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2001 Annual Conference

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Mark Smith

industry are, and how it can be used to monitor and control remote processes. Acase study of remote-control computing software in operation is also presented, describing howone off-the-shelf package was setup to monitor and control a plant floor production system.IntroductionNetworking technologies, and especially the Internet, have become a major component ofapplication systems. As we teach the design and implementation of process control systems inthe Engineering curriculum, we must recognize that these systems will require capabilities forcontrol and support from remote locations. For example, the need for remote control may bedriven by the high cost of a particular process. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory uses remoteprocess control at its

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2000 Annual Conference

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William E Maddox; Theodore D. Thiede; Stephen H. Cobb; Scott R Hickman; John Crofton

conception to product testing and marketing. Specific topics and how they are implemented into the design process include: economic analysis and time value of money, optimization techniques, statistical methods, and the design of experiments. One or two major design projects are required each semester. Typical activities have included: the construction of a Pitot tube which would mount outside a car window to measure velocity; the design of an orifice plate fluid flow transducer to measure flow velocity in a pipe; the design and implementation of a strain gauge laboratory where strain gauges measure deflections on a golf club, a cantilever beam, and a pressurized can. A team project asked students to specify, estimate

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2000 Annual Conference

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Zheng-Tao Deng; Abdul R. Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

terms of percentage points. This is theinitiation of their professional development plan. The plan represents the student’s choice,and it is expected that the students will feel more comfortable, motivated, and eager to worktowards the realization of their own plan.The lecture is one credit hour and has as co-requisite a one credit hour laboratory listedas: Introduction to Mechanical Engineering Laboratory (ME101L). Page 5.230.2The introductory course in mechanical engineering has been designed to:* Provide a first hand experience about the engineering practice* Provide an opportunity to first time freshman to work directly with the

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2000 Annual Conference

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Patricia Davies; Leah H Jamieson; Laura A Guedelhoefer; Edward J. Coyle; James D. Jones

ofopportunities throughout a standard curriculum to incorporate manufacturing experiences.III. Purdue hammerIncluded in the current paper are two examples of small projects that can be completed in 1-2 hours,yet still provide a valuable introduction to the machining process. A laboratory or machine shopshould have the instrumentation and machines to provide significant hands-on experience for students. Machining is not an observer’s sport [2] and needs the proper amount of supervision to provide a safeenvironment. The Purdue hammer project, which is introduced in a sophomore introduction tomechanical design course, discussed earlier, is a brass hammer with a wood handle. Using hexagonalbrass stock, the students learn drilling and milling, while they

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2000 Annual Conference

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Jody A. Knoll; Jan T. Lugowski; Nancy L. Denton

Page 5.285.2cart-tipper, dial calipers, and micrometer calipers were kept in the CAD laboratory to facilitateanswers “from the source” whenever questions might arise.Undergraduates, particularly freshmen, rarely possess the time management skills, organizationalskills, and self-discipline needed to complete an extensive project without regular instructorintervention.5,6 The intervention strategy we adopted was twofold. First, students were givenweekly or bi-weekly project assignments containing portions (usually subassemblies) of the totaldrawing package throughout the semester, rather than the full project at one time. Eachassignment contained recommended intermediate deadlines, objectives and rationale for thatphase of the project, and

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2000 Annual Conference

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Wei Lin; Sharon Cobb; Floyd Patterson; Carol Davis; Robert Pieri; G. Padmanabhan

the agenda include: proposal goals, projectactivities, size of the college and area high school student body; location; course offerings;instructional needs including teaching staff, materials, equipment and laboratories; possibleprocess/procedures; how to determine priorities; and how the proposed resources would beallocated.The meeting leaders plan an agenda including the following activities: 1. Discussion of the three primary goals; 2. Identify the three most critical activities for each of their colleges, discuss them, and prioritize them; 3. List and discuss the information necessary for each activity; 4. Describe what the activity would need to look like at each site; 5. Identify Summer Programs and develop the concept; 6. Describe

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Andrew J. Strubhar; Dennis Kroll

. These have been updated in 1999, but teamwork, communication skills and projectmanagement remain in the list and near the top.During the same time period as reports of these gaps were being developed, the Bradley IEdepartment (now IMET) was developing a course to bring students into the team problemsolving paradigm well prior to the senior capstone project. Plant layout and quality controlcourses came too late in the curriculum (6th or 7th semester) to allow for a series of engagements.A fourth semester course had recently been redesigned to combine work methods and study withmanagerial engineering. The faculty decided to develop this course into an experiential coursewith significant laboratories and projects, all fostering the team approach

