Conference Session

Instrumentation in the Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Scott

Session VERSATILE, LOW COST ELECTRONICS LAB PROTOBOARD Timothy C. Scott, Kevin L. Knight University of VirginiaAbstractPurchased equipment for teaching basic electronics can be expensive. It may also be delicateand, in the case of many prototyping circuit boards, so small that students have troublevisualizing the circuit before them and instructors cannot easily figure out what the student hasdone wrong when asked for help. This paper describes a versatile circuit board system that canbe built for about $100 in parts. It contains its own DC power supply, voltmeters, and

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mott

limitations and the ability to manage the process. The use of calculation softwarefacilitates this process and allows students to produce more robust designs. This paper outlinesthe advantages of employing industry-standard calculation software within undergraduatecurricula on mechanical design.Author’s BackgroundThe author of this paper is a professor emeritus of engineering technology at the University ofDayton in Dayton, Ohio. He started his academic career in 1966 teaching a variety of courses inthe Mechanical Engineering Technology program and he continues to teach to this day. Besidesthe course in Design of Machine Elements, he has taught most of the major courses in theprogram and has contributed to the development of the curriculum and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Muniram Budhu

that are available anytime, anyplace.Teachers, students and faculty can now utilize the environment provided by digital libraries totransform the way we teach and learn. Various contents can now be shared, integrated andcustomized to enhance learning. Educators are no longer tied to static graphics and text but cancustomize media-rich (interactive visualizations, simulations, speech, sound, text, etc.) contentfrom a large repository to produce dynamic, engaging educational materials.Delivery of instructional materials is no longer confined to real estate and scheduling but can bedelivered anytime, any place using a variety of digital devices – desktop and laptop computers,PC Tablets, mobile phones, PDAs, webpads and consoles. Users can form on

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electromechanical Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Max Rabiee

Page 9.1357.1 Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationController (PLC) will have at least two of the three aforementioned sequencer functions.The objective of this paper is to illustrate how to: (1) teach students to configure the SequencerOutput function (SQO), (2) illustrate to the students in lab the use of sequencer output function(SQO) in process and industrial control, (3) use the timer function to insert constant timeintervals between the sequencer steps, (4) teach students to use two sequencer functions and onetimer function to create a sequencer routine with variable time intervals between its steps, (5)configure the Sequencer Load function (SQL), (6) configure the Sequencer Compare function

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Blackwell

troubleshooting topics from each of the two prior courses. The ABEToutline has several lecture/lab course patterns, primarily to allow flexibility in teaching thecourse at both the main West Lafayette campus and at Purdue’s 2-year statewide sites.The initial project for the course was a low-power digital DC voltmeter with three input ranges,using standard CMOS ICs. The Intersil 7106/7136 ICs were used, along with their secondarysources from Maxim and Microchip. These ICs incorporate input signal controls, dual-slopeA/D conversion, and direct LCD drive. In the development of the project the students completethese tasks throughout the semester in the order listed: • Receive the performance specifications for the project • Receive the hardware

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

were composed of both ME and IE students. In 1991 after retiring from Shell (anda career as a drilling engineer and with many years experience working in Shell’s internaltraining programs), Ross Kastor was hired as a lecturer to teach the class. Five years agothe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) added the course as adegree requirement for all students entering in the fall 1998 and thereafter. Since thensome ECE students have taken the course as an elective. That number has grown over the Page 9.805.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs and Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhilasha Tibrewal; Tarek Sobh

recommendations in the accreditation report.The accreditation is valuable not only to the institution and its faculty but also to thestudents 1.The value of the accreditation for faculty members is the enjoyment and professionalpride of teaching courses of an accredited program. Accreditation provides both apersonal and professional opportunity to work towards educational improvement. Theevaluation experience affords the opportunity for the administration and faculty toconduct and to receive a rigorous analysis of present conditions so that needed changesmay be carefully planned.Students are most affected by accreditation since they are the central focus of theeducational process. Accreditation assures them that their needs are being met through aquality

Conference Session

NASA Fellowship Program

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Chen; John Tharakan

). Additionally, thereis a unique research opportunity for both educator and NASA career employees in the NASAAdministrator's Fellow Program (NAFP).NAFP Program The NAFP program provides opportunities for both NASA employees and theMathematics, Science, Engineering, and Technology (MSET) faculty of Minority ServingInstitutions (MSIs). The NAFP program is designed to enhance the professional development ofthe participants. Furthermore, NAFP program assists NASA by increasing the ability of theparticipating MSIs to respond to its overall research and development mission. The NAFP hasbeen successfully implemented since 1997, with participants from all NASA Centers, JetPropulsion Laboratory, and MSIs, which are listed in Tables 1 and 2, respectively

