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Project Based Education in CE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Descoteaux; Kevin Sutterer

Session 2215 Before Senior Design – Integration of Project-Based Learning in a Multi-Course Structural Engineering Sequence Kevin G. Sutterer, P.E. and Thomas J. Descoteaux, P.E. Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyIntroduction and BackgroundUndergraduate civil engineering design courses should feature a prepared instructor (mentor)facilitating a quality course curriculum to motivate students to use a suite of resources (includingthe mentor) to learn and understand the subject. Some undergraduate civil engineering designclasses are required for all civil engineering students, while

Conference Session

Capstone Mechanical Engineering Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Yves Mercadier; Pierre Vittecoq; Patrik Doucet; Jean-Sébastien Plante; Francois Charron; Yves Van Hoenacker

INTRODUCTIONSince 1992, students in our undergraduate mechanical engineering program have been carryingout major design projects. The process of integrating major design project activities was spreadover three phases. The first phase, which took place between 1992 and 1994, consisted of a pilotprogram with forty students. The implementation of an engineering design option between 1995and 1999 constituted the second phase. The last phase embraced the complete reform of theundergraduate curriculum based on the development of competencies and the horizontal/verticalintegration of engineering sciences and engineering design.One of the principal objectives of the major design projects is to allow the students to live amajor design experience within the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Takoi Hamrita

Session 1526Micro-Controllers in the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Curriculum at The University of Georgia Takoi K. Hamrita University of GeorgiaAbstractThis paper is to report on a NSF sponsored project aimed at implementing a new pedagogicalapproach for teaching embedded systems to engineering students who do not necessarily have anelectrical/electronics background. In particular, we will present two microcontroller coursesdeveloped at the University of Georgia for Biological and Agricultural Engineering students.Educational

Conference Session

Grad. and Upper Level Undergrad. BME Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Magin; Christopher Comer; J Hetling

. Aprimary objective of the curriculum is to present contemporary Neural Engineering topics asdesign problems. This approach, which utilizes engineering paradigms within the context ofneurobiology, is most efficiently taught in a highly integrative setting emulating the researchenvironment. BioMEMS: Bio-Micro-Electromechanical Systems.Neural Engineering curriculum. As stated above, it is now appropriate and advantageous toprovide undergraduates with training in neural engineering. Building an undergraduate NeuralEngineering curriculum was challenging for three reasons:1. The intellectual domain of neural engineering spans several traditional curricula,2. The methods of the neural engineer are often technically complex and founded in advanced

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Renshaw; Joseph Ekstrom

Session 2793 Curriculum and Issues in a First Course of Computer Networking for Four-year Information Technology Programs Joseph J. Ekstrom, Stephen R. Renshaw Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah AbstractNo field evolves more rapidly than computer networking technologies. However, theskills necessary to evaluate, integrate, and manage networking equipment are consideredfundamental for an IT professional. This paper presents a curriculum for a first course incomputer networking, the experience of two instructors in teaching

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Wood; David Shallcross

acombined degree program. By integrating the courses from the very first day of their studiesstudents are able to complete their combined degrees in just five years for most combinations orsix years for engineering and law. The engineering component of the combined degree programsis fully accredited with no core engineering material being lost. These combined degreeprograms provide a structural paradigm change in Engineering Education which enablessignificant flexibility in the undergraduate program and produces graduates having great appealto employers. In addition the graduates have a wide range of skills and background which allowthem to tackle the challenges of the future. For example consider the futures that await graduateswith two full

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in CET and MET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vernon Lewis; Paul Kauffmann

. This presented an opportunityto enhance the CET curriculum with the addition of course work in the business andmanagement area. The next section discusses the surveying advisory board recommendation inmore detail to provide context.Issues with Business and ManagementFirst, the licensing board for Surveyors assessed the disciplinary actions that the board wastaking currently and noted that in many instances, the issues were indicative of a lack of trainingin the areas of business and management.Several members of the licensing board were also members of the surveying advisory committeeand saw in their own businesses that the students needed more business and management skillsfor advancement in many workplace situations. Over the course of their

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Valarie Arms; Aly Valentine; J. Richard Weggel

Session 2793 Drexel's Challenge in its Innovative Freshman Core Curriculum: Continuous Collaboration and Assessment Valarie M. Arms, J. Richard Weggel, Aly Valentine Drexel UniversityIntroductionAt Drexel University, the College of Engineering institutionalized an innovative program for thefirst two years in engineering in order to implement some of the new research on learning. Thegoal was to improve engineering education by focusing on the student's experience. In theprocess, the radical change in approach required that the faculty model collaborative learning

