Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Maxwell; James Johnson

beaccomplished in such a short time; however some exposure can be provided. The first of theseskill presentations is a lecture on drafting, since the teams will be required to show their plats withthe home footprint delineated. The lab will be a practice for the drafting requirementWeek 5. Week 5 will be an introduction to surveying in the most general of terms. Since thestudents will be expected to have very limited math skills, the lecture must be very general. Theassociated laboratory will be limited as well, but will at least allow the students to touch andmanipulate surveying equipment.Week 6. Student lecture material and laboratory during this week is aimed at allowing the studentto see the problems associated with site preparation. The drafting

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohan Ketkar; Gopal Reddy

by two different numerical methods to obtain temperature distribution.In the first case, the results are obtained using Euler method, which is an explicit formulation, andsecond method is the Crank-Nicolson implicit and explicit method and the results are comparedwith analytical solution. The accuracy of the numerical results is examined with various grid sizesand graphical comparison of the results is presented.Similar methods are employed in the Heat Transfer laboratory of the Mechanical EngineeringDepartment of the Texas A & M University to verify the experimental results 2, 3.MATHEMATICAL FORMULATIONIn this example, one dimensional transient heat transfer with boundary and initial conditions isconsidered. The pictorial representation

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen High; Cynthia Mann

feedbackwas readily available for unique responses.The first day of class, each student was given a notebook to serve as a journal and a laboratorynotebook for the project. Throughout the semester they were instructed to use the journal tocomplete some assignments, keep track of project related information (and data), and also providefeedback about class activities through journal entries. This was found to be an effective methodof illustrating the importance of laboratory notebooks—a concept foreign to many engineeringstudents. The success of this project relied on the students’ comfort in interacting with theinstructors, the notebooks seem to be a non-threatening forum for feedback.The last 12 weeks of the semester integrated the Pizza Project into

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Control Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marcus Soule; Bruce Segee

Demonstrating Motor Control using NMOS Exclusive H-Bridge Design Marcus J. Soule (email:Marcus_Soule@umit.maine.edu) Dr. Bruce E. Segee (email:segee@eece.maine.edu) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Instrumentation Research Laboratory University of Maine. OronoAbstractDelivering power to high voltage devices is a common requirement in an industrial setting.It is often required to be able to source current in two directions from the same supply. Itis common to implement an H-bridge to supply power to these devices. An H-Bridge is adevice with four switching elements that resembles a capital H. These devices

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Duda

Bunyoro-Kitara.Our Current WorkOver the last 4 years we have been working closely with a group of people who have a 10 yearcommitment to doing projects in the Church of Uganda Diocese of Bunyoro-Kitara, District ofBunyoro-Kitara, Uganda, Africa7. This work has been undertaken with the support of the localleadership and with acceptance and recognition of the federal government of Uganda. Theseprojects are built around 7 initiatives: 1. Developing a coffee plantation 2. Eradicating malaria in the diocese 3. Developing medical dispensaries with basic laboratories 4. Education analysis and microcomputer training Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Curriculum ComparisonThe first aspect taken into account in the comparison is the different definition of “credit”between both universities. UF defines the credit as the one semester hour, generally representingone hour (50-minute) per week of lecture or two or more hours per week of laboratory work.On the other hand, credits at UCN are the total hours that students attend a course, which is setby the institution. Total credits per course are defined by using: C = L + E + Lab + PD C = total credits for the course L = # of 45-minutes lectures E = # of 45-minutes

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Forsberg

forcedconvection, the unit includes a blower to provide a uniform flow of air across the surface of theplate. With measurements of air velocity, power input, and temperature, the convectivecoefficients for forced convection can be experimentally determined for a variety of platetemperatures.The demonstration unit is small and portable, and is easy to set-up on the table in the front of theclassroom. It is low-cost, utilizing instrumentation available in the engineering laboratories. Inits typical use during a lecture class, the instructor first introduces the theoretical and empiricalequations available for calculation of convective coefficients. Using these textbook equations,the students make calculations of convective coefficients for the parameters of

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sue Scheff

opportunities. New in Fall2001, is the "Engineer in Residence" program. Students living in Blanding III will have theopportunity to interact with an electrical engineering graduate from the College of Engineeringnow employed at Lexmark, International in Lexington, Kentucky. Evening programs areoffered to support and encourage all dorm residents. Learning communities have shown to bevery successful in retaining students.Undergraduate Research Program: The Undergraduate Research Program creates researchpartnerships between first-and second-year students and faculty researchers. The program offersstudents the opportunity to work and learn along side a research faculty. Undergraduatestudents are given the real-life experiences of working in laboratories

