Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Mullenax

variances when determining whether asalary offer is adequate [www.homefair.com/homefair/calc/salcalc.html].Benefits are a big part of the employee compensation package, typically costing an employer ~40%of the actual salary offer. Look at health benefits – coverage information should list requiredemployee premium costs, deductibles, office and drug co-pays. Another part of the packageincludes programs such as pre-tax spending accounts, employee savings plans, tuitionreimbursement, family benefits, and pension.Relocation benefits should be enumerated. These will include moving costs (either by directpayment of a moving company or reimbursement of allowed expenses), any initial startup bonuspaid, and the tax ramifications of all that. Do you get a

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kamyar Mahboub

about nature and existingartifacts and figure out how they can be altered and improved to better achieve objectivesconsidered beneficial to humankind”. Furthermore, the likelihood of creativebreakthroughs multiples when both the structural or purely technical aspects of a problemand the larger aesthetic, economic, and social value questions are addressed. The plan in this study was based on the premise that aspects of creativity inengineering and design can be taught and learned. Creativity in these disciplines involvedboth adaptation and innovation, doing things better and doing things differently.Engineering and design fields share an interest in materials and technology and operate

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen McClain; Bruce Cain

a list of about 30 experiments that have been approved as five-weekprojects. Half of the projects concern material behavior or solid mechanics, and half of theprojects are related to heat transfer or fluid mechanics. The groups must complete onematerials/solid mechanics five-week project and one heat transfer/fluid mechanics five-weekproject.For each experimental objective, the groups are expected to select the apparatus construction,materials, instrumentation, and test plan that minimize the expected uncertainty in their result.The designs are presented in a formal proposal. After the formal proposal, the students mustbuild the apparatus, run the experiment, analyze the results and uncertainties, and present theresults in formal oral and

Conference Session

Web-Based Instruction

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lauren Neal; Jr., Robert J. Clougherty; Ismail Fidan

Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering Education” Figure 12: Information Links in WebCT-based CNCi. Calendar The “Course Calendar” feature lets the instructor maintain a course calendar that students canaccess at any time. All upcoming activities are placed in the calendar to remind students aboutimportant dates and events for the entire semester (i.e. lab schedule, report due dates, exam dates,etc.). Some examples are shown in Figure 13. Placing this calendar information on the course WebCT site helped the students to be betterprepared for course events and to plan ahead efficiently.j. Communication Tools The “Communication Tools” link lets students communicate with faculty and other studentsin the course

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Frontiers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ristroph

Planning for the Louisiana Department of Natural Re-sources where he performed numerous large-scale economic analyses. Page 8.446.9 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Practice/Industry Partnership

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Enno Koehn

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education constituencies are used to determine and periodically evaluate the educational objectives • specific outcomes and the processes to realize these outcomes and the extent to which outcomes are being assessed • ongoing evaluation that demonstrates achievement of the educational objectives and program outcomes and uses the results to continuously improve the effectiveness of the program • an integrated plan to meet the accreditation requirements with respect to students, the professional component, faculty, facilities, institutional support and financial

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

UMES Math, Science, Engineering andTechnology students (MSET) for an ongoing NASA sponsored experiential learningproject 5 .VII. Future PlansThe Mechatronics facility will be further developed in the future. The immediate plansinvolve acquiring a conveyor system as well as a Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM)once appropriate funds are identified/raised. There are a variety of educational andresearch activities that can be pursued in the facility. In the near future experimentationswill be performed with a hand-mounted camera with the ADEPT robot. Advancedflexible automation concepts will also be developed by integrating LEGO mobile roboticdevices and ADEPT industrial robot.Future plans also involve designing novel one degree of freedom

Conference Session

Diversity in Materials

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Miller; Oscar Barton

incorporating more composite material systems into its ships,aircraft and land vehicles. The paper describes a dual effort to expose midshipmen to composite materials andstructures. Theory of composite materials is presented in a senior-elective course in theMechanical Engineering Department. Here the midshipmen, using computational tools such asIDEAS, are taught the mechanics of composite materials including classical laminationtheory(CLT). An elective course in the Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Departmentfocuses on experimentation and fabrication. This senior-level course combines both theory andpractice in the selection and planning of methods, materials, and equipment to fabricate, upgrade,and repair marine structures (ships and

