Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Amir Rezaei; Mariappan Jawaharlal

Socially Responssible Senior Design Projects Amir Rezaei and Mariappan Jawaharlal California State Polytechnic University, PomonaAssistive technology is used by individuals with disabilities in order to perform functionsthat might otherwise be difficult or impossible. Assistive technology can include mobilitydevices and mechanisms such as walkers and wheelchairs, as well as hardware andsoftware. For example, people with limited hand function may use a keyboard with largekeys or a special mouse to operate a computer, people who are blind may use softwarethat reads text on the screen in a computer-generated voice, people with low vision mayuse software that enlarges screen content

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jeffrey J. Heys

Group Projects in Engineering Using a Wiki Jeffrey J. Heys Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287AbstractGroup projects are common in undergraduate engineering course. Wikis are a new medium forgroup projects because they are webpages that are edited using the same software used to viewthe webpage. Advantages include the ability to record changes made by each individual (helpfulfor grading), ability to continuously monitor progress, and a reduced need for face-to-facemeetings for the group members. Projects based on Wikis also introduce new challenges such asthe need for the students to learn another new technology.IntroductionGroup projects are

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jiancheng Liu; Ashland O. Brown

Enhancing Machine Design Course through Introducing Design and Analysis Projects Jiancheng Liu, PhD, Ashland O Brown, PhD, P.E. Department of Mechanical Engineering School of Engineering and Computer Science University of the Pacific 3601 Pacific Ave., Stockton, CA 95211-0197 Phone: (209) 946-3079; Fax:(209) 946-3086 jliu@pacific.eduAbstractABET is making increasing demands to integrate projects into engineering curriculum. Project-based learning is an effective way for students to improve

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Wolf-Dieter Otte; Anthony Crain

MEMORANDUMDATE: February 15th, 2008SUBJECT: ASEE - Pacific Southwest (PSW) Region 2008 Annual Conference Abstract title: “Optimal team composition in project-oriented Software Engineering classes”FROM: Dr. Wolf-Dieter Otte, Northern Arizona University Computer Science Department College of Engineering and Natural Sciences Flagstaff, AZ 86011 E-mail: dieter.otte@nau.eduTO: Dr. Deb Larson, ASEE PSW 2008 Program Chair Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff College of Engineering and Natural Sciences Flagstaff, AZ 86011 E-mail: debra.larson@nau.edu Optimal team composition in project-oriented Software

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Taufik Taufik

Experience Learned: Incorporating Industry Supported Project In Power Electronics Course to Improve Learning Taufik Electrical Engineering Department Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, CaliforniaAbstractOne approach to enhance students’ learning in practical engineering design issues is to exposestudents to real world projects using real world components. In introductory power electronicscourse at Cal Poly, this approach has been implemented through industry’s involvement in thefinal hardware design project. This paper describes experience learned from incorporating thisindustry sponsored hardware design

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Kevin Gary; Harry Koehnemann

The Software Enterprise at ASU’s Polytechnic Campus Kevin Gary, Harry Koehnemann Assistant, Associate Professors Division of Computing Studies, Arizona State University {kgary,harry}@asu.edu, (480)727-1373The Software Enterprise is a multi-year capstone project sequence designed to expose students to practical, “realworld” considerations in software development. By the conclusion of the Enterprise sequence, students have anappreciation for the role of software process, the challenges of software maintenance, the impact of open source, thepros and cons of off-the-shelf

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Paul Blowers; Kim Ogden

possible to integrate the material into the senior capstone course byrethinking the topics in that course and shifting focus slightly. The prior formulation of the capstone course had focused on technology and economic assessment.Students did two team-based projects, one a smaller scope project involving mostly economics of a small sizedchemical facility with few pieces of equipment. A second, more complex, and much more open ended designproject was then completed during the second half of the semester. Students were also involved with learningminimum energy analyses, heat exchanger thermal analysis, and pollution prevention strategies that are traditionallyend-of-pipe treatments. In the combined course that includes sustainability

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Bryan Cooperrider

concluded that 70% of cost is locked up indecisions that are made in the first 30% of a project life.6 It is important to tell students in designclasses that thinking is extremely cheap. Students can imagine dozens, if not hundreds ofpossible problem solutions very quickly. They can also sketch or explore ideas on paper fairlyrapidly. Prototyping and CAD drawing can become time intensive and expensive, and willnecessarily commit a group to a smaller subset of design ideas. So it is essential in generatinginnovative solutions that designers spend a fair amount of time in the concept phase - the phasewhere divergent thinking dominates.The Design ProcessThe design process has been codified by many educators, but the approaches are allfundamentally the

