Conference Session

Design Through the Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Keat; Michael Larson

designexperience, (2) the nature of the senior capstone experience, (3) the level of integration ofcomputer-aided design software in courses and (4) the degree to which hands-on projects areemployed.IntroductionThe current state of mechanical engineering design education is the product of a number offactors. ABET requirements, arising in part from perceptions of the needs of industry, havecertainly played a role. Widespread changes in higher education (e.g. economic forces,demographics, new computing tools) have also affected how design education is delivered. Tohelp quantify discussions concerning adequacy of contemporary design education in light ofindustry’s needs and academia’s constraints, we have undertaken this national survey.A baseline

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Keat; Michael Larson

designexperience, (2) the nature of the senior capstone experience, (3) the level of integration ofcomputer-aided design software in courses and (4) the degree to which hands-on projects areemployed.IntroductionThe current state of mechanical engineering design education is the product of a number offactors. ABET requirements, arising in part from perceptions of the needs of industry, havecertainly played a role. Widespread changes in higher education (e.g. economic forces,demographics, new computing tools) have also affected how design education is delivered. Tohelp quantify discussions concerning adequacy of contemporary design education in light ofindustry’s needs and academia’s constraints, we have undertaken this national survey.A baseline

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sridhar Condoor

Session 1566 Application-Centered Methodology for Teaching Programmable Logic Controllers Condoor, S.S. Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MissouriAbstractThe paper discusses the methodology used for teaching programmable logic controllers –a part of the Mechatronics curriculum. The goal of the curriculum is to nurture skills thatcan help in implementing a Mechatronics project from the functional specifications. Tothis end, we developed a teaching paradigm involving several modules each with sixidentical steps. In this teaching paradigm, students see: 1

Conference Session

Current Issues in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Davis; Melissa Dark

describe a community effort to identify the common body of knowledge (CBK)for computer security curricula. Academicians and practitioners have been engaged in targetedworkshops for the past two years, producing the results given here. The long-term objective forthe project is to develop a curriculum framework for undergraduate and graduate programs inInformation Assurance (IA). The framework includes: identification of broad areas of knowledgeconsidered important for practicing professionals in information assurance, identification of keylearning objectives for each of these areas, identification of a body of core knowledge and skillsthat all programs should contain, and a model curriculum including scope and sequence. Theframework's development

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Silliman Stephen; Leo Hubbard McWilliams; Catherine Pieronek

, currently consists of four projects,or modules, that expose students to a wide array of engineering disciplines. The modules advancespecific learning objectives by providing opportunities for students to work in team environments,exposing students to a range of engineering disciplines and the interplay among those disciplines,and developing basic engineering skills such as computer programming. The overall coursestructure supports these objectives through class-wide lectures, small-group recitation sections of25 to 30 students, and small-group activities based in Notre Dame’s Engineering Learning Center(www.nd.edu/~englearn). Students work individually, on homework assignments and exams, andas members of a team, on the course projects.The College

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lorena Basilio; Frank Claydon; Betty Barr; David Shattuck; Stuart Long; Jennifer Ruchhoeft

Session 1432 Summer Camp and Course Workshops for Sophomore Level Electrical and Computer Engineers Authors: David P. Shattuck, Frank J. Claydon, Stuart A. Long, Betty J. Barr, Jennifer L. Ruchhoeft, and Lorena I. Basilio Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Houston Houston, TX 77204-4005Abstract In response to a program supported by Texas engineering companies and the Texas stategovernment, we have begun a project to attempt to increase the number of graduates in

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Denny Davis; Kenneth Gentili

performance factors are consistent withthe creative problem-solving model described by Lumsdaine et al.7 and the project-basedintroduction to design by Dym and Little8. The teamwork attributes are consistent withthe cooperative learning model by Johnson et al.9 The communication attributes areconsistent with recommendations by the writing across the curriculum movement andsummarized by Bean10.Knowledge of the Engineering Design Process • information gathering/understand problem/customer needs • problem definition/goals or requirements defined • idea generation/brainstorming/creativity • evaluation/analyzing ideas/testing/design modeling • decision making/selection/planning • implementation/produce/deliver design to customer • process review

Conference Session

Statistics in the CHE Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Valerie Young

part of a strategy to address thisproblem, our statistics course for juniors was redesigned with input from our faculty and fromindustrial members of the advisory board. The new course emphasizes software rather than handcalculations, introduces application and follows up with theory, and uses case studies fromindustry and from academic research. This course is not isolated in our curriculum. Statisticalanalysis is now a required part of projects in Heat Transfer and Kinetics, and continues to beemphasized in Unit Operations. In this talk, we reveal the motivation for emphasizing statisticsin our curriculum, the structure of the re-designed course, and the assessment methods beingused to gauge student learning in this course.Why Teach

