Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Potter; Brian Knight; Antoine Ataya

integrative event during which students apply theengineering science and design principles learned during their previous studies to an actualproject. At Roger Williams, the course has been undergoing a transition to a client-based formatin which all of the student design projects are undertaken for “outside” clients.This fall a major initiative was undertaken that incorporated into the course a unique block ofinstruction on the Malcolm Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence. The Baldrigeperformance excellence criteria are the framework that any organization can use to improveoverall performance. This instructional unit was introduced to enhance the students’ awarenessof the need for continuous improvement within a highly competitive world

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Cambron; Jian Peng

project-based learning model was developed and is generallysupported in the American engineering education undergraduate community. A primary focus ofWestern Kentucky University’s engineering programs is to provide a project-based experience atall levels of the curriculum.Currently, the field of Digital technology is progressing rapidly. The electrical engineeringcurriculum at WKU requires all students to take a minimum of three courses in this field: DigitalLogic, Introduction to Industrial Automation, and Microprocessors. Students take Digital Logicin the first year. In the digital logic course students use the 7400 series TTL chips and XilinxCPLD. Students use an Allen Bradley programmable logic controller and an Atmel AVR STK500 Microcomputer

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Bahr; M. Grant Norton

programs or in research projects specially designed for thepurpose” 1.For the past five summers the NSF has funded a summer REU site in Characterization ofAdvanced Materials at Washington State University. WSU currently has the longest active REUprogram in materials research in the northwest. Our REU site brings students to Pullman tospend 10 weeks each summer focused on interdisciplinary materials research.The initial target population for our REU program was primarily students from schools in thePacific Northwest and Rocky Mountain states that do not have access to the moderninstrumentation that is needed for materials research. Over the five years of our program thenumber and popularity of REU programs has increased nationally and we have

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Wosczyna-Birch

schools, half the teachers are high schools teachers, theother half are community college professors. Another group of teacher “leaders” wereselected this fall (2003) for another two-year program. The business areas targetedare engineering (including biomedical engineering), manufacturing and informationtechnology. The educators are required to participate in a one-to-two week paid summerexternship program to be followed by the submission of a curriculum report that reflectsthe externship experience and work-based learning activity. They are also required tosubmit an evaluation of student outcomes once the projects have been implemented.Other activities include company visits, and smaller workshops on topics that eitherhighlight a

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Phillips

initial semester of the student’s career.One project in the first semester ‘Introduction to Architecture’ course focuses on architecturalengineering, and consists of student teams designing and building a model structure that is loadtested. To test the effects of structural knowledge on the design process, three control groups ofstudents were established for the project, with each given varying amounts of structuralinformation for use in their design. The first group was provided no structural information andhad to rely on intuition, the second group was given limited information, and the third group wasgiven detailed information on structural concepts. The results of the study will be discussed, andrecommendations will be given on providing

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Tonkay

industrial and faculty mentors • Preparation and presentation of case problems • Access to official leadership transcript • Networking with industry partners, faculty, and peers • Use of ESC’s Collaboratory and meeting facilities • Opportunity to practice skills in projects, seminars and classesA Case for Leadership ExperienceOne of the most pressing issues facing companies today is the need for an increased number ofemployees who demonstrate positive leadership skills. Over 70% of top company executivessupported this statement in a study conducted by the Human Resources Institute1. Furthermore,only 8% of executives surveyed rated their employees’ leadership skills as “excellent.”2 Manycompanies do not have leadership training

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Miller; Charles Winton

Botball Challenge, and how it can be used as a class project.1 IntroductionIntroductory engineering courses are used to teach general principles while introducing thestudents to all of the engineering disciplines. Robotics, as a multi-disciplinary application can bean ideal subject for projects that stress the different engineering fields. A major consideration inestablishing a robotics course emphasizing mobile robots is the type of hands-on laboratoryexperience that will be incorporated into the course of instruction. Most electrical engineeringschools lack the machine shops and expertise needed to create the mechanical aspects of a robotsystem. Most mechanical engineering schools lack the electronics labs and expertise needed forthe

Conference Session

IE Outreach and Advancement

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bullen Frank

Ship builders Mechanical c,d,e,f SKM Civil consultants Civil c,d,f Furntech Furniture research Mechanical b,f Zentel Medical software Mechatronics f Pasminco Co Smelting Mechanical c,f Rolls Royce Turbines Mechanical a,b,c,d,f a. General coursework content, b. Case studies within coursework c. Honours projects (unfunded) d. Honours projects (funded

