Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Engineering Education II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Edwards; Lawrence Hochreiter; Laura L. Pauley

universities.When examining the junior and senior year courses between the two programs it was alsofound that the nuclear-engineering and mechanical-engineering students also take the samethermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer courses, taught by the mechanical-engineering faculty. The only difference is that mechanical-engineering students take twosemesters of thermodynamics whereas the nuclear-engineering students only take onesemester. The Nuclear Engineering Program of courses is shown in Figure 1 for the four-yearprogram and the Mechanical Engineering Program of courses is shown in Figure 2. There are129 credits that are required for graduation in nuclear engineering and 137 credits that arerequired in mechanical engineering.As mentioned

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Kelley; Mark Talbot; Jeffrey Starke; Michael Butkus

project into the designportion of these courses. The project is focused on the design of a small-scale, multi-barrier,water treatment device to be carried by the individual soldier. An overview of how this researchproject has been implemented into this multiphase learning model and lessons learned will bepresented.IntroductionThe complete design experience includes identifying a need or problem, recognizing constraints,identifying and developing courses of action, testing potential courses of action, selectingoptimum courses of action, preparing the documents required for the design, managing the overallprocess, construction and testing.1 In order to develop introductory level knowledge of commonenvironmental engineering unit processes, students

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abdolmajid Lababpour

related sectors is much lower than the numberset within the targets of the 5 Year Plan [1] This national plan as prepared by the Iranian government, isthe Third Five-Year Socio-Economic and Cultural Development Plan, and was put in action in 2000. Inthis paper, the present situation of biotechnology education especially in K-12 grades is surveyed andsome guiding points are presented for developing human resources related to biotechnology througheducation in secondary schools in Iran. Biotechnology uses living organisms or parts of organisms to produce or modify products, toimprove plants or animals, to develop microorganisms for scientific use, to identify targets for smallmolecule pharmaceutical development and to transfer biological

Conference Session

Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Susannah Spodek; D. Joseph Mook; Lester Gerhardt

face shortages in the labor supply, there havebeen calls from industry for those newly entering the workforce to come better prepared.Graduating engineering students, in addition to their technical educations, are expected tobe prepared with “soft skills,” work experience, and a wide-ranging background nottypically provided for in a traditional engineering program. According to Brenda Cox,Manager for International and Advanced Procurement, BMW Manufacturing Corporation,“you must not only be skilled in your area of expertise, but be flexible and have what isoften called the ‘soft skills’. These soft skills are needed to maximize your effectivenesswithin an organization.”1 ABET (the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology), recognizing

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald DeMara; Avelino Gonzalez; Annie Wu; Jose Castro; Ingrid Russell; Mansooreh Mollaghasemi; Marcella Kysilka; Erol Gelenbe; Michael Georgiopoulos

integrating Machine Learning research into the curriculuminvolves two components. The first component is the incorporation of Machine Learningmodules into the first two years of the curriculum with the goal of sparking student interest in thefield. The second is the development of new upper level Machine Learning courses for advancedundergraduate students. The paper will describe the first phase of the project, that of theintegration of Machine Learning concepts into introductory engineering and scienceprogramming courses through appropriately designed programming projects.1. IntroductionMachine Learning is concerned with building computer systems that have the ability to improvetheir performance in a given domain through experience. In the last

Conference Session

Materials Division Business Meeting

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer; Craig Johnson

Conference Session

Web Systems and Web Services

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gallagher

document, we will focus onour class’ infrastructure with particular emphasis on the design and operation of a platformindependent graphical simulation of the Khepera mobile robot. We will discuss how this freelyavailable software provides accurate simulation, ease of use, and compatibility with the realrobot in our lab. The paper will conclude with a discussion of the future plans and a set of openquestions we intend to address in future offerings of the course.1. Why WWW Autonomous Robotics?Although formal classroom instruction is necessary to the education of engineers, it is not alonesufficient. Engineering is about solving problems of practical import. In reality, such problemsare rarely as well defined as the average classroom exercise