Conference Session

Novel Courses for CHEs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

engaged in aneffort to develop and integrate applied drug delivery coursework and experiments throughout theRowan Engineering curriculum. This paper describes a senior/graduate level elective course indrug delivery, with descriptions of the course structure, organization and content, references,experiments and projects used in this course.Introduction Drug Delivery is a burgeoning field that represents one of the major research anddevelopment focus areas of pharmaceutical industry today, with new drug delivery system salesexceeding 10 billion dollars per year [1]. Chemical Engineers play an important and expandingrole in this exciting field, yet undergraduate chemical engineering students are rarely exposed todrug delivery through their

Conference Session

Integration vs. Compartmentalization

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Goldberg

Session 2561importance in the design of the facility. Given the diversity of activities involved in this particularventure, it is not surprising that the head of the imagineering project has a degree in Industrial andSystems Engineering, the engineering discipline which typically affords the greatest degree ofbreadth and diversity.Current engineering curricula at most major US universities are not designed to provide the kindof breadth that is necessary to apply engineering concepts of design and analysis in non-traditionalsettings such as those suggested above. Borrowing from the 1997 Professional ActivitiesConference of the IEEE [1] “Society looks upon engineers with a great deal of ambivalence. Our preparation for the engineering

Conference Session

Mathematics in the Transition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Robinson; Demetris Geddis; Adam Austin; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

students and teachersbenefited from using laboratory activities to demonstrate specific principles such as linearity andtrigonometric functions.1. IntroductionAs our society becomes increasingly technology oriented, we depend ever more upon a solideducational foundation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Dr.Robert Moses, Director of the Algebra Project, argues that proficiency in mathematics isrequired as a functional member of society: “In the Age of Computers, Algebra is a passport forpassage into virtually every avenue of the job market and every street of schooling.”[1]Trigonometric functions are also used throughout science and engineering. Unfortunately,research presented by Hsiu-Zu Ho describes a “math anxiety

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Cramer; Nancy Ciezki; Hussain Bahia

students areentering our classes with simple but powerful expectations; (a) I can, with reasonable effort,observe (see a visual image of) most complex behaviors and, (b) I should be able to do this atany time that I feel it is suitable for me, at any time I am ready for learning. (c) My time isvaluable. Teach me in a way that is most efficient for me. Cut to the most important things Ineed to know and convince me why I need to know them.Much has been written about distance learning and how degrees can be earned from offices andhomes. That is not what this paper is about. It is about optimizing time and learning with a mixof instructional delivery styles.This paper describes the first phase of a project to integrate visual and auditory tools in

Conference Session

Mechanical Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tammy Gammon

course is a confidence builder for students with little hands-onexperience. Most students feel the satisfaction gained by achieving the desired physical result,whether the result is a robot behaving in a certain manner or a message scrolling across a liquidcrystal display (LCD). The “fun” element of the course further sparks student interest inengineering. Moreover, as in the case of the “piano” assignment, the tasks assigned in thiscourse can be similar or identical to projects assigned in senior level courses – the difference isthe level of detail which must be addressed. Page 8.787.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Chao

Session 2432 Online e-learning Environment for Delivering Real Hands On Laboratory Experiments Nathan Chao, Queenborough Community College CUNYIntroduction Internet technology and web-based approaches to engineering and technology educationhave made great instructional inroads both for students and faculty. Apart from the millions ofstudents already receiving educational material over their schools’ intranets, nearly a millionstudents were enrolled in distance learning courses last year according to a research report fromInternational Data Corporation. IDC projects that 3 million students will be

Conference Session

Technology in Environmental Engineering Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kerry Kinney; Howard Liljestrand; Lynn Katz

end, each semester we have studied one to two manufacturing processes.The study of each process included identification of the pollutants of concern, analysis ofthe production and treatment of contaminants utilizing mass balances, equilibrium andkinetic concepts. Influent and effluent samples from key processes were collected andanalyzed using state-of-the-art analytical techniques. Students then prepared interim andfinal project reports discussing their findings. A major emphasis was to force thestudents to synthesize the data from different analytical measurements to ensure internalconsistency of their results. One of the additional goals of the course was to encourageactive and cooperative learning concepts. All of the students worked in

