Conference Session

Combining Research and Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Raul Ordonez; Marianne Cinaglia; Kathryn Hollar; Jess Everett; Joseph Orlins; Kauser Jahan; Mariano Savelski; Linda Head; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh

their experience and finalize plans for technical publications and presentations. During the first, fifth and last weeks, an outside evaluator (College of Education, Faculty) meets with the REU participants to evaluate their experience. The evaluator determines the impact of the REU experience on the participants through written surveys and exit interviews. The evaluator also conducts surveys beyond the duration of the REU to trac k the students’ progress at their respective colleges. The surveys and exit interviews will provide valuable information vital for the improvement of the REU program in subsequent years. RESULTS OF REU 2001 Nearly 50 applications were received in the summer of 2001. The nine finalists, 2 males and 7 females reflected

Conference Session

multim engr edu;dist.,servi&intern based

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Roxanne Jacoby; Jean Le Mee

more self–assurance to betterhandle the managerial aspects of their jobs, thus helping them to advance more rapidly on thecorporate ladder.Plans for the Future Based on our positive experience, we plan to continue teaching the Global Perspectives inTechnology Management course, and offer the GLOBETECH simulation every fall semester forthe foreseeable future. We feel that the GLOBETECH simulation adds new depth and practicalexperience to the course. For the past few years, we have been working hard to develop strongties with several engineering schools, that would permit us a stronger, repeat collaboration in thesimulation and course. We will also continue to actively search for new schools interested toparticipate in our future

Conference Session

Innovative Lab and Hands-on Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

the modules particularly useful when the underlying theoreticalconcepts had already been taught in the class. Specifically, these modules not only furtherreinforced these concepts, but also provided an opportunity to view graphically and pictoriallyhow the results varied when the input parameters were varied with a practical range. Thus, theywere able to appreciate the sensitivity of the problem to input parameters. Overall, the studentscommented that this made the learning experience fun. These comments are quite consistentwith our goals we had set while undertaking this project. We plan to conduct a more formalsurvey when these modules are used this Spring semester (2002), and we would report the resultsof this survey in a future

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education and Outreach

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Ballinger; Craig Somerton

manufacturing stations unless it is in their plan, and this must bepoliced during the competition. With their assembly lines designed, the students are asked tostaff their lines, and at a given signal begin making their beanie eels. As each beanie eel comesoff the assembly it must pass inspection, principally that it does not leak split peas, which is themain flaw that appears. As each team completes the required number of beanie eels their time isrecorded. The competition continues until each team has completed the required number of eels.The winning team is the one with the lowest time, and some simple prizes should be distributedto the members of the winning team. Figure 5 shows the competition in action. Table 2 providessome typical results, with

Conference Session

Educational Trends in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brahm Verma

, MA (PersonalCorrespondence). December 2001.11 Brahm Verma and E. Dale Threadgill, “Comprehensive Engineering – A Strategic Issue for the FirstDecade of the 21 st Century.” Submitted to the University of Georgia Strategic Planning Advisory Board.February 15, 2000. 20p. Page 7.556.11 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Dickson

• The creation of a management role for industrial representatives in academic programmesThey all endeavour to meet the need for employment-based part-time learning within the contextof continuing professional development, providing core and advanced engineering knowledge &skills and encouraging a multi-disciplinary approach to the learning process.It is interesting to note however that the format of workbased learning that all these courses takemirrors again Professor Livingston’s comments from 1971 “Formal management education programmes typically emphasises the development of problem solving and decision-making skills, for instance but give little attention to ….. skills ….. to carry out successful operating plans once

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Peterson; Barry Mullins

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2002, American Society for Engineering EducationThis was the first year for USAFA’s involvement in BattleBots. Based on the exceptionalexperience, the department anticipates participating in BattleBots for several years to come. It isenvisioned that the BattleBots will grow in sophistication as subsequent students attempt to buildtheir version of a BattleBot. As they do, the faculty mentors also gain a better appreciation forpower electronics as applied to high-powered mobile robots.References1. EE 464 Course Assessment Plan Version 1.1, United States Air Force Academy CO, 31 January 2000.2. Stone, Brad, “Attack of the BattleBots”, Newsweek, pgs. 40-42, 28 May 2001.3

