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Linda Vanasupa

-+-. Session 1626 Leveraging the Educational Impact of the lLI Dollar: Ideas from a Microelectronics Processing Laboratory Linda Vanasupa California Polytechnic State University Abstract Typical ILI projects involve incorporating a new set of experiments into an undergraduate lab. These experiments are usually centered around apiece of equipment that is implemented by the principal investigator. An alternative to this scenario is to use the

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Richard Wall; Kathy Belknap

engineering programs specify the number of credits of engineering topics where design integrateswith engineering science throughout engineering courses. The electrical engineering section of the ABETGuidelines further encourages “a significant design experience” in the senior year[1]. The University of Idaho requires a two-semester senior level course sequence focusing entirely on designissues. Students develop skills in open-ended problem solving, identifying solution options, and maximizingresources under constraints. They are repeatedly exposed to the “design process” and are given numerousopportunities to develop written and oral communication skills. The projects require an element of originaldesign and the demonstration of a working

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III, John J. Bausch; Fredric M. Gold

-—--, . . . . . - Session 1463 ‘ ‘Teaching Fixturing for Manufacturing Processes within the Learning Factory between Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Pratt & Whitney Fredric M. Gold, John J. Bausch, III Worcester Polytechnic InstituteAbstract: Engineering education is undergoing serious scrutiny by industry and academia due to perceived gapsin undergraduate education. Project based learning, at the undergraduate level, is an important facet ofaddressing this perception

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Martin T. Hagan; Carl D. Latino

curriculum.To understand why it is so important, consider the characteristics of typical undergraduate courses. Mostcourses, by necessity, focus on a narrow technical subject (e.g., electronics, electromagnetic,communications). Homework assignments generally ask specific technical questions, which have one solution,and which only take from a few minutes to an hour to solve. If students are not able to answer a problem in thatlength of time, they move on to other problems, since they usually have many problems to solve. They neverget a chance to learn that some problems take weeks to solve, and they never develop the confidence that if theyspend the time, they can solve the problem. Any term projects which are given in typical classes are usuallyvery

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Kelin Kuhn

course in each of two different breadth areas and atleast three elective courses in one depth area. These requirements make it necessary to construct breadth courses with good engineering sciencecontent as well as a significant design experience -- but which only consume a single quarter of the students' time.Furthermore, since resources cannot support both a breadth and depth version of a class, these classes must bedetailed enough to serve as part of an in-depth sequence. This paper will focus on the course Laser Engineering, which has been developed to meet these difficultrequirements. The course includes a design project self-selected by the students. This paper will discuss thelogistics of managing a self-selected design

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Jay Brockman; Stephen Batill; John Renaud; Jeffrey Kantor; David Kirkner; Peter Koggel; Robert Stevenson

students have less of an understanding of thephysical principles and techniques used in other disciplines, a more serious issue is that students are less famil-iar with the interfaces between disciplines. This leaves students unprepared to confront the most difficult prob-lems faced by practicing systems designers: how to simultaneously meet all the constraints imposed bydifferent concerns, and how to effectively make trade-offs between concerns to optimize system performance. To address this issue, we have developed a multidisciplinary engineering design laboratory course forsenior-level undergraduates. The main goal of this laboratory is introduce both faculty and students to interdis-ciplinary group design projects. Projects were

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Mark F. Costello; Jerry W. Samples

Session 3625 Client Based Capstone Design in Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy Jerry W. Samples, Mark F. Costello United States Military AcademyAbstract: Over the past year the Mechanical Engineering Program at West Point developed a client based capstonedesign course. The clients for the capstone projects are Army Research, Development, and Engineering Centers,Army Research Laboratories, or other Department of the Army agencies with a need. Since cadet interest

