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Instrumentation and Control Applications

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Knight

teach laboratory curriculums required in the 21st century. This situation hasdeveloped 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 experimental concepts required to design, collect, analyze, and interpretexperimental results. The three-hour laboratory

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley

subjects2.Prior to implementation of the camp, the College of Engineering had established a close workingrelationship with Wake County Public Schools in general and Centennial Campus Middle Schoolin particular. University students and faculty had spent many hours working with teachers andadministrators with various projects, including a National Science Foundation sponsored GK-12grant 3. This relationship made implementation of the camp very easy and has made it easy torepeat the camp the next summer.Session OverviewThe teacher/faculty week began one week after school had ended for the year. This gave theteachers time to wrap up their responsibilities for the school, but not so much time that it wasdifficult to get back into routine! Six teachers

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Daughton

and Applied Scienceand local industry about the need to provide engineers with a practical set of management skillsprior to undertaking early management assignments. High technology companies, such as thethen Martin Marietta, were concerned that many engineers were entering management positionsresponsible for project or development teams or promoted to managers of small departments orwork groups with little preparation. Ironically, these opportunities sometimes came as a rewardfor a job well done for engineering contributions but placed the individual in an awkwardposition. As Matson1 and Lancaster 2 have reported, and this author observed while working inindustry, engineers usually find themselves very poorly equipped to take on their

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Avanzato

, senior design projects, and more. An overview of the basic robotcontest rules and strategies as well as results of recent competitions will be presentedbelow.2.0 Robot Contest Rules and StrategiesThe objective of the Robo-TrailBlazers contest is to design an autonomous robot, or acollaborating team of robots, which is capable of navigating from a start position to a Page 7.867.1goal position, on a 8 foot by 8 foot flat arena, in a minimum amount of time (see figure Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education1

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

the record onthe difficulty of taking courses that fail to draw connections to either the real world or futurecourses in the student’s major. They find them baffling in many respects until someone makesthe effort to draw logical connections between those initial courses in the academic system andthe later major driven classes.The current work in progress involves that body of students who feel that they have an interest inengineering as a career choice. The group consists of any students who have qualms over whatthey are being required to learn in courses like mathematics, chemistry, physics, or language arts.The projected initial numbers of students impacted could be as many as 3,000 students with asmany as 1,500 added to the group each year

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Gorham

other technical professionals may have an Page 7.955.2interest in attending. Sessions will describe programs and projects that feature the “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”integration of the SMET disciplines and will focus on collaborations between engineersand educators, both in and outside the classroom. The emphasis of all the sessions will behands-on, demonstrated activities that provide attendees with useful teaching tools orpractical ideas for program implementation.ASME Resources“The

Conference Session

Intra-college Graduate Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Muthukrishnan Sathyamoorthy

degrees, i.e., Ph.D., in their prescribed fields.2. Program DescriptionCurriculum:All students in the program are required to complete 33 credits hours in order to receive a degree.Students may select one of three options. The Course work Option requires 33 credit hours ofcourse work, which includes 9 credit hours of electives. The Project Option requires 30 credithours of course work and the 3 credit hour COSE 690 Project. The Thesis Option requires 27credit hours of course work and 6 credit hours of thesis work (COSE 699 Thesis). Table 1provides the standard pattern sheet and specific course titles and numbers.Faculty:The faculty members involved in the Graduate Committee, administering the program and

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Cockayne; John Feland; Larry Leifer

the pangineer must begin with the current education of engineers.Traditional engineering education has typically presented content knowledge acrossmultiple disciplines; however, to prepare students for modern challenges, the moderneducation system must now focus on delivering the context across and between the thesecontent areas.Knowledge how, or know-how, has always existed in engineering learning and practice.A common example recalled fondly by today’s practicing engineers are project-based Page 7.1101.1classes, such as capstone design courses for Mechanical Design engineers. Such classes Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for

Conference Session

Teaching Effective Communications

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hutto; Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Anthony Marchese; Roberta Harvey; Bernard Pietrucha

