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Construction Engineering Advances II

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles McIntyre

Session 1621 DEVELOPMENT OF A MULTI-USE CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT CLASSROOM/LABORATORY Charles McIntyre and Gary Smith Civil Engineering and Construction North Dakota State UniversityIntroduction and OverviewEngineering education requires a combination of classroom training, hands-on experience, andindustry participation. In addition, students must become fairly well versed in the use of thetechnological tools of the trade. In order to accomplish these goals, engineering programs mustdevelop

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Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Deisenroth

Journal of Engineering Education. V17, n4-5, p.472(3).19. Young, Peter M. (1997). Laboratory development in collaboration with industry. ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings. p.1493(2)KAREN R. MOST received her Bachelor of Science degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering and her Masterof Science degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering, both from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and StateUniversity, in Blacksburg, Virginia.MICHAEL P. DEISENROTH, PH.D. is Professor and Acting Department Head in the Grado Department ofIndustrial and Systems Engineering. His research and teaching interests are in the area of the design and control ofmanufacturing systems and in industrial automation. Prior to joining the faculty

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Innovations in the Aerospace Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

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Shannon Twigg; Eric Johnson

flightcontrol system design. Use of a simulation gives the engineer a safe, quick and convenientmethod for testing or designing new controllers. In the past several years, many colleges havebegun using computer simulations in conjunction with teaching control design. At the GeorgiaInstitute of Technology School of Aerospace Engineering, one of the senior level aerospaceengineering laboratory courses, AE 4525, has developed three new experiments to utilizecomputer flight simulator technology. This allows the students to design and test variouscontrollers using a high fidelity flight simulator; instead of studying only more idealizedtheoretical models.Nomenclature V Total Velocity feet/second alpha (α

Conference Session

Mentoring, Outreach, & Intro BME Courses

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Luke Herbertson; Daniel Cavanagh

Session 1609 Effective Laboratory Exercises for an Introduction to Biomedical Engineering Course Daniel P. Cavanagh, Luke H. Herbertson Biomedical Engineering Program & Chemical Engineering Department Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PAAbstractIn introductory biomedical engineering courses, students are commonly exposed to a range oftopics which present the medical application of fundamental engineering concepts.Supplementing classroom discussions with effective, introductory laboratory exercises serves tofurther enhance the efficacy of these

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Jan Lugowski

Session 3449 Critical-Thinking Approach to Teaching Mechanical Engineering Jan T. Lugowski Purdue University1. IntroductionCritical thinking, in the context of teaching, means a careful consideration of the material learnedby students in class and outside of it. It is very natural to accept without questioning materialpresented by the teacher, textbook, journals, internet, etc. Several examples are presented thatshow how detrimental this approach is to student’s learning. Questioning, or carefullyconsidering, requires courage, also to admit incompetence

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Jones

Session 1737 A New Workstation for Teaching Statics in Machinery Daniel K. Jones, Ph.D., P.E. Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Technology State University of New York, Institute of TechnologyIntroductionWith increasing enrollment and decreasing funds for laboratory equipment, manyprofessors are facing challenges in providing hands-on experience for students inengineering technology. To address these concerns, a simple, inexpensive workstationhas been designed, built, and tested to teach students practical aspects of staticequilibrium. During Fall 2002, this new workstation

Conference Session

What's New in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Saumitra Mishra; Boris Ramos; Amy Zeng; Arthur Gerstenfeld; Sharon Johnson

of value, flow,demand pull and perfection. The physical simulation that serves as the basis of the lab wasdeveloped by MEP-MSI and is used by Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) programs inseveral states to teach lean principles to employees at small- to medium-size manufacturers. Inadopting the simulation to an undergraduate course, we wanted to provide students with moreopportunity to ‘discover’ theory, by generating and analyzing data that could be used to supportdecision-making. The laboratory exercises specifically address: (1) ‘traditional’ manufacturingprocesses and process variability, (2) problem-solving using a QI-story format, (3) process flow,takt time, and balance, (4) demand pull and visual management, (5) supply chain

Conference Session

Learning and Teaching Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

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Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

relatively rare in engineering courses and is almost non-existent in textbooks.Instructors can teach inductively by presenting familiar phenomena, practical issues, orexperimental observations before presenting a general principle. Surprisingly, most textbooksstill use an exclusively deductive approach, proceeding from first principles and governingequations to specific applications. Since there are relatively few textbooks that are written usingan inductive approach; this makes implementation of the inductive method a challenge. Anotherchallenge is that students typically will not have a wide range of experience or intuition neededto begin the inductive process. A simple laboratory experiment or demonstration will providethe foundation