Conference Session

Maintaining the Engineering Workforce

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Jacobson

guarantee for admission to the M.S. in computer engineering program.Increased marketing has led to increased off campus enrollment, which was to be expected butdoes pose a problem for the instructors of the courses. The two courses with the highest offcampus enrollments are Information System Security and Information Warfare, each withtypically over 60 off campus students. The former has several large projects which creates agrading increase for the instructor. The department has provided Teaching Assistants (TA) tohelp with the overload. Information Warfare has a lab component with one large “break-in” labthat lasts several weeks. Since the labs are all designed to be accessed over the internet the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rajan B Gujjarlapudi; Kaushik Hatti; Carl Steidley; Mario Garcia

Engineering EducationLiterature reviewMost of the literature required for the project, books and journals were suggested by the expert,in this case Mr. Kaushik Hatti working as a Teaching Assistant for the Organic lab at Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi. The most useful book in this project was The ExperimentalOrganic Chemistry by Gilbert and Martin 5. Other books which were helpful in this case wereExperimental Organic Chemistry by Daniel R. Palleros. Many important points were noted downfrom the Organic Chemistry Laboratory Manual by Dr. Mark C. Morvant.10Most of critical information required for this project was obtained from Gilbert and Martin 5which addresses a critical need faced by researchers in all fields of the human sciences - how

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Information Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Bailey

halves,the first part on analog electronics, and the second on digital circuits. This separation achievesthree things. First, as at most institutions with IT programs, many of our students transfer intoour program from other institutions or programs, and they have had either analog or digitalelectronics before beginning study with us. By splitting the course in half, the students are ableto take only the portion in which they are deficient. The second thing that is achieved by thisbifurcated course, is that the analog portion is deemphasized, while still being sufficientpreparation for the other courses in the curriculum. In effect the course teaches in ½ semesterwhat is normally taught in 1 to 2 semesters. Admittedly, some material that is

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Cambron; H. Joel Lenoir

, machine vision, robotics, learning systems, neural networks, and controls.H. JOEL LENOIRH. Joel Lenoir is the Layne Professor of Mechanical Engineering at WKU, and primarily teaches in the dynamicsystems and instrumentation areas of the curriculum. His industrial experience includes positions at MichelinResearch and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as well as extensive professional practice in regional design andmanufacturing firms.Address: 1 Big Red Way, Department of Engineering, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY 42101;email: mark.cambron@wku.edu or joel.lenoir@wku.edu Page 9.813.8 Proceedings of the 2004

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering/Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Sherick

colleges and MSU-Bozeman dedicated to providing undergraduate research and scholarship opportunities for American Indian students in career fields of science, math and engineering. • Montana Apprenticeship Program (MAP): MAP is a summer academic enhancement program designed for American Indian juniors and seniors in high school. MAP has been running for 22 years and has hosted over 300 students from all over the U.S. MAP is a six- week program that provides pre-college academic preparation, and offers students experience in a scientific-research laboratory. Eighty percent of students from MAP enter college. • American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES): The AISES student chapter at MSU was chartered

Conference Session

Math Software Use in Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Ryan

analysis tools must be used efficiently in engineering core courses so that teachingof fundamentals is not compromised. This paper describes a shaft design project assigned in ajunior level machine design course, and compares the teaching effectiveness of a traditionalanalysis by “hand” versus a computational approach using COSMOS/Works. Both approachesare found to be beneficial for student learning, and the experience suggests that a finite elementanalysis tool complements, but does not replace, traditional analysis techniques in the classroom.IntroductionThe use of modern computational tools in an undergraduate curriculum is a necessary componentof today’s engineering education. Introduction of new topics or techniques inevitably creates

Conference Session

Professional Ethics in the Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Meade

profitability. I spent two class periods describing our businesspractices. I will briefly review the business issues as described to the students because thebusiness aspects were essential to the ethics instruction.Our mock firm must bill our clients and collect funds totaling a certain amount each month or wewill not be able to cover our operating costs. We did an approximate calculation of our revenueneeds for our firm based on a multiplier of 3. For that specific period I assigned a position toeach class member such as project engineer, laboratory supervisor, technician, drill rig operatorand helper. I assigned typical salaries to each position, totaled them and multiplied by 3 to covertaxes, insurance, retirement, health benefits, and office and

Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Roth; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

, including but not limited to laboratory research, case studies, and tutorials on advancedtopics. If a faculty member is willing to supervise the student project, the student must prepare aproposal for the project and submit the proposal to the department head. The independent studyproposal should include a statement of the problem to be addressed or topic to be investigated inthe independent study, an overview of the proposed research plan or a syllabus, any deliverables,and a timeline for the project. All students who take an independent study are required to presenta seminar to faculty and students and prepare a final paper on the results of their work. A copyof all final papers is kept by the department.HonorsLafayette College specifies that

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Visser; Carrie Steinlicht; Teresa Hall

well-considered investments in laboratory technology, recruitment of skilled faculty and staff, andsuccessful partnering with industry. Outreach and collaboration with regional manufacturers byMNET program faculty have been primarily accomplished as a result of the Great Plains RapidPrototyping Consortium (GPRPC).The GPRPC was launched in 2000 by three industrial partners and South Dakota StateUniversity and supported by consortium partner investments and a Partnership For Innovationgrant from the National Science Foundation (#0090422). The mission of the GPRPC is tosupport educational activities, product development, research and technology exchange forengineering and technology students and consortium members by developing a rapid

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Doanh Van

. Page 9.379.2Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering7. Analyze Each SolutionEach solution was analyzed taking into account the needs of the industries as well as the practicalavailable resources for classrooms, laboratory space, supporting library, faculty and the timerequired to get an engineering program up and running. The department Chair, who also wasresponsible for assigning the various numerical values, conducted the study.Table 1: Summary of Type of Program AnalysesCriteria Weight Discipline BS in BSE with Discipline BS in BSE with specific General

Conference Session

Technological Literacy I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Bouzid Aliane; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

Engineering Educationuniversities, both engineering and non-engineering students take this course. Non-engineeringmajors choose Introduction to Engineering as an elective course to fulfill the scientificmethodology requirement of the current Core Curriculum at UNH. Historically, large numbersof non-engineering students take this course. The diversity of students in a particular class variesfrom section to section. It is not uncommon for freshmen engineering students to be in a classwith sophomore, junior or senior non-engineering majors.Evolution of Project-Based Version of the CoursePrior to the introduction of EAS107P in the curriculum, the structure of any particular section ofEAS107 was dependent on the faculty member teaching the course. Some

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alisha Waller

o Graduate students o Occasionally, team members from o Post-doctoral assistants outside engineering o Laboratories, computers, o Occasionally, graduate students or analysis software undergraduates o UndergraduatesSubject of o Inanimate objects o Students, faculty, & administratorsinquiry o Curricula o Pedagogies o Teaching/learning processes

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Bouzid Aliane; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

these courses include electricalcircuits, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, material balances, properties of materials, structuralmechanics and thermodynamics. Unlike the traditional approach, however, each of thefoundation courses includes a mix of these topics, presented in a variety of disciplinary contexts.A solid background is developed by touching key concepts at several points along the spiral indifferent courses, adding depth and sophistication at each pass. Each foundation course alsostresses the development of several essential skills, such as problem-solving, oral and writtencommunication, the design process, teamwork, project management, computer analysis methods,laboratory investigation, data analysis and model development. Students

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanford Thomas; Donald Keating

needs-driven technology development. Among the issues that William Wulf,president of the National Academy of Engineering, pointed out in the main plenary address to the 2002ASEE – Annual Conference at Montreal, is the need for reform of faculty reward systems at the nation’sschools of engineering and technology to better reflect the modern practice of engineering.As Wulf pointed out in his address: “I don’t especially want to engage in the teaching vs. research debate. I suspect, like most of you, I believe that teaching and research complement each other. And, by and large, there is a high correlation between good teaching and good research. Good people are good! In my admittedly idiosyncratic career, the number of cases of genuinely

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed El-Sayed; Jacqueline El-Sayed

given to teach students about the topics they will need for this work and aremore frequent in the beginning of the class. Individualized meetings between the instructor and the teamsoccur from the beginning and are more frequent as the class progresses. After creative design using brainstorming techniques, the students should identify the productattributes. They then transform these attributes to engineering requirements. They should account formanufacturability. Using teamwork, they must simulate the process and analyze the design forengineering requirements. The students give a written and oral proposal, progress report and final report,so communication skills are evaluated. Examples of past machine design capstone projects

