Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

physicsclasses of up to 200 engineering students at a time. The laboratory exercises and reports, andtheir associated assessment system, have all been specially designed to encourage thinking,questioning and creativity2. The Department of Civil Engineering was among the firstdepartments at the university. Currently, the department of Civil Engineering has more than 30faculty members in 6-technology areas3.In this paper, the civil engineering curriculum of both universities are described and comparedbetween course administrations in terms of credit hours, program durations, number of exams,grade distribution for various activities and criteria on the procedure to obtain the professionalengineering licenses.Course AdministrationsUniversity of FloridaThe

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Morcechai Shacham; Michael Cutlip

Slab tiona These problems are taken in part from “Problem Solving in Chemical Engineering with Numerical Methods” by MichaelB. Cutlip and Mordechai Shacham, Prentice-Hall (1999). An addition set of problems referred to as the “assignment” problems set that was intendedfor a “hands-on” computing laboratory at the Summer School is summarized in Table 2. Thecombined problem sets in Tables 1 and 2 and their detailed solutions with Excel, MATLAB, andPolymath provide a very substantial base of numerical problems for faculty use.Table 2 Set of Assignment Problems Illustrating the Use of Numerical Methodsa

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New Programs and Success Stories

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Grasman

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education 1. To enhance courses and curricula, 2. To provide a supportive and cooperative environment where research can flourish, and 3. To create a synergetic learning and research environment through cooperative partnerships among faculty, consultants, industry, and state/federal assistance programs.A main vision of the program is to establish the University of Missouri Virtual Enterprise, amulti-disciplinary, distributed laboratory supporting the university’s educational vision.University of Missouri Virtual EnterpriseA virtual enterprise is a temporary consortium of independent

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Innovative Hands-On Projects and Labs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Szaroletta

Engineering Technology curriculum, there has been little opportunityfor hands-on experimental and finite element analysis verification of overhung beam theory. Tofill that void, several experimental mechanics class projects were devised and successfullyimplemented by the author and these experiences are documented in this paper.Introduction:This paper describes a series of reproducible projects, including discussion of the major benefitsof utilizing the overhung beam: flexibly supporting multiple experiments with similar set-ups;providing a relatively simple and effective means towards achieving a repeatable, uniformdistributed loading in a laboratory environment (through gravity and beam material density); andproviding a relatively low cost platform

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Bottomley; Aaron Clark

cluster identified knowledge and skills need for all levels of manufacturing from planning to final products and related support activities. 14. Marketing, Sales, and Service- Guidelines were developed for the planning and managing of marketing activities to reach organizational objectives. 15. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics- The cluster developed guidelines to be used for curricula development in the four areas including laboratory research and development services. 16. Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics- This cluster defined careers from the planning and management of movement of people and goods, to support and logistic services related to

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wade Driscoll

, conclusions, and suggestions for future work.2. Context of the InvestigationThe investigation focused on the course Simulation of Industrial Engineering Systems10 that thisauthor taught in the Fall 2001 semester. The course, which requires extensive computations,meets in a computer laboratory. An ideal class requires students (i) to acquire new knowledge ina lecture/recitation mode of operation, (ii) to collaborate with classmates in developingmathematical models relevant to a problem scenario, (iii) to implement their models onmicrocomputers, (iv) to exercise those models, and (v) to interpret results from those exercises.Thus the format for classroom conduct conditions students to accept computer use as a normalpart of their classroom

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Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Mason

-Residence program to bring inventorswho were struggling to commercialize their inventions to work with students and facultyin laboratories and independent work. There were also a number of initiatives foroutreach to existing technology-based industry, especially in the area of optics. Later the Page 8.696.1Center for Applied Optics Studies expanded into the Technology Assistance and ServicesCenter which provided expertise for projects related to most of the campus’ technicaldisciplines. Curriculum restructuring reinforced these efforts by moving towardrequirements or at least strong suggestions that all students complete an externallysponsored project as

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Improving Communication Skills in ME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Chasnov

began expanding its programs from the traditional liberal arts programs toinclude education, business, nursing, and in 1990, engineering. The state of Ohio authorized the twomost popular engineering majors at that time, electrical and mechanical, for baccalaureate degreeprograms. Now a university, the 400-acre campus is home to about 3000 undergraduate and graduatestudents. Page 8.630.1 -1-MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AT CEDARVILLEThe mechanical engineering (ME) curriculum at Cedarville emphasizes hands-on experience boththrough many laboratory courses (13 total) and competition projects. The

