Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marvin Dixon

andteamwork. However, more is required to prepare engineering students to interact in teams withmembers of different backgrounds and to meet the challenges that they will encounter in theircareers. Universities and industry must work together to identify and eliminate those barriers toeffective teaming and communication. This paper addresses some of the issues associated withthe modification of the aforementioned capstone design activity to include multi-disciplinaryteams of engineering students addressing real industrial problems.Since 1970 over 3000 mechanical engineering seniors have teamed with other mechanicalengineering seniors in the capstone design class at Clemson University to address more than 200industrial projects proffered by 76

Conference Session

To Design and Conduct Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Walter

Session 1566 A Micro-Controller Based Robotics Course for ME Students Wayne Walter, PhD, P.E. Gleason Professor of Mechanical Engineering Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY 14623IntroductionFor many years the emphasis of our robotics course has been on projects where students design,build, and test tooling to accompany an industrial robot in a workcell. At the end of a ten-weekquarter, students were expected to demonstrate a working prototype that integrates sensors,actuators, and feeders together

Conference Session

Real-World Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Attila Yaprak; Ece Yaprak; Mulchand Rathod

of Engineering Technology at Wayne State University(WSU) falls into this category. The National Science Foundation funded GreenfieldCoalition’s (GC) capstone design course, however, is unique since students are given creditfor their projects based on real-work experiences. This paper discusses how this is done atthe Greenfield Coalition and the implications of adapting this course to Wayne StateUniversity’s Division of Engineering Technology (ET) curricula.INTRODUCTION The last two decades have been marked by the globalization of markets, technology,and competition. This transformation has necessitated sharpened skills and competencies inengineering applications that are relevant to the business community’s needs. An importantarea in

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joe Wakeman-Linn; Alex Perry

aseating and sleeping. The construction requires a basic grasp of mechanical engineering concepts,and some programming ability, but use of the kits requires no previous skills. The LEGO®s kitencourages problem solving and teamwork. The unit was piloted with a pair of volunteer interns,both rising high school seniors. The volunteers worked with the unit in seven one-hour sessions.The interns chose to put in extra time to work on their projects, demonstrating the enthusiasminspired by both the materials and the projects.Introduction Hands-on experiences are vital to stimulating the interest of college students. Nowhere isthis more true than in engineering and robotics. Students want to know what awaits them whenthey have completed their math

Conference Session

Programming and DSP Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sylvie Ratté; Jocelyne Caron

of these sitesdoes not correspond to a specific teaching method.Last year, we adopted a new teaching method for an advanced programming course in C++. Thegoal of the method, derived from problem-based approaches, was to support students inprogramming a large-scale project that lasted the entire semester (similar in spirit withapproaches suggested in 2,3). It was obvious from the start that an independent site for the coursewould be needed to provide a posting and collaboration space centered around the project. Page 7.807.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Multimedia and Product Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Irwin

DesignApplications course is that most course assignments will be in project form and come fromindustry. The challenge in this area is having active and involved program advisory panels thatare willing to participate at a high level of cooperation with your program. At MCC we have hadvaried levels of participation from advisory committee members. Members are more thanwilling to give suggestions on project topics and possible design scenarios from their industry,but due to proprietary reasons, as of yet they have not been willing to share any parametric UGassembly files that we can use as a starting point for a real life industrial applications.As a result, prior to the start of the course I visited three companies, which gave me ideas forindustrial-based

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in MET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Salvatore Marsico

coverage. This material was offered in the third course of the industrialengineering technology sequence. That is classical cart before the horse mentality; create aproduct and then discuss the theory. Because of the lack of equipment students were taken tofacilities that showcased a particular manufacturing process.The production design course focused on four projects to highlight and discuss the requiredcourse content. The class was divided into groups of two and given a project which would berequired to be completed within four weeks. The four projects were: • turret lathe, • automatic screw machine, • jigs/fixture design, and • die design.Concurrent with each assignment, manufacturing sites were