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Subhi Bazlamit

expected to build a working model of their design in the workshop. Each team willsubmit a proposal and a project schedule identifying all work items needed to complete the designexperience by the end of the quarter. Weekly written and oral progress reports are also requiredfrom each team. Students are also required to maintain a design folder in which all relevantcorrespondence, team meetings and design calculations are kept. The design is normally constrained by size and cost and other considerations that may beapplicable depending on the problem. This design experience allows students the opportunity towork in teams during their first year of enrollment. It also emphasizes the importance of graphical,written and oral communications in the

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Harper; Robert J. Gustafson; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

can opt for a different three quarter sequenceknown as Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors (or FEH). Students are required to select oneof these sequences. The following topics are in both sequences – engineering graphics andCADD, MATLAB, hands-on labs, and a ten-week design/build project.1 Teamwork is requiredfor the hands-on laboratory exercises and laboratory reports and for the design project.2 Studentsreceive instruction on project planning, management, and documentation. At the end of thedesign project, the teams must submit a formal written report and do an oral presentation withvisual aids. For the Honors students, the third course deals with programming and real-time dataacquisition and analysis. The physics and mathematics are

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ciezki; Thomas Salem

military. Next, an assessment is offered onthe current state of electric power programs within the academic community for meeting theseneeds. In recognition of projected technology-driven military platforms, an enhanced powerengineering concentration within the electrical engineering curricula at the Naval Academy hasbeen proposed. The paper will conclude with an overview of the selection process forcurriculum topics, course sequencing, and laboratory content.Power Engineering and the U.S. EconomyWith the innovative advancements in power electronic semiconductor materials over the past fewdecades, the field of power engineering has expanded from the traditional focus on utility-levelgeneration and transmission of energy to include the widespread

Conference Session

Electrical ET Labs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Cecil Beeson

Session 3549 Using the PC Parallel Port in Digital Systems Lab Exercises Cecil E. Beeson, P.E., Assistant Professor University of Cincinnati ClermontIntroductionThis paper will describe a multi-phase project to utilize the functionality and accessibility of thePC parallel port to augment traditional college electronics lab exercises. The opportunity forstudents to use the ubiquitous PC to exercise and control digital circuits designed in a college labcan be a valuable learning experience.At Clermont students are introduced to PC fundamentals early in their college studies. As

Conference Session

Virtual & Distance Experiments

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhixue Wang; Guangpi Lai; Feiyue Wang; A. Terry Bahill; Jeff Goldberg

Distance learning has been greatly enhanced through the use of the Internet. In Arizona, ajoint effort has been made by the three state universities to offer a Master of EngineeringDegree primarily through Internet and video distance learning. However, engineering coursesoften use hands-on laboratory projects with actual physical systems as an integral part of thecurriculum and learning process. It is difficult to include these labs in web-based instructionunless one uses simulations or virtual experiments. This paper presents the development ofweb-based lab projects with actual hardware for courses in linear systems and systems control.Students download control programs to the equipment. Sensor data and a streaming video ofthe ongoing equipment

Conference Session

Mathematics in the Transition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kyria Alfaro; Michael Mooney

Page 8.495.6hands-on activities excited the majority of the students, resulting in significant interest in Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationthe Lost in the Amazon curricular unit. Students commented that they had “never donefancy experiments” and were wondering how “engineering can be fun?” This excitementtowards the hands-on projects was maintained throughout implementation, and createdinitial student interest in the required worksheets. By having fun with Lost in the Amazon,students seemingly changed from their conception that engineering “can’t be exciting,” asexemplified when students

Conference Session

Student Interaction

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ranky

development, service, maintenance,integration, connectivity and many other issues. Notice that we do NOT follow thetraditional linear, but rather the modern concurrent, object oriented approach to integratedproduct / process design ([7] and [9]). (In other words, this means, that we designeducational projects in a very similar way, hi-tech industry designs hi-tech products andprocesses.)In terms of delivering our cases we follow the Virtual Product Demo concept, in that wevirtually take the learner with us to factories, R&D studios, exhibitions and laboratoriesand give them interesting demos explained by real-world experts with challengingproblems to solve. In all cases we show them high quality, interactive videos and often 3Dobjects and 3D 360

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren

andacademic career. Emphasis was placed on teamwork and communication using a team-baseddesign project as a pedagogic vehicle. More information on the design project is available inDeJong, et al. (2000)3 .In 1999, the course description was changed to more accurately describe the intent of the course. EGR 1301: Introduction to Engineering. Introduction to the Engineering Profession. Topics include engineering disciplines, ethics, the impact of technology on the world, analysis and design using a team project, and computer aided design and problem solving. (2-3)Much of the new focus incorporated into the course was influenced by the ABET 2000 criteria,thereby the course goals changed as follows: 1. To provide career

