Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shonda Bernadin, Georgia Southern University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

section describes this paradigm, which is based on the reorganization ofcourse content; and the incorporation of assessments that measure the effectiveness of studentlearning. The results of implementing the model are presented, followed by future courseenhancements and conclusions.A Paradigm for Student AssessmentThe paradigm that was developed for incorporating effective assessments in the introductorysignal-processing course is defined as a three-step process. The underlined theme for creatingappropriate assessments for increased student learning was self-reflection and correction. STEP 1 Course mapping and instructional design

Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Applications

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kim Nankivell, Purdue University-Calumet; Jana Whittington, Purdue University-Calumet; Joy Colwell, Purdue University-Calumet

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Engineering Design Graphics

193 150 132 112 100 63 50 49 12 0 Fall 2000 Fall 2001 Fall 2002 Fall 2003 Fall 2004 Fall 2005 Fall 2006 CGT students Page 12.992.2Table 1. CGT Annual Growth at PUC by number of MajorsThe majority of students in the CGT program at PUC are traditional college age students. TheCGT program offers both Bachelor’s and Associate’s degrees, with options in multimedia, gameand animation, along

Conference Session

Best Practices in Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University; Brandon Moore, Florida Atlantic University; Eiki Martinson, Florida Atlantic University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

thisproject. New designs, more sensors and actuators, better simulation, and enhanced monitoringand control system were put in place. The visitors were invited to be there at 2pm. Despite manyattempts to make the apparatus function nothing worked. At 1:30pm when the first visitorscame…as we were testing a new design... it all worked! Water was boiling violently in theevaporator unit at room temperature, and about one liter of fresh water was produced in less thantwo minutes. What a relief!After the first working experiment In the coming weeks we repeated the experiment and performed additional ones. Weinvited more people and industry representatives to watch the “miracle”. Data were collected

Conference Session

New Approaches to the Development of Online Learning and International Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Batts, East Carolina University; Richard Monroe, East Carolina University; Leslie Pagliari, East Carolina University; Sherion Jackson, East Carolina University; Cheryl McFadden, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

overallhigher education student body growth.1 According to Allen and Seaman, 3.2million students took at least one online course in the fall of 2005. In the fall of2004, this number was 2.3 million and authors state that growth will not level offbut continue to increase. Page 12.1173.2As the offering of distance education programs has grown dramatically over the past decadesome major players have emerged. Among the leaders in distance education are institutions suchas the University of Phoenix, Walden University, Colorado Technical University and a fewothers. As mentioned above, traditional brick and mortar universities have also ventured intodistance education in an

Conference Session

Implementing the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge into Courses and Curricula

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Roberts, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; Christina Curras, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; Philip Parker, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; Michael Penn, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; Max Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

culminates in a capstone design class that is taken in the last se-mester in school. Projects for this class are often solicited from communities and non-profitorganizations, and typically incorporate a service learning component.In reviewing the existing UWP CEE curriculum for this curriculum development project, itbecame clear that the curriculum had not changed significantly in over 20 years. To illustratethis, the curricula from the 1985 and 2005 catalogs are shown in Table 1. The course changesare very minor, and the total revisions made in 20 years to the UWP CEE curriculum consistof the following: replacing Route Layout with Construction Engineering; replacing TechnicalWriting with 3-9 more credits of Social Sciences and Humanities; changing

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education in Engineering Technology

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jinwen Zhu, Missouri Western State University; Virendra Varma, Missouri Western State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

the engineering technology educators. The curriculum and capstone course models discussedin this paper for the delivery of nanotechnology education can serve as a model for the design ofcurriculums in a variety of engineering technology curriculums at the baccalaureate level. Itremains a great challenge for engineering technology educators to develop innovative contentand novel teaching and learning tools for nanotechnology education. It remains equallychallenging to prepare the new generation of engineering workforce for the emerging nanoscaletechnology but it is a challenge that is worth taking, and it is worth taking now.Bibliography[1] www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/nano/reports/BroaderSocIssue.pdf.[2] Zhu, Jinwen and Varma, Virendra. “Charting a

