Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ahlgren; Igor Verner

-Fighting Home Robot Contest. For these courses we discusseducational objectives, course content and organization, learning activities, andeducational outcomes.IntroductionThere is a rapidly growing literature on robotics as an instructional medium in universityand secondary school education with a main focus on describing initiatives, courses, andinstructional tools. However, limited progress has been made in the conceptualization oflearning and instruction processes that underlie successful introductory robotics courses.Important open questions relate to prerequisite knowledge, integrated curriculum,learning by design and teamwork, robotic competitions, assessment, and evaluation.Finding answers to these questions requires educational research

Conference Session

Engineering Management Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Short

Session 3142 Evaluating the Individual Scientist, Engineer, and Technologist: A Review of Practices and Suggested Framework Jeffrey E. Short, P.E. Southwestern Oklahoma State University Weatherford, OklahomaAbstractMeasuring the performance of scientists, engineers, and technologists is a daunting task due tothe nature of the job they perform and the absence of common work standards. Presenting thismaterial in an engineering management class can be, therefore, confusing and controversial.This paper will seek to develop a review

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Ford; Vincent Wilczynski; Gregg Dixon

. Some of the parts require tight tolerance limits in order for theengine to operate properly, giving the students an appreciation for quality control inmanufacturing processes. The completed engine is visually attractive and has interestingoperating characteristics that demonstrate the operation of properly timed valves and crank-drivenflywheels. The freewheeling speed of the engine provides a measure of construction quality.This paper provides an explanation of the construction and testing of the air engine, a descriptionof how the project is integrated with laboratory and lecture activities in a sophomore level designcourse, and an explanation of how this activity fits into the achievement of desired educationalobjectives of the course and of

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bijan Sepahpour

., and F. R. McFadden, First Course in Data Processing, Wiley. New York 1981.3. Tebbe, P. A. and Sepahpour, B., " The Challenges of an Integrated Laboratory Course Sequence", Proceedings of A.S.E.E. 2001 National Conference, Albuquerque, NM, June 2001, Session: 1566.4. Miller, J. W. / Sepahpour, B., "Design in the Engineering Curriculum", Proceedings of A.S.E.E. 1995 National Conference, Anaheim, CA, July 1995, Vol. 1 (1995), Pg.: 2591-2596.BIJAN SEPAHPOURBijan Sepahpour is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the College of New Jersey. He is a RegisteredProfessional Engineer and is actively involved in the generation of design-oriented exercises and development oflaboratory apparatus and experiments in the areas of

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Economy Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Burtner

challenges andopportunities. It was, and continues to be, a challenge to integrate material from what weretraditionally two separate courses into a single course. On the other hand, the hybrid coursesgave us an opportunity to modify parts of the curriculum to accommodate EC2000 learningoutcomes. Two earlier papers described the development and evaluation of the integratedeconomics/engineering economy course in great detail. 13,14 Since those papers were written, wehave changed the content of the course to include project management and cost estimation topicsin place of microeconomics. In addition, we have moved the course from the freshman year tothe junior year and renamed it EGR 312. This paper will concentrate on the project managementcomponent

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sastry Vedula

Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education”Figure 3 where parts of actual hardware are integrated with a real-time processor based softwareloop. As parts of hardware now come under a software loop, this real-time simulation schemethus derives its name - hardware-in-the-loop simulation. With this approach, complexinterconnected schemes that may have components impossible to mathematically model can bequickly tested and visualized. All conceivable test scenarios for an entire system can be testedand analyzed with this method – from the verification of control algorithms to on-boarddiagnosis (OBD) tests up to integration tests of networked electronic control units.24 The savingin cost and time in an industrial process due to the use

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rocio Alba-Flores; Christopher Carroll; Fernando Rios-Gutierrez

, was the small number of characters per line that can be displayed on theCRT.SummaryDescribed here is a new lab station using the familiar MC68HC11 EVB as its foundation.This lab station, unlike others, offers significant I/O features that allow the station toemulate a terminal using an integral alphanumeric keyboard and a CRT display producedvia a standard composite video signal generated by the MC68HC11 lab station itself. Thestation uses minimal hardware in addition to the EVB, and makes nearly all of theprocessor’s I/O features available to experimenters, either through the lab station circuitsthemselves or through external access through an expansion connector. This lab station has

Conference Session

What's in Store for the ChE Curriculum?

