Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Arlene Mueller; Elaine M. Cooney

students arecomfortable with visual logic problems and verbal logic problems, they are ready to play withand thereby learn about electronic logic.The challenge is to make this technology accessible both conceptually and physically toelementary students. The children are introduced to the concepts of combinational logic usingvisual and verbal logic. The hardware is made available by using a circuit board designed forthis project.Purpose and ObjectivesThe purpose of this project is to teach second and third grade children simple electrical circuitryand how it is related to digital logic circuits. With this knowledge, the children can developprojects such as interactive bulletin boards and simple robots. There are three main objectives:1. Provoke

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick C. Gee

the experience of working ingroups and working on an engineering and technology project that had design, testing andpresentation.VI. ConclusionMEAP enhances the recruitment and retention of minority students at the Purdue School ofEngineering and Technology (PSET) at Indiana University Purdue-University at Indianapolis(IUPUI) by exposing them to engineering and technology related activities in the various formsdetailed in this paper. The School of Engineering and Technology has a primary goal offulfilling its mission to expose students on a pre-college level to higher education, technicalfields and areas of engineering and technology through the MEAP program.PATRICK GEEPatrick Gee is a Visiting Professor for the Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson; Sudhir I. Mehta

Session 1430 Next Generation Principles for Enhancing Student Learning Sudhir Mehta, Scott Danielson North Dakota State University / Arizona State University EastAbstractThe National Science Foundation recently funded the proposal "Statics: The next generation."This project incorporates proven pedagogical findings to improve teaching of statics,specifically, and engineering courses in general. Using past and current research, twelve "NextGeneration (NG) Principles" are proposed for enhancing student learning. These principlesinclude incorporating active cooperative learning, service learning

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Lang Wah Lee; Tamer Ceylan

included the following three components: Ä Lecture and discussion - The purpose was to reinforce concepts in mathematics and science, and to lay the groundwork for laboratory and design activities planned for that day. Typically, the lecture and discussion would last less than one hour. Ä Laboratory work - A number of simple and inexpensive home-built devices and toys were provided to teachers to illustrate science and mathematics principles and to provide teachers with a set of useful teaching tools for use in their classrooms. Page 5.557.2 Ä Design - It was a project-based learning experience in which

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary C. Verstraete; Daniel B. Sheffer; Bruce C. Taylor

traditional electrical and mechanical engineering courses currently available at The Universityof Akron. The majority of these courses serve as required courses for either one or both tracks,or serve as electives during the senior year. A heavy emphasis is placed on design, from thefreshman level (Introduction to Biomedical Engineering Design) through the senior year,culminating in two capstone senior Design classes. BME Design I requires a team of students tocomplete a design project specific to their chosen track. BME Design II requires that theprojects entail a joint venture between students in the two tracks.Furthermore, it is anticipated that the majority of the students will choose to participate in thecooperative education program in the

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Eugene E. Rutz

Learning in the College ofEngineering at the University of Cincinnati. Mr. Rutz is a registered Professional Engineer with experience inmechanical design, testing and analysis, project management and teaching. He received his B.S. in NuclearEngineering in 1982 and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1987 from the University of Cincinnati. Page 5.236.4

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert L McHenry; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

of technical specialization is digital electronics. He has industrial experiencewith the Boeing Co., 3M Co., Motorola Inc. and Minority Engineers of Louisiana. His current researchinterests include noise in digital systems design methodology and effective paradigms in engineeringtechnology education. He is Co-director of The Western Alliance to Expand Student Opportunity, aNational Science Foundation Alliance for Minority Participation project. Dr. McHenry has been activelyinvolved in four-year technology programs for over 35 years. He was the recipient of the 1996 ASEE,Fredrick J. Berger Award and is presently the Chair of the Engineering technology Council and a memberof the ASEE Board of Directors

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

E. Max Raisor; C. Greg Jensen

-campus students, staff and faculty from theirhomes, libraries, or work places. These packages allow individuals to access, through theInternet, video conferencing help sessions, lab sessions or even live course lectures fromanywhere in the world. It is also possible, using these packages, to share or access anyapplication that resides on Windows/NT servers during these sessions or course lectures. Bassettdemonstrated the sharing of Pro/E, a third generation CAD system, over the Internet usingNetMeeting25. The demonstration was an attempt to reduce travel time between researchers atPurdue and Cummins Engine while working on a centerless grinding research project. Casuccihas also used NetMeeting to share results from a laser micrometer and from a

