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Innovative Hands-On Projects and Labs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hall; Kelly Crittenden

Session 1368 Design, Fabrication and Testing of Wooden Trusses for Undergraduate Mechanics David Hall, Kelly Crittenden College of Engineering and Science, Louisiana Tech UniversityAbstractThe sophomore engineering curriculum at Louisiana Tech University includes a mechanicscourse that integrates topics from statics and mechanics of materials. This three semesterhour course, which is officially listed as 2/3 lecture and 1/3 laboratory, attempts toseamlessly integrate lecture, laboratory, and group problem solving. The laboratorycomponent of the course focuses on the design

Conference Session

Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

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Ted Thiede; James Hereford

Conversion of Physics-Based Labs to an Engineering Physics Curriculum Theodore D. Thiede and James M. Hereford Department of Physics and Engineering Murray State University Murray, KY 42071AbstractIn recent times there has been a shift of enrollment of undergraduates from more traditional,research-oriented physics curricula toward more general, applied, engineering physics curricula.As part of this process, the emphasis of activities in undergraduate laboratories must shift from asole focus on understanding physical phenomena to include a focus on providing the tools andexperiences that will allow

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hirak Patangia

/technologycourses and demonstrate the relevance of engineering work to enhance their motivation andretention. The course has a heavy emphasis on laboratory activities with an equally strong focuson ‘just-in-time’ theory relating to the concepts central to accomplishing the project goal. Theprerequisite for the course has been kept at a minimum to make the course accessible to diverseuniversity majors including students from education. National Science Foundation is supporting anew focus of the course to include education majors and pre-college teachers. A preliminary studyof the effect of the course on recruiting and retention is included.IntroductionThere is a general decline in engineering technology enrollments in many state institutionsincluding our

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Egarievwe

A Model for Increasing the Number of Undergraduates Acquiring Skills in Computational Science Stephen U. Egarievwe, Janine A. Lafayette, Cathy R. Martin, W. Eugene Collins Informatics and Computational Science Laboratory Fisk University, Nashville, TN 37208AbstractThis paper presents a model that we have successfully used to increase the number ofundergraduates that are acquiring skills in computational science. This model involves theexploration of computational science by freshmen, involvement of undergraduates ininterdisciplinary computational science research, preparation of students for summer internshipsin computational science and related areas, and

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Asif Shakur; Kenny Fotouhi; Ali Eydgahi; Ibibia Dabipi

. Table 1: Course Descriptions ENEE 204 Basic Circuit Theory — 3 cr.Basic circuit elements: resistors, capacitors, inductors, sources, mutual inductance and transformers; their current-voltage relationships. Kirchoff’s Laws. DC and AC steady-state analysis. Phasors, node and mesh analysis,superposition, Thevenin and Norton theorems. Transient analysis for first- and second-order circuits. Prerequisite:MATH 321. Co-requisite: 182H. ENEE 206 Fundamental Electric & Digital Circuit Lab. — 2 cr.Introduction to basic measurement techniques and electrical laboratory equipment (power supplies, oscilloscopes,voltmeters, etc.) Design, construction, and characterization of circuits containing

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Guerci; Douglas Baxter

teaching staff to run EG&CAD for 750-800 students/year has always been achallenge. EG&CAD runs twelve to twenty sections each semester; concerns aboutequality of instruction and evaluation between the sections always existed. Over the lastten years, several methods of instruction and teaching material have been developed tohelp ensure the uniformity of the learning experience for the students[2][3][4][5][6][7]. In thelast year, the focus of the course development has been on providing intervention tostudents who struggle in the early lessons[2]. In this paper, the software implementationdeveloped to provide students with immediate feedback to their laboratory work isdiscussed. By writing macro programs in Visual Basic and taking advantage

Conference Session

Statistics in the CHE Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Valerie Young

Session 3513 Designing a Statistics Course for Chemical Engineers V.L. Young Department of Chemical Engineering, Ohio UniversityAbstractThe Department of Chemical Engineering at Ohio University redesigned an existing course inexperimental design and statistics. The revision was motivated by assessment information froma variety of sources: course-based assessment in our senior Unit Operations laboratory, exitsurveys of seniors, surveys of alumni 2 years after graduation and input from our departmentaladvisory board. The consensus of faculty, students, alumni, and the advisory

Conference Session

Computer Assisted Data Acquisition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

M.L. Meier

richer and their use in the laboratory courses would be invaluable. The author is developing a series of tutorials that address a wide range of materials science topics. The spreadsheet exercises in each tutorial start with simple calculations and progress to project-level calculations such as modeling ionic bonding or processing data from experiments. Spreadsheet skills developed include performing simple and complex calculations, importing and exporting data, graphing data, using the numerical tools, and producing attractive, presentable and reusable spreadsheet applications. With spreadsheets already on practically every home and school personal computer implementation of these tutorials can be done