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2000 Annual Conference

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Bethany S. Oberst; Russel C. Jones

mechanisms to teach engineering design across campus borders, utilizingwell-developed case studies. Gay and Lentini (17) further describe the advancedcommunication resources used by students engaged in collaborative design activity.The use of the Internet has enabled both teachers and students to lessen the burden ofdisseminating and acquiring knowledge, according to Young (18). Even laboratoryexperiences can be enhanced through electronic media. Karweit (19) has created a virtualengineering laboratory on the World Wide Web for the students in his introductoryengineering class and others. Experiments in this simulated laboratory include one thatmeasures the rate of a hot object’s heat radiation, and one that enables students to designbridges that

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2000 Annual Conference

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Zachary R. Kaufmann; Nickolas S. Jovanovic; Lance W. Laettner

Session 2532 Undergraduate Research Participation: Designing and Building a New Generation Beowulf-Class PC Cluster Nickolas S. Jovanovic, Zachary R. Kaufmann, Lance W. Laettner University of Arkansas at Little RockAbstractMassively parallel processors (MPP) are the laboratories for computational science andengineering. It is important for computational scientists and engineers to have a local platformfor developing, testing, and debugging MPP codes, so that computer time on large national-resource MPPs such as those at the national laboratories and NSF supercomputing centers can besecured and used

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2001 Annual Conference

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Robert Marine; Carol Colbeck; Alberto Cabrera

• Grants/publications • Group/design projects Adequate teaching resources • Administrative/clerical • Traditional • Computer/laboratory methods • Library / AV • Faculty development Page 6.210.3 Figure 1: Faculty Motivation to Use Alternative Teaching Practices Proceedings of the 2001

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2001 Annual Conference

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John Field; Janelle Tonti; Eric Beenfeldt; Isaac Horn; Edward Williams

engineering students. It emphasizes apersonal touch, which means the ECE Department devotes considerable resources to staffing.Two faculty members (1-FTE) are assigned to the course, which normally has about 60-70students. Also, three to four undergraduate students are employed as peer teachers and to helpin lab. The class meets Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings for 50 minutes.Additionally, there is a weekly 3-hour lab (four sections are offered with 15-20 students in each). As an aid to learning student names we take “mug shots” during the first laboratory period witha digital camera. The students print their names (using a nickname if preferred) on an 8.5” x11” sheet of paper that they hold up in front of them for the picture. A typical mug

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Vincent R. Canino; Lisa Milkowski

(IRB)approval for testing to begin.II. MethodsCurriculum Structure for DesignThe distribution of design credits throughout the curriculum is illustrated in Table 1. Thedesign teams continue on the same project from product conceptualization in theirfreshmen year to pseudo-product release right before graduation.Table 1: Lecture and Laboratory Curriculum Structure. Credits indicated in parentheses. Fall quarter Winter quarter Spring quarterFreshmen -- Lecture & Lab (2) --Sophomore Lecture (1) Lecture (1) Lecture (1)Junior Lecture (1) Lecture (1) Lecture (1)Senior

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2001 Annual Conference

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Karen Batty; Joseph Clair Batty

, andexpectations would be clarified. Mergers would be made wherever advantageous and cost-effective.Business-Industry-Government (BIG) PartneringSignificant attention has been devoted to fostering the ties between engineering education andour BIG customers. Colleges and departments have advisory boards that meet, pontificate, and,of course, advise. Internships/coops are becoming widespread. Industry experts are coming oncampus to lecture and demonstrate. Faculty sabbaticals to industry are pointed out as beingdesirable though perhaps not yet adequately recognized and rewarded in the promotion andtenure process. Much of the equipment in university laboratories has been donated or heavilydiscounted. Government laboratories and military installations are

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X. Qian; A. Jalloh; Zheng-Tao Deng; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

water delivery methods and(3) to perform laboratory tests of hot water distribution conservation techniques/devices.This research contract provides design and analysis student projects to several mechanicalengineering courses, such as Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Heat and Mass Transfer,Computer Programming, Automatic Controls, and the mechanical engineering senior designcourse. Page 6.255.1 Proceedings of the 2001American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education

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1998 Annual Conference

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Kevin M. Hubbard

languages to ladder logic, is an "example generator", to be usedin conjunction with lecture and laboratory exercises. LadderCAD is such an example generator.With its Windows based graphical user interface, LadderCAD allows the user to easily constructladder logic diagrams using drag-and-drop, cut-and-paste methods.Once the ladder logic diagram has been drawn, it can be translated by LadderCAD into anEnglish-like text file. This file contains a set of instructions based on the QuickBASICprogramming language, and is known as a system state language (SSL) file. This file is easilyread and intuitively understandable. An examination of the SSL file provides an understandingas to whether the desired control program result has been achieved. This

