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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul King

convert this laboratory-basedsystem into a clinical one. The key component in the system design will be a fiber optichandheld probe that is capable of delivering laser light and collecting the tissue signals withoutinterference from the room lights or the optical fiber itself. Thus the task of your company willbe to design such a clinical Raman probe based on fiber optics that can be used in humanpatients.5) Assistive Device for the ElderlyMost of know about the famous commercial “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up”. In response to arequest from the Rehabilitation Center, your task is to develop an assist device for elderlypersons and persons with a disability who sometimes fall and do not have the ability or strengthto lift themselves without

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Goldberg

specific registers and counters of the8051 microcontroller. Note these tasks are essential in microcontroller applications, and eachmicrocontroller has unique hardware and software to efficiently perform them.The assembly language code and hardware involved in these three tasks are presented in classlecture. (Figure 1 shows the assembly language code for the three tasks. Note the code may notbe complete). The students study the 8051 instructions that are employed in the three tasks.Students follow up in laboratory by entering the code with a text editor and assembling anddownloading the code using the Rigel RJ 31P 8051 board and READS51 software developmentenvironment. They construct a hardware interface board consisting of drivers and LEDs

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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachel Shinn

7.1099.6Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationfaculty resources.IV. Early Teaming ExperiencesAs our space option evolves, we have added more space courses to support our design sequence. One of these courses is a laboratory course in which the students do experiments related tospacecraft. Because we are a small school, this gave us the opportunity to arrange a groupproject as a final project for the lab course that gives them a preview of the teaming experience.These students, in their junior year, have a team project that helps them practice teaming with thesame students they will be working with in their

Conference Session

Teaching Green Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Turner

an ever lighter human footprint onthe earth."Writing in The New York Times, Jay Parini endowed Orr, chair of theEnvironmental Studies Program, with the apt appellation "environmental guru."Orr led more than 250 students, faculty, and town residents in discussions withnational ecological designers during the building's initial design phase three yearsago. He also raised most of the funds for the project.For Oberlin, that knowledge has resulted in a 14,000-square-foot, $6.6 million,self-sustaining structure of classrooms, laboratories, and surrounding gardens.More than a building where teaching takes place, the Lewis Center is a place thatteaches. By virtue of the building's design concepts, students learn ecologicalcompetence and mindfulness

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi Diefes-Dux

requirements." Next,the seniors are asked to evaluate on a 5-point Likert scale the effectiveness of laboratoryexperiences and computer based projects in each ABE core course. Seniors are also asked toevaluate the frequency and effectiveness of exposure to a variety of communication methods(e.g. e-mail, technical writing, business writing, oral communication). Finally the seniors areasked to evaluate their competency in using a number of computer tools (e.g. operating systems,spreadsheets, engineering computation tools, data acquisition tools). A free response section isavailable to the seniors to suggest improvements to the laboratory, computer, and communicationcomponents of the program. This part concludes with a free response section that allows

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Basavapatna Sridhara

strategy and different submission deadlines yielded some goodresults although course statistics showed that two students never used the course site. In this author’s opinion, web-based instruction is possible in areas such as humanities andliberal arts. Web-enhanced instruction can be adopted in Engineering Technology although itcannot replace interactive problem solving in the classroom and laboratory activities. FluidPower course site was developed while teaching a full load of ET courses and therefore, thisarticle gives only the salient features of web-enhanced instruction using CourseInfo.V. Conclusions Features such as Discussion Board, Virtual Chat, Student Pages and Group Pages werenot used effectively in the Fall of 2000

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Upchurch; Judith Sims-Knight

to find the right path, are more effective thansituations in which they are simply told whether they are right or wrong.2 3 4 5Although there are strong and consistent findings that feedback improves immediateperformance under some circumstances, it is also clear that in some situations feedback isirrelevant and sometimes even harmful. In a meta-analysis of research in educational,organizational, and laboratory settings, Kluger and DeLisi3 found that in one-third of thecomparisons the feedback condition had worse performance than the group who was given nofeedback.Because so much of instructors’ time is spent giving students feedback by commenting

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Torres

gates are used for address decoding. These were hand wired usingwire wrap techniques. Page 7.1059.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationUsing a Lattice Mach4 PLD and DesignEXPERT software, all the logic gates would beprogrammed into the PLD saving valuable laboratory time. Another advantage is fast designtime. Faster changes can be made and simulated with the software than wire wrapping.LED ExampleFrom Lattice Semiconductor Corporation University Program, ispStarter Kits part# Mach4-sk44can