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Idowu

model illustrating the solution of the economic dispatch problem offers a Page 8.488.2Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright @ 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationvery useful insight into the challenges of power wheeling and transactions in a modernderegulated utility industry.ROAD LAB V1.0 (Resource Optimizing, Access Delimited Laboratory) 11 is a locally developedsystem prototype for remote access to the energy conversion laboratory at Penn State Harrisburg.The facility affords users the opportunity to operate laboratory machinery, and gather data inreal-time

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nam Kim; Sean Clancey

participation in the “PAWS” Safety program in the Unit Operations Laboratory; and(8) performance on the Fundamentals of Engineering exam.Three of the tools--the departmental skills test, the interviews, and the surveys–have only beenimplemented since 1999. Tool five--the portfolio--has never been fully implemented, as it overlapthe reviews of the plant design reports. Discussion has been conducted on folding that tool intothe second tool and replacing it with a summary of the comments made by work supervisors ofstudents completing co-op assignments. Those comments concern the supervisors’ evaluation ofthe students’ preparation for professional engineering work.A detailed explanation of these tools can be found in the 2001 conference proceedings1

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Teaching Strategies in BME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Monica Schmidt

undergraduate students generally take. It is a prerequisite tothe BME laboratory course required during the senior year, so that students are prepared to dostatistical analysis of data from lab experiments. The BME laboratory course is then acorequisite for the senior design course sequence, which requires some experimentation. SomeBME graduates later take additional statistics courses in their M.S. degree program.Most BME undergraduate students have little or no prior training in statistics, so this courseintroduces the subject in depth. Topics include probability, graphing of raw data, discrete andrandom variables, probability distributions (Binomial, Geometric, Poisson, Normal, Student’s t,Chi-Square, and F), joint probability distributions

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2003 Annual Conference

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T. N. Fogarty; Kelvin Kirby

8.708.2The impetus of this innovative approach is to excite and motivate more students to have interest “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”in science and mathematics and to consider pursuing a SMET discipline as a career. The addedbenefit is that, hopefully, the student will decide to attend college during middle school or earlierin high school and enroll in the college preparatory courses. The most popular educationenrichment activities are provided for consideration.• Visits to College Research Laboratories: Students get excited when they understand the real world problems being pursued in a

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Garth Thomas

Balances I X X CHEE 202 Material & Energy Balances II X X X X CHEE 230 Modeling & Analysis X X X X CHEE 310 Process Fluid Mechanics X X X X CHEE 311 Heat Transfer Operations X X X X CHEE 312 Mass Transfer Equipment Design X X X X CHEE 320 Chem. Engr. Thermodynamics X X X X CHEE 325 Kinetics & Reactor Design X X X CHEE 350 Chem. Engr. Laboratory X X X X CHEE 410 Advanced Heat Transfer (E) X X X X CHEE 411 Separations Processes (E) X X X X CHEE 435 Process

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nabil Ibrahim

from highschool to community college to university. Participating companies play an important rolein defining competency gaps, developing case studies, placing students in internships, anddeveloping state of the art laboratories. Competency gaps serve as a driver to curriculumdevelopment. One objective of the program has been to enhance diversity and encourageunderrepresented minorities to pursue careers in engineering by presenting them with aseamless pathway early on in their education process. The paper will also provide answersto such questions as: How to develop a stable pipeline of students? What is the role ofindustry in program development? What are the significant achievements of the 2+2+2program after three years of implementation

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gordon Guffner

Session 1566 HOMEMADE LAB EQUIPMENT FOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERING COURSES By Gordon E. Guffner, Professor Emeritus Industrial Technology and Engineering Technology, Buffalo State CollegeTraditionally, engineering programs have been considered expensive because of theabundance of courses containing a laboratory component which usually requires costlyequipment. While this will probably always be true, this author has come up with at leasta partial remedy for the high cost of laboratory equipment. By developing some lab pieceswhich can be made by an instructor (or lab technician), expensive items which wouldnormally

Conference Session

Computer Assisted Data Acquisition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Yi-Wei Huang; Nikos Kiritsis; David Ayrapetyan

theoretical response. All data acquisition and analysis is done usinga custom built Labview virtual instrument. This fundamental experiment from the vibration areais used at McNeese State University in many different ways throughout the mechanicalengineering curriculum. First, it is used in the freshman level Introduction to Engineering courseas an example of a typical modern engineering laboratory set up. Second, it is a very populardemonstration used in the sophomore level Strength of Materials course during the discussion ofstress-strain relations and how strain measurements are used to derive information about stress.Third, it serves as an example of transducer integration in the junior level EngineeringMeasurements Laboratory, illustrating

