Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ritsuko Izuhara; Hideo Miyata; Toshiyuki Yamamoto; Kazuya Takemata; Masakatsu Matsuishi

Kanazawa Institute of Technology ISHIKAWA 921-8501 Japan1. Introduction Engineering Design Courses (henceforth, ED Courses), characterized by Project-BasedLearning in Teams, are unique to Kanazawa Institute of Technology (henceforth, KIT). A total of1,700 engineering students from all eight engineering departments must take Engineering DesignCourses I through III before they graduate. In each Engineering Design Course, the studentsmust conduct two hours of in-class instructed learning as well as four hours of outside-classlearning activities in teams per week for ten weeks. KIT has also been a laptop engineeringinstitution since 1994, offering students a 24/7 learning activity lounge and e-Learning system

Conference Session

Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hong Zhang; John Chen; Bernard Pietrucha

Emerging From Engineering Education – Building a Remotely Operated Submarine Hong Zhang, Bernard Pietrucha, John Chen Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, 08028, USAAbstractIn spring 2004, the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Rowan University offered anew course called “Emerging Topic – Designing and Building a Remotely Operated Vehicle(ROV)”. It is a project-based course where students are required to design, build andoperate a submersible with provided materials. This course integrated many engineeringaspects into one project and also exposed mechanical engineering students to Mechatronics.The course was welcomed by students and the response from

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Richter

promoted if the project was a failure. We must win together orlose together. They are told that all team members have different strengths and that they need touse each other’s strengths, motivate each other and help each other in order to accomplish thetask before them. This is the way it is in today’s industrial autonomous design teams which arecomprised of members from various departments in an attempt to use concurrent engineeringand reduce the design process cycle time. The students are told that they will have two weeks toaccomplish the experiment with the robot given to them and to demonstrate their project to therest of the class. At this point the students usually will ask what are the instructions / experimentsthat they are to perform

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Goff; Janis Terpenny

engineering design as well as how to function moreeffectively in industry design environments. Material related to theories of student learning andappropriate pedagogical approaches to teaching an open-ended subject such as engineeringdesign are included. Having successfully completed this course, students are able to describeengineering design process and compare and contrast design across engineering and non-engineering disciplines. Students develop a syllabus for a design course in their own discipline,including assignments and projects. They also learn about effective project management and areable to characterize and demonstrate effective means of teaching/coaching/mentoring of variousdesign projects. As future educators, students are able to

Conference Session

NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russ Pimmel

,environmental technology, information technology, manufacturing, and many otherscience- and engineering-related fields that drive the U.S. economy. The program targetsboth the undergraduate and secondary school levels. Two-year colleges are expected tohave a leadership role in all ATE projects. Collaborative efforts involving secondaryschools, two-year colleges, four-year colleges and universities, businesses, nonprofitorganizations, and government agencies are encouraged. The ATE program has twotracks. Projects adapt and implement exemplary educational programs and materials,develop new materials, provide professional development for college faculty andsecondary teachers, provide technical experiences for students, or conduct researchrelating to the

Conference Session

BME Introductory Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Samantha Richerson; Daniel Cavanagh

for the final project thatintegrated concepts from these three areas.The final project description (as given to the students) is provided below to further provide thereader with insight in to goals of the course. The overall goal of this project is for each group to proceed through the process of designing and making experimental measurements within a fluid flow system. After constructing the recirculating system used in prior experimental protocols, each group will design their own additional modifications which will individualize each group’s project. The objective of modifying the experiments is to create a setup with will permit your group to quantify the effect of the changes to the system. Each group will be monitoring

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing and Integration

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheng-Jen Hsieh

animated educational simulations of various processes, such as traffic control andbatch mixing, to show how a ladder diagram relates to an automated process5. Students can startand stop the animations, and study the corresponding ladder diagram for certain conditions orcases. However, students do not have the opportunity to build a system. In addition, the numberof models available for students to explore is limited to those included in the package. Animprovement would be to allow students to design and assemble their own automatedmanufacturing systems, run them, and view the associated control logic.Another common approach is to use a capstone course or senior design project to allow studentsto design and develop a system level project6. The

Conference Session

Research On Student Teams

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Evans; Sandra Spickard Prettyman; Helen Qammar

Using a Vertically Integrated Team Design Project to Promote Learning and an Engineering Community of Practice Sandra Spickard Prettyman, Helen Qammar and Edward Evans Department of Foundations and Leadership/Department of Chemical Engineering University of Akron, Akron OH 44325Recent curriculum reforms in engineering education have focused on implementing thescholarship on pedagogy into the engineering classroom experience. For example, the paradigmshifts toward learner-centered versus teacher-centered delivery modes have been well establishedin many departments. In addition, department level curriculum reforms have begun to designintegration of concepts and skills