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assurance in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sean Clancey; Anton Pintar; Jason Keith

use computing technology incommunications, ability to use computing technology in engineering analysis/design, ability tosynthesize and integrate knowledge across disciplines, ability to use a wide range of experimentalapparatus, environmental aspects of engineering practice, practice of engineering on a global scale,relation of engineering to societal and cultural issues, and preparation to become a licensedprofessional engineer.In addition to responding to the above questions that were asked of all alumni from the college ofengineering, alumni were polled with several departmental specific questions. The most liked aspectsof the curriculum were: faculty helpful and available, program challenging and intense, hands onexperience, labs, and a

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research and New Directions

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Habibur Rahman

courses in electrical engineering curriculum are usually three-credit hours Page 7.422.4resulting in a radar course without a formal laboratory. However, the avionics program at Saint Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002 American Society for Engineering EducationLouis University has an Avionics Radar Lab, which is used for lab demonstrations to providesome lab experience. Lab demonstrations include basic and important experiments illustratingthe principles of radar systems, and thus provide an insight to microwave signal measurements

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Arch. Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Murali Paranandi

skills need to be part of theinstruction in the foundation courses. This is not without controversy. Vasquez deVelasco and Clayton [1999] see an introductory CAAD course as a necessary prerequisitefor participation in design studios that employ computer methods. On the other hand,some worry that the addition of such a course into already crowded curricula may comeat the expense of displacing traditional subjects and call for integrating computerinstruction within the existing courses. Several ideas on balancing this have beendiscussed at a special session titled Ideal Digital Curriculum, in a recent ECAADEconference, in Helsinki [PENTILLA, 2001: 165-199]. Digital skills bearing on

Conference Session

New Ideas

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2002 Annual Conference

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Shawn Klawunder; Blace Albert; Ozer Arnas

Army; and alifetime of service to the nation.4 The Department accomplishes this mission while offering anextensive engineering curriculum to add to the comprehensive core curriculum. The MechanicalEngineering Division offers a degree in General Mechanical Systems and one in AeronauticalSystems. There is a unique blend of faculty that executes this academic program. There are fourpermanent military faculty, eighteen rotating military faculty, and four civilians within theMechanical Engineering Division. The academic ranks of the faculty include instructor, assistantprofessor, associate professor, and professor. The rotating military faculty are officers, toinclude one from the Navy and two from the Air Force, that have an average of thirteen

Conference Session

Panel on Entrepreneurship Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Norman Kaderlan; Mary Ann Rankin; John Butler; Steven Nichols

at Austin Austin Texas AbstractCommercialization of new technology (and new applications of existing technology)involves a complicated mixture of disciplines that require technical, financial, business,marketing, legal, and other expertise. Faculty in the College of Engineering at theUniversity of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin) recently examined the philosophicaljustification of offering course material involving the technical enterprise(entrepreneurship) into the engineering curriculum. One of the important issuesconsidered by the faculty was the question of what should be taught in engineering andwhat should be taught in business and other disciplines.This paper

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Doran; Leo Denton; Dawn McKinney

cause problems for me in this course. c Strongly disagree c Disagree c Don’t know c Agree c Strongly agree I often think of new ideas about how to apply concepts. c Strongly disagree c Disagree c Don’t know c Agree c Strongly agree Figure 2: Likert scale instrument to measure affective objectives Statement Response Working diligently for a course and __ N/A __ Aware __ Obey __ Value putting forth one’s best effort is an __ Integrated value __ Crucial part of who I am important student responsibility. Immediately beginning work on __ N/A __ Aware __ Obey __ Value assignments is an important student

Conference Session

ET Interdisciplinary Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Clark; Donald McMurchie

specificcourse requirements, and based on our earlier experience with integrated classes, we developed acourse that combines instruction in both history and materials science. Titled “Steel and theIndustrial Revolution,” the course was offered in the Winter of 2001.The class served as both an introduction to materials science for Mechanical and ManufacturingEngineering students and as an introductory course in the history of the Industrial Revolution.Classroom instruction was a seamless blend of material from both disciplines, with bothinstructors in the classroom at all times and combined homework and examination assignments.This paper describes the development of the course, its advantages and disadvantages, and ourplans to use what we learned to

