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Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps I

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2002 Annual Conference

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Bradley Kramer

students, the MLC provides internship opportunities forengineering students to work on real engineering projects for client companies. These projectshave resulted in new products and machines and improved production processes and systems.Ultimately, AMI projects have increased sales, saved and added jobs, and reduced costs forKansas companies. The experience gained by students working in the MLC fills many of thecompetency gaps identified in the SME/MEP Critical Competency Studies.In this center, undergraduate and graduate students from engineering, computer science, andbusiness colleges work as interns on product and process development projects contracted withindustrial partners. An interdisciplinary group of interns is assigned to work under

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Wendy Reffeor

calculations, including analysis of therigid body motion of the catapult and the motion of the projectile, and created component andassembly drawings prior to constructing their catapults. They then constructed prototypes oftheir designs, tested them, revised them as needed with complete documentation of changes andcompeted in the contest.Evaluation of the project was based upon the accuracy of the analysis of the mechanism, theconsistency between the calculations and the completed mechanism, the engineering drawings ofthe mechanism and the conclusions drawn from the experience.This project gave students the opportunity to apply the concepts learned in a normally purelytheoretical course to the design and implementation of a real, open-ended, design

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Douglas Sterrett; Richard Helgeson; Robert LeMaster

design project. Lovas1 developed workshops that focused on integrating design intothe engineering curriculum. Fronczak and Webster2 and Thompkins3 describe a sequence of sixdesign courses that biomedical engineering students start taking during their first semestersophomore year and finish in their last semester senior year. This design course sequence isintended to provide the students a sustained opportunity to develop their creativity and judgment.Sheppard and Gallois4 describe a “design spine” of eight design courses that run through all eightsemesters of a student’s education. The goal of these eight courses is to achieve greaterintegration of design with the science and engineering science courses. Brousseau, etal5,describes a similar

Conference Session

Educational Trends in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Paul Schreuders; Arthur Johnson

Session 2408 The Wizard of BOD Paul D. Schreuders, Arthur Johnson University of Maryland, College ParkAbstractSeveral years ago, the Biological Resources Engineering Department reexamined and updatedthe format of its Capstone Design Project. The revised Capstone Design experience was intendedto give students an opportunity to manage a product while observing resource constraints.Unfortunately, very few course plans survive intact after contact with the students. This casestudy will examine the intended processes, the successes, and the failures of the

Conference Session

Innovative Laboratory Instruction

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jess Everett

undergraduate degreeprogram. Undergraduates will go to the Garden City website to obtain data and design criteria forhomework and projects, and to access photos. They will also be able to store their projects anddesigns in the city, allowing them to record their accomplishments. Finally, the Garden Citywebsite will provide a central location for course webpages, tutorials, etc. Faculty will useGarden City to demonstrate the context (i.e., human communities) of many civil engineeringprojects. The purpose of this paper is to provide detail on the Garden City project, including howother institutions can adopt it.INTRODUCTIONThe following text is the Project Summary of “Sooner City - Design Across the Curriculum”,NSF grant # 9872505 (CEES 1998). It is

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Education Research

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ristroph

worth (EAW)? 2. What is the definition of equivalence within an industrial context? 3. How are PW and EAW interpreted? 4. Why does choosing the largest PW or EAW maximize a company’s FTW? 5. How should alternatives with different lives be compared?The next section briefly reviews the FTW model, and following sections provide the answers tothe above questions. FTW ModelA firm’s FTW is its total capital at the end of the planning horizon. The FTW model computesthis capital as a function of project selection, thereby enabling the decision maker to select theproject that maximizes FTW. Maximizing FTW is an intuitively appealing investment objective,and the FTW model leads to the use of popular

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gul Okudan Kremer

Session 1260 An Investigation of Gender Composition on Integrated Project Team Performance: Part III Gül E. Okudan 1, Donald Horner2, Barbara Bogue 3 and Richard Devon 1 Department of Engineering Design and Graphics1 Engineering Leadership Development Program 2 Women in Engineering Program The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802Abstract __ This study presents the quantitative results of the investigation that measures theeffects of gender composition

