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Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Travis Harrington; Keith Coleman; J. Douglas Sterrett; Robert LeMaster

industrial organizations.The Center gives faculty members in the Department of Engineering an opportunity to conductapplied research that is supported with undergraduate engineering students. The students areactively involved with projects that tie their coursework to the real world, and the center providesa necessary service to regional government and industrial organizations. The concept for thecenter began in the summer of 1999 when an Energy Management Administrator with theDepartment of Finance & Administration [1], contacted the School of Engineering. TheDepartment of Finance & Administration was looking for a resource that would provide the statewith independent third-party analysis and verification of new energy management

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kendrick Aung

paper presents the design andimplementation of an undergraduate Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) course in theDepartment of Mechanical Engineering at Lamar University. The paper describes the courseobjectives, textbook and reference materials, detailed contents and topics of the course, andgroup projects to be solved by the commercial CFD software. The results from the survey ofstudents on the use of commercial CFX software are also provided.Introduction Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is the art of replacing the integrals or the partialderivatives in fundamental governing equations of fluid dynamics with discretized algebraicforms, which in turn are solved to obtain numbers for the flowfield values at discrete points intime and/or

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Satish Ranade; Howard Smolleck

. Faculty and industry advisors, workingjointly, carefully coordinate student activities. The Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) assumed the lead in helping toinitiate the program by committing internship positions and providing financial support for eachof the students. Three senior students, two juniors, and an exchange student initially joined theprogram and completed the first two power courses in the Spring 2002 semester. These studentswere employed by faculty during the Spring 2002 semester and three of them worked for PNMduring the subsequent summer, after which they returned in the Fall to complete the powersequence. The senior students from this group are also completing their Capstone Designsequences with projects

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

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Reid Vander Schaaf; Ronald Welch

Development (AIAD) program, which covers all summeracademic programs at West Point, regardless of department or academic discipline. The firstprogram, the Cadet District Engineer Program (CDEP), is designed to introduce CivilEngineering majors to the function of a typical US Army Corps of Engineers District within thecontinental US and overseas. CDEP is an internship type program that does not provideacademic credit, and participation is voluntary. The program usually last between 3-5 weeks andstudents participate in various activities to include duties typically assigned to new engineerswithin the district. Some of these duties include: • Assistant Project Engineer • Quality Assurance Inspector • Project Manager

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Peter Young

, American Society for Engineering EducationThe stock Dragonfly model (left) constructed from the factory kit and the aircraft as redesigned(note wing modification) by an MIT student for competition.DBF Project InceptionUnified Engineering is a required multi-disciplinary course for MIT Aero-Astro students enrolledin their second year. First developed and implemented in the mid-1970’s 1,2, Unified Engineeringis a two-semester course sequence, 24 credit hours per semester, that covers Materials andStructures, Dynamics, Signals & Systems, Fluid Dynamics, and Thermodynamics & Propulsion ina fast-paced curricular schedule that includes lectures, recitations, laboratories, and objective teststaught in an intensive 5 day/week schedule. Unified

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2003 Annual Conference

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Laura Genik; Craig Somerton

Session 1333 Teaching the Design of Energy Conversion in Propulsion Systems Craig W. Somerton, Laura Genik, Todd Jammer, Dean Hagler, and Tomohiro Hamada Michigan State University/University of Portland/Michigan State UniversityIntroductionA design project has been developed and implemented in a senior-level thermal design coursethat addresses energy conversion as it applies to land-based propulsion systems. The sameproject has been used in similar courses at both the University of Portland and Michigan StateUniversity. An in-house computer program, TeachPiston, is utilized which allows the students toinvestigate several operating

Conference Session

Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Emily Mowry

Declaration of Helsinki, Belmont Report, Nuremberg Code, etc. The BioethicsResource Center from the National Institutes of Health6 provided us with additional documentsand case studies. The Case Studies in Science website7 from the University of Buffalo providedus with the bulk of case studies used in the syllabus.Results We successfully created a day-by-day semester course syllabus (presented below for fall2003 dates). The course includes thirteen case studies, four guest speakers, three in-class movies,and a group project. Ethics in Biomedical Engineering Course SyllabusAugust 28 – Overview of syllabus; Guest speaker on bioethicsSeptember 2 – In-class video Miss Evers’ Boys; Introduction to the Tuskegee study and a