Conference Session

Enhancing K-12 Mathematics Education with Engineering

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Celina Bochis, University of Alabama; Steven Hsia, University of Alabama; Pauline Johnson, University of Alabama; Karen Boykin, University of Alabama; Sandra Wood, University of Alabama; Larry Bowen, University of Alabama; Kevin Whitaker, University of Alabama

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

distribution of the contaminants produced by different land uses, and heavy metals in stormwater.Steven Hsia, University of Alabama Steven Hsia is a graduate student at the University of Alabama working on his Alternative Certification for a Master's Degree in Secondary Education Mathematics. He is currently working with the Environmental Institute, Engineering-Math Advancement Program, and the College of Engineering Freshman Engineering Programs. He earned two Bachelor of Science degrees in Mathematics (Statistical track) and Computer Science in 1999 at the University of Alabama. He worked 5 1/2 years as a Software Engineer for Harris Corporation in Melbourne, FL before returning the

Conference Session

Graduate Education and Undergraduate Research in ET

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jinwen Zhu, Missouri Western State University; Virendra Varma, Missouri Western State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Page 12.234.4school student was encouraged to give input in the design. Primarily, the high schoolstudent concentrated on input design, running simulation, and documentation. The ETstudent acted as a mentor for the high school student during the entire course of theproject.Before the start of the project, the faculty proposed a schedule for the project describingthe time duration and the task to be accomplished during that time duration. The projectwas divided into three stages: • Stage 1: The first stage, preparing stage, ran from week 1 through week 3. The task for this stage included students learning basic knowledge of nanotechnology and basic principles of electronic devices and the simulation. At the start of the

Conference Session

Foster Excellence

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cathy Qian, Alabama A&M University; Zhengtao Deng, Alabama A&M University; George Seweryniak, DoE

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

, activities and outcome werediscussed in the following area: (1) Establishment and enhancement of high performancecomputing laboratory at AAMU; (2) Training of minority graduate and undergraduatestudents in computational science and engineering; (3) DOE Computational Sciencescholarship program at AAMU; and (4) Minority undergraduate summer research interns atthe computational science division of Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL). Outcomeassessment was discussed.IntroductionAccording to the US 1990 census, the total US population was 248,709,873 in 1990. Ofthese, approximately 51% were women, 29,986,060 (or 12%) were African American,22,354,059 (or 9%) Hispanic, and 1,878,285 (or 1%) Native American. In 1995, of the total132 million U.S. civilian labor

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators: Tricks of the Trade I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University; Jason Keith, Michigan Technological University; Donald Visco, Tennessee Technological University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

AC 2007-1126: TIPS FOR NEW FACULTY: ENGAGING YOUR GRADUATESTUDENTS IN INDEPENDENT THOUGHTAdrienne Minerick, Mississippi State UniversityJason Keith, Michigan Technological UniversityDonald Visco, Tennessee Technological University Page 12.1493.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Tips for New Faculty: Engaging Your Graduate Students in Independent Thought Adrienne R. Minerick1, Jason M. Keith2, Donald Visco3 1 Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering Mississippi State University Mississippi State, MS

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Grant, North Carolina State University; Jessica Decuir-Gunby, North Carolina State University; Tuere Bowles, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

, interdisciplinary partnership with the ASEEEngineering Dean’s Council. Page 12.1455.2 1

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Butkus, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

AC 2007-1129: A SMALL-SCALE DESIGN AND BUILD PROJECT INBIOCHEMICAL TREATMENTMichael Butkus, U.S. Military Academy Page 12.114.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007A Small-Scale Design and Build Project in Biochemical TreatmentIntroductionEnvironmental engineers as well as engineers in other engineering disciplines, apply their skillsin a dynamic environment where single solutions are the exception rather than the rule.Additional “significant experiences” are required to help students develop a holistic appreciationfor professional practice issues and including open ended problem solving to prepare them forthe workplace.1 Such experiences should relate course material to

