Conference Session

Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rajeswari Sundararajan; Bradley Rogers

way to the advancementof fuel cell technology. To meet this goal, the course includes specific sections on theory, practice, oralpresentations, report writing, and group projects. Consequently, coupled with the relevance of the technology, thiscourse essentially meets all aspects of ABET criterion 1, outcomes a through k.Fuel Cells – A Truly Interdisciplinary SubjectTeaching a fuel cell course is challenging because the field is truly interdisciplinary. For example, the load curveshown in Figure 1 illustrates that operating limitations are influenced by different phenomena depending on theoperating point. Consequently, improvements to the operating envelope requires a team of experts from severaldifferent fields. To address this challenge, at

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dilia Alcalde; Stephanie Adams

. “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Educational Annual Conference & Exposition”.7. Amason, A.C. (1996). Distinguishing the effects of functional and dysfunctional conflict on strategic decision- making: Resolving a paradox for top management teams. “Academy of Management Journal”, 39(1), 123-148.8. Jehn, K. (1995). A multimethod examination of the benefits and detriments of intragroup conflict. “Administrative Science Quarterly”, 40(20), 245-382.9. Keller, R. T. (1994). Technology information processing fit and the performance of R & D project groups: A test of contingency theory. “Academy of Management Journa”l, 37(1), 169-179.10. Mullen, B., & Cooper, C. (1994). The relation between group

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bianey Ruiz Ulloa; Stephanie Adams

education environment the literature shows that learning styles, context,task, individual differences, team longevity, student preference for teaching methods, attitudetoward teamwork and misunderstanding of the meaning of teams are the main factors having animpact on team effectiveness. Each of these elements can be identified with one of the mainfactors aforementioned. In other words any element related to context, task, individual and groupcharacteristics would affect the outcomes of team performance. Authors of these models propose that factors influencing team performance need to becontrolled in order to make the team successful. Commonly, team leaders, managers,coordinators or the person on charge of the team project is who is expected

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bianey Ruiz Ulloa; Stephanie Adams

. Authors of these approaches propose that factors influencing team performanceneed to be controlled in order to make the team successful. Commonly, team leaders,managers, coordinators or the person on charge of the team project is who is expected tocontrol all these variables. Some of them share this responsibility with team members.However, the majority of the variables (context, task, individuals and groupcharacteristics) are not under their control, then how can team members or people incharge of teams manage all these variables?The ETP- Training Program The ETP - training program is a complete set of instructional tools that contentlessons topics, resources, and activities to follow in order to train students to becomeeffective team

Conference Session

Projects,Teams & Cooperative Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Eschenbach; Eileen Cashman

walls, and moveable furniture so students caneasily work in groups around computers or tables or listen to a traditional lecture. The classformat is split up into small lectures interspersed with related group activities to teach teamwork,ethics, project management, spreadsheets, Computer Aided Design (CAD) and the designprocess. The paper will present examples of how the Studio Teaching approach is used to teachsome of these topics with a focus on design and teamwork skills. Students work in teams on twoprojects, a 3-week Rube Goldberg device and a 10-week service-learning project for a local K-12th grade teacher. Students are assigned to teams and required to use the Blackboard groupdiscussion board area to submit weekly progress reports

Conference Session

Projects,Teams & Cooperative Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Mason

Session 3153 Assessing Student Design Team Performance in a Learning Community of University Freshman and High School Students Teodora Rutar, Greg Mason Seattle UniversityAbstractThis paper describes methods used to assess teamwork effectiveness. The assessment methodswere developed to evaluate the overall success of the project itself, the students’ perception ofthe experience, and how much the students actually learned. The assessment methods includeboth subjective measures, such as student surveys, (namely, communications methodseffectiveness survey, team communication survey, short-term surveys, team peer

Conference Session

Lessons Learned From Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mustafa Guvench

electricaloutput. The project included design of a wafer-prober and solar-simulator combination so that large areawafers (up to 8 inch in diameter) could be tested at/up to AM1.5 standard solar insolation. Rather thansimply looking at the short circuit current and the open circuit voltage of a solar cell, our system measures itsfull I-V characteristics while the cell is irradiated with an artificial light source which simulates the solarradiation. The artificial sunlight is created by combining metal-halide and quartz halogen light sources. Themeasurement is done in an automated way by employing standard bench top GPIB instruments interfaced toa PC and by using the function generator as a stepped voltage source. High test currents needed by the largearea

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gene Liao

Session 1793 Component Assembly Modeling Using Monte Carlo Simulation: Industry-Based Project Gene Y. Liao Wayne State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes an industry-based project in developing processes and tools to conductMonte Carlo simulation in modeling and analysis of real industrial components. The tool used inthe project is the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. A random selection of part dimensions for 1000assemblies of automotive torque converter is selected for the analysis. A probability distributionfor each dimension is used to