Conference Session

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Prince Anyalebechi

microstructure related. Wherever feasible,student engineers should also be introduced to advance techniques that are used tocharacterize microstructures and composition; e.g., the scanning electron microscopes. It isimportant for them to be aware of the capabilities of these modern techniques and to be ableto ask for relevant information from them.Measurement of the effect of processes on properties should be a necessary component ofmanufacturing processes laboratory studies. For example, measurement of hardness and/ortensile properties as a function of heat treatment conditions and alloy composition isprobably the easiest and simplest means of helping students understand the interactionsbetween process and materials. Engineering students also need to

Conference Session

Mentoring Women and Minorities

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Jessop

: Boston, 2002. K. Barker, “Mentor to All?,” At the Helm: A Laboratory Navigator, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press: Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 2002. C.I. Davidson and S.A. Ambrose, “Chapter 7: Supervising Graduate Research,” The New Page 8.643.4 Professor’s Handbook, Anker Publishing Company, Inc.: Bolton, MA, 1994. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationThird, new assistant professors should encourage their students to find more than one mentor(Tip #7). No one person can fill all the

Conference Session

Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Brader; Jed Lyons

forthese items are shown in Figure 1, where the bars represent mean values and the lines representone standard deviation in responses. In all cases, the mean response increased over time. Thisincrease was statistically significant for all items except item 7, as measured by the application ofStudent’s t-test with a 99% confidence level. The results suggest that the fellows’ abilities toteach using laboratories, activities, investigations and computer technology was improved thoughthe GK-12 program.Fall Fellow Focus Group ResultsAt the three-month focus group, Fellows were asked how EDTE 710 and how being in theelementary classroom helped them develop their teaching and communication skills. All of theFellows agreed that transferring information

Conference Session

Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Horton

can be replicated on other campuses that have staff with a desire to promote genderequity in technical training to teach the CAD modeling, available room and board on campus, asuitable computer laboratory, an established summer recreation program, and an organization tohandle administrative tasks.CAD CampThe CAD Camp was available to campers entering grades nine through twelve, and the span ofthe age group was represented at each camp. The first group of campers arrived on the afternoonof Sunday, July 22, 2002 and left on the afternoon of Friday, July 26. The second camp was heldthe following week, from July 28 to August 2. Upon arrival, resident campers met the staff andtheir counselors, were issued meal cards with daily spending limits to

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Korinne Resendez; Carryn Bellomo; Rafic Bachnak

Engineering Education”speakers, field trips, hands-on laboratory activities, and science and technology exhibits1[9]. Specifically, the program will involve attracting 11th grade students to attend one oftwo two-week Science and Technology workshops. The workshops are designed tointroduce students to job opportunities in the food industry and agriculture, expose themto college life, involve them in hands-on activities, and encourage them to major inscience and engineering technology. Students will be recruited to participate in a follow-up Science and Technology Exhibit to be conducted during National Engineer’s Week inFebruary of each year. This program is unique in that it involves high school students inthe 11 th grade. These students are ready to

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Mizen; Robert Baldwin; Ronald Miller

results in English; • Make accurate scientific observations and measurements in cooperative laboratory projects and record observations and results in English; • Apply scientific concepts and principles to make predictions and solve simple problems concerning real-life physical, chemical, and geologic systems; • Complete an independent investigation involving literature and web-based research, data acquisition, and interpretation Math curriculum • Compare and contrast solutions to both linear and non linear equations numerically, graphically and symbolically; • Communicate mathematical ideas verbally, symbolically and graphically; • Demonstrate autonomous learning skills

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Watson; Hossein Salehfar; Arnold Johnson

the schoolof Engineering and Mines (SEM) at the University of North Dakota established a distanceeducation program to deliver Bachelor of Science engineering degrees to employees ofparticipating companies. This program was known as the Corporate Engineering DegreeProgram and has recently expanded into open enrollments and renamed the Distance EngineeringDegree Program (DEDP). Currently the DEDP offers the only ABET (Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology) accredited undergraduate engineering programs at a distance.The current DEDP delivery format includes videotaped lectures, static Internet Web pages ofhandouts, e-mail, and on-campus condensed summer laboratories. This delivery format ensuresthat each distance student receives the

