Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Ramers

leaders during this semester.Senior Capstone Design Project6The students choose to develop an MEA manufacturing system for their senior design project.They determined that the laboratory process they had documented at our commercial partner’soperation could produce six MEAs per day. The cycle time included the technician’s time andoven baking and heated press time, which were limited by the sizes of the ovens and presses. Italso included careful handling of MEAs and electrodes to avoid exposure to CO in the air. Weselected a production rate objective of 1000 2kW fuel cell stacks per year, which would require aproduction rate of 200 MEAs per day (eight hour shift). The project objectives and deliverables(statement of work) are shown below

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Durward Sobek

. IntroductionDesign is one of the quintessential characteristics of the practicing engineer. It is perfectlyappropriate, then, for it to hold a prominent position in engineering education—most engineeringprograms in this country culminate in a significant design project as the capstone of the degreeprogram. Also, ABET places special emphasis on design in its accreditation evaluation criteria. 1The activities that typically fall under the category “design” consist of analysis activities, that is,making some determination about an existing idea or solution, and synthesis activities—generating a new idea to address an identified problem. While a good deal of research has lookedat design, and there is much we know about good design and good design processes

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

Page 7.959.2 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”The current courses being studied for connections to the above are: · ME 332 – Fluids · ME 412 Heat Transfer · ME 451 – Controls · ME 461 – Vibrations · ME 371 – Design I · ME 471 – Design II · ME 481 – Capstone DesignThe project requires that all units within the College of Engineering be a part of the datacollection. Each department is being surveyed to gain information on practical uses for the lowertier courses. Hopefully, this will provide departments with a central depository in which to

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhengtao T. Deng; Xiaoqing (Cathy) Qian; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo; Zhengtao Deng

integration of design and project development, a project isrequired in each course. The ME program strongly encourage teamwork on a class project forcourses in the major. This allows students to develop a design portfolio starting from thefreshman year [3]. Project training continues through their capstone design course. The projectsassigned to students are often combined with on-going faculty externally funded research. Thisaspect of program keeps the students in touch with leading-edge technology and current researchactivities in the real world. At the end of the course the student are expected to learn at a level ofanalysis and synthesis, i.e. beyond repetition

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy Reffeor; Jeffrey Ray

Session 1566 Incorporating Experimental Design in a Mechanics of Materials Course Wendy Reffeor, Ph.D., Jeffrey L. Ray, Ph.D. Seymour and Esther Padnos School of Engineering Grand Valley State University Grand Rapids, MI 49504AbstractA necessary part of any engineering design is the development of specifications that define itsfunction. Once these specifications are developed, testing of that design to ensure it meets thedesign specifications is essential. At Grand Valley State University, we have incorporateddesign and build projects into

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Farris; Jeffrey Ray

for Engineering Education Session 1491A description of the project deliverables and their due dates was presented. The first deliverablewas a detailed print of the assigned part. Dimensions, tolerances, datums and geo metricdimensions and tolerancing call outs were required. Students assigned to mating parts wererequired to review and approve each other's prints.Next students formulated process and inspection plans for each part. The process plan includedthe following information: 1. Machines required to manufacture the part. 2. The tooling and fixturing required for each machine. 3. The process parameters for each machine

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar; Eric Granlund

spaghetti andgumdrops. The minimum height of the tower must be five feet high and be completed infifty minutes. This task requires the students to come up with a structural design that issound, as most towers will begin to collapse near the bottom of the structure when thethree-foot height is reached. Student design competency in teamwork and implementationis stressed in this activity.The capstone group design projects require groups of students to work together in teamsof three or four to complete the required design project. These projects have included theconstruction of a raft that floats a minimum payload of two hundred pounds and beingconstructed using 1” by 2” boards, plastic two liter beverage bottles, duct tape, and rope.The students have

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Proulx Denis; Martin Brouillette; Jean Nicolas; Charron François

aimed at educating engineers beyond knowledge transfer through the development of student know-how and know-how-to-be (i.e., attitudes). This is achieved via four major program thrusts, which are: integrating knowledge, learning in an engineering context, promoting technical and personal achievement and increasing student responsibilities. As salient programmatic features, this curriculum incorporates, among others: design from day 1, a closely integrated sequence of courses within a semester and from one semester to the next, engineering integration semester projects and a large-scale capstone design activity. In addition to presenting a broad overview of this curriculum, the paper focuses on the first semester