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Harper; Robert J. Gustafson; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

. Page 8.1245.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2630Many of the faculty members who volunteer do not necessarily have expertise in graphics, CAD,MATLAB, hands-on laboratories, or design. They must be educated in these areas and providedwith the teaching materials.The Current ProgramDescription of Course Content Covered – There are two course sequences for the First-Yearengineering students. The first option is a two quarter sequence, known as Fundamentals ofEngineering or (FE). Students designated Honors

Conference Session

Remote Sensing and Telemetry

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alberto Gomez-Rivas; George Pincus

/GIS Laboratories and Equipment at the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD)The GPS/GIS Laboratory at UHD has excellent GPS equipment that is used for educationalpurposes. Figure 1 shows a partial view of the laboratory at UHD. The GPS equipment consistsof the OMNISTAR DGPS receiver. This receiver has the capability to collect signals from 12satellites and at the same time a signal from a stationary satellite that applies all necessarycorrections. This system has sub-centimeter capabilities defined as the ability to determinelatitude and longitude of a point with errors of less that one-centimeter. The system is used in astationary manner to teach GPS in the laboratory where a stationary antenna was installed at thetop of the building. This GPS

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisa Linsky; Gunter Georgi

conclusion.Original data is attached to the copy submitted to the TA. Laboratory notes are attached to thecopy submitted to the writing consultant. The title page includes details important as identifiers. Many students omit requiredinformation on this page or include unnecessary information. From the beginning, writingconsultants stress the importance of following specifications, as engineers and as technical writers.The lab manual lists what is required on the title page. By deducting points for an incorrect titlepage, students quickly grasp the value of following directions. The abstract is among the most challenging sections of the lab report to teach to freshman.They are unfamiliar with the purpose of a scientific abstract and they find

Conference Session

Teaching Styles and Peer Review

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Malgorzata Zywno

Page 8.500.13 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education New Information Technology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, (1993).20. Reed, P.A., Learning Style and Laboratory Preference: A Study of Middle School Technology Education Teachers in Virginia, Journal of Technology Education [online], Vol. 13 (1), (2001). Online at: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JTE/v13n1/reed.html.21. Fuller, D., Norby, R.F. & Pearce, K, Internet Teaching by Style: Profiling the On-line Professor, Educational Technology and Society [online], Vol. 3 (2), (2000). At: http://ifets.ieee.org/periodical

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammoad Saifi; Julie Wang

students involved, we have developed several teachingmethods for student active learning from the lectures of engineering fundamentals courses tohands-on design laboratory courses. The methods include teamwork, class/group discussion, peertutoring/teaching, and problem solving skills. In each activity, students can be a learner or can bea teacher, to lead or to be led. It creates interaction between teacher and students. The hands-onlaboratory courses reinforce the basic concepts that the students have learned from the lectures.To enhance the students’ laboratory experiences, computer-based design software has been usedin the measurement and the design process. The student design projects are interdisciplinary. Theprojects integrate the knowledge

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George Yang

TEACHING PLC IN AUTOMATION --A Case Study Dr. George Yang, Assistant Professor And Dr. Yona Rasis, Assistant Professor Department of Engineering Technology Missouri Western State College 4525 Downs Drive St. Joseph, MO 64507 Abstract Programmable logic controllers, PLCs, have become the industry standard,replacing the hard-wired electromechanical devices, in controlling process machines anddriving the equipment of manufacturing. Varying in size and sophistication, theseelectronic devices are now

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sridhar Condoor

Session 1566 Application-Centered Methodology for Teaching Programmable Logic Controllers Condoor, S.S. Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MissouriAbstractThe paper discusses the methodology used for teaching programmable logic controllers –a part of the Mechatronics curriculum. The goal of the curriculum is to nurture skills thatcan help in implementing a Mechatronics project from the functional specifications. Tothis end, we developed a teaching paradigm involving several modules each with sixidentical steps. In this teaching paradigm, students see: 1

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gabriel Ferrer; Ann Wright; Andrew Wright

Session 2003-1236 A Liberal Arts Approach to Teaching Robotics Ann Wright, Gabriel Ferrer, Andrew Wright Hendrix College/University of Arkansas at Little Rock1. IntroductionA new natural science course is under development at Hendrix College. The course istitled "Robotics Exploration Studio" and will be aimed at the non-science major liberal artsstudent. There will be no pre-requisites for this course. The course will utilize Lego bricksand Technic parts for mechanical components and the Lego Mindstorm1 programmableRCX brick as a platform for programming.Hendrix College is a private, residential, co-educational

