Conference Session

Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack

impressions about their career choices, and will soon be able to select their coursework.Multiple efforts are in place to encourage students to pursue manufacturing careers, includingtechnology and engineering. Students are also given access to existing activities, such as FIRST[11] and STEPS [10] to help keep them engaged. Careful advising helps the students select theappropriate math and science courses to ensure that they can pursue technical studies at the col-lege level.The second goal involves a launchpad course that will be offered for college credit at Grand Rap-ids Community College to help students in their transition from high school to college. The courseis designed to address topics such as math, science, writing and laboratory skills

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Edgar

, sanitary and storm sewer systemsfrom house outfall to the plant, storm water retention ponds, roads – slopes, intersectionsand vertical and horizontal curves. Planned Unit Developments (9 days)Subdivision Design and Presentation (1 day) The course material has been written in html and is currently available athttp://wwweng.uwyo.edu/classes/ce2100, however that site may change in the future.CAD Laboratory Given this topic material, it was important to integrate the CAD portion of theclass into the lab. The lab time is devoted largely to development of drawing skills and Page 9.1111.4 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society of

Conference Session

Teaching about New Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Johnson; Mary Vollaro

Session 1464 Materials Education 2004 Topical Trends and Outreach Efforts Mary B. Vollaro, Craig Johnson Western New England College / Central Washington UniversityAbstractThis research explores the history of topical trends in the ASEE Materials Division. This historywill be compared with national trends. It is observed that creative materials education efforts innon-major curricula are highly sought, following national trends of higher contact numbers ofstudents in related engineering programs versus relatively small numbers of students in materialsprograms. Issues of implementing laboratory

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Murtuza Aluminiumwalla; Mohammed Haque

animation and visualization in a virtual soil mechanics laboratory” the 31st ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings, session T1C, Reno, NV, (2001) 7. Kocijancic, S. and O’Sullivan, C. “Integrating virtual and true laboratory in science and technology education” the 32nd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings, session T2E, Boston, MA, (2002) 8. Tatum, C. B. Balancing engineering and management in construction education. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 113, 10-17 (1987). 9. AbouRizk, S. M., & Sawhney, A. Simulation and gaming in construction engineering education. Paper presented at the American Society for Engineering Education conference

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic

instruments commercially available to measure the impedance of acapacitor. LCR meters are general impedance-measuring instruments that have limited Page 9.1115.1* Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory, Technology Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce.Contribution of the U.S. Government. Not subject to copyright in the U.S.accuracy, while automatic capacitance bridges are commercially available with very highaccuracies but with more limited measurement ranges.An automatic capacitance bridge is very convenient for measuring standard capacitorswith precision, reliability, and uncertainty at metrological levels. Measurement

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Keith Clutter; Alberto Arroyo; Amir Karimi

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationObjective C: Provide students with opportunities to develop the ability to use modernexperimental techniques; collect, analyze, and interpret experimental data; and effectivelycommunicate the results.Outcomes for Objective C: Students will develop the following abilities through theirundergraduate education in this department:C-1 to design and conduct experiments to analyze and interpret experimental dataC-2 to use modern engineering tools, software, and laboratory instrumentationC-3 to communicate effectively through technical presentationsObjective D: Provide opportunities to prepare students with the diverse skills

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Keshav Varde

additional expenses except for travel and living costs. • The students be at least at sophomore and preferably at junior level • The schedule at international institutions be compatible with UM-D schedule. • There be a reciprocal student exchange arrangement with the selected institutions abroad (this was needed to address issues related to tuition and fees of international students.)Program GoalsThe major thrust of the international program was to expose our undergraduates to academic andstudent environment at an international institution. In addition, it was expected that 1. UM-D students would work in a team environment in a laboratory setting or on design projects with students from the host institution and students from other

Conference Session

BME Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Christensen

. Page 9.265.4 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationStudent Evaluations – Evaluations of the class and the Major Project have reinforced the fact that the project is avaluable part of the class. In an end-of-semester survey in fall 2001, 83 students (out of 107students enrolled) responded. When asked about the benefit of the laboratory project to the goalsof the class, the score was 5.70 out of 6.00. When asked about the overall effectiveness of thecourse, the score was 5.72 out of 6.00. Several students commented on the effectiveness andreal-world nature of the Major Project exercise

