Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sudhir Mehta

Mechanical Engineering (ME) curriculumat North Dakota State University, like in many ME curriculums at other universities. It consistsof two 50-minute recitations and one two-hour laboratory. Typically, the course contains erroranalysis, different types of sensors, signal conditioning, and computerized data acquisitionsystems.A PBL module for the temperature measurement unit was introduced using a real-world problemof instrumenting some parts of a power plant (please see Appendix). In this exercise, students,working in small groups, identified what they needed to know (learning issues) to solve thisproblem. The instructor’s role during this exercise was that of a facilitator, pointing students inthe right direction mainly by asking questions (as in

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hazel Pierson; Daniel Suchora

the freshman year.First semester engineering freshmen at Youngstown State take a three semester hour coursewhich is taught with two lecture hours and three laboratory hours per week. One of the activitiesthese students complete is a model rocket project. Teams of up to five students investigate theproblem of predicting the height a model rocket can obtain and compare this prediction with theactual height achieved by a model rocket launched by the group. Page 7.54.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Williams; Robert Doty

are discussed. Finally,results of an alumni assessment survey are presented. The goal of the practice-based seniordesign experience at Baylor University is to produce engineering graduates who have the self-confidence and practical knowledge necessary to become immediately productive in today’sproject-oriented workplace. Interpretation of these assessment results supports the conclusionthat this goal has been met.I. IntroductionEngineering design is integrated throughout the curriculum at Baylor University, and meaningfuldesign work is required of students in many courses beginning with the introductory freshmancourse and progressing through the senior electives and laboratories. However, EGR 4390Engineering Design II is the capstone design

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Tragesser; Gregory Agnes

Session 2793 SIMSAT: A Ground-based Platform for Demonstrating Satellite Attitude Dynamics and Control S. G. Tragesser and G. S. Agnes Air Force Institute of Technology Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7765 J. Fulton U.S. Air Force Academy Colorado Springs, CO 80841AbstractA laboratory platform capable of demonstrating the attitude dynamics of an orbiting satellite wasdeveloped at the Air Force Institute of Technology

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconected World

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrzej Filipkowski; Krzysztof Zaremba

, the engineering education was delayed as compared to the Western Europeancountries. Many elements of education had to be changed with a view to preparing ourengineers for entering the European labor market: · curricula · laboratories · teaching and learning system · industrial training · foreign language teaching · attitude open to international orientationIt was a great advantage that education decision makers had become well aware of what wasgoing on in the world and could try to introduce the most desirable changes.Let me discuss the above mentioned elements of engineering education one by one.Curricula. In this respect the situation was not so bad. Polish universities of technology wereresistant enough during these

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Emin Yilmaz

cylinders on an internal combustion engine.Basic sensor assembly was completed as a laboratory requirement for the course. The sensorassembly consists of an optical encoder, a sensor holder frame and a handle. A pulley is attachedto the shaft of the encoder. An O-ring is fitted over the groove of the pulley. When pressedagainst it, the pulley can ride on crankshaft belt of an idling internal combustion engine. Pulsesgenerated by the encoder are acquired and stored in a file using National Instruments 1 PCI 6023Edata acquision board and National Instruments LabVIEW data acquisition software. Stored datais processed using LabVIEW software and results are displayed. Variation of frequency of thesignal is proportional to the belt speed. Belt speed is

Conference Session

Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Klawunder; Blace Albert; Ozer Arnas

©2002, American Society for Engineering Educationenvironment with multiple demonstrations, physical models, and laboratories. This paperpresents a detailed discussion of how this thermal science course was developed at USMA.The West Point Environment The United States Military Academy (USMA), located in West Point, New York, is oneof the premier commissioning sources of officers in the US Army. The Military Academyadmits about 1,300 students each year from over 10,000 applicants. Each applicant’s file isscreened for academic, athletic and extracurricular achievement. Furthermore, each candidatemust pass a physical fitness test and examination. Finally they must receive a nomination fromone of their state’s congressmen prior to admission

Conference Session

Graphics Applications in ME

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Wilk

or oralcommunication across the curriculum5,6,7. This latter approach was recommended forcommunication skills as well as for the other contextual and process abilities 1. Regardless of themethod, it is believed that development of effective communication skills in students requiresthat they exercise these skills frequently and receive constructive feedback.In the mid 1990’s a major effort was taken to redesign the undergraduate mechanical engineeringcurriculum at Union College. A mission statement was developed along with program objectivesand specified student outcomes. In the fall of 1996 a significantly new curriculum wasintroduced. This curriculum maintains a strong emphasis on fundamentals and is reinforced bysignificant laboratory

