Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Economy Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Burtner

engineering economy course provides an ideal environment inwhich students may demonstrate teamwork and communication skills, awareness of ethicalstandards, and an understanding of the impact of engineering solutions on society. Case studiesbased on the Challenger disaster and the Ford/Firestone controversy have direct relevance to theindustrial engineering curriculum and can be adapted to meet the needs of specific courses suchas engineering economy, project management, and quality control.IntroductionRecent revisions in engineering accreditation guidelines have raised awareness of the wide rangeof learning outcomes that comprise a modern undergraduate engineering education 1. In additionto technical competence in engineering science, students need

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anneliese Watt; Jeff Froyd; Julia Williams

communication. The purpose ofassigning students to a capstone design project is to give them the opportunity to developtheir skills in the context of a situated learning experience. As such, we expect studentsto achieve a specific set of learning outcomes that are not customarily required in thetraditional engineering classroom. This paper identifies learning outcomes in both designand writing, then associates strategies from each field as methods to improve studentlearning. Borrowing strategies across disciplinary boundaries, this paper providesvaluable insights for faculty in both engineering and technical communication who areinterested in expanding the repertoire of strategies they use to teach design andcommunication.IntroductionEngineering design

Conference Session

Issues in Physics and Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Probst

credit hours thanmost other programs at Southeast, which might tend to reduce its competitiveness whenrecruiting majors. In order to address these concerns, we have developed a senior capstonecourse that is being reviewed for inclusion in the University Studies Program, which isSoutheast’s general education program. The course requires students from at least twodepartments in the College of Science and Mathematics to work on a project requiring expertisefrom both disciplines. This paper describes the course.I. IntroductionThe Engineering Physics Program at Southeast Missouri State University integrates a typicalphysics program and a typical electrical engineering program. The Program has a core set ofcourses and two options. The Applied

Conference Session

To Design and Conduct Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Benson; John Baker; David Silverstein

Session 2666 A Multi-Institutional Interdisciplinary Distance Controls Experiment: Bringing Engineering and Engineering Technology Students Together John R. Baker1, David L. Silverstein1, James M. Benson2 1 University of Kentucky 2 Murray State UniversityAbstract The University of Kentucky (UK) Extended Campus Programs in Paducah alongwith Murray State University (MuSU) have developed the first experiment in what isexpected to become a sequence of projects involving

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Bernhardt; Paul Imhoff; Michael Pearlman; Diane Kukich; Darren O'Neill; Michael Chajes

students’ transition from the academicenvironment to the professional workplace. The paper details how changes in existing courseshave enabled communication skills to be taught and practiced during all four years of thecurricula.The case-based course is structured around a set of actual materials from the DelawareDepartment of Transportation (DelDOT) that was developed to inform the public about theupgrade of Interstate 95 through Wilmington. Students are working in project teams to developtheir own communication strategies and solutions based on documents from the actual projectand then comparing their team solutions to those actually used by DelDOT during the project.The course was developed as a traditional classroom course, but with a strong

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in EET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafic Bachnak

Measuring instrument characteristics 7 Op-Amp circuits 8 Signal conditioning 9 Data sampling and conversion 10 Position, motion and force measurements 11 Temperature and flow measurement 12 Pressure and level measurement 13 Representation and display of data 14 Selecting sensors/ Sensor specifications Page 7.365.2 15 Project presentations and demos/ Project report due Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Copyright Ó 2002

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Gross; David Dinehart

issues in combination, yetthey must be proficient at handling these issues in order to be successful in their professionalcareers. In the spring semester of 2000 the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineeringat Villanova University initiated a structural engineering capstone design course that brings tofocus the role of structural engineers in a global context, highlighted by structural design andconstruction in a third world country. The initial project involved the design and construction of a25 foot tall reinforced concrete cross for a Catholic orphanage in Posas Verdes, Honduras. Theproject was challenging due to many constraints and limitations such as time, third worldconditions, communication, material quality and availability, and

