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Student Teams and Active Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Camilla Saviz; Kurt Schulz

learning. Through close interaction with teammates,with other students working on different projects, and with the instructor, they worktowards understanding and applying the theory, techniques and skills necessary tocomplete the project; hopefully successfully.References[1] American Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) Engineering Accreditation Commission,Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, Baltimore, MD, 2003. (accessed at www.abet.org)[2] Wankat, P. C., and P. S. Oreovicz, Teaching Engineering. McGraw-Hill, NY, 1993.[3] Lyons, J., and E. F. Young, "Developing a Systems Approach to Engineering Problem Solving andDesign of Experiments in a Racecar-Based Laboratory Course", Journal of Engineering Education, pp.109-112, January

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dennis Silage

of theseaugmented digital communication laboratories, the undergraduate student is seemingly wellprepared for advanced study.AssessmentThe undergraduate digital communications laboratory has used simulations to supplement therequisite hardware laboratory for well over a decade. Therefore, the efficacy of the use ofsimulation cannot be assessed directly. However, Departmental course feedback surveys areused to gauge the response of the student to this approach for the communications laboratory,with questions such as: “What do the hardware laboratory experiments teach you?” and “Howdo the simulation experiments help to explain the results observed in the hardware experiment?”.AcknowledgementElanix, Inc. (www.elanix.com) supports the use of

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Manufacturing Systems Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Devdas Shetty

in the lectures or in the laboratory practices orboth. Due to recent technological advances in computer technology and software, it is nowfeasible to implement more advanced, more efficient, highly interactive and very user -friendlysystems without using expensive custom-written software and tools. In the laboratoryapplications, from the technical point of view, all the engineering problems deal with somephysical quantities such as temperature, speed, position, current, voltage, pressure, force, torque,etc. A computer equipped with the suitable interface circuits, data acquisition systems andsoftware, can give a visual look to these quantities, and can process the acquired data. [2]In this paper, a model of teaching and learning experiences

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Cameron; Rosalyn Hobson; Gary Huvard

Session 1417 A Multidisciplinary Dynamic Systems Curriculum Timothy M. Cameron, Rosalyn S. Hobson, Gary S. Huvard Virginia Commonwealth UniversityAbstractFaculty in Chemical, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering collaborated in developing a newcourse, “Process and System Dynamics,” and new dynamic systems laboratory exercises that canbe used in a variety of courses and disciplines. The objective was to educate students in thefundamentals of dynamic systems and expose them to a broad diversity of applications indifferent disciplines. The labs are largely complete and are being used by

Conference Session

Related Engineering Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Bowman

and scientific programming languages. However, the CAD tools andprogramming languages themselves do not warrant dedicated courses for the purpose of learningtheir use.RIT has implemented studio style classrooms within the Electrical Engineering Department,similar in function to those at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). This arrangementcombines lecture, recitation, computer, and laboratory activities in one “studio” facility andprovides the opportunity to adopt a hands-on approach to teaching electronics and circuits.22,23,24The rooms are also equipped with multimedia systems, 100 base-T Ethernet connections, andIEEE 488 control of instruments to enable virtual laboratory approaches such as web-basedinteractive learning modules.25 The

Conference Session

Nuclear Waste and the Environment

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2003 Annual Conference

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Lynn Katz; Donna O'Kelly; Sheldon Landsberger

Engineering Groundwater Nuclear and Radiation Eng. Program Nuclear Engineering Teaching Lab Soil Leaching National Laboratories Dynamics Radiochemistry Lab Techniques Figure 1. Overview of Interdisciplinary Graduate Radiochemistry ProgramSpecific objectives of the proposed program include: 1. Develop an integrated curriculum that offers courses within three programs and exposes graduate students to a variety of technical areas in nuclear and radiation engineering, environmental and water resources

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; Joseph Morgan

be integrated into the course and used to transform the laboratory-oriented courses to this new learning environment. An issue that has not been addressedat the present is the faculty time required to administer a web-based laboratory. It isexpected that the time teaching assistants currently spend in the lab will be leveraged intomaintaining the distance learning laboratory and communicating with students aboutprojects. It is also anticipated that faculty time that is now lumped into lecture time andoffice hours will become more distributed in one-on-one interactions with the student. Itis expected that this will become a faculty loading problem that will need to be solvedeventually.In addition, the Internet accessible mobile platform is