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in BAE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George Meyer

transfer modes using a thermal imaging cameraand infrared thermometry in the classroom. The second law also covers entropy production inbiological systems and simple biological cycles. The course also covers refrigeration, heating, cooling,and those physical systems that would be used by biological engineers. Introduction of bio-chemicalthermodynamics is also presented. An introduction to Gibbs energy is followed by elementaryapplication problems in plant and mammalian bio-systems.Introduction Presentation of thermodynamics with an extensive cosmological view of nature, biology, andthe environment is given by Katchalsky and Curran 1, Valsaraj 2, and Kondepudi and Prigogine 3.These are vast works, not introductory student material, requiring

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daphene Koch

Conference Session

Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahnam Navaee

students can also modify these files to analyze other classes ofproblems, and use the files to perform a check on the validity and accurateness of their developedhand solutions.II. Analysis of a Statically Determinate BeamIn this section of the paper the procedure for determining the shear and moment diagrams andplotting the variation of the slope and deflection of the beam using Excel is discussed. Thisprocedure is illustrated through presenting the solution for a sample beam and loading conditionshown in Figure 1(a). Page 8.1267.2 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Corradeschi; Raymond Carr; Lewis Natiello; Donald Carlucci; Albert Messano; Keith Sheppard

designed andfabricated a custom circuit board to which up to four op. amps can be attached and providesflexibility for component attachment, jumper and instrument lead attachment and also interfacingcable connection. It provides a more intuitive arrangement than the standard Proto-Boardapproach and more successful circuits. The students still have experience with the Proto-Boardapproach during the Circuits lab. Initial work on the amplifier circuits uses the discrete electronicinstruments and power supplies of the instrumentation stations.The next two weeks are devoted to understanding the operation and characteristics of a numberof sensors. As such it continues a sensor thread through the Design Spine. In Design 1 studentsused commercial sensors

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Wheeler

observedthat for those who follow this path, the project is particularly meaningful. Their dedication andcommitment tend to be solid. In general, these are the students who form a core group aroundwhich the social organization of the project evolves.However, this core group is a minority of the participants in the project. The accompanyingfigure (Figure 1) shows that most students stay involved with the project for a few semesters. Figure 1: Duration of Participation 30 25 # of students 20 SPIRIT

Conference Session

Projects in Ocean and Marine Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Diane DiMassa

projects presented in this paper; however, the author was notnecessarily the project technical advisor. The information presented in this paper was obtained through Page 8.883.1meeting with the students and th e project proposals and reports submitted by the students for the course.in the senior design course from the UMD Electrical and Computer EngineeringDepartment. This paper discusses several of the marine-related design projects that haverecently been completed and the successes and failures of these undertakings. The projectsare: 1) a large oceanographic tripod, 2) a remotely operated underwater vehicle, 3) anoutboard motor mount for

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Cassel

, are distractions from the creative technological focus ofengineering entrepreneurs. The engineers and scientists who create tomorrow’s high-techventures will do so based upon their technological excellence, and the sense to “hire execution.”EAS345/545: Engineering Entrepreneurship IThe balance of this paper focuses on the first course in the 2-course sequence, EngineeringEntrepreneurship I. Exhibit 1 presents a syllabus for this course for a representative 26-sessionsemester. This course includes four modules, which span the creation and early growth phase ofhigh-tech entrepreneurial startups. • The first module provides an overview of the entrepreneurial experience that, for most of our engineering students, is their first

Conference Session

REU at VaNTH & Graduate Programs in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Quint

research. One challenge inaccomplishing that goal is peculiar to UNC-CH, i.e., separate departments, Schools, andAssociate Chancellors are part of the overall administrative structure of the program. Theundergraduate programs are in the Curriculum of Material and Applied Sciences in the School ofArts and Sciences, while the graduate Department of Biomedical Engineering is in the School ofMedicine. At a time when enrollment in undergraduate engineering is generally flat, biomedicalengineering is enjoying double digit growth [1]. This may be in part due to the interdisciplinarynature of the field, the direct connection in this field to helping people, and the dramaticallyexpanding scope of the field. It is incumbent for educators in this