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Dardy; William Krantz; Kettil Cedercreutz

participated in the program since 1934. The following comments fromrepresentative employers also underscore the success of this co-op program:“As a leader in the global energy industry, BP understands the importance of maintaining adynamic and innovative organization that relies on the skills of its employees. Only byattracting, developing, and retaining today's best students and professionals, can BP meet itstop-tier performance goals. BP's U.S. cooperative education program, which draws on many ofthe nation's top schools, plays an integral part in this drive for success. Each year, BP's co-opstudents provide valuable support to research & development and manufacturing sites in several

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in E/M ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Samples

, energize, model, objectives and problem-solvingto mention a few. These words encourage teachers to be leaders and leaders have power.Teachers have power of position but not all teachers are leaders. So what do teachers need to doto harness the power to be leaders? Should they harness that power?Students want their teachers to be of good character, competent in their role as a teacher andconnected to them as students, all traits of a leader 3. Another set of words, provided by thestudents, that characterize this leadership match some of the words in the Stice piece: honest,compassionate, enthusiastic, prepared, competent and integrity to mention a few. This overlap isa result of the fact that leadership is influence 4 and teachers spend their

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Rusek; Barbara Oakley

the many circuit simulation packages in common usetoday, and for good reason–it has a free demo version capable of handling fairly complexcircuitry, it provides good connection with circuit level software, and it offers a fast learningcurve. Even so, there are many competitors: Matlab/Simulab, ViSsim, and Elanix among them.None of these offer substantive demonstration models, and an additional problem is that one mustoften know more about the inner workings of the simulation than about the processes beinginvestigated. PSpice offers flexibility in Fourier analysis through automatic scaling, along with thepossibility of easy customization. As a consequence, PSpice provides unbeatable advantages inmodeling communication-related circuitry and

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Oscar R Gonzalez; James F Leathrum; Amit Kumar H; Vishnu Lakdawala; Stephen Zahorian

Assessing the effectiveness of the circuits curriculum in an electrical engineering program, IEEE Transactions on Education, 46 (2) (2000): 137-142.10. Conceptual Learning Assessments, (January 2002), http://physics.dickinson.edu/PhysicsPages/Workshop_Physics/Instructor_Resources/Curricular_Materials/Conc eptual_Assessments.11. Engelhardt, Paula Vetter, Examining Students' Understanding of Electrical Circuits Through Multiple-Choice Testing and Interviews (Examinations), Ph.D. Dissertation, North Carolina State University (1997).12. Meltzer, D., (1999), Addressing Learning Difficulties with Circuits: An “Aufbau” Approach, http://www.public.iastate.edu/~per/talks/aapt-san-an-99.pdf13. McDermott, L., (2001), Physics

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Batill

integrate other disciplines or concerns in the design process simulations, themanner in which those disciplines are included depends upon many factors including the faculty Page 7.175.1experiences, time, facilities and financial resources. It is well recognized that the engineering Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2002, American Society for Engineering Educationdesign process is a complex, multidisciplinary, collaborative activity and providing students withthat perspective is an important learning objective.For the past 5 years at Notre

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eugenia Fernandez

Session 3120 An Evaluation of Student Performance in an Introductory Programming Course with and without the Quantitative Analysis Prerequisite: A Piece of the Assessment Process Eugenia Fernandez Purdue School of Engineering and Technology Indiana University Purdue University IndianapolisIntroductionPrerequisites are standard in any curriculum and serve as a measure of course preparedness. Thesequencing of course prerequisites provides structure to a curriculum. ABET accreditationevaluation criteria require sequences of courses using a

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gurdip Singh

focusing on developing an embedded system curriculum with the follow-ing innovative features: (a) an interdisciplinary curriculum and (b) integration of research resultsinto teaching. The design of embedded systems requires knowledge from many different disci-plines. For this purpose, we have designed a sequence of interdisciplinary courses for impartingembedded systems design education. The course entitled “Real-time Systems Theory” is a part ofthis curriculum. This course directly imports ideas developed as part of our research in embeddedsystems. The aim of this course is to provide students with a strong theoretical foundation fordesigning and analyzing embedded systems. This paper will present the motivation for designingthis course, the

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerard Foster

Session 2559K-12 Programs Plug into Technology with Project Lead The Way Curriculum Gerard N. Foster Purdue University, School of Technology, Kokomo, Indiana Abstract Project Lead The Way (PLTW) is a national program that offers a pre-engineering curriculum for high schools and middle schools. The high school curriculum consists of five courses covering solid modeling with a CAD package, digital electronics, principles of engineering, computer integrated manufacturing, and implementation of a design project. Teachers learn the technical, project-based course material in an intensive, two- week

