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Teaching Design Through Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Pavlic; Prabal Dutta; Michael Hoffmann; Jeffrey Radigan; James Beams; Erik Justen; John Demel; Richard Freuler

number of sensor ports and interfacing capabilities. The HandyBoard includes 32K of battery-backed static RAM, a connector system that allows active sensorsto be individually plugged into the board, an LCD screen, and an integrated, rechargeable batterypack.The platform is supported with a nearly complete subset of the C programming language in aninteractive Windows-based environment called Interactive C (IC).7 A useful feature of IC is itsvirtual machine approach to executing programs. Most embedded systems rely on an edit-compile-link-download cycle. In contrast, IC provides a virtual machine that runs on the68HC11 and interprets pseudo-code (called "p-code") that is produced by the compiler. Thisapproach is similar to that employed by the

Conference Session

Graduate Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Shahram Varzavand; John Fecik; Recayi Pecen; Teresa Hall

Power System Interactions, power quality, and grid-connected renewable energy applications.http://www.uni.edu/~pecenTERESA HALL: Teresa Hall is an associate professor and program coordinator for Manufacturing Technology in theDepartment of Industrial Technology at the University of Northern Iowa. She has a B.A. in Industry, a M.A. in Technologyand a Ph.D. in Industrial Education and Technology and is a Certified Manufacturing Engineer. Her research interests are inthe areas of manufacturing resource management, e-learning, and curriculum development for technical and professionalprograms. Page 8.1124.12Proceedings of the

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Richard Helps

mechatronics creates specific teaching challenges. The disciplineis an integrative one rather than a narrowly defined specialty. Students tend to come into theclass from different disciplines with strong backgrounds in one of computing, electronics ormechanisms but may be quite ignorant of the other disciplines. At BYU we have chosen to usethe development of an autonomous miniature robot as the medium for teaching this diverse field.Students are strongly motivated by the experience of building a working unit and thus rapidlylearn those sub-disciplines in which they are lacking. Since students must define their ownsolution to the problem they will similarly define their own course of study.The pedagogical approach is to ensure that the class covers the

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

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Staci Provezis; Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Larry Shuman; Siripen Larpkiattaworn; Obinna Muogboh; Dan Budny; Harvey Wolfe

is done either by taking the Calculus placement test (equivalent to aCalculus 1 final examination) or by receiving AP (advanced placement) credit for Calculus.Students were able to download the placement test from the web as part of their onlineadmissions testing. They were given instructions which warned them about the consequences ofcheating on the test or giving it to someone else. (Five different tests were randomly assigned tostudents as another way of eliminating an academic integrity incident.) Table 7 gives therelationship between placement score and grade in Calculus 2. A score of 15 was required to Page 8.1304.74

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Greg Kremer

changes necessary for improved learning. Most faculty membersare already overloaded with teaching, research and service responsibilities, so even if theybelieve assessment is a useful activity they will often resist it as much as possible to avoid theextra workload. The key to overcome this resistance is to 1) make assessment an integral part ofthe basic course design structure and 2) provide templates and standard procedures for thefaculty to follow.Providing standard assessment procedures does not take away from faculty creativity andinvolvement in the assessment and continuous improvement process, it just focuses it on themost important items. The key is to communicate clearly the important information that must becollected for program

Conference Session

Mechanical Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mrudula Ghone; John Wagner

longitudinallywrapped wire) and a stator (i.e., stationary metal cylinder which contains permanent magnets orwire coils to produce a radial magnetic field). An electric current produces a magnetic field whichexerts a force on the armature causing a net torque. An understanding of a motor's physicaldesign, dynamic behavior, control architecture, system integration, and performance (e.g., torqueversus speed) is a key goal. Although motors may have been previously discussed in othercourses, the "hands on" servo-motor experiment allows students to explore a commercial gradecontroller operated with National Instruments hardware and LabView software. Specifically, theLabView program can perform data acquisition and the generation of plots via logged motorcontroller

Conference Session

Teaching Design Through Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bowen

Session 1353 Using a Hands-On, Project-Based Approach to Introduce Civil Engineering to Freshmen James D. Bowen University of North Carolina at CharlotteAbstract At the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the second semester freshman course“Introduction to Engineering” is discipline specific. This course gives students an introductionto the particular discipline (Civil, Electrical and Computer, Mechanical) through a project-basedexperience. In Civil Engineering, this course has involved the conceptual design of a Civilstructure

