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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sue Scheff

opportunities. New in Fall2001, is the "Engineer in Residence" program. Students living in Blanding III will have theopportunity to interact with an electrical engineering graduate from the College of Engineeringnow employed at Lexmark, International in Lexington, Kentucky. Evening programs areoffered to support and encourage all dorm residents. Learning communities have shown to bevery successful in retaining students.Undergraduate Research Program: The Undergraduate Research Program creates researchpartnerships between first-and second-year students and faculty researchers. The program offersstudents the opportunity to work and learn along side a research faculty. Undergraduatestudents are given the real-life experiences of working in laboratories

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Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Prince Anyalebechi

microstructure related. Wherever feasible,student engineers should also be introduced to advance techniques that are used tocharacterize microstructures and composition; e.g., the scanning electron microscopes. It isimportant for them to be aware of the capabilities of these modern techniques and to be ableto ask for relevant information from them.Measurement of the effect of processes on properties should be a necessary component ofmanufacturing processes laboratory studies. For example, measurement of hardness and/ortensile properties as a function of heat treatment conditions and alloy composition isprobably the easiest and simplest means of helping students understand the interactionsbetween process and materials. Engineering students also need to

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Mentoring Women and Minorities

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Jessop

: Boston, 2002. K. Barker, “Mentor to All?,” At the Helm: A Laboratory Navigator, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press: Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 2002. C.I. Davidson and S.A. Ambrose, “Chapter 7: Supervising Graduate Research,” The New Page 8.643.4 Professor’s Handbook, Anker Publishing Company, Inc.: Bolton, MA, 1994. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationThird, new assistant professors should encourage their students to find more than one mentor(Tip #7). No one person can fill all the

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Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Brader; Jed Lyons

forthese items are shown in Figure 1, where the bars represent mean values and the lines representone standard deviation in responses. In all cases, the mean response increased over time. Thisincrease was statistically significant for all items except item 7, as measured by the application ofStudent’s t-test with a 99% confidence level. The results suggest that the fellows’ abilities toteach using laboratories, activities, investigations and computer technology was improved thoughthe GK-12 program.Fall Fellow Focus Group ResultsAt the three-month focus group, Fellows were asked how EDTE 710 and how being in theelementary classroom helped them develop their teaching and communication skills. All of theFellows agreed that transferring information

Conference Session

Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Horton

can be replicated on other campuses that have staff with a desire to promote genderequity in technical training to teach the CAD modeling, available room and board on campus, asuitable computer laboratory, an established summer recreation program, and an organization tohandle administrative tasks.CAD CampThe CAD Camp was available to campers entering grades nine through twelve, and the span ofthe age group was represented at each camp. The first group of campers arrived on the afternoonof Sunday, July 22, 2002 and left on the afternoon of Friday, July 26. The second camp was heldthe following week, from July 28 to August 2. Upon arrival, resident campers met the staff andtheir counselors, were issued meal cards with daily spending limits to

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Recruitment and Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Korinne Resendez; Carryn Bellomo; Rafic Bachnak

Engineering Education”speakers, field trips, hands-on laboratory activities, and science and technology exhibits1[9]. Specifically, the program will involve attracting 11th grade students to attend one oftwo two-week Science and Technology workshops. The workshops are designed tointroduce students to job opportunities in the food industry and agriculture, expose themto college life, involve them in hands-on activities, and encourage them to major inscience and engineering technology. Students will be recruited to participate in a follow-up Science and Technology Exhibit to be conducted during National Engineer’s Week inFebruary of each year. This program is unique in that it involves high school students inthe 11 th grade. These students are ready to

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Mizen; Robert Baldwin; Ronald Miller

results in English; • Make accurate scientific observations and measurements in cooperative laboratory projects and record observations and results in English; • Apply scientific concepts and principles to make predictions and solve simple problems concerning real-life physical, chemical, and geologic systems; • Complete an independent investigation involving literature and web-based research, data acquisition, and interpretation Math curriculum • Compare and contrast solutions to both linear and non linear equations numerically, graphically and symbolically; • Communicate mathematical ideas verbally, symbolically and graphically; • Demonstrate autonomous learning skills

