Conference Session

Current Issues in Aerospace Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfred Striz

Engineering enrollment ofover 500. In the same time frame, the University of Oklahoma College of Engineering (CoE) Page 9.403.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationwas going through the ABET 2000 accreditation process. Based on the industrial andgovernment laboratory (JPL) experience of Donna Shirley and members of the AME AdvisoryBoard, it was obvious that a modern Aerospace Engineering program had to teach more than theold basics of aerodynamics, structures, and propulsion, especially more

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Pack; Kenneth Soda

andrelative conceptual simplicity, it has been difficult to present electronic neural networksin a form convenient for the university classroom or electronics laboratory setting. In thispaper we describe an approach for implementing a neural network though which manymajor analog and digital MOSFET circuit concepts can be illustrated and demonstrated.This approach is amenable to realization in discrete electronic modules through whichassociated laboratory exercises and design projects may be created. Furthermore, thesame concepts can be extended into Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI), where thelimitations of component count and performance can be overcome and addressed to a fargreater degree.IntroductionThe fundamental motivation to study neural

Conference Session

A Potpoturri of Innovations in Physics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean Hertzberg

? Whatmakes an image scientific?” were addressed. The class focused on studio/laboratory experiencesfor mixed teams of students. A range of fluids apparatus were made available, and students also created novel flows.Writeups were required for each image (to the art students’ shock). Student work was evaluatedfor both artistic and scientific merit.This course represents a radical departure from normal engineering curricula; typically all finearts studio courses are specifically excluded. However, the course proved to be very successful inattracting both graduate and undergraduate students, engineering women in particular. Oneoutcome of the course is the recognition by students of the beauty of fluid physics that surroundsus each day, leading to

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Randy Broussard; Jenelle Piepmeier

Undergraduate Computer Vision Curriculum to Complement a Robotics Program Randy P. Broussard, Jenelle Armstrong Piepmeier United States Naval Academy Weapons and System Engineering DepartmentAbstractThis article discusses a computer vision curriculum, including laboratory exercises,which is suitable for undergraduate engineering students. While classroom andlaboratory exercises focus on off-line computation, on-line implementation can beachieved with simple equipment such as web-cams. Exercises include a sidewalk or linefollowing exercise utilizing the Hough transform, a face recognition using eigenfaces,barcode reading, handwriting recognition, and sign language recognition

Conference Session

Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Naomi Gomez; Jan Rinehart; Robin Autenrieth; Karen Butler-Purry; Angie Hill Price

Session 2550 Enrichment Experiences in Engineering (E3) For Teachers Summer Research Program Angie Hill Price, Karen Butler-Purry, Robin Autenrieth, Jan Rinehart, Naomi Gomez Dwight Look College of Engineering, Texas A&M UniversityAbstractWith funding from NSF, faculty from Texas A&M University have developed an outreachprogram aimed at providing secondary school teachers with laboratory experiences with facultyresearchers. The overall mission of the project is to excite, empower, and educate public schoolteachers about engineering so they in turn will excite, empower, and educate young people theycome in contact with

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin Sill; Elizabeth Stephan; Matthew Ohland

different study populations.While the primary objective of the project is to understand the benefit of the use of thiseducational technology, the sensor-based laboratories are designed to be accessible for use asmodules by college faculty and by secondary school teachers and students as well so that, if thetechnology should prove effective, broader implementation will be practical. This paperintroduces the methodology of the experiment and reports on the status of the development oflaboratories. A variety of laboratory activities have been developed, including two that have beendeveloped in sensor-based and non-sensor-based versions.The use of technology in the classroomAlthough there are many who assume that the use of classroom technology has

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Krouglicof

a hands-on approach to engineeringeducation whereby theoretical analysis is reinforced by laboratory exercises and designexperiences. In fact, the program features two senior level capstone design courses. Design ofThermo-Fluid Systems (MER-160) applies optimization techniques and cost analysis to thedesign of thermal/fluid processes and systems. The second design course, Design of MechanicalSystems (MER-144), is a project-oriented course that provides a capstone design experience forthe mechanics area of the mechanical engineering curriculum.This paper focuses on the latter and specifically addresses the question of selecting anappropriate design project that is consistent with the course objectives and outcomes. The designproject is the