Conference Session

Freshman Curriculum Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Nowak; Laurence Gould; Hisham Alnajjar; Diego Bernardete; David Pines

worked closely with the facultyteaching Calculus and Physics in developing shared outcomes for all three courses. Previously,these courses were taught independent of each other and most students did not recognize theconnection between math and science and the design process. Even though group projects in thePrinciples of Design course promoted creativity and the use of systematic methods for solvingproblems, there remained a lack of understanding among the students of the linkages of calculusand introductory physics to engineering design. Working as a team, the engineering, physics,and math faculty incorporated the physics and calculus the students were learning that semesterinto the design projects. These projects were assigned in the freshman

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Tuttle; Charles White; Gwan-Ywan Lai; Trevor Harding

for the first time during theWinter 2002 term (January – March). A second offering occurred during the Spring 2002 term(April – June). The course includes three hours of weekly discussion periods and two hours oflaboratory time. The following provides an overview of the course design, teachingmethodology, laboratories and projects, as well as, course and project evaluation plans.Project Description and ObjectivesThe goal of the project is to develop, implement and evaluate a team-based course focused onmaterial and process selection methods, but which also focuses on other topics relevant topracticing manufacturing and mechanical engineers. These additional topics inc lude life cycleengineering as it applies to materials, the role of

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Luiz Gargione

andcenters for research and innovation are located in the area. The program proposed intends toorganize activities related to technology based project development, theory related tofeasibility and risk analysis for technology based start-ups, team work, return on investment,benefits analysis, investment and return cash-flows, environmental issues, technology andsociety, etc. The program is design for a two -year degree and should be implemented in themiddle of 2002. Page 7.518.1 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

New MET Course Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Slade Gellin

industry today in mind. Theseroles are examined in detail in order to formulate appropriate course objectives. The course istaught in a computer lab setting. Students will gain hands on experience with a commerciallyavailable finite element analysis software package. The primary evaluation tool to assess ifstudents are meeting the objectives of the course are reports submitted detailing the analysisundertaken in sample projects assigned in class. The reports are written in a format usedsuccessfully in industry.IntroductionIn its report recommending six-year accreditation for the mechanical engineering technologyprogram at Buffalo State College in 1998, TAC-ABET cited as a weakness the lack of technicalelectives offered within the program. In order

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in CET and MET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Sprinsky

Session 1449 Integrating Instruction in Geographic Information Systems with a Civil Engineering Technology Curriculum William H. Sprinsky Pennsylvania College of TechnologyAbstractAt the Pennsylvania College of Technology, we feel that the tools of project design andmanagement, such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS), should be taught along with themore usual subjects in a Civil Engineering Technology curriculum. Such a tool is an applicationof some very basic concepts to design and construction. Students learn the use and constructionof coordinated

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch. Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Bilbeisi; John Phillips

fundamentals of astructural system. By organizing the session in this way, the students are eager to learn what wasright and what went wrong with their design process!The first architectural design studio is conducted in the second semester of the first year of study.Like all architectural design studios at OSU, this is a six credit hour course which meets forsixteen hours a week. In this course, students undertake a variety of simple design problemsaimed at increasing their intuitive sense of order and design logic. The course begins with aseries of abstract design problems demonstrating ordering principles, patterns, and focal points.3D Nine Square Project Point, Line and Plane CompositionThese abstract problems

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Harwood; David Shaw

. Introduction to engineering design and decision-making. Christian world-view applied to engineering. Use of logic, experimental design and design criteria. Project oriented. Page 7.927.1 "Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education"The class meets for lecture two hours per week and for a weekly three hour laboratory period.In an audit of departmental objectives1 using the Levels of Learning (LoL) defined by Bellamyand McNeill2,3 it was determined that two of the objectives receiving special

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

Cross-Section of Construction Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Cecere