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathrine Nguru; Murat Tanyel

taught at Drexel University where he worked for the EnhancedEducational Experience for Engineering Students (E4) project, setting up and teaching laboratory and hands-oncomputer experiments for engineering freshmen and sophomores. For one semester, he was also a visitingprofessor at the United Arab Emirates University in Al-Ain, UAE where he helped set up an innovativeintroductory engineering curriculum. Dr. Tanyel received h is B. S. degree in electrical engineering from BogaziçiUniversity, Istanbul, Turkey in 1981, his M. S. degree in electrical engineering from Bucknell University,Lewisburg, PA in 1985 and his Ph. D. in biomedical engineering from Drexel University, Philad elphia, PA in1990.KATHRINE NGURUKathrine Nguru is a graphic design

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ECE Design, Capstone, and Engr. Practice

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2002 Annual Conference

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Z. Joan Delalic; Richard Cohen; Jim J-S Chen; Dennis Silage

, an associate of the System Chip Design Center and teaches microelectronics and VLSICAD design. Dr. Delalic is the faculty advisor of the College IMAPS student chapter.JIM J-S CHEN received the PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University in 1985. He is a Professor,Chair of Mechanical Engineering, Director of the Thermal Processing Laboratory and teaches heat transfer andmaterials processing.RICHARD COHEN received the PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University in 1977. He is anAssociate Professor and teaches heat transfer, thermodynamics, and combustion. Dr. Cohen is the faculty advisor ofthe College SAE student chapter.DENNIS SILAGE received the PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975

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Entrepreneurship Education for Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Baum; Karen Thornton; David Barbe

development. The company plans to begin test marketing in the second quarter of 2002. Articulation Innovations, LLC is a partnership between faculty at the University of Maryland Dental School and two Hinman CEOs. The dentists have developed patented devices for clinical and laboratory procedures in Prosthodontics and related dental specialties and the CEOs have joined the team to improve the engineering of the design and to develop a marketing plan for the product. NCIIA seed funding has provided professional level engineering and business software that is facilitating the team in improving the design and getting the product to market.F. Technology OpportunitiesSome of the CEOs have definite business ideas when they enter the program

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

student team and the piston pump built by them. Figure[6] shows one of the student teams getting ready for pump-testing at the end of springsemester of 2001.Besides attending class lectures the ENES 100 students used the Computer AidedEngineering (CAE) Laboratory and the Workshop facilities at UMES extensively duringthe project. The 3 credit hours of the course include 2 lecture hours and 2 Laboratoryhours per week. The two lab hours were utilized for software skills development,manufacturing efforts in Carpentry and Machine Shop, as well as teamwork. The firsttwo weeks of lab time was utilized for introduction to Microsoft Word, Excel andPowerPoint, followed by 7 /8 weeks of demonstration and training using ProEngineer.The remaining lab hours

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Techniques for Improving Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Cindy Finelli; Trevor Harding

(www.engr.wisc.edu/services/elc/) and Wisconsin Engineering Education Laboratory (www.engr.wisc.edu/weel/)The centers listed here have a variety of goals and missions, ranging from offering extensiveopportunities for faculty development and TA training to serving as a focal point for assessmentefforts. Some of the centers facilitate extensive research into learning and assist faculty inidentifying funding opportunities. Generally the centers are supported by the institute’s budgetand have a half-time or full-time director to lead their activities. Based on the success of thesecenters, other schools have been considering establishing centers for engineering education. Toassist in this effort, the roundtable discussion at the 2001 ASEE Annual Conference

Conference Session

New ET Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Kimble

praise for thedelivery method.Fire ResearchWhile the FSET program at UNC Charlotte is only two and one half years old, research isunderway. There is a belief by those in the department that research is a key factor in stayingcurrent and in providing valuable learning opportunities for the students. Two of the students’classes require some exposure to the research element. Once the labs are fully functional,distance education students will be required to attend laboratory sessions for one week eachsemester during their research classes. The University was reluctant to put the research lab forthe program on campus, as it would be cost prohibitive to retrofit a building to handle theequipment and to install smoke scrubbers so that room size

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Nick Salamon; Gautam Wagle; Cliff Lissenden

loading. The report must include all finalspecifications and design criteria, calculations and analysis, as well as dimensions. EMch 400students should lead the design for overload and EMch 500 students should lead the design toprevent fatigue failure. Due 11 October.B. [10%] Analysis Validation. EMch 400 ONLY.Part I: Suggest a laboratory experiment or set of experiments that will enable you to validateyour crank arm analysis. Note that this is not intended to be field testing of a prototype. Thesolid model of the crank arm is shown in Figure 1 and a dimensioned drawing in Figure 2.(Figures not included in this paper.) Due 25 October.Part II: Validate your team's analysis with the experimental results. At points A & B comparemeasured strain

