Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Phillip Thompson; Denny Davis; Larry McKenzie; Kenneth Gentili

Western Michigan University Fred Gunnerson NucE/ME Idaho National Engineering and En vironmental Laboratory Kunle Harrison ME Tuskegee University Bob Hill ME Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory Mary Hofle Engr Idaho State University Rick Hoover EE/CS Hewlett-Packard Company (Boise) Scott Huang GeolE University of Alaska Fairbanks Richard Jacobson EngSci/ME Idaho National Engineering and En vironmental Laboratory Andy Kline ChE Western Michigan University Bill Lasher ME Penn State University Erie Cesar

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Engelken

and constraints must besimultaneously considered, for example, class size and average student intelligence, budget(particularly relevant to laboratory courses), textbook, etc. There will always be Page 8.262.6 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationdifferences of opinion with colleagues, superiors, and students regarding what’s best.Minor steady state errors will be chalked up to expediency, circumstances, and academicfreedom. The real test is how, over time, a NEE’s students do in higher-level courses

Conference Session

Experiences with the TTL Turbojet Engine

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Staci White; Paul Strykowski

with which the combustion analysis is performed depends on the level ofthe student conducting the SR-30 laboratory. For purposes here, the combustor has beenmodeled as a steady-state device having energy streams as indicated in Figure 2. 2 2 ma (h a +Va /2) (ma + mf )(h 3 +V3 /2) mf (LHVfuel ) ηcomb Figure 2. Simplified Thermodynamic Model of the Combustion ProcessThe turbine extracts the molecular kinetic energy, i.e. internal energy, from the products ofcombustion and converts it to shaft work. In developing power, the gas

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Karthik Ramani; Anderson David; Alexander Lee

them to practice in acollaborative environment while prototyping a working toy. The learning environment combines(1) hands-on use of the Intranet for computer-based learning, (2) a team-based project toprototype a real product, (3) virtual design and assembly of the student-created toy using CAD,(4) realistic budgeting and design constraints, and (5) advanced prototyping techniques. The firstphase of the course focuses on learning advanced CAD tools using web-based learning software.Both the instructor and teaching assistants help students in the laboratory. The students design atoy conceptually as they become familiar with CAD tools. In the second phase, each groupdesigns a toy using a budget to buy standard parts such as motors and

Conference Session

Innovative Curricula and Outreach

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sara Hise; Jim Clark; Bryant Kiedrowski; Aaron Jennings

replenish consumables.While shopping, batteries were often observed in parking lots. This led to pavement surveyswhere littered batteries were collected and characterized. The results were startling. Over 2,000feral batteries were collected. Average surveys yielded 19 batteries, but there was considerablesite variability. Survey results are presented to illustrate the potential environmental significanceof consumer battery litter. The issue of urban battery litter raises several questions that can be answered by traditionallaboratory research. Results of work to measure battery deterioration rates and pollutant releaseproperties are also presented. However, battery litter also raises questions that cannot beanswered in the laboratory. Almost

Conference Session

Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie McBride

goal.Service quality in higher education exists on several levels: • Univerity level: business offices, such as admissions and records, bursar’s office, library services, health services, and other nonacademic offices • College level: Dean’s office, student chapter advisors, computing laboratories • Department level: advisement, staff, faculty mentoring • Classroom and laboratory level: faculty, graduate assistants Internal suppliers: Customers: • Food service • Students • Physical plant • Graduate • Business offices

Conference Session

Aerospace Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George Havener

a time, in all courses inthe curriculum. Near the end of the program, the capstone design and senior laboratory-courses(AE 481, AE 482, and AE 471) are used to put all pieces of the thread into a single product. Communications Thread - The educational objective of the Communications Thread is:Graduates will use professional writing and speaking skills necessary to communicate effectively.We believe the process of developing effective communicators involves consistent and continuousdevelopment across the curriculum. Thus, instead of teaching technical report writing in a singlecourse, the pieces of a technical report along with efforts to develop good writing skills are taughtin several courses. One course may teach writing an abstract

Conference Session

Student Interaction

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ranky

, including rapid prototyping, computernetworking and the Internet, computer aided manufacturing, requirements analysis andprocess failure risk analysis in several volumes, automotive telematics and the digital car,quality control and total quality management, concurrent engineering, flexible, leanmanufacturing, service robotics, biomedical engineering and 3D low back pain analysis,factory business process re-engineering, and many others.As one example, the developed and validated computer networking case-based curriculumused NJIT’s new wireless Internet networking laboratory, partially sponsored by the NJ I-TOWER R&D project and our state-of-the-art web-based methodology for multi-mediacourse development. This means, that besides traditional

