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Phillip J. Cornwell; Charles Farrar

Page 6.1026.1nine universities. Four of the students had completed their junior year, seven of the students had Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationcompleted their senior year and were planning on starting graduate school in the fall, and two ofthe students had complete their first year of graduate school. The students were mostlymechanical or civil engineering majors, although there was one computer engineering/mathmajor. The average GPA for the students was 3.5 on a scale of 4.0.II. The ProjectThe centerpiece of the summer school was an eight-week project having both an analytical andan

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and engineering scienceknowledge to develop or improve a specific product. It is an interdisciplinary activity that is bestlearned by doing, often resulting in various solutions. Design includes techniques, methodology,decision-making, optimization, engineering economy, and planning. The Mechanical Designmodule supports mechanical engineering objectives 1, 3, 4, 6, and 7. Laboratory courses in thismodule include Computer Aided Design and Engineering Materials.A combination sequential and integrative approach joins together this module. Computer aideddesign gives the students the ability to communicate their product in a professional manner.Mechanical design starts with introducing the design process and exercising it. Severaltextbooks on

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send a file, select it from one of the navigation windows and press the Send button. You canalso select groups of files and folders to transfer. Other feature will be demonstrated as timepermits.Case StudyChampion Laboratories, Inc. (manufacturer of automotive and truck filters) uses remote processcontrol to provide support for an automated plant floor system that applies barcodes andcustomer part information to completed cases of products on their packaging assembly lines.The Champion “Print&Apply” system runs under Windows NT on a data collection server thatlinks plant data collection terminals, printers, and alarm systems to an AS/400 host system whereproduction planning and inventory management data is maintained. The data collection

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temperature of the IC. The PVD block diagram program Page 6.762.3is shown in Figure 5. The code for the temperature control was, in general, similar to that of the Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationposition control, but this demonstration exposed the students to another sensor (the temperaturesensing IC) and another actuator (the fan). After showing students these two examples, thosestudents who planned to do a mechatronics prototype created their own sample program. Thesample program that the

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Carlos Sun; Ralph A. Dusseau; Douglas Gabauer; Beena Sukumaran; Douglas Cleary

they are used, and how each component of the bridge affects one another. Forreasons of this nature, research was performed on the steel truss bridge in areas such asthe finite element analysis, seismic analysis, strength and stiffness, damping effects, andvibration. Moreover, ductility of steel truss members plays an important factor in seismicanalysis. The ductility of a bridge plays an important factor in how the bridge can reactor respond in an earthquake with various types of ground motion.While the research was being compiled, steps were taken to understand the plans of TheBetsy Ross Bridge. The bridge was redrawn using AutoCAD 2000 and imported intoSAP 2000. SAP 2000 is a program that can perform finite element analysis and willshow the

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Pam Newberry; Constantine Anagnostopoulos; Chalmers Sechrist; Barbara Stoler; Douglas Gorham

student graduating.What Role Can Engineering Play?Schools and school districts are not mandated to adopt and implement the standards fortechnological literacy. The engineering community can serve as a catalyst by supportingand encouraging schools and school districts to embrace the standards for technologicalliteracy.Individual engineers working or retired, can assist in this venture in a variety of waysincluding: a) Serve as a member of a school/district technology committee. As technological literacy becomes increasingly important to our pre-college education systems the need for schools/districts to plan for technology purchases and training will be crucial to the academic progress of students in

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David Kelso; John D. Enderle; Kristina Ropella

curriculum createsfrustration for the student, particularly for the freshman or sophomore undergraduate who lacksthe experience to draw a connection between theory and practice. Upon graduation, thebiomedical engineer is suddenly confronted with real-world problems and design that require ateam of experts, project planning and execution, regulatory and quality control, financial supportand a satisfied customer. Too often, graduates are unprepared for this transition to real worldengineering.In designing a curriculum to prepare students for future challenges, we continually ask, “What isthe "best practice?" A good design engineer would ask, "how do we measure success?" Do weuse metrics like starting salaries? Employer rankings of alums? Alumni

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Yarrow Nelson; Charles Tritt

metal hydroxide)* Energizer/Eveready distinguishes between Zn/MnO2 batteries with NH4Cl and ZnClelectrolytes while IEC does not. Energizer/Eveready considers Carbon Zinc to be ageneric term that describes both systems. They use the term LeClanche for batterieshaving a slightly acidic electrolyte of NH4Cl and ZnCl in water. They use the term ZincChloride for batteries having a slightly acidic electrolyte consisting mainly of ZnCl inwater. Duracell produces only alkali metal (specifically potassium) hydroxide cells.Suggested Procedures (Hypothesis 3 – Service Life)These procedures will have to be conducted over multiple days and will take a little overan hour each day. Your team should plan accordingly.The service life is defined as the time (in

