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Integrating Math in Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bob Freeman

to solve the specific problem at hand, be it a lectureconcept/learning objective or a homework assignment. Then, after the student has developed acertain familiarity with the software, they can more readily use the software’s own moreencyclopedic assistive materials to address new and more comprehensive tasks. The approach takenincorporates the use of “screen capture with audio” avi tutorials, along with a variety of interactivematerials including; supplemental lecture notes, homework assignments and solutions, sampleexams and exam solutions, and projects. Liberal use is also made of the software packages’ ownassistive materials. The software “taught” includes MathSoft's Mathcad and MSC's Working Model2D, with TechSmith's Camtasia used to

Conference Session

Manufacturing Systems Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Hotchkiss; Slade Gellin

those capabilitiesalready incorporated. For instance, the machine for which the VAL-CAM program wasoriginally written does not have an automatic tool changer, whereas one of the recently installedmachine tools does have such a tool changer. The program module for this new machine allowsthe user to specify the codes that are used by the new machine that will effect an automaticchange of tool. A variety of standard and non-standard codes are also provided so that the usercan tailor the code to operate most new machine tools.The significance of this project is that the generality and modularity of the post-processor lendsitself to utilization in similar laboratories at other educational facilities.Introduction and Problem StatementA CNC code

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Michael Stefanone; Jae-Shin Lee; Geraldine Gay; Barry Davidson; Anthony Ingraffea; Alan Zehnder; Scott Jones; John Dannenhoffer

Session 2525 On the use of Advanced IT Tools to Facilitate Effective, Geographically Distributed Student Design Teams Barry Davidson1, John Dannenhoffer III1, Geraldine Gay2, Anthony Ingraffea2, Scott Jones2, Jae-Shin Lee2, Michael Stefanone2 and Alan Zehnder2 1 Syracuse University / 2Cornell UniversityIntroduction In industry and government, teams of scientists and engineers need to work together closely toachieve their project goals. In large projects team members may live and work at geographicallydistant sites, and may work for different organizations

Conference Session

Effective Teaching to Motivate & Retain

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Zia Razzaq

taught by a faculty member from civil, environmental, mechanical, electrical or anotherengineering and technology area. The emphasis is on “hands-on” experience through studentgroup projects coupled with a clear introduction to some related fundamentals. This paperoutlines an effective strategy while utilizing as an example the student projects involving structuralengineering. A very dramatic increase in the retention rate of the freshmen has been observedever since these courses have been introduced.The LogisticsIn order to motivate and retain the maximum possible number of students, two courses named“Engineering and Technology I and II” have been introduced at Old Dominion University.Hereinafter, these courses will be referred to as EET I and

Conference Session

Building Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bryant; Paul Swamidass

Session 1136 Preparing UG entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs through cross- disciplinary partnership between engineering and business colleges. Dr. Paul M. Swamidass, and Dr. James O. BryantThomas Walter Center for Technology Management, Tiger Drive Rm 104, Auburn University, AL 36849-5358Entrepreneurship in technology-intensive industries requires close cooperative workbetween engineers and business professionals. The premise of a new program at AuburnUniversity is that cross-functional teamwork skills that enable business and engineeringstudents to work together on several projects lays the foundation for

Conference Session

Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Mason

-Residence program to bring inventorswho were struggling to commercialize their inventions to work with students and facultyin laboratories and independent work. There were also a number of initiatives foroutreach to existing technology-based industry, especially in the area of optics. Later the Page 8.696.1Center for Applied Optics Studies expanded into the Technology Assistance and ServicesCenter which provided expertise for projects related to most of the campus’ technicaldisciplines. Curriculum restructuring reinforced these efforts by moving towardrequirements or at least strong suggestions that all students complete an externallysponsored project as

Conference Session

Environmental Justice and Sustainability

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Radhika Kotha

Session 3551 THE DESIGNING OF THE “NATURAL HOUSE”: A STUDENT’S EXPERIENCE Radhika Kotha 3rd Yr., Mechanical Engineering Student Muffakham Jah College of Engineering & Technology Hyderabad, IndiaAbstract“The Natural House”, the inspiration of one of our professors and a project of Centre forEnvironment Studies and Socioresponsive Engineering in our Mechanical EngineeringDepartment, is being designed to “behave” like an “organism” in relation to the surroundingnatural environment. Within

