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Great Ideas for Projects that Teach Instrumentation

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saeed B. Niku, California Polytechnic State University; Ross James Miller

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Instrumentation

layers of silicone foam with detailed painting between coats to match human skin.)The Educational ObjectivesThis project was performed as a Masters thesis, and therefore, it was assessed through awritten thesis1 and an oral defense. It was deemed appropriate for this purpose due to itscomplexity and the need to research methods for construction of the sensors and thesubstrate, and to develop the design. However, with the accumulated knowledge, it ispossible to use this idea for further development as a senior project, individual projects,group projects, or in-class projects.In senior design classes where each group works on a different project, the artificial skinidea may be assigned to one group of students

Conference Session

ECE Division Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heinz Schmidt-Walter, Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany; Michael J. Dyrenfurth, Purdue University, College of Technology, West Lafayette; James L. Barnes, James Madison University

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Electrical and Computer

field for over 39 years, having served in leadership positions in education, business/industry, and government. Dr. Barnes is also a co-principal of Barnes Technologies International LLC. Prior to joining the faculty at James Madison University, Dr. Barnes was the Director of NASA RISE, a NASA research institute at Eastern Michigan University. Dr. Barnes has also directed a technology research center at The University of Texas at Austin and has served as President and CEO of two technology research companies. Dr. Barnes earned his baccalaureate and doctorate degrees at Virginia Tech and his masters at Virginia State University. Dr. Barnes has conducted many research projects and third party evaluations, published

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

William Shelnutt; Monica Lumsdaine; Edward Lumsdaine

Page 4.324.4Figure 1 Chapter integration of thinking skills, creative problem solving, and engineering design.Let us use an analogy. When we learned calculus in the 1960’s, we spent hours painstakinglyplotting curves and intersecting surfaces, and even then it was difficult to visualize what reallyhappened (in physical terms) when parameters in equations were changed. Today, with a touch ofa button or two, students can visualize much more complicated equations in an instant; they canplay around with changing different parameters and thus gain a much deeper understanding of whatthe equations (and their parameters) signify. Once students master the fundamental thinking skills(listed in Table 2), they will be free to concentrate on the process

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Neda Fabris

, to groupsof internal and external “customers” with no or little engineering background. This presentconsiderable difficulty to many engineering students who choose engineering careers becausethey were “good in math and science”, but not in written and oral skills, or who were too “shy”to argue their point of view in front of others. Also, engineering in its international universalbackground was a “refuge” for new emigrants, or people with English as a second languagegiving them the opportunity to excel despite the hurdle of mastering a new language.The new engineering paradigm and industry requirement to “hit the ground running” placesspecial emphasis on engineering education to provide graduating engineers with the experienceand practice in

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott McNamara; Martha Cyr; Barbara Bratzel; Chris Rogers

Session 3353 LEGO Brick Sculptures and Robotics in Education Scott McNamara, Martha Cyr, Chris Rogers, Barbara Bratzel Tufts University / Shady Hill SchoolAbstractIn an effort to increase the hands-on creativity for students, we have started to incorporate LEGObricks in engineering education from kindergarten to graduate school. The versatility and naturalappeal of these toys have led to engineering courses for elementary school students, new collegeadvising environments, new college courses, and even a few engineering masters theses.Students at all levels have become excited about engineering

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Grossfield

Session 3365 Mathematical Forms and Strategies Andrew Grossfield College of AeronauticsAbstractOne of the most important mathematical concepts at every level is the concept of form. Startingin elementary school arithmetic, continuing through high school algebra and trigonometry,throughout calculus and in advanced graduate mathematics, students are taught and graded onhow to change forms. Many students who master the techniques of such form changes ascompleting the square, factoring and expanding polynomials do not know why or when toperform these operations

