Conference Session

TIME 2: Laboratories

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jed Lyons

; Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for EngineeringComparison of pre- and post-course survey results indicate that the problem based learningapproach does address higher-level learning outcomes such as devising an experimentalapproach, specifying appropriate equipment and procedures, and implementing these procedures.It is important to note that other experiments performed by the students during the course areimportant in developing the their abilities to design the load cell experiment. The survey resultspresented here reflect the changes in student attitudes due to all of these experiences, the loadcell project being the capstone event. These results do provide encouragement for a purposelydesigned research

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

H. Joel Lenoir

the systematic application of the basic sciences, mathematics and engineering sciences to generate and evaluate specifications for systems, components, or processes. • The form and function of the design must achieve defined objectives and satisfy consumer constraints. • Design should include aspects of creativity, complexity, and iterative decision-making to optimize a solution, and compromise between multiple, and sometimes conflicting, requirements .3,4,5ME 101 is the starting point for the Design Plan. It is the first of four designated design courses6across the four years of the ME curriculum before the capstone design course. The Wobblerassignment attempts to meet the three attributes

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Wentzheimer; Jennifer VanAntwerp; Gayle Ermer; Steven VanderLeest

students apply to enter a concentration. They alsohave the opportunity to interact with students who will pursue a different concentration. Cohortsof students in a specific concentration are not established until the junior year.Our capstone course sequence, the Senior Design Project, is in many ways typical of mostengineering programs’ capstone courses. However, all engineering students take the same twocourses. These courses are team taught by engineering professors, one from each of the fourconcentrations. Thus, the student is provided with exposure to senior level work across the broadspectrum of engineering. In addition, interdisciplinary project teams are commonly formed.5.5 Fundamentals of an Engineering Sub-DisciplineObviously, someone

Conference Session

Creative Ways to Present Basic Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Hisham Hegab

students cameup with a variety of designs. These designs were converted to digital drawings by a graduatestudent. Their second project was to design a nose cone that could fit on a model rocket. On thelast class day there was a contest to see whose model rocket design would go the highest.This concept was also introduced to 7th and 8th grade students who attended a series of “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Page 9.808.1 Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”math/science/engineering summer camps. For this age group the system was

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Waters

progress at the time of writing this paper. One such project involves thedevelopment of an extensive database of high-speed vessel experimental model tank test dataand analyses. This database is being designed, populated, tested and used in coordination withan innovative design tool also developed by ACCeSS team members. The development of thisdatabase and design tool is being lead by the Stevens Institute team members; the database anddesign tool will soon be “beta-tested” by UCL Masters program students, at which time thestudents will employ it into their capstone design process.Other projects currently underway include the development of Control and Automation systemsfor marine collision and obstacle avoidance. Two students and a faculty member

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joanne DeGroat; Jeffery Radigan; Jeff McCune; Andrew O'Brien; James Beams; Matt Gates; Craig Morin; John Demel; Richard Freuler

course focuses primarily on the planning, execution, management, documentation,and presentation of an engineering design/build project.The ENG H193 design project is a focal point for the FEH program. In many respects, thisfreshman design project course is comparable to a junior level or senior "capstone" design coursein which a student might participate as part of the requirements for his chosen engineeringdiscipline. A major difference is that the first-year ENG H193 course teaches the variousplanning, management, 4 documentation, 5 and presentation aspects of a design project, whereasmany senior level design projects focus on the specific design problem alone, assuming someprior instruction in or knowledge of what is needed for a complete and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dominic Halsmer

10. Professional Development Plan to Address Areas of Improvement 11. Application for Candidacy Capstone Level Professional Level1. Engineering Economics Paper 1. Exit Interview Questionnaire2. Senior Project Report 2. Grad School Advisor Survey3. Video Clip of Project Presentation 3. Employer Survey4. Self-evaluation of Presentation 4. Alumni Survey5. Reflection on Presentation6. Revised Resume7. FE Exam Results8. Two Professional References

Conference Session

Opportunities in Environmental Engineering Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Butkus

. For example, EV490, the capstone designcourse, provides the most coverage, has the highest ED credit, and is offered during the eighthterm. Selected design projects are addressed below. Students in Water Resources work as members of a design team to develop solutions tospecific water resource problems using information and techniques learned in the course. Thedesign project requires students to contact governmental or private agencies; conduct a literaturesearch; complete an annotated bibliography; develop a proposal; and complete a design proposal.The project serves as an outreach opportunity to local communities and it emphasizes theplanning and design guidance set forth by NEPA. Student teams must develop viable alternativesto

