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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

G Murphy; G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

to change the level of participation of students byincreasing expectation and so making students more responsible for their ownlearning 10, 11.A possible approach to teaching computer networks topics is to allow students tolearn using real networks. Traditionally, computer networks courses have notprovided students with hands-on access to networking equipment and software; costand implementations factors have made it difficult 12,13. However, due to increasingpopularity of vendor-based courses as components of undergraduate curricula,students now have the opportunity to study a more practical approach and henceprogram networking devices (switches, routers). Furthermore, relatively inexpensiveequipment, such as switches and routers, and

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Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fengfeng Zhou

-12education and cope with the rapid advancement in science and technology, the National ScienceFoundation has funded a number of research projects at dozens of universities nationwide. Oneof these projects is the Science and Technology Enhancement Program (STEP) currently beingconducted at the University of Cincinnati. Graduate and undergraduate fellows of Project STEPare placed in different secondary schools to work with math and science teachers. The mainresponsibility of a fellow is to develop and implement hands-on activities that are creative,engineering-focused, and technology-driven. Activities are incorporated into lessons,demonstrations, laboratory exercises, and field experiences. By doing these activities, studentswill experience authentic

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nirmal Khandan

INFORMATIONDr Nirmala Khandan holds the John Clark Professorship in the Civil Engineering Department at New Mexico StateUniversity. He received his MS and PhD degrees from Drexel University in Environmental Engineering. He hasreceived several awards for teaching and research. His current research is focused o n educational materialsdevelopment, teaching, and learning.ACKNOWLDGEMENT Page 10.330.5This work was supported in part by a grant from the Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement program ofNational Science Foundation. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Banzhaf

120 volt AC power cord Figure 2 - Prototype of Transmission Line Demonstrator Board Page 10.692.3 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationQuantitative ResultsSimple measurements of voltage and current, done with standard laboratory instruments, allowstudents to see the vast increase in efficiency (power out/power in) that using high voltageprovides. The table in Figure 3 provides quantitative evidence of

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New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Anderson

integrate those courses thatsupport design of machinery with a challenging project and with supporting lectures. LECTURE SERIESThe lecture series in this course is divided into the following areas. • Safety • Project management • Process analysis • Introduction to plastics • Applications of heat transfer • Industrial Controls Basic relay circuits Motor starters Motor speed control Programmable logic controllers Wiring practiceThe first lecture session and part of the first laboratory session is dedicated to safety. Since students willbe expected to work with voltages as high as 220 volts and with pressurized, molten

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International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Kardys; Abraham Michelen

, design, specifications,materials, application notes, and many other important activities in the daily life of andengineer. Without Globalspec, or a tool similar to it, the essential task of locating a specificcomponent for a design would take many hours of browsing in manufacturer’s catalogs. Page 10.1409.1All these tasks are accomplished by just linking to the Globalspec site. This is the reasonwhy many engineers at important industrial manufacturers as well as research laboratories “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for

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Real World Applications

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Youakim Kalaani

publicawareness of the requirement to protect the environment by promoting the use of green energy.The project will also provide a platform to help teach about renewable energy by developingcurriculum material with applied projects to boost creativity in students at all levels.I. IntroductionThe use of renewable energy is increasing with applications including green power generationfor homes, cottage industries, health clinics, and community centers. Illinois has abundant solarand wind resources and students will soon be asking for more curricular support in this area. Asissues such as climate change, global warming, increased blackouts, and oil price fluctuationcontinue to pepper the news 1-3, it is likely that the use of renewable energy will become

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Experiences with Experiential Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Bankes; Michael Eastman; Anthony Trippe; Jeffrey Lillie; George Zion

their ownpersonal desires. The course and laboratory work is rigorous, consisting of 192 quarter-creditsover a 5 year period. Additionally the students are required to participate in a co-operativeeducation experience that totals a minimum of 50 weeks over the last three years of the program.The co-operative education requirement normally consists of two 6-month blocks and one 3-month block, but the exact configuration may vary from student to student. While on co-op,students are not required to pay tuition, and often make reasonable salaries. Recent salaryfigures have been in the range of $7.50 – $23.00 per hour with an average of $13.34 per hour.Typically students with one or two co-op experience under their belts command a higher salarythan