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

) Page 1 of 3 Pacific Southwest Regional ASEE Conference Continuous Improvement in Engineering Education Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ Radisson Woodlands Hotel, March 27-28, 2008 Thursday Afternoon1:15 – 3:15 Concurrent Session Presentations Kaibab Integrating Contemporary Issues I Topics in Design and Projects Canyon Moderator: Rich Phillips Moderator: Debra Larson • Paul Blowers, et al., Integration of • Dieter Otte, Optimal team

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Kurt Colvin; Robert Crockett

in general, and especially in the field of Systems Engi-Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copy- right © 2008, American Society for Engineering Educationneering1. As projects and products become more complex, the need for Systems Engineering ex-pertise is ever increasing. While statistical evidence quantifying the specific needs for SystemsEngineers is lacking, anecdotal stories clearly show that there is such a need. The target audi-ence for this effort is companies and individuals who require better Systems Engineering capa-bilities, but lack the resources and infrastructure for training. These include second-tier suppliersto the aerospace industry

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Elizabeth J. Brauer; Karen L. Jarratt-Snider; Fonda Swimmer

humanitarian contributions ofengineering to solving problems throughout the world.Design ChallengeThe Design Challenge is a team-based competition based on designing and building a robot fromLego Mindstorms kits based on a given specification. The participants are split into teams forfour or five, with each team given the same design goal of building a robot. The design goal ispresented. The Lego Mindstorms kits have sensors (light, touch), motors, gears, building blocks,controller module, and software programmer. The design specification requires using a sensor,motors, and software programming of the controller module.The design competition is changed each year. The projects thus far have been • line-following robot – robots used light sensors to

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Kyu-Jung Kim; Amir Rezaei

Efficient Use of Computational Tools in Machine Design Kyu-Jung Kim, Ph.D. & Amir Rezaei, Ph.D. College of Engineering California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CAAbstract Machine design is a required course at junior year to learn essential skills for seniordesign projects. There is a great need for comprehensive and integrated software due to itscomplicate nature of the course materials. Such tools are expected to empower students to solvemore challenging open-ended and/or integrated design problems, and to conduct design projectsfor a more rewarding experience in machine design. The Mechanical Design Toolbox hasevolved over

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

John T. Tester; Perry G. Wood

and Engineering education projects. We present ourfirst endeavor in the latter activity, introducing RP into our freshman Mechanical EngineeringComputer-aided Design (CAD) class, ME 180.ApproachThis initial introduction of RP into ME 180 was to accomplish several objectives: 1. Motivate students to stay engaged in the mechanical engineering curriculum. 2. Give students knowledge of advanced computing techniques. 3. Give students an experience of product realization in their first year of engineering. 4. Give students a simple but practical example of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing.The last three objectives were part of the learning objectives for the course, and are not theprimary topic of this paper. On the other hand

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Paul Blowers; Greg Ogden; Kim Ogden

through electronic sources has not led them to become bettersearchers for information or users of information they find. A series of both short- and long-termexercises and discussion points for exposing students to the need for and the skills to findrelevant information is presented in this work. Freshman engineering students can be introduced to on-campus library facilities, andequally importantly, on how to efficiently use the electronic library resources early in theiracademic careers. One way is to have one lecture designed to cover the major areas of electronicsearch tools like textbooks, online references, and peer reviewed journal databases. This lectureis appropriate in the context of a hands-on design project where students have

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Reza Raeisi

this ProjectIn order to provide lab surveillance and enhance lab facilities for online education, CeilingRobots having vision and voice communication capability should be created. It would becontrolled by distance students to go throughout the laboratory in order to see any angle or placethey want just as if they were there. Therefore, distance students could clearly see the physicalarrangement of tools and experiments, and the instructor could easily teach his class and monitorhis lab.The main concept of this project is that during the class hours a student can log on to a website tocontrol a vision device that could move six directions: up, down, left, right, forward, and back.Such an Online-Lab could be freely watched and provide real-time

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jeffrey S. Burmeister; Kyle A. Watson; Maria Garcia-Sheets

mostly middle and senior high school students (some sitesoffer services to elementary schools) and is administered through local centers, located onuniversity campuses, that partner with area school districts. The main program components ofthe MSP model include: MESA Day Academies where students follow MESA developed curriculum that reinforce California Math and Science Standards to build hands-on projects bringing lessons learned in the classroom to reality. Students enter these projects in rigorous local competitions; winners advance to regional, and in some instances, national competitions. MESA Periods which are classes, taught during the regular school day, dedicated to highlighting engineering, science, and mathematical

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Nikolay Kravchuk; Ryan Colquhoun; Ali Porbaha

Engineering EducationREAL-WORLD APPLICAIONSFriction Pendulum Bearings have been used for a variety of structures for buildings,bridges and other structures to reduce damages caused by an earthquake. Thebearings are custom designed and manufactured for each structure depending on avariety of factors. Table 3 presents several-real world applications of FrictionPendulum Bearings for a variety of projects. Table 3. Case histories of Friction Pendulum Bearings3 Project Name Structure Type Facts Seahawks football Stadium Supports 3 million pounds of Stadium load One

