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George Edwards

Session 2793 Senior Design Project: Converting an Analog Transceiver into a Digital one George Edwards University of DenverAbstractThe Capstone Senior Design Project that is offered to graduating seniors in engineeringprograms in the United States is a critical part of the students’ development. A goal of this courseis to give students a feel for the work environment outside, in terms of a critical analysis of adesign problem, drawing on resources to arrive at alternative solutions; and, then deciding on aparticular

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Christopher Vondrachek; Joseph Hoffbeck

Session 2793 A Speech and Music Detector Project for a DSP Class Christopher J. Vondrachek, Joseph P. Hoffbeck University of PortlandAbstractA project is described in this paper which is designed to monitor a radio station and detectcommercials and talking, which would allow the radio to be muted so the listener would not bedistracted by obnoxious radio ads and D.J.’s. The project is designed to be an interestingapplication of a very simple pattern recognition system and requires little more than a low passfilter, high-pass filter, and a threshold scheme. The approach was to

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Ty Newell; Timothy Shedd

Asession2266@A Team-Oriented, Project-Based Approach for Undergraduate Heat Transfer Instruction Ty Newell, Timothy Shedd University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignIntroductionThis is an exciting time in engineering education. Engineering classrooms are changing with therapid development of new technologies and analysis tools, the desire for team-based activities byindustry, and recognition by engineering educators of the value of cooperative and activelearning methods.The purpose of this paper is to describe a classroom “experiment” with the goal of converting

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Darrell Gibson; Patricia Brackin

Session 2525 Techniques for Assessing Industrial Projects in Engineering Design Courses M. Patricia Brackin, J. Darrell Gibson Department of Mechanical Engineering ROSE-HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYABSTRACT The benefits of company sponsored student design projects, both to academia and to industry, havebeen well established recently in symposia and in publications. However, assessing these benefits inorder to improve the students’ experience can be difficult. Traditionally, design reports alone havebeen the method by which the students’ performance is judged. In this paper

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Michael Marcus

Session #1648 Train the Trainer Video for Problem Solving Using Project Teams Michael Marcus Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractStudents from Engineering and Engineering Technology Programs should be able to worktogether as members of Project Teams to find solutions to technical problems. The objective ofthis session is to show sections of a professionally produced “Train the Trainer” videotape usingstudents from Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Technology Programs working together onproject teams to solve technical problems. This video will show the teaching

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Geoffrey Bland; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

Session Number 2793 UMES-AIR: A NASA-UMES Collaborative Experiential Learning Project Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, Geoffrey Bland University of Maryland Eastern Shore /NASA Wallops Flight FacilityParticipating students: Brian Vetter, Robert Fries, Joseph Ford, James Taylor, Jeremy Rodgers, Olatunde Alade,Amy Davis, Sushil Milak, Vinod Yadav, Guntupalli Rajasekhar, Tony Baldwin, Gregory Waters, Gregory Smith,Robert C. Washington, Jason Tilghman, Carlton Snow, Matthew Watson, Jerry Reynolds, Ani Panoti, Levy Lovell,Towanda Sample, Calvin King, Rebecca Howe,Eddie Daubert, Anthony Ross, Jamison White, James Watts, CoryCurtis

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Mary Curran; Doug Bill; Catherine Etter

Session 1526 Undergraduate Environmental Technology Instrumentation Project: Analyzing the Cape Cod Aquifer Douglas W. Bill, Mary Jane Curran, and Catherine M. Etter Cape Cod Community College at West Barnstable, MAAbstractThe NSF instrumentation grant has enabled Cape Cod Community College to purchase one ionchromatograph and seven groundwater simulators that have been implemented into theSpring/Fall 2000 environmental and soil science lectures and lab exercises. We have just begunto collect and analyze the student responses after using this equipment during these classes.Over 200

