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Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Peterson; Barry Mullins

BattleBots. A television show sponsored byBattleBots Inc. showcases these BattleBots in a radio-controlled robotic combat competition.The show is televised by Comedy Central within the United States. Competitors design, build,and test a fortified robot in hopes of attending the biannual, single-elimination tournament,incapacitating the competition, and walking away with the top prize. During the spring of 2001,two electrical engineering students at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) built tworobots as their capstone senior design projects and subsequently competed in the May 2001tournament. This paper describes the background of BattleBots, the process by which thestudents completed their robots, how the students were able to attend the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Clark Merkel

Session 2793 Modeling the Mouse Trap Car Clark T. Merkel, Mechanical Engineering Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyAbstract:Most students have the ability to build a car powered by a mouse trap. However, atypical student who has completed their sophomore dynamics course will still havetrouble modeling and analyzing their design. This paper presents a structure to aid incompleting the modeling and analysis of a mouse trap car project. It discusses a twelvestep design process that could be provided to students to guide them through difficultieswith the design analysis before they

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Morel; Jerry Schumacher; Ed Mattison

can request a PDA to personally use. Faculty whoteach the introduction to computing course that all freshmen must take are highly encouraged touse a PDA. Instructors can also sign out additional PDAs, folding keyboards, GPS modules,camera expansion modules, and wireless ethernet modules for classroom projects, exercises, anddemonstrations. The department has also set up a wireless network so that students in computingcourses can access the school’s local area network and the Internet wirelessly. The department’swireless network is part of the school’s plan to eventually interconnect the entire campus via awireless network.3. Motivation Despite the fact that all freshmen have PDAs, we found that, for the most part, thefreshmen were

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell

basic project management fundamentals in planning, organizing, staffing, directing,and controlling constructive endeavors. Not necessarily a unique learning paradigm, thecourse builds on knowledge gained in previous courses as well as previous blocks ofinstruction within the same course. Structural Design and Construction Engineering Technology Structural Design and Construction Engineering Technology Program Objectives Program Objectives CET 452, “Planning and Scheduling” CET 452, “Planning and Scheduling

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Sterian; Andrew Blauch

softwaredesign. The end of the course focuses on the programming of a microcontroller and thedevelopment of software to solve simple engineering applications.The structured programming portion of the course emphasizes logically and sequentiallythinking in the development of software. Instead of waiting until later in the course to introduceprogramming, topics are intertwined with the fundamentals of digital systems portion of thecourse. For example, after number systems and representations are covered, data types and theirrelationship with number representations are presented.The laboratory portion of the course is divided into two types or exercises: introductory activitiesand projects. The introductory activities are intended to familiarize the

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Carl Steidley; Stephen Dannelly

included logging user activity over a network, simple interprocesscommunication between Unix machines, use of semaphores to control shared resources, and anextensive client-server development project. We believe the effectiveness of this type of course can be greatly improved by placing itin a setting where students can actively extend the concepts being taught into tangible realities 1,2 . Therefore, we have begun building a new laboratory equipped with a model railroad system1 This work was sponsored in part by a National Science Foundation Course Curriculum andLaboratory Improvement – Adaptation and Implementation grant, grant number DUE-9950839

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn Smith

% (3 quizzes) (7 quizzes, drop lowest grade) Final 25% 25% Design Project none 25%Grades constitute the classic measure of learning. As these grades remain on a student’spermanent record, they become a source of stress within a course. The primary contributions ofstress within the traditional course structure are thus the quizzes and final. One of the moststressful portions of the course, as identified by students, is the fact that if a student does poorlyon one exam, it will usually cost them a letter grade or more in the course. In addition, thesequizzes must cover a fairly substantial portion of the course material. If a

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Glagola

Raise admission standards Resources: Refocus course curriculum Reduce class size Increase credit hour requirements More practitioners, less researchers Classes more than 1 time a year Student office space More TA’s Better teaching facilities More qualified professors More faculty Overhaul Curriculum: Pay professors more Less emphasis on research, more academics Include students in campus const. projects Increase research p roposals Enhancing the

