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TC2K and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

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Timothy Skvarenina

program can make the best ofwhat it has. Be sure the facilities are clean and well organized. Bringing the evaluator into a laboratorythat looks like a junk room is a sure way to make a bad impression in this area. This criterion alsodeals with student learning opportunities with modern engineering technology tools. A way to Page 9.1153.5demonstrate that is with samples of student work in your course notebooks, especially if this is includedin the course outcomes. One of the modern tools is, of course, the word processor. I strongly suggest “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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Assessment Issues I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sara Tracy; Jin Yoo; Jason Immekus; Brian French; Susan Maller; William Oakes

engineering program and Criterion 3 outcomes. Page 9.417.9 Session 3230References 1. ABET (1999). Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs. The Engineering Accreditation Commision of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. http://www.abet.org/eac/eac.htm. 2. Allen, Mary, J., & Wendy M. Yen (1979). Introduction to measurement. Monterey, CA: Brooks/Cole Publishing. 3. American Educational Researchers Association, American Psychological Association, and the National Council on the Measurement in Education (1999). Standards for educational

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TIME 5: Solid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

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Wendy Reffeor; David Blekhman

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationmany times more. According to Jenkins1, retention of information by students who only look atpictures is about 30%, which is 3 times more than retention of reading material. On the otherhand, when learning exercises are conducted with an active learning content, retention increasesto 70% for talks, discussions and presentations, and to 90% for demonstrations, lab experimentsand written reports.The benefits of active learning have long been recognized in engineering. Mahendran2 describestwo projects adopted at Queensland University of Technology in Engineering Mechanics andSteel Structures courses. Engineering Mechanics was

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DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sig Lillevik

Society for EngineeringObjective 1 requires the students to follow a specific development process throughout the year.In fact, it is a process that models as closely as possible the steps that many product teams use inmany high-technology companies. Unfortunately, logistics prohibit some of the marketing andmanufacturing steps.Solving an open-ended problem, Objective 2, requires the student to use their mathematic,science, and engineering fundamentals to propose, analyze, and evaluate alternate solutions.Often, the student teams will model several possible design options, generate performance data,and select the solution based on meeting required specifications.This capstone design sequence involves more then a theoretical design. In Objective 3

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Topics in Mechanical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

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

Session 2547 Combining Computer Analysis and Physical Testing in a Finite Element Analysis Course William E. Howard, Thomas J. Labus, and Vincent C. Prantil Milwaukee School of EngineeringAbstractFinite element analysis (FEA) has become an essential tool in the product design process ofmany companies. A course in FEA is required in a large number of mechanical engineering andmechanical engineering technology curricula. Most FEA courses necessarily include somebalance of theory and practical use of a commercial FEA program. In a course recentlydeveloped at Milwaukee

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TIME 1: Controls

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2004 Annual Conference

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Scott Kiefer

Session #2004-556 Project Oriented Course in Mechatronics Scott Kiefer Tri-State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes a multi-disciplinary, hands-on, project oriented course in mechatronics.The course relied almost entirely on active learning techniques using student project work, andincluded the development of oral and written communication skills. Student and facultyassessment of the learning objectives of this course are included in the paper.Although open to all engineering and technology students, the mechatronics course wascomposed of two

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Georgiopoulos

technology for a wider range of students in science and engineering than iscurrently available. Our approach of integrating Machine Learning research into the curriculuminvolves two components. The first component is the incorporation of Machine Learningmodules into the first two years of the curriculum with the goal of sparking student interest in thefield. The second is the development of new upper level Machine Learning courses for advancedundergraduate students. The paper will focus on the details of the integration of a machinelearning module (related to neural networks) applied to a Numerical Analysis class, taught tosophomores and juniors in the Engineering Departments at the University of Central Florida.Furthermore, it will report results

