Conference Session

Sustainability & Environmental Issues

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sonya Quinn, University of Limerick; William Gaughran, University of Limerick

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

are reached will have an encouragingimpact; these celebrations will involve the whole school and again bring positivepublicity and awareness to the issue of sustainability.Each school could set up their own action programme, which is suited to their school.An action programme should be part of a whole school process and implemented overa period of years not months. Students will need to see that the teachers, support staffand senior management are serious and committed to finding solutions and applyingnew strategies and supporting real changes for the long term.The definition of a strategy itself is, a long term plan of action designed to achieve aparticular goal. It is not something that can be achieved overnight; time and energymust be put

Conference Session

Outstanding Contributions to ME

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Corder, Lamar University; Jiang Zhou, Lamar University; Kendrick Aung, Lamar University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

that the flat plate heat exchanger design is best thermalcontrol system for the Lunar Lander. The final magnesium ITCS flat plate heat exchangerdesign used ¼” ID connections with 0.10” wall thicknesses. The overall dimensions were3”x8”x2.32”. It had 21 plates and a total empty weight of 3.5 lbs.The final magnesium ETCS design is shown in Figure 1.2. It also utilized ¼” ID connectionswith 0.10” wall thicknesses. The overall dimensions were 3”x8”x1.64” and had 14 plates. Itweighed about 2.5 lbs while transferring 7.56 kW. Figure 1.2: Flat Plate ETCS Heat ExchangerThe team’s final report is provided on the Mechanical Engineering Department’s website.Design of the ETCS radiator is planned for the second senior design

Conference Session

Preparing Engineering Students for International Practice

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Korth, Brigham Young University; Owen Carlson, Brigham Young University; Mason Webster, Brigham Young University; C. Greg Jensen, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

International

. Currently he is working for ATL technology as a Global Product Developer.Mason Webster, Brigham Young University Mason Webster is a graduate of Brigham Young University with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and has completed two internships in China at a Lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant. Next year, he plans on attending graduate school to pursue a Master of Business Administration degree.C. Greg Jensen, Brigham Young University Dr. C. Greg Jensen is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Brigham Young University. He has also worked for Boeing, Lockheed, and United Technologies. His current research interests are in the area of integration

Conference Session

The Critical First Year in Engineering Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Budny, University of Pittsburgh; Alaine Allen, University of Pittsburgh; Jessica Quarcoo, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

that have changed or have beenreplaced [13]. The first year college adjustment embodies both a loss experience as well as anexciting set of new opportunities [14]. These changes can affect the students’ first yearexperience, including their performance in the classroom and their desire to stay in school. Theculminations of such experiences are recognized within three major areas of transition:Academic TransitionsThe first transition that many engineering students encounter is within the academic milieu,which is often compounded by the additional challenges these changes elicit. As a studentmoves from high school to college he/she is channeled through the high school highly structureddaily schedule of planned activities. Upon entering college

Conference Session

K-12 Programs (Co-sponsored by K-12 Division)

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol Stwalley, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

major challenge of thismethod is providing consent from the parent and child.A significant difference of the presented results between now and what would have been seen adecade ago, is that boys and girls are both most interested in the major category of electronicsand are consistently not interested in household items. This should help individuals plan for whattechnical information can be highlighted in the elementary arena which will excite girls and stillhold interest to the boys within the classroom.AcknowledgmentsThe author would like to acknowledge the Flour Corporation for funding this research. Manythanks also go to Samia Twainy, an undergraduate in the School of Mechanical Engineering, fortransferring all the data from the surveys into

Conference Session

Technology Literacy for Engineering Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Byron Newberry, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

and wireless plan for your needs, or even how to download ringtones ontoyour phone.In the end Bucciarelli determines that he has a pretty good understanding of how the telephoneworks in some of these senses, a more limited understanding in others, but is relatively cluelessas to the rest. So who has the complete understanding? “I can claim fairly confidently,” heconcludes, “that there is no single individual alone who knows how all the ingredients thatconstitute a telephone system work together to keep each of our phones functioning.” That is,there is no one who is technologically literate about telephones in any absolute andcomprehensive sense. Yet we all adapt them to our own needs and purposes.Another example of an engineer expressing

