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Robert E. Zulinski; Jon A. Soper; Dennis O. Wiitanen; David Stone; Allan R. Hambley; Martha E. Sloan; Noel Schulz

Session 1526 Professional Design Laboratories: Bridging the Gap Between Classroom and Industry in the Senior Year Allan R. Hambley, Noel N. Schulz, Martha E. Sloan, Jon A. Soper, David Stone, Dennis O. Wiitanen, Robert E. Zulinski Michigan Technological University James C. Rogers California Maritime Academy This work is supported by the NSF ILI-LLD Program.The Electrical Engineering Department at Michigan Technological University is integratingsenior design projects with its elective

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Scott A. Starks; Reza Torkzadeh; Michael E. Austin

UTEP activity in the UNEX project will be focused on the following areas:x Communications Subsystemx Control and Data Handling Subsystemx Mission Operationsx Data Archival and DisseminationAnnually, UTEP plans to involve students from eight to ten students from theDepartments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Information and DecisionSciences in meaningful activities relating to these areas. In doing so, the studentparticipants will constitute a pool of highly trained manpower capable of entering thework place at NASA as well as at supporting laboratories and contractors. The area ofMission Operations will present opportunities for the involvement of both engineeringand business students. Through this activity, students will be

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Robert Knecht; Randal Ford

applications.Central to the curriculum is a project which requires teams to make decisions based onassumptions and constraints imposed by the problem, situation and client. This project providesan opportunity to exercise both creative thinking (brain storming and data gathering) and criticalthinking (technical assessment and economic analysis). Teams assess various design parametersto develop the “best” solution through evaluation, analysis and synthesis of alternatives. Second -Year Students Propose A ProjectSecond-year students proposed to the Director of Design (EPICS) that they use their production Page 3.224.1of The Music Man as a

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Gulcin Cribb

"students will be more responsible for their learning. The highlystructured and prescriptive nature of traditional undergraduate courses in engineering willbe replaced by programs affording greater freedom of choice." Project-based, problem-based or inquiry-based education encourages the shift in ownership of the educationprocess from staff to students, from teacher to learner. Dependence on reading lists, oneor two text books, lecture notes and the pearls of wisdom coming from the teacher do notallow students to take responsibility for their own learning, rather, it restricts their abilityto be independent seekers of information and knowledge and to be able to solve problemson their own in a creative and independent way.Engineering education, like

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William J. de Kryger; David A. Lopez

to observe foreign industrial technology, to provide cross-culturalexperiences, and give the students and faculty an opportunity to collaborate on technical projects. Page 3.144.1The first two objectives were easily accomplished, the third is well underway, accompanied bycontinual challenges and refinements.One measurement of the exchange program’s success is the most recent agreement, which wassigned in October 1997. The new agreement, a change from the first, is an open-ended document,allowing greater flexibility and is based on mutual expectations and trust, attributes which had tobe earned. The early exchanges had many challenges and

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Audeen W. Fentiman

Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET) has released a new set of accrediting criteria for engineeringprograms in the United States, requiring engineering programs to demonstrate that theirgraduates have “ an ability to communicate effectively.” The emphasis oncommunications in EG166 was increased by including a team design project in thecourse.The project ran in parallel with instruction in graphics for the last six weeks of thequarter. Students were required to design a piece of equipment to solve a simpleengineering problem, prepare a complete set of working drawings for the equipment,produce a written report, and make an oral presentation on their work.Meanwhile, in the English Department, faculty and graduate students in the

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Dongmei Gui; Jens Jorgensen; Joseph A. Heim

constructing a repository of information and resources for design andmanufacturing educators will provide the core around which the long term, and what we believewill be the most influential, goal of the project will be undertaken: creating a forum, a publicmeeting place for open and on-going discussions of issues important to those involved ineducation and employment of manufacturing and design engineers. Research we are conductingin parallel with the construction of the Forum and Workshop will help us gain a betterunderstanding of how these technologies can be used most effectively to expand and extendcollaborative efforts of faculty, industry and students. Our mission is to create an infrastructurefor collaboration. We have identified three primary

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Gerard N. Foster

Session 1547 Using Sound and Music in Technology Gerard N. Foster Purdue University - School of Technology at KokomoIntroductionThis paper presents work aimed at adding the aspect of sound, and music, to technicaldemonstrations, presentations and projects. The focus of this work is to explore themathematics and technology of sound at a basic level, to create a background for laterexperimentation. To enhance the apparent relevance of technology to everyday concerns, thehuman voice and musical instruments are employed as sources of sound. It is postulated that bystirring the

