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Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Davis

New Intake Nozzle Transition Nozzle Figure 12 Mass Airflow Measurement System Installed on the Jet EngineWe use two different mass airflow transducers. The most accurate transducer is aresearch grade device manufactured by Sierra Technologies. This system is used as theairflow measurement standard in our laboratories due to its extremely stable calibration.Unfortunately, this unit is also quite heavy, which hurts our ability to measure the jetengine thrust since the unit must be hung with the jet engine. Further, this system is alsoquite expensive; thus making it difficult for general use. To minimize cost and to protectour calibration standard, we are currently using automotive mass airflow

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sherion Jackson; Andrew Jackson; Bob Wilkins

of the designengineering team leader on each team, 3) testing the individual prototype designs – a function ofthe test engineering team members, 4) tracking costs of development and production usingMicrosoft Excel – a function of the cost engineering team members, and 5) setting the projectplan using Microsoft Project – a responsibility of the project manager. Once the aircraft had beenflown in competition on Tuesday of week three, the teams returned to the classroom and to thecomputer laboratories in order to compile a final report and presentation to be delivered duringthe final awards ceremony on the final day of the program, Thursday of the third week. Sincethe GEAR-UP program also emphasized parental involvement, assuring a better

Conference Session

ChE Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Zollars

side engineers in their research laboratories to get a clear idea of whatengineers do. The teachers, in addition to strengthening their math and science backgrounds, thenwould serve as spokespersons for engineering in their respective classrooms. During the fiveyears that this program was in operation a total of 67 teachers from throughout the United Statesparticipated. Of the approximately 100 engineering faculty at WSU 19 served as mentors (somemultiple times) during the teacher’s stay. After gaining some experience with this activity we settled upon the following procedurefor conducting the program. Advertisements for the program were disseminated in variouspublications from state and national science teacher’s organizations. The

Conference Session

TIME 5: Solid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Schrader; Jawa Mariappan; Angela Shih

Session 2666 Scenario-Based Learning Approach in Teaching Statics Jawaharlal Mariappan, Angela Shih, Peter G Schrader California State Polytechnic University, PomonaAbstractThis paper describes the initiatives currently underway at Cal Poly, Pomona to develop andimplement a scenario-based learning approach to teach major concepts in statics. Statics isgenerally the first engineering course taken by most engineering students. The course is typicallytaught in lecture format, although several schools have been adopting a laboratory component.Statics is a prerequisite for many courses and

Conference Session

Programming Issues for Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahnam Navaee

Session 2620 Computing and Programming with LabVIEW Shahnam Navaee Georgia Southern UniversityAbstractIn this paper an alternate approach in teaching various computing and programming principles toengineering students utilizing the LabVIEW software is discussed. LabVIEW, acronym for“Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench”, is a powerful and robust graphicalprogramming language developed by National Instruments, Inc. for use in various engineering andscientific related fields. At the present time, this software tool is mainly utilized in

Conference Session

Mentoring Women and Minorities

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Jessop

: Boston, 2002. K. Barker, “Mentor to All?,” At the Helm: A Laboratory Navigator, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press: Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 2002. C.I. Davidson and S.A. Ambrose, “Chapter 7: Supervising Graduate Research,” The New Page 8.643.4 Professor’s Handbook, Anker Publishing Company, Inc.: Bolton, MA, 1994. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationThird, new assistant professors should encourage their students to find more than one mentor(Tip #7). No one person can fill all the

Conference Session

Outreach and Freshman Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Brader; Jed Lyons

forthese items are shown in Figure 1, where the bars represent mean values and the lines representone standard deviation in responses. In all cases, the mean response increased over time. Thisincrease was statistically significant for all items except item 7, as measured by the application ofStudent’s t-test with a 99% confidence level. The results suggest that the fellows’ abilities toteach using laboratories, activities, investigations and computer technology was improved thoughthe GK-12 program.Fall Fellow Focus Group ResultsAt the three-month focus group, Fellows were asked how EDTE 710 and how being in theelementary classroom helped them develop their teaching and communication skills. All of theFellows agreed that transferring information

Conference Session

Promoting ET Through K-12 Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Horton

can be replicated on other campuses that have staff with a desire to promote genderequity in technical training to teach the CAD modeling, available room and board on campus, asuitable computer laboratory, an established summer recreation program, and an organization tohandle administrative tasks.CAD CampThe CAD Camp was available to campers entering grades nine through twelve, and the span ofthe age group was represented at each camp. The first group of campers arrived on the afternoonof Sunday, July 22, 2002 and left on the afternoon of Friday, July 26. The second camp was heldthe following week, from July 28 to August 2. Upon arrival, resident campers met the staff andtheir counselors, were issued meal cards with daily spending limits to

