Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheldon Jeter

it surely contributes. In addition to the instructor’squalitative evaluation, a quantitative assessment can be based on the data in Table 1. Table 1. Statistical Data and Analysis P-S V-P term number average SSD average SSD ESE ttest P* summer 2000 47 93.3 2.96 96.2 2.66 0.580 4.910 0.000 fall 2000 A 58 92.9 3.76 94.6 4.07 0.728 2.337 0.012 fall 2000 B 60 92.9 4.04 95.0 3.87 0.722 2.908 0.003 spring 2001 A 51 93.0

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ET International Collaborations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

A. A. Al-Anezi

Education and Training are stated in table 1. The Institute of EngineeringTechnology (IET) is one of these institutions. It was established in 1968 and it belongedto the Ministry of Public Works. It accepted Kuwaiti students who had obtained theGeneral Certificate of Secondary Education after two years of study. Admission to thisinstitute was stopped at the beginning of the acadimic year 1976/1977 when the KuwaitInstitute For Technology was started. The degree that the IET gave was on associatedegree, with graduates being or as called assistant civil engineer. The specialties of IETwere in building, road, surveying and waste water.Technology Education Institution (After 1982)Some of the technology education institutions changed after the

Conference Session

Educational Trends in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Schreuders; Arthur Johnson

Phase 1 Select a capstone design project from the list of Design Concept suggestions or pose an alternative 2 Mentor identified 3 Concept memo due to mentor 5 Concept memo due to Board of Directors & First BOD meeting 12 Written design proposal due to mentor Initial Design 13 Initial design proposal and presentations & Second BOD meeting 14 Response by BOD to design team & Revised Design Third BOD meeting 15 Revised written proposal due to BOD

Conference Session

Unique Lab Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Walsh; David Gibbs

, constitution, and peaktemperature and thermal distribution in the sample. Students will appreciate the differencebetween electric resistance and inductance heatingLaboratory Learning ObjectivesBy completing this laboratory participating students will demonstrate an ability to: 1. Apply theGleeble simulator, quantitative microscopy and optical microscopy to make measurements ofphysical quantities, including testing and debugging an experimental system. 2. Devise anexperimental approach, specify appropriate equipment and a set of procedures and implementthose procedures. 3. Demonstrate the ability to collect, analyze, interpret data, and form andsupport conclusions. Make order of magnitude judgments about data correctness. 4. Identify thelimitations of

Conference Session

New Programs and Textbooks in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Alan Sahakian

and the classical solutionusing adaptive signal processing 1 is shown.The challenge comes at the end of the final lecture. Students are asked to break into groups oftwo and discuss a new signal processing challenge given to them by the instructor. For example,the problem of extracting the atrial activity from the high-voltage leads of an implanteddefibrillator is given. The groups are asked to outline a method which would could solve theproblem, and how it could be implemented. Students are instructed to think alone for fiveminutes, then to discuss their ideas with their partner for an additional five minutes. After this,groups are asked to report out to the rest of the class on their approaches. This “think, pair,share” exercise evaluates

Conference Session

Visualization and Graphics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jerz

believe that product visualization, drawing interpretation, and CAD areeffectively learned in the one-semester course.I. IntroductionIt has always been a belief that engineers should be able to communicate effectively. Sinceengineering graphics is the engineer’s language for communicating product ideas, our facultynever doubted the need for training in EG. St. Ambrose’s Industrial Engineering program hasalways included a one-semester course in engineering graphics - IE110.The course has two objectives: 1) to have students understand how engineering designs arecommunicated visually in industry, and 2) to have students learn to use advanced modelingcomputer-aided design software. The first objective has existed since day one. The secondobjective

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Corinne Darvennes; Sally Pardue

