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Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

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Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Kauser Jahan; Paris von Lockette; Linda Head

Engineering havecommon engineering clinic classes throughout their programs of study, in which undergraduateswork in teams on hands-on open-ended projects. The primary goal of Rowan University'sengineering clinic classes is to involve students in multidisciplinary design/research projects thatteach engineering principles in both laboratory and real-world settings. The clinics furtherencourage students to address environmentally conscious design and issues related to sustainabledevelopment. The Sophomore Clinic students work on a semester -long design project everyyear. Faculty drawn from all engineering disciplines teach the course. The design project forFall of 2001 was to design, build and test a semi-autonomous robot that uses power provided

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Unique Lab Experiments

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Michael Voon; F.C. Lai; Chean Chin Ngo

, the availability of internet and the advancement in the multimediatechnology have provided tremendous opportunities for educators to revolutionize the teaching-learning enterprise and to improve the quality of engineering education. However, most of theweb-based courseware or online classes are mainly devoted to lecture-type courses. Web-basedcourseware for laboratories is still limited and apparently deserves more attention.Web-based lab courseware offers many additional advantages over regular courseware. First, itprovides an easy access for students to preview/review the course materials. Particularly, afterpreview the lab assignment with demonstration through the web, students will be able to conducttheir experiment more efficiently and

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Real-World Manufacturing Education

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Attila Yaprak; Ece Yaprak; Mulchand Rathod

received her Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Wayne State University in 1989.Prior to joining WSU’s Division of Engineering Technology in 1993, she taught at Western MichiganUniversity, and held technical positions at General Electric, Ford Motor Company, NASA (Lewis, JetPropulsion Laboratory, and Ames Research Center) and Navy (SPAWAR). Her areas of interest includecomputer networks and communications where she has published a number of papers. She has receivedexcellence in teaching awards from ET Division and the College of Engineering. She has received fundingfrom NSF and other organizations for her scholarly work.Attila Yaprak: Attila Yaprak, Ph.D. is a Professor of Marketing and International Business at Wayne StateUniversity. He is a

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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Laura Bottomley; Aaron Clark

cluster identified knowledge and skills need for all levels of manufacturing from planning to final products and related support activities. 14. Marketing, Sales, and Service- Guidelines were developed for the planning and managing of marketing activities to reach organizational objectives. 15. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics- The cluster developed guidelines to be used for curricula development in the four areas including laboratory research and development services. 16. Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics- This cluster defined careers from the planning and management of movement of people and goods, to support and logistic services related to

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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Wade Driscoll

, conclusions, and suggestions for future work.2. Context of the InvestigationThe investigation focused on the course Simulation of Industrial Engineering Systems10 that thisauthor taught in the Fall 2001 semester. The course, which requires extensive computations,meets in a computer laboratory. An ideal class requires students (i) to acquire new knowledge ina lecture/recitation mode of operation, (ii) to collaborate with classmates in developingmathematical models relevant to a problem scenario, (iii) to implement their models onmicrocomputers, (iv) to exercise those models, and (v) to interpret results from those exercises.Thus the format for classroom conduct conditions students to accept computer use as a normalpart of their classroom

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Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

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Thomas Mason

-Residence program to bring inventorswho were struggling to commercialize their inventions to work with students and facultyin laboratories and independent work. There were also a number of initiatives foroutreach to existing technology-based industry, especially in the area of optics. Later the Page 8.696.1Center for Applied Optics Studies expanded into the Technology Assistance and ServicesCenter which provided expertise for projects related to most of the campus’ technicaldisciplines. Curriculum restructuring reinforced these efforts by moving towardrequirements or at least strong suggestions that all students complete an externallysponsored project as

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Improving Communication Skills in ME

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Robert Chasnov

began expanding its programs from the traditional liberal arts programs toinclude education, business, nursing, and in 1990, engineering. The state of Ohio authorized the twomost popular engineering majors at that time, electrical and mechanical, for baccalaureate degreeprograms. Now a university, the 400-acre campus is home to about 3000 undergraduate and graduatestudents. Page 8.630.1 -1-MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AT CEDARVILLEThe mechanical engineering (ME) curriculum at Cedarville emphasizes hands-on experience boththrough many laboratory courses (13 total) and competition projects. The