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fabio Carrera; David DiBiasio; Natalie Mello

science majors from Worcester Polytechnic Institute optimized the boat cargo deliverysystem it operates in the Venetian lagoon and canals. The team combined sophisticatedgeographic information systems, clever data tracking, and carefully cultivated relationships withthe individual boat captains in the Consorzio to design a system that halves delivery times andthe attendant boat traffic, pollution, and canal damage. A follow-up team collected boat wakedata, analyzed canal traffic patterns, and developed a procedure for estimating canal wall damagefrom wake impact. The results of both projects provided the basis for the new cargo boatwarehouse and distribution center now under construction in Venice. And each student receivedacademic credit for

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Miroslav Velev

Session 1532 Integrating Formal Verification into an Advanced Computer Architecture Course Miroslav N. Velev mvelev@ece.gatech.edu School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, U.S.A. Abstract. The paper presents a sequence of three projects on design and formal verification of pipelined and superscalar processors. The projects were integrated—by means of lectures and pre- paratory homework exercises

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2003 Annual Conference

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Nancy Thompson; Eric Vilar; Beth Davidson; John Brader; Michael Matthews; Elisabeth Alford; Sirena Hargrove-Leak

contemporary engineering education. Thus, gaining background in theory andpractice of constructive learning uniquely prepares engineering graduate students who planacademic careers. This presentation describes a novel approach in which engineering graduatestudents learned about learning theory through study, discussion, and practice in a constructivistenvironment.The approach was developed as a training program for engineering graduate studentsparticipating in the NSF-funded Research Communications Studio (RCS) Project at the Universityof South Carolina. These graduate students mentor small groups of engineering undergraduateresearchers who meet in weekly Studio sessions to develop their research and communicationsabilities. The graduate student

Conference Session

Novel Courses for CHEs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Chih-hung Chang; Skip Rochefort; Shoichi Kimura; Milo Koretsky

Operations Laboratory that has begun during the 2000-2001academic year. A newly created Endowed Chair, the Linus Pauling Engineer, was hired fromindustry to identify and incorporate the highest priority professional practices to senior lab. Sheserves as “project director” for this class to help new graduates become immediately prepared forindustrial practice. Thus the unit operations lab provides students with the array of skills theywill need to perform effectively in industry. The ChE Unit Operations Laboratory inMicroelectronics Processing is targeted at undergraduate students who are interested in careers asprocess engineers in microelectronics and related industries. The students will both develop anin-depth understanding of the underlying

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jesse Pappas; Eric Pappas

experience.Successful programs, projects, and research at premier engineering schools around thecountry are equipping students with the advanced creative and cognitive abilities requiredto succeed as contemporary professionals. This paper is a review of the innovative, multi-disciplinary, educational methodology that is manifest in several types of new efforts,including: 1) Engineering design in a studio atmosphere; 2) Engineering courses forcreative problem-solving; 3) Encouraging creativity and insight through journal writing; 4)The agenda for creativity at the UK Centre for Materials Education; and 5) A focus on thepersonal creative process. Research for this review inspired The Creativity, Innovation,and Design Report, a new national publication dedicated

Conference Session

Building Bridges with Community Colleges

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2003 Annual Conference

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Richard Newman; Jon Weihmeir, Arizona State University; John Robertson, Arizona State University; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

Mesa, Arizona AbstractThe Arizona State University and community colleges across the State of Arizona have ahistory of collaboration that is acclaimed as a national model. However, Arizona StateUniversity East and its community college partners are working diligently to elevate theireducational partnership to a new level beyond traditional articulation and the transfer ofcoursework. This paper describes a model curriculum development project designed tocreate a seamless microelectronics laboratory curriculum between local communitycolleges and Arizona State University East (ASUE).INTRODUCTION ASU East and Central Arizona College, Chandler Gilbert Community College, MaricopaAdvanced Technology

Conference Session

Manufacturing Competitiveness

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2003 Annual Conference

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Todd Johnson; John Fesler; Kenneth Stier

.Manufacturers have embraced lean manufacturing during the slow down in the economyas one method of remaining profitable5. Having students experience lean manufacturing concepts in the laboratory canhave a positive effect on the experiences offered to the students prior to them entering theindustrial setting. It is important that faculty provide students with the experiences thatdevelop a strong conceptual framework of how this management practice will benefit theindustry in which they work. Many of our students learn best when they are actively engaged in activities thatemphasize the concepts that we are trying to teach. This paper will focus on a NationalInstitute of Standards (NIST) developed Lean Manufacturing Workshop and a project