. 1. Course Content or Related Tools 2. Communication Tools 3. Evaluation Tools 4. Study Tools2.0 ME2330 DynamicsThe ME2330 Dynamics course WebCT site was designed by C. Darvennes. The text for thiscourse is Dynamics, Bedford and Fowler. The homepage has eleven links, and is pictured inFigure 1.Figure 1. ME2330 Dynamics Homepage Page 7.449.2 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 1566The main links

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Carpenter; Harvey Smith; Murali Krishnamurthi

consisting ofexperts from a number of universities and companies. The learning modules are being designedusing the Kolb learning cycle and include a variety of active-learning strategies such as classdiscussions, case studies, guest speakers, web applications, and team projects. Details of thelearning modules, pedagogical strategies, and assessment results are presented in this paper.1. IntroductionEnvironment touches our lives in many ways and we profoundly impact the environment aspolicy-makers, scientists, engineers, corporate decision-makers, and citizens. To protect theenvironment in today’s technological society, balance the needs of the population, and minimizeimpacts of environmental hazards, we need technically informed citizens with

Conference Session

Web Based Laboratories and Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jerz

that most students can onlyabsorb so much at a time and at different rates, the asynchronous nature of multimedia becomesa very effective mode of education.Figure 1 shows a screen from the AppDev training. Multimedia content is delivered in thecenter, which in this figure, happens to be the instructor’s “live video.” The various topics are onthe left, and the student navigates through topics by mouse-clicking on the topic. The studentcontrols the multimedia with various control buttons on the bottom. It becomes easy to start,stop, or position the training to any desired point. Figure 2 is essentially the same screen exceptthat the multimedia is the specific application software. Figure 1. AppDev Training Screen with

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Cliff Mirman; Radha Balamuralikrishna

InitiativeThe authors were invited to serve as consultants in a project that was targeted to promotescientific and technological literacy among middle and high students in the Rockford schooldistrict. Serving in this capacity provided the opportunity to employ the following four differentbut complementary outlets to promote our engineering technology programs, particularly MET: (1) Conduct a 1-hour general orientation session for approximately 80 schoolteachers describing the manufacturing technology, electrical engineering technology, and industrial technology programs offered by the department (2) Run a 90-minute career workshop for approximately 60 schoolteachers using a hands-on approach. CAD

Conference Session

ECE Design, Capstone, and Engr. Practice

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Parten

Session 3232 Semester Long Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering Laboratories Micheal Parten Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Texas Tech UniversityI IntroductionThe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas Tech University began stand-alone project laboratories in the early 1960s. The project lab structure has continued to evolveover the past 40 years. 1-9 Students take 5, 3-hour credit laboratories not directly associated withany lecture course. Although the

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Naiqian Zhang

Session 1408 Interdisciplinary Research Enhancing BAE Teaching and Research Programs N. Zhang1, M.L. Neilsen2, D.H. Lenhert3, M. Mizuno2, G. Singh2, and A.B. Gross4 1 Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Kansas State University (KSU), zhangn@ksu.edu* 2 Department of Computing and Information Sciences, KSU, {neilsen,masaaki,singh}@cis.ksu.edu* 3 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, KSU, lenhert@ksu.edu* 4 The IDEA Center, 211 S. Seth Child Road, Manhattan, Kansas, agross@ksu.edu

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Maxwell; Michael Parten

, contains a protonexchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell stack with its accessories, a DC/DC converter, battery pack,motors and motor controllers. A PEM fuel cell stack is, itself, a complex electrochemical system.1-4Over the past several years, Texas Tech University’s Advanced Vehicle Engineering Laboratory(AVEL) has converted five conventional vehicles to HEVs and alternative fueled vehicles for thevarious Vehicle Challenges sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the three majorU.S. automobile manufacturers, the Society of Automotive Engineers and Natural ResourcesCanada.5-9Of particular interest today is the popularity of full sized sport utility vehicles (SUV). Thesevehicles are reversing the trends, over the last few years, of reduced

