Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kimberly Coleman

Conference Session

Internet Programming and Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Miller; Steve Walsh; Leigh Haefner; Hollylynne Stohl

could be streamed over the Internet. IBM donated fiveCrossPad2 units to support the development project as a design project completed byundergraduates in the Department of Computer Science. The initial design objectives for thisproduct were: 1. Ease of use. The system must be extremely easy to use. This implies a simple and intuitive user interface, with no “bells and whistles.” 2. One-click publishing with an integrated FTP client. The system should include an integrated FTP client so that the voice-annotated recordings can be uploaded to a server without the user having to save files and use a general purpose FTP package to upload

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Emin Yilmaz; Kenny Fotouhi

new hose clamps. SinceMegatech did not know how much fluid is needed to fill the system, approximate volumewas calculated using dimensions of the components on the unit. The needed compositionof the fluid was: 50% SAE 90 gear oil, 30% transmission fluid and 20% mystery. Twogallons of 80W85 gear oil, one gallon of 89-90 gear oil, four quarts of Dextron/Mercontransmission fluid, four quarts of type-F transmission fluid and four quarts of mystery oilwere mixed to obtain approximate composition of 50.0% gear oil, 33.3% transmissionfluid and 16.7% of mystery oil. Air inlet connector on the reservoir tank was removedand the mixture was poured into the unit using 1/8 in.-pipe threaded hole. After replacingthe wrongly connected new ignition switch

Conference Session

Technology, Communication, & Ethics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ross

Teaching Communication Skills Online for Technical Leadership:A Preliminary Survey of MEPP Student MotivationSubmission: 2003 ASEE Annual ConferenceEducational and Research Methods DivisionPaul L. Ross 608 262-5171 pross@engr.wisc.eduTechnical Communication Program, Engineering Professional Development.College of Engineering/UW-MadisonAddress: Paul L. Ross M1050D Technical Communication Certificate Program 1550 Engineering Drive Madison, WI 53706 Page 8.1059.1Paul L. Ross UW-Madison 1 Teaching Communication Skills OnlineAbstractTeaching Communication Skills Online for

Conference Session

Design Projects in Manufacturing

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Kashef; Mark Rajai

response tothese changes in industry, engineering schools have also reevaluated and realized theircurriculum particularly in area of collaborative design projects. The objectives of this paper are(1) to review the existing software/tools and methodologies used in design processes, (2) tointroduce innovative approaches to collaborative design environment, then (3) present severalfunded case studies employing new cutting-edge technologies.IntroductionThe field of collaborative design (CD) has enjoyed considerable attention and success over thelast decade as rapid changes in technology and a global economic recession have promptedmany leading manufacturing companies to reevaluate and upgrade their design andmanufacturing process. An increasing number

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ciezki; Thomas Salem

application and use of powerelectronics. Meanwhile, the utility industry itself has undergone tremendous upheaval with theimpact of deregulation bringing about a paradigm shift in the operational analysis, forecasting,and pricing structures of energy transfer. In fact, this change in energy management “representsthe largest global industry ever to move from regulation to competition. Numbers in the UnitedStates range from $250 billion to $300 billion annually of economic impact or about 3% of theU.S. GNP.”1 These numbers are not stagnant either, due to the overwhelming reliance of theworld economies on electric power. Growth within the utility sector has been projected at morethan 750 GW of new generation capacity within the next ten years to be

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Enos Charles Inniss

the exercise was good from the experiential learningstandpoint, it was not properly exploited for all the information it could provide to both theindividual student and the class in general. Students should get more practice with the variousaspects of technical communication (both oral and written)1 and more feedback from theinstructor and from their peers on the success of those efforts. To this end, students were assignedthe task of producing fact sheets during various sections of the revised course. The firstassignment called for students to work in groups, to prepare both the fact sheet and the moreformal presentation of their findings on air pollution detection and/or control. A secondassignment called for them to individually produce a