Conference Session

ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heinz Luegenbiehl; Kathryn Neeley; Jerry Gravander

between science (or the sciences) and practice. As Mead expressed it,“We were out in the research laboratory trying to figure out what was true. . . .Of course, thingsthat don’t work in the lab don’t work in the real world, but things that do work in the lab oftentake a long time to work out in the real world.”4 Mead might also have added that things thatwork in the lab sometimes do not work at all in practice. The “bridge” between the engineeringcurriculum and engineering practice matters, then, because it educates students about the realitiesof the disjunction between the laboratory and practical application. Ideally, educationalexperiences that fulfill the Criterion 4 requirement give the students an understanding of theintegrative nature of

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

laboratories. These graduate students read thedraft reports, make appropriate comments and return the reports for final production. The graduatestudents critique, comment, and grade in both the technical and communication areas while alsoteaching the above laboratories. The reports are then read again and a grade is assigned. The issuesregarding faculty support for the plan, preparation of the graduate students, and orientation for theundergraduates who will be impacted by the plan will be addressed. The ultimate goal involvesleading engineering students to the realization that communication is important because it is beingevaluated by fellow engineers and that those evaluators will also improve their own skills becauseof their need to focus on how

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tremayne Waller; Bevlee Watford

student’s transition from high school to Virginia Tech. The programprovides the following:• the opportunity to become familiar with the university community• academic enrichment in selected subjects (i.e., mathematic, chemistry and engineering fundamentals• the opportunity to participate in seminar sessions to enhance personal and professional development.CoursesThe students receive instruction in chemistry, mathematics, and engineering fundamentals.Students participate in a chemistry laboratory as part of the program. These classes are taught byinstructors from each department. The five week summer classes are similar to those classestaught in the fall semester. Both, mathematics and engineering fundamentals introducesstudents to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mesut Muslu

design experience to our students. The paper also providessample design projects.Design in EE CurriculumThe mission of the EE program at UWP is “to provide a quality electrical engineering educationwith extensive hands-on and laboratory experience that will enable our graduates to practice theirprofession with proficiency and integrity.” One of the main objectives derived from the mission is“to graduate engineers who have the ability to use modern analysis and design techniques and have thelaboratory skills to use state-of-the-art equipment to solve practical engineering problems.”Consistent with its mission and objectives, the EE curriculum is designed to provide a qualityundergraduate education complemented with extensive hands-on laboratory

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Law; Brian Johnson; Herbert Hess

221. Power flow 4Total number of lessons 45A laboratory requirement emphasizes applications of these introductory topics in power andenergy. For the students who will take no other power and energy courses, this is normally theironly laboratory experience with voltage levels commonly considered to be dangerous. Everystudent continues to learn electrical safety with every lab exercise in this course. The first lab Page 9.945.4 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chi Thai

"teacher-centered" with some elements of"interaction" and "collaboration" between teacher/student and student/student. TheConstructivist paradigm was also adopted because it is the currently dominant school of thought9(at least in the U.S.A. and Western Europe). Description of Instructional FacilitiesThe Spring 04 Machine Vision course will be taught in the BAE Collaborative DistanceEducation (CDE) Laboratory that was developed using Student Technology fees anddepartmental funds. It was operational in Summer 2003 and currently has 30 workstations forstudents and a teacher station connected to an isolated 1.0 Gbps LAN with direct fiber

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jackie Sullivan; Daniel Knight

Session 1392 Women’s Manufacturing Workshop Series that Supports Inclusiveness and Skill Building in Undergraduate Engineering Education Beverly Louie, Daniel W. Knight and Jacquelyn F. Sullivan Women in Engineering Program/Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory and Program College of Engineering and Applied Science University of Colorado at BoulderAbstractDuring the past six years, pre-semester assessments of student skills have revealed a lack of hands-on experience by women students in the First

Conference Session

Related Engineering Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rick Shoemaker

contentsof the curriculum and other curricular matters would be handled by a joint curriculum committeestaffed by faculty from ECE and OSC.The BSOE program was formed by replacing about eight courses in the BSEE with new requiredoptical engineering courses which, after some initial shakedown, evolved into the following setof courses (3-credit semester courses, except 210L and 226L which are each 1-credit): OPTI 210 Geometrical Optics OPTI 210L Geometrical Optics Laboratory OPTI 226 Physical Optics OPTI 226L Physical Optics Laboratory OPTI 342 Fourier Optics OPTI 350 Radiometry, Sources, and Detectors OPTI 370 Lasers and Electro-Optical Devices OPTI

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Murphy; Vincent Capece; John Baker