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B. S. Sridhara

submitted a proposal inSpring, 1994 and we were selected as one of the 65 teams to compete in Sunrayce 95. The biggest challengeof this project was that the students had to design, fabricate and test the solar car raising money and materialsmainly from outside sources. We received support from MTSU and the area industry, and built the solar car,the SOLARAIDER. Curriculum integration was one of the requirements of Sunrayce 95. I identified severalproblems from the SOLARAIDER project with our Basic, Intermediate and Advanced CADD (Computer-Aided Design/Drafting), Senior Project and Shop Problems courses. The solar car project gave our students aunique opportunity to apply their theoretical knowledge to practical situations, gain hands-on experience

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Ian A. Waitz; Edward C. Barrett

communications and other professional skills with advanced, small-group laboratory research. This paper describes the coupling of an undergraduate Experimental Projects Labwith a Communications Practicum. The two subjects are taught jointly by faculty members from the MITAeronautics and Astronautics Department and the MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies. The pairingof the experimental projects course and the practicum provides an environment for teaching communicationsskills in which the students are interested in the subject matter and motivated to learn. In addition, a variety ofmodern information technologies are applied to augment the effectiveness of the practicum. Several pedagogi-cal themes are interwoven into the two courses including

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James F. McDonough; Bruce Harding

I Session 3515 .—. Fostering Creative Thinking in Freshman Engineering James F. McDonough, Bruce A. Harding University of Cincinnati/Purdue UniversityIs it possible to successfully implement a design project in the first ten weeks of the first quarter of the freshmanyear of an engineering program? If it is possible, will it have any effect on the attitude of the students towards theengineering program? The following is

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Ron Darby

year. A unique feature of the program is a two-summer research or engineering project requirement which the student conducts in industry. About 30students have participated in the program to date, which has been well received by both industry and thestudents.HISTORY - In 1991, the Chemical Engineering department at Texas A&M established an AcceleratedBS/Master’s Industry Program, which enables students with a GPA of 3.25 or better to begin work towardthe Master’s degree at the end of their Junior year. The BS degree can be completed in the usual fouryears, and all requirements for either the Master of Science or Master of Engineering degree can becompleted in one additional year. A key feature of the program is a research or engineering

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Mel I. Mendelson

Session 2542 Teaching Factory Approach to Engineering Management Education Mel I. Mendelson Loyola Marymount University Abstract An industrial partnership was established with a start-up company to plan and design a novel pressurefresh container for preserving fruits and vegetables. This was developed in a class project for a Manufacturing & Production Engineering graduate course. One self-directed team of engineering students generated a prototype design, manufacturing plan and cost estimate for producing the product.I. Introduction

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Jerry Watts; George E. Piper; Carl E. Wick; Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic

continuum will take students through simple design exercisesin lower-level courses and bring them through successively more challenging experiences to a “capstone” designshortly before graduation. We believe that this is a very good and necessary path that all engineering studentsshould take to reach competence in their trade. We have also found that it is very diffkult to find realistic, simple, unconstrained design exercises for lower-level engineering courses. In this paper we outline a project that was used in a junior-level sensors course forsystems engineering majors. The project required each student to design a portion of the systems needed tosuccessfi.dly complete a balloon-borne environment sensing mission. In this mission a

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Jr., Robert A. Potter; Dion J. King; Charles E. Dean

Session 2266 ---- Integrating Experimental Research Into An Undergraduate Heat Transfer Course Charles E. Dean, Dion J. King, Robert A. Potter, Jr. United States Military Academy ABSTRACT This paper describes the integration of a relatively complex research project into an undergraduate heattransfer course. Discussion of the project scope, techniques used to involve students, and assessment of theresults are included. The project involved high

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Robert M. Baldwin; Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller

with anexperientially-based authentic context for solving real world projects for clients from industry and governmentand, thus, represents an ideal setting for introducing students to the ~ and practice of Total QualityManagement (TQM). Rather than lecture about these topics, we introduce TQM concepts using a series ofmodules and then allow students to immediately adapt and apply these concepts as they complete project workfor their customers. This paper will describe the TQM modules we have developed and illustrate how use ofthese modules has improved the quality of student project work in EPICS. We will also report data whichmeasure changes in student attitudes and perceptions towards the value of TQM in problem-solving, teamprocesses, and