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Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Voigt; Nathan Shenck; Delores Etter; Thomas Salem; Samara Firebaugh

challenging todistill into a few hours. This paper describes a four-hour electrical engineering module thatexamines the role of electrical engineering in the manipulation of audio signals, developed for anew introductory engineering course at the United States Naval Academy.In the first hour, students were given a short presentation on biometrics (signals that can be usedto identify a person) and participated in demonstrations of iris, face, and fingerprint recognitionsystems. They then completed a laboratory experiment in which they analyzed plots of speech(audio) signals, measured pitch frequencies, and identified male and female voices using thatinformation. During the following hour, after a brief overview of A/D and D/A conversion, thestudents

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Innovation for ChE Student Learning

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell

Press, 1993.[11] J. S. Byrd and J. L. Hudgkins, "Teaming in the design laboratory," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 84, pp. 335, 1995.[12] E. Seat and S. M. Lord, "Enabling effective engineering teams: a program for teaching interaction skills," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 88, pp. 385, 1999.[13] P. Lewis, D. Aldridge, and P. Swamidass, "Assessing teaming skills acquisition on undergraduate project teams," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 87, pp. 149, 1998.[14] C. Weinstein and R. Mayer, The teaching of learning strategies. New York: MacMillan, 1986.[15] C. Johnston and G. Dainton, "Learning Combination Inventory Users Manual,",, unpublished manuscript 1997.[16] C. F. Yokomoto

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Innovative ET Leadership

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson; John Hansen; Thomas Hall

leadership and management are needed for a goodeducational enterprise and workplace. While, in general, people want a well-managed place towork (fair and well-organized class schedules, teaching or office supplies provided in a timelyway, fair division of resources between people and programs, good advising support andsystems, etc.), they want to be led, not managed. Who ever heard of a “world manager” or a“boy scout manager?” So, it is important to manage departmental functions but lead the facultyand staff in the unit.As a departmental or educational unit leader, it is important to “manage yourself but leadothers.” To be effective as both a manager, it is necessary to remain focused and organized sothat the myriad of tasks facing you can be

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Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yong Yang; Andrew Bennett; Steve Warren

Analysis," IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 39, Aug 1996, pp. 287-296.[9] Lu, Han-Pang Huang and Chiou-Hwa. "Java-Based Distance Learning Environment for Electronic Instruments," IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 46, Feb 2003, pp. 88- 94.[10] Titcomb, S.L. "Computer-Based Interactive Tutorials for Electrical Engineering Laboratory Instruction," presented at 27th Annual Conference Frontiers in Education Conference, 1997. Proceedings ’Teaching and Learning in an Era of Change’. 1997.[11] Gronhovd, Sudhir Ι. Mehta and Sandy M. "Instrumentation and Communication Modules on CD-ROM’s for Enriching Engineering Education," IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 39, Aug. 1996, pp. 304-308.[12

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Fred Fontaine

objectives, forexample, the curriculum has long had no engineering laboratory courses- only project courses inwhich students work in teams on open-ended design problems, not rote experiments. Theseprojects course start in the freshman year and culminate in a year-long senior design project.Faculty work closely with the students, and encourage independent thinking and challengestudents to push themselves, to reach their full potential. The result is the professionaldevelopment of young project engineers who can both design and direct small groups ofdedicated professionals. The theory covered in courses is also rigorous, and students areprepared for and introduced to graduate level work while still in undergraduate school.The small size of the school

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Writing and Communication II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Alley; Kathryn Neeley

accepted into theprofessional engineering community, and being different puts that acceptance at risk. For a newidea to be accepted into an isolated community, the idea needs to have merit. The idea alsoneeds to have a “critical mass” of supporters who make the others willing and perhaps slightlypressured to try the new idea. Our experience suggests that, at least in an academic context, oneof the best ways to create a critical mass and apply slight pressure is to teach the methodexplicitly and require it as part of graded presentation assignments. Experience at Virginia Tech. In the past four years, undergraduates in the MechanicalEngineering Department at Virginia Tech have used the alternative design in a laboratory coursesequence that

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Lynn Alpert; Jacqueline Isaacs

”developing ethics workshops for nanotech students as well as mid-career industry professionals.The goals of the workshops are to introduce the AIR (awareness, investigation and response)model18 of ethical inquiry to participants. This model will be presented both as a proven tool toassist them in processing the ethical issues that may arise during their own laboratory research,and as a teaching tool for use with the students, graduate assistants, technicians under theirsupervision.CHN-affiliated faculty at the University of Massachusetts Lowell are designing curricula that usenanotechnology as a framework for examining the entire range of societal issues associated withemerging technologies. For example: faculty in the Department of Work Environment