Conference Session

ET Capstone Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Myszka

. Curry, D. T., “Engineering Schools Under Fire”, Machine Design, pp. 50-54, October 10, 1991.8. Doepker, P. E., “Integrating the Product Realization Process (PRP) Into the Design Curriculum”, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, 1999.9. Evans, D.L., Shunk, D.L., “Attributes for the Baccalaureate Engineer: What are the Desires of Industry?”, Proceedings of 3 rd World Conference on Engineering Education, 1992.10. Felder, R. M., Bent, R., “Navigating the Bumpy Road to Student-Centered Instruction”, College Teaching, pp. 43-47, 1996.11. Katzenbach, J. R. and Smith, D. K., "The Discipline of Teams", Harvard Business Review, Cambridge, MA., 1993.12. Kaufman, D.B., Felder, R.M., Fuller, H., “Accounting for Individual Effort in

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Hensel; Paul Stiebitz

intellectual property hygiene, interest to each individual. Use a contrived hammer disclosure as an example.5 Intro. to Project Project planning fundamentals. Use MS Submit project plans and process Planning. Project in a studio lab to prepare a plan for instruction sheets for the current RIT building the existing hammer. hammer.6 Team Dynamics (a) Establishing Team Values and Norms (b) Review on-line learning materials, come and Team Integrated Product / Process Teams ( c) Role prepared for questions and activities about Interactions Play personality Types (d) Difficult people

Conference Session

Teaching Design with a Twist

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Masi

process from mini-design problems, which focus on problem solving skills, to majorcapstone design projects, which encompass many skills 2, 4, 9, 26, 30, 31, 33, 35, 47. Leifer has notedthat instructing students in the engineering design process provides an opportunity forintroducing constructivist learning experiences into engineering student classroom activities 22.He drew on Kolb’s experiential learning model which describes learning as taking place in aniterative cycle of four basic steps: reflective observation, concrete experience, activeexperimentation, and abstract conceptualization. Based on this cycle, Leifer suggests thatengineering design and technical concepts should be intertwined. In this way, students can bestlearn technical

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard O'Brien; Jenelle Piepmeier

helicopter orinverted pendulum. At the Naval Academy, these experimental products have been invaluable inthe controls education.It is important that engineering educators be aware of limitations of these canned experimentalproducts. Agrawal has correctly pointed out that the integration of the equipment can easilyoverwhelm limited resources of both time and departmental budgets [3]. Bissell has also notedthat some of the canned experiments are so carefully engineered that they become more of anillustration in theory and less of an experience in control system design [6]. Even with a well-equipped laboratory, there are courses and student projects for which this equipment is either notavailable or suitable.This paper discusses the use of a Simulink

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Burbank

angle selection. A separate analog section is presented which containsa band pass circuit, generating an output suitable for spectrum analysis.Relevance to EET programThe junior level curriculum at WCU includes a course in digital electronics, covering sequentialand combinational circuits. While some lab work is done with TTL devices, many of the labsare performed using the Altera MAX+PLUS II software, and the Complex Programmable Logic Page 8.959.2Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationDevices (CPLD) on the Altera UP-1

Conference Session

Effective Teaching to Motivate & Retain

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reid Vander Schaaf; Ronald Welch

Calculation, Long Calculation, etc.? How many versions of an examination arenecessary? What are the advantages and disadvantages of giving the examinations during theregular class periods, verses during an available common hour for the students of all theinstructors? This paper will discuss possible solutions to these questions, as well as how toeffectively use multiple graders, and the role of the restrictive and sometimes controversial cutscale. Student course assessment data will be presented to illustrate the positive and negativeeffect on student motivation, i.e. learning, when there is a perception of unfairness in theexaminations or homework issued and/or subsequent grading.Introduction In the over 200 years West Point has been an

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hy Tran; Catherine Clewett

structures to illustrate the kinematics and geometry of MEMS devices.Additionally, the students are exposed to science and engineering in the ways that it ispracticed—in groups, with collaboration, using software as a design aid, and focusing oncommunication.This project also address nine of the sixteen standards in science for grades 5-12 as publishedby the New Mexico State Department of Education. In particular, the curriculum will reinforcemany of the content standards in the physical sciences as well as technology and the history ofscience6. For example, Content Standard 2 Section C for grades 5-8 says the student will C. Design and Develop Models. 1. Develop an understanding that models take many forms and have

Conference Session

Innovative Hands-On Projects and Labs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Kadlowec

Session 1368 Combining Laboratory Innovation and a Design Experience into Tools for Mechanics Jennifer Kadlowec, Frank Brown, Aditya Chaubal, Joe Plitz, Michael Resciniti, Paris von Lockette, Eric Constans, Beena Sukumaran, Douglas Cleary Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ 08028AbstractHands-on laboratories and the engineering design process are valuable experiences by which toenhance undergraduate engineering education. This paper discusses the integration of an NSFsponsored Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Innovation project, the