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Ron Bailey; Richard DeBlasio; David Freeman; Rommel Simpson; Devdas Pai

year; sometimes, even later.In this paper, the authors describe a novel collaborative effort between freshmen students andmore-experienced students (sophomore, senior and graduate students), in developing anexperiment of relevance to industry and commerce. The experienced students collaborated indeveloping the test apparatus and test procedures. Then they mentored the freshmen inconducting the test, collecting data, analyzing the results and generating recommendations.The objective of this experiment was to measure the greatest height from which aluminumbeverage cans may be dropped without appreciable damage to the can structure. The project wasdivided into different tasks, and the tasks distributed to three classes in various

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Wayne Woldt; Mohamed Dahab; Bruce I. Dvorak; Dennis Schulte

Session 3151 Partners in Pollution Prevention Internship Program: Success Stories and Lessons Learned Bruce I. Dvorak, Wayne Woldt, Mohamed Dahab, and Dennis Schulte University of Nebraska-Lincoln An innovative internship program in pollution prevention (P2) has been developed at theUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). This program contains educational, research andextension components and has been successful in the first year of its four-year project period.The Partners in Pollution Prevention program is funded by the US EPA, Region VII (Nebraska,Iowa, Kansas, and

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Willie E. (Skip) Rochefort; Michelle Bothwell

program has two primary focus groups:1) traditionally underrepresented students (ethnic minorities and women) who have completed theirfreshman, sophomore or junior years in high school, and who have an interest in math andscience, and 2) science, math, and physics teachers at High Schools which have a substantialpopulation of the student focus groups.The two groups (target of 20 students and 5 teachers) are brought to the Oregon State Universitycampus for a one-week summer camp (all expenses paid) where they are paired with a facultymentor in engineering for a one week mini-research project. There are also group learning activities(basic math and science instruction; computer training; field trips) and group social activities. Forthe students

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S. A. Chickamenahalli; Rutledge Ellis

Session 1333 DEVELOPMENT OF A TMS320C30 DSP BASED CONTROLLER FOR A POWER CONVERTER S.A. Chickamenahalli, Rutledge Ellis Wayne State University/VisteonAbstract: This paper presents an undergraduate research project that involved the design,development, testing and installation of a DSP based controller for a power converter. Theparallel interface for a Texas Instruments TMS320C30 Digital Signal Processor (DSP)established to devise an economical real-time interface is discussed. Derivation of signals for thepower devices of a single-phase topology of the power converter

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Lang-Wah Lee; Tamer Ceylan

prerequisite courses in Thermodynamics, Fluid Dynamics, AppliedThermodynamics, and Heat Transfer. The course is equipment-intensive. Students conductexperiments on test setups such as steam turbines, wind tunnel, centrifugal pump, refrigeration, heatexchanger, and compressor. To implement design education in this course, one needs to consider thefollowing questions: (1) What constitutes as design activity in the lab course and how to implementit? (2) How much design content should be included in the course? (3) What type of equipment isneeded? This paper will first discuss these important questions, followed by a brief description onsome typical design projects and discussion on the advantage and drawbacks of various approaches

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Cathie Scott; Carolyn Plumb

new tools to evaluate theeffectiveness of writing instruction and the preparedness of students to write on the job.At the University of Washington, we have embarked on a portfolio assessment project thatinvolves collecting writing samples and other indicators of the engineering student writingexperience. Through this program, we hope to gain a better understanding of what students arelearning about written communication; we also plan to use the data from the project to establishclearer performance outcomes for our writing program.This paper describes the goal of the project and the rationale behind our decision to adoptportfolio assessment. In addition, it describes the information being collected and the processbeing used to collect this

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Michael A. Magill

failure due to fatigue loading on cracked anduncracked structures, designing to prevent failure, analyzing stress corrosion cracking, andconducting ASTM standard tests. An outline of course topics and laboratory projects is includedin this paper along with detailed highlights of effective course activities. This paperdemonstrates that the topics of fatigue and fracture mechanics fit well with the mechanicalengineering technology (MET) curriculum and the MET student.BACKGROUNDThe course has two primary components: fatigue and fracture mechanics. This section provides abrief description of these two topics.The term fatigue, in the engineering sense, means the mechanical fatigue of materials. Allstructural materials (i.e. metals, timber, concrete

