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Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jameson Wetmore

such belt use makeoccupants safer because of the belts, but it would also make air bag safer because people wouldbe in a safe and predictable position should the bag deploy.Second, engineers continued to experiment with air bags in the laboratory. They continued to tryto replicate a variety of crash scenarios. They ran tests to see the effects of hitting trees, hittingcars at different angles, and side collisions. They also continued to broaden the array of testingdummies that they used. They conducted a number of tests on dummies designed to replicatewomen of different weights and stature, children, and babies in child safety seats.And finally, the auto safety community also carefully tracked the performance of air bags on theroad. NHTSA, the

Conference Session

Computing Tools for Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Garth Thomas

Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Education ”course, but a new designation as GENE 111 Software Tools for Engineers was provided in theSpring 2003 semester.Course DevelopmentOnce it was agreed that a new course was needed, the next major decision was the content of thecourse. It was decided that Excel® would be used because spreadsheet use is so common andthat particular software was available in all of the computer laboratories. It was also decided thatVisual Basic for Applications (VBA® ) programming would be taught since it extends thecapabilities of Excel® , provides a platform to teach some generally useful programmingconcepts, and Co-op students and new graduates were reporting that they used VBA® in theirwork. Mathcad® was

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Norma Mattei

tours of national research laboratories. The workshop started with governmentspeaker presentations from the NSF engineering directorate, the Air Force Office of ScientificResearch (AFOSR), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), NASA, and the NSF Division ofUndergraduate Education. Each speaker summarized the emphasis of their agency's programsand described opportunities available for funding from their organizations. The next threesessions focused on the Dynamic Systems and Controls Program technical areas of: 1) controls,2) vibrations and acoustics, and 3) dynamics diagnostics. These sessions started with a keynotespeaker who presented an overview of prominent research challenges in their emphasis area. Thekeynote speakers were selected because

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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David Miller; Charles Winton

, the majority of the projectsresulted in creative, and for the most part successful robots, and enthusiastic students.4 An AI Robotics CourseAt the University of North Florida, the Botball kit has been used for the past 2 years to support acourse in AI robotics offered by the Department of Computer Science. Cross fertilization withME occurs at the graduate level with exploration of mobile robots interacting with stationaryrobot manipulators. The term AI robotics (Murphy [12]) is used to emphasize robotics thatfocuses on mobile robots operating under conditions of uncertainty. The Botball kit provides anideal means for establishing and maintaining an effective support laboratory for an upper levelmajor elective in AI robotics, providing hands

Conference Session

Visualization and Computer Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Study

: Page 9.232.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ø 2004, American Society for Engineering Education 1. High school diploma or GED - All applicants must either graduate from high school or have a GED. 2. Subject-matter Requirements - Purdue has established subject-matter requirements in English, math, and laboratory science; students who graduate from high school starting in 2004 will have foreign language requirements as well. Minimum requirements for engineering are: ‚" 6 semesters Academic Math (algebra, geometry & trig

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Woodruff; Farhad Reza

class discussion, laboratory and lecture activities. The students aregiven turns at playing the roles of owner, designer and contractor in studying the same project.The Department of Civil Engineering and Construction at North Dakota State University utilizesreal-life projects for senior design drawn from the nearby community4. This type of project isknown as service-learning. Service-learning can assist students in seeing the relevance of theacademic subject to the real world. Students are able to fill unmet needs in the communitythrough direct service which is meaningful and necessary.The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the United States Air ForceAcademy has adopted an integrated engineering curriculum approach5. Students

Conference Session

Faculty Development II

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2005 Annual Conference

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Amy Miller; Maher Murad; Robert Martinazzi; Andrew Rose

together to attend a Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Educationworkshop may also work to the favor of being selected since the workshop organizersmay be more interested in faculty from institutions where a strong interest in theworkshop exists.One example of how cooperation between faculty members in the different disciplineshas helped untenured faculty develop their teaching at UPJ resulted from the staggerednature in which the new faculty were hired. Limited funds are available each year forlaboratory equipment. New faculty members, however, have been able to purchase newequipment for their laboratory through

Conference Session

Topics of Interest-Nuclear Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Deinert; K. Bingham Cady; Joshua Barratt; Erich Schneider

Visualization of Coupled Spectral and Burnup Calculations: an Intuition-building Tool Erich A. Schneider*, Joshua G. Barratt, K. Bingham Cady and Mark R. Deinert *Los Alamos National Laboratory, P. O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545 / Cornell University, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850AbstractIn this paper, we present a fast, user-friendly computational tool for the calculation andvisualization of coupled neutron spectra and fuel burnup calculations. This tool, V:BUDS(visualize: burnup, depletion, spectrum), was designed to derive scenario-dependent

