Collection

2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Swaminathan Balachandran

projects prepare thestudents to undertake capstone design project of significant scope and also do well in their jobafter graduation. The excellent laboratories, dedicated faculty, and outstanding graduates havebeen recognized by the people in the region and the program has received much publicity due toits very high ranking in the review published in the US News and World Report last year. The author established the IE laboratories and was responsible for the first ABET(Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) accreditation of the program in 1987. Hehas taught most of the courses in the IE curriculum. During the past few years he used theBlackboard Course Info system to enable students to submit their work electronically

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Max Rabiee

, which is transmitted outside the computer, must be set to an industry standard voltage/currentlevel. These standards are designed to insure that the transmitted data is immune to outsideelectromechanical and electromagnetic noise interference.In this paper, we will describe the terms used in serial communication systems. Then, we will describea project in which a digital circuit is designed to convert the parallel data to serial format. Applicationspecific chips are available to perform the task of parallel-to-serial and serial-to- parallel conversion.One example of such an application specific chip, is the INTEL 8251A [1], which is a UniversalSynchronous/Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (USART) chip. This chip can be programmed toconvert

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Chris Randell; Marty Bowe; John Feland; Daniel Jensen

to use wire for the frame and RP for the other parts. Figure 5 – Prototype of Baja Car4.1 The USAFA classesThe two courses where we have primarily used the RPT are our sophomore-levelIntroduction to Design course and our Senior-level Intercollegiate Competition Designcourse. The Introduction to Design class exposes students to a suite of design toolsincluding: customer needs analysis, brainstorming techniques, functional modeling, QFD,decision making tools for embodiment options, design for manufacturing, design forassembly, design of experiments and, of course, prototyping). The course includes threedesign projects. The first project is merely a check of cadets’ abilities at prototyping andis assigned at the

Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

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

it’s done)4. Comments from students regarding their team experiences5. An evaluation of the study to date.Introduction Responding to the demands of industry for graduates skilled in teamwork, many engineeringprograms have introduced projects that require students to work in teams 2. Positive teamexperiences also contribute significantly to student academic success and to improved rates ofretention3. Creating teams, however, does not always engender effective team behavior 4.Students who report negative team experiences typically cite lack of communication among –and lack of commitment by – some participants as factors critical to unproductive or failed workefforts5. Nationwide there is increasing interest in the subject of forming teams on

Conference Session

Manufacturing Processes and Systems

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Matsson

Session 2263 On the Integration of Fluid Flows and Fabrication John E. Matsson Oral Roberts UniversityAbstractThis paper shows the integration of fabrication and fluid mechanics. The project consistsof the design and fabrication of a portable Taylor-Couette apparatus for visualization ofcentrifugal instabilities in fluid flows. Students were told to design the apparatus so that itwould show both primary and secondary instabilities. This necessitated incorporatingcalculations of the relevant parameter regions and the determination of a suitable methodfor

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

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

. Even on-line, animated testingsoftware does not test the ability of a student to see a project through from beginning to end.Thus, we need to be able to integrate grade data from a variety of sources, including email fromteaching assistants.Successful users of CMSs often have small courses or courses that employ standardized testingand do not have significant project components. In some cases they have been able to developtheir own application software either for enhancing an existing CMS or they have created theirown CMS. Enhancing a CMS would be time consuming and the programs developed to this endwould require maintenance over time, which we have already noted is costly and time-consuming.The continuing development of innovative tools to

Conference Session

Combining Research and Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Raul Ordonez; Marianne Cinaglia; Kathryn Hollar; Jess Everett; Joseph Orlins; Kauser Jahan; Mariano Savelski; Linda Head; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh

onfundamental and applied multidisciplinary research in pollution prevention. Pollutionprevention is a key element of new EPA initiatives to protect our children's health and topromote environmental justice and urban environmental quality. Selected students fromall over the USA work closely with engineering faculty on funded research projects inengineering that encourage pollution prevention and sustainable development. Thiseight-week program exposes students not only to the values of research experiences buthelps them reinforce and build other important skills such as communication, social andleadership. The ultimate objective is to provide the REU participants with an enrichingresearch experience that will encourage them to pursue graduate