Capstone Course in Construction Management Joseph J. Cecere , Ph.D., CPC Pennsylvania State University/ HarrisburgABSTRACTCapstone courses offered in most construction engineering programs are designed to pull together much of whatthe student has already learned in previous courses. This will enable the student to gain an appreciation of howthe different aspects of a construction project come together. The course is not an in depth study of any onefunction or technical aspect, but rather a synergistic overview of the project

Conference Session

Unique Lab Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Dianne DeTurris

reusable first stagebooster rockets. The design for the vehicle originated from industry, and NASA supports theindustry proposal by funding the university for small scale construction and flight testing. Thestudents interact with both groups for direction and technical advice, which creates a tremendousamount of learning opportunities and motivation for the team. The project is organized as anextracurricular club activity that is purely voluntary and made up of students in severalengineering disciplines. The students gain practical knowledge and real world research experiencein a team-oriented systems engineering environment, all before completing their bachelors degree.IntroductionThe Aerospace Engineering Department at Cal Poly State University

Conference Session

Capstone Mechanical Engineering Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Janna

Systems,” involves groupsof seniors working on various semester-long design projects. Groups are composed of 3, 4 or 5members that bid competitively on various projects. Once projects are awarded, freshmenenrolled in the “Introduction to Mechanical Engineering” courses are assigned to work with thesenior design teams. The senior teams function like small consulting companies that employ co-operative education students; e.g., the freshmen.One of the objectives of building this collaboration is a desire to increase the retention rate of thefreshmen by involving them with the seniors in what appears to be some interesting design work.Additionally, the seniors benefit by developing the ability to communicate their ideas to a non-technical audience as

Conference Session

MINDing Our Business

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Geoffrey Bland; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

-Airborne ImagingResearch) project was partially funded by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)in the fall of 1999. The project has provided a platform for involving a group of morethan twenty undergraduate students in mathematics, science, engineering and technology(MSET) curricula at University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) in an "out ofclassroom" active learning and exploratory research experience in the field of remotesensing and its applications. The scientific objective of the project includes aerialimaging in the visible and infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum, land survey,study of shoreline erosion, research in agricultural land use patterns, and environmentalstudies pertaining to algal blooms in the Chesapeake Bay. The

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Kauser Jahan; Paris von Lockette; Linda Head

Engineering havecommon engineering clinic classes throughout their programs of study, in which undergraduateswork in teams on hands-on open-ended projects. The primary goal of Rowan University'sengineering clinic classes is to involve students in multidisciplinary design/research projects thatteach engineering principles in both laboratory and real-world settings. The clinics furtherencourage students to address environmentally conscious design and issues related to sustainabledevelopment. The Sophomore Clinic students work on a semester -long design project everyyear. Faculty drawn from all engineering disciplines teach the course. The design project forFall of 2001 was to design, build and test a semi-autonomous robot that uses power provided

Conference Session

Multi-disciplinary Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Satish Mahajan; Joe Biernacki; Glenn Cunningham; Jeff Frolik

, vaccine delivery systems,digital light projectors and optical switches. With an ever increasing number of applications inautomotive, aerospace, medical and other industries, projections have the MEMS marketgrowing to $12 billion in 2002 1 and experts envision that MEMS will soon be as ubiquitous asmicrocircuits. As such, educating undergraduate as well as graduate students in this importantdeveloping area is no longer an interesting experiment in education but a necessary fact. In this paper, the results of an introductory multi-disciplinary, project-oriented course inMEMS are presented. The course is team-taught at Tennessee Technological University (TTU)by faculty from chemical (CHE), electrical (ECE) and mechanical (ME) engineering to a

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assurance in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Anderson; Jean-Lou Chameau; Dick K.P. Yue

), Eidgenössische TechnischeHochschule Zurich (ETHZ), Imperial College London (ICL), Kungl Tekniska HögskolanStockholm (KTHS), Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH)and Technische Universiteit Delft (TU Delft). The US schools were Carnegie MellonUniversity (CMU), Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT) and Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology (MIT). The project was administered and managed by two Swissorganizations, Engineers Shape our Future and the Board of the Swiss Federal Institutesof Technology (ETH-Rat). The project was managed day to day by the project team of consultants. Overviewwas achieved through a steering committee composed of representatives of the partnerschools and the project team. The project was divided into