Conference Session

Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Parker; Jason Thrun

Building Bridges Between Education and Engineering Programs: An Example of a Successful Planning Process Philip Parker, Jason Thrun University of Wisconsin-PlattevilleIntroductionThree Engineering faculty members and three School of Education faculty members at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Platteville (UWP) have teamed up to introduce engineeringfundamentals to pre-service teachers. The philosophy behind this project is that teachereducation is the responsibility of the entire university, not simply the School of Education. Assuch, this project has four goals listed below. The first two goals focus on the pre-serviceteachers participating in the project

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Morrow

student fabrication and testing, since modern devices in ’student friendly’ packages are becoming less and less available, or two, using complex, state-of-the-art devices but at a high level of abstraction to make them accessible to students. In redesigning our embedded systems design course, we wanted to ensure that our students worked with the state of the art (i.e. current microprocessors, standard interfaces and current technology I/O devices, real-time operating systems, application and device driver software development, and hard- ware description languages), but that they still did actual hardware design and fabrication. We wanted students to have independence in the selection of projects, but had to

Conference Session

Design and Computation in ChE Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Shaeiwitz

design projects will beneeded to replace the traditional continuous chemical manufacturing process that is most oftenthe subject of the capstone design class. This paper describes one such design project assignedto the West Virginia University class of 2005. A different multi-scale, biologically related,product design was completed by the class of 2004.2The ProblemThis class was assigned the task of investigating food products. Specifically, they were toidentify promising markets for low-carbohydrate and/or low-fat foods and suggest opportunitiesfor a profitable venture to manufacture such products. They were to learn the ingredients in and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Gally; Steve Chadwick; Randy Shaffer; Milton Cone; Jim Helbling

Interdisciplinary Freshman Experience Chuck Cone, Steve Chadwick, Tom Gally, Jim Helbling, and Randall Shaffer College of Engineering Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Prescott, ArizonaAbstractThis paper summarizes a cooperative effort undertaken by the Aeronautical, Electrical, andComputer Engineering Departments at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University that led to thedevelopment of a team-taught interdisciplinary engineering course offered to incomingfreshmen. The authors discuss the inception of the project, the development of the coursecontent, and the lessons learned from the first year of teaching the

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Scott

agreement with theColorado School of Mines to provide leadership in programs and curriculum design, with the goalof achieving ABET accreditation for the Petroleum Institute.THE COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES EPICS PROGRAMThe model for this experiment in trans-cultural engineering education is the Design EPICS(Engineering Practices Introductory Course Sequence) Program at the Colorado School of Mines.Directed by Dr. Robert D. Knecht for the past twelve years, the program is conceived to guideteams of first and second-year engineering students through an authentic design process that callson decision-making methodology to address technical, open-ended, client-based projects. Mentors(experienced teachers) guide the students through the creative, interactive

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacki Stewart; Peter Jansson

meet thischallenging goal. One effort to help reduce emissions includes a multi-disciplinary group ofengineers in the College of Engineering’s innovative Junior/Senior Clinic program2,3 who havecombined to site, design, permit, and install photovoltaic (PV) systems around campus. PVsystems are a clean, renewable energy resource that use energy from the sun and convert solarenergy to usable electricity. They have developed plans for installing these systems on roofsaround campus, as well as one system on the ground for educational purposes. Lucrativefinancial incentives from the State of New Jersey have made these systems economically feasiblefor the first time. To further reduce overall system costs, students working on the project, as wellas

Conference Session

A Renaissance in NRE Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Turner; Lisa Marshall

external partners played in expanding the understanding of the field? We willpresent results of initiatives that have grown interest, increased enrolment and improvedretention. This session examines strategies employed to broaden the perception of nuclearscience from K-12 through graduate studies. NC State’s Nuclear Engineering program is part ofa Department of Energy Nuclear Engineering and Technology pilot project examining thecreation and maintenance of this momentum.Keywords Nuclear engineering; K12 outreach; undergraduate recruitment; graduate recruitment Strategic Enrolment Management (SEM) must be articulated at the departmental level foroptimum success. In this paper, we will elaborate on SEM and tactics employed by

