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Andre Clavet; Francois Michaud

behavior patterns. Thepedagogical objective is to get students involved in a project that has technologicalconsiderations and social impacts. Such an opened and multidisciplinary design project requirescareful preparation and the implication of students, faculty and experts. This presentation aim atdescribing the organization of the RoboToy Contest, to get other universities interested in suchrich and fruitful initiative for all.I. IntroductionIf we want engineering students to learn how to be good engineers, we must put them as close aspossible to real challenges similar to the ones they will have to face during their career. At theUniversité de Sherbrooke, in addition to the co-op training program, we are dedicated to makestudents work on

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theseskills.Problem solving heuristics originally used in an introductory computer science course wereadapted to teach problem solving skills to beginning engineering students. The introductoryEngineering Design and Graphics course (ED&G 100) at Penn State - Berks Campus exposesstudents to conventional drafting techniques, computer graphics and engineering design. Thetypical class consists of mostly first-year and some second year students with a wide range ofskills and experience.During the fall 2000 semester, a section of ED&G 100 with 17 students taught by the first authorincluded writing and problem solving exercises integrated into the curriculum. The majorassignment in this course is a group design project in which students apply skills

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Narayanan Komerath

such a project soundsambitious for the freshman year, there are several reasons why it has become a successfulexperiment, with implications for the rest of the curriculum. Past ASEE papers described thebasic concept of the Design-Centered Introduction course1 and summarized teaching approachestaken by three different instructors in subsequent versions of the course2. In this paper, theconcept of the Design-centered Introduction (DCI) is first summarized. The issues of learning byiteration are then examined. The two ideas are then related to each other. Page 6.333.1Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering

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Lynn Mayo; Eric Hansberry

, the field has grown steadily with theindustrialization of society. Major mechanical drawing methods include detail and assemblydrawings. Methods of pictorial representation include orthographic, axonometric and obliquedrawing with associated details, sections and developments. In a maritime project, a mechanicalengineer would design and solve problems relating to ship propulsion, (engines) piping,ventilation, winches, cranes, elevators and many other mechanical based designs.Electrical and electronic graphics represent the largest of engineering disciplines, surpassing allothers in the 1970s. This is the newest form or dialect of engineering graphics with most of itsgrowth occurring in the twentieth century. Electrical and electronic graphics

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Rachel Murdell; Piper James; Gary Kinzel; Blaine Lilly; Anthony Luscher

the issues associated with conducting and managing a large design project.In addition, design is now commonly considered to be a topic that permeates all of mechanicalengineering. Therefore, in a capstone design project, the topics may just as easily involve thethermal sciences as the mechanical sciences. Because of this, a larger percentage of a given facultyare likely to teach the capstone design course than any other course. Because of the variation in thetypes of faculty who might be teaching the capstone design course, it is important to have clearguidelines on the details of the topics that need to be taught.To help faculty who might be teaching the capstone design course for the first time and to provideuniform coverage of the

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Mark Rajai; Mel Mendelson

Session 2793 Inter-University Team Collaboration to Design and Market a New Product Mark Rajai, Mel Mendelson East Tennessee State University/Loyola Marymount UniversityAbstractThis paper presents a joint effort between engineering students from East Tennessee StateUniversity and business students from Loyola Marymount University to design and market asophisticated global monitoring system to monitor location of children, Alzheimer patients andother valuable items. This project was funded by grant from NCIIA and was part of a two-capstone courses developed to introduce engineering students and business

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James Garner; David Metz; Willie Ofosu

Page 6.671.1correct diagnosis. This paper discusses a laboratory experiment used to supplement aProceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education.This project was sponsored by the Minority Office and SETCE of Penn State University.lecture on extracting useful information from a pulse amplitude modulated signal. Thisexercise was used in a telecommunications technology class.Applications of Pulse Modulation TechniquesBoth analog and digital signals can be transmitted over long distances. In transmittinganalog signal over a long distance, amplifiers are used at intermediary points. Theamplifiers amplify the signal as well as the noise