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Slivinsky

Total 40 classes Table 1. Course Description of Enginr 124 Circuit Theory IThe master copies used to make the double-sided photocopies given to students can be printedwithin PowerPoint in two ways that have proven to be satisfactory. The PowerPoint print option“Handouts: two per page” along with the “Landscape” orientation can be employed to producemaster copies, or the PowerPoint print option “Slides” and the copy machine’s image-combination capability can be used to produce master copies containing four slides on eachmaster. The slides can also be made accessible via the course Web page.The slides make effective use of simple graphics and animation effects not easily achieved withconventional presentations using the

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Erol Inelmen

the combination of several topics covered during the education process.Students enrolled in this programs should be encouraged to make use of computer centers,laboratories and libraries and evaluated by a special committee headed by a tutor 5.As a final measure of reform, Yerlici -clarifying his vision for the future- proposes that highereducation should a) improve the ability to question and seek for answers, b) sharpen the vision of Page 4.429.2details, c) refine the mind for greater sophistication at interpreting data and encourageindependent thinking by allowing students observe masters do their research work. Althoughspecialization and

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Raffaello D'Andrea

selected toparticipate in the class due to limited resources and in order to establish well-balanced teams. Ofthe 24 students enrolled in the class, 16 are Master of Engineering students, while 8 are seniors.The Master of Engineering students in the class are all participating in the Systems EngineeringOption at Cornell; the RoboCup project class is one of the prerequisites for this option, inaddition to a Project Management class and an Applied Systems Engineering class.The 24 students were split into two teams, Team Brazil and Team Italy. The team which winsthe internal Cornell RoboCup competition being held in April 1999 will represent CornellUniversity in the RoboCup competition being held in Sweden in August 1999. The prioritizedobjectives

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ruane

SPECTRE’s broaderscope and the entry situations it creates for new participants. SPECTRE students practiceincremental design in an existing complex system, rather than starting with a clean design slate.The day-to-day level of complexity is greater than most student projects can address. Testingalso becomes more sophisticated and deals with more subtle measurements and interpretationsthan in shorter smaller efforts. Upon entering a legacy project the new team must master quicklytheir predecessors’ technical plans and implementations before they can start their own work.This must be done critically, and may involve immediate testing, because the preceding designscannot always be trusted. Fresh perspectives reveal new problems or new approaches that

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson; Sudhir Mehta

first three to fourminutes with no writing permitted. In the following 15 minutes, each student solved the quizproblem individually as in a regular quiz. This process enhances student capabilities in problemsolving, critical thinking, teamwork, and communication.The format of in-class tests and quizzes was also changed. Originally, three in-semester hourexams and a comprehensive final exam had been conducted. However, students did not prepareuntil just before the test. This “binge” studying is not a good practice as the amount of materialsis large and difficult to master in a short intensive study effort. The examination format waschanged to 10 major “quizzes” over the semester followed by a comprehensive final exam.ResultsThese strategies were

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Ernst Eder

becomesnecessary (compare Perry’s model 24,25), which causes at least some trauma, but also at times thephenomenon of serendipity, inspiration, intuition, the "aha" experience, when the restructuringhas been successful. Any learning also includes some losses in previously learned aspects 26.All learning includes facts, relationships, but importantly also methods. Facts and relationships(internalized object knowledge) is usually well explained and supported by theories, is more orless recallable, and can be examined by formal techniques. Methods are usually not explained,although there are exceptions 27. Methods, whether learned formally or "by doing" (fromexperiencing), become internalized as stereotypes and masters (NOTE: stereotypes are not allbad, most

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Werner

knowledge should be obtained, and the mechanics for obtaining, mastering and utilizing it.The aim of this article is to show that the Internet can be used as a key enabling technology for astudent-centric course. It was successfully tried in a course given in the summer of 1998.Among the unanticipated issues that came up in the teaching of this course was a livelydiscussion of intellectual property rights.Background:Wentworth Institute of Technology is a medium-sized technical college located in Boston,Massachusetts, with concentrations in Environmental, Electronics, and Mechanical EngineeringTechnology, Architecture, and Computer Science (CS). For some time, the non-CS programsrequired students to do a senior project as part of a capstone course