Conference Session

Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Schroeder; Figen Lacin; Craig Somerton

extendedhomework assignment for the senior level heat transfer course, ME 410, and is shown in Fig. 8.For the ME 410 assignment, one lecture period was taken to introduce the students toFinSolver.xls using a computer projection system. For ENGN 385, the instructor spent aboutthirty minutes in the lab with students logged in on computers, so as to have the spreadsheetavailable in front of them, while the instructor, using a computer projection system,demonstrated features of the program and worked out a first trial case of the assignment. Theclear difference in the nature of these two assignments shows the utility of the spreadsheet. Page 8.174.9

Conference Session

TYCD 2003 Lower Division Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rod Townley; Stephen Kuyath

Session 2586 A Collaborative Effort at Program Development Stephen J. Kuyath, Rod M. Townley UNC-Charlotte Department of Engineering Technology/Central Piedmont Community College, Dean Southwest CampusBackground:The Regional Information Technology Training Collaborative Project is an outgrowth of theCharlotte Region Workforce Development Partnership and Advantage Carolina InformationTechnology Council (ITC). The Charlotte Region Workforce Development Partnership is a jointeffort of ten community colleges in the Charlotte region for workforce development. The ITC isan effort of the

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Anderson; Ronald Bucinell

students at UnionCollege. More recently this single course has been divided into two courses, one in particlemechanics and one in rigid body mechanics. Using this approach, students are shown that staticsis a simplified case of dynamics. Free body and mass/acceleration diagrams, hands on laboratoryexercises, and design projects are used to illustrate this relationship. A summary of the successof the course being taught this way is presented.IntroductionEngineering students are traditionally introduced to topics in engineering mechanics throughtrimester courses in statics and dynamics. This is true throughout the United States and theWorld with few exceptions. During the reform of the Union College Engineering Curriculumthat took place in the mid

Conference Session

Innovations in the CHE Laboratory

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

R. Worden

Page 8.713.1curricula do not train students to work effectively in such teams. Several years ago, as part of anProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationNSF-sponsored Combined Research/Curriculum Development (CRCD) project, MSUestablished a Multidisciplinary Bioprocessing Laboratory (MBL) course to help prepare studentsfor a multidisciplinary work environment. The goal of this course is to teach students how towork effectively in multidisciplinary teams in a research environment. Students are recruitedinto the MBL course from several science and engineering departments and assigned tomultidisciplinary research teams of

Conference Session

Virtual & Distance Experiments

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Weber; Bernard Lwakabamba; Julie Dickerson; Carolina Cruz-neira; Diane Rover

Session 2426 CRCD: Low-Power Wireless Communications for Virtual Environments-Course Integration Julie A. Dickerson, Diane T. Rover, Carolina Cruz-Neira, Robert J. Weber, Eric Eekhoff, Bernard Lwakabamba, Feng Chen, and Zheng Min Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011I. Project OverviewThis project combines research from the areas of wireless communications, low-power embeddedsystems, virtual environments, and human factors in an interdisciplinary program. Education in thehardware and software of virtual reality (VR) systems serves

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lucy King; Jacqueline El-Sayed

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationwith math, physics, communication or graphic arts [Pearson, 1999] 3 [Wood et. al., 2001] 5 [Goffet. al. 2001]2. Other approaches entail consecutive classes where one class of students utilize thereports of a previous class’ work or team taught labs with instructors from different disciplines[Drake et. al., 2002]1.At Kettering University, collaborative efforts have been tested involving a selected number ofstudents in two non-concurrent courses or utilizing reports from previous course work to developa project in another class [Scheller, 2000]4. There has not been any attempt in conducting a trulyinterdisciplinary

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Holger; James Melsa; Loren Zachary

, visiting faculty should be housed near—but not with—their students. It is important tonote that the visiting faculty will probably have a greater role in the students’ lives than they wouldhave when the students are resident at their home institution. The visiting faculty may also becalled on to play a greater disciplinary role than at home.It is important to leave time for cultural experiences or to specifically schedule them into theprogram. Industry visits in the host country are an excellent way to introduce the students to workprocesses in other countries and therefore should be an integral part of summer programs.International project experiencesIn this model, students are sent to another country to conduct project work under the supervision

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

ZT DENG; Xiaoqing (Cathy) Qian; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo; Zhengtao Deng

fluidsystems and consideration to the economics of fluid systems performance. The student will beable to identify the parameters that characterize the operation of fluid flow in incompressible andcompressible flow problems and its application on turbo-machinery systems. Computer programin FORTRAN or in C, MATLAB, and Lab View will be developed and used to support designand Lab projects and analysis. The faculty of the mechanical engineering department at AlabamaAAMU adopted SEAARK [2,3,4,5] system approach for instruction and teaching. It starts fromthe basic to the complex levels of learning. SEAARK stands for (in reverse order) Knowledge,Repetition, Application, Analysis, Evaluation and Synthesis. At the “Knowledge” level, studentsneed to define

