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Ali Abul-Fadl; Samuel Owusu-Ofori

Session 1566 Multidisciplinary Design of a Reporting System Utilizing Pager Technology Samuel Owusu-Ofori, Ali Abul-Fadl North Carolina A&T State UniversityAbstractThis is an industrial capstone design project involving the design of an electromechanicaltransfer system capable of winding and unwinding a material from one spool to another.The distance between the spools is provided. It is also specified that the material be underconstant tension during the operation; the linear speed of the material be user-controlledduring run time; and the system be able to

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were underrepresented in the engineering profession.At HACC we sought to accept females and minorities into the program. We were relatively successful with our student enrollments. The curriculum changedslightly over the five-year span of the program, but the project component and the Friday fieldtrips remained constants throughout. HACC intends to retool and reinstate the institute. Thefunding source changed during that time span, and we will need to revise the program prior tosoliciting new sources.Original Grant Faculty from the Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Division supported thecollege’s Office of Institutional Development in writing the original grant. The proposal was toprovide high school rising sophomores the

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Wayne Krause; Chenoa Jensen; CASEY ALLEN; Michael J Batchelder; Daniel F. Dolan

, and SAEFormula SAE are well established regional and national engineering competitions designed toencourage good project-based engineering education and designed to demonstrate thatengineering can be fun along with being challenging. They are designed to allow students tolearn elements of design, organization, planning, teamwork, manufacturing, and competition. Atthe South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, multidisciplinary teams are established forall of these competitions as well as for solar car competitions and formally supported through theCenter for Advanced Manufacturing and Production (CAMP). Team leaders are typicallychosen from students who are members of CAMP. The teams are comprised of students at allclass levels from

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graduates. Subsequently, the now famous list of 14 Competency Gaps wasdeveloped with broad-based industrial endorsement and support.4 The list included:Communication Skills, Teamwork, Manufacturing Principles, Reliability, Project Management,Manufacturing Processes, Business Skills, Quality and Standards, Change Management,Statistics and Probability, Ergonomics (Human Factors), and Materials. The gap definingworking groups also referred a category called Personal Attributes that included leadershipqualities, sensitivity to others, professionalism, integrity, global awareness, and a commitment tolifelong learning. The similarities to the ABET 2000 "a through k" criteria are obvious.5On the basis of a competitive proposal process, USU received one of

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Charles Forsberg

Session #2793 Use of Computers in Undergraduate HVAC Design Charles H. Forsberg Department of Engineering, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549AbstractA senior capstone design course in Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning (HVAC), withemphasis on the use of computers, has been given at Hofstra University for the past severalyears. After learning the fundamentals of psychrometrics and HVAC processes, students areassigned the task of designing an air conditioning system for a commercial or institutionalfacility. Past projects have included university buildings, retail stores, and

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are described, and are evaluated relative to the course objectives. Thesimulator selected is a personal computer aviation training device (PC-ATD), not a full motionsimulator. Students calculate the performance of a typical four place lightplane and then fly thesimulator through a series of flight profiles to compare theory with experiment. The simulator istreated as if the students were flight testing an actual aircraft. Performance measured includesstalling speed, maximum speed, and rate of climb versus velocity. The results obtained are goodenough to justify the use of an inexpensive simulator to provide an effective flight test program.The project has turned out to be highly motivational for the students, as well as a goodeducational

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design fromsome engineers who practiced in the 1700’s. Two of these engineers (artists, patriots, etc.),Charles Willson Peale and Thomas Paine, were bridge designers, and another, JohannChristopher Christensen designed and supervised construction of America’s first poweredwaterworks. Engineering student teams at Bucknell have studied these early designs and usedthem as a basis for senior design projects. Based upon their evaluation of the historic designs, theteams produced their own designs of replicas of the early works, and then they built and testedthem. Because of the relative simplicity of the 18th Century designs, students applied engineeringprinciples to them and saw new meaning in the fundamental concepts that they employed. Theyalso