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James H. Lorenz; Ahad Nasab

, co-op programs, or internships.Therefore, an upper division class may include many students who can be classified as workingengineers.Research projects conducted by engineering technology educators will definitely enhance thefaculty member’s knowledge about his/her chosen topic, and have been shown to add to the depthof class lectures and laboratory experiences. Research topics, however, are typically narrow intheir scope and may not expose the faculty to the numerous changes in many facets of anindustrial operation. Sabbaticals, on the other hand, may be organized for the sole purpose ofexposing the faculty member to new trends in industry. The major disadvantages of using asabbatical to accomplish the objectives mentioned above are; 1

Conference Session

Materials Curricula: Modeling & Math

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Surendra Gupta

to statisticsinstructors for easy integration into their statistics courses for engineers; begin a collaborationamong statistics and engineering faculty that teach the same sets of students; and provideengineering students the motivation to learn statistics well, and be able to apply their statisticalskills to engineering data in a meaningful and productive way.The engineering modules proposed are based on concepts and laboratory experiments from twocourses: Materials Processing (a 1st year course) and Materials Science (a 2nd year course). Bothare mandatory courses for mechanical as well as industrial engineering students. Having seen theconcepts and experiments already, the modules will actively engage students in applying

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman

. Page 8.325.1“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Ohio State’s College of Engineering sought to team with an urban high school where substantialnumbers of students would have the mathematics background necessary to be successful inIntroduction to Engineering and an industry partner that could help to mentor the students andprovide the materials to equip an engineering laboratory. Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati,Ohio, and General Electric, which operates an Aircraft Engines plant in the Cincinnati area, joinedwith Ohio State to prepare and pilot the high school Introduction to Engineering course.In 2001

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jill Lynn

to the changing, technologically enhanced world ofeducational institutions are pursued to extend the education toady. Some of engineering and technology courses and laboratory work will need Page 8.442.4to be developed in partnership with several Today’s students are demanding a change toinstitutions and/or with industry partners to provide traditional educational delivery methods, and wethe hands-on training and processing necessary. must respond. The time for action is now, and evenThese are not concepts of the future, but are actual with the

Conference Session

Design Projects in Manufacturing

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson; Scott Almen; Russel Biekert; Norbert Richter; Al Post

Manufacturing EngineeringTechnology program at Arizona State University. The first project started with a valve bodyproduced by Allied Signal Aerospace (now Honeywell). Blueprints and mentors from AlliedSignal provided the industry-based aspects of the course. The MECO students producedindustrial quality drawings, removing the Allied Signal name and modifying materials and parttolerances to meet the ASU laboratory capabilities. Then the MECO students created molds andcast 20 parts for machining. Other classes wrote the process plans (routing), designed and builtfixtures, and machined the final parts on a CNC-machining center. Furthermore, inspection andcontrol charts were developed on a Mitutoyo Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) and qualityassurance

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Arnaldo Mazzei

becomes difficultto fully visualize and understand these systems when a laboratory prototype or a simulation is notgiven.In order to allow students to observe and understand mechanism operation, compare hand-obtained solutions to computer derived ones and the ability to see problem variable behavior withvarying time, the author suggests introducing simulation software into the basic coursesmentioned above.Course and simulation softwareIn the present text the introduction of simulation software is discussed for an undergraduatecourse in dynamics. The course is MECH-310, which is a junior level four-credit course with fourhours of contact (two separate blocks of two hours). Pre-requisites for the course require thatstudents complete basic statics

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Engineering Practice

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marian Stachowicz; Rocio Alba-Flores

body and faculty. The written report and oral presentation had to follow thespecifications given in the Senior Project guide of the ECE department at UMD.The following table describes the activities performed during this workshopWeek Activities 1 Intensive review of fuzzy set theory 2 Laboratory experiments using the Fuzzy Logic Package for Mathematica 3 Intensive review of the 68HC12 microcontroller: its architecture and instruction set. Sensors for mobile robots. 4 Laboratory experiments programming the 68HC12 5 Groups were formed. Definition of the projects 6 Oral presentation of the proposed projects 7-8 Project simulations using the Fuzzy Logic Package for Mathematica

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Improving Communication Skills in ME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Theresa McGarry; Edward Young; Elisabeth Alford

