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Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Ronald Rockland; Levelle Burr-Alexander; Howard Kimmel

the Center forPre-College Programs, the university has been working with students, teachers, guidancecounselors, administrators and parents over the past thirty years to strengthen their skills andknowledge in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Currently, theCenter serves four thousand school-aged students annually. In 2002, NJIT became the sixthuniversity affiliate of a national pre-engineering program, called Project Lead The Way(PLTW), as one of their pre-college thrusts to increase the pool of New Jersey secondaryschool students interested and prepared to enroll and graduate from undergraduate programsin engineering-related programs.About Project Lead The WayIn 1997, Project Lead The Way, a not-for-profit

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Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Thomas Erekson

to deliver high qualityengineering content and analytical design methods at the high school level. In fact, several stateeducation agencies have taken steps to include engineering content as part of technologyeducation at the secondary level (e.g., Massachusetts, Utah, Wisconsin). Curriculum projectslike Project Lead the Way (PLTW) are examples of high school level engineering programs. The release of the National Standards for Technological Literacy4 by the InternationalTechnology Education Association in the spring of 2000 places technology education in astrategic position with regards to teaching engineering content and analytical methods at themiddle and high school levels. These Standards were developed under a grant from the

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Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Warren Hill

of the things that make theprogram successful, the history of PLTW, and how colleges and universities can get involvedwith the program. The pre-engineering courses that make up the pre-engineering curriculum inthe high schools are project based and as a result, the students get to immediately apply what theyare learning. The courses that make up the program will be presented and additionally, some ofthe reasons a high school would want to get involved in the program will be discussed.What is Project Lead the Way?Project Lead the Way (PLTW) is a high school pre-engineering program that has as its main focusgetting high school students to enroll in engineering and engineering technology programs incollege and to succeed in those programs. To

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K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

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Joseph Reagan; Aldo Morales; Sedig Agili

implementation issues of different DSP techniques.I. IntroductionPenn State Harrisburg offers BS EE, BS EET, and ME degrees. The Bachelor of Sciencedegree in Electrical Engineering provides an opportunity for students to pursue interestsin electrical and electronic circuits, including digital circuits and VLSI and its fabrication,microprocessors and their applications, electromagnetics, communications, controlsystems, digital signal/image processing and computer vision. The BSEET programprovides similar experience however, its strengths include: an applied, hands-on approachand extensive laboratory experience. Through a senior capstone design project, bothcurricula emphasize written as well as verbal communication and a teamwork approachamong students

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Trends in Construction Engineering II

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Kissoff

offered access to this system which allowed for remote observation of theday-to-day construction administration of the two-year project. Student access to the project wastied to the department’s required senior project capstone class. A select group of students fromthat class were then able to connect with a project that they saw everyday on campus. The student team was responsible for an established set of project administration tasksthat were to be performed on a periodic basis throughout the semester. Team members wererequired to take on multiple roles throughout the project, acting as construction managers, sub-contractors, owners representatives and design consultants in order to address the situations thatarose randomly based on the

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

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2004 Annual Conference

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R. Knox; K. Muraleetharan; G. Miller; D. Sabatini; Randall Kolar

activities.Included in the development are content-rich multimedia modules that combine animation,graphics, text, and sound to enhance student learning (37).Sooner City unifies the curriculum by promoting horizontal and vertical integration, so studentslearn a holistic systems approach to engineering projects, rather than taking isolated courses thatappear as independent entities. Sooner City also provides a framework for multidisciplinary inte-gration.Sooner City essentially turns the engineering curriculum into a four-year design experience.Consequently, when students enroll in the traditional senior “capstone” course, they are betterprepared to handle complex, multidisciplinary projects involving other engineers (mechanical,electrical, and industrial) and

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Yi Min Huang; Michael Trevisan

stage in development. Early involvement of Page 9.579.10 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationevaluators will help to ensure that the evaluation plan is appropriate, useful, not over promised,and has sufficient budget to support the work.In addition, evaluators working to assist innovative projects or programmatic initiatives, such asprojects funded through IGERT or new senior capstone design experiences, will need to devisean evaluation plan to support programs, given their innovative nature

