Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bianey Ruiz Ulloa; Stephanie Adams

education environment the literature shows that learning styles, context,task, individual differences, team longevity, student preference for teaching methods, attitudetoward teamwork and misunderstanding of the meaning of teams are the main factors having animpact on team effectiveness. Each of these elements can be identified with one of the mainfactors aforementioned. In other words any element related to context, task, individual and groupcharacteristics would affect the outcomes of team performance. Authors of these models propose that factors influencing team performance need to becontrolled in order to make the team successful. Commonly, team leaders, managers,coordinators or the person on charge of the team project is who is expected

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bianey Ruiz Ulloa; Stephanie Adams

. Authors of these approaches propose that factors influencing team performanceneed to be controlled in order to make the team successful. Commonly, team leaders,managers, coordinators or the person on charge of the team project is who is expected tocontrol all these variables. Some of them share this responsibility with team members.However, the majority of the variables (context, task, individuals and groupcharacteristics) are not under their control, then how can team members or people incharge of teams manage all these variables?The ETP- Training Program The ETP - training program is a complete set of instructional tools that contentlessons topics, resources, and activities to follow in order to train students to becomeeffective team

Conference Session

Projects,Teams & Cooperative Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Eschenbach; Eileen Cashman

walls, and moveable furniture so students caneasily work in groups around computers or tables or listen to a traditional lecture. The classformat is split up into small lectures interspersed with related group activities to teach teamwork,ethics, project management, spreadsheets, Computer Aided Design (CAD) and the designprocess. The paper will present examples of how the Studio Teaching approach is used to teachsome of these topics with a focus on design and teamwork skills. Students work in teams on twoprojects, a 3-week Rube Goldberg device and a 10-week service-learning project for a local K-12th grade teacher. Students are assigned to teams and required to use the Blackboard groupdiscussion board area to submit weekly progress reports

Conference Session

Energy Project and Laboratory Ideas

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Margaret Wismer

Design and close loop control in the electromechanical energy conversion course Margaret G. Wismer, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837 Abstract Electromechanical energy conversion is currently a required senior year course at Bucknell University. The course has been revamped over the past several years in order to reinterest students and give them a greater appreciation of power systems, power electronics, machine drives and feedback systems. The course is design and experiment oriented and include several multiweek projects in which students have the opportunity and responsibility to execute a design

Conference Session

Projects,Teams & Cooperative Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Mason

Session 3153 Assessing Student Design Team Performance in a Learning Community of University Freshman and High School Students Teodora Rutar, Greg Mason Seattle UniversityAbstractThis paper describes methods used to assess teamwork effectiveness. The assessment methodswere developed to evaluate the overall success of the project itself, the students’ perception ofthe experience, and how much the students actually learned. The assessment methods includeboth subjective measures, such as student surveys, (namely, communications methodseffectiveness survey, team communication survey, short-term surveys, team peer

Conference Session

Lessons Learned From Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mustafa Guvench

electricaloutput. The project included design of a wafer-prober and solar-simulator combination so that large areawafers (up to 8 inch in diameter) could be tested at/up to AM1.5 standard solar insolation. Rather thansimply looking at the short circuit current and the open circuit voltage of a solar cell, our system measures itsfull I-V characteristics while the cell is irradiated with an artificial light source which simulates the solarradiation. The artificial sunlight is created by combining metal-halide and quartz halogen light sources. Themeasurement is done in an automated way by employing standard bench top GPIB instruments interfaced toa PC and by using the function generator as a stepped voltage source. High test currents needed by the largearea

Conference Session

Teaching Design Through Projects

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George Wise; Philip Kosky; Robert Balmer

three-part format – small group lecturesessions, team design projects, and presentations of leading edge technologies by working Page 8.4.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationengineers - around a unified theme: “Smart Cars.” In this paper we will describe: 1) the problem definition for the course in the context ofUnion College and its educational goals; 2) the course’s design requirements; 3) some alternativeconcepts for meeting those requirements, and the concept selected; 4) the

Conference Session

Design Projects in Manufacturing

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson; Scott Almen; Russel Biekert; Norbert Richter; Al Post

