Conference Session

Curriculum Development in MFG ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mitch Keil; Sam Ramrattan; Jorge Rodriguez; Alamgir Choudhury

© 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationmade. As well, based on the initial mass of a specimen and the mass after thermal distortiontesting, a percent degradation loss of specimen can be determined.Methodology The defined testing methodology consists of four major steps, which are described in the nextparagraphs. It is important to note that all specimens preparation and testing needs to beperformed in a controlled laboratory environment. Temperature was controlled at 23.9±1.1°C,and relative humidity was controlled at 50±3%. The four steps are: • Preparation of Disc Shaped Specimens • Scratch Hardness Testing • Thermal Distortion Testing • Testing Methodology1. Preparation of Disc Shaped Specimens

Conference Session

K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito

each school) connected in a network, with Internet access.The implementation of the program started in February of 2002; it has been dimensioned to serve10 thousand students per year, including the qualification of teachers and technical staff for thenext four years.7. Infra Structure of the ProjectThe project physical infra structure counts with 16 laboratories with 20 points of network each,in according to the international pattern EIA/TIA 568-A, where each lab contains one Rack withkey and the local network active element (Switch 24 doors 10/100 MBITS).The whole project is compounded by: 320 Celeron computers 800 MHZ/ Disk of 20GB and 128MB RAM/ Colored monitor with 15”/ CDRom/ Stabilizer; Supply of 32 printers, 2 for each lab;Large b and

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shakil Akhtar; Alaa Aly

A Course on Computer Networks Based on CC2001 Shakil Akhtar and Alaaeldin A. Aly College of Information Technology UAE University {s.akhtar, aly}@uaeu.ac.ae Abstract cryptographic algorithms and security protocols. It isThis paper presents the laboratory contents of an updated noted that because of the difficulty of both cryptographiccomputer networks course offered at the undergraduate algorithms and security protocols and also the need forjunior or senior level. The

Conference Session

Real-World Applications

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Weissbach; David Loker; Ronald Krahe

programming language that was usedfor data acquisition. The senior telecommunications systems course emphasizes voice and data "Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education"communications techniques. There are approximately seven laboratory experiments coveredwithin this course. Each of the experiments utilizes LabVIEW and typically requires two weeksto complete. As part of the course requirements, students complete a group project in place oftaking a final exam. Students select the team members and the project. Four team memberschose to work on this remote sensing project.A detailed listing of the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

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

material tostudents. The adoption of Cisco VBC can result in a number of advantages for participatingacademies: • The material is supplied free of charge to participating educational institutions worldwide. • Course material is provided on-line essentially 24 hours a day for seven days a week, and is supplemented by a large selection of books 12, 13, 9, 18, simulators, examination questions and other learning material. • The material is continually updated to reflect rapid technological change. • Laboratory equipment is provided at substantial discount. • Equipment provided through the program can be used for other, non-vendor based units, and for research purposes. • Staff are trained and up-skilled

Conference Session

K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Aaron Blicblau

, at the same time as the students undertake their project, they are also enrolled in atleast three examinable subjects. By having a group of two or three students work on onetopic, an extensive amount of work can be achieved.From the commencement of the project the students are given the choice of submitting eithera formal engineering report (of approximately 35 pages) or preparing a technical paper inaccordance with guidelines of the ASME9 or SAE10. These two organizations provideextensive information on the preparation of manuscripts for submission to conferences orjournals. Should the students decide to submit a “paper” they are also required to submit adetailed laboratory manual for corroboration of their work.Very few students from an

Conference Session

TIME 6: Web-based Instruction

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anwar Hossain; James Fragomeni

designed to improve the interactive learning environment that students have inlearning material science in their undergraduate studies. Various courses such as metalprocessing, strength of materials, machine design, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics,manufacturing processes, mechanical behavior of materials, principles of engineering materials,materials laboratory, senior lab, senior design, and metallic corrosion require a goodunderstanding of engineering science and materials for the success of the undergraduate students.The goal would be to enhance and improve the student's materials & engineering sciencebackground and knowledge and also their computer skills using the web in an interactive user-friendly environment. Rather than simply reading