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Anderson; Robert Serow; James Demery; Carl Zorowski; Catherine E. Brawner

/docs/99_crit/99edcrit.pdf8. Patton, M. Q. (1996, Spring-Summer) A world larger than formative and summative. Evaluation Practice 17, 2,pp. 131-144.9. SUCCEED, pp. 3-4.CATHERINE E. BRAWNERCatherine E. Brawner is the president of Research Triangle Educational Consultants. She specializes in educationalevaluation and policy analysis and is retained by the SUCCEED Coalition as its principal qualitative assessmentspecialist. She received an A.B. degree in Economics from Duke University, a Masters of Business Administrationin Marketing from Indiana University and a Ph.D. in Educational Research and Policy Analysis from North CarolinaState University. Prior to starting her consulting firm, she worked for AT&T in a variety of sales and

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

S. M. Miner; R. E. Link

Page 4.135.7on-line quizzes. Each student must take a quiz on each of the following topics: mechanismsynthesis, position analysis, velocity analysis, acceleration analysis and force analysis. TheMathematica programs that they develop to answer the quizzes can then be used for their designprojects.Once the fundamentals of mechanism design have been presented, the students are introduced tosolid modeling with the I-DEAS computer-aided design program. This program is an integrateddesign and analysis package that includes solid modeling of parts, assemblies and mechanisms,drafting, finite element analysis, manufacturing and other features as well. Students use the I-DEAS Master Series Student Guide5 as a workbook that guides them through the

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Karthik Ranga; Kurt Gramoll

end of the beam in the X,Y and Z directions and the modulus of elasticity of the beam material. The window used to inputthe various design parameters is constructed using the Abstract Windowing Toolkit of Java.This program uses the tetrahedral solid element for the finite element analysis. After the usersubmits the various input parameters for the beam, the program automatically generates the finiteelement mesh for the beam model by using a master cube element consisting of six tetrahedralsolid elements. Since it is quite difficult to visualize a tetrahedral element the mesh generationalgorithm uses this approach. It should be noted that the user does not have control over eitherthe type of element or the mesh generation in order to make the

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

B.S. Sridhara

changes. We fabricated the frame for thearray using aluminum tubing. The frame was covered with thin, perforated aluminum sheet cladwith aircraft-grade Dacron. In this process, we worked with the faculty and students from theaerospace department. We mounted the solar panels on the 91-square-foot array and rewiredthem. We fabricated the body and nose with light PVC tubing and Dacron. We machined newlarge size rotors and installed motor cycle master cylinders and calipers. We replaced all steelbushings of the front suspension with Teflon bushings. This author recruited several teammembers through announcements in faculty and student chapter meetings, and by posting flyersand brochures on campus. The author worked with the team members closely in

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Alley

Performance and Attitudes,” Journal of Engineering Education (April 1995), pp. 151–163.Hirsch, E. D., The Schools We Need and Why We Don’t Have Them (New York: Doubleday, 1996), p. 66.Levin, Joel, UW-Madison Writing Assessment Project (Semester I, 1995–96): Final Report (Madison: Department of Educational Psychology, 1996).Nadell, Judith, John Langan, and Linda McMeniman, The Macmillan Reader, 4th edition (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1995).MICHAEL ALLEY is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Professional Development.He has a master of science in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University and a master of fine arts in writingfrom the University of Alabama. He is the author of The Craft of

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Todd Mosher

categories of material to becovered:• basic material which should be mastered by every student in the course,• recommended material which should only be mastered by those students seeking a thorough knowledge of the subject, and• optional material which is intended for only those students with special interests beyond the scope of the course.1It is essential that the basic material is provided for in the class, while the optional, and evenparts of the recommended material, can be provided as appendices, independent exercises outsideclass or optional reading material. DEVELOP THE COURSE LEARNING EXPERIENCESThis activity is really an extension of the second matrix subjects vs. learning experiencesdiscussed in the

