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Manufacturing Systems Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Linards Stradins; Richard Rothaupt

ManufacturingEngineering program.Almost all engineering programs prior to the 1960s required students to work with machines andmaterials in testing laboratories, metalworking, mechanical and electrical shops. Thoseexperiences, gained from the various laboratory exercises, developed in the students an intuitivefeel for the way in which the mechanical world operated. Sadly, by the 1980s many universitieshad disassembled their laboratories and had come to rely upon analytical skills and computer Page 8.29.1Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright©2003, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Zollars; Jim Henry

Assessment of Remote Experiments and Local Simulations: Student Experiences, Satisfaction and Suggestions Jim Henry Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598 Richard Zollars Department of Chemical Engineering Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-2710AbstractThis paper has a comparison of student reactions to having laboratory experimentsconducted with simulation software and being conducted remotely through the Web.The students in a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Maria Suchowski; Frank Severance; Damon Miller

complete the degree given their enormous investment of time and money. The end results arelow retention rates and too many underachieving students.One Approach: A Freshman Level Introduction to Engineering CourseIntroductory engineering courses are one tool to address these problems1,2. The WesternMichigan University (WMU) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has offeredsuch a course (ECE 123 Mobile Robots: An Introduction to Electrical and ComputerEngineering) to incoming engineering and science students for four consecutive semesters.ECE 123 is centered on building StiquitoTM robots3,4. Class meetings consist of a brief lecturefollowed by extensive laboratory work; students learn by doing. The course is designed toprovide a wide

Conference Session

Pre-College Initiatives in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Lang Wah Lee; Tamer Ceylan

consisted of lectures, laboratory work, and group discussions.Activities in the afternoon session were to complement the work covered in the morning sessionwith emphasis on instructional design, delivery, and evaluation and with special attention to readingin the content areas. Teachers studied the group investigation and other models of teaching forimplementation in their classrooms. Coaching in the models took place in the summer institute andduring the school year.C) Preparatory Work. To make the program more effective, we conducted an initial survey ofparticipants’ needs and interests prior to the workshop. Based on the results of the survey, wefinalized our education plan. The following six areas were emphasized in our curriculum: (a

Conference Session

Improving Communication Skills in ME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Alley; Harry Robertshaw

, these slides can emphasize key points, can show images too complex to explainin words, and can reveal the organization of the presentation. In addition, well designedslides can increase the retention of the audience from 10 percent, for just hearing, to 50percent for both hearing and seeing the material [1]. However, are the designs that mostengineering instructors use, and that programs such as Microsoft PowerPoint offer asdefaults, the most effective at communicating technical information? This paper arguesthat they are not. Specifically, this paper challenges the typical designs that rely on phraseheadlines and bulleted lists and offers a dramatically different design. Having its roots atthe national laboratories [2], this new design

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Rosa Cano; Howard Kimmel

intensity that iscurrently possible.Systemic reform means changing the way teachers teach and students learn. There is acritical need to restructure the methodology of teaching science and mathematics. Thetraditional way of teaching is through reading from the textbook and doing problems throughrote memory of formulas and facts. Laboratory experiences are then used to verify "thefacts" stated in the textbook. There is no substitute for actually doing science andmathematics. We need to integrate the content and teaching strategies. Students need tolearn from their own experiences rather than just listening to lectures and then passivelyverifying those facts stated in textbooks through laboratory activities.Professional development of teachers

Conference Session

Three P's in Introduction to Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; Robert Montgomery

seventhsemester students, and/or were repeating the class.One instructor taught both small lecture sections and another taught the large lecture section.The traditional section followed the standard schedule for ENGR 106 of two 50-minute lecturesessions and a 110-minute laboratory. Both small sections followed a schedule of a single 110-minute lecture session and a 110-minute laboratory. The single longer lecture period was utilizedto reduce the time lost for distribution and collection of laptops. Weekly material coverage wasthe same for all lecture sections, as were other aspects of course administration.For the experimental lecture section, a mobile LAN consisting of 25 wireless-equipped laptopcomputers, a wireless access point unit, and a security

