Conference Session

Instrumentation in the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Swaminadham Midturi

exercise their programming skillsthrough individualized laboratory assignments, and mechanical students to expose tomechanical instrumentation applications similar to those in industry. The combined groupproject(s) with both mechanical and electrical elements will enable both groups of studentsto communicate, help each other with ideas, and solve instrumentation problems.Moreover, this new and upcoming mechanical student groups will have hands-onknowledge and skills in digital electronics, and the revised format, we hope, will work Page 8.22.4well. In addition to formal lecture and lab, we intend to invite guest lecturers to speakon the nature of

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Christie

participants’ mathematics achievement.Universities can take advantage of different resource in their communities to improve therepresentation of African American, Latino and Native American students. Working with well-established community organizations is a creative and efficient method by which universities canestablish collaborative partnerships. With proper management, these partnerships can provide ashort-term and a long-term solution to improving the pipeline of underrepresented students inSTEM fields. Page 8.1317.5ReferencesBailey, S. (1992). Shortchanging girls, shortchanging America: A call to action. Washington,DC: Women’s Educational Foundation

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Heather Cooper

application areas identified as being used the most frequently were: heatexchangers, HVAC, energy conservation/efficiency, and refrigeration. These results are shown inFigure 7 below. T hermal Systems - Specific Applicatio n A reas Enco untered Heat Exchang ers HVAC Energy Co nservatio n/Ef f iciency Refrig eration Energ y A udit s M anufacturing Pro cess Heat Electronics Co ol ing Thermal Diag nost ics Po wer Generati o n: Di esel

Conference Session

Tools for Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Forbes; Mary Emplaincourt

for Engineering Education” ReferencesANSI Z35.1-1972, (1972), Specifications for Accident Prevention Signs.ANSI Z535.4, (1989), American National Standard for Product Safety Signs and Labels.ASA Standard Z35.1-1941, (1941), Specifications for Industrial Accident PreventionSigns.ASA Standard Z35.1-1959, (1959), Industrial Accident Prevention Signs.OSHA (1976), General Industry, (29 CFR 1910).OSHA (1983), General Industry, (29 CFR 1910).OSHA (1983), Construction Industry, (29 CFR 1926/1910).Parsons, S. O., Seminara, J. L., and Wogalter, M. S., (1999, Jan.), A Summary ofWarnings Research. Ergonomics in Design, pp. 21-31.SAE J115 Sep. 79, (1979), Safety Signs. SAE Recommended Practice.SAE J115 Feb. 95

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sridhar Condoor

significantdifference in their confidence level.References1. Ashley, S. [1997, May] Getting a Hold on Mechatronics, Mechanical Engineering, ASME Press.2. Harrison, O. [2002], Hands-on = Minds-on: Bringing Mechatronics to Life Without Laboratory Time, Proceeding of 2002 ASEE SE Section Annual Conference.3. Southall, S. [2001] An Industrial Controls Course Sequence for Manufacturing Engineering Technology, Proceeding of 2001 ASEE SE Section Annual Conference. Page 8.226.7 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”4

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Teaching Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kristin Wood; Daniel Jensen; Alan Dutson; Matthew Green

Table 2 and in Appendix 4. Table 2: Example devices and structures subjected to bending loads. Device/ Support Model FBD Comments Structure Fireplace The mantel is attached to Mantel Fcandel Fpot Fclock the fireplace with two wmantel cantilevered 2x4’s. These

Conference Session

Real-World Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dhirendra Bhattarai; Christopher Ibeh

Session 1649 AIMSeT: Advanced Innovative Materials Selection Techniques Christopher C. Ibeh, Dhirendra Bhattarai Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS 66762AbstractBasic materials selection techniques typically yield more than one to several suitablematerials for a given product, part or application based on pre-specified propertyrequirements and processing method(s). Some of the advanced innovative materialsselection techniques recognize that the pre-specified properties do not have the samelevel of importance in a given design or application. These innovative techniques such asthe digital logic approach

Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Schmidt; David Bigio; Linda Schmidt; Paige Smith

institutionalization of curricular an d pedagogical reform. Research in Higher Education, 43(4), 397-421.[4] Felder, R., and Silverman, L. (1988) Learning and Teaching Styles in Engineering Education, Journal of Engineering Education, 78(7):674.[5] Gido, J. and Clements, J.P. (1999) Successful project management, Cincinnati, OH: South-Western College Publishing.[6] Kolb Learning Style Inventory, (1985) McBer & Company.[7] Marmel, E. (2000) Project 2000, Foster City, CA: IDG Books Worldwide, Inc.[8] L. Schmidt, L., Mead, P., Natishan, M., Lathan, C., Brown, S., Goswami, I. and Mouring, S. (1999) “BESTEAMS: Building Engineering Student Team Effectiveness and Management Systems, CD-ROM Proceedings 1999 ASEE Annual Conference &