EnterpriseCompany (MECO) and illustrates a sample project. MECO is a curriculum construct joiningsubject matter in multiple courses over a four-semester sequence by introducing a large problemto be solved by collaboration. Through this integration, the overall function of a manufacturingengineer is better understood by the students. The MECO construct puts course content withcontext, and infuses it with a problem-solving atmosphere requiring exercise of communicationsskills.IntroductionIt is often taken as conventional wisdom that today’s students have difficulty cooperating,thinking critically, dealing with innovations, and skillfully solving problems. Unfortunately,faculty often fail to take the broad view of the educational process, too often falling

Conference Session

Project Based Education in CE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

Session 2215 A Summer Research Experience for Undergraduate Students in Civil Engineering Anant R. Kukreti University of CincinnatiAbstract This paper describes a project conducted to provide research experience to engineeringundergraduate students involving discovery through actual construction, experimental testing,observing and recording, synthesizing the data collected, and generalizations. The project waspart of a Research for Undergraduates Site grant sponsored by the National Science Foundation,and administered in the

Conference Session

Project Based Education in CE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Matsumoto

Session 2215 Enhancing Student Learning through Team Projects in a Reinforced Concrete Design Class Eric E. Matsumoto California State University, SacramentoAbstractProject-based education has recently been incorporated into the first undergraduate reinforcedconcrete design class at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS) to enhance studentlearning. Students participate in diverse open-ended projects that challenge them to work in smallgroups to address a contemporary issue in structural concrete. Projects during the first foursemesters

Conference Session

Design Projects in Manufacturing

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Venkat Allada; Tony Okafor; Rajiv Mishra; Ming Leu; Ashok Agrawal; Frank Liou

Session Number: 2563 AN INTEGRATED AND DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENT FOR A MANUFACTURING CAPSTONE COURSE Frank Liou, Venkat Allada, Ming Leu, Rajiv Mishra, Anthony OKAFOR University of Missouri-Rolla and Ashok Agrawal St. Louis Community College - Florissant ValleyAbstractPresented in the paper is an interdisciplinary capstone design project course with thesupport of distributed and integrated manufacturing processes. This project courseprovides students with the experience of integrating the technical knowledge they havelearned from

Conference Session

Energy Project and Laboratory Ideas

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Yanfeng Gong; Mike Collum; Noel Schulz

power engineering elective courses.However, at many universities the field of power engineering is seen as a mature field with noexciting problems to solve or work on in the 21st century.This paper and presentation will outline a joint effort between Mississippi State University andSchweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) to develop several demonstrations for introductoryEE courses and laboratories for the first power engineering course using a microprocessorcontrolled relay set-up. The goal of the project is to provide other universities with a set ofdemonstrations and laboratories to help integrate other electrical engineering concepts into thepower curriculum to show students that power really involves many areas of core

Conference Session

Teaching Design Through Projects

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Pavlic; Prabal Dutta; Michael Hoffmann; Jeffrey Radigan; James Beams; Erik Justen; John Demel; Richard Freuler

courses for first-year engineering fundamentals to a framework that involves two coursesequences with tightly coupled courses. Engineering orientation, engineering graphics, andengineering problem solving with computer programming are now offered in each of two coursesequences,1 one called the Fundamentals of Engineering and the other the Fundamentals ofEngineering for Honors. These course sequences retain part of the traditional material but nowinclude hands-on laboratory experiences that lead to design/build projects.2 Teamwork, projectmanagement, report writing, and oral presentations have assumed important roles in bothsequences. This paper describes the administrative and teaching experiences with a design/buildproject course in the

Conference Session

Energy Project and Laboratory Ideas

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

transfer principles and heat recovery concepts. This paper presents an experimental setupthat will help the undergraduate mechanical engineering students in understanding the basic heattransfer processes by utilizing real life applications such as waste water heat recovery system.This heat recovery system is a preheating unit for the incoming cold water of a residential andcommercial (such as restaurant and hotels) hot water systems. It is designed to recover some ofthe heat of the waste water going into the sewage system. This project was completed with theassistance of an Undergraduate Senior Project Grant from the American Society of Heating,Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).I. IntroductionThe ever increasing desire for

Conference Session

Energy Project and Laboratory Ideas

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Darrell Massie

Session 3233 Evaluating Energy Services Performance Contracts With Engineering Students – Learning From Real Projects Darrell D. Massie United States Military AcademyAbstract Most campus heating and cooling plants can provide a wealth of real life opportunities toeducators who teach energy topics. This can be accomplished by evaluating existing heating andcooling systems or by analyzing potential plant upgrade projects. A common method of obtaining funding to upgrade new equipment on campuses and otherinstitutions is through Energy Service Companies

