Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Myszka

CAD are usually the first phase inpreparing students for careers in mechanical design. After surveying on-line materialsfrom several institutions, the objectives for an introductory course are strikingly similar.The courses outlines all contain statements about introducing the student to establishedstandards of design documentation through technical drawings. Additionally, manycourses include a phrase about familiarizing the student with machine components.The topics presented in virtually every introductory technical drawing and CAD courseincludes: • Geometric constructions: ability to use graphical methods to solve analytical geometry problems. • Orthographic projection: ability to draw an object at 900 intervals to

Conference Session

ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Baladi; P. David Fisher

team’s stated goal and objectives. Each design project should involve the collaborative development and evaluation of a “product” that contains and embedded computer.As of 2001, more than 300 students had enrolled in this course. Extremely positive feedback wasreceived about this course from these students; from perspective employers of these students;from former students who had taken the course and graduated; and, finally from the 1998-99ABET site-visit team2, 3. Because of this feedback, the faculty in the Department of Electricaland Computer Engineering voted in 2001 to drop the department’s five separate capstone designcourses and replace these with a single course that would serve students majoring in bothelectrical engineering

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Emin Yilmaz; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

thelaboratory part of the EDTE 341 course. Servicing of the engine-dynamometer system wascompleted as an ETME 499 project. Instrumentation for the fuel consumption measurementswere added and the measurements were carried out. The results indicate that, at constant load, asthe engine speed was increased the fuel consumption increased. The same trend was seen atconstant speed; the fuel consumption increased as the load was increased. Simulated fueleconomy (miles/gal) graph indicate that the engine economy was about flat at higher loads, but,was decreasing slightly at low loads when the engine speed was increased beyond about 1500rpm.IntroductionThe two engine-dynamometer systems, one with a gasoline engine (Fig.1) and the other one witha diesel engine

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Maurice Bluestein; Pete Hylton

comprehensive examination, alsomultiple choice, in its senior capstone design course covering twelve core subjects, includingthermodynamics. While the results of this test have also shown limited retention (the averageoverall score is 47%), the students did much better on the four thermodynamics questionsrepeated from the test in Thermodynamics II (67% average). The marked improvement suggestsretention can be enhanced by retesting subject material through the student’s course of study forthe BS degree.I. IntroductionThe Mechanical Engineering Technology program at IUPUI has, since its initial eligibility, beenaccredited by the TAC/ABET accreditation agency. This body requires the MET program tomaintain outcome-based assessment processes for all of

Conference Session

ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Davidson; Mark Johnson; Douglas Eschbach; Curtis Watson

(two or three days on a Sun enterprise 450) for 50 to 100 student submissions, thesearch window (range of possible relative file offsets) was constrained to as little as 100characters. Pre-filtering of the files, similar to the tokenization described above, was used toreduce the size of the files to be compared. However, restricting the search window reduced theinstances of plagiarism that could be detected.ResultsInitial testing was done using student source code samples from a simplified I2C bus interfacedesign project during spring 2003. I2C is an industry standard synchronous serial bus interfaceused in a wide range of consumer electronic products. Transformations were applied to thesource code samples in order to observe the behavior of

Conference Session

Experience with Experiential Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Les Kinsler; Thomas Mertz; Troy Harding

to implement this request, the authors have experimented with giving real-worldprojects in two capstone courses. A problem of nomenclature arises as there is no standard termfor these types of projects. We use the term real-world project to mean one that is inspired andsponsored by an actual business or industry client. The capstone courses in which the projectswere completed are for advanced students and they focus solely on students designing andimplementing a large project using development teams.Several studies have been conducted on the benefits, difficulties, and challenges of implementingreal-world projects1,2,3. There are also issues related to managing projects in which clients havedirect input in the process4,5 and its assessment6

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan; Madara Ogot

. Then, it goes on to discuss how the use of the PMWsin conjunction with a weekly coordination meeting can readily address some of theproblems often encountered in team projects: student laggards, project scallop, and lackof communication.The approach has been implemented in three courses (freshman design, junior reverseengineering, and senior capstone). In this paper, we report our experience with theapproach in a freshman design course and present an assessment of its effectiveness inrelation to students’ perception on: (1) the importance of project management in designprojects, (2) the effectiveness and timing of project management concepts introduced,and (3) the impact of project management techniques used on their design performance.2

