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Multidisciplinary Course Innovation I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeremy VanAntwerp, Calvin College; Richard Braatz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2008-1675: STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL LABORATORY EXERCISESFOR ALL ENGINEERING DISCIPLINESJeremy VanAntwerp, Calvin CollegeRichard Braatz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Page 13.1096.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Statistical Process Control Laboratory Exercises for all Engineering DisciplinesAbstr actDespite its importance in industry, statistical process control (SPC) is rarely taught inundergraduate controls courses. However, one or two lectures, coupled with the hands-on assignment in this paper, are sufficient to give a good introduction to the topic. Thispaper presents a case for why all engineers

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design Constituents

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Walsh, California Polytechnic State University; Robert Crockett, California Polytechnic State University; Zahed Sheikholeslami, California Polytechnic State University

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college of engineering thatbenefits humanity by educating socially responsible engineers inspired for life-long learningusing an innovative learn by doing philosophy in partnership with industry and otherstakeholders.” PBLI is consistent with this mission because it promotes the use of a multi-disciplinary, participatory, learn by doing, “hands-on” laboratory, project and design centeredapproach. The PBLI enhances educational outcomes for students in accordance with the strategic Page 13.1010.2plan, it enhances the professional development of the faculty in conformance with the strategicplan, by encouraging and supporting expansion of faculty

Conference Session

Research in Multidisciplinary Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carol Barry, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Jacqueline Isaacs, Northeastern University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

of an REU Summer ProgramAbstractAn NSF-funded Center, a three-university partnership with research focused onnanomanufacturing, has held a Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)Program for undergraduate students over the past three years. Over 70 students have participatedin the program, in which each student is guided in a project to learn more about research relatedto nanomanufacturing. In our laboratories, students with diverse technical backgrounds gainskills in electron and atomic force microscopy; chemical synthesis; MEMS and NEMSfabrication; dip pen nanolithography; template-guided assembly and transfer of polymers andnanoparticles; high rate polymer processing; assessing the impact of nanoparticles on theenvironment

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Ciaraldi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; David Cyganski, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Michael Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Michael Demetriou; Fred Looft; William Michalson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Bradley Miller, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Eben Cobb, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Lance Schachterle, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kenneth Stafford, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Yiming Rong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Gretar Tryggvason, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; James Van de Ven, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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integration, electric and pneumatic actuators, power transmission, materials and static force analysis, controls and programmable embedded computer systems, system integration and robotic applications. Laboratory sessions consist of hands-on exercises and team projects where students design and build mobile robots. RBE 2001 UNIFIED ROBOTICS I First of a four-course sequence introducing foundational theory and practice of robotics engineering from the fields of computer science, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. The focus of this course is the effective conversion of electrical power to mechanical power, and power transmission for purposes of locomotion, and of payload

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald Kander, James Madison University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

of proposed courses, outlined in Tables 3and 4. Table 3 organizes the proposed courses as a typical student would progress through the4-year, 120-credit curriculum. In order to better compare the proposed curriculum with thevision and design elements described earlier, the credit hours in Table 3 are broken down andorganized by curriculum area in Table 4. Page 13.262.7 Table 3: Proposed Courses for New Engineering Degree (L) indicates courses with one or more integrated laboratory credits Freshman Fall Freshman Spring Calculus I 4 Calculus II

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Rabb; David Chang, United States Military Academy

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

resources together forthe course to promote student learning. The instructors engage in meaningful dialogueconcerning their assignments, lesson preparations, laboratory exercises, and their results. Theinformation flow between instructors from different departments encourages faculty learning bypushing the instructors beyond their own discipline. This paper illustrates some of the coursedetails employed between two engineering departments to advance and enrich aninterdisciplinary controls engineering course. Advantages to empowering an interdisciplinaryfaculty are also described. The techniques described allow the students to benefit from the workof an interdisciplinary faculty team and enrich the students’ understanding by bringing in realworld

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design Constituents

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karthikeyan Ramamurthy, Arizona State University; Andreas Spanias, Arizona State University; Linda Hinnov, Johns Hopkins University; James Ogg, Purdue University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

, and toprovide hands-on experiences with the analysis, processing, and interpretation of earthsystems data. Page 13.947.10Bibliography1. Spanias, A.; Atti, V., “Interactive online undergraduate laboratories using J-DSP,” IEEE Transactionson Education, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 735- 749, Nov. 2005.2. Spanias, A., Atti, V., Ko, Y., Thrassyvoulou, T.,Yasin, M., Zaman, M., Duman, T., Karam, L.,Papandreou, A., and Tsakalis, K., “On-Line Laboratories for Speech and Image Processing and forCommunication Systems Using J-DSP”, IEEE DSP Workshop, 2002.3. Yasin, M.; Karam, L.J.; Spanias, A., “On-line laboratories for image and two-dimensional signalprocessing,” IEEE

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Ruhala, University of Southern Indiana; Laura Ruhala, University of Southern Indiana; Eric Sprouls, University of Southern Indiana

