Conference Session

Trends in Mechanics Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rick J. Couvillion; Larry A. Roe; Ing-Chang Jong

dynamics,5,6,7,8 the work done by a force F on a body moving from position A1 along a path Cto position A2 is usually denoted by U1→ 2 and is defined by a line integral ∫A A2 U1→ 2 = F • dr (1) 1where • denotes a dot product, and dr is the differential displacement of the body moving alongthe path C during the action of F on the body.The work U1→ 2 done by a moment M (or a couple of moment M) on a body during its finite ro-tation, parallel to M, from angular position θ1 to angular position θ2 is given

Conference Session

Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Shamamy

week semester), anexam is given. Students can use their Competency Assignment while taking the exam. Anadditional twist, however, is that the managers take the exam together in another room, andalthough each manager submits his/her own exam, the managers can discuss the exam questionsand answers with one another. Further, each manager must also grade the CompetencyAssignments from his/her teams (two assignments). The course instructor grades theCompetency Assignment submitted by the managers and the exams submitted by all. Studentshave different teammates for each assignment and everyone gets to be a manager once.Outcomes from this are:1. Students are required to meet and interact with more of their classmates.2. Students learn how to deal

Conference Session

Promoting ET with K-12 Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Brower

presentation by the faculty and up to threeRGSFOP OIT students in Fall 2001 and Winter 2002.Applicant Criteria -1) Recommendation by student’s spring Math, Science, or Physics teacher.2) Endorsement by student’s following fall/winter Math, Science, or Physics teacher. - The results of the experiment was to be shared with the Technology Space Camp students and their fall/winter classmates.3) 500 word essay on the subject of: “How Conducting Experiments in a Low-Gravity Environment Can Help in the Development of New Technologies used on Earth.”Publicity Strategy -The strategy to promote OIT’s Technology Space Camp was two-fold. First, an advertisementwas placed in three newspapers, the

Conference Session

Laptop/Handheld Computing in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Shamamy

, so any classroom computer activities must allowsufficient time for them to come up to speed.III. Criteria for Classroom Laptop UseHaving acknowledged that the students should somehow use the laptops in class, the next step isto determine exactly what criteria should be used to develop these classroom laptop exercises. Inreflecting on this, I have identified five characteristics as being important in this student use:1. There must be a “Value-Added” aspect to the assignment. In other words, the laptop use in class should not be simply busy work. Further, the “value-added” aspect must be clearly evident to the students.2. The student must be actively involved in using the laptop. The laptop should not be used to merely view a Powerpoint

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lyle Feisel; George Peterson

engineeringundergraduate curriculum, you will be able to….”Objective 1: Instrumentation Apply appropriate sensors, instrumentation, and/or software tools to make measurements of physical quantities.Objective 2: Models Identify the strengths and limitations of theoretical models as predictors of real world behaviors. This may include evaluating whether a theory adequately describes a physical event and establishing or validating a relationship between measured data and underlying physical principles.Objective 3: Experiment Devise an experimental approach, specify appropriate equipment and procedures, implement these procedures, and interpret the resulting data to characterize an engineering material, component

Conference Session

Multimedia and Product Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wafeek Wahby

PowerPoint software and its potential usefulness in improving the teaching/learning of Engineering Graphics must be discretionary introduced to the students. Tosafeguard against overwhelming the students, only the features of PowerPoint that serve apurpose should be used, and in small increments as need be -- starting from simpleEngineering Graphics concepts and procedures, and building up to the compound.Four Selected Typical Engineering Graphics Case studiesThis paper presents four selected typical Engineering Graphics case studies. These are: 1) Multiview Orthographic Projection - The Loop Principle. 2) Drawing an Ellipse - The Four Point Approximate Method. 3) Drawing an Ellipse - The Revolution Method. 4) Line

Conference Session

ET ABET Pilot Visits Using TC2K

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Hefley; James Lookadoo; Randy Winzer

; Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationIn the summer following this tumultuous year, one of us was accepted as a TAC of ABETprogram evaluator and underwent the requisite training session. As part of that training, thepreliminary TC2K accreditation criteria [1] and their implementation plans were presented. Thiswas our first real exposure to TC2K. It did not appear at that time to be a near-term challenge aswe expected to be reviewed using the existing TAC of ABET format.Two months later at the beginning of the academic year, our department chair informed us thatwe had been invited to volunteer in the 2001 pilot visit project. Our other EngineeringTechnology programs were in good shape and