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Holly G. Peterson

of Plumes. Master of Science thesis, Montana Tech, Butte, MT, 54 pp. 8. Peterson, H. , P. Ballard, and B. Lamb, 1995: A new Lagrangian approach to studying instantaneousplume dispersion and concentration fluctuations. Proc. 11th Symp. on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Charlotte,NC, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 140-143. 9. Shannon, S., 1996: Control Software for Robot Air Sampler. Master of Science thesis, Montana Tech,Butte, MT, 59 pp. 10. Rydock Scientific, 1995: Microanalyzer Manual. [Available from Rydock Scientific, P.O. Box 399,Flagstaff, AZ 86002-0399]. 11. Benner, R., and B. Lamb, 1985: A fast response continuous analyzer for halogenated atmospherictracers. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 21, 582-589. 12

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Hamid Khan

of each leadership skill by the number of years in the industry (0-3, 4-5, 6-7,8-10, more than 10).9. There will be no significant difference in the responses of participants regarding theimportance of each leadership skill by the type of degree held by the manager(Baccalaureate, Masters, MBA, ED.D/PH.D, Other).10. There will be no significant difference in the responses of participants regarding theimportance of each leadership skill by gender (Female, Male).11. There will be no significant difference in the responses of participants regarding theimportance of each leadership skill by age of manager (25-32, 33-40, 41-48, 49-55, >55).12. There will be no significant difference in the responses of participants regarding theimportance of

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Gilbert; Mark Maughmer; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College; Renata Engel, Pennsylvania State University

content as needed. Consider an introductory engineering mechanicscourse as an example. Page 3.73.6 Session 1675Open-Ended Lecture Example in Skill Based Course One “how to” objective in an engineering mechanics course is to bring students to apoint where the have mastered the skill of determining stresses in the simple components of astructure. With this skill in hand, repetition and remediation activities are temporarilysuspended. A parallax to broaden the context of this newly acquired skill is now provided via anopen-ended lecture and its

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael F. Young; Sheryl A. Sorby

Session 2238 Assessment of a Visualization-Based Placement Exam for a Freshman Graphics Course Sheryl A. Sorby, Michael F. Young Michigan Technological UniversityABSTRACTAt Michigan Technological University (MTU) many freshman engineering students enroll whohave already taken one year or more of high school drafting or technical drawing. For many ofthese students, freshman graphics courses are redundant and these students are frustrated thatthey must spend time re-learning material they have already mastered. A placement test wasdesigned to assess a student's

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Charlie P. Edmonson; Joseph A. Untener

, Lawrence J. Wolf7 asks the question: “Can EngineeringTechnology graduates go on to graduate school?” He concludes that the answer is yes. Goodgrades are required of any student for admission to a graduate school of quality. This surveyindicates that about one third of our graduates during the past five years have gone on to work ona Master’s degree, most commonly a Masters in Business Administration, Management Science,Industrial Management, or similar degree. This compares favorably with the Mott 25 year studythat indicated 34% of graduates had pursued graduate degrees.CONCLUSIONSThis report describes the study of 1991 - 1996 graduates from the Engineering TechnologyDepartment of the University of Dayton. The conclusions that can be made from

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Jr., Fred O. Simons; Aaron L. Robinson

increase the connectivity of the SHARC and therefore make it better suited for multiprocessing. In addition tothe host port and multiprocessor interface, the ADSP-21060 also features six 4-bit link ports that provide additionalI/O and multiprocessing capabilities. Because the bit capacity of the ports is small, these links ports can be clockedmore than once per instruction cycle to achieve higher data transfer rates [DSPA94].The Texas Instruments TMS320C80 DSPuP is actually 5 separate processors integrated together on a single chip.The 5 processors consist of a single master processor and 4 slave parallel processors. The TMS320C80 MasterProcessor (MP) is a 32-bit, IEEE-754 compatible floating point processor. The MP manages the functions of