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ranky

laboratories and factories. § Design an integrated system, based on what you have analyzed in this case. § Work in a multi-disciplinary team and exchange ideas openly, and in an ethical fashion. (Note, that our students receive an eLearning pack, that typically includes four companies they have to collaborate with to learn about team- oriented problem solving on a global basis.) § Understand the boundaries as well as the tremendous potential of new ideas and developments by working on this case. (Realize that in order to survive and win, you must add value, that customers appreciate).At various levels of this virtual product/ process demonstration we stop and trigger thelearners’ thoughts. We focus on

Conference Session

Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin Sill; Elizabeth Stephan; Matthew Ohland

generally discarded and not assigned again.Students need to be able to exercise their interests and creativity in successful problem solutionand ALSO need to learn that usually there are numerous ways to accomplish most engineeringtasks.Lab activitiesAn important part of Engineering Problem Solving and Design is time spent in “laboratory”activities. These are not always laboratories in the classical sense of the word, but the term is usedto embrace hands-on activities of many types. One of the most promising is discussed below.Students often have a difficult time relating a physical process to its graphical depiction. This iseasily seen by requiring students to construct a graph of a time-dependent process such asblowing up a balloon, a bungee

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods & Technology

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Ragsdell; Halvard Nystrom

their MS program.Typically, UMR classes are delivered in person by senior faculty at Fort Leonard Wood. Anormal class involves the instructor lecturing for most, if not all, of the class period. Studentsask questions in class, but have little time for small group discussion, or one-on-one discussionswith the instructor. Students work on homework, read the book and other assigned material, andwork on laboratory assignments and the semester project in small groups (learning teams), orindividually. We do not have space to discuss the learning team concept here, but interestedreaders can learn more at the course webpage. Ragsdell decided to ask the class to consider arather radical experiment in delivery style at the first class meeting. The

Conference Session

Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Hefley; James Lookadoo; Randy Winzer

, review curriculum issues, analyze the datagathered and set future plans. Performing these functions in a venue away from offices and classesseemed to be the only mechanism that would allow us a chance to adequately address our TC2Kchallenge.One additional outcome in our program’s way of doing business involved planning a significantupgrade in our senior laboratory. TC2K’s Criterion 4 addresses facility issues. With the additionof a new member to the EET program, we had an excellent opportunity to upgrade one of ourlabs. Our college dean was presented with a general proposal for the upgrade and this wasaccepted. This proposal differed from usual practices in that details of an exact equipmentmanifest were absent. The proposal outlined the goals

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods in Industrial Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Manuel Rossetti

II, ChemistryI, English Composition I and II, and Principles of Industrial Engineering. Satisfactory completionof the pre-professional curriculum is a prerequisite for enrollment in any 2000-level or higherengineering course. The course has contained between 80 and 100 students over the last fewofferings and is divided into a group lecture component and individual drill sections containingaround 20 students each. In the past, the course has relied heavily on lecture supported by handson laboratory/drill sections. The material in lecture was often a survey of topics in IndustrialEngineering delivered in a standard lecture format. In addition, the lecture included curriculumadvising, faculty introductions, and study skill development. Drill or

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gabriel Ferrer; Ann Wright; Andrew Wright

as well as learning about science. There are presently two biologycourses, one chemistry course, and six physics courses that are classified as natural sciencelaboratory courses. Five of the nine courses have no pre-requisites. All but one of the ninecourses are geared toward science majors. There is a clear need in the curriculum for anatural science laboratory course that is geared towards the non-science major, has no pre-requisites, and is attractive to students from various backgrounds.2. The course modelsOur model course is Robotic Design Studio taught at Wellesley College by Dr. FranklynTurbak and Dr. Robert Berg. Wellesley is a private liberal arts, all-female college inMassachusetts. The course has no pre-requisites and is aimed at

Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

without fighting?5. Examples for course and laboratory material, projects, teaming and communicationactivities5a) Course materialThe following are some example-based explanations for the different strategies:Example for the Uniqueness strategyThere is a need to separate juicy and non-juicy oranges at a high rate. How can this be done?A solution: look for a feature or property of an orange that highly correlates with juiciness.Obviously it is not color, size, weight, or texture. The main property that distinguishes theoranges is specific density. To measure the specific density it is not necessary to measure theweight and volume of each orange separately and then find the ratio of the two. It can be donedirectly by observing the time it takes for

