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ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Greco

high-levelbehavior of networks, including their architectures, protocols and performance 1–5.Laboratory work associated with such courses concentrates on software, using eitheravailable network cards as part of a physical network or simulating the behavior of anetwork 6–17. The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department currently offers anetworking course that emphasizes the lower-level operation of a network, including thephysical medium, the packet format, and simplified protocols for Token Ring andEthernet networks. In the laboratory component of the course, students realize each typeof network using a microcontroller in conjunction with peripheral hardware. The

Conference Session

Improving Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

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Patrick Hollis; Namas Chandra; Chiang Shih

Session 2230 Learning-Through-Teaching, a Collaborative Learning Strategy Chiang Shih, Namas Chandra, Patrick Hollis Department of Mechanical Engineering FAMU-FSU College of EngineeringAbstractWe have proposed the promotion of collaborative learning by systematically engaging allstudents in an innovative “Learning-Through-Teaching” (LTT) pedagogical practice in the coreMechanical Engineering curriculum. The LTT program empowers students with self-learningcapability by involving them in the actual classroom/laboratory teaching. Through LTT, studentslearn

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Lehman; Muniyappa Venkatesha; Asad Yousuf

laboratory. The laboratory facilities accommodate study ofseveral computer networking hardware and software technologies.IntroductionThe large proliferation of communication and networking standards provides adaunting amount of material to present to the EET student in addition topresenting the traditional basics of communication theory. As with most areas ofelectronics even the so-called “traditional” basics of communication theory needgreater emphasis due to innovation in smart antennas, radar technology, RadioFrequency Identification (RFID), wireless networks and other advances [3].Lectures will at least touch upon some of the new concepts if for no other reasonthan to motivate the EET Student to learn more about these subjects

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Dillard

microcontrollers with microtrainerssystems. This approach has two deficiencies. First, students must be in the laboratory todebug real-time code and physically connect peripherals, leaving little opportunity forextracurricular experimentation. Second, treating only the microcontroller distances thestudent from the ubiquitous PC and its standards. A new approach to teaching computer systems and assembly language for sophomoreelectrical engineering students is being investigated at Auburn University. Due to curriculumrestrictions, the sophomore level course has no formal hardware laboratory. From the outset,four issues were addressed: treating PC-related issues via the 8086 microprocessor (ourtraditional approach), introducing embedded systems with simple

Conference Session

Computer-Based Measurements

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Koenig; Viva Austin; Bryan Gassaway; Thomas Hannigan

Session Number 3159 Modernizing a Legacy Wind Tunnel: Hanging Onto and Letting Go of the Past Thomas Hannigan, Keith Koenig, Bryan Gassaway, Viva Austin Department of Aerospace Engineering, Mississippi State UniversityAbstractA medium-scale, closed-circuit subsonic wind tunnel facility used for undergraduateaerospace engineering laboratory experimentation and research represents a substantialinvestment in resources. The control systems and data acquisition systems must evolve sothat the age of the facility does not prejudice researchers serious about their academicendeavors. The evolution of such a system is

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mahbub Uddin

University is to provide talentedstudents with a broadly based undergraduate engineering education by offering a design oriented,multidisciplinary engineering science curriculum in the context of the University’s tradition of theliberal arts and sciences.The curriculum emphasizes an in-depth understanding of the fundamentals of the physical sciences,mathematics, and engineering science that form the foundation for technical work in all fields inengineering. Some specialization is available through elective courses in Chemical, Electrical, andMechanical Engineering, taken during the junior and senior years. The program provides significanthands-on experience in engineering laboratories and participation in engineering design projectsthroughout the

Conference Session

Building Bridges with Community Colleges

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Blanton

Technologyand by the times they can attend classes. Distance learning provides a solution to this challenge,but creates the dilemma associated with teaching lab-intensive courses off campus. It is tooexpensive to buy equipment that is used irregularly; yet it is too cumbersome to haul theequipment back and forth. One solution to teaching electronic lab-intensive courses is NationalInstruments’ NI ELVIS (Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite) which integratesboth hardware and software to shrink the workspace to only two elements: the experimentinterface and a computer. All the traditional instruments (DMM, function generator,oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer) are now software. In addition, specialized instruments such as atransistor curve

