Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assurance in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sean Clancey; Anton Pintar; Jason Keith

Laboratory. The test will measure fundamentalknowledge, design skills, and problem solving skills.” The metric is “60% pass rate (>70 out of 100score).”A multiple-choice test with 22 questions was given late in the Spring Quarter, 2001 to eighty-threegraduating seniors. This test was different than the previous year, when the test was composed of 13questions. The students were bribed to take the exam by offering free pizza. However, many took itseriously when told it helped with accreditation. The questions covered the following areas:Fundamentals (basic definitions, unit conversions, mass balances, and energy balances); TransportPhenomena (fluid flow, heat transfer, and mass transfer); Thermodynamics; and Kinetics/ReactorDesign. The overall

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Ramers

efficienciesthan conventional combustion processes. The upper performance efficiency limits of combustionprocesses (35 – 40%) are the minimum efficiencies for practical fuel cell systems2. Free energyefficiencies as high as 60-80 percent have been obtained for fuel cells in laboratory settings.These efficiencies are higher than the 40-50 percent efficiencies achieved in fielded fuel cells,which indicates opportunities for improvement.Losses in fuel cells reduce cell potential and release heat proportional to the difference betweenthe real and reversible electrical work of the cell. Losses are primarily due to slow chargetransfer across the electrode-electrolyte interface (activation polarization), mass transport

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack

utilize most of the techniques of classical linear control,such as block diagrams, Bode plots and root-locus diagrams. The course includes a major laboratory component. In the first half of the semester the labora-tories focus on modeling physical components. The models can then be used to predict theresponses of systems to given inputs. As the semester progresses the labs transition to usingindustrial motor controllers to reinforce the value of the course material. The paper describes the course in detail, including a custom written text book available on thecourse web page (http://claymore.engineer.gvsu.edu/courses.html).Introduction At Grand Valley State University (GVSU) all junior Mechanical and Manufacturing engineer-ing students take

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in BIO Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Zdzislaw Pawlowski; Krzysztof Zaremba; Roman Morawski

guaranteed by including in the curriculum requirements severalsubject classes not directly related to a given area of concentration.3. Biomedical Engineering - program requirementsThe program requirements for undergraduate study in Biomedical Engineering are presented inTable 2. They are defined in terms of subject classes, i.e. the required number of credit units isgiven for each subject class and the courses belonging to this class are listed. Moreover, thenumbers of lecture (L), classes (C), laboratory (?) and project (P) hours per week for each courseare given there (in the column LC?P), as well as requirements concerning the completing of thecourse (in the column E/B where E means "examination", B – "no examination"). The last threecolumns of

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Myron (Ron) Britton

a new preliminary year curriculum was introduced. It featured two requiredcourses structured to address the distinct, but linked, questions of professional and designeducation. Introduction to Engineering, a one credit course, explores the Engineering professionfrom legal, philosophical and practical perspectives. The objective of this course is to provide anunderstanding of the nature of the profession our graduates will eventually enter. This isfollowed by Engineering Design, a four credit course that is split between instruction incomputer aided drawing and team-based design projects. Lectures in the design component ofthis course cover the design process, safety, interaction with marketing, and designresponsibility. Laboratories involve

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

newengineering programs are brought up on-line in Huntsville, Alabama, a highly focused regiondedicated to world class advanced space systems, communications and manufacturingtechnologies.This paper describes examples of collaboration between Alabama A&M University andindustry. Collaborative efforts have aimed at: accreditation issues under the ABET criteria2000, technical information exchange, promotion of internships, company tours, studentscholarships, engineering laboratory development, implementation of industry best practices forproject development, research contracts and grants.Industry and Government Agencies seek partnerships and alliances with universities andresearch institutes to benefit from key know-how expertise found in university’s

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

and laboratory experiments widely used in the pharmaceutical sciences,to teach engineering principles. Material from the seven modules is being integrated verticallyinto the curriculum beginning with the Freshman Clinic, then fundamental Engineering courses,followed by Junior-Senior Clinic research projects, and finally advanced level electives onpharmaceutical topics. At the freshman level, students are engaged in the scientific discoveryprocess with exciting hands-on analysis of commercial drug delivery systems. In more advancedcourses, students design and formulate drug delivery systems and investigate the variablesaffecting their behavior. The Junior/Senior Clinic provides an opportunity for students toperform research projects related to