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

B. Sridhara

Session 2547 Teaching Dynamics in a Master Classroom using CourseInfo B. S. Sridhara Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU)I. Introduction Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) is located in Murfreesboro, about 30 milessoutheast of Nashville. MTSU was founded in 1911 and is the fastest growing university in thestate of Tennessee. Currently, the student enrollment is approximately 20,000 and we have 800full-time faculty members. The university has five colleges; Basic and Applied Sciences, Business,Education, Liberal Arts, and Mass Communication. Engineering

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ferat Sahin; Wayne Walter

detection.Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Page 8.867.3  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationAt the undergraduate level, multidisciplinary Senior Design projects have been recentlyundertaken on various aspects of microrobotics. The Laboratory for Autonomous, CooperativeMicrosystems (LACOMS) at RIT is developing a prototype concept called MEMScouts in orderto demonstrate an effective system for deploying swarms of micro-agents to remote locationsunder real world conditions and to cover several areas of microrobotics teaching and

Conference Session

Web-Based Laboratories and Classes

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammed Haque

IT in Construction in Africa – Construction Information Technology, CIB W78 Conference Proceedings, pp. 2.1 – 2.9, Mpumalanga, South Africa, (2001). 4. Klett, F. “Designing a virtual learning space with 3D real-time presentation and advanced navigation” the 32nd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings, session S2E, Boston, MA, (2002) 5. Jain K. and Noble, D. An interactive Web-based teaching tool for simplified 3D analysis of solar rhythms. Elsevier, Automation in Construction, pp. 181-194, 8(1998). 6. Haque, M.E. “Interactive animation and visualization in a virtual soil mechanics laboratory” the 31st ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings, session T1C, Reno, NV, (2001

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Simulation Courses & BME Laboratories

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2003 Annual Conference

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Safa Sadeghpour; Ragu Vijaykumar; Mark A. D'Avila; Joseph V. Bonventre; Heather Gunter

filtration are fundamental topics in physiology courses taughtto medical students and undergraduate and graduate biomedical engineering students. Studentsreport anecdotally that this material is difficult to master. Furthermore overall student examperformance does not correlate with performance on questions regarding capillary filtration. Amodule that presents capillary filtration in the context of glomerular filtration is being developedas part of the Vanderbilt-Northwestern-Texas-Harvard/MIT Engineering (education) ResearchCenter (VaNTH ERC) sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Module design is basedon the learning and teaching principles outlined in How People Learn1 and the goals of theVaNTH ERC. The content is delivered through a

Conference Session

Simulation Courses & BME Laboratories

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

E. Jansen

Stain in an introductory course on BiomedicalOptics, to teach the fundamental concepts of tissue optics; 2) assessment of the value of thismodule compared with two other modules (ablation and spectroscopy) that were notimplemented in a challenge-based fashion. Our experimental design encompassed threeinstructors at two institutions teaching this material over the span of a year, with three differentcohorts of students. We created an assessment instrument that consisted of 4 problems thatprobed the students’ understanding as well as captured their ability to apply concepts to novelproblems. Students were asked to complete these problems at the beginning (pre) and at the end(post) of the semester. Based on the learning goals of the course we

Conference Session

Innovations in the CHE Laboratory

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nam Kim; Anna Siemionko

. Therefore, a junior level transport lab hasbeen develop in the Chemical Engineering Department of Michigan TechnologicalUniversity to teach basic momentum transport through physical experiments and dataacquisition. The laboratory consists of several experiments that build upon themselves andconvey to the students the concept of momentum transport, specifically frictionallosses. The first experiment deals with the construction of a P&ID diagram of theprocess, followed by an exercise that determines viscosity of various concentrations ofa sugar/water solution. Following that is an experiment for the determination ofdifferential pressure, which is trailed by fluid velocity measurements and Reynoldsnumber calculations. Following the fluid

Conference Session

Innovations in the CHE Laboratory

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

R. Worden

Page 8.713.1curricula do not train students to work effectively in such teams. Several years ago, as part of anProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationNSF-sponsored Combined Research/Curriculum Development (CRCD) project, MSUestablished a Multidisciplinary Bioprocessing Laboratory (MBL) course to help prepare studentsfor a multidisciplinary work environment. The goal of this course is to teach students how towork effectively in multidisciplinary teams in a research environment. Students are recruitedinto the MBL course from several science and engineering departments and assigned tomultidisciplinary research teams of