Conference Session

Project Based Education in CE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shashi Nambisan

).Approach Over the last few years, the author has experimented with various approaches with thefollowing goals: help students learn basic principles; retain the information presented in thecourse; develop skills to utilize the information for analysis, design, and evaluation purposes;and to convert the information to appropriate knowledge. Examples of such efforts includecollaborative learning, case based exercises, utilization of web-based tools, and team projects.In-class as well as out-of-the-classroom cooperative learning exercises and collaborativelearning efforts such as team projects, and some limited web-based tools have been used in tosupport the case-based learning strategy. The use of cases and team efforts are the subject of

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bob Twiggs

Session 1709 Space Engineering - Project Based Learning by Working Real Space Programs Prof. Robert Twiggs Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics Stanford University Stanford, California 94305-4035 Bob.Twiggs@Stanford.Edu 650/723-8651AbstractProject Based Learning is a new term now used by many universities to describe ‘hands-on’projects, which bring students closer to the ‘real world working conditions’. At

Conference Session

Project Based Education in CE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Ressler

Session 2215 Popolopen Brook Float Bridge Project: Integrating History, Community Service, and Engineering Education Ronald W. Welch Stephen J. Ressler United States Military AcademyAbstractThis paper describes a one-semester design-build capstone project in which two senior civilengineering students designed a 230-foot pedestrian float bridge for the local state parkcommission and built one full-scale module of the bridge as a “proof of concept.” The projectwas a particularly effective learning experience, in that it

Conference Session

CE Projects: International Perspective

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ravi Srinivasan; Dennis Fukai; Fazil Najafi

infrastructure extends to streets, parks, public buildings, highways, water andwastewater management systems, there is a need to understand beyond traditional topics to anexamination of customer service, ethics, use of technology, environmental responsibilities, andlegal requirements. The other required graduate courses with the Public Works engineering andmanagement are:Other Public Works elective courses include:(1) Construction Planning and Scheduling: Planning, scheduling, organizing and control of civil engineering projects with Critical Path Method (CPM) and Project Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT). This course also teaches students on the application of optimization techniques.(2) Site Planning and Development: Principles and

Conference Session

MET Student Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Lyth; Jorge Rodriguez

Session 2148 Design and Prototyping of a Hydraulic Drag for Fly Fishing Jorge Rodriguez, David Lyth, and Shane M. Groner Western Michigan University Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5061Abstract This paper presents the results of a design project where a hydraulic drag system for flyfishing reels was conceptualized, designed, prototyped, and tested. The utilization of hydraulicdrag in fishing reels is an innovative concept, and a valid alternative

Conference Session

Active and Project-Based Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David H. Jonassen, University of Missouri, Columbia; Sanjeev K. Khanna, University of Missouri

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

from reaching out for quickequations to plug and chug in” (p. 22). Similarly, Johnson (1999) reported that students in aPBL version of a hydraulic engineering course sought “homework problems to improvetheir understanding of fundamental calculations and help them prepare for exams” (p. 10),despite also expressing concerns that the workload of the PBL course was alreadyburdensome. The students in Johnson’s study also complained that the projects were “toovague and needed additional clarification” (p. 11), suggesting a discomfort with ill-structured problems.Although PBL normally prescribes learning content in the context of new problems, manyproblems also require the application of prior knowledge. Mitchell and Smith (2008) notedthat

Conference Session

Capstone Design Projects in ECE

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynne A. Slivovsky, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; James M. Widmann, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; J.Kevin Taylor, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

currently oversees two multidisciplinary service-learning programs: the Access by Design project that has capstone students design devices for people with dis- abilities to participate in adapted physical activity and Organic Twittering that merges social media with sustainability.Dr. James M Widmann, California Polytechnic State University Jim Widmann is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He received his Ph.D. in 1994 from Stanford University. Currently he teaches mechanics and design courses. He conducts research in the areas of design optimization, machine design, fluid power control and engineering education.Dr. Brian P. Self, California

Conference Session

Active and Project-Based Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Constans, Rowan University; Jennifer Kadlowec, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

AC 2011-511: USING A PROJECT-BASED LEARNING APPROACH TOTEACH MECHANICAL DESIGN TO FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING STU-DENTSEric Constans, Rowan University Eric Constans is the chair of the Mechanical Engineering program at Rowan University. His research interests include engineering education, acoustics and design optimization.Dr. Jennifer Kadlowec, Rowan University Page 22.1603.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Using a Project-Based Learning Approach to Teach Mechanical Design to First-Year Engineering StudentsAbstractThe Rowan University Mechanical Engineering