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student version of the softwareincludes a schematic editor and design entry, waveform editor for design entry, AlteraHardware Description Language design (AHDL) Entry, and the industry standard VHDL(VHSIC (Very High Speed Integrated Circuits) Hardware Description Language) designentry. Thus this system can be used to teach all of the major design techniques used inmodern digital circuit design. The hardware portion of the development system includes anin-circuit programmable Altera CPLD on a printed circuit board (PCB) with adequatespace on the breadboard area for students to development their own projects. Theprogramming is done using a standard PC parallel port; thus there is no need for anyadditional programming hardware. Also mounted on the

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Devin Shunk; William Duff

of thestructure of the course, as it was to be taught in the Internet version, such as the projects, quizzes,homework and exams, were established a year ahead and their essential characteristics werecarried into the Internet version. As a result, a number of specific comparisons may be crediblymade between the traditionally taught course and the Internet taught course. This paper presentsthese comparative analyses and the related statistics for student performance.Some of the features of this course that were made practical by its Internet structure include • both quizzes and homework designed so that they can be taken on the Internet, automatically graded and feedback provided immediately to the student • a number of

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Spencer Brinkerhoff; III, Walter Hopkins; David Hartman

-oriented design projects are assigned each semester. Each project emphasizesa different engineering discipline and relies on the students’ creative abilities rather than upontheir limited technical abilities. In the usual semester the three projects assigned could be: Page 6.511.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education 1. Build a paper bridge that spans a minimum of thirty inches while maximizing strength and minimizing cost. The student teams are provided a kit of bridge building

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simulation throughout the curriculum so that when startingsenior design, they have a good understanding of the benefits, limitations, and generalfunctionality of the process simulator. In practice, most students arrive in their senior designclasses without knowing how to use a simulator to help solve open-ended problems. In general,their experience has been with small, well-defined problems. To help alleviate this problem, ashort-term design project has been developed to teach the basics of process simulation within thecontext of analyzing an existing plant and suggesting process improvements. Specific goals ofthis project include (1) learn how to simulate a wide variety of unit operations, (2) learn benefitsand limitations of different

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Eugene Ressler; Steven Schweitzer; Stephen Ressler

contribution to the development of the nation’s infrastructure.According to Grayson, “Of the engineering graduates engaged in public works before 1840, asizable fraction were West Point graduates, and at least 30 percent of them served as chiefengineers of important projects on railways, canals, docks, wharves, roads, and other non-military activities.” 1Today USMA is preparing to celebrate the 200th anniversary of its founding. As part of thecelebration, the Academy will commemorate its proud engineering heritage by conducting anationwide engineering design contest for K-12 students.The idea for the design contest originated with the Bicentennial Steering Group, a strategicplanning committee charged with organizing the entire West Point Bicentennial

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Tony Brune; Elaine Chapman-Moore; Dave Wiese; Hulas King

GM’s Information Officer – Develop Product, and the General MotorsUniversity President. This council sets PACE’s strategic direction, reviews PACEaccomplishments, and assures adherence of the program to its mission.One of the representatives on this council provides a link to GM’s Global EngineeringLeadership Council, assuring that PACE expands globally to match the needs of GM’sbusiness.The PACE Steering Committee consists of representatives from all four companies as wellas PACE institutions. The Steering Committee makes recommendations on strategy,decisions concerning prioritization of deployment of the project, and determinations on allmanner of PACE business. The Steering Committee also forms the basis of the SelectionCommittee that

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Raghu Echempati

forming scenarios.Initial feedback of the students taking these two classes supports this idea. This new proposal is stillin its discussion stage and the resulting outcomes of such integration if any, will be presented in afuture conference. This paper outlines the integration of some of the real forming technology in tothe virtual forming course. In addition, the evaluation and assessment tools developed for thiscourse will be addressed. Also, the results of some of the undergraduate/graduate student appliedresearch projects will be presented in more detail at the meeting, and the role of tool-based learningdiscussed. Due to the large size of the simulated computer graphics files, the detailed results willonly be presented at the conference

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Anna Shiver; Elaine M. Cooney

Session 2526 Remote Control of a Robot Using LabVIEW and the World Wide Web Elaine Cooney, Anna Shiver Electrical Engineering Technology, Indiana University Purdue University IndianapolisIntroductionThis paper describes a prototype system to control a robot via the World Wide Web. The user isable to move the robot and view the results through a video camera. National Instruments’LabVIEW software is used to program the system.There are two major goals of this project. The first is to replace DOS based robot controllerswith modern