Conference Session

Simulation Courses & BME Laboratories

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ross Shonat

-hour lectures per week: Lectures are used to discuss the relevant physiology and procedures needed to complete the laboratory exercises. Previous exposure to an undergraduate-level physiology course is helpful, but not required. A standard undergraduate physiology textbook3 is used. • One three-hour laboratory per week: Each laboratory is restricted to eight students working in groups of two. There are four laboratory sessions per week and total enrollment is capped at 32 students. The instructor and one trained teaching assistant are present at all times during the labs. • Online course administration: Most of the course material, including lecture notes, homework assignments

Conference Session

Laboratory Developments and Innovations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rocio Alba-Flores; Fernando Rios-Gutierrez

the use of the wireless network as a teaching and researchtool involves but is not limited to the following applications: Page 8.1313.11  Hewlett-Packard Company“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” a) Increase interaction between instructor and students in large courses b) Enhance communication outside class c) Support students software development for mobile computers d) Enhance active learning and instruction e) In lab data collection and document viewing f) In class assessment and

Conference Session

Simulation Courses & BME Laboratories

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mounir Ben Ghalia

educational programs (for instance,Electrical Engineering) do not have a background in robot manipulators. Hence, they arenot expected to have a background knowledge of kinematics which is a prelude to thestudy of human leg modeling and control. Hence, the first section of the educationmodule is to teach students the concept of kinematics using interactive tools andgraphical animations. Students who have used this section of the educational modulehave found it to be a ‘fun’ tool and have been able to assimilate the concept of kinematicsexceptionally well even though they have not been exposed to the study of kinematicsprior to their experience with the interactive module.After having understood the topic of forward and inverse kinematics and with

Conference Session

Simulation Courses & BME Laboratories

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ranky

, biomedical engineering, computersystems and networking subjects in an integrated environment, with the aid of a genericarchitecture, that includes 3D web-browser readable multimedia, text, images,interactive videos, active codes for calculations, and even self-assessment tools (asspreadsheets, spreadsheet templates, and others).The developed and validated cases besides traditional teaching and learning methods,and laboratory activities, use browser-readable interactive 2D and 3D objects,animation, videos, 3D objects of real components, virtual 3D disassembly methods ofobjects, and simulated (virtual) factory tours, and in the case of biomedical engineeringvirtual 3D internal and external human body virtual tours, that the students can exploreand

Conference Session

Laboratory Developments and Innovations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Venkata Ramana Ajjarapu; Shashank Krishnamurty; Sastry Vedula

powerelectronic applications. To achieve real-time control most modern power electronic systems areemploying new techniques such as digital signal processing. A modern power electronics labshould hence have a powerful thrust towards digital real-time control as well as hardware basics.Simulation has become an important tool in understanding any engineering system in generaland Power Electronic (PE) system in particular. In educational institutions, simulation is mainlyused as a tool for effective teaching and research. Industries extensively use simulation as aneffective tool to design new products and to trouble shoot problems. Rapid prototyping tools aimto bridge the gap between simulation and implementation and make the power electronic circuitdesign

Conference Session

Innovations in the CHE Laboratory

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Polly Piergiovanni

mass transfer operations worked. Theexercises are summarized below.INTRODUCTION For learning to be meaningful, students should be actively engaged in identifyingprinciples for themselves, rather than relying on an instructor’s explanations1. Inductivereasoning (the process by which a general conclusion is reached from evaluating specificobservations2) is a highly important aspect of learning. Studies have shown that when studentslearn by induction, the learning is deeper and the material is retained longer3. As an instructor,I strongly believe that this is a valuable method of teaching. Often, the learning occurs during the laboratory sessions that usually accompany a UnitOperations course. However, due to major renovations to

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Spinelli

. 2. David McDonald, et al., "Improving the Laboratory Experience with Modern Computer-Based Instrumentation," Proceedings of the 1997 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Session 1559. 3. John M. Spinelli and Kevin LaFerriere, “A Discovery Based Systems Laboratory using LabView and MATLAB,” Proceeding of the 2000 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Session 2532.JOHN SPINELLIJohn M. Spinelli is an Associate Professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering andthe department of Computer Science at Union College, Schenectady, New York. He teaches in the areas oflinear systems, digital communication and computer networks, and does research on fault-tolerantcommunication protocols. He received