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TIME 8: Materials, MEMS, and Nano

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ben Rogers

disciplines take a departure course in which theseblocks are introduced. They continue working toward majors in their own departments beforereturning for a design and synthesis course at the senior and graduate student levels. This course,developed at the University of Nevada, Reno, is entitled “Nanotechnology System Design andSynthesis.” It is an integrated microtechnology/ nanotechnology course in which the five blocksare reinforced and expanded upon, drawing on students’ new knowledge in their respectivedisciplines, while at the same time challenging them to apply their knowledge to a real-worldnanotechnology system design. The senior-level course serves as the capstone experience coursefor a newly created nanotechnology minor, and a graduate

Conference Session

ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heinz Luegenbiehl; Kathryn Neeley; Jerry Gravander

approaches to integrating humanities andsocial science content to make capstone engineering design courses more “real world” and lessabstracted from the context of engineering practice, a history replete with many failures and afew long-term successes. A constant throughout, however, is the recognition that the humanitiesand social sciences are essential for helping students understand not only the messiness of the“real world” but also the ways that components of very different types interact in complexsystems. A full understanding of the integration of humanities and social sciences content incapstone design courses requires a systematic approach, beginning with the identification ofparticular instances of successful integration, and then

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

top of the storage tank buoyancy force. As thehot water leaves the heat exchanger, cold water is added from the bottom of the storage tank tothe bottom of the heat exchanger. In this arrangement, whenever refrigerant flows in the coilwater circulates between the water heater and the storage tank. Figure 1: Schematic of the thermo-siphon heat recovery systemII. The Design ProcessThe design process that the students follow in the capstone senior design project is the oneoutlined by Bejan et al. [3] and Jaluria [4]. The first essential and basic feature of this process isthe formulation of the problem statement. The formulation of the design problem statementinvolves determining the requirements of the system, the given

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Arron Pabst; Stephen Williams

design ofthe control system is presented in detail with particular emphasis on the event-driven programstructure.IntroductionThis paper describes a capstone electrical engineering technology (EET) senior projectaccomplished as a joint effort between the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) and theMilwaukee School of Engineering. The project was funded by grants from the NationalInstitutes of Health. The two-quarter project consists of an independent study to form abackground into the methods and hardware involved in EPR systems, with a second quarterdevoted to software development of the actual control system.The goal of the project is to provide control capability by way of a LabVIEW virtual instrumentutilizing GPIB connectivity. The

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Dillard

, two senior design groups are using theprogrammers to develop subsystems in their capstone projects.Table 4. Selected Statistics from Survey 2Question ResponseI have a clear idea of the skills I must master to have the career I want. 3.7 / 5I know which classes in my curriculum will provide those skills. 3.8 / 5I prefer working with the PICkitTM to a tradition course structure. 4.3 / 5 TMOwning a PICkit , I can envision projects I would like to pursue. 3.4 / 5Creating a functional prototype changes my perspective from academic to career. 3.3 / 5Conclusions A method for teaching computer systems for both

Conference Session

ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Healy

chapters has a discussion of the issue in question followed by anumber of problems or cases that students can be assigned.Of the eleven above issues we have added three, usability, compassion and lifelonglearning. The other eight are the issues specified by ABET in Criterion Four of EC2000.ABET requires that these issues be addressed in senior capstone projects. We added Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Page 9.45.2usability to the list because we believe that it is

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electromechanical Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Satyajit Verma

. Instructorsand students in both programs can demonstrate key engineering and technical principles andconduct laboratory exercises on the Process Bench. It has sufficient simplicity, flexibility andversatility so that it can be redesigned or modified quickly to accommodate project work invarious courses including Capstone projects.AcknowledgementsThanks to Dr. J. T. Coppinger and Dr. R. Bachnak in the Engineering Technology Program atTAMU-CC for valuable discussions on the Process Bench.Bibliography1. Department of Chemical Technology, Brazosport College, www.brazosport.cc.tx.us.2. Process Operator Technology Program, The Victoria College, www.vc.cc.tx.us/programs/workforce/ptech.html.3. Applied Fluid Mechanics, R. L. Mott, Fifth Edition, Prentice Hall