Conference Session

Experience with Experiential Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Adam McGough; Coral Nocton; Ken Patton; Ismail Fidan

Session 2249 Hands-On-Workshop Based Learning of Rapid Prototyping Ismail Fidan, Coral Nocton, Adam McGough, Ken Patton Rapid Prototyping Laboratory, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN 38505- 5003/ Dean, Business Science Division, Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, CA 92692-3635Abstract Although the manufacturing industry has recently declined considerably, severalnew manufacturing methods are growing in the 21st century. One of these methods isRapid Prototyping (RP). Through the past decade, RP technology has increasingly beenimplemented in many places, (i.e. dentistry, biology, casting

Conference Session

TIME 8: Materials, MEMS, and Nano

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

sudhakar vadiraja; Hector Cervantes

thinking byhaving small group discussions and frequent quizzes on laboratory exercises. The direct benefitsof experimental exercises to materials science/mechanical engineering education have beendiscussed. Detailed course assessment for evaluating students’ performance as well as fordetermining the effectiveness of the course is also discussed. These assessments help in regularlymonitoring the course and then modify/improve the course as and when required.Keywords: Teaching tools; Smart material; Laboratory experimental methods; Mechanicaltesting and microstructure; Engineering education; Methods of course assessment.1. IntroductionThe typical undergraduate mechanical engineering curriculum has a basic course in materialsscience that deals with

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sami Alsaialy; Dalia Tawy; Thomas Schubert; Susan Lord

Session 1426 A LabVIEW Interface for Transistor Parameter Analysis: An Opportunity to Explore the Utility of Computer Interfaces Thomas F. Schubert, Jr., Susan M. Lord, Dalia M. Tawy, Sami D. Alsaialy University of San DiegoABSTRACTNational Instruments’ LabVIEW has become a popular programming environment for dataacquisition in academia, industry, and government labs. One of its major advertised advantageslies in creating instrument control interfaces at a user-appropriate level for the task at hand.At the University of San Diego (USD), the electronics laboratory contains two transistor

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Dahm

in the spring of 2004. This paper compares thechemical engineering and organic laboratory versions of the experiments and explains therole of the proposed experiment in the course. The experiment is scheduled to beintegrated into the Chemical Reaction Engineering course for the first time in the springof 2005. Page 9.1399.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIntroductionThe pedagogy of teaching chemical reaction engineering is continually advancingthrough the use of

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Myat Hla; Samuel Lakeou

Session: 1532 Remote Monitoring and Control of GPIB-based Electronic Experiment Myat Hla, BSEE, Samuel Lakeou Ph.D. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of the District of Columbia slakeou@udc.edu, (202) 274-5834 I. Introduction This work presents a novel approach in the implementation of a remote laboratory foran electronic experiment using LabVIEW’s remote panel technology. In the past, a numberof remote labs have been tried and tested 1,2,3,4

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Kosky

local partner industrial and academic institutionsincluding IBM, General Electric R&D, RPI, Wadsworth Center (a New York state laboratory),and the Albany NanoTech Center. Six expert outside speakers delivered key lectures. Through a recent NSF-NUE grant, we are developing nanotechnology-teaching modulesto expose students to methods of synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials, and a web-based undergraduate textbook on nanomaterials. Page 9.627.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Genalo

Piaget devoted his life to studying how a childProceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition CopyrightÆÉ 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationdevelops mentally, emotionally, and physically. Piaget developed a theory of how a child learns,yet when you look at Edison and the process that he used when inventing it becomes clear thatthe two are very similar.If one examines the processes used by most engineers in research and development, manyaspects of Piaget’s work can be found. Entering an engineering laboratory class today one wouldsee many hands-on activities and projects targeted at engaging students to construct their ownknowledge. By comparing Piaget’s pedagogy and Edison’s

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Steffen

simplify management. • VMware tools- This adds a 32-bit display and high display resolution, grab and release of the mouse cursor, copying and pasting between virtual machines and host, and improved mouse performance. • Snapshots- VMware Workstation 4 lets you make a point-in-time copy of the running system state, saved to disk, and allows the user to revert back to a previously saved state at any time. This is excellent for student use in the laboratory environment. • Tab Between Virtual Machines- In the Quick Switch mode, you can tab between virtual machines with a mouse click. • Drag and Drop and Shared Folders- You can easily share files between guest and host virtual machines by a shared