: Assessing the Impactof Writing as a Multi-Function Design Tool, outlines a two-year project to developmethods of assessing the effectiveness of engineering students’ use of writing as a designpractice. Engineering educators have long recognized the importance of effective writtencommunication skills, and many programs have incorporated an emphasis on writtencommunication within their curriculums. Indeed, the ABET 2000 criteria not onlyemphasized writing skills but also specifically located responsibility for writinginstruction within the engineering program itself: Competence in written communication in the English language is essential for the engineering graduate. Although specific coursework requirements serve as a foundation for such

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Otieno

years, we have been restructuring our curriculum to meet challengesposed by a fast changing technological world of manufacturing. Our curricular restructuringefforts have been geared mainly towards maintaining technological currency, in addition tostrengthening our hands on experiences for students, as required by ABET 3, NAIT 4 and otheraccreditation bodies. As observed by the SME, “…Students with a solid grounding in scienceand math, strong hands-on project experience and teamwork skills make the best manufacturingengineers.”* Our curricular reform efforts are also geared towards renewing the Department’sNAIT accreditation this year for it Industrial Technology programs, and also to seek ABETaccreditation for its Engineering Technology

Conference Session

Course Assessment in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamad Ahmadian

basedon a specific assessment problem or task.3. Examples of Classroom Assessment in Engineering Technology RUBRIC and MATRIX, EET Logic Circuits Course The main objective of this course is to provide students with the fundamentals of digitalelectronics. Students gain the necessary skills to design and implement projects in the digitalsystems. This course also allows students to have hands-on experience with variouscombinational circuits, as well as sequential circuits. Finally, the ultimate objective of thiscourse is to broaden students' understanding and appreciation of computer hardware. The following information will be used to evaluate homework, laboratory assignments,and exams for the Logic Circuits

Conference Session

Innovative Laboratory Instruction

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

of an Undergraduate Senior Project Grant from theAmerican Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).I. IntroductionThermodynamics is a basic and very important topic that deals with energy and has long been anessential part of mechanical engineering curricula all over the world. The principles ofthermodynamics are based on people’s everyday experiences and observations. However, themajority of students perceive thermodynamics as a difficult subject. Mechanical engineers usethermodynamics principles as part of an engineering science to study and design a wide varietyof energy systems, such as jet engines and rockets, refrigeration systems, air conditioningsystems, chemical processes, and power

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Innovative Courses for ChE Students

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Miller

the technical content of thecourse. Another aspect covered is the integration of different plants on a site wherein anunavoidable waste generated in a so-called green process, becomes a feed for another withvalue addition, thereby making the entire site “greener”. .Biobased feedstocks - Fueled by the projection that worldwide petroleum production will peaksometime around 2020 and thereafter decline, the prospect of alternative sources for fuels andchemicals is gaining prominence and is beginning to be realized commercially. As the logical Page 7.74.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Krouglicof

Engineering course, a required course for engineering students in all majors. Atthe junior and senior levels it is designed to support laboratories in Dynamics of Systems andMechatronics Design. Finally, as a stand-alone controller, it could potentially be applied tonumerous mechatronic student projects including the International Virtual Design Studio(IVDS), the Robotics Club, the SAE Walking Machine Challenge as well as several capstonedesign projects each year.The system is both technologically and pedagogically innovative. In terms of pedagogy, inprovides a new avenue of application for laptop computers in the undergraduate curriculum. Interms of technological innovation, the system is unique in that it functions as a data acquisitionsystem

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Ledlow

adopting a different look, feel andperformance for the classroom. While the project does contain some general information onA/CL, the bulk of the content is specific to engineering education, and was derived frominterviews with engineering faculty on multiple campuses. Materials are organized so that theywill serve as a useful guide to faculty who have never used cooperative learning, but will alsoprovide sufficient depth that more experienced faculty and faculty developers may benefit fromthem as well. The CD contains essentially the same content as the website, but will be providedto those whose Internet connections will not easily access large video or audio files.Active/Cooperative Learning was developed by the Foundation Coalitiona through

Conference Session

Comparing National Styles of Engr. Educ.

