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John Pongo; Barrie W. Jackson

School of Business, and other interested departments.Recently, the scope of participation was expanded with the inclusion of students from theEnvironmental Studies department. Where appropriate, graduate students are added to the projectgroup to provide a level of expertise not necessarily available from a team consisting solely ofundergraduates.TEAM is equally beneficial to the students involved and to the industrial sponsor. A uniqueopportunity is presented for students to work together in multidisciplinary teams, which focus onreal projects for industrial clients. TEAM is an academically rigorous exercise, which involvesnon-traditional instructional methods such as problem-based learning, multidisciplinary teams,and self-directed project work

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Sanjeeve Sharma; Robert Thompson; Akihiko Kumagai; Aju Mathew; S. A. Chickamenahalli

Session 2533 Vision Guidance Development for a Ground Robotic System Akihiko Kumagai, Shamala Chickamenahalli, Aju Mathew, Sanjeeve Sharma, and Robert Thompson Wayne State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes a student project that involved the design and construction of a groundrobotic system guided by a vision system. The project has been carried out by students inEngineering Technology, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Computer Science. Theproject has served to meet the senior project requirement of several of the students in thedivision.The construction of

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William Shelnutt; Monica Lumsdaine; Edward Lumsdaine

approach usable at the fresh-man and senior levels and for multi-level, mutidisciplinary projects. The textbook will be pub-lished by mid-June through McGraw-Hill’s College Custom Series. The paper will describe theapproach and discuss experiences with different parts of the course content. By conference time,additional feedback from senior projects in technology will be available.The integrated approach has a double focus:• Develop the required thinking skills: visualization, cognitive models, communication, team- work, and creative problem solving. Industry as well as the ABET 2000 Criteria demand that engineers have these foundational skills.• Apply the skills in the twelve steps to quality by design. The textbook provides many practical

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Marjorie Skubic

to sensor-based control of mobile robots. Students are grouped into teams of 2-3people, representing multiple disciplines. Each team is assigned a robot kit, which includes asmall micro-controller board, motors, sensors, and technic lego parts. Programming projectsusing the kits are designed to stimulate creativity and exploration. The first three projects arestructured to promote incremental progress, culminating in the completion of a small,autonomous mobile robot. At the completion of each project, each group gives an oralpresentation and demonstration and also submits a written report that becomes part of the labmanual. For the final project, the class collectively designs an experiment on cooperative robots,redesigns the team robots as

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Parviz Famouri; Heather Collier; Brian Inman; Wils L. Cooley

Session 2525 COMPETITIONS AS A VEHICLE FOR TEACHING ENGINEERING DESIGN Wils L. Cooley, Parviz Famouri, Heather D. Collier, Brian Inman West Virginia UniversityAbstractThe Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at WVU has had an engineeringSenior Design Project sequence for nearly 25 years. During the 1997-98 sequence, oneundergraduate student design team participated in an IEEE regional design competition. Theteam members chose their project specifically with the intention of entering their design in thisregional competition, in contrast to

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W. J. Wiseman; S. M. Scoggins; R. D. Michelli; J. A. Janet; A. L. Walker

Session 2220 Component Oriented Development of Autonomous Mobile Robots Facilitates Interdisciplinary Design R.D. Michelli, S.M. Scoggins, W.J. Wiseman, J.A. Janet, A.L. Walker TMI Robotics, Inc.AbstractOur experience developing mobile robots with groups of undergraduates has shown thatwhile many teams consider their design to be interdisciplinary in nature, the design is infact fragmented across engineering disciplines. The end result is a project thataggregates various engineering disciplines instead of integrating them into a truemultidisciplinary design.We propose a component-oriented design approach

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Anthony J. Marchese; Shreekanth A. Mandayam; T. R. Chandrupatla; John L. Schmalzel

in semester-long design and development projects. The majority of theseprojects are funded by local industry, faculty research grants or departmental budgets. Clearly,projects such as these are central to developing the design, problem solving and project manage-ment skills that are lacking in the traditional engineering coursework. Often missing, however, inthe industry and faculty sponsored design projects, is the spirit of invention, innovation and en-trepreneurship. The spirit of entrepreneurship is best promoted by providing students with theopportunity to propose their own original enterprises. Accordingly, an NCIIA grant has created aventure capital fund, specifically ear-marked for the development of original inventions by multi