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports; Carolyn Fausnaugh; Muzaffar Shaikh; Carmo D'Cruz

TechStart is the new business accelerator for the university, opening for business inOctober, 2003. It was formed as a College of Engineering and School of Managementpartnership supporting student, university and community entrepreneurs in the area of hightechnology, and its goal is to develop leaders who can start high tech companies and make themsucceed.Florida TechStart is designed to be the principal portal in and out of the university for all thosewith high tech entrepreneurial interests. Its deliverables and services include: • Networking, workshops and seminars • Synergistic sponsored programs • Student internship, research and placement support • Linkage to entrepreneurial senior capstone design projects • Regional

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael McGeen

a model by depositing small beads of ABS plastic. Selective Laser Sintering(SLS) creates layers of a 3D object by fusing (sintering) plastic or metal powder layer bylayer.Having the REU program at MSOE has been beneficial to the Architectural Engineeringand Building Construction Department. Research projects have been on display andstudent presentations have been well attended by other students. This increasedawareness has translated into increased use of laser cutters and RP machines which hasimproved the quality of the architectural engineering capstone design projects at MSOE.The Architectural Engineering and Building Construction Department at MSOE has beenknown in the past for producing solid graduates ready for the construction

Conference Session

TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karim Nasr; Raghu Echempati; Arnaldo Mazzei

Session 3266 Student Understanding of Program Outcomes through Formative and Summative Course-Level Assessment Raghu Echempati, Arnaldo Mazzei and Karim Nasr Mechanical Engineering Department Kettering University Flint, MI 48504AbstractIn this paper, an approach is suggested to begin a process in which each student, while solving ahomework problem, or a test or a project is asked to provide additional information concerningwhat concept(s) is (are) targeted in each homework problem and to what extent, if any

Conference Session

TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ever Barbero; Larry Banta

and Fluids Lab: In this one-credit-hour junior-level course, teams of students are assigned projects, which require them to turn in project reports and make presentations to the rest of the class and the instructor. MAE 456 – CAD and Finite Element Analysis: In this three-credit-hour senior- level course, teams of students are assigned projects, which require them to turn in project reports and make presentations to the rest of the class and the instructor. MAE 471 - Principles of Engineering Design: This capstone design class typically has several sections, however all sections are required to have a strong writing component including feedback and coaching on each student’s writing per se

Conference Session

TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Pape

being measured.Since the outcomes assessment process requires that the outcomes be measured, there is aneed to gather supporting data. Most institutions’ outcomes assessment plans relyheavily on data obtained using instruments explicitly suggested in early versions of theEC 2000 criteria, including surveys that are administered to seniors, graduates,employers, or other constituents, placement data, capstone senior design projects,portfolios of student work and scores on the FE exam5. It is noteworthy that the 2004-05version of EC 2000 omits any reference to particular instruments that may be used foroutcomes assessment, instead leaving the choice entirely up to the institution.Outcome assessment tools may be loosely classified as either pre

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with 110 faculty, 1800undergraduates and 1000 graduate students, employs a “lecturer and coordinator” who intervenesin three laboratory courses and a project engineering course.University of Texas at Austin:6 The Department of Mechanical Engineering with 60 faculty andover 1000 undergraduates has employed a senior lecturer (for over ten years) who offers onecourse in engineering communications as an “immediate” prerequisite to the Department’scapstone design course and then intervenes in the capstone design course itself.7Prior to Spring 2003, the UH College of Engineering had few options for their students in termsof technical communications instruction. The English Department at UH periodically

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed El-Sayed; Jacqueline El-Sayed

A Complete Product Design Realization Experience Through Integrating a Computer Integrated Manufacturing Course with an Automotive Capstone Jacqueline El-Sayed, Lucy King, Mohamed El-Sayed Kettering University, Flint, Michigan 48504Abstract Engineering capstone classes are the culmination of a student’s academic experiences. Theobjective is for the student to use much of their engineering knowledge base to design a system orcomponent for a set of design requirements. This usually entails a detailed team project with the designcriteria, product drawings, analysis, parts list, product costs, discussion and conclusions. If the design isfabricated at all, it is done so in a