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Thomas; Carolyn Skurla; Walter Bradley

etchant so that only the exposed copper is removed. Students canproduce their first board in under two hours and subsequent iterations in twenty minutes. Theassembly of the components is then performed by the students, including soldering. Finally thecircuit is tested, and the students in each group fight over who gets to keep the circuit. Thishands-on, start-to-finish approach helps demystify electric circuits, builds student confidence,and fuels curiosity for the tinkering deprived.Major Design-Build-Test Project – Truss BridgeThe objective of this capstone experience is to pull together a complete design experience thatincorporates essentially every feature of a real design project. We begin by teaching simpleconcepts from statics

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jack Leifer; Jamey Jacob

capstone courses. Thesuccess of introducing such an approach in a freshman-level course is indicated by the fact thatthe gear train of every team functioned, and met the minimum criteria stipulated in the projectassignment. All of the teams performed design modifications on one or more of their gears afterreceiving their first set of prototyped parts.IV. Team Dynamics A kick-off meeting, including all the students and instructors involved in this project, washeld at the Lexington location towards the middle of the Fall 2003 semester. At this session,which lasted about an hour, the instructors presented the project assignment, and provided thestudents with expectations for intra team communication and collaboration. The meeting alsoserved

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2004 Annual Conference

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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

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2004 Annual Conference

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Nolan Van Gaalen; Kristin Wood; Carl Erikson; Frank Duda; Matthew Green; Steven VanderLeest

Session 2625 Service-Learning Approaches to International Humanitarian Design Projects: A Model Based on Experiences of Faith-Based Institutions Matthew G. Green and Kristin L. Wood Steven H. VanderLeest Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Department of Engineering, Calvin College The University of Texas, Austin Grand Rapids, MI matthew-green@mail.utexas.edu svleest@calvin.edu Frank T. Duda Carl Erikson Department of Engineering, Grove City

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New Program/Course Success Stories

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Josh Humphries; David Radcliffe

from theoutset of their professional career while simultaneously having immediate value in helping themto manage a research project and capstone design project in their senior year. An integral part ofthis innovation was the development of a web-based project management tool. While the mainobjectives of the new course design were achieved, a number of important lessons were learnedthat would guide the further development and continuous improvement of this course. The mostcritical of these is the need to achieve the optimum balance in the mind of the students betweendoing the project and critically analyzing the processes used to accomplish the work.IntroductionIn most industries, engineering is increasingly managed through projects. As a new

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Leiffer

ongoingresearch projects at the university, introduces them to research techniques, and prepares them tobe project team leaders in their senior year.Capstone DesignVarious biomedical research projects were part of our EE and ME capstone design for threeyears before the start of the BME program. The current two-semester BME capstone experienceinvolves the design, development, and construction of the Intelligent Prosthetic Arm as a Page 9.426.3stepping-stone for the next generation of prosthetic limbs. The multidisciplinary nature of this Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

EM Skills and Real-World Concepts, Pt. 2

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2004 Annual Conference

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LTC Robert Powell

professional responsibilities as student leaders and futurecommissioned officers. Participating agencies gain by having additional personnel to work onengineering projects, and by having the opportunity to expose future Army leaders to theimportant functions performed by their organization. Some AIAD opportunities extend beyondthe summer into the academic year as CAPSTONE projects. These projects continue to allow acadet the opportunity to discover the “real world” applicability of their academic endeavors.This paper explores the uniqueness and nature of our program, its purpose, our process formatching skills with a participating agency and follow-up feedback from cadets. This feedbackis used to assess the viability of the program for future students

Conference Session

Innovations in Systems Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacqueline Mozrall; Edward Hensel; Paul Stiebitz

communication are keyexperiential components of the program. Supplemental topics in innovation, entrepreneurship,and contemporary issues in product development, are fostered through lectures and workshops.The capstone program is coordinated by a team of faculty representatives from each participatingdepartment. A standard set of assessment tools is employed by the coordinators, faculty teammentors, project sponsors and external reviewers.The design of a state-of-the-art 8,500 sq.ft., multi-disciplinary design workshop is underway. Itwill provide team work spaces as they develop and analyze concepts, and support for assemblyand testing. This facility is made possible by recent gifts from local foundations and industries.At steady state, approximately

