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Jonathan Barnett; Holly Ault

Session 1360 Development and Implementation of Senior Design Projects at International Sites Holly K. Ault, Jonathan R. Barnett Worcester Polytechnic InstituteAbstractABET 2000 criteria state that undergraduate engineering students should have “the broadeducation necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societalcontext”.1 For the past 25 years, WPI has addressed this need by establishing a network ofinternational centers where students complete projects focusing on socio-technological issues.More recently we

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William Miller; Stephen Lombardo; Christa Weisbrook; Patrick Tebbe

Session: 1526Development of Software Applications for Thermodynamics Related Courses: The THERMOVIEW Project Dr. Patrick A. Tebbe The College of New Jersey tebbe@tcnj.edu Dr. Christa Weisbrook, Dr. Stephen J. Lombardo, Dr. William Miller University of MissouriAbstract The College of New Jersey and the University of Missouri are collaborating on a NSFCourse, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement proof-of-concept grant to develop educationalsoftware for use in

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Mike Aikens

Session 3286 Engineering Design Graphics: From Table-driven parametric design to RPT Mike Aikens Butler County Community CollegeAbstract:This paper describes a project for students in a first semester Freshman EngineeringDesign Graphics course. The students use 3-D software to design a part and modify thedesign by changing parameters in a design table that is exported to a spreadsheet. Anumber of different designs are sent to two different rapid prototyping (RPT) designfirms that build the parts and give the cost of building each part. A silicon mold is madeand a quick

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Sub Ramakrishnan; Mohammad Dadfar

Session 1420 Hands-on Projects Based on Message Passing Between Processes Mohammad B. Dadfar, Sub Ramakrishnan Department of Computer Science Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, Ohio 43403AbstractMessage passing plays a critical role in all areas of data and computer communications courseofferings. Examples include: TCP/IP and OSI suites, physical network architectures, client-server applications and remote procedures. This paper describes hands-on classroom projectsthat use the message passing paradigm for a

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Chris Mechefske

Session 1566 Industry Sponsored Final Year Engineering Design Projects: A Template for Success C.K. Mechefske Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineerin The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada,N6A 5B9 c.mechefske@uwo.caAbstractThis paper describes a course (designated “MME499 - Mechanical Engineering Design(Industrial)”) that has been developed over the last several years to integrate industrialsponsorship into the final year of the

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Brian West

Session 2149 Innovative Student Projects at the University of Southern Indiana Brian E. West University of Southern IndianaAbstractThe current paper describes the author’s search for proper lecture and laboratorymaterials. It details how some classes were restructured and how student constructionprojects were influenced by a regional competition sponsored by the Institute ofElectrical and Electronic Engineers.IntroductionA slew of problems confront the new teacher - minimal teaching experience being thebiggest one, followed closely by a

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David S. Cottrell

Session 2306 Integrating Design Projects into an Introductory Course in Graphic Communications David S. Cottrell Pennsylvania State University at HarrisburgI. IntroductionThis paper describes the integration of design projects into the curriculum of anintroductory graphics communications course at Penn State University at Harrisburg.These projects served a double purpose of reinforcing topics taught in the classroom aswell as introducing students to the engineering design process with their first hands-ondesign experience.In recent years, much has been written

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Per Reinhall; Michael Jenkins; Joyce Cooper; Angela Linse; Eric Stuve

Session 2325 An Interdisciplinary Capstone Design Project in Fuel Cell Development Eric M. Stuve,a Per G. Reinhall,b Michael G. Jenkins,b Joyce S. Cooper,b Angela Linsec aDepartment of Chemical Engineering/ bDepartment of Mechanical Engineering cCenter for Engineering Learning and Teaching University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195AbstractSince 1996 the University of Washington has maintained an interdisciplinary capstone designproject to develop proton

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Linda Fontenot-Simmons; Chu-Chen (C.C.) Chen

INTERNATIONAL PROJECT and EDUCATION COOPERATION EXPERIENCE WITH ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY in EGYPT Chu-Chen (C.C.) Chen and Linda Fontenot Simmons Southern University - Baton Rouge, LAABSTRACTIn October 1998, the Foreign Relations Coordination Unit of the Supreme Council ofUniversities in Egypt awarded a three (3) year University Linkage Grant, No. 93/02.19,to Southern University in the Arab Republic of Egypt.Through this collaborative effort, these two Universities have explored opportunities fororganizing technical workshops and seminars in the United States and

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Gerard Foster

Session 2526 Laboratory Design Projects for a Freshman Digital Electronics Course Gerard N. Foster Purdue University, School of Technology, Kokomo, IndianaAbstractThis paper discusses a set of laboratory projects that the author created for a second semesterfreshman digital electronics course. The following projects have been developed: • Stepper motor feedback control to allow positioning of motor shaft. • State machine with PLD to setup smart dot-matrix display. • Shift register circuit with communication to microcontroller SCI. • Digital play/record circuit

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Mort Isaacson; Francis Di Bella