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alok Verma

3648AN AIR-FILTER SENSOR FOR HOME-USED AIR CONDITIONERS Cheng Y. Lin, Gary R. Crossman, Alok K. Verma Department of Engineering Technology Old Dominion University Norfolk, VirginiaAbstract This paper presents a successful senior project of instrumentation developed in aMechanical Engineering Technology senior capstone course. Students were encouraged toapproach the problem of designing an air-filter sensor and to propose an optimum

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; Joseph Morgan

control the operation of the platform.The project meets several key educational objectives including applied research anddesign in the undergraduate environment, team interaction, technology integration,testing, and technical communications to include written, oral, and web-baseddocumentation. The EET/TET Programs are now ready to invite other universities to jointhem in the continued development of these technologies and to focus on a multi-university competition that would bring students together to share experiences in anenjoyable, yet competitiveenvironment. Four-member teamsare formed at the beginning ofeach semester, and each teammust satisfy a set offundamental requirementsduring the first half of thesemester that include

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nabil Ibrahim

-based team projects, andcommitting to matching funds from funding agencies such as NSF and SME.The successful partnership between local schools on one side and industry on the other hasled to the success of the 2+2+2 program. Our consortium of schools has been aninvaluable connection for getting faculty and administrators from different schoolstogether to look at how the curriculum at each educational level builds to the next.Through intensive discussions we have been able to identify target courses for articulationand develop a process for implementing changes. In the areas where the educationalprograms fail to match up, we were able to provide resources for course refinement andprogram enhancement.Our industry partners also played a key role

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anita Mahadevan-Jansen

, which was directed towardeducating students on how to use various computing tools to solve engineering problems, toeducating students on how to solve engineering problems with the aid of various tools includingcomputers. Students were thus presented with different types of real world engineering problemsfrom all disciplines within engineering and learned the basic principles of problem solving in thecontext of these problems. In addition, engineering design was incorporated in the form of asemester long design project performed under the guidance of specific faculty within anengineering discipline.Thus, a paradigm shift in the introduction of engineering to freshman is presented bringing time-honored traditions of engineering problem solving to

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Stanford; Duane Dunlop; Donald Sebastian; Stephen Tricamo; Donald Keating

graduates seem to exhibit relevant to the ability to actually practice creative engineeringto meet real-world needs. Much of this criticism concerning the characteristics and skill-sets that we desirein experienced engineers and technologists is well deserved. The criticisms cover the gamut and identification of critical professional gaps from businessknowledge/skills; interpersonal skills; project management; written communication; oralcommunication/listening; international perspective; product/process design; open-ended problem solvingthrough higher order multidisciplinary and systems thinking, as if undergraduate engineering andtechnology education can develop all of these skills within a four-year curriculum. There is no doubt

Conference Session

TYCD 2003 Lower Division Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Moayyad AlNasra; Virgil Cox

Major Hour CompletionFigure 4: NC Statewide Study, CET ProgramSUGGESTED TECHNIQUES TO ENHANCE CREATIVEENVIRONMENTOne of the most critical elements in teaching an engineering course is to makestudents interested in learning and participating in the teaching/learning process. Astudent can learn better if he/she is interested in the subject. Students’ activeparticipation creates a productive and creative learning environment. Teachingengineering course should be different from teaching other courses sinceengineering courses prepare students to face the highly demanding engineeringmarket. Team projects along with lectures and labs are proven to be very effective.The following are suggested points to be considered in dealing with class teamprojects

Conference Session

Improving Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Balik; Nachiappan Nagappan; Laurie Williams; Julie Petlick; Carol Miller; Miriam Ferzli; Eric Wiebe

Session 2230 Pair Programming in Introductory Programming Labs Eric N. Wiebe, Laurie Williams, Julie Petlick, Nachiappan Nagappan, Suzanne Balik, Carol Miller and Miriam Ferzli NC State University, Raleigh, NCABSTRACT: This project looks at the practice of pair programming as a vehicle for improving thelearning environment in introductory computer science labs, a nearly universal course for all engineeringstudents. Pair programming is a practice in which two programmers work collaboratively at onecomputer, on the same design, algorithm, or code. Prior research indicates