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eugene Niemi

course titled “Oceanography,” a senior levelcourse titled “Fluid Mechanics II,” and a graduate course titled “Coastal Structures.” TheOceanography course was a general summary of physical, chemical, and biologicaloceanography for Ocean Engineering students. The Fluid Mechanics II course included materialon calculation of resistance and performance of ships, as well as marine propeller selection. TheCoastal Structures course was a detailed course in wave mechanics, as well as calculation offorces on coastal and offshore structures. Contacts were also made with faculty doing researchin this area, attendance at seminars, and field trips and laboratory experiences. Highlights of theprogram included wave tank demonstrations, flow around model ship

Collection

2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Steve Menhart

Transitioning a Microcontroller Course from Assembly Language to C Steve Menhart, Ph.D. Dept. of Engineering Technology University of Arkansas at Little Rock 2801 S. University Ave. Little Rock, AR 72204 AbstractThis paper describes improvements made to an integrated lecture and laboratory course dealingwith microcontrollers, taught in the Engineering Technology Department, at the University ofArkansas at Little Rock (UALR). This course initially used the Motorola 68HC11microcontroller, but currently uses the Motorola MC9S12DP256B

Conference Session

Integrating Math into Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

ed conley

classroom minutes expendedin this exercise can bring to life one of these fundamentals.References1. ‘The Machinery of Life,’ Mechanical Engineering, v126, n2, p30-4, February 2004.2. ‘Classroom Demonstrations and Laboratory Experiments,’ Chapter 7, Wiley Higher Education, http://wiley.com/college/msci/callister39551X/demonstrations/ch07.html3. ‘Strain in One Dimension,’ ABAQUS Theory Manual Version 6.3, http://gong.snu.ac.kr/down/on-line-documents/abaqus/V6.3_HTMLdocs /books/stm/ch01s04ath05.htmlEDGAR CONLEY is associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces,New Mexico. He received the PhD from Michigan State University in Engineering Mechanics (‘86). Dr. Conley

Conference Session

Course/Program Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Jana Whittington; Joy Colwell

. The CourseManagement Section is modified slightly depending on whether the survey is being used for adistance learning class or a live class. (When used for live classes, a computer laboratory isreserved for 30 minutes during class time to allow the students time to complete the survey.)Even with the large number of questions, students complete the online survey very quickly,usually in 15 minutes. From past experience, this is much faster than paper and pencilassessment tools. Although much modified, it is based on the work of Land and Hager [3]. Thecourse assessment tool is part of a larger project to perform integrated, on-line assessment of allcourses in the METS Department, and provides a convenient method to gather summativeassessment

Conference Session

TIME 9: Thermal Fluids/Fluid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sunil Appanaboyina; Kendrick Aung

well as the basic principles, behind a CFD solution.When used in conjunction with a fluid mechanics course, it can be used to teach some of thefundamentals of fluid flow analysis, and 'replace' some of the laboratory experiments used toteach these principles. Similar examples include CALF (Computer Aided Learning in Fluid Dynamics)3, theNTNU Virtual Physics Laboratory6, Virtual Laboratory7, and Java Virtual Wind Tunnel5. CALF(Computer Aided Learning in Fluid Dynamics) is an interactive web-based course developed atthe Universities of Glasgow and Paisley. It gives an introduction to CFD and covers subjects likeCFD illustrations, turbulence modeling, parallel computing, and grid generation. The NTNUVirtual Physics Laboratory, a web site

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Catalano

there was a problem in appropriate technical style forengineering reports. Students were not challenged to prepare formal laboratory reportsnor formal engineering design reports. Perhaps the most apparent weakness of studentsafter finishing the sequence was the lack of ability to construct simple computerprograms. The software package Matlab was introduced yet it seemed to distract studentsfrom learning the fundamental skills required to program.Many substantive changes were been put in place for the first effort at revision. The oldstructure had been abandoned and in its place was a fully integrated program. Theincoming freshman class of approximately 200 was divided into five separate sections of40 students each. Each class section was

Conference Session

The Best of Interdisciplinary Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Marshall; Steven Budd; Michael Fountain; Paul Givens

”technologies.The authors believe that the implementation of Strategic Market Assessments for NewTechnologies at USF has not only provided unique inter-disciplinary learning opportunities forgraduate students and faculty investigators, but has enhanced both the awareness of technologycommercialization in university faculty members and the university administration. Further, therate of movement of USF faculty innovations from university laboratories into new venturebusinesses has been increased in numbers and in level of success.IntroductionUniversities are repositories of large amounts of research, information, and knowledge; butunless moved from the laboratory, translated into useful technologies and/or products, andultimately commercialized, this