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, and has developed and taught many of the freshmen engineering courses, including ENGR 107 (Intro to Engineering) and ENGR 108 (Intro to Design). Other courses she is teaching are Dynamics, Dynamics of Machinery, and Engineering Materials. She is a member of ASEE and is developing a biomechanics laboratory as a center for research in bone and joint care.Eric Sprouls, University of Southern Indiana Eric Sprouls has been the Chair of the Department of Engineering at the University of Southern Indiana (USI) since 2002, where he has been teaching engineering technology and engineering courses since 1977. He holds a MS in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois. Prior to coming

Conference Session

Research in Multidisciplinary Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary Halada, State University of New York at Stony Brook; Mary Frame, State University of New York at Stony Brook; Chad Korach, State University of New York at Stony Brook; David Ferguson, State University of New York-Stony Brook

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

experience as a possiblechoice for a required technical elective provided a range of research experiences which would bedifficult to achieve through a lecture or a laboratory course. c. Other programsModels for integration of nanotechnology education into the undergraduate curriculum havebeen discussed by a number of engineering educators over the past decade, and all haveemphasized the need for a multi-disciplinary, active learning and problem based approach.6Uddin and Chowdhury specifically concluded that development of a broad-based introductorycourse at the freshman/sophomore level, which includes general concepts and societal/ethicalissues, is essential.7 They also identified a capstone, design-oriented course as critical todevelopment of

Conference Session

Research in Multidisciplinary Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chris Bachmann, James Madison University; Jeffrey Tang, James Madison University; Carl Puffenbarger, James Madison University; mike kauffman, James Madison University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

for a new typeof science and technology program that provides a broad scientific and technical education,engages students with real-world problems, and seriously addresses societal influences andimpacts. The department cuts across typical disciplinary boundaries, focusing more on practicalproblem solving than on theoretical knowledge. The curriculum emphasizes learning-by-doing,and includes several hands-on laboratory courses and a 3-semester senior capstone project.Upper-level instruction in the department is organized around strategic industry sectors, withstudents choosing to concentrate their studies in biosystems, engineering and manufacturing,information and knowledge management, telecommunications, energy, or environment.In 1997, the

Conference Session

Experiential and Service Learning

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Ejiwale, Jackson State University; Della Posey, Jackson State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

mediums by which students’ leadership skills could be assessed. Some areasare through co-operative education, internship, job shadowing, and many more. Given the factthat most students in the industrial technology program would have not been able to put intopractice their leadership skills before graduation, the integration of service learning and learningcommunities would be of immense benefit. While service learning would provide the avenue forstudents to put into practice the knowledge gained in the classroom and laboratory, the learningcommunities would function in the capacity of facilitators and mentors by giving constantfeedback on students’ performance while engaged in service learning to enhance their leadershipskills.The integration of

Conference Session

Experiential and Service Learning

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Odon Musimbi, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara Moskal, Colorado School of Mines; David Munoz, Colorado School of Mines

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

attitudes with respect to community service than did students and that only minordifferences existed based on participants’ age and gender.The current research builds from this prior effort. In Bauer et al., data were collected in theMultidisciplinary Engineering Laboratory, EGGN250, a sophomore level course in the fall of2004. This course was selected because it was required of all students and it preceded the courserequirements within the Humanitarian Engineering minor. In other words, the existence of theminor and the courses associated with that minor would not yet have impacted the students’attitudes. Using the same instrument, data was collected in the spring of 2007 in a senior levelcourse, a time period when most of the original student

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Heun, Calvin College; Steven VanderLeest, Calvin College

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2008-2264: WHY A LIBERAL AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION ISNEEDED TO SOLVE THE ENERGY CRISISMatthew Heun, Calvin College Matthew K. Heun received his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was a staff engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California and a Senior Engineer at Global Aerospace Corporation in Altadena, California before joining the Engineering Department at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.Steven VanderLeest, Calvin College Steven H. VanderLeest is a Professor of Engineering and currently the Engineering Department Chair at Calvin College. He has an M.S.E.E. from Michigan Technological

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Willis, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; James Conrad, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

over-lap into section (1) (the historic component of the course). Project 1 was on celestial mechanics(see §Appendix B: Celestial Mechanics Project) and required students to compute the orbit of theplanets by solving the system of ODEs that arise from analysis of Newton’s two-body equation,i.e., the mutual gravitational forces exerted between the sun and an orbiting planet such as Earth.Students use computer laboratories for the implementation of the design projects outside of class.Project 2 addressed the thermodynamic of heat dissipation (see §Appendix C: ThermodynamicsProject) and required students to compute both the analytical and numerical solution to the PDEthat models heat dissipation known as the heat equation. Students solved the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Farison, Baylor University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

transition had been largely completed and the generalstructure for the “new” Engineering major had been formulated. Under these conditions, B.S.E.students are required before the beginning of the junior year: (1) to develop for approval theirindividualized program plan, and (2) to select one of several course “stems,” which provides asequence of related courses to an employable-skill level (a senior-level engineering course with adesign and/or laboratory experience). While this information about the structure andrequirements of the program is complete in the University’s catalog, there is also a multi-page setof worksheets to aid the student and program coordinator in developing and approving thecurricular plan for each individual student.With a

