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TIME 1: Controls

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Kiefer

Session #2004-556 Project Oriented Course in Mechatronics Scott Kiefer Tri-State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes a multi-disciplinary, hands-on, project oriented course in mechatronics.The course relied almost entirely on active learning techniques using student project work, andincluded the development of oral and written communication skills. Student and facultyassessment of the learning objectives of this course are included in the paper.Although open to all engineering and technology students, the mechatronics course wascomposed of two

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Georgiopoulos

technology for a wider range of students in science and engineering than iscurrently available. Our approach of integrating Machine Learning research into the curriculuminvolves two components. The first component is the incorporation of Machine Learningmodules into the first two years of the curriculum with the goal of sparking student interest in thefield. The second is the development of new upper level Machine Learning courses for advancedundergraduate students. The paper will focus on the details of the integration of a machinelearning module (related to neural networks) applied to a Numerical Analysis class, taught tosophomores and juniors in the Engineering Departments at the University of Central Florida.Furthermore, it will report results

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Deepti Suri; Eric Durant

finalexams. Typical software engineering courses are three or four credits, and most have anassociated laboratory session.The undergraduate software engineering program at MSOE [6] began operation in 1999 and hadits first graduating class in spring 2002. The SE program was visited by the Accreditation Boardfor Engineering and Technology (ABET) in September 2002 and is one of the first accredited SEprograms in the United States.The software development laboratory course sequence begins in the winter quarter of the junioryear and extends through the fall quarter of the senior year. Upon entry into the softwaredevelopment laboratory (SDL), students have already completed courses in programming, datastructures, algorithms, design patterns, embedded

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

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Alex See

Session number 2220 Utilizing LabVIEWTM for data acquisition and analysis for a 13 weeks undergraduate course Alex See, PhD Monash University Malaysia, School of Engineering and Science, No. 2 Jalan Kolej, Bandar Sunway, 46150, PJ, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia email: alex.see@engsci.monash.edu.my Abstract Second year Mechatronics undergraduates, in the year 2003 at Monash University Malaysia (MUM) were taking a subject module known as Project and Practise GSE2800. The concept of computer based data acquisition instrumentation was introduced to them. They had

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2004 Annual Conference

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Karim Muci-Kuchler; Jonathan Weaver

Session 2125 Learning How to Identify Customer Requirements: A Key Component of Product Development Courses Karim H. Muci-Küchler1 and Jonathan M. Weaver2 1 Mechanical Engineering Department South Dakota School of Mines and Technology 2 Mechanical Engineering Department University of Detroit Mercy Abstract A crucial step in the process to develop a new product is the identification of thecustomer requirements. The

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Web Education I: Delivery and Evaluation

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2004 Annual Conference

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Mohammad AlRamahi; Kurt Gramoll

Session 1120 Online Collaborative Drawing Board for Real-time Student-Instructor Interaction and Lecture Creation Mohammad AlRamahi and Kurt Gramoll School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering The University of OklahomaAbstractEven though distance learning has become a significant aspect of engineering education,improvements are still needed. One area that needs more research and tool development is web-based collaboration. There is a strong need for collaboration tools to assist both instructors andstudents in working together during

Conference Session

Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jose Calixto; Glaucia Almeida; Frederico Rodrigues; elizabeth maia

& Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationBasic Ideas of the Developed Virtual EnvironmentThe advanced technologies being developed as well as the needs of the job market haveplaced new demands on educational methods. The traditional transfer of knowledge fromteachers to students must change to a methodology in which the students will learn to seek forthe information by themselves independently. Students will be no longer mere spectators in aclassroom 2. This is the only way they will be able to enhance and consolidate theirknowledge to cope with the fast changing world. A virtual teaching-learning environmentseems to fit perfectly these demands.The developed virtual environment was built

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jeffrey Jalkio; Christopher Greene

Vocabulary of Basic and General Terms, 2nd edition,ISO Switzerland, 1993CHRISTOPHER S. GREENEChris Greene received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)and proceeded to a 25 year career in industry. At Honeywell, he did research on adaptive control and navigationsystems before becoming Program Manager for several large aerospace programs. At Horton and Nexen, he. wasresponsible for the development of industrial control products. In 2002, Dr. Greene joined the engineeringdepartment at the University of St. Thomas where he currently teaches classes in signals and systems, controls anddigital design.JEFFREY A. JALKIOJeff Jalkio received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota

