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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Samir Moujaes

should also be grounded in the design aspect of the technology not just in theresearch part as usually maybe the case in academia. Meredith, D. (1990) and Fung A.S.have presented some BASIC language design programs and a computer-controlledlaboratory air conditioning units respectively to teach HVAC courses. Walton A. et. al.(1996) discussed the development of three laboratory experiments to teach HVACprinciples. Santos J.J. (2001) emphasized controls education for HVAC design engineers.Some researchers like Stevens J.W. (1997) emphasized desiccant instruction in HVACcourses, others like Oppenheim P. (1994) emphasized introduction of the environmentaltechnology component in the curriculum of building construction programs. The next tworeferences

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Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ruxandra Botez; Iulian Cotoi

Session 1928 Use of the MS Flight Simulator in the teaching of the Introduction to avionics course Iulian Cotoi, Ruxandra Mihaela Botez Ecole de technologie supérieure Département de génie de la production automatisée 1100 Notre Dame Ouest Montréal, Qué., Canada, H3C 1K3IntroductionThe course Introduction to avionics GPA-745 is an optional course in the Aerospace program givenin the Department of Automated Production Engineering at École de technologie supérieure

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Raghu Echempati; Arnaldo Mazzei

Session 1566 Teaching and Learning Experiences of an Integrated Mechanism and Machine Design Course Raghu Echempati, Arnaldo Mazzei Kettering University Mechanical Engineering Department 1700 West Third Av Flint, MI 48504 USAAbstractThe objective of this paper is to discuss some of the issues concerning the teaching and learningexperiences of an integrated mechanical assemblies and mechanical engineering

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Physics in the K-12 Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

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Vivian Vasquez; Andrea I. Prejean; Sarah Irvine; Teresa Larkin

the physics laboratory where they were given an opportunity to build their ownmotors. This activity was designed in a constructivist-based, interactive engagement format. Atthe conclusion of this session, the students were allowed to keep their motors and take themhome and share with their parents and other family members. The students really enjoyed thisactivity. On the third day of the institute, a session on using the web and unexpected internetadventures was presented. Internet resources were highlighted and shared and the many uses ofthe web as a teaching and learning tool. Several important caveats regarding use of the web ineducation were presented. Also on the third day, teachers and students had the opportunity to be involved

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Torres

Teaching Address/Data Demultiplexing for Microcontrollers using Lattice Semiconductor ispDesignEXPERT Starter Kit Eric Clark, Kevin Torres, David Loker Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeAbstractLaboratory experimentation can be a very important part of the learning experience for students.Particularly for microcontroller courses that involve hardware. In Electrical EngineeringTechnology, lab time is utilized in every course. Experiments involving microcontrollers canaccount for a lot of time in wiring basic components. Decoding a 16-bit address alone wouldinvolve hand wiring 6 logic gates. This would easily take up one lab period itself, assuming thedecoding design

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jed Lyons

. Bottomley, Elizabeth A. Parry, Sara Washburn, “Amy Hossain, Rachel Meyer Engineering Students in K-12 Schools” Proceedings of the 2000 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Session 1692, 2000.5. Alvin P. Sanoff, “Building Tomorrow’s Workforce,” ASEE Prism, Volume 10, Number 6, pp. 16-2. 2001.Biographical InformationJED LYONS is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at USC. He teaches engineering materials,manufacturing processes and mechanical design, conducts research on reinforced plastics and composites, developsmechanical engineering laboratories, and improves the teaching and communication skills of graduate students.MARYANNE BANICH is a doctoral student in the University of

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Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Edmund Tsang

Session 2364 Integrating Service-Learning in a Sophomore-level Materials, Manufacturing & Design Lab* Edmund Tsang College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Western Michigan UniversityAbstractService-learning was successfully integrated into a sophomore-level course to teach materials,manufacturing and engineering design to mechanical engineering students. The course met aprogram need for a sophomore course with substantial design content and the service-learningdesign projects carried out by the students met two needs of the K-16 community. Based on

Conference Session

Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

highlightedinternally in a campus news announcement. The results of the assessment show that theincorporation of active learning, integrating the laboratory, just-in-time teaching of necessarychemistry, and the clean-room experience contributed significantly to the success of the course.Incorporation of Active Learning into CourseActive learning which leads to increased student involvement in the learning process isnecessary for a course such as this to succeed. The increased emphasis on recitation, with ahands-on laboratory, as the key learning experience has been successful and well received bystudents. This needs to be followed up with multiple opportunities (graded assignments) forfeedback. The students cannot be expected to master topics instantly, but