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Speakman; Joel Perlin; Daniel Pack; Barry Mullins

robot.The mentors gave a set of project requirements to the student. The overall requirement is asfollows: Design and construct an autonomous hover-robot. The robot must be equipped withmultiple mechanisms to control its 3D position and angles (roll, pitch, and yaw) using amicrocontroller. The robot must avoid hitting walls and other obstacles using onboard sensors.Given the overall requirements, the student devised the following operational requirements orspecifications, which were presented during a formal briefing: Robot must (1) be autonomous;(2) fit within a 16 in. x 16 x 6 in. box; (3) weigh no more than 2.5 lbs; (4) take off and land on itsown; (5) use DC motors; (6) lift up to 4.5 lbs; (7) maintain level hover; (8) have capabilities tomove

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George Yang

productivity improvement. Graduates have a strong, broadfoundation that enables them to perform well in any field which requires the applicationof manufacturing principles. The graduates will grow as new technologies develop and atthe same time will be sensitive to the impact of technology on society. Manufacturingengineers get involved in the production of a variety of industrial and consumer goodsand develop the expertise to see them through the completion.1 The four-year Electronics Engineering Technology (EET) program is a broad-based technical program. It has strong foundations in mathematics, computers, basic andengineering sciences, and has an excellent blend of theory and practice ofelectrical/electronics engineering principles. The

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in EM ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Ochoa

provide students withstrong marketability. Page 8.190.4 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationMicrocontroller technology continues to move forward. As these systems continue to grow incomplexity, engineering as well as engineering technology faculty should consider the followingfactors: 1) What computer architectures should be taught/used in labs: CISC, RISC, both? 2) What programming languages should be taught: C, assembly, other? 3) What manufactures should be considered

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Huong Vu; Dave Parent; Emily Allen

of energy conversion. The projecthas four phases of development: 1. Solar Cell Testing 2. Fabrication of Solar Cells 3. Optimization of Spartan Solar Cell design and process technology 4. Design and Construction of Spartan Solar CityPhase 1, Solar Cell Testing, is described here. This activity is provided to sections of the first-yearengineering class (ENGR 10) as a one-week enrichment module. Phase 2, Fabrication of SolarCells, has been pilot tested and will eventually be integrated into an upper division course onelectronic materials as a one-week lab activity. Phase 3, Optimization of solar cell design,consists of a series of senior projects and masters theses focused on improving the electricalcharacteristics of our

Conference Session

Related Engineering Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ruth Davis

tied to numbers, but that too was soon to change.On the basis of symbolic algebra, modern mathematics followed two courses: applications in themathematics of the continuous, and applications in the mathematics of the discrete. The particulardomain of interest in discrete mathematics was the theory of equations: given a polynomial, f, forwhat values of x does f(x) = 0 hold? Progress here went two ways: (1) higher order polynomials— quadratic, cubic, and quartic equations soon fell, but quintics were problematic, and (2) thevalues acceptable for x, the domain for f, they changed from naturals, to rationals, to reals, to“imaginary” numbers.As this process continued, symbolic algebra became more abstract —more “imaginary.” Itbecame more a study of

Conference Session

Design Through the Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ellis

Page 8.865.2Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationreality. In the 2001-2002 academic year, there were a total of 20 projects including industrysponsored projects, entries in student design competitions, and projects related to facultyresearch.A. Educational Objectives The general goals of teaching a design methodology, developing teamwork skills, andencouraging professional development were translated into nine specific educational objectivesas detailed in Table 1. These nine objectives were common to all of the sections of the capstonecourse. Two additional objectives were established for the Solar Decathlon project to

Conference Session

Potpourri of Engineering Mathematics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Wicks

been added along with the traditional differentialand integral calculus, vectors, matrices and transform methods. These special interestmethods topics place emphasis on the mathematical modeling of various processes andsecondary emphasis on solution methods. The philosophy is that if a process can bemathematically modeled it can be solved by computer based numerical techniques. Thefact that any process that can be modeled can be solved by numerical methods alsomeans that questionable assumptions such as linearity do not have to be made during theprocess of developing the equations. Thus more realistic results can be obtained.1. Introduction Special interest topics that have been introduced in an engineering analysis course.These topics are