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the other hand, many students do well in this section and benefit from theextra flexibility. We do give weekly quizzes that are posted on the web. The questionsare a bit more involved than the quick questions given to on-campus sections. We do nottry to verify, who answers the quiz questions on their own, but the associated points arerelatively small and cheating on the quizzes has not appeared to be a problem.VI. Conclusions and RecommendationsTeaching large enrollment classes can be a challenge and one that most faculty prefer toavoid. However, I have found that with a carefully planned approach and the selection ofgood student assistants, large enrollment classes can be successful and provide a valuableservice to the University and to the

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Fazal Chaudhry; Elisabete Castellano

environmental education of schoolchildren as well as in planning environmental science courses for engineering degree students.IntroductionAlthough one may argue that industrial production and technological progress have broughtabout the present day environmental crisis, it is the lack of social awareness and moralconsciousness with regard to the environment which hold the clue. The resolution ofenvironmental questions involves not only direct measures of political, social, scientific andtechnological nature but also actions dealing with the ethical and moral attitudes ofindividuals and the society as a whole. Environmental education is considered as an essentialinstrument towards creating a new universal ethic and consciousness in favor of

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to completed cases of products on their packaging assembly lines.The Champion “Print&Apply” system runs under Windows NT on a data collection server thatlinks plant data collection terminals, printers, and alarm systems to an AS/400 host system whereproduction planning and inventory management data is maintained. The data collection serversare located at two plants in southern Illinois, one plant in South Carolina, and one plant inMexico. The plants are all connected over a WAN supported by the Champion IT organization.The data collection server software and “Print&Apply” application are supported by a consultingorganization located in southwest Michigan.Support for these processes is handled remotely using pcAnywhere remote-control

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in order to put the various design problems in perspective. Asurvey of several real system designs also helps to frame the course material for the students.Students are grouped into lab teams of two or three students. The teams spend the first half of thesemester on a series of labs that familiarize themselves with the equipment. They spend the sec-ond half of the semester on a project of their own choice. I meet briefly with each team to be suretheir project is feasible. They present an initial plan for their project in an in-class design review.Each team maintains a Web site that provides the project requirements, specification, architecture,and implementation details.6 ConclusionsEmbedded systems have been around for quite some time, but

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eligible totake the Principles and Practices Examination may seem excessive, the path is there for thosededicated to earning the license to practice as a Professional Engineer.Having access to the FE examination helps establish the quality of a BSET program. It helpsrecruit better students. It also is a factor for recruiting good faculty. It definitely helps recruitfaculty who are PEs.The fraction of seniors actually electing to take the FE is usually modest, being the order of 15%or less. The FE examination is perceived as a significant challenge and there are someemployers to whom it is unimportant whether their engineers are PEs. Traditionally, ET facultymembers have taken steps to ensure that ET seniors planning to take the FE

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Lindsey Van Wagenen; Chandni Shah

given moment, the instructor is able to supervise a large number ofstudents of varying talents simultaneously.Mathematics, like carpentry, basketball, or driving, is learned by doing it,not by watching someone else doing it or talking about it. The give–and–take and the debate that occurs during these workshops is often quite pow-erful for both the students who participate actively and the ones who simplylisten carefully and think quietly.The workshops have been so successful that the department is planning toimplement them for the sophomore level math courses such as linear alge-bra, differential equations and multivariable calculus. The only question iswhether they can be implemented for the entire undergraduate and graduatemathematics

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William Szaroletta; Lloyd Ewing; Nancy L. Denton

curves. Data is reviewed as it is collected, and students have sufficient time to repeat testing of specimens with inordinate spiking. 3) A number of array-forming schemes were attempted before the correct method of bundling load and deflection data was identified. The authors chose a single plot X vs. Y graph to assure that load #1 is matched with deflection #1; load #2 is matched with deflection #2, and so forth (with a small time delay for sequential channel sampling). This array exports to Excel™ cleanly, allowing the raw data to be captured, charted, and analyzed.VI. DAQ Lessons LearnedThe inclusion of automated data acquisition in any introductory laboratory-based course requirescaution, thorough planning, and