Conference Session

Grad. and Upper Level Undergrad. BME Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Renee Rogge

results and in the use of “sanity checks” when evaluatingtheir results.Student achievement was assessed using in-class assignments, homework assignments, a designproject, and final exam questions. Student and instructor satisfaction with the FE module washigh and student performance on the homework assignments, design project, and final examquestions was excellent.Module ContentsInstructional ComponentThe instructional portion of the module presented the basic concepts of the FE method, includingthe benefits and drawbacks of the approach. An in-class "pencil and paper" calculation of thedisplacement of nodes for a three-noded triangle was completed. The stiffness, load, anddisplacement matrices were developed, requiring discussions of material

Conference Session

Freshman Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hazel Pierson; Daniel Suchora

machines may seem quite at odds, the two fitquite well together as a design project in an introduction to engineering class. In fact, freshmanengineering students at Youngstown State University are given their first exposure to the designprocess via a four-week Rube Goldberg project. The project requires the students to design amachine, Rube Goldberg style, which will time three minutes as close as possible without goingover. The original intent of this Rube Goldberg machine was to time the hard-boiling of an egg.The idea of design in freshman engineering classes certainly is not new. For that matter the useof Rube Goldberg type designs in engineering education is not either. However, in this project,for the entire four weeks, the project was used

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconected World

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jørgen Hansen; Arvid Andersen

expectations. The Chinese saying: “Ru xiang sui su”meaning “Enter village and follow costume” tells it all. The future engineer must be able towork in international project groups with multidisciplinary and cross-cultural participation. Inthe European Project Semester, EPS, described in this paper, students are exposed to a multi-cultural environment in which they study and work together on real projects provided byindustry. Here new learning and teaching methods and competencies are introduced and arenot just an opportunity to practice what has been previously taught. Normally students from10-12 different universities in EU, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia and Lithuania participate.Also universities in Chile and the US are now sending their students to

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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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

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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

Capstone Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Raj Desai; Ted Loso; Dave Baird; Craig Downing; Gary Frey

order toaccomplish this, the following research questions were proposed: · Will drawing an object in 3-D and producing that part with a Rapid Prototyping system as part of an Industry initiated project improve student visualization skills? · Does industry and education see benefits in this type of partnership?To do this several courses and industrial projects were used and evaluated for visualization skillimprovement and perceived benefits to provide a more complete picture.NeedThe need is seen as twofold in nature. Industry needs both trained personnel and access tospecial services. Education needs to provide trained personnel and access to the latesttechnology possible. Graphics is one of the core areas and permeates most

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engr. Educ. II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles McIntyre

separate capstone courses for eachdegree program (construction engineering, construction management, and civil engineering).During the Spring Semester of 1998, a single overall departmental capstone course was created.The intent was to provide a true “capstone” experience, where students in each degree programcould combine their skills to achieve the successful completion of a project. The primaryobjective of the capstone experience is to combine all aspects of the planning, design, andconstruction phases of a project into meaningful education experience which mimics “real-world”design and construction practices. Students are required to use all of the knowledge and skillsthat they have acquired throughout their educational experience to develop

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Harris; Sunday Faseyitan; Robert Myers; Pearley Cunningham; Winston Erevelles

longerdominated by the steel industry. Manufacturers in the region now exhibit significant diversity inmaterials, processes, and technology thereby challenging the educational system that needs to bein place to prepare the regional workforce.At a time when manufacturers cannot recruit a sufficient number of skilled workers, there is asegment of the region's workforce that is under-employed and often working in the service andretail sectors for much lower wages. The projected retirement attrition rate of 5% per year in themanufacturing sector further exacerbates this situation. This disconnect in the deployment of theregional workforce was the impetus for an effort targeting the recruitment and education of thekind of workforce demanded by the region's