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sridhar Condoor

on system designand implementation aspects.Curriculum InformationThe curriculum involves two courses: Mechatronics, a required course for the MEstudents, and Advanced Mechatronics, a technical elective. For both courses, studentsmeet for two lectures and one lab each week. The lectures are held in the MechatronicsProjects Laboratory. As a result, students are surrounded by mechatronics equipment.The hardware provokes intellectual curiosity before and after the lectures and and also,handy for illustration. Students typically work in groups of three or four on the projectassignments.The lab equipment includes two dedicated conveyors (built in-house), two MicroLogixcontroller-based motor control stations, two Mitsubishi robots with Flexmation

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Control Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Koffman; Bryan Waltrip; Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic

education. In particular the major concentrates oncontrol of electrical, computer and mechanical systems. In addition to several tracks, students havethe opportunity to independently research a field of interest. This is a great opportunity for teachersand students to pursue more in-depth analyses. This paper will describe one such experiment in thefield of metrology.Very often engineering laboratories at undergraduate schools are well equipped with power supplies,signal generators, oscilloscopes and general-purpose multimeters. This set allows teachers andstudents to set up test-beds for most of the basic electronics circuits studied in different engineeringtracks. Modern instrumentation is in general user-friendly and students like using the

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Innovations in the Aerospace Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Olivier de Weck

, S.E., Hall, S.R., et. al., “Reform of the Aeronautics and Astronautics Curriculum at MIT”, ASEE Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 83, No. 1, pages 47-56, January 1994.AcknowledgmentsThe balsa glider laboratory and the water rocket laboratory were phased in since 1998 withcontributions from Prof. Dan Frey, Prof. Jim Kuchar and Prof. Charles Coleman. TeachingAssistants that were particularly helpful in organizing the activities decribed in this paper areChris Graff, Danielle Adams, Andrea Fanucci, Tim de Mierry, Ryan Whitaker as well as GeoffReber and Damian Toohey. Mrs. Diane Soderholm assembled Appendix B. The online studentsurvey was conducted by Mrs. Doris Brodeur and Mr. Alf Kohler. Ms. Colleen Horin agreed tobe shown in Figure 9

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Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Williamson; Randy Winzer

Educationsuccessful.In the spring semester, the student teams work in the various PSU laboratories building theirprojects. No work is allowed without manufacturing process procedures. Consideration of qualitycontrol issues is also expected from each group. Each team member is expected to contribute tothe project. The final project is then evaluated to see if the objectives of the project have beenmet.The ProjectThe project chosen the past seven years for the PSU mechanical and manufacturing “Capstone”experience is for each team to design and build a Human Powered Moon Buggy. The idea ofbuilding a human powered moon buggy came from the NASA sponsored Great Moon BuggyRace held in Huntsville, Alabama each year since 1994. The race is modeled after the originalmoon

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Trends in Nuclear Engineering Education II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Prestwich; Fiona McNeill; David Chettle

Chemistry: Organic Chemistry Mathematics: Introduction to Mathematics: Calculus Modelling Physics: Electricity and Magnetism Mathematics: Differential EquationsLevel Biochemistry: Biochemistry of Mathematics: Mathematical PhysicsIII Macromolecules* Medical Physics: Computational Biology: Cell Biology Medical Physics Mathematics: Mathematical Physics Physics: Quantum Mechanics Medical Physics: Radioactivity and Physics: Physical Optics Radiation Interactions Physics: Intermediate Laboratory Physics: Modern Physics Physics: Intermediate

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kelvin Kirby

University. The program is funded under the NSF Historically BlackColleges and Universities - Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP). The first three yearsof the program have been highlighted by the achievement of stated goals for attractingmore students and raising achievement levels among participants. Recruitment andretention of underrepresented student groups within SMET disciplines and generalstrengthening of the educational and research infrastructure are among the primaryobjectives. Partnerships with high schools, academic institutions, corporations andindustrial/governmental laboratories have all played a vital role in the success of theprogram. Major components have been mentoring and monitoring programs, which keepstudents informed and well

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Sharp, Vanderbilt University

been the department’s technical communication professor,designing and teaching the technical communication portion of both labs in addition to teaching atechnical communication course for all engineering majors. The designation “w” after the coursenumber for each laboratory course, ChE 228w and ChE 229w, indicates that these coursesinclude writing instruction. Beginning in 1987, however, students in these junior and senior labshave received training in both written and oral communication.8In each course, students write numerous reports and give two videotaped oral presentations withvisuals. The chemical engineering professor grades the technical content. The technicalcommunication professor grades the organization, delivery, and visual aids in