Conference Session

Sustainability and Environmental Issues

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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P. Paxton Marshall, University of Virginia; Farhad Omar, University of Virginia; Alexander Hydrogen Martin, University of Virginia; James Durand, University of Virginia

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

3616.8 Table 3 Late Fall / Early Spring normal operational day (Ayman [14] with Modifications)Based on analysis in table 3 the Learning Barge will require about 3.7 kilowatt-hours ofenergy per operational day.After identifying each individual load and determining their power consumption, themost important analysis is to understand the solar radiation we receive each day. Table 4provides a thirty-year average, from 1961 to 1990, obtained from the National RenewableEnergy Laboratory (NREL) [1]. The average solar radiation, in the Money Point areawhere the barge will be located, from March to September is over four hours. However,the average of direct solar exposure is 2.5 hours or less in November

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design Constituents

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Catherine Skokan, Colorado School of Mines; Michael Ewing, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara Moskal, Colorado School of Mines; Heidi Barker, Regis University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

at Crime Scenes Laboratory • Logic Problems and Math GamesFri 7/20 • Evaluation Forms • Lunch to Celebrate!Day 10 Page 13.1324.5 • PosttestAcademic Year Follow-upThe first phase of this program was the implementation of the summer workshop. Thesecond phase occurred during the academic year. Throughout the academic year, a CSMgraduate student visited each of the participating teachers on a weekly basis and providedassistance as the teachers

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Teams

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Denine Northrup, Western New England College; Steven Northrup, Western New England College

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

-disciplinary teams”1. Western New England College has a long history of incorporatingengineering design into laboratory and course work. Additionally, interdisciplinary team effortsare initiated in the freshman year and continue for all four years.2,3 This paper describes theassessment instrument used in a senior-level interdisciplinary course that students take during thefall semester. The design project brings together students from mechanical, electrical, andcomputer engineering in teams typically consisting of 4-5 members. During the most recentdelivery of the course, due to a limited number of platforms and a larger senior class, the teamsconsisted of 7-8 students.To achieve a good level of interdisciplinary teamwork, educators need to motivate

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone Design Projects

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yanfei Liu, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne (Eng); Jiaxin Zhao, Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

system, light stimulationsystem, digital RF remote control unit, and motor driving unit. The whole circuit including themotors is supplied by eight rechargeable Ni-MH batteries. The layout of a printed circuit board(PCB) was designed and the PCB was fabricated in the laboratory of Electrical and ComputerEngineering Technology Department at IPFW. Figure 5 shows an image of the actual PCB. ThePCB was mounted to the underside of the mounting tray shown in Figure 4 that has beendescribed in the previous paragraph.The operation of the ISPU is controlled by a microcontroller. The microcontroller senses soundvia a microphone, and the units’ motion via two accelerometers. Based on those inputs and pre-programmed algorithms the units’ motors will be

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Waldron, Grand Valley State University; Pramod Chaphalkar, Grand Valley State University; Shabbir Choudhuri, Grand Valley State University; John Farris, Grand Valley State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

. Previous work by the authors has focused onimproving the integration of CAE1,2 into mechanical engineering programs. Noble3 writes thatthere is “a need for a broad based individual that is capable of working in an integrated fashion ina team environment.” According to King and Lin4, “Industries need engineers who are versed instreamlining processes from design to planning to manufacturing.” Tsang and Wilhelm5developed a one-credit laboratory to “integrate the disciplines of materials science andengineering, manufacturing and design.” Noble3 also notes that “little is done to provide anysynthesis between the courses.”The goal of this paper is to document efforts to improve the experiences of students working inintegrated design project teams and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yusuf Mehta, Rowan University; William Riddell, Rowan University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

- F INBIBLIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION1. Gallow, De, “What is Problem Based Learning?” Instructional Resource Center, The William and Flora HewlettGrant.” http://www.pbl.uci.edu/whatispbl.html, 2006.2. Scardamalia, M., and Bereiter C. “Student communities for the advancement of knowledge,” Communicationsof the ACM Volume 39 No. 4 pp. 36 – 37, 19963. Mehta, Y. and Najafi, F “Teaching Methodology of Flexible Pavement Materials and Pavement Systems,”Journal of SMET Education, 2003a.4. Mehta, Y. A, Orlins, J. and Lubelski, D. “Innovative Teaching Methods for Surveying and EngineeringGraphics,” Proceedings of Mi-Atlantic Conference, Kean University, NJ 2003b.5. Mehta, Y. A. “Innovative Techniques To Teach Civil Engineering Materials Laboratory

Conference Session

Experiential and Service Learning

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jim Chamberlain, Clemson University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

aclassroom setting but instead could be in the form of a field trip to a vendor’s installationor to an office or a laboratory. The purpose of the meeting is to tie together conceptualloose ends that the students may have regarding their design and to be able to refine thedesign based on professional “in the field” guidance and experience. The meeting withthe expert may lead to the need to collect different and/or more pieces of data. Thismeeting may also result in a new iteration producing additional design options and,consequently, more than one cost estimate.Cost estimate and design revision. The design module group refines their preliminarydesign based upon the expert’s recommendations and performs cost estimates on one ormore design options