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Innovation in Design Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Eric Ford; Vincent Wilczynski; Gregg Dixon

Session XXXX Air Engine as a Manufacturing Project in an Introductory Design Course Gregg W. Dixon, Vincent Wilczynski, Eric J. Ford United States Coast Guard AcademyAbstractSeveral schools have recognized the value of build-to-spec construction projects to familiarizestudents with manufacturing methods and computer-aided-design applications. At the U.S. CoastGuard Academy, we have introduced a project in which students in a sophomore level designcourse produce CAD drawings and then build a small air engine shown in Figure 1 below. Theproject

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Saeed Niku

, where the students picked from a list, and finished the design during thelast three weeks of the quarter. The content of the course has remained the same after integration,except that now students are involved in E-Teams instead of the final project. Methodology With the aid of the Grant, the course is modified to include E-Teams of up to 4 student each.The students are all juniors or seniors, and may have had traditional machine design courses.Students are assigned to E-teams on the first day of class, randomly, and are asked to formthemselves into a fictitious company, and operate as such. This includes, but is not limited to,company name and logo, set of by-laws about the relationship between the

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jennifer Kushner; Jay Martin

Session 2625 Modeling the Student Experience in an Experiential Design Course: Faculty Projects Jennifer Kushner, Jay K. Martin University of Wisconsin-MadisonAbstractWe teach design courses that are experiential, in that student teams learn about design byengaging in actual design and project engineering with clients from the community. On twodifferent occasions we participated directly in the student experience, with the students, bycarrying out a project ourselves. This meant that we carried out all of the same activities asstudents such as site visits

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Paul King

Session 2793 Freshman Biomedical Engineering Design Projects: What Can Be Done? Paul H. King, Ph.D., P.E. Vanderbilt UniversityAbstract: During the 2000 ASEE meeting the question arose in the Biomedical Engineeringdivision about the paucity of information on design projects for freshman introductory designcourses (cornerstone courses.) This paper will present an overview of what can be gleaned fromthe literature on such projects.Introduction: Design challenges in a freshman level introductory course can serve to introducea student to the design process early in their

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Capstone Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Pamela Neal; Erlind Royer; Kenneth Soda

Session 2425 Learning Project Implementation and Management Skills in the Culminating Design Experience Pamela J. Neal, Kenneth J. Soda, Erlind G. Royer Department of Electrical Engineering United States Air Force Academy, CO1. IntroductionThe contemporary undergraduate curriculum of an Electrical Engineering program is packedwith required courses, making it a challenge to complete in four years. By necessity, nearly allof this work is theoretical, supported by laboratory work that is too often limited in scope. Themore practical aspects of

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ET Capstone Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jay Porter; Behbood Zoghi; Joseph Morgan

Session 2648 Integrating Project Management into the Capstone Senior Design Course Jay R. Porter, Joseph A. Morgan, and Behbood Zoghi Texas A&M UniversityAbstractThe public and private sectors are demanding entry-level technical personnel that are well schooled inthe fundamental principles of their respective engineering and technology disciplines. Both of thesegroups are placing a premium on graduates who have had significant design experiences and haveparticipated in a team environment. Finally, these potential employers are

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Graphics Applications in ME

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Raymond Yee

Session 2238 Significance of Mechanical Design Laboratory on Student Projects, A Preliminary Study Raymond K. Yee San Jose State UniversityIntroductionEngineering courses emphasize analysis and problem solving abilities a great deal. Many of thehomework assignments are designed for developing these analytical skills. However, besidesanalytical skills, creative thinking, communication, and teamwork skills are also very importantfrom the university’s perspective. Design projects for engineering classes can complement thedevelopment of these skills in

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Capstone Mechanical Engineering Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Wendy Reffeor; Jon Marvel

Session 3566 Crossing Course Boundaries: A Joint Class Project between Machine Component Design and Manufacturing Processes Courses Jon H. Marvel, Wendy Reffeor Padnos School of Engineering, Grand Valley State UniversityI. IntroductionA requirement of all mechanical engineering majors in the Padnos School of Engineering, GrandValley State University is a course in Machine Component Design. This course is normallytaken in the second semester of the senior year. During the same semester, most of themechanical engineering students will take an elective course

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Collaborations with Engineering Technology

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2002 Annual Conference

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PK Raju; Chetan Sankar; Glennelle Halpin; Gerald Halpin

Session Number: 2102 Dissemination of Innovations from Educational Research Projects: Experience with Focused Workshops P.K. Raju, Department of Mechanical Engineering, pkraju@eng.auburn.edu Chetan S. Sankar, Department of Management, Gerald Halpin, Department of Foundations, Leadership, and Technology, Glennelle Halpin, Department of Foundations, Leadership, and Technology Auburn University, AL AbstractDuring 1996, we formed the Laboratory for Innovative Technology and Engineering Education(LITEE). The

