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Manufacturing Education and Outreach

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anil Saigal; Vincent Manno

alumni and industrial advisors.The role of IAC was then expanded to include advising the department across all programs,participating in our ABET EC2000 continuous improvement process, and helping organize andexecute other outreach activities. Current members of IAC are from government and small andlarge industries such as the US Army Research Laboratory, GE Aircraft Engines, LucentTechnologies, Corning-Lasertron and Cambridge Applied Systems. These outreach activities define the third and fourth areas of university-industrycollaboration - co-organizing our annual Thermal Manufacturing Workshop and sponsorship ofdesign projects. As part of the outreach activities and in order to involve the local engineeringcommunities, Tufts University

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ricardo Teixeira; Pedro Portela; Maria Restivo; Jose Marques

3rd year, 2nd semester, discipline of the 5-year degreecourse in Mechanical Engineering, run at FEUP under the responsibility of the second author(TR), in which around 60% of the time is devoted to "hands on" laboratory activity involvingover 140 students. In order to comply with the demands for a non-conventional final projecttopic coming from a highly dynamic group of students led by the third author (PP), an open Page 7.330.1experimental problem was devised (by TR) using a very familiar object – a beverage can. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

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Inter. collaboratory efforts in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Cunningham; D. Joseph Mook

ten ERAUstudents have studied at EPF as of this writing, only three have followed through with thedouble diploma option. Of seventeen EPF students in the program, six have earned all threedegrees; to achieve that, students must complete a minimum of 33 undergraduate and 27graduate engineering credits taken at ERAU, on top of the five-year French EngineeringDiploma. A flow chart of the ERAU-EPF Double Diploma program is displayed in Figure 1.Accreditation concerns are addressed through course-by-course comparisons between thedouble degree participants. Professors from each institution cross the Atlantic to examine thecurricula, laboratories and design projects. EPF engineering and computer science(infomatique) department chairs spent a week at

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Palm; Thomas Keggler; David Taggart; David Chelidze; Brent Stucker

meaningless results due to seemingly minor input errors(inconsistent units, unrealistic boundary conditions, etc.). During this semester’s activities, all ofthe finite element analysis results were reasonable. Overall, the teaming experience proved to bevaluable but several improvements are planned in the future. Planned modifications includesmaller teams, better documentation of team activities through the use of a team binder andproviding more guidelines for teaming activities.5.0 AcknowledgementsThis work was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Directorate for Educationand Human Resources (EHR), Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE), Course, Curriculumand Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Award No. 0088315.References1. Barr, R. E

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; David Oglesby; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

Missouri-Rolla. Prior tojoining the BE department in August 2000, she was on the faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept.at UMR from 1989 to 1999, and taught high school physics 1999-00. She completed her Ph.D. in ECE at NC StateUniversity in 1989. Dr. Hubing enjoys research involving educational methods and technology in the classroom.RICHARD H. HALLRichard H. Hall, Associate Professor of Psychology at UMR, will be moving to UMR’s new Information Scienceand Technology program in the fall of 2002. He received his BS degree in Psychology from the University of NorthTexas, and PhD degree in Experimental Psychology from Texas Christian University. He is the director of UMR’sMedia Design and Assessment Laboratory, and his research

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Barry Davidson; Anthony Ingraffea; Alan Zehnder

7.434.1“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”Introduction In industry and government laboratories, teams of scientists and engineers need to worktogether closely to achieve their goals. In large projects, the team members may live and work atgeographically distant sites, and may work for different organizations, making communicationand interaction between the team members difficult at best and disastrous at worst. An exampleof the worst-case scenario is the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter in September 1999. “The peerreview preliminary findings indicate that one team used English units [inches, feet

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in EET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kathleen Ossman

Session 1448 Teaching State Variable Feedback to Technology Students Using MATLAB and SIMULINK Kathleen A.K. Ossman, Ph.D. University of Cincinnati I. IntroductionThis paper describes a course and laboratory in State Variable Feedback developed as a t echnicalelective for students in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET) program atthe University of Cincinnati. Students pursuing the EET degree are required to take courses inSignals and Systems and Feedback Controller Design. They learn to design lead

