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T. T. Maxwell; J. C. Jones; D. L. Vines; M. E. Parten

projects.ReferencesParten, M.E., "Project Management in the Laboratory," Proceedings of ASEE 1995 Annual Conference, Anaheim, Calif., June 1995, pp.1119-1123.Parten, M.E., "A Different Approach to Engineering Laboratory Instruction," Proceedings Frontiers in Education, November 1994, San Jose, Calif., pp 528-532.Parten, M.E., "Progressive Design for Instrumentation Development in Project Laboratories," 1993 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, April 1-2, 1993, pp. 55.Parten, M.E., "Design and Research in Project Laboratories," Proceedings of Engineering Education: Curriculum Innovation and Integration, Engineering Foundation Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, January 1992, pp.261-266.Parten, M.E., "Design in the Electrical Engineering

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Akihiko Kumagai; Mukasa Ssemakula

technological education integrating the manufacturing resources available on theshop floor into an applications-based engineering education.The Coalition’s overall educational model entails hands-on training in the programming,operation, maintenance, and repair of manufacturing equipment; interdisciplinary study ofpertinent mathematics, science, engineering, business, and general education courses; as well asstructuring and delivery of knowledge within a production environment to provide context.Another goal of the Coalition is to expand the learning experience to include teamwork, casestudies, and hands-on activities. The idea is not that the instructor will disappear from thepicture, but that his role will change from a lecturer to a coach. The

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Chris Cox; R. Bruce Robinson

solving problems and designingsolutions. Understandably, they generally want to work on real design problems in their degreeprograms. Based on student feedback, engineering students respond more positively to coursesthat involve real systems and problems, and consequently, probably learn better. Usingrealistic case studies is a logical response to these learning issues. In fact, most MBA programsrecognize the value of case studies and use them extensively.Our case study design also helps our Civil Engineering degree program meet several ABET2000 goals and criteria. This design project case study helps us achieve these ABET 2000outcomes: 1) an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering 2) an ability to design a

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Pedro Arce

sections below, several characteristics of the project-based final exam model willbe described and, also, general aspects related to the course will be covered to show anoverview of the student effort. Preliminary feedback from the students, the lab instructor,and ABET evaluators seem to indicate that these effort could play an important role inthe overall integration of teaching fluid mechanics (to engineering undergraduatestudents) in a very efficient, relevant, and successful strategy.II. COURSE MECHANICSECH 3264 meets twice a week during two sessions of one hour and fifteen minutesduration for general discussion of material related, mainly to fundamental aspects of fluidmechanics. The course also features an additional class that usually is

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Loren Lutes; James T. P. Yao

, there are many demands on engineering education at this time,suggesting that it may be timely to re-organize the curriculum from scratch. Some of thosedemands relate to calls for a curriculum that would:• integrate skills in communication, teamwork, and leadership into technical courses,• establish a solid base in mathematics and science,• expose students to economics and socio-political implications of engineering works,• use mechanics and risk-based decision analysis as common threads,• provide a broad-based undergraduate education,• present specialized education at the upper undergraduate and graduate levels, and Page 4.403.1• emphasize

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UndergraduateTeaching Using Computer Animation," Computer Applications in Engineering Education, Vol. 3 (2), pp.121-126, 1995.12. Ullman, K. M. and Sorby, S. A., "Enhancing the Visualization Skills of Engineering Students ThroughComputer Modeling," Computer Application in Engineering Education, Vol. 3 (4), pp. 251-257, 1995.13. Brochert, R., Jensen, D., “Hands-on and Visualization Models for Enhancement of Learning inMechanics: Development and Assessment in the Contest of Myers-Briggs and VARK Learning Styles,”ASEE Annual Conference, Session # 1368, Paper # 4, 1999.14. Moaveni, S., “Integrating Solid Mechanics and Design in an Undergraduate Finite Element Class

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Robert P. Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

industrially integrated NSF workshop on Novel Process Science andEngineering conducted at Rowan University. We believe that reaction engineering comes alivewith students conducting innovative experiments in a laboratory setting. Students are able to seethe catalyst; measure gas phase concentrations and flowrates; and use these measurements to Page 4.117.1examine at least 6 principles of reactor design.IntroductionThis experiment explores the area of heterogeneous catalysis using the automotive catalyticconverter which is the largest market for heterogeneous catalytic reactors. Autocatalysts havebeen placed in approximately 225 million of the world’s 400

