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Capstone/Design Projects: Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson; Jerry Gintz

2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”The courses included in the automation concentration are listed in Table 1. These courses wereselected by the IAB automation sub-committee and MMET faculty because they encompass thebroad spectrum of integrating automation into the modern automated factory. They provide thestudent real world experience with a preview of the duties and responsibilities of an engineerworking in the automated manufacturing industry. Table 1 – Automation concentration courses. COURSE COURSE NUMBER COURSE DESCRIPTION* SEQUENCE

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Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jan De Vries; Gillian Saunders-Smits

University of Technology in the Netherlandsstudents have to complete a basic mechanics course of 11 ECTS (European Credit TransferSystem, 1 ECTS = 28h, 60 ECTS in a year) in their first year. The course consisting of a Statics(4 ECTS), Mechanics of Materials (4 ECTS) and a Dynamics part (3 ECTS) is based on the well-known books by Meriam & Kraig1,2 and Gere3.In the second year the mechanics courses are more applied to the subject of aerospaceengineering and we continue the Mechanics of Materials education in the course aircraftstructural analysis, a 3 ECTS course, based on the book Aircraft Structural Analysis forengineering students by Megson4. This course is perceived by our students as a difficult courseand traditionally has a low pass-rate

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TYCD 2005 Lower Division Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Franz

logic controllers to implement the softwareLabVIEW designs.First, basic LabVIEW is taught to the students by using basic fire alarm system examples.Note that the concept of concurrently teaching LabVIEW software and fire alarm systemsis used throughout the course. As the level of understanding LabVIEW increases, thecomplexity of the fire alarm system examples also increases.An example of one such exercise is shown in figures 1 & 2 below. The figures show basicsystem that compares the set point to the actual temperature of the thermometer. If actualtemperature is greater than the set point an alarm signals. Note that the door of the panel andsystem switch both must be closed. An “AND” gate determines this and enables the systemto activate

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BME Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Henrickson; Heather Gunter; Joseph Bonventre

Novel Module Improves Learning of Capillary Filtration Heather E. Gunter1, Sarah E. Henrickson1, Joseph V. Bonventre1 1 Harvard – MIT Division of Health Sciences & TechnologyAbstractThe concepts underlying capillary filtration are fundamental topics in physiology courses taughtto undergraduate and graduate biomedical engineering students. Students have reportedanecdotally that this material is difficult to master. Furthermore, overall student examperformance does not correlate with performance on specific questions regarding capillaryfiltration. Based on this backgound, a module that presents capillary filtration in the context ofglomerular filtration has been developed

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Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Estell; Juliet Hurtig

4 states that students “must be prepared for engineering practice through thecurriculum culminating in a major design experience based on the knowledge and skills acquiredin earlier course work and incorporating appropriate engineering standards and multiple realisticconstraints.”1 In response to these charges, many institutions have incorporated one or moreteam-oriented senior design courses into their engineering curricula; Ohio Northern University isno exception. In the former Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department, seniordesign consisted of a year-long, three quarter sequence of courses. The first course focused on Page

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Wills; Mihaly Lenart; Peter Tarjan

-neurship ranging from a search for projects with commercial potential, project selection, productspecification, technical plan, market research, business planning and prototype developmentfollowed by testing. Twenty projects have been worked on. Each student participates for at leasttwo semesters, but some projects continued beyond that point. The majority of the participantsare seniors; the team project is equivalent to the otherwise mandatory senior design project orcapstone project required for accreditation. Juniors and graduate students have also partici-pated with mostly senior teammates.Common problems encountered and potential solutions:1. Fear of open-ended problems leading to initial paralysis. Generate outlines of multiple

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Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Theo Brower; Meredith Knight; Chris Rogers

abouttheir own major from the Academy, while students in the 2003-2004 year felt theylearned more about other people’s majors. This could indicate that students in the secondyear worked more collaboratively across majors than in the first year.Table I: Rate how much you feel the Robotics Academy helped you develop your skills inthe following areas as compared to other courses you have taken: Much more (1), Moderately more (2), Slightly more (3), Equally (4), Slightly less (5) Moderately less (6), Much Less (7) Average Average

