Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Louise Green; Barbara Quintiliano; Andrea Welker

active and collective, their information literacyskills can improve dramatically.Typically, students respond well to hands-on computer laboratories in which they search variousdatabases and retrieve electronic information. McGuigan (2001) notes that the Web is often thefirst source students explore when researching a topic. Davis (2003) also reports that students areusing fewer scholarly references, but that this trend can be reversed with properly constructedassignments.Active and peer learning are strategies often employed to teach a variety of topics. Theeffectiveness of these strategies is especially important because Manuel (2002) reports that thestudents at California State University viewed the “words of caution said by the instructor

Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Terri Hahn; Nancy Wynn; James Fuller; David Pines

Center Design Systems Visual CommunicationsWayfinding ProjectThe other civil engineering course project that supported the Bloomfield Center study was doneby a group of four students as part of their Water Quality Engineering course. This is a fallsenior level 4-credit course that has a 3-credit lecture and a 1-credit lab. Unlike traditional labswhere students read a laboratory manual and perform a number of experiments during thesemester, the Water Quality Engineering laboratory is a semester long group project that issponsored by a town or water utility. Because a service learning project was already part of thecourse curriculum, it was easy to integrate the Bloomfield Center Study into the Water

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Haering

the predominant faculty responsibility is to obtain fundingfor and conduct research that will produce work that can be published in highly respectedtechnical journals. Much of the research is conducted by graduate students who work withvarying degrees of direction from the faculty member. Providing this direction to the graduatestudents requires significant time, effort and managerial skill on the part of the faculty member.The aforementioned funding is required to pay for such things as administrative overhead,laboratory space and equipment, graduate students’ assistantships, faculty stipends, materials andother consumables, travel expenses and so forth. These research projects may often includefaculty interaction that is intradepartmental

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Genalo

. D. in Applied Mathematics with Systems Engineering emphasis in 1977, served as Chair forFreshman Programs and DELOS Divisions, and runs the Toying With TechnologySM Program at Iowa State.CELESTE E. OGRENis a junior in elementary education from Marcus, Iowa. She works in the Toying With TechnologySM Laboratory asan undergraduate teaching/laboratory assistant. Her interests include integrating engineering and technologyconcepts into the elementary education curriculum and helping preservice teachers become more aware of theopportunities available to incorporate these important subject areas into their every day curriculum. Page

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Reyer; Stephen Williams; Owe Petersen

incollege, the students usually work alone: in class, taking notes, doing homework, studying forand taking tests, writing papers, giving presentations, and managing their own time. Typically,in the laboratory the student will partner with another student. However, the dynamics of a teamof two does not at all compare to that of a larger group. Hence, while this overall approach istraditional and works well for the individual in an academic setting, it can be a shock when thestudent needs to work in a larger team in industry. Considerable time is spent in the first-quarterEE-407 course on team building, and this continues throughout the year.2. Understand the difference between a problem and a solution. This is one of the more poorlyunderstood

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Johnson; Shannon Sweeney; Richard Englund

sometimes believe thatwelding is a simple process that does not change the material properties. If they have a chance totry welding in a laboratory setting it may reinforce this belief when inexpensive materials areused that do not change properties very much due to the welding process.Particularly on heat treated parts, heating during the welding process can cause grain growth in Page 10.33.1the volume of material adjacent to the weld. This grain growth and any other tempering effects Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American

Conference Session

Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Schrage

) Wop) FAA Certification (PERT/CPM) Flight Multi-Body, Non-Linear Laboratory Dynamic Analysis (Fight (DYMORE) Lab) Reliability Modeling Linear & Non-Linear (PRISM/ITEM) Structural Analysis (NASTRAN/ABAQUS

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Thompson; Harold Broberg

Selection of Processor, Language, and Labs in Introductory Microprocessor/Microcontroller Courses Harold L. Broberg, Elizabeth Thompson Indiana University-Purdue University Fort WayneAbstract:The hardware and software used in introductory microprocessor/microcontroller coursesin electrical and computer engineering (ECE) and in electrical and computer engineeringtechnology (ECET) curricula is of general interest to faculty in these disciplines.Information on processors, languages, and laboratories used in teaching fifteen ECE andeleven ECET courses was collected using university/college syllabi and other materialavailable via the Internet. The choices made are presented in