Conference Session

Web Systems and Web Services

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marcus Huggans; Steve Watkins; Halvard E. Nystrom

. Page 8.814.5 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education The ALN tutorial modules were used in a graduate/senior-level elective electricalengineering course (EE326 - Fiber and Integrated Optics) at the University of Missouri –Rolla.2 A common perception exists that engineers are sequential learners. Howeverthese students had a wide range of learning style scores and a slight majority were globallearners. Most students had scores that were mildly global or sequential. As shown inFigure 1, the distribution on the sequential/global scale follows the normal distribution.This was not an expected outcome since

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Davis; David Socha; Valentin Razmov

being overwhelmed or discouragedby it.Intra-personal and inter-personal conflict, such as internal uncertainty, dissonance between one’sdesires and abilities, and perceptions of problems in other people, are inevitable in our lives andjobs. Learning to deal effectively with these conflicts is essential to becoming an effectiveengineer. This starts with realizing that there can be value in conflict. Conflict motivateslearning because people do not like to repeat frustrating, embarrassing, or painful experiences.Conflict inspires innovation by illuminating areas of misunderstanding, invalid assumptions,personality or value differences that, when explored, can result in greater value to everyoneinvolved.To maximize learning, it is important to

Conference Session

Mentoring Women and Minorities

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Angela Linse; Rebecca Bates

engineering students titled "Active Learning inEngineering Education." The objective of the course was to provide engineering graduatestudents with information about the learning process and resources on teaching and academia tohelp them make informed decisions about teaching as a career and to help them be betterteachers. We believe this course is unique because it provides a curriculum taught to graduatestudents by a graduate student. This work was funded by a Huckabay Teaching Fellowship, aprogram that provides support for teaching projects conducted by graduate students paired withmentors.1I. IntroductionPreparing engineering graduate students for a future in academia should include providingmethods and support for teaching as well as guidance in

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Sluss

electricalsciences, telecommunications today is strongly rooted as an independent academic discipline.Although the telecommunications industry has well-equipped laboratories for its R&D, suchlaboratories at universities are usually lacking and often treated as incremental additions over thoseof the allied disciplines like electrical and computer engineering. The University of Oklahoma isone of a select group of universities that offers a graduate degree in Telecommunications Systemsout of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In recognition of the need to have a well-equipped laboratory as an integral component of any engineering program, the University ofOklahoma established, in 2001, an Interoperability Laboratory to provide the best

Conference Session

Advisory Boards & Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shamsuddin Ilias; Franklin King; Keith Schimmel

Server. Individualquestions are stored in the system for easy retrieval using a searchable database backend.WebAssign.net has a database of thousands of questions including those from major science andengineering publisher’s textbooks. Also, colleagues from various institutions can sharequestions they have written and entered into the question database.As many numbers, words, phrases, graphic files, sound files, and video files as one would likecan be randomized, so that each student receives a different version of the same question. Thisprovides an added measure of question integrity. The symbolic question type allows one to posequestions that a student answers as a formula. Any formula that is equivalent to the answer willbe marked as correct

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Subhi Bazlamit

opportunity to work in teams through ahands-on experience in the workshop. It allows them to experience real-world aspects of theengineering design process. It also emphasizes the importance of graphical communications anddesign documentation. Communication skills are an integral part of this process and the studentsare presented with opportunities where these skills can be utilized and tested. Considering that theanalytical skills of engineering freshmen in the second quarter of college are at best limited, mostdesign teams seem to follow an incremental approach to the design problem where smallincremental steps are initially taken. If these steps were proven to be effective, then additionalsteps are then pursued until the final goal is accomplished

Conference Session

Learning Enhancements for CHE Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Haishan Zheng; Jason Keith

conduction in slabs, cylinders and spheres, Heislercharts for unsteady state heat transfer, and reaction and diffusion in porous catalyticsubstrates. They provide students with a dynamic observation of heat and masstransfer process unavailable in traditional textbooks. Educators and instructors can usethese tools to enhance students understanding of the concepts of heat and masstransfer.IntroductionAs many efforts are being applied to the introduction of the World Wide Web (WWW)in the chemical engineering curriculum, WWW shows a growing significance in theengineering classroom, especially with the advent of web-based instructional tools.These web-based instructional tools are JAVA applet programs that are run by theJAVA Virtual Machine that is

