Conference Session

Computers in ME

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Goulet

were delivered to the class in the form of a contestor team challenge to obtain the longest launch distance. At the midterm, five teams of 3 to 4students were formed and contest rules were distributed including design requirements andconstraints, schedule of deliverables and grading expectations. The launcher design requirementscalled for a spring-loaded “striker”, to impact a stationary tennis ball upon release of a trigger. Topit design ingenuity rather than the teams’ material resources, each was limited to use one 8 ft.length of official 1” x 3” pine board and one 12 in. length of official surgical tubing. Teamdeliverables included one written design report with launcher predictions, supporting analysis andsketches, one functional launcher

Conference Session

Visualization and Computer Graphics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Wiebe; Aaron Clark

Page 8.1189.2computer graphics tools to design a graphic for a project, the constraints guiding the design have Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationusually been based primarily on aesthetic concerns or highly localized constraints (e.g., the finalimage should be 7x9 inches), rather than tied to a larger framework of effective graphiccommunication.Figure 1. Conceptual Framework of the VisTE Instructional MaterialsThe VisTE project, however, takes a different approach as to how graphic communication can beintegrated into technology education. Its project goals aim to promote technological

Conference Session

Visualization and Computer Graphics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Wiebe; Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

. A previously developed taxonomyof geometric behaviors is used to guide the development of activities that provide an appropriaterange of activities for the students. Example instructional activities will be presented..I. IntroductionOver the last two years, the faculty in the Graphic Communications program at North CarolinaState University has been integrating constraint-based solid modeling into their introductoryengineering and technical graphics courses 1. While 3D constraint-based modeling has been inuse in industry for more than ten years, it has only been within the last few years that there hasbeen widespread adoption of these modeling tools at colleges and universities. 3D modelingtools have been identified as a key component of

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Subhi Bazlamit

engineering discipline. This paper presents an overview of the process and attempts to document the associatedobservations from this team-based design experience.Introduction The engineering industry is very competitive in nature. Moreover, most engineeringprojects require the collaboration of many individuals 1 within the same engineering firm toaddress problems and formulate feasible solutions. This class addresses this nature of theengineering industry. It allows the freshmen students an opportunity to experience the engineering Page 8.1086.1design process from writing proposals to construction of a working model. “Proceedings

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Economy

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Dryer; Paul Kauffmann; William Peterson

allows them to demonstrate the benefit of the education they are receiving totheir employer.The Graduate ProgramThe Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Department at Old DominionUniversity offers a MS and Master’s in Engineering Management (MSEM and MEMrespectively). Both degrees require ENMA (Engineering Management) 600 (Cost Estimation andFinancial Analysis) in the core curriculum. These programs are offered live on campus and vialive televised feed (one or two way video with two way audio) as part of the University’sTELETECHNET distant learning program and the state’s CGEP (Commonwealth GraduateEngineering Program) system.2The students in these masters’ programs are predominately, working professionals.1, 3 Whilethere are some full

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

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

linkage.Using a hands-on project to teach dynamics allows students to build associations between analyticalcalculations, and what is being observed during the operation of the device. Using a LEGO mechanismpermits students to further develop an understanding of why assumptions are made, and when they arevalid. This experience enables students to deal with problems that are more complex than classicaltextbook problems, thereby adding a new dimension to a traditional analytical course.1. IntroductionA first course in engineering dynamics brings together basic Newtonian physics and variousmathematical concepts including vector algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus, all of which canbe very difficult for a typical undergraduate student. Furthermore

Conference Session

ELD Technical Papers Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Williams; Paul Blowers

Society for Engineering Educationstudent learning experience. Positive student learning experiences are activities typicallyencouraged and measured by organizations that seek to evaluate and codify the collegelearning experience. Therefore, treating this skill set as an after-thought marginalizes thenoble concepts of both lifelong learning and information literacy. This paper isconcerned with “the characteristics of undergraduate education, which enable andencourage graduates to participate in formal and informal learning throughout theirlives.” 1 Much of our discussion centers on technical strategies for transferringinformation literacy skills by impacting the course syllabi. The information presented here is based in part on some of the

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Yell Inverso; Rachelle Heller; Dave Snyder; Charlene Sorenson; Catherine Mavriplis

of others," to diagnose their learning needs, formulate learninggoals, identify resources for learning, select and implement learning strategies, andevaluate learning outcomes (Knowles 1975). True self-directed learning occurs when thelearners, not the teacher nor the institution, direct the choice of both the learningobjectives and the means or avenues of learning. Setting an environment that encouragesself directed learning require that the educator engage in some of the following:1. Help the learner identify the starting point for a learning project, discern relevant modes of examination and reporting and manage the experience.2. Help learners acquire the needs assessment techniques necessary to discover what objectives they should