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P. Hirsch; J.E. Colgate; J. Anderson; G. Olson; D. Kelso; B. Shwom

seated around a table in their simulated office, modeling adesign-related activity. They might brainstorm solutions to a problem, make an objectives tree,or interview their “client” for the quarter, a local bike manufacturer who has asked them to helphim design a recumbent bike for campus use. At some point in the hour, students are drawn intothe discussion, becoming an integral part of the NU Concepts Design Team.Later in the week, EDC students meet in groups of 16 with pairs of the design faculty—onecommunication specialist and one engineer—at the new Engineering Design Studio. Drawing onwhat they saw and heard on Monday, student teams work on design projects for clients of theirown. During the first quarter of this two-quarter course, the

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Alice Agogino; Ann McKenna

), and was designed to give students an overview of the diverse field of engineering. Inorder to learn what engineers actually do, the students engaged in a variety of projects and hands-on activities to find out how things work and to practice their own engineering skills. This paperwill provide an overview of the syllabus and goals of the course. Specific activities and designprojects will also be documented such as the mechanical and computer engineering designchallenges, teamwork and student presentations, and the on-line web-based assignments.Detailed examples of student work and student feedback will be reported. The quality of studentwork, as well as the positive feedback about the class, indicates that these high school studentswere not

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Andrew S. Crawford

Session 2632 LEADERSHIP EDUCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ANDREW S. CRAWFORD University of Michigan I. INTRODUCTION The College of Engineering is making “team building” an instructional commitment as partof the revision for our Curriculum 2000. Students will have curricular instruction in aspects of teambuilding and the opportunity to practice these skills in significant team projects during each year oftheir education. Part of our goal is to meet the ABET requirement to demonstrate that our graduateshave “an ability to

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J.R. Phillips

1 Criteria 2000 Visit Harvey Mudd College October 1997 J.R. Phillips Engineering Chair ABSTRACT Harvey Mudd College was one of the institutions visited by ABET in1997/98 as part of the pilot program to aid in the implementation of Criteria2000. Our visit took place on October 6th through 8th, 1997. Engineering at Harvey Mudd is non-specialized and characterized by ahigh level of student-team project work performed for outside sponsors, theEngineering Clinic

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Marek Podgorny; James Z. Liang

both.There may also be applets that allow users to modify information that is stored in the Tangodatabase. Such changes would be noticed immediately by the other users. In addition, thedatabase is also where all the Java applets and the server information are stored.Although the platform for collaborative information sharing on the net is now set, there are stillfew programs that utilize its potential. This is why I chose to write my 3D application. Sincethere was only one existent game for Tango my advisor, Marek Podgorny suggested that I writea chess game.II. MethodWorking with JavaIn order complete my project, I had to become familiar with Java. Since I had never used Javabefore I began working on this project, I needed to learn it before I could

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Rachel Speaks

are designed to be self-contained hands-on learning labsfor the high school students. Both long term and short-term modules are being developed. Thelong term modules are designed to be taught over the course of several weeks, and the short termmodules are designed to be taught in a couple of hours.The module topics range from building strong composite structures to tall towers. The way themodules are structured is that the engineering topic is introduced, students brainstorm ideas,students are broken up into groups and given materials. Engineering design concepts areintroduced and the high school students start building their project. All projects are tested andthe engineering designs are discussed with the students.A small group of

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N. Yu; Peter K. Liaw

-dimensional figures, and color pictures, (2) animation/simulation, (3) short video clips withaudio effects, (4) homework/exercises, (5) on-line teaching evaluation forms, (6) syllabi, and (7) Page 3.135.1papers and reports on the progress of the present CRCD project. In traditional instructional presentations, schematic diagrams are drawn on blackboardsand samples and micrographs are circulated among students in the classroom. The presentWWW-based courseware, on the other hand, includes three-dimensional figures and colorpictures that provide unambiguous explanation and are easy to be retrieved. Computeranimation/simulation further helps

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Douglas H. Baxter

package selected must clearly demonstrate the lecturetopics.In order to create the type of course and provide the necessary reinforcement in using thesoftware in all of the design courses, it was decided to create a freshman level courseinstead of a sophomore level course. By introducing solid modeling in the freshman year,the connection with vector analysis is easily made with another required freshman courseentitled Introduction to Engineering Analysis (IEA). Furthermore, it was decided to makethe course a one-credit course with a final assembly project instead of a final exam. Thisfinal project serves as a small detailed design project in that students must create thepiece parts of the assembly, create the assembly, and create all the