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Mohammed A. Hasan; Christopher R. Carroll

achance for students in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) atthe University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) to merge these two disciplines in one topic ofstudy. The course was oered in Winter quarter, 1999, and team taught by faculty in thedepartment, with one faculty member from the Digital Signal Processing eld and onefaculty member from the Microprocessor Systems eld.The design workshop course consisted of a three-week introduction to the TMS320C31DSP chip using Texas Instruments' $99 DSK introductory design package. Students, whoalready had background experience in microprocessor systems and in digital signalprocessing as separate disciplines, designed application projects using the TMS320C31 asthe focus of their systems

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Vincent R. Canino; John D. Gassert

Session 2309 FOUR YEAR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN AT THE MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING John D. Gassert, Ph.D., P.E., Vincent R. Canino, Ph.D., P.E. Milwaukee School of EngineeringAbstract A unique feature of the design process at MSOE is the Biomedical Engineering “seniordesign project” that begins in term two of the freshman year. Each student must apply tobecome a member of a particular team and most students will stay in that design team. Duringthe next ten quarters, the students are expected to apply course material pertinent to theirengineering project and present that

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Scott Wayne; Alfred Stiller; Kristine Craven

’ as he directs student inquiry, guides design activities, and provides reflective feedbackbased on his own knowledge and experiences. Although the Guided Design Model was welldeveloped and widely recognized, there existed a growing perception among faculty within thecollege that students entering the sophomore year were weak in math and computer skills andhad difficulty integrating knowledge. Recently, pilot Freshman Engineering courses were implemented to address theseconcerns [3, 4, 5, and 6]. In these courses, specific emphasis was focused on: • Incorporation of more rigorous design, based on math and science principles into design project activities; • Reinforcement of math and basic science concepts through parallel

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Francisco Ruiz; Michael E. Gorman; Phil Weilerstein

diversity of paradigms that cansuccessfully be used to introduce students to independent innovation.The first, is the Illinois Institute of Technology’s (IIT) “Invention Center” whereengineering projects are carried out in the studio environment typical of a Fine Artsclass. Students are coached, rather than lectured, on everything that needs to be done tocome up with a successful idea, make a prototype, and develop the legal and businessaspects of it. The second, the University of Virginia’s Invention and Design course usesa classroom apprenticeship which is created through the use of active learning moduleswhere students are confronted with open-ended problems. In both programs, ideas mustbe patentable and lead to a working prototype before a

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Ronald E. Barr

Session 3538 Developing the EDG Curriculum for the 21st Century: A Team Effort Ronald E. Barr The University of Texas at AustinABSTRACTA Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Instruction (CCLI) proposal was submitted to the National ScienceFoundation (NSF) in November 1998. The title of the proposal was “Engineering Design Graphics Summer School1999: Planning the Engineering Design Graphics Curriculum for the 21st Century.” The project proposes toestablish a team of highly-motivated Engineering Design Graphics faculty who

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Lawrence B. Korta

included 47 participants from sixteenuniversities located in eight different countries.This paper describes the curricular content of the program and its development from the initial1991 offering limited to Czech and Slovak students. Special note is made of the unique “live”industry sponsored multinational team engineering project which has become the cornerstone ofthe program and which presents some interesting challenges not unlike those encountered insimilar situations in industry.The paper concludes with some comparisons of this industry sponsored “short course” to the moreconventional international exchange programs also offered by Milwaukee School of EngineeringBackground…initial programIn 1991, representatives of Rockwell Automation (then

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Roger Ruggles

provide each student with anunderstanding of the various fields within the engineering profession. In order toaccomplish this, a design project was selected that incorporates each of the fourengineering disciplines (Chemical, Civil, Electrical and Mechanical) offered at LafayetteCollege. The project was to design and construct a water monitoring device that can besubmerged in a river and collect data for extended periods of time. The course is brokeninto four blocks each taught by a faculty member from each of the four engineeringdepartments. A total of 162 students were divided into eight sections. Students rotatethrough each of the blocks developing a portion of their design project within a designteam of about five students. Each block has

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Mahmood Nahvi

engineering students. The goal ofthe courses is to teach digital signal processing for applications. Therefore, emphasis is placed onteaching and learning DSP through real-time, real-world examples. The approach is to “learnDSP by doing,” with synthesis and design as the main vehicle.The course integrates classical DSP theory, structured experiments, and design projects. Itrequires prior knowledge of continuous and discrete-time signals and systems analysis, andfamiliarity with concepts and techniques such as linear time-invariant systems, convolution,correlation, and Fourier transforms. The course runs for a quarter of the academic year andincludes three hours of lecture presentations, eight experiments and a design project. In all of theabove