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Mitzi Vernon; Richard Goff

Session 3425 Using LEGO RCX Bricks as the Platform for Interdisciplinary Design Projects Richard M. Goff, Mitzi R. Vernon Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State UniversityAbstractThe activity of real world design is a collaboration of individuals from more that one discipline.To address this issue, a student interdisciplinary design project was created. For the past fouryears, teams of students from the freshman Engineering Design Graphics course and thesophomore Industrial Design Studio were formed. In previous years, push-pull toys weredesigned and

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Steven O'Hara; Suzanne D. Bilbeisi

Session 1606 Utilizing A Capstone Design Project for EC 2000 Assessment Suzanne D. Bilbeisi, Steven E. O’Hara Oklahoma State UniversityAbstractArchitects and architectural engineers should have the ability to coordinate and integrate themany issues involved in the creation of architecture. This requires them to have a basic workingknowledge of and sensitivity to several disciplines, as well as expertise in their individual field.One measure of this ability is through a comprehensive capstone design experience.Architecture, as a profession, requires the teamwork of professionals

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Hosni Abu-Mulaweh; Nashwan Younis

Session 1566 Local Industry Involvement in the Support of Capstone Design Projects Hosni I. Abu-Mulaweh, Nashwan T. Younis Department of Engineering Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne Fort Wayne, IN 46805, USAAbstractThis paper discusses why the involvement of the local industry and its sponsoring of seniordesign projects is crucial to the students to be exposed to quality and real life design problems.Also, examples of some of the projects that the local industry has

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Terry Derossett; Steven Nesbit; Scott Hummel

Multi-course design project creates ties between various mechanical engineering topics Scott R. Hummel Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Lafayette College Easton, PA 18042 hummels@lafayette.edu (610) 330-5587 Terry A. DeRossett Director of Mechanical Engineering Laboratories Department of Mechanical Engineering Lafayette College Easton, PA 18042

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Edward Hensel

Session 2525 A Multi-faceted Design Process for Multi-disciplinary Capstone Design Projects Edward Hensel New Mexico State UniversityEngineers are called upon to design a wide variety of devices and systems, typically in a multi-disciplinary team environment. We try to incorporate this design environment into the seniorcapstone design experience in mechanical engineering at NMSU. In this two-semester sequence,each design team is led by a student manager, often a graduate student from another engineeringdepartment. Since these student

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Tim Coppinger; Ray Bachnak

Session 1426 A New Course in Programmable Logic Controllers: A Project-Based Approach Ray Bachnak and Tim Coppinger Texas A&M University-Corpus ChristiAbstractGroup projects provide a means to teach students many of the skills they need to succeedafter graduation. In fall semester 2000, we developed and taught a course inProgrammable Logic Controllers (PLCs) by employing a project-based approach using an“out-of-the-box” integrated PLC. A major goal of the project is to prepare students toapply effective problem solving techniques by addressing a reasonably complex

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Claudio Campana; Jun Kondo; Devdas Shetty

Session 1359 ON-LINE MEASUREMENT & EMBEDDED INSTRUMENTATION PROJECTS IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION Devdas Shetty1, Claudio Campana2 and Jun Kondo3 College of Engineering, University of Hartford1 Vernon D. Roosa Professor in Manufacturing Engineering, shetty@mail.hartford.edu2 Research Engineer, campana@mail.hartford.edu3 Research Engineer, kondo@mail.hartford.eduAbstract:This paper presents an experimental approach for intelligent monitoring of a ComputerControlled Machining Process using embedded instrumentation. The article reviews the ongoingdevelopment in the field of embedded systems

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Anant Kukreti

Session 2615 An Open-Ended Research Project for Undergraduate Students Anant R. Kukreti University of CincinnatiAbstractThis paper describes a project conducted to provide research experience to engineeringundergraduate students involving discovery through actual construction, experimental testing,observing and recording, synthesizing the data collected, and generalizations. The project was partof a Research for Undergraduates (REU) Site grant sponsored by the National ScienceFoundation, and administered in the School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science at

