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Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mayer

capstone design project, three teams of 1 st-class midshipmen (seniors majoring in oceanengineering at the U.S. Naval Academy) set about to identify and design an ocean energy systemto compete, at least conceptually, with Navy contractors. These teams explored various renew-able energy sources such as ocean thermal, wave, and offshore wind energy. In four-monthstime, each team researched the alternatives and developed a concept design for its selectedenergy source. Results were presented to a Review Panel consisting of Navy representatives andocean engineering professionals. Brief details of this capstone experience and educational oppor-tunities in renewable ocean energies at the U.S. Naval Academy are shared later in the paper.Past developments

Conference Session

Innovative Courses for ChE Students

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Colin Grant; Brian Dickson

,learning and communications that are not found in conventional U.K full-time under-graduateprogrammes. These teaching methods range from text-based to internet-based delivery and havea strong emphasis on employment-based project work.The undergraduate course provides a ‘mainstream’ first degree in chemical engineering forindustry-based students who have some prior qualifications and experience. The postgraduatemasters-level courses are designed for a wider range of professionals with backgrounds inengineering and/or chemistry. They provide a technology-based version of an MBA and featurea strong multi-disciplinary theme that integrates advanced process technologies, managementand business (with a strong emphasis on the process of innovation) and

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Keith B. Lodge

to give the students all the tools necessary to do thework on the liquid-level control loop, the second part; this was couched in terms of a project.Table. Syllabus for the programming of a microcontroller in Process Control Formal training Project With the circuit constructed so Subject matter covered in class relating to the programming far** it should be possible to run of the Basic Stamp experiments with the liquid-level system to demonstrate

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Singli Garcia-Otero; Isaac Crumbly

science andmathematics, along with engineering projects. Visits to museums and field trips are used tosupplement classroom enrichment. The students also visit Georgia Institute of Technology’sCollege of Engineering and are informed about various research projects.The following summer as rising 10th graders, students visit the University of Nevada, Las Vegasfor one week. They are introduced to various engineering disciplines and spend time in thevarious engineering laboratories. Students complete engineering projects; field trips to HooverDam, Yucca Mountain nuclear repository site, and the Grand Canyon are included for academicenhancement.As rising 11 th graders, students spend one week at the University of Oklahoma (OU). Studentsare introduced

Conference Session

Laptop/Handheld Computing in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Avanzato

CAD tools, Cprogramming, image capture, web-based tools, and robotics applications were explored.Electronic quizzes and distribution of notes and web resources were also supported. Theability to transfer software applications and data from one Palm unit to another using theinfrared beaming feature facilitated a collaborative approach to many activities. ThePalm devices also possess a serial port, which allows connection to data acquisitionsystems and other computers. A second phase of the project occurred during the fall of 2001 offering of thedigital systems course. In this phase, 39 students were required to purchase a Palm OS- Page

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonardo Rivera

the objectives? • EvaluationFigure 3: Generic Design ProcessThe Design Process for a course involves several steps that must answer some very basicquestions:• What are the objectives of the course? There are a lot of different things that could be defined as objectives for a course. They could vary a great deal but also could be applicable for different settings. For instance, a course could be directed mainly to provide (current, updated) information. A different focus would be to have as a main goal the development of very specific capabilities, not to acquire contents. Another possibility is to have a project- based class which goal was to learn teamwork and leadership skills

Conference Session

Educators on the Frontier

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Hoag

Inclusive understanding. The learning continuumshown in Figure 2 was created to be consistent with these well-accepted models of thestages of learning. Also identified in Figure 2 are the mechanisms most frequently usedto develop the described proficiencies.It should be emphasized that as an individual gains increased proficiency in a givensubject the methods by which this is done become less explicitly defined as educationalmethods or tools. Herein lies the first challenge of advanced skill development? Is thereanything that can be done within a professional engineering organization to ensure thatthese advanced development tools are in place? As identified in Figure 2, the activities tobe fostered include project assignments that encourage the

