Conference Session

Instructional Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Cramer; Nancy Ciezki; Hussain Bahia

teachingthe details of standard test methods of construction materials. It explains the steps by which a setof videos and text were developed to offer engineering students an opportunity to visualizedetails of testing materials and assess their knowledge at the time they choose using the internet.The benefits gained by integrating these tools, such as reduced time for laboratory sessions,standardization of the quality of the teaching process, and more effective use of hands-on Page 8.1260.1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for

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New Electrical ET Course Development

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Biswajit Ray

of course-level assessment approach, curriculum andlaboratory format, sample laboratory experiences, and student feedback.Course AssessmentA course-level assessment-improvement-verification feedback process13,14 was implemented forstudents’ classroom learning experience. Traditionally, assessments for measuring students’learning experience are performed only once at the end of each semester utilizing standardizedinstitutional survey. This approach leads to long turn-around times in the assessment-improvement feedback loop. Assessment, improvement, and then verification that changes madeto improve the learning experience were indeed effective can take up to two years for classestaught annually. Additionally, end of semester assessment results

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New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Rose

other options on how to keep their students learning during such anabsence.A two week absence from campus was required for the author to complete an internationaladoption. Although the absence was anticipated from the beginning of the semester, the exactdates of the trip were not known until about one month before the trip. Without graduatestudents to cover the missed classes and laboratories, the instructor chose a combination ofvideotaped lectures and laboratories, exams, a computer design project, selected readingassignments, and professionally produced videotapes to keep students learning during theabsence.Students and Classes AffectedThe students affected were juniors in a BS degree program in Civil Engineering Technology(CET) at the

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

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2003 Annual Conference

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Mark Thompson; William Riffe; Laura Rust; Brenda Lemke; B. Lee Tuttle; Henry Kowalski; Douglas Melton; Lucy King; Jacqueline El-Sayed

managerial pole. Potential departmental barriers are discussed andpossible ways of quenching faculty and departmental traditional cultures are introduced. Thestructure for the lecture and laboratory sessions, the timing, the logistics of shuffling studentsfrom one area to the next are ironed out. Common times for lecture and labs are established.Students also work in teams to perform projects. Students are evaluated in the separatedisciplinary areas as well as on a final integrated project where they are asked to combine aspectsof mechanical design with electronic control and manufacturing processes. The assessmentprocess will also be described. Fun objects are used in the laboratories, such as; battery operatedmechanically animated pig

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Trends in Nuclear Engineering Education I

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Corradini

highlyunlikely that conventional nuclear engineering programs can provide a flow of graduatesadequate to meet the near-term needs of industry and the federal government.As an alternative, we have explored the development of a national curriculum in nuclear fissionpower engineering that would serve as a certificate-based, minor concentration for undergraduatestudents majoring in traditional engineering degree programs such as mechanical, electrical,chemical, and computer engineering. The proposed program would augment conventionalundergraduate engineering degree programs with a four-course sequence offered in the juniorand senior years, accompanied by a summer practicum involving extensive laboratory experienceat a regional university reactor facility, a

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Emin Yilmaz; Kenny Fotouhi

ENGINE AND DYNAMOMETER SERVICE AND FUEL CONSUMPTION MEASUREMENTS Emin Y•lmaz Department of Technology University of Maryland Eastern Shore Princess Anne, MD 21853 (410)651-6470 E-mail: eyilmaz@mail.umes.eduABSTRACTThe goal of “ETME 499-Independent Research in Mechanical Engineering Technology”course is to introduce students to designing, manufacturing, debugging and testingmechanical systems. The goal of laboratory part of “EDTE 341-Power andTransportation” course is to service small and/or large internal

Conference Session

The Biology Interface

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos; Kyongbum Lee; Howard Saltsburg; Gregory Botsaris; David Kaplan

continuing to focus on these systems throughout thecore courses, we will establish a “thread” that connects all these courses and continually placesthe courses in context, something lacking in traditional programs. This concept of a “threadedcurriculum” has been explored previously in a laboratory context 5 and the extension to the fullcurriculum is viable. As an example, by considering a biological cell, a biological organ, achemical plant with reaction complexity (e.g. polymer production), a modern material production(e.g. electronic grade silicon, aluminum), and a commodity chemical process (e.g. NH3or H2SO4)in parallel, one can demonstrate the overall applicability of the approach exemplified by the ChEparadigm, and with these five systems