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Arthur Gerstenfeld

Session 2793 Africa: A Focus on the Southern Cone Arthur Gerstenfeld, Ph.D. Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA 01609AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to discuss an innovative project, partly based on a recentlypassed law entitled "Africa Growth and Opportunity Act" and to show how this presentsopportunities for universities and for businesses. The first part of this paper discussessome of the background regarding U. S. and Africa. The second part of the paperdescribes a project starting in summer 2001 that we believe may impact many studentsand faculty at our university

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Shirley Fleischmann

of tools, machines, and components), and cultural literacy(knowledge of how to communicate and how to properly place a design into a socialframework). Design-based instruction includes aspects of all 5 steps in design and alsoincludes the supporting types of literacy for those steps. A planning matrix that enablesthe instructor to plan the mix and balance of design steps and types of literacy ispresented. This approach can also be used to clearly document how ABET 2000 criteriaare met in a given project or course presentation. Specific projects used by the author arepresented to illustrate the planning matrix and also the ABET 2000 documentation.IntroductionImagine having a major design project that is so popular that students enter

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Narayanan Komerath

Session 2526 Undergraduate Research Participation in the Experimental Aerodynamics Group Narayanan Komerath Professor, Aerospace Engineering Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstractIn the 1980s, the idea of faculty spending time to guide undergraduates in research projects wasstill considered to be rather risky in the traditions of the tenure track. This paper discusses thecrucial role played by undergraduates in the research programs of the ExperimentalAerodynamics Group at the School of

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Chih-Ping Yeh; Mulchand Rathod

Session 3547 Enhanced Electric Machines and Power Course Chih-Ping Yeh, Mulchand S. Rathod Wayne State UniversityAbstractThis paper presents our experiences in developing a NSF-funded CCLI project for enhancing the‘Electric Machines and Power’ course. The objective of this project is to provide a new structure tothe existing course to enhance student learning of electric machines. The project involves (1) improvingthe long existing rotating machine laboratory by adding modern power electronic drives and devisingreal time data acquisition for measurement and analysis

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Mohammad Naraghi; Bahman Litkouhi

. The question that every engineering program has to answer is “whichone of these languages is appropriate for a freshman engineering programming course?”In order to use the object-oriented capabilities of Java and C++ and develop aninteresting project, students have to go through a long period of instructions, which oftencannot be done in one semester. In fact, we may end up losing students. Retention ofengineering freshman is a critical issue in most engineering programs.Visual Basic (VB) is an attractive alternative to C++ or Java. VB, with its ControlObjects, makes computer programming a very interesting subject. In fact, it helps thestudents like programming. With a few weeks of instruction, students can developsophisticated programs with

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brainstorm during class. In a collaborative learning environment students and facultywork together to achieve the course learning objectives. In cooperative learning students workin teams on problems and projects that assure both positive interdependence and individualaccountability. Positive interdependence exists when students believe that they are linked withothers in a way that one cannot succeed unless the other members of the group succeed.Individual accountability requires the teacher ensure that the performance of each individualstudent is assessed and the results given back to the group and the individual2.At various stages of a student’s undergraduate career, she may experience group learning atdifferent levels. This paper explores three

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Kenny Fotouhi; Ali Eydgahi

Session 2149 Using a PLC Trainer To Control a Utility Cart Mohammad Fotouhi, Ali Eydgahi University of Maryland Eastern Shore Princess Anne, MD 21853AbstractThis paper describes the details of an undergraduate project in electrical engineeringtechnology program at UMES and experience gained by the student. The objective ofthis project was to incorporate the Allen Bradley commercial SLC 503 programmablelogic controller (PLC) trainer to control and steer a utility cart. The utility cart wasrequired to perform the maneuvering motions of going forward, going in

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practical “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”engineering modules, rather than long tedious set laboratories. Although there were someinevitable “teething problems”, the program was a considerable success. This program wasexpanded until now it is APSC100, Applied Science 100, and is offered to all first year students.These projects are a quite eclectic lot being developed across most of the departments in thefaculty. A typical project that was developed jointly between Chemical Engineering and theChemistry Department is described. This particular project deals with a novel modification tothe