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Ledlow

ago recognized the limitation of the lecture model: "The commonest error of the giftedscholar, inexperienced in teaching, is to expect pupils to know what they have been told. Buttelling is not teaching." 2A number of instructional strategies are currently being practiced and promoted in highereducation as a means of overcoming this limitation. They include (but are not limited to)cooperative learning,3, 4, 5 case teaching,6,7 classroom assessment,8 and writing across the c Throughout the paper, we use faculty participants’ full names followed by the reference number for the Page 7.145.2website ( 1) when quoting

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Madara Ogot

. Page 7.1134.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society of Engineering EducationSpecifically, in Mechanical Engineering, approaches have varied from more hands on learningexperiences - for example, product dissection courses at Stanford3 and the MEEP! coalition4, andindustry-sponsored capstone senior design courses – to the adoption of different teaching stylesin the classroom2,5.Despite these efforts several problems still remain. These include:1. A majority of mechanical engineering students graduate with a poor feel for how common mechanical devices work and the rationale behind their design4.2. A majority of

Conference Session

Intra-college Graduate Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Muthukrishnan Sathyamoorthy

1. Session2002-179 An Interdisciplinary Graduate Program at WVUTech M. Sathyamoorthy Office of the Dean, Leonard C. Nelson College of Engineering, West Virginia University Institute of Technology, Montgomery, WV 25136.AbstractThis paper describes the development and implementation of a graduate program in ControlSystems Engineering at the Leonard C. Nelson College of Engineering in West VirginiaUniversity Institute of Technology (WVUTech). This unique interdisciplinary program is directedtowards professional engineering practice and includes internships for those who can be

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Nadel; Daniel Walsh

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Kramer

need for relevant, specialized equipmentnot available or affordable for a first-time course. Administrative support for the course enabledthe purchase of some equipment, but major capital expenditures were not appropriate for theteaching of an elective course that is new and not regularly offered. Involvement by localindustry was sought as a means to overcome these constraints.Three approaches were used in the development of the laboratory portion of the course. It wasdecided 1) to build upon laboratory exercises from the previous course in communicationsincluding MATLAB simulation exercises, 2) to search out already developed laboratories beingused at other universities, and 3) to work with local industry to provide practical applications

Conference Session

To Design and Conduct Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Nick Glumac; Gregory Elliott; Madara Ogot

, trouble shootingexperimental apparatus problems, familiarity with how components are wired together, etc.The development of a complete remote-controlled laboratory requires more than just the designand construction of the remote-controlled apparatus and support software. The entire lab mustbe pedagogically sound to ensure that the learning outcomes are as effective as 'in-person' labs, ifnot more. Therefore in order for the advantages of remotely operated laboratories to outweighthe disadvantages, the following criteria were proposed for experiments to be part of IRLE: 1. The labs must have a high visual content. Makes the experiment more interesting to run and allows students to better understand that they are running an actual experiment

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Rabb; Ronald Welch

Session 2425 Projects Day: Completion of the Engineering Capstone Design Robert J. Rabb, Ronald W. Welch United States Military AcademyAbstractProjects Day at the United States Military Academy (USMA) is an annual event to showcasesenior design projects. The goal of Projects Day is to “promote academic excellence” 1 byproviding senior students “with a public forum in which to present their senior theses or designprojects.” 1 The students work on these projects all semester and, in some cases, all year.Projects Day allows the students to present their projects, relate their

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Reid

seminar:"The Academy of Instructional Excellence (Master Teacher program) is built on the principle thatteachers teach other teachers. Loosely translated: teachers steal other teachers' ideas." 1, 2Most of the ideas I have tried have been stolen from, or rather, have been learned from other Page 7.635.1 "Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education"professors. In fact, at the conclusion of a follow up meeting to this seminar, one participant said"These ideas are great - and I’m not creative enough to

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in E/M ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Samples