Conference Session

The Computer, the Web, and the ChE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Clough

3413 ChE’s Teaching Introductory Computing to ChE Students -- A Modern Computing Course with Emphasis on Problem Solving and Programming David E. Clough Department of Chemical Engineering University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309-0424AbstractAn easy recipe for fomenting heated debate among ChE faculty is to inject the topic ofintroductory computing for ChE students into a discussion. Most faculty will have strongopinions that are only muted by the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Arthur Brodersen; Richard Shiavi

a weekfor 50 minutes and in groups of 20 meet with the instructor and teaching assistant in theinstructional computing laboratory for 75 minutes. The other modality was the laboratorystructure. All 40 students meet with their instructor and teaching assistant twice a week for 110minutes each meeting in the instructional computing laboratory. A minimal amount of lecturingwas done in the beginning of the laboratory periods. Every week all students are required toproduce a laboratory report demonstrating that they have achieved a level of mastery of specifiedtopics. This comprises 60% of the course grade. All of the students used the same coursematerials that were provided on-line. The web site is http://www.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/es130

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Monica Mallini

broad range of topics, includingelectrical energy, analog circuits, combinational logic, and digital circuits. Teaching a survey course in electricalengineering to a class with no prerequisite engineering knowledge except introductory calculus poses a considerablechallenge for the instructor. What is the objective of such a course? Where does one begin? How can the material becondensed into twenty-five 50-minute lectures? Why should a non-engineer want to acquire this knowledge? Becauseengineering is much more than book learning, theory is reinforced by laboratory exercises in circuits and digitalelectronics. Typically, the students have no prior hands-on laboratory experience. The laboratory component seeks tomeld the familiar (computer

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sören Östlund; Johan Malmqvist; Ingemar Ingemarsson; Edward F. Crawley; Doris Brodeur

of the four theme areas identified specific tasks forjoint investigation and development with parallel efforts at each of the participatingschools. Curriculum initiatives include defining and validating the outcomes of anengineering program, early engineering experiences, disciplinary linkages, integrateddesign-build experiences, and CDIO skills education. Teaching and Learning identifiedconcrete (hands-on) learning, problem formulation, active learning, feedback, and researchinto teaching and learning approaches. The Laboratories and Workshops group isfocusing on models for building and furnishing workshops and laboratories, and researchinto best practices in the use of laboratories for engineering education. Finally,Assessment reform

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Craddock; Lizette Chevalier

,” International Conference on Engineering Education Proceedings, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 17-20, 1998.10. Kemeny, John, and Zeitler, Bryan, “An Online Geo-mechanics Course with a Virtual Rock Lab Based on Streaming Audio and Vector Graphics,” American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference Proceedings, Albuquerque, NM, June 24 - 27, 2001.11. Aleni, Morteza, and Barnes, Robert, “ A Multimedia Soil Mechanics Laboratory Software Development for Teaching and Learning Purposes,” International Conference on Engineering Education Proceedings, Ostrava, Czech Republic, August 10 - 12, 1999.12. Masala, Srloljub, Biggar, Kevin, and Geissler, Colin “The Geotechnical Virtual Laboratory,” American Society for

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Riffe; Laura Rust; Brenda Lemke

Riffe is a Professor of Manufacturing Engineering and teaches the lecture andmanufacturing laboratory portions of this course and also a senior Sheet Metal Forming course. He is a formermember of the Board of Directors of SAE and a past-chairman of AFFT/SME. Prior to academia, he had 20 yearsexperience in the steel industry as a design consultant.LAURA RUST – Professor Rust is an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.Where she teaches courses in circuits, signals and digital signal processing. Her research area of interest is in Page 7.303.7predictive maintenance. She teaches the electrical

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Dean Smith; Jeffrey Franzone; Thomas Slack; Alan Proffitt

that semester.The only class to draw more students between 1999 and 2001 was a class on web page design,another very popular subject.There are several positive effects of teaching a popular subject. Students enjoy learning, andare excited by the enabling effects of their study. They tend to study more and are willing toinvest more time in their efforts. Students tend to remember more if they are convinced thatwhat they are learning is useful. There is less likelihood of cheating or copying other student’swork. And if there is copying, it is of the positive kind where both students improve in acompetitive manner. Hands on experience, like that obtained in a laboratory can increase thepopularity of a popular subject.Forazan’s popular text, Data