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wierman; Lawrence Aronhime

, the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (SPH), the Johns HopkinsApplied Physics Laboratory (APL), and the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Division(IH). The final project for this successful collaboration requires that student teams define thetechnology and its applications, review applicable literature, analyze the strength of theprovisional patent application (with the assistance of students from the Intellectual Propertycourse), identify technology and market gaps, gauge the interest of potential customers andlicensees, define a business model, project the potential returns to licensees, evaluate spin-offpossibilities, value the technology from the perspective of its owner(s), and describe next steps.They hold extensive

Conference Session

New Trends in Graduate Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Stiegler; Ernest McDuffie; Robert Kavetsky; Eugene Brown

-Next.” Page 10.991.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationFunded through the Office of Naval Research (ONR), N-STAR has begun to develop anintegrated continuum of activities and programs that have as their ultimate goal recruiting 500new scientists and engineers per year over the next ten years into the Naval Research Enterprise(NRE) which comprises the NWCs plus the Naval Research Laboratory

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Betz

of writing iscurrently emphasized in this discipline pedagogically? Two, are there significant writing styledifferences in the discipline that that require faculty in the discipline to guide the student thoughtand writing process? The current emphasis in engineering and engineering technology programsis placed on highly formatted technical and scientific laboratory reports.1 The problem with thistype of technical writing in the discipline is that it doesn't really prepare students to communicate1 It is interesting to note that students have had a difficult time writing the conclusions in their laboratory reports. Page

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Karthik Soundararajan; S. Manian Ramkumar; Immanuel Edinbarough

the measurement and moves back Clamping cylinder releases the part Robots picks the part from measuring station and puts it on the stationFigure 3. Task SequenceThis forms the software framework for the cell (Figure 4). This section explains various softwareused and the information exchange strategy.Level 3This is the highest level of the software framework and it controls the entire cell and alsoprovides a link to user, through the web. It consists of the following components:· LabVIEWLabVIEW is the abbreviation for Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench. It ispowerful and flexible instrumentation and analysis software developed by National InstrumentsCorporation. LabVIEW programs are

Conference Session

Techniques for Improving Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell

challenge participants to develop, refine,and practice the skills they have discussed and observed. Figures 3 and 4 on the nextpage provide a graphic overview of the two workshop schedules along with the widerange of topics covered during seminars. Although the precise sequence and timingvaried somewhat between the two sites due to personal preferences by site coordinators,both templates incorporated essentially equivalent mediums for structuring the workshopmaterials: seminars, demonstration classes, and laboratories. The seminars are collectiveevents for all participants and include interactive presentations, discussions, and smallgroup work. The seminar topics varied between the two programs to a small degree, butbasically covered the same

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar; Eric Granlund

ondesign projects selected from various disciplines of engineering. This paper provides adescription of the topics covered in each of the three components of this course. Theinstructional approaches used to teach this course are described and the engineeringdesign projects conducted by the students are outlined.Students normally take the course in their first or second semester. The class meets forthree double periods per week for a total of 6 hours. The class is divided up into threegroups during the first meeting. For example a student may attend computer skills onMonday, graphical skills on Wednesday and Design laboratory on Friday. Three faculty

Conference Session

Use of Labs to Introduce Students to Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Fan Lau; Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Kauser Jahan; Bernard Pietrucha; Paris von Lockette; Linda Head

, hands-on design and experimentation, which is realized in the multidisciplinary,project-oriented Engineering Clinic sequence. To better prepare students for entry into a rapidlychanging and highly competitive marketplace, engineering design and practice as well ascommunication and teamwork skills are introduced early in the curriculum. Beginning in thefreshman year, all students enroll in Clinics and work with students and faculty from allengineering disciplines on laboratory experiments, real-world design projects, and researchprojects of increasing complexity. The importance of effective written and oral communication Page

Conference Session

Programming and DSP Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sylvie Ratté; Jocelyne Caron

Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education2.1.4 Need to formulate and justify solutionsOur fourth goal was to get students to communicate by formulating and describing problems bythemselves. Our sub-goal was to make them ask questions, learn to look for information andparticipate actively in classes and laboratory sessions. They also had to collaborate with afictitious client to whom they were accountable.2.2 The programming projectThe students had to simulate the operation of an aluminum smelter. The simulation of factories isan interesting type of problem within a OO programming course because it offers a concreteexample of all the covered theoretical elements (queues