Conference Session

Intro to Engineering: Not Just 1st Year Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Carolyn Hogan; Barbara Goldberg

8.569.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education 234connect our students to the college, what we need to do is to create community within theclassroom.How connected students feel to their college, to their peers, and to their instructors and howsatisfied they are with their experience appear to be most significant in their decision to stay orleave their institutions. 1 Our challenge, therefore, is to actively involve students in their learningand to connect students with other students and faculty. Chickering and Gamson identified

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerrolyn Hebert; Dawn McKinney

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hyun Kim

year in the Fall semester to students who aremostly seniors seeking a Bachelor of Engineering degree. The course was created two years agoin Fall 2000 when the calendar of the University changed from a Quarter to Semester system. Thislaboratory course must be taken concurrently with the companion lecture course, MECH 4835Thermal Fluid Applications. The companion lecture and laboratory courses are the last of thesequential courses in the area of fluid thermal sciences, which students must take to satisfy thegraduation requirements [1]. Therefore, the courses are application oriented, although the course Page 8.330.1offers several experiments

Conference Session

Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell

address the needs of employers and students as well as theinstitution as a prerequisite for developing and sustaining a program characterized bycontinuous improvement.1 Certainly, a commitment to quality, continuous processimprovement, and customer satisfaction is not new within management circles.Nevertheless, its current creative extension into the day-to-day activities of academia hassignificantly changed the way programs self-assess their effectiveness; they have slowlybegun measure success as an institution and as faculty in terms of their ability to engageand subsequently satisfy the needs of their “customers.” The engaged university bydefinition uses its scholarly resources to address the needs of society, including the variousconstituents

Conference Session

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Leach

introduce materials students to some of the processing options for polymers sothat they can better understand the properties and appropriate applications for these materials.One of the most obvious examples of the relationship between material structure and properties isthe difference between processing thermoplastics, which can be remelted and reused, andthermosets, which cannot be remelted. Some materials textbooks include comprehensive coverageof processing.1 Others focus primarily on polymer structure and the families of engineeringplastics,2,3 or include polymer processing in a section covering composite materials.4Demonstrations and ExercisesCasting objects from thermoset polymer can be used as a classroom activity or demonstration toinvolve

Conference Session

Statistics in the CHE Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerardine Botte

experimentation for quality improvement. Table I presents asummary of the major content covered in the course. Page 8.1179.2Table I. Major Content Covered in the Design of Engineering Experiments Course Topic DetailsBasic Statistics 1. Description of variation (e.g. histograms, standard deviation, etc) 2. Probability distributions (e.g., Poisson, normal probability distribution, etc)Design of Engineering Experiments (DOE

Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Camilla Saviz; Kurt Schulz

experiences.IntroductionSeveral educational goals [1] may be met in engineering laboratory courses [2; 3]including development of experimental skills, learning use of modern engineering toolsand techniques, and development of teamwork and communication skills. Notincidentally, an important role of laboratory courses is exposure to real-world applicationof theory which can enhance students' learning and enthusiasm through the discoveryprocess.The level of structure in a laboratory course may vary depending on learning objectives Page 8.812.1of the course or curriculum and on the academic level of students enrolled in theProceedings of the 2003 American Society for

Conference Session

Innovations in the CHE Laboratory

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Polly Piergiovanni

Conference & Exposition Copyright @2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2313EXPERIMENTSLiquid-Liquid Extraction – The students were given jars with lids, water, and oil with red foodcoloring. A factorial experiment was designed (twice as much water as oil/red dye or half asmuch water as oil/red dye; mixing by gentle swirling or mixing by shaking for 3 seconds) andthe groups chose their experiment. The jars were observed after 5 minutes and after an hour (seeFigure 1). The students noted the trade-off between a lot of mixing (good removal) andseparation time (the small bubbles take longer to separate). After we