Conference Session

Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Kukulka

theirstudents to seek projects for their "Design for Manufacturing" course from their co-op basedsponsors. Freckleton6 talks about design course experiences at RIT. Senior capstone courses arenot unique to only mechanical or manufacturing programs. Hodel and Baginski7, Emery andLin8, Rude9 and Bekkala, Higgins and Lekhakul10 describe their senior design courses inelectrical engineering. Wheeler and Anderson11 discuss experiences since 1985 at the Universityof Memphis in the senior design course for Civil Engineering. McDonald et al.12 discuss therelatively new concept of a multidisciplinary design team that is used at Lake Superior StateUniversity. This is an excellent approach for the senior capstone course, but one that is verydifficult to

Conference Session

Lessons Learned From Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Avitabile; Jeffrey Hodgkins

Session 3659 NUMERICAL EVALUATION OF DISPLACEMENT AND ACCELERATION FOR A MASS, SPRING, DASHPOT SYSTEM Dr. Peter Avitabile, Assistant Professor Jeff Hodgkins, Graduate Student Mechanical Engineering Department University of Massachusetts Lowell One University Avenue Lowell, Massachusetts USA Peter_Avitabile@uml.eduAbstractA laboratory project requires measurements

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Koehnemann; Barbara Gannod

, students incomputing fields that intend to become software developers should be exposed to and,ideally, have practical experience with modern software processes. This paper describesexperiences in a software capstone course which teaches students the activities associatedwith two popular industry processes: XP and RUP. In particular, the course uses studentprojects to create applications used within the university. The unique aspect of the coursethat differentiates it from other software engineering capstone experiences is theemphasis on agile processes (primarily XP) and the use of software development tools(e.g. configuration management, automated testing, modeling) commonly used inindustry.Four university projects have been created to date. The

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Saeed Foroudastan

seniorscomplete it for the design and capstone requirement. Nevertheless, these projects carryout a bigger purpose than meeting program requirements; they create enthusiasm infreshmen thus improving retention and simultaneously giving seniors real worldexperience that will give them an edge in their professions. Page 9.979.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIntroductionMany universities are finding themselves in a familiar crisis. They are uncertain how toretain new recruits through maintaining their excitement

Conference Session

Instrumentation in the Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mueller

Session 1359 The Inverted Pendulum Problem as a Senior Design Project Robert Lynn Mueller The Pennsylvania State University New Kensington CampusAbstractThe 4-year baccalaureate degree in Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology at Penn StateNew Kensington requires a project design course in the senior year. It is a capstone course thatallows the students to apply the engineering principles encompassed in the courses that lead upto and include the senior year. A recent project was the so-called inverted pendulum problem. Itconsists of wheeled

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Welch

Session 2615 Implementing a Student Design-Build Project in One Semester COL Ronald W. Welch 2LT Brian J. Meister United States Military AcademyAbstractThis paper describes a one-semester design-build capstone project in which three senior civilengineering (CE) students designed, completed an environmental assessment, gained approval,and built a 28-foot timber pedestrian bridge. The course was taken as part of the ABET-accredited CE program at the U.S. Military Academy. The team

Conference Session

Experience with Experiential Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Summers

management skills to manage their projects? Responses were very mixed for this question Yes (15), No (13), Should (13). Regardless of their answer most respondents went on to clarify that students should use the skills but usually don’t. The response that best summarizes responses to this question was: ‘We’d like to think so.’ Several respondents, though they listed projects throughout their curriculum, said that project management skills were expected to be used in only the capstone course or senior design course. Other respondents reported the project management skills were taught too late in their curriculum to be fully effective. When respondents discussed the types of project management

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Schmaltz; Christopher Byrne; Joel Lenoir; Robert Choate

Session 2566 Integrated Professional Component Plan from Freshmen Experience to Senior Project Chris Byrne, Robert Choate, Joel Lenoir and Kevin Schmaltz Western Kentucky UniversityAbstractThe Mechanical Engineering (ME) faculty at Western Kentucky University (WKU) havedeveloped and implemented a Professional Plan to assure that graduates of the program will haveexperienced key areas of the engineering profession and demonstrated their abilities to performin a professional manner. This Professional Component has been divided into EngineeringDesign

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering III

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hung Nguyen; Charles McIntyre