Conference Session

Novel Courses for CHEs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

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

InformationThe title of the undergraduate (senior level) course is “Fundamentals of Controlled Release”, andthe title of the graduate course is “Controlled Release Theory, Technology and Applications”.Students registered for these courses meet together during a common class meeting time. To beconsistent with the level of the courses, students registered for graduate credit have additionalresponsibilities on take-home assignments, laboratory reports, exams, and the semester project.Both courses are three-credit courses, and meet once per week in the evening for approximatelythree hours.There is no required textbook for the course. Required reading and supplemental materials areassigned periodically throughout the semester, and students obtain this

Conference Session

Design Through the Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Chris Kobus

provide insight into the physics of slowsystem leaks, which are distributed, in multiple unknown locations, throughout a vacuumactuated control system consisting of a vacuum reservoir, fittings, hoses and actuators. The besttesting scheme will be that which will accurately test each system to meet certain quality controlspecifications for the product and be accomplished in a maximum time of 40 seconds. Alongwith a cover letter to the chemical company requesting the bid, each team submits a technicalreport documenting their company’s proposed testing scheme. In addition, each team’s design isverified in the laboratory that simulates a testing station.II. Background of the Class BodyThe Fluid and Thermal System Design class mainly consists of

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Miller; Mara Wasburn

by Women in Technology students. Its purpose was to give thehigh school girls who participated an understanding of the various majors available in the Schoolof Technology through tours, presentations by women faculty from each discipline, a questionand answer session with students, and hands-on laboratory experiences. In this paper, we willpresent an overview of the organization; discuss the lessons learned from the first Women inTechnology Workshop, and suggest strategies for developing such workshops into vitalcomponents of efforts to recruit more high school girls into the fields of technology, engineering,and science.IntroductionThere have been many programs that have succeeded in attracting more women into the fields ofscience

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mysore Narayanan

.” The instructor canbe instrumental in enforcing this philosophy of quality in all respects. Qualitywork should be expected in students’ written laboratory reports, examinations, tests,quizzes, take-home assignments, homeworks, creative drawings, technical topicpresentations, research reports, etc. This can be effectively accomplished byproviding the students with a model report. The model or the format can beinstructor-generated or one that is standard and already available in the system.Even a very diversified student body will be able follow a standardized model,whether it be for a publication or be it for an assignment.Establishing high standards obviously should receive priority billing. Americanindustry now wants the performance

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dr. Maria Kreppel; Max Rabiee

disciplines.One example of this reflective practice may be seen in a variety of “laboratory” projects. Studentsin Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET) and Mechanical EngineeringTechnology (MET) often design and build prototypes for actual laboratory apparatus that is fullyinstrumented and used by faculty in subsequent years. These “Senior Design” products resultfrom students evaluating their own laboratory learning experiences, identifying gaps in thelearning sequence, and using their capstone projects to address current student needs and developfuture learning opportunities.1Many direct learning measures characterize the CAS capstone curriculum. The faculty advisorsgive ongoing, portfolio-style assessment of students’ work as it evolves

Conference Session

Recruitment & Outreach in CHE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Christi Luks; Laura Ford

Page 8.294.1“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” The goals of the Tulsa Competition were simple: (1) To get the high school students onto The University of Tulsa campus and into Keplinger Hall to see the newly modernized chemical engineering laboratories. (2) To introduce the students to chemical engineering as a career. (3) To involve the best recruiters among practicing engineers and current students. (4) To establish contacts with the high school chemistry teachers. (5) To provide a technical activity for the high school students that would be

Conference Session

Computer Assisted Data Acquisition

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2003 Annual Conference

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Preeti Nagarajan; Roman Stemprok

Session: 2526 Matlab numerical method application in student research Roman Stemprok and Preeti Nagarajan University of North TexasAbstractMatrices Laboratory is a versatile package that performs a multitude of mathematical calculationsinvolving signal-processing systems and control systems, and it has toolboxes for imageprocessing, neural networks and communication applications. This “hands-on” student researchintroduces a method of capturing the luminance of roadway scenes using a charge-coupled device(CCD) camera, and later, analyzing these images to calculate the spatial

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Satish Ranade; Howard Smolleck

sponsored by a local utility and a National Laboratory. They will thenconsider employment with the power industry or the Electric Utility Management Program(EUMP) graduate electric program here at New Mexico State University (see description below). This first year of experience has allowed us to test and refine the program. Our objectivesand observations are described in this paper. We are pleased with the results so far and areactively looking at a group of students, possibly even larger (if additional support from othercompanies permits) for the coming year.2. History of electric power engineering at NMSU Electrical study at NMSU can be traced back to the late nineteenth century. Establishedas the land-grant college of the state of

