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Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Denice Denton; Sheila Edwards Lange; Eve Riskin; Kate Quinn; Joyce Yen

, and mathematics. This paper discusses these mentoring programs and provides guidelines for replication at other institutions.IntroductionA recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education posed the question “Where are all theWomen”?1 Indeed, although female U.S. citizens are now earning more Ph.D.’s than male U.S.citizens across all disciplines,2 faculty continue to be largely male dominated.3 An even moreunbalanced picture exists in science, engineering, and mathematics (SEM). In 2003, womenearned 43% of the SEM Ph.D.’s awarded to U.S. citizens.2 However, at the top 50 SEMdepartments, as determined by research dollars, only 8.4% of the faculty in 2002 were women.4Furthermore, the representation of women among SEM Ph.D

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Workshop, Program, and Toolkit Results

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sheila Edwards Lange; Joyce Yen

further research purposes.Other issues needing further research and/or attention include the dual career issues, theinfluence of Deans in the process, and the role of implicit biases and/or departmental politicsduring the search process.References:[1] A. L. Antonio, "Diverse student bodies, diverse faculties," in Academe, vol. 89, 2003, pp. 14-17.[2] C. Turner, Diversifying the faculty: A guidebook for search committees. Washington, DC: Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2002.[3] D. Smith, C. S. V. Turner, N. Osei-Kofi, and S. Richards, "Interrupting the usual: Successful strategies for hiring diverse faculty," Journal of Higher Education, vol. 75, pp. 133-160, 2004.[4] A

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Venubabu Vulasa; David Grieve; Chetan Sankar; Bob Bulfin; Paul Swamidass

international collaborations,” International Journal of Human-ComputerStudies, Volume 60, Issue 3 , March 2004, Pages 365-380. 2. Van Ryssen, S., and Godar, S. “Going international without going international multinational virtual teams,” Journal of International Management, Volume 6, Issue 1 , Spring 2000, Pages 49-60. 3. Devon, R., Hager, Sathianathan, D., Saintive, D., Nowé, M. and Lesenne, J. “Alliance by design: International student design teams,” Proceedings of International Conference on Engineering Education, Session 2544, August 17/20, 1998. http://www.ecsel.psu.edu/alliance/ 4. Pollard, J, Devon, R, McKay, A, and Bilén , S, “Teaching Design Through International Collaboration

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Engineers & Mathematicians Communicating

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2005 Annual Conference

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Elton Graves

1.9 5.6 16.7 42.6 31.5 3.98 .95in my life’s work.Knowing mathematics will help me u43 25.9 53.7 11.1 9.3 0 2.04 .87earn a livingI expect to have little use for u48a 0 5.6 16.7 40.7 37.0 4.09 .87mathematics which I get out ofcollege.It was interesting to note that on fifteen, of the forty-five, questions the students seemedto have strong agreement, with an average response under 2. Three of these questionsdealt directly with the usefulness of mathematics.Question Quest %SA %A %N %D %S mean s.d

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Integrating Materials and Manufacturing

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2005 Annual Conference

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K. Ted Hartwig; Richard Griffin, Texas A&M University at Qatar

Individual Student Scores Figure 1. A comparison of fall 04 and spring 04 data for the laboratory final exam. The % correct is given on the y-axis, while individuals are represented on the x-axis.The agreement between the spring and fall data is very good. The data in Figure 1 is plotted aspercentages, so that the different number of questions is not relevant.Discussion Both the fall and spring courses have 90+ students. Even though the tests differ by fivequestions the averages, maxima, minima, and standard deviation are very similar. Frankly, it wasdisappointing the initial time that we gave the test to have such a low average. We expected theaverage to be in the 70’s. However, the second time the test was