Conference Session

Real-World Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Tapper; Walter Buchanan

RequirementsThe following material, starting with Figure 1, represents the actual specification sheets given tothe students. It spells out in clear engineering terms what is required by “the customer.” ***************** Figure 1 Final Project Specification Formal CoverNeeds: It has been determined that a need exists at a major manufacturer of soft drinks. The need has been determined to design and build a manufacturing process sys tem that can process cans and bottles on the same manufacturing line. The process consists of filling and capping (applying caps or lids) to either bottles or cans within the same

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa Anneberg; Ece Yaprak

offers seminarsfor beginners and more advanced faculty. Blackboard’s online teaching environmentincludes the following functionalities: (a) Content management tool for instructors to posttheir lecture notes, homework assignments, study guides, homework and exam solutions,(b) Communication tool for asynchronous and synchronous collaboration between facultyand students and among students, (c) Assessment tool which includes test and quizcapabilities along with an online gradebook, and (d) Control tool for faculty managedutilities. Fig. 1 shows the control panel of EET 3100 Advanced Digital Design course,which was delivered the first time during Fall 2002 semester. Fig. 1: Blackboard Control PanelCourse-management tool

Conference Session

Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

D.J. Marshall

engineering, and fine art. The changein students is both obvious and enduring to the faculty who has them in courses when theyreturn.Index Terms – Continuing Education, Cross Cultural Experience, DiversityType of CourseStudents at IPFW, as in most universities, have General Education Requirements that includeHumanistic Thought and/or Creative and Artistic Expression. After many years work this twoweek course on Rome, Italy was accepted by the Fine Arts, Civil Engineering technology, andArchitectural Engineering Technology departments as an acceptable course to fulfill either of thetwo mentioned areas of General Education (1). Page 8.1205.1

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Ossman

digital signalprocessing are noticeably absent in engineering technology programs. A recent look at ABETaccredited electrical/electronics engineering technology programs [1] showed that only 6 of the 66programs accessed offered DSP as a required course in the curriculum. Another nine programsoffered DSP as a technical elective and the remaining 51 did not offer DSP to their students at all.As DSP becomes more pervasive in industrial applications, it is imperative that engineeringtechnology graduates have some exposure to digital signal processing theory and practice. Themain difficulty in teaching DSP to technology students is the level of mathematics. Studentsopening a textbook on digital signal processing [2] – [4] are faced with pages and

Conference Session

Integrating Math in Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Szaroletta

utilize their configure solid models for the loading casesto prepare FEA models of four basic beam types. The FEA stress states are compared with thetheoretical stress states for these configurations in report and class presentations.This paper describes the optimization introduction and presents some sample optimization resultsat both levels using spreadsheet solver to drive subsequent solid modeling and finite elementanalysis (FEA).Analysis of Simply Supported Beam with Central Load:In a simply supported beam with a central load, P, (see Figure 1) the reaction forces can bedetermined using a free body diagram (FBD) and freshman-level Statics to be of equal magnitude(e.g. P/2) and direction (opposite of P). This elementary analysis can be

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jolly Lesley; David Radcliffe

constructed fromthree guiding principles as follows; 1. Demonstrable Practicality 2. Critical Interdisciplinarity 3. Holistic ReflexivityThese three principles provide respectively; (i) an intrinsic motivation for all the stakeholders(including students, faculty and administrators), (ii) a contrary view to challenge tacitassumptions in engineering and engineering education and (iii) encouragement to adopt a critical,aesthetic and ethical orientation to the task.The framework is not, as might have been expected, a flow chart or decision matrix to guide thechoice of the most appropriate research method or a detailed instrument to assess the scholarshipof teaching. Guides of this type already exist and more are appearing

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Govind Puttaiah

2268 AN INTERACTIVE DISTANCE LEARNING COURSE ON DYNAMICS Govind Puttaiah(1) West Virginia University Institute of Technology Montgomery, WV 25136Abstract An interactive distance learning course on Dynamics was developed and offeredto groups of on- and off-campus undergraduate engineering students using a multi-mediaapproach and a combination of teaching tools. The course was presented to a liveaudience on campus in a specially designed class room and transmitted to off-campus sitesin real time using modern information transfer equipment. The paper