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Emmanuel Ugo Enemuoh

factorial experimental design having three or more independentvariables with replications. Three examples of final projects conducted by the students are: 1. Machinability Characterization of 6061-T6 Aluminum Alloy. 2. Effect of recycling on mechanical and physical properties of molded thermoplastics. 3. Test and Characterization of impact behavior of metals.IV. DiscussionThis approach of teaching manufacturing processes bridges the gap between theory andpractice that many students encounter in many engineering programs. The laboratory exercisesare designed to maintain the learning interest of students who are more practical thantheoretical oriented. In some cases where the lab on a particular process is executed beforethe lecture, students

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Kuennen; James Pocock

Classroom Front Office Organization Computers, Printing, Logons, and E-mail Faculty Development Resources Core Course Overview Practice Teaching Selection/Lesson Preparation Cadet Advisor Orientation Core Course Lesson Topics Laboratory Safety Briefing Department Honor Liaison Officer Practice Teaching – Lesson Preparation Practice Teaching – Lessons Department Team-Building Exercise Tour of Field Engineering & Readiness Laboratory (FERL) Department Meeting Table 1. Department New Instructor Orientation Topics Figure 1. Department Members during Ropes Course Team-Building Exercise Page 8.401.3Proceedings of the 2003

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Instructional Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Cramer; Nancy Ciezki; Hussain Bahia

teachingthe details of standard test methods of construction materials. It explains the steps by which a setof videos and text were developed to offer engineering students an opportunity to visualizedetails of testing materials and assess their knowledge at the time they choose using the internet.The benefits gained by integrating these tools, such as reduced time for laboratory sessions,standardization of the quality of the teaching process, and more effective use of hands-on Page 8.1260.1 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Dalton; Daniel Stutts

Education 1It is generally accepted that learners retain much more knowledge from direct experience thanthey do from the standard lecture format [1, 2]. However, with the continuing trend ofengineering curricular contraction (UMR recently adopted a uniform 128 hour engineeringcurriculum which reduced the ME curriculum by five semester hours) it is difficult to introducenew laboratories to complement traditional lecture courses. Hence, to address the need for more“hands on” experiences in ME279, we created a “mini-lab” experience for students that requiredthem to apply what they learned during the first nine chapters of Norman Nise’s controls text [3]in a laboratory setting. This new project format gave the students a chance to augment

Conference Session

Instrumentation in the Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Swaminadham Midturi

Applications A single instructor with an electronics background and who has previousexperience in teaching non-electronics majors will deliver the course content in lectureformat for the combined group of students. Two faculty members, one with an electronicsbackground and the other with a mechanical background, will run the laboratory sessionsin separate sections with different emphasis to benefit individual groups. Lab Viewsessions will be common to both students. The strategy to adopt two different laboratory sessions and a common lectureformat is to provide a balanced perspective for all majors on instrumentation practices andyet provide an opportunity to take up challenging, individual hands-on, laboratoryassignments to match the

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Novel Courses for CHEs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski

on processimprovement and automation, which has resulted in a shortage of employees with technical skills[2] . Engineers, thus, play an important and expanding role in this exciting field, yet undergraduatechemical engineering students are rarely exposed to food engineering. This course developedand integrated applied food engineering coursework and food chemistry experiments to providestudents with the skills directly relevant to the evolving needs of the food processing industry. Rowan University is pioneering a progressive engineering program that uses innovativemethods of teaching and learning to prepare students for a rapidly changing and highlycompetitive marketplace, as recommended by ASEE [3]. Rowan Engineering is

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Rose

first on the exams, followed by written and numerical assignments. Theinstructor continued covering new material in both classes, however, no additional assignments,other than laboratory reports, were assigned through the end of the semester.Possible AlternativesAt many institutions, alternatives exist for providing instructional materials online. The Universityof Pittsburgh provides faculty access to CourseInfo v. 3.0, the online course management systemfrom Blackboard, Inc. The author had attended a one-day workshop in 2000 introducingCourseInfo. Limited use by other faculty within the Engineering Technology Division and theamount of time required to prepare materials, resulted in the author not incorporating CourseInfointo his teaching at

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Trends in Mechanics Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alan Zehnder

Session 1168 Virtual Labs, Real Data for Statics and Mechanics of Materials Peeyush Bhargava1, Christine Cunningham2, Michael Tolomeo1, and Alan Zehnder1 1 Cornell University / 2Tufts UniversityIntroduction Hands-on laboratory experience is a key element in learning the concepts of engineeringmechanics. Laboratory sessions provide examples that students can see, feel and hear, andprovide an alternate mode of learning to those for whom reading the textbook or hearing lectureis insufficient. Labs are also used to introduce data analysis, report writing, finding empiricalcorrelations