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Korinne Resendez; Carryn Bellomo; Rafic Bachnak

Engineering Education”speakers, field trips, hands-on laboratory activities, and science and technology exhibits1[9]. Specifically, the program will involve attracting 11th grade students to attend one oftwo two-week Science and Technology workshops. The workshops are designed tointroduce students to job opportunities in the food industry and agriculture, expose themto college life, involve them in hands-on activities, and encourage them to major inscience and engineering technology. Students will be recruited to participate in a follow-up Science and Technology Exhibit to be conducted during National Engineer’s Week inFebruary of each year. This program is unique in that it involves high school students inthe 11 th grade. These students are ready to

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts in Engineering Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Mizen; Robert Baldwin; Ronald Miller

results in English; • Make accurate scientific observations and measurements in cooperative laboratory projects and record observations and results in English; • Apply scientific concepts and principles to make predictions and solve simple problems concerning real-life physical, chemical, and geologic systems; • Complete an independent investigation involving literature and web-based research, data acquisition, and interpretation Math curriculum • Compare and contrast solutions to both linear and non linear equations numerically, graphically and symbolically; • Communicate mathematical ideas verbally, symbolically and graphically; • Demonstrate autonomous learning skills

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TIME 9: Thermal Fluids/Fluid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

-section test rods with diameters of 3.18, 6.35, 9.53, and 12.7 mm were used to developsuch a correlation equation. This correlation will be supplied to the students to be used in thedesign of a fin attachment using the Design-Build-Test approach.I. IntroductionHeat transfer is a very important subject and has long been an essential part of mechanicalengineering curricula all over the world. Heat transfer is encountered in a wide variety ofengineering applications where heating and cooling is required. Heat transfer plays an importantrole in the design of many devices, such as spacecrafts, radiators, heating and air conditioningsystems, refrigerators, power plants, and others.Traditional undergraduate heat transfer laboratories in mechanical

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Watson; Hossein Salehfar; Arnold Johnson

the schoolof Engineering and Mines (SEM) at the University of North Dakota established a distanceeducation program to deliver Bachelor of Science engineering degrees to employees ofparticipating companies. This program was known as the Corporate Engineering DegreeProgram and has recently expanded into open enrollments and renamed the Distance EngineeringDegree Program (DEDP). Currently the DEDP offers the only ABET (Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology) accredited undergraduate engineering programs at a distance.The current DEDP delivery format includes videotaped lectures, static Internet Web pages ofhandouts, e-mail, and on-campus condensed summer laboratories. This delivery format ensuresthat each distance student receives the

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James H. Lorenz; Ahad Nasab

, co-op programs, or internships.Therefore, an upper division class may include many students who can be classified as workingengineers.Research projects conducted by engineering technology educators will definitely enhance thefaculty member’s knowledge about his/her chosen topic, and have been shown to add to the depthof class lectures and laboratory experiences. Research topics, however, are typically narrow intheir scope and may not expose the faculty to the numerous changes in many facets of anindustrial operation. Sabbaticals, on the other hand, may be organized for the sole purpose ofexposing the faculty member to new trends in industry. The major disadvantages of using asabbatical to accomplish the objectives mentioned above are; 1

Conference Session

Materials Curricula: Modeling & Math

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Surendra Gupta

to statisticsinstructors for easy integration into their statistics courses for engineers; begin a collaborationamong statistics and engineering faculty that teach the same sets of students; and provideengineering students the motivation to learn statistics well, and be able to apply their statisticalskills to engineering data in a meaningful and productive way.The engineering modules proposed are based on concepts and laboratory experiments from twocourses: Materials Processing (a 1st year course) and Materials Science (a 2nd year course). Bothare mandatory courses for mechanical as well as industrial engineering students. Having seen theconcepts and experiments already, the modules will actively engage students in applying

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman

. Page 8.325.1“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Ohio State’s College of Engineering sought to team with an urban high school where substantialnumbers of students would have the mathematics background necessary to be successful inIntroduction to Engineering and an industry partner that could help to mentor the students andprovide the materials to equip an engineering laboratory. Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati,Ohio, and General Electric, which operates an Aircraft Engines plant in the Cincinnati area, joinedwith Ohio State to prepare and pilot the high school Introduction to Engineering course.In 2001