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert M. McAllister; Matthew Sanders

bothstudent attitude and performance in math and science, preparing them for a comfortable learningexperience of engineering fundamentals. This way both programs involve young women inclassroom activities, hands-on experimentation in the laboratory, and problem solving withcomputers. In laboratories close attention is placed on proper laboratory and research technique.This will prepare the students for both group and independent work. The hands-on laboratorycomponent of the programs is meant to attract and retain the interest of the young women. Forexample, students were taught to use a Thermoformer Machine to produce a plastic product usingthe Visual Basic Program that they wrote in order to produce a Mickey Mouse image. In addition,the programs

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rana Mitra; John-David Yoder; Michael Rider

. These are ME 311, Processof Mechanical Design, ME 341, Manufacturing Processes, and ME 371, Numerical Methods.Traditionally, the Numerical Methods course has been case-study focused, the manufacturingclass has had a laboratory component in which students are given hands-on experience with basicmanufacturing techniques, and the design course has included a project.Ohio Northern University has implemented a continuous improvement process. While the fulldetails of this process are not important here, it is noteworthy that, as part of this process, facultymeet quarterly to review faculty and student comments during Course Outcome Assessment.During our meeting after the fall quarter of 2001, The author discussed several of the problemsnoted after

Conference Session

Activities for the Materials Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Masi

intrinsically conductive and semiconductive polymers have allowed designersthe liberties of flexibility and conductivity to meet needs from batteries to solar cells. This papergives an overview of this search past, present, and future and the synthesis of promising newcomplex polymer building blocks which can yield conductive, semiconductive, luminescent,ferro-, ferri-, and super-paramagnetic materials for devices of the future in power, storage,displays, and communications devices. The use of these materials to produce electrically activepolymeric materials has changed our way of thinking about how to fabricate devices withproperties heretofore unrealizable. There are three laboratory exercises described in this paper.They have been given both as in

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Barrett; Steve Kuennen

-on construction activitiesas an introduction to the curriculum.Structural engineering, which is often considered one of the more theoretical and abstract of thecivil engineering disciplines, warrants increased hands-on activities to help bridge the gapbetween design theory and the actual behavior and construction practices students encounter(Morreau 1990). This paper discusses one particular activity within our summer programdevoted to introducing students to structural engineering through the design, construction, andtesting of a full-sized reinforced concrete beam at the Air Force Academy’s Field Engineeringand Readiness Laboratory

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Walter

design process at TCU isbased on these criteria. A 3-semester, team-oriented, industry-funded, electrical/mechanical,interdisciplinary design sequence, beginning in the second semester of the TCU studentengineer’s junior year, is described.introductionEarly in their engineering educational process, students are typically forced to select a specificdiscipline (mechanical, electrical, civil, etc.). They then dutifully follow a program of studiesthat embraces the requisite technical courses (thermodynamics, solid mechanics, circuits, etc.) tosupport this discipline. While laboratory courses may provide an opportunity to stimulate groupinteraction, success in the majority of their engineering courses is typically assessed based uponindividual

Conference Session

Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jendrucko; Anthony English; Monica Schmidt

preferences for design projects, but faculty make the final team as-signments. Faculty identify options for design projects prior to the beginning of the Fall semes- Page 8.790.1ter. At the first class meeting, students are presented with the design project options and then Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationsurveyed to identify their interests in specific projects and to list their elective courses. Requiredpre- or corequisite courses include Biomaterials, Biomechanics, and the BME Laboratory

Conference Session

Programming and DSP Issues in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Ives; Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

, WY Robert W. Ives Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering U.S. Naval Academy, MD Abstract While many communication topics are difficult for undergraduate students to in- ternalize, demonstrations and laboratory experiences have been shown to greatly stim- ulate the learning process. This paper describes a highly successful combination of theory, demonstrations, lab exercises, and real-time DSP experiences using Matlab and the Texas Instruments C6711 digital signal processing starter kit. This approach, when also combined with state-of-the-art

