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Methods & Techniques in Graduate Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rebecca Brent, Education Designs Inc.; Richard Felder, North Carolina State University

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Graduate Studies

A Professional Development Program for Graduate Students at North Carolina State UniversityI. Introduction The traditional engineering graduate school experience involves taking courses, selectinga dissertation or thesis advisor and project, performing the research under the advisor’ssupervision, and completing and defending the dissertation. Such an experience trains graduatestudents to carry out research on a problem someone else has defined and gotten funded. It doesnot, however, prepare them for anything else they might be called upon to do in graduate schooland in their professional careers, including: • Teaching assistant responsibilities. Grade assignments, projects, and tests; supervise laboratories

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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Multidisciplinary Engineering

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

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Instructional Methods and Tools in BME

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Goldberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; David Lalush, North Carolina State University

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Biomedical

desktop. Students work in the laboratory on weekly homework assignments and “mini-projects”, in which they program microcontrollers and develop biomedical instruments. Thelaboratories on each campus have equivalent hardware setups, as well as videoconferencingequipment so that faculty can help the students remotely. The primary teacher for this class isbased at UNC, and he occasionally travels to NCSU to work with those students directly. Inaddition, a faculty member at NCSU is present for most classes, and he is available to provideassistance to the NCSU students outside of class. In this manner, the NCSU students haveopportunities to get “in-person” help from a faculty member. Feedback on this experience wasmeasured at mid-semester and at the

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Michael Khoo, University of Southern California; Ellis Meng, University of Southern California

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Electrical and Computer

Career outcomes. This paper reports both on baseline access, retention, andcareer data and a logic model associated with a comprehensive curricular reform resulting fromthe access, retention and career baseline data. As a result of this baseline data, the ERCeducational team has found innovative ways to infuse inductively based, situated curriculum andinstruction in addition to a student-centric outcome metrics into all aspects of the BMEcurriculum and associated laboratory experiences. These assessment measures build on theprinciples established in educational psychology and include pre and posttest BME conceptinventories, rubric-based laboratory assessments, BME efficacy measures and employersatisfaction measures. A comprehensive assessment

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

FPD6 - First Year Curricula Development

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gregory Wight, Norwich University; R. Danner Friend, Norwich University; Jacques Beneat, Norwich University; William Barry, Norwich University

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First-Year Programs

hours and three laboratory hours each week. The delivery of material in the lecturessupports the projects and skills that the students work on in their laboratory. With a nominalclass size of 100 students, two lecture sections were created with approximately 50 students ineach section, and five laboratory sections were created with approximately 20 students in eachlab section. Four instructors from each of the three engineering disciplines shared the courseload each semester. This diversity in the instructors supports the multi-disciplinary nature of thecourse. The specific projects, lecture topics, and homework assignments were common to allsections; however, each instructor was responsible entirely for the delivery of the material intheir

Conference Session

Materials Education Perspectives

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aaron Blicblau, Swinburne University of Technology

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Materials

theirinformation. The eportfolio is a repository of the student’s entire academic MSE content andprovides a wealth of knowledge applicable to all engineering disciplines. This repositorycombines not only lecture and textbook material, but also every assignment (in assessed format),all quizzes (with answers) laboratory activities (in audiovisual format), student oral presentations(podcast), and lectures in asynchronous format. This allows all of the data and informationaccumulated by students throughout their varying MSE course collected in one place, and is ableto act as a quick resource and information kit for future use as the eportfolio is quickly accessed.Student and graduate responses have been positive especially for those in the workforce

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Hands-on Materials Science and Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Craig Johnson, Central Washington University

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Materials

(forming & casting). CWU, 400 E. University Way, Ellensburg, WA 98926-7584 509-963-1118 cjohnson@cwu.edu Page 13.317.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Composite Column Design/Test LabAbstract:Effective engineered composite design activities require predictive and quantitativemethodology. This research incorporates engineering design, using smart spreadsheets, into alaboratory activity focusing on columns made of composite materials.In a previous work1, a laboratory activity was developed supporting composite design of polymermatrix composite beams. The present work applies a similar

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education III

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ramakrishnan Sundaram, Gannon University; Fong Mak, Gannon University; Sunil Tandle, Gannon University

