Conference Session

Computer Assisted Data Acquisition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Yi-Wei Huang; Nikos Kiritsis; David Ayrapetyan

Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationschool. McNeese’s commitment to undergraduate engineering education is shown by: a) limitingenrollment in engineering courses to 25 students, b) limiting enrollment in senior design coursesto 10 students, c) exclusively assigning professional faculty to teach engineering courses andlaboratories (no graduate students) and d) constantly upgrading the courses to incorporate newtechnologies.This paper describes one of our attempts to incorporate state-of-the-art technology andinstrumentation in a number of undergraduate mechanical engineering courses. Cantilever beamsunder harmonic excitation are traditionally used in undergraduate

Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Camilla Saviz; Kurt Schulz

experiments, while an open-ended project may be introduced to require design, development, and testing of anexperiment once students are familiar with the laboratory and have gained theappropriate laboratory and analysis skills.Incorporating design projects in laboratory courses meets several criteria defined by theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology for engineering programs [1]. Bycompleting such projects, students enhance their abilities to apply knowledge ofmathematics, science, and engineering (3a); analyze and interpret data (3b); design asystem, component, or process to meet desired needs (3c); function on multi-disciplinary teams (3d); identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems (3e);communicate effectively (3g); and use

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Herrick; J. Michael Jacob; Jeffrey Richardson

Session 3448 Retention Through a Coordinated Spiral Curriculum Robert J. Herrick, James Michael Jacob, Jeffrey J. Richardson Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Department Purdue UniversityAbstractThe Electrical Engineering Technology (EET) Program of Purdue University at West Lafayette,Indiana implemented significant curriculum change in the fall of 1996. The focus of the changewas to produce a relevant coordinated curriculum to optimize the students’ learning process andprovide a curriculum path that retained qualified students rather than filtering them

Conference Session

Advancing Thermal Science Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Furey; Eugene Brown

thermodynamics of thermals, fuel cells, hydroelectric power production, marine steam and diesel propulsion, wind power, hybrid engine technology, drilling for oil in Alaska, space shuttle propulsion, the role of oceans in climate, space vehicle heating in re- entry, thermodynamics of metabolism, Scramjet engines, global warming, superconducting motors, nuclear power and the environment, heat transfer in neonates, alternative fuel solutions the Kyoto Protocol, power turbines, ramjet propulsion, snow ski manufacture, bus transportation and diesel fuels, ocean thermal energy conversion, nitrogen oxide emissions, energy-based design methods, gas turbine engines in aircraft, the Cassini Space Probe, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics, and

Conference Session

Mentoring, Outreach, & Intro BME Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

E. Duco Jansen; Sean P. Brophy; Stacy Klein; Patrick Norris; Ming Wang, Vanderbilt University

interactive simulations and animations was used to conduct ‘virtual experiments’, inwhich data collected from simulations was then used to convey physical concepts; and 2) real-time, formative, in class assessment. New principles of learning and instruction highlight the need to engage students in thoughtfuluse of knowledge. However, engaging individual engineering students in large classroomssimultaneously can be challenging. Technology such as classroom communication systemsencourages students to apply conceptual ideas during class, by allowing them to respond toquestions using hand held devices, and by displaying an aggregate of responses to the instructorand/or the class. This real time feedback provides a valuable way of measuring progress

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dr. Maria Kreppel; Max Rabiee

disciplines.One example of this reflective practice may be seen in a variety of “laboratory” projects. Studentsin Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET) and Mechanical EngineeringTechnology (MET) often design and build prototypes for actual laboratory apparatus that is fullyinstrumented and used by faculty in subsequent years. These “Senior Design” products resultfrom students evaluating their own laboratory learning experiences, identifying gaps in thelearning sequence, and using their capstone projects to address current student needs and developfuture learning opportunities.1Many direct learning measures characterize the CAS capstone curriculum. The faculty advisorsgive ongoing, portfolio-style assessment of students’ work as it evolves

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Dean; Carol Considine

, discuss, problem solve and engage higher-order thinking taskssuch as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.2 The implementation of active learning exercises indistance education classes may help establish student rapport and enhance the feeling ofcommunity among the students in a distance education environment.In distance education instruction, it is more difficult to establish student rapport and get studentfeedback from the remote students than from those in the traditional campus setting. OldDominion University delivers junior and senior level engineering technology elective courses usingone-way video and two-way audio. The limitations of this delivery system compound theproblems of establishing student rapport due to the geographical disparity