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jill Lynn

to the changing, technologically enhanced world ofeducational institutions are pursued to extend the education toady. Some of engineering and technology courses and laboratory work will need Page 8.442.4to be developed in partnership with several Today’s students are demanding a change toinstitutions and/or with industry partners to provide traditional educational delivery methods, and wethe hands-on training and processing necessary. must respond. The time for action is now, and evenThese are not concepts of the future, but are actual with the

Conference Session

Design Projects in Manufacturing

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

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

Manufacturing EngineeringTechnology program at Arizona State University. The first project started with a valve bodyproduced by Allied Signal Aerospace (now Honeywell). Blueprints and mentors from AlliedSignal provided the industry-based aspects of the course. The MECO students producedindustrial quality drawings, removing the Allied Signal name and modifying materials and parttolerances to meet the ASU laboratory capabilities. Then the MECO students created molds andcast 20 parts for machining. Other classes wrote the process plans (routing), designed and builtfixtures, and machined the final parts on a CNC-machining center. Furthermore, inspection andcontrol charts were developed on a Mitutoyo Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) and qualityassurance

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard K Sase; Julie Wei

names were found through various sources, onrelated topics. The team further conducted several field trips to perform in-depth investigationson the physical parameters of the project. The information search tasks were labor-intensive andtime-consuming. After extensive research, the team found a relevant book entitled “ReservoirSediment Handbook”, by Gregory K. Morris and Jiahua Fan. However, information on theeffect of sediment deposition on percolation was not found. The team contacted the author,Gregory Morris, in Puerto Rico and learned that no such information is available anywhere. Theteam then decided that it would be necessary to design and perform some laboratory or field-testing in order to obtain the necessary data.A number of

Conference Session

Real-World Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Falkenburg; Tina Harkin

tests and interviews they become Candidates in the Center for AdvancedTechnologies (CAT)—Focus:HOPE’s manufacturing facility. The Center for AdvancedTechnologies is a not-for-profit entity which is a first tier supplier of manufactured componentsand systems to Ford, General Motors, DaimlerChrysler, Detroit Diesel, and the U.S. Departmentof Defense. The Candidates are employed by Focus:HOPE and work in a broad range ofmanufacturing, production, and support activities. While this employment provides financialsupport, more importantly it becomes a real-world laboratory to support their learning.Greenfield CoalitionThe Greenfield Coalition at Focus:HOPE is a coalition of five universities, three universityaffiliates1, six manufacturing companies 2

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Arnaldo Mazzei

becomes difficultto fully visualize and understand these systems when a laboratory prototype or a simulation is notgiven.In order to allow students to observe and understand mechanism operation, compare hand-obtained solutions to computer derived ones and the ability to see problem variable behavior withvarying time, the author suggests introducing simulation software into the basic coursesmentioned above.Course and simulation softwareIn the present text the introduction of simulation software is discussed for an undergraduatecourse in dynamics. The course is MECH-310, which is a junior level four-credit course with fourhours of contact (two separate blocks of two hours). Pre-requisites for the course require thatstudents complete basic statics

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Engineering Practice

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marian Stachowicz; Rocio Alba-Flores

body and faculty. The written report and oral presentation had to follow thespecifications given in the Senior Project guide of the ECE department at UMD.The following table describes the activities performed during this workshopWeek Activities 1 Intensive review of fuzzy set theory 2 Laboratory experiments using the Fuzzy Logic Package for Mathematica 3 Intensive review of the 68HC12 microcontroller: its architecture and instruction set. Sensors for mobile robots. 4 Laboratory experiments programming the 68HC12 5 Groups were formed. Definition of the projects 6 Oral presentation of the proposed projects 7-8 Project simulations using the Fuzzy Logic Package for Mathematica

Conference Session

Improving Communication Skills in ME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Theresa McGarry; Edward Young; Elisabeth Alford

. Page 8.1057.1Therefore, a more effective way of giving students feedback on their communications assignments“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”is called for. In this paper we describe an innovative approach taken in a senior mechanicalengineering laboratory course at the University of South Carolina in the spring 2002 semester.The approach centered on conference grading, a process in which students bring completedassignments to a meeting with the instructor, who grades the assignments orally on the spot.Other elements involved were team reporting, self-assessment of writing, and consultativeapproaches that helped the