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Harold Evensen; Paula Zenner

access to the entire class is needed. The equivalent of a nine-hour project lab is allocated to Project Teams and Advisors. The integration of each component is illustrated in Figure 1 and described below. Sponsorship Funding for the projects comes from three sources: Corporate sponsorships, University/Department sponsorships and student laboratory fees. Corporate sponsorship of Senior Design projects is crucial to the success of the program: it provides real Page 8.398.3 projects, with realistic expectations and funding. Teams on Corporate sponsorshipsProceedings of the 2003 American

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Student Learning and Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamad Ahmadian

a set of specifications is more importantthan producing a solution. Many times students attend laboratory, conduct the givenexperiments without understanding the contents of the experiments, or the objective associatedwith each experiment 4.Special Project CourseA major component of this course requires learners to plan, develop, and present two semester-long projects in their field of engineering technology on a subject of their choice whichdemonstrates knowledge and skills in project handling, technical writing, problem-solving andevaluation processes, and oral presentation techniques. The course enables students to: (1)complete two projects based on their field of interest, (2) prepare an effective written technicalreport, (3) plan and

Conference Session

Virtual & Distance Experiments

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jucain Butler; Jay Brockman

learning tools were developed foruse in the Introduction to Engineering Systems course at the University of Notre Dame.The course takes a multi-disciplinary approach to engineering, and two of four courseprojects involve the RCX. The learning tools expose students to what goes on under thehood of a computer, and, in conjunction with a physical laboratory project, give them asense of working on a real workplace assignment. The Fundamental Computer is similarto the “File Clerk” explanation in Richard Feynman’s Lectures on Computation. Thesimulator for this computer can input and output values, perform basic arithmeticoperations, and control the execution of a program, while the simulator for the RCXprocessor works for a substantial portion of the

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Valery Sokolov; Tatiana Burukhina; Michael Dmitriev; Galina Zhukova

, V.I.Grinevetsky and some others created theRussian system of higher technical education based on the close connection of theoreticalcourses with practical training in industrial workshops and laboratories. The system received awide recognition abroad as " Russian methods of training", and it was marked by the highestpremiums and awards at the international exhibitions (in Philadelphia 1876, Paris 1900) 3. Atthe same time there was no uniform government policy in the field of higher education. It wasdifferent at Alexander II, Alexander III and Nikolay II. It is possible to say that it was thepolicy of fluctuations between two approaches - conservative and democratic, as it wasdeveloped and carried out by various people and ministries and in many respects

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Multidisciplinary Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Josue Njock-Libii

design projects in advanced mechanics of materials; Atherton (1998) 1 discusses controls;Schilling & Hagen (2000) 34, sanitary engineering; Lightner, Carlson, Sullivan, Brandenmuehl &Reitsma (2000)17, the concept of a living laboratory in Colorado; and Westerberg &Subrahmanian (2000)43, product design.D. Senior year: Capstone Design courses: These courses are offered toward the end of theundergraduate career of students to allow them to integrate what they have learned. Typically,they solve a practical problem that is both substantial and relevant. Capstone design courses aretaught in a wide variety of approaches. Two sample references to capstone designs are: a casestudy in which senior designs were supervised and evaluated by

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ranky

the modernconcurrent, object oriented approach to integrated product / process design.In terms of delivering our cases we follow the Virtual Product Demo concept, in that wevirtually take the learner with us to factories, R&D studios, exhibitions and professionallaboratories and give them interesting demos explained by real-world experts withchallenging problems to solve. In all cases we show them high quality, interactive videosand often 3D objects and panoramas so that they can interrogate them and evenparticipate in digital, virtual factory tours. (Note, although this approach does NOTreplace real, working laboratories for the class, it nevertheless takes the learners into high-quality labs, that are often not in many universities

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Englebert; Tom Owen; Stephen Kuyath

using these synchronous modes of delivery, in addition to the WebCTcourse structure, have been found to include a more conventional (and comfortable) interactionbetween the instructor and students, the ability to share applications (e.g., sketches on thewhiteboard and PSpice simulations), and the capacity to record the session for playback at a latertime for any student who was unable to attend the live session or wishes further review.Lab Classes:Faculty debated the best way to offer laboratory classes. The compromise reached was that alllaboratory classes were to be offered to DE students during the summer session on the UNCCharlotte campus. Students travel to UNC Charlotte to perform laboratory activities four timesduring the summer. Lab

