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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Selmer Bringsjord; Paul Bello

Session 2793 Agent-Based Real-Time Pedagogy for Proof Construction Paul Bello and Selmer Bringsjord The Minds and Machines Laboratory Department of Cognitive Science Department of Computer Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy NY, USA 12180 bellop@cs.rpi.edu, selmer@rpi.eduThere is a disturbing paradox at the heart of contemporary American education: As thiseducation turns more and more “electronic,” we are

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Multi-disciplinary Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Byron Newberry

Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationrequired to have one formal meeting with the faculty, during which they submit and discussconceptual plans and specifications for their design, and discuss plans for implementation. Classsessions during Phase 1 are divided between formalized discussions of concepts related to thedesign process and informal sessions during which teams can meet, discuss their plans, and seekhelp from the faculty.The students perform the majority of the construction on their projects using tools available tothem in the junior design laboratory. This laboratory is a combination of workshop and office,with an assortment of hand tools, power tools, and workbenches, as well as with space for teamsto hold meetings

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To Design and Conduct Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stephen McClain

potato gun to determine its chemical efficiency. The effects ofair-fuel ratio, barrel diameter, and barrel length were explored. Each of the groups faced manyproblems and challenges in achieving their objectives. The problems, the innovative solutions,and the surprising results of both projects are discussed. The benefits seen in ME 4731 ofallowing students to choose their own projects are also briefly discussed.IntroductionThe undergraduate laboratory sequence in mechanical engineering at Mississippi StateUniversity consists of ME 3701—Experimental Orientation, ME 4721—ExperimentalTechniques I, and ME 4731—Experimental Techniques II. Each of the laboratories is worth onehour of credit. In ME 3701, students study engineering measurements

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Design in the Engineering Core

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sanford Meek; Mark Minor

curriculum to its current state. This will befollowed by a brief discussion of future improvements in Section 5, and concluding remarks andin Section 6.2. Course Content Undergraduate mechatronics education at the University of Utah is provided by a two-semester course sequence at the third year of the Mechanical Engineering program. The course isa fundamental component of the Mechanical Engineering design experience. Subject materialincludes mechanisms, sensors and actuators, micro-controllers, systems modeling, and feedbackcontrol. As typical of undergraduate curricula, lecture and homework assignments are used tobuild an understanding of fundamentals that are then reinforced by laboratory experiments andfinally practiced in a course

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Design and Innovation

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2002 Annual Conference

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

were quick in-class exercises such as turn-to-your-partner; laboratory work on open-ended problems and design; teamwork with peer andteam evaluations; and using an electronic course management system such as BlackBoard[1].Several interesting lessons were learned from these initial trials at implementing cooperativelearning. First, working in teams does not come easily for faculty or students. It was found thatfaculty teams are harder to form than student teams but are essential since individual facultyefforts are not capable of producing systemic change. From the student point of view, teamstructure seemed to prevent the weaker students from falling too far behind their peers. Second,effective teaming requires time and well-structured

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Matt Gates; Mary Lamont; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

traditional first-year engineering course materialbut add in hands-on laboratory experiences that lead to design/build projects3. Althoughsomewhat different laboratory exercises are used in the course sequences of the two programs,both have the goal of providing hands-on experimentation, reverse engineering projects in smallgroups, and small-team design projects. Engineering is now “up-front” and “hands-on”.Teamwork, project management, report writing, and oral presentations have assumed importantroles in these programs. ABET criteria are introduced early, listed in the course syllabi, andhighlighted as to which will be addressed in each particular course of the sequence.One may be tempted to inquire how this evolution of freshman engineering

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Inter. collaboratory efforts in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

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Uriel Cukierman; Jorge Vélez-Arocho; Ciristián Vial; Miguel Torres-Febus; John Spencer; Lueny Morell

Session 2660 International Strategic Alliances to Strengthen Engineering Education: Beyond the Learning Factory Lueny Morell, Jorge I. Vélez-Arocho, Miguel A. Torres University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez Cristián Vial/Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Uriel Cukierman/National Technological University of Argentina John Spencer/Microsoft Research & Development CenterAbstractIn 1994, NSF awarded three institutions (Penn State, University of Washington and University ofPuerto Rico at Mayagüez) and a national laboratory

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Trends in Engineering Economy Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gunter Sharp; Jack Lohmann

location or schedulespreclude their attendance at on-campus classes.1,2,3 Increasingly, however, such technology isbeing used for the delivery of course materials for on-campus courses where neither location norschedules are issues. Generally, the use of such technologies in these situations has been only toeither facilitate or supplement face-to-face classroom instruction and laboratory exercises4,5.However, several factors are now making electronic technologies a principal mode of instruction,even for on-campus courses: most students now either own or have easy access to computingtechnology, and thus access to the internet; electronic technologies offer some pedagogicaladvantages over live lectures, such as repeatability and graphical