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K-8 Engineering & Access

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kevin Staszowski

understanding of heating and cooling. Cognition and Instruction. 13. 483–503.5 Papert, S (1993) Mindstorms Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas. Perseus Publishing. Cambridge,Massachusetts.6 Rojas-Drummond, S. Hernadez, G. Velez, and M. Villagran, G (1997) Cooperative Learning and theAppropriation of Procedural Knowledge by Primary School Students. Learning and Instruction. 8(1) 37-617 Stevens, R. Slavin, R (1995) The Cooperative Elementary School: Effect’s on Student Achievement, Attitudes,and Social Relations. American Educational Research Journal. 15. 321-3518 Webb, N. Farivar, S (1994) Promoting Helping Behavior in Cooperative Small Groups in Middle SchoolMathematics. American Journal of Educational Research. 31(2) 369-3959 Webb, N. Troper, J

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

oldcriteria. The continuous improvement requirements necessitate more documents andgreater document control but wider access is highly desirable. The faculty in theManufacturing Engineering Technologies & Supervision Department of PurdueUniversity Calumet has opted to use the Internet as the tool of choice for documentcontrol. The advantages to this system are easy access from any Internet enabledcomputer, easy dissemination, and simple document control procedures.Bibliography 1. Neff, G. and Scachitti, S., “The Assessment Cookbook: Recipes for Successfully Meeting TC2K Criteria,” Proceedings of the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference, Montreal, June 16-19, 2002

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Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Cottrell

Session 3438 Hands-On Graphics Communications – Designing Commercial Properties in an Introductory Course: Innovative Teaching Strategies for Success David S. Cottrell Pennsylvania State University at HarrisburgIntroduction This paper describes the integration of design projects during the Fall Semester, 2004,into the curriculum of an introductory graphics communications course at Penn StateUniversity at Harrisburg. These projects served a double purpose of reinforcing topicstaught in the classroom as well as introducing students to the engineering design

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

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Erik Peterson; Ian Papautsky

compare. Later in the course, students were asked analysis andsynthesis style questions, such as those beginning with recommend or explain or what if.Students were also required to perform calculations using the principles of mechanics andmicrofluidics discussed in class or the research papers. Representative questions are given below. 101. From the paper by Richards-Grayson et al., what is the appeal for applying MEMS technologies to biology and medicine? Give examples of two specific areas where MEMS technologies are being applied to biological and medical research. In your answer, describe details of the MEMS device(s) used. 11 122. Based

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BME Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

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Yu Song; Niranjan Chakravarthy; Leon Iasemidis; Andreas Spanias

Processing Magazine, vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 8-10, July 2001.5. S. Tiwari, S. Ramachandran, A. Bhattacharya, S. Bhattacharya, and R. Ramaswamy, “Prediction of probable genes by Fourier analysis of genomic sequences” in CABIOS, vol. 113, pp. 263-270, 1997.6. Niranjan Chakravarthy, A.Spanias, L.D.Iasemidis, K.Tsakalis, “Autoregressive modeling and parametric analysis of DNA sequences” in EURASIP Special Issue on Genomic Signal Processing, To appear in 20047. A. Spanias, et al., “On-line laboratories for speech and image processing and for communication Systems Using J-DSP”, in 2nd DSP-Education workshop, Pine Mountain GA

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K-12, Teamwork, Project-Based Scale Models

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2004 Annual Conference

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Serdar Tumkor; Ali Imre Aydeniz; Ismail Fidan

the MIT department of Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville,TN. He began his academic appointment in August 2000. Dr. Fidan received his PhD in MechanicalEngineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1996. His teaching and research interests arecomputer integrated design and manufacturing, electronics manufacturing, and manufacturing processes.Bibliographic Information 1. Ertas A., Jones J.C., “Engineering Design Process”, John Willey and Sons, 1997 2. Dieter G., “Engineering Design”, McGraw-Hill, 1993. 3. Fetvaci C., Tumkor S., Fidan I., “Development and Implementation of a Virtual Gear Design and Simulation Tool for Undergraduate Education”, Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering

