Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lorcan Folan; David Doucette; Gunter Georgi

communication skills, project management, as well as overview lectures on major technical and non-technical disciplines.2. Creation of a large, interdisciplinary undergraduate laboratory, used by students from many disciplines to plan a variety of engineering experiments in a common space.3. Use of laptop computers as design tools that are integrated into the Engineering courses.I. IntroductionOur world is becoming ever more complex. It is no longer possible to cope by relying onexpertise from a single discipline. Concurrent Engineering is now a practice used throughoutindustry, and its participants are expected to be able to work in an inter-disciplinary environment.A second trend is the renewed emphasis on design, as opposed to analysis, in

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Olakunle Harrison

automotive arena.An automotive systems laboratory supports the automotive systems design course. As part of thecourse, students get to disassemble a modern (1996 GM Northstar) V-8 engine and identify eachsubassembly and component. Selected subsystems of the engine are then reverse-engineered asclass assignments. The laboratory houses an electric vehicle and contains a variety of otherautomotive sub-assemblies for students to study. Students complete one design project in thecourse. They get to design a major subsystem for Tuskegee University’s SAE Mini-Baja contestvehicle.A survey of students taking the course indicates a substantially high level of interest in thecourse. One indicator of the level of student interest in the course is the increased

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robi Polikar; Robert R. Krchnavek; Raul Ordonez; Peter Jansson; John Schmalzel; Shreekanth Mandayam; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

Electrical Engineering. The recent ABET Criteria 2000 guidelinesfor electrical and/or computer engineering make explicit distinctions between electrical and computerengineering based only on mathematics. Electrical Engineering requires differential equations, linearalgebra, complex variables, and discrete mathematics. Computer Engineering requires discretemathematics.Engineering Clinics All four engineering programs share an Engineering Clinic component, which is an eight-semester sequence of laboratory-based instruction. One of the members of the Rowan Advisory Boardwas from Harvey Mudd—the Engineering Clinic was proposed as one component of the upper-divisionprograms of study. In addition, there were some “workshops” in the curricula as

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Duarte; Brian Butz

Session 2793 Interactive Multimedia Intelligent Tutoring System (IMITS) : A Progress Report Brian P. Butz, Michael Duarte Intelligent Systems Application Laboratory College of Engineering Temple University Philadelphia, PA 19122Abstract The Interactive Multimedia Intelligent Tutoring System (IMITS) is an intelligenttutoring system that is focussed on the instruction of undergraduate electrical engineeringstudents. The material covered is that

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Newland; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater; Kevin Dahm

pedagogy of teaching chemical reaction engineering is continually advancing through theuse of new computational tools such as POLYMATH and MATLAB; interactive computer ap-plications; and a new emphasis in textbooks on relating theory to industrially relevant chemicalreactions. What is currently lacking in this area are chemical reaction engineering experimentsthat employ realistic reaction engineering systems. Nearly all of the reaction engineering ex-periments, reported in the literature, employ simple experiments that can be described using asingle overall reaction. In addition most laboratory experiments do not examine the process fluidmechanics of the reactor and how this effects the product distribution. As a result, students onlyvisualize

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David W. Miller; Doris Brodeur

Session 1302 The CDIO Capstone Course: An Innovation in Undergraduate Systems Engineering Education David W. Miller, Doris R. Brodeur, John E. Keesee Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAbstractIn February 1999, the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT initiated a new three-semester capstone laboratory and space systems design experience taught in the context ofauthentic engineering practice, i.e., Conceive, Design, Implement, and Operate (CDIO). Theobjective of CDIO is to teach the basic concepts and disciplines of engineering in the context

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in MET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Salvatore Marsico

students are required to take an accompanying courseproduction design laboratory. During the pre-bench top era this laboratory course was offeredduring a summer session at the end of the freshman year. This format provided students with acommon laboratory experience. However, the summer laboratory experience lacked the capacityto correlate lecture materials with actual laboratory exercises. This disjoint provided stimulus forchange, and change did occur in the form of two concurrent course offerings. In response tothese changes each campus location of Penn State University offering the associate degree inmechanical engineering technology was required to procure equipment for these courseofferings. In conjunction with a grant received from The

Conference Session

Computers in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Hess

course relies heavily on involving the students in hands-on learning activities, itassists them to better understand theoretical concepts. The hands-on approach utilizes laboratoryactivities and is ideally suited for teaching the concepts of design and analysis of metallic andplastics welding fabrications and castings, lathe turnings, as well as the set-up and analysis ofplastics molding (injection, compression, thermoforming and extrusion blow) investigations.The laboratory environment, a custom facility containing laboratory size equipment, encouragesstudents to develop and present solutions to manufacturing processes, organizational andproduction systems problems through the use of solid modeling software, solid object processingplus metallic