Conference Session

Manufacturing Lab Experience

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hakan Gurocak

high level ofmanufacturing automation and design of smart products.Our Manufacturing Engineering curriculum contains a control systems course, ME375“Manufacturing Control Systems,” with a weekly laboratory component. We have been offeringthis course in a traditional way where students are required to attend lab sessions to conductexperiments with hardware. However, given the multi-campus university setting, we sharecourses with other campuses of the university. Since mid 1980s the university has beenoperating an interactive TV system called WHETS. This system links all campuses andfacilitates real time, two-way audio/video interactivity among classrooms across campuses. It isextensively used for distance delivery of lecture format courses

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Moriarty

] Ronald Musiak, Eric W. Haffner, Steve Schreiner, Alan K. Karplus, Mary B. Vollaro, Richard A. Grabiec, Forging New Links: Integrating the Freshman Engineering Curriculum, Proceedings of the 2001 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June 2001.Biographies:STEVE NORTHRUP received his B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Michigan, AnnArbor, in 1986, and M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Vanderbilt University in 1997 and2001. His research interests include robotics in education and embedded control systems.He worked as an automotive electronics design engineer from 1987 to 1993. He iscurrently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering at Western New England College.JAMES MORIARTY is

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barry Lineberger; Larry Stikeleather

. Once the assemblies are manufactured students runperformance tests on their “products” using statistical design of experiments (DOE) methodologyto evaluate the effects of two factors at two levels (2x2) and determine the setup giving the bestperformance. The project culminates in a written technical report, which the student teams presentorally to an audience of their peers and a panel of faculty and staff evaluators.Introduction BAE202 (Intro to BAE Methods) introduces basic design and problem solvingmethodology for Biological Engineering. The majority of the students are enrolled in theBiomedical Engineering curriculum with the remainder in Biological Engineering, which offersconcentration areas in bioprocessing, environmental, and

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Cassel

innovation in America, and 95% of all radical technological innovation inAmerica, are attributable to entrepreneurs.5,6 In the words of the Assistant Secretary forTechnology Policy of the U.S. Department of Commerce, “If innovation and entrepreneurshipprofoundly shaped the 20th century, they will define the 21st.”7Recent research shows that startup companies play an appreciably greater role in thecommercialization of new technologies than do established corporations. Innovations based onacademic research are more likely to emerge from small, rather than large, firms. Furthermore,the nimbleness of small firms allows them to bring new products to the market quicker. Smallentrepreneurial companies are recognized as being highly efficient vehicles for

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Maxwell; James Johnson

NEW STUDENT ORIENTATION CLASS W. H. Maxwell, James Johnson Nashville State Technical Community CollegeAbstractNashville State Technical Community College has, over the last several years, been working witha group of colleges, called the South East Advanced Technical Education Consortium(SEATEC), in the development of case studies for use in technology programs. The case studiesare designed to be used primarily as a teaching tool, integrated into already developed courses.These case studies are available at this time.In the process of working on the cases, a question arose concerning their applicability to a courseunder development by NSTCC. The course being

Conference Session

Computer Assisted Data Acquisition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

M.L. Meier

at little or no cost, a definite plus for smaller schools, and they will even allow the student to complete these assignments at home, reducing the need for schools to set up computer laboratories, a plus for high-enrollment courses.IntroductionWhen the pocket calculator first appeared in the classroom no one talked about technology in theclassroom. In many cases it was reluctantly allowed in and eventually, after it seemed thatnearly everyone had one, exams, homework and other assignment changed to accommodate andeven take advantage of this new, personal, high technology device. Computers are similar inmany respects. They have been on our desktops for over 20 years are have only recently beganto become an integral part of our

Conference Session

Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nadia Craig; Michelle Maher; Walter Peters

everydayactivities.ConclusionThe complexities of the systems that we “engineer” are beginning to be understood because ofthe many breakthroughs in science. These complexities must be incorporated into engineeringcurriculum. Industry realizes the need for this change. Desmond Hudson, President of NorthernTelcom Inc., said that, “My concern is for the students who come out of school suitably versed inmathematics, physics, and the sciences, but lacking an appreciation for literature, history, andphilosophy. The view they have is that modern technology is a collection of components ratherthan an integral part of our society, our culture, our business environment.”2 There is a need fora change in the current engineering curriculum. The Accreditation Board of

Conference Session

Pre-College and ECE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Goff; Elizabeth McCullough, Kansas State University; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

studentsfor jobs in the high tech arena. This includes an Associate of Science degree in ManufacturingQuality Technology at St. Petersburg College; an Associate of Science degree in ManufacturingTechnology at Hillsborough Community College; programs focused on the field of Modeling,Simulation & Training at Daytona Beach Community College; and a two plus two program in Page 8.295.2Photonics at Valencia Community College. Proceedings for the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exhibition. Copyright © 2003, American Society of Engineering EducationChip Camp OverviewChip Camp is a free