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Thomas Mason; Arthur Western

engineer need intelligence, knowledge, courage, people skills,communication skills, and facility with uncertainty and risk. Rose-Hulman believes thatit has found a number of ways to provide experiences in applying these traits within anundergraduate engineering education.II Projects and Curricular Change at Rose-HulmanFrom the beginning, Rose-Hulman has recognized that realistic projects represent greatvehicles for weaving the complex combination of forces affecting innovation directly intothe learning process. In 1985 Rose-Hulman established, under the leadership of Dr. BrijKhorana, the Center for Applied Optics Studies (CAOS). The Center was the first formalindustrial outreach program at Rose-Hulman. It was established to complement the thennew

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at TennesseeTechnological University have strongly recommended the implementation of leadershipdevelopment education within the industrial engineering curriculum. After study in response totheir recommendations, a new one-credit elective course, IME 490 Engineering Leadership, wasdeveloped. Feedback from this course, from graduating senior exit interviews, and fromassessment of junior- and senior-level courses requiring team-based projects pointed to the needfor additional and earlier introduction of teamwork and leadership skill-building in thecurriculum. This paper describes a framework that has been used to design experiential learningprograms for developing teamwork and leadership skills in undergraduate industrial engineeringstudents at

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Miguel Perez; Ryan Wicker; Bill Diong

Session 3220 Tele-experimentation: The Emerging Approach to Science and Engineering Lab Education Bill Diong*, Miguel Perez** and Ryan Wicker** *Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering **Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering The University of Texas at El PasoAbstract A project has been initiated to enable students and researchers to conduct Science andEngineering (S&E) experiments via the Internet as an answer to the dual needs for improveddistance education in those fields as well

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Steven Hart; Ronald Welch

Session 2793 USMA Regionalized Drinking Water Treatment Facility Multidiscipline Capstone Ronald W. Welch, Steven D. Hart United States Military AcademyAbstractLast spring, 95 civil (CE) and environmental (EV) engineering majors in the ABET-accreditedCE and EV programs at the U.S. Military Academy (USMA) worked on a multidisciplinarycapstone project to design a regionalized drinking water treatment facility for West Point andsurrounding communities. This paper assesses the project through student comments andinstructor evaluations. The one-semester

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Raju Dandu; Doug Oliphant; David Delker

package. I was able toconvince the company that the gift was mutually beneficial for industry and our students. Second, Istressed the importance of faculty internships to update my technical currency in terms of knowledgebase, skills base, and teaching for transfer. The knowledge base includes information about real worldhands-on experience on state-of-the-art equipment, accurate information about projects,communication skills and social skills, ways to sequence the presentation of concepts to students andbring the best practices from industry to the classroom. Skills base involves effective teaching andspecific strategies such as role playing, hands-on learning, (which is part of the ET curriculum) andinformation about social skills with an

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Enno Koehn

understanding of various subject areas required by ABET has been enhanced bypart-time and summer work experiences. In particular, the findings suggest that bothundergraduate and graduate students believe that three areas have been greatly enhanced withengineering work. They include structural engineering, project management/scheduling andestimating, and team work. In addition, undergraduates also perceive that their understanding ofhealth and safety issues, and ethical considerations has also increased. In contrast, graduatestudents believe that their knowledge of hydraulics/hydrology/water resources, constructabilityand economic factors has been enhanced by work experiences.I. IntroductionThe American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) believes that

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theoretical foundation intelecommunications.The five technical courses in the BSTCET degree are designed to teach students about suchtopics as communication protocols, wide- and local-area networks, managing network resources,Internet-related concepts and development, and network security issues. These courses aresupported by numerous hands-on laboratory experiences. The four management courses providestudents with the principles necessary to manage people and projects. This paper discusses issuesconsidered during the development of the program, classroom and laboratory curricula, problemsconfronting the program today, and assessment.I. IntroductionTremendous growth in the telecommunications industry has inspired a similar growth ineducation

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Edward Lumsdaine

Session 1454 A Multidisciplinary Approach to Teaching Invention and Entrepreneuring Edward Lumsdaine Michigan Technological University (USA) and University of Nottingham (UK)AbstractThis paper describes the context, format, experiences, and outcome of three multidisciplinaryteam project-based pilot courses focused on teaching entrepreneurial skills and invention:1. ME 490 “Invention and Entrepreneuring,” co-taught by two professors (from engineering and business) at Michigan Tech for multidisciplinary students during fall quarter 1999.2. N1D041 “Creative Problem