Conference Session

BME Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Richard Jendrucko

option. He is the winner of 7 teaching awards and is a Fellow for theCenter for Undergraduate Excellence and a Fellow of the Interactive Technology Center. He has served asan officer in the ASEE Biomedical Division and as mentor for various Process Education Institutes. Page 9.967.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jon Duff

A Massively Large Student Modeling Assignment (MLSMA) Dr. Jon M. Duff Information and Management Technology Arizona State University Abstract Most curricula in engineering and technology find a “capstone project” to be highly beneficial in preparing soon-to-be-graduated majors. One consideration that confounds a successful capstone project is matching a task of sufficient significance with realistic expectations of student success. Students may possess the requisite skills but a project that tests those skills may be difficult to identify. But more likely

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Thomas Wanke; Stephen Williams; Michael Scheuerell; Glenn Wrate

ofpower system transient analysis, electrical machines and drives, and building electrical power systems.Professor Wrate is a member of the IEEE and a member of the American Society for EngineeringEducation.THOMAS WANKE is the director of MSOE’s Fluid Power Institute. He has more than 35 years ofexperience in fluid power technology, 25 of which have been at MSOE. Wanke has a bachelor’s degree inmechanical engineering technology and a master’s degree in engineering with a fluid power specialtyoption, both from MSOE. He has worked on projects in component and system design; development andevaluation; field troubleshooting and failure analysis; and fluids, filtration, and contamination control. He isa certified fluid power engineer and is active in

Conference Session

Visualization and Computer Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

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Eric Johnson; Jeffrey Will

, June 1999, pp. 247-263.[12] V. S. Pantelidis “Virtual reality in the engineering classroom.” Computer Applications inEngineering Education, vol. 5, no. 1, 1997, pp. 3-12. [13] D. Tougaw and J. Will "Visualizing the Future of Virtual Reality" Computing in Scienceand Engineering, vol. 5, no. 4, July/August 2003, pp. 8-11.Jeffrey Will is the Frederick F. Jenny Professor of Emerging Technology in the electrical and computer engineeringdepartment at Valparaiso University. He is director of the Scientific Visualization Laboratory, dedicated topromoting applications in scientific visualization for undergraduate education.Eric Johnson is the Paul and Cleo Brant Professor of Engineering in the electrical and computer engineeringdepartment at Valparaiso

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Scott Shepard

empirical data on the lengthdependence of a free-space infrared link; and fiber losses in Erbium-doped-fiber. Many “mysteries” werediscovered and resolved in this work; whereas other “mysteries” remain unresolved. In both cases, we notehow these illustrate our seven point motivational paradigm.IntroductionThe primary educational objective of this paper is to try to understand what factorsfacilitate “learning outside the classroom,” within the context of an undergraduateresearch project. This project stemmed from a student’s interest in a particular topic thatoriginated as part of a required course (ECEN 420 Electrical Communication Circuits) inthe Engineering Technology Department at Kansas State University. The undergraduateresearch was performed

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

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2004 Annual Conference

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Hur Koser; Dennis Freeman; Alexander Aranyosi; Aleem Siddiqui

Session 1426 A Microfluidics Laboratory Teaching Module A. J. Aranyosi *,+, Aleem Siddiqui*, Hür Köser#, Dennis M. Freeman *,+ *Massachusetts Institute of Technology / #Yale University / +Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and TechnologyAbstractWe have developed a teaching module to engage undergraduate engineering students in anintroductory research project. Pairs of students proposed and carried out self-designed projectsto study diffusion in microfluidic

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eldon Larsen

Session Teaching a Project Management Fundamentals Course to Working Professionals Eldon R. Larsen, Ph.D. Marshall University, College of Information Technology and EngineeringAbstract Project management has become very important in today’s business world. Yet, mostworking professionals have had to learn project management skills almost entirely byexperience, with little formal college training in this field. At Marshall University, the Master ofScience in Engineering degree program includes an emphasis in Engineering Management, ofwhich Project Management is

