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Multidisciplinary Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Miskimins

Session 3125 Peer Learning: Observation of the Cluster Effect in Multidisciplinary Team Settings Jennifer L. Miskimins Colorado School of MinesIntroductionTeamwork education and multidisciplinary integration have become progressively more importantover the last decade. The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), which isresponsible for the accreditation of engineering programs, specifically states that engineeringprograms “must demonstrate that their graduates have an ability to function on multi-disciplinaryteams

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Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2003 Annual Conference

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Meredith Aronson; Marie Reyes; Jeff Goldberg

students of color in engineering. It is to address feelings of isolation and lack ofrole models that we are attempting to build a community of engineering women that will stretchacross faculty and students.Hewitt and Seymour’s foundational work clearly demonstrated that altruism or service is amotivator for women and their participation/retention in technical areas. By integrating servicework oriented to the community into the curriculum, building linkages between the social contextfor engineering work and engineering science, the expectation is that women students will becomemore involved, and are more likely choose to remain within engineering.At many universities, a majority of the activities oriented towards increasing retention andimproving

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Hardymon; Saeed Foroudastan

these design projects that offer them an understanding ofengineering and engineering technology and motivate them to take additional courses within theengineering curriculum. They gain a much better “sense” of engineering. Design projects infreshmen courses improve the course content, improve enrollment, and have a positive impact onthe learning experience.IntroductionWhile studying recruiting and retention issues for the Engineering Technology and IndustrialStudies Department at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), one of the professors took an Page 8.1157.1innovative approach in his introductory engineering fundamentals course by

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Programming and DSP Issues in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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David Schwartz; K-Y Daisy Fan

Session 2420 First Programming Course in Engineering: Balancing Tradition and Application K-Y. Daisy Fan, David I. Schwartz Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New YorkAbstractThe “Introduction to Programming” course is an essential part of any first-year engineeringprogram. As part of a common first-year curriculum, one of the biggest challenges of this firstprogramming course is to both teach fundamental programming concepts and give studentspractical tools that can be applied easily to upper level courses in different engineering

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jeff Dalton; Daniel Stutts

andelectronic components. The systems to be controlled were two small bench-top apparatusdesigned and built by ME department staff members and faculty. The position controlexperimental setup used is shown in Figure 1. A voltage control input drove a servo amplifierthat controled a DC motor, flywheel, and feedback sensor. Students were asked to design aclosed loop feedback control system that met specified performance requirements. Figure 1. Position control experiment.The integrated mini-laboratory experience was part of an on-going effort within the departmentof Mechanical Engineering to augment traditional lecture style courses with practical designexperiences featuring hands-on work for students consistent with the

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Innovations in the CHE Laboratory

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2003 Annual Conference

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R. Russell Rhinehart; Benjamin Lawrence; Sundararajan Madihally

carryout a number of experimentsrelated to each concept. This modular approach, emphasizing the concepts, lacksinterconnectivity and integration of novel computational tools such as simulation packages,statistical analysis tools and technical writing skills. Unit Operations Laboratory (UOL) is an idealcourse to integrate all chemical engineering curriculum skills as well as the technical tools that areroutinely used in the industrial environment. At Oklahoma State University, one goal in chemical engineering education is to encouragestudents to connect concepts developed in multiple courses, and generate comprehensivesolutions to engineering problems. Students are required to complete two 2-sch UOL courses inour undergraduate curriculum. One

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Norb Delatte

curriculum, including engineering mechanics courses and related courses in other curricula. Once these have been identified, it is possible to suggest case studies to support the topics.3. Develop the master plan to link courses, topics and course objectives, and case studies. Page 8.400.2Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education4. Draft an action plan to write case studies to fill in the gaps, and begin writing the case studies.5. Prepare the case studies. These cases will address the following elements of each case

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

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2003 Annual Conference

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Anita Mahadevan-Jansen

theengineering curriculum especially for the freshman student. Engineering problem solving anddesign are the cornerstones of engineering education that form an appropriate introduction toengineering. On the other hand using computing tools such as spreadsheets and mathematicalpackages to solve engineering problems is still very relevant in today’s world. Recent pedagogicaladvances indicate the learning is enhanced when situated in the context of real world problemsleading to problem-based or challenge-based learning (Bransford, 2000). Thus, combining all ofthese ideas, an introductory engineering course was developed and implemented using challenge-based instruction at Vanderbilt University.The focus of the course was changed from a skills level course