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Kiefer

courseofferings. Teaching independent study courses of six to eight students does not require thecourse material to be completely polished, and the students can be evaluated without spending alot of time grading written homework or exams. Furthermore, the students can be used todevelop projects and handouts that will later be used as hands-on laboratory exercises orclassroom demonstrations. At the same time, the students are getting the background necessaryfor them to be valuable to a research program.This paper presents the results of teaching an independent study course in mechatronics to agroup of six mechanical engineering students. The course included both undergraduate andgraduate students working in teams of two. The first ten weeks of the course

Conference Session

Innovations in Freshman Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Melinda Gallagher; Lawrence Genalo

that appreciation to their students. This will, in turn, broaden the horizons ofthese students regarding the opportunities they may have regarding careers in scientificand engineering disciplines.The Graduate Summer Class:For the past two summers (2002 will be the third) a similar course has been offered topracticing teachers for graduate credit. This graduate course is designed to explain theprinciples behind many of the technological innovations in wide use today. The studentssimulate garage door openers, remote controllers, elevators, and other devices. This is Page 7.928.1done through a collection of hands-on laboratory experiences based upon

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ahlgren; Igor Verner

. Course objectives include: (1)introduce students to the field of engineering; (2) offer hands-on laboratory assignments;(3) present engineering design from philosophical and professional perspectives, throughreadings (e.g., Petroski [4]); (4) offer students the opportunity to evaluate engineering asa major field; (5) develop basic engineering skills including programming, use of labinstruments (oscilloscope, signal generator, voltmeter), use of CAD packages formechanical and electrical design, and real-time data acquisition; (6) introduce basictechniques in robotics including motor control (PWM, PD/PID, fuzzy logic), micro-controller interfacing, and application of sensors.Every ENGR 120 student becomes a member of a team that makes a fire

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ruxandra Botez; Iulian Cotoi

be created inorder to be presented separately or simultaneously in the class, for each session. These new moduleswill illustrate the main flight phases with their corresponding instrumentation use.The methodology will be mainly divided into three parts : 1) The realization of various modules in Flight Simulator for their use in the class as a pedagogical tool. 2) These modules are also used in the laboratories of the students. Thus, a continuous interaction will exist between the knowledge acquired in the class and the knowledge acquired in the laboratories. 3) A user manual for the modules is realized and is useful to well prepare the student for the

Conference Session

How are We Faring with EC2000?

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Miller

to complying with ABET guidelines, I believe the implementation of our assessmentprocess has directly improved the educational experience of our students. Every requiredchemical engineering undergraduate course now has published learning objectives that our facultyhave agreed to use in their course syllabi. Our curriculum has undergone several recent changesincluding addition of two new thermodynamics laboratory courses (based on perceivedweaknesses in data analysis in the unit operations laboratory course) and embedded writinginstruction and practice in four selected junior-level and senior-level courses (based on assessmentdata which suggested the need to continue communications instruction throughout thecurriculum). The impact of these

Conference Session

Building Bridges in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Newman; John Robertson; Lakshmi Munukutla

interactivetechnology used in the industry. Chandler Gilbert Community College and Mesa CommunityCollege will teach the laboratory portion of their Associate of Applied Science Degree in theMTF beginning in spring semester of 2002.A key component in the utilization of the MTF by ASU East and its community college partnersis the need for a comprehensive and robust curriculum. A curriculum development team withfaculty representatives from the community colleges and ASU East has been formed to developand pilot the curriculum materials and resources that will be used in the MTF. Each communitycollege will co-develop their curriculum and teach the laboratory portion of their course in theMTF, beginning in the fall of 2002. The curriculum materials will be developed

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Luiz Gargione

Campos, corporations, and professional associationsare planning to provide these grants. 3. For selected projects, students will receive institutional support and finance fromR&D agencies and venture incentives. 4. A database including information from students and their projects will bedeveloped. c) Equipments and laboratories: 1. Modern equipment and laboratories will be provided for the program. Studentsand instructors will use computers and equipments including different app lications. 2. Internet high-speed connection for the students involved in the program. 3. Multimedia infrastructure including multimedia projectors, digital cameras, videoconferencing systems, satellite conferencing system, and