Page 7.1187.1Classroom"1, Heather W. Hackman provided a thought piece about power and its tie to the Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationclassroom. What is it that teachers are allowed to do? What should they be doing? How canthey harness this power, or give it up to make learning more acceptable to the students? Thequestions beg the answer: Be a leader!The word "lead" slips into Jim Stice's piece, "Habits of Highly Effective Teachers" 2; however, itis doubtful that it was a slip. Along with "lead" were other "leadership" words and phrases likerespect, motivate, honesty, dedication, passion

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Abraham Michelen

= -10:0.05:10; plot(t, sin(t)./t) grid on;MATLAB will respond by generating the plot shown in Fig. 1. Page 7.385.1 Figure 1: Plot of sin(t)/tIf, however, we need to generate a new plot by changing the interval or any otherparameter of the plot we would have to type again the same command lines withdifferent values. In our case this may not be a big problem because we would have tore-type only two lines. However, for more complicated engineering problems the usermay find this process quite an ordeal. To minimize this effort, a better approach is tobuild graphical user interfaces

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman; Lisa Abrams

Conference Session

Design in the Engineering Core

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Josue Njock-Libii

. This paper discusses the main reason that led to the introduction of design in this course, the process that was followed to achieve integration of design, examples of projects that were carried out by students, the benefits and disadvantages that have been identified, and the author’s assessment of the whole experience. 1. Reason for adding design into the course: Need for reform Design was added to the first course in fluid mechanics to respond to the criticisms of engineering education that were prevalent in the literature at the end of the 1980's and the beginning of the 1990's. People who wanted reform criticized engineering education. They charged that graduates of American Engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ralph Budwig; Beyerlein Steve; Matthew Cunnington; Levi Westra; Donald Elger

includes model fabrication, mounting of the model inthe tunnel, wind tunnel start-up and speed adjustment, visual observations (e.g.- a vibratingmodel), and use of a project notebook for documentation of the experiment. Page 7.372.2“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”The Wind TunnelThe wind tunnel, Fig. 1, was made by Engineering Laboratory Design. It is an Eiffel type windtunnel 10.36 m long and 2.16 m tall overall. The motor is a 37 kW AC induction motorcontrolled by a variable

Conference Session

Hunting for MINDs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Minnie McGee; Audeen Fentiman

Session 1470 Components of a Year-Long Bridge Program for Minority Engineering Students Minnie M. McGee, Audeen W. Fentiman The Ohio State UniversityAbstractHistorical data gathered and assessed as part of the Gateway Engineering Education Coalitio nprogram at The Ohio State University indicated that only about 1 in 10 minority engineeringstudents with math placement below college algebra completed a degree in engineering. Asignificant fraction of incoming minority engineering students, some with excellent high schoolgrades, do not perform well

Conference Session

Pre-College Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Liv Ramstad; Ferd Schneider; Audeen Fentiman; Artemus Herzog; John Merrill

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Gilbert; Mark Maughmer; Marilyn Barger; Renata Engel

allow students into ourheads to see how we think and approach new problems. We lecture so that we can stayconnected to our audience in real time. These aspects of the tradition al lecture cannot beeasily replaced and they provide the answer to the question of why most student stillprefer to “go to class” whenever that is a viable option.IntroductionThe lecture, taken here to be a more or less continuous exposition by the teacher, 1 haslong been considered the standard method of teaching at the university level. 2, 3 In recentyears, however, it has been the focus of much criticism. It is argued that the lecturemethod allows, if not forces, students to be passive and uninvolved rather thanencouraging them to interact with the material, the

Conference Session

Pre-College Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman; Alex Mendlein

school year. In another paper in these Proceedings 1, the WalnutHills and Ohio State University faculty present a detailed description the Introduction toEngineering course, outline their goals for the course, and provide an assessment of the firstyear. This paper describes the course and its impact from a student’s point of view.The Introduction to Engineering course helped to give fifty-nine high school juniors andseniors a better appreciation and understanding of various engineering disciplines. With thehelp of Ohio State and General Electric, students had the opportunity to gain a head start onother college freshmen with an engineering major. The goal of the Introduction to Engineering