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2001 Annual Conference

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David Probst

Criteria 2000, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Baltimore, MD, 2000.3. University Studies Handbook, Southeast Missouri State University. Also see http://ustudies.semo.edu .4. David K. Probst, “Advanced Laboratory as Liberal Education,” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, June, 2001.DAVID K. PROBSTDr. David Probst is Chairman and Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Southeast Missouri StateUniversity. He received the B.S. degree in Physics from Thomas More College, the B.E.E. degree from Universityof Dayton, and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Tulane University. He has ten years ofindustrial experience in photonics research and development at McDonnell Douglas Corporation, St

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Haruo Sakamoto

and half of half real word experience such as product dissection or activities reported herein and half basic studies such as mathematics and physics. 5. In the 3rd and 4th years, a different type of education were conducted in a manner that students belong to an individual faculty research laboratory from the 3rd year. The education also stresses on action

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Manian Ramkumar; Immanuel Edinbarough

laboratory at RIT. Theselaboratories are equipped with production scale equipment that is used for hands-on training and conducting appliedresearch projects for companies. Page 6.29.12 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education TU6SU DvvhrÃHhvÃ8BDTpvà GhqÃVrÃQth @rpv

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Zahorian; Sacharia Albin; William Swart

the extent possible, the academic content of the programshould be identical to that taken by students completing their entire degree at Old DominionUniversity. The only real issue was which courses would be taken at Rajagiri and which wouldbe taken at Old Dominion University. Ideally, the courses in the first two years (or three yearsfor the case of an MS program) of the regular curricular were to be taken at Rajagiri, and allcourses in the remaining two years were to be taken at Old Dominion University. The onlydifficulty with this basic strategy was that facilities at Rajagiri were not adequate for some ofthe engineering laboratories normally required by sophomores. Thus, it became necessary tomodify the ordering of some of the courses. In

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

David Miller

) "Information about the Engineering Education Scholars Workshops is available on-line athttp://www.engr.wisc.edu/elc/eesp/". (13) "Information about the Stanford New Century Scholars Workshop can be found on-line athttp://www-ctl.stanford.edu/nsf/".DAVID C. MILLERDavid C. Miller is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Michigan Technological University. He directsthe Laboratory for Intelligent Process Systems Engineering at Michigan and is actively involved in studying theapplication of AI to the development of batch chemical processes. Dr. Miller received a B.S. degree from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, an M.S. from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a Ph.D. from TheOhio State University

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey B. Connor; Richard Goff

by using a hands-onapproach. This laboratory class employs a combination of reverse engineering of consumerproducts and design case studies. The aim is to introduce our students to engineering and designand to generate a first hand appreciation of the discipline. At the same time, students acquirebasic hand skills using wrenches, calipers, and other basic hand tools, they experience howproducts are assembled and designed.The main drawback of this approach is scalability. We offer this course to eight sections of 32students each, but this still only reaches 20 percent of entering engineering students. To addressthe issue of offering hands-on early design activities to all entering freshman, we have recentlydeveloped eight activities that

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Smyer; L. R. Johnson

student’sfunctional areas.IV. The Manufacturing Processes CollaborationThe Manufacturing Processes (MP) collaboration is the most extensive of the three collaborations,beginning with a joint laboratory period in week 3 to disassemble the product and ending with theMP final reports delivered in week 11. One MP team is formed for each DIS team, and a memberof each DIS project team acts as the liaison to the corresponding MP team.The DIS team is responsible for determination of make or buy decisions for all parts, although theMP team often influences these decisions. For example, the MP team may recommend that a partpreviously identified as a fabricated part be purchased instead. Resolving these questions is theresponsibility of the DIS student who serves as

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Rodney Allen; Richard M. Felder; Catherine E. Brawner

by research and experience.As part of the assessment effort, SUCCEED fielded e-mail surveys in 1997 and 1999 to whichrespondents reported their use of such instructional practices as writing formal instructionalobjectives for undergraduate classes, conducting in-class learning activities, and assigning team-based homework in traditional lecture courses (in contrast with laboratory and design courses,where teams have traditionally been used). About a third of surveyed faculty members returnedthe survey in each administration (32% in 1997 and 36% in 1999).This paper compares the results of the two surveys with respect to the use of certain teachingpractices among faculty and shows the relationship between attending faculty