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ET Student Design Teams

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Edwards; David Forsman

Session 3550A Rapid Prototyping Application in Wind Tunnel Testing – A Student Project Robert Edwards, David Forsman The Pennsylvania State University at ErieAbstract:3D printing is a rapid prototyping process which creates a part layer by layer by spraying abinder into a bed of powder. This process is used in industry to produce concept models formarketing, fit, form and function models, as well as patterns for molds. A team of MechanicalEngineering Technology students at Penn State Erie, working on a senior project to test the downforce on a late model dirt stock car, has integrated the

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Issues in Physics and Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Hereford

Session 1380 Resource for Effective Engineering Physics Laboratory and Project Assignments James M. Hereford Department of Physics and Engineering Murray State University Murray, KY 42071Abstract: Though effective project and laboratory assignments are important in an engineeringeducation, the development of good assignments is impeded by several factors: (i) the presentacademic reward system does not encourage or promote laboratory development time; (ii) thereis no mechanism

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Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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Joseph Emanuel

Session 2257 The Capstone Design Project: A Total Integration of Engineering Communications Joseph T. Emanuel, H. Dan Kerns, and Eric Kumpf Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Technology Bradley UniversityA common complaint from industry is that engineers are not good communicators. Althoughmost engineering programs require a speech course and one or more writing courses, thesecourses generally have two characteristics that prevent them from teaching students to be goodcommunicators. First, they are not focused on technical

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kevin Grant; Ronald Welch

Session 2625 Implementing a Historically Constrained Student Design-Build Project in an Austere Environment LTC Ronald W. Welch 1LT Kevin Grant United States Military AcademyAbstractThis paper describes a one-semester design-build capstone project in which three senior civilengineering (CE) students designed and built two timber pedestrian bridges at an extremelychallenging, remote site. Design and construction was completed as part of a course within theABET-accredited CE program at the U.S. Military Academy

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Teaching Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Eric Lachance; Ronald Welch

Session 2125 K’NEX PROJECT MANAGEMENT EXERCISE: Demonstrating the Importance of Communication ERIC M. LACHANCE, RONALD W. WELCH United States Military AcademyABSTRACT A challenge for most young engineers is the ability to communicate a design, researchresults or new ideas in a clear concise manner. One technique used at the United States MilitaryAcademy (USMA) to demonstrate the importance of communication is the K’NEX ProjectManagement Exercise. The single day exercise navigates students through the entire designprocess and requires little student

Conference Session

Trends in Constr. Engr. Educ. I

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sonya Cooper

Session # 1421 A Project Delivery Technique for Historic Structures: A Case Study Sonya L. Cooper New Mexico State UniversityAbstractAs managers and superintendents utilize improved delivery systems, successful constructionprojects are increasingly delivered ahead of schedule and under budget. Historic preservationdiffers from new construction in that it utilizes several prescriptions for arresting deteriorationwhile retaining original materials and workmanship. Preservation techniques used in tandemwithin a single project may include protection, stabilization

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multim engr edu;dist.,servi&intern based

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Kristin Wood; Daniel McAdams; Robert B. Stone; Alan Dutson; Matthew Green

Session 3660 Integrating Service-Oriented Design Projects in the Engineering Curriculum Matthew Green, Alan Dutson, and Kristin Wood Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin Robert Stone and Dan McAdams Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Missouri-RollaAbstractEngineering curricula are undergoing continual advancements. Faculty seek to apply newtechniques and strategies to interest students, to address their diverse backgrounds, and toachieve a balance between theory and practical, hands

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Long; Donald Leone

Session 2793 Using Professional Mentors for Capstone Design Projects at a Distance Donald Leone, James Long University of Hartford / Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade and Douglas, Inc.AbstractFor over ten years, the University of Hartford’s Department of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering has used professional engineers from the local region as mentors for capstone designprojects. The mentor is asked to propose a candidate project, and if the project is selected by astudent group, to oversee its technical direction. The mentors become role models for thestudents, and by allowing students to visit their offices

Conference Session

Advancing Thermal Science Education

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Risa Robinson

Session ___ Improving Design of Experiment Skills through a Project Based Fluids Laboratory Risa J. Robinson Rochester Institute of Technology1.0 IntroductionThe educational community recognizes that the typical engineering curriculum has steadilydecreased the emphasis on the study of experimental techniques for problem solving. 1 Industrypartners suggest there is a need to place a greater emphasis on the study and practice ofexperimentation in the engineering curriculum.2 These recent trends are supported by results fromexit interviews

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Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kathryn Hollar; Beena Sukumaran

Session 2251Teaching Students Sustainability: An Interdisciplinary Design Project for Sophomore Engineering Students Kathryn A. Hollar and Beena Sukumaran Department of Chemical Engineering Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Rowan University Glassboro, NJ 08028AbstractUniversities can be leaders not only in research advances in reducing greenhouse gasemissions, but also have the potential to be leaders in practices that reduce greenhousegas emissions. All 56 colleges and universities in New Jersey recently