Conference Session

Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Shawn Addington

fromVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Dr. Addington teaches courses and associated laboratories inelectronics and microelectronics, and is active in the area of engineering assessment. He is a member of ASEE,IEEE, and IMAPS, and also serves as faculty advisor to the student chapter of Eta Kappa Nu.ROBERT A. JOHNSON is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Virginia Military Institute.He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, a M.S. in Systems Engineering and a PhD. in Electrical Engineeringfrom Clemson University. Dr. Johnson has taught in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering atVMI for eighteen years, teaching courses in digital signal processing, digital logic circuit design

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Ramers

molding and metal casting, and deep drawing. After studying their selected processes, thestudents had to figure out how to provide the forces, heat, fluids, motion, geometry, etc. to thematerials they chose for objects used to demonstrate their processes.One student modified a polishing wheel in the Materials Laboratory to provide centrifugal forcesand designed and built the means to hold the mold to the wheel shaft to demonstrate vertical spincasting. Using a vacuum former as a model, a group of students built their own pressure formingsystem. Another group used silicon rubber to make molds to cast small parts of materials withmelting temperatures under 400oF. They designed and built molds with sprues and runners,machined patterns or used common

Conference Session

Programming and DSP Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Delores Etter; Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

-Madison, WI Abstract Many digital signal processing (DSP) topics are difficult for undergraduates to internalize, but studies have shown that demonstrations and laboratory experiences can facilitate the process. In the past, many barriers prevented including real-time DSP hardware in an undergraduate curriculum. This paper describes a pedagogical model the authors have developed which includes theory, demos, lab exercises, and real- time DSP experience using Matlab, C, and real-time DSP hardware that overcomes the barriers. This model has been very successful.1 IntroductionA common complaint heard from electrical engineering (EE) undergraduates

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachel Shinn

, vibration, mass properties, communications,sensor testing and propulsion (among others), generally require elaborate and expensiveequipment. Such equipment is generally outside of the budgetary range of an undergraduateuniversity. Using modest resources, the instructor must develop experiments that streamline thesetests for illustration purposes, and simplify the tests to illustrate key principles.This paper covers the experiments we have found helpful in meeting these goals and compareswhat we have done in our space lab to what has been done in other undergraduate aerospaceprograms.I. IntroductionThe US Naval Academy1, Virginia Tech2 and the US Air Force Academy3 have all implementedsome form of space laboratory experience for their undergraduate

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza S. Abhari; Friederike Mund; Anestis I. Kalfas

Session 1625 Integration of Software Tools into a Multi-disciplinary Undergraduate Student Design Project Friederike C. Mund, Anestis I. Kalfas, Reza S. Abhari Turbomachinery Laboratory Institute of Energy Technology Swiss Federal Institute of Technology 8092 Zurich, SwitzerlandAbstract This paper presents a pilot scheme for the integration of modern state-of-the-artturbomachinery design tools into project-based education of undergraduate students. This efforthas been part of a

Conference Session

Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rainer Jonas; Peter Winter; Peter Eichelmann; Paul King; Jeannie Scriven; Hunter Lauten; Hans-Jorg Jacobsen; Claudia Berger; Bernhard Huchzermeyer; Angelika Appenzeller; Jerry Collins; Todd Giorgio; Jean Alley

Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”the U.S. and Canada can hold exchange research fellowships and clerkships. VaNTH institutionsare among those who have hosted BMEP scholars. CDG has also facilitated the GBFinternational exchange programs for biotechnology students from less developed countries formany years.History and Purposes of the Partnership. In 1998 a trade mission from Niedersachsen visitedNashville and Vanderbilt. Discussions about a student exchange program were initiated. In May2000 Dr. Peter Winter of CDG visited Vanderbilt and plans for a student exchange program weremade more definite. On a visit to Niedersachsen in March 2001, Dr. Jerry Collins of Vanderbiltand VaNTH visited several laboratories and offices

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assurance in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Creese

course meets for five weeks and represents one class period of four hoursand one hour of work outside class each week. Typically the professor lectures for one hour,has a break, then lectures with illustrative problems or laboratory exercises, and then gives thestudents an assignment. The students work as a team in their office on the problems and theinstructor goes to the student’s office to check on their progress and clear up any difficulties.Students may visit the professor after class if they still have difficulties, but it important to notethat the professor goes to the student’s office to provide help. The classes typically have 25-35students, with a maximum of 40 students and 4-6 teams. A few large classrooms are used for

