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Stephen G Ritchie; Carlos C. Sun

Session 2793 OAK-TREE: One-of-A-Kind Transportation Research and Education Experiment Carlos Sun1, Stephen Ritchie2 1. Faculty of Engineering, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey 08028-1701 2. Faculty of Engineering, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-2175Abstract - This paper chronicles the traffic control course/laboratory named OAK-TREE (One-of-A-Kind Transportation Research and Education Experiment) at the University of California atIrvine and discusses a proposed implementation at Rowan University. In order to address thechanging nature of transportation and civil

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Rafic Bachnak

organization of industrial facilities. Another goal is to familiarize students withthe responsibilities of technicians, technologists, and engineers working in various technicalpositions. Delivery of the course involved three mechanisms: lectures, laboratory lessons, andfield trips. This paper describes how lectures, laboratory lessons, and field trips contributed toaccomplishing the course objectives. The paper also presents the results of a survey wherestudents showed satisfaction with their learning experiences but made some important suggestionsfor improving the course.IntroductionEngineering and engineering technology programs have recognized the importance of involvingindustry in the educational process1-6. Similarly, the engineering technology

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

/university partnershipsshould start by convincing the potential industrial partner of the benefits of a relationship withthe university.The second marketing challenge for the NSU @ Alliance committee was convincing theuniversity’s administration that the industrial partnership would supply an invaluable dimensionto the university and several of its programs. In the case of NSU @ Alliance, the industrialpartner offers a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility that is a real world “laboratory” for thesubjects taught in NSU classrooms and labs. The students study computer numeric control(CNC) mills and programmable logic controllers (PLC) in their lectures and university labs. Ashort field trip to Alliance lets them see the same equipment in full

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Farrukh Alvi; Chiang Shih

areas: thermodynamics, heat transfer and fluidmechanics, where they are usually taught as separate entities over three or more semesters. Thisapproach is pedagogically convenient but not necessarily effective since it creates the falseimpression among the students that the analysis of a thermal system is simply a combination ofseveral loosely related disciplines. The newly designed thermal course-sequence is designed tocorrect this deficiency by integrating these subjects into a single two-semester course sequenceto provide students with a coherent understanding of a complete thermal system. A paralleleffort is also underway to combine the traditional thermal and fluid laboratory course into theintegrated thermal course. In addition to the

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Richard E. Pfile; Maher E. Rizkalla; Charles F. Yokomoto

. Box 894 Indianapolis, IN 46206 I. AbstractIn this paper, we describe how the design and analysis of power electronics can be made alive tostudents by focusing all classroom and laboratory experiences on a high-profile, high-tech,production unit such as General Motors’ propulsion system for its EV1 electric vehicles. Usingthis strategy, an interdisciplinary team of faculty at our university successfully designed a seniorelective for electrical engineering and electrical engineering technology students in powerelectronics. Developed under a FIPSE grant, the course covers both the design of state-of-the-artpower electronics and the design of associated computer

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W.D. Jemison; W. R. Haller; W. A. Hornfeck

experience with this printed circuitboard milling machine. Specifically, the paper will describe how the machine is beingused in a number of courses ranging from our first-year Introduction to Engineeringcourse, through sophomore and junior year laboratory projects, to our capstone seniordesign course. The integrated design process used by our students to design printedcircuit boards will be described and several representative designs will be discussed todemonstrate the level of design complexity that can be achieved using this technology.Finally, some initial assessment data regarding student reaction to the PCB millingmachine is provided.I. IntroductionVirtually all fundamental phenomena associated with the Electrical and ComputerEngineering

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Alamgir Choudhury

modularcurriculum and laboratory is being developed in the subject area. These modules are (a)modern industrial processes, (b) sensors and transducers, (c) data acquisition and dataprocessing, (d) process control, and (e) integrated measurement, data acquisition andcontrol. This modular curriculum is designed to fulfill the need for two and four yearundergraduate programs in mechanical engineering technology (MET) and electricalengineering technology (EET), as well as training industrial professionals. By varying theemphasis on each module, the same curriculum and laboratory may be used for eachcategory of audience. While MET programs will emphasize more module (a), (b) and (e);EET students will focus more on module (c), (d) and (e). Training programs for

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Richard A. DeVries; Douglas C. Stahl

undergraduatesunderstand the causes and implications of these behaviors, the Structural Engineering Workshopwill incorporate laboratory experiments with full-scale structural components into what aretraditionally lecture-only upper division courses. Web-based multimedia material will helpstudents place each experiment into context within the course and within the field of study. TheStructural Engineering Workshop will also create a new level of continuity within ourarchitectural engineering program, as content will be directed at students in all years of study ingraphics, mechanics, analysis, management, and design courses. In addition, students insophomore construction materials labs and construction methods labs will participate in thefabrication of test