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Devdas Shetty

Session 2087 Real Time Mechatronic Design Process for Research and Education Devdas Shetty 1, Jun Kondo 2, Claudio Campana3, Richard A. Kolk 4 1,2,3 - University of Hartford, College of Engineering West Hartford, CT, USA 4 - Carrier Electronics Div., United Technologies Corp., Farmington, CT, USAAbstractThis paper presents the design methodology used in various real time mechatronics projects thatinvolve data acquisition, real time control and embedded processing. As a design philosophy,mechatronics serves as an integrating approach to engineering design. A mechatronicallydesigned product relies heavily on system

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Devdas Shetty

the creation of unique coursecombinations where faculty from engineering, math, science, humanities, and social scienceworked together to define student learning outcomes for project-based curricula. Engineering andnon-engineering courses were clustered into integrated First-Year Interest Groups (FIGs).Engineering and interdisciplinary courses were paired in the sophomore and junior year, byemphasizing collaborative projects involving engineering and non-engineering students. Theintegrated learning blocks created for four years of curriculum are shown in Figure 1.Curriculum Restructuring – Design Integration:The integration of applied research and contextualized design throughout the engineeringcurriculum, started from a design-based

Conference Session

Web Systems and Web Services

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheila O'Connor; Don Malzahn

. Four different universities participated in the beta test for a totalof approximately 140 users. The purpose of the project was to examine the potential ofusing a web-based system to teach team process skills to engineering students who wereworking on freshman and senior-level, semester long engineering design projects.TeamCoach provided structured team process skills training and presented it to individualengineering students on design teams: 1) when needed based on the stage of teamdevelopment and 2) customized for individuals based on individual styles. A databasewas used to store information on individual team members and capture reported teamsymptoms as the team developed over time.Evaluation surveys were sent to all the students and

Conference Session

Web Systems and Web Services

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ralph Buchal

Session 1658 Web-based shared workspaces for collaborative learning Ralph O. Buchal Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, N6A 5B9 rbuchal@eng.uwo.caAbstractThere is growing agreement that group-based, collaborative learning approaches are moreeffective than traditional lecture-based instruction. Collaborative work is also an important trendin engineering practice. Team-based student design projects are very effective from a pedagogicalstandpoint, as well as developing skills in the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Rothberg; Phil Barker; Aruna Palipana; Fiona Lamb

Session 2793 Developing a Standardised Evaluation Methodology for Computer Based Learning Materials Aruna Palipana, Phil Barker, Steve Rothberg, Fiona Lamb Faculty of Engineering, Loughborough University, UK / Institute of Computer Based Learning, Heriot-Watt University, UK / Faculty of Engineering, Loughborough University, UK / Faculty of Engineering, Loughborough University, UKAbstractThe UK-based EASEIT-Eng project (http://www.easeit-eng.ac.uk/) aims to encourage orenhance the usage of existing engineering computer-based learning materials by

Conference Session

Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jendrucko

assignment, meeting planning to meet project time requirements, and group affect management to get full group participation. ii. Recorder – This individual is responsible for the written documentation of the group. The responsibilities include preparation and delivery of meeting agendas, meeting minutes, and the development of the final project report. iii. Spokesperson – This individual is responsible for all oral communication for the group. The responsibilities include the group responses to in-class questions and the project oral

Conference Session

Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Edgar Blevins

degree in Engineering Management. University of Missouri at Rolla Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering ManagementEM Focused Courses:· Managing Engineering and Technology · Human Relations in Technical Management· Management Accounting Systems · Management for Engineers· Financial Management · Technical Entrepreneurship· Marketing Management · Management Information Systems Page 7.134.2· Personnel Management · Project Management Proceedings of the 2002

Conference Session

ET Industrial Collaborations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Fisher; David Roth; Fredrick Nitterright

courses within the major, have an acceptable G.P.A., and whoare entering their senior year of the baccalaureate Mechanical Engineering Technology program.The summer internships were developed to decrease the demand on faculty advisors of industryrelated senior design projects, and to fulfill the need of industry for completing entry-levelengineering tasks while at the same time enabling them to evaluate a student for full-timeemployment upon graduation. The student in turn receives three academic credits in an industryrelated senior capstone experience, and in certain instances, has an opportunity to graduate asemester early.IntroductionThis past summer concludes the second year of summer internships conducted by students in theMechanical