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Trippe

individual laboratory assignments.Text SelectionIt is imperative that the instructor use a text which completely covers the key topics foreach course. Additionally, the text must be technically accurate, readable, concise andhopefully filled with example programs and graphics (to accommodate visual learners).Finding a textbook that meets these requirements and emphasizes technical problemsolving is not an easy task.Generally texts address the use of programming and software code development to solvebusiness problems, display and graphics problems or engineering problems. The textselected for the first two courses of the sequence is based upon the solution of scientificand engineering problems (5). In addition to the basic C++ language features

Conference Session

Laptop/Handheld Computing in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Avanzato

Session 1620 Handheld Computers to Enhance Active Learning in a Digital Systems Course Bob Avanzato Penn State AbingtonAbstractPenn State Abington has integrated the student use of handheld computer technology tofoster active and collaborative learning experiences in the classroom and laboratory in asophomore-level introductory digital systems course in the fall of 2001 and 2002. Thehandheld computer provided each student with access to useful course material and tools,which enhanced the learning experience in and out of the classroom. Additionally

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Petersen; Richard Hughey; David Meek; Alexandra Carey

engineeringdesign of different classical bus architectures, and discuss various CPU’s and peripherals. In thelaboratory students’s design and build their own custom microprocessor projects using thepopular and versatile 68HC11, an embedded CISC (“complex instruction set computer”) CPU.This laboratory particularly needs an adroit understanding of the HC11’s software architecture,i.e. its unique assembly language. Giving students a better introduction to HC11 assemblylanguage would allow us to concentrate more on hardware system architecture and advancedsoftware programming techniques like mixed assembly and C, which has routinely been taughtin the laboratory since 1995.Based on these diverse needs, we took the unusual step of deciding to teach two

Conference Session

Issues in Physics and Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Harold Evensen

. Therefore,the upper-level physics curriculum was modified and course content was altered in order to addand codify the needed engineering content. This was developed collaboratively by all three EPfaculty, and includes: developing an “Engineering Physics Lab” to introduce concepts inexperimentation, modeling, design and communication; and incorporating engineering intocourses on classical mechanics, optics, and quantum mechanics. Additionally, a course onsensors has been created; engineering ethics appears throughout the curriculum; and the ModernPhysics laboratory has been altered to serve as a better “bridge” to the Engineering Physicsportion of the curriculum. This continuing development has been aided by feedback from ourstudents, graduates and

Conference Session

What's in Store for the ChE Curriculum?

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Helen Hollein; Nada Assaf-Anid

),Nestle (NJ), and Kraft (NY, NJ) to the Advisory Board. Future additions will include membersfrom other local food, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology companies that hire our graduatesincluding Bristol Myers-Squibb, Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, OSI Pharmaceuticals, PepsiCo, andSeagrams. In an effort to continuously meet the needs of our constituencies (employers andstudents), and encouraged by the reported 11% increase in employment in the pharmaceuticalsector between 1994 and 1997 in New York State 1, plus the doubling in size of thebiotechnology industry in the U.S. as a whole between 1993 and 1999 2, we have revised thechemical engineering curriculum. This paper presents those revisions at both the undergraduate

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Dunning

that are utilized as electrical harnesses for FordAerostar vans. Class lecture time on PLCs alone is limited to three weeks, but laboratoryassignments cover four to five weeks. Figure 1 demonstrates an assembly station. Figure 1 - Lanco Assembly System - Station 1 Once students have mastered the basics of PLCs, we move on to DC machines. Asmentioned previously, we spend approximately two weeks covering DC machine theory. Then Page 7.1177.2we transition to power electronic devices used in DC machine control. We spend three weeks onpower electronics concepts and drive basics. In the laboratory, students

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca Willits

transportknowledge3. Topics include physical properties of the body and cells, solute and oxygentransport in biological systems, transport properties of blood, pharmacokinetic analysis,extracorporeal devices, and bioartificial organs. Throughout the course, it was essential thatstudents recognize the limitations of solving problems with fundamental equations and theimportance of assumptions when investigating realistic problems. Therefore, the objectives forthis course were: (i) to analyze mass and fluid transport both in the body and in bioartificialorgans, (ii) to create, fabricate, and implement a laboratory for introductory transport, and (iii) toimprove oral communication skills for scientific presentations.The text was used in combination with

