Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mileta Tomovic; William Szaroletta; Bruce Harding

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationIn a sophomore-level mechanics course at Purdue University, this capability was initiallydemonstrated to the students in the Fall of 2001. The initial demonstrations have evolved intofaculty support of students performing their own modeling of homework and laboratory problemsas depicted above.The flexibility with which a solid model can be exported to analysis-specific Computer AidedEngineering (CAE) packages is a key factor in determining the utility of a particular solidmodeling software package as a helpful tool. Solid modeling packages that attempt to verticallyintegrate a plethora of analysis packages often cannot

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Terra Smith

home staff, family members of residents, and health care surveyors wasfluids being inappropriately prepared for residents on swallow disorder (dysphagia) diets.Residents with dysphagia may take longer to swallow than normal, therefore, thickened fluidsmay be prescribed to determine inexpensive procedures for monitoring fluid consistencies, to usestatistical consistencies, and to promote training of the health care students on use of foodthickeners. The project was conducted at four sites: two long-term care facilities, the mechanicalengineering laboratory, and the food product development laboratory. Phase I was a preliminarystudy to determine appropriate data collection methods for a long-term care facility. Phase II,conducted in the

Conference Session

Programming and DSP Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jordan Rosenthal; James McClellan

most of the learning tasks are traditionalpaper-and-pencil assignments, e.g., homework problems, lab reports, etc.This assessment of student usage also shows that students will not use the GUIs without specificassignments. Therefore, to engage students in the interactive process of trying different cases withthe GUIs, we have written several laboratories centered on the GUIs for convolution and frequencyresponse. In these labs, the students run the GUIs to generate observations and then perform acompanion analysis to explain the observations with theoretical results. In addition, we are creatingnew GUIs that generate drill problems on other basic concepts such as spectrum diagrams andfactoring z-transform polynomials. The goal is to promote

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

. Strategy for Retention.The Mechanical Engineering Department at Alabama A&M University is investing resourcesand efforts to improve retention rates of engineering freshman through two required freshmancourses in mechanical engineering. These courses are ME 101 Introduction to MechanicalEngineering and ME 104 Engineering Analysis and Computing. ME 101 is delivered in onehour lecture and three hours of laboratory. The ME 104 class is delivered as a three hourlecture within a classroom equipped with computers. These courses showcase the type ofactivities engineers carry out in the modern practice of the engineering profession.Through these courses the department tries to alleviate some of the difficulties facing studentsas discussed earlier. By

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerard Foster

ManufacturingPhys. Ed. /SH Phys. Ed. /SH Phys. Ed. /SH Music/Art/BusinessMusic/Art/Business Music/Art/Business Music/Art/Business Table 1: Sample PLTW high school programEquipment and the high school course contentsA breakdown of the estimated equipment costs to set up the labs for each course is foundat the PLTW web site. The following summary combines the categories of computers,equipment, supplies, furniture, software, and consumables. To set up a laboratory for 26students in the Gateway course it is estimated that $54,147 is required. An estimate of$95,508 is estimated to set up one high school laboratory with 20 student stations for allfive courses. Estimates for the first two courses

Conference Session

Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan Kremer

andbeams. After a series of guided, hands-on experiments and lectures on the mechanical behaviorof materials, four-person design teams are asked to build a weighing system that can accuratelyweigh objects within a specific weight range to a specified resolution. Team performance forthis design project is measured via design demonstrations, and an evaluation of each team’s Page 7.469.1design report. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society from Engineering EducationDuring this project, a laboratory book [5] is used which

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Sutterer

independentlyare acceptable. Since the project is typically too difficult for student teams to complete, studentson those teams who finish early are tempted by the faculty with extra credit opportunities tocarry the design farther. This opportunity appeals particularly to those students who arestruggling in the class, and they are thus encouraged to learn better and also work harder to finishearly so they can pursue extra credit work. Extra credit may be submitted by part of a team or bythe entire team.In the first course offering (Winter 2000-2001), ten different student teams designed a load framethat could test steel, concrete, timber, and composite beams up to 14 feet long for the structuralengineering laboratory at Rose-Hulman. The students knew the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Roli Varma