Conference Session

Web-Based Laboratories and Classes

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abul Azad

monitoring. He has experience in hardware/software interfacing with special applications inmachine vision. He is a member of the ASEE and the SME.OMAR GHRAYEBReceived his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from New Mexico State University, NM in 2000. He is an AssistantProfessor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Northern Illinois University. His research interests are inProduction Planning and Scheduling , Design and Analysis of Manufacturing Systems, and Soft Computingapplied to manufacturing systems.NAVIN ANANDNavin is presently a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Northern Illinois University. Hegraduated from the Department of Technology at Northern Illinois University with an MS in Industrial Managementin

Conference Session

Computers in ME

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Goulet

, the instructor did not have sufficient time to properly review, debug andgrade the individual analyses and Excel worksheets. The plan was to assess the goodness of eachstudent’s design by comparing it directly to the instructor’s design template. However, suffering atotal lack of imagination, this instructor did not anticipate the numerous ways a free body diagramcould be culled together. Thus the design template poorly accommodated the multitude ofdifferences in FBD labels, dimensions and coordinate systems of the students’ work. Therefore,the feedback to individual students was limited to: “Good: Submittal is complete. Results aregenerally consistent with instructor’s”; “Satisfactory: Submittal is complete. Results are notconsistent with

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Subhi Bazlamit

professor of Civil Engineering at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio.Dr. Bazlamit is married and has one seven-year-old son “Mohammed”. Dr. Bazlamit had taught the transportationengineering courses, surveying, urban planning and introductory engineering courses for freshmen students atOhio Northern University. In addition, he also teaches the senior capstone design course in the department of CivilEngineering Page 8.1086.7 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Raymond R. Hagglund; Eben C. Cobb; William O. Jolley; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

, Sixth Edition, McGraw Hill Book Company, New York, NY, 1997.WILLIAM O. JOLLEYWilliam O. Jolley is currently a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He receivedhis B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in May of 2002. His interests in research have focused on using finite element methodsfor analyzing solid mechanics problems, vibrations, and accident reconstruction. He has held the position of anundergraduate teaching assistant and currently is a graduate teaching assistant. Through these activities he has found aninterest in teaching. Ultimately he is planning on pursuing a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and a career in academia. V-mail: 508-752-1220; E-mail: woj@wpi.eduJOSEPH J. RENCISJoseph J. Rencis has

Conference Session

Real-World Applications

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Tapper; Walter Buchanan

three weeks of the term and included three contiguouslaboratory hours per week. Some design work such as planning, structure, etc., was performedoutside of the laboratory, but the bulk of it took place in the industrial control systems laboratoryitself.Of the seven groups, one group took a record two hours to design, build, simulate, anddemonstrate the system, while others took the majority of allotted time. Students can be seen inFigure 4 below working on their final projects in the laboratory. Figure 4 Student technology-engineering groups working on their “Final Projects”Project ResultsHardware/SoftwareAll of the groups completed their projects to varying degrees. Some were unable to utilize the“Variable Frequency Drive” equipment to

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Ossman

. This year we are using Texas Instruments' TMS320C6x DSP Starter Kitwhich is more expensive ($395.00) but includes the Code Composer Studio software whichallows students to program in C, change variables in real-time, and plot data in both the time andfrequency domain. Students are required to purchase the book DSP Applications Using C and theTMS320C6x DSK [6] for the course. In addition, the textbook Digital Signal Processing: APractical Guide for Engineers and Scientists [7] is strongly recommended as a reference text.Next year, we plan to add a second course in DSP to our curriculum as a technical elective thatwill focus on real-time DSP applications and architecture of DSP chips.Discrete Fourier TransformsOne of the most difficult topics to

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anita Mahadevan-Jansen; Christopher Rowe

in bothimplementations of the format. Targeted responses indicate that the primary goals in incorporating Page 8.597.4this project format, namely, increased technical content in the projects, heightened awareness Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationabout engineering as well as specific engineering major as well as direct contact with majorfaculty, were successfully achieved. In future semesters, we plan to continue to grow this projectformat to include all introductory course sessions by

Conference Session

Related Engineering Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Laurie Cormier; Kelly Clark; Emily Ryan

more comfortable with the material. Reading supplementssometimes complement student tasks. Interesting extensions add a twist or new direction to anexisting activity. Most importantly, each activity is mapped to education standards. Currently theNational and Massachusetts science, technology, and mathematical standards are addressed inevery activity.In addition to revising and reformatting the activities, the undergraduates strive to improve thefunction and distribution of the lesson plans. A comprehensive website provides a database forteachers around the world to browse completed activities. It is the undergraduate’s role toupgrade this site on a regular basis. A spreadsheet keeps track of all the standards met under thepossible frameworks