Conference Session

Assessing with Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

T.M. Wildman; M. L. Wolfe; Jr., O.Hayden Griffin, O.Hayden Griffin,; J. Muffo; G.T. Adel; G.V. Loganathan; Kumar Mallikarjunan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Tamara Knott, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

by 20 instructors. Each section met for two 50-minute sessions weekly.Engineering Exploration, EngE 1024, provides an introduction to the engineering profession.The course focuses on an introduction to and application of the design process and teamwork,applying the scientific method to problem solving, graphing numeric data and deriving simpleempirical functions, developing and implementing algorithms, and professional ethics. In thefall 2004 offering, Object Oriented Programming was introduced through ALICE, a graphicsbased object oriented programming language, available free from Carnegie Mellon University(www.alice.org).28 During the semester, students completed three group (typically 4 students pergroup) design projects. For projects A

Conference Session

Astronautics and Space Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Melton; Michael Micci; Deborah Levin; Charles Croskey; David Spencer; Sven Bilen

educationalprogramming available to students of diverse backgrounds and academic interests. Oureducational goal is to prepare students at the undergraduate and graduate levels for productivecareers in technical and nontechnical fields relating to space systems and science. The LionSatmission introduces relevant hands-on opportunities to students through design problems, sciencequestions, case studies, research investigations, leadership experiences, organizational issues,etc. LionSat introduces meaningful and realistic project examples into the classroom andlaboratory, which enhance student learning. The LionSat mission was selected as a participant in the University Nanosat-3 (NS-3)program, which is a joint program between the American Institute of

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bugra Koku; Ali Sekmen

teaching an introductorycourse on Mechatronics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Middle East TechnicalUniversity. This course attracts students from multiple disciplines. Being offered at the thirdsemester, rather than focusing on theoretical aspects of different disciplines, this course focuseson the system integration aspect of Mechatronics systems and emphasizes this with hands-onlaboratory exercises and a semester project. The semester project requires the design andconstruction of a simple closed loop system. To make the programming aspect of these projectseasier, it is intended to develop the necessary software on a PC rather than an embeddedplatform. To facilitate this, a software package is developed. With the help of this

Conference Session

Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Peter

all. A separateultrasonic tracking system has also been designed that utilizes two microphone ‘ears’ withaccompanying electronics to provide the capability of determining the direction of an ultrasonicbeacon. Each robot can then utilize this information to influence how to act – whether to follow,or run away, or make position decisions based on the origin of the sound. An additionaltechnical improvement has been made by replacing the standard AA battery power source with aset of lithium-ion batteries, thus extending operating time to several hours.Introduction As a project for the Seattle Pacific University Electrical Engineering Department’s JuniorDesign course, the three-member Mindstorms Lobotomy team created a system for wireless

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matt Eliot; Jennifer Turns

How can user-centered design help us think about the challenges of engineering education? Jennifer Turns, Matt Eliot, Steve Lappenbusch, Roxane Neal, Karina Allen, Jessica M. H. Yellin, Beza Getahun, Zhiwei Guan, Yi-min Huang-Cotrille Laboratory for User-Centered Engineering Education (LUCEE) University of WashingtonAbstractBecause engineering education is a complex endeavor, tools that help educators understandengineering education can be valuable. User-centered design is a conceptual tool that educatorscan use to understand current projects and imagine new opportunities. This paper focuses on theconcept of user-centered design and its application

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hani Tohme; Enno Koehn

Body of Knowledge: Ethical Responsibility in Engineering and Construction Education and National/Global Professional Bidding Practice Enno “Ed” Koehn, Hani Tohme Lamar University/City of Beaumont Water Utilities DivisionAbstractThe efficient management of the cost and duration of a project involves the utilization of aproductive labor force. This is true in both economically developed and developing countries. Itis important, therefore, that ethically responsible decisions are required of project personnel.Some areas throughout the world, however, are experiencing a problem with ethics andcorruption. Numerous firms, agencies, individuals, and

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul King; Joel Barnett; Donald Kinser; Andrew Dozier

to assist in the development of multidisciplinary design teams for projects inthe four departments. Student grades were based upon attendance (a 5% loss per missedclass) and a single end of semester term paper on one of several presented topics.We reported last year1 on the initial results from that course structure. Students did notjoin multidisciplinary teams in significant numbers (BME’s 64 students gained only 4outside majors, in exchange for 2 working on other major teams, for example.) Studentsresented the use of a sign-in sheet, and often would sign in and leave prior to a lecture.An end of term special student survey was done to elicit advice regarding this year’soffering.Major changes were instituted this year. Attendance was taken

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Julio Urbina; Hirak Patangia