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bahman Motlagh

technologyeducation are currently being redefined and implemented. The changes being made invarious aspects of engineering education including course content and curriculum,multimedia learning environments, teaching methods, classroom and laboratory setup.II. Course Content and CurriculumTraditionally, curriculums for various engineering disciplines focused on thatindependent discipline with little to no reference to other engineering disciplines. Coursecontent helped to define and maintain this disciplinary focus and isolation.Cross utilization of multiple engineering disciplines should be incorporated into eachdiscipline-specific engineering education curriculum as it lends itself to more holisticknowledge base to best fuel creative thinking and cross

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Alim

. Unfortunately students have been unable to utilize thosefacilities, as it is not directed toward student usage. Representatives of MEMS Opticalproposed senior projects and invited students to work in their facilities during 2000-2001academic year. Unfortunately, the organization had production goals to meet, while theDepartment needed a teaching facility. In any event, the support of MEMS Optical has beencritical to the success of the program thus far.FACILTY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - LOWELLThe laboratory at the UMass - Lowell has a long history of success in the VLSI andMicroelectronics technology. The list of the instruments acquired for the fabrication andcharacterization laboratories (distributed instructional processing laboratory

Conference Session

Visualization and Graphics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Baxter

teaching assistant anda grade of 0 or 1 for each criteria can be assigned. Again, during laboratory, students mayask questions and wait until the assignment is worth full marks before submitting. Havingthe criteria available as they do the assignment helps them to focus on the importantaspects of the assignment. Furthermore, if the assignment is handed in late and incorrect, Page 7.530.8there is a clear grading guideline for point reduction. “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”As a second example, an

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Brader; Jed Lyons

InformationJOHN BRADER is currently researching advanced actuators and mechatronic design while completing his Ph.D. inmechanical engineering. He is the chairman of the ASME Midlands Section K-12 Educational Outreach Committeeand is working to develop “Engineering Clubs” in local elementary, middle, and high schools. John also teaches 4thgrade science and mathematics through the NSF GK-12 fellowship program.JED LYONS is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at USC. He teaches engineering materials,manufacturing processes and mechanical design, conducts research on reinforced plastics and composites, developsmechanical engineering laboratories, and improves the teaching and communication skills of graduate students.AcknowledgmentThe authors

Conference Session

New Ideas

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Klawunder; Blace Albert; Ozer Arnas

there is a mixture of cadets in engineering and non-engineering majors, i.e.languages, history, and others. The unique mixture of students has prompted instructors at USMA to work hard to design acourse that is very physical and hands-on. This has been achieved particularly in the area ofenergy conversion systems. Topics covered include vapor power cycles, internal combustionengines, gas turbine engines, and vapor-compression refrigeration cycles. Four laboratories anda tour of a cogeneration facility supplement the thermodynamic concepts. The course is alsobrought to life by some very unique teaching aids. These teaching aids include the following:reference cards for solving problems, turbine/compressor blades, jeep engine cutaways

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Monique Osborn; Dilip Nag

a result, bothengineering academics and students have had to consider the merits of a process driven approachrather than an emphasis on product. For the Gippsland campus educators, an approach such asthis has taken sometime to develop, particularly for those who have limited pedagogicalknowledge and also equate in depth content knowledge with effective teaching practices. Forfirst year undergraduates, there was a need to reconsider how students personalise and internaliseinformation presented in lectures, tutorials and laboratories. Previously too many assumptionshad been made by both academics and students concerning the efficient processing of knowledge(4).MAJOR ASSUMPTIONS OF LEARNING AND TEACHING1. Held by Freshmen · the purpose of a

Conference Session

Computer Based Measurements

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Widmer; Jan Lugowski

more competent. · Teamwork is encouraged, which helps develop interpersonal skills, which are of benefit in an industrial environment. · Laboratory time is used efficiently, with all participants fully engaged in the learning process. · Enables to expose weak spots in students’ knowledge and address them right away. · Teaches students take responsibility for their learning. Even with the instructor’s help, students are required to understand and solve the problems. · Provides instructor with a valuable feedback for selecting lecture topics. · Students leave the lab more mature and confident about their skills. They know they can solve other problems when they encounter them in other classes, or