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ken Alford

Session 1620 Teaching Resources for Handheld Computers Kenneth L. Alford United States Military AcademyIntroduction1Computer technology continues to increase in capacity and decrease in size and cost. Today’slow-cost handheld personal digital assistants (PDAs) provide many new opportunities for bothfaculty and students.PDAs can be an effective tool for instructors to distribute course materials such as schedules,assignments, background readings, and lesson handouts. There are many commercial andfreeware products that can be used to

Conference Session

TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

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Karim Nasr; Raghu Echempati; Arnaldo Mazzei

problems and invest time into suchexercise had indicated tremendous gains in learning the concepts and acquiring desiredoutcomes. A more systematic approach may need to be undertaken to streamline the process inorder to verify whether it offers any advantage in the learning outcomes at the course and at theprogram levels. Such a process can also help the new textbook developers to rewrite their “BookLearning Objectives” and problems, with the goal of targeting more of EC2000’s outcomes.References[1] Patterson, G.K., “Preparing for the First ABET Accreditation Visit Under Criteria 2000”, ASEE Proceedings, Charlotte, N.C. (1999).[2] Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), Engineering Criteria 2000, How do you measure

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2004 Annual Conference

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Michael Filsinger

Session 2420Writing Simulation Programs as a Tool for Understanding Internal Computer Processes Michael D. Filsinger University of CincinnatiAbstractThe usual approach to a hands-on understanding of process scheduling in a computer operatingsystem is to either modify an existing operating system or use a pre-written simulation program.In an Engineering Technology program, the first approach can be too difficult for the level ofprogramming expertise possessed by the students, while the second approach does not giveenough of a hands-on feel

Conference Session

Course/Program Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

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James Higley; Jana Whittington; Joy Colwell

Session 3650 Tools for Using Course-Embedded Assessment to Validate Program Outcomes and Course Objectives Joy L. Colwell, Assistant Professor of Organizational Leadership and Supervision, Jana Whittington, Assistant Professor of Computer Graphics Technology, James B. Higley, P.E., Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology Purdue University Calumet AbstractIn the last decade, academia has undergone a paradigm change unprecedented since the spacerace. Education is now directed toward customer-focused programs. No longer

Conference Session

Design Throughout the ChE Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

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Timokleia Togkalidou; Rudiyanto Gunawan; Mitsuko Fujiwara; Jr., J. Carl Pirkle; Eric Hukkanen; Richard Braatz

Page 9.47.12 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationPh.D. degree from the California Institute of Technology, both in chemistry. Dr. Fujiwara’s primary interestsinclude chemistry education and pharmaceutical crystallization.ERIC J. HUKKANEN is a graduate student at UIUC. He received his B.S. degrees in Chemistry and ChemicalEngineering and his M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. His research interestsinclude polymerization reaction engineering, multiscale systems engineering, and systems biology.J. CARL PIRKLE, JR is a Research Associate in the Department of

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

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Yingzi Du; Robert Ives; Delores Etter; Thad Welch

secure sites, making financial transactions, allowing access tonetworked computers, or identifying a terrorist in a public place. Due to the potential for researchthat this relatively new field holds, and its importance to homeland defense, we have built a newBiometric Signal Processing Laboratory, and developed a new course in biometric signalprocessing. This course was designed for seniors in the electrical engineering major so that theycould become familiar with the basis for these new technologies. The course was organized togive the students some background in image processing, from which the identificationalgorithms are formulated, and had them design simple identification algorithms. The studentswere exposed to state-of-the-art

Conference Session

Life Sciences and ChE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abdolmajid Lababpour

observing the results.Also, the development of said EMP in another format (especially HTML) is being studied to empower itsuse across great distances.Bibliography1. Lababpour Abdolmajid, A survey of biotechnology education in schools of Iran, Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2003, USA2. Lababpour Abdolmajid, Biotechnology, The journal of Roshde Amoozeshe Shimie. p. 45-53, 19933. Lababpour Abdolmajid, A glance to biotechnology education in Iran, International Symposium on Educational Cooperation for "Industrial Technology Education", 2003, Japan.4. Pedroni P, etal. International network for biofixation of CO2 and green house gas abetment with microalgae, www.ieagreen.org.uk