Conference Session

The Nuts & Bolts of TC2K

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Roth

, timeliness, and continuous improvement.Therefore, the internship course allows unique assessment opportunities that may beworthy of consideration by other academic institutions because of its inherent andcontinuous cooperation with industry.Merging Outcomes of Internship Course with Existing Capstone Project CourseABET requires a senior capstone experience (2004-2005 ABET Criteria, Criterion 4,Program Characteristics). The MET program had an existing senior capstone projectcourse that fulfilled this ABET criterion. The question was raised, was there a secondoption for the seniors that would include a senior internship experience? If this was to beaccomplished, it was essential that the course learning outcomes of each of the two-capstone courses be

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching & Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sang Ha Lee; John Wise; Thomas Litzinger

no significant effect on theirreadiness for self-directed learning. It would appear that some of the students are being adverselyaffected by their experience in the capstone course; in some cases the effects are dramatic. Twostudents, one from each section, had post-test scores that were more than 40 points below theirpre-test scores.In an effort to understand potential effects of the project on changes in the SDLRS score betweenthe post-test and pre-test, the average change in the team score was plotted versus the averagepre-test score of the team. The plot is presented in Figure 2. Two teams have relatively lowaverage pre-test scores. One of these teams showed an average increase of 9 between the pre-testand post-test while the other had a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Hallacher

the Center that enables Pennsylvania community colleges andother partner institutions to offer degree programs in nanofabrication is a suite of sixnanofabrication courses taught three times per year (fall and spring semesters andsummer session) at the $33 million, Penn State Nanofabrication Facility, part of the NSF- Page 9.990.1sponsored National Nanofabrication Infrastructure Network (NNIN). The capstone 1semester was developed and is continuously improved with extensive industry oversight,and receives funding support form the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Since its creation, the ATE Regional Center

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mesut Muslu

, design is viewed as another hurdle to overcomerather than an important engineering process. This paper describes how the ElectricalEngineering program at the University of Wisconsin – Platteville developed a curriculum toaddress this issue by implementing a distributed design in its curriculum. The idea behind thedistributed design is to introduce simple design concepts early in the curriculum and graduallyincrease the complexity of design projects as students progress toward graduation. The paperprovides examples of several design projects in various courses and how these projects areinterrelated. The paper also provides a discussion of how the “major design experience”requirement of ABET is satisfied without having a capstone design course in

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mahbub Uddin

central focus of our program. An eight-semester engineering design course sequence that begins in the first semester of the freshman year and terminates with a two-semester senior capstone design project from the backbone of our curriculum. The first design course introduces students to the engineering design process utilizing a competitive design project. The second semester freshman design course continues the introduction to engineering design concepts with another interactive team-oriented design project. Examples of freshman design projects: design, build , test and analyze the performance of a wooden truss; design, build and test a water balloon launcher, etc

Conference Session

Molecular and Multiscale Phenomena

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Turton; Joseph Shaeiwitz

scales, as appropriate, and themanufacture of the product at the macro scale. Therefore, a new class of design projects will beneeded to replace the traditional continuous chemical manufacturing process that is most oftenthe subject of the capstone design class. This paper describes one such design project assignedto the West Virginia University class of 2004.The ProblemThis class was assigned the task of investigating transdermal drug delivery systems. They wereto identify potential pharmaceutical products for use in a transdermal patch and suggestopportunities for a profitable venture to manufacture such a product. They were to learn thecomponents of transdermal patches, including their chemical composition, their function, andtheir mechanism

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering and More

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

the senior students and carefully evaluate theactivity. Students were allowed to practice their teaming skills through the planning andimplementation aspects of the assignment and their communication skills through the reportingphase. This paper provides the relevant assignments and student feedback on the experience.The ProgramIn the week before classes began in fall 2003, careful planning went into the pairing of incomingfreshmen mechanical engineering students with senior capstone design teams in the Departmentof Mechanical Engineering. The projects in the capstone design course ranged from automotive Page 9.1031.1 “Proceedings of