Conference Session

Experienced-Based Instruction

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Meade

(2) how much personal responsibility is tagged to the outcome of the activity.Experiences can be related to the “person,” in which the experience was gained, i.e., 1st person,2nd person (second hand), and 3rd person (documentary).The emotional impact of the experience is the aspect that makes it “real.” Strong emotionsproduce strong memories. The further the experience is distant from the 1st person, the more theimpact of the experience is diminished. For example: I was in a car wreck (1st person); Iwitnessed a car wreck (2nd person); I read about a car wreck (3rd person).Traditional tools of experience-based education involve laboratory work, field trips, scienceprojects, and experimental demonstrations. Each of these activities is

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Oerther

-level course offered to both seniors and graduate students.Enrollment is not limited to only civil and environmental engineering students, and weencourage the participation of students from engineering, the life sciences, and medicine.“Molecular Biology in Environmental Engineering,” has been supported by funding from theNational Science Foundation to Professor Daniel B. Oerther (DUE-0127279). The purpose ofthe NSF support included the purchase of additional laboratory equipment and the furtherdevelopment of a digital lab manual distributed to students via DVD-ROM.The success of “Molecular Biology in Environmental Engineering,” has been documentedpreviously in a number of refereed publication (1, 2, 3, 4). Rather than repeat the details

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Katherine Chen

Session 2464 How we learned to love the phase diagram with a Ti-Cr alloy characterization lab Katherine C. Chen Materials Engineering Department California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407AbstractWhile many students learn how to read and use a phase diagram in introductory materialscourses, greater appreciation for such a tool can be garnered through the laboratory setting. Alaboratory module for a “Structures of Materials” class (a “core class” for materials majors) hasbeen developed to demonstrate

Conference Session

Materials Curricula: Modeling & Math

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Katherine Chen

Session 3164 NiTi – Magic or Phase Transformations? Katherine C. Chen Materials Engineering Department California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407AbstractNiTi alloys possess exciting properties and are staples in materials demonstrations. The shapememory effect and superelasticity property of NiTi fascinate people, but actually requiresignificant materials knowledge to fully understand the phenomena. A laboratory dealing withphase transformations was thus developed to capitalize on the allure of NiTi for a junior/seniorlevel

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Cruz-Pol

motivate girls entering the 7thand 8 th grades, early in their life, to select and pursue careers in engineering or computersciences. The students participate on workshops applying scientific and engineeringconcepts, as well as on hands-on experiments in a laboratory environment.One of the most popular workshops in EXITE! is the construction of an electronicdoorbell for the girls’ bedrooms. Girls at this age begin to ask for respect from theirparents when they want to go into their rooms, and most of girls see the doorbell as themean to manage this need. This motivates the participants to be interested in theworkshop.The construction of the electronic doorbell introduces the participants the basics conceptsof electricity, circuits, types of

Conference Session

Technology in Environmental Engineering Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Carlos Ortiz

, phosphates and fecal coliforms, allthe analyses were performed at the CET environmental laboratory. The pilot system produced aneffluent containing BOD concentrations less than 1.0 mg/L and turbidity readings below 1.0 NTU.IntroductionTrussell [2] and Adham [3] have reported that membrane bioreactor systems can produce highquality effluent with respect to BOD, TSS and fecal coliform count. The objective of this studywas to evaluate the efficiency of the membrane system under two different mixed liquorconditions and determine the best operating conditions; while comparing the performance of thepilot system with the existing treatment facility.The pilot system designed by US Filter and used in this study, consisted of a 3028-L (800 gal

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nikolai Dechev; William Cleghorn

internal Engineering Computing Facility(ECF) network within the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto. Students must use an on-campus computer laboratory to access the software. One teaching assistantis assigned to an ECF laboratory, on a weekly basis. Students are required to submit their completedassignments electronically, to a specified folder within the ECF network.Conclusion The use of enhanced visual aids in lectures as well as a computer laboratory has enriched thelearning of the students. The VRML computer models used here can illustrate a mechanical conceptwithin minutes, that would otherwise require the disassembly of a physical device, which isgenerally impractical during a lecture. Feedback from

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

leadership skills. The CE education at UET Lahore emphasizes on thefundamental concepts and principles, which constitutes the basis of civil engineering practice. Tofoster their creative abilities, the students are assigned projects on design or laboratoryinvestigations for self-directed execution. The classroom and laboratory work is supplemented Page 8.27.1Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationwith field trips to acquaint students with the civil engineering projects of national importance