. Disparities by social class and race/ethnicity are strongly relatedto pipeline progress in science and engineering related disciplines 7,10.This paper reports the findings from a case study conducted at the University of New Mexico(UNM), a Doctoral Intensive and a Minority/Hispanic-Serving Institution. UNM grantsundergraduate degrees in both key IT-related fields—CS and CE. Due to its proximity withnational laboratories (e.g. Sandia & Los Alamos laboratories), private industry (e.g. Intel), andthe state government, IT education at UNM offers excellent job and career opportunities for NewMexico residents, especially minorities. However, only 35% of undergraduate students enrolledin CS and 32% of those enrolled in CE are under -represented

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Vollaro

RequirementsIn the IE314 Manufacturing Processes course, students experience the ‘learning beyond theclassroom’ activity of industrial field trips as an integral and required component of this course.The course is taught 2 times a week for one hour and fifteen minutes or 3 time a week for 50minutes and field trips are scheduled for a two-hour period by extending one of the sessions. Theadministration specifies a ‘laboratory period’, which corresponds to the working hours of mostcompanies and the student’s course schedules. The accompanying textbook is Materials and Processes in Manufacturing by E.Paul DeGarmo,J.T. Black, Ronald A. Kohser, Eighth Edition, Prentice-Hall Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ,1997.The course description is as follows: “This

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Lozano

service), with lesser emphasisplaced in the research and dissemination of new knowledge. Due to the innate undergraduateeducation nature of ET programs, even ET faculty with a doctoral degree, who were active inresearch and publication during their graduate studies feel limited in their ability to conductresearch work that may lead to scholarly publication. These limitations are mainly of infrastructuralnature, such as the absence of research laboratories, graduate students, etc. Finally there is someperceived feeling of “wasting one’s time” in involving themselves in the thorough process ofcreating, developing and submitting scholarly work for publication, that may be linked to previousunsuccessful attempts to publish their work.The previous

Conference Session

ET International Collaborations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

A. A. Al-Anezi

Industries)· Civil Engineering Technology (Building, Highway, surveying)· Communication Engineering Technology· Electrical Engineering Technology (Electrical machine, Transmission)· Electronics Engineering Technology (Industrial)· Heavy Equipment Engineering Technology· Marine Engineering Technology· Mechanical Power Engineering Technology· Production Engineering Technology· Welding Technology· Physics Laboratories Technology· Chemical Laboratories TechnologyIn general the study system, as with all other institutions and universities in Kuwait,follows the credit system. It comprises of five semesters during which the student mustobtain 84 credits and successfully participate in a specified period of field training. CTSgraduates

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Abraham Michelen

(GUIs) using the Guide facility of MATLAB where theuser can interact with the GUI by using graphical objects. In this way, to change aparameter in a particular problem and repeat an operation with the new parameter can beaccomplished by clicking a push button or by dragging an interface.Guide is a set of tools designed to build GUIs from within MATLAB. In a matter ofminutes the experienced user can create complex graphical tools that can be used toteach the behavior of a system when one or several parameters are changed; even fullsimulation laboratory exercises can be created without a big effort. The author havedeveloped simulation labs for electronics and telecommunication courses that allow thestudents to study the behavior of systems

Conference Session

Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Caroline Baillie; Adam Mannis

student feedback and an analysis of course results: § Important to be flexible to changes based on a review of the course.5) Since a common 1st year course involves teaching large classes in lectures, the course must be supplemented by tutorial and/or laboratory classes of smaller student numbers, in order to verify lecture content and to establish a relevance of the key material concepts for the separate engineering strands involved in the common 1st year: § Important to provide adequate resources for such supplementary tutorials and/or laboratory classes.Motivating students of mixed abilities and backgroundsKey Issues:“Materials for Engineers” classes often consist of students of mixed abilities andbackgrounds, with and

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Lessard

Session 2620 A Lego-Based Soccer-Playing Robot Competition For Teaching Design Ronald A. Lessard Norwich UniversityAbstractCourse Objectives in the ME382 Instrumentation Laboratory at Norwich University include1.Design of systems involving both computer hardware and software. 2.Use of modern computertools for data acquisition and control. By having the students use a Lego Mindstorms robot kitand Robolab graphical programming software as a rapid prototyping tool combination abeginning at achieving both outcomes can be efficiently accomplished. The problem to

Conference Session

Engineering Management Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Waters