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Peg Pankowski

skills in a groupenvironment”, now lists the following assessment methods: Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering Education • “Ethical practices are emphasized throughout the course of study and student actions (academic practices and honesty) are continuously observed and corrected during academic instruction • Students assist in the completion of group projects and receive satisfactory participation grade from peers • Students must display ethical and interpersonal skills during group presentations • Results of individual group assignments and peer comments will be

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Thomas N. Duening; Jeffrey R. Goss

elective options.The goal of this curriculum is to provide a wide range of enterprise managers and otherprofessionals with the analytical and analogical tools enterprise wide systemsdevelopment, integration, management, and optimization. As it will be defined by thisprogram, ESIM will cover a wide range of competencies pertinent to enterprise systemsat all levels, including: • Management and human resource systems • Organizational design and structure • Decision making and strategy setting • New product/service development • Project management • Production and operationsDuening & Goss 8 March 2008American Society for Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Christos Valiotis

answer violates physical reality.Me: Is the work done by friction positive or negative?Students: Ooooohh!!! Daaaah!. (Dumm! Dumm! Dumm! (Pounding their fists on their forehead.)Results using the Socratic Dialogue method are limited in one semester (fall 2007) and 19students. The students were given the same 4 problems in the final as the ones in the 2006. Thenumber of students that used the 5-step method was increased form 25% to 45%. This representsan encouraging improvement yet not as significant as any instructor would want.Limitations of the studyThis research project is a work in progress and it will continue during 2008. As the numbers ofstudents participating in the study increases the average student

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Keith E. Holbert; George G. Karady

. Hesketh, S. Farrell, C.S. Slater, “An inductive approach to teaching courses in engineering,” Proc. 2003 ASEE Annual Conference, Nashville, TN.37. J.W. Bruce, L. Mann Bruce, “Maximizing your productivity as a junior faculty member: being effective in the classroom,” Proc. 2004 ASEE Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT.38. A.A. Kedrowicz, “Negotiating comfort in difference: making the case for interdisciplinary collaboration,” Proc. 2004 ASEE Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT.39. P. Avitabile, C. Goodman, J. Hodgkins, K. White, T. Van Zandt, G. St. Hilaire, T. Johnson, N. Wirkkala, “Dynamic systems teaching enhancement using a laboratory based hands-on project,” Proc. 2004 ASEE Annual Conference, Salt

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Edward J. Smaglik

Integrating Traffic Engineering Field Hardware and Research Methodologies into Transportation Engineering Education Edward J. Smaglik Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZAbstractThe limited coordination between design and implementation is a significant challengethat must be overcome when implementing a traffic engineering project. Manyengineers, particularly recent graduates, may be well versed in traffic theory but may nothave the experience to understand the challenges and issues that arise during fieldimplementation. Furthermore, the tools typically used for analysis and design may notprovide a complete picture of the range of operational issues that may be

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Constantin Ciocanel; Mohammad Elahinia

the College of Engineering at the Ohio State University where theyredeveloped the freshman engineering casses to a combined course with hands-on laboratoryelements3. Teamwork, project management, report writing, and oral presentations were the mainparts of this program.Recently, in their research, Smith et al. focused on classroom-based pedagogy of engagement1.The authors recognized the active and collaborative learning as better ways for students to learnby being intensely involved in the educational process. These learning methods can further beimplemented by encouraging the students to apply their knowledge in many situations. Thearticle, as illustrated in Figure 1, also indicates the superiority of the problem-based learningover the

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

David Lanning

bring entire class sections (20-40 students) into the laboratoryfor demonstrations, during which some students play at least a minimal role gathering data forlater analysis1. The author also collaborated with another member of the College of Engineeringfaculty, who specializes in machine vision, to create a “virtual beam” that students can interactwith in real time, demonstrating beam stresses and deflections2. While these projects helpstudents with understanding new ideas and applying concepts to simple laboratory experiments,they do not address the apparent lack of retention of fundamental concepts from prior courses.This lack of retention of skills and knowledge from one semester to the next has been noticed bymany of the instructors in the

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Christine Pauken

also links to websites thatdiscuss these topics. This permits students to be exposed to a greater variety of engineeringapplications that may be of interest to a subset of the students. In addition, the bioengineering students are required to take a 3 hour lab concurrentlywith the biology course. The lab contains modules on diffusion, biomaterials testing, restrictiondigest and electrophoresis of plasmid DNA, electrophoresis of fish proteins, polymerase chainreactions (PCR) bacterial DNA, fluid mechanics, microscopy, and homeostasis. The students arealso required to do a design project using the ideas of synthetic biology, in some semesters tobuild bacteria that are better sources of biomass fuels. Greater depth and details are given in