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

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Alex See

Session number 2220 Utilizing LabVIEWTM for data acquisition and analysis for a 13 weeks undergraduate course Alex See, PhD Monash University Malaysia, School of Engineering and Science, No. 2 Jalan Kolej, Bandar Sunway, 46150, PJ, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia email: alex.see@engsci.monash.edu.my Abstract Second year Mechatronics undergraduates, in the year 2003 at Monash University Malaysia (MUM) were taking a subject module known as Project and Practise GSE2800. The concept of computer based data acquisition instrumentation was introduced to them. They had

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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Karim Muci-Kuchler; Jonathan Weaver

Session 2125 Learning How to Identify Customer Requirements: A Key Component of Product Development Courses Karim H. Muci-Küchler1 and Jonathan M. Weaver2 1 Mechanical Engineering Department South Dakota School of Mines and Technology 2 Mechanical Engineering Department University of Detroit Mercy Abstract A crucial step in the process to develop a new product is the identification of thecustomer requirements. The

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Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mohammad AlRamahi; Kurt Gramoll

Session 1120 Online Collaborative Drawing Board for Real-time Student-Instructor Interaction and Lecture Creation Mohammad AlRamahi and Kurt Gramoll School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering The University of OklahomaAbstractEven though distance learning has become a significant aspect of engineering education,improvements are still needed. One area that needs more research and tool development is web-based collaboration. There is a strong need for collaboration tools to assist both instructors andstudents in working together during

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Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jose Calixto; Glaucia Almeida; Frederico Rodrigues; elizabeth maia

& Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationBasic Ideas of the Developed Virtual EnvironmentThe advanced technologies being developed as well as the needs of the job market haveplaced new demands on educational methods. The traditional transfer of knowledge fromteachers to students must change to a methodology in which the students will learn to seek forthe information by themselves independently. Students will be no longer mere spectators in aclassroom 2. This is the only way they will be able to enhance and consolidate theirknowledge to cope with the fast changing world. A virtual teaching-learning environmentseems to fit perfectly these demands.The developed virtual environment was built

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jeffrey Jalkio; Christopher Greene

Vocabulary of Basic and General Terms, 2nd edition,ISO Switzerland, 1993CHRISTOPHER S. GREENEChris Greene received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)and proceeded to a 25 year career in industry. At Honeywell, he did research on adaptive control and navigationsystems before becoming Program Manager for several large aerospace programs. At Horton and Nexen, he. wasresponsible for the development of industrial control products. In 2002, Dr. Greene joined the engineeringdepartment at the University of St. Thomas where he currently teaches classes in signals and systems, controls anddigital design.JEFFREY A. JALKIOJeff Jalkio received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota

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BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Jendrucko

option. He is the winner of 7 teaching awards and is a Fellow for theCenter for Undergraduate Excellence and a Fellow of the Interactive Technology Center. He has served asan officer in the ASEE Biomedical Division and as mentor for various Process Education Institutes. Page 9.967.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

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Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jon Duff

A Massively Large Student Modeling Assignment (MLSMA) Dr. Jon M. Duff Information and Management Technology Arizona State University Abstract Most curricula in engineering and technology find a “capstone project” to be highly beneficial in preparing soon-to-be-graduated majors. One consideration that confounds a successful capstone project is matching a task of sufficient significance with realistic expectations of student success. Students may possess the requisite skills but a project that tests those skills may be difficult to identify. But more likely

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Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Thomas Wanke; Stephen Williams; Michael Scheuerell; Glenn Wrate

ofpower system transient analysis, electrical machines and drives, and building electrical power systems.Professor Wrate is a member of the IEEE and a member of the American Society for EngineeringEducation.THOMAS WANKE is the director of MSOE’s Fluid Power Institute. He has more than 35 years ofexperience in fluid power technology, 25 of which have been at MSOE. Wanke has a bachelor’s degree inmechanical engineering technology and a master’s degree in engineering with a fluid power specialtyoption, both from MSOE. He has worked on projects in component and system design; development andevaluation; field troubleshooting and failure analysis; and fluids, filtration, and contamination control. He isa certified fluid power engineer and is active in

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Visualization and Computer Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