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Carol Colbeck

Session 2525 Predicting Change: What Increases Faculty use of Design and Group Projects? Carol L. Colbeck The Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractStakeholders often want evidence that curricular and pedagogical reforms will endure, butinstitutionalization of reforms is typically assessed superficially, if at all. This study involveddeveloping and testing an Institutionalization Process Model. The model was developed from aqualitative investigation of factors influencing institutionalization of externally-fundedcurricular and pedagogical reforms at

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Philip McCreanor

Session - Multimedia Project Based Teaching: A Case Study from a Hydraulics Class Philip T. McCreanor, Mercer University School of EngineeringAbstractHydraulics is currently taught as one-half of a 3-credit course in the Environmental EngineeringProgram at the Mercer University School of Engineering. The topics covered include fluidproperties, fluid pressure, forces on submerged surfaces, fluid flow in pipes, pipelines, pipenetworks, and pump design and selection. The first semester this course was taught the materialwas presented topic by topic. This created a very choppy course

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Thomas Andre; Connie Hargrave; Scott Chumbley; Kristen Constant

Session 1526 Project ExCEL – Web-based SEM for K-12 Education S. Chumbley, K. Constant, C.P. Hargrave, T. Andre Iowa State UniversityAbstractThe goal of Project ExCEL, the Extended Classroom for Enhanced Learning, is to bring thecapabilities of Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) into elementary and secondary classrooms.We have developed an entirely web-based interface to allow schools to control a modern SEM.The web interface allows a remote user complete control of all the operating parameters of themicroscope, including stage movement and x-ray chemical analysis. Such total control currentlyis not available on any other system. Since pioneering the idea of remote SEM

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Guy Johnson

Session 2586 Project Lead The Way® A Pre-engineering Secondary School Curriculum Prof. Guy Johnson Rochester Institute of TechnologyAbstractProject Lead The Way® (PLTW) is a nonprofit corporation that developed a national programforming partnerships among public schools, higher education institutions and the private sectorto increase the quantity and quality of engineers and engineering technologists graduating fromour educational system. The Rochester Institute of Technology has joined in a partnership withPLTW by establishing the

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Kenneth Halliday; Israel Urieli; Gregory Kremer

Session 2525 Putting the "Engine" Back Into Engineering Education - A Capstone Design Project Kenneth R. Halliday, Gregory G. Kremer, Israel Urieli Department of Mechanical Engineering Ohio UniversityAbstractThe Mechanical Engineering Department at Ohio University has recently radically transformedits Senior Design Curriculum. This change was motivated by the perception among the entiremechanical engineering faculty of the need to improve the way that engineering design is taughtat the senior undergraduate level. Three separate

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Thomas M. Jacobius; Gerard Voland

Session 3422 Crossing Professional Boundaries: The Interprofessional Projects Program at IIT Thomas M. Jacobius, Gerard G. S. Voland Illinois Institute of Technology Illinois Institute of Technology is transforming its undergraduate program through theconcept of interprofessional education by requiring project-based team experiential learningacross the span of disciplines within the Undergraduate College and by involving graduateprograms from across the university, including those in engineering, science, law, business,psychology, design and architecture

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Slobodanka Nestorovic; Sarra Elhassan; Hayder A. Rasheed

Session 2793 Designing a Self-Instructed, Project-Based Multimedia Course in Engineering Education Hayder A. Rasheed, Slobodanka Nestorovic, Sarra Elhassan Bradley UniversityAbstract:Multimedia applications are finding their way into every engineering discipline aspowerful tools to facilitate more effective learning via visualization and multi-dimensional comprehension. However, the high cost to develop such applications isrecognized. A proposed economical solution to this issue is to utilize the senior ormaster’s level engineering student projects in this endeavor. This solution requires

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Arpita Gupte; Patricia F. Mead; Marjorieanne Natishan; James Greenberg; David Bigio; Linda Schmidt

