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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Angela Miller; Monica Schmidt

program for multiple age levels, rather than different patches for each age level. The purpose of this patch program was to show girls how fascinating it is to look at familiar objects with microscopes and hand lenses, and to teach girls the difference between the worlds of Biological Science and Physical Science. Older girls are taught about career options in those scientific fields

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Computed Simulation and Animation

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2003 Annual Conference

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Murat Tanyel

ASEE North Midwest Section Meeting, Madison, WI, Oct. 2002.8. Couch II, L. W., Digital and Analog Communication Systems, Sixth Edition, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall (2001).9. Gorter, H., Matherly, B., MPSK Demo Project Report, EGR 363 Project Report, Dordt College, Sioux Center, IA, May 2002.MURAT TANYELMurat Tanyel is a professor of engineering at Dordt College. He teaches upper level electrical engineering courses.Prior to teaching at Dordt College, Dr. Tanyel taught at Drexel University where he worked for the EnhancedEducational Experience for Engineering Students (E4) project, setting up and teaching laboratory and hands-oncomputer experiments for engineering freshmen and sophomores. For one semester, he was also a

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Multimedia Engineering Education,Distance, Service, & Internet-Based Approaches

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2003 Annual Conference

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Shan Barkataki; Bolton Tom

adverselyaffecting the whole project schedule. This required the students to have frequent interactionswith the industry partners to resolve technical issues, report status, and participate in peerreviews. For all practical purposes, the students worked as members of the project developmentteam, except that they worked in a laboratory at the university. However, we wanted thestudents to act like students, i.e., work part-time (they had other courses) and keep irregularhours (typically by starting in the afternoon and working late into the night and, of course, theweekends). Finally, we wanted to investigate the feasibility of conducting all collaborationactivities through the Internet. Accordingly, all interactions with the industrial partner weredone

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Integrating Math, Science, and Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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FE TABAMO; CRISTINO CARBONELL; Conchita Javier; Clarita Guevara

by the student; from being the initiator-developer tobeing a contributor-reactor; and from being a programmer-director toward being a co-designer-assister3. There is a need to introduce learner-centered activities to harness his potentials to thefullest. The use of ICT in the development of inter-active self-learning materials has made learningmore fun and exciting.3. Self-Learning Mathematics Modules at the UST Faculty of EngineeringThe UST Faculty of Engineering recognizes the breakthroughs in ICT. The teaching staff isencouraged to design and create a learning environment that will maximize the use of thetechnology and effect maximum learning of the students. Integration of ICT will allow for self-paced learning and self-directed

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International Engineering Education II

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ian Simpson

tutors/partners/twins/mentors with an international student, not just in the laboratory and lecture-hall, but outside the more traditionally academic pursuits of a university campus. We have tried organizing cultural events involving visits to local tourist attractions as well as more “down-to-earth” activities, such as “Indian Evenings” (i.e. the Indian students prepare a curry!) and parties of different descriptions, but a lot of progress remains to be made.• Cultural problems The problem : Adapting to a different environment. The solution : Throwing yourself in at the deep end. The author’s own French students who perform their project work in the USA or the UK find the food in these two countries abominable

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Integrating Math in Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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William Szaroletta

patents. He received his B.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Michigan, AnnArbor in 1977, M.S. Degree in Engineering (Product Design) from Stanford University in 1984, and a Master ofApplied Mathematical Sciences Degree (Computer Science) from University of Georgia in 2000. He has 7 yearsuniversity teaching experience, where his current applied research interests are rapid product design engineering,experimental mechanics laboratory automation, and applied optimization. Page 8.1272.14 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Abdolmajid Lababpour

journal of Roshde Amoozeshe Shimie. p. 45-53,19933. Ghareyazie Behzad, Iran: Hopes, Achievements, and Constraints in Agricultural Biotechnology.WWW.cgiar.org/biotech/repo100/ghareyaz.pdf4. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Education Program web page.Appendix: The list of universities in Iran offering Biotechnology coursesPhD programs in biotechnology, University of TehranPhD programs in biotechnological products, Pasteur Institute of IranPhD programs in Chemical engineering-biotechnology, Tarbiat Modares UniversityPhD programs in Chemical engineering-biotechnology, Sharif University of TechnologyPhD programs in Molecular genetic, Tarbiat Modares University and NRCGEBPhD programs in Cellular and molecular biology, Kermanshah University and