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Paper Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Ellis; Susannah Howe; Donna Riley

’ preparation in ethics will enhance theirability to think through the issues in the course.G. Engineering Design ClinicIn our inaugural capstone course, students work in teams of 4 to undertake a real-world designproject sponsored by an industry and/or government organization. Required for all seniorengineering majors, the year-long Design Clinic provides students the chance to apply theirtechnical skills in a team-based, design setting. Projects for the 2003-2004 academic yearinclude collaborations with the Ford Motor Company, GE Plastics, Metcalf and Eddy, theMITRE Corporation, and the City of Northampton. The project component of the class issupplemented by weekly seminars, often with invited speakers, to present and discuss topicsrelated to design

Conference Session

IE Accreditation and Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Jayant Rajgopal; Bryan Norman; Bopaya Bidanda; Kim Needy

. Experiences Senior Capstone Project Outside the Classroom Integration Across •Co-op Courses •Internships Localization/Globalization Problem

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering/Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Norton

; rehabilitation andmaintenance; and financial and reliability analysis, the students were turned off by the focus on a“civil engineering” project. The “Mission to Mars” theme was then chosen to explicitly link thecourse to as many engineering disciplines as possible. The students in the MEPO course learnedfrom the experience of other Mars student projects on campus including the robust “Mars Rover”student team and the proposed Mars-focused senior capstone design course.Michigan Mars Rover TeamThe College of Engineering houses several active student teams including the Michigan MarsRover Team. The Rover project is an extracurricular activity with all work done outside of class.The Team consists of students from most engineering departments and from all

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

theresults are presented in the paper. Both studies produced similar conclusions.Evaluation of Team Produced Artifacts in an Innovative Design EnvironmentAn experiment was conducted in fall 2002 in the sophomore design class in theDepartment of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston to assess the skillsof young engineering students in evaluating the artifacts that resulted from the majorclass project for the semester. The 41 students self-selected into 13 teams. All teams hadfour members except for one three-member team. These artifacts resulted from a two-month long, team project: design, build and test. This project was the major componentof the course grade (50%). The “value” (or quality) of the artifact itself represented 20%of the

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Duesing; David McDonald

, 1997.4. Bohmann, L.J. et. al. “Redefining the Introductory Electrical Energy Conversion Course,” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 1998. NSF ESC 9619320.5. Schmaltz, P., Schmaltz, K., Duesing and Goodrich, “A Capstone Senior Engineering Design Course: A Project Case Study and Its Subsequent History,” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 2001.6. Schmaltz, Duesing, Anderson and Zoerner, “Lessons Learned from Teaching Industry-Based Senior Projects,” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 2001.7. McDonald, D., Schmaltz, K. and Walworth, M., “The Development of an Innovative Undergraduate Laboratory That Emphasizes Vertical Integration In Multiple Engineering Curricula,” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 1999.8. Mahajan, A., Walworth

Conference Session

Minorities in Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michel Reece; Carl White

: Allow the students to participate in independent research with minimal to no guidance from a graduate student Allow the students to participate in independent/ self-motivated training (if needed) Link research project completion with graduate school participation Encourage individual learning and development Encourage students to train lower level students Assist student with graduate program selectionAt this level, students become full participants in independent research. The students’research at this level can be utilized as a senior capstone project or can be developed intoa future master’s project. Figure 1 summarizes the research and training embeddedcurriculum. This

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in MFG ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacob Chen; Joseph Chen

% 5 Professional Ethics 85% Development of the CurriculumThis project considered the industry’s demands and the effects of those demands onfuture employees in order to improve teaching methods and curricula in communitycollege manufacturing education programs. A goal-driven strategy was used throughoutthe development of the curriculum to effectively build the necessary components thatwould hold all the important design concepts and parametric solid modeling (PSM) toolstogether with a logical sequence to allow students to learn while reaching the final goal.The capstone that pulls all the materials in the curriculum together is a DFM (design formanufacturability) final team project. In

Conference Session

Current Issues in Aerospace Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfred Striz