Conference Session

TIME 9: Thermal Fluids/Fluid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Pines

Session 3666 Using Computational Fluid Dynamics to Excite Undergraduate Students about Fluid Mechanics David Pines College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture University of HartfordAbstractComputational fluid dynamics (CFD) has been included in the junior-level Thermal-FluidsEngineering course at the University of Hartford. The laboratory modules consist of analyzingentrance length region of a pipe, a sudden contraction, and an orifice using Fluent 6.1. Two-dimensional mesh files are given to the students

Conference Session

Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Knox; Robert Barat

, unitoperations laboratory, process dynamics and control, concentration (minor), chemicalengineering electives, free electives, and physical education.We made several important observations in comparing our program with the others:• 19% more credits in humanities and social sciences• 15% more credits in chemistry and physics Page 9.1346.3• 50% more credits in thermodynamics “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education” Table I: Breakdown Of Credits (As Of February 2002) For

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Weissbach

of and entire control systems in the laboratory “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 1793A difficulty in teaching this course involves enabling students to relate the lecture and textbookmaterial to the laboratory experiments. Specifically, textbooks1,2,3 provide equations to modelthe dynamics of a system, assuming physical characteristics are available such as moments ofinertia, spring constants and gear ratios. They also provide both classical

Conference Session

Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Johnson

. The Digital Information Age (3)Prerequisite: Category B2 General Education course. An introduction to commonplace digital information systems for non-majors.Information sources. Digital logic. Computer hardware and software. The Internet and the World Wide Web. (Lecture 3 hours.)Traditional grading only.CECS110. Introduction to the Internet (3)Prerequisite: Some computer experience. Provides a general overview of computer systems, networking, and the Internet. World-Wide Web, email, telnet, ftp, newsgroups, finding information on the Internet, and basic Web page creation. Considers legal, ethical,privacy and security issues on the Internet. (Lecture 2 hours, laboratory 3 hours.) Traditional grading only.CECS200. Introduction to Web Design (3

Conference Session

ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Constantinos Panayiotou; Yu Song; Venkatraman Atti; Andreas Spanias

Session No. Teaching Digital Filter Design Techniques Used in High-Fidelity Audio Applications Venkatraman Atti, Andreas Spanias, Constantinos Panayiotou, Yu Song E-mail: [atti, spanias, costasp, yu.song] @asu.edu Department of Electrical Engineering, MIDL Lab Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-5706, USA AbstractThis paper presents web-based computer laboratory experiments and related assessment results fordigital filter design modules that have recently been integrated

Conference Session

TIME 6: Web-based Instruction

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James G. Brasseur; Laura L. Pauley

. Casestudies are small to mid-range out-of-class assignments based on the analysis of data obtainedfrom senior-level design and laboratory courses, graduate theses, and reports from the literaturesuch as NACA reports.. Through the application of the case studies, students learn design anddata-analysis methods for real engineering systems using real experimental data in traditionally“lecture” courses. Furthermore, those case studies developed from the senior lab courses providea bridge between the last two years of the undergraduate curriculum. The case studies motivatejunior-level students by exposing them to experiences that will come in the senior year, and ingraduate research.IntroductionStudents in undergraduate lecture courses are often surprised

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hyun Kim

facultyposition and hydraulics laboratory equipment. Despite an increasing financial hardshipencountered by many of state-assisted universities in Ohio, the YSU Board of Trustees approvedthe plan as one of the two initiatives successfully submitted by academic units. A full-timefaculty position in the Mechanical Engineering Program was authorized and a faculty was hiredin Fall 2002.PACER GrantIn September 2002, the University announced a solicitation of proposals for the third and lastaward of the PACER (Presidential Academic Centers of Excellence in Research) that started in1996 to promote a high level of research and give a moderate financial support for the initialthree years to the selected centers. A successful proposal for the development of

Conference Session

Projects,Teams & Cooperative Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

courses withexposure to content in areas such as mechanics, electrical phenomena and programminglogic. In addition the course contributes significantly to the development of timemanagement, teamwork, and oral and written communication skills. Page 9.1025.1Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2004 American Society for Engineering EducationIntr oductionTeaching and learning may be enriched by integrating new technologies in theengineering curriculum, particularly in laboratory-based courses. Traditional pedagogicalapproaches of teaching theory before