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Engineering at theUniversity of Pretoria over the period 1998 to 2000. The experiment was conducted bymeans of a new course called Technological Innovation. The motivation for the teachingmodel used in the course is founded on research done earlier in the same department on thedeterminants of creative design in Electronic Engineering students1,2. The earlier researchdemonstrated the correlation between the students' own perception of their extrovertivenessand their ability to come up with innovative product ideas. The methodology used in the firstyear course which is the topic of this paper focused on group projects, the use of the NeddHerrmann four quadrant brain model and the various mindsets of the creative problem solvingheuristic of Lumsdaine3

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over several decades due to universities not giving adequate emphasis and workloadcredit for developing and teaching labs. The senior level mechanical engineering laboratorycurriculum at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) has been totally redesigned. Thenew curriculum is a two-hour senior level course (one-hour lecture plus a three-hour laboratoryweekly) that includes both mechanical and thermal laboratory systems along with a five-weekstudent design project. The one-hour lecture component of the course teaches modernengineering experimentation concepts required to design, collect, analyze, and interpretexperimental results. The three-hour laboratory includes experiments related to refrigeration,heat exchangers, thermal conduction

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Wayne LePori; Scott Osborn; Marty Matlock; Cady Engler

curriculafor Biological Systems Engineering and Agricultural Engineering at Texas A&M University,linking freshman and sophomore engineering science courses to junior and senior-level coursesthrough common design concepts and projects. Students work in small groups to design andconduct experiments over the course of the semester. Students are introduced to thesetechniques through hands-on investigation of engineering concepts, involving processes assimple as wiring of motors, assembling and testing pumping arrays, and measuringpotentiometric gradients, to processes as complex as designing and programming analog anddigital systems. Students communicate the results of their work in weekly laboratory reports. Afaculty member with expertise in that

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Salman Talahmeh; Lisa Anneberg; Ece Yaprak

code are similar to HTML:a. Identify and start the scripting language: For server: For client: d. For client scripts, use Examples are derived in class, run on the laptop, and shown using an overhead projector. Students can see thedevelopment of programs, and the architecture becomes manageable. The students are encouraged to run the manyexamples, modify them, and extend them.The following sets of examples are easily derived on the projected laptop, and executed so students may observehow ASP works.1. HELLO WORLD EXAMPLE using server VB ScriptThis example displays the header “Exciting World of ASP Development!”, displays the time of display, and displaysseven lines of “Hello world!” in each line.Hello World, Active Server Page

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with highschool students. Each high school is assigned a team consisting of two or three Ford engineers, one ortwo high school teachers, one or two UDM faculty members, a UDM engineering student, and a UDMadmissions staff member. The teams are charged with developing their own activities depending onstudent needs, interests, and team member expertise. Some of the more novel activities are described,including the founding of a junior National Society for Black Engineers chapter, small-scale experimentsin UDM engineering laboratories, and participation in a public water-sampling project. The schoolsrepresent a diverse mix, enabling communication among communities normally isolated from oneanother. The high schools include public and private

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Michael Ropp; Steven Hietpas

of 2000 and is scheduled forcompletion in December of 2001. This paper discusses the EMEC course redesign, including theapproach adopted, logistical challenges, and results to date. Page 6.572.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationThe paper is divided into six sections. An overview of the redesign of the EMEC course isprovided in section II. Section III discusses the proposed EMEC course outline for phase 1 of the2-year project. It begins with a statement of the primary objective of the

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Rhonda Lee; Vincent R. Capece; John Baker

for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education”paper. However, student feedback from all assignments indicated that sufficient detailwas provided so that the ANSYS usage portions of the assignments did not overwhelm orfrustrate them.The ANSYS work included in the courses outlined below represents an initial attempt atthe University of Kentucky Extended Campus Program to better utilize ANSYS as alearning tool. The experience seemed to indicate an educational value to theassignments, based on student feedback and classroom discussions. The plan for futurecourses is to build on this work, and seek more open-ended design-type ANSYS projects,possibly making

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Nicholas Massa; Gordon Snyder; Fenna Hanes; James Masi; Gary Mullett