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Innovations in Systems Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Terry Dwan; Robert DeMoyer; Carl Wick; George Piper

Systems Engineering at the Naval Academy T. E. Dwan, R. DeMoyer, C. E. Wick, and G. E. Piper Department of Weapons and Systems Engineering United States Naval AcademyABSTRACT This paper describes the current curriculum of the Systems EngineeringDepartment at the U. S. Naval Academy in detail. We show how our program not onlyserves the needs of each military graduate and meets the objectives and requirements ofan ABET accredited program, but also why this curriculum has become one of the mostpopular and successful undergraduate programs at the U. S. Naval Academy.OVERVIEW The Weapons and Systems Engineering Department at the U. S. Naval

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Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

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Sharon Sauer; Pedro Arce

midfielders, and the forwards or attackers. It is an analogous approach that we’re Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationproposing here. To the best of our knowledge, this type of approach has not previously beenused in Engineering Education.A successful soccer team consists of members that are able to perform their specific functionsefficiently and with the benefit of the team as their objective. At the different levels ofdevelopment, players usually show a natural predisposition to play a particular position and whatit is even more important is that they have a clear idea of what position(s) they do

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Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2004 Annual Conference

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Chih-Ping Yeh

Michigan Department of Career Development’s King-Chavez-Parks Initiative for the supports of the Tech Scholars Learning Community Program.Bibliography:1. Michigan College/University Partnership (MICUP) Program Administrative Handbook,” http://www.michigan.gov/mdcd/0,1607,7-122--76515--,00.html2. “Analysis of Student Enrollment and Patterns of Educational Goal Completion at Schoolcraft College, 2002,”3. D. C. Newell, S. L. Fletcher, M. R. Anderson-Rolan, “The Women in Applied Science and Engineering Program: How Diversified Programming Increase Participations,” Proceedings of 2002 ASEE Annual Conference, Session 1392, June 16-19, 2002, Montreal, Canada4. M. Besterfield-Scare, M. Moreno, L. J. Shuman and C. J. Atman, “Gender and Ethnicity

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Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

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Thomas Erekson

and scientific careers in the US in their August, 2003, report The Science andEngineering Workforce: Realizing America’s Potential 1. A national policy imperative wasrecommended by the NSB in this report: The Federal Government and its agencies must step forward to ensure the adequacy of the US science and engineering workforce. All stakeholders must mobilize and initiate efforts that increase the number of US citizens pursuing science and engineering studies and careers. (p. 10) Science and technology have been and will continue to be engines of US economic growth and national security. Excellence in discovery and innovation in science and engineering (S&E) derive from an ample and well-educated

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

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William Devenport; Terry Wildman; Glenda Scales

lead to a decision by the Collegeof Engineering to provide a more permanent foundation. Because the W. S. “Pete” WhiteChair is a rotating chair, transferred to a new honoree every 2 to 3 years, the decision wasmade to appoint an Engineering Study Group Program Coordinator independent of thechair. The coordinator was to take over the recruitment and administration of departmentalrepresentatives, and provided with a $3000 stipend. Furthermore the College assumedcomplete responsibility for the funding of the departmental representatives and coordinator.With these further changes in place the engineering study group program has continued togrow. Reporting so far this academic year shows that some 14 groups have been formedwith over 100

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TIME 2: Laboratories

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2004 Annual Conference

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Jed Lyons

Session 2166 Weigh Dr. Lyons: An Application of Problem-Based Learning Jed S. Lyons, Ph.D., P.E. Department of Mechanical Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 20208AbstractA laboratory project is described that was developed for a mechanical engineering measurementsand instrumentation course. Each student designs, constructs, calibrates and uses a strain gagebased load cell to weigh the instructor. The project takes about three weeks to complete.Besides learning how strain gages work

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Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