Conference Session

Practice/Partnership/Program Issues

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mahmoud Alahmad, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Matthew Pfannenstiel, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Douglas Alvine, Alvine Engineering; Clarence Waters, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

concepts they have acquired. The goal of thelab is to reinforce the material covered in the classroom and to develop an understanding ofbuilding power system design and effective production and design methods. At the beginning ofthe semester, the class is presented with preliminary plans for a building previously designed bythe industry professional dictating the lab. Students are then asked to complete a series of designtasks each week in the order they would occur in a professional environment. Each week thestudents are issued a set of drawings and necessary information to complete the task. They areasked to analyze, design and document their results and show their designs on the drawingsproviding all information pertinent to a practical and

Conference Session

EMD Curriculum Design

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raymond Krizek, Northwestern University; Ahmad Hadavi, Northwestern University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

interest appeared in the trade magazines. Now we know Page 12.570.2 we need papers designed to advance the theory and practice of planned engineering construction among construction engineers; papers that will make better engineers by stimulating discussion based on valuable experience.”Interestingly, the second issue of the Journal, published in February of 1959, consisted of fivepapers about Engineering Education and the Construction Industry. In the 1950s, fiveuniversities developed programs in CE&M. By the mid-1990s, the master’s degree had becomereasonably widespread and about 40 to 50 universities were awarding this

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Kadlowec, Rowan University; Howard Pearlman, Drexel University; Greg Biren, Rowan University; John Chen, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Ali Navvab, Gloucester County College; Anthony Marchese, Rowan University; Robert Sterner, Rowan University

introduced in these modules have been described and will be integrated throughoutthe engineering curriculum beginning in 2007. Plans for vertical integration include engineeringand health sciences core courses, laboratory courses, and advanced senior and graduate levelelective courses. In addition, a senior elective in “Engineering Principles in Sports” is beingdeveloped by faculty in Mechanical Engineering and Health and Exercise Science. Future workincludes some assessments of student learning and use in outreach programs for K-12 studentsand teachers.AcknowledgmentsFunding for this project was obtained from the National Science Foundation, Division ofUndergraduate Education (NSF DUE #0536307). The authors would like to thank students

Conference Session

Internet Delivery of Mechanics Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Boyle, Saint Mary's University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

instructor’s control. Ongoing and adequate emergency plans should be on hand to prevent a “house of cards” condition in the event of, for example, an unexpected server interruption.Effort, Reward and PotentialThis paper’s title promises revelations on these topics. Effort refers to the instructor’s labourcommitment, over and above that of a non electronically bundled course. Considerable front-endeffort makes an ePAC format worthwhile only if the format is to be used in a series of courses.Reward refers to benefits arising from features that are unique to an ePAC. Potential refers topossible development of the ePAC, with some of the improvements lying outside this author’scontrol. Effort Rewards/Achievements

Conference Session

Ethical Responsibilities of Engineers in the World of Corporate Business / Engineering and Poverty

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Catalano, State University of New York-Binghamton

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

, 2002.20 Brian Deal, The Next Industrial Revolution: William McDonough, Michael Braungart and the Birth of the Sustainable Economy, Journal of the American Planning Association, January 1, 2004.21 Engineering Accreditation Criteria 2007-2008, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, http://www.abet.org/Linked%20Documents-UPDATE/Criteria%20and%20PP/A004%2007- 08%20Accredition%20Policy%20and%20Procedure%20Manual%2011-10-06.pdf Page 12.616.15

Conference Session

ChE: Innovations in undergraduate and graduate programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lale Yurttas, Texas A&M University; Zachry Kraus, Texas A&M University; Jeffrey Froyd, Texas A&M University; Jean Layne, Texas A&M University; Mahmoud El-Halwagi, Texas A&M University; Charles Glover, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

material. The pre-test might be especially valuable for studentswho are using the ICC for review. Students who are learning about applications of CoM for thefirst time may find the pre-test helpful in organizing their prior knowledge8 about the topic. Theweb site also displays a score for the student who takes the test and provides a chance to improvethis score after going through the topic notes, exercises, and examples in the ICC. Pre-testquestions are being revised and updated continuously. A future plan is to ask the students takingthe material and energy balances course in each semester to develop new concept questions andcontribute to the concept inventory. This technique is especially useful as the students oftenidentify a difficult concept

Conference Session

Improving ME Education: Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amir Jokar, Washington State University-Vancouver; Hakan Gurocak, Washington State University-Vancouver; Dave Kim, Washington State University-Vancouver; Xiaolin Chen, Washington State University-Vancouver; Hamid Rad, Washington State University-Vancouver