Conference Session

Energy Programs and Software Tools

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nicole DeJong Okaniti

, students are typically given simple thermal cycles toanalyze to introduce them to both the cycles and thermodynamic principles. In some curriculacycle design and optimization are not included at all, whereas in others these topics are includedonly in elective courses in thermal system design. A few schools include the topics in coursesrequired of all mechanical engineering students. As a result, many students may never beinvolved in either cycle design or optimization. For those who do take an advanced coursecovering these topics, an early introduction will make the transition from purely analysis todesign easier. Thus, thermodynamic cycle design and optimization should be introduced as soonas possible. This paper discusses design projects that

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Education Research

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Sullivan; Harpreet Singh; Kimberly Sward; Janis Terpenny

real world problems in collaborationwith industry. An overview of the organization and administration of the collaborative projectsis presented. Learning aids and Internet tools are included in this discussion. Assessment resultsof student performance and perception are also presented. It was found using a bootstrap sample,at a significance level of 0.05, that the grade point average (GPA) of students working onprojects in collaboration with industry administered through a variety of tools over the Internet(Experimental Group) was higher than those receiving only traditional classroom style lecture(Control Group). Overall, we conclude that the Internet is an effective and efficient medium forincorporating industry based projects into the

Conference Session

Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Manuel Rossetti; Kellie Scheider; Richard Cassady

clarity about the customer or sponsor’s needs, and discovering corrupt data. Thestudents involved in the project must describe their qualifications and justify being awarded theirfirst choice of the projects. The students provide industry sponsors deliverables such asrecommendations, models, designs, hardware, and/or software. Grading of the projects is basedon team accomplishment, peer evaluation, written reports, and an industry sponsor evaluation ofteam performance. This paper discusses the structure, operation, and assessment of the seniorlevel Industrial Engineering Design Course within the Department of Industrial Engineering at Page

Conference Session

Hunting for MINDs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sr., Willyerd Collier; Ken Vickers; Benita Wolff; Greg Salamo

transfer. We will also describe the newoperational methods that have been introduced in newly created graduate programs to lower theimpact of cultural differences between the UA and HBCUs. The system’s attributes, successes,and future modifications will be presented in instructional case study format that may be used byboth research institutions and HBCUs in establishing similar programs.Historic evolution of the systemIn 1996 the University of Arkansas created an internally funded program, known as the GeorgeWashington Carver Project, for summer undergraduate research opportunities for any studentfrom a partner HBCU institution. Is purpose was to increase the racial diversity of the graduateand professional student body at the University of

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2002 Annual Conference

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Martha Cyr; Lacey Prouty; Erik Rushton; Brian Gravel

assist classroom teachers inimplementing activity and constructivist based engineering curricula. Massachusetts is the firststate in the nation to require engineering education at all levels in public schools, through theadoption of Science and Technology/Engineering frameworks; as a result, the need to developspecific curricula in support of these new frameworks is particularly important. This NSF grantfacilitated direct graduate student support of teachers recently charged with implementing noveleducational frameworks involving engineering, as well as indirect undergraduate student support.Tufts CEEO GK-12 Outreach ProjectThe Tufts University GK-12 project is a three-year project focused on pairing graduate-levelengineering and computer

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Santhosh Thampuran

Session 2793 A New Course in Multimedia Systems for Non-technical Majors Wayne Burleson, Stephen Kelley, Santhosh Thampuran Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Massachusetts, AmherstAbstractThis paper describes a project which has developed, piloted, evaluated, and is currentlydisseminating, a novel course in Multimedia Systems for non-majors. The course forms part ofthe new Information Technology minor program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.The primary objective of the course is to expose students from non-technical majors to

Conference Session

Design in the Engineering Core

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2002 Annual Conference

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Matthew Campbell

Session 2366 Teaching Machine Design through Product Emulation Matthew I. Campbell Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78705 mc1@mail.utexas.edu1 IntroductionIt is widely accepted that in order to learn complex technical material well, some form of activeexperimentation or “hands-on” activities are required. Traditionally, in engineering educationthis occurs through laboratory experiments or through design projects. In

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Palm; Thomas Keggler; David Taggart; David Chelidze; Brent Stucker

Session Number 1526 Integration of Mechanical Design and Prototyping Activities David G. Taggart, Brent E. Stucker, Thomas Kegler, David Chelidze, and William J. Palm College of Engineering University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881 AbstractIn this project, concepts of engineering graphics, mechanical design, numerical simulation, rapidprototyping and product testing are integrated in project experiences performed byinterdepartmental teams of