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Courter; Rebecca Cors; Pat Eagan

semester. The Teaching Improvement Program is part of the UW-Madison College of Engineering's endeavor to "help meet the needs of society in the 21st century by … creating the next generation of engineering leaders (UW-Madison College of Engineering's Dean Bollinger as quoted in the College's Vision 2000 brochure)." This focus on leadership skills for engineering students emerged over the last 15 years as part of a longstanding effort to link curricula with workplace skill sets. The technological explosion of the 1980's brought with it an urgent need for technical professionals with communications skills, and the College of Engineering responded by launching a Technical Communications Certificate program in 1988. More

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher Murad

e e! g n ) m in (s tio

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Frontiers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

YongMi Kim; Jai Kang; Chan Park

Session 1639 Developing a Web-Based Engineering Economy Courseware Chan S. Park, Jai W. Kang Auburn University/ Rochester Institute of TechnologyIntroductionRecently, more web-based instructional materials have been developed to help students in learningvarious engineering subject matters. In engineering economy instruction in particular, the use ofthe Internet is increasingly common. Even though most instructors as well as students appreciatethe power of the Internet, how we develop a web-based courseware is a much debated issue. Inparticular, Excel becomes almost the de facto

Conference Session

Tools for Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bret Van Poppel; Shad Reed

0.075 2 0.05 1 0.025 0 0 0 5 10 15 20 25 Tangential Velocity [ft/s] Figure 5: Shaft Torque and Power versus Turbine Wheel Tangential VelocityWhile the homework assignment was not part of the turbine design project, the intent was for thestudents to connect the two

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Heimdahl Peter; Brenda Puck; Danny Bee

Session 1692 Summer Technology & Engineering Preview at Stout (STEPS) for Girls Danny J. Bee, Brenda S. Puck, and Dr. Peter D. Heimdahl Technology Department, College of Technology, Engineering and Management, University of Wisconsin-StoutAbstractThis paper presents the successes of the Summer “When I was accepted into the “STEPS for Girls” program for one week last summer.”Technology & Engineering Preview at Stout for Girls(“STEPS for Girls”). In 1997, the University of

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Hankley

Page 8.1021.2architecture and design. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationDuring 1990’s decade, our curriculum, like many others, had a capstone software engineering andsenior project course. Over the years it became clear that students were learning design issueswhile they were building their senior project; they did not have a foundation of design experienceto bring to bear on their project work.The latest ACM/IEEE guidelines, currently in draft form [4], also define areas of the body ofknowledge for degrees relating to computing. Section 7, Introductory Courses, discusses theoption of

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Eliot; Angela Linse; Jennifer Turns

preliminary list of concerns suggests topics forinstructional development and provides a basis for surveys exploring the concerns of specificgroups of faculty. Documented variability in the level of individuals’ pedagogical expertiseindicates that instructional developer effectiveness can be enhanced by beginning instructionaldevelopment interactions with efforts to ascertain participants’ pedagogical knowledge. Suchassessment, which can be either formal or informal, can help instructional developers to customizeactivities to suit their user(s). The importance of vocabulary and terminology to engineeringfaculty suggests that instructional development materials and activities be reviewed for potentiallydissonant vocabulary. Instructional development

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alan Adams; Nick Safai

Pilot Passenger Velocity ft/s 31 31 35 30 Change gp g’s 19 15 14 30 tr Sec 0.05 0.06 0.08 0.031 Table 1. Test 1 dynamic test requirement (combined vertical/longitudinal test)The seat cushion on a seat acts as a spring/damper that is located in the primary load pathbetween the seat occupant and the seat structure. The seat cushion is considered a primarycomponent in the seat system. It must be included and certified as part of the seat system duringthe seat dynamic test program. It has been demonstrated that the seat

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sang Ha Lee; Stefani A. Bjorklund; John Wise; Thomas Litzinger

,” Engineering Education, vol. November, pp. 112-116, 1986.5. C. O. Houle, Continuing Learning in the Professions. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1980.6. Marra, R., K. Camplese, and T. Litzinger, Lifelong Learning: A Preliminary Look at the Literature in View of EC 2000, 1999 FIE Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 1999.7. Litzinger, T. and R. Marra, Life Long Learning: Implications for Curricular Change and Assessment; ASEE Annual Conference, St. Louis, Mo, June 2000.8. Litzinger, T., J. Wise, S. H. Lee, T. Simpson, T. and S. Joshi, “Assessing Readiness for Lifelong Learning;” ASEE Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, June 2001.9. G. H. Flammer, “Undergraduate foundations for lifelong learning,” presented at Career