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Watson; Hossein Salehfar; Arnold Johnson

the schoolof Engineering and Mines (SEM) at the University of North Dakota established a distanceeducation program to deliver Bachelor of Science engineering degrees to employees ofparticipating companies. This program was known as the Corporate Engineering DegreeProgram and has recently expanded into open enrollments and renamed the Distance EngineeringDegree Program (DEDP). Currently the DEDP offers the only ABET (Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology) accredited undergraduate engineering programs at a distance.The current DEDP delivery format includes videotaped lectures, static Internet Web pages ofhandouts, e-mail, and on-campus condensed summer laboratories. This delivery format ensuresthat each distance student receives the

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James H. Lorenz; Ahad Nasab

, co-op programs, or internships.Therefore, an upper division class may include many students who can be classified as workingengineers.Research projects conducted by engineering technology educators will definitely enhance thefaculty member’s knowledge about his/her chosen topic, and have been shown to add to the depthof class lectures and laboratory experiences. Research topics, however, are typically narrow intheir scope and may not expose the faculty to the numerous changes in many facets of anindustrial operation. Sabbaticals, on the other hand, may be organized for the sole purpose ofexposing the faculty member to new trends in industry. The major disadvantages of using asabbatical to accomplish the objectives mentioned above are; 1

Conference Session

Materials Curricula: Modeling & Math

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Surendra Gupta

to statisticsinstructors for easy integration into their statistics courses for engineers; begin a collaborationamong statistics and engineering faculty that teach the same sets of students; and provideengineering students the motivation to learn statistics well, and be able to apply their statisticalskills to engineering data in a meaningful and productive way.The engineering modules proposed are based on concepts and laboratory experiments from twocourses: Materials Processing (a 1st year course) and Materials Science (a 2nd year course). Bothare mandatory courses for mechanical as well as industrial engineering students. Having seen theconcepts and experiments already, the modules will actively engage students in applying

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman

. Page 8.325.1“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Ohio State’s College of Engineering sought to team with an urban high school where substantialnumbers of students would have the mathematics background necessary to be successful inIntroduction to Engineering and an industry partner that could help to mentor the students andprovide the materials to equip an engineering laboratory. Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati,Ohio, and General Electric, which operates an Aircraft Engines plant in the Cincinnati area, joinedwith Ohio State to prepare and pilot the high school Introduction to Engineering course.In 2001

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jill Lynn

to the changing, technologically enhanced world ofeducational institutions are pursued to extend the education toady. Some of engineering and technology courses and laboratory work will need Page 8.442.4to be developed in partnership with several Today’s students are demanding a change toinstitutions and/or with industry partners to provide traditional educational delivery methods, and wethe hands-on training and processing necessary. must respond. The time for action is now, and evenThese are not concepts of the future, but are actual with the

Conference Session

Design Projects in Manufacturing

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson; Scott Almen; Russel Biekert; Norbert Richter; Al Post

Manufacturing EngineeringTechnology program at Arizona State University. The first project started with a valve bodyproduced by Allied Signal Aerospace (now Honeywell). Blueprints and mentors from AlliedSignal provided the industry-based aspects of the course. The MECO students producedindustrial quality drawings, removing the Allied Signal name and modifying materials and parttolerances to meet the ASU laboratory capabilities. Then the MECO students created molds andcast 20 parts for machining. Other classes wrote the process plans (routing), designed and builtfixtures, and machined the final parts on a CNC-machining center. Furthermore, inspection andcontrol charts were developed on a Mitutoyo Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) and qualityassurance

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Arnaldo Mazzei

becomes difficultto fully visualize and understand these systems when a laboratory prototype or a simulation is notgiven.In order to allow students to observe and understand mechanism operation, compare hand-obtained solutions to computer derived ones and the ability to see problem variable behavior withvarying time, the author suggests introducing simulation software into the basic coursesmentioned above.Course and simulation softwareIn the present text the introduction of simulation software is discussed for an undergraduatecourse in dynamics. The course is MECH-310, which is a junior level four-credit course with fourhours of contact (two separate blocks of two hours). Pre-requisites for the course require thatstudents complete basic statics

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Engineering Practice

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marian Stachowicz; Rocio Alba-Flores

body and faculty. The written report and oral presentation had to follow thespecifications given in the Senior Project guide of the ECE department at UMD.The following table describes the activities performed during this workshopWeek Activities 1 Intensive review of fuzzy set theory 2 Laboratory experiments using the Fuzzy Logic Package for Mathematica 3 Intensive review of the 68HC12 microcontroller: its architecture and instruction set. Sensors for mobile robots. 4 Laboratory experiments programming the 68HC12 5 Groups were formed. Definition of the projects 6 Oral presentation of the proposed projects 7-8 Project simulations using the Fuzzy Logic Package for Mathematica