. develop relevant curricula and materials to support advanced technical education of the current and future workforce of telecommunications-related industries; 3. become a location for internships with industry, in order to "earn while you learn", and to develop a center for idea gestation for industry and government related projects; 4. explore and promote best educational methods and tools for delivering world class technical education and related math and science disciplines in cost-effective ways to Page 6.112.1 diverse populations of learners to ensure national workforce development; and Proceedings

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Phillip McReynolds; Andras Gordon; Andrew Lau; Richard Devon

Session 2525 Transformations: Ethics and Design Richard Devon, Andrew Lau, Philip McReynolds, and Andras Gordon Engineering Design & Graphics, Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractThis paper will focus on an ethics curriculum that has been developed for design projects. Therationale behind it is discussed and some preliminary feedback from students is reviewed. Thecurriculum for the design projects is distinctive in several fundamental ways. These departuresfrom more traditional views of “engineering ethics” were not come by easily and they have takenmany years to develop. 1) We view all design

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, and engineering students as a mechanism for informal mentoring Beginning in June 2000, the project directors piloted two academically focused summerday camps for talented, minority children from the Central South neighborhood. One camp(Mercer MESSAGE) focuses on science and math skills and is offered to rising fifth and sixthgrade girls. MESSAGE is an acronym for Math, Engineering, and Science Summer All GirlExperience. Linda Hensel and Hope McIlwain co-directed Mercer MESSAGE. The other camp(Mercer TECH) focuses on engineering and technology skills and is offered to rising sixth andseventh grade boys and girls as well as some of their teachers. TECH is an acronym for TeachersEducating with Computers and Hands-on Lessons. Joan

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Sunday Faseyitan; Robert Myers; Pearley Cunningham; David Huggins; Winston F. Erevelles

, and technology thereby challenging the educational system that needs to bein place to prepare the regional workforce.At a time when manufacturers cannot recruit a sufficient number of skilled workers, there is asegment of the region's workforce that is under-employed and often working in the service andretail sectors for much lower wages. The projected retirement attrition rate of 5% per year in themanufacturing sector further exacerbates this situation. This disconnect in the deployment of theregional workforce is the impetus for five Southwestern Pennsylvania participating educationalinstitutions to recruit and educate the kind of workforce demanded by the region's manufacturers

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students) distributed to all the high schools withinformation about the department should be part of an outreach program to reach these students.Phone committees from within the department with enthusiastic, positive attitudes could beformed to respond to inquiries received via the postcards or high school visits. Additional outreach activities could include invitations to the students, their parents, andteachers to tour the department and possibly participate in projects, competitions, or activitiesrelevant to ET careers. This “tour” could include participation in a testing procedure leading toscholarships or awards for the top 3 finishers, for example, textbooks purchased for the year orsoftware packages such as TK Solver. By scheduling

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Thomas Edgar; John Wood; John Fowler; Hong Xiao; Fabian Lopez; Dave Hata; Bassam Matar

Mexico (UNM), Albuquerque TechnicalVocational Institute (TVI), Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD; includesGlendale CC (GCC) and Pima CC), Austin Community College (ACC), Arizona StateUniversity (ASU), and the University of Texas at Austin (UTA). The project also utilizesconsultants and an industrial advisory board. It is noted that each of the three communitycolleges has a somewhat standardized Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology (SMT)Associates Degree program, although they have different sets of pre-requisites. The computer-based curriculum modules cover basic semiconductor unit processes (e.g.,lithography, metalization, etch and oxidation) and their associated facility demands, statisticalprocess control and design-of

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, andelectronic mail (see Section IV). With the cooperation of the IOR, the DLI may also beresponsible for generating homework, project, and other assignments. The number of DLIsrequired depends on the desired section size which, in turn, depends on the amount of interactionand time commitment for a DLI. For classes that are largely discussion based, small section Page 6.484.4sizes would be desirable. For our course, we originally decided to have up to 35 students in eachProceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationof two sections, each led

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brainstorming sessions. It is easy to teach, learn and use.This new methodology has been taught using hands-on activities that include more than 250different 3-D mechanical puzzles, many games, brain-teasers, LEGO® Mindstormscompetitions, and design projects, each of which illustrates principles and strategies in inventiveproblem solving. These activities allow for self-paced, semi-guided exploration that improvesself-esteem and encourages questioning and daring. The Eight-dimensional methodology hasbeen recently evaluated with encouraging results. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education* This work