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Michael J. Caylor; Bruce Chesley

-semester sequence of courses in spacecraft engineering. Throughout the sequence, students andfaculty from multiple disciplines and academic departments play key roles in the developmentprocess. In addition, we receive support from several other capstone design projects to addressspecific needs of the small satellite program.As with any major curriculum effort, operating a small satellite program with undergraduatestudents can be a formidable task. In particular, our program requires a substantial commitmentof faculty expertise, laboratory resources, external consultants, and funding. These strategicassets must be managed carefully to achieve program objectives. Nonetheless, overcoming thesechallenges allows for substantial student learning to

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Francis Wang; El-Hadi M. Aggoune

Essays Class ETS Essays Class ETS Essays Class Capstone ETS EIT Project Projects Projects ProjectsA Ability to apply knowledge of EE 322 EE 490 TEST mathematics, science, and engineering EE 491B Ability to design and conduct

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Mel I. Mendelson

Concepts Page 4.320.4A. Flexible Curriculum. The specific goals to accomplish our constituents’ needs are (1)promoting the manufacturing of profitable, robust products through teamwork, (2) teachingengineers to be modern managers in a global economy, and (3) developing a flexiblecurriculum that changes to meet the needs of industry. The EAPM master’s programemphasizes a broad curriculum in engineering, business and total quality, as previouslydescribed [13]. Any current changes to the program appear on our web site athttp://www.lmu.edu.There are 8 core courses in our curriculum, 2 electives plus a capstone project/thesis course,which yields 11 courses

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Anthony J. Marchese; Shreekanth A. Mandayam; T. R. Chandrupatla; John L. Schmalzel

oriented Engineering Clinic sequence1,2. Soph Total Quality Man- Multidisciplinary agement Design Project The Engineering Clinic is a course that is Junior Product/Process Product/Process taken each semester by every engineering stu- Development Development dent at Rowan University. In the EngineeringSenior Multidisciplinary Capstone Design Project Clinic, which is based on the medical school model, students and faculty from all four engi-neering departments work side-by-side on laboratory experiments, design projects, applied re-search and product development. Table 1 contains an overview of course content in the 8

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Penny L. Hirsch; J. Edward Colgate; David M. Kelso; C. Yarnoff; Barbara L. Shwom; J. Anderson

Session 3353 The Web as a Model Technology in Freshman Design J. Anderson, J. E. Colgate, P. Hirsch, D. Kelso, B. Shwom, C. Yarnoff Northwestern UniversityAbstractThe challenge of teaching design to freshmen is to find projects and technologies that suittheir level of proficiency while allowing them to experience the design process andprepare for upper level courses. In the first quarter of a two-quarter freshman course indesign and communication, students work on web site projects for campus clients. Webtechnology is an effective tool for this purpose because it is widely available, inexpensive,timely, easily

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Frank E. Falcone; Edward Glynn

truss.) The projects prepare the students for teamactivities in subsequent courses including the senior-year capstone project. The group approachto problem solving also simulates “real world” engineering practice. Measurements provides asomewhat controlled environment to begin to address problems associated with group dynamics.Most of the group work is conducted during the laboratory periods and these periods are deemedmandatory with a very heavy penalty for unexcused absences. At the conclusion of theenvironmental study, all students prepare confidential peer reviews of their teammates. Theinstructors use these reviews to pair recalcitrants in subsequent projects. In extreme cases, theindividuals work alone in subsequent projects.IV. Group

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will be primary focus of the project, product, or group overwhich they will management responsibility. Finally, degree program students must complete afinal capstone research project, which provides an opportunity for original and creative work. Page 4.11.3Selected topics usually focus on management issues or needs in their work environment. In manyinstances, the student’s company has implemented the results and recommendations from theseprojects.Recently, an alumni survey4 was conducted for our program by a former student. The purpose ofthe survey was to ascertain the value of the curriculum and the overall program to studentsthroughout their

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Brett Barraclough

Problems (EDPs) were linked by a common theme. In 1998, thedepartment began coordination with the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) touse the weapon as a thread of continuity to show how all the topics taught in EM370 arerelated to real-world problems. The new series of ATACMS EDPs demonstrated howdesign information could be shared in a collaborative engineering environment.Moreover, the course improvement project included an opportunity to incorporate theway the Department of Defense (DoD) uses top-down design in the acquisition process.Simulation Based Acquisition (SBA) is a proposed system to apply top-down design andensure that product data can be transferred across all the phases of the acquisitionprocess. One of the main goals of the SBA