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher Murad

junior level for all civil engineering technology students. The course credit hourswere increased to 4 semester credit hours to allow for developing a laboratory component for thecourse.The use of lab assignments in the transportation course allowed students to get hands-onexperience and training in conducting transportation studies utilizing the latest standardsemployed in the industry. The lab also enabled the instructor to use open-ended problems suchthat members of each team can search for feasible solutions that meet specific guidelines.Different teams may end up with different analysis results or design solutions. Feedback fromstudents indicated their appreciation for integrating the lab assignments into the course.This paper describes the

Conference Session

Visualization

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Suchora

Engineering EducationCurrent Course Structure of Freshman Engineering.ENGR 1550 Basic Engineering Concepts (3 SH)The first course in the current sequence at Youngstown State University is ENGR 1550 BasicEngineering Concepts, offered only in the Fall Semester. The three semester hour course iscomprised of two lecture hours and three laboratory hours per week. Prerequisite/concurrentrequirement for this course is a math course of pre-calculus or higher level.There are several distinct sub-goals of this first course; however they are all intertwined whenfocusing on the main goal of successfully transitioning the first year student to becoming part ofthe YSU engineering community. While presenting and teaching several engineering/technicalskills, the

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Matson; David Elizandro

professionals. Kelton3 presented the pros and cons of teaching the “classics,” i.e.,“any general-purpose procedural programming language that is not a simulation language at all”versus “high-level, icon-based simulation software.” Nance and Sargent4 noted that an“unsettling consequence” of modern simulation languages is that “users may have littleunderstanding of how the model results are being produced” and “developers sometimes lack asufficient understanding of the internal logic [of simulation programming languages] to enablethe recognition of erroneous results produced by incorrect models.” However, experience hasshown that it is relatively easy to learn details of a simulation language for students whounderstand discrete event simulation and

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Mike Collura; Dave Harding

variety of disciplinary contexts. A solid background is developed by touching keyconcepts at several points along the spiral in different courses, adding depth and sophistication ateach pass. Each foundation course also stresses the development of several essential skills, suchas problem-solving, oral and written communication, the design process, teamwork, projectmanagement, computer analysis methods, laboratory investigation, data analysis and modeldevelopment. In addition to providing a broad engineering background, this sequence ofmultidisciplinary courses develops the foundation for building substantial depth in key areas ofimportance for engineering students.The first semester freshman course that includes feedback control is EAS 109

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Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Darrell Gibson; Patricia Brackin

training go hand inhand because students are required to manage “projects” that they must complete during thequarter. They are introduced to the concept of team roles, agendas, minutes, listening, decisionmaking, peer evaluation, and scheduling. In their sophomore year, students are given training inpeer evaluation that is reinforced in the junior year. In the junior year student laboratory groupsare required to complete open ended laboratory projects. These groups are responsible forscheduling their work and performing peer evaluations. During the senior Systems Designcourse, students are given more in depth training on team motivation and interaction. They areintroduced to scheduling concepts and are required to use Microsoft Project to complete

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Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Reyer; Stephen Williams; Owe Petersen

incollege, the students usually work alone: in class, taking notes, doing homework, studying forand taking tests, writing papers, giving presentations, and managing their own time. Typically,in the laboratory the student will partner with another student. However, the dynamics of a teamof two does not at all compare to that of a larger group. Hence, while this overall approach istraditional and works well for the individual in an academic setting, it can be a shock when thestudent needs to work in a larger team in industry. Considerable time is spent in the first-quarterEE-407 course on team building, and this continues throughout the year.2. Understand the difference between a problem and a solution. This is one of the more poorlyunderstood

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New Trends in Graduate Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Stiegler; Ernest McDuffie; Robert Kavetsky; Eugene Brown

-Next.” Page 10.991.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationFunded through the Office of Naval Research (ONR), N-STAR has begun to develop anintegrated continuum of activities and programs that have as their ultimate goal recruiting 500new scientists and engineers per year over the next ten years into the Naval Research Enterprise(NRE) which comprises the NWCs plus the Naval Research Laboratory

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Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachelle Heller; H. David Snyder; Catherine Mavriplis; Charlene Sorensen

tenure andpromotion. Graduate students have little teaching preparation other than perhaps leadingdiscussion groups. Starting up a research program without funds is a difficultundertaking. Add to these problems the fact that most departmental chairpersons havelittle if no training in management or organizational behavior.Women and other members of underrepresented groups in SEM disciplines face addedstresses such as what Moody calls the “solo effect”10: being the “token, novel,” person onthe faculty whose behavior and performance may be judged more harshly due to theiruniqueness in a more homogeneous group. Women suffer from the well-documented“chilly climate”11 and may experience acute stresses of egregious hazing and sexualharassment12. There