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TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

place in the Department of Mechanical Engineering for manyyears to come. These projects will provide hands-on experiences illustrating anapplication of two emerging technologies to many engineering students and visitors whomight not otherwise have this opportunity. The paper will provide details for the designand fabrication of the demonstrations as well as pictures of the final products.IntroductionThe capstone design course in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME) at theUniversity of Houston has existed (until recently), more or less, in its present form since1981. At that time it was taken only by mechanical engineering undergraduates. In themid-80’s the Department of Industrial Engineering (IE) joined the course so that projectteams

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Prestero; Neil Cantor

students to build on each other’s work. Finally, DtM works with NGOs,corporate partners and local entrepreneurs to ensure that promising student innovations result inproducts and services for communities in need.Since its launch in 2000, DtM has reached over 400 engineering students—roughly half of themwomen and minorities, and many of whom have realigned their life trajectories to include workin underserved communities. In 2002, DtM completed a proof-of-concept implementation inMIT's mechanical engineering capstone design course with Prof. Woodie Flowers. DtM is nowexpanding within MIT and to other schools in the US and UK.2.1. DtM Project AreasDesign that Matters works to address the needs of underserved communities in developingcountries as

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Education by Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Will; Wesley Stone

performance • Improved performance on projects The challenge facing the faculty will be to institutionalize all changes that have beenmade, while continuing to develop this course as a positive multidisciplinary design experiencefor the ME and ECE students at Valparaiso University.References1. Tougaw, D. and Will, J. “An Innovative Multidisciplinary Capstone Design Course Sequence,” Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, June 2003.2. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, Baltimore, MD, 2002.3. Olds, B. M., M. J. Pavelich, and F. R. Yearts, “Teaching the Design Process to Freshmen and Sophomores

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IS and IT Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Taz Daughtrey; Edgar Sibley; Anne Marchant

anticipation of accreditationrequirements. Students take 12 credits of mathematics, including courses in Calculus andDiscrete Mathematics. Students opting for the concentration in Security and Networking take anadditional 5 courses including at least one from the sub-categories of Security, Networking andOperating Systems, and Telecommunications. Finally, all students participate in a year long,senior design projects class, working in teams on integrated IT projects. With the developmentof the Cyberdefense Capstone course, our plan is to create a separate Security track using the Page 9.273.4existing Security Concentration Courses as a base.Proceedings

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DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Vaz

, and the role ofsenior capstone design in the curriculum is more summative than formative, leaving little roomfor remediation and subsequent improvement. First-year design experiences can providecontext, motivation, and excitement, but first-year students are typically without the technicalbackground to experience a genuine electrical and computer engineering (ECE) design processthat fills an unmet need and addresses all of the tradeoffs between technical and nontechnicalmatters that occur in product design.For over 30 years, the undergraduate engineering programs at Worcester Polytechnic Institute(WPI) have featured a substantial senior capstone design project as one of three degree-requiredproject experiences. While faculty reviews of the

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Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramana Pidaparti; Hasan Akay

the design practices associated with thermal-fluid systems, and involves the design ofpiping systems and heat exchangers. Finally, the application of optimization techniques (throughMatlab software) for design is also introduced. In the capstone Design course (ME 462), aseminar component was added to address professionalism, project management, sustainabilityand safety and environmental aspects.We recognize that the curriculum should include a strong general education component thatprovides students an integrated and well-rounded education in the humanities, social sciences,arts, and related areas. In addition to the 9 credit hours required in written communications(ENG W131), public speaking (COMM R110), technical communications (TCM 360

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Innovations in Systems Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Dwan; Robert DeMoyer; Carl Wick; George Piper

currently producedwithin the Weapons and Systems Engineering Department includes automatic control,computers, communication, robotics, and environmental systems. These areas are incontrast to the more traditional Systems Engineering topics such as optimization,economics, behavioral science, and decision-making. USNA Systems Engineeringmajors must also complete a significant capstone design project during their senior year.Our senior students choose their own topic for this project and produce a complete design Page 9.1147.1document during the fall semester. They then build, test, and present their project duringthe spring semester. With this mix of