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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Sridhar Condoor

on system designand implementation aspects.Curriculum InformationThe curriculum involves two courses: Mechatronics, a required course for the MEstudents, and Advanced Mechatronics, a technical elective. For both courses, studentsmeet for two lectures and one lab each week. The lectures are held in the MechatronicsProjects Laboratory. As a result, students are surrounded by mechatronics equipment.The hardware provokes intellectual curiosity before and after the lectures and and also,handy for illustration. Students typically work in groups of three or four on the projectassignments.The lab equipment includes two dedicated conveyors (built in-house), two MicroLogixcontroller-based motor control stations, two Mitsubishi robots with Flexmation

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Instrumentation and Control Applications

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Andrew Koffman; Bryan Waltrip; Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic

education. In particular the major concentrates oncontrol of electrical, computer and mechanical systems. In addition to several tracks, students havethe opportunity to independently research a field of interest. This is a great opportunity for teachersand students to pursue more in-depth analyses. This paper will describe one such experiment in thefield of metrology.Very often engineering laboratories at undergraduate schools are well equipped with power supplies,signal generators, oscilloscopes and general-purpose multimeters. This set allows teachers andstudents to set up test-beds for most of the basic electronics circuits studied in different engineeringtracks. Modern instrumentation is in general user-friendly and students like using the

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Jay Porter; James Ochoa; Rainer Fink

well as interdisciplinary projects in meeting their goals. This paperdescribes several examples of collaborative research efforts and their benefits.II. Examples of collaborative efforts among EET faculty.In 1998, the EET Program, through Dr. Fink, created a state-of-the-art mixed signal test researchfacility that is unique among universities. The laboratory, established through a significantfinancial donation by Texas Instruments and equipment donation by Teradyne, yields numerousbenefits to the EET Program and semiconductor test engineering community. Texas Instrumentshas realized benefits through research results and greater access to engineers that are moreprepared for semiconductor test positions. The nature of the partnership with TI

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Bruce Segee; Isaac Horn

Page 6.286.4 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationISAAC HORNIsaac Horn is a sophomore at the University of Maine majoring in electrical engineering and is a Butler Scholarworking in the ECE Department’s Instrumentation Research Laboratory. In addition to working on the computerbuilding seminar, he has developed a line of web-based teaching tools for an introductory engineering class that healso acts as a teaching assistant for.BRUCE SEGEEBruce E. Segee is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maine. Hisresearch interests include Instrumentation

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Susan Lord

engineers at USD. The Page 6.303.1class meets for three fifty-five minute periods per week and uses William D. Callister’s Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationtextbook.5 The course covers materials fundamentals, electrical, magnetic, and mechanicalproperties. Some active learning exercises are included during the lecture. Although no lab isscheduled, during the past three years, the instructor has included one laboratory experiment.6Formal course objectives were also incorporated for the first

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Natalie Smith; Julie Greenberg

Session 1609 Design of a module for teaching/learning spectral analysis Natalie T. Smith, Julie E. Greenberg Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology/ Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAbstractThis work concerns the design of a module for teaching/learning spectral analysis with emphasison biomedical applications. The module design is based on the principles of the “How PeopleLearn” framework as embodied in the STAR Legacy model. This model

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Jonathan Barnett; Holly Ault

campus and meetweekly with their faculty advisors and most often use WPI laboratories and shops unless theproject requires use of special facilities at the sponsoring company. Company liaisons are availableto answer questions and guide the project, but do not typically work closely with the students on aday-to-day basis. Students present quarterly progress reports to their sponsoring companies.When students conduct projects at the sponsor’s site, technical advice is provided by the companyliaison. Thus, the liaison must not only have the requisite technical knowledge to guide theproject, but must also have an understanding of the educational objectives of the project program.Students must be allowed to work on the project as professionals, but

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Nolan Hertel; Heather Gepford

wasadministered as specified in the accompanying directions. The proctor returns the completedexam to CDL by fax or mail.Laboratory courses must also be taken by distance learning students. The laboratory portion ofthe class is handled in one of two ways: the students travel to the campus to perform labs on twoor three intense weekends or, if they live near appropriate facilities, they may be able to completeall the experiments at their home location.Although the CDL plays a pivotal role in the video MSHP program, the course instructor isaccessible to the student. Contact may be made directly with the instructor or other facultymembers by telephone, e-mail, and fax.II. MSHP SpecificsAt Georgia Tech, the NRE/HP program is housed within the George W