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Michael Mackay; George DeLancey; Richard Cole; Bernard Gallois; Keith Sheppard; Gerald Rothberg

first semester of sophomore year is the coupling of a design course, Engineering Design III(2-credit lecture/lab.) to the introductory course in thermodynamics. The latter has beenexpanded from 3 to 4 credit-hours to include energy-conversion topics.2. Integration of Engineering CoursesThe revised engineering curriculum at Stevens puts high priority on at least some integrationamong different courses. While very tight integration is not necessarily a goal, interplay betweendifferent courses is required to be conscious, recognizable, and representative of the mutualinterdependence that exists among “different” engineering subjects.In the third semester, opportunity exists for integration of the design laboratory withThermodynamics & Energy

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Kevin J. Renken; John Reisel

,(iv) the thermal analysis of air compressor operation using a thermal imaging camera, (v) the creationof a procedure to independently test several lubricants in a single air compressor, and (vi) thedevelopment of a web page containing information learned in the laboratory.This paper presents the student projects that developed this test facility, preliminary experimentalresults generated by these student projects, and the educational experiences of our undergraduatestudents who worked on the projects.IntroductionIn 1997, the authors received a University of Wisconsin System Applied Research Grant to establishthe Energy Conversion Efficiency Laboratory in the Mechanical Engineering Department at TheUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The

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Peter Milne; Pascal Rol; Jean-Marie Parel; Fabrice Mann

Engineering is presented. The objective of this curriculum is toprovide students with a general knowledge of the principles of geometrical and physical optics,optical instrumentation, optical fibers and lasers, as well as a hands-on practical experiencethrough laboratory sessions and individual projects. The ultimate goal is to give biomedicalengineering students the ability to understand the principles of medical optical instruments andlaser systems, and sufficient knowledge and practical experience to be able to design and operatebasic optical and laser systems for biomedical applications.1. Introduction and ObjectivesAlthough light has been used in medicine and biology since ancient times, and opticalinstruments, such as microscopes and endoscopes

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Lang Wah Lee; Tamer Ceylan

notpay tuition. Faculty from engineering and education disciplines served as instructors for theworkshop and were responsible for developing course materials, demonstrations, and laboratoryexperiments. They also served as consultants in engineering design activities. Topics covered inthe workshop are mostly in the field of mechanical engineering because mechanical systems areclosely related to concepts of mechanics, energy, and structures.We adopted the inquiry-based learning style that relied heavily on active participation and hands-on activity to implement collaborative learning throughout the entire workshop. Participants wereorganized into teams of four to conduct discussions, laboratory work, and engineering design.Daily activities

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Jeffrey B. Hargrove

Session 1566 Development and Implementation of Mechatronics Education at Kettering University Jeffrey B. Hargrove Kettering UniversityAbstractThe Mechanical Engineering Department at Kettering University has completed development ofa significant new component of education in mechatronics. The work began in the fall of 1997as the principal part of an award for “Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement” by theDivision of Undergraduate Education of the National Science Foundation. It has culminatedwith the successful implementation of two undergraduate

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Thomas Lombardo; Stephen R. Fleeman

admonish proponents with, "Youcan’t do labs, so it can’t be done". The authors, both practicing engineers in addition to servingas educators, would prefer to take a more open-minded view. Applying DE to a laboratory-based curriculum is challenging, but this is certainly not the first obstacle EET educators haveever faced. The authors envision a "hybrid" delivery method, where the lecture material iscompleted online, and the lab work is still done in the laboratory. (The intent here is to addressthe needs of the time-bound student rather than the place-bound student.)In this paper, we will explore the EET curriculum with respect to the national skill standards1developed by the Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA)2. Each skill standard will be given

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Richard A. Gilbert; Andrew Hoff, University of South Florida; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

inScience Programs to serve the needs of the growing service and technical industries in the area.The Manufacturing Technology program is but one of these efforts to develop workforce- Page 5.439.3training curricula in Brandon. A full time faculty position was created and space for the Session 3586laboratories has been allocated for the program. Additionally, HCC applied for, and wasawarded, a grant of $200,000 from the Florida State Workforce Capitalization Incentive Programto purchase equipment for a vacuum technology training laboratory and curriculum materials