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Electrical and Computer

displayed in Figure 6. This is a real-timeinterface with a single panel comprising (a) controls for motor input variables such as thereference speed and direction of the motor, (b) numerical and graphical indicators todisplay the speed, position, and frequency of the DC motor, and (c) graphs for the currentwaveform. Clearly, the advantages of the LabVIEW-based HMI are as follows: (a) organized record of control inputs, (b) systematic tracking of motor responses, (c) clear presentation of the evidence of the experiment, and (d) offers tools for advanced measurement analysis (e.g. Fourier spectra, THD) Figure 6: LabVIEW-based RT interfaceTypical LabVIEW experiment setup:The laboratory experiment titled

Conference Session

CAD/CAM in Manufacturing Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Atin Sinha, Albany State University

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Manufacturing

AC 2008-992: PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF DIFFERENT 3D SCANNINGAND REVERSE ENGINEERING TOOLS FOR UNDERGRADUATE PROJECTSAtin Sinha, Albany State University Atin Sinha is the Regents Engineering Professor and Coordinator of the Engineering Program at Albany State University. He received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Tennessee Space Institute in 1984. He had worked in aeronautical research and industry (National Aerospace Laboratory-India, Learjet, Allied-Signal) for 12 years before moving to academia in 1990. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Oklahoma. His current research interest is rapid prototyping and reverse engineering. He is also engaged in motivating

Conference Session

Sustainable Design & Global Issues in ET

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jerome Tapper, Northeastern University; Francis Dibella, Northeastern University

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Engineering Technology

-cells and DC machines, three-phase AC machines, Induction machines,Regenerative braking, Permanent Magnet Machines and Switched Reluctance Machines. Itstudies electric drive components, the EV transmission configuration and EV motor sizing.Students are required to complete a design project relative to EV and/or HEV design.Bio-technology and Bio-engineering PillarMeasurement and Analysis: Introduces students to mechanical measurements, instrumentationand experiment data. The principles developed in class are applied in the laboratory andtechnical report writing is required. Team based Laboratory experiments utilize statisticaltechniques in mechanical measurements of temperature pressure, force, deformation, strain, androtational

Conference Session

Enhancing Mechanics Instruction

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gangbing Song, University of Houston; Mithun Singla, University of Houston; Christy Chang, University of Houston; Richard Bannerot, University of Houston

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Mechanics

can be changed without altering the Simulink file. ̇ Remote Controller Testing – Again, the micro-controller’s ability to allow programmed controllers to be downloaded to the smart beam’s hardware allows the remote implementation of control schemes. However, it should be noted that this ability extends to remote implementation of controllers. The implementation of remote controlled laboratories with student access over the internet using the smart flexible beam with a similar electronic architecture has previously been reported 8. Through the use of web-based virtual instruments (VI), students could access the smart beam hardware remotely. The VI allows students to upload their controller

Conference Session

Survivor: The First Few Years

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Creamer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Tonya Saddler, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Margaret Layne, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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New Engineering Educators

-intensiveuniversity. Two major shifts in priorities occurred within the three years: a shift from anemphasis on securing external funding to managing a research team and multiple sources offunding; and secondly, a shift from concern about the ambiguity of tenure expectations togrowing confidence about expectations attributed largely to clear feedback about performance.Research findings presented here suggest that new faculty will benefit from professionaldevelopment opportunities that address such issues as conflict, interpersonal communication, andessentials of supervision in a team and laboratory setting.Introduction and Review of Related LiteratureSocial and organizational features of faculty work, often referred to in more generic way asclimate, are

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

FPD1 - Early Success and Retention

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jale Tezcan, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; John Nicklow, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; James Mathias, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Lalit Gupta, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; Rhonda Kowalchuk, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

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First-Year Programs

13.182.3 Figure 2. Components of the retention program at COEThe Introduction to Engineering course exhibits radical departure from the COE’s tradition inwhich each engineering department in the College offered its own introductory course. Logisticalproblems related to scheduling, laboratory space, and equipment resources were resolvedthrough a very concerted effort across the college. The course has been implemented withexisting resources. This organization and development of Introduction to Engineering course ispresented below.Development of the Course:Until Fall 2007 Semester, each department in the COE offered their own introductory course.The content of these courses varied widely from teaching computer applications to

Conference Session

Electrical ET Curriculum and Projects

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Dutko, Bloomsburg University; Cathy Auburger, Bloomsburg University; Patrick Anderson, Bloomsburg University; Biswajit Ray, Bloomsburg University