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jed Lyons

Session 1566 Formative Assessment of the University of South Carolina’s Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education Program Jed Lyons, Maryanne Banich, John Brader and Christine Ebert University of South CarolinaAbstractWith support from the NSF GK-12 Program, students and faculty in the College of Engineeringand Information Technology and the College of Education are working together to (a) improvethe teaching and communication skills of engineering graduate students and (b) improve scienceeducation in South Carolina schools. This paper describes the project and presents

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacquelyn Sullivan; Lawrence Carlson

Session 1354 Exploring Entrepreneurship through Product Development: A Hands-on Approach Lawrence E. Carlson, Jacquelyn F. Sullivan Co-Directors Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory and Program College of Engineering and Applied Science University of Colorado at BoulderAbstractEngineering students of all disciplines typically engage in at least one open-ended designexperience during their undergraduate careers. Through hands-on design and build projects, theylearn

Conference Session

Programming and DSP Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Mayne

++ capabilities. We have used the VC++ AppWizard executable form for our windows programsincluding the Document/View architecture. In this format, VC++ creates a program/projectstructure which serves as a template for the programmer’s application. If the six step AppWizardstart up process is followed, accepting all defaults for creating an AppWizard project, twenty fivefiles of C++ code are created by the AppWizard alone. Without any added code, the resultingproject can be compiled and linked producing additional files including an executable file. Whenexecuted, it will create a normal looking but blank window on the screen where nothing happens.Basically all of the VC++ prewritten code is used to put the blank window on the screen andprovide the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eugene Niemi

Educationvarying degrees of success. Examples of various types of freshman courses can be found inRefs. 1 through 13. Even Introduction to Engineering courses often emphasize topics that arepresented in a dry fashion to students, emphasizing such topics as how to study, computer usage,technical writing, etc. What are needed are project-type courses that excite the students and givethem an overview of what an interesting engineering project can be. This paper describes such aproject that has been used at the University of Massachusetts Lowell for five years, and, based onstudent evaluations of the course, has been found extremely motivating for the students.II. Freshman course format The College of Engineering has experimented with different types of

Conference Session

Design and Innovation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Snyder; Mike Toole; Mike Hanyak; Mathew Higgins; Daniel Hyde; Edward Mastascusa; Brian Hoyt; Michael Prince; Margot Vigeant

learning environment, and incorporating the use of information technology in theteaching/learning process. In the first two years of Project Catalyst, a core group of faculty fromall five engineering departments at Bucknell University has begun implementing this focusedshift by systematically incorporating collaborative and problem-based learning into their courses.This emphasis has required a coordinated effort to introduce significant elements of teambuilding and problem solving into the undergraduate curriculum.This paper discusses a conceptual framework for progressively developing students' problemsolving and team skills across the curriculum. The framework is modeled after the university'swriting program and identifies introductory

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Yann-Hang Lee; Sethuraman Panchanathan; Gerald Gannod; Forouzan Golshani; David Pheanis; Ben Huey

Abstract The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Arizona State University has deployed a novel infrastructure for a concentration track in embedded systems that combines important aspects of academic content with the latest in research and industrial practices. The concentration track emphasizes fundamental issues such as the balance between hardware and software and the respective trade-offs of building embedded systems. It is realized through the use of formal course work and hands-on experience that is channeled through a capstone project implemented as internships.1 IntroductionRapid proliferation of embedded systems in a wide range of consumer and

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Lozano; Willie Ofosu

manner 2.Antennas are used for fixed and mobile transmissions in both terrestrial and spacecommunication applications. Many different types of antennas are in use today in avariety of applications. Every antenna in use has been designed based on specificationsthat make it suitable for a particular application. TelT students are exposed to basic Page 7.319.1characteristics that are common to all antennas such as gain and radiation pattern.Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education.This project was sponsored by the Minority Office

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman; Gordon Kingsley

Fellows with teachers andstudents in their assigned schools. Our approach towards the remaining goals is through thecreation and nurturing of partnerships between Georgia Tech and area high schools.We propose that aggressively pursuing the development of meaningful and sustainableuniversity-school partnerships, is the strategy most likely to produce long-term success in the K- Page 7.1155.11 NSF Project Number DGE-0086420 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education12 arena for Georgia

