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Carl A. Erikson

1 Project Team and Advisor Characteristics Carl A. Erikson, Jr. Department of Engineering Messiah College Grantham, PA 17027AbstractThe Engineering curriculum at Messiah College is a hands-on, project oriented Bachelor of Science inEngineering (BSE) program. A new Integrated Projects Curriculum (IPC) has been implemented. IPC is in itssecond year of a three year transition from the former engineering program. IPC projects are part of theCollaboratory for

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W. Riddell; E. Constans; J. Courtney; K. Dahm; R. Harvey; P. Jansson; M. Simone; P. von Lockette

1 Lessons Learned from Teaching Project Based Learning Communication and Design Courses W. Riddell†, E. Constans†, J. Courtney‡, K. Dahm†, R. Harvey‡, P. Jansson†, M. Simone‡, P. von Lockette† † College of Engineering ‡ College of Communication Rowan UniversityIntroductionSince its inception, the college of engineering at Rowan University has maintained a focus onexperiential, or

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Christopher M. Korpela; William J. Adams

1 Robotics in Multidiscipline Multicultural Projects MAJ Christopher M. Korpela and LTC William J. Adams {christopher.korpela, joe.adams}@usma.edu Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science United States Military Academy, West Point, NYAbstractThe United States Military Academy at West Point seeks to maximize the number of students thathave the opportunity to participate in multidisciplinary and multicultural learning experiences.Meeting this increasing requirement while faced with budgetary constraints requires a low-cost,innovative approach. Faculty in

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Jamieson Simms; Parthy Iyengar

Page |1 Using AutoCad Graphics Software for Solving Problems in Statics for Engineering Technology Jamieson Simms [Sophomore Student, Mechanical Engineering Technology] Parthy Iyengar [Professor of Engineering Technology] County College of Morris Center Grove Road, Randolph, NJ 07869 Presenting a study that will create a way for students to enhance their understanding of problemsin statics. The objective of this study is to help students solve problems in statics graphically andanalytically simultaneously. This can be done

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Robert Avanzato

1 Second Life Virtual Community - Resources for Educators Robert Avanzato Penn State Abington Abington, PA 19001 Email: RLA5@psu.eduAbstractSecond Life is an on-line, 3D, virtual community that provides an environment for students tolearn and interact in a creative and collaborative manner. The author has investigated a numberof existing Second Life resources to support instruction of a freshman information sciences andtechnology course. Key benefits and challenges that face educators

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Chang-Hee Won

Proceedings of the 2007 Middle Atlantic Section Fall Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 1 Spacecraft Systems Engineering Courses for Traditional Engineering Curriculum Chang-Hee Won, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Temple UniversityAbstract Systems engineering is an important skill for future engineers. Systems engineering is amanagement technology that allows engineers to effectively design, develop, and deploy large

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Edward F. Glynn; David W. Dinehart; Shawn P. Gross; Francis P. Hampton; Bridget M. Wadzuk

1 Teaching Engineering Mechanics in a Problem-Structured Environment Edward F. Glynn, David W. Dinehart, Shawn P. Gross Francis P. Hampton and Bridget M. Wadzuk Villanova University Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Villanova, PA 19085Introduction Newtonian mechanics forms the basis for virtually the entire civil engineering undergraduatecurriculum. The core courses in mechanics have traditionally been taught as

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Fred John; Seong W. Lee

107 horsepower. Expansion of all hot gases through a high-area-ratio exhaustnozzle is allowed by ultra-high-pressure operation of the pumps and combustion chamber toachieve efficiencies never previously attained in a production rocket engine [1]. The purpose of this experiment is to comprehend and test how the exhaust flow from thespace shuttle into the exhaust-duct behaves according to fluid dynamics and show students howrelevant courses relate to this experiment. In order to understand how fluid flows in a closedenvironment at different speeds, angles and concentration, engineering tests were conducted, notjust to be observe but also collect data to be analyzed. This is where students developedexperience in collecting data and

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Nathaniel Jensen; Philip Brach; Ahmet Zeytinci

1 PEER ASSESSMENT (JURY) OF EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING Nathaniel Jensen, Civil Engineering Technician, FHWA Philip Brach, Ph.D., P.E., F-NSPE Distinguished Professor, Emeritus Ahmet Zeytinci, Ph.D., P.E., Professor University of the District of Columbia Washington, DC Abstract The use of a student’s work experience involving the investigation, inspection, collection, and analysis of data for the rating of park service bridges in the United States, is presented as a Senior Capstone Project for Civil