Conference Session

Engineering Management Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Short

statements of the behavior. The appraisal consistsof the rater recalling examples of the employee’s performance according to content area andcomparing the actual examples to the content area behaviors. The closest comparison, in therater’s opinion, places the employee within the sequenced continuum of content area attainment[24]. For example, an engineering content area may include project financial management.Sequenced observable behavioral examples may be represented by the example in Table 3. Page 7.533.5 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mott

, American Society for Engineering Education · Closure: Each ALT concludes with a closure segment in which the instructor leads a discussion with the students to revisit the Big Picture and to project the newly acquired competencies to other real-world situations. · Transfer Activity: Each module ends with a transfer activity that presents a more complex learning activity designed to help participants develop relationships among the learned competencies and to provide experience in applying these in new ways. This, too, is an important characteristic of constructivist learning theory. Transfer activities of the several modules in the curriculum also provide a means for unifying the entire

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Jacobs

CoursesNEW:Updates provide an excellent forum for faculty to share ideas and resources.Many of us desire simple class demonstrations and laboratory experiments as well asimages and video clips that we can project on a screen which related to new andemerging technology as well as website to keep content current. After several years ofNEW:Update Workshops and the popularity of the experiments resulting from themeetings, the organizing committee, with assistance from the Materials Division ofASEE, began work on a compendium of selected experiments. Support for this collectioncame from a broad range of individuals, agencies, and technical societies, much like thesupport for the NEW:Updates Workshops themselves. After considerable research onmethodology to

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Michael Leasure

CONSTRUCTIONmaterials, developed supporting laboratory projects, andprogrammed the equipment to support our specific needs. The LabView diagnostic center was constructed withThe result has been a comprehensive introduction to data portability and flexibility as primary goals. The centeracquisition and diagnostics for our students. could accommodate turbine, as well as reciprocating engine, data acquisition. This flexibility was of primary INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT importance as the cost was shared between several areas of the curriculum. The

Conference Session

Assessment and Its Implications in IE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Storch; Catherine Scott; Cynthia Atman

works as a checker at a Safeway grocery store. Thisstudent decided to become an industrial engineer (IE) after learning that Safeway employed IEsand thinking that it would make sense to try to be employed as an IE at Safeway in order to takeadvantage of five years of accrued seniority.Three of the students, referred to as the “mid-program students,” started in the department earlierin the year. They are currently working on a senior project—the design of a car for an SAEcompetition—that involves working with mechanical engineering students. The student who wasinterviewed alone is one of these mid-program students. Because this student sometimes offeredopinions that were different from those of the group, this student is referred to as the

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research and New Directions

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Habibur Rahman

Wave Propagation · The propagation process · Multi-path phenomena and effects4. Basic Elements of Radar Systems · Radar transmitters · Radar receivers · Radar antennas · Radar indicators and displays5. Continuous-Wave and Pulsed Radars · Frequency modulated CW radar · Linear frequency modulated CW radar · Multiple-frequency CW radar · Pulsed radar6. Radar Waveforms and Radar applications · Moving target indicators (MTI) · Pulse-compression techniques in radar systems · Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)7. Target Tracking radar systems · Angle tracking: sequential lobing, conical scanning, monopulse radar · Range tracking · Track-while scan8. Radar Projects · Projects are assigned dealing with practical aspects of

Conference Session

Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Taggart Smith

fluctuate. 4. Community members share a common bond or interest that could be similar jobs or skills; they tend to be like each other and they have a passion for what they do. 5. Communities last as long as members want them to last, rather than disbanding at the end of team projects or work group deliverables. 5 Communities of practice are self-organizing groups who communicate with one another.They share common work practices, specific areas of competence or areas of interest, and arewilling to share what they know. Also known as learning communities, networks, best practiceteams, and family groups, communities of practice are an essential component of knowledgemanagement. These informal groups cross

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Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Bledsoe

whiledesigning a tissue engineering solution to a clinical problem as part of their course project. Fourethical bases are discussed including Deontology, Consequentialism, Natural Law, andTheology, but these are covered briefly in class because all the students in the TE havecompleted a course in ethics as required by Saint Louis University. Next, the course becomesvery discussion oriented and covers several current topics in biomedical ethics. The topics aresuggested by the participants and have included xenoplants, fetal tissue usage, stem cell research,cloning, corporate profit taking in medicine, animal rights, and healthcare access. Following theopen discussion, “ground rules” are established.Ethical Theory and Foundations There exist a