Conference Session

Promoting ET with K-12 Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Terri Nordin; Dana DeGeeter; Jenny Golder

encourage middle school agedstudents to focus on team building, problem solving, creativity, and analytical thinking. 5 Teamsof approximately ten students have about eight weeks to research, plan, create, test, and programan autonomous robot that is able to conquer a series of missions. These missions are based onreal world events or problems and are known to the student participants as The Challenge.Through creating these challenges for the student participants, the FLL program is able to fulfillits mission: The mission of the FLL program is to provide an inspirational learning experience for children celebrating science and technology, by combining educational context with hands-on challenges that empower children to discover

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Beams

planned in this sequence will be developed as a class project in EENG 4309(Electronics II) and EENG 4109 (Electronics II Lab) in spring, 2002. It has been tentativelynamed “Impedance Apparatus Project,” or “ZAP” using “Z” to stand for “Impedance.” (Thename is subject to change should the students devise a better one).ZAP will be an impedance-measuring instrument similar to an LRC bridge. LRC bridges areneither excessively expensive nor difficult to obtain; the rationale for designing and buildingsuch an instrument in this course is three- fold: 1. to give students experience in open-ended design problems; 2. to give students experience in modern engineering tools (e.g., LabVIEW); 3. to give students understanding of how such an

Conference Session

Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bopaya Bidanda; Kim Needy

Engineering faculty. Furthermore, the instructor and projectsponsor must approve (in writing) the project proposal. The project proposal is really akin to astatement of work and is meant to be somewhat of a “contract” for the project, setting futureexpectations. The project proposal can be very important at latter stages in the project when it isnot uncommon for the project sponsor to try to expand the scope of work (project creep). Inaddition, the project proposal helps to make sure that the team is taking a systems approach tothe project and has a solid plan. Page 7.1039.2 Proceedings of the 2002American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Innovations in Freshman Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Teodora Shuman; Greg Mason

occasions meetings had to be cut short or canceled simply becauseof technological problems. These technological issues need to be resolved for the followingterm.Second, design teams were required to share a single video teleconferencing facility. Thislimited the amount of time teams could meet together. In general, students wanted to meet moreoften than was practical. Next term the internet will be used for video conferencing. This willallow students to arrange their own meetings. It also means that multiple teams can meetsimultaneously instead of having to share the video conferencing facility.Third, participation of the MEGR105 class was less than initially planned. Delays in getting theprojects started meant students were rushed for time and

Conference Session

Programming and DSP Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Murat Tanyel

applications where it is cumbersome to program in LabVIEW, we couldhave an experienced programmer write the painstakingly difficult algorithm and make it availableas a subVI to the rest of the class so that students do not get bogged down by a few non-intuitiveprograms. This paper is a report on the state of the progress that has been made to achieve thisend.The works that remains is twofold. I plan to expand the toolkit in future offerings of the course.An equally important task is to “polish” all the VIs in the toolkit so that they all have their uniqueicons and their documentation so that LabVIEW’s help facility may display adequate informationon each of the VIs. Right now, only a limited number of these VIs benefit from such luxuries (seeFig. 6

Conference Session

Issues in Physics and Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Harold Evensen

thispoint. We are looking into the regional demand for graduates with training in fields such as laserpatterning and plasma processing in order to help determine what to add next.We plan to replace the laboratory component of the second introductory physics course with aone-credit course for majors. This is because many aspects of the “Physics II” laboratory arealready covered in the required courses in circuits and optics; electrical engineering students arealready exempt from this laboratory. It is thought that this course could be replaced by anintroductory course in instrumentation; e.g., oscilloscopes, simple analog and digital circuits,computer interfacing, and simple machining.ConclusionWhile the major work of defining the goals and

Conference Session

Physics in the K-12 Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Faitak; Monika Blair; Matthew Johnson; Ken Vickers; Greg Salamo

. (anon-profit organization), now serves as the organizing umbrella over the hubs, with financial andvolunteer support from several major corporations.The BEST games typically involve a radio-controlled robot picking up game pieces and placingthem in a container to score points. Both offensive and defensive maneuvers can increase thetotal number of points a team wins in a round. The theme and game rules change each year andare announced at “Kick-Off” where each team is provided with an identical box of materials andthe current year’s rules. After four weeks of brainstorming, planning, developing prototypes,and building, the teams are invited to an exhibition event, usually held at a local mall, to testtheir robots and get a sneak preview of the

Conference Session

Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Omid Ansary; Walter Buchanan; Alireza Rahrooh

infrastructure ofmost institutions and engineering programs are not exceptions. For example, most institutionsinclude activities similar to ABET’s criteria in their strategic plans. The program faculty andadministrations are usually charged to monitor these activities to ensure the feasibility andquality of their programs. However, the major difference is that ABET’s criteria requireenormous documentation, bookkeeping, statistical analyses, data gathering, periodic surveys, andABET’s way of documenting students portfolios on a periodic basis. These require atremendous amount of resources and burden on programs and institutions. For some engineeringdisciplines the benefit of being accredited is so minimal that many institutions are questioningtheir