Conference Session

Control in the Classroom

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Nippert

DMC and comparisons to PIDare presented.IntroductionThe Online Widener Laboratories (OWL) is an online series of instructional modules forvarious aspects of Chemical Engineering written as JAVA applets running clientside(1,2). A portion of OWL is dedicated to process control including Model PredictiveControl (MPC) especially dynamic matrix control (DMC). Simulations of Single InputSingle Output (SISO) process and a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) process areused to illustrate and compare MPC to classic PID control. The modules illustrate bothDMC and conventional PID control of the same processes, allowing students to perform avariety of interesting and instructive process control experiments; several of which arediscussed in this

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Hemminger; Ralph Ford

and image processing. One of thedriving forces behind DSP is the overwhelming interest in real-time processing as, for example,in high definition television, spread spectrum communications, and speech recognition systems.It is clear that DSP is instrumental in conveying the principles of many topics covered inelectrical engineering particularly with respect to modeling and simulation. The objective of this paper is to describe a multi-course sequence which employs DSP atmany levels of the undergraduate curriculum for the purpose of enabling students to visualize,test, and implement concepts introduced in the classroom. This is accomplished through thecompletion of special projects and laboratory exercises in multiple courses with the goal

Conference Session

Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Edmund Tsang

with the goal of creating a discovery-oriented learning Page 7.702.2environment so students can discover for themselves the engineering principles and relationships Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationthrough guided, hands-on activities. Therefore, the laboratory period begins with a 15- to 20-minute presentation on the relevance of each week's hands-on activities and to give studentsfeedback on their work for the session, and to set in context the session's work in relation to thelarger

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Nebojsa Jaksic

Caine8 state thatthe brain learns optimally when appropriately challenged, but downshifts under perceived threat.The aforementioned self-efficacy enhancement activities are applied in the Computer IntegratedManufacturing (CIM) course at the University of Southern Colorado in the IndustrialEngineering Program. The CIM course is a senior-level design-based course dealing withmodern technologies such as automation, computer-numerically controlled (CNC) machines androbotics. The CIM laboratory curriculum includes hands-on experiences with programmablelogic controllers (PLC), CNC mills and robots. PLCs are industrial grade computers usedextensively in automation. In this study, we concentrate on the PLC experience. A set oflaboratory exercises based

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Carl Steidley; Stephen Dannelly

Session 2620 “Choo Choos”, Robots and Computer-Based Instrumentation for Students 1 R. Stephen Dannelly, Carl W. Steidley Texas A&M University – Corpus ChristiAbstract This paper describes a versatile and innovative active learning laboratory currently underdevelopment that will be used to teach a wide variety of computer science and mathematicssubjects. The laboratory, equipped with a model railroad system, autonomous mobile robots anda network of control computers, offers students hands-on experiences with hardware interfacing,data

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Otieno

programs in the next two years. Throughpartnership with industry and our advisory boards, several areas were identified for improvementor incorporation into the curriculum. Within the automation course, one major area that wasidentified as either lacking or weak was the applications of machine vision in manufacturing. Asa result this structural reform sought to examine this area critically and incorporate it into thecurriculum. In addition, this restructuring has led to major laboratory developments and tostrengthen the vision area, several state of the art vision systems were acquired throughpartnership with DVTSensorsä. Another major motivation for the curriculum reform activities has been the regionalimpetus. NIU is strategically

Conference Session

Unique Lab Experiments

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Ledlie Klosky; Allen Estes

Mechanics ofMaterials course. Student will have already conducted a simple tension test and puretorsion test on specimens under controlled conditions using prescribed methods inprevious laboratory experiences. The objective of the beam-bending lab is for thestudents to demonstrate the validity of the elastic bending stress equation. Students aregiven a bucket of parts and told to design their experiment. The parts include aninstrumented beam, weights, clamps, measuring devices, and assorted spare parts.Students are asked to design a scale for the measurement of mass using these pieces.They define the beam support conditions, make all necessary measurements, attach thestrain gage leads to a strain indicator and apply the weights. Assuming elastic

Conference Session

New EET Course Development

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Lozano

after the first few topics are covered, the instructorcan select which ones of the remaining topics will be covered and in what order depending onthe particular interests of the student s and instructor, the integration of laboratory experimentsand, in general, the focus for the course. 1.- INTRODUCTION : OVERVIEW O F SATELLITE 7.- THE SPACE S UB-SYSTEM SYSTEMS 2.- B RIEF D ESCRIPTION OF O RBITS 8.- THE EARTH S UBSYSTEM 3.- THE G EOSTATIONARY O RBIT 9.- A NALOG A ND DIGITAL SIGNALS 4.- PROPAGATION O F RADIO W AVES 10.- T HE SPACE LINK 5.- W AVE POLARIZATION 11.- INTERFERENCE A ND