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chih-Ping Yeh

continue their education. The learning community allows students to pair up to do team project and learn from each other while at the community college and continue after transferring to WSU. This new method teaches teamwork skills in early semesters, but mostly fosters a sense of belonging, and helps students develop their education plan, provides peer mentoring and a focus on academic achievement. • Develop Individual Educational Plans: The WSU Division of Engineering Technology has set up plans of study for all six majors transferring from community colleges. WSU staff will meet with SC staff and students to assist students in setting up their electronic plans of study specifically based on Schoolcraft College transfer

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Watkins

that an engineering technologist may see on the job. Preparingthe student to use these computer based tools should be an important part of ET curricula. Anumerical methods course, with the correct focus, can meet this need for today’s student.UNC Charlotte’s course “Applied Numerical Methods” has recently been updated to includeextensive work in Microsoft Excel and Matlab, two software packages commonly used bytoday’s practicing engineers. The course teaches the basic concepts of formulating engineeringproblems for computer solution. Each topic includes computer based assignments thatdemonstrate each program’s strengths and weaknesses in that area. Emphasis is placed onengineering applications from mechanical, civil, and electrical

Conference Session

Molecular and Multiscale Phenomena

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Keith

problem”, sulfur / CO poisoning of electrodes 8. Research and development efforts in fuel cells 9. Fuel cell system economics and marketA good introductory book on fuel cells (that will be recommended, but not required) hasbeen written by Larminie and Dicks19. Supporting laboratory experiments will also bedeveloped in future years. These experiments can easily be integrated into the chemicalengineering curriculum.What Went Right / What Went WrongWorking with a large number of undergraduate students on a research project is achallenging task. This section will highlight some of the things that were a success andsome of the things that could be improved upon.Student evaluations of the instructor were excellent. This may be because the

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Leonhardt

developed the Ekranoplanvehicle project during a Technology Education course. An Ekranoplan or Wing-In-GroundEffect vehicle flies very close to a water surface. The vehicle uses design elements of bothairplanes and marine craft. Ground-effect flight enables a vehicle to carry either a larger payloador operate with greater fuel efficiency than a conventional airplane. The candidates testedseveral vehicle configurations, power sources and construction techniques. Vehicle constructionguidelines and curriculum outlines were developed to disseminate to other technology educators.The project has been used to teach the engineering design process to freshman students inWestern Washington University’s Engineering Technology Design Graphics

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Daugherty; Sunday Faseyitan; Robert Myers; Pearley Cunningham; Winston Erevelles

be projected Page 9.1347.6onto the computer screens of all conference participants. This would allow for various users to Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationremotely access and participate in laboratory demonstration or sessions at a remote site. Humannature dictates that the audience in a room tends to look at whoever is talking - so this is a logicalfeature. However, this feature does not allow for multiple people talking at the same time, aswould be the case in an animated discussion

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Heer

a very high level ofsophistication. A crude prototype of the hardware and a few examples of laboratorieswere developed to demonstrate to the faculty the potential of this approach. While thefirst couple of minutes they were very skeptical, they quickly got excited about how thiscould change what they could teach and the experience for the students. Once thefaculty had accepted the idea, work began on developing a meaningful pilot experience. The design of the TekBot experiences in class made the experiences progressivelymore complex. An early laboratory involved the students developing C and assemblycode that is downloaded to the TekBot that replicates the analog controller and PLDcontroller previously designed in other TekBots courses

Conference Session

BME Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Lalush; C. Frank Abrams; Peter Mente; Marian McCord; H. Troy Nagle; Elizabeth Loboa; Susan Blanchard

used had to use for special variables did. The that they did not (like RAMP functions, or any documentation already know how functions that they had to teach explains what kind to use. themselves how to use) or if they of functions they used only the functions that they used and if any of already knew how to use. those functions Equations are explained so that were functions that someone unfamiliar with the they did not know original model would understand how to use already. it based on the SIMULINK

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dale Litwhiler

work on the software on there own schedule withoutrelying on laboratory access.The choice of the computer interface hardware is more challenging due to the plethora of dataacquisition and control devices, boards and systems available on the market. Available computerinterface components include those using the IEEE-488 bus, PCI/ISA plug-in cards, VXI/PXIcards, PCMCIA cards, USB, parallel port, and RS-232 (serial port). Each of these interfaces hasits particular application-specific benefits. However, most student projects require themeasurement and control of very few parameters that does not justify the purchase of anelaborate analog and digital I/O system. In these situations, the Dallas-Maxim 1-Wire devicesprovide an elegant solution.The 1