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robi Polikar; Maria Tahamont; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

objectives: to provide ECE students with fundamental and contempo-rary BME knowledge for future career and graduate study opportunities; and to improve stu-dents’ interest in and comprehension of ECE concepts by acquainting them with engineering so-lutions to real world problems in medicine. This approach has several advantages: (1) it is versa-tile, any number of topics can be integrated that the faculty deems important; (2) a broad spec-trum of topics can be addressed as they are distributed throughout the 4-year curriculum, (3) allstudents are exposed to novel content; (4) very little additional resources are required for imple-mentation; (5) students receive a more well-rounded and broad education within their specific

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Virtual Instrumentation in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Eppes; Tanuj Oruganti; Peter Schuyler

to collectqualitative feedback on their experiences.IntroductionAt the University of Hartford, Engineering and Technology programs have enjoyed a trend ofsustained growth. Both graduate and undergraduate programs have experienced increasingenrollments, and as a result, this has severely limited “open-lab” availability. “Open-lab” hastraditionally been a time when students can access the laboratory classrooms to finish labassignments, makeup missed work, and get additional experience with the laboratoryinstrumentation. Our philosophy in creating ALTE was not to replace the onsite laboratoryexperience, but rather to supplement it with a system that provided 24x7 access to the sameexperiments via the Internet.[1]-[2] The aim was to allow users

Conference Session

Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Melnyk; Grant Crawford; David Stringer; Steven Braddom

Page 10.1329.1on practical application remains a hallmark of the Aeronautics curriculum at West Point to this “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”day. Since 1970, the department has used available military aircraft to supplement thecurriculum with Flight Laboratories. There are five main goals of the Flight LaboratoryProgram. 1. To provide students with quality, hands-on instruction one-on-one with their instructor in an actual aircraft. 2. To build technical understanding of the aerodynamics and performance of airplanes and helicopters for both students and instructors. 3

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Engineering Economy Frontiers

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Snehamay Khasnabis

follows:(C/E) = EUAC/N .......................................................(1), whenEUAC = I(A/P) + K – S(A/F) ($/year) ......................(2)N = Number of Accidents Prevented Annually(C/E) = Cost Effective Index (Dollars spent to prevent each accident)The (C/E) technique only provides comparative MOE’s of the alternatives being tested and canbe used to rank alternatives in order of their desirability. It cannot be used to determine if thebenefits of any alternative “outweigh” its costs. Thus, a project designated as the most costeffective, may not necessarily be cost efficient. The advantage of this technique is that, it is notnecessary to attach a dollar value to the benefits, a task often considered the most difficult one inevaluating

Conference Session

Outreach and Recruitment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Young; Sanjiv Sarin; Xiaochun Jiang

Assessment of the NC-LSAMP project: A longitudinal study Xiaochun Jiang1, Sanjiv Sarin2, Marcia Williams2, and Lee Young3 1 Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering / 2College of Engineering / 3 Academic Affairs North Carolina A&T State University, 1601 E Market St Greensboro, NC 27411AbstractThe North Carolina Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (NC-LSAMP)project is an ongoing project aimed to substantially increase the number ofunderrepresented minorities who will contribute significantly in science, technology,engineering and mathematics, engineering, and technology (STEM) areas, especially ingraduate degree programs. The NCLSAMP

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kirk Martini

cannot model the response of a particle toforces, because the system has no stiffness. The tradition in structural engineering is that studentsneed to learn particle mechanics before they can use or understand a structural analysis program.With the physics engine approach, computer analysis can be used to teach concepts of particlemechanics, allowing computer analysis to be introduced in the first stages of the curriculum.Figure 1 shows an example of an extremely simple Arcade model consisting of a particle with asingle force applied. When the simulation begins, as expected, the particle accelerates in thedirection of the force.Figure 2 shows a more complex example illustrating the parallelogram rule for forces. In thisexample, there are two