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski

is currently focusing on the examination of the potential benefits of olive oil in the diet. This research includes examining its antioxidant properties, and its role in the prevention of numerous diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, arteriosclerosis and diabetes[1]. Several primary steps are involved in the industrial olive oil pressing process. The first of these is grinding. The purpose of this step is to break open the oil-containing cells within

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kirankumar Gundrai

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Eliot; Angela Linse; Jennifer Turns

this program is to provide professional development for UW College ofEngineering faculty in the area of pedagogical innovation. We are conducting research on theCELT program in order to answer the following questions: 1. What are concerns of engineering faculty regarding their teaching activities? 2. What types of information do engineering faculty value when learning about effective teaching practices? 3. How do engineering faculty describe their concerns (e.g., language, key phrasing)? 4. What processes are effective for supporting engineering faculty (e.g., helping articulate their concerns, interpreting research across education and engineering communities)?The premise of our research methodology is that CELT’s

Conference Session

The Use of Technology in Teaching Math

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Carlos Morales

concept[1][2]. In reality, this does not work for engineering/technology studentsbecause they do not know the language of mathematics. Mathematics books are unlike books inthe social sciences, where the same subject matter might be approached from slightly different Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Page 8.660.1 Session 1665perspective. Mathematicians write with a very terse and compact tone

Conference Session

Teaching Design Through Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stacy Wilson; Mark Cambron

. Figure. 1 EE Design I Project. Page 8.773.2 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 2: EE Design I ProjectEE Design I ProjectThe EE Design I course has several team assignments throughout the semester, including aredesign of an existing product for improvements and the robot “bug” project. The students alsopresented a mini-conference on the environmental impacts of engineering decisions where eachstudent wrote and presented a technical paper.The robot

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alan Tackett; Greg Walker

previously notconsidered because of their computational requirements. In other words, science has beenadvanced because of this single class offering.Introduction Until recently, high-performance computing was the exclusive purview of highly special-ized research programs with large government grants.1 Further, the applications deemedworthy of such large-scale facilities and resources were usually defense related. As a re-sult, a cloud of mystery has surrounded scientific communities involved in development andimplementation of both hardware and software devoted to solving computationally intenseproblems. Because of the tremendous expense of building and operating high-performancecomputing facilities, resources were scarce, and many researchers

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Walker

Session 2109 The use of concept mapping as an alternative form of instruction and assessment in a capstone biomedical engineering design course Joan M.T. Walker1, Paul H. King2, & David S. Cordray1 Psychology and Human Development 1/ Biomedical Engineering2 Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 37203AbstractGrounded in interdisciplinary efforts to improve student learning and professionaldevelopment in the domain of bioengineering, this paper describes the design, use, andevaluation of an alternative form of instruction and assessment in a yearlong seniorbiomedical engineering (BME

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Devdas Shetty

GLOBALIZATION AND PRODUCT DESIGN CURRICULUM IN ENGINEERING PROGRAMS Devdas Shetty1 and Seong J. Choi2 1 Professor and Vernon D Roosa Chair holder University of Hartford, Connecticut 06117 (USA) 860- 768-4615; Shetty@hartford.edu 2. Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Korean University of Technology and Education, South KoreaAbstractToday products are manufactured and marketed globally and supply chains have dominated themanufacturing landscape. Most companies have much wider product ranges. These

Conference Session

Laboratory Developments and Innovations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Conte; Mesut Baran; Joel Trussell; Jack Brickley; Griff Bilbro; Greg Byrd; Cecilia Townsend; Ben O'Neal; Amir Mortazavi; Mehmet Ozturk

Carolina State University. The course was offered for the first time in fall2000. Since then, we have been regularly teaching the course every semester including summer.The objectives of the course are: 1. To provide an overview of ECE specialization areas to help students find topics that excite them and choose their specialization areas accordingly. 2. To motivate the students through innovative experiments connected to real-life applications. 3. To introduce fundamental concepts through hands-on experiments in a state-of-the-art hardware laboratory. 4. To provide fundamental skills for using standard measurement tools.Throughout the course, the students are exposed to concepts