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Samir Moujaes

should also be grounded in the design aspect of the technology not just in theresearch part as usually maybe the case in academia. Meredith, D. (1990) and Fung A.S.have presented some BASIC language design programs and a computer-controlledlaboratory air conditioning units respectively to teach HVAC courses. Walton A. et. al.(1996) discussed the development of three laboratory experiments to teach HVACprinciples. Santos J.J. (2001) emphasized controls education for HVAC design engineers.Some researchers like Stevens J.W. (1997) emphasized desiccant instruction in HVACcourses, others like Oppenheim P. (1994) emphasized introduction of the environmentaltechnology component in the curriculum of building construction programs. The next tworeferences

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Student Teams and Active Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kathleen Pearle; Gary Dainton; Christine Johnston; David Hutto; Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Jennifer Kadlowec; Joseph Orlins; Kauser Jahan; Roberta Harvey; Bernard Pietrucha; Paris von Lockette; Linda Head; Stephanie Farrell; Douglas Cleary

Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”The Freshman and Sophomore Clinics at Rowan University The Freshman and Sophomore Clinics at Rowan University are intensive, team-based andmulti-disciplinary laboratory courses taken by all engineering students in the college. TheFreshman Clinic is taught by engineering faculty from each of the four disciplines at Rowan:Mechanical, Electrical and Computer, Civil and Environmental, and Chemical. It targetsproblem solving and engineering measurements in the fall semester and introduction to designand competitive assessment in the spring semester. In Freshman Clinic, we have concentrated onusing teams to build a feeling of belonging among the first year Engineering students who aremostly in

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ram Mohan; Steven Parks; Krisnamurthy Jayaraman; Edward Evans; Siamack Shirazi; Ovadia Shoham; Mei Zhuang; Marilyn Amey; Keith Wisecarver; George Chase; Charles Petty; Andre Benard

Session 1712 NSF Combined Research and Curriculum Development on Multiphase Transport Phenomena M. J. Amey 2, A. Bénard 2, G. G. Chase 1, E. A. Evans1, K. Jayaraman 2, R. S. Mohan3, S. M. Parks2, C. A. Petty 2 (presenter), O. Shoham3, S. A. Shirazi3, K. D. Wisecarver3, M. Zhuang 2 1 The University of Akron/2Michigan State University/ 3The University of TulsaSummaryThis curriculum development project on multiphase transport phenomena draws on the researchexperiences from nine research laboratories at The University of Akron, Michigan State

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New/Emerging Technologies

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2002 Annual Conference

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R. Radharamanan

affordable and widespread. New modeling and model abstractiontechniques are appearing. The most important set of technologies center on modeling andsimulation. Some of the key areas that require attention in modeling and simulation are: modelobject selection (what to model); degree of abstraction; level of depth; flexibility andmaintenance of models; integration of different models; and model validation. The results arediscussed under the following headings:Flexible Manufacturing: The discussion with a National Research Group from Oak RidgeNational Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and Los Alamos National Laboratoriesindicated that the research in telerobotics and flexible manufacturing systems though showedprogress, it would be practically

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mitchell Neilsen

concentrate on the elements required to master embedded systems design, andalso satisfy the needs of engineers currently working in industry.Due to the lack of time and facilities, traditional university education tends to emphasize theoryand concepts. Even though implementation (laboratory) projects are associated with manycourses, these projects tend to be more abstract than real implementations that can be useddirectly in industrial and commercial products. Typically, there is a large gap in students'understanding between theory (conceptual understanding) and implementation (concreteunderstanding). As a result, many students who have a good understanding of theory andconcepts do not have confidence to map their knowledge onto implementations. One

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Control in the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

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W. San Yip; Michael Hough; Eric Wood; Thomas Marlin

technical knowledge to be able to practice their engineering discipline.3. The Self-Study GapMany resources are available for a typical university-level course, and there is no reasonto replicate good aspects of these resources. Strengths and weaknesses of existingapproaches to university education are summarized in Table 1. Much factual knowledgeis readily available in textbooks and supplemental information available in libraries andWEB resources. In addition, simulation software and laboratories provide students withexperiences in the application of process control. Finally, the essential personal contactis provided during classes, tutorials, and office hours. However, the current resources have significant weaknesses as well. One

