Conference Session

BME Technical Modules and Laboratories

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Kang-Mieler

instrumentation laboratory classfocuses on transducers and electrical instruments, similar to an Electrical Engineering Laboratoryclass. While this traditional instrumentation class is important for all engineers, BME studentsneed to be exposed to biological-based measurements. According to the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET), a bioengineering laboratory experience must include anemphasis on solving “the problems at the interface of engineering and biology”1. The ABET Page 10.1055.1criteria also states that laboratory modules must include “making measurements and interpretingdata”1. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society

Conference Session

Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Goodarz Ahmadi

PARTICLE TRANSPORT, DEPOSITION AND REMOVAL- A COMBINED RESEARCH AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT PROJECT Goodarz Ahmadi,1 David J, Schmidt,1 Kambiz Nazridoust,1 Xiangwei Liu,1 Jeffrey Taylor,1 Suresh Dhaniyala,1 John McLaughlin,1 Cetin Cetinkaya,1 Stephen Doheny- Farina,1 and Fa-Gung Fan2 1 Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, 13699-5725 2 Xerox Corporation, Webster, NY, 14580Abstract A sequence of two on particle transport, deposition and removal and re-entrainment are described. The primary objective of these courses are to bring the newimportant research findings in the related field available to

Conference Session

Mechanics, Machine Design & Mechanisms

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Sawyers

elastoplastic deformation and plastic hinge - is routinely included in the course. Thus,students are prepared to learn elementary limit analysis and extend their understanding of“plastic hinge” into a usable basis for beam design.The author has prepared and taught a two lecture unit on limit analysis within a Strength ofMaterials course. This material is based on and reinforces plasticity topics already addressed inthe course and includes examples of increasing complexity involving concentrated anddistributed loadings. It is similar in spirit to Chapter 13 of Nash’s summary [1]. However, themethod of virtual work is employed here as an alternative to static analysis.Limit analysis offers students a new design methodology and sharpens their geometrical

Conference Session

Current Topics in IE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Bryan Norman; Jayant Rajgopal; Bopaya Bidanda; Kim Needy

Session 1357 Integration and Synthesis of the Industrial Engineering Curriculum via an Unstructured Problem Solving Course Bryan A. Norman, Mary Besterfield-Sacre, Bopaya Bidanda, Kim LaScola Needy, Jayant Rajgopal University of PittsburghAbstractThe Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh is addressing animportant issue – how to develop a comprehensive, integrated curriculum that (1) ispedagogically sound, (2) thoroughly prepares graduating engineering students for industrialpractice and graduate school, and (3) trains students to

Conference Session

ECE Lab Development and Innovations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Idowu

electronics.1. Introduction The merits of involving engineering undergraduates in research have been widelydiscussed in engineering journals. It has been suggested that such an initiative may help thestudent become more passionate about the subject, create appreciation for research processand practice, improve problem-solving skills or even serve as motivation for furthereducation in graduate school1-3. Furthermore, it allows advanced students an opportunity tobe exposed to challenging and realistic engineering problems they may encounter in postgraduation work. In some cases, the students participate directly in a funded research thatholds significant benefit to all participants – students, faculty, and the university4. Thegrowing recognition

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven VanderLeest

necessity of an engineering education founded on the liberal arts.2 IntroductionIf modernism was founded on concrete, scientific reality; postmodernism has been built oncontingent, divergent interpretation. Postmodernism has swept through disciplines fromliterature to philosophy, from politics to sociology. Lyotard defines the modern as dependenceon grand or meta-narrative, i.e., some overarching or foundational truth. He then definespostmodernism as “an incredulity towards metanarratives.”1 Shawver summarizes: “In otherwords, it is a skepticism towards all grand theories that think they have the last word. Themoderns, Lyotard tells us, believed in metanarratives. They were always thinking that they hadfound the final and correct theory, but

Conference Session

ECE Lab Development and Innovations

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Mauritzen

- R10 LOOP 6 V3 A R3 B R6 C 6.2kohm R1 R8 2.86V + LOOP 1 + + 3.909 V R2 R5 11.631 V 7.027 V

Conference Session

Social Responsibility & Professionalism

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Thompson; William Oakes

approximately 1650 first-year engineering students. All engineering students are required tocomplete a common first year core of classes shown in Table 1 before matriculating to theirrespective engineering major. Minimum grade levels are established for matriculation to themajor of their choice. The department includes seven tenure track faculty and four academicadvisors. This department has the responsibility for all of the academic advising for first-yearstudents and primary teaching responsibility for the engineering lectures, seminars, help andassistance courses as well as the first engineering course, ENGR 106 - Engineering ProblemSolving and Computer Tools.Table 1: Purdue University First- Year Engineering Curriculum Fall