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Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Fry

curriculum, we are currently working to develop a“digital” knowledge base in the lower classmen to prepare them for an ever-increasinginvolvement in the web experience.Richard Fry received his MFA from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently AssistantProfessor of Industrial Design in the School of Technology at Brigham Young University where he specializes inProduct Design. Previous to entering the education field, he worked professionally in the areas of Appliance,Aerospace, Exhibit, and Home Fitness design. Page 9.1236.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

Conference Session

Lessons Learned From Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Peter Avitabile; Jeffrey Hodgkins

the overall project is described. Page 9.952.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering"I. IntroductionStudents do not always understand the need for basic STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering,Mathematics) material that is critical to the solution of engineering problems. Material taught inpre-requisite courses contain critical knowledge and skill sets necessary for upper level courses.Unfortunately, as students learn STEM material in subsequent courses, they do not see thepractical need for

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Vavrek

Session No. 1325 Integrating an Industrial Design Project into a MET Course Edward M. Vavrek Purdue University North CentralIntroductionI teach a course in Mechanical Engineering Technology called Production Drawing. It is offeredin the spring semester during the students’ sophomore year. At this level the students have takentwo courses in AutoCAD and are proficient in the use of CAD. In Production Drawing,AutoCAD is not specifically taught although some aspects of the software are reviewed asrequired. Production Drawing covers how to develop working drawings and a Bill of

Conference Session

ET Capstone Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Everly

for the amplifier.Receiver ConstructionA complete parts list for the receiver is provided in Table 1. The NE602A specification limitsthe device supply voltage to 8.0 volts. A simple but not necessarily cost effective solution is tous a standard 8 volt regulator. For this receiver simplicity reigns and a 78L08 IC voltageregulator was selected for the design as shown in Figure 3. A standard dc coaxial power jack ismounted to the enclosure and serves as an interface to an external dc source. Reverse polarityprotection is a must for second year engineering technology students; thus a silicon diode isplaced in the positive power supply lead at the output of the regulator. Experience also indicatesthat when developing a prototype that IC chips

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein

. Page 9.1234.4 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationExample BSC Experience: Design of an Amusement Park WaterslideA five-member team (M. Alfalah, J. Braal, D. Branham, S. Broadway, L. Gardner) was thesuccessful bidder to design an amusement park water slide10. Figure 1 is a graphical depiction ofthe BSC this team developed for their project (with special thanks to Ms. Gardner for leading theBSC effort, for producing the graphics, and for providing the documentation). The team formeda company they called Thermal Technologies, hence the “TT” in the Fig. 1

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TIME 9: Thermal Fluids/Fluid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

engineering expose thestudents to heat transfer concepts learned in the classroom, but do not provide them with designexperiences similar to what they might face as thermal engineers in industrial positions. Inaddition, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) accreditation criteriarequire that graduates of engineering programs possess “an ability to design and conductexperiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data” [1] and “an ability to design a system,component or process to meet desired needs” [1].Very recently, the Design-Build-Test (DBT) concept was suggested by Abu-Mulaweh [2] to beused in creating an experiment for a junior-level heat transfer laboratory. In that experiment,student teams design, build, and test a

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Attracting Young MINDs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dara O'Neil; Gordon Kingsley; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

Partnering Across Cultures: Bridging the Divide between Universities and Minority High Schools Marion Usselman1, Donna Llewellyn2, Dara O’Neil3, Gordon Kingsley3, 1 Center for Education Integrating Science, Math, and Computing (CEISMC) 2 Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) 3 School of Public Policy Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe historical mission of most engineering-dominated Research-1 universities is to create newknowledge and to train students in technological fields. In the

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yan-Fang Li; Sang-Hoon Lee; Vikram Kapila

Session 2220 Development of a Matlab-Based Graphical User Interface Environment for PIC Microcontroller Projects Sang-Hoon Lee, Yan-Fang Li, and Vikram Kapila Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY 11201 Email: [slee05@utopia, yli14@utopia, vkapila@duke].poly.eduAbstract Peripheral Interface Controllers (PICs) are inexpensive microcontroller units with built-inserial communication functionality. Similarly, Matlab, a widely used technical computingsoftware, allows serial