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Engineering Technology

of the industry providing additional motivation for an instrumentation and dataacquisition course2 at the sophomore level of a four-year EET program. This course consists oftwo hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory per week. Students have had courses inelectrical circuit analysis, electrical machines, and analog and digital electronics before takingthis course. The first three weeks of the fifteen-week semester are devoted primarily toLabVIEW programming. During the next eight weeks, the concepts and integration of sensorsand actuators, interface electronics, and data acquisition and instrument control hardware/software are covered. The final four weeks are dedicated to student-initiated laboratory designprojects3-6. This paper

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Topics at the intersection of Aero and Naval Eng.

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Konstantin Matveev, Washington State University

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Ocean and Marine

AC 2008-38: MODEL BUILDING AND TESTING AS AN UNDERGRADUATERESEARCH APPROACH TO ADVANCING AIR-ASSISTED MARINE VEHICLETECHNOLOGYKonstantin Matveev, Washington State University Konstantin Matveev obtained a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from California Institute of Technology in 2003. He carried out his postdoctoral research at Los Alamos National Laboratory. As a research scientist at Art Anderson Associates, he was working on the development of innovative high-performance marine transportation concepts. Currently, Dr. Matveev is an assistant professor at Washington State University. His research interests include aero-hydrodynamics, dynamics, and propulsion of advanced air-assisted marine

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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Jeffrey S. Burmeister; Kyle A. Watson; Maria Garcia-Sheets

who have an interest in math and science and want to explore engineering and its disciplines with the possibility of receiving college credit from JHU. As a summer course, the class is an intensive four-week experience where students actively participate in hands-on team activities including laboratory experiments and virtual internet-based simulations while attending college-level lectures related to these activities. Field trips to local companies that employ engineers and informational sessions on college and career choices are also integrated into the course schedule. In short, the curriculum links math, science, and engineering concepts to Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anca Sala, Baker College

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Mechanical Engineering

library of motions foranalysis, and adding a laboratory experiments component are some of the future goals for thecourse.1. IntroductionExposing our undergraduate Mechanical Engineering students to wider engineering topics, andspecifically to Biomedical Engineering, was one recommendation made to us by ABET as partof the continuous improvement process of our program. Biomedical Engineering is an area ofhigh growth according to the U.S. Department of Labor projections data for 2006-20161. Inresponse to this continued demand, many Biomedical Engineering programs have been added inuniversities across the United States. In addition, Biomedical Engineering is taught as part of thecurriculum of other engineering disciplines as well2, benefiting the

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

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Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Phy

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Ross, University of Detroit Mercy; Jenna Ross, Utica Center for Mathematics Science and Technology

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Engineering Physics & Physics

, persuasivespeaking, and physics. Our unique program targets incoming high school freshmen from adiverse urban population. For several years the physics course was based on a traditionalintroductory college mechanics laboratory curriculum. This curriculum was not inquiry-basedand provided only limited opportunities for students to construct their own knowledge byperforming open-ended activities.Scholarly research into the teaching and, more importantly, the learning of physics has providedvaluable guidance for the design of innovative curricula and pedagogy 1 . The pedagogicalstrategies that are able to demonstrate high rates of student achievement, as measured bystandardized examinations, involve some form of what is commonly called interactiveengagement

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Special Resources and Activities for Minorities

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xiaoqing Qian, Alabama A&M University; Zhengtao Deng, Alabama A&M University; George Seweryniak, DoE Computational Science Division

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Minorities in Engineering

training using the high performancecomputing laboratory at AAMU; (2) DOE Computational Science scholarship program atAAMU; and (3) Minority undergraduate summer research interns at the computationalscience division of Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL). The collected data in the past six yearswere analyzed. Challenges and improvement strategies to get average student involvement inthe summer research internship and scholarship programs were presented.BackgroundAccording to the US 1990 census, the total US population was 248,709,873 in 1990. Ofthese, approximately 51% were women, 29,986,060 (or 12%) were African American,22,354,059 (or 9%) Hispanic, and 1,878,285 (or 1%) Native American. In 1995, of the total132 million U.S. civilian labor forces, only

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ryan A. Ebel; Donald S. Abbott-McCune; David Chang

