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Instrumentation in the Classroom

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Tonkay

variousphysical properties; and calculate several example measurements.” The modules and sessions ofMeasurements are listed in Figure 1. Page 9.648.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Module 1: Standards & Instruments • Session 1: Measurement Terms & Standards • Session 2: Instruments & Sensors • Session 3: Gages & Wear Allowance Module 2: Sensors & Devices

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New Program/Course Success Stories

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Swiezynski; Don Myers; Ray Luechtefeld

© 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationDiscussion of LiteratureIn 1995, the National Science Foundation made several recommendations concerning the futureof engineering education. The NSF felt that engineering education required comprehensivechanges across the campus. Colleges and universities must take new approaches towardsstudents, faculty and curricula [1].The NSF also stated that the continuing education of engineers and other technical personnel waslacking a “system.” Since such a “system” was not clearly defined at that point, the NSF felt thata study was needed in order to understand its nature, requirements, and how to meet those needs[1]. The NSF recently released a study that provides complementary results to this study

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

courses in the previous semester: EAS Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2004 American Society for Engineering Education107, Introduction to Engineering and EAS 109, Project Planning and Development, as well asone semester of General Chemistry, Calculus I (or precalculus) and English Composition.For most students, EAS112 replaces a combination of spreadsheet applications (1 credit) and Cprogramming (2 or 3 credits). Engineering students in several majors at UNH have haddifficulty with the C programming courses, and very few have chosen to use C when solvingproblems in subsequent engineering courses . Our experience in this regard is consistent

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Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein

.• Students will be asked to demonstrate the ability to size a pump for a given piping system and to select an operating configuration to avoid pump cavitation.• Students will be asked to demonstrate the ability to analyze a heat exchanger: given two flow streams, calculate expected outlet temperatures.• Students will be asked to demonstrate the ability to function as a member of a design team. [This is evaluated by performance as part of a group while solving the semester long design project.]Program Educational Objectives Supported 1. Graduates entering immediately into professional practice upon graduation are capable of performing duties of an entry-level engineering position. 2. Graduates pursuing graduate studies are

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Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Manhire

no commensurate increase in quality of courses or academic achievement.1Grade inflation is ubiquitous in American higher education.2-3 Its contemporary causes (i.e., sincethe 1960s) are reported to be the Vietnam War,4-5 and “…white professors, imbibing the spirit ofaffirmative action….”6* Peter Sacks8 attributes its continuation to the increasing influence ofpostmodernism9-17 on American society. Professor Valen E. Johnson corroborates this in his re-cently published book about grade inflation, where he states that postmodernist faculty are “muchless likely to assign poor grades.”18 There is considerable literature against postmodernism,†which is generally associated with the humanities (Figure 1). Other grade-inflation causes prof

Conference Session

Design Throughout the ChE Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shannon White; Patricia Niehues; Steven Peretti; Lisa Bullard

, and disseminating case studies for use incapstone senior chemical engineering design courses. Three web-based case studies developedat North Carolina State University will be presented. The projects involve modifications to (1) avaccine facility, (2) a citric acid/nutriceutical facility, and (3) an ammonia plant. Supportingmaterials have been developed for each case study, including a problem statement, a detailedsolution that is considered to be exemplary by an industrial reviewer and a report by the NCSUfaculty member responsible for the case study of the difficulties and typical errors that might beencountered as the students carry out the design assignment. A web site devoted to the case studies has been established which contains all

Conference Session

Minorities in Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrea Ogilvie

Austin’s College of Engineering that reflects the demographics ofthe college age population within the state of Texas, 35 percent ethnic minorities.IntroductionThe Texas Research Experience (TREX) Program was created at The University of Texas atAustin in 1992 to provide technical learning experiences for African American, Hispanic, andNative American undergraduate students enrolled in the College of Engineering. TREX wasinitiated to address the following challenges: (1) lack of African American, Hispanic, and NativeAmerican students pursuing graduate degrees in engineering; (2) large percentage of AfricanAmerican, Hispanic, and Native American engineering students with limited exposure to and/orinvolvement in research projects on campus; (3