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Projects in Ocean and Marine Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Diane DiMassa

memos updating their progress. Although there is no formal program at UMD for ocean or marine-relatedengineering, several senior design projects of late have had a marine emphasis. Onoccasion, these projects have a connection with other departments or facilities of theUniversity of Massachusetts or local research institutions. For example, one project wasconducted through the Center for Marine Science and Technology (CMAST), a UMass-affiliated research laboratory that has recently started a Ph.D. program. One project wasdone in conjunction with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the USpremier ocean research facilities; and another project was completed jointly with students1 The author was the course instructor for all

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Recruitment and Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

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Timothy Britt; Dr. Tom Eppes

Technology model and starts with algebra and algebra-basedphysics. This provides students with a less aggressive math and science challenge and gives themtime to “ramp up.” AET is an applied study that relies heavily on the application and servicing ofequipment so students spend equal time in the laboratory and lecture. Page 8.254.3“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”AET is different from more established Recording Engineering programs where musicproduction and composition are the focus. It is also distinct from a BSEE

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Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2003 Annual Conference

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Manuel Toledo-Quinones; Jose Colom

Session 1332participating company. A total of 22 projects are being supported during the 2002-2003academic year with grants of up to $3000.Overall BenefitsThe IAP program is a catalytic force that promotes closer ties with the production world andstrengthens industry-university collaboration. Extensions to the basic IAP format are notuncommon and have generated improvement of laboratory facilities through company donatedequipment, joint faculty-industry proposal writing, faculty summer internships, and theenrichment of the university curriculum through the creation of new courses. In one specificinstance a company follows up the IAP experience with COOP employment that normally takesplace during the summer and semester following participation in

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Mobile Robotics in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Darcy Schein; Cathryne Stein

from NASA, Naval Research Laboratory and University of Oklahoma wereinvited to give students interaction with professionals in robotics. Speakers discussed roboticexploration, project management, artificial intelligence and learning, and then tied those topics tothe concepts the students were learning in Botball. Our goal was for students to envisionthemselves in careers and higher education in STEM areas by hearing about each presenter's areasof research, personal stories, and experiences in the field.Break-out sessionsWhile the plenary sessions gave participants the opportunity to hear about cutting edgedevelopments in robotics, the break-out sessions allowed participants to share their owndiscoveries about using robots in science

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

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Moeness Amin; Athina Petropulu; Ahmad Hoorfar; William Jemison; Robert Caverly

outcomes and assessment methods for each module subtopic in thearea of smart communications were developed in consultation with published guidelines [1] andthe Villanova University Institute for Teaching and Learning (VITAL). The learning outcomesuse language that specifically indicates the skill set students will have at the completion of eachsubtopic. Some examples of learning outcomes already developed for SCS modules are: • Students will calculate efficiency and PAE (power added efficiency) of class A and B amplifiers and compare with simulations (CMOS Microelectronic Systems); • Students will successfully calculate the channel capacity improvement achieved by using multiple antennas (Digital Signal Processing

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New Electrical ET Course Development

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2003 Annual Conference

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Marvin Needler; Anna Shiver; Elaine Cooney

LabVIEW software for control and data acquisition.Background EET 371 Automation, Instrumentation and Process Control is a junior-senior level coursein the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology, IUPUI. The purpose ofthe course is to introduce ECET majors to automation concepts and control and instrumentationequipment and software. Emphasis of the course is on integration of hardware and software systems. It focuses ona major laboratory project to implement a model automated-assembly-line-style test system foran FM circuit board. (Figure 1) To update the course to provide for more experience with state-of-the-art technology,machine vision has been added and control of a Rhino Selective Compliance Assembly

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Primus Tillman

education need to develop asymbiotic partnership relationship that benefits both.When streaming media solutions are applied to the challenges of making high quality educationmore affordable and available to consumers, everyone benefits: Business and industry,telecommunications, science and medicine, and education all share in the benefits of faster andbetter information delivery methods. Unlike several years ago, when computer learning waslimited to classrooms and computer labs, students no long have to rely on attending lectures,taking copious notes, participating in classroom exercises and laboratory experiments, handing inpapers, or other activities requiring their physical presence. Educators no longer have to rely onphysical classrooms