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

taking fundamental science and general education courses. The Mech 101 isthe only chance they can learn about their future department. An advantage of using multi-instructors in this freshmen course was that the students could get to know the faculty membersof the program in person and communicate with them closely.In order to let the freshmen get in touch with other students in the department, the HPV group ofthe ASME chapter was invited to the class to encourage them in joining the group. Some of theactive HPV members showed up in class with last year’s HPV entry. They presented the funaspects of the project and explained their plan for going to the competition again with a newvehicle this year. At the end of session, 15 freshmen registered as

Conference Session

FPD4 -- Hands-on & Real-World Studies

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry Bland, John Brown University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

funding from the U.S. Departmentof Education. The university core curriculum now requires every student to take at least onethree-hour global studies course in fulfilling degree requirements. The Department ofEngineering has embraced this activity and is working to incorporate global issues into coursesthat span the typical four-year course plan. This initiative is seen as an opportunity to Page 12.872.3significantly strengthen the engineering program, improve ABET outcomes, and furtherstrengthen ties with our liberal arts colleagues. For course purposes, globalization is defined asexposure to other cultures, understanding how problems are

Collection

2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

M. M. Gilkeson

compared to the more recent graduates.Our most recent data, for 2005-06, show the following for twenty-six Engineering Clinic Teams:On Quality of Work: Outstanding: 9 Very Good: 13 Average: 3 Poor: 1On Results have met goals: Yes: 25 No: 1On Benefit/Cost: Excellent: 12 Good: 13 Low: 1A majority of our clients continue to support clinic projects the subsequent year. We are showingsponsors return rates of over 70%, and one 1990s survey of ten sponsors placed the project’s valueto the client at near one hundred thousand dollars. Planning for future sponsorship was deemed todepend equally on business needs and on corporate citizenship.Spread of the Clinic Mode of EducationA number of efforts have been made

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Behnam Bahr; Kurt Soschinske; George Gray

first hand the issues involved in prototyping and product development.These laboratories are expensive to set up and even more expensive to maintain and staff withwell-qualified technicians. At Wichita State University (WSU) we have worked out a plan thatenables our students to use the laboratories at one of the local community colleges called theWichita Area Technical College (WATC). In this agreement the students are provided first handexposure to manufacturing techniques such as machining, welding, and composite blue printreading / fabrication, among other laboratory exercises. The laboratory sessions are taught byWATC instructors with extensive background and training dedicated to the variousmanufacturing areas. Students will be expected to

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Levern Rollins-Haynes; Keith L. Haynes

things will result in a more “natural” inclinationtoward mathematics and science.Adult education in the form of learning, child-rearing practices, financial planning, and African-Americanand other cultural histories should be explored not only during African-American history month, butthroughout the year as a way of life. In learning about the importance of education to early African-13 Gerome Gloster, MD, “Role Models Needed in Health Care,” Pittsburgh Pa Post-Gazette, by ChristopherSnowbeck, Tuesday, August 20, 2002, http://www.post-gazette.com/healthscience/20020820hminority0820p3.asp.14 Tanisha Perez, UAW-Daimler Chrysler National Training Center Communications, 2/9/06, http://www.uaw-daimlerchryslerntc.org/resources/news.cfm?NewsID

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2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Paul Stanton; Duane Fairfax

refuse to cooperate. Peer assessments can be a valuable tool, but instructors must keep in mind that students will likelyhave very little experience working constructively in groups and they won’t know how to best employ thetool; instructors must provide considerable guidance. Students will probably lack sufficient social andleadership skills required for conflict management, so they will need help determining a plan for theirgroup interaction. A recommendation is to have the teams develop both a team policy document and anexpectations document at the beginning of the course that provide a foundation for handling futureproblems5. CS350 coaches students into this process. Proceedings of the 2007 Middle Atlantic Section Fall

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2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Deborah Tihanyi; Margaret N. Hundleby

the work at hand. The assignment is made with the explicit understandingthat the skills of representing do not stay static—that is, only written or only in a report genre—but will be required in a number of different ways and in a number of different locations.And, in addition, they can plan the text of comments, but they will always have to be prepared tothink on their feet, as in being subject to question and answer sessions. For this kind of occasion,they will still be subject to evaluation in light of agreed-on expectations for the discipline as wellas on communication concepts for public speaking and the use of visual representation.The strategy we are using here makes the student liable to assessment both with and without anyformal