Conference Session

K-20 Activities in Materials Science

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hermes Calderon; Amilcar Quispitupa; Scott Kiefer

Physics and Chemistry courses. This is one of theadvantages of five-year programs, which prepare versatile professionals with a solid backgroundformation, as noted by a recent ABET accreditation visit to this campus. Students’ opinionsconcur since they are aware that any additional skill learned represents an edge for their eventualjob search.References1. J. A. Jacobs, Advanced Engineering Materials: Products from Super Stuff, The Technology Teacher, 52 [8],(1993): pp.15-22.2. D. R. Askeland, The Science and Engineering of Materials, 3rd. Edition, PWS Publ. Co., Boston, MA, (1994).3. W. D. Callister, Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction, 5th Edition, John Wiley & Sons, NY,(1999): pp. 40-45.4. S. M. Kresta, Hands-on

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Russ Poldrack; Richard Hoge; Randy Gollub; Mark Vangel; Ian Lai; Douglas Greve; Julie Greenberg

the module was favorable. Ongoing work is aimed at expanding the scope of thetutorial, making the simulation Web-accessible and evaluating the module in a workshop to bedelivered during the summer of 2003.Bibliography1. Ogawa, S. and Lee, T.M. “Magnetic resonance imaging of blood vessels at high fields: in vivo and in vitromeasurements and image simulation,” Magn Reson Med 16(1) pp. 9-18 (1990).2. Belliveau, J.W., Kennedy, D.N., Jr, McKinstry, R.C., Buchbinder, B.R., Weisskoff, R.M., Cohen, M.S., Vevea,J.M., Brady, T.J., and Rosen, B.R. “Functional mapping of the human visual cortex by magnetic resonanceimaging,” Science 254(5032) pp. 716-9 (1991).3. Ogawa S., Tank, D.W., Menon, R., Ellermann, J.M., Kim, S.G., Merkle, H., and Ugurbil, K

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Figliola; Beth Daniell; Art Young; David Moline

with his writing, s/he may be right. Inpassive voice, the agent, the do-er of the action, is no longer the grammatical subject of thesentence and in fact often disappears entirely; for example, "The pressure was measured at five-minute intervals." The focus of the writing is on the objects, which now become the grammaticalsubjects: "The apparatus was stabilized by securing it to a base." What is emphasized here is thething or the procedure. Readers expect a lab report to be object-centered—to containgrammatical subjects that are in fact material objects, which thus require passive verbs.Certainly, students need to understand that writing in engineering embodies objects. Studentsneed to understand that the customary use of using the object as

Conference Session

Ethical & Industrial Issues in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eugene Eckstein; Charla K. Triplett

Session 2209 Growth of the Alliance for Industrial Internships C.K. Triplett 1 and E.C. Eckstein2 1Biomedical Career Center, Ch andler, AZ 85226 2 U. Memphis & U. Tennessee Joint Graduat e Program in BME, Memphi s, TN 38152-32 10Abstract - The Alliance is a network of coordinators and faculty from BiomedicalEngineering units that place undergraduate and graduate students in industrial internshipexperiences. This network provides tools that aid in placing students in opportunitiesnearer home, in industries specializing in work that matches

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wagdy Mahmoud; Tom Timmermann; Bonita Barger; Ahmed Elsawy

Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright@2003, American Society for Engineering EducationGeneral Course Characteristics are: 1) instructor coordinated independent study, 2) few readingassignments, much reference work expected, 3) fundamental knowledge of problem solving andskill is prerequisite, 4) professional looking end-product and presentation expected, 5) team(s) ofstudents work on a complex project, 6) instructor is a general resource person, and specialistswill need to be consulted, and 7) distance learning using WebCT® course management engine.The Industrial ProjectsUsing WebCT ®, the students are divided randomly into teams of two or three students. Eachteam will research and develop a design problem

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Sluss

Session # 1332 The Telecommunications Interoperability Laboratory J. J. Sluss, Jr., S. V. Kartalopoulos, H. H. Refai, M.J. Riley and P. K. Verma Telecommunications Systems, College of Engineering The University of Oklahoma - TulsaAbstract The University of Oklahoma has developed a Telecommunications Interoperability Laboratory to enhance the educational and research experience of students in the Telecommunications Systems program. The Interoperability Lab is a collection of five interconnected technology islands: the Internet

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmet Bugra Koku; Ali Sekmen; Ismail Fidan

component.When the target is found, the text-to-speech component informs the user and waits for furthercommands. If the user asks the robot to destroy the target, the laser pointer attached to the pan-tilt head of the robot points to target to simulate destroying. The components’ interaction isshown in Figure 1. The overall task should be distributed among the group members as follows: ♦ One student develops low-level hardware control for the robot. ♦ One student develops image-processing component including image grabbing from the camera(s). ♦ One student develops speech-recognition component. He/she may make use of existing speech recognition engines. ♦ One student develops text-to-speech component. He/she may