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tamy Fry; Mark A. Nanny; Mary John O'Hair; Teri Reed Rhoads

technologies,and to build and renew the students’ desire to become involved in technological fields. This isaccomplished by allowing the students to experience math and science in ways that are excitingand meaningful to them in their everyday lives. The ATA utilizes project teams consisting of aneducation fellow, a science or engineering fellow (one is an undergraduate fellow and the otherone is a graduate fellow), and a participating secondary school teacher to develop and implementrelevant, hands-on lessons to teach math and science concepts in the classrooms. The lessonactivities are designed to introduce the required curriculum concepts in a fun and interestingmanner, to demonstrate the students’ potential to understand and enjoy math and science

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gustavo Bolaños

Design course is one of the most important components of a Chemical Engineeringcurriculum because it allows the students to connect many of the concepts they have studiedduring several years, and to direct them towards the plannning of a chemical processing unit.This exercise offers inmense posibilities for the development of skills such as teamwork,communication, selfevaluation, integrative thinking, and creativity, among others. In addition,the design course provides an important opportunity for cooperation with industrial partners by Page 8.1082.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Reel; Christine Allard; Deborah Kaminski; Linda McCloskey

sequence is normally taken in the sophomore year andis integrated with an engineering design course. The second course is aimed at juniorlevel students and the final course is intended for seniors. Throughout the sequence,students learn through lectures, experiential exercises, readings, group discussions, andtalks with invited guests. Topics include verbal and non-verbal communication, teamdynamics, conflict resolution, leadership, values, vision, goal setting, and many others. The focus of this paper is the first course in the sequence, ProfessionalDevelopment I (PDI), which has been a requirement for all engineering students since1998. PDI is part of the sophomore engineering course Introduction to EngineeringDesign (IED). The PDI segment

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stephen Peretti; Paula Berardinelli; Naomi Kleid; Deanna Dannels; Chris Anson; Lisa Bullard; Dave Kmiec

instruction and assessment of multidisciplinaryteams in the senior design curriculum. At NC State University, one specific challenge emerging in one such chemical engineering seniordesign course revolves around the instruction and assessment of multidisciplinary teaming skills in thecapstone design course. This effort is part of a larger NSF funded9 project related to the integration ofwriting, teaming, and speaking instruction into engineering curricula. This paper describes theinstructional strategies and assessment mechanisms that were used in that course to support studentslearning multidisciplinary teaming competence.Multidisciplinary teaming in CHE 451 The initial focus of the NSF grant was a senior capstone chemical engineering

Conference Session

Energy Project and Laboratory Ideas

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Margaret Wismer

phase circuits, transformers and three phasetransformers. Faraday’s law is covered briefly to aid with the physical explanation of trans-formers. Faraday’s law is also used to introduce the concepts of electromechanical deviceswhich is the topic for the second half of the course. For transformers, covered in the firsthalf, and motors/generators, covered in the second half, emphasis is placed on developingand using equivalent circuits over energy balance principles. DC generators and voltageregulators for generators are covered then DC motors and motor controllers, followed byAC generators and AC generator regulators. One of the labs requires them to design andbuild a feedback controller for a 1/4hp DC generator. In short they create an error

Conference Session

Web-Based Instruction

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mufazzal Arif; Mitchel Keil; Jorge Rodriguez; Alamgir Choudhury

agencies.1. IntroductionStress analysis is an integral part of the undergraduate mechanical design courses in bothengineering and engineering technology programs. In the design analysis area ofengineering programs students are taught the fundamental concepts related to stresses inmechanical components and their innovative applications. Students utilize their learning toformulate problems and analyze stresses for creative design purposes. On the other handin technology programs, the focus is on utilizing efficient techniques for analysis of anexisting designs to address a specific problem, and modify or improve the design.Therefore, the emphasis is mainly on mastering the routine techniques rather than creativesolution of a problem. But, without

Conference Session

Current Issues in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Brzoska; Atsushi Inoue; Min-Sung Koh; William Loendorf

department, school and college, • A final list of proposed SET courses including course descriptions based on the research, • Recommendations for integrating new learning strategies and problem-solving Page 8.395.8 techniques in the curriculum, Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education • An identification of potential industry mentors, internships, and industry-originated classroom projects, • A final list of laboratory needs including

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

solveproblems in more creative way and share information [07].5. Let’s Go Folks! - The ProjectAs mentioned before this special program is based in an integrated educational method usingcomputers as the tools to increment the learning process aiming the betterment of fundamentaleducation system, the K12.Engineers, Pedagogues, Social Agents and others scientists and technicians involved witheducation have been working in the implementation and development of this project.It encompasses top technologies with access to Internet and complete didactic material designedfor this kind of proposal.The project has been named “Let’s go folks!” as a strategy to reach the young students. Anotherstrategy of marketing to get the attention of them is the name of the