Conference Session

New Models for Teaching and Learning

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Llewellyn Mann, University of Queensland; Gloria Dall'Alba, University of Queensland; David Radcliffe, University of Queensland

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

, to analysis. Most importantly, the research should havea clear purpose, and all efforts should be planned around that purpose42. The research subjects areidentified in the planning stage of the research due to their relationship with the specific aspect ofthe world under consideration. They should also be selected to obtain as much variation in theirexperiences as possible, but still within the purpose of the study. Phenomenographic datacollection usually revolves around interviews51, which have an open ended format withinterviewees responding to an initial question or problem. “The researcher and researched mustbegin with some kind of (superficially) shared topic, verbalized in terms which they bothrecognize as meaningful”52(p299). The

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Smith, University of Arkansas; Waleed Al-Assadi, University of Missouri

, Synopsys, and Cadence), which areused in almost all U.S. universities. Note that the VHDL library is platform independent and istherefore already compatible with Synopsys.5.2 Future WorkThe authors are planning to expand upon this work through the following:1) Develop new educational modules focusing on additional asynchronous circuit topics, such that asynchronous circuit concepts can be incorporated into a larger variety of Computer Engineering courses.2) Develop semi-static VHDL, transistor-level, and physical-level libraries of fundamental Page 12.911.11 asynchronous components, such that students can easily compare asynchronous circuits

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dorin Patru, Rochester Institute of Technology; Daniel Phillips, Rochester Institute of Technology; Eric Peskin, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE)

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

concept of managing their time in a diligent manner oncethey have been given access to the facilities to work on their laboratory assignments in a muchless time-constrained fashion. Despite definite statements that indicate that the laboratoryassignments are analogous to conventional homework assignments, it usually takes one or twoweeks to realize that the assigned activities can not be accomplished within the confines of theassigned laboratory sessions. The students come to realize that additional time is necessary, notonly to execute the laboratory assignments, but just as importantly, to plan how they will beaccomplished, put together a well considered design of software, in the case of themicrocomputer course, or hardware, in the case of the

Conference Session

Capstone Design & Project Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Green, LeTourneau University; Paul Leiffer, LeTourneau University; Thomas Hellmuth, LeTourneau University; Roger Gonzalez, LeTourneau University; Stephen Ayers, LeTourneau University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

, Boston, Mass.10 Ulrich, K. and S. Eppinger, 2004, Product Design and Development, 3rd Ed., McGraw-Hill, New York.11 Cagan, J. and C. M. Vogel, 2002, Creating Breakthrough Products: Innovation from Product Planning to Program Approval, Prentice Hall, NJ.12 Green, M. G., 2005, "Enabling Design in Frontier Contexts: A Contextual Needs Assessment Method with Humanitarian Applications," PhD Dissertation, Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin.13 Davis, D., S. Beyerlein, O. Harrison, P. Thompson, M. Trevisan, and B. Mount, “A Review of Literature on Assessment Practices In Capstone Engineering Design Courses: Implications for Formative Assessment,” Proceedings of the 2006 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alex Waskiewicz, University of Colorado at Boulder; Deniz Gurkan, University of Houston; Ideen Taeb, University of Colorado; Driss Benhaddou, University of Houston; Frank Barnes, University of Colorado; Alan Mickelson, University of Colorado at Boulder

’ selections,more or less data manipulation was required, but their eventual goal was to estimate the signal tonoise ratio by taking the standard deviation of the primarily DC signal. Periodic perturbationssuch as sound waves increased the standard deviation of the received signal by up to 20%. Thestudents measured this increase and were asked to generate a plot of frequency vs. standarddeviation.5 – Developing Non-interactive Course ContentThe process of developing 18 hours of video across the six experimental setups became mucheasier over the course of production. However, the initial setup and planning dictating preciselyhow taping would be done proved to be a very iterative process. Despite being a fairly trivialconcern, lighting proved to be an

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers – II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daphne Duncan, Purdue University; Euridice Oware, Purdue University; Monica Cox, Purdue University; Heidi Diefes-Dux, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

grantsand the P-12 Research Seminar Series), graduate research assistants, undergraduate researchassistants, and faculty scholars.The second, education/learning, includes the two week-long INSPIRE Summer Academieshosted at the university (one for local teachers, one for national teachers), academic year teacherprofessional development opportunities, and the Bechtel Fellows Program. The Bechtel FellowsProgram allows highly qualified teachers to work with the INSPIRE team during the summer.These teachers arrive prior to the summer academies and helped with the planning, curriculumdevelopment and refinement, and implementation of the summer academies.The final method by which INSPIRE hopes to achieve their goals is by engagement/outreach.This is done