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Graphics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Alain Desrochers

principles follows rather than precedes its use in tutorials.Apprenticeship of CAD software in engineering curriculaLearning CAD software in engineering curricula is usually not and end in itself. Indeed, CADsoftware apprenticeship alone is generally not being recognized as “units” by engineeringaccreditation boards in North America, unless it is coupled as laboratory to more traditionalformal courses on CAD theory and principles. Also, the definition of units and the manyobjectives of CAD courses make it such that a limited number our hours can effectively bedevoted to CAD software apprenticeship. At the same time, CAD systems have become anessential tool for creating digital products, a now common input source for an increasing numberof

Conference Session

Balancing Personal and Professional Life

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vladimir Goncharoff; Patrick Troy; John Bell; Dale Reed; Cathleen Theys; Ann Ford; Susan Montgomery

neverhappened. While at UM I initially taught a variety of chemical engineering courses, includingsenior plant design, reactor design, and unit operations laboratories. Later I taught college-levelcomputing courses including introductory freshman computing and graduate courses in scientificvisualization and virtual reality programming. I also conducted research, in conjunction withH. Scott Fogler, into the use and development of virtual reality for chemical engineeringeducation. This research was conducted with undergraduate student programmers, and produceda number of virtual-reality based educational modules. Papers were written predominantly forASEE and AIChE annual conferences[1-3], plus a few journal articles[4-6

Conference Session

Assessment in Large and Small Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Knox

. It also did a laboratory survey, asking students for feedbackon the quality of all the teaching laboratories. And it also did its own survey of recent graduatesof the program, as the college-level survey was not particularly useful at the department level. Ithad done such surveys previously as well, but never in a systematic or organized way.Eventually, a realization was reached that much of the information from the various surveys wasnot news. Seldom, if ever, is anything pointed out that was previously unknown. The strength offeeling about issues, their relative importance, is what one learns from a survey. But thereremained a need to generate a list of assessment tools. So a list was made of all the methods bywhich the program gets

Conference Session

Grad. and Upper Level Undergrad. BME Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Magin; Christopher Comer; J Hetling

Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education3. Leveraging and expanding upon existing laboratory resources to provide hands-on technical training.The Neural Engineering curriculum at UIC has both undergraduate and graduate course tracks.While Biological Sciences undergraduate students may elect to take a concentration of courses inNeural Engineering, and several Biological Sciences students currently enroll in NeuralEngineering courses, there is no recognized Neural Engineering minor for those students at thistime (the process has begun to establish this cross-college minor as part of a larger initiative

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Goodwine; Steven Skaar; Robert Nelson; Mihir Sen; James Mason; Stephen Batill

systems. These experiences will better prepare students for the continuedproliferation of sensing, actuation and control technologies resulting in what are often referred toas intelligent mechanical systems. The primary elements of this curriculum development activityare supporting faculty development and interest, developing infrastructure and facilities, andcollaborating with industry in order to integrate elements of intelligent, embedded computingsystems across the curriculum. This involves striking a balance between fundamental concepts,algorithm development, hardware, and applications; and this is accomplished by threading theseconcepts throughout the curriculum. A new facility, the Intelligent Systems and AutomationLearning Laboratory

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Kauser Jahan; Paris von Lockette; Linda Head

Engineering havecommon engineering clinic classes throughout their programs of study, in which undergraduateswork in teams on hands-on open-ended projects. The primary goal of Rowan University'sengineering clinic classes is to involve students in multidisciplinary design/research projects thatteach engineering principles in both laboratory and real-world settings. The clinics furtherencourage students to address environmentally conscious design and issues related to sustainabledevelopment. The Sophomore Clinic students work on a semester -long design project everyyear. Faculty drawn from all engineering disciplines teach the course. The design project forFall of 2001 was to design, build and test a semi-autonomous robot that uses power provided

Conference Session

Unique Lab Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Voon; F.C. Lai; Chean Chin Ngo

, the availability of internet and the advancement in the multimediatechnology have provided tremendous opportunities for educators to revolutionize the teaching-learning enterprise and to improve the quality of engineering education. However, most of theweb-based courseware or online classes are mainly devoted to lecture-type courses. Web-basedcourseware for laboratories is still limited and apparently deserves more attention.Web-based lab courseware offers many additional advantages over regular courseware. First, itprovides an easy access for students to preview/review the course materials. Particularly, afterpreview the lab assignment with demonstration through the web, students will be able to conducttheir experiment more efficiently and