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Lawrence B. Korta

students were not well versed in topics such as engineering economic evaluation, financial analysis, product costing, marketing, finance coming from analytically oriented institutions, the students would benefit from some exposure to key manufacturing technologies and techniques an integral part of the program would be familiarization of the students with Allen- Bradley products, services, and manufacturing processes in addition to technical and business subjects, the students should be exposed to American cultural activities in order to pull these multiple “soft” engineering topics together, some sort of “capstone” project should be incorporated into the programBased upon these

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Wallace Fowler

theinstitutional learning environment, the design instructor, the available resources, the students,and student interactions with other faculty members and engineers from industry andgovernment.This paper presents a set of goals and practices that were learned by the author while teachingat the USAF Academy in 1981-82 and while collaborating with 40+ design instructors as partof the NASA/USRA Advanced Design Program from 1985-95. The current multi-disciplinarymulti-institutional design activities discussed are part of the Texas Space Grant Consortium’sAdvanced Design Program - an outgrowth of the NASA/USRA program.2. Goals for Teaming Exercises in Design CoursesThe typical student in a capstone design course is within one to three semesters of

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Sandra Courter; Ruthie Lyle; Ranil Wickramasinghe; Lisa Schaefer; Kevin Nickels; Jodi Reeves; David Noyce; Annie Pearce

learning styles. As the studentsbecome more comfortable with group work, the amount of structure imposed can be reduced.For example, the four-year design sequence at Trinity begins in the first year with a verystructured project, with the instructor and the class working on a portion of the design sequencetogether. Sophomore and junior design emphasize small group projects of 2-5 students, witheach group completing the same designs. By the senior year, the capstone design project hassmall interdisciplinary groups of 4-5 students selecting their own projects, setting their owngoals, and evaluating how well they have achieved them. Regardless of the instructor-imposedstructure, clear guidelines for group projects, along with pre-specified rules for

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Tony N. Rogers; David R. Shonnard; Besty M. Aller; Kirk H. Schulz; Anton Pintar

developed to measure the success in attaining the above goals:(1) department designed skills test to be given in a senior-level course, (2) plant design reportsand AIChE senior design project, (3) exit survey and interview of graduating seniors,(4) survey of alumni two and five years out, (5) portfolio of written material in capstone andcommunication courses, (6) portfolio of oral presentations in capstone and communicationcourses, (7) participation in the “PAWS” Safety Program, and (8) performance on theFundamentals of Engineering Exam.Parts of the assessment plan have already been implemented. The first cycle of implementationof the entire assessment plan will be completed in the summer of 1999

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J. Morehouse; Edward Young; Jed S. Lyons

98-50749 “A Vehicle for Delivering aMechanical Systems Laboratory Experience”) is to procure all of the equipment and Page 4.166.1instrumentation needed for a capstone mechanical engineering systems laboratory course. TheILI project has been previously described 4 , so only a brief review is given here.In developing the Engineering Systems Laboratory, careful consideration was given to selectingan appropriate system for the student experiments. It is not desirable or even possible to attemptto expose students to every type of system that they might work with throughout theirprofessional career. In designing the systems lab, one must select a

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John, Jr. Lipscomb

Page 4.155.1represent other MET programs that are currently scrambling to get on the Web.The curricula of the sample were analyzed and twenty topic areas were identified as follows:Safety, Ethics, Sr. Project (Capstone), Engineering Economics, H.V.A.C., Thermodynamics(and heat transfer), Electronics (and instrumentation), Fluid Mechanics, Strength of Materials,Statics, Dynamics, Kinematics, Machine Design, Materials, CNC programing, Quality Control,Manufacturing (machining and manufacturing processes), Solid Modeling, CADD, andGraphics (manual). Within each curriculum, the number of hours devoted to each of thesetopics were counted and an average per program was calculated. This process yielded thepopularity of each topic.To define the breadth

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Emma Torbert; Eleanor Abrams; David Bourgeois; Carmela Amato-Wierda; Anneliese Mueller; Christopher F. Bauer

projects in which studentteams investigate chemically-related problems from various disciplines, including chemistry,engineering, materials science, biochemistry, earth science, soil science, and environmentalscience. Chemprojects are developed in consultation with faculty from these disciplines andindustry. Science education experts are evaluating the effects Chemprojects on student practices,attitudes, and performance. This paper discusses various aspects of the Chemprojects curriculumreform, including: objectives, description of implemented Chemprojects, modifications to lectureand laboratory format, student teams, description of evaluation methods, and preliminary studentreactions.The General Chemistry Curriculum: What Is Needed?There is an