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Daryl Boden

Session 2302 Satellite Artificial Intelligence Lab Daryl G. Boden, Associate Professor Department of Aerospace Engineering United States Naval AcademyAbstractThe Spacecraft Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) is a joint Navy / NASA / Industry/Academia research and development project which uses existing facilities in the Department ofAerospace Engineering at the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA). The goals of the project are to testand evaluate automation and machine intelligence techniques for operating space systems. TheSAIL project is

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Martha A. Centeno; Julie A. Jacko; Marc L. Resnck; Marcia Groh-Hammond; Seth Berkowitz; Amanda M. Mitskevich; Janet Parker; John Schmidt

partnership is to attract and retain women, Hispanics, African Americans, and otherminorities individuals to engineering. Students participating in the program are exposed andtrained on NASA’s mission, given seminars on the realities of the workplace, diversity, andgender issues. Students attend to their regular curriculum during the academic year, whileworking on projects for NASA. This model is being tested at various levels to transfer it toindustry at large. Our preliminary results indicate that such partnership provides a win-win-winsituation for the student, industry, and faculty. This article discusses the partnership model andits implementation.1. The partnership modelThe partnership seeks to establish a combined research and educational

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Sadikin Djumin; James J. Mager; Jane M. Fraser

Session 3257 The University as Educational Lab Jane M. Fraser, Sadikin Djumin, James J. Mager University of Southern Colorado/Ohio State UniversityAbstractWe report on a project that integrated teaching (supervision of a master’s student), research(extending the work on Markov chain forecasts of student enrollment), and service(improvement of the university’s methods for forecasting enrollment). We giverecommendations on how to generate such projects and how to make such projects work well.1. IntroductionFaculty members have three sets of obligations corresponding to the three areas on which

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Valerie L. Young

Session 2213 Using Your Unit Operations Laboratory Valerie L. Young Department of Chemical Engineering, Ohio UniversityAbstractThrough planned exposure to the unit operations laboratory, students in introductory coursesgain a deeper understanding of chemical engineering. In the "Energy Balances" course at OhioUniversity, students worked in groups to design a system to preheat the feed to the distillationcolumn in the unit operations laboratory, using waste heat from the column. In their anonymousend-of-course review, many students named this project as the one they learned the most

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Lisa Bogaty

Session #3586 Implications for Technology Curriculum – Outcomes of a DACUM study in Tennessee Lisa Bogaty Pellissippi State Technical Community CollegeAbstractThis paper describes the three major outcomes of using the DACUM (Developing aCurriculum) process in developing curricula for the Tennessee Exemplary FacultyAdvanced Technology Education project, an NSF-funded precursor to the currentsoutheastern Advanced Technology Education (SEATEC) project. The project had threemajor goals: Faculty development, curriculum and curriculum support materialsdevelopment and developing

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Penny L. Hirsch; J. Edward Colgate; David M. Kelso; C. Yarnoff; Barbara L. Shwom; J. Anderson

Session 3353 The Web as a Model Technology in Freshman Design J. Anderson, J. E. Colgate, P. Hirsch, D. Kelso, B. Shwom, C. Yarnoff Northwestern UniversityAbstractThe challenge of teaching design to freshmen is to find projects and technologies that suittheir level of proficiency while allowing them to experience the design process andprepare for upper level courses. In the first quarter of a two-quarter freshman course indesign and communication, students work on web site projects for campus clients. Webtechnology is an effective tool for this purpose because it is widely available, inexpensive,timely, easily

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Eric Connell; David L. Batie

Session 2606 “Developing an Inter-School Internet Design/Build Class" David L. Batie, Ph.D., Eric Connell, Ph.D. East Carolina University / University of OklahomaAbstractAt a time when the design and construction industries are aware of the increasing use of theDesign/Build project delivery strategy, there is little attention to its implementation in architecturalor construction management programs as a classroom experiment. East Carolina UniversityDepartment of Construction Management and the University of Oklahoma Department ofArchitecture began