Conference Session

Student Teams and Project-Based Learning

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam Carberry, Tufts University; Merredith Portsmore, Tufts University; Chris Rogers, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

sucha claim. Through a series of attitudinal surveys, knowledge assessments, and observationsfocused on the individuals’ experience and the engineering design process, the effects of ateaching experience.IntroductionEngineering is an active discipline and therefore should be taught actively. At the undergraduatelevel, this active aspect is typically lost among the countless hours spent within the classroom,learning through lecture, reading, and abstract thinking. Over the past two decades, engineeringeducation has begun to move away from employing passive teaching methodologies towardmore active approaches. This movement is guided by published principles [1], theories [2-4], andguidelines [5, 6] that assert that good practice in undergraduate

Conference Session

MIND - Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gholam Ali Shaykhian, NASA; Rhoda Baggs, Florida Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

via dynamic binding or late binding.Dynamic binding eliminates the implementation of the look up table when similarfunctionality is required.Object Oriented Methodology and Design Patterns to Refactor Software DesignAn intrinsic property of software in a real-world environment is its need to evolve.Software evolution concerns every phase of the software life cycle: the requirementsphase through the maintenance phase. The traditional software life cycle includes phasesfor software requirements, implementation, testing and maintenance. Software evolutionmay involve 1) introducing new behavior in which case it is considered a maintenanceactivity; 2) modifying and extending the existing software design behavior in which caseill posed requirements

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Shawn Addington, Virginia Military Institute; Wilbur Dale, Virginia Military Institute; Isaac Putnam, Virginia Military Institute

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

carry themajority of the charge when electric current flows in the n-type material. On the other hand,doping a semiconductor with p-type acceptor material (which has only three electrons in theouter shell) results in holes in the valence band. Because there are more holes in the valenceband than there are electrons in the conduction band, the majority charge carriers of p-typematerial are holes.1When current flows through these semiconductors in a magnetic field the charged particles tendto push to one side of the conductor or the other. The resulting voltage difference can bemeasured perpendicular to the current flow. The transverse voltage across a semiconductor iscalled the Hall Effect.2 See Figure 1.The primary difficulty in building this

Conference Session

Mechanics Division Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raghu Echempati, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

examinations. When once acommon syllabus has been agreed up on, identifying the course learning objectives(CLOs or SLOs) has become an easier task. The goal was to have these CLOs simple andless in number. The following CLOs have been identified for this course along with theMechanical Engineering Program Outcomes (ME POs) and weightage. Notice that thetotal weightage of the ME POs under each CLO adds up to 100%. Finally, certain POsare common for each CLO, thus satisfying those outcomes to a great extent.Course Learning Objectives:Objective 1: Apply the principles of Statics to determine the forces and moments on load carrying members. [ME POs a (35%), c (30%), e (30%), and i (5%)]Objective 2: Analyze the stresses in load carrying members

Conference Session

Perspectives for Women Faculty

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicole Hawkes, WiSE / University of Southern California; Jean Morrison, University of Southern California; Cauligi Raghavendra, University of Southern California

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Women in Engineering

Viterbi School in thatperiod are distributed rather evenly over 6 departments: 3 in Computer Science, 2 in Industrialand Systems Engineering, and 1 each in Electrical, Biomedical, Civil and Environmental, andAerospace and Mechanical Engineering. Women faculty now represent 7% of the 170 T/TTengineering faculty, which is just below the national average of ~10%.2The Departments of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Physics & Astronomy,Mathematics and Kinesiology comprise the WiSE-eligible areas of the USC College of Letters,Arts and Sciences. In 2000, there were 12 women T/TT faculty members in these departments.Since the inception of WiSE, 13 new faculty were hired in College, 10 of which joined thedepartment of Biological

Conference Session

Design Projects

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Farris, Grand Valley State University; Paul Lane, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

world, innovative,multi-disciplinary product design and build projects. More than developingproducts, the program desires to develop business opportunities that will lead tolocal economic development. To implement these projects, the followingchallenges had to be overcome: 1. A stream of innovative product ideas had to be generated and sustained. 2. Since the products are innovative, the program had to be able to deal with the partial success of a product prototype or concept. 3. The interdisciplinary nature of product development had to be replicated in the functionally divided university setting which contained significant opposition to classes that integrated different