Conference Session

Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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2002 Annual Conference

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Prathivadi Ravikumar

Session 2642 ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT CONTENT FOR A SENIOR DESIGN COURSE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING P. B. Ravikumar Professor, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department University of Wisconsin, Platteville, WIABSTRACTMechanical Engineering students at UW-Platteville take the Senior Design Project Course in thefinal semester of their undergraduate program. Most of the team projects for the course, often allprojects, are provided by industry. The course is designed with the primary objective of providingstudents an experience that serves as a transition

Conference Session

Capstone Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Paul Giolma; Kevin Nickels

Session 2425 Herding cats: a case study of a capstone design course J. Paul Giolma and Kevin M. Nickels Department of Engineering Science Trinity UniversityAbstractThe eight-semester design sequence in Engineering Science at Trinity University contains threemini-capstone design experiences (one mechanical, one chemical, and one electrical) and onecapstone design project in the senior year. Senior design is so unlike the well-defined designprojects encountered thus far in the curriculum, even the mini-capstone design projectsencountered

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Deepti Suri

the services and constraints of the systems that needs to be designed.Research indicates that on a typical software project, the percentage of time spent on RE andDesign, Implementation, and Testing are 40%, 20% and 40% respectively, whereas forsuccessful projects these numbers are 60, 15 and 25%. Because of the high importance of RE inthe design of software systems, the need to introduce RE as a required course in theundergraduate Software Engineering (SE) and Computer Science (CS) curricula is getting moreattention. This paper summarizes the author’s experiences in developing and teaching a REcourse to juniors in the new Software Engineering degree program offered at Milwaukee Schoolof Engineering (MSOE).One of the major issues holding back

Conference Session

Cross-Section of Construction Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfredo Soeiro

Session 3421 Challenge of Instruction in ICT for Construction Managers Alfredo Soeiro University of Porto, PortugalAbstractA project between Higher Education institutions, construction companies and the EuropeanCommission during three years funded project management firms from five European countries.The main goal was to provide education and training in the use of Information andCommunication Technologies in Construction Management. The results were used to carry out acourse of the final year degree of future Construction engineers. The format and results of thecourse

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Swaminathan Balachandran

Improvement, Ranjit K. Roy, John Wiley & Sons, January 2001.The Qualitek-4 (QT4) software for Taguchi Method from Nutek Inc., is made available free ofcost to students. Lessons 1 - 3 review basic statistical concepts and analysis of variance (ANOVA). Inaddition, practical aspects of planning engineering experiments, checking model validity, andestimating sample size are discussed. Students begin to use the software Design-Ease (Minitaband DesignExpert are alternative software) for most of the statistical and graphical analysis.Lessons 4 - 6 cover the randomized complete block design (RCBD), Latin squares, and factorialdesigns. At this stage, students begin a course project. The course project may be performedindividually or in teams of up

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Michael P. Hennessey; Allen C. Jaedike; Peter S. Rhode

: mphennessey@stthomas.edu Abstract Galleries of imagery generated from many of the recent CAD (computer aided design, or graphics) projects undertaken by St. Thomas undergraduates in mechanical engineering courses are presented. The CAD projects vary widely, e.g. as characterized by the geometric features present in the parts, number of parts in the assembly, overall complexity, scale, industry represented, in addition to presentation and viewing issues, etc. In some cases, animations with overlaid audio were made. The primary purpose of this effort is to attempt to elegantly showcase the body of quality work generated in a relatively compact manner to permit an enjoyable

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Vojin Nikolic

dealswith the fundamental categories of engineering design process, basics of engineeringgraphics and design, rules and standards of technical communication, CAD-enhancedtechnical documentation, interdisciplinary design projects and an introduction to solidmodeling. The overall objective of the course is to help students understand thepeculiarities of the modern design methodologies as well as the importance of conceptssuch as “on time”, “on budget” and “competitive” product development from ideation toprototype testing and refinement. Various components of the course are discussed. Inparticular, the hands-on context of the course is emphasized including real lifeengineering projects. Introduction The