Conference Session

ME Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hakan Gurocak

theexample of how the partnership process worked over the past two years to create a uniqueprogram. Included in the discussion are streamlining of course content and creditsbetween the three institutions, mechanics of course transfer, admissions, enrollment, jointrecruitment and marketing efforts. The Institute opened its doors for the first time in Fall2004. The current enrollment in mechanical engineering, and in the Institute, projections,success stories, lessons learned and the feedback from the community are reported.III. The InstituteThe Institute is a public/private partnership and an inter-institutional partnership. Itsgoals are to provide: (1) Undergraduate programs giving access to high demand fields forthe citizens of southwest Washington

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonard Perry

-life” project. The open-ended nature of real-life projects requires students to determinewhich skills to apply as well as how to apply them. This can be a great learning experience forstudents, but there are many challenges presented to students during the senior design project.The main challenges identified include; project and time management, lack of technical depth,and lack of structure.Engineering management is one of the biggest challenges students face during their senior designprojects. American Society of Engineering management (ASEM) defines engineeringmanagement as “the art and science of planning, organizing, allocating resources, and directingand controlling activities which have a technological component” 1. Students need to

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mehran Massoumi

language. • Provide a rich set of constructs, which will facilitate description of any digital design at the Register-Transfer-Level[1]. • Where possible, use the same syntax and semantics as Verilog[3]. • Support a close and clear correspondence between the language constructs and the intended hardware[1]. • Guide the user in thinking in terms of hardware partitions[1] such as State Machines, Bus structures, and hardware resources such as arithmetic, logic, and relational functions. • Use the cycle-based model of time.Similar to Verilog, a basic unit in SHDL is a module, which is syntactically defined by thefollowing rule, where keywords are shown in boldface letters: module

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Erekson; Kurt Becker; Maurice Thomas; Christine Hailey

) highlights two important trends that imperil the workforce: 1) globalcompetition for S&E talent is intensifying, and the United States may not be able to rely on theinternational S&E labor market to fill unmet skill needs; 2) the number of native-born S&Egraduates entering the workforce is likely to decline unless the Nation intervenes in educatingS&E students from all demographic groups.1One NSF program that addresses the national workforce need is the Centers for Learning andTeaching (CLT) program. The CLT program has three goals. First, Centers are expected torenew and diversify the cadre of national leaders in science, technology, engineering andmathematics (STEM) education. Second, Centers will increase significantly the number

Conference Session

Early College Retention Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Miller; Mara Wasburn

, although women constitute 46 percent of the labor force, less than aquarter of the scientists and engineers in this country are women.1 A July 2001 report released byThe National Council for Research on Women finds that much of the progress that women havemade in these areas has stalled or eroded. The report underscores the increasing need for ascientifically and technologically literate workforce as we enter the new millennium. One yearearlier, the Morella Commission, charged with developing strategies to attract more women andminorities into science, engineering, and technology, reported to the Committee on Science ofthe House of Representatives that significant barriers to attaining that goal are present fromelementary school through college

Conference Session

K-12 Programs for Women

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth DeBartolo; Margaret Bailey

industries. In particular, womencomprise 50% of the population, but fewer than 20% choose to major in subjects such ascomputer, electrical and mechanical engineering. NSF recently reported that, while the numberof women enrolling as freshmen in full-time engineering programs increased by nearly 2,000from 1994-2002, the percentage of female freshmen engineering students dropped from 19.4% to17.2%1.At RIT, the percentage of women engineering students graduating each year from the KateGleason College of Engineering is approximately 11%, significantly below the 2003 nationalaverage of 20.4%2. However, unlike the national trends in engineering student attrition, theoverall retention rate for this relatively small group of RIT engineering women is

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafic Bachnak

the quality of the projects being completed by students. This paperdescribes the changes and briefly presents the progress that has been made since 2004Spring Semester.IntroductionAn engineering capstone design experience has been defined as “the crowningachievement in a student’s academic curriculum, and integrates the principles, concepts,and techniques explored in earlier engineering courses” [1]. Today, most engineeringand engineering technology curricula include a senior capstone course [2-8]. Two majorsources that led to this status are the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET) and industry [9]. While the process for conducting capstone projectsvaries between programs and disciplines, such projects normally take two