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Philip Kosky

Session 1171 Frontiers of Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials P. G. Kosky, M. E. Hagerman, and S. Maleki, Union College, Schenectady, NY 12308Abstract Union College’s student body combines about 15% engineering students with apredominately liberal arts campus of approximately 2,000 students. Recently the Collegeembraced an interdisciplinary program “Converging Technologies” that integrates crosscurricula material into existing core engineering and liberal arts programs. We have developed an undergraduate course “Frontiers of Nanotechnology andNanomaterials” aimed at

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Curriculums in Transition

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2004 Annual Conference

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James Vennes; Phillip Smith

with what we havecalled field theory software in a separate paper.II. A Brief History of Computer Aided Design at NMSUComputer aided design in the Mechanical Engineering Department at NMSU has its roots in themid-1970's when the department received a gift of an Applicon computer drafting system fromSandia Laboratories. The Applicon was integrated into the freshman level drafting courses, butby the early 1980's it was replaced by more economic PC's using such software as AUTOCADand CADKEY. Students were urged, but not required, to use these systems in ongoing designcourses. In the 1990's it became evident that there needed to be more integration between thecomputational drafting and computational design calculations and the department began

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New Ideas in Energy Education

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2004 Annual Conference

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Laura Genik; Craig Somerton

) 2. P or T and one other property, β, are given. β may be u, v, h, or s Go to saturation pressure or temperature table and find βf and βg If β < βf, subcooled or compressed liquid If β = βf, saturated liquid Page 9.615.7 If β > βg, superheated vapor 7 If β = βg, saturated vapor If βf < β < βg, two-phase mixture with quality x β −β f mvapor x= = (3.1), (3.2), (3.6), (3.7), (6.6) Moran & Shapiro

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Non-Technical Skills for ET Students

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2005 Annual Conference

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Marilyn Dyrud

Society for Mechanical Engineers. “Board of Professional Practice & Ethics.” 2004. Retrieved from http://www.asme.org/cma/bppe/.4. American Society for Mechanical Engineers. “Society Policy: Ethics.” 2003. Retrieved from http://www.asme.org/asme/policies/pdf/p15_7.pdf.5. Center for the Study of Ethics in the Profession. “Ethics across the Curriculum.” 2003. Retrieved from http://www.iit.edu/departments/csep/eac/index.html.6. Davis, Michael. “Ordinary Technical Decision-Making: An Empirical Investigation.” In Responsible Communication: Ethical Issues in Business, Industry, and the Professions. Ed. James A. Jaska and Michael S. Pritchard. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1996: 75-106.7. Davis, Michael. “Teaching Ethics across the

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Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Pasek

-9529125), and the contributions from students in the MFG599-03 classes.BIBLIOGRAPHY1. http://interpro.engin.umich.edu/2. Gibson, J. L., Ivancevich, J. M., Donelly, J. H., Konopaske, R., 2003, Organizations: Behavior, Structure, Processes, McGraw-Hill Irwin (11th ed.)3. Daft, R., 2004, Organization Theory and Design, SouthWestern/Thomson Learning, Cincinnati (8th ed.)4. Jaffee, D., Organization Theory: Tension and Change, 2001, McGraw Hill Higher Education5. Jones, G., 2001, Organizational Theory: Text and Cases, Prentice Hall6. Jay M. Shafritz, Steven Ott, S., Yang, Y. S. (eds.), 2005, Classics of Organization theory, Wadsworth Publishing (6th edition)7. Dale, E., 1969, Audiovisual methods in teaching, New York: Holt, Rinehart and

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Education Ideas in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Rick Homkes; Henry Kraebber; Donna Evanecky

Table 2. The RPN is found using values forseverity (S), occurrence (O), and detection (D). One approach to performing an FMEA is to: 1. Identify and list individual components, the function they provide, and their failure modes. Consider all possible modes. 2. For each failure mode, determine the effects of the failure on all other system components and on the overall system 3. Determine the severity of the failure, the potential causes of the failure, and the likelihood that a potential cause will occur. 4. Identify the current design controls that will assure the design adequacy of the failure controls. Determine the ability of the proposed design controls to detect a potential cause or the ability