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opportunity to experience engineering at the collegelevel. We planned advanced course work that would be different than what the students wouldsee during the school year. Also, we wanted the students to work with practicing engineers onteam projects. The team projects would be practical applications of engineering design andwould the basis for written reports and oral presentations by the students. The Office of Institutional Development recognized the potential of involving some ofthe college’s corporate benefactors in special projects. A member of that office wrote a generalproposal for funding a summer program for minority students. As there was no request forproposals, the original concept was without a specific discipline until the

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Deran Hanesian; Angelo Perna; Vladimir Briller

skills, independentgroup effort and team work. The program was well received by both the faculty and students.The Office of Institutional Planning and Research undertook a study as part of the assessmentplans. The study compared the impact of the two courses in order to find out the affect of theFED course (as compared to the Engineering Graphics course) on engineering student graduationrates and the affect on academic performance, in general, and in English, Mathematics andEngineering, in particular. The study analyzed outcomes for students who took the EngineeringGraphics course in the 1992-93 or the FED course in the 1993-94.The study showed that there was a statistically significant difference (p = 0.01 level) betweenstudent’s EG and FED

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Alexander Crispo; Beverly Davis

quality horror stories. Who can forget LeeIacocca and the Ford Pinto’s quality issues with its launch? By conservative estimates,Ford Pinto crashes caused over 500 burn deaths to people who would not have beenseriously injured if the car had not burst into flames (10). At the time, Lee Iacoccaordered the shortest production-planning period in modern automobile history. It wasdiscovered during the pre-production tests that a serious defect in the gas tank waspresent but unfortunately it was too late. Lee Iacocca was fond of saying, “Safety doesn’tsell” (10). The crash test also showed that a one-pound, one-dollar piece of metal wouldstop the puncture of the gas tank, it was thrown out as extra cost and extra weight.Internal company documents

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Thomas Lacksonen

with multiple termsdeep42b Annual or future value after year 0 with multiple terms Page 6.227.8deep51a Present worth comparison - equal life alternativesProceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationdeep51b Present worth comparison - unequal life alternativesdeep52 Capitalized costdeep61 Annual worth comparison - LCM or planning horizon yearsdeep71 Internal rate of return - Excel IRR functiondeep82 Incremental cash flow IRR comparison - 2 alternativesdeep83

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Aviation Accreditation: Auburn, AL, 1996.2. Kerzner, H, Project management - A systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling (6th Ed.), JohnWiley and Sons, Inc: New York, 1998.3. Babcock, D., Managing engineering and technology, Prentice-Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1991.4. Cook, T., and Russell, R., Introduction to management science (4th Ed.), Prentice-Hall; Englewood Cliffs, NJ,1989.5. Mitchell, T., and Larson, J., People in organizations - An introduction to organizational behavior (3rd Ed.),McGraw-Hill; New York, 1987.6. URL: http://eastair.east.asu.edu; Arizona State University East, Aeronautical Management TechnologyDepartment Home Page.ANDREW E. JACKSONAndrew E. Jackson is an Associate Professor of Aeronautical Management

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) capstonedesign.ABET GoalsOne of our ABET goals is that the student develop an ability to design and conductexperiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data. To determine if this was effectivelybeing addressed by the design sequence, seven final design reports were studied. Allseven included information related to designing experiments, conducting, and collectionof data used to test and validate the operation of their project. Because each project wasunique, each report addressed these topics in a different way. Some reports contained acomplete “test plan” from initial component modeling to complete system integration.Other reports had a more loose structure in this regard with sections on component testingand overall testing.Another goal that we wanted

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Jr., Edward Evans; Richard B. Englund

Page 6.4.4Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationsuggesting that even one girl changed her attitude or career plans as a direct result of thisprogram.IV. Non-Recruiting UsesA summer section of statics was in process during theconstruction of the bridge. Computation of a selection ofmember forces, and examination of one truss, wasincorporated into that course. Students in statics coursesare called upon to compute forces in structures, usuallywith dimensions provided in the problems, but do notactually consider the large size of parts until presentedwith a physical system, such as this bridge, to

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Patrick Tebbe; Bijan Sepahpour

EducationMechanical Engineering Laboratory I Students take the first course in the sequence in their sophomore, second semester. Thebulk of the experiments are related to the theories of mechanics of materials. They must sign upfor the mechanics of materials course as the co-requisite of this course. More importantly, thislab course serves as the “co-requisite” of the mechanics of materials course. In other words, thelectures in one course and the experiments in the other fully complement each other. In the first three weeks, the students are exposed to general measurement systems,experimental test plans and metrology. A complete and customized review of statistics includingregression analysis and goodness of fit is provided. Uncertainty