Conference Session

New/Emerging Technologies

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Chenghsin Liu

Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2163regular PC computers cannot meet the requirements of CAD software packages. Moreover,professional copies of CAD software packages cost an average of $5,000 to $20,000 per license.There are very few state-funded institutions of higher learning which can afford such luxuriousstate-of-the-art design laboratories to educate ten to twenty students at one time. Therefore, inmost cases, professors have to invest in the $200 to $300 student version CAD packages withmoderate speed PCs to teach Introduction to CAD. The authors have actually

Conference Session

Computers in Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Bailey-Van Kuren

the web as a communication tool hasadded another dimension to communication skills where students should have a basic level ofawareness and proficiency. The challenge for educators is to help students develop these skillswithin the context of engineering subject matter.Engineering educators have implemented a variety of web based tools to enhance their courses.These tools have included web based communication [1], web based instruction [2], and webbased laboratories [3]. Most of these methods focus on information flow from the instructor tothe students. Peer to peer communication is rarely addressed by course instructors. Gehringer [4]utilized the web to perform peer grading of homework assignments. Hailey et.al. [5] studied theuse of the

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Devdas Shetty

provideadditional influence through the acquisition of knowledge information from the process. Amechatronic product can achieve impressive results if it is effectively integrated with theconcurrent engineering management strategy.In this paper the following ideas are discussed:· Overview and explanation of mechatronics from a model based perspective.· Modified Analogy Approach for creating dynamical models of physical systems.· Modeling as well as selection principles of sensors and actuatorsCase studies complete with parts list suitable for laboratory exercises. Page 7.968.2Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Myrna Swanberg; Daniel Solarek; Allen Rioux

formats: · one-third from the two-year college's catalog (e.g., humanities, social science, mathematics) · one-third as web-based distance learning courses (lecture only technical courses) · one-third with in-class instruction at the two-year college (laboratory based technical courses)By taking the general education core (i.e. humanities, social science, and mathematics) usingcourses from the two-year college’s catalog, the students are able to take classes at a tuition ratethat is significantly lower than the University of Toledo. This can represent a significant costsavings to the student.The web-based distance learning courses are well developed. One of the concerns withproviding this type of instruction is

Conference Session

Programming and DSP Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joel Jackson

Tech, covering introductory digital signal processing (DSP) and real-time programming. The target audience for this course is electrical engineers with Bachelor’s orMaster’s degrees who are working in industry with little or no knowledge of DSP and some workexperience with micro-processors and the C programming language. During the course, studentsare assigned several lab exercises to explore different aspects of DSP and the particular processorbeing used. Lecture material on DSP theory is delivered in the form of streaming video andslides on a CD-ROM. Online quizzes are given to test student comprehension of lecture materialand laboratory concepts. A staff of teaching assistants was hired to provide support for students.In order to provide an

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching and Learning

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Khalid El Gaidi; Diane H. Soderholm; Doris Brodeur; Dava Newman

skills, or program outcomes, are also thecornerstone of the program's self-study report for ABET accreditation.) This paperaddresses the planning and development of portfolios for assessing students' achievementat the end of their programs in aerospace engineering at MIT.BackgroundIn its strategic plan of 1998, the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) committed to major reform of itscurriculum, teaching and learning methods, and laboratory environments. To achieve itsgoals, the department framed its curriculum to model a product system life cycle. Thefour phases in the curriculum are referred to as Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate(CDIO). The Conceive stage includes defining the need and

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Athula Kulatunga; Bill Hutzel

shown in Figure 3? MET students tackled this first question in the spring of2000. Since the instructor and students knew very little about photovoltaic systems at this point,the investigation focused on fundamental photovoltaic concepts. A preliminary understandingabout the components, physical size, and cost of a photovoltaic system was needed as a precursorto a more detailed design. The blower and pumps are part of a separate solar heating system that is used in the METDepartment’s Applied Energy Laboratory. Other than the fact that these components useelectrical power during operation, the details of this equipment are not relevant for the currentdiscussion. If the reader is interested, references 2 and 3 provide extensive