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1998 Annual Conference

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Robert J. Hofinger

deduced from the teleconferencingsession and Jim’s thoughts? Every part of the above scenario has come from feedback andpredictions from someone who is knowledgeable in that field.In the coming 21st Century, for many jobs that do not require the specialized needs of expensiveor massive laboratory equipment, e.g. clean rooms, environmental chambers, specialized testingfacilities, direct interfacing with the manufacturing facility, etc., working in the home will be asnatural as working in the “office” or in the “lab”. Simulation tools will play a key roll in the“networked” home office environment. There will no need to be “stuck in the office”.Even today, the IBM Storage Systems Division in San Jose, CA. has found that with the use ofsimulation

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1998 Annual Conference

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J.P. Trudeau; Alan R. Klayton; A.L. Clark; Daniel J. Pack

, we have used a sequence of somewhat unrelated laboratory exercises to introduce theassembly language programming skills along with the hardware features of the Motorola68HC11 microcontroller. Unfortunately, our experience has shown that with this approach manystudents do not develop a sufficient appreciation for the integrated hardware/software power thata microcontroller provides system designers. To meet this challenge, we introduced a mobilerobot project (see Figure 1) through a series of integrated laboratory exercises to 34 studentsduring the Fall 1997 semester. Figure 1 also shows the lunch box sized 68HC11 portable labunit developed at the Academy1. In this paper we present the project, observations made by thefaculty who designed and

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1998 Annual Conference

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Eldon D. Case

homework in reference to Seven Step Guide113 Examination problem involving ethical question, cited NSPE Code.14 Further discussion of Seven Step Guide1, discussion of handbook versus problem- solving schema for both technical and ethical problems.16 Final examination included a problem dealing with professional ethics. Seven Step Guide1 given to class to assist them in responding to ethics question.For question 3, many students cited Section II.4.c. of the NSPE Code: “Engineers shall notaccept compensation...from outside agents in connection with work for which they areresponsible” and Section III.6.c: “Engineers shall not, without consent, use equipment, supplies,laboratory or office facilities of an employer

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1997 Annual Conference

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Hussein Anis

requesting its fullsupport for the implementation of the scheme developed during the preliminary study.Elements of Preliminary Study Page 2.143.5The Seed Fund targeted the following objectives :(1) The performance of a comprehensive scan of the current courses belonging to the area under study: their contents, time allocation, textbooks and references, laboratory facilities, enrollment....(2) The identification of the industrial needs in this area. This comprised the following action: -Field visits to major and relatively modern industries to identify their current instrumentation and control gear. Emphasis is put on instrumentation

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1997 Annual Conference

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Ralph O. Buchal

with the student to seek and explore information from many sources, and tosynthesize a deeper knowledge and understanding of the material.Passive Absorption vs. Apprenticeship Too often, traditional engineering education relies on the passive absorption of information.Engineering problem solving tends to be mechanistic, relying on highly repetitive solutions of simple, idealized,linear problems. Laboratory experiments frequently have a cook-book approach, with little opportunity forindividual exploration. The new model seeks to develop knowledge and skills through experimentation and exploration of morecomplex engineering problems. These activities are supported by computer models and simulations, whichpermit exploration of many

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1997 Annual Conference

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P.R. Roberge; M.A.A. Tullmin

): An information resource center, acorrosion testing laboratory, a management office and a field inspection and maintenancedivision. These are closely related to actual corporate structures for dealing withcorrosion issues. As further detailed sub-components were specified, certain limitationsof existing (mostly paper based) educational products became apparent: • the treatment of corrosion and its control in mainly descriptive terms, as opposed to a more quantifiable approach; • the relegation of management and economic issues to the fringes, with particular emphasis on technical issues; • the limited treatment of emerging important methodologies in corrosion control, such as computerized information, knowledge

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1997 Annual Conference

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Bahador Ghahramani

Phillip B. Swan and Richard Chi-chung for their inputs. Also,his sincere gratitude is given to Systems Engineers in Bell Laboratories and IBM Watson Research Center for their Page 2.234.9reviews and recommendations.REFERENCES[1] Widmann, E.R. “Capability Assessment Model for Systems Engineering”, Proceedings of the Third Annual International Symposium of the National Council on Systems Engineering, 1993.[2] Mackey, Dr. William “Conducting a Systems Engineering Process Assessment”, Proceedings of the Fifth Annual International Symposium of the National Council on Systems Engineering, Volume I

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1997 Annual Conference

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Stuart Wilkinson; G. Mark Pennington