Conference Session

Trends in BAE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Haan; Joshua Peschel

employed to create simple one- andtwo-dimensional distributed hydrologic models. This can easily be integrated into a first-yearhydrology course and may allow for a better understanding of distributed problem solvingtechniques in later undergraduate- and graduate-level engineering coursework.Objectives This paper presents the development of an instructional framework to assess student (learner)understanding of basic spatially distributed data sets and modeling within an undergraduatebiological and agricultural engineering course at Texas A&M University. The instructionalframework presented is contained within six core domains, which may be categoricallysummarized as: 1. Learning Challenge and Learning Objectives 2. Authentic

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vedaraman Sriraman; Dugan Um

reasons. First, robots being dynamic, came across to students as "cool" pieces ofequipment. Secondly, the use of robots automatically established for the students the practicalrelevance of the theory. Lastly, the operation of robot includes the consideration of sensors,actuators, controllers, and dynamic stability. Thus, they naturally encompassed the manyingredients of a control system.The robots used in our approach are shown in Figures 1, 3, and 4. Figure 1 illustrates a steppermotor driven, open loop control based robot with an articulated arm configuration. Figure 2shows a cross section of the robot that reveals the stepper motors. Figure 3 illustrates apneumatically driven, "bang-bang" robot whose operational sequence was controlled by

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein

SESSION 1566 A Useful Intersection: The Balanced Scorecard and EC2000 John I. Hochstein1, Teong E. Tan1, William S. Janna1, Jeffrey G. Marchetta1 Tommy Jamison2, Bruce Shrader3, Michael Bilderbeck4 1 2 3 4 U. of Memphis Mueller Industries Temple-Inland Pickering Firm Memphis, TN Memphis, TN West Memphis, TN Memphis, TNAbstractThe new requirements of ABET’s EC2000 have caused the authors’ academic department toundertake a significant restructuring of its internal functions. This restructuring was

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in MFG ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mitch Keil; Sam Ramrattan; Jorge Rodriguez; Alamgir Choudhury

, American Society for Engineering Educationdimension at room temperature are considered. But, bonded sands undergo considerabledimensional changes when subjected to heat and mechanical stresses from molten metal. Thethermal distortion and breakdown that the core and mold undergoes during casting are directlyrelated to the type of sand and binder in use. If the sand/binder system is not stable there is atendency for the mold wall to dilate when molten metal is poured into a sand mold.1 Thedimensional accuracy, strength, and hardness of cores and molds at room temperature bear littleor no relationship to performance during casting. To produce castings of consistent quality2, it istherefore important to know the thermal properties of sand/binder

Conference Session

State of the Art in Freshman Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Walsh

any RP systemconsists of slicing a 3-D computer model into thin cross sections, translating the result into 2-Dposition information, and using this data to control the placement of solid material. This processis repeated for each cross section and the object is built up one layer at a time (Figure 1). RapidPrototyping has historically been associated with manufacturing environments, where it is usedfor the rapid production of visual models, low-run tooling, and functional objects.1 The impactof RP goes far beyond these applications, however. For example, the input data for a RapidPrototyping model can be an existing object scanned using lasers or medical imaging technology(CT or MRI). Because this technology is both increasingly accessible

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roxanne Spray; Lori Donath; Nancy Thompson; Theresa McGarry; Elisabeth Alford

. Future researchmay take into account the gender and language backgrounds of the students. The demographicmakeup of the students and RCS faculty is described in Er r or ! Refer ence sour ce not found.. Code fromTranscription Graduation Honors(Appendix I) Date Gender ESL Department College S1 May 2002 F N Electrical N S2 May 2004 M N Chemical Y S3 May 2002 M Y Electrical Y F Faculty F N English N/A M Grad M N Mechanical N/ATable 1. Makeup of faculty and students in the RCS

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Johnson; Stephen Quint

faculties are committed to worktogether as one faculty on all academic issues, and differences between institutions are beingviewed as opportunities to improve the program In this discourse we present a prospective view Page 9.618.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationof the motivation, mutual advantages, and difficulties in such an undertaking - largely originatingfrom differences in the administrative policies and culture at our two Research-1 institutions.History: In 1968, a BME graduate

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alan Price

Programs Institutionshas been declining over the past two 1800decades. Figure 1. illustrates the growth 1600 1661of engineering schools and accredited 1400 1086 1196 1460 1 1200engineering programs over time . Data of 1000 857