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Hy Tran; Catherine Clewett

2003-1488 Macro Analog to MEMS: A program for Science and Engineering Outreach to K-12 Students Catherine F. M. Clewett1, Hy D. Tran2 1 Albuquerque Country Day School (currently at New Mexico Tech), cclewett@nmt.edu 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of New Mexico, tran@me.unm.eduAbstractMicro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) are used as a vehicle to teach engineering andphysical sciences concepts to high school students and to encourage more students to

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Miroslav Velev

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ashraf Ghaly

Session 2793 Perception Versus Reality in Civil Engineering Education Today Ashraf M. Ghaly, Thomas K. Jewell, Professor, F. Andrew Wolfe Civil Engineering Department Union College, Schenectady, NY 12308AbstractThe discipline of civil engineering, and how to best teach it to aspiring engineers, has been thesubject of many discussions and debates for the past few years. Between perception and realityone can find groups with opinions that vary across the spectrum. To some, the traditional field ofcivil engineering is considered to be one of the most important fields in

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Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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2003 Annual Conference

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Paul Ranky

-oriented development methods, and team-oriented learning and problem-solving with real-world challenges.The developed and validated cases besides traditional teaching and learning methods, andlaboratory activities, use browser-readable interactive 2D and 3D objects, animation,videos, 3D objects of real components, virtual 3D disassembly methods of objects, andsimulated (virtual) factory tours that the students can create, explore and study.Our educational and computational methods introduce a novel approach to developingand running undergraduate and graduate courses in this subject area for face-to-face,honors and distance learning modes.The objective of this research was to create a case-based / problem-based teaching andlearning curriculum that

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steven Beyerlein; Jeff Williams; Beth Milligan; Andrew DuBuisson; Robert Drew; Karl Rink; Edwin Odom

regularly taught introductory courses, shaped the senior laboratory course, and collaboratively taught seniordesign. He was recognized for his faculty development and outreach activities by a university teaching award in2001.DR. KARL RINKDr. Karl Rink recently joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the UI after spending 10 years inindustry researching the combustion and thermodynamic behavior of gaseous, liquid, and solid phase propellantsand explosives. He holds 33 U.S. patents with an additional 10 applications under examination. He has receivedthe PACE Award from one patent and is the youngest recipient of Purdue’s Outstanding Mechanical Engineeraward

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Mechanical Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

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Tammy Gammon

course. The specific course described in this paper wasdeveloped to meet ABET’s introductory engineering accreditation requirement and designedspecifically for N.C. State University’s Bachelor of Science in Engineering with a MechatronicsConcentration at its off-campus site on UNC-Asheville. The mechatronics program, a multi-disciplinary curriculum, requires students to take classes in electrical engineering, mechanicalengineering, and computer science to gain a wider understanding of smart (i.e., computer-controlled) systems and devices. The course uses Parallax’s Boe-Bot to teach students basicmicrocontroller concepts. The students also learn about basic electrical engineering conceptssuch as Ohm’s law, power consumption, simple motor

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New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

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Muthukrishnan Sathyamoorthy

safetyconsiderations in designs, design implementation, and multidisciplinary teamwork.1. IntroductionEngineering design is an important component of the undergraduate engineeringeducation. It is also known that workplace experience can provide engineering studentswith a perspective that is difficult to achieve in either the classroom or teaching laboratory.This paper describes an innovative proposed year-long program which providesengineering students with both design and workplace experience in several engineeringdisciplines.Engineering design is recognized as a key component of engineering education andmethods of providing undergraduate students with a significant design experience varywidely among disciplines and faculty. Dunn-Rankin, et. al.[1

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Computers in ME

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ronald Goulet

bethe Trebuchet challenge where students develop a design tool in Excel® that predicts theperformance of a floating axel trebuchet with sling based on a set of user-defined parameters andto complete an assigned parametric study. The sixth project, SP6, would be the construction andproof test of the FAT. To minimize freeloading that short-circuits the learning process, the fivepreliminary projects would have individual deliverables. The last project, construction and prooftesting would be team-based. For additional information regarding special projects SP1-SP5 goto: http://utconline.utc.edu. Visitors may log on with user name: test and password: test.Bibliography1 The Power of Problem-Based Learning A Practical "How To" for Teaching