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Schuyler; Kenneth Quinn

Services Infrastructure-MS1562 STW 493:[2] Administering a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Database-MS 2072 STW 494:[2] Programming a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Database -MS 2073The next step was identifying the facilities necessary to teach the courses. It was decided that the best location to runthese courses would be at the local New Horizons office. This decision was made since New Horizons hadnumerous excellent classroom facilities and computer laboratories, as well as having the ability to devote entirelaboratories and hardware to the courses. Ward College’s computer laboratories would be unsuitable since they aremulti-use facilities that are shared by several programs and scheduled in traditional one to one and a half hour

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Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Maxwell; James Johnson

beaccomplished in such a short time; however some exposure can be provided. The first of theseskill presentations is a lecture on drafting, since the teams will be required to show their plats withthe home footprint delineated. The lab will be a practice for the drafting requirementWeek 5. Week 5 will be an introduction to surveying in the most general of terms. Since thestudents will be expected to have very limited math skills, the lecture must be very general. Theassociated laboratory will be limited as well, but will at least allow the students to touch andmanipulate surveying equipment.Week 6. Student lecture material and laboratory during this week is aimed at allowing the studentto see the problems associated with site preparation. The drafting

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohan Ketkar; Gopal Reddy

by two different numerical methods to obtain temperature distribution.In the first case, the results are obtained using Euler method, which is an explicit formulation, andsecond method is the Crank-Nicolson implicit and explicit method and the results are comparedwith analytical solution. The accuracy of the numerical results is examined with various grid sizesand graphical comparison of the results is presented.Similar methods are employed in the Heat Transfer laboratory of the Mechanical EngineeringDepartment of the Texas A & M University to verify the experimental results 2, 3.MATHEMATICAL FORMULATIONIn this example, one dimensional transient heat transfer with boundary and initial conditions isconsidered. The pictorial representation

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen High; Cynthia Mann

feedbackwas readily available for unique responses.The first day of class, each student was given a notebook to serve as a journal and a laboratorynotebook for the project. Throughout the semester they were instructed to use the journal tocomplete some assignments, keep track of project related information (and data), and also providefeedback about class activities through journal entries. This was found to be an effective methodof illustrating the importance of laboratory notebooks—a concept foreign to many engineeringstudents. The success of this project relied on the students’ comfort in interacting with theinstructors, the notebooks seem to be a non-threatening forum for feedback.The last 12 weeks of the semester integrated the Pizza Project into

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Control Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marcus Soule; Bruce Segee

Demonstrating Motor Control using NMOS Exclusive H-Bridge Design Marcus J. Soule (email:Marcus_Soule@umit.maine.edu) Dr. Bruce E. Segee (email:segee@eece.maine.edu) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Instrumentation Research Laboratory University of Maine. OronoAbstractDelivering power to high voltage devices is a common requirement in an industrial setting.It is often required to be able to source current in two directions from the same supply. Itis common to implement an H-bridge to supply power to these devices. An H-Bridge is adevice with four switching elements that resembles a capital H. These devices

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International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Duda

Bunyoro-Kitara.Our Current WorkOver the last 4 years we have been working closely with a group of people who have a 10 yearcommitment to doing projects in the Church of Uganda Diocese of Bunyoro-Kitara, District ofBunyoro-Kitara, Uganda, Africa7. This work has been undertaken with the support of the localleadership and with acceptance and recognition of the federal government of Uganda. Theseprojects are built around 7 initiatives: 1. Developing a coffee plantation 2. Eradicating malaria in the diocese 3. Developing medical dispensaries with basic laboratories 4. Education analysis and microcomputer training Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

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International Engineering Education I

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Curriculum ComparisonThe first aspect taken into account in the comparison is the different definition of “credit”between both universities. UF defines the credit as the one semester hour, generally representingone hour (50-minute) per week of lecture or two or more hours per week of laboratory work.On the other hand, credits at UCN are the total hours that students attend a course, which is setby the institution. Total credits per course are defined by using: C = L + E + Lab + PD C = total credits for the course L = # of 45-minutes lectures E = # of 45-minutes

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Forsberg

forcedconvection, the unit includes a blower to provide a uniform flow of air across the surface of theplate. With measurements of air velocity, power input, and temperature, the convectivecoefficients for forced convection can be experimentally determined for a variety of platetemperatures.The demonstration unit is small and portable, and is easy to set-up on the table in the front of theclassroom. It is low-cost, utilizing instrumentation available in the engineering laboratories. Inits typical use during a lecture class, the instructor first introduces the theoretical and empiricalequations available for calculation of convective coefficients. Using these textbook equations,the students make calculations of convective coefficients for the parameters of