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Gowder; Narciso F. Macia

. Dr. Macia received aB.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1974, a M.S. degree in theMechanical Engineering from the same department in 1976 and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from ArizonaState University in 1988.Amy GowderAmy Gowder is an engineer at Anderson-Consulting in Arizona. Ms. Gouder was earning her B.S. degree in Bio-Engineering from Arizona State University at the time of this project. She graduated in 1998. Page 5.334.7

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Ben Humphrey

growing ubiquity of the Internet, reports are becomingeasier to locate. Cornell University maintains a large collection which can easily be printed out.John H. Bartsch, a high school teacher from New York, in his book, School Material SafetyManual,12 1992 has collected MSDS for chemicals commonly used in schools. This excellentsafety source also includes suggestions and recommendation on the use of materials whichteachers, students and even cleaning personnel might use.Every engineering laboratory that maintains an inventory of chemicals or chemical productsshould include a minimum of one unit of study on the use of Material Safety Data Sheets.Student project ideas abound. Some include: *Locating MSDS for each product used in a specific

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

James A. Ozment; Alison N. Smith; Wendy Newstetter

that “student population in such a course has tremendous variation inbackground, motivation, expectations, and analytical skills”, Singhania7 proposes somesolutions for improving the situation. He recommends warning students against “thinking on-line”, and instead teaching them to write the programs at their desks, only testing when satisfiedwith the result. He also identifies several suggestions for group techniques: allowing students toread and check each other’s programs, group review of a program, and other forms of teaminteraction. Fienup2 also supports group work. He writes (in reference to his object-orientedCS-2 course), “team projects avoided overwhelming students with large projects by decreasingthe amount of work that each student

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

David F. Ollis

, one imagines with little difficulty the repeated challenge in professional life whenoffered a new project or product opportunity in a somewhat or completely unknown area. Auseful response based on our lab sequence (as well as Dale’s “Cone of Learning”) is first togather information (READ everything appropriate, and interview past participants involved),then get some samples of product or process to DISSECT/ASSEMBLE and otherwisecharacterize current successful examples, then CALCULATE/ANALYZE what improvementsare needed in yield, performance, speed, cost reduction, etc. would be required to produce anupgrade or competitive product, and finally PRESENT/TEACH to a corporate managementthrough oral and written progress reports. The parallels

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Akihiko Kumagai; Mukasa Ssemakula

material itself being intellectually demanding, it is frequently taught in alecture format with little opportunity for active student participation or experimentation.Consequently, students often find it difficult to make the connection between the theoreticalconcepts covered in the lectures and the corresponding physical phenomena.This paper describes the development of a course for kinematics and dynamics of machines,aimed at students pursuing BS degrees in Manufacturing and Mechanical EngineeringTechnology. The course is being developed under the auspices of the Greenfield Coalition (NSFsupported project) at the Focus:HOPE Center for Advanced Technologies (CAT) in Detroit,Michigan. The course material is also used in the Kinematics of Machines

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore J. Stokes; Jeffrey B. Hargrove

Board (HCDB).It was further determined to design a PC board that would incorporate a microprocessor andflash memory to permit the students to embed real microprocessor control in design andfabrication projects associated with mechatronics courses and other courses that might includethe opportunity to design and build mechatronic devices. For example, senior-level designprojects in mechanical engineering courses at Kettering University such as “Medical EquipmentDesign” (ME-460) and “Vehicle Design Project” (ME-422) often present the student withopportunities to apply mechatronic principles and utilize embedded microprocessor controls. Toaccomplish this capability, an “Embeddable Microprocessor Board” (EMB) was designed andfabricated that would

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

William H. Dennis; Jeff A. Risinger; Thomas Hall

a pre-hire training program.After the initial investigation, the University’s president appointed a committee to work withAlliance representatives on how NSU could best meet their education and training needs. This Page 5.470.2ad-hoc group strove to make NSU @ Alliance a seamless process for the Alliance students,including the course offerings, financial assistance, registration, and textbook and supplypurchases. The teamwork approach to project development led to several worthwhile programsbetween NSU and Alliance.IV. The NSU @ Alliance ProgramsAccording to an article in the Financial Times, “Forty percent of corporate universities plan