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Michael D. Murphy; Kristen L. Wood; Kevin Otto; Joseph Bezdek; Daniel Jensen

incremental concrete experiences with the methods. Nor do such courses allow for suitable observation and reflection as the methods are executed. In this paper, we describe a new approach for teaching design methods which addresses these issues. This approach incorporates hands-on experiences through the use of “reverse-engineering” projects. As the fundamentals of design techniques are presented, students immediately apply the methods to actual, existing products. They are able to hold these products physically in their hands, dissect them, perform experiments on their components, and evolve them into new successful creations. Based on this reverse-engineering concept, we have developed and tested new

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Gary D. Keller; Fred Begay; Antonio A. Garcia; Albert L. McHenry

minoritieswithin our region yearly from our baseline value of 702 presented in our grant proposal to 774 inthe academic year 1997. We have been tracking our progress to forward this goal by determiningthe rate of SMET B.S. degrees awarded to African Americans, American Indians, and Hispanicswithin our region (Table 1). Our overall five year goal is to double the number ofunderrepresented SMET baccalaureates to 1,404 in the year 2001 by gradually raising the yearlyrate of increase. Our target for the first year was to raise our baseline value of 702 of SMET B.S.degrees awarded annually to African Americans, American Indians, and Hispanics to 741 at theend of year 1. We more than doubled this projected increase. Comparing baccalaureate degrees earned in

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Ben Erwin

flows from defining requirements and exploringalternative concepts to turning the requirements into a model and testing it. There is a shift inmathematics education to encourage students to do mathematics the way that mathematicians doit. A Systems engineering project in the classroom is doing engineering the way engineers do it. Systems engineering is not only good for education in terms of the good it can do forstudents, but for education as a whole as well. Education is a system like many other types of Page 3.385.2systems, and needs to be designed with a systems approach. The questions that education reformefforts should be asking are

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Louis L. Bucciarelli

courses with attention to interdisciplinary projects. Abstracts arepresented in an appendix.This paper is not a “proceedings” of the workshop. Rather it is an attempt to distill out of thedifferent experiences of workshop participants some common themes and to analyze these in asmuch depth as these few pages permit. Through contrast and comparison of participants reports, Iexplore the resources required to effect change, the barriers encountered, and the benefits thatensue - to faculty as well as to students. At a still more general level I reflect upon that oft-heardphrase of what we are about — namely, the changing of a culture.Learning By DesignThe appended abstracts describe a diverse set of projects: Some challenge students with “hands-on

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Christopher D. Pionke; J. Roger Parsons

problem solving skills are presented via both“open” and “closed” design projects. Three projects are completed during the four-week Page 3.96.1program. All projects are design, build, and test. All projects are done in groups with anemphasis on teamwork as well as oral and written communications. At least two oralpresentations are required. Written communications include poster papers as well as formalword-processed reports, which must include concept sketches.Feedback provided by the students has been very positive. The students enjoyed the experienceand feel that they gained a better understanding of the type of work engineers really do and

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V. Waheed; V. Nallaperumal; S. A. Chickamenahalli

Session 2259 LABVIEW BASED ELECTRIC MACHINES LABORATORY INSTRUMENTATION S. A. Chickamenahalli, V. Nallaperumal, V. Waheed Wayne State University/Wayne State University/Patti EngineeringAbstract This paper presents an innovative instrumentation project that consisted of interface of adc motor-generator set to an IBM PC using National Instruments Data Acquisition (NIDAQ)tools and display of experimental data using LabVIEW software. The goal was to achieve real-time measurement and display of experiment waveforms on the PC screen and store thesewaveforms for later use in reports, illustrations

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S. A. Tennyson; R. J. Eggert; D. Bunnell

, specific to the ME program, is currently under review foradoption. In it, the underpinning design philosophy encourages design throughout the MEcurriculum and involves an appropriate breadth & depth of design knowledge, methods, andskills, to be taught in most of the required ME courses as presented in Table 1.To help us develop course content, a list of expected design skills for graduating ME studentswas prepared and is presented in Table 2, Mechanical Engineering Design Skills. It is antici-pated that we will be able to help students learn these skills by endeavoring to incorporateappropriate design activities, homework, projects, and other learning modules in each course.By using the progressive breadth & depth approach, we are, in