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

that ETscholarship should take on an applied flavor while maintaining an appropriate objective andthorough peer review component to ensure the quality of ET scholarship and maintainrespectability and acceptance within the wider academic community.11, 14In a survey of seventy-six institutions with ET programs designed to investigate appropriatecreative endeavor, research, and scholarly activities deemed important for promotion and tenureof ET faculty, Buchanan identified the most highly rated creative endeavor activities forpromotion and tenure of ET faculty to be: (1) papers or presentations given at technical orinstructional conferences, (2) applied research activities, and (3) development of courseware orinstructional material.5During an

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in EM ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

B. Zoghi; Robert Bolton

2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”IntroductionENTC 395 Electromechanical Systems for Technologists is a required course in the Mechanical,and Electronics Engineering Technology degree programs in the Department of EngineeringTechnology and Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M University. The course is a four credithour class taught in a fifteen-week semester with a two-hour laboratory supporting three lecturehours per week. Figure 1 depicts several students preparing for the laboratory which was fundedand developed with industry grants. The typical class composition is evenly split betweenstudents from both majors. Students share a

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jorge Gatica; Anthony Bruzas; Abhishek Gupta

. Page 8.227.2“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education “Illustrative ExampleA Flat-blade (Figure 1) turbine with six blades is installed centrally in a vertical tank. This tank is6 ft (1.83 m) in diameter. The turbine is 2 ft (0.61m) in diameter and is positioned 2 ft (0.61m)from the bottom of the tank. The turbine blades are 6 in. wide. The tank is filled to a depth of 6 ft(1.83m) with a solution of 50% caustic soda at 150 oF (65.6oC) which has a viscosity of 12 CPand a density of 93.5 lb/ft3 (1498 kg/m3). The turbine is operated at 90 rpm. The tank is baffled.What power will be required to operate the mixer?Solution1Curve A

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

CRISTINO CARBONELL; FE TABAMO; Clarita Guevara

oflearning and teaching material for UST students to have fun and excitement while going througha course. The project involves the production of interactive learning materials in threeMathematics Courses, namely, Solid Geometry, Differential Calculus and College Physics 1.These materials are support materials to enhance teaching and learning and are not meant asstand-alone materials. • Learning Theories9 Skinner’s learning model about the learning stimulus and the provision of positive reinforcements leading to repeated response will be the basic framework in the development of the interactive exercises and activities in the learning materials

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Arne Weigold; M. P. Sharma; Edward Anderson; Roman Taraban

six chapter titles. Upon choosing a chapter, they go to thechapter table of contents. As an example, chapter 1 contains the subchapters Introduction,Dimensions and Units, Systems, Basic Properties, States and Equilibrium, Processes,Energy, Environmental Impact, Temperature, Pressure, Hydrostatic Pressure,Atmospheric Pressure, and Solving Problems. After choosing a subchapter, the studentsgo to the first page in the chapter. The pages contain combinations of text, interactive andnon- interactive graphics, interactive and non- interactive animations, and multiple choiceand short-response quizzes. Figure 1 provides an example of an interactive graphic, andFigure 2 displays a quiz page. When students first open a page, they hear a

Conference Session

Societal Contexts of Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Salim Elwazani

actions taken on the resources’ behalf.The scope of engineering and industrial heritage is quite broad. It encompasses items thathave accumulated significance through time. A physical engineering work, such as a grainelevator or an electrical network, is not only the child of a chain of technicaldevelopments, but also an embodiment of historical cultural and social norms of the placein which it is situated. In this sense engineering works qualify as heritage items based onthe degree of technical and cultural significance they unfold. This is clear in theinformation quoted below about two sites of Historic American Engineering Record of theNational park Service:1 o Potomac Power Plant The current structure is the fourth structure to

Conference Session

Assessment in BME Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gassert

based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earliercourse work and incorporating engineering standards and realistic constraints that include mostof the following considerations: economic; environmental; sustainability; manufacturability;ethical; health and safety; social; and political.”1 The goals that were defined for the program and the constraints that were placed on theprogram by ABET begged the question; How/When Should Design Be Taught? Dutson, et. al.,reviewed over 100 papers that described the design curriculum at universities across the country.Although Dutson reported inclusion of design aspects in various curricula as early as thefreshman year, without exception, the capstone design courses were begun in the senior year