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Winfred K Anakwa; Scott Jones; Scott Garrett; Ron Rio; Li Chen; John Bush; Jixiang Sheng; George Anglin; Dion Thomas; Dale Green

68HC16microcontroller. The controller was able to reject a physically generated0.01143m negative step road disturbance input. The details of the designconstruction, modeling, analysis, computer simulation, controller implementationand experimental results are presented.I. IntroductionIn order for students to gain experience in design and construction of a physicalplant, as well as control experimentation, a decision was made in the fall of 1990to build a prototype pneumatic active suspension system as a student project. Thesuspension system was selected at that time because the automotive industry wasseriously considering implementation of active suspension systems onautomobiles1-8.A quarter-car model was selected because it would be feasible to test in

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

James Rehg; Jamie Rowe; Donald Lambing

paper addressesa critical component, the target manufacturing system, which is often missing in the integrationof PLCs into the automation laboratory. The laboratory exercises associated with the PLClaboratory component usually start with projects that introduce students to the PLC operatingsystem, input/output modules, electrical interface, and the computer based programminglanguage to create ladder logic. These exercises are followed by a series of experiments thatcover how to use the PLC ladder elements, such as inputs, outputs, timers, and counters, and thePLC program ladder structure. Up to this point the PLC is usually interfaced to a set of lights andswitches in order to display outputs and provide input conditions. The most important

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacek Jarzynski; Sheldon M. Jeter

sequence ofthree undergraduate lab courses was required. These courses were an introductoryinstrumentation and methods course, an intermediate engineering science and systemscourse, and an advanced experimental project course. The first course in the sequence was a three quarter hour introductory lab coursethat covered typical mechanical engineering instrumentation and basic experimental andstatistical methods. This course included topics ranging from strain gages to viscometers. The intermediate course was one of two three quarter hour offerings dependingon a student’s curriculum track. We considered these to be engineering sciences andsystems courses because of their coverage. An attempt was made in each course to studysome

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis W. Derby; Willie Ofosu

administration and revenue collection. Privatesector applications include real estate sales, real estate management, retail industry to sitefranchises, banking, tourism, the cable and wireless industry to locate and solicit customers, andmany more. New applications are evolving constantly. Application of the GIS is limited, onlyby lack of appropriate data or by poor organization of the data.Current state of the technologyOver the last ten years Federal, State and local governments have labored through data captureand processing activities to gather the necessary data that will be required in a functional GIS.Grants have been awarded to State and local agencies to be used to develop internal systems. Inmany areas, initial GIS applications were project

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

William N. Smyer

Session 1339 Integration of the Web into an Engineering Economy Course William N. Smyer Mississippi State UniversityAbstractThis paper presents a summary of a project to integrate the World Wide Web into anundergraduate engineering economy course. The thrust of the paper is a discussion of theexperiences gained by the students and a faculty member who is a web-authoring novice.Perhaps the most significant web additions are a set of lecture outlines and a set of interactivetutorials. The lecture outlines are approximately 80% complete notes. Thus the student note-taking

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Jablokow

experiences and Page 5.665.7hypothesize on possible explanations for any differences. This always leads to lively discussionand the relating of similar experiences in other courses. After this discussion, the assignment ofhomogeneous and heterogeneous groups is revealed, and the students are asked to consider anynew insights they have gained. In addition to a better understanding of their own cognitiveprocesses and the ability to identify skills which they need to learn, students report that thisactivity also helps them appreciate and work better with their peers. Many students express adesire to apply this knowledge in other courses when project

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole L. Hoekstra

Section Number 3563 Tool Design and Concurrent Engineering using Rapid Tooling Construction Methods Nicole Hoekstra Engineering Technology Department Western Washington UniversityAbstractPrior to rapid prototyping (RP), the depth to which students could analyze a design, product orprocess was limited due to the length of the academic quarter. Now, the ManufacturingEngineering Technology curriculum is able to further incorporate design, production, and testingin concurrent engineering and student projects. This paper discusses new

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew G. Sutton; Ing-Chang Jong