.4 It alsohas a genetic structure in the form of human knowledge and its prosthetic devices in the shape oflibraries, blueprints, computers, laboratories, and so on. As in biological evolution, knowledge isable to direct energy, to sustain temperatures, and to select, transport and transform chemicalelements into improbable structures, not only of skin, blood, and brains, but also of walls, waterpipes, and computers. 5The Process of Change in the Ecosystem- An ecosystem has innumerable niches for differentkinds of creatures and behaviors. A niche is the potential equilibrium population of a phenotype.The basic evolutionary process is the accumulation of knowledge, i.e. changes in genetic

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps I

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Zarrugh

informationtechnology as a tool for increasing labor productivity and enhancing competitiveness.Successfully blending engineering, business, science and information technology, the coursesprovide a balanced contemporary treatment of manufacturing resource management, design andmanufacturing systems, and materials and manufacturing processes. Several laboratory modulesand group projects offered throughout the sequence provide opportunities for experientiallearning, hand-on experience and teamwork. The sequence addresses many of the criticalcompetency gaps in manufacturing engineering education reported in recent national surveys ofmanufacturing managers and practitioners.I. IntroductionEngineering education throughout its history has emphasized preparation for

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Jenkins; John Kramlich

Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 1 – Cone of learning showing increased retention of information with active learning (from Ref [5])involves a “do-say” aspect. A laboratory experiment with a formal written laboratory report isan example of such a “do-say” exercise. This 90% level of retention is in contrast to only 10%retention achieved through reading only such as in reading assignments out of a text book or aninformation search on the world wide web. The efficacy of active versus passive learning forincreasing retention of new information is shown graphically in Figure 1.These pedagogical observations give direction to the types of assessment methods that might beemployed

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Maughmer

Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationregard to legal limits, giving the students a chance to gain experience with the FAA certificationprocess.Fabrication WorkA strong emphasis of the Penn State flight vehicle design and fabrication course is on “hands-on” experience in the laboratory, which the students are required to attend for several hours perweek. Ideally, here the students put into reality what had previously been developed in thedesign groups. In the laboratory, students work in small teams usually consisting of at least onemore experienced classmate acting as a leader. The students learn simple tasks, such as sanding,as well as more complex composite-material fabrication methods, such as the processing of pre-preg or

Conference Session

Design in the Engineering Core

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Campbell

Session 2366 Teaching Machine Design through Product Emulation Matthew I. Campbell Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78705 mc1@mail.utexas.edu1 IntroductionIt is widely accepted that in order to learn complex technical material well, some form of activeexperimentation or “hands-on” activities are required. Traditionally, in engineering educationthis occurs through laboratory experiments or through design projects. In

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ricardo Molina; Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

; Symbolic and Numerical Computer; Electronic; Operational Systems; Construction Techniques of Programs; Antennas and microwaves; Formal Languages and Automata; Communication Systems; Digital Laboratories; Electrical Materials and Processes. · 4th. Year: Digital Systems; Automatic Control; Digital Communications; Software Engineering; Hydraulic, Thermal and Electrical Machines; Graphic Computer; Teleprocess and Computer Network; Digital Processing and Stochastic Processes Signals; Mathematical Programming; Software Engineering Laboratories. · 5th. Year: Integrated Circuits Conception; Telephonic Systems and Planning Systems of Communications; Tolerance Basis to Flaws; Communications Technology; Artificial Intelligence; Data Base; Generation

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Husson; Richard Rice; James Haile; II, S. Michael Kilbey; Graham Harrison; Douglas Hirt; David Bruce; Charles Gooding; Deborah Switzer

. Stopwatch Water delivery system, which has a single, unmetered control valve 55 gallon drum Safety Precautions: Standard ChE Unit Operations Laboratory practices: safety glasses, bump caps, shirt sleeves, no open shoes. For this experiment only, we will relax the requirement that long pants must be worn; knee-length shorts will be acceptable. Failure to comply will prevent a group from doing the experiment. Objectives: The student will gain familiarity with the bucket-and-scale technique for determining liquid flow rates. The student should be able to analyze a particular design criterion and manipulate basic equipment in order to achieve

Conference Session

Grad. and Upper Level Undergrad. BME Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gordon Silverman

(6) Required Core Course Sequences. Page 7.260.5 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationThe curriculum developed at UIC is designed to provide the baccalaureate graduate with thetools needed to succeed at an entry level engineering position in the emerging bioengineeringand biotechnology industries.The curriculum has been designed in cooperation with a departmental industrial advisorycommittee representing companies such as Abbott Laboratories and Baxter International. Thesuggestions of the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