, in January 2002. The two-dayprogram involved lectures, short research projects, and laboratory work at theengineering campus. Initial lecture material covered the broad mechanical engineeringprofession. Additional presentations included gas turbine engines, alternative energysources (solar and wind), and applications of solid modeling and finite element analysissoftware. Based on the lecture material, students selected a topic, and used web-basedresources to complete a short research paper. One laboratory exercise involvedmeasurement of flow around a golf ball in a wind tunnel, with supervised calculations ofthe aerodynamic drag coefficient using Microsoft Excel software. Another exerciseinvolved each student creating a solid model of a

Conference Session

Computer Literacy Among Minority Students

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Austin Asgill; Willie K. Ofosu

establish future successes of the individual. Inability toperform satisfactorily as a student in the educational process can adversely affect the individual’sfuture.III. Institutional Requirements Computers have revolutionized not only industry, but the education system as well. Apartfrom the ease with which information can be accessed, simulation packages help in demonstratingto students, applications that would otherwise only be viewed in an industrial setting. These are allpossible through the use of computers. The computer can thus be considered as a modern daytool that all students need, if they are to succeed in school. For this reason, many institutionscreate computer laboratories where students can have access to computing

Conference Session

CE Rap Session and Toys in the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronaldo Luna

the liquefactionphenomena and the impact experienced on select recent earthquakes. Additionally, the design ofan experiment demonstration will be completed during the academic year. The device will be afeature laboratory demonstration to inspire students interested in earthquake engineering. Astudent was guided to research the literature on soil liquefaction and performed simple exerciseson how liquefaction occurs. Once the student developed a working knowledge of theliquefaction phenomena the design of a liquefaction demonstration device was initiated. Thestudent developed design drawings (AutoCAD and to scale) to be used in building the device inconjunction with the departmental machinist.IntroductionIn the past two years our society has

Conference Session

Multi-disciplinary Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kris Dick; Don Petkau; Danny Mann; Myron (Ron) Britton

solve. As much as possible, assignment of the design teams by the courseinstructors is based on student topic preference as indicated in a one-page written proposal.Coordination between coursesTo make the Design Trilogy work to its full potential, all three courses have been schedule d inthe same time slot. Lectures are presented in class specific rooms, but the laboratories are heldin a common “design lab” (Note: our design lab is simply a classroom with round tables forefficient group interaction). This scheduling allows coordination between the three courses. Wehave formalized this coordination through four activities; three of which allow the seniorstudents to mentor the junior students. First, the students from all three classes

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman; Gordon Kingsley

modified to address specific school situations.· Student Instruction--STEP Fellows can assist participating teachers with instruction in the classroom. STEP Fellows receive training during the summer as to the importance o f inquiry learning techniques and hands-on experiences for effective learning, and participating teachers are briefed as to the most appropriate instructional situations in which to involve the STEP Fellows. These include hands-on laboratory experiments, group research project work, active group discussions of science topics, and short lectures on content. Teachers are discouraged from having STEP Fellows perform tasks such as grading exams or copying papers.· Student Enrichment and Mentoring--STEP

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Pack; Barry Mullins

1986, a large number of engineeringeducators in universities eagerly embraced and used the controller in digital systems courses.The chief reason behind the enthusiastic acceptance and the continuing use of the controller isdue to a variety of built-in functional units such as I/O ports, timer units, and an analog-to-digitalconverter that allow the educators to easily teach students the fundamental knowledge on how acomputer works while readily incorporating those units in homework and laboratory exercises toenhance student learning 2. Thus, the use of built-in units (as opposed to building and assemblingindividual components) made it possible for educators to concentrate on central issues ratherthan solving problems associated with assembling

Conference Session

The Use of Technology in Teaching Math

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Murat Tanyel

Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationSection IV will introduce the toolkit I developed for the Fall ’02 offering of Diff. Eq. with someexamples. Section V will offer a discussion on this first experience.II. “Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder”LabVIEW is an acronym from the words “Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation EngineeringWorkbench.” This software package is based on the concept of data flow programming and isparticularly suited to test and measurement applications. The three important components of suchapplications are data acquisition, data analysis and data visualization. LabVIEW offers anenvironment which covers these vital components. One basic components of a LabVIEW virtualinstrument (VI – LabVIEW’s term for a