Conference Session

Three P's in Introduction to Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jon Marvel; Charles Standridge

courses have fundamentally different objectives and educationalrequirements. The previous course was focused on a laboratory-based experience in engineeringstatistics. The redesigned course focuses on engineering measurement techniques. Thefundamental strategy change is to teach how engineers acquire and use data. Thus the statistics istaught in the context of its engineering application and not in isolation merely as a usefulmethodology.After the initial offering of the redesigned course, students were asked to provide feedback on thecourse design. The student feedback was positive and indicated that the significant amount ofhands-on data collection and use of laboratory equipment were important elements inunderstanding statistical analysis

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing Engineering Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hata

Instructional Resources for a Technician-Level Plasma Technology Course David M. Hata Portland Community CollegeAbstractText materials, training systems, and supporting laboratory exercises have been developedby Portland Community College to support a technician-level course in plasmatechnology. Faculty workshops are planned for 2003 and 2004 to equip communitycollege faculty to teach technician-level courses in plasma technology. The project isfunded through an Advanced Technological Education Program grant from the NationalScience Foundation.IntroductionPlasma technology, although not as pervasive in the wafer fab as vacuum technology

Conference Session

Current Issues in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Jantzi; Xiannong Meng; Maurice Aburdene

stack [5, 13]. Hardware exercises may include building a network from a collection ofindividual pieces of hardware such as cables, connectors, network cards, computers and routers[1, 2].Comer [5] describes a large set of laboratory exercises that can be used in various networkingenvironments, with an emphasis on Internet programming and the protocol stack. Al-Holou [3]suggests using simulation tools as a supplement to computer network curriculum, with theadvantage of such tool being the flexibility, allowing the instructor to alter network parameters,hardware and software with relative ease. Hill and Mayo [8, 10] present cases where an isolatednetwork is needed to teach network security issues. Abraham, Bressan, Francia, and Mengel [1,4, 7, 11

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Innovations in Nuclear Infrastructure & Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Loveland; Wade Richards; Sue Clark; Steven Reese; Stephen Binney; Kathryn Higley; John Bennion; Edward Morse; James Elliston

beam port shortly after construction of thebeam hall has been completed. Other equipment purchases (i.e., crane control upgrades, facilitypower modifications, reactor control modifications, etc.) will take up the remainder of the fundsbudgeted for reactor equipment this fiscal year. Construction of irradiation facilities for BeamPorts #1 and #2 is planned over the next three years.WNSA funds will also be used to upgrade and refurbish nuclear instrumentation used inundergraduate and graduate teaching laboratories at the OSU Radiation Center. To facilitate thisprocess, Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics, Chemistry, and Radiation Center staffhave reviewed the operational status of existing equipment and discussed equipment

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

H. Scott Fogler; Michael Cutlip; C. Stewart Slater

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationPurpose of the Summer SchoolThe main purpose of the Summer School for Chemical Engineering Faculty is to disseminateinnovative and effective teaching methods to a wide spectrum of primarily new chemicalengineering faculty who will be teaching courses and laboratories in undergraduate programs.Additionally, the Summer School introduces new faculty to a number of promising researchareas in which concepts, principles, problems, and laboratory experiments can be incorporatedinto undergraduate coursework. The Summer School also brings new faculty together with midcareer and senior faculty to discuss educational

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafael Rodriguez-Solis; Rafael Medina; Jose Colom

Session 2632 INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING: A NEW FRESHMAN COURSE AT UPR-MAYAGUEZ José G. Colom-Ustáriz, Rafael Medina, Rafael Rodrígez Solís University of Puerto Rico at MayaguezI. IntroductionA course introducing electrical engineering to freshman students has been created at Universityof Puerto Rico Mayaguez (UPRM). The course consists of one-hour lecture followed by a twohours lab experience once a week. The students are introduced to five areas of specializationthrough discussion of basic concepts in class and real life applications in the laboratory. Thelaboratory

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mysore Narayanan

Session No. 1460 T.Q.M. IN THE CLASSROOM Mysore Narayanan Miami UniversityAbstractThe author re-examines university teaching strategies to support teaching innovations andclassroom excellence. He has applied some of the principles of Total QualityManagement to classroom teaching with a view to facilitate better classroommanagement and increased student participation. The author reports on his findingswhile applying a set of twenty principles to teach a senior level engineering course.These twenty principles were developed using the landmark work established byW. Edwards Deming. Deming

Conference Session

Current Issues in Information Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Brzoska; Atsushi Inoue; Min-Sung Koh; William Loendorf

Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in1999. He was a researcher at Hitachi Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd., Japan, from 1990 to 1996. He iscurrently active on teaching, thesis advising, curriculum development and applied research of ArtificialIntelligence and Cyber Security. Page 8.395.11 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Physics in the K-16 Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Turner; Glenn Ellis

their learning, Providing sample quizzes and tests for self-assessment with guidelines to help students develop their own assessment tools. Requiring students to keep portfolios of their learning (beginning Spring 2003)Example Curriculum Application: Riding an ElevatorTo illustrate how we teach dynamics in our curriculum, we will present curriculum elementsrelated to an elevator laboratory used to teach Newton’s second law in secondary school. Wehave also used a similar version of the laboratory in an undergraduate physics course. We feelthat several points are critical in this laboratory. First, it is essential for students to understandthat the purpose of the elevator laboratory is to better understand all motion; the

Conference Session

K-20 Activities in Materials Science

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Bill Elmore

improved mathematics and sciencepreparation and problem solving skills of our students today. It is our belief that part of theproblem with K-12 science education is that teachers do not know how to relate the science theyare teaching to real world experiences. To deal with that issue, we created a new three-hourcourse in engineering problem solving specifically designed for education majors. They areshown how to solve real world engineering problems and how to teach such subject matter totheir own future students.Using the theme “Our Material World”, the authors integrated concepts involving the physical,mechanical and chemical behavior of materials as a means to teach engineering problem solvingskills. Through the use of frequent laboratory

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Biswajit Ray

directly benefit those students participating in the assessment.The learning and teaching objectives for the course are listed in the next page. A list ofquestions was prepared based on the stated objectives, and the survey was conducted during thethird, ninth, and fifteenth week of the semester.Course FormatThis three-credit course meets for two one-hour lectures and one three-hour laboratory per week.The first three weeks of the fifteen-week semester are primarily devoted to LabVIEWprogramming. During the next eight weeks, the concepts and integration of sensor andtransducers, interface electronics, data acquisition and instrument control hardware/software arecovered. The final four weeks are reserved for student-initiated laboratory design

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Davis; Wayne Sarasua

than ideal.Geomatics Course TopicsTopics covered in the Geomatics course and associated laboratories are summarized in Table 1.Additional discussion of the topics is presented in the following sections. The course can betaught as a 3-unit 15-week semester course (includes 14 2-hour laboratories) or a 4-unit 10-weekquarter course (includes 9 3-hour laboratories). Optimal class size would be in the range of 50students or less for lecture, with laboratories comprised of 15 students or less allowingapproximately five three-student lab crews, depending on equipment constraints. Larger classesare viable with additional teaching assistant resources. Currently, Clemson teaches a singlesection of a maximum of 72 students with 3 laboratories of 24

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

ZT DENG; Xiaoqing (Cathy) Qian; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo; Zhengtao Deng

) Homework assignments, (2) Quizzes, (3) Exams, (4) Class Attendance, (5) Design Project and laboratory written reports, (6) Design Project Oral Presentation, (7) Computer Simulation using FORTRAN, C, MatLab, Labview, (8) Prototype development, (9) Laboratory Testing / Project teamwork. (10) Course assessment (by students), (11) Instructor’s teaching performance evaluation (by students

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Thompson; William Riffe; Laura Rust; Brenda Lemke; B. Lee Tuttle; Henry Kowalski; Douglas Melton; Lucy King; Jacqueline El-Sayed

managerial pole. Potential departmental barriers are discussed andpossible ways of quenching faculty and departmental traditional cultures are introduced. Thestructure for the lecture and laboratory sessions, the timing, the logistics of shuffling studentsfrom one area to the next are ironed out. Common times for lecture and labs are established.Students also work in teams to perform projects. Students are evaluated in the separatedisciplinary areas as well as on a final integrated project where they are asked to combine aspectsof mechanical design with electronic control and manufacturing processes. The assessmentprocess will also be described. Fun objects are used in the laboratories, such as; battery operatedmechanically animated pig

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Stephan; Vedaraman Sriraman

thenconnected into the rest of the system and replaces the former maze of interconnected fixed-function MSI chips. While it is too ambitious to teach students anything substantial aboutmicroprocessors in a course of this scope without neglecting other important topics, our ultimategoal at the end of this enhancement project is to involve students in computer-based design,simulation, and execution of digital logic circuits and systems. By the end of the project, we planto introduce PLD-related lectures and laboratories using Quartus II® software and PLD hardwarefrom Altera Corporation.1 As a first move in this direction, during step 1 we introduced the useof computers for digital circuit analysis with MultiSim® general-purpose electronics