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Sara Soderstrom; Chris Lorenz; Michael Keinath

Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) at theUniversity of Michigan, the first workshop of the series was focused on cooperative learningtechniques for the classroom and presented by Dan Budny of the University of Pittsburgh. Inthis session, we discussed the purpose of using cooperative learning techniques, how they benefitstudents in the classroom, laboratory, and in study groups, how they promote active learning, andhow they differ from collaborative learning. A meta-analysis of sound research studies hasshown that cooperative learning increases real learning, motivation, and retention. Dr. Budnypresented a collection of principles to help design cooperative learning experiences that fosterteamwork and improved learning. Small

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Leo Smith; Hisham Alnajjar; Donald Leone; Mohammad Saleh Keshawarz; Ladimer Nagurney; Devdas Shetty

projects for all Senior Capstone Projects• The Faculty involved has gone through a training program in the area of active and collaborative learning and useful pedagogues. A new design laboratory for interdisciplinary, integrated student learning has been created. Further efforts are in progress to create measures to assess the effectiveness and outcomes of the new implemented methodologies.Various parts of the project have addressed engineering curriculum reform from the freshman tosenior year based on a problem based collaborative learning approach. In addition, the curricularreform is very relevant to the new ABET accreditation guidelines with focus on outcomes. Theprojects have taken an

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

David J. Ahlgren; Igor Verner

projects.Stated skill development areas for ENGR 120 included the following: robotics fundamentals,software development using Interactive C, basic use of laboratory instruments (oscilloscope,signal generator, voltmeter), use of CAD packages for mechanical and electrical design, dataacquisition, data analysis using Excel, digital logic basics, motor control (PWM, PD/PID, fuzzylogic), basics of microcontroller interfacing (A/D, parallel port), and development and use ofsensors for ranging and flame detection. The course also provides practical, hands-onexperiences with electrical and mechanical construction, cabling, soldering, and other technicalskills.Robotics TeamStudents interested in more advanced robotics studies join the Trinity Robot Study Team

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Manning; Luke Bellandi

, PhDKen Manning is the Technical Manager for Project Links, and an Adjunct Associate Professor for the CoreEngineering Program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. He has also worked as a thermal-hydraulic design engineer for General Electric, first at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, and then at theCorporate Research & Development Center. His B.S. is in Physics from the University of Oregon, received in 1976,his M.S. is in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1984, and his Ph.D., also inMechanical Engineering, is from Rensselaer in 1992.LUKE B. BELLANDILuke Bellandi is a recent graduate from Rensselaer majoring in Electrical & Systems Engineering. He has been aprogrammer with Project

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jr., Eugene Niemi

is to offer a course of study in marine sciences integrating the natural andsocial sciences in a manner not offered by established academic institutions in the New Englandregion, or for that matter, in much of the country. The availability of courses, laboratories, andsupervising faculty from four campuses provides students with a greater range of choices than iscurrently available at a single campus. The organization of the school and the courses to beoffered are described. Each of the campuses of the UMass system (Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth,and Lowell) brings individual strengths to the program. The core courses in the program aredescribed together with the areas of specialization available at each campus. A description ofhow fluid

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Umid Nejib

, and other costs associated with faculty additions and laboratory upgrade andsupport.The MOC also assigns tasks and authority of relevant institutional offices associated with the project.For example, the program P/I while responsible for the management of the project, is specificallyrequired to develop an implementation plan for Goal-1 and Goal-2 with recommendations oncurriculum, financial projections, and assessment tools. These recommendations should be within thearticulated boundaries of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET EC-2000). The MOC document directs J.S.S., as a part of its on-going commitment, to allocate adequatefunding and support for the implementation of Goal-2 as it unfolds in India including

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching: Statics

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheryl A. Sorby, Michigan Technological University; Carl R. Vilmann P.E., Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

Melinda Gates Foundation, The LuminaFoundation, and The Kresge Foundation). The stated goal of the OLI initiative is(http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/initiative, viewed January 17, 2011.): “Using intelligent tutoring systems, virtual laboratories, simulations, and frequent opportunities for assessment and feedback, the Open Learning Initiative (OLI) builds courses that are intended to enact instruction - or, more precisely, to enact the kind of dynamic, flexible, Page 22.752.2 and responsive instruction that fosters learning.”The OLI suite of courses consists of many from the STEM disciplines, includingStatics, Statistics