Conference Session

Capstone Experiences in OME Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Thomas Consi

interestedand motivated while grinding through the fundamentals. The intent of course 13.S36 is wellmatched with the goals of these freshmen-oriented seminar classes.Having decided to introduce students to Ocean Engineering at the freshmen level by way of aseminar course, the next topic addressed was the content of the course. For the reasons outlinedabove we decided to create a hands-on, laboratory course. At that point in the coursedevelopment we obtained a copy of a remarkable book entitled, “Build Your Own UnderwaterRobot,” by Harry Bohm and Vickie Jensen 2. This book describes a number of simple marinebuilding projects designed for high school (and younger) students. Among the projects is asimple and elegant little remotely-operated vehicle made

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Project Based Education in CE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stephen Ressler

Army Research Laboratory Modal Analysis of Blast Plates Army Research Laboratory Watershed and Reservoir Study Waterways Experiment Station Auger Pilings Design for LAMS Natick Labs Mine Vehicle Army Research Laboratory Page 7.921.10 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationV. ConclusionThe true indication of this project’s success was the clients’ smiling faces as they posed forpictures while standing on

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Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps I

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2002 Annual Conference

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Karen Harris; Sunday Faseyitan; Robert Myers; Pearley Cunningham; Winston Erevelles

logical one and an ideal vehiclefor the delivery of the 180-hour MPI program. 60 hours of this program will be spent inclassroom and laboratory activities (covering manufacturing processes and systems, problemsolving, communications, teamwork, and project management) while 120 hours will be spent atan industry partner’s site working on a paid internship. The instructors for the program will berecruited from the PRIME colleges and universities while mentors for the internships will belocated from area industry. A pilot MPI program was conducted in Summer 2001 at a single sitein one county with 25 students from 4 different high schools. In the Summer of 2002, ten sitesare planned with 25 students at each site – the program will impact the ten

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Murat Tanyel; Charles Adams

the words “Matrix Laboratory”. The software was originallydeveloped for matrix manipulation, but over time it has acquired capabilities far beyond the originalintent and has become an interactive system and also a programming language for scientific andtechnical computation [7]. Over the years MATLAB Toolboxes, sets of functions written in the Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education North Midwest Section Annual Conference Copyright ” 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Tanyel & Adams, On the Aesthetics of Computer Aided Tools for Signal Processing, p. 4 of 10MATLAB language that make it convenient to carry out calculations, to build models and to

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Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sherion Jackson; Andrew Jackson

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationQuality versus Quantity Other important questions must also be addressed during the online curriculumdevelopment process. After the online system is “up and running”, it becomes much moredifficult to implement changes for students who are currently enrolled in the system. Forexample, the development must consider what educational elements can be (or should be)integrated into the online experience. How should laboratory experiences be handled, or do welimit the types of courses available online to a subset of those required in a given discipline?Can an online degree program satisfy the standardization and performance

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Issues in Computer Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Helene Kershner; Debra Burhans; Deborah Walters; Carl Alphonce; Barbara Sherman

Session 3129 Course Management Systems: Expectations and Outcomes Debra T. Burhans1, Carl Alphonce2, Helene Kershner3, Barbara Sherman 4, Deborah Walters5 1 Canisius College/ 2,3,4,5University at Buffalo (SUNY)In the 1999-2000 academic year, an ambitious overhaul of a large, introductory computerliteracy course at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) was initiated with the help of a grant fromthe Pew Learning and Technology Program1. This course enrolls approximately 1200 studentsper year, divided into lecture sections of 200 and laboratory sections of 20-40

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Daniel Pack; Steven Barrett

detailed outline which describes the contents of each chapter to some levelof detail.Pack and Barrett believed that a strong, detailed outline was the key to writing a goodbook. They spent considerable time deciding on the content of the text, the order thatconcepts would be covered, examples to be included in each section, and theaccompanying laboratory exercises. They worked on their own portion of the outline,combined the portions into a single outline, reviewed the overall product, and then put itaside for awhile. After 7 to 10 days they took a fresh look at the outline, madeimprovements, and completed a final draft. They provided the draft to colleagues in the

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Proulx Denis; Martin Brouillette; Jean Nicolas; Charron François

Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Session 1566remained practically unchanged since around 1970, albeit for the piecewise and uncoordinatedintroduction of a number of new subjects such as computer science into traditional curricula. Dueto lack of equipment and support, laboratory work has been eliminated or confined to specialtycourses and design has taken the back seat to analysis. The perceived quality of engineeringundergraduate programs has shifted from excellence in education to accomplishment in research.However, since the 1980s, many warnings have been sounded regarding the inadequacy

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eugene Niemi

laboratory sessions of two hours duration on theUniversity athletic fields. Experience showed that approximately eight launches and recoveriescould be conducted in a two-hour session. Winds were first measured with a hand heldanemometer to insure they were below 9 m/s. Wind compensation requires tilting th e launcherrod into the wind, but this decreases altitude and the accuracy of the altitude measurement, not tomention problems with wind drift causing loss of the model. Altitude is measured with an“altitracker,” a large pistol-like sighting device that measures the angle of elevation at apogee,and allows calculation of altitude when combined with a ground-measured distance from thelaunch site. The student conducts a countdown and actuates a firing