Conference Session

Programming and DSP Issues in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Franzone

Document 2003-4 A WIN32 CONSOLE CLASS LIBRARY Jeffrey S. Franzone, Assistant Professor Engineering Technology Department University of MemphisAbstractThe Console Class Library, Version 2 (CCL2) is an easy to use C++ class that provides manyuseful routines to increase the functionality and embellishment of Win32 console-modeapplications. Although CCL2 was designed primarily as a teaching tool for beginning C++programmers, it is robust and complete enough to be useful for console-mode industrial-typeapplications. CCL2 was written and

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Cooley

variability can exceed 30% depending on the instrument used.Next, students measure viscosity with a rotary viscometer designed by the author1. Thisviscometer is introduced and its operation explained as if it were a “proprietary” company designwith capabilities superior to other commercially available models (such as the Visgage). It ispurely mechanical in design so students can visualize and measure not only the geometry of arotary viscometer system, but also the physics of the torque reaction and its measurement. Theviscometer uses the US units of lbf s/ft2 and has good accuracy compared to published data 1, withonly a slight dependence on rotation speed. Students take a single measurement at each of itsspeeds, for a total of 3 samples.The third

Conference Session

ELD Technical Papers Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Williams; Paul Blowers

CourseSyllabus", J. Educ. for Bus., March/April, 215-221 (1993).16. Matejka, K. and L. B. Kurke, "Designing a Great Syllabus", Coll. Teach., 42, 115-117 (1994).17. Eberly, M. B., S. E. Newton, and R. A. Wiggins, "The Syllabus as a Tool for Student-CenteredLearning", J. Gen. Ed., 50, 56-74 (2001).18. Becker, A. H., and S. K. Calhoon, "What Introductory Psychology Students Attend to on a CourseSyllabus", Teaching of Psychol., 26, 6-11 (1999).19. Wankat, P. C., and F. S. Oreovicz, "Chart your course", ASEE Prism, 8, 18 (1999).20. Fernandez, E., PT 262 - Programming & Problem Solving Syllabus, Indiana University-PurdueUniversity Indianapolis, (2002).BARBARA WILLIAMSBarbara Williams is an Assistant Librarian in the Science and Engineering Library at the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Michael Klein; Matt Walker; Kevin Organ; Dan Gerbus

. Since the team decides the new goals, the members are more committed to fulfillthose goals.This philosophy of elevated goals carries over into the various projects that IEW undertakes.Each year IEW seeks to tackle a challenging project that will stretch the abilities of the membersinvolved and foster individual and team growth. Commonly referred to as Big Hairy AudaciousGoals (BHAG), these large-scale projects require the collaboration of the entire team in order tocomplete.In 2002, IEW accepted the BHAG of completing a drawings package using ProEngineer softwarefor a high impact tester that consisted of 398 unique parts. Originally designed by the Navy in the50’s, this machine was used to shock test circuit boards for naval warships. Due to

Conference Session

Integration vs. Compartmentalization

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Carlson

bend steel with their bare hands). Instead, engineers are able tounderstand and control forces because they are able to picture or representthem. (Ferguson 1992) By manipulating these representation s--which may benumbers, symbols, pictures, or words--engineers are able to identify the patternsin natural forces and to predict the behavior of these forces. Significantly,representations offer a real advantage to engineers (or other professionals) inthat representations are easier to manipulate than actual objects or forces in theworld; it’s a lot easier to change a set of equations representing, say an airplane,than it is to build an entirely new plane. Thus, what makes an engineer differentthan technician or craftsmen is that the engineer is

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Egarievwe

, I.D. Díaz-Rodríguez, K. Chattopadhay, S.H. Morgan, and A. Burger, " Effects of Temperature on Radiative Transitions of Erbium in Lead-Tellurium-Germanate Glass," Conference on Lasers and Electro- Optics / Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, Paper # CTuK67. (May 23- 28, 1999)5. S.U. Egarievwe, M.R. Karim, S.K. Thorne, M.O. Okobiah, and O.M. Adetunji. "Development of a Visualization System for Arterial Pressure and Related Medical Conditions." Proceedings of 12th European Simulation Symposium, Hamburg, Germany. pp. 659-663. (September 28-30, 2000)6. S.U. Egarievwe, S. K. Thorne, O. K. Okobiah O. O. Adetunji, W. E. Collins, F. A. N. Osadebe. “Simulation and Visualization of Electrostatic Field