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Hofinger

to give theelectrical engineering technology program immediate relevance, ECET 196 “Introduction toECET and Projects” has been designed to incorporate the teaching of these communication skills.This paper focuses specifically on my efforts to incorporate these features into this course andinto our undergraduate laboratory courses.IntroductionThe ability to communicate effectively is expected of all college graduates. The ability tocommunicate technical concepts well, distinguishes an outstanding technologist from an averageone. Students seeking to become engineering technicians or technologists often lack the basiccommunication skills. It has been written many times, that employers regard goodcommunication skills as a necessary element of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bill Ray

at Carbondale/3Associate Professor, Department of Cinema and Photography, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale/4Graduate Assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Southern Illinois University at CarbondaleAbstractThe purpose of this project is to develop a web site to provide environmental engineeringfaculty with digital images of water and wastewater processes in order to enhance theclassroom learning experience. In addition, a CD-ROM of the same material will also beavailable at the conclusion of the project. We will provide quality digital images of waterand wastewater processes, including both still and video images. Most images areavailable for download in three resolutions. High

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Phillips; Paul Palazolo

both the class andlaboratory successfully but who had no real sense of where the learning integrated into theiroverall engineering experience. In an effort to address these concerns, faculty from theMechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering Departments at The University of Memphisworked together to design and propose a more reality-based curriculum within the existingcourse parameters. With the introduction of a limited-scale design project, informationdeveloped in the lab was critical to the completion of the design project that applied engineeringcontent to real-time application. Supplementary and supporting information is provided alongwith project results to make these ideas easily adaptable to any engineering design course.Introduction

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing Engineering Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Otieno; Clifford Mirman

problem and solve the needs of our diverse studentpopulation, the NIU Department of Technology has developed a new laboratory based PLCcourse. This course, while teaching the basics of PLC ladder logic and programming, alsoprovides valuable hands on experience in the integration of a PLC with sensors, motion control,vision systems, and robotics. The laboratory experience also includes the development of humaninterface to the PLC in typical automation applications, both with hand held devices andMicrosoft visual basic tools. The students are also involved in a two-week lab based project thatrequires advanced PLC functions. The current PLC experience was implemented during thespring 2002 semester, the summer 2002 semester and is on its third phase

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gene Liao; Gregory J. Koshurba

Session Design of a Universal Robot End-effector for Straight-line Pick-up Motion Gene Y. Liao Gregory J. Koshurba Wayne State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes a capstone design project in developing an end-effector for robotic arm thatis capable of grasping objects of varying sizes. The design parameters are as follows. Thecenter point of end-effector should remain as close as possible to the same location, i.e. astraight-line path, over the range of gripper motion. The selected size and shape of the graspedobject are

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gordon Silverman

havestudents achieve competency in business practices equivalent to the proficiencies realized inengineering subject areas. One method for achieving this is to ask students to respond to"Request for Proposal" (RFPs) in which inter- and multi-discipline design teams "compete" withalternate solutions. Corporate representatives provide realistic scenarios through activeparticipation in such courses. These "clients" require the students to use realistic projectmanagement tools and reinforce planning and economic aspects of a design without neglectingthe technical aspects of the project. While such approaches have proven successful, they neglectan important element of leadership development - the "entrepreneurial" aspect. To this end, wedescribe an

Conference Session

Remote Sensing and Telemetry

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Berg; Manuel Blanco; Fabio Urbani

Session 2359 Wireless solar radiation and meteorological instrument for K-12 Technology Education Manuel J. Blanco, William M. Berg, Fabio Urbani The University of Texas at Brownsville mjblanco@utb.eduAbstractA wireless network of weather stations is being designed for a project to enhance and advancemathematics, science, and computer education for K-12 students. In this network, portable, solarpowered weather stations incorporating GPS and spread spectrum radio communication featureswill be deployed on rooftops of 53schools in the area

Conference Session

Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Sutterer

bythe United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development11 as “...developmentthat meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations tomeet their own needs...” It is well documented that a worldwide crisis is approaching ifsustainability does not become a fundame ntal consideration in development.10ASCE recognizes this need, as documented in its first fundamental Canon of its Code of Ethics:“Engineers shall hold paramount the safety, health and welfare of the public and shall strive tocomply with the principles of sustainable development in the performance of their professionalduties.3 ” Sustainable engineering is already a major consideration for construction of manyfederal projects, and many