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Tom Christensen; R. M. Seymour; Kim McKeage; Deborah Skinner; Darrell Donahue

students use Total Quality Management and integrated product design withproject management software.9 At Western Washington University, the Engineering TechnologyDepartment has made alliances with the Colleges of Business and Economics and of Arts andSciences for the development of multidisciplinary teams to work on design projects. They haveintegrated concurrent engineering principles throughout their curriculum. 10 The Departments ofChemical and Materials Engineering and Electrical Engineering at San Jose State Universityworked with science disciplines to develop an interdisciplinary course in semiconductorprocessing. The team approach for this course is set in a context of a start-up company cultureand allows students to be actively engaged in

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Mark Tufenkjian

undergraduate student. Exposureto tangible work experience and a glimpse of the relationship between theory and practice was aninspiration to work harder as a student and to pursue an advanced degree in Civil Engineering.Recognizing the potential importance of the internship experience to more fully complement astudent’s education, a priority as a new engineering educator was to establish a summerinternship program in the Civil Engineering Department. However, since no such programexisted, a simple yet effective program was created. The goal of the internship program was to Page 4.29.1provide California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA) Civil

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David Alexander; Ronald Smelser

communicate. This shift is of particular interest in educationalresearch. It motivates the need to alter the way in which courses are taught. This change inpedagogy is the shift from a lecture-centered environment to a student-centered one. Theclassroom becomes an arena for investigation conducted by the student. Many educationalprograms have been redesigning curriculum to better make this shift2,3,4,5,6,7. In the new modelthe instructor becomes facilitator guiding the student towards self-discovery8.Many schools currently use the Internet to deliver course material. However, it is important touse the technology appropriately. Research indicates that using methods that combinedcomputer, video and instructor support provided significantly higher

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Marilyn Dyrud

Center: An Undergraduate Team Project Experience.” FIE Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1 (1997): 366-70.16. Gates, Ann Q. et al. “Affinity Groups: A Framework for Developing Workplace Skills.” FIE Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1 (1997): 53-6.17. George, Dennis B. et al. “Cooperative Learning: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Problem-Based Environmental Education.” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings (1998). Available: CD-ROM.18. Goodwin, Cliff and Rob Wolter. “Student Work Group/Teams: Current Practices in an Engineering and Technology Curriculum Compared to Models Found in Team Development Literature.” ASEE AnnualConference Proceedings (1998). Available: CD-ROM.19. Hambley, Allan R. et al. “Professional Design Laboratories: Bridging the

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Anthony J. Marchese; Shreekanth A. Mandayam; T. R. Chandrupatla; John L. Schmalzel

tocompetitively apply for funding opportunities to embark on such an enterprise. The venturecapital fund was created by a grant from the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alli-ance, an initiative of the Lemelson Foundation.The Venture Capital Fund for the Junior Engineering ClinicThe Junior Clinic features a mixture of projects funded by industry and faculty research interests.Clearly, projects such as these are central to developing the design and problem solving skills thatare lacking in the typical engineering curriculum. What is often missing, however, in the industryand faculty-created design projects, is the spirit of invention, innovation and entrepreneurship.The spirit of entrepreneurship is best promoted by providing students with the

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Frederick Orthlieb

when faculty or students perceive program shortcomings that needattention or benefits that the program does not currently capture.Surveying the technological state of the art and the needs of current or potential customers isnecessary for an entrepreneur to determine whether any nard evidence supports his or herperception of opportunity. Data in the form of faculty-generated course descriptions andoutcomes assessments, student course evaluations, annual, senior and/or alumni surveys aboutprogram structure and outcomes help to depict both the state of an academic program and itscustomers’ needs. Like the entrepreneur, the academic program manager (typically adepartment chair or departmental curriculum committee) needs to "read the tea leaves

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Maher E. Rizkalla; Charles F. Yokomoto; Zina Ben Miled; Paul Salama; Mohamed El-sharkawy

those of actual digital systems that are built in students’projects. The prerequisite of this course is an introductory digital electronics class in which theylearn digital design and synthesis. In five weeks, students are required to design and generate theartwork file for manufacture. The material covered in this period is:• Historical background on IC design that started with the invention of the point contact transistor, until the most recent technology in 90s.• The market share for digital and analog: CMOS and BJT technologies. Differences between technologies in all aspects: integration, power, N.I., etc. Page 4.23.2

