byDepartment of Defense’s Technology Reinvestment Program. They show that all constituentsinvolved in the program: students, faculty and industrial partners, benefited from theacademic/industrial interaction. The impact of the interaction described was essentially on thecurriculum, but it suggests benefits to the industrial partners beyond the involvement ofundergraduate students.The Graduate Internship Program (GIP) discussed in the paper is different from the partnershipsdiscussed above in the sense that we do not transfer research results from academia to theindustry. Instead, we are uniquely developing the research technology at the