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Krogmeier; Mustafa Kamasak; Maribel Figuera; Luis Torres; Jan Allebach; George Chiu; Edward Delp; Charles Bouman; Catherine Rosenberg; Lynne Slivovsky

lectures and texts.In traditional laboratory courses, students learn by completing a carefully prescribed procedureduring an experiment. While both these modes of learning continue to play an important role inengineering and computer science education, we have developed a course to provide our studentswith an undergraduate research experience focused on mobility. In our junior/senior level designcourse, Mobile Communications Projects, students work in teams under the direct supervision ofa faculty member. Students attend a common lecture, in which a variety of topics on wirelesscommunications are covered by participating faculty members; and a lab section, during whichthe teams of students meet with their assigned faculty member. Additionally

Conference Session

Partnerships in IE Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Burtner

. This included those materials necessary to reduce stress, fatigue, and glare for theoperator. Once they developed the alternatives for the work space, they performed merit,ergonomic, cost and safety analysis to determine the best alternative. The results of the analysiswere then presented in the form of a written and oral presentation to the client and instructor.ISE 424: A Sample Laboratory Experiment in RoboticsManufacturing is strategic for United States global competitiveness, which directly relates tonational health and wealth. American industry has awakened to the importance of themanufacturing enterprise and the need for engineering education. Although industry struggles toovercome tradition and organizational inertia in the product

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Haley; Calvin Mackie; Sundiata Jangha

Society for Engineering Education 2003-1936 • Participate in an opening program hosted by the BGSA and sponsored by acorporate partner. Representatives of the current graduate student body give testimonialson life at Georgia Tech and why they decided to attend. • Gather by college of interest for a welcome by the respective dean of the college- Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Management, Sciences, and Ivan Allen. • Visit the academic units and research laboratories according to interest. Also,they are given an opportunity to interact and ask questions of the faculty and currentstudents in the department. • Meet with

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Schmidt

Page 8.992.1“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education”survival skill sessions. Activities incorporate learning basic computer skills, the hands-onexperience of taking apart and rebuilding a computer, and learning how to use the electroniccommunication services at UM. Faculty mentors and RISE Scholars in Track Two provideintroductions to their laboratories and research projects. Participants, their faculty mentors,parents, and selected campus guests are invited to attend a concluding celebration luncheon. Atthis event, the students make team presentations related to issues they might encounter in the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Robert Hesketh

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Malkin

, participants attend courses in instrument repair and participate in a laboratory designed to refine their abilities to diagnose and repair medical equipment. These sessions are guided by local volunteer engineers from area hospitals. Finally, the students construct some of their own test equipment which they can then donate to their host hospitals at the end of their stay.The training is put to use during a four-week internship in a foreign hospital. Internships arecurrently being offered in Nicaragua, but Haiti will soon be available. Students continue takingforeign language classes every morning, devoting the afternoons

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Krueger; Theodore Aanstoos; Ronald Barr

this project-centered approach, the Engineering Graphics curriculum has beenorganized into a set of learning modules with specific educational outcomes. Table 1 lists thecurrent modularization scheme and learning outcomes. It consists of ten units that serve asindividual student projects, plus an integrated PROCEED project that is conducted at theconclusion of the course. With this modularization scheme, the ten individual units trainstudents to develop computer skills and abilities that can be later used in the larger team project.These modern course outcomes, as outlined in Table 1, were fully implemented in the Fall 2002semester using some preliminary computer graphics laboratory notes written by our group10.The initial modules stress

Conference Session

Integrating Math in Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Reuber; Mark Archibald; Blair Allison

- available components. Hardware was created and special software was written that calculated club and ball speed, and compared a subject’s swing with a PGA professional golfer (Figs. 2,3). Phase 2. Another group of students modified the initial system as part of a special studies course to French Canada. The system was modified for portable installation in a museum in Ottawa, Canada (Fig. 4) and museum visitor behavior was analyzed (Figs. 5,6). Phase 3. The system was permanently installed in the mechanical engineering laboratory, where students measured the tempo (swing time), club speed, club angle and trajectory, and projected ball trajectory of typical golf swings for golfers and non-golfers

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mustafa Abushagur; Harvey J. Palmer