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yaakov Varol; William Sparkman; Walt Johnson; Nancy LaTourrette; Jesse Adams; Jeffrey LaCombe; Gary Norris; Ellen Jacobson; Norma Velasquez-Bryant; John Kleppe; Pamela Cantrell; Eric Wang; Ted Batchman

Session 2171 First Year Engineering Experience Initiative1 E. Wang, N. Velasquez-Bryant, J. Adams, T. Batchman, P. Cantrell, E. Jacobson, W. Johnson, J. Kleppe, J. LaCombe, N. LaTourrette, G. Norris, W. Sparkman, and Y. Varol University of Nevada, RenoAbstractThis project is one of nine projects supported by the Hewlett Foundation’s Engineering Schoolsof the West Initiative. At the University of Nevada, Reno the College of Engineering and theCollege of Education are working together on the 5-year project: The First Year

Conference Session

TIME 2: Laboratories

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jed Lyons

; Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for EngineeringComparison of pre- and post-course survey results indicate that the problem based learningapproach does address higher-level learning outcomes such as devising an experimentalapproach, specifying appropriate equipment and procedures, and implementing these procedures.It is important to note that other experiments performed by the students during the course areimportant in developing the their abilities to design the load cell experiment. The survey resultspresented here reflect the changes in student attitudes due to all of these experiences, the loadcell project being the capstone event. These results do provide encouragement for a purposelydesigned research

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

H. Joel Lenoir

the systematic application of the basic sciences, mathematics and engineering sciences to generate and evaluate specifications for systems, components, or processes. • The form and function of the design must achieve defined objectives and satisfy consumer constraints. • Design should include aspects of creativity, complexity, and iterative decision-making to optimize a solution, and compromise between multiple, and sometimes conflicting, requirements .3,4,5ME 101 is the starting point for the Design Plan. It is the first of four designated design courses6across the four years of the ME curriculum before the capstone design course. The Wobblerassignment attempts to meet the three attributes

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Wentzheimer; Jennifer VanAntwerp; Gayle Ermer; Steven VanderLeest

students apply to enter a concentration. They alsohave the opportunity to interact with students who will pursue a different concentration. Cohortsof students in a specific concentration are not established until the junior year.Our capstone course sequence, the Senior Design Project, is in many ways typical of mostengineering programs’ capstone courses. However, all engineering students take the same twocourses. These courses are team taught by engineering professors, one from each of the fourconcentrations. Thus, the student is provided with exposure to senior level work across the broadspectrum of engineering. In addition, interdisciplinary project teams are commonly formed.5.5 Fundamentals of an Engineering Sub-DisciplineObviously, someone

Conference Session

Creative Ways to Present Basic Materials

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Hisham Hegab

students cameup with a variety of designs. These designs were converted to digital drawings by a graduatestudent. Their second project was to design a nose cone that could fit on a model rocket. On thelast class day there was a contest to see whose model rocket design would go the highest.This concept was also introduced to 7th and 8th grade students who attended a series of “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Page 9.808.1 Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”math/science/engineering summer camps. For this age group the system was

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Waters

progress at the time of writing this paper. One such project involves thedevelopment of an extensive database of high-speed vessel experimental model tank test dataand analyses. This database is being designed, populated, tested and used in coordination withan innovative design tool also developed by ACCeSS team members. The development of thisdatabase and design tool is being lead by the Stevens Institute team members; the database anddesign tool will soon be “beta-tested” by UCL Masters program students, at which time thestudents will employ it into their capstone design process.Other projects currently underway include the development of Control and Automation systemsfor marine collision and obstacle avoidance. Two students and a faculty member