Conference Session

Real-World Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Attila Yaprak; Ece Yaprak; Mulchand Rathod

received her Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Wayne State University in 1989.Prior to joining WSU’s Division of Engineering Technology in 1993, she taught at Western MichiganUniversity, and held technical positions at General Electric, Ford Motor Company, NASA (Lewis, JetPropulsion Laboratory, and Ames Research Center) and Navy (SPAWAR). Her areas of interest includecomputer networks and communications where she has published a number of papers. She has receivedexcellence in teaching awards from ET Division and the College of Engineering. She has received fundingfrom NSF and other organizations for her scholarly work.Attila Yaprak: Attila Yaprak, Ph.D. is a Professor of Marketing and International Business at Wayne StateUniversity. He is a

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Massood Atashbar

and control. This is notsimply a recent phenomenon; it has been true for years.The SolutionAt WMU a new course entitled Engineering of Real Time Systems has been introduced in whichwe conduct high-level software engineering projects as applied to data acquisition,communications and control systems. This course is a standard three-credit offering with noofficial laboratory component. However, as is often the case in engineering courses, there is aconsiderable amount of outside work writing programs and working with instrumentation by thestudents in an open laboratory environment. In general we found that not only did the studentsdo very well, but they genuinely liked the course, the material and the way in which it wasconducted. This is

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Duff

adverse student reaction toward structuring the course too muchtoward Internet content was also evident in other ASEE 2001 Internet course content papers. As aresult, the course has been further modified in the recent semesters to re-establish more traditionalinstructor-student classroom activities. Teaching assistant led computer laboratories and help sessionshave been added. In the current semester live lecture and group participation activities have beenreintroduced.This paper builds on the previous paper by presenting additional statistical comparisons from the currentmore balanced approach course and by discussing some of the changed approaches to teaching thecourse.II. Group PresentationsThe class was divided into groups of four to five

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kendrick Aung

withthese tools in their studies. This paper describes the integration of computational tools in anEngineering Thermodynamics course at Lamar University in order to emphasize the design andanalysis phases of the curriculum. The computational tools employed for the course includeCyclePad, a virtual laboratory software for analyzing thermodynamic power and refrigerationcycles, PsyCalc, a psychrometric calculator to determine the properties of air-vapor mixtures,and Gaseq, a chemical equilibrium program to solve equilibrium properties of gases involvingchemical reaction. The reactions of students to the use of these computational tools in theircoursework have been very positive. The main benefits for the students are improvedunderstanding and insight

Conference Session

Educational Trends in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Mickelson

experience the probability that a student or graduate would have, on average,to actually take those key actions in seven settings: the engineering workplace, the cooperativeeducation/internship workplace, the traditional classroom, the laboratory, the capstone designcourse, professional-related extracurricular activity and non-profession related extra curricularactivities. Examples of these results are illustrated for two ISU Competencies in Figures 5-6.Figure 5. The opportunity to develop and demonstrate analysis & judgmentFigure 6. The opportunity to develop and demonstrate communication Page 7.1292.6“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for

Conference Session

Innovative Lab and Hands-on Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Dollar; Paul Steif

student is told to maintain the orientation ofhis or her end of the shaft. A fifth student approaches and cuts one of the shafts somewhere alongits length. The two parts of the cut shaft is seen to untwist, suggesting that previously there was“something” acting across the cut surface. The fifth student returns and, while the four studentsare maintaining the original orientation of their ends of the shaft, applies torques to theneighboring ends of the cut segments, bringing them to the same orientation. The fifth student isseen to be functioning as the internal torque.2b.Relating applied loads and internal loads:These laboratory activities are aimed at getting students to see that applied loads and internalloads are distinct, but can be related

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Naseem Ishaq; Salahuddin Qazi

fTechnology, has introduced a number of software packages to prepare the students forthe changing industrial environment. Some of these packages are reviewed below:LABVIEW 3 of National Instruments was first implemented in 1986 by providing agraphical tool for measurements tasks in the area of laboratory automation. It containsan extensive library of functions, libraries for data acquisition, data presentation anddata storage. Its four basic operations include virtual instruments, front panels, bl ockdiagrams and icon and connectors.SIMULINK of MathWorks 4 Inc., provides a graphical block diagram simulationenvironment for modeling, simulating, and analyzing dynamic systems. It can be usedto build graphical block diagrams, evaluate system performance

Conference Session

Freshman Curriculum Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gardner; Harold Ackler; Anthony Paris; Amy Moll

; Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering EducationComputer assignments were chosen to tie closely to laboratory experiences. In one case,the students discharged a battery through a known resistance, monitoring the voltage overtime. In the computer lab, the students used spreadsheets to graph the voltage over time,computer the power, then integrate the power with respect to time using simplealgorithms. In another, the students use simple algorithms to numerically solvedifferential equations that describe the heating of water over a camp stove.Assessing the Course: Student FeedbackAs with all curricular issues, assessment and improvement are an ongoing process. Inthis case, we performed a survey-based assessment