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alok Verma; Cheng Lin

provides anideal setting for curriculum enhancement through research experience. Programs like these also enrichthe undergraduate learning experience for ET students. Page 9.566.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 8 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationII Research Environment in ET Programs Traditionally, ET programs have placed a larger emphasis on teaching compared to research.This is especially true for programs that offer only undergraduate education in Engineering Technology.Consequently a number of faculty were

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hue Van Tran; Steven Reyer; James Friauf; Owe Petersen; Katherine Wikoff

Session 2004-2532 Evaluating the Communication Component of an Engineering Curriculum: A Case Study Katherine Wikoff, James Friauf, Hue Tran, Steven Reyer, Owe Petersen Milwaukee School of EngineeringAbstractThis paper describes the evaluation process and findings for teaching and learning ofcommunication skills in the Electrical Engineering Program of the Milwaukee School ofEngineering (MSOE). While the teaching of both written and oral communication skills arefostered in a wide variety of courses, only writing can be claimed to be substantially integratedinto the curriculum. A

Conference Session

Design for Community

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nolan Van Gaalen; Kristin Wood; Carl Erikson; Frank Duda; Matthew Green; Steven VanderLeest

general approach to team formation, project selection,funding, deliverables, and teaching/mentoring. Following this general context are the specificdetails of each project. Projects presented include the design of (1) a women’s hospital inNigeria by senior engineering students at Calvin College, (2) a crop irrigation system in supportof a Honduran community development organization by Dordt College students, (3) a modularand scalable solar power system providing economical power to remote areas by electricalengineering seniors at Grove City College, and (4) a water purification system in Guatemala byMessiah College students. The presentation focus is the development of an underlying model forsuccessfully conducting such projects. Success in this

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vincent C. Prantil; Thomas J. Labus; William Howard

traditionalmechanics of materials courses. Most courses try to balance some amount of finite elementtheory with practice using a commercially-available software package. In this paper, the authorsdescribe a course that adds a third component to a finite element course: a physical laboratory inwhich mechanics of materials experiments are performed and the results compared to FEAresults where practical.When the MET curriculum was revised recently at MSOE, the addition of the physical lab to theFEA course seemed to be a good fit. Although some of the reasons for considering this additionwere logistical ones (elimination of one-credit stand-alone labs to make evening schedulingeasier was a goal), the idea had merit for other reasons. For both the mechanics lab

Conference Session

Molecular and Multiscale Phenomena

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vijay Ramani; James Fenton; Suzanne Fenton

of the undergraduate curriculum (freshman through senior) andcan be used in multiple classes (Freshman Engineering, Intro to Chemical Engineering,Thermodynamics, Kinetics, Transport, Laboratory Practice, and Electives) to illustrateappropriate material. Figure 1 contains a concept map linking modules to concepts within thecurricula that are addressed in this paper. Use of the modules can be preceded by classroomdiscussions of the hydrogen economy, its projected political, social, and environmental impacts(both locally and globally) and/or the challenges associated with converting to such an economy.The modules can also be modified for use at the pre-college level for a wide variety of projectsand/or simple in-class or public

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carmine Balascio

research reported in this paper was to use the LON-CAPA homeworksystem to support a problem-based learning approach for teaching hydrology and hydraulicstopics in the University of Delaware course, EGTE 321, Storm-Water Management. This paperwill discuss issues regarding implementation of the LON-CAPA system and assess the impact onstudents and student acceptance of the pedagogy by relating instructor classroom observationsand examining results of a student survey.LON-CAPA is designed to run on the LINUX operating system. The current release is designedfor simplest installation using the Red Hat 7.3 version of LINUX. Coding of problems isaccomplished using Perl, a powerful open-source interpreted language native to LINUX andUNIX operating systems

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joanne DeGroat; Jeffery Radigan; Jeff McCune; Andrew O'Brien; James Beams; Matt Gates; Craig Morin; John Demel; Richard Freuler

computer programming with the C/C++ and MATLABlanguages, and engineering problem solving involving computer programs and computer tools.Both courses have hands-on lab experiences designed to further explore the engineeringdisciplines, and both have a mini-design/build project usually carried out by 2-person teams overa one-week period at the end of the academic quarter.The last course in the FEH sequence is the Engineering Fundamentals and Laboratory 3, nowcalled ENG H1933. Prior to taking this course, the students will also have completed as a part ofthe FEH program two math courses and two physics courses, all of which are coordinated withthe engineering courses. As a culminating course for first-year engineering honors students, theENG H193