Conference Session

Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisle Hites; Eric Nauman; Edgar O'Neal; Kay C. Dee; Glen Livesay

focusing onteamwork issues, teaching style, students’ belief in their own abilities and desire to continue theireducation, peer interactions, and laboratory projects. While student perceptions are only one partof a comprehensive assessment program, they are certainly important. By addressing studentperceptions of core outcomes and fundamental pedagogical issues, TUBA should be relevant to arange of BMEN programs which offer a wide variety of specialized “tracks,” different areas ofprogrammatic emphasis, etc. Given that there exists a need for a measure such as the TUBA, thefollowing sections will describe the development and subsequent validation and reliabilitytesting that has been thus far performed.Development of the TUBAIn keeping with the

Conference Session

New EET Course Development

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Youakim Al Kalaani; Abul Azad

adequate instruction coverage for this area ofstudy. As a result, a laboratory component was added to support student training.Most modern power electronics and machine drive circuitry are semiconductor-basedtechnology. Nearly all solid-state devices, such as diodes, transistors, thyristors, MOSFEETs,and IGBTs are covered in basic electronics courses. Thus, students eligible to enroll in theelectric machine course should be ready to tackle advanced topics. During the development ofthis course, good efforts were made to avoid abstracts and general field theory that requiresadvanced math and calculus. Instead, basic electric circuit analysis was used to explain machinebasics with some trigonometry and algebra. This applied approach was found to be

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Reid

Education; many classes and workshops are presented in conjunction with theseconferences as well as stand-alone activities. Some may even be available on campus forinstructors.This paper will discuss practical applications of active and collaborative teaching techniques whichcan be used in the classroom with little to moderate preparation. In addition, the paper willdescribe various activities the author has collected which can be used to increase lecture and labinvolvement in the lecture and laboratory material without costing excessive classroom time. Thepaper should be especially of interest to new educators and instructors looking for ways to beginintroducing interesting and useful techniques into their lectures. This will not be an exhaustive

Conference Session

Pre-College Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

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

6-year traditional collegepreparatory school with a diverse student population. The course is nearly identical to theIntroduction to Engineering sequence required of beginning engineering students at The OhioState University, but has been modified to be taught over an entire school year instead of two10-week quarters. Fifty-nine students are enrolled. A math teacher and a science teacher atWalnut Hills High School are team teaching the course during the 2001-02 school year withsupport from OSU faculty and staff. A grant from General Electric provided the funds topurchase laboratory equipment, textbooks, and software for the course. In addition, the grantsupported the high school instructors’ preparation to teach the course.This paper was

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Matthews; James Ritter; James Mc Intyre; James Becnel; Chuck Holland

Session 1613 Fundamentals of Fixed Bed Adsorption Processes: Analysis of Adsorption Breakthrough and Desorption Elution Curves. James M. Becnel, Charles E. Holland, James McIntyre, Michael A. Matthews, and James A. Ritter Department of Chemical Engineering University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29205IntroductionFixed bed adsorption processes are ubiquitous throughout the chemical process and otherindustries. This laboratory is an extension of a lab proposed by Cruz et. al. (2000), which isdesigned to allow students to

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Feng Liu; Fazil Najafi

planning.The program incorporates Information Technology (IT) to facilitate students’ creativity andindependent thinking. Lectures, tutorials, laboratory sessions, design projects, practical training,industrial visits and seminars are employed to equip the students with principles and practicalaspects of CE.In both institutions, students typically complete the degree course requirement in four years. Atthe UF, a bachelor degree study is divided into two phases: general education and upperdivisions. In the first two years, students take: Writing for Engineer, Humanities, Social &Behavior Science ,General Chemistry, General Chemistry Laboratory, Analytical Geometry &Calculus, Physics with Calculus and Physics Laboratory (see Table 1).In the

Conference Session

ET Interdisciplinary Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Biswajit Ray

understanding ofelectronics to building a television to learning new technology innovations and breakthroughs.The course becomes interesting to students only when the subject material is discussed inrelation to real-world electronic gadgets as evidenced by the course-level assessment-improvement-verification feedback process. The course starts with basics of electricity and endswith microcomputer architecture, and encompasses significant hands-on circuit building andtesting throughout the semester. Details on curriculum, assessment, l aboratory exercises,teaching and laboratory methodologies, homework and textbook issues, and techniques that workas well as the ones that do not work are presented herein.IntroductionAn introductory electronics course as