Session 1630 Engineering Project Team Training System (EPTTS) For Effective Engineering Team Management Patricia F. Mead, Marjorieanne Natishan, Linda Schmidt, James Greenberg, David Bigio, Arpita Gupte BESTEAMS Mini-Teaching Center A. James Clark School of Engineering University of Maryland, College ParkAbstractThe BESTEAMS: Building Engineering Student Team Effectiveness and ManagementSystems Mini-Teaching Center has implemented a pilot, in-class, workshop highlightingthe influence of learning style preferences on project team management

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Richard R. Johnston

Session 3432 Equipping a Process Control Lab via Department Sponsored Senior Projects Richard R. Johnston Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. of Lawrence Technological UniversityAbstractThis paper discusses the equipping of a Process Control Lab with realistic process simulators byhaving the ECE department sponsor student teams to build the apparatus as their capstonedesign project. This sponsorship involves having the department specify the behavior of theapparatus, specify the Input / Output connections between the apparatus and the ProgrammableLogic Controller (PLC I/O

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Kevin J. Renken; John Reisel

Session 2333 ESTABLISHMENT OF AN AIR COMPRESSOR EXPERIMENTATION FACILITY VIA UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT PROJECTS John R. Reisel, Kevin J. Renken University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeAbstractThe Mechanical Engineering Department at The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) hasrecently established an Air Compressor Experimentation Facility through several mechanicalengineering undergraduate student projects. Initial funding for the lab was provided by a Universityof Wisconsin System Applied Research Grant and by a donation solicited from a local compressorcompany. The facility houses four

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Jody A. Knoll; Jan T. Lugowski; Nancy L. Denton

Session 2647 Evaluation of an Industry Project in a Freshman Course Nancy L. Denton, Jan Lugowski, Jody Knoll Purdue University/Sun MicrostampingAbstractA unique opportunity for mechanical engineering technology students to create engineeringdrawings for an existing product for a manufacturer arose in spring of 1999. In keeping with theengineering technology philosophy that students learn more through practical application ofknowledge, the documentation project was undertaken.1, 2The paper describes the content of a freshman-level design documentation course and theindustry documentation

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James N. Peterson

Session 2625 Experiences in Capstone Design Projects: Partnerships with Industrial Sponsors James N. Peterson Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Idaho Moscow, ID 83844AbstractCapstone design projects in the department provide student teams opportunities to createengineering solutions to problems identified and sponsored by industrial partners. A partnershiprelationship model for achieving engineering education goals, which is initiated between thedepartment and

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Darrell D. Massie; Cheryl A. Massie

Session 2559 Framework for Organization and Control of Capstone Design/Build Projects Darrell D. Massie, Cheryl A. Massie United States Military Academy/Flack + Kurtz Consulting EngineersAbstractSenior design capstone projects frequently require team members to self-organize for a projectand then execute the design/build portion within a resource-constrained environment. This isusually challenging for inexperienced students who are struggling with technical as well asprogram management and team building issues. This paper outlines a general framework thatcan be used by

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Greg Smith; Richard E. Pfile

Session 1526 A Fuzzy Logic Control Project For a Real-time Microprocessor Laboratory Richard E. Pfile Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis Greg Smith Cummins Engine CompanyAbstract An advanced microprocessor course was revised to use the new Motorola M-Core 32-bitRISC processor. A series of laboratories were developed for the course that implements fuzzylogic control of an inverted pendulum. The interface hardware was intentionally kept very simpleto force the

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Robert P Hesketh; Kauser Jahan; Stephanie Farrell; C. Stewart Slater; Kevin Dahm

Session 1526 8VLQJ 0HPEUDQH 3URFHVV ([SHULPHQWV LQ D 3URMHFW2ULHQWHG (QYLURQPHQW C. Stewart Slater (1), Kauser Jahan (2), Stephanie Farrell (1), Robert P. Hesketh (1), and Kevin D. Dahm (1) (1) Department of Chemical Engineering (2) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Rowan University Glassboro, NJ 08028 Abstract This paper describes a NSF-funded Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement (ILI) project onmembrane process