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques in Graphics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Sherwood, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Peter Avitabile, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

andacts as visual map to reinforce the connection of the course topics to one another. The Ganttchart also is an introduction to how to manage a project by planning tasks that need to becompleted in serial and what tasks can be done in parallel to have a distributed workload over thetime period while finishing the project on time.Tasks #1 and #2 are done as individual technical reports. Students do not necessarily come tothe course knowing any of the students in the class. Thus, the first two weeks is a time for thestudents to begin to meet others during the two-hour lab sessions and to force each student to beinvolved in all aspects of writing a technical memo report. Any weaknesses in technical reportwriting and formatting in MS Word are to be

Conference Session

FPD11 -- Multidisciplinary Experiences

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

W. David Harding, University of New Haven; Pauline schwartz, University of New Haven; Jean Nocito-Gobel, University of New Haven; Agamemnon Koutsospyros, University of New Haven

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

retentionof chemistry concepts, there are no specific follow-up courses where biological concepts can beassessed.Bibliography1) Collura, M., S. Daniels, J. Nocito-Gobel and B. Aliane, Development of a Multidisciplinary Engineering Foundation Spiral, ASEE 2004 Annual Conference, Curricular Change Issues, Session 26302) Collura, M.A., A Multidisciplinary, Spiral Curricular Foundation for Engineering Programs, NSF Department- Level Reform Planning Grant, EEC-0343077, $99,928, August 14, 20033) New Biology for Engineers and Computer Scientists, A. Tozeren and S. Byers, Prentice-Hall, 20044) Essentials of General Chemistry, by D.D. Ebbing, S.D. Gammon and R.O. Ragsdale, Houghton Mifflin Co., NY, NY, 20035) Saliby, M.J., P.J. Desio

Conference Session

Undergraduate Spacecraft Design I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Liu, University of Michigan; Christopher Deline, University of Michigan; Rafael Ramos, University of Michigan; Steven Sandoval, University of Michigan; Ashley Smetana, University of Michigan; Yang Li, University of Michigan; Richard Redick, University of Michigan; Julie Bellerose, University of Michigan; Peter Washabaugh, University of Michigan; Bogdan Oaida, University of Michigan; Brian Gilchrist, University of Michigan; Nilton Renno, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

students learn to adopt a systems engineering mentality thatemphasizes sound engineering trade studies, rigorous requirements traceability, and meticulousinterface control. They also learn to plan project schedules and budgets with contingencies,handle team personnel conflicts, and manage setbacks such as unanticipated requirementschanges, procurement delays, or failed ground testing.When candidates become comfortable with the responsibilities of leading a small team, they aregiven lead status by Excom when such positions open, and they begin mentoring their own teammembers. Thus, S3FL’s “see one, do one, teach one” paradigm is fulfilled, as a student is able toobserve and learn from the actions of a lead, then take on a leadership role, and in

Conference Session

Electromechanical Capstone and Design Projects in ET

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Everly, University of Cincinnati; Laura Wilson, University Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

project was already laid out, we could concentrate on the work that was necessary to complete a capstone project. The concepts of abstracts, annotated bibliographies, proposals, PowerPoint, and poster boards could all be illustrated effectively using this existing project. ExpressPCB software, project cost, and planning with the use of Gantt Charts were also introduced."2.0 Was the class project effective in enhancing your technical skills? • "The project introduced the soldering onto printed circuit board, which I had no prior experience with in the past. In addition this project allowed us to work on design improvements

Conference Session

ChE: Innovations in undergraduate and graduate programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen High, Oklahoma State University; Eric Maase, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

the course of the semester project status, learning, and student assessment (grading)is addressed by tasking the student groups to prepare memorandum at appropriate pointsduring the project. Table 5 lists the four additional project memos that the student teamswere asked to prepare.Table 5 – Subsequent Memos2nd memo due September 25th at the beginning of class. 1) Revise your 1st memo considering that your first experiment should take 1 hour and 15 minutes (class time). You should keep this very simple and consider using the physical and mathematical model in the case study. You need a very detailed plan for your experiment. Where will you get the equipment for the experiments? 2) Develop the mathematical model in