Session 2221 ELECTRONIC PROJ ECT DELIVERY VIA STUDENT GENERATED WEB SITES " LESSONS LEARNED" Char les McIntyr e and Hung Nguyen Civil Engineer ing and Constr uction Nor th Dakota State Univer sityIntroductionIn traditional “project-based” courses (senior level design and capstone courses), the finalproducts are typically paper-based reports and plans (CAD drawings) which include informationrelated to the design and construction aspects of the project. On occasion, the final projects aresubmitted in some form of electronic format

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bryan Goda; Pete Hanlon; Lisa Shay

Session Number: 2471 Experience with Multidisciplinary Design Projects at the US Military Academy Peter D. Hanlon, Bryan S. Goda, and Lisa A. Shay Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996 {peter.hanlon/bryan.goda/lisa.shay}@usma.eduAbstract - The intent of Senior Design Capstone Projects at the US Military Academy is toprovide cadets with a challenging engineering problem that requires them to integrate keyconcepts from several previous EE courses. Multidisciplinary projects add to that challengebecause the students who

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Avitabile; Charles Goodman; Jeffrey Hodgkins

courses are taught this way and students feel that they can push the “resetbutton” after each class since they do not see the integration of all the material until late in theirundergraduate career through the capstone experience. This is too late for them to realize theimportance of earlier course material.A Dynamic Systems laboratory-based, hands-on project has been implemented which attempts toaddress many of the issues identified above. This series of projects is described in the following Page 9.486.3sections. “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Rockland; Levelle Burr-Alexander; Howard Kimmel

the Center forPre-College Programs, the university has been working with students, teachers, guidancecounselors, administrators and parents over the past thirty years to strengthen their skills andknowledge in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Currently, theCenter serves four thousand school-aged students annually. In 2002, NJIT became the sixthuniversity affiliate of a national pre-engineering program, called Project Lead The Way(PLTW), as one of their pre-college thrusts to increase the pool of New Jersey secondaryschool students interested and prepared to enroll and graduate from undergraduate programsin engineering-related programs.About Project Lead The WayIn 1997, Project Lead The Way, a not-for-profit

Conference Session

Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Erekson

to deliver high qualityengineering content and analytical design methods at the high school level. In fact, several stateeducation agencies have taken steps to include engineering content as part of technologyeducation at the secondary level (e.g., Massachusetts, Utah, Wisconsin). Curriculum projectslike Project Lead the Way (PLTW) are examples of high school level engineering programs. The release of the National Standards for Technological Literacy4 by the InternationalTechnology Education Association in the spring of 2000 places technology education in astrategic position with regards to teaching engineering content and analytical methods at themiddle and high school levels. These Standards were developed under a grant from the

Conference Session

Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Hill

of the things that make theprogram successful, the history of PLTW, and how colleges and universities can get involvedwith the program. The pre-engineering courses that make up the pre-engineering curriculum inthe high schools are project based and as a result, the students get to immediately apply what theyare learning. The courses that make up the program will be presented and additionally, some ofthe reasons a high school would want to get involved in the program will be discussed.What is Project Lead the Way?Project Lead the Way (PLTW) is a high school pre-engineering program that has as its main focusgetting high school students to enroll in engineering and engineering technology programs incollege and to succeed in those programs. To

Conference Session

K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Reagan; Aldo Morales; Sedig Agili

implementation issues of different DSP techniques.I. IntroductionPenn State Harrisburg offers BS EE, BS EET, and ME degrees. The Bachelor of Sciencedegree in Electrical Engineering provides an opportunity for students to pursue interestsin electrical and electronic circuits, including digital circuits and VLSI and its fabrication,microprocessors and their applications, electromagnetics, communications, controlsystems, digital signal/image processing and computer vision. The BSEET programprovides similar experience however, its strengths include: an applied, hands-on approachand extensive laboratory experience. Through a senior capstone design project, bothcurricula emphasize written as well as verbal communication and a teamwork approachamong students

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Kissoff

offered access to this system which allowed for remote observation of theday-to-day construction administration of the two-year project. Student access to the project wastied to the department’s required senior project capstone class. A select group of students fromthat class were then able to connect with a project that they saw everyday on campus. The student team was responsible for an established set of project administration tasksthat were to be performed on a periodic basis throughout the semester. Team members wererequired to take on multiple roles throughout the project, acting as construction managers, sub-contractors, owners representatives and design consultants in order to address the situations thatarose randomly based on the