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M. Nabil Kallas; Dhushy Sathianathan; Renata Engel

Session 2553 Teaching Design Skills in the Freshman Engineering Curriculum M. Nabil Kallas, Renata Engel, and Dhushy Sathianathan Division of Engineering Design and Graphics The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802 With the mission of introducing engineering early in the undergraduate curriculum, the freshmanengineering course has developed the following goals: (1) Introduce an engineering approach for problem-solving through team projects; (2) Demonstrate the importance of graphical, oral, and written

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Winston F. Erevelles

which deals with the integration of the cell into the overall CIM facility. Three student research projectswere conducted using the FAC environment and this led to the implementation and integration of the hardwarein the cell. The cell was also used for several term projects in undergraduate courses in CIM and Robotics.This paper describes the synthesis between the objectives of the cell and undergraduate education at GMI. Thepaper examines the effectiveness of the learning experiences that were conceived in Phase I of the project.The results of the implementation evaluation - an activity under Phase II that was conducted to assess theeffectiveness of the project - are presented and discussedIntroduction This paper is the second one in a

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Jennifer T. Ross

facilities (MOSIS); 3) has students conduct Page 1.50.1 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedingsmeasurements on fabricated chips; 4) lets students work in teams that must work together for project success;and 5) provides numerous situations to develop student communication skills in written, verbal and e-mail form.Under this format, students play the role of new employees of a company instead of students at a university.They are assigned to a team and a project, hold meetings to discuss plans of action, and communicate with theirco-workers and boss through e-mail, while learning more about what their

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Robert M. Briber; James Lochary; David I. Bigio

) which include non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, polymer processing, laminar mixing theory,polymer characterization, polymer blends, etc. The topics are introduced in logical order as they areneeded for the project and as they are brought up by the students in response to their needs for makingprogress on the project. The course combines work in the classroom, at the industrial manufacturing site and in on-campus laboratories. The classroom time is spent developing the basic background needed tocommunicate on the topics, anchor teaching of key concepts, formulating the project and presentationsby guest lecturers (largely from industry).Introduction One of the most common complaints heard from engineering students, particularly at the

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Karl P. Trout; Charles A. Gaston

Department of Education. The goal of this project is to improve technology education. The mechanism is to developinteresting, team-based, hands-on educational modules that can be incorporated into existing courses. Thefocus is on associate degree programs in Engineering Technology, but a major thrust also goes towardsecondary school programs that might lead into associate degrees, and many of the modules could apply aswell to four-year engineering and technology programs. Four independent teams began late in 1994 to develop the modules that were the de] iverable itemsfor this grant. Theoretically, each team could have representation from seven different viewpoints: bothfaculty and students from the university, the high school and the

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Sarah Lynn Garrett

handful of people have been diagnosed with apermanent, debilitating, and sometimes fatal lung inflammation. All of these complaints stem from exposureto bioaerosol contaminants; mold, mildew, and bacteria. The excessive mold growth was caused by a leakybuilding envelope, misplaced vapor barrier, and negatively pressured building. The building was abandonedand repairs were begun in 1991. Repairs are nearing completion, and the costs continue to escalate. Notincluding the original Contract Amount, the cost of repairs to date is $47 million. While certainlysignificant, the direct physical causes for this building failure tell only half the story. This presentation andpaper describe both the physical causes of the disaster and the project environment

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Sarah Lynn Garrett

handful of people have been diagnosed with apermanent, debilitating, and sometimes fatal lung inflammation. All of these complaints stem from exposureto bioaerosol contaminants; mold, mildew, and bacteria. The excessive mold growth was caused by a leakybuilding envelope, misplaced vapor barrier, and negatively pressured building. The building was abandonedand repairs were begun in 1991. Repairs are nearing completion, and the costs continue to escalate. Notincluding the original Contract Amount, the cost of repairs to date is $47 million. While certainlysignificant, the direct physical causes for this building failure tell only half the story. This presentation andpaper describe both the physical causes of the disaster and the project environment