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Victor Nelson

Session 2532 COMPUTING CURRICULUM - COMPUTER ENGINEERING (CCCE) A MODEL FOR COMPUTER ENGINEERING CURRICULA IN THE NEXT DECADE Victor P. Nelson1, David L. Soldan2, Andrew McGettrick3, John Impagliazzo4, Pradip Srimani5, Mitchell D. Theys6 and Joseph L. A. Hughes7 1 Auburn Univ./ 2Kansas State Univ./ 3Univ. of Strathclyde/ 4Hofstra Univ./ 5 Clemson Univ./ 6Univ. of Illinois at Chicago/ 7Georgia Inst. of TechnologyAbstract In the fall of 1998, the Computer Society of the Institute for Electrical and ElectronicEngineers (IEEE-CS) and the

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter

Session 3449 Teaching Applied Electromagnetics to Engineering Technology Students J. R. Porter Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843Abstract In a world where computer bus speeds have increased beyond 1 GHz and wirelesscommunications/connectivity are common place, electronics and telecommunication engineeringtechnology (ET) graduates require an understanding of basic applied electromagnetic concepts.To address this issue, many ET programs now offer

Conference Session

Technology, Communications & Ethics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wise

Session 2531 Better Understanding through Writing: Investigating Calibrated Peer Review ™ John C. Wise, Seong Kim The Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractCalibrated Peer Review (CPR) was initially developed by UCLA in the 1990s as a way to usetechnology to increase the opportunities for student writing assignments.1 Writing about aconcept has long been seen as one of the best ways to demonstrate student understanding.Unfortunately, it has always been true that more student writing assignments yields weekendslost in a sea of paper and

Conference Session

TIME 3: Thermal Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Choate

and compared.1. IntroductionIn the traditional ME curriculum, the study of thermal fluid sciences is categorized into threemajor subject areas: thermodynamics, heat transfer and fluid mechanics, where they arecommonly taught as four separate three credit hour courses over three or more semesters. Thisapproach is administratively convenient but not necessarily pedagogically effective since itcreates the false impression among the students that the design of a thermal system is simply acombination of these loosely related disciplines and requires student integration of these difficultsubjects. To address these issues, the integration of the traditional thermal fluid sciencescurriculum has been implemented at numerous institutions and discussed

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vish Prasad; Richard Schoephoerster; Ofer Amit; Alan Carsrud

small (entrepreneurial) companies constitute a medical device andpharmaceutical industry base that already ranks high in the nation in terms of employment andnumber of firms. This industry also benefits from a rich local environment for clinical trials dueto the large number of clinical establishments dedicated to research, the high physician topopulation ratio, and the diverse patient pool. Miami-Dade County ranks 10th in medical devicesemployment and 13th in pharmaceutical employment with 3996 and 1583 employees,respectively.1 South Florida is home of the leading manufacturer of generic drugs (IVAX), andcontains major divisions of four of the world’s largest medical devices companies (Johnson &Johnson (Cordis), Boston Scientific, and

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; James Ochoa; Joseph Morgan

Exposition, Copyright ø 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationopportunities to directly interact with students, allowing professors to leverage an array ofcommunication and teaching techniques and to be immediately responsive to students’ questions.However, during a lecture, students must absorb considerable amounts of new informationwithin a very brief timeframe. As a result, the student who misses a lecture may find thislearning medium to be a bottleneck in the learning process from which the unrealized learning isdifficult to recover. The use of technologies available today provides new opportunities to offerremote access to classroom lectures both synchronously and asynchronously.1 This capabilityaddresses two

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques & Funding Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Primus Tillman

be used in upgrading homeland security, providing moreeffective law enforcement, and improving business and industry security. Going forward with theuse of the technology will require more and better-trained specialists, which requires moreeducators and educational institutions with the resources and skills to provide the knowledge ofhow to use the technology.1 Image Capture and Enhancement Comes to the Courtroom, http://www.acq.osd.mil/bmdo/bmdolink/pdf/ima.pdf2 Adobe Law Enforcement Users Group, http://www.aleug.org/index.htmlPRIMUS J. TILLMAN is currently the lead in the Interactive Multimedia area of the Department of Business andTechnology at East Tennessee State University. Before coming to ETSU, he served at the Memphis College

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TIME 9: Thermal Fluids/Fluid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

engineering expose thestudents to heat transfer concepts learned in the classroom, but do not provide them with designexperiences similar to what they might face as thermal engineers in industrial positions. Inaddition, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) accreditation criteriarequire that graduates of engineering programs possess “an ability to design and conductexperiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data” [1] and “an ability to design a system,component or process to meet desired needs” [1].Very recently, the Design-Build-Test (DBT) concept was suggested by Abu-Mulaweh [2] to beused in creating an experiment for a junior-level heat transfer laboratory. In that experiment,student teams design, build, and test a