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Livingston, Virginia Military Institute

processor; the second microcontroller isdesignated as the I/O processor. Once the decision was made to use two ATmega128’s, the I/Ointerfaces had to be partitioned between the microcontrollers and a communication protocolbetween the microcontrollers had to be established. Communication is performed via the serialperipheral interface (SPI) which is part of the ATmega128 architecture. Since I/O devices areinherently asynchronous, handshaking is used for time-efficiency and data loss prevention. Ablock diagram of the Koios I organization is shown in Figure 1. Figure 1. Koios I organization. Page 12.23.4Digital I/O is

Conference Session

Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

C. Diane Matt, WEPAN

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

first 12 years are measurable as there are now more than 85 Womenin Engineering Programs in colleges and universities in the United States working to increase therepresentation of women of all ethnicities in engineering. Through the extended WEPANnetwork of mentoring and training activities, institutional change has taken place with thousandsof women students benefiting. Page 12.1604.2 1 of 8WEPAN’s accomplishments from 1990-2002 were concentrated in four areas of focus andimpact: 1) Providing education, training and mentoring for Women in Engineering/Science Program Directors from engineering

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farhad Azadivar, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; Bradley Kramer, Kansas State University

, faculty, and the general public.Myth #1: If you build it, they will comeMany leaders of the university and the community believe that if the university starts a centerthat has access to the faculty expertise and laboratory and other facilities that the industry couldutilize, the private sector will break the doors to get in and use the services. This, unfortunately,is not true. There are two classes of gaps between the industry and the university environments: Page 12.1247.6Cultural Gaps and Motivational Gaps.Cultural GapsThe list and comparison of some of the cultural differences are given in Table 1. Table 1: Cultural Differences

Conference Session

EMD Program Design

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cassandra Elrod, University of Missouri; Ashley Rasnic, University of Missouri; William Daughton, University of Missouri

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

factors, and improvement. The distribution of terminology as they appeared ininstitutional program definitions can be seen in Tables 1, 2 and 3. For example, the term“engineering” appeared in five out of five B.S.E.M. definitions while the term “technology”appeared in only three out of five B.S.E.M. definitions. Page 12.644.4 Table 1: Bachelor of Science in Engineering Management 5 Definitions 4 Definitions 3 Definitions 2 Definitions 1 Definition Engineering People Technology

Conference Session

NAFP Panel Discussion

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohan Aggarwal, Alabama A&M University; Benjamin Penn, NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center; Ravindra Lal, Alabama A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Team. Dr. Lal was a major contributor in the establishment of the M.S. and Ph.D. programs in Optics/Lasers and Materials Science at AAMU. He played a significant role in the winning proposal from the National Science Foundation Center on Nonlinear Optics and Materials and served as one of the PI's for this $1 million/year center. During his tenure at AAMU Dr. Lal has obtained over $7 million in research funding. Presently, he is a principal investigator for grants from DOE, Air Force, and NSF. He has served as conference chairs for many SPIE (International Society for Optical Engineering) conferences. He is served as a co-chair in 2004 of the SPIE Presidential Advisory

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Wronecki, East Tennessee State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

can be remembered using the acronym –IDEAS A+ (Wronecki, 1999). The symbolsand letters in -IDEAS A+ stand for the stages in the author’s design process which are: –analyze,Identify, Design, Explore, Arrange, Sequence, Assess, and Synergize + (Wronecki, 2004). Inacademic practice the process is linear and it theoretically can be approached iteratively as onecan jump forward or iterate back to a previous stage. However, to be efficient andcomprehensive, it is important to complete the task in each stage before moving forward.Students however, often tend to want to skip various steps and jump ahead to a final solution.The visual design thinking project is broken down into seven biweekly stages, cited above,depicted in figure 1, and described in

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II: Practical Perspectives on Teaching and Assessment