Conference Session

Active and Project-Based Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynn Albers, North Carolina State University; Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

reinventing the world every day. So conventions arethe source of great comfort, even if this is at the expense of thought.” [1] This has neverbeen more evident than when observing university students. They are so used to routineand feeling that if they complete a checklist and receive a good grade that they havelearned. Perhaps they have learned the material but they haven’t learned how to think.From observation, students treat classes as something on a to-do list with the rewardbeing a degree when they have checked off all items on the list. Within the scope of aclass, students find great comfort in their to-do list of 10-12 weekly homeworks, 3 tests,maybe a project and then a final exam. All items are treated as part of a to-do list. Whenhomeworks

Conference Session

Active and Project-based Learning

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Isaac M. Choutapalli, University of Texas, Pan American; Robert A. Freeman, University of Texas, Pan American; Young-Gil Park, University of Texas, Pan American

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

/projects, etc. The following sectiondescribes selected CBI modules designed for MECE 3320 course based on the Legacy Cycledescribed above.MethodIn designing the CBI modules for MECE 3320 course, the key considerations that are taken intoaccount are (Giorgio and Brophy, [4]):a) selection of learning objectivesb) preparation, integration, and delivery of teaching materials such as PowerPoint slides,teaching notes, informative video clips, etc.c) integration of formative and summative assessmentsThe introduction of CBI into the MECE 3320 course begins with the administration of a pre-testcovering the various learning objectives in the entire course. Each of the CBI modules isintroduced to the students through the different phases of the legacy cycle

Conference Session

Capstone and Design Projects

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hassan Moghbelli, Texas A7M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

done several projects in the area of electrical drives, power electronics, and hybrid electric vehicles. He served as the Head of the School of Railway Engineering at IUST from 2000-2002. He served as a consultant at Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District from 1991-1993 and at Isfahan and Tehran Regional Metro Companies from 1993-2002. He has directed several projects in the areas of electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles. He also was a Research Associate in the Advanced Vehicle Systems Research Program in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University from 2002 to 2004. Furthermore, he suc- cessfully implemented the Hybrid Electric Vehicles on a Saypa mini bus, which was

Conference Session

BME Laboratory and Project Experiences

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melissa Kurtis Micou, University of California, San Diego; Dawn M. Kilkenny Ph.D., University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

Conference Session

Projects in Instrumentation and Control

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian G. Belu, Drexel University; Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

AC 2012-3696: DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF I-LABORATORYFOR INSTRUMENTATION, SENSORS, MEASUREMENTS, AND CON-TROLS COURSESDr. Radian G. Belu, Drexel University Radian Belu is Assistant Professor within the Engineering Technology (ET) program, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA. He is holding the second position as Research Assistant Professor at Desert Research Institute, Renewable Energy Center, Reno, Nev. Before joining to Drexel University, Belu held faculty and research positions at universities and research institutes in Romania, Canada, and the United States. He also worked for several years in industry as a project manager and senior consultant. He has taught and developed undergraduate and graduate

Conference Session

BME Laboratory and Project Experiences

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M. Ebenstein, Bucknell University; Eric A. Kennedy, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

based biocompatibility module with laboratory and lecture components that can be easilyintegrated into an engineering or biomaterials course.Within the biomedical engineering curriculum at Bucknell University, a senior-level fabricationand experimental design course is integrated into a four course design sequence where twocourses comprise the senior capstone experience and two courses teach supplementary material.The intent of the sequence is to provide experience with a variety of skills that are valuable forboth senior design projects and in BME careers after graduation. As designed, the Fabricationand Experimental Design course is not a full-credit course, meeting only two days a week forone-hour sessions, with several lab sessions

Conference Session

Capstone Design Projects and Courses

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benito Flores, Universidad de Monterrey

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

Improving Page 25.114.2Quality—the instructor invested most of a student's time in a study of various methodologies,foci and tools in the field available to improve quality in organizations. At the end of acourse, a final project usually consisted in applying some tool taught in the course to an actualsituation.That method seemed to work well enough, though careful analysis revealed the practical workto be quite superficial, almost automatic, and not effective as a focused learning environment(Checkland, 19813) in which students applied methodologies, learned from experience, thenrepeated the exercise to improve familiarity with it and skill in