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Mayhew; Richard Layton

produced by others.The main objectives (“bird” #2) for the faculty as customers of these mini-projects are: 1. Enhance the wind tunnel lab experience for our students. 2. Improve our knowledge of wind tunnel performance.Students performing the experiments (or mini-projects) described in this paper are enrolled in arequired senior laboratory course in mechanical engineering. The course has one hour of lectureand three hours of lab per week for ten weeks for 2 credit-hours. In this course, ME421, studentsperform two lab experiments over six weeks plus one 10-week project involving some aspect ofexperimental design. The mini-projects described in this paper were assigned as one of the twoexperiments, not the project.We think the way we supervised

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Forsberg

Session # 2793 A Senior Capstone Project in Pump System Design Charles H. Forsberg Department of Engineering, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549AbstractHofstra University recently received a grant from the American Societ y of Heating,Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) for students to design and build apump system demonstration unit for the mechanical engineering laboratories. The grant wasawarded through ASHRAE’s Undergraduate Senior Project Grant Program. Senior mechanicalengineering students designed and built the pump system as their capstone design

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Rabb; Ronald Welch

PDJ Components Battlebots Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science AIAA Aero Design, Build, Fly AOG SAE Aero Design, Build, Fly AOG IEEE MicroMouse AOG MAGIC - Autonomous Unmanned Ground AOG Vehicle Competition Baja - SAE Off Road Vehicle Competition AOGResearch projects give the students an excellent opportunity to further existing research at anArmy laboratory or assist a faculty member at USMA with research. Many of these projectsallow students to have access to data and computing facilities not

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; Clay Barbee; Brian Lenahan; Michael Warren; Joseph Morgan

providean infrastructure that would be used by Engineering Technology students and faculty for educational andresearch purposes. The Wireless Infrastructure Project (WIP) became a real worldclassroom/laboratory environment for the team members to learn about wireless communications,networking, and authorization and authentication security and to gain practical experience in projectmanagement, technical communications and presentation skills.Additionally, the Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering Technology Program is developinginnovative ways to leverage the new infrastructure that depart from traditional administrative uses.Professors and students are developing coursework that utilize the infrastructure for the monitoring andcontrol of

Conference Session

Innovative Courses for ChE Students

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Basil Baltzis; Dana Knox

most common concern was that freshmanstudents already are required to take several one-credit courses. These include laboratory classesin both physics and chemistry, two freshman engineering design classes, physical educationcourses and the freshman seminar course, discussed below.“Too much work is required of freshmen”. Freshmen come to college used to the workloads ofhigh school. It is a big adjustment, and there should be a reluctance to add to that load. The Page 7.756.3 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for

Conference Session

Teaching Ceramic, Polymer, and Electric Materials

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Gilbert; Andrew Hoff; Marilyn Barger

processes that were originally developed to fabricateelectronic devices. This new course aims to develop students’ materials process skills andknowledge. We intend to enroll students from the entire science and engineering universitycommunity so that they may be prepared to contribute to the many exciting nanometer materialsand systems discoveries that are possible as they pursue their careers.There are many challenges to the success of this endeavor. Principle among these deals with theissues to be addressed if a hands-on laboratory instruction component is to be integral to thecourse. The resources needed for such instruction, in for example thin-film material deposition,can be significant. We discuss the approach of applying a graphical icon or

Conference Session

Course Assessment in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamad Ahmadian

basedon a specific assessment problem or task.3. Examples of Classroom Assessment in Engineering Technology RUBRIC and MATRIX, EET Logic Circuits Course The main objective of this course is to provide students with the fundamentals of digitalelectronics. Students gain the necessary skills to design and implement projects in the digitalsystems. This course also allows students to have hands-on experience with variouscombinational circuits, as well as sequential circuits. Finally, the ultimate objective of thiscourse is to broaden students' understanding and appreciation of computer hardware. The following information will be used to evaluate homework, laboratory assignments,and exams for the Logic Circuits

Conference Session

Instructional Technology in CE 1

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Carlos Sun

instructionaltechniques. A course management tool named Blackboard 5 (BB5) was utilized tomanage course logistics such as acting as the project data server, providing solutions,updating and personalizing grade reports, and posting announcements. A wirelessPersonal Address (PA) system worn by the instructor was utilized in laboratory sectionsto enhance the instruction in a team setting where discussions among group memberswere encouraged during class. Teaching techniques using computer laboratoriescompletely transformed the course. Four projects, each requiring significant computermodeling and engineering, were implemented to replace and augment homework sets.The four projects were (1) geometric design with AutoCAD, (2) traffic flow analysis withCORSIM, (3