Session 1368 A Truss Analyzer for Enriching the Learning Experience of Students Matthew G. Sutton, Ing-Chang Jong University of ArkansasAbstractThis paper is written to contribute a software, named WinTruss, with illustration, for analyzingtrusses. The software is a resulting product of a design project by a senior student in a sequenceof two courses in Creative Project Design for mechanical engineering students at the Universityof Arkansas. WinTruss runs on PC Windows 95 and later. Being easy-to-use, intuitive, flexible,and powerful, this

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Zachary R. Kaufmann; Nickolas S. Jovanovic; Lance W. Laettner

as the electrical interconnect for data transfer betweennodes. Since COTS hardware is undergoing continuous, rapid improvement, almost everyBeowulf-class cluster is unique in some way. One objective of our research was to design, build,and test a Beowulf-class PC cluster at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock using the mostappropriate COTS hardware that was available at the time of funding. Undergraduate computerengineering technology students were involved in the project from preliminary design throughcommissioning. Our cluster will be used to support computational science and engineeringresearch in radiation transport and computational fluid dynamics, as well as for undergraduateand graduate education

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Yong Y. Kim; Rakesh K. Kapania; Kamal B. Rojiani

being presented.4. Suggestions for possible projects and future work in applying the knowledge gained from using the applet to practical engineering problems.5. Supplemental information (such as source code, development guidelines, suggestions for incorporation and adaptation) to assist other instructors in using the applets and in developing their own.6. An on-line evaluation form designed to assess the attitudes of users and the educational effectiveness of the instructional unit. Page 5.719.2Description of AppletsIn this section a brief description of a few applets that were developed is

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

D. Joseph Shlien

sequence that if two wings give more lift than one, three will give moreOrville and Wilbur Wright were designers and manufac- than two, ...turers of bicycles, which were very popular at that time.Their formal education had ended with high school. Having become bored with bicycles, theyseriously started to work on the ‘flying machine’ project in 1899.Iteration 1 (summer ‘99)Once having decided to start this project, the Wrights wrote the Smithsonian Institute (May 30‘99) requesting published papers and a list of important references. From these works theylearned what approaches were unsuccessful and some of the challenges which lay ahead. Afteronly two months of having received this

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce A. DeVantier; John W. Nicklow

isespecially convenient since class assignments, notes and announcements can be regularly postedon a course website. Additionally, most have had little to no trouble completing assignments thatrequire word processing or spreadsheet analysis. A significant amount of anxiety has beenencountered, however, when assigning class projects that require computer modeling orprogramming skills. While the former are skills likely to be used as part of their work routines,modeling and programming represent skills that are not. On-campus graduate students enrolled inthe same courses have generally had less trouble completing the same assignments.III. Instructional Styles in the Off-Campus ProgramLowman2 indicates that a key element of cognitive learning is for

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Evelyn Hanna

geared towards involving 7th and 8th grade girls in the world of engineeringand technology through hands-on projects and attending various workshops. The purposeof this paper is to investigate the need for pre-college programs geared towards middleschool girls, define the TARGET program, and to explore program refinements. TABLE 1: School of Engineering Rutgers University Population 2500 2000 1500 Women Men 1000 Total 500 0 1997

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas G. Schmucker

: Page 5.146.21. Learning objectives provide a focus for both the student and teacher. The students know exactly what it is that they are supposed to learn. It keeps their efforts focused and efficient on the critical task-level "goals" of the lesson, homework, project, exam, or course. Additionally, the teacher keeps his or her effort focused on the specific items that need to be accomplished rather than going off on personally interesting tangents that yield minimal learning benefit for the associated cost.2. Learning objectives appeal to various learning styles. With reference to the names of preferred learning modes in the Felder-Silverman6 model, sequential learners tend to prefer lists of tasks such as those that cognitive

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Manion; Moshe Kam

aware that, as engineers, they have the potential to do both great social Page 5.266.7benefit, but also to do grave social harm. In this context it is important to avoid the anti-engineering bias that we sometimes detect when “outsiders” write about or teach engineeringethics. We found that it is vital to discredit explicitly the perception that engineers arefundamentally potential “evil doers” which society must continually monitor and punish lestthey create more harm. Over-emphasis on engineering projects as harmful, and on the need to“punish” engineers for failures (especially for the failure of innovative designs) is intrinsicallywrong, as