Conference Session

ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kraemer; Bijan Pashaie; David Probst

technical content to achieve accreditation by the EAC of ABET. However,with the institution of EC2000 along with a new Dean of University Studies who was moreaccommodating of innovation, we recognized an opportunity to more fully incorporate some ofour major courses into the USP and make room for additional technical content. We began a fewyears ago by having one of our advanced laboratory courses accepted2, and we now have oursenior capstone course accepted into the USP. The fact that these courses were acceptable forthe USP recognizes what we had always believed; namely, that our advanced laboratory coursesand our senior capstone course embraced many of the objectives of the USP. It also meant thatthe liberal education component of our program

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tyson Hall; David Anderson

into aworking knowledge of DSP hardware design. We have developed a pedagogical frameworkwhereby students can leverage their previous knowledge of DSP theory and VHDL hardwaredesign techniques to design, simulate, synthesize, and test digital signal processing systems.The synthesized hardware is implemented on FPGAs, which provides a fast and cost-effectiveway of prototyping hardware systems in a laboratory environment. This framework allowsstudents to expand their previous knowledge into a more complete understanding of the entiredesign process from specification and simulation through synthesis and verification.1 IntroductionStudents often struggle to bridge the gap between the theory and the hardware implementa-tion of digital signal

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; James Ochoa; Joseph Morgan

that enhancesstudent-faculty interaction through wireless remote access to live and archived instructionalmaterials. The overall project goals are to integrate, test, and disseminate new and emergingtechnologies that link the mobile student to the classroom or laboratory. Through a video/audiocapture capability installed in the classroom and a network server, lectures can be streamed inreal-time or archived for later viewing. Students can have access to these resources using hand-held devices, tablet PC’s, or laptops with mobile connectivity. When viewing a live lecture,students will have the ability to interact with the instructor using messaging software. This paperwill detail the basic system requirements as well as the technical approach

Conference Session

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson; Al Post; Bradley Rogers

Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 3. Details of the Membrane Electrode AssemblyManufacturing IssuesReliable, functional fuel cell systems can be built and installed today; in fact, the SolarPhotovoltaic Laboratory building at ASU-East is powered by a prototype fuel cell system thathas produced over 12 MW-hrs in the past 6 months, with no maintenance. The main issue inusing fuel cells is cost. A fuel cell stack, without the 'balance of plant', today costs about $2000-$3000/kw. To become competitive in the marketplace for more general use, complete stationarysystems with

Conference Session

Entrepreneurism in BME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Smith; John Troy; Penny Hirsch

challenges engineering educators to structure learning so that competency is builtprogressively throughout a curriculum. The engineering community well understands the needfor proficiency in all modes of communication, with written communication considered of highimportance. For example, a panel of ten representatives from biomedical companies, assembledat Northwestern University in the summer of 2001, stressed the importance of communicationskills for entry-level biomedical engineers. Representatives from Abbott Laboratories, Datex-Ohmeda, and Nova Bionics said that entry-level engineers in biomedical engineering specificallyneed to be able to detail all project subtasks in project design, find and evaluate research relevantto a project, write

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edmund Tsang

Michigan University Engineering Design Center for Service-Learning whichsponsors the project.The Initial Design Page 9.383.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright c 2004. American Society for Engineering Education”In the mid-to-late 1990’s when the primary author was an associate professor of mechanicalengineering at University of South Alabama, he adopted the service-learning pedagogy inteaching the first- year “Introduction to Mechanical Engineering”1. In ME 101, students workedin teams to design and build laboratory equipment and

Conference Session

BME Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry McIntire; Ka-yiu San; Ann Saterbak

flowthrough a bone graft, oxygen consumption in bone, and toxin accumulation in a laboratory boneimplant. The principles of mass balances are illustrated first for open, non-reacting, steady-statesystems. Systems with multiple inlets and outlets and then systems with multicomponentmixtures are considered. More complex multiple-unit systems are illustrated by a two-compartment model of the kidney and by a wastewater treatment facility. Systems withchemical reactions, such as respiration, are explicitly covered. Terms such as reaction rate andfractional conversion are defined. Finally, dynamic systems such as drug delivery are addressed.Conservation of energy is the topic of Chapter 4. The challenge problem explores different typesof energy and how

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Wanke; Stephen Williams; Michael Scheuerell; Glenn Wrate

andsterile academic laboratory, but in practical, industrial settings.Student involvement in this particular project began after the proposal was awarded but beforethe design of the experiment started. Under direct faculty supervision, undergraduate engineeringstudents coordinated testing efforts among the various constituencies on the project, designed theinstrumentation system used to collect data, installed the instrumentation system at the plasticmanufacturing facility, and finally collected data and assisted in data reduction and analysis.Hopefully this paper will provide a model for similar projects involving undergraduateengineering students in the energy conservation area.Experimental DesignA simplified system diagram is shown in Fig. 1