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Silvana Tarazaga; Dalmaris Gonzalez

3.79 0.918 3.79 0.918 Overall Mean 0.93 3.74 3.74 Biographical Information Sonia M. Bartolomei-Suárez Sonia M. Bartolomei-Suárez is Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Director of EXITE! Camp. She obtained her PhD in Industrial Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Bartolomei-Suárez is an active consultant to manufacturing facilities in Puerto Rico, and specializes in facility planning and simulation. At UPRM, she works with the pre-college programs to introduce engineering to junior and high school students. Silvana Tarazaga Silvana Tarazaga is currently a Master of Science candidate in Industrial

Conference Session

Hunting for MINDs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sr., Willyerd Collier; Ken Vickers; Benita Wolff; Greg Salamo

to select students themselves t hat theyfelt would be a good match to the REU programs.As two of the three REU programs were housed in science departments in the Fulbright Collegeof Arts and Sciences, and the third microEP REU was interdisciplinary between Fulbright andEngineering Colleges, this resulted in the Carver Project managing nine positions suitable forstudents from science undergraduate programs. An additional benefit from the Carver/REUpartnerships was a plan to more tightly coordinate the Carver Project students’ social activitieswith the social activities of the REU programs.The third expansion of scope of the Carver Project came from the endorsement of the programby the Dean of the College of Engineering to the engineering

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Clark Merkel

car. Before they build theirmodel, they should consider such things as model strength, methods of construction,available materials, model reliability, ease of use, and safety considerations. They shouldhave some plan to weigh the relative importance of the different features that will allow Page 7.870.9them to select a design which is a good balance of all the most important features. “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”Step 10 is the stage where the model becomes a real car. Working with tools is

Conference Session

Physics in the K-12 Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley

approach public schools with ideasfor providing help, only to make it clear that “help” is defined by the university, often inisolation of what the schools need. By the same token, teachers must be aware of the tendency tobecome territorial about curriculum and lesson plans, and to remain open minded about thepotential of the partnership.If the relationship has been properly initiated and set up, the management aspect of thepartnership should be minimal. The goal of the university, the engineering student and theschool must be to minimize the additional responsibilities placed on the classroom teacher. Tothat end, it is imperative that each school have a single point of contact, preferably inadministration or instructional resource, who will serve

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Kushner; Jay Martin

, with a plan to spend additionaleffort in the future on the larger issue of efficiency in patient escort monitoring. Rather thanpresent the details of the process we followed, we will just show the final result from thisendeavor, pictured in Fig. 3. This prototype is currently undergoing testing at the hospitaland we will evaluate the effectiveness of the changes made in the coming months.What Happened This Time? What was the Impact?When the students learned that we were going to carry out one of the projects, there were acouple of reactions we had not anticipated. First, students questioned why we wanted to do aproject. Because we were unprepared for this question, we did not respond with anyreference to the pedagogical intent of our actions

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Goff

them an experience of howproducts are designed and assembled. The main drawback of this approach is scalability. Weoffer this course to nine sections of 32 students each. This still only reaches 20 percent of ourentering engineering students. To address the issue of offering active learning opportunities to allentering freshman, we have worked to develop activities that could be offered during the regularclass time rather than as a separate laboratory.Pilot Project 1Development and implementation of any significant change in course delivery method, in thiscase hands-on early design activities, for the entire entering engineering class at Virginia Techrequires significant planning and trials. There are usually thirty-six sections of EF1015

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconected World

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jørgen Hansen; Arvid Andersen

part of a much broadersociety. Besides being the technical specialist, a Danish engineer is expected to speak at leasttwo foreign languages, to be flexible, to be able to communicate clearly and hopefullywithout too much ambiguity, to be able to do teamwork and to plan and manage projects.Also understanding of inter-human relations when executing projects with cross-cultural andmultidisciplinary participation is expected. Certainly the paradigm has changed and will Page 7.500.1continue to do so. The tendency to allocate home computers to employees is growing fast.Also short-term contract employment is a trend. It seems to be attractive to work on