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Eric Johnson; Jeffrey Will

, June 1999, pp. 247-263.[12] V. S. Pantelidis “Virtual reality in the engineering classroom.” Computer Applications inEngineering Education, vol. 5, no. 1, 1997, pp. 3-12. [13] D. Tougaw and J. Will "Visualizing the Future of Virtual Reality" Computing in Scienceand Engineering, vol. 5, no. 4, July/August 2003, pp. 8-11.Jeffrey Will is the Frederick F. Jenny Professor of Emerging Technology in the electrical and computer engineeringdepartment at Valparaiso University. He is director of the Scientific Visualization Laboratory, dedicated topromoting applications in scientific visualization for undergraduate education.Eric Johnson is the Paul and Cleo Brant Professor of Engineering in the electrical and computer engineeringdepartment at Valparaiso

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Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2004 Annual Conference

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Hur Koser; Dennis Freeman; Alexander Aranyosi; Aleem Siddiqui

Session 1426 A Microfluidics Laboratory Teaching Module A. J. Aranyosi *,+, Aleem Siddiqui*, Hür Köser#, Dennis M. Freeman *,+ *Massachusetts Institute of Technology / #Yale University / +Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and TechnologyAbstractWe have developed a teaching module to engage undergraduate engineering students in anintroductory research project. Pairs of students proposed and carried out self-designed projectsto study diffusion in microfluidic

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Project Management and Team Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Eldon Larsen

Session Teaching a Project Management Fundamentals Course to Working Professionals Eldon R. Larsen, Ph.D. Marshall University, College of Information Technology and EngineeringAbstract Project management has become very important in today’s business world. Yet, mostworking professionals have had to learn project management skills almost entirely byexperience, with little formal college training in this field. At Marshall University, the Master ofScience in Engineering degree program includes an emphasis in Engineering Management, ofwhich Project Management is

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ken Alford

Session 1620 Teaching Resources for Handheld Computers Kenneth L. Alford United States Military AcademyIntroduction1Computer technology continues to increase in capacity and decrease in size and cost. Today’slow-cost handheld personal digital assistants (PDAs) provide many new opportunities for bothfaculty and students.PDAs can be an effective tool for instructors to distribute course materials such as schedules,assignments, background readings, and lesson handouts. There are many commercial andfreeware products that can be used to

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TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

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Karim Nasr; Raghu Echempati; Arnaldo Mazzei

problems and invest time into suchexercise had indicated tremendous gains in learning the concepts and acquiring desiredoutcomes. A more systematic approach may need to be undertaken to streamline the process inorder to verify whether it offers any advantage in the learning outcomes at the course and at theprogram levels. Such a process can also help the new textbook developers to rewrite their “BookLearning Objectives” and problems, with the goal of targeting more of EC2000’s outcomes.References[1] Patterson, G.K., “Preparing for the First ABET Accreditation Visit Under Criteria 2000”, ASEE Proceedings, Charlotte, N.C. (1999).[2] Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), Engineering Criteria 2000, How do you measure

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Computed Simulation and Animation

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Filsinger

Session 2420Writing Simulation Programs as a Tool for Understanding Internal Computer Processes Michael D. Filsinger University of CincinnatiAbstractThe usual approach to a hands-on understanding of process scheduling in a computer operatingsystem is to either modify an existing operating system or use a pre-written simulation program.In an Engineering Technology program, the first approach can be too difficult for the level ofprogramming expertise possessed by the students, while the second approach does not giveenough of a hands-on feel

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Course/Program Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

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James Higley; Jana Whittington; Joy Colwell

Session 3650 Tools for Using Course-Embedded Assessment to Validate Program Outcomes and Course Objectives Joy L. Colwell, Assistant Professor of Organizational Leadership and Supervision, Jana Whittington, Assistant Professor of Computer Graphics Technology, James B. Higley, P.E., Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology Purdue University Calumet AbstractIn the last decade, academia has undergone a paradigm change unprecedented since the spacerace. Education is now directed toward customer-focused programs. No longer