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Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Fichana; Ann Marie Flynn; Robert P. Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater; Jim Henry

teaching interests areas of interestare automatic control systems, distillation columns, teaching laboratories development, energy and environmentalconservation. He is the recipient of the Outstanding UTC engineering Faculty award in 2001 and received theFulbright scholar award in 1987-1988.Ann Marie Flynn is Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Manhattan College. She received her B.S.from Manhattan College and Ph.D. from New Jersey Institute of technology. Her research and teaching areas ofinterest are the combustion of heavy metals. Page 10.605.17 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Kowalski; Adam Kowalski; Frank Kowalski

microcomputer- based laboratories.” American Journal of Physics 65: 45-54.9. Sokoloff, D.R. and Thornton, R.K. (1997). “Using interactive lecture demonstrations to create an active learning environment.” As in CP399, “The changing role of physics departments in modern universities: Proceedings of ICUPE.” Redish, E.F. and Rigden, J.S, (eds.). The American Institute of Physics. Available online at http://www.psrc-online.org/classrooms/papers/mestre.html.10. Breslow, L. (2000). “Active learning, part II: Suggestions for using active learning techniques in the classroom.” Teach Talk Article appearing in the MIT Faculty Newsletter Vol. XII, No. 3, accessed online at http://web.mit.edu/tll/published/active_learning_2.htm.11. Mazur, E. (1997

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Outreach and Recruitment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

teachers in sufficient quality and quantity to meet currentdemands[5]. Recent graduates enter the mathematics teaching profession already indesperate need of intensive professional development[6]. Moreover, state and districtefforts to recruit and retain teachers too often fail to benefit high-poverty, high-minority,and low achieving schools where inexperienced and out-of-field teachers are more likely[7] . Consequently, efforts toward professional development of the current teacherworkforce hold the greatest promise for improved achievement.Fortunately, NCLB facilitates partnerships between K-12 districts and higher educationinstitutions to provide teachers with professional development opportunities including

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Issues in Digital Signal Processing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

be analyzed 4, 5. However, queuing analysis often assumes a Poissondistribution, which is not the case with most networks 6,7. Performance analysis incomputer networking can be based upon various models; and bandwidth in MB/s is acommon performance indicator. Students can perceive differences in performancewith respect to bandwidth which can be used as a starting point for a constructivistbased performance model.ConstructivismThe dominant theory of conceptual understanding in education is constructivism. Thishas been extensively tested in the field of science and mathematics education 8-11.Although Constructivism is a foundation of many modern teaching practices it has notbeen influential within computer education 12. The knowledge the

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Women Faculty & the NSF ADVANCE Program

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ryan Dupont; Mary Feng; Hailey Christine

faculty?Comments made by faculty were categorized into nine categories of positive or negativeremarks. Four researchers independently scored each interview transcript and came to consensuson whether or not a faculty member included a category in their remarks. The major findingsfrom our interviews are presented below.a) Sour ces of success and job satisfaction wer e similar for male and female faculty.We found no significant differences (chi square analysis) between male and female faculty insources of career success and job satisfaction at USU. The top four sources of success andsatisfaction in descending order were interactions with colleagues, campus resources, support ofadministrators, and positive teaching experiences.b) Male and female

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Don Millard

, audio and video will also be used to help teach scientificprinciples. Primary source materials, including articles, correspondence, laboratory notebooksand patents, are being used to research, develop, and produce multimedia materials presentingelectricity and its application to the technological development of products. The Museum’smoving image collection consists of more than 1800 films and video relating to the developmentof the electrical industry that often feature inventors discussing their discoveries. For example,Exploring with X-rays features Dr. William Coolidge (the inventor of the X-ray tube in 1913),discussing the history of X-ray research and development along with the scientific principlesbehind X-rays. Selected artifacts from

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First-Year Design Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Scott Moor

students. This project can becompleted with inexpensive and readily available tools and materials. It provides opportunitiesfor the students to use good engineering analysis in their designs and opportunities for studentsto exercise creativity.Wind chimes have been proposed and used as a project or laboratory in a number of physics andmathematics courses. In this paper I review the approach and results of using a wind chimedesign in a first-year “Introduction to Engineering Design” course. In a portion of this coursestudents are asked to design, construct and test a wind chime. They are provided with anequation to predict the frequency of their chimes that is based on a solution to the fourth-orderwave equation. Students select their desired chime