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Sylvester

. Furthermore, neither technologyexists as a building product that replaces traditional building materials and subsequently offsetsthe cost of the building’s construction. The three most important steps that must occur are the development of 1) a comprehensiveenergy prediction method, 2) design and implementation protocols, and 3) system operation andmaintenance procedures. In the planning and design of buildings, predicting energyconsumption is a primary determinant of their feasibility that can have performance protocol asseen in the California Energy Code and the newly passed Texas Energy Codes. Althoughbuildings using BIPV systems have been constructed for decades, our ability to simulate andpredict the dynamics of these systems is relatively

Conference Session

Integration vs. Compartmentalization

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Carlson

receiving input fromboth our ears and our eyes. In terms of documents, it is apparent that humansfrequently absorb more information when there are pictures to accompany thetext; one negative example is how frustrating it is to try and assemble a kit usingtext-only instructions. And in technical drawings, we often need to see severalviews--top, profile, and plan--in order to visualize an object in our mind's eye.These examples underline the importance of using several representations whenwe are communicating technical information. Moreover, in the field of science studies, Bruno Latour (1987) has arguedthat scientists and engineers often make discoveries by collecting andrepresenting data in a variety of ways. They gain new insights by looking

Conference Session

Energy Project and Laboratory Ideas

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Greguske; Justin Reese; Frederik Betz; Chad Weis; Michael Swedish; Glenn Wrate

ProjectsProbably the single largest contribution of the microturbine review and demonstration project isthat it could become the cornerstone for emergency power systems for the City of Milwaukee inits many buildings. A major consideration is the planned installation of 750 to 1,000 kW ofgeneration set for the Milwaukee City Hall Complex in 2003-2004. With four or fivemicroturbines (200 kW each), the city could have the necessary standby power it needs, plussignificantly more flexibility and an available tool to reduce operating and energy costs.With a successful demonstration, and the movement of the City of Milwaukee to embrace thistechnology, it will become a model for other cities and municipalities as an alternative to existingdiesel or gas

Conference Session

Statistics in the CHE Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerardine Botte

Page 8.1179.3assigned. Classroom practices consisted of exercises designed to apply the new conceptsintroduced during the class. The classroom practices were made in teams; the class wasdivided into two teams with six members each. Team memberships were constant overthe entire semester. The two teams kept competing to finish the exercise first, eventhough it was not originally planned that way. However, this inherent competitionbetween the teams was favorable for the motivation of the students. The classroompractices substituted for the examples explained and solved completely by the instructor.That is, after introducing a new concept, the instructor did not solve a problem. Instead,the students were challenged to use the concepts to

Conference Session

Mentoring, Outreach, & Intro BME Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Luke Herbertson; Daniel Cavanagh

this lab has been designed for first-semester sophomores, a more advancedversion of the lab is currently being planned for junior and senior level students. The moreadvance model may include a recirculating blood supply, greater variations in transmembranepressures, the use of bovine serum and corresponding analytical modeling.Biomaterials Testing LaboratoryWith the current advances in artificial skin development and skin replacement technologies inthe field of biomedical engineering, we have integrated a two week materials science moduleinto our Introduction to Biomedical Engineering Course. This component of the course isdesigned assuming the students have not had an introductory materials science course. Tocoincide with the lecture

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Butt; Sam Ramrattan; Alamgir Choudhury

technology. Digital certificate technology such as VeriSign can be used to secure sensitive transactions.The data flow structure and web development plan are shown in Figure 2 and 3. Figure 2. Data flow structure Page 8.983.5Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 3. Web site for access to the process5. Example of process monitoring and control exerciseIn the class students will be taught a variety of process analysis techniques. Here, an example ofa

Conference Session

Programming and DSP Issues in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Schwartz; K-Y Daisy Fan

syllabus that teaches both MATLAB and Java with depth, our evaluationof this new course, and our plans for improving the programming course in a common first-yearengineering curriculum.IntroductionThe “Introduction to Programming” course is an essential part of the first-year engineeringcurriculum that helps students develop expertise in some programming language, beyondspreadsheet computation. This first programming course is a service course, teaching computingskills that students will need in upper division engineering courses. Given the wide-ranging needsof different engineering disciplines, some undergraduate programs offer introductoryprogramming courses within the different departments. Such a model allows the computing needsof the upper