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Waters

undesirable waybefore the systems responds—but now a vision-based system may allow preemptive actions tobe taken before the vessel reaches the wave. Recent laboratory model tests investigating areactive ride control system show the impressive heave, pitch and acceleration reductions; theseimprovements may be further enhanced incorporating a proactive wave-sensing system.After an extensive literature review on vision-based wave sensing was conducted, it was revealedthat many unsuccessful attempts to sense waves in a laboratory setting using stereo vision havebeen documented. However, several concepts contained in the literature such as threedimensional imaging prove to be useful background information. A novel laboratory tank-testing methodology was

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bullen Frank

. Teams of students design, construct and calibrate aload cell through the phases of materials investigation and selection, programming, design,data collection, analysis and finally calibration and prototyping (Figure 1).The formal part of unit delivery format consists of one hour lecture, one hour tutorial andthree hours laboratory per week. Specific theory relating to the project (cantilever design,introduction to strain gauges) is covered early in the semester and the remaining lecturescover various aspects of experimental work. The exploration of topics is designed to providestudents with the theory required to complete each stage of the project, from system andexperimental design, data acquisition, probability and statistics relating to

Conference Session

Novel Upper-Level Materials Curricula

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Amy Hsiao

is required before taking this course. Thecourse meets every week for three one-hour lectures and one two-hour laboratory session withthe professor. Besides weekly laboratory sessions that enhance the weekly lectures,demonstrations and examples presented in lecture serve important roles in the teaching andlearning process in this course.Fe88Zr7B4Cu1, also named Nanoperm® by Alps Electric in the power electronics industry, is Page 9.683.1made via a rapid solidification process called melt spinning. Melt spinning allows for cooling Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Cooley

Division of Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Session 1526 Development of a Slow-Speed Engine for Enhanced Understanding of Thermodynamic Concepts Tim Cooley Purdue University Today’s engineering and technology students are often challenged to understand thefundamentals of thermodynamics and the devices that use these principles to power our society.A significant part of the problem lies in the fact that operational systems don’t easily lendthemselves to integration into the majority of traditional classroom environments. Bydeveloping a small, slow-speed internal

Conference Session

IS and IT Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Taz Daughtrey; Edgar Sibley; Anne Marchant

nation’s overallinformation security defense.A joint MS/PhD class was used during the fall 2003 semester at GMU to test possible exercisesfor the capstone course as well as provide a pool of teaching assistants and mentors for theundergraduate program. The curriculum was also expanded in the spring 2004 semester jointlyby JMU and GMU. The capstone course, which will be taught in a closed laboratory setting,will be piloted by faculty from both institutions in the summer semester of 2004 at GMU. Page 9.273.1Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2004, American Society for

Conference Session

Technological Literacy I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ollis

authorizationon his campus.1. Introduction The author created, in 1992, a device dissection laboratory for incoming first yearengineering students. As “It seemed desirable to base a new lab on some modern andemerging technologies”, the course was developed around six light-based devices: barcode scanner, compact disc player, optical fiber communications and probes,photocopier, video camera (and VCR recorder), and ultraviolet (UV) light driven waterpurification.1,2 This inexpensive lab was assembled for less than $3,000, and has beenutilized in the following formats over a ten year period: (1) two week summer camp1,2 (1993-1994) (NSF-SUCCEED) (2) semester length “device dissection” lab3,4 (1995-1996) (3) in combination with

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in MFG ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Walters; Albert Lozano

PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE: DEVELOPMENT OF AN ASSOCIATEDEGREE IN NANOTECHNOLOGY MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY AT PENN STATE UNIVERSITY Robert Walters and Albert Lozano Commonwealth College The Pennsylvania State UniversityWhile not long ago nanotechnology was confined to university research laboratories,nanotechnology techniques are today becoming integrated into mainstream industries. A sharpincrease is predicted in the number of industries and processes that will use differentnanotechnology approaches for their products in the near future. In fact, the NSF predicts thatnanotech innovations will create a $1 trillion business within the