Conference Session

What's New in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Saumitra Mishra; Boris Ramos; Amy Zeng; Arthur Gerstenfeld; Sharon Johnson

observed in senior projectsthat students often could not articulate the underlying principles of lean design (at least initially),and they failed to understand the links between various tactics and the conditions necessary fortheir success.We also examined the Introduction to Industrial Engineering courses at a number of schools.Many schools have created such introductory courses in the engineering disciplines to reduceattrition rates by linking traditional mathematics and science topics to applications [1]. Whilesuch courses in IE have provided an effective overview of the discipline, course materials andtextbooks do not focus on process design or the impact of lean ideas (see, for example, [14]). Aswith lean topics, project-based courses that

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Lundstrom; Ram Chandran; Arnaldo Mazzei

working. Kettering University is currently engaged in reforming itscurriculum to meet some of these demands. The objective of this paper is to discuss two new corecourses that were developed in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the area of multi-disciplinary dynamic systems in order to reach this goal. The idea is to teach these courses using aunified approach to systems, with hands-on laboratory experience and system simulation usingsoftware tools like MATLAB®, and focusing on an inquiry-based problem-driven approach. Thisis a team effort and a number of faculty members from the ME Department will be involved inexecuting this project. Upon completion of these courses, the students should be able todemonstrate a good understanding of

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tarek A. Shraibati; Ahmad Sarfaraz

requiring a strong math background. The course covers orthogonal projections, isometricviews, wire frame models, surface models, and solid models. These concepts are taught using aseries of in class exercises through which the students gain competency at using the program as atool. Students are not expected to have a background in math beyond basic mathematics and thesoftware program is used without relying on numerical parameters to build their models. Thecourse culminates in a solid model project which allows students to pick the topic to be modeled.Students are encouraged to pick a project theme that is relevant to their major field of study.The General Student PopulationThe course targeted students in non-technical majors. Tables 1 and 2

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Serdar Tumkor; Mahmut Fetvaci; Ismail Fidan

description for the Design Curriculum:MAK 341 - Machine Design I (3+2)A quick review on the material science and strength of the materials are given. Then thefundamental design knowledge about the welding, soldering, and riveting technology iscovered. A number of machine components (i.e. shaft, bolt, nut, screw, spring, bearing,and lubrication technologies) is covered in detail.MAK 342 - Machine Design II (2+2)Various gear mechanisms are covered with detailed design projects. Belt and drumsystems and chain mechanisms are also given.MAK 422E Engineering Design (3+0)The project based product development process is practiced from problem identificationthrough detail design and evaluation.Program Development A command line BASIC program is the main

Conference Session

Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Parent

Hard to translateNumber of students from your program Student Impactemployed by companyFaculty have the interest to do project Expertise (Faculty already working in the area.)Faculty have the time to do project Expertise (Faculty already working in the area.)Return on investment Expertise to carry out the grant successfully (Won’t waste time/money because faculty has the expertise to carry out the project.)Leadership ability Leadership

Conference Session

NSF Opportunities for Undergraduate Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

J Hines; Fred Weber; John Prados; Kurt Gramoll

levelengineering study that are not offered in pre-engineering programs. Most of these courses arefairly specialized and do not draw sufficient enrollments to make their offering cost effective atmost pre-engineering institutions. Others like Statics and Dynamics are common, but do nothave sufficient enrollment to teach each semester or year at most community colleges.ObjectivesThe National Science Foundation has recently funded a project to develop and deliver severalInternet-based freshman and sophomore level engineering courses through a partnership betweenThe University of Tennessee (UT), The University of Oklahoma (OU) and area communitycolleges such as the Knoxville-based Pellissippi State Technical Community College (PSTCC).Of the fifteen courses

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Carr

problems that require them to integrate multiple academic areas in order to reach a solution. Engineering case studies are used where appropriate."Engineering Design and Communications" (GEN ENG 106-1,2 plusENGLISH 106-1,2) This two-quarter course combines developing enhanced skills in writing with doing design, as one of the hallmark intellectual skills common to everybody who is an effective engineer. The central activity in each of the two quarters is the development, to the level of a full prototype, of a new technology that somebody wants. Students do these projects in teams of 4±1. Instruction is done jointly by faculty from McCormick and the Weinberg College of Arts and Science's Writing