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James Pearson

of the working prototype and the presentation of all documentation andmarketing elements. Team interaction in the course has been effective thoughsometimes frustrating to the student. Student response to the course has been positive.The course has provided a good preparation for the full-year senior design project. Thepaper also discusses creativity issues, the use of computer tools, the application ofreliability factors, student evaluation techniques, and some of the product designs.“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” PlutarchI. IntroductionThe engineering faculty at John Brown University began discussing a junior-leveldesign laboratory in 1990. Students were spending extensive amounts of creative timein the

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Neda Fabris

. Myron Tribus, former US Assistant Secretary of Commerce, and formerDirector of the Center for Advanced Engineering Study at MIT. This paper briefly describes thematerial covered in the course with emphasis on different projects and activities students areinvolved in.2. Scope of the CourseSince this was a new elective class, I had complete freedom in choosing material to be studiedand in developing the activities and projects. As a basis for the class I choose the book,“Automation, Production Systems, and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing” by M.P. Groover1.Although this book is not up to date on several subjects, and several chapters in the book are

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Eric Adams; Rafael Bras

team experiences. • Inclusion of a practice experience as part of the curriculum. • A relatively structured curriculum. • Requirements for major writing and speaking experiences through a group project and individual thesis. • Εnrollment limited to 9, intensive, months. • The program is largely self-supported.The degree complements our traditional Master of Science degree which typically requires twoyears, has a more open curriculum, and emphasizes individual research, often en route to aPh.D.The team approach is obvious from the minute students arrive at MIT. Prior to the start ofclasses, the group spends a weekend in Vermont, socializing and getting to know one another.On their return to

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S. Mouring; S. Brown; P. Mead; M. Natishan; I. Goswami; C. Lathan; Linda Schmidt

Session 3325 BESTEAMS: Building Engineering Student Team Effectiveness And Management Systems L. Schmidt, P. Mead, M. Natishan/ C. Lathan, S. Brown/ I. Goswami/ S. Mouring University of Maryland, The Catholic University of America, Morgan State University, United States Naval AcademyAbstractThe current paper introduces the BESTEAMS Project. BESTEAMS seeks to transform theprofessional engineering environment into one comfortable for all by training engineering studentsto recognize and accept diverse learning, communication, and behavior styles in

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John Spinelli; Cherrice Traver

requirement.The Union students cooperated with a team of French students from ESIGELEC whowere also entered in the competition. They designed an autonomous robot to play a typeof table-top soccer against a competing robot. The Union team included sophomore,junior, and senior students majoring in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering,Computer Systems Engineering and Computer Science. The Internet was used forcommunication with their cooperating team in France. The students traveled to Francefor final debugging and testing as well as to participate in the competition itself.The potential educational benefits from this type of experience include exposure to open-ended multidisciplinary design, development of teamwork and project managementskills

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Wayne Padgett

labs, courses and projects throughout theengineering curriculum. In reality, there is a competition between theoretical content andpractical application that often compresses the design component of a course or lab into a verysmall portion of the work.Students are hungry for the practical experience and applications of the theoretical conceptspresented in class. In the days of discrete electronic components and repairable appliances manystudents came to engineering school with a strong background in practical problem solving,repair, and often design. Today, consumer appliances tend to be modular, integrated, anddisposable. Students rarely have experience building a simple electronic or mechanical device athome, and so they lack the framework

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Prawit Rotsawatsuk; Anil Sawhney; Andre Mund

Session 1315 Enhancing Construction Engineering Education Using Internet based Tools Anil Sawhney, Prawit Rotsawatsuk, and André Mund Western Michigan UniversityAbstractThis paper describes the work being performed as part of a three-year project that has beenfunded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Western Michigan University (WMU).The goal of the project is to enhance the undergraduate construction engineering education.Enhancements will be accomplished by developing: 1) an Internet-based Interactive ConstructionManagement Learning System (ICMLS) and 2

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Raffaello D'Andrea

Session: Mobile Robots and Interdisciplinary Design 2220 Robot Soccer: A Platform for Systems Engineering Raffaello D’Andrea Cornell UniversityAbstractThis paper describes a project course at Cornell University aimed at educating students inSystems Engineering. The multidisciplinary nature of the course is a great vehicle forhighlighting some of the key components of Systems Engineering, including System Design,Systems and Technology Integration, Systems Analysis, and System Engineering Management.The class is comprised of twenty-four students from Mechanical Engineering, ElectricalEngineering, Operations Research