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Therese Andeme; James Ngeru; S. Keith Hargrove

1 A DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATION MODEL FOR THE RE-DESIGN OF ARECONFIGURABLE FACTORY TESTBED IN MANUFACTURING Therese Andeme, James Ngeru, S. Keith Hargrove Reconfigurable Factory Testbed Department of Industrial, Manufacturing and Information Engineering, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD 212511. INTRODUCTION1.1 BackgroundThe Reconfigurable Factory Testbed (RFT) is a valuable comprehensive platform for research,development, education, validation and transfer of Reconfigurable Manufacturing System (RMS)concepts [8]. The current developed hardware

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Lawrence Agbezuge

Elementpackage) for solving an engineering problem.The basic concepts taught in an applied Finite Element Analysis course wereutilized to solve a transient heat transfer problem in a cylindrical duct whosethermal conductivity is temperature dependent. The problem was given to graduatestudents to be solved with commercial software (licensed for academic research) asa project for the final examination. A significant number of the students wereengineers working for a company in the Rochester area.The students were expected to satisfy four primary goals in solving the assignedproblem. The goals were (1) to examine the governing equation in order tounderstand the nonlinear nature of the boundary value problem, (2) to correctlydefine the mixed boundary

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Zachary Bensusan; Leslie Gregg; William Leonard

company results in a far greater learning experience forstudents as many of the intangibles associated with industry are experienced. One suchexperience began in December 2006 in the second of the three courses at Rochester Institute ofTechnology. A small company in Fort Meyers, Florida, named Dawning Technologies, Inc.asked a professor in the Mechanical Engineering Technology department for help to create anenclosure for their medical interface unit. Dawning Technologies produces equipment, which isused mostly in the medical industry, to “integrate analytical devices and information systems,including improved control over system-to-system connections.”1 As a small company whospecializes in the software engineering field, they do not employ the

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Colin Campbell; Steve Lambert; Oscar Nespoli

Waterloo Engineering Design Case Studies Group Colin Campbell, Steve Lambert, Oscar Nespoli University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (http://design.uwaterloo.ca)1. AbstractIn this paper we provide an overview of the Waterloo Engineering Design Case Studies Group inthe Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloo. The mission of the three membergroup (growing to five) is: to develop a culture of learning excellence based on the philosophyof design and the mechanism of cases.The group’s essential goals are to: give engineering students necessary design skills andexperience to design innovative products, foster teamwork and multi

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Robert Edwards; Gerald Recktenwald

framework for theseexercises is explored.Pedagogical Framework Cognitive science research is recognizing that methods other than traditional lectures canresult in improved student learning. The National Research Council report “How PeopleLearn”(1) summarizes research done in this area. This report discusses the differences betweenexperts and novices, and methods each use for organizing knowledge. It recognizes that studentsbring pre-conceived ideas with them, some of which contain misperceptions about coreprinciples. Teachers need to realize that these misperceptions exist and confront them. It isbecoming increasing well recognized that teachers need to do more than convey knowledge.They must also develop methods for instilling an understanding

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R. Dennis Foster

TWO INDUSTRY PRIORITIES FOR NEXT GENERATION E & ET STUDENTS R. Dennis Foster, PhD, P.Eng Senior Engineer, Capital Works, Exhibition Place, Toronto, OntarioAlmost 50 years of practicing as a professional engineer have indicated to me a need for ouryoung engineers 1) to be able to recognize the role and environment they are working in, and 2)to take a firm lead in securing a correct and appropriate solution for the assignment given.In an academic paper submitted in 1982(1) I wrote “that nations and universities will need todecide whether they will fulfill a national or an international role. The professional colleges mustconsider the

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Surendra K. Gupta

the course were modified significantly from thefirst time the course was offered2 in the Spring of AY 2005-6. TABLE II LECTURE TOPICS AND LAB EXPERIMENTSClass Lecture Topics Weekly Lab Experiments 1 Course Policies & Introduction Lab Procedures & Safety Regulations 2 Lattice Points, Lines, Planes3 3 Bravais Lattices, Crystal Structure 4 Properties of X-Rays4 #1: Powder Diffractometer 5 Filters & X-Ray Tube #1: Acquiring & Indexing a Pattern 6 Bragg’s Law & Laue Equations 7 X-Ray Methods #2: Intensity Calculations 8 Scattering of X-Rays