Conference Session

Engineering Education; An International Perspective

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2003 Annual Conference

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Lori Cirucci; Joseph Santoro; John Coulter; Herman Nied; David Angstadt; Charles Smith

curriculum at Lehigh University. Annually,approximately eighty mechanical engineering juniors complete a three-credit course entitled ME240-Manufacturing. This course exposes them to a wide array of manufacturing processes from ascientific, business and social standpoint. The course is innovative in that manufacturing scienceknowledge is acquired while students simultaneously develop skills in the areas of teamwork,project management, business analysis, and customer focused product realization. An additionalinnovation is the creative inclusion of approximately 120 local middle school students. Thesestudents benefit by developing an awareness of engineering as a potential future career at acritical age. The cooperative university/middle school

Conference Session

Internet Programming and Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Glotzbach; Carlos Morales

, the Internet that is. Web-enabling software has been around for a while, but it is more recently that companies have begunto exploit its capabilities. The purpose, usefulness, and advantages of using a web-enabled systemwill become readily apparent as an example of how it can change the way a company performs itsday-to-day business is presented. Simplifying a process by automating it using the Web can helpreduce the time commitment by parties involved, reduce ambiguity, improve communication andcollaboration, and has the potential to save a company money in the long term. On the otherhand, implementing a system can be costly and may extend the project deadline or not be in placein time for its utilization. For those companies with the need

Conference Session

Integrating Math in Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bob Freeman

to solve the specific problem at hand, be it a lectureconcept/learning objective or a homework assignment. Then, after the student has developed acertain familiarity with the software, they can more readily use the software’s own moreencyclopedic assistive materials to address new and more comprehensive tasks. The approach takenincorporates the use of “screen capture with audio” avi tutorials, along with a variety of interactivematerials including; supplemental lecture notes, homework assignments and solutions, sampleexams and exam solutions, and projects. Liberal use is also made of the software packages’ ownassistive materials. The software “taught” includes MathSoft's Mathcad and MSC's Working Model2D, with TechSmith's Camtasia used to

Conference Session

Manufacturing Systems Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Hotchkiss; Slade Gellin

those capabilitiesalready incorporated. For instance, the machine for which the VAL-CAM program wasoriginally written does not have an automatic tool changer, whereas one of the recently installedmachine tools does have such a tool changer. The program module for this new machine allowsthe user to specify the codes that are used by the new machine that will effect an automaticchange of tool. A variety of standard and non-standard codes are also provided so that the usercan tailor the code to operate most new machine tools.The significance of this project is that the generality and modularity of the post-processor lendsitself to utilization in similar laboratories at other educational facilities.Introduction and Problem StatementA CNC code

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Michael Stefanone; Jae-Shin Lee; Geraldine Gay; Barry Davidson; Anthony Ingraffea; Alan Zehnder; Scott Jones; John Dannenhoffer

Session 2525 On the use of Advanced IT Tools to Facilitate Effective, Geographically Distributed Student Design Teams Barry Davidson1, John Dannenhoffer III1, Geraldine Gay2, Anthony Ingraffea2, Scott Jones2, Jae-Shin Lee2, Michael Stefanone2 and Alan Zehnder2 1 Syracuse University / 2Cornell UniversityIntroduction In industry and government, teams of scientists and engineers need to work together closely toachieve their project goals. In large projects team members may live and work at geographicallydistant sites, and may work for different organizations

Conference Session

Effective Teaching to Motivate & Retain

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Zia Razzaq

taught by a faculty member from civil, environmental, mechanical, electrical or anotherengineering and technology area. The emphasis is on “hands-on” experience through studentgroup projects coupled with a clear introduction to some related fundamentals. This paperoutlines an effective strategy while utilizing as an example the student projects involving structuralengineering. A very dramatic increase in the retention rate of the freshmen has been observedever since these courses have been introduced.The LogisticsIn order to motivate and retain the maximum possible number of students, two courses named“Engineering and Technology I and II” have been introduced at Old Dominion University.Hereinafter, these courses will be referred to as EET I and

Conference Session

Building Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships

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2003 Annual Conference

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James Bryant; Paul Swamidass

Session 1136 Preparing UG entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs through cross- disciplinary partnership between engineering and business colleges. Dr. Paul M. Swamidass, and Dr. James O. BryantThomas Walter Center for Technology Management, Tiger Drive Rm 104, Auburn University, AL 36849-5358Entrepreneurship in technology-intensive industries requires close cooperative workbetween engineers and business professionals. The premise of a new program at AuburnUniversity is that cross-functional teamwork skills that enable business and engineeringstudents to work together on several projects lays the foundation for