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunanda Mitra

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS), session number1526. ID#2002-1954ASEE Abstract Title: Optimized signal/image feature recognition for Machine Learning. NSFAWARD # 9980296, CRCD: Machine Learning: A Multidisciplinary Computer Engineering GraduateProgram.Sunanda Mitra, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock,Texas 79409. E-mail: Sunanda.Mitra@coe.ttu.edu.AbstractThis paper describes some of the research projects, facilitating machine learning, completed by graduatestudents supported by the NSF-CRCD AWARD # 9980296 entitled “Machine Learning: AMultidisciplinary Computer Engineering Graduate Program ” to Texas Tech University. The program isnow under development in

Conference Session

New Computer ET Course Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kyle Hebsch; Jefferey Stevens; Andrew Gilchrist IV; Joel Weinstein

understand how to complete the missions. At the end of thecourse, students submit a working prototype and a presentation to the faculty who pose as Page 7.958.1the corporation. The results of these efforts were enlightening and educational at the same Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ® 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationtime. This paper discusses a typical project—one of many—in which students had todesign software for a courier service. This project is representative of ten differentprojects that were assigned to different student teams and

Conference Session

Combining Research and Teaching

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Berdanier

. Environmental Studies students in the Biology program also tookthe course last spring in its first offering. The course is designed to give students sufficientbackground information in the design and implementation of a surface water quality TotalMaximum Daily Load (TMDL) study along with information on designing and implementing a“graduate level” research project. The intent of the course is to have students implement thisproject on an actual 13 square mile watershed near the university. The stream is impacted bynutrients, and a formal TMDL will be developed by environmental professionals andstakeholders in the near future in accordance with Clean Water Act (CWA) requirements.Student teams sample and analyze for multiple chemical constituents and flow

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in MET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Cooley

multiple classes and locationsfor a very reasonable cost. Through optimization of performance, design, and project constraintsthe resulting system proved to be a safe, compact, and versatile experimental platform aroundwhich a variety of laboratory exercises could be built.The goal of the project was creation of an experimental platform that could be used to teachmultiple concepts in fluid power, thermodynamics, and instrumentation in a laboratory-typesetting to students at the Associates and Bachelors degree levels. To achieve this goal the systemneeded to demonstrate fluid mechanics concepts such as design elements of portable hydraulicunits, and the role of power plants in hydraulic system performance. Relevant thermodynamicsconcepts would

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Peterson; Barry Mullins

BattleBots. A television show sponsored byBattleBots Inc. showcases these BattleBots in a radio-controlled robotic combat competition.The show is televised by Comedy Central within the United States. Competitors design, build,and test a fortified robot in hopes of attending the biannual, single-elimination tournament,incapacitating the competition, and walking away with the top prize. During the spring of 2001,two electrical engineering students at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) built tworobots as their capstone senior design projects and subsequently competed in the May 2001tournament. This paper describes the background of BattleBots, the process by which thestudents completed their robots, how the students were able to attend the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Clark Merkel

Session 2793 Modeling the Mouse Trap Car Clark T. Merkel, Mechanical Engineering Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstract:Most students have the ability to build a car powered by a mouse trap. However, atypical student who has completed their sophomore dynamics course will still havetrouble modeling and analyzing their design. This paper presents a structure to aid incompleting the modeling and analysis of a mouse trap car project. It discusses a twelvestep design process that could be provided to students to guide them through difficultieswith the design analysis before they

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Morel; Jerry Schumacher; Ed Mattison

can request a PDA to personally use. Faculty whoteach the introduction to computing course that all freshmen must take are highly encouraged touse a PDA. Instructors can also sign out additional PDAs, folding keyboards, GPS modules,camera expansion modules, and wireless ethernet modules for classroom projects, exercises, anddemonstrations. The department has also set up a wireless network so that students in computingcourses can access the school’s local area network and the Internet wirelessly. The department’swireless network is part of the school’s plan to eventually interconnect the entire campus via awireless network.3. Motivation Despite the fact that all freshmen have PDAs, we found that, for the most part, thefreshmen were