Conference Session

Perceived Quality Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

N. K. Anand; John Weese

faculty in the fourareas. A reception and dinner for the visiting team and the entire faculty occurs Monday eveningat the Faculty Club. The visiting team members caucus afterwards at the hotel.Assistant professors represent the future of the department, so they have a breakfast meeting withthe visiting team members Tuesday morning. The morning is devoted to tours and briefings aboutthe Turbomachinery Research Laboratory, the graduate computing laboratory, and a fewMechanical Engineering faculty research laboratories. A lunch with technicians and selected staffmembers gives the visiting team a view of the department’s infrastructure. The afternoon includesa meeting with the department’s Promotion and Tenure Committee, tours of additional

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Heist; Paul Marnell; Graham Walker

associated with the video component of the course.Virtual Laboratories: these are used to provide alaboratory experience at a distance, by providing thestudents with a number of virtual experiments (Fig.4). The experiments are simulated using LabVIEW,which allowed the non-linearities and stochasticnoise of an actual experiments to be included. In theexperiments the students are presented with a GUIthat looks like the front panel of a signal conditionerfor a transducer (e.g. a strain gauge amplifier) andan output device (e.g. an oscilloscope). The studentsare then asked to perform the experiment byadjusting the various input options and observingthe subsequent result, via the output GUI. They then Fig. 4: The GUI for one of the LabVIEWhave to present

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

John Heydweiller; Huang-Chin Hung

sophisticated instruments to mitigate this problem but the cost ofsuch instruments often prohibits their use in the undergraduate laboratory. This paper presents analternative approach. By developing a transfer function to describe the dynamics of theinstrument, the effect of the instrument can be removed from the data mathematically.The specific application presented in this paper is the collection and analysis of kinetic data forthe alkaline hydrolysis of methyl acetate. For this reaction, the rate can be monitored with aninexpensive pH meter. The transfer function for the meter was determined by fitting theconstants in a second-order, lead-lag model to data from a series of step-change experiments. Itwas assumed that the pH in the batch reactor for

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Mason; Arthur Western

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationV. Technology and Entrepreneurial Development ProgramIn 1996 the Lilly Endowment, Inc. awarded a four-year, $4 million grant to establish theTechnology and Entrepreneurial Development (TED) Program. The goals of the programmirror those articulated by the Rose-Hulman Commission on the Future: (1) increaseindustry-related project opportunities for students and faculty; (2) develop product andprocess development laboratories; (3) establish entrepreneurial internships for students;(4) encourage interdisciplinary teams of faculty and students to work on projects thathave the potential for commercialization of a new product or process.As

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Melinda Gallagher; Jenny Golder; Lawrence Genalo

as elementary school. Elementary (andeven secondary) schoolteachers who have an appreciation for technology will likelyconvey that appreciation to their students. This will, in turn, broaden the horizons ofthese students regarding the opportunities they may have regarding careers in scientificand engineering disciplines. Engineering faculty believe the Toying with Technologycourse is a component of the long-term recruitment of K-12 students, particularlyminorities and women, into technology-based fields3, 4, 5.This course is designed to explain the principles behind many of the technologicalinnovations in wide use today via a collection of hands-on laboratory experiences basedupon simple systems constructed out of LEGOs and controlled by

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Shannon Birk; James Fonda; Christopher C. Ibeh

the term project is embodied in the experimental requirement;the term project requires the student to spend additional time (than the usual laboratory time)working with equipment and instrumentation in the effort to generate data and answers to thequestions raised by the term paper topic. Typically, the student goes through the usuallaboratory exercises with the approach that there is no need for mastery of the instrumentation.The term paper provides a setting to change this; to be able to successfully implement the termproject, the student would need to correctly operate the equipment and instruments. Theinstructor facilitates this by providing specialized training on the equipment and instrumentationfor the term project. This specialized or

Conference Session

Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Omid Ansary; Walter Buchanan; Alireza Rahrooh

unsolved problems from the library. They arealso often encouraged to work together as groups on homework solutions, as typically would beexpected in industry. In the electrical circuits laboratory, each experiment is structured to requirethe students to design the experiment to achieve the goals that complement the correspondingcourse or lectures. Clearly, the ability to design a set of experimental measurements to achievethe specific results is fundamental to engineering practice.During this year of study, the students are also introduced to design concepts and methodology insignals and systems, electronic devices and circuits, and electronic materials. Here, the problems

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Hubing

an on-going assessment component. This project includes a comprehensiveassessment program, which is being carried out under the auspices of University of Missouri –Rolla’s Media Development and Design Laboratory. This assessment is based on a model thathas been employed effectively in other related projects [11, 12]. Some of the fundamental Page 7.720.8 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationthemes of this model are: a) the assessment process is iterative, with assessment ongoing