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Juan Lucena; Gary Lee Downey

and politics. Can engineering students learn to think about politics as an integral partof engineering problem solving? We begin by posing this question, knowing that students arenot ready to answer and that will gain significance throughout the course. At present, theengineering curriculum trains students to understand engineering and politics as opposedconcepts and practices. We use the life and experiences of John Sununu, MIT engineer andformer Chief of Staff to President Reagan. Here students learn that defining a problem in one’sown terms gives one possession of the problem. If different groups define problems differently,then an interaction between them is inherently a political one, for whoever wins the battle overdefinition gains

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Karl Stephan

students enroll because they want to learn more about engineering withoutcommitting themselves yet to becoming engineering majors. This possibility of increased re-cruitment is probably one of the few short-term advantages that an engineering department canhope to gain from offering a technological literacy course. The second important factor in finding a place in the curriculum for technological literacycourses is the overall institutional attitude toward the importance of technological literacy in thegeneral-education curriculum. Some colleges and universities explicitly require every student totake one or more courses having to do with technology, as opposed to pure science. In such anenvironment, developing technological literacy

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Wayne Padgett

excellent designexperience at a level beyond what is offered in the academic curriculum. The first half of thispaper describes the competition, the club history and organization, and their vehicle. The secondhalf of the paper compares alternative forms of design education in the curriculum and discussesthe relative advantages and disadvantages of competitive teams like the Aerial Robotics Club indesign education. Competitive teams are clearly an excellent motivational tool and educationalexperience for the students who participate.The International Aerial Robotics CompetitionThe International Aerial Robotics Competition1 was created by Rob Michelson in 1991 when, aspresident of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems, he wanted to create a

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Milan Degyansky

Session 3592 GENDER EQUITY STUDY OF FEMALE CET STUDENTS/GRADUATES AT GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY MILAN E. DEGYANSKY GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY In 1995 five universities in Georgia (Georgia Southern University, the University ofGeorgia, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia State University and Clark Atlanta University)and the AAUW of Georgia received a three year $800,000 National Science Foundation grant fora collaborative project titled Integrating Gender Equity and Reform (InGEAR.) The projectinvestigated educational approaches

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time the capstone course was offered. It is afour credit-hour course lasting twelve weeks, and eight students were enrolled for the Summer1998 term. Students worked in groups of two, and completion of the project described hereinalong with appropriate written and oral reporting as the term progressed were the solerequirements of the course.Student BackgroundThe Computer Engineering curriculum puts a strong emphasis on microcontrollers and embeddedsystems, with a required three-course sequence in these areas leading up to the capstone course: 1. ECE 374 Microcomputers I gives an introduction to microcontrollers, including assembly-language programming, software design, and some interfacing. It covers Chapters 1 through 6 and parts

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K. A. Korzeniowski; J. L. Rice

. IntroductionThis paper describes how an automatable platform, the Khepera robot, has been integrated into partsof the curriculum at the United States Naval Academy (USNA). The Khepera robot is a smallmicroprocessor driven device.1 The device is shown in Figure 1. It is a convenient platform forinvestigating each element of an autonomous system; namely data acquisition, signal conditioningand microprocessor control. This device is flexible enough to be used for a full range of purposes,from pre-college recruiting to laboratory design projects.This paper discusses how the Khepera robot is used in engineering recruiting and integrated intodesign projects. Code fragments are offered in this paper. The code is written primarily in Procommscript.2 This enables

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Enno 'Ed' Koehn

engineering.5,12 Practicing engineers and educators havealso indicated that they are not completely satisfied with the average engineering program.9,10,11This paper reviews a number of recent recommendations involving engineering education andpresents the result of an investigation of the perceptions of a group of undergraduate andgraduate students. The data for the study was obtained from a survey instrument which wasdistributed to students enrolled, in part, in construction related courses taught in civil engineeringdegree programs. Respondents were requested to indicate whether, and at which level, varioussubject areas have been incorporated into the curriculum. The subjects chosen are those thathave been included in the Civil Engineering and

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Venkateswaran Nallaperumal; S. A. Chickamenahalli

Session 3659 Lathe Instrumentation utilizing LABVIEW S. A. Chickamenahalli, Venkateswaran Nallaperumal Wayne State UniversityAbstractThis paper presents an innovative instrumentation project that consists of instrumentation on alathe using National Instruments Data Acquisition (NIDAQ) tools and display using Labviewsoftware. The aim was to carryout real-time measurement and display acquired waveforms on aPC screen and also store these waveforms for later use. This work is part of a NSF fundedGreenfield Coalition’s New Manufacturing Engineering curriculum project. Sensing and displayof