Conference Session

BME Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yu Song; Niranjan Chakravarthy; Leon Iasemidis; Andreas Spanias

. Introduction Research in genomics is expected to provide information that will lead to the preventionand cure of many diseases. Recent findings on DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) sequences andmicroarrays provide great promise in this direction. Bioinformatics research involvescontribution from a number of allied fields such as genetics, statistics, signal processing etc.Consequently, it is necessary to develop educational tools to introduce these concepts toundergraduates. ASU researchers developed an exemplary laboratory tool for use inundergraduate courses such as Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and Bioinformatics, to introducestudents to recent research trends in genomic signal processing. In conjunction with thepreviously developed J-DSP

Conference Session

Innovations in Systems Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Dwan; Robert DeMoyer; Carl Wick; George Piper

circuit needed to make the thermistor voltage range compatible with theembedded computer A/D converter. The software aspect is the development of the Ccode within the embedded control computer that makes the computer act as a thermostat.A relay to switch the hair dryer is provided. In summary, the Introduction to Systems Engineering course provides thestudents with theoretical, computational, and simulation tools that will be of usethroughout their major. The laboratory exercises are designed as a preview of simulationand control, and are done in such a way to provide a positive and useful experience at astage in their major when the theoretical basis for what is being done is not fullydeveloped.SYSTEMS ENGINEERING CORE COURSES

Conference Session

TIME 3: Thermal Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Scott

distances from the airsource provide for Reynolds number variations. Experiments and test objects are described fortransient heating and cooling of spheres and free and forced convection from a heated disc. Theeffects of free stream turbulence on forced convection can also be demonstrated. A web site isgiven from which the manuals and details of the rig may be obtained.IntroductionExperiments to illustrate the phenomena of forced and free convection are a very important partof engineering heat transfer courses. The need for such laboratory work is increasingly importantas more of our students arrive with little or no practical experience.Several commercial equipment rigs may be purchased for external free and forced convectiondemonstrations. While

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Josue Njock-Libii

engineering; Lightner, Carlson,Sullivan, Brandenmuehl & Reitsma (2000)17, the concept of a living laboratory in Colorado; andWesterberg & Subrahmanian (2000)43, product design.D. Senior year: Capstone Design courses. These courses are offered toward the end of theundergraduate career of students to allow them to integrate what they have learned. Typically,they solve a practical problem that is both substantial and relevant. Capstone design courses aretaught in a wide variety of approaches. Two sample references to capstone designs are: a casestudy in which senior designs were supervised and evaluated by practicing engineers at theuniversity of Oklahoma (Knox, Sabatini, Hughes, Lambert, & Ketner, 1998)16; and Capstonedesign courses in the

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fanourios Chalkiadakis

the operation of software packages that most likely they will have touse after they join the workforce. In that spirit, the Department of Industrial Technology hassupported the efforts of the EIET faculty for curriculum development with significant classroomrenovations, installation of new multimedia equipment and purchase of laboratory apparatus,including hardware and software tools.Due to the intensity of the program, a substantial portion of the classroom projects that requirethe use of advanced software is assigned mostly to senior and graduate students in the form ofindependent studies, and/or final projects. In addition the authors use frequently these software

Conference Session

Nontechnical Skills for Engineering Technology Students

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

George Zion; Ronald Fulle; Carol Richardson

Tech II 4 ------- Liberal Arts: Core 4 0618-303 Microcomputers 4 0609-203 Electronics I 4 1017-211 College Physics I 3 1017-271 College Physics I Laboratory 1 ------- Liberal Arts: Core 4 0618-339 Microcontrollers 4 0609-361

Conference Session

Design And Manufacturing Experiences I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Nadir; Peter Young; Il Yong Kim; Olivier de Weck; David Wallace

testing in the laboratory to verify the validity of the predictions as well as requirementscompliance.The second phase takes the Phase 1 manual design as an input and improves the solution viadesign optimization. In effect, the earlier manual solution is used as an initial condition for thedesign optimization step. This is what ties Phases 1 and 2 together. The students conduct designoptimization using either commercial or faculty-provided software. The optimum solutionobtained is modeled as a CAD model, and again computer numerically controlled (CNC)equipment is used to fabricate the improved component. The optimized component is comparedwith the hand-designed one, and conclusions are drawn.The course concludes with student presentations