M. P. Sharma; Edward Anderson; Roman Taraban

active learning exercises that are simple, relate to thelearner’s experience level, and that can be incorporated into and synchronized with otherteaching pedagogies. These also need to be structured so that learners can proceed at their ownpace, receive appropriate feedback and coaching, and can review as often as necessary to masterthe material. This paper presents and discusses several such exercises that are integrated with acomplete CBI system and textbook [10].The examples presented are taken from the Introduction to Thermodynamics course that is taughtto almost every engineering student. This course is particularly challenging as it is normallytaught without a laboratory experience. This course also contains many physical concepts

Conference Session

ET International Collaborations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Tina Moreau-Jones; Albert Peng; Daniel Jones

Speakers 5. Packing and Traveling 6. Establishing Communications with Host Student B. On-Site Visit to China 1. Lectures on the Culture/History of China 2. Chinese Language Instruction 3. NCUT Laboratory Tour 4. Industry Plant Tours 5. Oral Presentations by NCUT Faculty and Students 6. Visitation to Historical Sites 7. Maintenance of a Daily Journal 8. Student-to-Student Exchange C. Follow-up after the Trip 1. Debriefing and Review 2. Presentations to CMU and Civic Groups 3. Participation and Help with NCUT Exchange Visit Page 7.735.2

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Farr

allowed us to hire four new faculty in2000-2001. We plan to hire two more faculty in 2002. We have also received institutionalfunding for research laboratory facilities.Other Lessons LearnedBelow is a summary of other lessons learned during the last 1½ years in creating a newdepartment. • The promotion and tenure system does not support activities typical of the traditional EM faculty. Funding and refereed papers are still the performance paradigm for most (all?) universities. Because most SE/EM research grants do not need laboratory equipment, the funding is often significantly less than the traditional engineering programs. Also, since most SE/EM problems are applied in nature (all of our current funding at Stevens has

Collection

2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

S.P.K. Sternberg; G.G. Botte

, Air Pollution Control, MaterialScience and Engineering, and Introduction to Chemical Engineering have all addeddiscussion, examples, and problems concerning fuel cells. Additionally, hands-onexperience has been added to the Unit Operations Laboratory through purchase of a fuelcell/ solar cell combination. The unit demonstrates the renewable creation of hydrogenfuel, its subsequent use in a fuel cell, as well as the working characteristics of a fuel cell.The students in the Senior Design course have participated in the AIChE ChemE CarCompetition and a student group used fuel cells to power their car. Students are veryexcited about this technology, and that desire is used to generate a working interest in thecurriculum. This is also an

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

George A. Perdikaris

laboratory using digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and encoderinterface boards made by Measurement Computing Corporation. The plant consists of an industrialmotor and drive made by the Bosch Rexroth Corporation. The computer-controlled system is run inreal time using the Real-Time Workshop (RTW) and Real-Time Windows Target (RTWT) software,also made by MathWorks, Inc. Computer simulation results are verified experimentally.I. IntroductionIndustrial automation incorporating computers is becoming increasingly important in the productionof goods and services. It is a highly sophisticated job to design and implement automation systemsthat operate and coordinate modern manufacturing processes. Quite often, such systems involve theapplication of computers

Conference Session

Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeremy Losaw; Ann Anderson

motor sports programs as part of a Mechanical Engineeringcurriculum. Page 7.1271.1At Union College we have developed a racecar aerodynamics laboratory exercise that is used in ajunior year fluid mechanics course to teach students about the relationship between pressure and “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education ” Session 2166velocity as described by Bernoulli’s equation and about the

Conference Session

New Programs and Textbooks in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Adams; Mary Lidstrom; Kjell Nelson; Jeffrey Bonadio; David Stahl; Cynthia Atman

and 2) whether Anna Anderson was the missing Czarina. Despite thefact that the answer is already known, the students were required to master the concepts ofinheritance, DNA variation, genetic polymorphisms, DNA sequencing, and the polymerase chainreaction in order to support and explain their own conclusions. To provide hands-on experiencewith these techniques, this module also included a lab exercise wherein the students collectedsamples of their own DNA and performed a PCR reaction using primers commonly used inforensic analysis, giving them direct laboratory experience with PCR, gel electrophoresis, andstandard gel data analysis.Module 4: Osteogenesis Imperfecta – a point mutation that causes systemic disease. Thismodule was designed to

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheldon Jeter