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Dianna L. Newman; D. Reinhard

Session 2154 Multimedia The Use of Inquiry-Based Multi-Media Curriculum: It’s Impact on Students’ Perceptions of Learning Dianna L. Newman, Suneresh Heragu, Sybilyn Jennings University at Albany SUNY/Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute/Russell Sage Colleg eThe use of technology is growing and simultaneously changing the learning process, thestructure of knowledge, and the nature of instruction. 1 In a 1995 survey of college campuses,Green and Gilbert 2 noted that major gains have been made in the use of informational technologyas an instructional resource and Duffy ad Jonassen 3 indicate that new forms of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Goodwine; Steven Skaar; Robert Nelson; Mihir Sen; James Mason; Stephen Batill

Session 1526 Development of a Curriculum for Mechanical Engineering Based upon Intelligent Systems and Automation S. Batill, S. Skaar, R. Nelson, B. Goodwine, J. Mason, and M. Sen University of Notre DameAbstractRealizing the need for mechanical engineering programs to adapt to an ever-diversifyingcompetitive world, the University of Notre Dame is developing a new curriculum that includesfocused educational experiences. This focus is based upon the opportunities provided by thesynergism between traditional discipline elements and embedded computing in all forms ofmechanical

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Tarek Shraibati; Ahmad Sarfaraz

Systems Engineering and Management (MSEM) were used as the first attempt Page 7.743.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationto integrate service-learning into the engineering curriculum. Other engineering colleges alsohave used community service- learning as an effective pedagogy for engineering education1,2.To apply service-learning pedagogy in the engineering curriculum, Facility Planning and Designcourse integrated students with a small manufacturing company that needed help with

Conference Session

New ET Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Crossman

programs not covered by naval experience or schools wouldbe obtained through arrangements with other institutions and Old Dominion University wouldprovide most of the upper-division portions and award degrees in certain areas.The following conditions and requirements were established at the outset: (1) Credits would beawarded to sailors based on their rating rank and the successful completion of various Navyschools. (2) All courses would be offered on an asynchronous basis, permitting an ”any time-anyplace" profile.II. General Engineering TechnologyThe General Engineering Technology program, initiated in 1999, provides educationalopportunities to individuals with a wide variety of technical educational and work backgrounds.The curriculum was

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Tuttle; Charles White; Gwan-Ywan Lai; Trevor Harding

Session 1526 Integrating Manufacturing, Design and Teamwork into a Materials and Process Selection Course T.S. Harding, G.-Y. Lai, B.L. Tuttle and C.V. White Kettering UniversityIntroductionDuring the 2000 – 2001 academic year, the Manufacturing Engineering program at KetteringUniversity underwent a significant curriculum reform in preparation for ABET accreditation.Traditionally, the program offered an introductory manufacturing processes course at thefreshmen level followed by an introductory engineering materials course at the sophomore/juniorlevel. These courses were the

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students for Success

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia LaCourse; Barrett Rock

concern with evidence of low communication skills. Surveys indicateproficiency in communication may be a deciding factor in an engineer’s successful career, 4ABET insists each graduate should demonstrate “both mastery of the subject matter and a highlevel of communication skills”, 6 yet surveys over an eight year span showed little change inwriting requirements in engineering curriculums. 7, 8 Most curriculums require undergraduateFreshman Composition while recommending another course in communications and/or technicalwriting. This may not be adequate for a task with the magnitude and complexity of a thesis.Since technical content demands much of the curriculum, programs search for ways to integratewriting and speaking skills. Two such programs

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Haitham Logman; Ronald Barr; Cynthia Finley; Michael Hagenberger

opinions about graduatestudent life and in introducing them to ASEE. It also helps the graduate students serving on thepanel to become more involved with ASEE. Graduate students that have volunteered to serve onthe panel often serve as officers of the student chapter in the next academic year. Another event that the UT-Austin student chapter attempts every year is a seminar aboutpreparing a curriculum vitae and beginning an academic job search (Figure 2). This seminaralways draws a large attendance of graduate students. Other activities that are repeatedfrequently, due to their popularity and continued applicability for graduate students, are seminarsabout writing effective proposals and panel discussions by professors from universities that