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Dickson

a wide range of partners including industry,Professional Institutions and other Universities. The course delivery involves new methods ofteaching, learning and communications that range from text-based to internet-based. There is astrong emphasis on employment-based project work.The paper will also cover:• The key features of course and curriculum development and the role of partnerships• The most effective methods of teaching, learning and communication Page 7.1181.1 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for

Conference Session

Curriculum and Laboratory Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Upchurch; Chi Thai

when compared to students learning in traditional learningenvironments.1,2 These methods incorporate technologies such as wireless keypads that activelyengage students during the lecture. The benefits of collaborative methods where students workon projects together is dependent upon the group dynamics.3,4 According to Darlin andMcShannon3, traditional methods were successful for those students who generally aresuccessful in engineering while the success for high-risk students increased when the interactionlearning was conducted with the faculty member. Students can increase their problem solvingand critical thinking skills when given an opportunity to witness how an expert approaches andsolves a problem.5 Learning these skills requires a

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Valarie Arms; Aly Valentine; J. Richard Weggel

, qualitative assessment strategies have been implemented throughfocus groups convened at the end of the freshman year experience and through analyses oftargeted journal assignments.The freshman design project is the cornerstone of what we now call tDEC and its impact must bevalidated to justify the effort expended by students and faculty from all the disciplines involved.The Drexel Engineering Curriculum (tDEC) freshman design program involves about 550students working on 116 teams ranging in size of from 2 to 6 members. Each team has a designproject and a technical advisor from the College of Engineering faculty. Since engineering facultyfrom every department are involved, there is a need for uniformity in grading standards. Theassessment forms that

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Silvana Tarazaga; Dalmaris Gonzalez

importance of team work Ø Solve a problem Ø Understand the importance of ethics in engineering.These specific project objectives were designed to meet the following goals: Ø Increase participant knowledge of and exposure to engineering as a possible career by involving the students in hands-on workshops while letting them experience university life. Ø Contribute to students’ confidence in their ability to make career decisions by enhancing their understanding of the engineering profession.Selection ProcessEXITE! was a nonresidential camp with participants recruited locally. The application forms andrelated information were sent to directors of local elementary and middle schools. The directorswere responsible for informing the

Conference Session

Teaching Green Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Gregg

College of Engineering. Thisdesignation elevates the class to the status of counting toward a student’s engineering degree, insome cases. Enrollment for the spring semester 2002 is forty students, with many students on aburgeoning waiting list. This enrollment change requires, for all practical purposes, the class to betaught in a more traditional manner; with fifteen students it could be taught in the form of anengineering seminar with individual projects. Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) is best described by itsISO 14040 definition: 11 LCA is a technique for assessing the environmental aspects and potential impacts associated with a product by: · Compiling an inventory of relevant inputs and outputs of a product system

Conference Session

Educational Opportunities in Engr. Abroad

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Loshbaugh

of 3 faculty members traveled with 26students; in 2001, I was the sole faculty member with 13 students. My program, EPICS, orEngineering Practices Introductory Course Sequence, is a two-semester course required of allstudents at CSM. The first-year course is EPICS I, the sophomore year, EPICS II. Page 7.1093.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationOur courses are interdisciplinary and project based. Students work in teams of 4-6 to solvecliented technical problems, improve communication

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in BIO Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Zdzislaw Pawlowski; Krzysztof Zaremba; Roman Morawski

to the second-level studies (M.S. program). During the stage C some specialized(advanced) courses are taken and a final design project is carried out.The system of study is flexible in many ways. The student is granted a lot of freedom in designingand carrying an individual program of study: there is a large number (more than 400) of the studycourses to choose from, 7 diversified areas of concentration, individual pace of the advancementof the study, several exit options. A total of 162 credit hours are needed to obtain the B.S.degree. The curriculum requirements are formulated separately for each area of concentration.The coverage of fundamentals of electronics and information technology, as well as necessarybreadth of the curriculum, is

Conference Session

New Information ET Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lucy Morse; Jack Selter

Technological Education (ATE)project to place an Information Technology option within the Engineering Technology at aDistance (ETD) program currently offered at the University of Central Florida.Leaving the campus.The more common method for involving industry into curriculum evaluation is to establish anindustrial advisory board usually involving the industry members after the curriculum has beenestablished. Using the criteria listed above, the methodology seeks to gain the input andacceptance of industry by meeting with the employers to find the best value in a curriculum thatwill serve the industry needs and meet the employee’s education and training needs. This modelis characterized by Jack Welch in his autobiography and is defined as the “vitality