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Andrew Rose

civil and structural engineering in their positions withPEA.My week for teaching the course went quickly. The days typically ran from 8:30 in the morninguntil 4:30 in the afternoon. Morning and afternoon breaks and a sit-down lunch were as importantto the Thai engineers as the lectures and workshops. The lunch was catered and the food wascooked in the open hallways and stairways of the building. The first day began with anintroductory ceremony by Sanguan Tungdajahirun, PEA Assistant Governor of Planning andSystem Development. Group photographs with the students followed. Then we had a coffeebreak. Finally by late morning, we got down to business.The class was assigned to a small computer laboratory with 16 computers. Outside some of thelarger

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William Marcy; Marion Hagler; Juan Ramirez; Jose Tamborero

industry. Texas Instruments and other cooperating semiconductor companies,such as Applied Materials, have supported the development of a successful program insemiconductor product engineering at Texas Tech University. This master’s degree programincludes several specialized courses and laboratories that are not easily reproduced in theirentirety. For each student, it also includes a generous fellowship and an internship in thesemiconductor industry during which the student, faculty, and engineers in industry worktogether to identify an appropriate MS thesis topic and an appropriate person in industry to helpsupervise the thesis work.The dual-degree agreement between Prairie View A&M University and Texas Tech Universitypermits students to earn

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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Massood Atashbar

and control. This is notsimply a recent phenomenon; it has been true for years.The SolutionAt WMU a new course entitled Engineering of Real Time Systems has been introduced in whichwe conduct high-level software engineering projects as applied to data acquisition,communications and control systems. This course is a standard three-credit offering with noofficial laboratory component. However, as is often the case in engineering courses, there is aconsiderable amount of outside work writing programs and working with instrumentation by thestudents in an open laboratory environment. In general we found that not only did the studentsdo very well, but they genuinely liked the course, the material and the way in which it wasconducted. This is

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Robert P. Hesketh; Stephanie Farrell

plot of the release profileof drug from their lozenge is created. Finally they determine the parameter necessary to apply amodel to their system, and they compare their experimental release profile to that described bythe model.IntroductionRowan University is pioneering a progressive and innovative Engineering program that usesinnovative methods of teaching and learning to prepare students better for a rapidly changing andhighly competitive marketplace, as recommended by ASEE[1]. Key features of the programinclude: (i) multidisciplinary education through collaborative laboratory and course work; (ii) Page 5.405.1teamwork as the necessary

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Chi-Wook Lee

measurements, signalconditioning, and signal processing. The measured mechanical properties through lab exercisesinclude temperature, pressure, strain, and frequency of dynamic systems.Since the outputs of the sensors/transducers used for the lab exercises are voltages, a digitalmultimeter or an oscilloscope is utilized as a readout device. Then, students convert the basic labexercises to computer-based data acquisition systems using their own LabVIEW programs tomeasure and calibrate the sensor/transducer outputs. LabVIEW is short for LABoratory VirtualInstrument Engineering Workbench. LabVIEW programs are called virtual instruments (VIs)and a VI has three main parts: (1) the front panel for the interactive user interface, (2) the blockdiagram as

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David S. Cottrell

on • Apply the general analysis procedure to analyze stress, strain, and deformation on structural members subjected to axial, torsion, bending, and combined loads. structural members subjected to axial, torsion, bending, and combined loads. • Apply the design process to designing structural members subjected to axial, • Apply the design process to designing structural members subjected to axial, torsion, and bending loads. torsion, and bending loads. • Perform the simple tension test and pure torsion test on engineering materials in • Perform the simple tension test and pure torsion test on engineering materials in the laboratory and construct the associated stress-strain curves

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W. Ed Howard; Stephen Rather; Joseph C. Musto

process. These included: • Decubing: This involves the removal of excess material around the basic part, which is a function of the rapid prototyping process. Simple tools, such as screwdrivers and hobbyist knives, are required. Figure 3 details this process. • Sanding and Sealing: The decubed parts would eventually be painted and decorated by the students. A necessary preliminary process involved a light hand-sanding operation, followed by the brush application of an acrylic sealant. These hands-on activities allowed the students to experience the hands-on laboratory component to the engineering profession, while also allowing the students a chance to work and socialize in an open environment. 2. Internal

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Duff

adverse student reaction toward structuring the course too muchtoward Internet content was also evident in other ASEE 2001 Internet course content papers. As aresult, the course has been further modified in the recent semesters to re-establish more traditionalinstructor-student classroom activities. Teaching assistant led computer laboratories and help sessionshave been added. In the current semester live lecture and group participation activities have beenreintroduced.This paper builds on the previous paper by presenting additional statistical comparisons from the currentmore balanced approach course and by discussing some of the changed approaches to teaching thecourse.II. Group PresentationsThe class was divided into groups of four to five