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Chi-Wook Lee

spectrum of needs of industry. The objective of this partnership is to develop andimplement a customized electrical engineering fundamentals program for non-electricalengineers at Delco Electronics in Flint, Michigan.I. IntroductionToday’s products and manufacturing systems are complex, because they are composed ofintegrated mechanical and electronic components, and operate with the aid of control anddecision making software. The design and fabrication of such products and manufacturingsystems require knowledge in all relevant areas such as manufacturing processes, materials,electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering. An integrated multidisciplinary approach tothe design of products and manufacturing systems is needed, and presents a

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John Eby; David Vader; Carl A. Erikson

contemporary voices have shapedvarious philosophies and perspectives. Messiah College is committed to Christianunderstandings and expressions of what is right.8 Consequently a third educational objective ofMessiah College is to graduate students whose character and conduct are consistent with theirChristian faith commitments. Messiah College engineering faculty and staff aim to accomplishtheir mission “through engineering instruction and experiences, an education in the liberal artstradition and mentoring relationships with students.” These methods must ultimately beexpressed in specific initiatives and a particular curriculum. “Appropriate Engineering” and“Service-Learning” are two ideas that have informed Messiah’s program.III. Appropriate

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Teresa L. Hein; Dan Budny

are less interested in people and are more interested inabstract concepts. They excel at creating theoretical models, yet are less concerned with thepractical use of the theories. Assimilators are very good at synthesizing disparate observationsinto an integrated explanation. They work well when information is detailed, logical, and orderly.The Converger’s (Type III) dominant learning abilities are Abstract Conceptualization and ActiveExperimentation. These learners excel when given the opportunity to apply ideas in a practicalway. Convergers seem to do best when there is a single correct answer to a problem or question.These individuals tend to be less emotional and do not like to waste time. Convergers would

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Philip Doepker

presentations and general progress.It is important to repeat that the faculty mentor is one of the keys to a successful project.Although the mentor is not expected to do the work he/she is expected to be the “guideon the side” to make sure that the goals and objectives are being met and that the projectis brought to a successful completion. Page 4.512.8IV. Project VenueIn general the project venue will be an established course in the curriculum. A “full”project that includes most of the components of the product realization process could bestbe implemented in a three credit hour course in the curriculum the primary focus ofwhich is the project. Some planned

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G. Ivan Maldonado; Anne M. Ahrens

being to brainstorm for specific faculty-generated ideas regardinghow the college should go about achieving its internationalization goals. The essayresponses were categorized within the following general suggestions, listed in no specificorder or preference:§ Develop more contacts and establish communication links with international universities and companies (i.e., create a dynamic database)§ Provide internal support for international activities directly via faculty reward system§ Integrate internationalization within the engineering curriculum (not add to)§ Provide substantial financial support for faculty and students§ Develop co-operative/internship programs that include foreign employment§ Provide college-wide centralized

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George Stephanopoulos; Alan S. Foss

problems in the popular texts result in a set of linear algebraic equations, thus offering the instructor an authentically motivated reason to describe the process of Gaussian elimination in the solution of such problems. Numerical methods such as the Newton-Raphson method for nonlinear algebraic equations and the Euler and Runge-Kutta numerical integration methods may also be added to the studentÀs store of equation solving methods as the opportunities arise. In advanced courses, one may delve even deeper into the underlying structure of linear dynamic models, pointing out the presence of dynamic modes and their relation to the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the coefficient matrix of the state

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Gregory P. Starr

Session 3532 The UNM Mechanical Engineering Lego Robot Competition Gregory P. Starr University of New MexicoAbstractModern mechanical systems are increasingly being controlled by digital electronics, yet manymechanical engineering programs have not incorporated this topic into the curriculum. Also,ABET has recently emphasized the importance of design in engineering education. The LEGORobot Competition is a course o ered by the Mechanical Engineering Department whichaddresses the integration of digital electronics and

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M. Mavromihales; K. Sherwin

. Hence theneed to teach design through projects.It is important that students realise that they are aiming at the definition of an end product.Many undergraduate design projects end up as paper studies. This is inevitable, owing to theconstraints on time and finance within the curriculum. Unfortunately, paper studies do notprovide students with the feedback on how well their designs work, or whether they willwork at all. Therefore, at Huddersfield, a conscious effort is made to include some projectsof a design-fabrication-test nature so that students do have direct feedback on the success, orotherwise, of their designs. One such project, used in the first year of the course, was thedesign of a compressed air engine (2).Design is open-ended and