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Border

Techniques for Application of GPS Receiver Technology David A. Border Electronics and Computer Technology Program Department of Technology Systems Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, Ohio 43403AbstractThis paper details both the hardware platforms and software techniques used in applying GPSreceiver technology to engineering projects or processes. Two software techniques are detailed:(1) use of pre-existing application level GPS receiver programs and (2) coding of new GPSreceiver application programs using the .Net Framework ™ / Visual Studios

Conference Session

A through K and Beyond

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim McLernon; David Hughes

:1) Formal learning, which includes any one of the following characteristics: • A prescribed learning framework • An organised learning event or package • The presence of a designated teacher or trainer • The award of a qualification or credit • The external specification of outcomes, and,2) Non-formal learning which he analyses across two dimensions 1. Intention to learn, which is a continuum with deliberative learning at one end and implicit learning at the other with reactive learning occurring somewhere between the two. 2. Timing of the events providing the focus for the learning, i.e. past, present or future

Conference Session

Mathematics Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Josue Njock-Libii

illustrate to undergraduatestudents the concept of nonuniform convergence of successive partial sums over the intervalfrom 0 to B.1. Introduction Gibbs Phenomenon is intimately related to the study of Fourier series. When a periodic functionf(x) with a jump discontinuity is represented using a Fourier series, for example, it is observedthat calculating values of that function using a truncated series leads to results that oscillate nearthe discontinuity [12]. As one includes more and more terms into the series, the oscillationspersist but they move closer and closer to the discontinuity itself. Indeed, it is found that theseries representation yields an overshoot at the jump, a value that is consistently larger inmagnitude than that of the actual

Conference Session

NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russ Pimmel

education in a variety of ways with the Course, Curriculum andLaboratory Improvement (CCLI) Program playing a prominent role in supportingresearch and development of engineering education. Most of DUE's programs have beenin place for a few years and the first part of this paper provides a brief summary of each.The CCLI program has undergone a major review this year so that the 2005 solicitation(NSF 05-559) is substantially different from last year's. 1 The second part of this paperdiscusses the rationale for and direction of these changes.Overview of DUE's ProgramsThe following paragraphs, which have been adapted from various NSF documents,briefly describe all of our programs with the exception of the CCLI program – it is dealtwith in the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tia Sharpe; Robert Maher; James Peterson; James Becker; Bradford Towle

high school. • Curriculum content provided by outreach programs can influence the area of study chosen by college-bound students. • Pre-college teachers are provided with resources and points of contact that result in improved currency of their curriculum.ObjectivesThe new EE 101 has four primary objectives.(1) Develop a compelling opportunity for students to learn circuit theory, characteristics ofstandard electronic components, and electrical laboratory measurement procedures. Page 10.447.2First-year students must learn to deal with electrical circuits expressed as schematic diagrams

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Everly

PointAverage and complete 36 credit hours of Honors level coursework in order to receiver the "WithHonors" distinction at graduation. The 36 credit hours of coursework must include a minimumof 9 credit hours of Honors Special Topics courses. The remaining credit hours are obtainedfrom the following categories: Honors Contracts with faculty members, Independent Study,Advanced Placement Credit, Capstone Design Projects, and special Co-op projects [1].An Honors Contract for Electric Circuits II is the focus of this paper and emphasizes simplifiedtools and test procedures for determining the electrical parameters of a quartz crystal. On abroader scale, a companion paper at this conference by Ossman [2] describes the requirements ofthe University of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Schultz; Arnold Johnson

. Page 10.1007.3 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education2. Large-Scale Systems Engineering ProjectsThe unifying architecture of the systems engineering projects designed at the University of NorthDakota over the past five years is shown below in Figure 1: Payload T&C Station Instrument Operator

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hata

from the Advanced TechnologicalEducation Program at the National Science Foundation, has addressed this need bydeveloping technician-level educational materials, prototyping a teaching laboratory forplasma-aided manufacturing, and training community college faculty.[1] This paperprovides a summary of PCC’s three-year development and implementation effort.IntroductionThe lack of instructional materials is a major deterrent in developing and implementing atechnician-level course in RF plasma processing at the community college level. Asearch of the literature produced only graduate-level textbooks.[2,3]Equipment needed to implement a teaching laboratory to support a technician-levelcourse was also lacking. Equipment to support simple plasma