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

University of Houston, multidisciplinary teamswork on design projects provided by local industry and the faculty. In the spring of 2003two of the projects, sponsored by a faculty member, were to develop museum quality,interactive demonstrations/experiments with externally mounted controls demonstratingthe characteristics and useful implementations of 1) magneto-rheological fluids and 2)shape memory alloys. Both projects provided challenging problems for the teams inelectro-mechanical system design and fabrication and in controls, as well as requiringconsiderations for ergonomic, aesthetic, and safety issues. The high quality of the designand implementation of the experiments and the overall attractiveness of the projects willassure them a prominent

Conference Session

Entrepreneurism in BME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dawei Wu; Chunyan Wu; Aditya Dikshit; Weizhao Zhao

patients can be described to students inreality. Bringing students to these laboratories will give them firsthand knowledge and providethem the opportunity to practice the knowledge they have just learned if they are involved inresearch projects in laboratories. In recent years, Internet and intranet developments have greatlyexpanded the possibilities for medical imaging instruction 1-3, 6-7. Advanced web sites of medicalimaging have been well developed mainly for graduate study or for research purposes. Imageprocessing techniques for medical imaging are usually of interest primarily to the softwareengineering industry. In fact, however, these techniques are an inherent part of imaging systemsand are closely related to imaging principles

Conference Session

Electrical ET Laboratory Practicum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Blackwell

• Automated assembly required for some packages • Thermal problems associated with differences in coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) between certain packages and the PCB substrate – typically FR-4. Figure 1. Typical SMT component packages: left, small outline (SO) transistors, right 132-pin quad flat pack (QFP).The author has been involved with SMT since the early 1990s. Believing that SMT would havea major impact on both the topics that should be taught in BS EE and EET programs, as well ason all lab-oriented courses, he proposed and was granted a sabbatical for the 1992-93 schoolyear. During that time he was employed as a senior project engineer at Delco Electronics Corp.(now Delphi Delco

Conference Session

How We Teach Problem Solving?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Silliman; Leo Hubbard McWilliams; Catherine Pieronek

exam in the first semester. Two primaryfactors were reported for withdrawals within the first seven weeks of the course. First, studentsindicated significant apprehension regarding the level of programming required (programminghad been added to the first project in 2001). Second, a number of the students who withdrewwere convinced (without firm evidence) that the majority of other students in the course weremore proficient at programming.These observations led to modifications to the first project with the dual goals of improving theeducational experience for the students and retaining a greater percentage of students through thefirst semester. First, the emphasis was changed from programming and physics to engineering asan application of math

Conference Session

TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wei Zheng; Dong Young Jang; Donald Harby; Yuyi Lin

design course. The capstone course is a summary and reflection ofthe whole undergraduate curriculum. Therefore, internationalizing this course has special significance.The effort on this course will serve as the basis for discussion and exploration for internationalizing othercourses. In addition, it is reasonable to assume that engineering schools in different countries have somecommon requirements and expectations for graduating mechanical engineers, and some common practiceto achieve these requirements. There are some common practices in this course, including centering ofthe course around a capstone design project, organization of the students into design teams, and therequirement for team presentation and defense of their design at the end

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Victor Giurgiutiu; David Rocheleau; Jed Lyons

SESSION #1526 Mechatronics/Microcontroller Education for Mechanical Engineering Students at the University of South Carolina Victor Giurgiutiu, Jed Lyons, David Rocheleau Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208, victorg@sc.eduABSTRACTThe Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of South Carolina has embarkedupon a project to enhance the Mechatronics/microcontroller education of non-EE engineeringstudents. NSF funds the project with cost-share by the Department of Mechanical Engineeringand the College of

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Dillard

microcontrollers, includinga project to add a meaningful hardware experience and providing a means for students toinexpensively program their MCU’s at home. We selected the PIC12F675 microcontroller and the PICkitTM 1 FLASH Start Kitdevelopment board from Microchip Technology, Inc. for our microcontroller studies. Teamsof students construct, code, debug and test complete design solutions at home and verify theirimplementation by real-time execution in class. The paintball chronograph project requireshardware and coding for both the PC and PIC12F675, focusing most of the pertinent coursematerial into a single effort. Course assessments show that the chronograph project was very successful and highlymotivational. Hardware construction was relatively