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Velegol; Ronald Ziemian; Richard Zaccone; Richard Kozick; James Baish; Margot Vigeant

students to take an introductory engineeringcourse. The course is typically taught by a team of six faculty and has an enrollment of over 200,while the size of a typical class at Bucknell is below 35. While this course has been successful atachieving its objectives in the past, it was felt that it could be improved in terms of class size anddepth of coverage. This year the class was taught in four segments. The first segment was notaltered – lectures were delivered to the whole class in the traditional manner, combined withsmaller laboratory segments. Lectures included: engineering as a profession, the engineeringdesign process, information on each engineering discipline, teamwork and learning styles. Thiswas complemented by a team project in

Conference Session

Related Engineering Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Cajetan Akujuobi

). Thesecourses complement the rich curriculum presently offered in the Department of ElectricalEngineering at PVAMU. A new high-speed (broadband) access technologies laboratory has alsobeen developed to support both instruction and research. This helps to create an academicinstructional and research infrastructure for broadband communication systems-based projects,testing and research.1. IntroductionPrairie View A & M University (PVAMU) attaches much importance to the training of studentslike many other universities to meet the needs of future technology trends. As a result of thetechnology growth shown in the area of broadband communications, PVAMU ElectricalEngineering Department has placed much emphasis on trying to develop curriculum and

Conference Session

A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Kithcart; Legunchim Emmanwori; G. Van Ness Burbach; Dominic Clemence; Caesar Jackson; Guoqing Tang

research projects, and integrating researchand STEM education. This paper will report the progress that we have made so far in all fourareas.Through the TALENT-21 Program, a facility has been established for undergraduate researchtraining in the geophysical and environmental sciences. The facility includes a Seismic PhysicalModeling Laboratory for earth subsurface modeling and simulated measurements, and a SeismicData Processing Laboratory for data analysis and visualization. Planned for the research trainingprogram is a three-pronged approach of generating (1) real-world seismic data by seismic fieldsurveys, (2) physical modeled data through the Seismic Physical Modeling Laboratories, and (3)computer simulated data through mathematical modeling

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Batchelder; Elaine Linde; Dan Dolan; Daniel Dolan

the Center for Advanced Manufacturing andProduction [1] that provides rapid prototyping capability for fused deposition modelingand circuit board milling. Students interact with technicians who help support theequipment and the lab giving the students an opportunity to gain respect for the expertiseof the technicians. Page 8.844.3LaboratoryThe laboratory is used to develop student skills in many areas including interdisciplinaryteaming, data acquisition and analysis, using sensors and actuators, using amicrocontroller to interface with both sensors and actuators. The laboratory equipment islisted in Table 1 and Table 2 details the laboratory

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Keyser; Polly Piergiovanni; S. Scott Moor

, the studentsdesign, construct and test their process. Because the kits are inherently safe and require only electrical power and water to run,they can be used for laboratories, classroom demonstrations and exercises, independent activitiesand for educational outreach to high school students.Introduction One of the key challenges of undergraduate engineering education is providing students anexperience that includes both solid theoretical underpinnings and a clear connection to industrialpractice. Nowhere is this felt more acutely than in process control. Students often havedifficulty connecting the analysis they learn to the practical application of process control,resulting in low student interest in the subject. They are often

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

H. Scott Fogler; Michael Cutlip; C. Stewart Slater

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationPurpose of the Summer SchoolThe main purpose of the Summer School for Chemical Engineering Faculty is to disseminateinnovative and effective teaching methods to a wide spectrum of primarily new chemicalengineering faculty who will be teaching courses and laboratories in undergraduate programs.Additionally, the Summer School introduces new faculty to a number of promising researchareas in which concepts, principles, problems, and laboratory experiments can be incorporatedinto undergraduate coursework. The Summer School also brings new faculty together with midcareer and senior faculty to discuss educational

Conference Session

Internet Programming and Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Crahen; Bina Ramamurthy

paper, we present a pedagogy that seamlessly integrates the modernconcepts to the existing conventional methods for teaching distributed systems. Wepropose a set of laboratory experiments that will not only illustrate how to integrate thenewer concepts into existing framework but will also provide the students with hands-onexperience in the application of these concepts. The design and description of threelaboratory projects that cover newer topics in Distributed Systems, namely, (i) location-independence, (ii) active discovery and (iii) interoperability and persistence are shown.These projects will serve as models for development of similar projects illustrating otherconcepts of interest. A major contribution of this paper will be the pedagogy

Conference Session

Virtual & Distance Experiments

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhixue Wang; Guangpi Lai; Feiyue Wang; A. Terry Bahill; Jeff Goldberg