Conference Session

ET Web Based Laboratories

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Hall

5 (an e-Learning software platform fromBlackboard, Inc.) to manage all distance education courses, including those delivered over theInternet. Each of the three factors–content, pedagogy, and management–is discussed below interms of developing or adapting an electronics laboratory course for the Internet. 1. EET Laboratory Course ContentIn the EET program at Northwestern State University, lectures and laboratories courses arepresented in separate, but co-requisite courses. Because DC circuits lecture and lab are the firstelectronics courses that a student encounters in the EET degree, they often serve concurrently asan introduction to electronics, to the technical laboratory, and to university-level pedagogy. Inthe lecture course

Conference Session

Engrng Edu;An International Perspective

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hamid Eydgahi

taken place at community colleges.The demographics of international students continue to change (The Chronicle of HigherEducation8) and their academic level and origin between 1990 and 2000 (ACE 9) are shown intables 1 and 2 respectively. Table 1 International Students’ Demographics Country or 1-year Country or 1-year Territory Students change Territory Students change China 54,466 +6.8% Trinidad & Tobago 2,762 +18.9% Japan 46,872 +1.0 Romania 2,716

Conference Session

Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Shawn Addington

Session 3560 A Work in Progress – Updating and Maintaining an Effective Assessment Program under ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 J. Shawn Addington, Robert A. Johnson, and David L. Livingston Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Virginia Military InstituteThis paper serves as a follow-up to previously published works1,2 regarding the assessmentprogram developed and utilized by the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at theVirginia Military Institute. In particular, the paper will: 1) outline the departmental assessmentstrategy, including the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Shirley

1, below.The elements around the ellipse in Figure 1 correspond to phases in a product lifecycle, but thedouble-headed arrows indicate that they can’t just proceed in a step-by-step process. They mustcontinually interact and each element affects, and is affected by, the others. A brief descriptionof each element is included with the detailed course description, which follows.Balancing ActsA key to the management of creative enterprises is to maintain balance. Too many popularmanagement books imply that a simple application of a single principal can result in goodmanagement. But it’s clear that a key management job is to constantly balance the competingdemands and constraints on a creative enterprise. Some dimensions of this balance can

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Swaminathan Balachandran

TEACHING INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING COURSES USING BLACKBOARD Swaminathan Balachandran Professor of Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Platteville 1 University Plaza, Platteville, WI 53818 Ph.: (608)-342-1718. FAX: (608)-342-1566. balachas@uwplatt.edu ABSTRACT This paper presents information about the undergraduate program in industrialengineering at UW - Platteville and the Web pages created for five industrial and generalengineering courses by the author. This paper summarizes the contents of these pages that areaccessible to students and guests from any location. The paper discusses how

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Laura Grossenbacher

Kienzler makes this point inher discussion of ethics and pedagogy for technical communication instructors: As critical thinking proponents reiterate, [the] questioning of assumptions is hard for college-age students, and only somewhat easier for older students. It is, if anything, even harder when questioning moves into ethical concerns.(1)Though I have taught debate before to introductory composition classes, I've neverreally appreciated how valuable it can be to first teach fundamentals of ethics as ameans of helping students get at underlying assumptions. It took some developmenton my part to be able to teach with ethics, and I'm still learning every time I try it. II. Introducing ethics as a tool to analyze assumptions

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Beverly J. Davis

high tech workers we will need to succeed in the global market. Highereducational institutions, businesses, and government have all sounded the alarm andattempted to thwart this future catastrophe. The American Association of UniversityWomen (AAUW) recently reported female students account for only 17% of high schoolstudents who take the College Board’s Advanced Placement Examination in computerscience to seek college credit (1). In addition, this report tells us women earn only 28%of the bachelor’s degrees in computer science and make up only 20% of informationtechnology professionals. Only 1.7 % of bachelor’s degrees awarded to women in 1998were in engineering (8). And in addition, black and Hispanic college attendance rate iswell below