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in MFG ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacob Chen; Joseph Chen

9.754.1manufacturing design course impacts their academic performance throughout their degree Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering 1 Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationprogram, and even their future career (Newcomer, et al., 1999). Therefore, it isimperative for manufacturing educators to plan the content of this course to ensure thebest possible foundation for students seeking to enter manufacturing disciplines.Introductory manufacturing design courses used to be drafting-centered. Students in thepast learned hand-sketching skills and used drafting boards. A considerable amount ofclass time was

Conference Session

Nontechnical Skills for Engineering Technology Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Prusak

the problem at hand. In that respect, mistake-proofing of certain designs based ontheir geometry, as well as production processes prove to be fairly easy to understand andstudents are able to come up with a variety of solutions. Other advantages, limitations anddisadvantages of using Mistake-Proofing as the base for teaching principles of problem solvingare also provided and discussed from perspectives of faculty and students. A number of commonand specialized devices used in exercises for defining physical principles underlying anengineering problem at hand are also listed in the paper.1. Introduction"Problem solving" – is it use of any method (scientific or not) to create something new,something improved; or is it use of sophisticated

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Design for Community

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

executinginternational humanitarian design projects within the undergraduate engineering curriculum.IntroductionEngineering educators are increasingly recognizing the value of exposing students to need-basedengineering problems and pedagogies [1, 2, 3, 4]. Another area of growing interest is theglobalization of engineering education [5, 6, 7, 8]. These important topics may be concurrentlyaddressed with a service-learning approach by involving students in international humanitarian(IH) design projects [9, 10, 11]. This approach addresses key ABET criteria by integrating bothglobalization and social needs into the engineering curriculum. Additionally, social needs are aclear priority of engineering as a profession (as indicated in the NSPE creedi) and of major

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Derek Maxwell; Kathleen Kramer

years.The University of San Diego (USD) is located within a region that has emerged as one of thetechnical centers for the wireless communications industry, so student interest in wirelessapplications is high, even within a program that has only undergraduate students [1], [2]. TheSan Diego region benefits from the significant presence of many telecommunications companiesdoing interesting work.Advances in wireless and broadband communications have been fueled by the advances indigital design, as more and more aspects of modern communications systems can be based upondigital techniques. Since use of these techniques has become ubiquitous to the wireless andbroadband industry, projects that are relevant to these areas of communication were

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Sharp, Vanderbilt University

. Students and alumni both consideredthis project to be successful and recommended keeping it in the course with the students' ratingbeing a 4.1 on a 5-point scale.IntroductionBridging the gap between the engineering classroom and industry or "the real world" has been agoal for many engineering educators. To achieve it, some educators have simulated realengineering projects,1 encouraged students to contact alumni and other professionals,2 and set upmentoring programs.3-5 Alumni mentoring is one practice becoming more widely used,particularly with first-year engineering students. As Musiak et al. state, "Mentors help studentsget a better perspective on what the engineering profession is all about and what is expected ofthem to become engineers." 6

Conference Session

Industry-Based Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Rothaupt

. They also acquired sample parts and drawings of all castorforks. The parts were analyzed to discover whether there were common fixture reference pointsthat would accommodate all parts. Over the following weeks students brainstormed severalpossible solutions which were discussed with the faculty advisors. Page 9.727.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe final design (fig. 1) allowed adjustments to be made quickly to accommodate any fork orshaft model and nearly eliminated robot down

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Swedish; Glenn T. Wrate P.E.; Frederik Betz; Emily Blakemore; Lee Greguske

microturbine’s generator to feed the grid. The mechanical interface consists of ahot water supply from the microturbine’s heat recovery heat exchanger connected inparallel to two existing gas-fired hot water boilers for supplying thermal energy to thebuilding. The control interface is twofold. An electrical interface allows themicroturbine to follow the building electrical load. The thermal interface involves acomplex interaction between the microturbine’s control system and the existing MetasysHVAC system controller for the building. [1]Construction of the facility was completed in the Spring of 2003, and testing was begun.The unit was commissioned in May of that year.Technical Tasks for Phase IIElectrical TasksFor the second phase of the microturbine