Distance learning has been greatly enhanced through the use of the Internet. In Arizona, ajoint effort has been made by the three state universities to offer a Master of EngineeringDegree primarily through Internet and video distance learning. However, engineering coursesoften use hands-on laboratory projects with actual physical systems as an integral part of thecurriculum and learning process. It is difficult to include these labs in web-based instructionunless one uses simulations or virtual experiments. This paper presents the development ofweb-based lab projects with actual hardware for courses in linear systems and systems control.Students download control programs to the equipment. Sensor data and a streaming video ofthe ongoing equipment

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard DeVries; Douglas Stahl

individualcourses; no project that we are aware of has attempted to use the experiments as a means tointegrate activities across the curriculum of an engineering discipline. Second, all have focused onstructural design in an abstract sense (for example using noodles or straws instead of structurallumber or reinforced concrete), or on structural analysis of linear elastic systems, or used small-scale models that cannot always exhibit realistic failure modes. Behr, Belarbi, and their colleagues [2, 3, with similar work described by 11] describe astructural analysis laboratory that combines physical experiment, computer analysis, and classicalmethods. They created a format in which teams of students compare analysis results and testresults, and then

Conference Session

Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Cyrus Hagigat

standards in such areas as course development, faculty training, student services,learning resources, infrastructure, and outcome assessment.Maintaining equivalency between traditional and distance learning courses become particularlychallenging when the courses contain laboratory components. It may be practical to provideonline laboratory experiments involving purely software activities. Examples of software orientedactivities may include remote access to servers for network analysis, and remote configuration ofswitches and routers for configuring a wide area network scenario, simulating electronic circuits,simulating thermal systems, simulating fluid systems or developing computer programs using acompiler such as Visual Basic. However, laboratory

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Diggelman; Michael McGeen

level, is in building construction, economics,methodology, management, and construction management and design (electrical,environmental and structural). The department uses various technical facilities to supportthe specialization, including CAD laboratories, AE-dedicated microcomputer laboratory,senior project design studios, energy systems laboratory, strength of materials laboratory,construction materials laboratory, and structural/construction testing laboratory. Page 8.978.2 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for

Conference Session

Learning and Teaching Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

relatively rare in engineering courses and is almost non-existent in textbooks.Instructors can teach inductively by presenting familiar phenomena, practical issues, orexperimental observations before presenting a general principle. Surprisingly, most textbooksstill use an exclusively deductive approach, proceeding from first principles and governingequations to specific applications. Since there are relatively few textbooks that are written usingan inductive approach; this makes implementation of the inductive method a challenge. Anotherchallenge is that students typically will not have a wide range of experience or intuition neededto begin the inductive process. A simple laboratory experiment or demonstration will providethe foundation

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Serdar Tumkor; Mahmut Fetvaci; Ismail Fidan

design, assembly, andclassification of gear drive systems. So many universities also have a separate course forthe advanced design, analysis and performance of the gears at the graduate level.With the aid of powerful computers, many software systems are developed for design andanalysis of gears. The processes from design to manufacturing of gears are automated withthe developed CAD/CAM systems. The developed programs can also be used in theproduction of visual materials in education.The objective of this study is to prepare visual gear design materials for Machine Designcourses and establish a design system in CAD laboratory, so that the students can run theprogram with their own design parameters

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Raymond Thompson

Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationThe collaboration between AOT and AAE developed from the need of AAE students to learn tomanufacture parts using composite materials. The attractiveness of composites for high strengthand lightweight structures led these students met the design requirements using compositematerials. AAE does work in composites, but almost purely from a material and structuralresearch perspective. The AOT department has a comprehensive fabrication and repair facilitywhere students learn to fabricate and repair a variety of advanced composite components utilizingwet and prepreg technology. During the last ten years, a steady stream of AAE students havecome to the AOT Advanced Composite Laboratory seeking

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Harper; Robert J. Gustafson; John Merrill; John Demel; Richard Freuler

. Page 8.1245.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2630Many of the faculty members who volunteer do not necessarily have expertise in graphics, CAD,MATLAB, hands-on laboratories, or design. They must be educated in these areas and providedwith the teaching materials.The Current ProgramDescription of Course Content Covered – There are two course sequences for the First-Yearengineering students. The first option is a two quarter sequence, known as Fundamentals ofEngineering or (FE). Students designated Honors