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Improving Communication Skills in ME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Theresa McGarry; Edward Young; Elisabeth Alford

. Page 8.1057.1Therefore, a more effective way of giving students feedback on their communications assignments“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”is called for. In this paper we describe an innovative approach taken in a senior mechanicalengineering laboratory course at the University of South Carolina in the spring 2002 semester.The approach centered on conference grading, a process in which students bring completedassignments to a meeting with the instructor, who grades the assignments orally on the spot.Other elements involved were team reporting, self-assessment of writing, and consultativeapproaches that helped the

Conference Session

Design in the CHE Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Turton; Joseph Shaeiwitz

this paper, the production ofproducts from farm animal waste can be used as an example. This project was based on aresearch idea by one of our colleagues. Students were required to design a reactor to produce adiesel fuel additive from the waste. However, there was insufficient data to determinereasonable operating conditions. Therefore, a subset of the class (in this case, members fromseveral groups) designed and performed experiments in the laboratory to obtain necessaryinformation regarding the reaction kinetics. This information was used to identify a preliminaryset of “best” operating conditions for the reactor. Students had to learn how to do the necessaryexperiments (with the aid of the faculty member) and interpret the results. In

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanics Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Redfield Robin; Robert Borchert; Brian Self

Session 1168 Evolution of an Introductory Dynamics Course Through Continuous Assessment Brian P. Self, PhD, Robert Borchert, M.S., and Robin Redfield, PhD Department of Engineering Mechanics United States Air Force Academy Colorado Springs, ColoradoAbstractTwo years ago, instructors at the United States Air Force Academy supplemented theirintroductory dynamics class with demonstrations, projects, laboratories, computational problems,and student presentations. Goals of the enhancement were to increase

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Forbes; Mary Emplaincourt

. Standards can even take the effect of law if they appear, for example, in building codes.Cities and municipalities in the south adopt the building codes developed and published bySBCCI almost universally. Many engineering students receive the B. S. degree with little or no exposure toengineering standards. This deficiency can easily be corrected by introducing standards (orportions) during appropriate sections of conventional technical courses or laboratories. Forexample, the author has required laboratory students to perform portions of the performance testsfor audible back up alarms used on some construction equipment (SAE standard). Note thatOSHA requires these alarms on certain equipment. As a minimum, students should be madeaware of the

Conference Session

NSF Opportunities for Undergraduate Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Mullett

, business, and government. The important policy changein the ATE program was that the grantee institution would be either a two-year college, or otherassociate degree granting institutions, or a consortium of two-year colleges along with thepreviously mentioned partners. Thus, two-year colleges or associate degree offering institutionswere specifically targeted by the ATE program and, as a further consequence, community collegefaculty were being afforded greater opportunities for grant funding and the actual planning andadministration of the grant [1].The focus of ATE projects would be on curriculum development, faculty or teacher development,instructional materials development, or instrumentation and laboratory improvement. Also,considered for

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

, scholarship in ET has to achieve the following:• ET scholarship must improve our teaching, add value to the education of our undergraduate/graduate students, and involve our students in meaningful ways.• ET scholarship must be relevant to industry, and lead to improvement in the curriculum and in undergraduate laboratories• ET scholarship must be documented and disseminated to others and be open to critical examination by peers outside our department in order to ensure the quality of the scholarly activity and to facilitate continuous improvement in this area of faculty endeavor.9, 11Based on this premise, we propose the definition of ET scholarship to include the following: 1. Scholarship of discovery in applied research

Conference Session

Teamwork, K-12: Projects to Promote Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

orientation to the university/college/majorsSoph. ME 201 – ThermodynamicsYear Student communication survey, refresher for past grammatical expertise Tools: MS Word, Email, WWWJunior ME 302 – Fluid Mechanics ME 371 – Machine Design IYear Laboratory Reports: (Approx. 9 @ 4-6 pages each) Short Technical Reporting Brief narrative of procedure, measured data, Design Analysis Reports (2 @ 4-6 pp. + App., deduced and analyzed data, plotted results with Individual); Technical Analysis, Economic discussion and conclusions. Analysis, Recommendation for Action