An Assessment of the Impact of Exploring Engineering Through An Experiential Learning Course on Student Attraction and Retention Julio Urbina and Hirak Patangia Donaghey College of Information Science & Systems Engineering University of Arkansas at Little Rock jvurbina@ualr.edu; hcpatangia@ualr.eduAbstractWith funding from National Science Foundation, a project-based experiential course has been introducedat the freshman level to acquaint students with the engineering field, and to attract students intoengineering technology from the general pool of undeclared majors at the university. The course

Conference Session

ECE Lab Development and Innovations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hazem Refai; James Sluss

principles and to expose students to research tools that can be used in carrying out their capstone research projects. Through a series of sequential laboratory modules, students learn to setup and configure simple to complex computer networks and to effectively employ commercial software tools for network design and performance analysis. Near the end of the course, working independently, each student is required to complete a final project that assimilates much of the reinforced and/or newly acquired knowledge and skills. This paper provides a detailed description of the laboratory course and its key project modules.1. IntroductionThe University of Oklahoma - Tulsa offers a Master of Science in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leslie Collins; Lisa Huettel

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationPrior to the implementation of our new laboratory in Fall 2004, Duke ECE undergraduatesreceived instruction in DSP principles within two courses. In the required sophomore-levelSignals and Systems course (ECE 64), students learn about introductory signal processingconcepts like frequency domain representation, sampling, and modulation. Complementing theprimary lecture instruction are several student projects, including a music synthesis exercise thatrequires students to use MATLAB (Mathworks, Inc.) to generate a musical selection of theirchoice. When creating their musical excerpts, all students learn the basic concepts of signalgeneration and manipulation, sampling, and frequency

Conference Session

Manufacturing Program Innovation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lenea Howe; Jr., Elijah Kannatey-Asibu

seekingfunding for the project was to increase the number of underrepresented minority studentsin graduate school and to serve as a model for diversity within the University ofMichigan community and the nation as a whole.The ERC has been very successful in involving young and promising cadres ofunderrepresented minority undergraduate students in this summer research experience,introducing them to the rigors of graduate school, and later, watching their graduateschool applications arrive. The key elements to the success of the REU program in theERC/RMS are: a team research project in reconfigurable manufacturing, a series ofworkshops, and a graduate school/GRE preparation program.IntroductionThe National Science Foundation (NSF) funds a large number of

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Clair Nixon

financial information ofthe aerospace industry and included analysis of specific aerospace projects. It wasassumed that the students had little to no prior exposure to basic business principles.Class exercises were used to determine the level of competency in applying thesebusiness principles to engineering problems. The design of the interview instrument usedin the Welliver Program was determined after the completion of this course and wasbased in part on the perceptions of the value of the information for these universitystudents. Further, multiple discussions were held with engineering and business faculty aswell as Boeing personnel prior to the final development of the interview instrument andthe start of the interview period. Over a

Conference Session

BME Technical Modules and Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Waugaman; Brian Self

focused primarily on physiology, the second on electrical engineering topics, and thethird on mechanics issues. At the end of the course, teams of students completed a final projectwhich focused on some type of control system within an aerospace cockpit. The teams had tocreate working hardware that collected some type of physiologic signal that would indicate pilotstressors, then determine some action based on these signals. Examples of projects includecollecting electro-oculography to determine if a pilot is spatially disoriented, usingelectromyography and heart rate to predict G- induced loss of consciousness, and using thermalsensors to help control pilot stress and over heating. The course content attempted to provide thestudents with

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing and Integration

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Lobaugh

groups, once formed, go to the Champion’s industrial location for a tour to discussopportunities for improvement through lean practices. The groups follow the guidelines ofValue Stream Mapping1 to “map” the processes with the plant. The team then chooses one leanpractice within the plant to concentrate on, and analyzes the best methods for initiating changes.At the end of the course, each group presents their findings and turns in a written report coveringthe entire project. The “Champion” then has the opportunity to present the project paper to theirmanagement for review and possible implementation.Penn State Erie - The Behrend College is currently in the second year of teaching this course.Lean Manufacturing is offered only in the fall

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Evans; Francis Broadway; Sandra Spickard Prettyman; Helen Qammar

Akron, the Vertically Integrated Team Design Project(VITDP), provides the tools to enact this cultural shift. Our data suggest that women whoparticipated in VITDP experienced increased opportunities for participation and leadership, thushelping them to hone their engineering skills and boost their self confidence regarding theirengineering abilities. In addition, many of these young women articulated how the projecthelped them feel connected—to their own experiences, to others, and to the material —and howthey learned more as a result. We believe the increased opportunities and self-confidencewomen experienced are the result of cultural shifts in how chemical engineering education takesplace at The University of Akron, influencing not only how