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Control Applications

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Knight

teach laboratory curriculums required in the 21st century. This situation hasdeveloped over several decades due to universities not giving adequate emphasis and workloadcredit for developing and teaching labs. The senior level mechanical engineering laboratorycurriculum at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) has been totally redesigned. Thenew curriculum is a two-hour senior level course (one-hour lecture plus a three-hour laboratoryweekly) that includes both mechanical and thermal laboratory systems along with a five-weekstudent design project. The one-hour lecture component of the course teaches modernengineering experimental concepts required to design, collect, analyze, and interpretexperimental results. The three-hour laboratory

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley

subjects2.Prior to implementation of the camp, the College of Engineering had established a close workingrelationship with Wake County Public Schools in general and Centennial Campus Middle Schoolin particular. University students and faculty had spent many hours working with teachers andadministrators with various projects, including a National Science Foundation sponsored GK-12grant 3. This relationship made implementation of the camp very easy and has made it easy torepeat the camp the next summer.Session OverviewThe teacher/faculty week began one week after school had ended for the year. This gave theteachers time to wrap up their responsibilities for the school, but not so much time that it wasdifficult to get back into routine! Six teachers

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Daughton

and Applied Scienceand local industry about the need to provide engineers with a practical set of management skillsprior to undertaking early management assignments. High technology companies, such as thethen Martin Marietta, were concerned that many engineers were entering management positionsresponsible for project or development teams or promoted to managers of small departments orwork groups with little preparation. Ironically, these opportunities sometimes came as a rewardfor a job well done for engineering contributions but placed the individual in an awkwardposition. As Matson1 and Lancaster 2 have reported, and this author observed while working inindustry, engineers usually find themselves very poorly equipped to take on their

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Avanzato

, senior design projects, and more. An overview of the basic robotcontest rules and strategies as well as results of recent competitions will be presentedbelow.2.0 Robot Contest Rules and StrategiesThe objective of the Robo-TrailBlazers contest is to design an autonomous robot, or acollaborating team of robots, which is capable of navigating from a start position to a Page 7.867.1goal position, on a 8 foot by 8 foot flat arena, in a minimum amount of time (see figure Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education1

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

the record onthe difficulty of taking courses that fail to draw connections to either the real world or futurecourses in the student’s major. They find them baffling in many respects until someone makesthe effort to draw logical connections between those initial courses in the academic system andthe later major driven classes.The current work in progress involves that body of students who feel that they have an interest inengineering as a career choice. The group consists of any students who have qualms over whatthey are being required to learn in courses like mathematics, chemistry, physics, or language arts.The projected initial numbers of students impacted could be as many as 3,000 students with asmany as 1,500 added to the group each year

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Gorham

other technical professionals may have an Page 7.955.2interest in attending. Sessions will describe programs and projects that feature the “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”integration of the SMET disciplines and will focus on collaborations between engineersand educators, both in and outside the classroom. The emphasis of all the sessions will behands-on, demonstrated activities that provide attendees with useful teaching tools orpractical ideas for program implementation.ASME Resources“The

Conference Session

Intra-college Graduate Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Muthukrishnan Sathyamoorthy

degrees, i.e., Ph.D., in their prescribed fields.2. Program DescriptionCurriculum:All students in the program are required to complete 33 credits hours in order to receive a degree.Students may select one of three options. The Course work Option requires 33 credit hours ofcourse work, which includes 9 credit hours of electives. The Project Option requires 30 credithours of course work and the 3 credit hour COSE 690 Project. The Thesis Option requires 27credit hours of course work and 6 credit hours of thesis work (COSE 699 Thesis). Table 1provides the standard pattern sheet and specific course titles and numbers.Faculty:The faculty members involved in the Graduate Committee, administering the program and

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Cockayne; John Feland; Larry Leifer

the pangineer must begin with the current education of engineers.Traditional engineering education has typically presented content knowledge acrossmultiple disciplines; however, to prepare students for modern challenges, the moderneducation system must now focus on delivering the context across and between the thesecontent areas.Knowledge how, or know-how, has always existed in engineering learning and practice.A common example recalled fondly by today’s practicing engineers are project-based Page 7.1101.1classes, such as capstone design courses for Mechanical Design engineers. Such classes Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for

