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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Steven M. Cramer; Nancy Ciezki; Hussain Bahia; Carole Kraak; Carole Schramm

Optimizing Engineering Materials Laboratory Time with TechnologyBySteven M. Cramer, Nancy Ciezki, Hussain Bahia, Carole Kraakand Carole SchrammUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonAbstractThe background of engineering students has changed over the years, resulting in newchallenges in teaching hands-on laboratories. Engineering design involves visualization.This visualization spans the spectrum from understanding how pieces of a structure fittogether to having a first hand knowledge of how material deforms, flows or fracturesunder different loads. Engineering laboratories provide critical hands-on experiencesthat build visualization skills at the same time that material or structure behaviors aredemonstrated. But engineering laboratory time is

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Swaminathan Balachandran

Design, Production and Operations Analysis,Simulation, Facilities Design, Materials Handling and Warehousing, Total Quality Management,Manufacturing Systems Design, Engineering Management, Cost and Value Analysis, andIndustrial Systems Design. The above courses include a laboratory session (except for threecourses) to provide hands-on practical experience to students. Three fully equipped andperiodically upgraded laboratories are used to provide practical experience to students in the IEcourses. State-of-the art computers and software are made available to students in theselaboratories. The IE program at UW-Platteville is unique in incorporating industrial design projectsinto many of the courses in the curriculum. These industry-sponsored

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Hossein Salehfar; John Watson; Arnold F. Johnson

delivery mechanisms foreducational programs are constantly evolving. Distance education has become morereadily available, and the non-traditional student now has enhanced opportunities in manyacademic fields. In 1989 the school of Engineering and Mines at the University of NorthDakota established a distance education program to deliver Bachelor of Scienceengineering degrees to employees of participating companies. This program was knownas the Corporate Engineering Degree Program and has recently expanded into openenrollments and renamed the Distance Engineering Degree Program (DEDP). The current DEDP delivery format includes videotaped lectures, static InternetWeb pages of handouts, e-mail, and on-campus condensed summer laboratories

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Michael Leasure

CONSTRUCTIONmaterials, developed supporting laboratory projects, andprogrammed the equipment to support our specific needs. The LabView diagnostic center was constructed withThe result has been a comprehensive introduction to data portability and flexibility as primary goals. The centeracquisition and diagnostics for our students. could accommodate turbine, as well as reciprocating engine, data acquisition. This flexibility was of primary INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT importance as the cost was shared between several areas of the curriculum. The

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Michael P. Hennessey; Allen C. Jaedike; Peter S. Rhode

: Students will learn the basics of engineering graphics including freehand sketching and computer aideddesign/drawing using SolidWorks 2001. The course will include extensive hands-on drawing time (free-hand andcomputer) as well as demonstrations, some extra time on the computers during open laboratory time in addition tothe time provided in class (laboratory hours will be arranged). CAD is used in other courses (i.e. besides Engineering Graphics ) throughout the BSME program as well as inSt. Thomas’ entry in SAE’s 2002 Midwest Mini-Baja competition. Specifically, it is used in Introduction toEngineering, Kinematics and Mechanism Design, Machine Design, and in the Senior Design Clinic sequence [7].Some of the freshman in the Engineering

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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S.P.K. Sternberg; G.G. Botte

, Air Pollution Control, MaterialScience and Engineering, and Introduction to Chemical Engineering have all addeddiscussion, examples, and problems concerning fuel cells. Additionally, hands-onexperience has been added to the Unit Operations Laboratory through purchase of a fuelcell/ solar cell combination. The unit demonstrates the renewable creation of hydrogenfuel, its subsequent use in a fuel cell, as well as the working characteristics of a fuel cell.The students in the Senior Design course have participated in the AIChE ChemE CarCompetition and a student group used fuel cells to power their car. Students are veryexcited about this technology, and that desire is used to generate a working interest in thecurriculum. This is also an