Session 1559 An Innovative Student Project to Develop a Precision Instrument for Undersea pH Measurements Stuart Wilkinson, Ph.D., G. Mark Pennington, M.S.M.E. University of South FloridaAbstract The present paper describes the design and prototype construction of a teleoperated robotic sensorfor precision pH measurement of sea water at deep ocean locations. The need for such an automateddevice originated with NOAA. The design and construction was undertaken at the USF MechanicalEngineering Department's Robotic Systems Laboratory. The completed prototype will be

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1997 Annual Conference

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J. M. Mendel; H. H. Kuehl

Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, ComputerScience, and Materials Science. Page 2.420.7 7APPENDIX. AREAS OF SPECIALIZATIONCommunication, Control, & Signal Processing Control Systems( take 3 of 4) EE 401 Transform theory for engineers EE 454L Introduction to systems design using microprocessors EE 482 Linear control systems EE485a Digital control systems Systems(take 3 of 4) EE 434L Digital signal processing design laboratory EE 467x Introduction to communication systems EE 482 Linear control systems EE 483

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1997 Annual Conference

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Mohammad M. Asoodeh; Carl W. Steidley

,permitting them to cross-train in tasks performed by other members of the team. This cross-training allows team members to alternate tasks during a work shift in order to minimizeboredom and improve productivity.We are developing a laboratory that will support four courses (2 Computer Science and 2Industrial Technology) that emphasize computer hardware, computer-controlled systems, andreal-time physical systems. It is planned that industrial technology and computer science courseswill be taught collaboratively. It is our plan to involve industrial technology students (ITstudents) and computer science students (CS students) in team projects in the laboratory.Moreover, we plan that CS students will serve as the system’s programmers as well as mentor

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Jr., Fred O. Simons; Aaron L. Robinson

Session 1220 Performance Comparisons of Modern Digital Signal Processing VLSI Microprocessors F. O. Simons, Jr., and A. L. Robinson High-Performance Computing and Simulation (HCS) Laboratory Electrical Engineering Department Florida A&M University and Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32316-2175Abstract - The continual and rapid evolution of modern DSPuP (Digital Signal ProcessingmicroProcessors) makes it difficult for experienced DSP analysts to keep up with

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1998 Annual Conference

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William E. Cole

. However this is not the best way to teach. Many education studies have shown thatstudents retain only a small fraction of what they hear or read. The retention rate increasesdramatically when a student says or does--when there is hands on learning.1 This is especiallytrue in Engineering Technology where students learn best through observing and doing. Hencethe extensive use of laboratory experiments in the Engineering Technology Program.New tools are needed to improve the teaching of technical material. Technology students arehands-on graphic learners--their learning improves when they can see things and work with them.Hence graphics can provide an additional tool to help teach technology students. Graphics is theprimary method of communications

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1999 Annual Conference

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W. D. Jemison; W. A. Hornfeck; J. F. Greco; I. I. Jouny

typical Lafayette engineering student and the college.IV. ImplementationOnce the committee determined that a combined BSECE degree was the correct option toimplement, it had the task of redefining the curriculum. The first step was to review thecurrent curriculum to identify which courses were a good fit with this option, whichcourses would have to be modified, and which courses were no longer a fit. Second, thecommittee had to identify the courses that would have to be added to the curriculum todevelop the computer engineering component. As part of this process, the committee hadto determine which courses, both existing and new, would have laboratories with them.Also, the committee had to ensure that the “common first year”, a 4/4

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1999 Annual Conference

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Richard Wilk; Frank Wicks

these fuels is very important in determining the efficiency of the conversionprocesses and also the formation of undesirable products such as NOX and CO. During the last ten years a combustion laboratory has been developed along with theprocurement of chemical kinetics data bases and programs from national laboratories. Workperformed during the summer of 1998 used these programs as a basis to develop models forthese fuels that can be used to predict combustion processes and characteristics. The technique is in keeping with the philosophy of the building block approach to thedevelopment of the reaction mechanism in which the reaction mechanism of a givencompound can be constructed by combining the mechanisms of smaller and simplercompounds

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1998 Annual Conference

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Barbara E. Marino; Sandra Yost

Session 2275 Optimizing Mentor/Mentee Relationships in Academia Barbara E. Marino, Sandra A. Yost Loyola Marymount University/ University of Detroit MercyIntroduction The demands of a tenure track appointment at a university can seem overwhelming to abeginning faculty member. Many new engineering professors begin such appointmentsimmediately after a Ph.D. program or post-doctoral appointment. The decade or so of academiasitting in the student’s desk and serving as a researcher in the laboratory does not provideadequate preparation for life behind the podium. Launching a research