Conference Session

Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Budny Dan; Teresa Larkin

Professor of Physics Education and Faculty Liaison to the Pre-engineering Program atAmerican University. Dr. Larkin received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering Physics from South DakotaState University in Brookings, SD in 1982 and 1985, respectively. She received the Ph.D. in Curriculum andInstruction with special emphasis in Physics and Science Education from Kansas State University in Manhattan, KSin 1997. Dr. Larkin’s research interests primarily involve the assessment of student learning in introductory physicscourses. Dr. Larkin has been an active member of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) and theAmerican Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) for many years. Dr. Larkin served on the Board of Directorsfor ASEE from

Conference Session

Innovative Hands-On Projects and Labs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nasir Bilal; Harold Kess; Douglas Adams

supports the roving laboratory by donating test specimens,providing engineering problems of practical importance and evaluating the results of the course,is also described. The goals of the project are to give students more control of the learningprocess; to better educate students in vibrations and experimental mechanics; to encourage life-long self-learning and an appreciation for experimentation; and to create a stronger and moredirect link between industrial partners and the classroom. The evaluation procedure fordetermining whether or not and to what degree the goals of the project are met is also outlined.This project, DUE-0126832, is sponsored by the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education.1. IntroductionThe theme of this project in

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Grimm

. The new requirement approved by thefaculty requires that all students satisfactorily complete a two-semester sequence of threecredit courses, MEEM4900 and MEEM4910. This new commitment to design was basedon an interest in providing students with a significant experience in engineering designfrom problem definition and concept development to the construction and testing ofprototypes. It was also based on the desire to provide the majority of the mechanicalengineering students with the opportunity to work on meaningful industrially sponsoredprojects for which less than two semesters of time would be inadequate.BackgroundWhile developing the new semester based mechanical engineering curriculum it becameevident that by requiring an additional 3

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott T. Miller; Andrew C. Arvin; Francesco Costanzo

Page 8.357.2of materials (these developments have yet to be published as they have yet to be testedin class). Furthermore, as said earlier, it is the result of a learning process on the part Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright c 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationof the authors which ended up being codified and made available to the students in thegraduate continuum mechanics course. This premise is made to point out that the needfor the material presented here did not arise from a review of the graduate curriculum orby the enrollment level in the course. Instead, it was an initiative taken by the authorsinspired by the belief that a

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Kelley; Mark Talbot; Jeffrey Starke; Michael Butkus

(USMA), we go one stepfurther as engineering design concepts are also directly aligned with the USMA AcademicProgram Goals.The Environmental Engineering Program, at the USMA, has integrated design in the curriculum,depicted in Figure 1, to addresses these professional practice elements via the following designexperience goals. The design builds upon the linkage of Physicochemical Treatment Processes(EV401), Senior Design Capstone (EV490), and Independent Study (EV489). • Challenge students with open-ended designs. • Provide students with the opportunity to communicate technical information to tradesmen, skilled technicians (e.g. an illustrator), and the customer. • Develop multiyear design projects that allow for growth

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

M. Sharma

(CD-ROM,World Wide Web/Internet, Online Synchronous/Asynchronous, Compressed Video, and hybridsof these tools) and assessing the effectiveness of their integration on teaching and learning bystudents in terms of depth of knowledge learned, dexterity/skill of problem solving,motivation/attitude, achievement, and retention of knowledge. Researchers of teaching andlearning phenomena and processes, and educational psychologists, are investigating thesephenomena based on different perspectives, theories, and hypotheses. Supported by a grant fromthe National Science Foundation, the authors of this paper have developed computer-based-instruction modules for an introductory thermodynamics course that incorporate active learningexercises within them

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rana Mitra; John-David Yoder; Michael Rider

Session 1566without him.Bibliography[1] Faste, R., B. Roth, and D.J. Wilde, “Integration of Creativity into the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum,”ASME Resource Guide to Innovation in Design Education, Cary A. Fisher, Ed., American Society of MechanicalEngineers, New York, 1993.[2] "Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, Effective for Evaluations during the 2001-2002 AccreditationCycle," ABET, 2000. (http://www.abet.org/images/Criteria/eac_criteria_b.pdf)[3] Dutson, Alan J. et al, 1997. "A Review of Literature on Teaching Engineering Design Through Project-Oriented Capstone Courses," Journal of Engineering Education. 86(1):17-28.[4] Marin, John A., James E. Armstong Jr., and James L. Kays, "Elements of an Optimal Capstone Experience,"1999