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

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Joanne DeGroat; Jeffery Radigan; Jeff McCune; Andrew O'Brien; James Beams; Matt Gates; Craig Morin; John Demel; Richard Freuler

course focuses primarily on the planning, execution, management, documentation,and presentation of an engineering design/build project.The ENG H193 design project is a focal point for the FEH program. In many respects, thisfreshman design project course is comparable to a junior level or senior "capstone" design coursein which a student might participate as part of the requirements for his chosen engineeringdiscipline. A major difference is that the first-year ENG H193 course teaches the variousplanning, management, 4 documentation, 5 and presentation aspects of a design project, whereasmany senior level design projects focus on the specific design problem alone, assuming someprior instruction in or knowledge of what is needed for a complete and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dominic Halsmer

10. Professional Development Plan to Address Areas of Improvement 11. Application for Candidacy Capstone Level Professional Level1. Engineering Economics Paper 1. Exit Interview Questionnaire2. Senior Project Report 2. Grad School Advisor Survey3. Video Clip of Project Presentation 3. Employer Survey4. Self-evaluation of Presentation 4. Alumni Survey5. Reflection on Presentation6. Revised Resume7. FE Exam Results8. Two Professional References

Conference Session

Opportunities in Environmental Engineering Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Butkus

. For example, EV490, the capstone designcourse, provides the most coverage, has the highest ED credit, and is offered during the eighthterm. Selected design projects are addressed below. Students in Water Resources work as members of a design team to develop solutions tospecific water resource problems using information and techniques learned in the course. Thedesign project requires students to contact governmental or private agencies; conduct a literaturesearch; complete an annotated bibliography; develop a proposal; and complete a design proposal.The project serves as an outreach opportunity to local communities and it emphasizes theplanning and design guidance set forth by NEPA. Student teams must develop viable alternativesto

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Paper Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Ellis; Susannah Howe; Donna Riley

’ preparation in ethics will enhance theirability to think through the issues in the course.G. Engineering Design ClinicIn our inaugural capstone course, students work in teams of 4 to undertake a real-world designproject sponsored by an industry and/or government organization. Required for all seniorengineering majors, the year-long Design Clinic provides students the chance to apply theirtechnical skills in a team-based, design setting. Projects for the 2003-2004 academic yearinclude collaborations with the Ford Motor Company, GE Plastics, Metcalf and Eddy, theMITRE Corporation, and the City of Northampton. The project component of the class issupplemented by weekly seminars, often with invited speakers, to present and discuss topicsrelated to design

Conference Session

IE Accreditation and Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Jayant Rajgopal; Bryan Norman; Bopaya Bidanda; Kim Needy

. Experiences Senior Capstone Project Outside the Classroom Integration Across •Co-op Courses •Internships Localization/Globalization Problem

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering/Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Norton

; rehabilitation andmaintenance; and financial and reliability analysis, the students were turned off by the focus on a“civil engineering” project. The “Mission to Mars” theme was then chosen to explicitly link thecourse to as many engineering disciplines as possible. The students in the MEPO course learnedfrom the experience of other Mars student projects on campus including the robust “Mars Rover”student team and the proposed Mars-focused senior capstone design course.Michigan Mars Rover TeamThe College of Engineering houses several active student teams including the Michigan MarsRover Team. The Rover project is an extracurricular activity with all work done outside of class.The Team consists of students from most engineering departments and from all

Conference Session

Current Issues in Aerospace Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alfred Striz

; and two three-hour ‘Engineering Practice I and II’offerings. In order to keep our curriculum to the desirable 128 hours, only ‘Engineering PracticeI’ was added while the ‘Engineering Practice II’ material will be covered in the capstone designcourses, which will include projects proposed and sponsored by industry.Requirement #5: Return Old Engineering Core Courses to SchoolsIn a long standing agreement between the various CoE Schools, certain engineering core courseshad been taught by faculty members from given Schools for all CoE students that required thematerial. Since more and more Schools left this agreement to substitute their own specializedcourses, the core courses will now revert back to the respective Schools. This means that