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Schwartz

grade to theincoming document. In addition, the current group must indicate a suggested staffing level forthe next phase of the project (the number of students, the needed area(s) of expertise (orfamiliarity), etc.). We use these suggestions in order to determine the number of students pergroup for the next phase.On the days on which documents are due, students hand in their documents and evaluations.Each student then completes a form in which each describes the experience of completing theassignment and the group dynamics that came into play. (See Figure 2.) This form is completedprivately – group members are not allowed to sit near each other while this is done. This allowsstudents to be completely candid with their responses. I remind the

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ME Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Forsberg

reaches asteady-state temperature of about 31 C. It takes about 3-1/2 minutes for the specimen toreach steady-state. Graph No. 1 - Transient Response of Middle Cylinder in Water 35 30 25 20 T (C) Water (25 watts) 15 10 5 0 0 100 200 300 400 Time (s) Page 10.42.8“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright  2005, American Society for

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Feng Jao; Khalid Al-Olimat

’ confidence and enhancedcourse relevance. This can be achieved through the continual investigation of appropriate waysto introduce new technologies into the classroom. Page 10.970.8 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliography[1] S. M. Butzin, “Using instructional technology in transformed learning environments: An evaluation of project child,” Journal of Research in Computing Education, 33(4), pp 367-384, 2000.[2] M. H. Hopson, R. L. Simms & G. A. Knezek, “Using a technologically enriched

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Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

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2005 Annual Conference

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Derek Yip-Hoi; Zbigniew Pasek

technical issues.One of these issues is the design of a mechanism for gripping Lego blocks. Such a mechanismmounted as the robot end-effector will act as an assembly gripper. One has to remember that theoriginal Lego block assembly process is intended for manual assembly, which primarily relies onthe dexterity of human hands. The assembly process for Lego blocks can be automated by meansof robotic device(s), but only if they are equipped with a proper gripping mechanism that assuresreliability and repeatability in achieving accurate block grasp.If the block assembly is to be performed by a robotic device, then an associated problem ofproper presentation of the blocks to the end effector must also be solved. This must account forthe relative

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Mobile Robotics in Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Duane Bolick; Richard Drushel; John Gallagher

. Page 10.749.6 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliography1. Gallagher, J.C. and Perretta, S. “WWW Autonomous Robotics: Enabling Wide Area Access to a Computer Engineering Practicum”, The Proceedings of the 33rd Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. ACM Press (2002).2. Perretta, S. and Gallagher, J.C. “A General Purpose Java Mobile Robot Simulator for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education”, Proceedings of the 13th Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference (2002).3. Perretta, S. and Gallagher, J.C., “A Portable Mobile Robot Simulator for a World

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ET Curriculum & Design Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Alok Verma

The simulation exercise starts with the traditional manufacturing model involvingpush system and functional layout. During this phase, lack of communication betweendifferent departments increases process lead-time. During the second phase, Lean Page 10.999.5concepts like 5-S, standardized work, point of use storage, and communication areincorporated. Finally, during the third phase concepts like cradle to grave approach, line Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education1balancing, and empowered teams are

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Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Conrad Newberry

credit hours). Lectures are typically few in number andlimited to issues that have not been considered in the preceding or concurrent course work. Thelaboratory environment of the design sequence permits maximum interaction among the studentsand the faculty mentor(s)/advisor(s)/instructor(s). The design faculty member(s) is expected toserve primarily as a consulting engineer, suggesting trade studies, alternative solutions, andperhaps different technologies, as needed; generally being a mentor and devil’s advocate.Electives. A group of six electives are available in this model missile system engineering designprogram. Specific courses in mathematics, structures, hypersonic aerodynamics, aerodynamicheating, and guidance and control are proposed