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kendrick Aung

withthese tools in their studies. This paper describes the integration of computational tools in anEngineering Thermodynamics course at Lamar University in order to emphasize the design andanalysis phases of the curriculum. The computational tools employed for the course includeCyclePad, a virtual laboratory software for analyzing thermodynamic power and refrigerationcycles, PsyCalc, a psychrometric calculator to determine the properties of air-vapor mixtures,and Gaseq, a chemical equilibrium program to solve equilibrium properties of gases involvingchemical reaction. The reactions of students to the use of these computational tools in theircoursework have been very positive. The main benefits for the students are improvedunderstanding and insight

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Educational Trends in Engineering

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Steven Mickelson

experience the probability that a student or graduate would have, on average,to actually take those key actions in seven settings: the engineering workplace, the cooperativeeducation/internship workplace, the traditional classroom, the laboratory, the capstone designcourse, professional-related extracurricular activity and non-profession related extra curricularactivities. Examples of these results are illustrated for two ISU Competencies in Figures 5-6.Figure 5. The opportunity to develop and demonstrate analysis & judgmentFigure 6. The opportunity to develop and demonstrate communication Page 7.1292.6“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for

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Innovative Lab and Hands-on Projects

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Anna Dollar; Paul Steif

student is told to maintain the orientation ofhis or her end of the shaft. A fifth student approaches and cuts one of the shafts somewhere alongits length. The two parts of the cut shaft is seen to untwist, suggesting that previously there was“something” acting across the cut surface. The fifth student returns and, while the four studentsare maintaining the original orientation of their ends of the shaft, applies torques to theneighboring ends of the cut segments, bringing them to the same orientation. The fifth student isseen to be functioning as the internal torque.2b.Relating applied loads and internal loads:These laboratory activities are aimed at getting students to see that applied loads and internalloads are distinct, but can be related

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Naseem Ishaq; Salahuddin Qazi

fTechnology, has introduced a number of software packages to prepare the students forthe changing industrial environment. Some of these packages are reviewed below:LABVIEW 3 of National Instruments was first implemented in 1986 by providing agraphical tool for measurements tasks in the area of laboratory automation. It containsan extensive library of functions, libraries for data acquisition, data presentation anddata storage. Its four basic operations include virtual instruments, front panels, bl ockdiagrams and icon and connectors.SIMULINK of MathWorks 4 Inc., provides a graphical block diagram simulationenvironment for modeling, simulating, and analyzing dynamic systems. It can be usedto build graphical block diagrams, evaluate system performance

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wilson ruggiero; regina silveira; itana stiubiener

SãoPaulo, Brazil. She is teacher and researcher at LARC (Laboratory of Computer Architectureand Networks) where she has developed projects at multimedia applications for high-speednetwork and distance educationWilson Vicente RuggieroWilson Vicente Ruggiero is President of SCOPUS TECNOLOGIA S.A. He is an assistantprofessor of Computer Department and Digital Systems Engineering of Polytechnic Schoolof University of São Paulo and Director of Laboratory of Computer and Networks ( LARC)of Polytechnic School University of São Paulo .He received his degree in ElectricalEngineering in 1971 in University of São Paulo. His B.S degree in 1975 in University ofSão Paulo and his PhD by UCLA University in 1978

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Binaya Acharya; Bruce Segee

Session 2559 A Web-Enabled Distributed Door Entry System Binaya Acharya (email:bacharya@eece.maine.edu), Dr Bruce E. Segee (email:segee@eece.maine.edu) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instrumentation Research laboratory, University of Maine.AbstractThis integrated security system that monitors and controls the access to a particularroom/area was created as a demonstration of a typical distributed, web-enabled industrialapplication. It utilizes a bar code scanner, a data terminal, a PC at the door and another asa database and web

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James Barrott

. This test comes at the completion of a course and it is independent of thecourse grade. To receive promotions, employees must pass each skill test.Chattanooga State instructors teaching at Dupont had to be flexible and coordinate studentprogress with each other because Dupont students attending a laboratory section on Mondaymorning the first week may attend a Tuesday evening section the next week and a Thursdayafternoon section the next.Appendix A lists the technical courses in each of the programs5. Completers of these programsreceive certificates. Those Dupont employees wanting to complete an Associate degree musttake additional general education courses on the Chattanooga State campus.In the fall 1999 semester, 66 student FTE’s were