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

TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Avitabile; Charles Goodman; Jeffrey Hodgkins

Session 2566 DYNAMIC SYSTEMS TEACHING ENHANCEMENT USING A LABORATORY BASED HANDS-ON PROJECT Dr. Peter Avitabile, Assistant Professor Charles Goodman, Jeff Hodgkins and Kari White, Graduate Students Tracy Van Zandt, Gary StHilaire, Tiffini Johnson, Nels Wirkkala, Undergrad Students Mechanical Engineering Department University of Massachusetts Lowell One University Avenue Lowell, Massachusetts USA Peter_Avitabile

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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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

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

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ciezki; Brian Jenkins; Samara Firebaugh

Session 1532 A Comprehensive Laboratory Design Project for Teaching Advanced Circuit Analysis Samara Firebaugh, Brian Jenkins, and John Ciezki United States Naval AcademyAbstractThis paper describes a design project for sophomores learning advanced circuit concepts relatedto frequency response. The objective of the design project is to design a row or column detectorfor a touch-tone keypad. The project is conducted in small groups of two to three students. Eachgroup designs and builds a detector for a single row that will produce a logical “high” when abutton from

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Ezzell; Paul Gordy

Energizing your Engineering program through competitions and team-based projects Paul Gordy, Associate Professor – Engineering, Tidewater Community College Steve Ezzell, Assistant Professor – Engineering, Tidewater Community CollegeEngineering faculty members Paul Gordy and Steve Ezzell had been looking for opportunities toget their students involved in more than just coursework as they pursued their degrees. TheEngineering curriculum at Tidewater Community College was a solid two-year transfer program,but Gordy and Ezzell felt that students didn’t have the same opportunities as four-year studentsto experience the excitement of engineering projects. Four-year colleges and universities havenumerous

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Saeed Foroudastan

Session 2547 Overcoming Problems in Mechanical Engineering Technology Education through Innovative Projects Saeed D. Foroudastan, Ph.D., Associate Professor Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies Department Middle Tennessee State UniversityAbstractTwo of the biggest problems facing mechanical engineering technology programs areretaining freshmen students and adequately preparing graduating seniors for the realworld. The reasons for these problems are simple. Freshmen students often becomefrustrated early in their college careers because they have to take so many classes yet

Conference Session

Technology-Based Entrepreneurship Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Clifton Kussmaul

Session 1454 Lessons from Industry Applied to a Software Project Course Clifton Kussmaul Muhlenberg CollegeAbstractThis paper describes an upper level project course in which student teams identify and prototypesoftware products. The course is designed for junior and senior computer science majors withoutprevious software engineering training. The goals of the course are to: 1) give studentsexperience working in teams on non-trivial projects; 2) help students develop skills in areas suchas analysis, design, risk

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Koehnemann; Barbara Gannod

Session 3661 Experiences Using Student Project to Create University Business Applications Harry Koehnemann and Barbara D. Gannod Arizona State University EastAbstractEngineers (both hardware and software) are continually developing and testing processesto create systems “better, faster, and cheaper.” A variety of software processes have beendeveloped by the software enginnering community toward this end. Among theseprocesses are eXtreme Programming (XP), Crystal, Feature Driven Development, and theRational Unified Process (RUP).1 To be attractive to potential employers

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Woodruff; Farhad Reza

Session 1793 INTRODUCING DESIGN-BUILD CONCEPTS INTO SENIOR CAPSTONE DESIGN PROJ ECTS Far had Reza and Shawn J . Woodr uff Ohio Nor ther n Univer sity, Ada, OH 45810 /Pr inceton Univer sity, Pr inceton, NJ 08544Abstr actTraditionally, there has been a widespread sense on the part of the construction industry of a lackof connection between design engineers and contractors. There have been numerous cases whereit has been discovered during the construction phase of a project that a proposed design is verydifficult and sometimes even

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Biswajit Ray

Session 2548 Instrumentation and Data Acquisition Projects by Sophomore-Level EET Students Biswajit Ray Matthew Colosimo, Gregory Kehoe, and Benjamin Naylor Associate Professor Undergraduate Students Electrical & Electronics Engineering Technology Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania Bloomsburg, PA 17815AbstractStudent-initiated projects as part of an instrumentation and data acquisition course forsophomore-level electronics engineering technology students are presented. The

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Vavrek

Session No. 1325 Integrating an Industrial Design Project into a MET Course Edward M. Vavrek Purdue University North CentralIntroductionI teach a course in Mechanical Engineering Technology called Production Drawing. It is offeredin the spring semester during the students’ sophomore year. At this level the students have takentwo courses in AutoCAD and are proficient in the use of CAD. In Production Drawing,AutoCAD is not specifically taught although some aspects of the software are reviewed asrequired. Production Drawing covers how to develop working drawings and a Bill of