Conference Session

ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Greco

Engineering 19, 20. Theproposal for the new program included a new course, ECE 491 Senior Project I, whichwas introduced to satisfy two distinct goals: provide a capstone design experience;introduce new material in the area of computer network hardware. The course is notintended to replace a typical course in computer networks, which covers material relatedto network architectures, protocols and performance.The CourseOrganized in a 14-week semester with two 50-minute lectures and one 3-hour laboratoryperiod per week, ECE 491 has several goals: to learn about computer network protocolsand hardware; to work on a design project that must interface properly with other groups;to evaluate the project from ethical and socially responsible points of view; to

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vish Prasad; Richard Schoephoerster; Ofer Amit; Alan Carsrud

opportunities for itsfaculty and students to participate in the academic, industrial, or clinical settings. Moreover, theprogram creates a framework that allows partners a look into the biomedical engineeringacademic program and to participate in formulating their prospective employees’ professionalpreparation.This paper will present the Biomedical Engineering Partnership Program as a case study for auniversity-lead partnership between academia, industry, and clinical medicine. It will discussprogram structure, mechanics, and other issues arising from this unique partnership. It will alsodescribe innovative joint programs that made the partnership successful: corporate andentrepreneurship options for Senior Design Project, business plan competition

Conference Session

Serving the Information Needs of Engineering Technology Educators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elaine Craft

, or purchase. These resources include pre-engineering technology and first-year engineering technology curricula, faculty development,research results related to student retention, peer mentoring, and assistance with grant-fundedproject development and evaluation. The Center also serves as a link to assist educators inidentifying useful products and services from other projects funded through the NSF's AdvancedTechnological Education (NSF/ATE) program. A cost-effective way for two-year collegeengineering technology faculty to move their programs forward is to learn about and leveragethese resources.IntroductionThe National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program has anemphasis on two-year colleges and on the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Will; Wesley Stone

college, the senior design course was evaluated by students atthe end of each semester. The numerical scores, and especially the comments, from theevaluations were used to begin the framework for a course restructure. Additionally, abrainstorming session was held at the conclusion of the 2002-03 academic year, including eightof the faculty members involved in the course. The combination of this student and facultyfeedback led to the Summer 2003 curriculum restructure efforts. The projects themselves did not change with the restructure. Each project continues tohold significant electrical, computer, and mechanical components. Sample projects for the 2003-2004 academic years include: • A 3-D scanner that uses a laser scan to generate a

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Kozak

. Page 9.354.2 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”Workbook Navigation Each worksheet would perform one step of the lab solution. Navigation between theworksheets would be accomplished by the use of hyperlinks imbedded in each worksheet. Thesoftware creation exercise consisted of one lab period at which all eight students weresimultaneously in attendance. Due to the short time period, all students would be working at thesame time to complete the project. Each student was given a portion of the workbook tocomplete. One student was assigned to be the coordinator of the hyperlink aspect of

Conference Session

Innovation in Continuing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Martin Cala; Jaymin Patel; Ganesh Kudav; Burke Davis

roundly. Learning outcomes of curricular innovation stemming from this partnerships includeincreased exposure to emerging technologies, multi-disciplined activities, team learning,communications, and project management [1]. There also exist many beneficial institutionaloutcomes including faculty development in research interests, improved industrial partnerships, Page 9.730.1Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationimproved aesthetic to curriculum throughout the four years, and graduate placement amongindustrial

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Daughton

management assignments. Local high technology companies wereconcerned that many engineers were entering management positions responsible for project ordevelopment teams or promoted to managers of small departments or work groups with littlepreparation. Ironically, these opportunities sometimes came as a reward for a job well done forengineering contributions but placed the individual in an awkward position. As Matson1 andLancaster2 have reported, and this author observed while working in industry, engineers usuallyfind themselves very poorly equipped to take on their management assignments.As the program evolved over the next 16 years, the enrollment grew to include students fromColorado, from across the United States, and from around the world. As