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard LaRoche; R. Muralikrishnan; Barbara Hutchings

Session 1520 FlowLab: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Framework for Undergraduate Education Richard D. LaRoche, Barbara J. Hutchings, and R. Muralikrishnan Fluent Inc., Lebanon, NH 03766 USAToday, the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software in academia occurs primarilyin the context of student projects or research. The potential of CFD as a tool to enhance teachingis largely untapped, despite growing interest in computer tools to assist learning. FlowLab(http://flowlab.fluent.com) is a CFD-based educational software package that will allow studentsto solve fluid dynamics

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in BIO Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry McIntire; Ka-yiu San; Ann Saterbak

behavior. The concept of metabolic flux analysis is introduced for the estimation ofintracellular pathway fluxes. The resulting set of linear equations is solved by standard MatLabprogram. The concept of least squares estimation is used to deal with overdetermined systems.Finally, the concept of metabolic control theory is also introduced for the quantitative treatmentof enzyme kinetics interactions and flux control. Finally, a design and analysis project isrequired for all students. They are divided into teams to work on projects related tocytomechanics. They students are required to turn in a written report and make an oralpresentation at the end of the semester.Tissue EngineeringThe Tissue Engineering course focuses on the study of cell, cell

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Riza Gurbuz

$ 160 million were used to improve and develop 32 Two Year Colleges byProceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationpresidency of and World Bank-Industrial Education Project. YOK-World Bank IndustrialEducation projects has been finished at the and of the 1997. An agreements was signed byYOK-ISOV to strength relationship between Two Year Colleges and Turkish Industry[3].5150 instructors are working in 290 programs at the 490 Two Year Colleges in 2002. 80% ofthe instructors are working on vocational technical subjects and 20% of them are working onTurkish, History, Art, Sport, etc. subjects on Two Year College.Significant

Conference Session

Real-World Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy L. Baskin; M. Sohail Ahmed; Gregory L. Tonkay; Andrea Wittchen; E. Zimmers

time studies by viewing real factory personnel in work settings.In the approach described in this paper, joint university/industry projects serve as a source of data and experiencesthat can be used to support computer-based learning activities. Real-time interactions with factory personnel thatare accomplished through Web-cam technology and interactive meeting software are often used to capture keyobjects needed to create a session. As specific examples of our approach, this paper discusses the development oftwo multimedia learning sessions – one on direct time study and one on the use of simulation. It includes theeducational plan development, techniques used for creating multimedia objects, and concludes with a description ofthe resulting

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Pierre Trotignon; Ian Simpson

course-work with the regular French students. · Continued tuition in the French language + English.April n >>> June n · Full integration into course-work/project-work with the regular French students. · Continued tuition in the French language + English.July n >>> September n A three-month, paid summer internship with a French(Summer vacation) company/awareness of industrial problems/management. Page

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Current Issues in Computing

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonid Preiser

growth rate for wireless Page 7.470.1data from 1996 through 2003 is projected to be 35 percent, and market is expected to grow to ten Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationtimes its current value reaching close to $2.5 billion by the year 2002. More over, by the end of2002 virtually all wireless phones will be pre-loaded with mini browsers and will be Internetenabled1. Beyond the massive numbers of wireless users is the realization that educationalmarketplace would be looking to wireless

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Robinson; Jody Finnegan; Gene Stuffle; D. Subbaram Naidu; Al Wilson; Jay Kunze

throughout the senior year and that these two Page 7.16.3courses are not separate for each discipline (CE, EE, ME) but are common to all students in theProceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationspecialized programs. This gives a unique opportunity for the students from different disciplinesto work on truly interdisciplinary projects and to team up together with students from otherdisciplines. All 4 programs have been fully accredited by Accreditation Board for Engineeringand Technology (ABET). The BS program in Computer Science