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Thibault; Rene Hivon; Danielle L'Heureux; Noel Boutin

noted here: very often, the course in engineering economics imposed to Canadian engineering schools by the CEAB is taught by engineering professors. However, it is also to be mentioned that the expertise students develop in this course is seldom used in other courses except, perhaps, in design courses or projects.3 Contrary to ABET requirements which are based on a programme’s outcome, CEAB requirements are linked to the process, to the programmes themselves. According to CEAB, engineering programmes must include a minimum of 1 8000 AU (accreditation units) and this number is broken down as follows: mathematics (195 AU), basic sciences (225 AU), engineering sciences and engineering design (minimum total of 900 AU and

Conference Session

Teaching Green Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Hollar; Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

the environmental impacts of specific chemical on people andecosystems. • Prioritize chemicals that need to be minimized or eliminated. • Optimize design to avoid or reduce environmental impacts. • Design greener products and processes. This presentation will highlight techniques to include green engineering in thechemical engineering curriculum. This may be through stand-alone courses, concepts incore courses such as thermodynamics or engineering economics, design projects, and aspart of the assessment requirements for ABET Criteria 2000. Page 7.91.2Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

not constrained to a particular profession or subject, and may be used byindividuals and teams. The methodology works extremely well in brainstorming sessions. It iseasy to teach, learn and use. The nature of the methodology makes it inter-departmental, inter-disciplinary, regionally unconstrained, and thus nationally applicable with the promisingpotential to be adopted by engineering and science colleges nationwide. The Eight-Dimensional Methodology has been taught using hands-on activities thatinclude 3-D mechanical puzzles, games, brainteasers, LEGO® Mindstorms competitions, anddesign projects, each of which illustrates principles and strategies in inventive problem solving.These activities allow for self-paced, semi-guided

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn Amey; James S. Fairweather; P. David Fisher

and has conducted three program evaluations under EC2000. He also provided college-level, department-level and program-level coordination of activities as MSU sought continued accreditation of its engineering programs during the 1998-99 accreditation cycle under EC2000 8. He has published papers recently on incorporating design in engineering courses 9, 10 , and reforming engineering service courses 11-12 . For the past four years he has served as a PI on the GE Fund Project entitled Reforming the Early Undergraduate Engineering Learning Experience 14.· James S. Fairweather is a Professor of Higher, Adult and Lifelong Education at MSU. He has more than 15 years experience evaluating engineering education programs

Conference Session

Instructional Technology in CE 2

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kemeny

Society for Engineering Educationimportant organizations is ARMA, the American Rock Mechanics Association 5. Thisorganization reaches out to the various industries, academic disciplines, government agencies,and international organizations involved in rock engineering, and also hosts an annual rockmechanics symposium. We are starting to work closely with ARMA in building and promotinginterest in the rock engineering digital library. The rock engineering digital library will be opento all individuals to contribute information. In the spirit of the proposed work, these individualsshould be interested in working with us to repackage the material to all of the 5 targeted audiencegroups.3.2 The geotechnical engineering collectionDr. Budhu, the project

Conference Session

Cultivating Professional Responsibility

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Julia Williams

others. Thus,when we guide engineering students as they develop character, conscience, and socialresponsibility, we recognize the fact that these qualities will play out in the use and/or abuse oftechnology in our society. Engineering programs, therefore, do more than graduate responsiblecitizens; they graduate responsible citizens who determine the future of technology.Given the nature of the engineer’s role in society, I would argue that the current solutions to theproblem—increasing the level of ethics instruction and/or increasing the number of servicelearning projects students complete in the engineering curriculum—ignore the central role ofcommunication in the success or failure of the engineer to address society’s needs, to both speakand

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Watkins; Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; David Oglesby; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

feedback; b) triangulation of multiple outcome and process measures; and c) progressiveapplication of multiple experimental methodologies. The model was applied in the form of twoexperiments that took place during the early stages of an on-going project that includes thedevelopment of multimedia modules for Basic Engineering Mechanics of Materials classes. Themodel’s themes and components are presented, followed by a discussion of the exampleexperimental methodology, results, and consequent recommendations.I. INTRODUCTIONA. NeedA great deal of time, money, and effort have gone into the development of learning technologiesof all sorts in Engineering Education courseware over the years, and the pace has increasedexponentially in the last decade