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wierman; Lawrence Aronhime

IntroductionInnovation and entrepreneurship drive the capitalist process, which in turn depends uponindividuals willing to take a chance.1 As Howard Stevenson wrote, entrepreneurs are promoters,focused on opportunity, regardless of the resources controlled.2 Innovation can be an uncertain,even irrational act, where entrepreneurs endeavor to enter markets that may not exist withproducts that may not answer market needs, where traditional analytical tools are not likely to beuseful, and where the odds of success are dim. The willingness to take a chance, to innovate andbe an entrepreneur, requires two factors: “motivation, defined as market incentives to innovate;and ability, defined as the capability to obtain resources, craft them into

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kanti Prasad

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shana Smith

prototype low-cost VR CAD model-viewing interface that can importCAD models created in commercial CAD systems like Pro/Engineer and display the models instereo views on a standard computer monitor. To make object manipulation more intuitive andefficient, the interface uses a data glove device to allow more natural hand interaction withdisplayed CAD models. A human subject study was conducted to determine the ease of use andintuitiveness of the interface, and to study users’ response to the interface. Figure 1 shows a schematic diagram of the prototype interface. The schematic diagramshows that the system allows a designer to interact with CAD models, using an inexpensive dataglove device, and provides real-time stereo views of a CAD model, to

Conference Session

Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein; William Janna

Page 10.647.1particular project to work on for the entire semester. (See the text listed in the Bibliography forinformation on the bidding process.) Design teams function like companies and as such, each Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationgroup chooses a company name and designs a company logo. Titles of projects worked on in Fall2004 are provided in Table 1. Some groups developed web sites for their companies. Moredetailed project descriptions are provided in the Appendix of this paper. Table 1. Project titles and company logos. Title

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Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Forsman

industry as well.This paper will describe the scope and layout of this class, student projects, and the equipmentused, associated costs of running a laboratory and lessons learned as well as the impact on otherfaculty, departments and local industry.Course OverviewMETBD 410 (Rapid Prototyping, a technical elective) has the following Goals/Objectives:1. Understand the advantages and disadvantages of different additive processes currently on the market.2. Reverse engineer a product by digitizing geometry, importing the data into Pro/ENGINEER and creating a solid model from surfaces.3. Build the model (Objective 2) on the Z-402 3-D printer and re-digitize the prototype using a non-contact scanner to verify the geometry

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Dolan

curriculum.To satisfy these objectives, we developed the course around a theme of “The Great DesignChallenge,” a small design project that incorporates multiple facets of design education.The Great Design ChallengeThe selection of a design challenge is a core element of the course. Examples of first year designprojects ranging from detailed engineering design development to reverse engineering tocomprehensive design activities to community service learning experiences have been suggestedas models.1-4 Our evaluation of a methodology for introducing design considered these optionsin detail and also considered the USP intellectual community requirements, the multidisciplinarymakeup of our class, budgetary restraints both for the course and for the

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Curriculum Development in Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Powers; Mary Fran Desrochers

meets once aweek for two hours and covers programming and data acquisition using LabVIEW™ as theprogramming language and Vernier® hardware.Lab Structure:Both of the fourteen week courses cover the teaching of LabVIEW™ during the first seven weeksand data acquisition during the rest of the term. Week Topic Chapter4 1 Introduction 1&2 2 Editing and Debugging 3 3 Structures and sub VI’s 4&5 4 Arrays and Clusters 6 5 Charts and Graphs 7 6 Strings

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Lab Experiments & Other Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ali Sekmen

semesters.1. IntroductionThe DoCS has been involved in the Corporate Scholar Solutions (CSS) program of the Center forInformation Technology Education (CITE) since Spring-2002. CITE is an NSF-funded centerthat aims at improving the IT workforce pipeline in the State of Tennessee. It promotes the use ofCSS Projects to strengthen partnerships among businesses and educational institutions throughparticipation in problem-based learning experiences with real-time business problems. The CSSprogram is designed to partner educational institutions and their IT students with area businessesand industries to provide a "real-world, real-time" issue/problem as the context for IT learning[1].The DoCS successfully completed two CSS projects with Saturn