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhengtao T. Deng; Xiaoqing (Cathy) Qian; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo; Zhengtao Deng

) Class Attendance, (5) Design Project and laboratory written reports, (6) Design Project Oral Presentation, (7) Computer Simulation using FORTRAN, C, MatLab, Labview, (8) Prototype development, (9) Laboratory Testing / Project teamwork. (10) Course assessment (by students), (11) Instructor’s teaching performance evaluation (by students).To guarantee the outcome of the course, the teaching of each topic in the course contents wasdesigned to meet aforementioned criteria (a-s) and evaluated by a set of

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in EET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafic Bachnak

Conference & Exposition. Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationCourse Development and ImplementationThe CSC divided the topics among the three courses of the sequence in such a way thatteaching and learning takes into consideration the proper prerequisite knowledge. Thefollowing paragraphs describe the contents of the courses as they were implemented.More details may be found at http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/~entc/BachnakPage.html.Developing and teaching Principles of MeasurementsThis course was developed and offered for the first time in spring semester 2001. It is afour-credit hour course with a weekly laboratory of three hours. Topics covered includefundamental principles and methods of measurements and

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Inter. collaboratory efforts in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sami Ainane; Chandra Thamire

education component. Most students taking the ITV courses were surveyed andhave expressed satisfaction over the quality of transmission of the ITV courses. Even though thelimitations in technology such as delayed response to questions and jerky video are somewhatdistracting initially, they seem to become less noticeable over time. The largest advantage tomost students from this program appears to be in the form of small class sizes and individualattention received from the faculty in FSU courses - all the recitation and laboratory sessions aretaught by the faculty as no teaching assistants are available locally, as opposed to the coursesoffered at larger universities. The small numbers of students in classes also lets them performlaboratory studios

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hirak Patangia

team building, cooperative leaning, and oral/written communication skills.Course OrganizationThe course titled ‘Introductory Experience in Technology and Computers’ is a three credithour course with five contact hours per week, two hours of lecture and three hours oflaboratory. The lecture and laboratory contents have been designed to lead the students to aculminating project which is described in the next section. The teaching classroom is a well -designed facility with wireless internet access and the laboratory is equipped with modernAgilent test equipment. The course was first taught in the fall of 2001. Preparations for thecourse began in the summer of 2001 with a curriculum development grant from theuniversity. Three sophomore

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ruane

Fig. 1 Photonics Teaching Laboratory (partial view)the main teaching lab, and twoProceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Ed ucationare in a more secure project space to support graduate projects and also BS capstone designprojects in photonics. Equipment was donated by industry or purchased using CRCD andUniversity funds. The four tables are also equipped with a suite of test equipment and anetworked PC controlling the instruments.In a typical semester, as many as three classes and several projects will use the laboratory. Thereuse of the tables puts more demands on the teaching assistants, but allows one facility to serve alarge

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hardy Pottinger; Daryl Beetner

standard 8051 assembler.The addition of the Visual Wimp to the laboratory simulation environment reinforces conceptslearned in lecture, shows students the dataflow through the processor, and helps them debug theirprograms. Student performance in lab shows that students understand the operation of theprocessorbetter after using the Visual Wimp.The WIMP51 is an ongoing project. In the future, the Visual Wimp may also be used in thelecture course to demonstrate the operation of the processor when the concepts are firstintroduced. Future lab experiments will ask students to change the hardware of the WIMP51 toextend the instruction set. The WIMP51 and the Visual Wimp have already been shown to beeffective teaching tools and will continue to improve

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

Issues in Computer Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Nadel; Daniel Walsh

philanthropicindividuals and organizations. Recent events have clearly demonstrated that state support cannotprovide the resource necessary for laboratory based education or for capstone studentexperiences. In our era of fast-paced scientific discovery, spectacular engineering achievement,and complex social systems, it is clear that everything is connected to everything else. We havelearned what we attempt to teach our students, the best way to move ahead is in partnership andcollaboration. Academe, industry, individuals and government all have played a critical role inmaintaining educational quality, but the world is changing rapidly, and we need to keep pace withthose changes. This partnership is the sine-qua-non in engineering education, it has passed from