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sadie Miller; Donna Riley

Session 3661 Global Development Engineering and its Discontents: An interdisciplinary project-based course Donna M. Riley and Sadie R. Miller Smith CollegeAbstractRecent discussion in engineering has focused on the importance of preparing students for aglobal future, but rarely do we examine the profession’s role in globalization with a critical eye.An interdisciplinary project-based course and upper-level engineering elective, open to studentsin a variety of disciplines, seeks to initiate critical study of the technological, cultural, and

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vikas Jain; Durward Sobek

Session 2425 Two Instruments for Assessing Design Outcomes of Capstone Projects Durward K. Sobek II, Vikas K. Jain Montana State UniversityAbstractA “good” design process is perhaps best defined by its output—good design processes producegood design outcomes. As part of an NSF-funded research effort to better understand studentdesign processes, we developed two assessment instruments to measure the “goodness” of adesign outcome. This paper describes the development and validation of the two instruments,presents the instruments and their

Conference Session

Electrical ET Laboratory Practicum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanley Dick; Russell Aubrey

Session 3550 An Introduction to an EET and Projects Course with Unique Learning Experiences Russell A. Aubrey, Stanley A. Dick Purdue University School of Technology at AndersonAbstractEET 196 introduces entering students to EET and to projects by presenting numerouselectrical/electronic laboratory opportunities. A number of these exercises are unique to theAnderson location. The course combines focused short lectures with a great deal of structuredhands-on laboratory experience. The exercises involve several weekly project assignments aswell as a major

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vernon Lewis; Carol Considine

Session # 2549 Project-Based Freshmen Engineering Courses in Civil Engineering Technology Vernon W. Lewis, Jr., Carol L. Considine Department of Engineering Technology Old Dominion University Norfolk, Virginia 23529AbstractOld Dominion University (ODU) has developed two fundamental courses for freshmenengineering students. The first course introduces the fundamentals of the practice of engineeringincluding innovation, creativity, design and manufacturing, commercialization, teaming

Conference Session

Mathematics in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Crawford, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

of Texas at AustinAbstr actIn 2002, the College of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin launched a three-yearproject funded by the GE Foundation to focus on the mathematics preparation starting at themiddle school level. The project, Achievement in Mathematics for Engineering (AIM forEngineering), is designed to address a number of issues facing colleges of engineering: ‚ Engineering enrollments nationwide are flat or declining. ‚ Women and minorities are under-represented in engineering fields. ‚ Many students entering engineering programs are mathematically unprepared. ‚ Retention rates at many colleges of engineering indicate students are leaving due to the challenges of the first two years.Major thrusts of

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

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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

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vijay Rajappa; Steve Watkins; Ray Luechtefeld

Session number 2004-1340 Differentiated Team Training in a Multidisciplinary Engineering Projects Course Dr. Ray Luechtefeld, Dr. Steve E. Watkins, Vijay Rajappa University of Missouri-RollaAbstractThe ability to function effectively in teams is an important contributor to career success inengineering. Unfortunately, specific training designed to improve team effectiveness is not oftenincorporated into engineering education. Even when such training is provided, the absence ofclear comparisons makes it difficult to evaluate effectiveness. Providing two kinds of teamtraining to

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 1

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Merino

Session 2642 Can Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) be Applied to Projects that are Temporary and Unique? Donald N. Merino, Ph.D., P.E. Stevens Institute of TechnologyAbstractProjects are defined as temporary and unique by the Project Management Institute Body ofKnowledge (PMI BoK). Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) assumes incrementalimprovements over time. If a project is temporary and unique, how can we incrementallyapply CPI over time? How do we develop lessons learned from a temporary project andhow and when do we apply them

Conference Session

State of the Art in Freshman Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Evans; H. Michael Cheung; Rex Ramsier; Francis Broadway; Sandra Spickard Prettyman; Helen Qammar

Session 1153 Impact of Vertically Integrated Team Design Projects on First Year Engineering Students Helen K. Qammar1, H. Michael Cheung1, Edward A. Evans1, Sandra Prettyman Spickard2, Francis S. Broadway3, Rex D. Ramsier4 Department of Chemical Engineering1/ Educational Foundations and Leadership2/ Department of Curricular and Instructional Studies3/ Departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Chemical Engineering4 The University of Akron Akron, Ohio

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Maxwell; Michael Parten

Session 2003 Development of a Hydrogen Powered HEV as an Interdisciplinary Laboratory Project Micheal Parten, Timothy Maxwell Electrical and Computer Engineering/Mechanical Engineering Texas Tech UniversityI IntroductionOver the past several years, Texas Tech University’s Advanced Vehicle Engineering Laboratory(AVEL) has converted six conventional vehicles to hybrid electric (HEVs) and alternative fueledvehicles for the various Vehicle Challenges sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE),the three major U.S. automobile