Session 2525 Engineering Design Lessons Taught and Learned: The Sandman Project An Example of the Teaching of the Design Process Methodology  Design = ∫ (Art + Eng.)•d(science) + exp(time) Francis A. Di Bella, P.E, Assistant Prof. (617-373-5240, fdibella@coe.neu.edu) Northeastern University, School of Engineering Technology with contributions from Prof. Mort Isaacson, PhD

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George Edwards

Session 2793 Senior Design Project: Converting an Analog Transceiver into a Digital one George Edwards University of DenverAbstractThe Capstone Senior Design Project that is offered to graduating seniors in engineeringprograms in the United States is a critical part of the students’ development. A goal of this courseis to give students a feel for the work environment outside, in terms of a critical analysis of adesign problem, drawing on resources to arrive at alternative solutions; and, then deciding on aparticular

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Christopher Vondrachek; Joseph Hoffbeck

Session 2793 A Speech and Music Detector Project for a DSP Class Christopher J. Vondrachek, Joseph P. Hoffbeck University of PortlandAbstractA project is described in this paper which is designed to monitor a radio station and detectcommercials and talking, which would allow the radio to be muted so the listener would not bedistracted by obnoxious radio ads and D.J.’s. The project is designed to be an interestingapplication of a very simple pattern recognition system and requires little more than a low passfilter, high-pass filter, and a threshold scheme. The approach was to

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Ty Newell; Timothy Shedd

Asession2266@A Team-Oriented, Project-Based Approach for Undergraduate Heat Transfer Instruction Ty Newell, Timothy Shedd University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignIntroductionThis is an exciting time in engineering education. Engineering classrooms are changing with therapid development of new technologies and analysis tools, the desire for team-based activities byindustry, and recognition by engineering educators of the value of cooperative and activelearning methods.The purpose of this paper is to describe a classroom “experiment” with the goal of converting

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Darrell Gibson; Patricia Brackin

Session 2525 Techniques for Assessing Industrial Projects in Engineering Design Courses M. Patricia Brackin, J. Darrell Gibson Department of Mechanical Engineering ROSE-HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYABSTRACT The benefits of company sponsored student design projects, both to academia and to industry, havebeen well established recently in symposia and in publications. However, assessing these benefits inorder to improve the students’ experience can be difficult. Traditionally, design reports alone havebeen the method by which the students’ performance is judged. In this paper

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Michael Marcus

Session #1648 Train the Trainer Video for Problem Solving Using Project Teams Michael Marcus Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractStudents from Engineering and Engineering Technology Programs should be able to worktogether as members of Project Teams to find solutions to technical problems. The objective ofthis session is to show sections of a professionally produced “Train the Trainer” videotape usingstudents from Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Technology Programs working together onproject teams to solve technical problems. This video will show the teaching

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Geoffrey Bland; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

Session Number 2793 UMES-AIR: A NASA-UMES Collaborative Experiential Learning Project Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, Geoffrey Bland University of Maryland Eastern Shore /NASA Wallops Flight FacilityParticipating students: Brian Vetter, Robert Fries, Joseph Ford, James Taylor, Jeremy Rodgers, Olatunde Alade,Amy Davis, Sushil Milak, Vinod Yadav, Guntupalli Rajasekhar, Tony Baldwin, Gregory Waters, Gregory Smith,Robert C. Washington, Jason Tilghman, Carlton Snow, Matthew Watson, Jerry Reynolds, Ani Panoti, Levy Lovell,Towanda Sample, Calvin King, Rebecca Howe,Eddie Daubert, Anthony Ross, Jamison White, James Watts, CoryCurtis

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Mary Curran; Doug Bill; Catherine Etter

Session 1526 Undergraduate Environmental Technology Instrumentation Project: Analyzing the Cape Cod Aquifer Douglas W. Bill, Mary Jane Curran, and Catherine M. Etter Cape Cod Community College at West Barnstable, MAAbstractThe NSF instrumentation grant has enabled Cape Cod Community College to purchase one ionchromatograph and seven groundwater simulators that have been implemented into theSpring/Fall 2000 environmental and soil science lectures and lab exercises. We have just begunto collect and analyze the student responses after using this equipment during these classes.Over 200

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Mitzi Vernon; Richard Goff

Session 3425 Using LEGO RCX Bricks as the Platform for Interdisciplinary Design Projects Richard M. Goff, Mitzi R. Vernon Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State UniversityAbstractThe activity of real world design is a collaboration of individuals from more that one discipline.To address this issue, a student interdisciplinary design project was created. For the past fouryears, teams of students from the freshman Engineering Design Graphics course and thesophomore Industrial Design Studio were formed. In previous years, push-pull toys weredesigned and

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Steven O'Hara; Suzanne D. Bilbeisi

Session 1606 Utilizing A Capstone Design Project for EC 2000 Assessment Suzanne D. Bilbeisi, Steven E. O’Hara Oklahoma State UniversityAbstractArchitects and architectural engineers should have the ability to coordinate and integrate themany issues involved in the creation of architecture. This requires them to have a basic workingknowledge of and sensitivity to several disciplines, as well as expertise in their individual field.One measure of this ability is through a comprehensive capstone design experience.Architecture, as a profession, requires the teamwork of professionals