Undergraduate Mechatronics Couse Design Project MAJ Ryan A. Ebel, United States Military Academy MAJ Donald S. Abbott-McCune, United States Military Academy MAJ David Chang, United States Military AcademyAbstractThere is a real need to educate our engineering students in the application of electronics, controls,mechanics, and software; this multidisciplinary initiative has led to the creation of an undergraduateMechatronics courses at the United States Military Academy (USMA) and many other universitiesaround the world. The focus of these courses is to emphasize application and hands on laboratory work ingeneral, and design projects in particular. This paper presents an

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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) through out the course and laboratory. Before the test could be performed,students had to state the predicted maximum load the beam could hold. These values were later employedwhen evaluating the effectiveness of the beams.ResultsBefore 2007, from the students’ perspective, the main objective of the project was to design a beam thatwould be able to achieve a maximum load before it reached failure when subjected to a three-pointbending6. There were no restrictions in terms of the shape. These students were enrolled in the Strengthof Materials course; therefore, the project had a direct connection with the topics discussed in class.Table 2 and Figure 2 present the pictures and the results of the three-point bending test of the beamsconstructed in

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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) through out the course and laboratory. Before the test could be performed,students had to state the predicted maximum load the beam could hold. These values were later employedwhen evaluating the effectiveness of the beams.ResultsBefore 2007, from the students’ perspective, the main objective of the project was to design a beam thatwould be able to achieve a maximum load before it reached failure when subjected to a three-pointbending6. There were no restrictions in terms of the shape. These students were enrolled in the Strengthof Materials course; therefore, the project had a direct connection with the topics discussed in class.Table 2 and Figure 2 present the pictures and the results of the three-point bending test of the beamsconstructed in

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Ryan A. Ebel; Donald S. Abbott-McCune; David Chang

Undergraduate Mechatronics Couse Design Project MAJ Ryan A. Ebel, United States Military Academy MAJ Donald S. Abbott-McCune, United States Military Academy MAJ David Chang, United States Military AcademyAbstractThere is a real need to educate our engineering students in the application of electronics, controls,mechanics, and software; this multidisciplinary initiative has led to the creation of an undergraduateMechatronics courses at the United States Military Academy (USMA) and many other universitiesaround the world. The focus of these courses is to emphasize application and hands on laboratory work ingeneral, and design projects in particular. This paper presents an

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Kim, Howard University; Mohamed Chouikha, Howard University; Veronica Thomas, Howard University

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Electrical and Computer

Learning in Electrical Engineering Class1. IntroductionAll core courses in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Howard University and, at certain extent,in most engineering and science disciplines everywhere, are each taught by a combination of lectureand laboratory. The idea behind the lecture-lab combination is to help bridge the gap between theclassroom knowledge of theory and the practical aspect in real world. The good idea, however, hasfailed to produce the necessary practice and intended result. Lecture and lab are seldom taught in thesame class and, therefore, different topics are covered in two separate classes. Often, lecture and labare taught by different instructors. Consequently, the intended learning

Conference Session

Challenges of CE Education in a Global World

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy; Richard Gash, United States Military Academy; C. Conley; Scott Hamilton, United States Military Academy; Farid Momand, Kabul University; Qaium Fekrat, Kabul University; Aziz Gulistani, Kabul University

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Civil Engineering

Transition Command's Implementation and Support team at the National Military Academy of Afghanistan.Christopher Conley, United States Military Academy Chris Conley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the U.S. Military Academy. He earned a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Massachusetts (1978), and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from Cornell University (1980, 1983). He has served as a Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, a Senior Research Associate at Cornell University, and an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. In his 13 years on the USMA faculty he has taught a

Conference Session

1553 FPD3 - Computer & Programming Tools in First Year Instruction

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jess Everett, Rowan University; John Chen, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Jennifer Kadlowec, Rowan University

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First-Year Programs

150-minute laboratory session each week. Students from all four disciplines are mixed insections of approximately 20 students each. The course serves as both an introduction to collegeand an introduction to engineering. Lectures focus on survival skills and other topics importantto freshman engineers, such as note taking, problem solving, engineering estimation, significantfigures, professionalism and ethics. Approximately eight of the laboratory sessions are devotedto open-ended project-based learning used to reinforce lecture topics. The rest are used forexams, to view and discuss videos, etc.Freshman Clinic I is additionally designated as a “Rowan Seminar” course. Rowan Seminarclasses are university-wide courses designed to help freshmen

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

, 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