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ET ABET Pilot Visits Using TC2K

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2002 Annual Conference

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Steve Hefley; James Lookadoo; Randy Winzer

very busy schedules and came with a cost to ourroutine activities. The mechanism that we adopted was adding a new ritual to our yearlyschedule, a focussed retreat to measure progress, review curriculum issues, analyze the datagathered and set future plans. Performing these functions in a venue away from offices andclasses seemed to be the only mechanism that would allow us a chance to adequately address ourTC2K challenge.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

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Women in Engineering: New Research

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard M. Single; William S. Carlsen; Christine M. Cunningham; Carol B. Muller; Peg Boyle Single

corporations, professional societies, governmental agenciesand laboratories. The collective program evaluations support the need for and efficacy of theprogram. For all three-time periods, at least 80% of the students reported they would recommendMentorNet to other students. Both students and mentors emphasized the importance of makingthe college-to-work connection and identified this as the primary reason for participating inMentorNet. The college-to-work connection provided students with invaluable knowledge abouttheir career opportunities, the benefits of networking, and the development of networking skills.The students reported increased self-confidence, enhanced knowledge of the workplace andworkplace skills, and valuing the support they received

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Assessment Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ottis Hoskins; Joni Spurlin; Jerome Lavelle; Sarah Rajala

, ToolsABET Criterion 6 requires the program to document that the classrooms, laboratories, andequipment are adequate to accomplish the program objectives. The data will include thenumbers of classrooms, types of laboratories, and equipment available for student’s use.Numbers of classroom and laboratories can be found with those who track this at the institution,such as accounting or maintenance offices. Satisfaction with the classroom, laboratories andequipment can be found in the surveys mentioned above.Interpretation of Effectiveness and ImprovementsThe fourth part of the model (refer back to Figure 1) is the interpretation of effectiveness anddocumentation of curricular or program improvement. This is an important step in theassessment process

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Trends in Constr. Engr. Educ. I

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2002 Annual Conference

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Peter Ridilla; James Pocock

(portrayed by faculty)that they have studied their projects thoroughly and should be awarded the construction contract.Capstone Course After required freshman and sophomore “core” courses, the Air Force Academy’s civiland environmental engineering curricula begin with a hands-on “Field Engineering andReadiness Laboratory” (FERL) course between the sophomore and junior years. During thisthree-week course students complete 22 hands-on construction activities under the supervision offaculty and Air Force construction craftsmen. A sampling of the activities includes wood-frameconstruction, heavy equipment operation, concrete placement, and asphalt paving, as shown inFigure 2. Each activity integrates with one or more later major’s courses and

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Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy Reffeor

Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering EducationOnce approved by the instructor, students constructed their mechanisms to their engineeringdrawings using materials available in the engineering laboratory facilities. They tested theirmechanisms for accuracy and troubleshot any problems that occurred during testing.Modifications were made to the mechanisms and documented. Full documentation of changesincluding the reason for the change was required.Evaluation of the project was based primarily on the accuracy of the design calculations, thecorrelation between the design calculations and the final physical trials, the accuracy andcompleteness of the engineering drawings and the conclusions drawn from the

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gulnur Birol; Todd Giorgio; Sean Brophy; Ann McKenna

get FDA approval milligram quantities are necessary to carry out clinical trials. The laboratory-scale bioreactors used in thepre-production are inadequate to meet the expected product demand (annual protein product market need to be 100 g per year). Since theProteinPlus used to obtain FDA approval was produced by SHP-77 cells, which are a human lung tumor cell line and grow in smallclusters in suspension, these same cells will be used for the large scale production. Observations of cell behavior in the laboratory-scalebioreactors suggest that the cells are both sensitive to mechanical damage and have a high metabolic rate. The doubling time of SHP-77cells under ideal conditions is 96 hr. The maximum cell density observed was 8.0 x 10+5 cells

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Capstone Mechanical Engineering Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy Reffeor; Jon Marvel

, fastening,metal forming, casting, plastics molding and conclude with nontraditional processes. In order tosupplement the lecture portion of the course, laboratory experiments provide the students withpractical experience operating and analyzing the effects of the parameters of a variety ofequipment, including standard manual mills, lathes, and several welding processes. The finalcomponent of the course is for the students to demonstrate their abilities to design and fabricate asimple component utilizing a variety of manufacturing processes.In the Machine Component Design course, students are introduced to many machine componentssuch as shafts, bearings, gears, springs, clutches and brakes, chains and belts, threaded fastenersand power screws. One