. Page 8.1057.1Therefore, a more effective way of giving students feedback on their communications assignments“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”is called for. In this paper we describe an innovative approach taken in a senior mechanicalengineering laboratory course at the University of South Carolina in the spring 2002 semester.The approach centered on conference grading, a process in which students bring completedassignments to a meeting with the instructor, who grades the assignments orally on the spot.Other elements involved were team reporting, self-assessment of writing, and consultativeapproaches that helped the

Conference Session

Design in the CHE Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Turton; Joseph Shaeiwitz

this paper, the production ofproducts from farm animal waste can be used as an example. This project was based on aresearch idea by one of our colleagues. Students were required to design a reactor to produce adiesel fuel additive from the waste. However, there was insufficient data to determinereasonable operating conditions. Therefore, a subset of the class (in this case, members fromseveral groups) designed and performed experiments in the laboratory to obtain necessaryinformation regarding the reaction kinetics. This information was used to identify a preliminaryset of “best” operating conditions for the reactor. Students had to learn how to do the necessaryexperiments (with the aid of the faculty member) and interpret the results. In

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanics Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Redfield Robin; Robert Borchert; Brian Self

Session 1168 Evolution of an Introductory Dynamics Course Through Continuous Assessment Brian P. Self, PhD, Robert Borchert, M.S., and Robin Redfield, PhD Department of Engineering Mechanics United States Air Force Academy Colorado Springs, ColoradoAbstractTwo years ago, instructors at the United States Air Force Academy supplemented theirintroductory dynamics class with demonstrations, projects, laboratories, computational problems,and student presentations. Goals of the enhancement were to increase

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Forbes; Mary Emplaincourt

. Standards can even take the effect of law if they appear, for example, in building codes.Cities and municipalities in the south adopt the building codes developed and published bySBCCI almost universally. Many engineering students receive the B. S. degree with little or no exposure toengineering standards. This deficiency can easily be corrected by introducing standards (orportions) during appropriate sections of conventional technical courses or laboratories. Forexample, the author has required laboratory students to perform portions of the performance testsfor audible back up alarms used on some construction equipment (SAE standard). Note thatOSHA requires these alarms on certain equipment. As a minimum, students should be madeaware of the

Conference Session

NSF Opportunities for Undergraduate Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Mullett

, business, and government. The important policy changein the ATE program was that the grantee institution would be either a two-year college, or otherassociate degree granting institutions, or a consortium of two-year colleges along with thepreviously mentioned partners. Thus, two-year colleges or associate degree offering institutionswere specifically targeted by the ATE program and, as a further consequence, community collegefaculty were being afforded greater opportunities for grant funding and the actual planning andadministration of the grant [1].The focus of ATE projects would be on curriculum development, faculty or teacher development,instructional materials development, or instrumentation and laboratory improvement. Also,considered for

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

, scholarship in ET has to achieve the following:• ET scholarship must improve our teaching, add value to the education of our undergraduate/graduate students, and involve our students in meaningful ways.• ET scholarship must be relevant to industry, and lead to improvement in the curriculum and in undergraduate laboratories• ET scholarship must be documented and disseminated to others and be open to critical examination by peers outside our department in order to ensure the quality of the scholarly activity and to facilitate continuous improvement in this area of faculty endeavor.9, 11Based on this premise, we propose the definition of ET scholarship to include the following: 1. Scholarship of discovery in applied research

Conference Session

Teamwork, K-12: Projects to Promote Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

orientation to the university/college/majorsSoph. ME 201 – ThermodynamicsYear Student communication survey, refresher for past grammatical expertise Tools: MS Word, Email, WWWJunior ME 302 – Fluid Mechanics ME 371 – Machine Design IYear Laboratory Reports: (Approx. 9 @ 4-6 pages each) Short Technical Reporting Brief narrative of procedure, measured data, Design Analysis Reports (2 @ 4-6 pp. + App., deduced and analyzed data, plotted results with Individual); Technical Analysis, Economic discussion and conclusions. Analysis, Recommendation for Action

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bruce

required if designs are to be successful. Structured laboratory experiences (eachstudent or group of students perform rigid and contrived experiments) require less facultyresources but do little to develop student design and project management skills [10][12]. A com-promise between the two approaches has been created by the author [2].The embedded systems design experience described in [2] strives to develop professional skillsthat will serve students well in their careers in addition to the “traditional” technical skills the stu-dent expect. Overarching goals of the experience are to expose the student to a realistic embeddedsystems design environment and to develop the student’s teamwork and lifelong learning skills.The design experience strives