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Ron Baddock; Catherine S. Bolek; Kenny Fotouhi; Ali Eydgahi

Session 2793 A Collaborative University-Industry Agreement to Establish an Advanced Communication Laboratory Ali Eydgahi , Mohammad Fotouhi, Ronald Baddock, Catherine S. Bolek University of Maryland Eastern Shore/ University of Maryland Eastern Shore/ Amtek Company/University of Maryland Eastern ShoreAbstractThis paper describes the details of a partnership and collaboration that have recently beencreated between University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Lab-Volt systems, and AmtekCompany. This partnership has been envisioned to meet several goals and objectives foreach partner. The individual goals when combined, benefit the

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Rosa Betancourt de Perez; Rosa Buxeda; Moises Orengo; Lueny M. Morell; Jose R. Lopez

and universities. The LSAMP project supports undergraduate education systemic reform in alliances that include partners from two- and four-year higher education institutions,businesses and industries, national research laboratories, local, state, and federal agencies. Inaddition to this principal focus, LSAMP projects also give consideration to the critical transitionpoints in SMET education: high school to college; 2-year and 4-year college; undergraduatestudy; and graduate-to-faculty career. Page 5.185.11 NSF Grant # HRD

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Rebecca K. Toghiani; Donald O. Hill; Craig Wierenga; Hossein Toghiani

the need to augment the traditional instruction of this subjectwith laboratory experiences so that their graduates are conversant in state-of-the-artinstrumentation and control as it is practiced in industry today. These laboratory experiencesallow the student to gain an appreciation for the contribution these tools make to the successfuloperation of a process unit or plant, to become familiar with instrumentation, and to be exposedto advanced control strategies in practice. This paper describes efforts at Mississippi StateUniversity to transform the process control instructional methods to facilitate the transition fromundergraduate student to practicing engineer in the area of process control. The Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical

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J. Nazalewicz; H. Hadim; D. Donskoy; B. Gallois; Keith Sheppard

laboratory is implemented with emphasis on thefollowing objectives:1. Integration of design and engineering practice into engineering mechanics2. Providing a smooth transition from the introduction to engineering design course offered during the first semester53. Integration of statics and strength of materials as a more effective way of teaching engineering mechanics4. Providing ‘hands on’ experience as a more effective learning tool5. Teaching of other ‘soft skills’ based on ABET 2000 criteria6. Stimulating student interest in the subject of engineering mechanics7. Improving the retention rate for the engineering freshmen.The main aspects of the approach needed to achieve these objectives are described in thefollowing sections.III. Integration

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Sergy Lyshevski; Akhouri S. C. Sinha; Maher E. Rizkalla; Charles F. Yokomoto; Mohamed El-sharkawy; Richard Pfile

Ahmed El-Antably Allison Transmission Indianapolis, IN Division of General Motors Corporation P.O. Box 894 Indianapolis, IN 46206-0894 Abstract:This paper details an approach that we used in the development of laboratory experiments, coursematerials, and laboratory facilities for a course in electric vehicle technology. In particular, wedescribe how students assisted us in the development of the course by conducting research anddesign projects, in the semesters prior to the first offering of the course. We will describe

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Richard W Freeman; Carl J. Bern; Steven Mickelson

metersto provide an experiential, hands-on mechatronics laboratory for junior high, high school, andfreshmen engineering students. This paper describes the process used in the mechantroniclaboratory and many opportunities for using these engineering masterpieces.I. IntroductionElectromechanical watt-hour meters have been under continuous development since 1888, whenOliver Shallenberger and Thomas Duncan built a working model1. As a result of thisdevelopment, modern meters, such as the three-wire single-phase model shown in Figure 1, aremasterpieces of engineering design. These meters:• Operate with a registration error of less than 0.5 % over a load range of 0.5 to 100 percent of maximum load.• Maintain high reliability while withstanding direct

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David M. Beams

SESSION 2320 Project TUNA—The Development a LabVIEW Virtual Instrument as a Class Project in a Junior-Level Electronics Course David M. Beams, Ph.D. University of Texas at TylerAbstractThe Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Texas at Tyler has a required two-semester sequence in electronic devices and circuits. The second course of this series (EENG4409, Electronic Circuit Analysis II) includes a traditional laboratory component with exercisesin amplifiers, active filters, non-linear circuits, oscillators, and

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Maarij M. Syed; Sudipa Mitra-Kirtley