Conference Session

ET Interdisciplinary Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Cremin; Terrence Kelly

interfacing of Global Positioning Systems (GPS). In the second half ofthe semester students concentrate on developing entrepreneurial GPS applications. Applicationsdocumented thus far include: • Low cost systems to assist the Botswana Army locate Park Rangers who become engaged with poachers in the jungles and forests of Botswana. • A low cost timekeeper for a PC using QBASIC and a hiking class GPS receiver.During the Fall 2001 semester, investigations included projects on: • The use of GPS in identifying and mediating traffic backups in the St. Louis area1. • Application of GPS techniques to a robotics navigation and communication subsystem2. • The use of GPS and “Geocaching” for

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mitchell Neilsen

variety of sensors and actuators in complete real-time embedded systems, 3. A theory course covering both real-time scheduling theory and contemporary design methodologies, and 4. A project-based capstone design course to complete a comprehensive design for a complex embedded system.This section discusses layout of our curriculum to provide training to embedded systemsdesigners and programmers. The embedded systems curriculum consists of four semester-longcourses at the upper undergraduate/beginning graduate level.3.1 Remedial courseThe first course is designed to be a remedial course for students who do not have a properbackground for the subsequent courses in the proposed course sequence. The course consists ofthree

Conference Session

Combining Research and Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Duggan

. Page 7.1035.12“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition, Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”Attachment 4Student Work: Draft Leaching Model Draft Design Specifications Page 7.1035.13“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition, Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Education” RCMW Engineering 550 Huntington Avenue ¨ Boston, MA 02115 Specifications for Environmental Capstone Design Project Prepared For

Conference Session

Learning Styles

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Knight; Jacquelyn Sullivan; Lawrence Carlson

f student skilldevelopment. This paper describes one type of skills assessment — student self-estimates of skill— in a first-year engineering projects course. The Skills Assessment Inventory for this coursewas developed by translating the course objectives into six measurement scales. One hundredsixty-two, first-year students completed the Skills Assessment Inventory at the beginning andend of the semester. This paper provides discussion of the significant differences between thepre-test and post-test scores as well as significant differences between genders on the SkillsAssessment Inventory scales.IntroductionHands-on curricula have been found to be an effective method for teaching engineeringconcepts.1 In the Integrated Teaching and

Conference Session

Innovative Laboratory Instruction

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Munro

alarger project to integrate design concepts throughout the chemical engineering curriculum atSouth Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSM&T).IntroductionTraditional undergraduate laboratories in chemical engineering provide students an exposure toconcepts of engineering science learned in the classroom, but do not provide open-ended, designexperiences similar to what graduates might face as chemical engineers in industrial positions.The traditional experiments in a unit operations laboratory tend to be created around fixed piecesof equipment. The procedures, data collection and analysis, and presentation of results tend to benearly identical for every team of students assigned to conduct a particular experiment, resultingin students

Conference Session

Design and Innovation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Snyder; Mike Toole; Mike Hanyak; Mathew Higgins; Daniel Hyde; Edward Mastascusa; Brian Hoyt; Michael Prince; Margot Vigeant

emphasize different writing skills at each levelwith W2 courses building on skills developed in W1 courses. From the onset the implementationof Project Catalyst has focused on three aspects of the curriculum: introductory courses, coretechnical courses and capstone design courses. Combining these three levels with a Writing-Program-like structure produced the conceptual framework described in the remainder of thispaper. A series of Supplementary Skills Modules (SSM)[3] that address the learning outcomesin each contained in frameworks are also under development at Bucknell. While these modulescan be used at any point in the curriculum, Level 1 modules will be targeted at introductorycourses, Level 2 modules at core technical courses and Level 3

Conference Session

Computer Based Measurements

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sanjeev Arora; Fariborz Asadian; Masoud Naghedolfeizi

Session 2359 Developing a Minor Program in Computer-based Measurement and Instrumentation For Undergraduate Science and Engineering Majors Masoud Naghedolfeizi, Sanjeev Arora, and Fariborz Asadian Fort Valley State UniversityAbstractThe Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Fort Valley State University hasrecently implemented a minor program in computer-based instrumentation and measurement.The primary objective of this project is to enhance the mathematics, physics, computer science,and electronic engineering technology