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Chioma Ekpo

. Students are provided with the tools forongoing self-assessment of their evolving career paths with the internship as the first stage alongthat path. This is achieved via an intensive program of small to large size workshopdevelopment sessions and individual counseling and consultation sessions, framed by three keyelements of our approach: 1. Viewing the Student as an engaged agent 2. Reframing the Employment Relationship (the definition of an employee is redefined from passive to active, employee to professional) 3. Reframing the idea or parameters of “Success”III. Shaping students’ goals and perspectivesEvery year, at the beginning of the academic term in September, students walk into the PEYprogram office and

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Mark A. Hopkins

. The software is also easilyavailable to students, so they may reconstruct classroom demonstrations, and do much more.In the demonstrations, Bode magnitude and phase plots are programmatically linked to plots ofthe pole/zero map and of the time-domain sinusoidal response. The frequency of the stimulussinusoid can easily be changed in any one of the plots, with the change automatically propagatedto all the other plots. All of the plots have interactive capability, and display much moreinformation than simple line graphs.These plots are used to enhance discussion of (1) minima and maxima in the Bode magnitudeplot and their relations hip to pole/zero locations, (2) graphical (vector) analysis of the Fouriertransform, (3) steady-state response

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Ahmed S. Khan; Beverly Cronin; Maneesh Kumar; Atef Mustafa; Pankti Patel; Joey Socorro

couplethe reader to the tag. Most RFID systems use the unlicensed electromagnetic spectrum.1-2 RFID technology has been gaining momentum in recent years and is presently used in anumber of applications, such as security systems, product tracking, production-line management,inventory control, product tracking, animal tracking, keyless entry, automatic toll debiting, andsmart credit/debit cards. RFID technology has been around for a while, but its current popularity stems from atremendous drop in price of the hardware. From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,several individuals emerged who helped start EPC (Electronic Product Code) Global, anorganization that standardized how RFID should be used as a barcode replacement. EPC

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Carl A. Lundgren

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Brian Kosobudzki; Bill Grove; Sam Aguilar; Vince Sabella

installed onto the test vehicle to test for clearance. The last week of the semester theprogramming was finally completed and everything was tested in the vehicle. The projectended up being 3 weeks behind schedule. Block Diagram- The software diagram (attached below Figure 1) depicts how the software codereads the joystick and translates this to physical movement in the motor which translatesto the front wheels of the vehicle moving in the appropriate direction and speed. 4Figure 1: Block diagram of software and it’s interaction with hardware. 5Objectives- To produce a drive by wire steering system in which no “direct connection” is made

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Michael A. Jackson; Thomas Schulte; Nathaniel Kane; Elaine Lewis; Surendra Gupta; Santosh Kurinec

, who provide curriculum input and support through donations of equipment [1, 2] CURRICULUM INNOVATIONS µE)Reformulation of the BS Program in Microelectronic Engineering (µA major institute wide initiative was undertaken and completed in the year 2005. This reformrequired restructuring the BS program in all engineering and science programs at RIT to create‘five electives’ in each program to enable students take courses in other disciplines.The new curriculum has 196 quarter credits that include 12 credits of free electives, 8 credits ofprofessional electives, 92 credits of general education and five quarters of co-op experience. Thecombination of 3 free

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Rei Marzoughi

were the basis for a study of conventional undergraduate engineeringeducation conducted by Vanderburg and Khan (1994) 1. The study uses two research instruments,which were extensively tested, to score each component in a typical undergraduate engineeringcurriculum. The first instrument examines how well students learn to relate the implications oftechnical knowledge to human life and the environment and how prepared they will be to use thisunderstanding to exercise professional responsibility. The second instrument measures thedegree to which social sciences and humanities electives complement the technical core of thecurriculum. Details of the scoring system are included in Table 1 and the research findings areincluded in Table 2. The overall