(0 cr)Second Year Fall Term Winter Term Spring Term Fund. of Materials Science Nanoscale Physics & Chemistry Microsystems Design and (4 credits) (4 credits) Packaging (4 credits) Technical Elective (4 cr) Technical Elective (4 cr) Technical Elective (4 cr) Doctoral Research (4 cr) Doctoral Research (4 cr) Doctoral Research (4 cr) Research Seminar (0 cr) Research Seminar (0 cr) Research Seminar (0 cr)Many of these courses have laboratory elements in to provide the students with hands-onexperience. RIT has an extensive clean-room

Conference Session

Tenure and Promotion Tricks of the Trade

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Parent

abilityAbility to work in a team Ability to work in a teamResponsiveness Hard to translateUS New and World Reports Ratings Hard to translate Page 8.956.3References:1 G. H. Bernstien, R. J. Minniti, and X. Huang, “An Advanced IC Processing Laboratory at the Universityof Notre Dame”, IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 37, No, 4, pp. 334-339 (1994)2 G. Uvvada, M. A. Breur, “Teaching Computer Hardware Design Using Commercial CAD Tools”, IEEETransactions on Education, Vol. 36, No, 1, pp. 158-162 (1993)3 G. W. Poehlein, “Developing A Positive Tenure Case”, ASEE Annual

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Courter; Jay Martin

sections with each section having a different project. The students originallyattended two lectures per week, and had a three-hour laboratory. The laboratory includedteamwork exercises, dissection exercises, and other activities, in addition to direct work onthe project. There is a relatively large number of teaching staff associated with the course,with one faculty member associated with two sections. In addition, a senior undergraduatestudent (called a student assistant) is associated with each of the sections.Table 1: Description of Original Version of Introduction to EngineeringNumber of Students ~200Number of Laboratory Sections 16Number of Lectures Per Week 2 – 50 minutes

Collection

2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Steven Mickelson; Tom Brumm; Anthony Ellertson

First-Year Learning Community Core Fall 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 • Engr 101 (R cr.)† Engineering Orientation for AE Students • Engr 170 (3 cr.) Engineering Graphics and Design • Engl 104 (3 cr.) First-Year Composition I (course link with Engr 170) Spring 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 • A E 110 (1 cr.) Experiencing Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering • Engr 160 (3 cr.) Engineering Problem Solving with Computational Laboratory • Engl 105 (3 cr.) First-Year Composition II (course link with AE 110 & Engr 160)Assessment of the ABE LCSince the beginning of the ABE LC, we have used a number of assessment tools to evaluatethe

Collection

2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Ralph I. Stephens

:080 Experimental Engineering, fall, 2002 (instructor: Hardin)As a part of the course, students as a team of four create and run their own experiment andprepare a written report. Matt Furman, Matt Heistad and two other students tested shockabsorber seal drag on altered shock absorbers from Furman’s racecar. These tests were 2performed in the Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics laboratory as shown in Figure 3. Kyle Sigl, anM.E. graduate student, and Nate Horn provided the expertise to operate the servohydraulic testsystem. Using a triangular waveform and a one inch stroke, they found the alterations were notsignificant and that other shock absorbers would

Conference Session

Outreach and Freshman Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Smith; Wayne Walter

Concept Selection Matrix is described. Some basic system engineering tools arepresented including the first house of Quality Function Deployment (QFD), and FAST andFunctional Flow Block Diagrams. In the detailed design and prototype development portion,product specifications, project milestones, design sketches and mockups for feasibility arecovered. This is followed by a discussion of validation testing in the laboratory and at thecustomer site.5. Project ActivitiesAt an initial rollout meeting, a marketing specialist explained the need for student teams todevelop a mission statement and a passion for what they are doing for their customer. It is a lackof this passion, he explained, that typically causes companies to lose market share. He

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kissock; Rebecca Blust

quantified. Since this program isfunded by the Department of Energy, elected officials are concerned with the overall value thatthe program brings to American industries. Therefore, Oak Ridge National Laboratory conducteda survey in conjunction with the University of Tennessee to learn more about the impacts of IACstudent alumni. Students who attain these “alumni pathway benefits” now hold jobs where theyare responsible for conducting energy assessments and influencing the manner in which companiesmanage energy and make energy efficient decisions.The survey was developed using a database of 656 IAC alumni (out of an estimated 1,420 alumnithrough 1998). From these 656 alumni, IAC directors identified 77 who were believed to be