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ward; Eugene Simmons; Michael Doran

Session 1520 Using Mobile Robots to Explore Intelligent Behaviors: The Obstacle Course Challenge Michael D. Ward, Michael V. Doran, W. Eugene Simmons University of South Alabama School of Computer and Information Sciences Mobile, Alabama 36688Abstract: A recently concluded NSF-ILI grant provided equipment to create hands-on laboratoriesfor CIS students. The goal of this laboratory environment was to provide a setting to reinforcecourse concepts. One of the target courses was the Artificial

Conference Session

Capstone Mechanical Engineering Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

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

). • 40 students (a typical cohort is just over 100 students). • 3 design projects (a Formula SAE, a bicycle trailer, and a dismountable catamaran). • Development of new laboratories (a design studio and a manufacturing workshop). • Development of new evaluation tools (e.g. logbooks, grading templates for presentations, reports, project exhibition, etc.).The major problem with our pilot program was inadequate student preparation (e.g. no trainingin project management) for carrying out a design project of this scale. On the other hand, theresults obtained were so conclusive that our department decided, a few months before the end ofthe pilot program, to develop an engineering design option. 2.2 1995 to 1999

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Maya Place; Markus Flury; Jennifer Shaltanis; Geoff Puzon; Brent M. Peyton; James Petersen; Candis Claiborn

engineerswho not only have depth in a single discipline, but also have a strong interdisciplinarybackground and a strong desire and ability to work with experts in other disciplines. The WSUprogram is thus highly interdisciplinary, with participants drawn from six academic programs inthree colleges. In addition to the student’s major disciplinary classes and intensive researchwork, the program includes interdisciplinary course work; laboratory rotations; internships;experience mentoring younger professionals in both classroom and laboratory settings; a seminarseries; and discussions of professional ethics. Here the program is described in general, withdetailed descriptions of the series of three interdisciplinary courses. In all these courses

Conference Session

Balancing Personal and Professional Life

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Penny Knoll; Lisa Bullard; Ann Saterbak

Conservation Principles in Biology and Medicine, aswell as two laboratory courses: Lab Module in Tissue Culture and Advanced BioengineeringLaboratory. She also serves as an active member on the Undergraduate Committee andparticipates heavily in ABET-related activities. Recently, she was reclassified as faculty with thetitle, Director of Laboratory Instruction and Lecturer. She has been married for 5 years, and herhusband is a chemical engineer who works for Shell Chemicals in Houston. They have a twoyear old daughter. Page 7.293.4 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

International Engineering Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammed Ali Satter; John Pumwa

and Communication (3 hrs/wk) 6. EF190: Chemistry for Engineers (2 hrs/wk)Each subject was yearlong, taught across two semesters, and examined at the end of eachsemester. EF140 was basically physics. EF160 was a mixture of statics, dynamics andelectrical engineering. EF190, chemistry, was optional for all students except for mineralprocessing students within the Mining Engineering Department. Teaching hours for eachsubject was divided into lecture, tutorial and laboratory/practical (where applicable). Adetailed exposition of the teaching load is shown in appendix-1. It shows a total of 2265 man-hr/semester is required [2]. Taking an average of 10 hrs/week of teaching load, a total of 15teaching staff members were required per

Conference Session

To Design and Conduct Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Morton; John Nydahl; Nancy Peck

timemeasurements are not difficult to make with simple instruments. The equipment is inexpensiveand portable for both classroom and laboratory use. The experiments range from simple momentof inertia concepts to the testing of more complex friction models and may be easily modified tovary the results. The disk is an appropriate system for sophomore level students to analyze, sincethe solution of its angular momentum differential equation results in a simple angulardisplacement versus time relationship, q(t), even though the frictional model is non-linear,varying with the angular velocity w raised to some unknown power. This permits superior resultssince the q vs. t data set can be accurately determined over the range of angular velocities usingan ordinary

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Yann-Hang Lee; Sethuraman Panchanathan; Gerald Gannod; Forouzan Golshani; David Pheanis; Ben Huey

of activities related to the design and delivery ofeducational and research efforts and is characterized by three main innovative componentsnamely, 1) a new industry-university collaborative model for integrating basic and appliedresearch into a degree program, 2) creation and delivery of state-of-the-art course content andappropriate laboratories, and 3) creation of capstone projects that are implemented throughinternships.The curricular project involves the synthesis of the core of an embedded systems program basedon the latest research and close cooperation with industry. The content of the program drawsheavily upon advanced research and development in industry and academia and are reinforced by1 This research supported by NSF