Conference Session

Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie A. Jernigan; Garlie Forehand; Alexander B. Quinn; Judith Norback

will add to the range of workplace information that will be represented in the planningsheets, the criteria of communication excellence, and the web-based system. Teaching facultysuggestions will be implemented, and at some point there will be a communication laboratory.The laboratory activities will include continuation of the workplace research and support of Page 7.1111.6 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationstudents and other constituencies in both oral and written communication. More

Conference Session

CE Rap Session and Toys in the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Kilduff

was designed to help students visualize theserelationships and develop a deeper understanding of mass balance principles. The model was usedto separately demonstrate how to measure elevation-storage and stage-discharge relationships.The scale of the model makes it suitable for real-time, in-class demonstrations and experiments.All required equipment fits on a standard laboratory cart, and can be easily transported to theclassroom. A second objective of the model reservoir was to provide a system of sufficient simplicityto allow mathematical modeling. If a step function is used for the inflow hydrograph, and a vesselhaving a regular shape is used for the reservoir (e.g., cylinder), the differential mass balanceequations can be

Conference Session

Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sérgio Franco; Marco Silveira; Luciano Costa; Guillermo Creus

opportunity to widen access to real experiments that might otherwiseonly be offered to those able to get to a suitably equipped laboratory” 13. This project, lead byOpen University, provides a wide range of student activities. B. Student participation in the evaluation process. As mentioned above, student self-reflection about cognitive evolution is important. Oneexample of this reflection can be found in a question development about constructed concepts5,that run an experience dividing a class in two groups. Each group, with the assistance of theteacher, had to set up questions for the other group, thus building a positive participationenvironment, adequate to learning:“...the evaluation process should be democratic, clear, transparent

Conference Session

International Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mayuree Thespol; J. Clair Batty

currently conducting research in the thermal management of spacesystems at Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory. He recently completed a one semester sabbatical toThailand as a Fulbright Senior Scholar. He received the ScD degree in Mechanical Engineering from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969.MAYUREE THESPOL is Assistant Professor and Department Head of Mechanical Engineering at KasetsartUniversity in Bangkok, Thailand. She teaches undergraduate courses in thermodynamics and energy management.She received B. Eng in Mechanical Engineering from Kasetsart University and M. Eng in Industrial Engineering andManagement from Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand in 1980

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jed Lyons

. Bottomley, Elizabeth A. Parry, Sara Washburn, “Amy Hossain, Rachel Meyer Engineering Students in K-12 Schools” Proceedings of the 2000 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Session 1692, 2000.5. Alvin P. Sanoff, “Building Tomorrow’s Workforce,” ASEE Prism, Volume 10, Number 6, pp. 16-2. 2001.Biographical InformationJED LYONS is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at USC. He teaches engineering materials,manufacturing processes and mechanical design, conducts research on reinforced plastics and composites, developsmechanical engineering laboratories, and improves the teaching and communication skills of graduate students.MARYANNE BANICH is a doctoral student in the University of

Conference Session

Special Topics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Caroline Crosthwaite; David Radcliffe

practice rather than on equipment and facilities. Forpeople from the physical sciences and engineering conditioned to research being located intraditional laboratories, there is not much to see at the Centre. Much of the research and otherwork of the Centre (and its precursors) is conducted in the field, in situ in real workplaces. This isnothing new for our colleagues from the social sciences. However, working in a strong physicalsciences culture, this lack of tangible experimental artifacts makes the task of communicatingwhat we do very difficult. Taken together with the use of qualitative modes of inquiry from thesocial sciences, this makes our work both confronting and superficially easy to dismiss, as it doesnot fit the prevailing

Conference Session

New/Emerging Technologies

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Yu Morton; John Gassert; Douglas Troy; Osama Ettouney

diagram in Figure 4. Our approach in mapping the events, conditions, andactions in the state model to physical parameters is to create a look-up table such as Table 1. The State Table is obtained by combining the information provided by the state transitiondiagram and the look-up table. Table 2 is the State Table developed for the milling procedure atthe Miami work cell using this approach. The State Table provides all the necessary systemspecific information needed by the decision component. Currently, Table 2 is created using amanual procedure from the state transition diagram and the look-up table. It is feasible forinstructional purposes since most laboratory work cell contains limited number of sensor, andcontrol functions. For

Conference Session

MET Student Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Harley Hammond; Chih-Ping Yeh