Session 2380 Studio style of teaching at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Sudipa Mitra-Kirtley and Maarij Syed Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Terre Haute, IN 47803AbstractThe studio mode of teaching has been tried in the three introductory physics classes at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. In this mode, students go through both lectures and mini-laboratories almost in every class session. As soon as a theoretical idea is taught, the studentsperform a related experiment, which verifies the concept. In this method, the traditionallaboratories are

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Winston F. Erevelles

Mathematics. Salient points of this paperinclude the original concept of laboratory integration for deeper understanding of the subjectmatter, the funding process, faculty collaboration, student grant proposals to obtain equipmentneeded for the project, and the design and integration of cell components.I. IntroductionThe manufacturing engineer of today and the coming century needs to be an individual with avariety of technical and interpersonal skills. S/he will serve her/his community in diverse rolesas technical specialists, operations integrators, and enterprise strategists. What industry needsfrom its graduate engineers is the ability to thrive in environments that are characterized bypeople working in multifunctional interdisciplinary teams1.At

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Robert P Hesketh; Michael Carney; C. Stewart Slater

Session 3413 Ã $ )OXLGL]HG %HG 3RO\PHU &RDWLQJ ([SHULPHQW Robert P. Hesketh, C. Stewart Slater, and Michael Carney Department of Chemical Engineering Rowan University Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA 2000 ASEE Annual Conference Session 3413 ChE Laboratories in the Next Millennium A unique experiment that can have a large impact on student learning and retention is thefluidized bed polymer coating process. This experiment, first developed for a NSF NovelProcess Workshop, is a highly visual experiment in chemical engineering processes andexperimentation

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Bernard Hoop; Thomas E. Hulbert; Robert B. Angus; Eric W. Hansberry

classes were recently involved in the redesign of a university laboratory site tofulfill the requirements of an architectural based design project. This project is a workingexample of how an interdisciplinary relationship between the Physics Department and the Schoolof Engineering Technology provided an ideal opportunity to support the practical goals of boththe ACE (Academic Common Experience) and the industrial format. To provide real-lifeexperience, students benefited from visits to the site of the proposed physics laboratory and apresentation by the laboratory director. Following the industrial model, student developedpreliminary design drawings based on the architect’s existing multi-layered AutoCAD workingdrawings. These preliminary

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Augustus K. Uht

this by teaching students to make key hardware/software tradeoff designdecisions. This is achieved with the following ICED components: 1) a 2-3 year long projectspanning six or more hardware and software courses; 2) required coursework including advancedsoftware topics such as compiler design, as well as a full slate of hardware courses; 3) the use ofmodern commercial EDA (Electronic Design Automation) tools2; and 4) custom hardware3 andsoftware to enhance the laboratory experience of the students. Page 5.654.1ICED was begun in 1997 with funding from the National Science Foundation. In 1999 furtherfunding was obtained from the Champlin

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Riffe J. William; Joel K. Berry; Raghu Echempati

Page 5.713.1testing numerous prototypes at various stages of the engineering design. There is growing demandfor engineers trained in this area, as many companies engaged in metal forming research are turningtowards virtual forming. Kettering University recently funded a grant proposal to procure ahydraulic press that has adaptive controls allowing experiments in non-circular forming andparametric studies that will facilitate the creation of real forming models for subsequent simulation.Another grant proposal is in preparation stage requesting funds to procure a dedicated high-speedcomputer server and terminals to support the virtual forming laboratory. As mentioned before, theobjective of this paper is to share ideas on the philosophy of

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Jerome Tapper

relationships1.This paper establishes the ground rules for creating and keeping industrial partnerships alive andviable. If the ideas presented here are implemented appropriately, this relationship can prosperfor many years to come with some additional positive side effects; continued industrial support.By taking advantage of these partnerships, colleges can gain access to new state-of-the-artequipment for their laboratories. In fact, most companies are more than willing to help if askedproperly.I. IntroductionThere are many reasons why the education establishment should align themselves with industrialpartners. One of the principal reasons is to gain assistance in the form of materials needed toteach state-of-the-art technologies to their students. For

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Zenaida Otero Keil; Robert P. Hesketh

presented. Laboratory experiences to illustrate basicprinciples were an important part of the course. Although the first class was small (9students), student response was positive and two students are pursuing graduate degreesin engineering. One student is presently enrolled in a doctoral engineering program. Forstudents with a chemistry background, this type of experience provides a strongbeginning in a chemical engineering graduate program.Background: The Department of Chemistry and Physics had several students interested in aspecial topics course that would expose them to chemical engineering principles. Theyrequested that the College of Engineering consider developing such a course. TheCollege of Engineering considered this an