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Louis Rivest

students electing to specialize in Aerospace Production atÉcole de technologie superieure, located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. These students previouslyreceived formal training on basic Computer Aided Design (CAD) topics such as graphicssystems, transformations, curves, surfaces and solid modeling, viewing and rendering, graphicexchanges standards, and so on. Thus, this optional CAD course departs from traditional basicCAD courses by focusing on practical aspects of design tools usage and implementation. Moststudents have limited or no prior knowledge of the aerospace field. The structure of this advancedone-semester course rests on three poles: formal teaching hours, labs and a project. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Cary Fisher; John Feland

and Page 7.336.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationthe original design of new products. A key element in this course was the use of hands-onexperiences through the use of “reverse engineering” projects. 2 After running successfully for a few years, the course was stable enough to weather a fewdesign modifications. We canvassed our faculty and our Air Force constituents for theirsuggestions on course content and process enhancements. Unfortunately, the list of suggestedenhancements

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Fahmida Masoom; Abulkhair Masoom

maybe implemented to keep up with the changing circumstances. The possibilities range fromupdating of the course periodically by adding and deleting time appropriate topics, to completelyrefurbishing the introductory course sequence using a different format.How it StartedLandis3, as part of his NSF grant activity, ran a workshop in 1992 with faculty from severalengineering programs around the country including one from UW-Platteville. The workshopidentified five major themes as the focus of his project: 1) community building, 2) academicsuccess skills, 3) personal development, 4) professional development, and 5) orientation. As peragreement, resource materials in support of these activities were developed at participatinginstitutions throughout

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education for Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ofodike Ezekoye; John Doggett; J. Nolen; John Butler; Steven Nichols

culminates in a simulation where the students start a business and run it overseveral years with the objective of maximizing shareholder equity. The details of implementingthis collaborative program are provided in this manuscript.Introduction The evolution of a collaborative project between the Colleges of Engineering andBusiness at the University of Texas at Austin with a goal of creating a business skills shortcourse for engineering students is discussed in this manuscript. The project is one piece of alarger project formulated within the mechanical engineering department at the University ofTexas on implementing project based learning into the curriculum. One of the tenets of project -based learning is the direct application of

Conference Session

What's in Store for the ChE Curriculum?

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Helen Hollein; Nada Assaf-Anid

Session ____ Incorporating Biotechnology in the Chemical Engineering Curriculum Nada M. Assaf-Anid and Helen C. Hollein Chemical Engineering Department Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY 10471Abstract: The projected growth of the biotechnology industry in the coming decades warrantschanges in traditional chemical engineering curricula. To meet this new challenge, ManhattanCollege has implemented curriculum changes that aim at preparing graduates to meet thedemands of the food and pharmaceutical industry with a basic knowledge of biology andbiochemistry for

Conference Session

Using Technology to Improve IE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Willie Ross; Denise Jackson

the problems addressed by each topic, thetools and techniques used to address those problems, and the shareware programs that can beused to facilitate the solving of those problems.Engineering EconomicsEngineers not only design projects, they also justify implementation of those projects. They mustconsider whether a project will offer some net benefit to the people who will be affected by it;and they must consider the cost of consuming natural resources, both in the price that must bepaid for them and the realization that once they are used for that project, they will no longer beavailable for any other project(s). In searching and selecting different programs for engineeringeconomics, certain features were deemed critical for effectiveness

Conference Session

Professionally Oriented Graduate Program

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett

“sell” their ideas in terms that resonate with their buyers.Structure of the CourseThe course is taught in a seminar format. Students identify their projects and relate them to thebusiness objectives of their organization. They interview and identify the social styles of their“buyers”.Students are provided a variety of readings and must seek other relevant materials on their own.Each class session begins with a short lecture, but the real benefits come from the rich discussionof the concepts in the readings and their personal experience with “selling” their project in theircompany. During the semester, each student gives many presentations to demonstrate theirability to apply the learning. The class critiques these presentations, and a ll are