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Hosni Abu-Mulaweh; Nashwan Younis

Session 1566 Local Industry Involvement in the Support of Capstone Design Projects Hosni I. Abu-Mulaweh, Nashwan T. Younis Department of Engineering Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne Fort Wayne, IN 46805, USAAbstractThis paper discusses why the involvement of the local industry and its sponsoring of seniordesign projects is crucial to the students to be exposed to quality and real life design problems.Also, examples of some of the projects that the local industry has

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Terry Derossett; Steven Nesbit; Scott Hummel

Multi-course design project creates ties between various mechanical engineering topics Scott R. Hummel Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Lafayette College Easton, PA 18042 hummels@lafayette.edu (610) 330-5587 Terry A. DeRossett Director of Mechanical Engineering Laboratories Department of Mechanical Engineering Lafayette College Easton, PA 18042

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Edward Hensel

Session 2525 A Multi-faceted Design Process for Multi-disciplinary Capstone Design Projects Edward Hensel New Mexico State UniversityEngineers are called upon to design a wide variety of devices and systems, typically in a multi-disciplinary team environment. We try to incorporate this design environment into the seniorcapstone design experience in mechanical engineering at NMSU. In this two-semester sequence,each design team is led by a student manager, often a graduate student from another engineeringdepartment. Since these student

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Tim Coppinger; Ray Bachnak

Session 1426 A New Course in Programmable Logic Controllers: A Project-Based Approach Ray Bachnak and Tim Coppinger Texas A&M University-Corpus ChristiAbstractGroup projects provide a means to teach students many of the skills they need to succeedafter graduation. In fall semester 2000, we developed and taught a course inProgrammable Logic Controllers (PLCs) by employing a project-based approach using an“out-of-the-box” integrated PLC. A major goal of the project is to prepare students toapply effective problem solving techniques by addressing a reasonably complex

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Claudio Campana; Jun Kondo; Devdas Shetty

Session 1359 ON-LINE MEASUREMENT & EMBEDDED INSTRUMENTATION PROJECTS IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION Devdas Shetty1, Claudio Campana2 and Jun Kondo3 College of Engineering, University of Hartford1 Vernon D. Roosa Professor in Manufacturing Engineering, shetty@mail.hartford.edu2 Research Engineer, campana@mail.hartford.edu3 Research Engineer, kondo@mail.hartford.eduAbstract:This paper presents an experimental approach for intelligent monitoring of a ComputerControlled Machining Process using embedded instrumentation. The article reviews the ongoingdevelopment in the field of embedded systems

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Anant Kukreti

Session 2615 An Open-Ended Research Project for Undergraduate Students Anant R. Kukreti University of CincinnatiAbstractThis paper describes a project conducted to provide research experience to engineeringundergraduate students involving discovery through actual construction, experimental testing,observing and recording, synthesizing the data collected, and generalizations. The project was partof a Research for Undergraduates (REU) Site grant sponsored by the National ScienceFoundation, and administered in the School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science at

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Carol Colbeck

Session 2525 Predicting Change: What Increases Faculty use of Design and Group Projects? Carol L. Colbeck The Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractStakeholders often want evidence that curricular and pedagogical reforms will endure, butinstitutionalization of reforms is typically assessed superficially, if at all. This study involveddeveloping and testing an Institutionalization Process Model. The model was developed from aqualitative investigation of factors influencing institutionalization of externally-fundedcurricular and pedagogical reforms at

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Philip McCreanor

Session - Multimedia Project Based Teaching: A Case Study from a Hydraulics Class Philip T. McCreanor, Mercer University School of EngineeringAbstractHydraulics is currently taught as one-half of a 3-credit course in the Environmental EngineeringProgram at the Mercer University School of Engineering. The topics covered include fluidproperties, fluid pressure, forces on submerged surfaces, fluid flow in pipes, pipelines, pipenetworks, and pump design and selection. The first semester this course was taught the materialwas presented topic by topic. This created a very choppy course

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Thomas Andre; Connie Hargrave; Scott Chumbley; Kristen Constant

Session 1526 Project ExCEL – Web-based SEM for K-12 Education S. Chumbley, K. Constant, C.P. Hargrave, T. Andre Iowa State UniversityAbstractThe goal of Project ExCEL, the Extended Classroom for Enhanced Learning, is to bring thecapabilities of Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) into elementary and secondary classrooms.We have developed an entirely web-based interface to allow schools to control a modern SEM.The web interface allows a remote user complete control of all the operating parameters of themicroscope, including stage movement and x-ray chemical analysis. Such total control currentlyis not available on any other system. Since pioneering the idea of remote SEM

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Guy Johnson

Session 2586 Project Lead The Way® A Pre-engineering Secondary School Curriculum Prof. Guy Johnson Rochester Institute of TechnologyAbstractProject Lead The Way® (PLTW) is a nonprofit corporation that developed a national programforming partnerships among public schools, higher education institutions and the private sectorto increase the quantity and quality of engineers and engineering technologists graduating fromour educational system. The Rochester Institute of Technology has joined in a partnership withPLTW by establishing the