Conference Session

Computing Tools for Engineering Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahnam Navaee

and to place gridlines and shading on the spreadsheet. Producing a document whichcollectively displays the problem sketch, problem input, numerical output, and the plots in theattractive format as illustrated in Figure 7 is not easily possible using MATLAB. Page 10.209.10 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 7. An EXCEL Workbook Developed for Analyzing a Beam Subjected to a Combined LoadLabVIEW SoftwareLabVIEW, acronym for “Laboratory Virtual Instrument

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bugra Koku; Ali Sekmen

conducted by Piguet et al. have shownthat students are motivated most when they are given the chance to apply theory in practice anddesign a machine (i.e. a robot) [6]. Practical aspects of a course (hands-on labs and projectassignments) generally attract curious students to the course. Studies have shown that up to 90%of what we see and touch is remembered whereas only 10-15% of what we hear remains.Therefore, beyond having the potential to attract curious students, hands-on laboratory practice isvery important in order to facilitate learning of the theoretical information presented inclassroom. Kolb defines learning as a process whereby knowledge is created through thetransformation of experience [7]. Evidently the best way to experience

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Obadiah Ritchey; John Clark; Jim White; Tim White; David Barnhart; Jerry Sellers

course that fulfills the space systems requirement is Astronautics 331, SpaceSystems Engineering.EyasSAT Project Description and HistoryDue to USAFA-wide curriculum changes in the fall of 2002, our Space Systems Engineeringcourse had to be re-scoped from two semesters to one. Upon a thorough review of the coursecurriculum, the opportunity arose to modernize the hands-on laboratory portion of the course.The vision of “students working in teams to build a micro-satellite over the course of a semester”was soon realized by a team of government and contractor engineers and given the project nameof EyasSAT. The name EyasSAT was the logical choice, as “eyas” is the term for a baby falcon,implying that this experience prepares them for the FalconSAT

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Betz

nature. This was to be a new kind of student competition, designedaround a different model than that was currently being used. It was to integrate a specific type ofknowledge that was learned in a very formal way that could be used as a tool in the design anddecision making process. In short, there was a great deal of idealism as to the goals andcontribution it would make in changing the culture of design competitions and in a broader sensethe dialogue in technology education.The competition was a two-part activity. The first part consisted of a series of learning modulesthat introduced various theoretical engineering concepts similar to a science laboratory course.Students tested, measured, recorded, charted and answered various questions

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Manuel Rossetti

II, ChemistryI, English Composition I and II, and Principles of Industrial Engineering. Satisfactory completionof the pre-professional curriculum is a prerequisite for enrollment in any 2000-level or higherengineering course. The course has contained between 80 and 100 students over the last fewofferings and is divided into a group lecture component and individual drill sections containingaround 20 students each. In the past, the course has relied heavily on lecture supported by handson laboratory/drill sections. The material in lecture was often a survey of topics in IndustrialEngineering delivered in a standard lecture format. In addition, the lecture included curriculumadvising, faculty introductions, and study skill development. Drill or

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Swedish; Glenn T. Wrate P.E.; Frederik Betz; Emily Blakemore; Lee Greguske

thevarious stakeholders is crucial to the success of the project. Instrumentation has beenacquired, installed, and calibrated. A grid connection agreement with the local utility,WE Energies, has been achieved. Milwaukee School of Engineering personnel interfacewith City of Milwaukee engineers concerning dispatch of the unit. During the heatingseason, the unit has been dispatched on thermal demand, and the economics of this modeof dispatch have been evaluated. Website development has continued: all instrumentreadings are accessible on the Website, and equations necessary for a First and SecondLaw analysis have been proofed and placed on the Website. Use of the facility as an off-site laboratory for the Milwaukee School of Engineering has begun. An

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramana Pidaparti; Hasan Akay

surveys and meetings 5. Alumni and employer surveys 6. Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam results 7. Common guidelines and rubrics for student reports in laboratory experiments and major design projects 8. Jury evaluation of student work in selected key courses which cover all program outcomes 9. Instructor’s direct assessment of outcomes in exams and key projects 10. Documentation on the Web (http://www.engr.iupui.edu/me/fassessment.shtml), including exemplary student workFindings from the Assessment ProcessA systematic use of the above assessment tools for a period of four semesters revealed certainshortcomings in the programs. The shortcomings were found in the curriculum as well asdelivery of student services