Conference Session

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

Conference Session

Environmental Justice and Sustainability

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Radhika Kotha

Session 3551 THE DESIGNING OF THE “NATURAL HOUSE”: A STUDENT’S EXPERIENCE Radhika Kotha 3rd Yr., Mechanical Engineering Student Muffakham Jah College of Engineering & Technology Hyderabad, IndiaAbstract“The Natural House”, the inspiration of one of our professors and a project of Centre forEnvironment Studies and Socioresponsive Engineering in our Mechanical EngineeringDepartment, is being designed to “behave” like an “organism” in relation to the surroundingnatural environment. Within

Conference Session

Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Joseph Schroeder; Figen Lacin; Craig Somerton

extendedhomework assignment for the senior level heat transfer course, ME 410, and is shown in Fig. 8.For the ME 410 assignment, one lecture period was taken to introduce the students toFinSolver.xls using a computer projection system. For ENGN 385, the instructor spent aboutthirty minutes in the lab with students logged in on computers, so as to have the spreadsheetavailable in front of them, while the instructor, using a computer projection system,demonstrated features of the program and worked out a first trial case of the assignment. Theclear difference in the nature of these two assignments shows the utility of the spreadsheet. Page 8.174.9

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TYCD 2003 Lower Division Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rod Townley; Stephen Kuyath

Session 2586 A Collaborative Effort at Program Development Stephen J. Kuyath, Rod M. Townley UNC-Charlotte Department of Engineering Technology/Central Piedmont Community College, Dean Southwest CampusBackground:The Regional Information Technology Training Collaborative Project is an outgrowth of theCharlotte Region Workforce Development Partnership and Advantage Carolina InformationTechnology Council (ITC). The Charlotte Region Workforce Development Partnership is a jointeffort of ten community colleges in the Charlotte region for workforce development. The ITC isan effort of the

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Anderson; Ronald Bucinell

students at UnionCollege. More recently this single course has been divided into two courses, one in particlemechanics and one in rigid body mechanics. Using this approach, students are shown that staticsis a simplified case of dynamics. Free body and mass/acceleration diagrams, hands on laboratoryexercises, and design projects are used to illustrate this relationship. A summary of the successof the course being taught this way is presented.IntroductionEngineering students are traditionally introduced to topics in engineering mechanics throughtrimester courses in statics and dynamics. This is true throughout the United States and theWorld with few exceptions. During the reform of the Union College Engineering Curriculumthat took place in the mid

Conference Session

Innovations in the CHE Laboratory

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

R. Worden

Page 8.713.1curricula do not train students to work effectively in such teams. Several years ago, as part of anProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationNSF-sponsored Combined Research/Curriculum Development (CRCD) project, MSUestablished a Multidisciplinary Bioprocessing Laboratory (MBL) course to help prepare studentsfor a multidisciplinary work environment. The goal of this course is to teach students how towork effectively in multidisciplinary teams in a research environment. Students are recruitedinto the MBL course from several science and engineering departments and assigned tomultidisciplinary research teams of

Conference Session

Virtual & Distance Experiments

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Weber; Bernard Lwakabamba; Julie Dickerson; Carolina Cruz-neira; Diane Rover

Session 2426 CRCD: Low-Power Wireless Communications for Virtual Environments-Course Integration Julie A. Dickerson, Diane T. Rover, Carolina Cruz-Neira, Robert J. Weber, Eric Eekhoff, Bernard Lwakabamba, Feng Chen, and Zheng Min Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011I. Project OverviewThis project combines research from the areas of wireless communications, low-power embeddedsystems, virtual environments, and human factors in an interdisciplinary program. Education in thehardware and software of virtual reality (VR) systems serves

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lucy King; Jacqueline El-Sayed

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationwith math, physics, communication or graphic arts [Pearson, 1999] 3 [Wood et. al., 2001] 5 [Goffet. al. 2001]2. Other approaches entail consecutive classes where one class of students utilize thereports of a previous class’ work or team taught labs with instructors from different disciplines[Drake et. al., 2002]1.At Kettering University, collaborative efforts have been tested involving a selected number ofstudents in two non-concurrent courses or utilizing reports from previous course work to developa project in another class [Scheller, 2000]4. There has not been any attempt in conducting a trulyinterdisciplinary

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Holger; James Melsa; Loren Zachary

, visiting faculty should be housed near—but not with—their students. It is important tonote that the visiting faculty will probably have a greater role in the students’ lives than they wouldhave when the students are resident at their home institution. The visiting faculty may also becalled on to play a greater disciplinary role than at home.It is important to leave time for cultural experiences or to specifically schedule them into theprogram. Industry visits in the host country are an excellent way to introduce the students to workprocesses in other countries and therefore should be an integral part of summer programs.International project experiencesIn this model, students are sent to another country to conduct project work under the supervision