Conference Session

Design in the CHE Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Turton; Joseph Shaeiwitz

this paper, the production ofproducts from farm animal waste can be used as an example. This project was based on aresearch idea by one of our colleagues. Students were required to design a reactor to produce adiesel fuel additive from the waste. However, there was insufficient data to determinereasonable operating conditions. Therefore, a subset of the class (in this case, members fromseveral groups) designed and performed experiments in the laboratory to obtain necessaryinformation regarding the reaction kinetics. This information was used to identify a preliminaryset of “best” operating conditions for the reactor. Students had to learn how to do the necessaryexperiments (with the aid of the faculty member) and interpret the results. In

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanics Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Redfield Robin; Robert Borchert; Brian Self

Session 1168 Evolution of an Introductory Dynamics Course Through Continuous Assessment Brian P. Self, PhD, Robert Borchert, M.S., and Robin Redfield, PhD Department of Engineering Mechanics United States Air Force Academy Colorado Springs, ColoradoAbstractTwo years ago, instructors at the United States Air Force Academy supplemented theirintroductory dynamics class with demonstrations, projects, laboratories, computational problems,and student presentations. Goals of the enhancement were to increase

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Forbes; Mary Emplaincourt

. Standards can even take the effect of law if they appear, for example, in building codes.Cities and municipalities in the south adopt the building codes developed and published bySBCCI almost universally. Many engineering students receive the B. S. degree with little or no exposure toengineering standards. This deficiency can easily be corrected by introducing standards (orportions) during appropriate sections of conventional technical courses or laboratories. Forexample, the author has required laboratory students to perform portions of the performance testsfor audible back up alarms used on some construction equipment (SAE standard). Note thatOSHA requires these alarms on certain equipment. As a minimum, students should be madeaware of the

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ricardo Molina; Claudio da Rocha Brito; Melany Ciampi

of Energy; Symbolic and Numerical Computer; Electronic;Operational Systems; Construction Techniques of Programs; Antennas and microwaves; FormalLanguages and Automata; Communication Systems; Digital Laboratories; Electrical Materialsand Processes. Page 6.21.4 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education4th. Year: Digital Systems; Automatic Control; Digital Communications; Software Engineering;Hydraulic, Thermal and Electrical Machines; Graphic Computer; Teleprocess and ComputerNetwork; Digital

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafiqul Islam

demandson the job duties of engineers and technologists. Industries are increasingly seeking graduateswith appropriate background and training in these technologies. This paper describes a proposedadvanced communications course in the form of lecture and laboratory studies. This course isdesigned for the study of various wireline communications systems in correct proportion asidentified by the industry. Such studies provide specific skills that will be immediately usable inthe industry. Knowledge of these crucial fields will broaden the undergraduate experience oftechnology and enhance their employment opportunities very greatly Page 6.366.1IntroductionThe current explosion of communication traffic volume

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Cecil Beeson; William Gay

, which is in avionics, will be proposedthis year and implemented during the 2001-2002 academic year. A detailed discussion of thecurricular, instructional and laboratory requirements of both certificates programs will bepresented. EET with A Specialty: “The Coupling of an Associate Degree and A Certificate” William Gay, Cecil Beeson University of Cincinnati ClermontPicture a growing two-year branch campus of a major urban university. Overall studentenrollments since its inception have steadily, and at times dramatically, increased over a quarterof a century. It has constructed new buildings and facilities, developed and provided newtechnical and transfer

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

K. Arthur Overholser

must be a full-time, tenured or research professor in the School of Engineering. Some seminars do involve team-teachers from other units of the University.The following seminars have been offered during the academic years 1999-2000 and 2000-2001.In each case we indicate the semesters in which the section was offered and, in parentheses, theenrollment during that semester. • “High-Fidelity Sound Reproduction”. Taught by electrical engineering professors, this seminar takes advantage of the interest many young people have in recorded music to teach circuit theory. It includes laboratory demonstrations and work at Nashville sound studios. [Fall, 1999, 15 students; Fall

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Lozano-Nieto

graduation.Students are exposed to “real-world” practices, extending what they have learned in ourclassrooms and laboratories. They are aware that their professional success in their first years inindustry depends on how confident they feel about their technical abilities as well as their actualknowledge. Internships in industry serve both cases, expanding their knowledge and giving themthe confidence that they need to be successful. However, while everybody agrees that aninternship experience in industry is a key component in undergraduate education in engineeringand engineering technology, it certainly requires more planning and preparation than traditionalclasses. Some faculty may feel overwhelmed by the logistics involved in preparing an internshipwhich