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Orr; Richard Vaz

Session xxxx 4. Use of Tools Graduates should be capable of utilizing a variety of computer based and laboratory tools for the analysis and design of computer systems, including both hardware and software elements. 5. Communication Skills Graduates should be able to communicate their work in appropriate formats (written, oral, graphical) and to critically evaluate materials presented by others in those formats.Following are comments on each of these characteristics as they relate to our ECE program: 1. This is an appropriate outcome for ECE students, expanding beyond the concept of a computer system to the systems containing analog and digital, electronic and mechanical components which characterize the

Conference Session

Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ismail Orabi

vibrations and dynamic systems and control. Professor Orabi has taughtcourses in both undergraduate and graduate level Mechanical Vibrations and Multimedia Engineering Analysis, andundergraduate level thermodynamics, Measurement Systems, Engineering Mechanics and Introduction toEngineering. One of Professor Orabi's most recent projects involves the development of Learning Modules on theweb. These modules provide information, not only about particular course material, but also about more generaltopics relevant to engineering. He is also working on Computer-Aided Experimentations using LABVIEW. ProfessorOrabi has received a number of research awards from the State of Connecticut and Untied Technologies. He hasestablished two Laboratories: the

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gabriel Ferrer; Ann Wright; Andrew Wright

as well as learning about science. There are presently two biologycourses, one chemistry course, and six physics courses that are classified as natural sciencelaboratory courses. Five of the nine courses have no pre-requisites. All but one of the ninecourses are geared toward science majors. There is a clear need in the curriculum for anatural science laboratory course that is geared towards the non-science major, has no pre-requisites, and is attractive to students from various backgrounds.2. The course modelsOur model course is Robotic Design Studio taught at Wellesley College by Dr. FranklynTurbak and Dr. Robert Berg. Wellesley is a private liberal arts, all-female college inMassachusetts. The course has no pre-requisites and is aimed at

Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

without fighting?5. Examples for course and laboratory material, projects, teaming and communicationactivities5a) Course materialThe following are some example-based explanations for the different strategies:Example for the Uniqueness strategyThere is a need to separate juicy and non-juicy oranges at a high rate. How can this be done?A solution: look for a feature or property of an orange that highly correlates with juiciness.Obviously it is not color, size, weight, or texture. The main property that distinguishes theoranges is specific density. To measure the specific density it is not necessary to measure theweight and volume of each orange separately and then find the ratio of the two. It can be donedirectly by observing the time it takes for

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Krogmeier; Mustafa Kamasak; Maribel Figuera; Luis Torres; Jan Allebach; George Chiu; Edward Delp; Charles Bouman; Catherine Rosenberg; Lynne Slivovsky

lectures and texts.In traditional laboratory courses, students learn by completing a carefully prescribed procedureduring an experiment. While both these modes of learning continue to play an important role inengineering and computer science education, we have developed a course to provide our studentswith an undergraduate research experience focused on mobility. In our junior/senior level designcourse, Mobile Communications Projects, students work in teams under the direct supervision ofa faculty member. Students attend a common lecture, in which a variety of topics on wirelesscommunications are covered by participating faculty members; and a lab section, during whichthe teams of students meet with their assigned faculty member. Additionally

Conference Session

Partnerships in IE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Burtner

. This included those materials necessary to reduce stress, fatigue, and glare for theoperator. Once they developed the alternatives for the work space, they performed merit,ergonomic, cost and safety analysis to determine the best alternative. The results of the analysiswere then presented in the form of a written and oral presentation to the client and instructor.ISE 424: A Sample Laboratory Experiment in RoboticsManufacturing is strategic for United States global competitiveness, which directly relates tonational health and wealth. American industry has awakened to the importance of themanufacturing enterprise and the need for engineering education. Although industry struggles toovercome tradition and organizational inertia in the product

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Haley; Calvin Mackie; Sundiata Jangha

Society for Engineering Education 2003-1936 • Participate in an opening program hosted by the BGSA and sponsored by acorporate partner. Representatives of the current graduate student body give testimonialson life at Georgia Tech and why they decided to attend. • Gather by college of interest for a welcome by the respective dean of the college- Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Management, Sciences, and Ivan Allen. • Visit the academic units and research laboratories according to interest. Also,they are given an opportunity to interact and ask questions of the faculty and currentstudents in the department. • Meet with