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Swaminathan Balachandran

TEACHING DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS AT THE GRADUATE LEVEL USING PROMETHEUS Swaminathan Balachandran Professor of Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Platteville 1 University Plaza, Platteville, WI 53818 Ph.: (608)-342-1718. FAX: Ph.: (608)-342-1566. balachas@uwplatt.edu ABSTRACT A graduate-level course on the design of experiments was designed in 2001 and taught asa web-based course in 2002. This course was designed for the University of Wisconsin LearningInnovations and is available to students enrolling in the Master of Engineering degree programoffered by UW

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Michael P. Hennessey; Allen C. Jaedike; Peter S. Rhode

Institute,known for its Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) programs. The course had twotracks: (1) interpreting engineering drawings (IED) which is traditional drafting, and (2) CAD training (AutoCAD,release 12). Textbooks for the course were Interpreting Engineering Drawings by Jenson and Hines (for the IEDtrack) and Using AutoCAD Release 12 by J. E. Fuller (for the CAD track) [1,2]. Students were also required tocomplete a computer aided drafting project (such as the “trolley” assembly from the IED book). Currently, the course retains the same basic format, although as technology has advanced, the CAD softwarehas necessarily changed over the years from what was largely computerized drafting (using AutoCAD, release 12

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

James N. Almquist; D. Joanne Wilson

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Steven M. Cramer; Nancy Ciezki; Hussain Bahia; Carole Kraak; Carole Schramm

process requires a mix ofdelivery formats with direct teacher to student interaction.MethodologyThe methodology directed toward these objectives is outlined with three key steps: 1. identification of what we wanted to convey and how to convey it, 2. creation of media clips, 3. creating a web-based delivery system and incorporating it into the existing course.Enhancing laboratory education required consideration of the types of material andlearning that occurred in the laboratory and sorting that information according to typeand current educational delivery process. The first step was to separate the roteaspects of the laboratory experience from the more creative aspects of instruction thatare often truncated because laboratory

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Michael Leasure

INTEGRATION OF DATA ACQUISITION TECHNOLOGY Michael Leasure11 Michael Leasure, Purdue University, Building #1, Purdue Airport, West Lafayette, IN 47906, mlleasure@tech.purdue.edu 1Abstract - This paper will explore the dynamics of be used on multiple engines, was identified. Anotherintegrating data acquisition technology into a university disadvantage of the GEM was the display was fixed andlevel course. The complete process from instructor could not be modified to more clearly show indications.training and competence, to end delivery of materials in a The students

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Daryl L. Logan

greatly enhanced the synthesis learning process that design requires. Realworld experiences were gained from this activity, and the most effective way for students tolearn design by doing open-ended design projects that require a device to be built wasaccomplished.PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF CONTESTThe primary objective of the contest was to build a fully automatic device that would tossbaseballs into a rectangular box consisting of three separate compartments. The device had to fitinside a storage box 30 by 50 by 30 cm before assembly and 1 m by 1 m by 1m space uponassembly and was located 235 cm from the box. The three separate compartments of the box had20 cm diameter holes cut in their top enclosures.The device was to toss 30 baseballs within a two

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Christa James-Byrnes

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Greg Luttrell

their ownhighest potential. “When speed is an important factor, it interferers with measurement ofknowledge and understanding of slow students.”1 The web based discussions allowedstudents to participate at their own pace and to their own potential.The WebCT discussions were a required part of the class, were graded and the combinedsemester discussion grade counted for approximately ten-percent of the student’s final grade.Grades were assigned using a rubric that rewarded well thought out responses with five points,gave three points for adequate responses, one-point for any response, but penalizeddisrespectful responses with a minus one-point score. Both these examples received themaximum score of 5-points and represent the diversity of the

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Mani Mina

electrical engineering,we can identify the following general characteristics that can be viewed as unfavorablefor development of life-long learners. Please note that the identified characteristics arehighly related and in many cases, by redirecting students’ efforts, an unfavorablecharacteristic can become a great asset. 1. They are not challengeable. In general, the students are not willing to accept challenges. When things are hard and the first sign of an unacceptable grade or class performance is seen, the first reaction of many students is to panic and quit. This usually manifests itself in a change of the field of study as well as dropping the class, changing schools, or just not working on classes any more and accepting the