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Roy W. Melton

this reason, a surveywas conducted among last year’s freshman students consisting of all computer and someundeclared engineering students at RIT.BackgroundAll freshmen in the computer engineering program at RIT take Freshman Seminar. The seminarserves as a laboratory introduction to computer engineering where students gain hands-onexperience with real-world computer engineering applications and observe practical, necessaryinteractions with other disciplines.1 They also develop laboratory skills and experience withlaboratory equipment required in subsequent courses. In addition, they are exposed to technicalwriting aspects of professional communication at a point in their academic career where they areconsciously developing classical writing

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Chirag Variawa; Susan McCahan

identified categories: technical, cultural, and language. The list of words isshown in Appendix A. Independent of the student’s self-evaluation, the definition or synonymsthey gave was rated by the researchers against a dictionary definition, this will be referred to as“observed understanding”. The goal was to determine whether students could accurately identifytheir own level of understanding.The results for one of the words, “succinct” are shown below. The error bars on the data pointsin Figure 1 indicate the number of responses, i.e. the smaller the error bars, the more studentsresponded with that combination of self-score and observed score. In Figure 2 the frequency ofeach self score response is shown. There are a number of interesting

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Susan J. Masten; Robert V. Fleisig

, but also consideration of ethics, health and safety, economics, and impact on thecommunity. Among the design projects are a rain-water harvesting system and ceramic water filter for villagers inCambodia and a press for extracting oil and producing biodiesel fuel from seeds of the Jatropha shrub, which grows inWest Africa. The impact of this approach on student satisfaction and success is discussed.Index Terms – Cornerstone Design, Globalization. INTRODUCTIONA central focus of engineering education is the design process. Our goal as engineering educators is to ensure that graduatingengineers have the ability to “design effective solutions that meet societal needs” (1). Traditionally

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Tom Moran; Jeffrey Wagner

assignments andexposed them to the economic factors surrounding the assignments, especially factors related tothe governmental permitting process.Introduction“Unlikely Partners” is the name given to a series of experimental faculty collaborations started atRochester Institute of Technology to bring faculty from different disciplines together in theclassroom and see what linkages or insights might arise from the pairings.The collaborations arose from grassroots campus organization, the Creativity and InnovationWorking Group, that included faculty, staff and student representatives from across the Institute(http://www.rit.edu/~ciwg/).1 The Working Group was spear-headed by a faculty member fromthe College of Liberal Arts and started in the Spring of

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Gregory E. Needel

plasticcomponents wherever possible, following the style of the kit in addition to the use of currentmanufacturing facilities.VEX kit components include specific features, which are necessary to maintain in any redesigns,providing for seamless integration into the current kit of parts. The axle rods in VEX are madefrom 1/8 inch square key stock that creates a tight fit with plastic components. Keeping thesystem within the same operating parameters took precedence over exact part matching. Themajor changes that were made included adjusting the cylinder bore and maximum pressure toaccommodate plastic's material strength and manufacturing. While the current pneumaticssolution requires modifications, the integration of these parts into custom designs was

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Patrick H. Oosthuizen

and repair procedures • Faults in the operating procedure (pilot error) • Design flaws • Icing • WindshearIn this paper, attention will be given only to examples from the first three areas.Maintenance and Repair Related CasesThe following cases are typical of those that arise as a result of aircraft maintenance or repairproblems.American Airlines Flight 191: On Friday May 25, 1979, the eve of the Memorial Day Weekend,American Airlines flight 191 prepared to leave Chicago's O'Hare International Airport for LosAngeles. At 3.02 pm the DC-10 was cleared for take-off. Everything appeared normal during therun. However, just as the aircraft was about to rotate and take-off, the port engine (No.1) lostpower and pieces

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Patrick H. Oosthuizen

following cases are typical of those that arise as a result of aircraft maintenance or repairproblems.American Airlines Flight 191: On Friday May 25, 1979, the eve of the Memorial Day Weekend,American Airlines flight 191 prepared to leave Chicago's O'Hare International Airport for LosAngeles. At 3.02 pm the DC-10 was cleared for take-off. Everything appeared normal during therun. However, just as the aircraft was about to rotate and take-off, the port engine (No.1) lostpower and pieces of the pylon (see Fig. 1) started to fall away from the aircraft and white vapourbegan to stream from the engine mounting this being the fuel that was spilling from broken fuellines. The aircraft began to rotate and at this point the entire number one engine with its