; and two three-hour ‘Engineering Practice I and II’offerings. In order to keep our curriculum to the desirable 128 hours, only ‘Engineering PracticeI’ was added while the ‘Engineering Practice II’ material will be covered in the capstone designcourses, which will include projects proposed and sponsored by industry.Requirement #5: Return Old Engineering Core Courses to SchoolsIn a long standing agreement between the various CoE Schools, certain engineering core courseshad been taught by faculty members from given Schools for all CoE students that required thematerial. Since more and more Schools left this agreement to substitute their own specializedcourses, the core courses will now revert back to the respective Schools. This means that

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Taner Eskil; Mark Urban-Lurain; Marilyn Amey; Timothy Hinds; Jon Sticklen

Department of Computer Science and Engineering at MichiganState University. He has had a strong research record in computer science research, specifically in knowledge-basedsystems. His main contributions have been in the theory and application of principled approaches to knowledge-based systems following a school of thought known as “task specific approaches.”Timothy Hinds is an academic specialist in the MSU Department of Mechanical Engineering. He teachesundergraduate courses in machine design and statics as well as advises senior engineering student teams working onindustrially sponsored capstone design projects. He also teaches a senior-level undergraduate international designproject course and has taught graduate-level courses in innovation

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Obadiah Ritchey; John Clark; Jim White; Tim White; David Barnhart; Jerry Sellers

, andExcellence in all we do). To support that mission, we firmly believe in “learning space by doingspace.” Every student graduating with an Astronautical Engineering degree completes acapstone design project, either a satellite design (FalconSAT) or rocket design(FalconLAUNCH) effort.FalconSAT provides students an opportunity to participate in the design, build, test, and/ormission execution of real microsatellites that perform DoD missions. FalconLAUNCH providesan opportunity for students to design, build, test and launch payload-capable sounding rockets.Before students can participate in either of these capstone engineering design courses, spacesystems and rocket design issues must be well understood through prerequisite classroomexperiences. The

Conference Session

TIME 6: Web-based Instruction

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James G. Brasseur; Laura L. Pauley

Engineeringprogram at Penn State.1. The Learning Factory brings hands-on experiences to freshmen in the product dissection classes and to seniors in the capstone design courses. Students pursuing the Product Realization Minor are even more involved with the activities at the Learning Factory. The Society of Automotive Engineers also uses the facilities at the Learning Factory when building the Formula Car. The Learning Factory received the Boeing Educator Award in 1998 and has also participated in outreach to elementary and high school students including Take-Your- Daughter-to-Work Day.2. The senior capstone design projects are almost entirely sponsored by industry. Each student design team works on a unique project proposed by industry

Conference Session

The Fundamentals of Fun

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brewer Stouffer; Jeffrey Russell

Session #1615 Making The Strange Familiar: Creativity and the Future of Engineering Education W. B. Stouffer, Jeffrey S. Russell, and Michael G. Oliva Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-MadisonIntroductionWhy does the perception persist that engineers are uncreative, or worse, do not need to tap intocreativity when most engineering projects demand creative or innovative approaches in thedesign of equipment, systems, and facilities? With the complexity surrounding everyengineering project mounting as natural resources dwindle, the world population

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Maria M. Larrondo Petrie

and measurable, and the most significant causes of poorquality and productivity are controlled or eliminated.The first CMM model developed was the Capability Maturity Model for Software (SW-CMM).Its use enhances the capabilities of the software development organization to deliver software ontime, within cost, and meeting the objectives of the system and the customer. This documentedsuccess resulted in the proliferation of CMM-based models to improve engineering processes, Page 9.1316.1which in 1998, prompted industry, the US government, and the SEI to begin the CapabilityMaturity Model Integration6 (CMMI) project to provide a single

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Pei-Fen Chang; Jiunn-Chi Wu

Project-Oriented Capstone Courses, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 86, no. 1, pp. 19-24.JIUNN-CHI WUJiunn-Chi Wu is Associate Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National Central University in Taiwan, ROC.PEI-FEN CHANG Page 9.508.11Pei-Fen Chang is Assistant Professor of the Graduate Institute of Teaching and Instruction at theNational Central University in Taiwan, ROC.Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for EngineeringEducation Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Edgar; Joel Farber

the end of the semester, they learn that everyone can bring valueto a team. A far worse problem is the nonproductive team members that commonly createproblems in teams. At the end of the semester, everyone is given a team review sheet in whichthey estimate the percentage of time each person contributed to the project and can makecomments about how the team worked together. Projects are normally selected at one of several local sites that have the potential for adam to be built on them. Alternatively, sometimes a knowledgeable owner will have the classinspect an existing dam and provide recommendations for modifications to improve stability,storage capacity and/or safety. A knowledgeable owner is one who understands the complexity