å (q n =1 robot_n - q measured_n ) q average_error = , (7) Nwhere N = 8 for this application.5. ConclusionThis project was completed in one year. The machine vision system was first programmed andtested in a laboratory. After installation in the tire rim factory, the system was found to beaccurate within the required tolerance. The reliability was excellent, failing in less than 1% ofsearches due to the rim being oriented at a certain angle. All failures were corrected within fiveseconds by the robot program, which

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in MET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Karas; Vladimir Sheyman; Mulchand Rathod

appointments include State firmed the seal integrity over time. University of New York at Binghamton, Tuskegee University, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and IBM. This project showed that the pneumati- A registered Professional Engineer, he is active in cally operated injection valve is a viable ASME, SME, ASHRAE, and ASEE. He has component that could be used in a production served as a Commissioner on the TAC of ABET. environment to further enhance productivity. A holder of numerous publications and This development would be very much welcome inventions, he is listed in several Who’s Who in industry

Conference Session

Materials and Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sanjeev Khanna

· Theories of Fatigue: stress and strain based · Fatigue of Welded Structures · Fracture of Welds · Control of Shrinkage and Distortion in Welds · Corrosion in Welds · Weld Defects and Inspection of Welds · Page 7.76.2 Case Studies Laboratory (demonstrations only): · Intro. to optical experimental methods of materials characterization (e.g., moire interferometry and photelasticity) · Mechanical testing of welded specimens – tension, bending, torsion · Quasi-static and dynamic

Conference Session

Promoting ET with K-12 Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Brower

Page 7.1117.4Conference Travel/Fees $1950 "Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering Education" Course Material - The course material included a combination of hand-on laboratories used in the Mechanical Engineering Technology program at OIT, workshops on space related technology, brainstorming sessions with the counselors to arrive at an experimental idea, Logo 7 robotic exercises, and a field trip to a nearby military air base. A schedule of activities that the high school students followed throughout the week is given in Table 4 below. Table 4. Technology Space Camp activity schedule.Time

Conference Session

Project Based Education in CE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

with the REU project team, but with other graduate students, staff,and faculty members working in the structural engineering laboratories. The bi-weekly reportswere promptly critiqued by the Project Director and returned. A suggested outline and detailedinstruction for preparing the final report was given to the students at the end of the third week ofthe project. Using the bi-weekly reports and this outline, the students prepared the final projectTechnical Report. Thus, the whole REU Site provided an insight to the participants on the issues andconcerns with design, manufacture, testing and data synthesis of a range of different structuralengineering research projects. The work accomplished by the participants in each of theseprojects

Conference Session

Comparing National Styles of Engr. Educ.

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Thibault; Rene Hivon; Danielle L'Heureux; Noel Boutin

twoABET criteria (lifelong learning and knowledge of temporary issues). Finally, they concludefrom a survey of practicing engineers that laboratory, design work and practical work experienceare the most important sources for learning to satisfy the soft criteria.At the University of Minnesota, Smith gives [6] various strategies to develop engineeringstudent's teamwork and project management skills while Clarke et al show [7] how they havedeveloped a course that fully integrates instruction in both history and materials science. Page 7.1139.4 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Renshaw; Joseph Ekstrom

customexternal packaging. The success of our program is forcing us to deal with the challengeof teaching many more students using the existing physical facility.ConclusionWe have developed a strong curriculum for an introductory networking class tailored tothe needs of a 4 year Information Technology program. The curriculum focuses onrevealing the evolution of network technology to students so that they are better preparedto expect and manage changes as they occur. This is accomplished through acombination of coordinated lectures and laboratory experiences. There is a focusdemonstrating how specific technologies represent more general principles. Initial Page

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wafeek Wahby

pumps to the Sheikh Za-yed Canal via the Discharge Basin. · Two annex buildings housing the 11 kV switchgear and the diesel generators. · Three workshops: electrical workshop with laboratory, mechanical workshop, and Page 7.1188.7 automotive workshop. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationII. The Toshka CanalAlso known as Sheikh Za-yed Canal, is the main canal of the project, having a length of70 Km (44 miles) that branches into four sub-canals, with a total length of 250 km (160miles