Conference Session

Teamwork & Assessment in the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell; Kevin Dahm

. Once these areas were selected, specific indicatorswere developed for each, so that the students would have clearly defined goals and behaviors thatreflect the desired learning outcomes. Faculty assessment of these rubrics indicate that they arevery effective in demystifying the evaluation process and serve to better connect the grade in thecourse to the stated learning objectives.IntroductionExperts agree on the importance of involving undergraduates in research-based learning [1-3] andteamwork [4-6]. The Boyer Commission suggested that research-based learning should becomethe standard for undergraduate education [7]. Many universities are responding to this challengeby introducing multidisciplinary laboratory or design courses [8,9]. At

Conference Session

Web-Based Instruction

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Austin Asgill

program has yet to offer any distance learning courses to these remotesites.II. Technical Course Development and Delivery Most of the courses in the various disciplines in Engineering Technology have a requiredlaboratory component. While the theoretical aspects of most courses can be delivered throughdistance learning means, the challenge has remained as to how to effectively deliver the laboratorycomponent to those courses that require them. As an example, the computer-aided circuit analysis course is a required upper divisioncourse in the EET program at FAMU. It is normally taught to students on campus in a traditionalclassroom setting. Homework and laboratory assignments are usually done using the availablesoftware in one

Conference Session

Advisory Boards & Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sindee Simon; Theodore Wiesner; Lloyd Heinze

surveys are coupled with instructor self-evaluationsin order to identify problems in the curriculum. Table 2 gives the Chemical Engineering coursesurvey questions. The metrics that are used for the survey are as follows: • Score of 4.0 or higher for items relating to ABET criteria a, b, c, e, and k in one course per semester for sophomores and higher; • Score of 4.0 or higher for items relating to ABET criterion d in senior level laboratory and design courses; • Score of 4.0 or higher for items relating to ABET criterion g in the sophomore-level technical communications course and in the senior level unit operations laboratory

Conference Session

Novel Courses for CHEs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Chih-hung Chang; Skip Rochefort; Shoichi Kimura; Milo Koretsky

within the context of the fundamental skills of thediscipline. To this end, we are developing curricular and experimental modules from selectedunit operations common in the microelectronics industry, and are integrating these into theclassroom and the laboratory. Unit operations include: plasma etching, spin coating, chemicalvapor deposition, electrodeposition and chemical mechanical planarization. The curricularmodules are intended to reinforce core ChE fundamentals with examples from microelectronicsprocessing. The lab modules provide students with hands-on learning in this area as well asmore open-ended problem solving experiences. The incorporation of these microelectronics unitoperations into core engineering science classes, into senior

Conference Session

Virtual & Distance Experiments

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Weber; Bernard Lwakabamba; Julie Dickerson; Carolina Cruz-neira; Diane Rover

thecentral design document is to introduce students in diverse disciplines to the problem to be solved.The many sub-topics of this research provides an ideal case study and design projects for studentsfrom embedded system, wireless communication, VLSI design, and real-time software courses. Afull understanding of the current system and the requirements of the new system is crucial forperforming the research. The design document describes the characteristics of the current system,analyzes the requirements for wireless systems in VR, and specifies problems that need to beaddressed.The design document concept is being tested for the communications systems laboratory and in acourse on user interactions for virtual environments. The central design

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ciezki; Thomas Salem

military. Next, an assessment is offered onthe current state of electric power programs within the academic community for meeting theseneeds. In recognition of projected technology-driven military platforms, an enhanced powerengineering concentration within the electrical engineering curricula at the Naval Academy hasbeen proposed. The paper will conclude with an overview of the selection process forcurriculum topics, course sequencing, and laboratory content.Power Engineering and the U.S. EconomyWith the innovative advancements in power electronic semiconductor materials over the past fewdecades, the field of power engineering has expanded from the traditional focus on utility-levelgeneration and transmission of energy to include the widespread

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Carl Steidley; Rafic Bachnak

paper describesthe major laboratory equipment and the implementation of online experiments that offerdata acquisition, monitoring, and control from remote locations. A front panel inLabVIEW displays the results and allows storage of acquired data for later processing.A digital camera that provides real-time pictures of the monitored equipment is part ofthe system configuration.IntroductionLaboratory development is a major task that faculty at institutions of higher educationare constantly addressing [1-3]. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (A&M-CC)recently established a new Control Systems Laboratory that provides interdisciplinaryeducational and research capabilities across several science and engineering areas.These areas include