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Traci Kelly

Team; that’s a team built around a specific client and project. Because students can register for 1-3 credits, much of the work distribution happens in these groups, and students are responsible for taking on the correct amount of work as deemed by their credit hours. (We try to help with time allocation, but there are always 1-credit students who do three credits’ worth of work…and vice versa.) Dr. Bradley and I construct the Project Teams by using a matrix built of student-stated project preference, year in school, major, special skills…taking into consideration a balance of gender and ethnic factors, as well

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

John Mirth; Michael Momot

project. The selection of proper courses and the project responsibility of each course have a largeimpact on the success of the collaboration. The following subsections describe the rationale for course selection and projectselection. A) Course Selection Considerations To date, collaborations within the Mechanical Engineering Program at UWP have been limited to various combinationsof two-course collaborations. These, along with a short description of primary course topics, are shown in Table 1. Table 1: Collaborative projects undertaken.Collaboration Courses Course Topics Collaborative Project1 Mechanical Systems Design

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Gil Laware

and electronic-related innovations have enabled the development of newtechnologies in many areas. Innovations have occurred in the area of biology, chemistry,electronics, metallurgy, physics, and sociology. Specific applications in the fields ofaviation, energy, graphics, materials, medicine, nanotechnology, software andtransportation have been driven by computer and electronic-related changes (Benditt,2002).The rapid introduction of new computer and electronic-related technologies has posednew problems that need to be addressed. As a result, we need: 1. To understand the principles used in the development of the new/advanced technology. 2. Assimilate these changes to reduce the level

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Keith B. Lodge

tried in the spring of 2002 with a class of 26 students dividedinto groups of 2; each group was assigned its own microcontroller and apparatus. There is no dedicatedlaboratory section associated with this class. In essence the use of a microcontroller allows topics, hitherto taught purely in the classroom(sometimes with the aid of demonstrations), to become the object of direct practical experience for thestudents. The topics include A/D conversion, sensor calibration, self regulation, on-off control,proportional (P) control and offset, proportional and integral (PI) control, the position and velocity formsof the PID algorithm, selection of the control interval and signal aliasing, step tests and tuning. I willdescribe (1) the

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Charles McIntyre

philosophy, format, evaluation and assessment ofthe course came into question. The contents of this paper, 1.) describe some of the philosophicalquestions that had to be addressed, 2.) provide an overview of problem-based learning, 3.) explain therevised course content and delivery systems, and 4.) provide an explanation of the techniques used toevaluate student work and provide course assessment.IntroductionThe Department of Civil Engineering and Construction at North Dakota State University consists of twodivisions, the Division of Construction Management and Engineering and the Division of CivilEngineering. Prior to 1998, the Department had three separate capstone courses for each degreeprogram (construction engineering, construction management

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Vojin Nikolic

Linear, Radial, and Angular dimensions - Adding Annotation to a Drawing, - Plotting a Drawing. The students are also expected to complete on their own several online tutorials.The final drawings from these exercises are collected and graded. Homeworkassignments related to this portion of the course include drawing favorite objects like, forexample, computers, cars, airplanes, backpacks, radios, etc. Multiveiw drawing withAutoCAD LT of assigned objects are also required. An individual project (see below) isassigned as a means for the final assessment of a student’s proficiency in this software. Figures 1 and 2 show two examples of the use of AutoCAD LT by the students inthis course. Individual Project. Each

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

William H. Semke; Arnold F. Johnson; Richard. R. Schultz; Chang-Hee Won; Jason G. Gullicks; Nicholas E. Hulst; Douglas R. Olsen; George A. Seielstad

&E),expertise in remote sensing data analysis and distribution, and flight personnel and support.This complementary team of students, researchers, and faculty permits the unique opportunityto complete the entire task within a single university [1]. All parties are gaining valuablelessons on the needs and requirements of the other groups to develop an optimized system.Interactions among the groups along with end users have been performed in periodic systemreviews at critical design phases throughout the development. These activities, as well as theopportunity to work on an operating aerial system that assists the local economy, have been ahighly successful public relations and recruitment tool for UND [2]. The AEROCam system is flown