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering and the Liberal Arts

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren

an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at Baylor University. He received hisB. S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the USAF Academy and his M. S. in Engineering from PrincetonUniversity. He completed his DPhil in Engineering Sciences at the University of Oxford, UK. At Baylor he teachescourses in laboratory techniques, fluid mechanics, energy systems, propulsion, and freshman engineering.STEVEN EISENBARTHSteven Eisenbarth is Associate Dean of the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Baylor University. Hereceived his B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from Albertson College of Idaho and a Masters and Ph.D. in Physicsfrom Baylor University. He teaches courses in electrical and computer engineering including embedded

Conference Session

MET Student Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

R.L. Alan Jordan

presentation is help at thesame time.Legal Roadblocks You may not expect your students to produce a design that needs protected. However, anydesign should be treated as if it can be patented. Students need to learn the procedure for protectionof ideas. They should be required to buy a laboratory notebook and required to make notes in thenotebook, sketches of ideas, and shown how to protect those ideas. These are habits that can beinstilled during projects of this type. There are some possible legal roadblocks that need to be considered before the project getsunderway. First, who owns the intellectual property if some ideas come out of the project that areworth patenting or copyrighting? Second, who is responsible for protecting these ideas

Conference Session

Cultivating Professional Responsibility

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Julia Williams

Science and TechnologyPolicy, argued that historically scientists and engineers have always played a significant, albeitparticular, role in society. Possessing knowledge of science and technology, engineers haveacted on behalf of society, developing and implementing beneficial technologies that serve theneeds of individuals and their communities. Lane suggests that more recently, the nature of theengineer's role has been changing, creating a new and additional function that engineers andscientists must play in society: I termed this role the "civic scientist," with civic meaning "concerning or affecting the community or the people." In this new civic capacity, scientists and engineers step beyond their campuses, laboratories

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary John O'Hair; Mark Nanny; Teri Rhoads

-world experiments, observations, and measurements, to study problems that affect their daily lives.· To use these activities to link students from different classes and schools, via peer teaching, collaborations, and the Internet, as they focus on common themes.· To include computers and up-to-date sampling and laboratory equipment in all activities so Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Page 7.21.3 students gain experience with current technology.· To incorporate computer-based

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Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Vavreck

as a critical area fortechnology and engineering students, who are increasingly likely to encounter project teams andmay serve as project managers. Many other efforts focused on team skills. Interdisciplinaryteams (industrial engineering and physical therapy) were formed in another program2 0 to helpimplement Americans with Disabilities Act modifications to the campus. Students gain exposureto open ended problems and to a need for others’ skills. Even though such teams can ofteninvolve conflict, such difficulties can be used to strengthen the team if the conflict is managedwell.2 1 Using such team skill building, a widely multidisciplinary course has been developed2 2involving a bioprocessing laboratory. Components of the course included

Conference Session

Programming and DSP Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Mayne

using Microsoft’sVisual C++. The VC++ programming environment has proven to be very satisfactory. Students whohave very little computer science background are able to adapt to C++ object-orientedprogramming and to the Application Wizard of VC++. They are able to do their programming inour department PC laboratories, they can take their work home easily using their own computers,and the programs that they produce look very much like the commercial programs they useroutinely. At many points in the course there is the common reaction: “so this is the way it’sdone”. The course develops specific programming and theoretical skills in computer graphicswhich transfer to any computing environment. But, by exposing students to PC

Conference Session

Freshman Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hazel Pierson; Daniel Suchora

lecture hours and threelaboratory hours per week. The project is presented, explained, and discussed in the lecturesetting. However, questions that arise because of the project are addressed in the laboratory orthe lecture. Prior to the project, the students have received instruction and completed exerciseson web searches, web page construction, and word processing with equation editor. Concurrentwith the project, students receive instruction on MS EXCEL in the lab. The completed projectdraws from the skills taught in both the lecture and the lab setting. In addition to this course, the Page 7.1183.1typical student is taking pre-calculus

Conference Session

Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Nilufer Gozacan; Reza Ziarati

example in their Manual. A Model Handbook will be developed.R – The Course Team* This important section outlines the membership of the Programme Team, calendar of ‘Programme Team Meetings’, agreed Programme, etc.S – Course Support Services* This section will be a source of information for Programme Teams, and they should add any systems which operate in their own Faculty of Department, eg for obtaining laboratory/workshop materials for classes.T – Student Support Systems* This will be an information section about services available to help students. Programme Teams will need to be aware of these and make their students aware of them.U – Non-Attendance Systems* This section will give the safety net system for