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Priya Olden; Nikunja Swain; Maurice Robinson; James A. Anderson; James Parker; Cristal Caroll; Alan Seedarsan

Based VirtualEngineering Laboratory (CBVEL). The CBVEL consists of IBM compatible computers with softwareand hardware from National Instruments (NI), and is connected to School of Engineering Technologyand Sciences (SETS) network and existing equipment. This CBVEL can also be accessed from remotesites using Internet.This CBVEL is also used to conduct research activities related to a NASA funded project grant. This isa multi-year project involving space science related activities, and generally involves the use of agraphical programming language called Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench(LabVIEW) for instrumentation, data acquisition, and analysis. This visualization software allows oneto design, build, and test VI modules that

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Jeffrey Newcomer

Fluid Power course at WWU covers both an introduction to fluid mechanics and anintroduction to hydraulics and pneumatics. The course includes a team-based design project, ahy- Page 6.379.2 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education”draulics research paper, and laboratory exercises, as well as traditional homework and tests thatare found in most technical courses. The course meets numerous student learning objectives,which are summarized in Table 1.Table 1: Fluid Power Course Learning Objectives

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Mohamed. E. Brihoum; Ahmad Ibrahim

now referredto as; communication skills, team work, critical thinking, ethics, applied research, and provenskills. Such attributes are still considered important as demonstrated by more recent studies [3]and are taken into account in assessing quality of education [4]. These attributes are fundamentalto the “new” rules of the accreditation board for engineering and technology [5].The extent of these attributes is usually assessed through a successful completion of a technicalproject before graduation. The way is paved for the technical aspects of such project by the workdone in numerous laboratory courses where students perform experiments with progressivelevels of sophistication in both design and analysis. Instructors can form cross

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Michael Vislocky; Cecil Beeson

Session 2586 Let’s Build a College Level Technology Club Cecil E. Beeson, Dr. Michael Vislocky University of Cincinnati ClermontI. Introduction This paper covers the history of and planning for the formation a Technology Club at the University of Cincinnati Clermont. The idea for such a project was hatched during discussions about existing high technology programs at the college. A club to eventually serve technological inquiry and experimentation across the various curricula was a natural extension of offerings at the college. This project, currently in an early stage of

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Ronald Adrezin; Michael Nowak; Donald Leone

advisor, each student sought a laboratory in his/her area ofinterest. The research is structured as two course equivalents (100 hours each). “BiomedicalEngineering Capstone Research I” was designed to immerse the student in a wide range oflaboratory functions. “Biomedical Engineering Capstone Research II” is designed to give thestudent in-depth experience by functioning as an engineer on a project, either ongoing in thelaboratory or being developed.Grading of each course is via written and oral reports, as well as laboratory supervisor input.The first course requires the writing of a report on the experience, while the second requires aformal research paper in the style of journal articles.The experience from these courses has been excellent for

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student progress in activities that do not require a quantitativeresult. The student response has been very positive as demonstrated by a 50% improvement inclass attendance. The objectives of improved communication, problem solving, and teamingskills in addition to the acquisition of a background in BME applications have been successfullyachieved as with projects, papers, and presentations.This approach to learning has provided additional benefits for the supervision of graduatestudents and for research planning. Although initially challenging, the benefits to cost ratio is sohigh that the described method is planned for incorporation in all courses in an BME curriculum.I. IntroductionThis paper introduces the benefits of curriculum design using

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fromABET 2000 that are integrated into the course design. This paper provides a sample syllabus forthe course as well as a suggested project to be assigned to each multidisciplinary team.I. IntroductionWith emerging international implications for global industrial ecology, the need for the inclusionof sustainable design principles into the engineering and technology curriculum cannot be denied.According to Richards and Frosch, industrial ecology has become jargon for describing systems ofproduction and consumption networks that have minimal impact on the environment as theprimary objective and environmentally sustainable economic expansion as an overarchingobjective.1 Green topics that will become part of many future professions include issues of