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher Murad

Page 7.1248.7write a formal report. Sophomores tend to appreciate the concept more than seniors whoadmitted they did review their exams more frequently than when they first entered college. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationOverall, the foregoing discussions gave evidence that the concept of After Action Reports(AAR) proved to be an effective learning tool that extends learning beyond the examinations.The author is planning to continue this activity in other courses and administer similar surveys inorder to continue getting feedback from students. This will help in the improvement

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Thomas; Vinod Lohani; Bevlee Watford

California for further testing the approach. Also, it is planned to repeatthe analysis with weekly PDSI data, if available, to get a better characterization ofdrought probabilities. Page 7.892.4 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering EducationTable 2: C++ Class for Analysis of PDSI DataClass Name WeatherPurpose Used to perform analysis on weather dataOperations int Convert(double); bool insert(double, int, int); double longterm(int pattern); double

Conference Session

Effective Energy Laboratory Ideas

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Callinan; Gary Hikiss

directly (except for the thermocouples). The output of the pressure transducers,load cell and fuel flow system are fed through a switching box to a Kiethley Model 175AAutoranging Digital Multimeter. The output of the thermocouples was measured using anOmega Model DP25-TC Digital Thermocouple Controller.The operating procedure is described in Reference 4. The following is an overview of thatprocedure. Prior to the test, the fuel, lubricating and compressed air systems must be checked toinsure they are functioning properly and adequately supplied for the tests planned. The engineoperates satisfactorily using a variety of fuels (e.g., various grades of jet engine fuel, keroseneand diesel fuel). Various switches are turned on in sequence to power up

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack

controls. Hisresearch areas include, process planning, robotics and rapids prototyping. He previously taught atRyerson Polytechnic university for 3 years. He holds a Bachelors in electrical engineering, andMasters and Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Western Ontario.Appendix A - A Problem ExampleA feedback control system is shown below. The system incorporates a PID controller. The closed loop transfer function is given. X + Y Ki 3 - K p + ----- + K d D ------------ D

Conference Session

Capstone Mechanical Engineering Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Archibald

critique. The critique helps students to interpret comments of the reviewers and focus on the top priorities. Generally, design reviews result in copious amounts of information, not all of which is equally important, and which may be contradictory. Students often need help prioritizing the data and developing plans of action.Project Evaluation: At the end of the year, students are required to make a finalpresentation of their design project to faculty, college administrators, underclassmen, andparents. These presentations are evaluated by representatives from local industries.Frequently people other than industry advisors are used, although there is some overlap.Although the project is essentially completed by this time

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch. Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Neil Opfer; Jaeho Son; Thomas Korman

course offerings, it is our desire toincorporate architecture and structural engineering students into the process. These disciplinesare also to key to successful coordination efforts, because of the many constraints they imposeon MEP systems. ReferencesBarton 83 Barton, Paul K., Building Services Integration, E. & F. N. Spoon Ltd., London, 1983.Beard 01 Beard, Jeffrey L., Michael C. Loulakis Sr., and Edward C. Wundram. Design-Build: Planning Through Development. McGraw-Hill, New York, 2001Bergthold 98 Telephone interview with Rudy Bergthold, President, Cupertino Electric, January 26, 1998.Hanna 99 Hanna, Awad S

Conference Session

Intra-college Graduate Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Watkins; Richard Hall; Martha J. Molander; Josh Corra; Bethany Konz; K. Chandrashekhara; Vicki Eller; Abdeldjelil Belarbi

interviewand the questionnaire shown in Figure 5. Some salient comments are listed below.· Did Motivation to do Interdisciplinary Work Increase or Decrease as a Result: “Increase” and “Increase – the variety was interesting”· Interdisciplinary Aspect(s) of Project for which you were Least Prepared: “Terminology, applied math in other fields,” “Planning and resources on the civil side,” and “Civil topics with my partner, … I couldn’t rely on what I already knew.”· Recommendations and Comments: “Overall, I would say that this has been a lesson in learning to communicate and work with someone with a different background and training than myself.” and “One of the biggest challenges was in the differences in connotations of words

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Field

Educationfaculty, student team meetings with industrial partners, and end-of-semester project presentationsto industrial partners.Interviewing is also listed as a common technique. Use of the interview allows the investigator topursue the answer to a number of open-ended questions from a variety of stakeholders. An initialround of interviews has been conducted with students, and plans are underway to expand theinterviews to the three College Deans and their faculty representatives, and the industrial partners(management and program participants). Many resources, not the least of which are time andmoney, are expended to ensure continued availability of the Business Laboratory experience.The expenditures of these resources must be balanced by the perception