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bruce

required if designs are to be successful. Structured laboratory experiences (eachstudent or group of students perform rigid and contrived experiments) require less facultyresources but do little to develop student design and project management skills [10][12]. A com-promise between the two approaches has been created by the author [2].The embedded systems design experience described in [2] strives to develop professional skillsthat will serve students well in their careers in addition to the “traditional” technical skills the stu-dent expect. Overarching goals of the experience are to expose the student to a realistic embeddedsystems design environment and to develop the student’s teamwork and lifelong learning skills.The design experience strives

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Phillip Thompson; Denny Davis; Larry McKenzie; Kenneth Gentili

Western Michigan University Fred Gunnerson NucE/ME Idaho National Engineering and En vironmental Laboratory Kunle Harrison ME Tuskegee University Bob Hill ME Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory Mary Hofle Engr Idaho State University Rick Hoover EE/CS Hewlett-Packard Company (Boise) Scott Huang GeolE University of Alaska Fairbanks Richard Jacobson EngSci/ME Idaho National Engineering and En vironmental Laboratory Andy Kline ChE Western Michigan University Bill Lasher ME Penn State University Erie Cesar

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Engelken

and constraints must besimultaneously considered, for example, class size and average student intelligence, budget(particularly relevant to laboratory courses), textbook, etc. There will always be Page 8.262.6 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationdifferences of opinion with colleagues, superiors, and students regarding what’s best.Minor steady state errors will be chalked up to expediency, circumstances, and academicfreedom. The real test is how, over time, a NEE’s students do in higher-level courses

Conference Session

Experiences with the TTL Turbojet Engine

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Staci White; Paul Strykowski

with which the combustion analysis is performed depends on the level ofthe student conducting the SR-30 laboratory. For purposes here, the combustor has beenmodeled as a steady-state device having energy streams as indicated in Figure 2. 2 2 ma (h a +Va /2) (ma + mf )(h 3 +V3 /2) mf (LHVfuel ) ηcomb Figure 2. Simplified Thermodynamic Model of the Combustion ProcessThe turbine extracts the molecular kinetic energy, i.e. internal energy, from the products ofcombustion and converts it to shaft work. In developing power, the gas

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Karthik Ramani; Anderson David; Alexander Lee

them to practice in acollaborative environment while prototyping a working toy. The learning environment combines(1) hands-on use of the Intranet for computer-based learning, (2) a team-based project toprototype a real product, (3) virtual design and assembly of the student-created toy using CAD,(4) realistic budgeting and design constraints, and (5) advanced prototyping techniques. The firstphase of the course focuses on learning advanced CAD tools using web-based learning software.Both the instructor and teaching assistants help students in the laboratory. The students design atoy conceptually as they become familiar with CAD tools. In the second phase, each groupdesigns a toy using a budget to buy standard parts such as motors and

Conference Session

Innovative Curricula and Outreach

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sara Hise; Jim Clark; Bryant Kiedrowski; Aaron Jennings

replenish consumables.While shopping, batteries were often observed in parking lots. This led to pavement surveyswhere littered batteries were collected and characterized. The results were startling. Over 2,000feral batteries were collected. Average surveys yielded 19 batteries, but there was considerablesite variability. Survey results are presented to illustrate the potential environmental significanceof consumer battery litter. The issue of urban battery litter raises several questions that can be answered by traditionallaboratory research. Results of work to measure battery deterioration rates and pollutant releaseproperties are also presented. However, battery litter also raises questions that cannot beanswered in the laboratory. Almost

Conference Session

Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie McBride

goal.Service quality in higher education exists on several levels: • Univerity level: business offices, such as admissions and records, bursar’s office, library services, health services, and other nonacademic offices • College level: Dean’s office, student chapter advisors, computing laboratories • Department level: advisement, staff, faculty mentoring • Classroom and laboratory level: faculty, graduate assistants Internal suppliers: Customers: • Food service • Students • Physical plant • Graduate • Business offices

Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George Havener

a time, in all courses inthe curriculum. Near the end of the program, the capstone design and senior laboratory-courses(AE 481, AE 482, and AE 471) are used to put all pieces of the thread into a single product. Communications Thread - The educational objective of the Communications Thread is:Graduates will use professional writing and speaking skills necessary to communicate effectively.We believe the process of developing effective communicators involves consistent and continuousdevelopment across the curriculum. Thus, instead of teaching technical report writing in a singlecourse, the pieces of a technical report along with efforts to develop good writing skills are taughtin several courses. One course may teach writing an abstract