Conference Session

Visualization and Graphics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Baxter

vectors in creating solid models and thereby provides students reinforcement oftheir linear algebra knowledge. The students normally take EG&CAD during theirfreshman year and then have the opportunity to use solid modeling in their sophomoreand senior design projects as well as some special topic electives. In addition, severalother courses are now using solid models as a way to demonstrate fundamentalprinciples[1]. With an increasing dependence on solid modeling skills required, it isimperative that the course content in EG&CAD be effectively delivered and absorbed.Traditionally, when evaluating students in EG&CAD, the emphasis has been threefold:the creation of parts and assemblies in given orientations, the documentation of the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Yusuf Khan; Wei Sun; Mohamed Attawia; Michele Marcolongo; Frank Ko; Dhirendra Katti; Cato Laurencin

the subject of tissue engineering were presented by the corefaculty of the Drexel University Tissue Engineering graduate program. As a part of this courseselected experiments were also performed by the students as team projects to illustrate theprinciples of tissue engineering. The topics discussed for this course were divided into lecturesand labs from associated faculty and covered the following topics; Introduction to TissueEngineering, Scaffold development and characterization, Cell technology, isolation, andmechanics, Surface Interactions, Drug Delivery, Computer Aided scaffold design, and Factor-Mediated tissue engineering.Year TwoIn Year Two of the curriculum, “Introduction to Computer Aided Tissue Engineering” wasintroduced. This

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Soda

simulation. The essential skills which must be developed for these exercises are the creation of a blank PSPICE project, placement of independent voltage and current sources as well as resistors and capacitors; setting component values and source parameters; creating a simple simulation profile; executing the simulation and printing results. These simple skills are communicated via in-class demonstrations and written exercise guides. These guides consist of step-by-step instructions prepared in Microsoft Power PointÔ briefing slide format. The slides illustrate the sequential process though which the exercise simulation may be created and executed. We use screen captures of the simulator windows integrated with text to illustrate essential

Conference Session

ET Graduate Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Kaminski

is one quarter less than two years old and is on track for meeting studentenrollment goals as indicated in the table below. At present, our student population is 38 studentsafter 1-2/3 quarters. To date only 2 students have graduated from the MSET program but at theconclusion of the spring, 2002 quarter, 14 students are anticipated to graduate. Projected Versus Actual Student Enrollment in Puget Sound Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 __________________________________________ Projected 28 40 55 60 Actual 14 38 - -Need for ProgramThe need for a

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Trippe

discusses the events and experiences associated with thedevelopment and initial conduct of this sequence of C++ programming courses. Itdetails how the courses were designed to assist ET students to better succeed in higherlevel courses taken later in their program sequence. Foundation elements of thesecourses include C++ procedural and object oriented grammar and syntax, programmingstructures and data structures. The paper illustrates how secondary elements of atechnical programming course can be selected so as to additionally promote andencourage student learning of techniques for applied technical problem solving, technicalwriting, software engineering, project management, team dynamics and ethics.IntroductionComputer Programming skills are an

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip Thompson

civil engineering sub-disciplines of structural, geotechnical, environmental, water resources and transportationengineering. A different faculty member began each unit with an overview of his or her area ofexpertise. A guest speaker from private consulting, government or industry followed this generaloverview by providing students with examples of typical projects and work environments. Thethird phase of each unit involved a hands-on laboratory, computer activity or site visit, whichalso had the purpose of instilling excitement for civil engineering. This paper will report on theassessment of these activities, which included using the West Point Bridge Design program aswell as a unique water system layout project. The paper highlights other

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Collins; Alisha Youngblood

collectdata about the selected EM programs. The following questions were considered for this report:· Who is the target audience and what criteria should they meet? Some programs allowed admission to students just finishing a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering while others required a minimum number of years of industry experience. Also, some programs required a degree in engineering while others were more flexible allowing persons with a degree in math or hard science acceptance into an MSEM program.· How many hours are typical for this type of program? The number of hours required varied slightly and sometimes depended on if a thesis was being incorporated into a person’s degree.· Should a thesis or capstone project be required

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

important and expandingrole in this exciting field, yet undergraduate chemical engineering students are rarely exposed todrug delivery through their coursework. To provide students with the skills directly relevant tothe evolving needs of the pharmaceutical industry, this project will develop and integrate applieddrug delivery coursework and experiments throughout the Rowan Engineering curriculum.To design and produce a new drug delivery system, an engineer must fully understand the drugand material properties and the processing variables that affect the release of the drug from thesystem. This requires a solid grasp of the fundamentals of mass transfer, reaction kinetics,thermodynamics and transport phenomena. The engineer must also be skilled in