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ottis Hoskins; Joni Spurlin; Jerome Lavelle; Sarah Rajala

therefore thisdata may not be directly related to the outcomes, but may provide more “process” data.Industry representative may be used to judge the capstone senior design project. They may workclosely with the seniors during this project and may be able to provide valuable feedback on thequality of the graduate. Faculty who work with industry representatives can ask therepresentatives to complete a survey rating the graduates at the end of the senior design projectdiscussion.Course AssessmentThe assessment plan should list the courses most closely related to each program outcome.Faculty in these courses may already have developed assessment methods that can be used forprogram assessment or there may be tests, papers or reports which can be used

Conference Session

Using Technology to Improve IE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Davis; Paul Stanfield

topics. Faculty activities do little to encourage development and use of theseskills to improve engineering education.1.3 Engineering Education AdvancesIt is unfair to contend that no trends in engineering education have sought to recognize thechanging requirements for those in engineering practice. The recognition of the desperate needfor change has been a prominent topic in recent engineering education literature. Attempts toconsider the systems approach have led to attempts at course integration; and increasing use ofinformation technology has introduced new teaching methods and allowed students access tosoftware used in practice.Integration is primarily visible in the form of capstone senior design projects common in mostengineering schools

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Feng Liu; Fazil Najafi

planning.The program incorporates Information Technology (IT) to facilitate students’ creativity andindependent thinking. Lectures, tutorials, laboratory sessions, design projects, practical training,industrial visits and seminars are employed to equip the students with principles and practicalaspects of CE.In both institutions, students typically complete the degree course requirement in four years. Atthe UF, a bachelor degree study is divided into two phases: general education and upperdivisions. In the first two years, students take: Writing for Engineer, Humanities, Social &Behavior Science ,General Chemistry, General Chemistry Laboratory, Analytical Geometry &Calculus, Physics with Calculus and Physics Laboratory (see Table 1).In the

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Swaminathan Balachandran

projects prepare thestudents to undertake capstone design project of significant scope and also do well in their jobafter graduation. The excellent laboratories, dedicated faculty, and outstanding graduates havebeen recognized by the people in the region and the program has received much publicity due toits very high ranking in the review published in the US News and World Report last year. The author established the IE laboratories and was responsible for the first ABET(Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) accreditation of the program in 1987. Hehas taught most of the courses in the IE curriculum. During the past few years he used theBlackboard Course Info system to enable students to submit their work electronically

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Carl Steidley; Stephen Dannelly

included logging user activity over a network, simple interprocesscommunication between Unix machines, use of semaphores to control shared resources, and anextensive client-server development project. We believe the effectiveness of this type of course can be greatly improved by placing itin a setting where students can actively extend the concepts being taught into tangible realities 1,2 . Therefore, we have begun building a new laboratory equipped with a model railroad system1 This work was sponsored in part by a National Science Foundation Course Curriculum andLaboratory Improvement – Adaptation and Implementation grant, grant number DUE-9950839

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lewis Frasch

thermodynamics, fluidmechanics, and heat transfer in the context of real equipment. Well-designed experiments tendto be used for a very long period of time. In the spring of 2001, a very gifted group of studentsrequested to do a Design Studio redesigning one of the TSL experiments. (Design Studio is aone-semester version of the usual yearlong capstone design course. It is very intense and only Page 7.1290.1allowed by special permission.) Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationThe experiment assigned to the

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paula Zenner; Charles Van Karsen

futurecoursework.ConclusionsStudents have mixed opinions when asked to evaluate the new integrated lab during the chair’sexit interview. They feel that the course is a lot of work for only two credits but they commentthat it is a worthwhile experience. Educational outcomes progress has been noticed in the secondsemester senior design requirement. Students now have knowledge and hands-on experience ofexperimental techniques and they incorporate and utilize them in the development and testingstages of their capstone design project. Students are requesting laboratory equipment from thiscourse to perform experiments and performance measurements on their senior design projects.This course specifically addresses ABET Program Outcomes and Assessment (Criterion 3)2 a, b,f, g, i and