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven VanderLeest

breadth. Particular details may changeover time, but fundamental principles will serve the student well for years to come. Thesolution methods used in one discipline can often be applied to analogous problems in otherdisciplines. Struggling with difficult problems can lead to improved creativity and improvedproblem solving skills.6 Myths about BreadthIt is important to commend the virtues of breadth and in doing so there are some commonmisconceptions that should also be dispelled.6.1 Myth 1: Disciplines are distinctStudents often hold a very black and white view of the disciplines. They expect that everyconcept, every idea, all information can be neatly segregated and classified into a particulardiscipline. The separation between domains of

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

recently worked on a scholarly project with the author.The author concludes that embedding scholarship in the ET curriculum is very desirable andsuggests some ways and means to facilitate and nurture student scholarship in ET.IntroductionSeveral institutions with Engineering and Engineering Technology (ET) programs now requirescholarship of their faculty,1, 2, 3 including those institutions for which teaching has always beentheir primary focus. Since many of these institutions have mostly undergraduate programs, theyalso now require that faculty scholarship involve undergraduate students and be integrated intothe student learning experiences in order for the scholarship to be meaningful. An example ofthis trend appears in the 2004 Rochester

Conference Session

Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Lagace; Earll Murman

.!! The overall objective of the Aero-Astro program in Aircraft Systems Engineering is to providestudents with a foundational understanding of the systems engineering/architecture process andmethodologies required to transform fundamental technical, economic, and societal requirementsinto an integrated product solution. Figure 1 portrays the high level structure of the programcomprising four basic components: (1) two subjects in systems engineering and architecting(Aircraft System Engineering, Air Transportation System Architecting); (2) two subjects inmathematics (recommended to be in Probability and Statistics, and Optimization); (3) two ormore electives to be drawn from areas of airframe and propulsion technologies, aircraftinformation systems

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Edgar; Cameron Wright; Robert Kubichek; Raymond Jacquot

space and time.1. IntroductionThere are a host of dynamic problems in the engineering disciplines that are described by partialdifferential equations. In the typical engineering math sequence the mathematics associated withtheir solutions often obscures the meaning and physical nature of the solutions. These problemsarise in electromagnetics, vibrations, fluid dynamics, heat transfer and chemical mass and energytransport. The extensive graphics capabilities of MATLABTM make the illustration of thesesolutions a reasonable task. The idea of using graphics to illustrate the solutions to hyperbolicpartial differential equations has been published but animation was not employed.1 Animationsof bending vibrations in beams and longitudinal vibration of

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafael Landaeta; Kawintorn Pothanun; William Peterson

an engineer – where the training is offered by a trade school or ascontinuing education and is not based on “engineering” as we know it.In engineering certification of interest has long been that of PE (Professional Engineer). Thiscertification is more of a license to practice engineering and is required by state law for certainengineering work. Examples of this work are structural designs and pressure vessels. In many, ifnot most states, the offering of engineering consulting services requires at least the principal(s) inthe firm to have a PE. The professional organization for holders of the PE designation is theNational Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) 1. This organization supports the need for thelicense/certification and provides

Conference Session

Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Dawson Plummer; Sheldon Jeter

depleted oxidizer out H+ CO2 and oxidizer in depleted fuel out 1 3Figure 1. Basic PEM Fuel Cell1-anode current collector, 2-anode diffusion layer.3-anode catalytic electrode (CE), 4 -cathode CEA practical power system contains a fuel cell stack. The stack is a series and/or parallelcombination of cells, which are connected to produce a needed amount of direct current at thenecessary voltage. Fuel cell technology not only continues to improve upon existing technology, but also hasstarted to create improved technologies because of the various needs for high efficiencypower generation systems. There are

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Pierre Larochelle

Tech was initiated. The purpose of this overhaul was to develop an experiencethat would serve to: (1) prepare students for the ME curriculum, (2) motivate students tocomplete their studies, (3) provide students with academic success skills, and (4)introduce students to the engineering profession. The format chosen to realize this goal isa yearlong sequence of two courses that freshmen take entitled Introduction toMechanical Engineering I (MAE1022 Fall, 2 credits) and II (MAE1023 Spring, 1 credit).This sequence is a project-motivated experience inspired by traditional capstone designcourses. In the fall students are taught basic academic success skills such as timemanagement, study skills, working in study groups, self-motivation, and goal