Conference Session

ET Interdisciplinary Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Clark; Donald McMurchie

homework assignments to teach both basicmetallurgy and the history of the industrial revolution.II. GoalsBased on our prior experience with teaching integrated classes, we set the following goals for ourcourse: 1) linkage of technical and historical material for engineering technology students 2) Improvement of communications skills for all students 3) fully integrating all classroom and laboratory instructionIII. PlanningPlanning for our course took into account a number of factors, most notably instructorbackground and experience, previous experience with integrated courses, the target audience forthe course, the overall course structure, and assessment.Dr. Clark's education and teaching experience is in the history of

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Puttiphong Jaroonsrisphan

identification of dynamic systems and DC motor control. Student response and implementation experience are also described.(I) IntroductionIt is well established that hands-on experience can significantly improve student learningand interest level in the course materials [1]. This is especially important in courses thatare theoretical with a high degree of mathematical analysis. However, a number ofconstraints prevent the broad base integration of experiments into engineering courses.For examples, laboratory facilities/hours, safety issues, and software development effortare a few of the limiting factors that most instructors would encounter. With the increasein bandwidth through high speed and ISDN data lines, web-based distance experimentscan

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Silvana Tarazaga; Dalmaris Gonzalez

from middleschools from the western area of Puerto Rico to the engineering and technological fields. Thestudents participated in workshops applying scientific and engineering concepts, as well as onhands-on experiments in a laboratory environment. The workshops were designed to exposeparticipants to engineering and computer sciences and to provide participants betterunderstanding about the concept of working in teams, making hard engineering decisions, ethicalbehavior and problem solving. During these workshop activities, the students had theopportunity to interact with faculty, laboratory technicians, young professional engineers,scientists, and undergraduate and graduate engineering students who shared their experienceswith them. A major

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Goff

in the classroom. SUCCEED and other university coalitions have funded andpromoted many initiatives dealing with active learning in the classroom. Pioneering work bySiegfried Holzer 6, Karl Smith7, Richard Felder8, and others have revolutionized classrooms andilluminated the way for the rest of us to follow.A first year elective laboratory course has been offered for several years at Virginia Tech. Thislaboratory was modeled after similar mechanical dissection laboratories initiated by Dave Ollisof NC State and Sheri Shepard of Stanford. At Virginia Tech there are enough sections for 256of roughly 1200 total of the incoming engineering students. This laboratory introduces them toengineering by using a hands-on approach. This laboratory offers

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Loker

Session 2559 DTMF Encoder and Decoder using LabVIEW David R. Loker, P.E. Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeAbstractIn this paper, a laboratory experiment is presented for a senior technical elective course intelecommunications in the Electrical Engineering Technology Baccalaureate program at Penn StateErie, The Behrend College. For this experiment, students use LabVIEW and a PC-based dataacquisition (DAQ) system to design a dual-tone multifrequency (DTMF) encoder and decoder. Theuser input for the encoder is from a 12-pushbutton external keypad used to

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

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Said Shakerin

Session 2793 An Undergraduate Research Project: Experimental Investigation of Drag Reduction for a Cylinder with an Attached Fin William Cook and Said Shakerin1 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories / University of the Pacific Livermore, CA / Stockton, CA wcook@llnl.gov / sshakerin@uop.eduKey words: drag reduction, wind tunnel, load cell, fin, undergraduate researchAbstractAn example of an undergraduate research project carried out in the area of fluid mechanics isreported in this paper. This project can also be used as a

Conference Session

Innovative Courses for ChE Students

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Jennings; Melanie McNeil; Art Diaz

Chemical Engineering Department has had a Biochemical Engineeringemphasis since 1994. At the time of its initiation Chemical Engineering students did not haveadequate preparation to take many of biotechnology courses available in Biology, Biochemistry orChemical Engineering. The emphasis developed over the next five years to remove this deficiencyand the current emphasis is as shown in Table 2. Table 2. Courses in Biochemical Engineering Emphasis. Chem 135 Biochemistry (replaces second semester PChem) ChE 192 Introduction to Biochemical Engineering ChE 194 Biochemical Engineering Laboratory *ChE 115 Materials and Energy Balances *ChE 151 Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics *ChE 158