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2001 Annual Conference

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Ann Anderson; Richard Wilk

grant from the GEFoundation (now GE Fund). Most of this effort was directed at taking advantage of the existingstrengths of the technical side of the program and capitalizing on the fact that engineering istaught in a liberal arts environment at an institution with a strong international component in thecurriculum. Therefore it is well-positioned to produce broadly educated engineers for the globalengineering community of the 21st century. In the new mechanical engineering program there isa strong emphasis on fundamentals in both thermal/fluids and mechanics. This is reinforced bysignificant hands-on laboratory and design experiences in each of these areas. Communicationskills and design are reinforced and practiced across the curriculum. As a

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Boyd; Alan Insleay; Geza Joos

- MANAGING SOCIOSTRUCTURESIn our initial work, students work either as partners, or alone, either in laboratories withsome instructor support, or at home with Internet communications.V - MATHEMATA (ACKS) Attitudes, Concepts, Knowledge, Skills TO BE LEARNEDThe topics chosen are important topics in the standard curricula which are also onesposing appreciable conceptual difficulty for a fair number of students.The essential ATTITUDES of successful engineers and technologists include:i) curiosity, about possible alternative designs sand understandings, ii) Openness, anattitude of openness to correction, and of openness to re-framings and re-naming, in the Page

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Lau; Robert Pangborn

developing effective study, time-management, decision-making, critical thinking and learning skills(3) Provide exposure to some of the professional skills and competencies associated with academic study and practice of engineering; • practice in skills such as use of e-mail and the Web, computation and library research • introduction to design, case studies, global perspectives, teamwork and problem-solving • opportunities to use laboratory facilities or engage in hands-on activities(4) Encourage networking and interaction with faculty, other engineering students, alumni and other industry practitioners; • in-class discussions or debate • guest visits and presentations • collaborative projects and other group

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Flynn; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

resistant plastic. The side and bottom of theunit is stamped out of stainless steel. The side panels have been power coated to resistscratching. Rubber pads help to absorb the vibration caused by mixing and kneading.Experimental Procedure: This laboratory experiment is divided into several parts. It begins with materialappropriate for a freshman level class, followed by sophomore material, then material fora junior level class. The freshman portion involves data acquisition, simple calculations,and taking measurements. The sophomore and junior level portions involve advancedcalculations, modeling systems, and mass and energy balances.Freshman Level Material1 - Volume of Bread Pan In order to calculate the final volume of the bread you

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Teresa Larkin-Hein

growing both in and out of the classroom and laboratory. Certainlytechnology has the potential to serve as a powerful tool to improve the educational process forstudents as well as teachers 1. However, educational technology is only as good as the content itsupports 2.Many traditional teaching methodologies have clearly been shown to put students in the role ofpassive rather than active learning 3. Traditional instructional methods have also been shown tobe inadequate in terms of promoting deep learning and long-term retention of important physicsconcepts. The explosion in the availability of technological tools is literally forcing physics aswell as other SMET educators to change the way they teach. These changes, however, mustinvolve much more

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn J. Smith

Session 3202Learning More From Class Time: Technology Enhancement in the Classroom Marilyn J. Smith, Narayanan Komerath School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe traditional classroom lectures in engineering do not permit professors or students to keeppace with technological changes within rapidly changing disciplines. By using technology, theclassroom lecture can be modified so that class time becomes a laboratory of learning andreinforcement through iteration and application. This approach is also very timely since itdirectly develops the engineering attributes set forth in ABET

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas W. Fraser; Gary E. Rafe

. Page 5.478.1Our presentation is not intended to be a tutorial in the use of any one particular desktop UNIXenvironment. Rather, we are interested in the ability to accomplish our work on a variety ofsystems with (more-or-less) the same paradigm, with the added benefit that the product of ourwork can be shared easily with others through the use of portable code and architecture-independent file formats.BackgroundWe bring to this presentation a long familiarity of UNIX systems, having nearly 30 yearscombined experience with them between us. Our first exposures to the UNIX system began inthe mid-1980’s when one of us (DWF) went to work for AT&T Bell Laboratories where AT&TUNIX Version 7 ran on a timesharing DEC PDP 11/70; access to this

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2000 Annual Conference

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Geoff Swan; S P Maj; D Veal

knowledge of physics.Alternatively it may be possible to introduce and reinforce basic physics concepts as part of theallocated workshop time. The CIM workshops could provide a laboratory space where studentscan gain hands-on practical physics experience of relevant physics concepts and a real lifecontext in which to learn. Approaches, which make use of a real life context, are increasinglybeing included in secondary school physics curricula as these are seen to make physics moreinteresting, relevant, accessible and useful to a wider range of students 14.Depending upon the topic, physics concepts might be taught and applied to the CIM context, orthe CIM context could be used to draw out the physics concepts to be studied. In both scenarios,the