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Jernquist, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; David Godfrey, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Todd Taylor, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

to interpretation. By sharp contrast, readers in engineering fields expectstraightforward information concisely and unemotionally expressed in passive verbs and clearsentences. While concepts such as audience and purpose guide writers’ choices about form, styleand diction within a discipline, the terms for responding to writing and its processes remain thesame.1 For example, while writers learn in their expository writing classes to vary diction, theyneed to learn in engineering writing to repeat technical terms, as technical terms have few or nosynonyms. In electrical engineering “power” and “authority” are not the same thing, no matterwhat the thesaurus says. Adjusting to opposing disciplinary expectations is especiallytroublesome for

Conference Session

Innovative Instruction Strategies in Calculus

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elton Graves, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

equations and modeling. Day Seventeen: Projectile motion, linear differential equations. Day Eighteen: Line integrals, work, and flux. Day Nineteen: Double integrals. Day Twenty: Centers of mass, moments of inertia. Day Twenty-one: Triple integrals. Day Twenty-two: Moments in space and change of coordinate systems. Day Twenty-three: Area of polar curves cylindrical coordinates. Page 12.1324.4 Day Twenty-four: Spherical coordinates. Day Twenty-five: Final exam.Weekly ScheduleIn order to cover all the material each day is tightly organized. The students are in classfrom 8:05 AM until 12:00 noon and from 1

Conference Session

Laboratories and Computer Simulation in BME

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo; Daniel Cavanagh

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

AC 2007-1170: A PROJECT-DRIVEN APPROACH TO BIOMEDICAL SIGNALSAND SYSTEMSJoseph Tranquillo, Bucknell UniversityDaniel Cavanagh, Bucknell University JOSEPH V TRANQUILLO is an assistant professor of biomedical and electrical engineering at Bucknell University. Dr. Tranquillo teaches courses primarily in bioinstrumentation. His research focuses on theoretical and computational models of electrical activity in the heart. Page 12.101.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Biomedical Signals and Systems Design Course 1 A Project-Driven Approach to Biomedical

Conference Session

Perceptions of Women's Success in STEM

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Catherine Claiborne, University of Washington; Suzanne G. Brainard, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

weresubsequently assigned a code to make the responses more secure and confidential.Each question that was asked was related to one or more of the main factors in the literatureregarding institutionalization. The main interview questions asked included: Page 12.751.6QUESTION 1. What successful or top three programs, processes, and/or policies developed byADVANCE have been adopted by your university or college? (value, diffusion)QUESTION 2. How are these ADVANCE initiatives being funded? (value, leadership, stability)QUESTION 3. Were there any ADVANCE programs, processes, and/or policies that you wouldhave liked to see adopted but were not? (value

Conference Session

Innovation in Construction Engineering Education II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gunnar Lucko, Catholic University of America; Panagiotis Tsopelas, Catholic University of America; Timothy Garland, Catholic University of America; Rodrigo Gonzalez, Catholic University of America; Thomas Lee, Catholic University of America; Justin Molineaux, Catholic University of America

Tagged Divisions

Construction

sustainability.Since then the faculty members have taken steps towards developing such programs, beginningwith offering the “Sustainable Development Principles and Practice” course that coverssustainable development, international practices, policy, and ethics and complements the“Construction Systems and Planning” and “Civil Engineering Systems Management” coursewhere engineering and architecture students create a detailed proposal for a semi-realistic teamproject (1). Subsequently, a task group examined the feasibility of further courses. A new studentchapter of EWB has been founded at the university, which crystallizes the interest of theengineering students in bringing their skills to developing regions and which is enjoying anexceptionally active group of

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques in Mechanics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rick Williams, East Carolina University; William Howard, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

materials is $500).In addition, we present the details of five experiments that can be performed utilizing the device.For each experiment, we provide the objective, procedure, and recommended data analysis. Thefive experiments are: 1) Particle Equilibrium: Tension Components in Cables of IndependentLengths; 2) Particle Equilibrium: Tension Components in Cables of Equal Lengths; 3) ParticleEquilibrium: Equilibrium Position of a Pulley System; 4) Rigid Body Equilibrium: Tension ina Cable; and 5) Friction: Friction Force as a Function of Contact Angle. Each experiment canbe compared to a theoretical analysis with good agreement, providing the student with a hands-on experience to advance the student’s understanding of these