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N. A. Pendergrass

Session 3532 Using Computers, Simulators and Sound To Give Hands-On Experience N. A. Pendergrass University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Abstract This paper describes hands-on, computer assisted classroom activities and projects which have been fullyintegrated into an introductory signals and systems course. They combine a system simulator with audio inputand output to produce an effective and interesting educational experience. Audio input

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Denis Proulx

Session 2525 Concurrent Engineering : A New Way to Introduce the Engineering Profession to High School Students Denis Proulx University of Sherbrooke AbstractSEEHIGHS program was developed to introduce high school students to the engineering profession. Initiatedin 1993 by two engineering students from the University of Sherbrooke (Quebec), the program’s mainactivity is a design project applying the principles of concurrent engineering. The program targets third yearhigh

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Yu-cheng Liu

fimdamentals of a 16-bit microprocessor. In the lab for; the second course, each student designs and implements a complete 8086-based microcomputer board. Once~ this prototype board is implemented, the student can use it for various microprocessor-based applications. ~A microprocessor development system designed to provide up-to-date development tools for the lab is also described. This development system is implemented as a network consisting of six stations, each equipped with a PC, an emulator, a logic analyzer and an EPROM programmer.!I INTRODUCTION For many microprocessor courses, laboratory projects are often limited to assembly language programming. A main reason is that software

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Joe King

the NSF publication, Undergraduate Education (NSF 94-160), “The objective of theILI (Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement) Program is to support the development of experimentsand laboratory curricula which improve the science, mathematics, engineering, and technology education ofundergraduate students, both science majors and non-science majors, including pre-service teachers.” The program consists of two options:1. The Leadership in Laboratory Development option (ILI-LLD), which provides funds for resources, including time, technical support, and travel, in support of projects that have the promise of being national models for laboratory instruction. Proposals submitted under this program must address a major challenge

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Joe King

the NSF publication, Undergraduate Education (NSF 94-160), “The objective of theILI (Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement) Program is to support the development of experimentsand laboratory curricula which improve the science, mathematics, engineering, and technology education ofundergraduate students, both science majors and non-science majors, including pre-service teachers.” The program consists of two options:1. The Leadership in Laboratory Development option (ILI-LLD), which provides funds for resources, including time, technical support, and travel, in support of projects that have the promise of being national models for laboratory instruction. Proposals submitted under this program must address a major challenge

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Pieter A. Voss; James M. Tien; Anil K. Goyal

to the uncertain andstochastic nature of, as examples, project cash flows and interest rates. Unfortunately, this traditional approachdoes not provide students with the skills to deal with real world situations, which inherently involve uncertaintyand thereby, risk. Typically, most Engineering Economy texts for undergraduate students deal with uncertaintyand risk only in brief chapters, usually at the end of the book. The uncertain environment is introduced as aspecial case, rather than as the norm. In this paper, we propose an approach to learning Engineering Economythat is characterized by treatment of uncertainty and is motivated by risk; in fact, it considers the deterministiccase as a special case. The availability of computers today

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Dr. Dennis Mikkelson

Session 1626 Computer Graphics and Image Processing Laboratory for Undergraduate Instruction. Dr. Dennis Mikkelson University of Wisconsin-Stout The ILI funded laboratory and curriculum development project described in this paperprovided UNIX workstations for undergraduate courses in computer graphics and image processingat the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Prior to this project, the computer graphics course wastaught on 80286 class personal computers using an implementation of the Graphical Kernel System

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Nagy N. Bengiamin

North Dakota, using industrialequipment for motion control and energy management. A new senior laboratory course is designed to enhancestudents’ creativity, problem solving, design, and hands-on skills. Students are presented with equipment,background material, software, and general ideas and concepts. Student teams then determine the scope of theirprojects and develop their own plan of work. Sample projects are presented. I. Introduction Analysis and Synthesis (design) have always been emphasized in engineering education. The old school ofthought, however, was biased towards basic science and analytical skills. Furthermore, design in education wasapproached from its narrow sense of being