Conference Session

Educational Trends in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Mickelson

experience the probability that a student or graduate would have, on average,to actually take those key actions in seven settings: the engineering workplace, the cooperativeeducation/internship workplace, the traditional classroom, the laboratory, the capstone designcourse, professional-related extracurricular activity and non-profession related extra curricularactivities. Examples of these results are illustrated for two ISU Competencies in Figures 5-6.Figure 5. The opportunity to develop and demonstrate analysis & judgmentFigure 6. The opportunity to develop and demonstrate communication Page 7.1292.6“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Cremin

perspective of autopilots, speech recognition and synthesis, and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) technologies, Areas of avionics from the communication disorders perspective of hearing and speech disorders and augmentative and alternative communication4, Ideas for Avionics/EET capstone design, special topics, and lab experiments are presented.IntroductionAlthough the fields of Communication Disorders and Avionics might seem disparate, they in facthave a common interest, viz. communication (human and electronic). Communication Disordersand Avionics view communication from common and disparate perspectives. CommunicationDisorders focuses on the nature of human disorders of speech and hearing and utilizes electronicsfor

Conference Session

Freshman Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul LaPlume; Michael Ruane

thestations. We currently have students working to make the test stations controllable over theInternet, using free LabVIEW web tools, to increase the availability of the systems.‘Introduction to Engineering’ (Exploring Hidden Worlds) is only one application of the High TechTools and Toys Lab. This facility will eventually support a new elective course in subsurfaceimaging (planned for spring 2003). Senior capstone design projects in subsurface imaging (e.g. anacoustic imaging system for characterizing different piezo acoustic source configurations) alreadyuse HTTTL stations, and this activity is expected to grow. Finally, the HTTTL will be a resourceto graduate students needing to try various imaging hardware and software for their research.We

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jihad Albayyari; Bob Lahidji

environment.A comparison between the competencies which are presented in the ManufacturingEnterprise Wheel and the competencies taught in engineering programs suggests thatthere is a need for a greater emphasis and/or improvement in the following curricularareas10:1. People and managerial skills.2. Written and oral communications skills.3. Greater emphasis on educating students to work with a multi-cultural workforce.4. Study of the global marketplace.5. More emphasis on resources management.6. Ethical and environmental responsibilities.7. Capstone projects emphasizing teamwork.8. Greater emphasis on hands-on projects that simulate the real working environment.9. Cooperative educational experiences.The following skills were

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Paul Ross; Gisela Kutzbach

, requiring 24-credit hours of work to complete the program.Besides work in general technical communication, editing, and oral presentations,elective courses include web design, teams, electronic publishing and user manuals.Other courses outside technical communication are selected from approved course incommunication, computer science, math/statistics, and management/business/economics.Students may also work in all phases of the production of Wisconsin Engineer, theaward-winning college engineering magazine; and, as a capstone project, TCC studentscomplete a practical internship which requires substantial “real” technicalcommunication work “on-the-job.”About half the undergraduate students taking the TCC are first and foremost engineerswho want to

Conference Session

Inter. collaboratory efforts in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sami Ainane; Chandra Thamire

member in mechanical engineering teaches courses such as the capstone designcourse, product engineering and manufacturing, fluid mechanics, heat-transfer, materials science,and mechanics of materials courses. Other required engineering courses such as introduction toengineering design, statics, dynamics, numerical methods in mechanical engineering, andelectronics and instrumentation - I and II are taught by physics faculty. In electrical engineering,all but two of the required courses are taught by the electrical-engineering faculty member, whiletwo are taught by an adjunct faculty. The administrative aide manages the program. Sheperforms activities like scheduling of courses, monitoring the Interactive Television (ITV)courses, sending the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Robinson; Jody Finnegan; Gene Stuffle; D. Subbaram Naidu; Al Wilson; Jay Kunze

College ofBusiness. However, we have not seen a clear way to accredit this program with either theCollege of Business (through AACSB) or with ABET.Present Stage (1996-): Several changes took place during this period. We carved out of theexisting interdisciplinary program by adding 9 more credits leading to 3 new programs: BS inCivil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. In order to be unique compared to other traditionaldiscipline-oriented (CE, EE, ME) programs, we retained the interdisciplinary engineering corefor all these 3 new programs so that the students get a broad-based engineering education. Theprogram is summarized in Figure 2. Another important thing to be noted in our program is thatthere are 2 senior capstone design courses spread

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jim Richardson

the University of West Virginia has anoutstanding peer review of student learning—the Majors. 2 “The Majors are design projects thestudents must complete individually and defend in front of at least two faculty members.” TheMajors, which date back to the 1970s, incur significant faculty time, however. Other examplesof peer review of student work include: faculty-colleague check sheet evaluations of projectreports3, reviews of student portfolios and course folders of capstone design work3, annualevaluation of portfolios of student writing assignments by faculty advisors 4, and before- Page 7.106.1graduation evaluation of writing assignment