Conference Session

Mentoring, Outreach, & Intro BME Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Luke Herbertson; Daniel Cavanagh

the blood side.The apparatus utilized for the experiments is constructed with actual hemodialyzers donated byFresenius Medical Care of North America and equipment which would likely be found in mostfluids laboratories. All of the flow and pressure equipment was purchased from Cole-Parmer,Inc. The experimental system is depicted in Figure 1. For the laboratory experiments, our‘blood’ is a 0.01 M NaCl solution in deionized water while our “dialysate” is deionized water.At the core of the system is the hemodialyzer which is mounted in a vertical position as shown.For ease of discussion, we break down the remainder of the system into the blood side and thedialysate side. On the blood side, a positive displacement pump is used to transport the

Conference Session

Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Hefley; James Lookadoo; Randy Winzer

accreditation criteria [1] and their implementation plans were presented. Thiswas our first real exposure to TC2K. It did not appear at that time to be a near-term challenge aswe expected to be reviewed using the existing TAC of ABET feature accounting format.Two months later at the beginning of the academic year, our department chair informed us thatwe had been invited to volunteer in the 2001 pilot visit project. Our other EngineeringTechnology programs were in good shape and could shoulder the responsibility. While the EETprogram circumstances were not ideal, we had sufficient positive factors and so we also agreed toaccept the challenge. Our three-member faculty group at that time consisted of a recently trainedTAC of ABET evaluator, a former

Conference Session

Tools for Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bret Van Poppel; Shad Reed

Page 8.157.2environmental engineering. Because of its timing and its broad audience, the course must excite Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationcadets and provide a positive first impression of engineering. The formal course objectives are:1. To give cadets a technically based, working knowledge of fluid mechanics. a. Define and determine the fundamental physical properties of fluids. b. Apply the laws of conservation of mass, momentum and/or energy to static fluids, general fluid flows, flows in conduits, and open channels. c. Predict performance/behavior of a full

Conference Session

Laboratory Developments and Innovations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Voigt; Robert Ives; Jesko Hagee

Session 2354information technology integration in today’s military systems. 1 This survey, part of acurriculum review, entitled “Curriculum 21,” was the primary reason for instituting a secondcourse and was an input into the process that defined the make-up of that course. The results ofthat study are reported in more detail along with the initial response to that study in the form of anew course.2 The Academic Dean’s desire was to look at how we could get this material into oneof the required courses in the technical core that all non-engineering students must take.II. Technical Core Improvement GroupIn the year 2000, the Academic Dean formed a committee, the Technical Core ImprovementGroup (TCIG), to examine the entire technical core. This

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Knox

Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education”by the university to assess these are: freshman/sophomore and two-year retention rates, and six-year graduation rates. They are also important data needed for most accreditation reviews. Sincestudents do not take any major courses until the sophomore year of the curriculum, also includedare data on the 3.5-year graduation rate from passing the first course in chemical engineering (forthese data, only degrees in chemical engineering are counted). Presented in the following table aredata on retention rates and graduation rates over the past few years. Table 1. Performance Indicators for Chemical Engineering at NJIT Base A/Y 1995/ 1996/ 1997/ 1998

Conference Session

Current Environmental Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Cynthia Veit; Chris Swan

assignments to three; yet cover the same material of stress, strain, and material properties.These assignments were then sandwiched by two new assignments that required the students tofirst address why they think recycling is good (Assignment No. 1) and later to reflect on how theyperceive recycling having now completed the course project (Assignment No. 5).The course project, the major component of the course, involved the evaluation of the reuseoptions for recovered municipal solid wastes (MSW) for a number of communities in Eastern andCentral Massachusetts. Each of these communities control their waste management practices, sothese documents were tailored for each entity with the goal to provide: • Vital facts about the community, • The

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alan Scaroni; Jonathan Mathews; Sarma Pisupati

. Semester Table 1 shows the distribution of semester standing of the Figure 1. Enrollment data for EGEE 102 since students enrolled in the course. its inception in fall 2001. Between 56 and 71% of the students are freshmen orsophomores, although there are students in their junior and senior years. Diversity in major,range in semester standing and phobia towards science and engineering make it difficult tokeep the class interesting and challenging for the students with a wide range of abilities andexpectations.General