Conference Session

Design Throughout the ChE Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

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Timokleia Togkalidou; Rudiyanto Gunawan; Mitsuko Fujiwara; Jr., J. Carl Pirkle; Eric Hukkanen; Richard Braatz

Page 9.47.12 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationPh.D. degree from the California Institute of Technology, both in chemistry. Dr. Fujiwara’s primary interestsinclude chemistry education and pharmaceutical crystallization.ERIC J. HUKKANEN is a graduate student at UIUC. He received his B.S. degrees in Chemistry and ChemicalEngineering and his M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. His research interestsinclude polymerization reaction engineering, multiscale systems engineering, and systems biology.J. CARL PIRKLE, JR is a Research Associate in the Department of

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

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Yingzi Du; Robert Ives; Delores Etter; Thad Welch

secure sites, making financial transactions, allowing access tonetworked computers, or identifying a terrorist in a public place. Due to the potential for researchthat this relatively new field holds, and its importance to homeland defense, we have built a newBiometric Signal Processing Laboratory, and developed a new course in biometric signalprocessing. This course was designed for seniors in the electrical engineering major so that theycould become familiar with the basis for these new technologies. The course was organized togive the students some background in image processing, from which the identificationalgorithms are formulated, and had them design simple identification algorithms. The studentswere exposed to state-of-the-art

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Life Sciences and ChE

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2004 Annual Conference

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Abdolmajid Lababpour

observing the results.Also, the development of said EMP in another format (especially HTML) is being studied to empower itsuse across great distances.Bibliography1. Lababpour Abdolmajid, A survey of biotechnology education in schools of Iran, Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2003, USA2. Lababpour Abdolmajid, Biotechnology, The journal of Roshde Amoozeshe Shimie. p. 45-53, 19933. Lababpour Abdolmajid, A glance to biotechnology education in Iran, International Symposium on Educational Cooperation for "Industrial Technology Education", 2003, Japan.4. Pedroni P, etal. International network for biofixation of CO2 and green house gas abetment with microalgae, www.ieagreen.org.uk

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Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Fry

curriculum, we are currently working to develop a“digital” knowledge base in the lower classmen to prepare them for an ever-increasinginvolvement in the web experience.Richard Fry received his MFA from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently AssistantProfessor of Industrial Design in the School of Technology at Brigham Young University where he specializes inProduct Design. Previous to entering the education field, he worked professionally in the areas of Appliance,Aerospace, Exhibit, and Home Fitness design. Page 9.1236.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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Lessons Learned From Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Peter Avitabile; Jeffrey Hodgkins

the overall project is described. Page 9.952.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering"I. IntroductionStudents do not always understand the need for basic STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering,Mathematics) material that is critical to the solution of engineering problems. Material taught inpre-requisite courses contain critical knowledge and skill sets necessary for upper level courses.Unfortunately, as students learn STEM material in subsequent courses, they do not see thepractical need for

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Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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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

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ET Capstone Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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James Everly

for the amplifier.Receiver ConstructionA complete parts list for the receiver is provided in Table 1. The NE602A specification limitsthe device supply voltage to 8.0 volts. A simple but not necessarily cost effective solution is tous a standard 8 volt regulator. For this receiver simplicity reigns and a 78L08 IC voltageregulator was selected for the design as shown in Figure 3. A standard dc coaxial power jack ismounted to the enclosure and serves as an interface to an external dc source. Reverse polarityprotection is a must for second year engineering technology students; thus a silicon diode isplaced in the positive power supply lead at the output of the regulator. Experience also indicatesthat when developing a prototype that IC chips

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Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein

. Page 9.1234.4 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationExample BSC Experience: Design of an Amusement Park WaterslideA five-member team (M. Alfalah, J. Braal, D. Branham, S. Broadway, L. Gardner) was thesuccessful bidder to design an amusement park water slide10. Figure 1 is a graphical depiction ofthe BSC this team developed for their project (with special thanks to Ms. Gardner for leading theBSC effort, for producing the graphics, and for providing the documentation). The team formeda company they called Thermal Technologies, hence the “TT” in the Fig. 1