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell

basic project management fundamentals in planning, organizing, staffing, directing,and controlling constructive endeavors. Not necessarily a unique learning paradigm, thecourse builds on knowledge gained in previous courses as well as previous blocks ofinstruction within the same course. Structural Design and Construction Engineering Technology Structural Design and Construction Engineering Technology Program Objectives Program Objectives CET 452, “Planning and Scheduling” CET 452, “Planning and Scheduling

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Sterian; Andrew Blauch

softwaredesign. The end of the course focuses on the programming of a microcontroller and thedevelopment of software to solve simple engineering applications.The structured programming portion of the course emphasizes logically and sequentiallythinking in the development of software. Instead of waiting until later in the course to introduceprogramming, topics are intertwined with the fundamentals of digital systems portion of thecourse. For example, after number systems and representations are covered, data types and theirrelationship with number representations are presented.The laboratory portion of the course is divided into two types or exercises: introductory activitiesand projects. The introductory activities are intended to familiarize the

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Carl Steidley; Stephen Dannelly

included logging user activity over a network, simple interprocesscommunication between Unix machines, use of semaphores to control shared resources, and anextensive client-server development project. We believe the effectiveness of this type of course can be greatly improved by placing itin a setting where students can actively extend the concepts being taught into tangible realities 1,2 . Therefore, we have begun building a new laboratory equipped with a model railroad system1 This work was sponsored in part by a National Science Foundation Course Curriculum andLaboratory Improvement – Adaptation and Implementation grant, grant number DUE-9950839

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn Smith

% (3 quizzes) (7 quizzes, drop lowest grade) Final 25% 25% Design Project none 25%Grades constitute the classic measure of learning. As these grades remain on a student’spermanent record, they become a source of stress within a course. The primary contributions ofstress within the traditional course structure are thus the quizzes and final. One of the moststressful portions of the course, as identified by students, is the fact that if a student does poorlyon one exam, it will usually cost them a letter grade or more in the course. In addition, thesequizzes must cover a fairly substantial portion of the course material. If a

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Glagola

Raise admission standards Resources: Refocus course curriculum Reduce class size Increase credit hour requirements More practitioners, less researchers Classes more than 1 time a year Student office space More TA’s Better teaching facilities More qualified professors More faculty Overhaul Curriculum: Pay professors more Less emphasis on research, more academics Include students in campus const. projects Increase research p roposals Enhancing the

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jed Lyons

Session 1566 Formative Assessment of the University of South Carolina’s Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education Program Jed Lyons, Maryanne Banich, John Brader and Christine Ebert University of South CarolinaAbstractWith support from the NSF GK-12 Program, students and faculty in the College of Engineeringand Information Technology and the College of Education are working together to (a) improvethe teaching and communication skills of engineering graduate students and (b) improve scienceeducation in South Carolina schools. This paper describes the project and presents

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacquelyn Sullivan; Lawrence Carlson

Session 1354 Exploring Entrepreneurship through Product Development: A Hands-on Approach Lawrence E. Carlson, Jacquelyn F. Sullivan Co-Directors Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory and Program College of Engineering and Applied Science University of Colorado at BoulderAbstractEngineering students of all disciplines typically engage in at least one open-ended designexperience during their undergraduate careers. Through hands-on design and build projects, theylearn

Conference Session

Programming and DSP Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Mayne

++ capabilities. We have used the VC++ AppWizard executable form for our windows programsincluding the Document/View architecture. In this format, VC++ creates a program/projectstructure which serves as a template for the programmer’s application. If the six step AppWizardstart up process is followed, accepting all defaults for creating an AppWizard project, twenty fivefiles of C++ code are created by the AppWizard alone. Without any added code, the resultingproject can be compiled and linked producing additional files including an executable file. Whenexecuted, it will create a normal looking but blank window on the screen where nothing happens.Basically all of the VC++ prewritten code is used to put the blank window on the screen andprovide the