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Milin Shah; Guoqing Tang; Bala Ram

Curriculum” [3,4],“Mathwright Library” [5], and “Mathematics Across the Curriculum” [6], conducted atother institutions. These studies on integration of subject matter in engineering or sciencecurricula can be classified as either vertical or horizontal integration. The “Early DesignExperiences,” “Introducing Biology into Engineering Curricula,” and “MathematicsAcross the Curriculum” are three examples of vertical integration. These efforts haveattempted to provide linkages across the curriculum among courses placed in differentyears of a curriculum. For example, in the “Early Design Experiences” effort, freshmenare provided the opportunity of working with seniors in a capstone design project team,giving the freshmen a “glimpse” of a capstone

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Frank J. Fronczak; John G. Webster

Session 2309 A Series of Design Courses in Biomedical Engineering Frank J. Fronczak, John G. Webster University of Wisconsin-MadisonAbstractThe curriculum for the BSBME degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison requires a seriesof six design courses. Students begin in their third semester with prerequisites of calculus,physics and chemistry. We solicit real projects from faculty in biomedical engineering and thelife sciences. Groups of two or three students interact with these clients to define thespecifications for their projects. Instructors teach them design principles and

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Mary S. Bonhomme; Edward R. Alef; Edward G. Borbely

over a period of 12 years Page 4.183.3Component IVStanford University capstone project and certificate of completion in Integrated VehicleEngineeringThe University of Michigan College of EngineeringThe University of Michigan-Ann Arbor currently offers a Master of Engineering inManufacturing degree program to GM worldwide, and this program provided the foundation forthe education component in the Integrated Manufacturing Engineering (IME) learning program.The IME plan of study again illustrates the academic power of another first tier universityoperating in a multi-university environment to serve the needs of a global, multi-culturalmanufacturing

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Philip Doepker

Session 1625 Integrating the Product Realization Process (PRP) Into the Design Curriculum Philip E. Doepker, P.E. University of DaytonAbstractFor nearly the decade, team projects have been implemented in design related projectcourses. Although many of these courses are “capstone” type courses, some may belaboratory project courses linked with more traditional design courses. Certain elementsremain common to team projects independent of the venue. The purpose of this paper isto outline the major items that are addressed as part of the implementation of projectsassociated

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Laura J. Genik; Craig W. Somerton

Session 3233 The Use of a Semester Long Theme Problem in a Senior Level Thermal Engineering Course Laura J. Genik, Craig W. Somerton University of Portland/Michigan State UniversityAbstractFormerly, a senior level capstone course in thermal engineering (ME 411 Applied ThermalScience) was a required part of the curriculum in mechanical engineering at Michigan StateUniversity. The intent of the course was to culminate several aspects of thermodynamics andheat transfer together in a single course with an emphasis on the design component of the topics.Among the topics covered

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Bernard Gallois; Keith Sheppard

providing sufficient and appropriate emphasis on design to meet the needs ofcompetitive business practice in an intensive global marketplace.The First Phase of Design Enhancement at StevensIn 1991 Stevens Institute took a significant step towards addressing the improvement ofcompetencies associated with design by the introduction of a Design Thread that included threenew core design laboratories. These courses were added in the second semesters of freshman,sophomore and junior years respectively to complement the traditional one-year capstone seniordesign project. The design thread also included an existing Engineering Graphics course in thefirst semester of the sophomore year. A two-course sequence (increased from one) inengineering management was

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Robert H. Mayer

students to gain sufficient knowledge to apply effectively the methodsand tools of the design engineer to accomplish a capstone design project in the follow-on course,EN462: OSED II.Given the breath of topical coverage, EN461 instructors are challenged to present the material ina way that integrates, rather than segregates, the various design topics. An effective avenue fordesign methods and tools integration was identified in recent documentation of two coral reefrestoration projects accomplished in the Florida Keys.1-3In 1989, the oilfield supply vessel M/V Alec Owen Maitland ran aground upon a living coral reefwithin the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. In an unrelated incident, during the sameyear, the M/V Elpis grounded on another reef

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William Swart

school and implement a BS/MD and BS/JD program. Knowing what to do, and why • Review and update the curriculum. Knowing how and when to produce • Introduce real life projects in the new freshman results course • Identify and encourage participation in internship and co-op programs. • Develop and implement a multi-disciplinary, industry project, senior capstone design course option. In a multi