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hirak Patangia

course has given them a good understanding of engineering workand they enjoyed the experiential nature of the course. The students overwhelmingly felt that thecourse has a high degree of recruiting potential of high school students. The course did indeedhave some effect on undeclared majors to switch to engineering technology. A few studentsdecided to change to non-engineering majors, and this is also a positive effect of the course.Future DirectionsThe success of the course of the first two offerings motivated us to submit a proposal to NSFunder Bridges for Engineering Education (BEE) program as a planning grant. The proposal hasbeen funded and its goal is to extend the scope of the course to include pre-college educators,education majors, and

Conference Session

Programmatic Curriculum Developments

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Sutterer

transitions could put the growth of sustainabilitylearning in the department at risk. Although such faculty transitions are a weakness, the bottom-up approach does benefit from reduced administrative planning and financial investment. Page 8.743.5 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ? 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Small civil engineering departments can benefit from the bottom- up approach. A single facultyteaching ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES or CIVIL ENGINEERING CODES AND REGULATIONS AT RHITwill contact almost all junior or senior civil

Conference Session

Innovations in the CHE Laboratory

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

R. Worden

are then asked to apply this approachin planning their research in order to maximize progress during the semester. Because theseplanning activities require consideration of both the scientific and engineering components of theproject, students must be able to communicate effectively, even in the early phases of theirprojects.Challenges to Institutionalization of the MBL CourseInstitutionalization of truly multidisciplinary offerings like the MBL course presents significantchallenges, particularly if departments rely on such courses to help satisfy ABET accreditationrequirements. Through several years of teaching the MBL course, we have identified some ofthese challenges and have developed strategies to address them, as described below

Conference Session

Manufacturing Systems Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Linards Stradins; Richard Rothaupt

completion.Course requirements are based on the expectations of industrial based projects. Students arerequired to: prepare a formal written report about their semester’s project work; maintain aproject journal used to record the team’s work, calculations, product investigations, research data,and the minutes of every team meeting. Students develop and produce all necessary project layoutdrawings, including any assembly drawings deemed appropriate. Detailed drawings of fabricatedparts are developed, including a complete product Bill of Materials (BOM). A productmanufacturing plan and cell layout must also be proposed. Dependent on the project, students areexpected to identify and apply the appropriate analytical tools when performing design analysis

Conference Session

Virtual & Distance Experiments

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Weber; Bernard Lwakabamba; Julie Dickerson; Carolina Cruz-neira; Diane Rover

plans for the second year included offering courses in the basic functional skillsneeded for interdisciplinary teams such as an embedded systems course in spring 2002 thatfeatures the specification and analysis of real-time wireless systems. We also identified currentbest practices for teaching interdisciplinary courses. We are experimenting with different methodsof integrating the course skills between the courses. This work led to the concept of the centraldesign document that defines a common goal for a series of courses.Figure 1. A user in the C6 virtual reality system communicates with his/her environment using a wireless trackingsystem, infrared shutter glasses, 6-D wands, and data gloves. These devices must be designed in a way of

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Emin Yilmaz; Kenny Fotouhi

used once in 1985 to testSUN2 Interrogator 1805-9 Engine Diagnostics unit. Diesel engine-dynamometer system,to date, was never used. Gasoline engine is a 1984 Pontiac 6000, 2.5 liter, throttle bodyinjected, and 4-cylinder engine. Diesel engine is a 1984 Volkswagen and 4- cylinderengine. Both engines have the same model dynamometers. Engines are directlyconnected to the dynamometers by flexible-insert couplings. My plan was to use thegasoline engine-dynamometer system in other courses. Since the engine has been sittingmore than 12 years I was hesitant to start the engine without properly servicing it.Therefore, I decided to service the engine as a laboratory exercise for EDTE 341 course.Allowing students to work on a real engine was also a big

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

CRISTINO CARBONELL; FE TABAMO; Clarita Guevara

design of the learning materials must be anchored on providing a good stimulus to learners to capture and sustain their interests with the use of graphics, video and sound; provide assessment and immediate feedback; employ games and simulations; and direct them to relevant and interesting links. • Project Plan The ESTEeM Project Management Methodology is largely based on the TIER (Teacher Interactive Educational Resource) Management Methodology of the UST TIER Project. The ESTEEeM Project is an offshoot of the training program given by the UST EdTech Center to selected faculty members of the University during the Summer Session of 2002. Description and Outline