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Saleh Sbenaty

procedure ofthe polymer-based pizza warmer. Visual aides are provided throughout the case, including photosof various PolythermTM designs, the pizza warmer under study, and its detailed schematic diagramthat includes all dimensions, material properties, components, and wiring diagram (Fig. 1.a and1.b). While navigating through the case, the student is faced with “challenges,” small problems,and is asked to address these challenges with his/her teammates. The main challenge here is tomodel the pizza warmer’s electrical circuit and to solve for the total resistance, current, power,and energy consumption. The case can also take various other tracks such as product design,thermodynamics/heat transfer, and/or business applications (engineering economy

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anita Mahadevan-Jansen; Christopher Rowe

project idea based on their current research interests. These topics varied as apart of an existing project, a recently completed project, an external contractual project, or amajor focus of their ongoing research. Since faculty involvement in this pilot idea was completelyvoluntary, faculty contact with the groups was kept at a minimum so as to not overload theparticipating faculty. Thus most faculty met with their group(s) between 3 – 5 times over thecourse of the semester; 1) an initial meeting to familiarize the group with the project and providerelevant reading material, design specifications as well as project endpoints, 2) a mid-projectmeeting to make sure the group was on the right track, and 3) another meeting towards the finaldue date

Conference Session

Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joanne Hood; Elizabeth Bahe; Fonda Swimmer; Ingrid St. Omer

, interact with a client, and professionally present results. The College offers ABET-accredited Bachelor of Science programs and Master of Engineering programs in ComputerScience and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineeringand Mechanical Engineering. The Master of Engineering program, oriented towards practicingprofessionals, is a unique collaboration with the University of Arizona and Arizona StateUniversity. Current student demographics within the CET differ slightly in composition from theoverall university population. For Fall 2002, the CET student population was approximately 74%White, 12% Native American, 6% Hispanic, 5% International, 2.1% Asian American, 1% AfricanAmerican, and 15% female students

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; Joseph Morgan

Session 1447 Education Through Competition: Mobile Platform Technology J. A. Morgan and J. R. Porter Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843Introduction The Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering Technology (EET/TET)Programs at Texas A&M University have developed a competition-based course projectthat centers on a mobile robot. The robot, named MPIII and shown in Figure 1,integrates wireless TCP/IP networking, streaming video, and data acquisition to allowstudents to remotely sense the environment and

Conference Session

Engineering Education; An International Perspective

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lori Cirucci; Joseph Santoro; John Coulter; Herman Nied; David Angstadt; Charles Smith

learning environment has been found to beone that the students enjoy and the ME 240 experience has become a favorite of the Lehigh andmiddle school students alike.IntroductionK-12 engineering outreach programs are increasing in popularity and number as universities andsecondary schools act to address the shortfall of U.S. students in science and math 1 . Therationale for introducing engineering at an early age is described thoroughly in the references andwill not be covered presently. Support and impetus for these programs come from the NationalScience Foundation’s Research Experience for Teachers (RET) and Graduate Teaching Fellowsin K-12 Education (GK-12) programs, among others.Many of the K-12 programs involve hands-on work in analyzing an

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Vernon Lewis

students to a new and evolving method of building construction.IntroductionOld Dominion University has performed a program of wall panel testing for a firm locatedin the Eastern Virginia area. This testing has been performed in accordance with thecriteria established by the manufacturing firm's Professional Engineering Consultant(Engineer) as modified in the course of testing with the approval of the Engineer. Themanufacturing firm provided all specimens tested. In general, the testing was inaccordance with ASTM E72-981. This document has been replaced by ASTM E72-02,November 1, 2002, but was current at the time of the testing program described in thispaper.This testing is of interest to students because it illustrates one method by which

Conference Session

Engineering / Education Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Shooter; Micheal Hanyak; Matt Higgins; Marie Wagner; Ed Mastascusa; Dan Hyde; Brian Hoyt; Bill Snyder; Michael Prince

professor assumed all students have similar learning styles. • The professor focussed on the content rather than on how you should approach learning the material. • Teamwork was generally not encouraged. If anything, engineering was viewed as a solitary profession, except for laboratory work. • A clear presumption existed that the goal of the professor was to transfer the material to you.Although much progress has been made, this model still survives today in far too manyengineering classrooms [1]. This style is characterized by subject-based, teacher-directedlearning. The success of the course is measured by how much material is covered—oftenspecified by the number of book chapters that are covered. Success is not