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Krohn

laboratoryexperiments/demonstrations, and 8 hours of facility tours.Grading for the course was based on laboratory reports, class participation, development of twoclassroom activity/lesson plans, and a class portfolio which included a daily journal of activities,impressions and reflections on lessons learned.While the primary instructors for the course came from the mechanical engineering faculty,every effort was made to keep the course at a level appropriate for the students, most of whomhad taken college algebra (sometimes several years ago!) as their highest level mathematicscourse. The class lectures were kept as informal as possible with lots of encouragement forquestions and discussions during the class.ContentA copy of the course syllabus/schedule for

Conference Session

Manufacturing Lab Experience

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Can Saygin

paper presents the design and development of a generic control architecture that enablesover-the-Internet access to automated manufacturing equipment. The architecture has beendeveloped through a series of projects that have been conducted at the Integrated SystemsFacility (ISF) in the Engineering Management Department at the University of Missouri – Rolla.The projects include Web-based applications for materials management, product design andmachining, robot programming, and programmable logic control programming. For eachapplication, a prototype has been developed and implemented in the course Emgt 334 ComputerIntegrated Manufacturing Systems as an E-Lab Suite for various laboratory applications.The concept presented in this paper offers a

Conference Session

Novel Courses for CHEs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

to electrochemical processes found in separators and reactors. Theseexperiments are on an advanced level and require various electrochemical instrumentation andapparatus.Aspects of electrochemical engineering have been incorporated in various aspects of thechemical engineering curriculum. In the unit operations or senior laboratory course experimentsin metal recovery using electrodeposition on a porous carbon cathode3,In the process control lab, Jan Talbot has initiated student designed experiments inelectrochemical engineering.4,5 In this course the students must plan design and build andexperimental apparatus. Then the must demonstrate that it works and analyze the data. Finallythey give an oral presentation in addition to a technical

Conference Session

Industry Initiatives for Graduate Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elaine Laws

Session____ Looking Back Over 30 Years--AT&T Labs and Lucent Bell Laboratories Ph.D. Fellowship Programs 1972 - 2002 Elaine P. Laws--AT&T LabsDuring 2002, AT&T Labs and Lucent Bell Laboratories will celebrate the 30thanniversary of their sponsorship of Ph.D. fellowship programs for under-representedminorities 1and women in science and engineering. In the early 1970s AT&T's researchand development organization, then known as "Bell Laboratories," initiated efforts torecruit minority students for technical positions within the Labs. These efforts were theresult of suggestions from the

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; Robert Montgomery; William Oakes; Deborah Follman

management tasks using an appropriate computer tool,§ Work effectively and ethically as a member of a technical team, and§ Develop a work ethic appropriate for the engineering profession.The syllabus is a coordinated mix of introduction to engineering fundamentals, including graphicalrepresentation, statistics, and economics, and introduction to computer tools used to solveengineering problems, specifically MATLAB and Excel. ENGR 106 has two 50-minute lecturesand one 2-hour computer laboratory period per week. The lectures focus on fundamentalengineering concepts and problem solving. The labs are organized into a series of four or fivetasks that are completed either by teams of four students or individual students, as specified by theinstructors

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Hallacher

laboratories that are advancingunderstanding of this new field of science and engineering. The Pennsylvania NMT (Nanofabrication Manufacturing Technology) partnershipwas established in 1998 as a state government response to the nanotechnology workforceand research needs of industry. Its guiding principle, since its inception has been thesharing of the Penn State Nanofabrication Facility, a NSF National NanofabricationUsers Network (NNUN) site, with educational institutions across Pennsylvania. TheNMT Partnership has grown into a unique team effort involving over 30 institutions ofhigher education, secondary schools including vocational-technical schools, and privateindustry. The NMT Partnership has firmly established Pennsylvania as the

Conference Session

Engineering Education; An International Perspective

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lori Cirucci; Joseph Santoro; John Coulter; Herman Nied; David Angstadt; Charles Smith

, material deformation processes,molding processes, and joining. A large range of material types is discussed including metals,polymers, composites, glasses, and ceramics. In addition, other critical areas such asmeasurement and inspection, quality control, product quality optimization, production systems,and manufacturing economics are explored. The lectures are provided to the students in anelectronic format that enables significant student discussion and active participation in theclassroom, as opposed to note taking. Short in-class quizzes are routinely given during lecture toensure that students are keeping up with the subject matter.The classroom learning is augmented by hands-on laboratory experiences that students completeeach week during