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Dempsey; Craig Totman

taking notes, the laboratory experience allows time for active discovery,hands on learning, and collaboration within the group and with other students and faculty.In general, the experimental component of the program generates a lot of interest in thecourse, which is important to its success. While in the laboratory, the students are fre-quently approached by faculty and other students who are interested in what they are doingand how it is progressing. The question, “When are you going to do a test?” is frequentlyheard in these discussions. How often do people ask what was done in lecture today? Theinterest and enthusiasm for a topic that is generated by testing a theory with physical exper-iments cannot be achieved in a classroom lecture

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in EM ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

B. Zoghi; Robert Bolton

2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”IntroductionENTC 395 Electromechanical Systems for Technologists is a required course in the Mechanical,and Electronics Engineering Technology degree programs in the Department of EngineeringTechnology and Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M University. The course is a four credithour class taught in a fifteen-week semester with a two-hour laboratory supporting three lecturehours per week. Figure 1 depicts several students preparing for the laboratory which was fundedand developed with industry grants. The typical class composition is evenly split betweenstudents from both majors. Students share a

Conference Session

Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Thomas; Mohammad Alam

. Page 8.165.5 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationStudents enrolled in the EE and CpE programsThe main feedback is based on the end-of-semester assessment form used for each course. Also,exit questionnaires are requested from each student during their final semester. The questionnaireincludes such topics as: career preparedness; course syllabi, general facilities, faculty instruction,advising, laboratory facilities, relevance of instruction, quality of instruction, and coursetextbooks. This questionnaire is used for both EE and CpE students and includes questionsapplicable to the individual

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

G. Glenn Lipscomb

Session 1526 Experiments in Membrane Separation Processes Delivered Through the Internet Jim Dolgoff a, G. Glenn Lipscomba, Kevin Pugh b, Svetlana Beltyukovab, Neville Pintoc a Chemical Engineering, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606- 3390/bEducation, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606-3390/cChemical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0181AbstractThis paper describes the development of Internet-based unit operations laboratories illustratingmembrane processes: dialysis and

Conference Session

Remote Sensing and Telemetry

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alberto Gomez-Rivas; George Pincus

/GIS Laboratories and Equipment at the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD)The GPS/GIS Laboratory at UHD has excellent GPS equipment that is used for educationalpurposes. Figure 1 shows a partial view of the laboratory at UHD. The GPS equipment consistsof the OMNISTAR DGPS receiver. This receiver has the capability to collect signals from 12satellites and at the same time a signal from a stationary satellite that applies all necessarycorrections. This system has sub-centimeter capabilities defined as the ability to determinelatitude and longitude of a point with errors of less that one-centimeter. The system is used in astationary manner to teach GPS in the laboratory where a stationary antenna was installed at thetop of the building. This GPS

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Yu Li; Jiang Li

the reach of laboratory facilities, addconvenience, and integrate with the wired network. In the present paper, the design of thewireless networking system is discussed from two perspectives: 1) the hardware necessary inwireless networking, 2) the software necessary in wireless networking. An effort is made in thispaper to illustrate the utility of a wireless network in teaching engineering. It is clear that thisconvenient and powerful implement will aid teaching, research, as well as learning Geomechanicsor Engineering Mechanics by removing previously restrictive boundaries of physically linkednetworks.I. IntroductionWith the advancement of computer technologies, the personal computer has become integratedinto nearly ever aspect of our lives

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater; Kevin Dahm

realistic reaction engineering systems. Nearly all of the reactionengineering experiments, reported in the literature, employ simple systems that can be describedusing a single overall reaction. In addition most laboratory experiments do not examine theprocess fluid mechanics of the reactor and how this effects the product distribution. As a result,students only visualize reactors through theory and do not experience realistic reactor systems intheir undergraduate courses. This lack of experience eliminates a major engineering challenge indesigning and troubleshooting a reactor in which the yield and selectivity are optimized alongwith the process economics.Using funding obtained through an NSF-CCLI grant, the Rowan University department ofchemical

Conference Session

Mathematics in the Transition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Robinson; Demetris Geddis; Adam Austin; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

, and Computing (CEISMC) Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstractThere is a growing awareness among educators that engineering can enhance the K-12curriculum by providing “real world” scenarios that help develop problem-solving skills instudents. This paper presents activities designed to incorporate engineering concepts into highschool mathematics education. Three graduate students of Georgia Tech’s Student and TeacherEnhancement Partnership (STEP) program directly assisted high school mathematics teachers todevelop hands-on approaches for algebra and trigonometry classes. These laboratory activitieswere incorporated into the normal lesson plan. Both the high school