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Amir Salehpour; Vijay Subramanian

chance to learn about the teaching environments in otherinstitutions which focus more on undergraduate education. Mentoring is typically the final stageof the PFF program. Since UC follows a quarter system, I selected the spring quarter of 1997 formy mentorship. The objective of the mentor program was to help me gain experience in anacademic environment. This involved teaching-related activities (both in and out of theclassroom), participation in departmental/college responsibilities, scholarship activities, studentadvising, and participation in the senior design projects. The entire exercise provided me anopportunity to get a first-hand perspective of the responsibilities and duties of a faculty member.This paper has two primary goals. Firstly

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Robert M. Ybarra

laboratory projects that demonstrate the principles of momentum andheat transfer: Pressure Drop Through Valves and Fittings; Two-Phase Flow Through a PackedBed; Reboiler and Condenser Heat Duties; Turbulent Heat Transfer in Empty and Statically-MixedTubes; and Batch Heating of a Mixed Tank. ChE 236 involves experiments that demonstrate eithera chemical separation or conversion–the “bread and butter” of a chemical engineers. Theseexperiments consist of: Heterogeneously-Catalyzed Esterification of Acetic Acid and Ethanol;Desorption of Aqueous Ammonia Using a Packed Bed; Batch Drying of a Moist Solid; BatchDistillation of Methanol and Water; and Adsorptive Dehydration of Ethyl Acetate.Course ObjectivesSince we approach ChE 234 and 236 as a two-semester

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Boris Butman

of organization, production and management at theshipyard.Another task during the internship is collecting data for a capstone design project to becompleted during the Senior Class year. There are three types of projects which are offered: - developing a project of an overhaul of an assigned ship at a shipyard - developing a ship construction project - developing a ship modernization/conversion projectThe design project is performed by a team of three-four midshipmen during the first and thesecond trimesters of the senior year. A typical project consists of the following parts: - cost estimate and development of a bidding package - economic evaluation and justification of a proposed ship, ship conversion or an overhaul - project

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Ronald J. Gatehouse; John R. McWhirter; George J., Jr. Selembo

Session 2213 The Vertical Integration of Design in Chemical Engineering Ronald J. Gatehouse, George J. Selembo Jr., and John R. McWhirter The Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractThe purpose of this project is to better prepare chemical engineering students for their seniordesign course and for industry by exposing them to more design-oriented problems much earlierin their undergraduate careers. The feature that distinguishes engineering from the purelytheoretical sciences is that of synthesis. Any meaningful synthesis requires two basiccomponents, one that arises from the order of our scientific knowledge and

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Marilyn Dyrud

Session 3230 Getting a Grip on Groups Marilyn A. Dyrud Oregon Institute of TechnologyIntroductionTeamwork: industry wants it and ABET 2000 requires it. But effectively implementing andmanaging student groups for class projects, lab work, and presentations is a complex affair, onethat requires organization, understanding, and tact. This paper offers a general overview of thecurrent state of group work in technical classes by examining ASEE literature for the past threeyears and comparing that information with the results of a survey of Oregon Institute

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Christopher Hall

. Additional laboratories described include a Spacecraft AttitudeDynamics and Control Simulator, and a “design, build, and fly” project to be launched in late 2001.Topics in AstronauticsSome topics in aerospace engineering, such as structures, are common to both aeronautics andastronautics, so that related laboratories benefit both parts of the curriculum. There are howeversome space-specific topics that typically have no laboratory component, primarily related to themotion of spacecraft. Satellite motion is a complicated combination of the orbital motion of thesatellite around the earth and the attitude, or pointing, motion of the satellite platform. The overallmotion is affected by gravity, controlled thrusters, material outgassing, motion of

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Herbert Holland; Dean Bruckner

quiet room forlast-minute recording, and used the lab computers only for MATLAB.D. Class Project: MATLAB-Based Speech Recognition System for a Two-Word VocabularyThe project is a capstone activity that serves to join together the “blocks” of knowledge just ob-tained. Here the students work in teams, exercise the engineering design cycle, grapple with themessiness of a real-world implementation, and have some fun. It requires each group to producea limited-vocabulary, speaker-independent, post-processed speech recognition software system.That is, the program may assume that the input word is one selected from a strictly limited vo-cabulary, in this case just two words. It must, however, be able to cope with words spoken by avariety of