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Liv Brakewood

andanalyzed. It might also serve as an effective technique in other engineering courses.This assignment also addressed several of the attributes in the New Engineering EducationParadigm, particularly, using an inquiry-based learning approach, teaching a technique that canbe used for life-long learning, using a complex construction site to stress a ‘system’, andfocusing on health, safety and sustainable development issues 6.Bibliography1 Shapira, A. (1995) Bringing the SIte into the Classroom: A Construction Engineering Laboratory. Journal of Engineering Education 84 (1), 1-52 ABET. (2003) ABET website http://www.abet.org/.3 Felder, R.M. and Brent, R. (2003) Designing and Teaching Courses to Satisfy the ABET Engineering

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Mukai

targeted course, Mechanics of Materials, for his firsttime at the University of Wyoming without the materials being implemented from theUniversity of Washington. Because of staffing issues, the PI did not teach the targetedcourse again until Spring 2003. The adapted materials were used in this class andevaluated by exit surveys and reflective notes. The students’ preferred learning styleswere determined by surveys.The Spring 2003 class that used the new materials was comprised of 35 students.Administration of the course is at the college level and instructors for the course comefrom various departments and are rotated. Due to circumstances beyond the control ofthe PI, twelve of the students in the class were repeating the class. Course grades were

Conference Session

Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Diane Schuch Miller; Donald Falkenburg

the end of a textbook chapter. Theyimbed often-conflicting technical needs and issues. The engineer must be able to assess asituation, pose a problem, develop a solution and effect change. Yet, aside from a capstoneexperience at the end of the curriculum, few students are prepared to apply learning beyond theway it is covered in the lecture or presented in the textbook. They are uncomfortable solvingproblems that are not well structured and require the integration of multiple concepts to craft asolution. They have little experience with either under-constrained or over-constrained problems.Unfortunately, this traditional approach to teaching and learning in engineering does noteffectively encourage knowledge and skills transfer to other

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ryan Cavanaugh; Matt Ellis; Mark Ardis; Richard Layton

teams are made. Discussion of the teaching/learning principles underlying this Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationapproach are given in [1]. For a class of thirty students, team creation can take up to an hour, inaddition to time spent creating, printing, distributing, and collecting the surveys.The guidelines for cooperative learning specify how teams can best be made. See, for example,[2, 3, 4]. Student learning is improved by placing students into teams that are heterogeneous inacademic achievement, grades in prior courses, writing skills, extracurricular participation, andother criteria

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley

and implementation of that camp is a true division of labor between theCOE and the teachers. COE faculty propose activities for each of the engineering disciplinesbeing explored, and teachers tie the activity to the goals and objectives they teach. The entireteam tries every activity, engineers seeking technical accuracy and teachers weighing in onwhether the activity meets the content goals and is appropriate for the targeted grade levels. Theplanning week of the camp is spent on the university campus, allowing the teachers a view intothe engineering school. Laboratory tours and presentations of leading edge research projects arepart of the agenda. The camp itself is held at a middle school, and while co-taught by both theengineers and the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wesner; Cristina Amon

the context of an “ecosystem” e.g., business needs, regulations, cultural issues). This has been presented for several semesters by a venture capitalist with ties to the university. • The role of Industrial Design. This is important to the engineering students who are the majority of class members. It is presented by a Professor of Industrial Design.During several semesters student team members were given additional opportunity to makepresentations to their classmates by having them present the lectures based upon the material inthe text. This was felt to have the additional value of exposing them to a “teaching” experience.To further support this idea, in semesters when there were few teams, each team was asked

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Chen; Albert Peng; Daniel Jones

Technology Programs at CMUThe engineering technology programs at Central Michigan University (CMU) are designed toprepare students who aspire to careers in electronic, manufacturing, or mechanical areas7. Eachmajor requires a minimum of 24 semester credits in mathematics and science, 21 credits intechnology core that emphasizes hands-on laboratories, 21 credits in technology specializationthat emphasizes engineering science and design, and 9 credits in technical electives that studentscan use to strengthen their technical backgrounds in one of the areas.The students who wish to pursue one of the ET majors must be first admitted into the university.A typical student who receives a general admission would have a high-school GPA of 3.3 and