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Steven Chapra; Gary Huvard; David E. Clough

strength ofmaterials.The course plan includes 2 weeks on Web page creation using HTML. This is followed by themajor, 10-week segment on Excel and VBA. Of this, five weeks will be devoted to writing VBAfunctions and subroutines. A final 3-week segment introduces the use of Kaleidagraph for dataanalysis and the creation of publication quality graphs.For chemical engineers, the freshman course will set the stage for teaching advanced problem-solving and programming skills using Excel, VBA, and Mathcad in the sophomore mass andenergy balances course and beyond. Mechanical and Electrical Engineering will introduceadvanced skills using Mathcad and Matlab, respectively, through the sophomore and junior year.Computer Science courses on programming

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Penelope Peterson; Frank Fisher

: expectations that the students had concerning theirengineering education, their experiences in both classroom settings and design projects, and theirfuture plans upon graduation. The interviews were approximately one hour in length, and wererecorded for subsequent transcription and analysis. The interviewer was unaware of the student’sadaptive expertise score at the time of the interview.Table 4 shows selected quotes from the student interviews. In most instances, interview datavalidated the measurements obtained; students with higher scores on the adaptive expertise surveyseemed to indicate higher levels of adaptiveness in the interviews. Occasionally a particular studentresponse may not support the score obtained from the survey, but taken as a

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Judson Singer

than 1.5 tons."Unknown: "If you want to make God laugh, tell him your future plans.""Time is the best teacher. Unfortunately, it kills all of its students"Accessibility The professor’s accessibility can be demonstrated in a multitude of ways. The Internetprovides an efficient channel to permit students to post short biographical sketches aboutthemselves and the teacher. Simply maintaining an informative Home Page for students istantamount to a form of accessibility from anywhere at any time. Human beings generally tend torelax and have more fun enjoying those whom they perceive to be transparent and accessible.Information on the course web site about the professor’s personal and professional past andpresent as well as his hopes for the

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Vipin Kumar; Margaret Wheeler; Gregory Branch

” in the students memories. Wankat andOreovicz wrote about “Marker Events” in the February 2000 Prism Online; “When thinking backon our past, we often have deeper memories of planned events-whether they be weddings,graduations or birthday parties [or planned Labs]—that serve as important milestones in ourdevelopment. You, the professor can provide your students with such a ‘marker event’ to helpthem remember your class long after….” During these labs many students showed great surpriseto see the deflections caused by putting the same weight on the three cantilevers of the samegeometry. All the students were surprised by manually twisting the open section and similarsized closed tube (the ¾ inch size tube tested is more than 100 times stiffer

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William Keat; Ann Anderson; Richard Wilk

either in pairs or individually. Percentage ofcredit is assigned up front in proportion to the amount of time planned for each: 70% industrialproject, 30% machine design projects.The industrial project was selected from those available based on the heavy dose of machineelements applications implicit in the following problem statement from the company: “Develop ageneric test facility to evaluate advanced bearings and control algorithms”. Prior to selecting it, afunctional decomposition of the design was prepared both to summarize the tasks at hand as wellas to explore opportunities for self-organization by the team. The result is presented in Figure 1.A design that does not easily decompose into sub-functions of comparable importance andworkload

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David Kelley

values for each group.The purpose for planning for the use of a covariate was to reduce any differences between thegroups resulting from sampling error and to reduce the within group variation. Using a PearsonProduct Moment Correlation, neither the student’s GPA (p = .281), their ACT score (p = .063),nor their attendance (p = .062) had a significant correlation. Without a suitable correlationbetween obtained variables, a covariate was not used in the ANOVA research design. Levene’s test for equality of variance revealed no significant difference (p = .341)between the two sections on the variance of CAD problem-solving scores. As shown in Table 2,the ANOVA failed to reject the hypothesis, F(1, 28) = .233, MSE = 80.03. There was

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can be achieved in addition to real insight on what it takes to do so.Coaches may not have achieved the goal, but they possess a critical eye and are good atproviding feedback on how well a student is executing the game plan for achieving success.Practice partners may not have the insight of a coach, but they are in the ‘same boat’ and thatgives them a genuine appreciation of what their dream teammates are experiencing. Cheerleadersare those people who have a genuine interest in seeing a student succeed even if they can’t fullyappreciate the challenges faced by the student. Forming this team can help a student obtain thefeedback and sustain the energy necessary to achieve a challenging goal.Resilience through Humor.Sultanoff (1997) describes