Conference Session

Instructional Technology--What Works

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2002 Annual Conference

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Vijay Kanabar; Rumen Stainov; Tanya Zlateva; Eric Braude

of human endeavor have dramatically increased the need foreducation and training in the field of information technology. 2 As comments from someof our students will reveal, distance learning has provided them an opportunity to takeclasses and pursue higher education, which they might not have otherwise. Withcomputing technology evolving at a rapid pace students in the IT field students need to Page 7.685.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2002, American Society for Engineering Educationtake courses to improve job skills and at the same time

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Manocher Djassemi

Robotics Challenge and the first place award of the FPEP.Conclusion Based on the two projects described above, use of hard automation projects as part of theformal and informal curriculum seems to be a good approach to (1) providing students goodtraining in factory automation in an academic environment, and (2) easing funding problems oflaboratory projects depending on the extent of application of hard automation. Although the approach to teaching capstone computer-integrated manufacturing coursesdescribed here requires that individual faculty members have considerable practical experiencein various areas, similar results are achievable by teamworking among expert faculty within adepartment. A typical hard automation

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Angus; Thomas Hulbert

to the assembly processas needed, when needed. In curriculum design, the mathematics and physics are the “parts”(topics) that need to be delivered to the student just as that student begins to study technicalmaterial. The material is first divided into learning objectives that have measurable inputs andoutputs. These objectives are connected in a precedence diagram. See Figure 1 for an example. x = yz MATH OHM'S LAW: PHYSICS e = Ri O H M 'S LA W RESISTIVE TECHNOLOGY TEC HNO LO GY EFFECTS

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jihad Albayyari; Bob Lahidji

EducationAnother curriculum component consists of 24 semester hours of basic sciences andmathematics.Eight of the 24 hours must be in laboratory science. Twelve of the 24 hours must be inmathematics.The third curriculum component is 24 semester hours of communications, humanities,and social science courses. According to ABET, "The remaining 28 semester hours ormore should be designed for a well-rounded engineering technology graduate who canfunction successfully as an engineering technologist”4. (Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology, 2001).In addition, the engineering technology graduates must have computer proficiency tosolve technical problems along with a cooperative education experience for a maximumof eight semester hours is strongly

Conference Session

Innovative Laboratory Instruction

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2002 Annual Conference

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Steven Hietpas

longer adequatelyprepares undergraduate students for a career in power engineering. The effective integration ofpower electronics, electric drives, and system related issues into the EMEC curriculum demandssignificant redesign of both the course and laboratory exercises. One such redesign is currently beingsupported under the Adaptation and Implementation track of the NSF’s CCLI program at SouthDakota State University3. Emerging from this work is an efficient pedagogical approach forintegration of power electronics, drives and the permanent magnet DC motor.Using a "just-in-time" strategy, successfully developed at University of Minnesota4 and furthermodified at SDSU3, four laboratory exercises and corresponding lecture material associated with

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Innovative Curriculum Development in EET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Rafic Bachnak

pages.9. G. Perdikaris, “Computer control of machines and processes,” 2000 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Session 1359, 9 pages.10. R. O’Brien, Jr., “Matlab simulation projects for a first course in linear control systems,” 2000 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Session 2520, 7 pages.11. R. Ramachandran, R. Ordonez, S. Farrell, Z. Gephardt, and H. Zhang, “Multidisciplinary control experiments based on the proportional-integral-derivative (PID) concept,” 2001 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Session 1526, 17 pages.12. B. Diong, “Providing an updated dynamic systems and controls lab experience,” 1999 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Session 2532, 9 pages.13. B. Diong, C. Della-Piana, and R. Wicker, “Taking dynamic

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; Dana Burnett; Michael Warren; Rainer Fink

into teams of two or three. Each teamthen has to use both platforms to test the static linearity of an 8-bit DAC (DAC0808, NationalSemiconductor, Inc.). This allows each team to correlate test results between the two platforms andallows inter-team correlation of results as well. Linearity testing consists of acquiring the output voltageof the DAC for all possible input codes and then calculating the six major static characteristics of theDAC including gain, gain error, offset, offset error, integral non-linearity (INL), and differential non-linearity (DNL). [2] An example of this data can be seen in Figure 2. Figure 2 - Example of data from an 8-bit DAC including DNL and INL test parameters