Conference Session

Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Hefley; James Lookadoo; Randy Winzer

about 6000 students, the university has colleges of liberal arts, education, business,and technology. The EET program has an approximate enrollment of fifty-five and is one of fiveprograms comprising the Department of Engineering Technology. The rural environment andabsence of local high-tech industries present significant funding and educational challenges for ourEET program. Additionally, institutional support is sparse. However, the three-person faculty isrelatively autonomous, and functions as a well-knit team. Significant concerns for standards andquality are hallmarks of our program.Prior to our TC2K conversion, individual faculty members owned their courses. As a result,management of the program and curriculum tended to be reactive in

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Goolsby

Technological University has made it possible for the faculty toimplement fully online courses and courses with online components. The WebCT software is acourse management system that enables the institution-wide delivery of online courses. WebCTincludes a set of teaching and learning tools, supported by customization and personalizationcapabilities, student performance tracking features, and content management. The BE 1120Programming for Engineers course taught in the Basic Engineering Program at Tennessee Techhas been made available to students as a fully online course. The traditional BE 1120 lecture/labformat course seemed appropriate for implementation as an online course for two major reasons.Programming is text based and thus lends itself to

Conference Session

Electrical ET Labs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Cecil Beeson

thesestudents pass through the Electrical Engineering Technology (EET) program, they construct theircircuits and typically view the PC only as an analytical tool to solve engineering problems. Ofcourse, in the real world, PCs are capable of controlling all types of devices.After reading about parallel port programming (PPP) in a magazine a few months ago, the authorof this article did some research and decided to introduce students in a Digital Systems course tothis fascinating concept. The response from the students was impressive.Value to EET StudentsThe value of using PCs in this manner is significant. EET students can grow in, minimally, fivedimensions of technology: • Continue to develop skills through traditional studies in the EET area

Conference Session

Computer Assisted Data Acquisition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

engineers in industrialpositions. In addition, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)accreditation criteria requires that graduates of engineering programs possess “an ability todesign and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data” [4] and “an ability todesign a system, component or process to meet desired needs” [4]. To meet the requirements ofthis ABET accreditation criteria, the faculty of the mechanical engineering program at IndianaUniversity-Purdue University Fort Wayne has begun the development of DBT experiments in allrequired laboratories of the mechanical engineering program. The faculty believes that thisapproach would enhance and add another dimension to the teaching/learning experience in

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Manuel Toledo-Quinones

Rico. In brief, the main objectives of Page 8.458.1the program are to: Proceedings of the 2003American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session 27931. educate and train local professionals with expertise in high-technology areas related to TU’s multi-modal mass transport system,2. strengthen the university’s educational and research in disciplines related to infrastructure development,3. establish a model for cross

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Berry; Patricia Carlson

Session 2793 Using Calibrated Peer Review™ to Mediate Writing and to Assess Instructional Outcomes Patricia A. Carlson, Frederick C. Berry, and David Voltmer Department of Humanities and Social Sciences / Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Terre Haute, Indiana 47803Writing in Engineering EducationThe written word is crucial to engineering for at least two compelling reasons. First, the texts ofengineering – publications that report findings or describe

Conference Session

Current Environmental Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ishrat Mirzana; Ali Ansari

Session No # 2151 THE “NATURAL HOUSE” PROJECT: AN EXPERIMENT IN LEARNING BY DOING Ali Uddin Ansari, Ishrat Meera Mirzana Mechanical Engineering Department Muffakham Jah College of Engineering & Technology Hyderabad, IndiaAbstractThe “Natural House”, a design and construction project of Centre for EnvironmentalStudies & Socioresponsive Engineering (CESSE) at Muffakham Jah College ofEngineering & Technology (MJCET), is directed at involving engineering students in a“real life” project with direct social benefits. The Centre’s primary objective is to

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Brad Kinsey

individuals. See Fig. 1 foran example of a question from one such standard spatial ability test, the Mental Rotation Test[11], which was developed based on classic psychology research by Shepard and Metzler [12]. Figure 1. Example question from the Mental Rotation Test (MRT) [11].The use of CAD software during introductory design engineering courses has been shown toimprove the spatial ability skills of engineering students [4-7]. Sorby and Baartmans [4]developed a course at Michigan Technological University entitled “Introduction to SpatialVisualization” to improve the spatial ability of freshman students. The course included topicssuch as isometric and orthographic sketching, flat pattern development, and rotation of objects.Data