Conference Session

Mathematics in the Transition

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2003 Annual Conference

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Claudia Morrell; Taryn Bayles; Anne Spence

, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, is to increase studentenrollment and student diversity in college engineering programs throughout the state ofMaryland and, potentially, throughout the country. The program incorporates five objectives inorder to attain this goal: (1) develop CD curriculum kits that target different fields of engineering(chemical, electrical, civil, and mechanical) that can be used in both middle and high schoolalgebra classes; (2) provide a summer workshop for in-service mathematics teachers andundergraduate engineering Teaching Fellows; (3) develop an undergraduate engineeringTeaching Fellows program to provide hands-on instructional classroom support for middle andhigh school algebra teachers to help them integrate

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sridhar Condoor

Session 1566 Application-Centered Methodology for Teaching Programmable Logic Controllers Condoor, S.S. Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MissouriAbstractThe paper discusses the methodology used for teaching programmable logic controllers –a part of the Mechatronics curriculum. The goal of the curriculum is to nurture skills thatcan help in implementing a Mechatronics project from the functional specifications. Tothis end, we developed a teaching paradigm involving several modules each with sixidentical steps. In this teaching paradigm, students see: 1

Conference Session

Improving Communication Skills in ME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Chasnov

. Christian and Community Service is an integral partof the Cedarville experience. Our students look for ways to incorporate service projects into theircurriculum. The faculty are more than willing to support such projects. Whether for a family living inthe Miami Valley here in Ohio, or a missionary working in Timbuktu (before entering the Old Guardcompetitions, a team of our seniors actually designed a ferry that could be manufactured in Mali, Africafor a missionary to use to cross the Niger River during its flood season), projects that help people tendto touch the hearts of the judges.4. Organization and Effective Delivery Combine to 60% of the Score. Over the 10 years duringwhich I have observed our regional Old Guard Oral Competition, the upgrade

Conference Session

Partnerships in IE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jon Marvel

, 19974. Groover, Mikell P., Automation, Production Systems, and Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Prentice Hall,2nd ed., 2000.5. Singh, N. and Rajamani, D., Cellular Manufacturing Systems: Design, Planning and Control, John Wiley andSons Inc., 19966. Sekine, K., One-Piece Flow: Cell Design for Transforming the Production Process, Productivity Press, 19927. Monden, Y., Toyota Production System: An Integrated Approach to Just-in-Time, 2 nd ed., Institute of IndustrialEngineers Press, 1993JON H. MARVELJon H. Marvel is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Grand Valley State University. He holds a BE fromStevens Institute of Technology, an MS from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. the University of Cincinnati.His is primary responsible for

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Vincent Wilczynski

in their major continues to be a challenge for educators. Engineering educators havebeen reminded of the need to strengthen this aspect of the curriculum in numerous studies and bythe very standards that are used to accredit our programs. For design education to be effective,design tools must be introduced early in the curriculum, reinforced in fundamentals courses, anddemonstrated in capstone projects.1At the U.S. Coast Guard Academy the sophomore level course Introduction to MechanicalEngineering Design has been developed to provide students with an initial introduction tofundamental topics that will be applied in their upper-division courses. These topics include theengineering design process, engineering economics, risk based decision

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Theresa Jones; Jerold Jones; Gary Vliet; Philip Schmidt

core courses in the thermal-fluid sciences(TFS): thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer. These fundamental topics are at theheart of all energy conversion systems, and courses focusing on each area have been an importantpart of the mechanical engineering curriculum since the inception of the field.The contents of these courses are almost universally accepted throughout the world, and excellenttextbooks are available, all of which follow nearly identical outlines. The teaching approach istraditional: lectures and problem sets, in some cases supplemented with simple structured labexperiences. Page 8.105.1 Proceedings of the

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What's New in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ranky

andindustrial challenges, including best practices, with the intention of reducing risks,getting things done using sound methods, technologies and collaborative peer groupexperience as support mechanisms.The audience of this library is engineering science and technology students, engineeringmanagement students, design, industrial engineering, design and process engineers, ITstudents / professionals, as well as biomedical engineering and medical science students.At its most fundamental level, our library is a• Knowledge documentation method, architecture, tool and resource, an• Instructional method characterized by the integrated approach to engineering, science, management, IT, and medical sciences, in which we use challenging 'real world