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Neal Armstrong, University of Texas at Austin; Sherry Woods, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

creating its own Center for the Scholarship of Engineering Education.1In concert with this national movement, UT Austin’s engineering Academic Affairs Office (AAO),administered by Associate Dean Neal Armstrong, is promoting its faculty development efforts tocreate a culture shift within the College. Three overlapping principles, referred to as the threelearnings (Figure 1) are guiding AAO’s faculty development initiatives. 2 Marketed in the contextof, “We’re good, and we can be better!” these principles include the following: 1. Learning Experience: Instruction should be learner-centered not simply content driven. The focus is on how classes are taught, where and how learning takes place, and how engineers learn. 2. Learning

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ashraf Ghaly

USA 78.7 5,152.3 3 France 7.6 496.0 4 Spain 6.2 403.7 1 Germany 5.2 340.0 3 UK 2.0 129.6 3 Japan 0.2 9.9 5 Other 0.2 15.2 EUROPE, Volume $28.1 Billion No. of Firms Firm Country

Conference Session

Learning Enhancements for CHE Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nihat Gurmen; John J. Lucas; Dean R. Malmgren; H. Scott Fogler

Session 3213 Improving Critical Thinking and Creative Problem Solving Skills By Interactive Troubleshooting Nihat M. Gurmen1, John J. Lucas2, R. Dean Malmgren1, H. Scott Fogler1 1 Department of Chemical Engineering 2 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2136 Abstract In today’s job market it is becoming increasingly important to demonstrate one’scritical thinking

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ashraf Ghaly

implementedchanges to make the curricula responsive to societal needs. Some programs embarked on thesechanges after receiving input from industrial partners and practitioners, and others studied the newforces and realities of the marketplace to introduce the changes that could make their graduatesbetter prepared to meet the new challenges.Table 1 shows the civil engineering areas of study at the 10 universities with the largest Page 8.922.5undergraduate enrollments (ENR, 2002). It can be seen that these programs concentrate on six “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sanda Cleja-Tigoiu; Raluca Rosca

Fall 2002 semester at University of Bucharest. Thegoal of the module was dual: (1) to introduce the students to the software MATLAB v.6.5 [1] andits use for scientific computation and (2) to provide a challenging problem for immediateapplication of the MATLAB knowledge. The challenges of this endeavor were multiple, as thestudents of the Mechanics of Materials class had extensive experience in theoretical mechanics butvery variable English and computer proficiency, as the language of instruction was Romanianwhile most MATLAB documentation was in English, and as the traditional teaching format isbased on lecture rather than on hands-on experiences.The first author provided her expertise on MATLAB, while the second author, the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rufus Carter; Tim Anderson; Marc Hoit

their attitudes and opinions regarding theirfirst semester experience in engineering. This survey was first piloted and addresses factors ofmotivation, time conflicts, family support, academic preparedness, and academic progress. Thedatabase contains responses from 1060 students’ responses from 2 colleges of engineering.Introduction Less than 50% of students beginning in engineering continue in engineering and half ofthose leave during the freshmen year (Besterfield-Sacre, 1997) 1. In engineering, the annualgraduation rate decreased by approximately 20 percent in the 1980’s. (Board of EngineeringEducation-National Research Council, 1992) 2 Astin (1993) 3 found that only 43% of thefirst–year engineering students in his population

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nikolai Dechev; William Cleghorn

. Page 8.514.1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education” Over the past four years, more than 70 animations have been prepared using the software entitledVisual Nastran. They cover a wide range of mechanical devices, mechanisms, and manufacturingoperations. They complement the pictures and video segments which are shown of real machines inoperation. For instance, Figure 1 depicts a gear hobbing operation. A still of a video segment isshown in Figure 1(a), and a frame of an animation developed through Visual Nastran is depicted inFigure 1(b). The frame from the computer animation gives a far

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jaeger; Richard Chapman; Victor Nelson

A New Baccalaureate Program in Wireless Engineering Victor P. Nelson1, Richard O. Chapman2, Richard C. Jaeger1 Auburn University, Alabama 1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 2. Department of Computer Science and Software EngineeringAbstractThe first baccalaureate program in Wireless Engineering in the U.S. was initiated withinthe Samuel Ginn College of Engineering of Auburn University in the Fall Semester of2002. This new program has been designed to meet the needs of telecommunicationscompanies, wireless network service providers, manufacturers of telecommunicationnetwork switching equipment, wireless application developers