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick E. Connolly

. Marks, P. and Riley, K., Aligning Technology for Best Business Results, Peter Marks, Design Insight, Kathleen Riley, 1995, p. i.2. Carelli, W. A., et al, “I-DEAS Master Series 5”, SDRC Working Ideas, Structural Dynamics Research Corporation, 1997 No. 1, p. 1, 4.3. “Toward Design Without Boundaries: A Vision for Autodesk” Autodesk Technology Vision, Autodesk, Inc., 1997, p. 2.4. Interview with Rob Quinn, Parametric Technologies Corporation, February 1998.5. Anderl, R. and Mendgen, R., Parametric Design and Its Impact on Solid Modeling Applications, Presented at Solid Modeling ’95, Salt Lake City, Utah, ACM, 1995, p. 12.6. McMahon, C. and Browne, J., CADCAM, From Principles to Practice, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company

Conference Session

Experiences in Teaching Energy Courses

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Chanley, Northern Essex Community College; Michael Pelletier, Northern Essex Community College; Linda Desjardins, Northern Essex Community College; Lori Heymans, Northern Essex Community College

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Electric Power” and “War of Currents.” The opening of the Pearl Street station inlower Manhattan in September, 1882, allowed Thomas Edison to publicly present a completesystem of commercial electric lighting, power and distribution. In the late 1880s, GeorgeWestinghouse and Thomas Edison became adversaries due to Edison's promotion of directcurrent (DC) for electric power distribution over the alternating current (AC) advocated byWestinghouse and Nicola Tesla. These articles stimulate a discussion on the two forms ofelectricity. This section is concluded with the viewing of the PBS video; “Tesla – Master ofLightning.” Page 15.36.5In order to

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Gibbon, University of The Witwatersrand; Ian Jandrell, University of the Witwatersrand

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Electrical and Computer

all the sections are the essential basic knowledge required for thesecond year courses the course and the final exam was divided into four topics all of which mustbe passed to pass the course. Initial results indicate that many students have changed theirpreparation process to comply with the new rules.IntroductionStudents entering tertiary education are coming from a predominantly procedural learningbackground and are unprepared to perform in a predominantly conceptual thinking engineeringeducation environment. The definitions of procedural and conceptual learning, in terms ofengineering education, are best described by McCormick1. Procedural knowledge is defined as“know how to do it” knowledge, best mastered by rote learning, while

Conference Session

Curriculum in Telecommunications Engineering Technology

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Muhammad Hasan, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Technology

AC 2010-901: COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE EDUCATION AND RESEARCHINVOLVING RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE PLATFORMMuhammad Hasan, Texas A&M University Muhammad Zafrul Hasan received the B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. He received the Master of Electronic Engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) under a Philips postgraduate scholarship program. He subsequently held several faculty positions in an engineering college and in a university in Malaysia. He obtained the Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology. He was awarded the NJIT Hashimoto Fellowship in the academic year 2005-06. He is

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Sustainability, Service Learning, and Entreprenuership

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anouk Desjardins, École Polytechnique de Montréal; Louise Millette, École Polytechnique de Montréal; Erik Bélanger, École Polytechnique de Montréal

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

clientinvolvement as possible.The course outcomes are:1) Have students understand the role of engineers in sustainable development design.2) Have students master the multidisciplinary context of design.Students are encouraged to work together and develop design skills using an integrated process,which is a common practice for the design of green buildings. This process requires involving allproject stakeholders from the beginning so that the design is initiated on a sound basis and takesinto account the constraints and goals of all disciplines involved4. With this process, projectsmay start slowly, but problems are avoided later in the design. The main goals for the teachersare to make the students work together and guide them in addressing all fields of