Conference Session

Design in the Engineering Core

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2002 Annual Conference

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Hamid Hadim; Sven Esche

Session 2366 Introduction of Project-based Learning into Mechanical Engineering Courses Sven K. Esche, Hamid A. Hadim Department of Mechanical Engineering Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, New Jersey 07030AbstractCurrently, engineering education is undergoing significant changes worldwide. In this context,the educational community is showing increasing interest in project-based learning

Conference Session

New/Emerging Technologies

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2002 Annual Conference

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Hakan Gurocak

Session no: 2163 Offering a Laboratory Course with a Design Project Over the Internet Hakan Gurocak Manufacturing Engineering Washington State University 14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave. Vancouver, WA 98686Abstract: This paper is about real time delivery of a Manufacturing Automation laboratorycourse at a distance by combining an interactive TV system and the Internet. After a briefintroduction of lab sessions the paper describes details of a design project and a method tomonitor student

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ECE Design, Capstone, and Engr. Practice

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2002 Annual Conference

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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

New Ideas

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2002 Annual Conference

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Oguz Soysal

Session Number 2533 PROJECT BASED LEARNING OF ENERGY CONVERSION PRINCIPLES AT FRESHMAN LEVEL Oguz A. Soysal Department of Physics and Engineering Frostburg State UniversityAbstractThe paper presents the educational outcomes of the freshman design project titled “WindPower Plant to Supply a Public Transportation System at a Ski Resort.” The topic wasselected to help students understand energy conversion principles by hands onexperience. Students also had a chance to see different aspects of the

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

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Hazel Pierson; Daniel Suchora

Session 2253 A Learning Tool for Engineering Freshmen A Model Rocket Project Daniel H. Suchora, Hazel M. Pierson Youngstown State UniversityIntroductionFirst semester engineering students bring a spectrum of understanding of the engineeringprofession is. They know that engineers design things and they have been told to be an engineeryou need to be good at math and science. Some are very committed to obtaining an engineeringdegree while others are not too sure if engineering is for them.Engineering freshmen have taken courses in math and

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Curriculum and Laboratory Development

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2002 Annual Conference

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Prasanta Kalita; Peter Lyne; Loren Bode; Alan Hansen

Session 2208 Introducing Engineering Design Concepts with a Micro Steam Car Project Alan C. Hansen 1, Prasanta K. Kalita 1, Peter W.L. Lyne 2, Loren E. Bode 1 1 Department of Agricultural Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/ 2 School of Bioresources Engineering and Environmental Hydrology, University of Natal, South AfricaAbstractA micro steam car construction project was introduced for the first time in Fall 2000 as part of anintroduction to agricultural engineering course for freshmen. Its purpose was to

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Keith Gardiner

Multimedia Session Number #2793 The Olympic Games: An Organizational Planning and Control Research Project Keith M. Gardiner Lehigh University, Center for Manufacturing Systems Engineering 200 West Packer Avenue, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA 610/758-5070 Fax 610/758-6527 E-mail: kg03@Lehigh.eduIntroductionEarlier papers1,2 introduced and described the concept of students as empowered employees in a“classroom factory.” The factory mission is to achieve previously agreed collaborative researchobjectives, deliver final reports describing findings and

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Julie Mills

Session 2793 A Case Study of Project-based Learning in Structural Engineering Julie Mills University of South AustraliaAbstractEngineering education remains dominated by the “chalk and talk” technique, despite the largebody of education research that demonstrates its ineffectiveness. Structural engineeringeducation also remains dominated by this pedagogy, with a heavy emphasis on lecture-baseddelivery of the theories of structural analysis and the behaviour of common constructionmaterials. The integration of these fields

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Marilyn Dyrud

Session 2793 Communication and Civil Engineering: An Integrated Approach to Senior Projects Marilyn A. Dyrud Oregon Institute of TechnologyFor the past year, Oregon Institute of Technology’s Civil Engineering and CommunicationsDepartments have been developing a creative curriculum venture: a unique senior designexperience that would combine the content of what had previously been three distinct classes:engineering design, technical writing, and group dynamics. Students would work in teams on areal design project, and the nine faculty

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Manocher Djassemi

Session 3548 Using Cost-Saving Hard Automation Laboratory Projects in Manufacturing Education Manocher Djassemi Murray State UniversityAbstract This paper discusses the benefits of incorporating hard automation-oriented projects inmanufacturing laboratories. This approach enables academic programs with limited funding toprovide a valuable hands-on experience in factory automation to students while they are inschool, rather than leaving it to be learned in the workplace. Two examples of laboratory projectsinvolving high and low degrees of hard

Conference Session

Projects to promote eng.; teamwork,K-12

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2002 Annual Conference

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Anant Kukreti

education and for outreach education to K-12 students.II. Experiments Illustrating Vibration Principles and Associated Measurement Equipment Page 7.427.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education The project was begun with the learning of basic vibration principles through literaturethat was provided to the students, and the help given by the two faculty mentors (authors of thispaper), who worked closely with the students. First the topic of strain gages was discussed, asthey