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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George A. Perdikaris

laboratory using digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and encoderinterface boards made by Measurement Computing Corporation. The plant consists of an industrialmotor and drive made by the Bosch Rexroth Corporation. The computer-controlled system is run inreal time using the Real-Time Workshop (RTW) and Real-Time Windows Target (RTWT) software,also made by MathWorks, Inc. Computer simulation results are verified experimentally.I. IntroductionIndustrial automation incorporating computers is becoming increasingly important in the productionof goods and services. It is a highly sophisticated job to design and implement automation systemsthat operate and coordinate modern manufacturing processes. Quite often, such systems involve theapplication of computers

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Murat Tanyel; Charles Adams

the words “Matrix Laboratory”. The software was originallydeveloped for matrix manipulation, but over time it has acquired capabilities far beyond the originalintent and has become an interactive system and also a programming language for scientific andtechnical computation [7]. Over the years MATLAB Toolboxes, sets of functions written in the Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education North Midwest Section Annual Conference Copyright ” 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Tanyel & Adams, On the Aesthetics of Computer Aided Tools for Signal Processing, p. 4 of 10MATLAB language that make it convenient to carry out calculations, to build models and to

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Marlee A. Walton; T. Al Austin

, and thereview and modification of several courses and assignments.The new curriculum consists of a series of twelve integrated courses beginning in the freshmanyear and ending in the senior year. Some of these courses cover topics that were included inprevious civil engineering (CE) curricula, such as: ß Civil Engineering Projects ß Engineering Problems with Computational Laboratory ß Graphics for Civil Engineering ß Civil Engineering Capstone DesignHowever, the new curriculum places a strong emphasis on the following professional practiceskills: ß Leadership Skills ß Team Processes in CE Practice ß Interpersonal Skills ß Communication Skills ß Project Management ß Agreements and Contracts ß Continuous Quality

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Vojin Nikolic

A HANDS-ON APPROACH TO TEACHING FRESHMEN DESIGN Vojin Nikolic Minnesota State University Mankato 2002 North Midwest Section Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education Technology-Enhanced Learning October 10-12, 2002, Madison, Wisconsin Abstract The structure of a freshmen engineering design course is presented. The courserepresents a well-balanced blend of lectures, laboratories, and practical design work, aswell as factory tours and field trips and other contacts with practicing engineers. It

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Murat Tanyel

Aesthetics of Computer Aided Tools for Signal Processing”, in preparation for Proceedings of 64t h Annual ASEE North Midwest Section Meeting, Madison, WI, Oct. 2002.8. Gorter, H., Matherly, B., MPSK Demo Project Report, EGR 363 Project Report, Dordt College, Sioux Center, IA, May 2002.MURAT TANYELMurat Tanyel is a professor of engineering at Dordt College. He teaches upper level electrical engineering courses.Prior to teaching at Dordt College, Dr. Tanyel taught at Drexel University where he worked for the EnhancedEducational Experience for Engineering Students (E4) project, setting up and teaching laboratory and hands-oncomputer experiments for engineering freshmen and sophomores. For one semester, he was also a visiting professorat the

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Joseph C. Musto; Vincent C. Prantil

sequence. The first courseis a four-credit, quarter-long course entitled Modeling and Numerical Analysis. This is a traditionalnumerical methods course, including topics such as matrix computation, root finding, numericalintegration, and numerical solution of differential equations [1]. This course also includes a laboratorycomponent, where modeling and numerical solution techniques are applied to a variety of mechanicaland thermal systems (such as a draining bottle, a heated and quenched object, and a spring-mass-damper system). Student feedback from this numerical methods course indicates two negative aspectsto this traditional approach to teaching numerical methods: • Despite the presence of a laboratory component, students cite a lack of

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Keith B. Lodge

that were held in the classroom was reduced.K.B. Lodge, ASEE 2002, Madison Page 2 of 10Class WorkThe class work fell naturally in two parts. The first part was devoted to formal training; the syllabus forthis is shown in the Table that follows. The early classes were held in a University-run computer lab.About half way through the semester, we moved into a regular laboratory, because water was required.Because of its very nature, it is possible to make progress within a 50-min session in programming amicrocontroller; this is a rare advantage for practical work and makes this an ideal exercise for“hands-on” learning. The aim of the first part was