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Chiang Shih

also designed visualization-based courseware tosupplement the regular lecture teaching. In addition, the dynamics laboratory facility has alsobeen used to familiarize students with experimental techniques and data acquisition systemsuseful in developing design projects with greater scope, hence strengthening the designcomponent of the Dynamic Systems discipline. We have also implemented a "Learning-Through-Teaching (L-T-T)" concept to encourage the active participation of all students. Theimplementation of the L-T-T concept helped students to achieve a deeper understanding of thesubject by being involved in the teaching process. In addition, the concept can enhance fullcollaboration between faculty and students and among students themselves to

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hong Zhang; Jennifer Kadlowec

Session 1898 ROBOTS! – Freshman Clinic in Mechanical Engineering Hong Zhang Jennifer Kadlowec College of Engineering, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ 08028 zhang, kadlowec@rowan.edu 1. Introduction The integration of both hands-on experience and minds-on thinking in engineeringeducation is the hallmark of Rowan Engineering. The Engineering Clinic 1,2 sequence wasdeveloped to promote project-based learning. As a unique component of the Rowanengineering curriculum, engineering clinic is a framework that includes the topics fromintroduction of

Conference Session

CAD Applications in MET Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

B. Sridhara

SurfCAM files. These files were sent to a CNCmachine and the parts were machined. This was a very good experience for the students to learnabout CIM in an industrial setting. Students also learned the basics of CIM by sending the MDTfiles electronically to the department’s rapid prototyping machine and producing physicalmodels. Besides AutoCAD and MDT, Dr. Sridhara also teaches other solid modeling softwaresuch as Pro-Engineer and SolidWorks in CADD II and Advanced CAD classes. Students will doat least one project using these software. A group of students worked with a local industry thatmanufactures kitchen equipment for hospitals and restaurants and designed some parts usingSolidWorks. They visited the industry several times and learned about

Conference Session

Freshman Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Harris

assistant meet one evening a week. In the first five weeks, students learn to soldertogether a utility board and breadboard a series of combinational and sequential digitalelectronics projects. Once they are comfortable with the design of digital circuits, they learnabout building logic gates from Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) CMOStransistors and laying out CMOS transistors. They use the Electric CAD tool to designschematics, layout their circuits, simulate, and verify the chip as a team before sending it to theMOSIS service for fabrication. The chips have been used as components in industry sponsoredresearch projects carried out by senior engineering students. Very Large Scale Integration(VLSI) design historically has been offered

Conference Session

Multimedia and Product Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wafeek Wahby

adopted by the author for hisEngineering Graphics lectures, using some features of Microsoft PowerPoint software.Microsoft PowerPoint software capabilities can be used to create simple but effective,animated, multi-media, graphical presentations that enhance students’ visualization skillsand give them the know-how to hand-solve a variety of projection problems, geometricshapes drawings, and Descriptive Geometry concepts, in an easy and affordable way.From hand-drawing geometric shapes such as ellipses, to hand-solving DescriptiveGeometry problems such as piercing points, students’ comprehension of subject matter aswell as their problem solving ability are greatly enhanced through the “show-and-tell-and-let-apply” (SATALA) approach in lecturing

Conference Session

Physics in the K-12 Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vivian Vasquez; Andrea I. Prejean; Sarah Irvine; Teresa Larkin

District of Columbia, Department of HumanServices. The pre-institute workshop was a direct result of feedback received from teachers whohad asked for more intensive instruction with computers. Resources for the workshop can befound at http://www.american.edu/IRVINE/ike. A follow-up to the institute was held onOctober 20, 2001. One goal of the follow-up was to provide participating teachers with anopportunity to frame a strategy for implementation of what they learned at the institute into theirown classes. A second goal was to assist teachers in the preparation of a framework fordissemination of information within their individual schools. In addition to the institute's leaders, project resource faculty were available throughout thecourse of

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Farris; Jeffrey Ray

for Engineering Education Session 1491A description of the project deliverables and their due dates was presented. The first deliverablewas a detailed print of the assigned part. Dimensions, tolerances, datums and geo metricdimensions and tolerancing call outs were required. Students assigned to mating parts wererequired to review and approve each other's prints.Next students formulated process and inspection plans for each part. The process plan includedthe following information: 1. Machines required to manufacture the part. 2. The tooling and fixturing required for each machine. 3. The process parameters for each machine