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Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chris Macnab

skill set in university than in secondary school. Engineeringstudents are often left to their own devices to appreciate this and to acquire these new skills; in thepast universities used high failure rates to eliminate students who did not. In contrast,contemporary engineering educational practice emphasizes student retention. This has beenachieved using a variety of methods from improved teaching to grade inflation. Typically, thesemethods implicitly assume that students have not acquired, and may not acquire, the appropriateskills.Some have already reported success in explicitly teaching engineering students useful study skills[5, 11, 10, 1, 2]. However, an individual professor is typically not in the position to implement acomplete study

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Capstone/Design Projects: Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca Blust; David Myszka

to multiple teams. The teams work in relativeisolation to provide an optimal solution for the company. Student teams benefit from thedesign competition experience while the client gains multiple solutions to their problem.Advisors provide a healthy environment for the competition, stressing ethics andhonorable business practices. This paper will discuss the rationale of this venture,methods, current models, administrative issues and the results of this effort.1. IntroductionCapstone ProjectsOver the past two decades, capstone project courses have emerged as an essential elementof a technical education. In fact, this experience has become a “residency-like”requirement for engineering and engineering technology graduates. These projects

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Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Edwards

 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 1348Table 1 shows the test procedure given to the students. Test Procedure Set up hairdryer in the support Measure the ambient temperature and the barometric pressure Turn on the hairdryer and

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Undergraduate Retention Activities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kerry Kinney; Tricia Berry

for undergraduates with little to no previous research Page 10.672.1experience. Specific objectives of the GLUE program are as follows: Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education 1. Involve undergraduate engineers in the engineering research being conducted at The University of Texas at Austin; 2. Increase the number of female and underrepresented minority engineering students pursuing graduate degrees and research careers; 3. Introduce undergraduate students (male and female) to

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Lord

as one homework assignment.The instructor graded this assignment out of 10 points with 2 points for finding an article, 1 pointfor distributing it, 2 points for their questions, 2 points for the summary and 3 points for leadingthe discussion. Given that there were more weeks in the semester than students in the class, theinstructor initially planned on leading the discussions herself during the remaining weeks. Afterthe students signed up during the first week of class, the extra weeks occurred late in thesemester. As the semester progressed, several students expressed a desire to lead an additional“Fabulous Friday” as a way to earn extra credit for the course or to improve their performanceover their first “Fabulous Friday”. Students were

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carlotta Berry

wasadministered to freshman engineering classes during the 1993 and 1994 school years. 1 Thisdocument highlights the fact that more than knowledge and skills affect the performance of anengineering student. The results indicated that students who were in good standing but stillchanged majors had a less of positive attitude about engineering and its importance during theirfreshman year. 1 These students also appeared to have different math and science interests andconfidence about the ability to complete an engineering major than those students who wereretained in the program.1 These students also tended to be influenced more by family to pursue acertain major (i.e. engineering). Although not specifically addressed here these results indicate aneed to

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Innovative Teaching Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Barry Dupen

Beer dthe moment of inertia of a complex shape, as 7.295" C x'shown in Figure 1. O x Y Student notes consisted of a series ofequations accompanied by a single Hibbelerdiagram…a mirror of the textbook format. Thediagram in the notes was created in a several 100 mm

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New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cyrus Hagigat

loading. Figures 1, 2 and 3 illustrate typical fatigueloading (stress) cycles. Page 10.1404.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationFigure 1 is an idealized situation which is produced by a rotating-beam fatigue machine andwhich is approached in service by a rotating shaft operating at constant speed without overloads.For this type of stress cycle the maximum and minimum stresses are equal.1 Figure 1: An illustration of a reversed stress fatigue cycle1Figure 2 illustrates a

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Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Radha Balamuralikrishna; Kurt Rosentrater

often used to summarize the progression of historical events. To make the richhistory of the field fluid mechanics more accessible to both educators as well as students, thedevelopment of this discipline has thus been delineated according to key people who developedideas and theories (Table 1), the ideas and theories themselves (Table 2), and significant inventionsand events throughout history (Table 3). Table 1. Key people in the history of fluid mechanics. Lifespan Person 287 – 212 B.C. Archimedes 40 – 103 A.D. Sextus Julius Frontinus 1452 – 1519 Leonardo da Vinci 1564 – 1642 Galileo Galilei 1608 – 1647 Evangelista Torricelli 1623 – 1662