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza S. Abhari; Friederike Mund; Anestis I. Kalfas

the students were exposed to the international forum. For regularly offered classes with few students, this type of project is an ideal solution tomotivate students to stay in the field and learn more about design philosophies. Additionally, itgenerates the multi-disciplinary view of the design at a very early state of education. Once theinfrastructure is in place and students are trained in the software, the integration of such projectinto the normal student curriculum should be less resource intensive.Acknowledgments The author’s are grateful for the participation and for the kind share of their industrialexperience of Hans Wettstein, Klaus Schneider and Eribert Benz of Alstom Power, Heinz-PeterSchiffer and Dimitrie Negulescu of Rolls

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mandeep Thukral; Kurt Gramoll

to existing HTML documents. This is valuable not only to ensure grade confidentiality, butalso to protect the security of the upcoming homework and quizzes, as well as the integrity of thesystem as a whole.SQL and ODBCStructure Query Language (SQL) allows users to access data in relational database managementsystems, such as Oracle, Sybase, Informix, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access. SQLstatements are used to perform tasks such as add or update data on a database, retrieve data froma database, allow users to define the data and manipulate it. Open Data Base Connectivity(ODBC) is an Application Programming Interface (API) that allows abstracting a program froma database. Regardless of the database type being used, all of the calls are

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Margaret Bailey; Ozer Arnas

ME majors enrollin Thermodynamics (EM 301) during their junior year, while approximately half enroll inEnergy Conversion Systems (ME 472) during the fall semester of their senior year.While most institutions do not possess the same mission and goal as the United StatesMilitary Academy, most do share the same desire and requirement to improve curriculumstructure, integration, and assessment. Accordingly, the ABET EC2000 Criteria forcurricular objectives and content states the following 2(1): I.C.2 “(Curricular) objectives are normally met by a curriculum in which there is a progression in the course work and in which fundamental scientific and other training of the earlier years is applied in later engineering courses

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jenelle Piepmeier; Kenneth Knowles; Bradley Bishop

Page 7.1193.1course. In order for us to adequately discuss these methods, Section II addresses t he curriculum into Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationwhich they are integrated. Section III discusses a forward and inverse kinematics assignment usingprecompiled mex function for robot control. Section IV presents a Jacobian-based controlassignment using the serial port capabilities of MATLAB. II. BACKGROUND Midshipmen in the Systems Engineering Major at the USNA take an interdisciplinarycurriculum with an emphasis on control systems and dynamics. During their first -class (senior)year

Conference Session

Current Issues in Computing

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jose Solarte; Denise Jackson

. ManagementInformation Systems (MIS) support management by providing information for decision making.They facilitate the capture and storage of data relevant in describing processes and in measuringthe effectiveness of their results; the manipulation of that data; and the reporting of informationsuch as actual and expected performance. Information technologies (IT) are used in all of theseIS activities. IT help to improve both the efficiency and effectiveness of organizationalprocesses and departmental functions by integrating their operations, redesigning processes,improving networks and overall cost-effectiveness, and increasing total systems effectivenessthrough business scope redefinition1.Service Quality is generally identified as the measure of success an

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Economy Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gunter Sharp; Jack Lohmann

thenpresents the principal issues in creating the new course and in its evolution leading to thecreation of an electronic audiovisual textbook. The paper then provides a description of thecourse as it will be delivered in its new all-electronic format beginning in the fall of 2002 as wellas some observations from the experiences of the instructors during the last three years. Theinstructors offer six suggestions for those contemplating substantial internet-based instruction fortheir courses.Rationale for an Internet-Only Course for On-Campus StudentsISyE 3025, Engineering Economy, is a required, 1-credit hour internet-only sophomore/junior-level course in the industrial engineering baccalaureate curriculum at the Georgia Institute ofTechnology. It is

Conference Session

Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Shawn Addington

constantly review and update their programs of study in order toensure the effectiveness of the curriculum and the marketability of their graduates, so must theassessment plans that evaluate those disciplines. This has never been more true than now,following the inception of ABET Engineering Criteria 2000. Designed to allow engineeringprograms more freedom in program content, ABET EC 2000 demands an assessment plan that Page 7.131.1evaluates not the number and type of courses offered by a program, but instead the quality of the“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Dempster

) highlighted a need and attempted to address theproblem of teaching analysis in an integrated design, analysis and manufacturing class andclaimed successful outcomes. In the study presented here, it has been assumed that one of themain reasons students have difficulty with analysis is due to insufficient effort being devotedto the integration of the engineering physics classes and the design application cl asses. Thus,it is suggested that a gap exists in most engineering curricula and it requires to be filled with adesign based analysis approach. This paper presents an attempt to re -shape the curriculum inthe Mechanical Engineering department at Strathclyde University by providing a focus for anumber of classes that were previously identified as