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bahman Motlagh

perspectivegreatly enhanced the analytical processes necessary for problem solving [1].The use of case studies in the curriculum also proved an effective tool in enhancingproblem solving strategies. Students need “opportunities to link the theoretical constructsdeveloped in the classroom with the practical application in the workforce” [4].Perhaps the greatest advantage for using cases in an engineering classroom is thatstudents must focus on the applications in the workforce by solving real world problems.There are numerous advantages for integrating cases into an engineering curriculum.These can be generalized in four main categories: 1) cases provide students with a link tothe real world; 2) cases develop students’ critical thinking and problem solving

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Otieno

vision in manufacturing. 1,2 In reality, however, most collegemanufacturing courses still tend to be limited to traditional techniques of inspection with fewapplications of machine vision. Students also rarely get a chance to gain the necessaryexperience of the entire process of vision applications and integration into an automationenvironment. The Department of Technology at Northern Illinois University (NIU), havingrealized the need to integrate such areas into the curriculum, has embarked on major curricularreforms. One of the main goals of this curricular improvement is therefore to incorporate someimportant areas of automation such as machine vision within our Manufacturing EngineeringTechnology (MET) curriculum. Over the past two

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Karthik Soundararajan; S. Manian Ramkumar; Immanuel Edinbarough

with a computer based data acquisition and control system in developing an intelligent control architecture. 3. The successful interface of LabVIEW with the experimental setup to control the entire experiment. 4. A platform for future developments.Some suggestions for future work: 1. Integrate a milling machine with the setup to machine the parts and then check for dimensional accuracy. 2. Transmit live video of the operation of the cell to the web page. 3. Incorporate security in the system in terms of giving access to the users to operate the cell.X. Bibliography 1. Edinbarough I and Ramkumar M., A feasibility study for the implementat ion of non-site based hands-on

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in MET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Salvatore Marsico

efficiency andproductivity in an automated manufacturing environment. Systems typically integrate robots, awide variety of machine tools, material handling equipment, packaging devices, sensors, Page 7.648.2actuators, controllers, and similar other hardware.1 Furthermore, flexible manufacturing systems Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationtake advantage of the production floor-space envelope by enabling the cells to be organized invarious configurations such as U shape, in-line, and L shape. These

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mott

-9714424, and DUE-0071079. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.+ The concept of Robotic Grippers, Inc. is based on a project developed by Professor Thomas E. Endres of theMechanical and Aerospace Engineering department at the University of Dayton.References 1. A Novel Curriculum for the Associate Degree in Manufacturing Engineering Technology. Dayton, Ohio: Sinclair Community College, Advanced Integrated Manufacturing Center, National Center of Excellence for Advanced Manufacturing Education. 2000. 2. Savery, John R. and Thomas M. Duffy. “Problem Based Learning: An

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in MET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Cooley

offered 14HP engines from its surplus inventory at aprice of $10 per horsepower. These brand new engines included an on-board starter/ignitionswitch, solid-state charging system, counterbalance shaft, integral fuel pump, and 2-gallon fueltank. Prototype work earlier in the year revealed that all of these additional features were worthyof serious consideration. The integral fuel pump, in particular, was necessary for inclusion of arotometer-type instantaneous fuel consumption display. It was installed after the fuel pumpusing automotive fuel lines, and placed next to the tachometer display. Additionally, the startingand counterbalance features made the overall system much less intimidating to some students,particularly women in the program

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ricardo Molina; Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

the way.V. The Proposal of the ProjectThe present proposal of an Engineering Program of SENAC School of Engineering andTechnology has emerged inserted in a context of international integration, of deep and radicalchanges in producing systems and society. To defeat the demand of a changing work market,more than ever it is necessary to have a constant modernization of a curriculum. Attempt to that ,the Telecommunication Engineering Program was elaborated so that it is possible any change inthe curriculum that is necessary to modernize the program 3.This Program contains in its curriculum what was named "free period". It is called so because itis a time when the students have to attend classes in the several other areas of knowledge in oneof the

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Graphics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Wiebe; Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

other tasks which leave them little time to do any productivedesign work. Because of these extra responsibilities, it is critical that the technologist andtechnician be well versed in these topics. Technologists will be immersed in the integration andrelationships of these topics. They will spend time creating geometry, managing databases,integrating systems, and exploring down-stream uses for the model. They will be immersed inlaboratory exercises to emphasize these topics throughout their formal education. Techniciansmay not cover the breadth of material that engineers and technologists deal with, but they willexplore, with a great deal of depth, several of the topics of the aforementioned curriculum model,such as geometry creation techniques