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Aaron Gold; Walter Banzhaf

Session 2548 The Evolution of an EET Program’s Introductory Course in Electricity/Electronics Walter Banzhaf, Aaron Gold Ward College of Technology, University of HartfordIntroductionA new course (EL 110) was developed in 1999 for first-semester students entering our four-yearbaccalaureate programs in electronic and audio engineering technology. In recent years we hadnoticed that very few of our entering students had experience with technical aspects of electricityand electronics, and we realized that students found the traditional first-semester DC

Conference Session

Raising the Bar and Body of Knowledge

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Russell

to Go—The National Research Council (NRC) recently published a reportciting three “serious concerns” with engineering graduates. Many have “little knowledge of thedesign process,” “inadequate knowledge of the role of technology in their professions,” and“little knowledge of business, economics, and management.” These issues cut to the core of civilengineering. Graduates who do not understand “The Big Picture” will be challenged to providesafe, practical design in a complex future. 4. Fewer Credits—Civil engineers are expected to simultaneously possess greater breadthof capability and greater specialized technical competence than was required of previousgenerations—a nearly impossible challenge with fewer college credits. Students take at

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mike Oelschlegel; Rafic Bachnak

thermocouple to switch the heater on andoff with a solid state relay. The process variable is transmitted through a data acquisitionsystem to a PC for storage and further analysis. This project provides valuable hands-onexperience in control loop tuning and produces reasonably accurate results. The papershows the design schematic and presents results.IntroductionPID control allows a system to accurately adjust for load or setpoint changes.Implementing a PID controller, however, requires that it be ‘tuned” or adjusted for thesystem for which it is installed [1, 2]. This tuning process requires the user to understandthe type of algorithm utilized by the controller.The Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) curriculum at Texas A&M-CorpusChristi

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Anderson; Ronald Bucinell

and is the developer of the InternationalVirtual Design Studio (IVDS) project currently being conducted in conjunction with theMiddle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey and ESIGELEC in Mont SaintAignan, France. Dr. Bucinell was awarded NASA Summer Fellowships in 1994, 1995,1996, and 1997. He maintains an active research program in advanced compositematerials. Prior to joining Union College, Dr. Bucinell worked for Materials SciencesCorporation, Hercules Aerospace Corporation, and Boeing Aerospace. Dr. Bucinell holdsthe degrees of B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology;M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from Drexel University; and aPh.D. from Drexel University. From 1987 to 1990, he

Conference Session

Assessment Strategies in BAE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Kenimer; Jim Morgan

Texas A&M University anda member of the NSF Foundation Coalition project. She teaches courses in engineering problem solving,engineering design, environmental engineering technology, and nonpoint source pollution control. She hasreceived two college-level teaching awards and is a recent recipient of the ASAE A. W. Farrall Young EducatorAward.JIM MORGANJim Morgan is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University and an active participant inthe NSF Foundation Coalition and in the freshman program at A&M. He earned BSCE, MSCE, and Ph.D. degreesin Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. His research includes structuraldynamics, earthquake engineering, and engineering education

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher Murad

software in the Highway Surveying andDesign course. The course objectives and the design project components are presented anddiscussed. The experience gained from redesigning the course to include computer applications atvarious stages of a semester-long design project provides useful guidance to those consideringways to integrate design software into existing courses.IntroductionAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) outlines Civil EngineeringTechnology Program Criteria for accreditation. (1) One of the requirements of the new criteria isthat programs must demonstrate that graduates are capable of planning and preparing design andconstruction documents including engineering drawings. Other requirements call for graduates tobe

Conference Session

Tools for Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bret Van Poppel; Shad Reed

, USMA has established intermediate goals in ten separateareas. One of those intermediate goals, the Engineering and Technology goal, requires thatgraduates be able to “apply mathematics, science, technology, and the engineering design processto devise technological problem solutions that are effective and adaptable.”13 The Engineeringand Technology goal is instrumental in the design of the Mechanical Engineering Program, andlikewise the Fluid Mechanics course, at USMA. The Fluid Mechanics course is typically taken in a cadet’s fifth semester and is one of thefirst engineering courses taken. This course provides the foundation for further study inaerodynamics, energy systems engineering, automotive engineering, civil engineering, and