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jim Richardson

the University of West Virginia has anoutstanding peer review of student learning—the Majors. 2 “The Majors are design projects thestudents must complete individually and defend in front of at least two faculty members.” TheMajors, which date back to the 1970s, incur significant faculty time, however. Other examplesof peer review of student work include: faculty-colleague check sheet evaluations of projectreports3, reviews of student portfolios and course folders of capstone design work3, annualevaluation of portfolios of student writing assignments by faculty advisors 4, and before- Page 7.106.1graduation evaluation of writing assignment

Conference Session

Educational Trends in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Riley

engineeringfundamentals, but also mindful of biological advances. Such requirements of new professionalsbring continuing demands on how biological engineering should be taught.At The University of Arizona, the Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (ABE) Departmenthas revised its course offerings in the biological engineering area. This presentation will discusshow two courses have been revised to integrate: use of the internet, discussions of recenttechnological advances, design projects, and laboratory exercises. After several years of poorly-received use of the internet, an improved approach was developed resulting in nearly all studentsmaking use of the information on a more than weekly basis. Students respo nded positively tothese changes and performed

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Arthur Brodersen; Richard Shiavi

and required to developand present a computer-based project. When organizing this type of course the question arises,"Which is the best modality for instruction, a combination of lecture and computer laboratory oran integrated setting in a computer laboratory?". The former will be called the combinedstructure and the latter the laboratory structure. The laboratory structure is actually the studiomodel whose main purpose is to provide a student-centered learning environment 1,3. For four years this course had been offered and conducted with the combined structure.For the fall semesters of 1999 and 2000, we reorganized our facilities so that this course could be

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Dianna L. Newman; D. Reinhard

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition” Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”understanding problems from different points of view and how it was “interesting” to think aboutand to try to understand them.ConclusionsThe findings of this project have clear implications for the continued development of multi-media supported curriculum modules. The project designed, created, and tested an inquiry-basedapproach to learning that used multi-media tools to bring the “real world” to the classroom.Preliminary evidence was found to support an impact on college students’ cognitive andaffective domains. Further work in this mode of instruction and learning should be continued

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Computers in Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marek Balazinski; Aleksander Przybylo

Session 3263 Animations as support for the teaching of manufacturing Marek Balazinski, Aleksander Przybylo École Polytechnique de Montréal, Mechanical Engineering DepartmentAbstractIn this paper a variety of computer animations are presented. These animations are used duringthe Advanced Manufacturing course given in Mechanical Engineering Department at ÉcolePolytechnique de Montréal. The project has been realized using the Macromedias Flash 5 andCorel Draw 10 software. The teaching evaluation of the animations as a lecture tool proved thatthis new learning technology produces excellent results and enhances

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Steven B. Zwickel

The process of creating a new module for outreach can be long and difficult. Good intentions are not enough. You will need to decide how much you have to give to this project before your start. Most of the kits in our program took a semester or longer to put together. They need to be carefully researched and organized so that they can be used for a long time. If you don’t have the time, energy, or commitment, your project will languish and all your good ideas will go unused. I strongly recommend that kit development be done by a team, rather than by an individual. This will distribute the workload more evenly and ensure that there is enough

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vivek Venkatesh; Nawwaf Kharma

concrete realizations of the concepts presented in the lecture (and the text book),but also demand that students utilize these ideas in design projects, which require creativethought, organization, decision-making, team work, practical skills, and an appreciation of thevalue of testing and verification. Assessment of students learning include pen and paper exams, pen and paper take-homeassignments, practical lab assignments and projects, as well as pen and paper midterm and finalexams, held under controlled conditions. These methods aim to measure (a) students’understanding of the theoretical concepts, (b) students’ ability to use these concepts to solveproblems, (c) students’ ability to carry out circuit analysis and synthesis

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mitchell Neilsen

concentrate on the elements required to master embedded systems design, andalso satisfy the needs of engineers currently working in industry.Due to the lack of time and facilities, traditional university education tends to emphasize theoryand concepts. Even though implementation (laboratory) projects are associated with manycourses, these projects tend to be more abstract than real implementations that can be useddirectly in industrial and commercial products. Typically, there is a large gap in students'understanding between theory (conceptual understanding) and implementation (concreteunderstanding). As a result, many students who have a good understanding of theory andconcepts do not have confidence to map their knowledge onto implementations. One