Conference Session

How We Teach Problem Solving?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

understand how each of these coursescontributes to the necessary foundation for their upper-tier courses. The lower tier courses thatseem to have the most disconnectedness to upper tier courses are: • American Thought and Language (the traditional English composition course) • Humanities • Interdisciplinary Social Studies • Mathematics • Chemistry • Physics • Statics • Thermo-fluidsThe current courses being studied for connections to the above are: • ME 332 - Fluids • ME 412 - Heat Transfer • ME 451 - Controls • ME 461 - Vibrations • ME 371 - Design I • ME 471 - Design II • ME 481 - Capstone DesignThe project requires that eventually all units within the College of Engineering be a part of thedata

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fabio Urbani; Juan Iglesias

of commercial analysis packages are currently available, they are ratherexpensive, and the source code is not available. The latter prevents students from understandingthe logic behind the simulation.In this paper we describe an ongoing project being developed at the University of Texas atBrownsville (UTB) that intends to overcome these limitations by implementing, based on aconsolidated frequency domain technique, a novel electromagnetic structure simulator using apre-existent 94-node Beowulf machine.The merit and innovation of this project is how it integrates disperse tools and techniques into asingle coherent framework that can be utilized with minimal effort and high confidence by thecommunity interested in the research, teaching

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Hensel; Elizabeth DeBartolo

Grad Math II 5 Grad Elective #1 Grad Elective #2 Grad Elective #3When BS/MS students successfully complete the entire program, they leave RIT with valuableindependent research experience, a thesis project completed, and possibly a publication withtheir name on it. They graduate in the same time as the rest of their entering freshman class,with no additional college loans to pay off in exchange for their advanced degree. Otherinstitutions have active undergraduate research programs, where students participate in semester-long or year-long research projects individually or as part of a team1,2. The general opinion isthat the students involved gain valuable experience and learn important new skills, whether ornot the

Conference Session

Engineering/Education Collaborators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Connor; Vinod Lohani

and development. Page 9.159.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education" Session 3130In September 2003, a group of ENGE faculty, aided by a number of engineering and educationfaculty, received a planning grant (project title: Bridges for Engineering Education-Virginia Tech(BEEVT)) under the Bridges for Engineering Education program of the NSF to create acontemporary framework for undergraduate

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yi Cheng

Page 9.1374.1autonomous navigation, scientific data collection and communication with a base station.Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThrough their participation and contributions towards the mission of this project, studentsreceive degree credit, which can be used to fulfill their degree capstone requirement,Team Senior Project.The project is an interdisciplinary project including students and faculty from theElectrical and Computer Engineering Department, the Computer Science Department, theEngineering Technology Department and the Mechanical Engineering Department. Allfaculty and students are divided among five sub

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Gasper; Keith Whites; Michael Batchelder

is planning to enter the AerialRobotics Competition that requires transmission of pictures or video of a remote facility.The team is experimenting with an ATV transmitter on the 70 cm ham band.One of the projects in CENG 442, micro-based system design, was to design a PICmicrocontroller system that converts ASCII character data to output as Morse code andconversely accepts Morse code returning the equivalent ASCII characters.The capstone design requirement provides another venue for projects involving amateurradio. For example, the previously mentioned telemetry for the solar car was a seniordesign project [16]. Another example is a project [17] designing a hidden transmittersystem for a “fox hunt” [18] [19]. The competition involves

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

these courses include electricalcircuits, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, material balances, properties of materials, structuralmechanics and thermodynamics. Unlike the traditional approach, however, each of thefoundation courses includes a mix of these topics, presented in a variety of disciplinary contexts.A solid background is developed by touching key concepts at several points along the spiral indifferent courses, adding depth and sophistication at each pass. Each foundation course alsostresses the development of several essential skills, such as problem-solving, oral and writtencommunication, the design process, teamwork, project management, computer analysis methods,laboratory investigation, data analysis and model development. Students