Conference Session

Experienced-Based Instruction

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George List; Stacy Eisenman

Engineering Clinic program, wherestudents, faculty and company liaisons work together throughout the academic on a variety ofindustry sponsored projects. This provides students with a closer look at the working world, andthe faculty and companies with a different style of teaching [7].Through a search for student oriented practical experiences, it was discovered that designcharettes are a popular idea. In general the charettes are short retreats, lasting a day or two,which provide students with a risk-free opportunity to work as part of a team to solve a problemor complete a design. Illinois Institute of Technology offers charettes for its architecture students.This allows the students to participate in Masonry Design and tour a concrete

Conference Session

Learning Enhancements for CHE Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Haishan Zheng; Jason Keith

Session 3213 Web-Based Instructional Tools for Heat and Mass Transfer Haishan Zheng and Jason M. Keith Department of Chemical Engineering Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI 49931AbstractThis paper demonstrates four web-based instructional tools for heat and mass transferbased on JAVA applets. These tools are closely related to topics in two chemicalengineering courses: transport phenomena and chemical reactor design. They simulatefour classic problems which are one dimensional unsteady mass diffusion, onedimensional unsteady-state heat

Conference Session

Integration vs. Compartmentalization

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Carlson

. This theory is based on ideasseveral fields including philosophy (John Locke), science studies (Bruno Latour),history of technology (Eugene Ferguson), and cognitive science (DonaldNorman). In this paper, I will outline this theory by developing six propositions.In laying out these propositions, I will touch on the ways in which this theoryhelps us to define engineering as a distinct profession and I will provideexamples from my course. Before turning to the propositions, let me offer a word about my Page 8.1203.1communications course. All undergraduate engineers at UVa are required to

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

THEO MARYONOVICH; Chris Netherton; Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

which isboth rewarding and intellectually stimulating.References[1] Jones, Joseph L., Flynn, Anita M., Seiger, Bruce A., Mobile Robots: Inspiration to Implementation, A.K. Peters LTD, 1999.[2] Everette, H.R., Sensors for Mobile Robots, A.K. Peters LTD, 1999.[3] Walking Robots. http://www2.plala.or.jp/k_y_yoshino/6legs/walk_e.html[4] OOPic Programming Manual. http://www.oopic.com.[5] Precision Navigation, Inc: 5464 Skylane Blvd., Suite A Santa Rosa, CA 95403[6] Reynolds Electronics 3101 Eastridge Lane Canon City, CO. 81212. www.rentron.comBiographyCHANDRA R. SEKHAR is a member of the faculty of the Electrical Engineering Technology at PurdueUniversity Calumet. Professor Sekhar earned a Bachelor’s Degree in

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rex Ramsier; H Michael Cheung; Edward Evans; Francis Broadway; Helen Qammar

Session 2625 Focusing on Teamwork Versus Technical Skills in the Evaluation of an Integrated Design Project Helen K. Qammar, H. Michael Cheung, Edward A. Evans, Department of Chemical Engineering Francis S. Broadway, Department of Curricular and Instructional Studies Rex D. Ramsier Departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Chemical Engineering The University of Akron Akron, Ohio 44325Engineering educators

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Annette George; Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein

Session 2793 Impact of Federal Government Funding of an Internship Program at a Minority Institution Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein1, Annette George2 1 Department of Civil Engineering / 2Dean’s Office, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland 21251.Abstract:Involving students in research has been recognized as a strategic method for developing andpreparing undergraduate students to gain valuable insights into the workforce, particularly intoscience and engineering careers. Federal funding to minority institutions has proven to be one ofthe most

Conference Session

Advisory Boards & Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Teresa Cutright; Helen Qammar

Session 3413Structuring Program Assessment to Yield Useful Information for ChE Faculty H. Qammar and T. Cutright Department of Chemical Engineering / Department of Civil Engineering The University of AkronIntroductionSince ABET accreditation requires comprehensive program evaluation with outcomes assessment,many faculty view assessment as solely for accreditation. Common problems such as poor facultyparticipation, non-sustainable efforts, and overly cumbersome processes have been reported evenfor “ abet successes”. Assessment can yield substantial benefits but only if the process isspecifically

Conference Session

Design Projects in Manufacturing

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson; Scott Almen; Russel Biekert; Norbert Richter; Al Post

Session 2563 Manufacturing Enterprise Company: Integration of curriculum and industry Scott Danielson, Russel Biekert, Alvin Post, Scott Almen, Norbert Richter Arizona State University East / OmniMount Inc.AbstractHistorically, Manufacturing Engineering Technology curricula offer courses on a semester basiswith limited connections between subjects. Individual course requirements restrict studentproblem-solving experiences and students are often unable to synthesize material from differentcourses when solving multifaceted problems. This paper describes the Manufacturing