Conference Session

Teaching Effective Communications

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hutto; Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Anthony Marchese; Roberta Harvey; Bernard Pietrucha

: Assessing the Impactof Writing as a Multi-Function Design Tool, outlines a two-year project to developmethods of assessing the effectiveness of engineering students’ use of writing as a designpractice. Engineering educators have long recognized the importance of effective writtencommunication skills, and many programs have incorporated an emphasis on writtencommunication within their curriculums. Indeed, the ABET 2000 criteria not onlyemphasized writing skills but also specifically located responsibility for writinginstruction within the engineering program itself: Competence in written communication in the English language is essential for the engineering graduate. Although specific coursework requirements serve as a foundation for such

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Otieno

years, we have been restructuring our curriculum to meet challengesposed by a fast changing technological world of manufacturing. Our curricular restructuringefforts have been geared mainly towards maintaining technological currency, in addition tostrengthening our hands on experiences for students, as required by ABET 3, NAIT 4 and otheraccreditation bodies. As observed by the SME, “…Students with a solid grounding in scienceand math, strong hands-on project experience and teamwork skills make the best manufacturingengineers.”* Our curricular reform efforts are also geared towards renewing the Department’sNAIT accreditation this year for it Industrial Technology programs, and also to seek ABETaccreditation for its Engineering Technology

Conference Session

Course Assessment in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamad Ahmadian

basedon a specific assessment problem or task.3. Examples of Classroom Assessment in Engineering Technology RUBRIC and MATRIX, EET Logic Circuits Course The main objective of this course is to provide students with the fundamentals of digitalelectronics. Students gain the necessary skills to design and implement projects in the digitalsystems. This course also allows students to have hands-on experience with variouscombinational circuits, as well as sequential circuits. Finally, the ultimate objective of thiscourse is to broaden students' understanding and appreciation of computer hardware. The following information will be used to evaluate homework, laboratory assignments,and exams for the Logic Circuits

Conference Session

Innovative Laboratory Instruction

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

of an Undergraduate Senior Project Grant from theAmerican Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).I. IntroductionThermodynamics is a basic and very important topic that deals with energy and has long been anessential part of mechanical engineering curricula all over the world. The principles ofthermodynamics are based on people’s everyday experiences and observations. However, themajority of students perceive thermodynamics as a difficult subject. Mechanical engineers usethermodynamics principles as part of an engineering science to study and design a wide varietyof energy systems, such as jet engines and rockets, refrigeration systems, air conditioningsystems, chemical processes, and power

Conference Session

Innovative Courses for ChE Students

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Miller

the technical content of thecourse. Another aspect covered is the integration of different plants on a site wherein anunavoidable waste generated in a so-called green process, becomes a feed for another withvalue addition, thereby making the entire site “greener”. .Biobased feedstocks - Fueled by the projection that worldwide petroleum production will peaksometime around 2020 and thereafter decline, the prospect of alternative sources for fuels andchemicals is gaining prominence and is beginning to be realized commercially. As the logical Page 7.74.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Krouglicof

Engineering course, a required course for engineering students in all majors. Atthe junior and senior levels it is designed to support laboratories in Dynamics of Systems andMechatronics Design. Finally, as a stand-alone controller, it could potentially be applied tonumerous mechatronic student projects including the International Virtual Design Studio(IVDS), the Robotics Club, the SAE Walking Machine Challenge as well as several capstonedesign projects each year.The system is both technologically and pedagogically innovative. In terms of pedagogy, inprovides a new avenue of application for laptop computers in the undergraduate curriculum. Interms of technological innovation, the system is unique in that it functions as a data acquisitionsystem

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Ledlow

adopting a different look, feel andperformance for the classroom. While the project does contain some general information onA/CL, the bulk of the content is specific to engineering education, and was derived frominterviews with engineering faculty on multiple campuses. Materials are organized so that theywill serve as a useful guide to faculty who have never used cooperative learning, but will alsoprovide sufficient depth that more experienced faculty and faculty developers may benefit fromthem as well. The CD contains essentially the same content as the website, but will be providedto those whose Internet connections will not easily access large video or audio files.Active/Cooperative Learning was developed by the Foundation Coalitiona through