Conference Session

Serving the Information Needs of Engineering Technology Educators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lance Miller; Jack Waintraub

• Strategies and programs for recruitment and retention of students, with an emphasis on students from underrepresented populations • Instructional Materials, Teaching Guides • Manuals, Resource guides • Conference papers, position papers, monographs, etc. • Research/technical reports • Technical and employability skills standards • Degree and Certificate program listings, articulation dataSome of the materials are directly available at the NETEC site. In some cases, links are providedto the projects themselves, and in other cases, materials may be purchased for a fee. The methodof distribution is determined through negotiation with the creators.Clearinghouse users are also provided with linkages to a wealth of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

the Department of Civil andEnvironmental Engineering and the College of Engineering for fabrication of test specimens andcalibration of the different instruments to be used. This included laboratories on the maincampus of the University of Cincinnati, as well as the Large-Scale Structural Test Facilitylocated at Center Hill, about two miles from the main campus. The remaining weeks of theresearch project dealt with analysis of moment-rotation results from previous experimentaltesting1, 2, as well as designing, fabricating and erecting the test set-up for full-scale testing of T-stub connections subjected to cyclic loading. Though specimens for four tests were designed andfabricated, but due to time limitation only one test was conducted at

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Justine Stiles; Ashly Middelberg; Farhad Reza; Subhi Bazlamit

conducting measurements of both components atdifferent temperatures. The British Pendulum Tester was used in a laboratory setup to measurethe two components of friction on test briquettes. To simulate the polishing of pavement surfaces Page 9.809.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationas a result of repeated application of wheel passes; the briquettes were subjected to cycles ofmechanical polishing using aluminum grit and a drill press equipped with a rubber-polishingdisc.Briquettes representing

Conference Session

Information Integration and Security

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Okechi Egekwu

) laboratory at James Madison University as part Page 9.671.5 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyrightø 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationof an integrated security solution for a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)system. [6] CSA goes beyond traditional endpoint security solutions “by identifying andpreventing malicious behavior before it can occur, thereby removing potential known andunknown security risks that threaten enterprise networks and applications.” [7] Specificinnovative features of CSA include: ‚ Proactive defense

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Tonkay

programs to enhance the skills of their employees.They expect those working in higher education to develop leadership competencies in the Page 9.731.1individuals they are sending into the workforce. To that end, there is clear evidence that teaching Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationstudents leadership skills, and giving them opportunities to apply that knowledge within theirchosen fields of study is imperative.3 These skills and opportunities give the student an addedadvantage during the

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in MFG ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Gore

meet these intentions with anemphasis on "hands-on, can do" attributes. In addition to better hands-on laboratories and moreindustry collaborations (involving student projects), industry-sought-after certifications are beingconsidered and will be provided "if appropriate" to help achieve these intentions. In particular,the ET Department has decided that a Six-Sigma “Greenbelt” certification would be a goodcandidate to provide the desired attributes if included as part of the existing Industrial QualityTechnology course. This certification is typically part of “Continuing Studies” non-degreeprograms offered by universities outside the ET degree curriculum, which raises the question, “IsSix-Sigma certification appropriate for the college

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Daughton

technical projects. Topics include selecting projectSystems alternatives, managing project teams, developing project plan elements, risk management, monitoring and controlling projects, and financial analysis. Students apply skills learned to a representative project.EMEN 5040 Establishes the foundations to understand the urgency forQuality, Strategy, and Value quality improvement and excellence goals as an executiveCreation priority based on the teachings of W. Edwards Deming. Covers the systems approach, theory of variation, theory of

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

John Mirth

Format The teaching experiment described herein was carried out in the “Mechanical SystemsDesign” course taught at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville (UWP). This is a junior/seniorlevel course that serves as a precursor to Senior Design. Key elements of the course include acomprehensive “design and build” project, and a lecture focus on developing the completedesign process. In the semester studied, students in the course were required to design and build alaboratory experiment to demonstrate the functioning of a mechanical system. The premisewas that the experiment would become part of a “lab kit” to be used in conjunction with an on-line presentation of the Mechanical Systems Laboratory course taught at UWP. Students worked on