Conference Session

NSF Opportunities for Undergrad Eng Ed

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jeannette Neal

Web-Network Technology Curriculum Development for Computer Science Jeannette G. Neal, Ph.D. Peter Scott, Ph.D. Computer Science Department Department of Computer Science and Engineering Erie Community College University at Buffalo Williamsville, NY 14221 Buffalo, NY 14260 neal@ecc.edu peter@cse.buffalo.edu ASEE Conference Division: Two Year College Division AbstractThis paper describes our National Science Foundation (NSF) Advanced Technology Education(ATE) project entitled “Web-Network Technology Curriculum Development for ComputerScience”, the new Web-Network

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth DeBartolo

Dimensioning and Tolerancing over the course of their first two years. Whilethese courses present information that is critical to the design process, the material is presented ina discontinuous method relying on a “you will need to use this later” justification. In addition,these courses are spread out over quarters 1, 2, and 6 in the course sequence, with no actualapplication to a comprehensive design project until the 11th quarter when they take SeniorDesign. By teaching the same material integrated with a project, students will immediately seethe value of what they are learning, and will have more motivation to retain that knowledge.Since it is impossible to condense 3 quarters of existing course material into two, in addition toadding new material

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Leonard Perry

meaningful the students need to apply the knowledge andinformation learned in the classroom in a real world environment. Service-Learning provides a“hands-on” opportunity for students to develop these skills.In the Fall of 2000, a community service project was identified with the Business ProcessRedesign (BPR) group at University of San Diego (USD). The Oracle corporation isimplementing new a enterprise resource planning system throughout USD. The BusinessProcess Redesign group assists each department at USD in defining and documenting of theircurrent as-is processes because the departments are overwhelmed with current day-to-dayoperations and do not have the time or expertise to document their current processes. During Fall2000 and Fall 2001, ISE

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

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2002 Annual Conference

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J. William Shelnutt; S. Gary Teng

-thesis option or two elective coursesfor thesis option.EMGT 6142 Quality and Manufacturing Management (3)EMGT 6901 Advanced Project Management (3)MBAD 6141 Operations Management (3)MBAD 6161 Organizational Leadership and Behavior (3)MBAD 6164 Executive Communications (3) Page 7.1138.2MBAD 6195 Strategic Management of Technology (3) Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2342EMGT faculty

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Intra-college Graduate Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Steve Watkins; Richard Hall; Martha J. Molander; Josh Corra; Bethany Konz; K. Chandrashekhara; Vicki Eller; Abdeldjelil Belarbi

student work was tied to thestudents’ understanding of the needed synergy and their comfort with cross-disciplinarycommunication. Also, an interdisciplinary course, which grew out of the group’s experiences,provided systematic preparation for graduate research projects. The role of this course will bediscussed as it relates to the quality of collaborative experiences from both student and facultyperspectives.I. Introduction Engineering work is rarely confined to a single discipline. The successful application ofboth established technologies and new technologies often depend on the interdisciplinaryknowledge and abilities of the responsible engineers. Consequently, the needs for engineeringeducation to cross traditional boundaries and

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hirak Patangia

SESSION 2253 A Novel Course To Provide Electrical Engineering Experience To Freshmen Students Hirak C. Patangia University of Arkansas at Little Rock hcpatangia@ualr.eduAbstractAn experiential learning course centered around an intellectually inquisitive project has beendesigned to introduce freshmen students to the field of elect rical engineering, and also to providethe students with a head start for the beginning engineering courses they will take later in

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sören Östlund; Johan Malmqvist; Ingemar Ingemarsson; Edward F. Crawley; Doris Brodeur

project is to provide students with an education that stresses engineeringfundamentals set in the context of Conceiving-Designing-Implementing-Operating (CDIO)real-world systems and products Page 7.732.1The project strategy to implement CDIO has four themes: Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education 1. curriculum reform to ensure that students have opportunities to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to conceive and design complex systems and products 2. improved teaching and learning

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Miers; Carl Anderson; Paula Zenner

Session 2793 Creating an Engineering Enterprise Team Based on the SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge Scott A. Miers, Carl L. Anderson, Paula F. Zenner Michigan Technological UniversityIntroductionThe Enterprise Program at Michigan Technological University was implemented in the fallsemester 2000 as a response to the NSF sponsored Action Agenda Program encouragingengineering education reform. The following goals of the MTU Enterprise Program are addressedthrough both course work and project work: • promotion of student based and life-long learning