Conference Session

ETD Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

B. Sridhara

information obtained at this conference and from several other sources theundergraduate research committee stated its mission as to promote, facilitate and showcaseundergraduate research in the sciences at MTSU. In 1994 October, our first call for researchproposals from CBAS students was sent out and grants were awarded to meritorious proposals inDecember. In 1996 it was decided to hold a college level undergraduate research symposium inthe spring of every year to showcase student research including those projects funded by theURC.II. Undergraduate Research Grant Process The URC which has one chair and eight other members normally meets twice in the fallsemester. In the first meeting we discuss the last year’s undergraduate research

Conference Session

Novel Upper-Level Materials Curricula

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rita Caso; Jeff Froyd; Dimitris Lagoudas

difficult to assess. As the workby Hestenes and Halloun on the Force Concept Inventory has shown, students may pass scienceand engineering courses but still retain alternate conceptions about the topics presented in thecourses. Therefore, substantial interest in concept inventory assessment instruments for manyengineering subjects, e.g., materials, signals and systems, fluid mechanics, has been generatedand numerous projects are underway. Since smart materials are being introduced intoundergraduate engineering curricula, assessing students’ understanding of these smart materialswould be reasonable. Therefore, two new concept inventories, one on shape memory alloys andone on piezoelectric materials, are being developed as part of a Combined Research

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knecht

Session 2131 CAN PEERS BE USED EFFECTIVELY TO ASSESS TEAMS: TASK/TEAM FUNCTION OBSERVATIONS DURING TEAM BUILDING EXERCISES Robert Knecht Colorado School of MinesAbstract – This presentation describes a model used to illustrate functions that team membersassume during teambuilding exercises. The Design (EPICS) program introduces teams ofengineering students to design, technical communications and teamwork processes through anopen-ended, client-based project. Teams conduct a series of exercises in which half perform theexercise

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Mullenax

need to find out the specifics of each faculty member’s interestsand figure out where your interests and theirs overlap well.Ideally, you should talk to other members of any potential advisor’s research group beforedeciding to join. If the faculty member has no other grad students, talk to the elder grad studentsin the department and find out why. As the only grad student working for a faculty member youwon’t have to fight for time to meet with her/him, but project funding may be a liability (see infofollowing).Not only research interests but also interpersonal styles will affect the success of your workingrelationship with your research advisor. If you are a global learner who mulls over problems andthen produces a flurry of activity to come

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering III

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daryl Orth

Session No. 2221 Utilizing Educational Delivery Systems in a Mechanical Construction Course Daryl L. Orth, Ph. D. Purdue University Department of Building Construction Management West Lafayette, IndianaIn education, a delivery system is the organizational approach the instructor uses to deliver,organize, present, or communicate his/her instructional message or topic to the learners (Dickand Carey, 1996)1. The four most common delivery systems are non-projected media

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Denton; Heather Cooper

Laboratory Activity(ies) 1,2 Vibration Fundamentals (SDOF) Natural frequencies, damping in cantilever beams Forced vibration and isolation 3,4 Vibration Instrumentation – Transducer mounting effects Sensors, Meters, and Analyzers 5 Data Acquisition and Introduction to semester project Interpretation 6,7 Unbalance and Dynamic Visit to precision balancing facility for balancing demo Balancing Single and two-plane balancing 8 Vibration in Bearings Bearing vibration measurement 9,10 Vibration due to Misalignment, Laser alignment demo at

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Sexton

Session 2004-1840 TEACHING ENERGY SYSTEM DESIGN USING COMPUTER SIMULATION Michael R. Sexton Mechanical Engineering Department Virginia Military Institute Lexington, VirginiaAbstractThis paper describes the use of system simulation in teaching the design and optimization ofenergy systems at the undergraduate level. A case study involving the optimum design of avapor compression refrigeration system is presented. This project was selected from senior levelcourses in Energy Conversion Design

Conference Session

BME Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Lalush; C. Frank Abrams; Peter Mente; Marian McCord; H. Troy Nagle; Elizabeth Loboa; Susan Blanchard

represents more than one programmatic outcome.1, 2 In addition, there maybe a great deal of variability in assignment of grades, depending on which facultymember does the grading. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that rubrics offeran excellent method for reducing faculty workload by providing a means to link gradingand assessment.3Faculty members of the Biomedical Engineering (BME) Courses and CurriculumCommittee, which is also responsible for assessment, have worked as a team to developseveral rubrics that are used by individual faculty to grade projects or other samples ofstudent work in several BME courses. Different components of the rubrics can then beemployed in various combinations to assess various programmatic outcomes