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Subhi Bazlamit

of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” The syllabus for this class covers a period of ten weeks and the meetings for this courseconsist of two weekly fifty-minute lectures and a two-hour laboratory session in the computerroom. Two textbooks are used in this course; one is primarily used to introduce the engineeringdesign process and the other to help students learn the Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) 2,3. Thecomputer session is used primarily for introduction of CAD while the other two class lectures areused for instructions related to the design and problem-solving portion of this course. A typicalclass

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Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

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Kevin Sutterer

that“sustainable development requires broadening the education of engineers” and that among otherthings civil engineers should:• “Cultivate a broader understanding of political, economic, technical and social issues and processes related to sustainable development ”• “Acquire the skills, knowledge and information to facilitate a sustainable future”The American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), within its statement on sustainabledevelopment education, states that “engineering graduates must be prepared by their education touse sustainable engineering techniques in the practice of their profession and that engineeringfaculty teach pollution prevention techniques, life cycle analysis, industrial ecology and othersustainable engineering

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Professional Graduate Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Thomas Stanford; Donald Keating

ensure the supply ofdomestic graduate students for academic research and teaching positions at the nation’s research universities,accelerated efforts also must be undertaken to better ensure the further graduate development of a strong U.S.engineering workforce in industry responsible for leading the process of engineering for creating, developing,and innovating new technology for competitiveness. The National Collaborative Task Force was established in 2001 as an initiative of the Graduate StudiesDivision of ASEE to meet the need for transformation. The purpose of this paper is to help awaken the senseof urgency for government, industry, and universities to work together in reshaping professionally orientedgraduate education to strengthen the

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

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Eric Roe

goals of the HSTI are to: 1) Facilitate the teaching of fundamental scienceand math skills through high technology applications and presentation techniques, and 2)Increase students' awareness and appreciation of the interdependence of science, mathematics,technology, and society. To accomplish these goals HSTI has formed an interdisciplinary teamthat develops educational modules that integrate into the existing science and mathematicscurriculum. These HSTI modules are based on the merger of science and mathematics preceptswith technology derived from these disciplines.A key component in this initiative is the teacher who is responsible for the delivery andinterpretation of the curriculum. Interactions with regional high school faculty over the

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Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Sheryl Sorby

: Introduction to Engineering GraphicsGN131 was a 2-credit course in the fundamentals of engineering graphics. The course formatincluded 2 two-hour laboratory periods per week. In each lab, the topic for the day was introducedduring the first 20-30 minutes of the period. Students then worked problems on the topic for theremainder of the time. Solutions to the problems were available so that they had immediate feed-back on their level of understanding of the topic. The course was completely sketching based--nodrawing instruments were utilized by the students. The topics included in the course were: points,lines and planes in space (cartesian definition), points, lines and planes in space (descriptivegeometry definition), pictorial sketching, object

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Steven Braddom; Charles Campbell; Shad Reed; Robert Floersheim

society, instructors have anunprecedented ability to touch their students outside of the classroom through well designed andmaintained web media. Supplemental course websites (websites intended only to supplement –not replace – conventional teaching) are rapidly becoming more the rule than the exception forundergraduate level courses. We should note that we have a student-body that is fairly tech-savvyand definitely well-connected. Each student has a computer with LAN connection to the Internetfrom his room, and beginning this year, entering students will have a wireless PDA and wirelesslaptop computer linked by campus-wide, wireless network coverage. Currently in the Departmentof Civil & Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military

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Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

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Traig Born; Joel Glidden; Ann Wright; Andrew Wright

Session 2003-1604 FIRST in Engineering: Elements of Mechanical Design Andrew Wright, Ann Wright, Traig Born, Joel Glidden University of Arkansas at Little Rock/Hendrix CollegeThe role of design in engineering education and the teaching of design has changed overthe past several decades. In the specific case of mechanical design, increasing emphasis hasbeen placed on mechanical analysis rather than on design methodology. This can be seen inthe dominance of mechanical analysis in mechanical design or machine design textbooksand the relatively light (or non-existent) treatment of how to make design decisions. Thereasons for

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lucy King; Jacqueline El-Sayed

twoauthors agreed upon teaching the courses with one common design and manufacturing classproject. The department heads were briefed and they agreed to accommodate with common labschedules. The collaboration not only spans the academic departments, but also administrationoffices for scheduling and room assignments, and information technology office to help set upBlackboard, an interactive learning software, to facilitate student / instructor communication. Theauthors drafted a sequence of combined class meetings where interdisciplinary teams of studentscan be formed, where teams can design their products (one product per team), do detailed Page