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

theresults are presented in the paper. Both studies produced similar conclusions.Evaluation of Team Produced Artifacts in an Innovative Design EnvironmentAn experiment was conducted in fall 2002 in the sophomore design class in theDepartment of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston to assess the skillsof young engineering students in evaluating the artifacts that resulted from the majorclass project for the semester. The 41 students self-selected into 13 teams. All teams hadfour members except for one three-member team. These artifacts resulted from a two-month long, team project: design, build and test. This project was the major componentof the course grade (50%). The “value” (or quality) of the artifact itself represented 20%of the

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Duesing; David McDonald

, 1997.4. Bohmann, L.J. et. al. “Redefining the Introductory Electrical Energy Conversion Course,” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 1998. NSF ESC 9619320.5. Schmaltz, P., Schmaltz, K., Duesing and Goodrich, “A Capstone Senior Engineering Design Course: A Project Case Study and Its Subsequent History,” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 2001.6. Schmaltz, Duesing, Anderson and Zoerner, “Lessons Learned from Teaching Industry-Based Senior Projects,” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 2001.7. McDonald, D., Schmaltz, K. and Walworth, M., “The Development of an Innovative Undergraduate Laboratory That Emphasizes Vertical Integration In Multiple Engineering Curricula,” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, 1999.8. Mahajan, A., Walworth

Conference Session

Minorities in Research

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michel Reece; Carl White

: Allow the students to participate in independent research with minimal to no guidance from a graduate student Allow the students to participate in independent/ self-motivated training (if needed) Link research project completion with graduate school participation Encourage individual learning and development Encourage students to train lower level students Assist student with graduate program selectionAt this level, students become full participants in independent research. The students’research at this level can be utilized as a senior capstone project or can be developed intoa future master’s project. Figure 1 summarizes the research and training embeddedcurriculum. This

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in MFG ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacob Chen; Joseph Chen

% 5 Professional Ethics 85% Development of the CurriculumThis project considered the industry’s demands and the effects of those demands onfuture employees in order to improve teaching methods and curricula in communitycollege manufacturing education programs. A goal-driven strategy was used throughoutthe development of the curriculum to effectively build the necessary components thatwould hold all the important design concepts and parametric solid modeling (PSM) toolstogether with a logical sequence to allow students to learn while reaching the final goal.The capstone that pulls all the materials in the curriculum together is a DFM (design formanufacturability) final team project. In

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Steve Menhart

theapplication of C for microcontroller programming are included4,5. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section Conference ConclusionsThe transition of this course from assembly language to C programming has proved very popularwith students. A minimal number of Motorola assembly language instructions are stillintroduced in the course. Once students understand some basic fundamental concepts, they canrealize the full potential of programming a microcontroller using C. Most of our students decideto use the 9S12 microcontroller in their capstone senior design project course, allowing them totackle larger problems

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Taner Eskil; Mark Urban-Lurain; Marilyn Amey; Timothy Hinds; Jon Sticklen

Department of Computer Science and Engineering at MichiganState University. He has had a strong research record in computer science research, specifically in knowledge-basedsystems. His main contributions have been in the theory and application of principled approaches to knowledge-based systems following a school of thought known as “task specific approaches.”Timothy Hinds is an academic specialist in the MSU Department of Mechanical Engineering. He teachesundergraduate courses in machine design and statics as well as advises senior engineering student teams working onindustrially sponsored capstone design projects. He also teaches a senior-level undergraduate international designproject course and has taught graduate-level courses in innovation

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Obadiah Ritchey; John Clark; Jim White; Tim White; David Barnhart; Jerry Sellers

, andExcellence in all we do). To support that mission, we firmly believe in “learning space by doingspace.” Every student graduating with an Astronautical Engineering degree completes acapstone design project, either a satellite design (FalconSAT) or rocket design(FalconLAUNCH) effort.FalconSAT provides students an opportunity to participate in the design, build, test, and/ormission execution of real microsatellites that perform DoD missions. FalconLAUNCH providesan opportunity for students to design, build, test and launch payload-capable sounding rockets.Before students can participate in either of these capstone engineering design courses, spacesystems and rocket design issues must be well understood through prerequisite classroomexperiences. The

Conference Session

TIME 6: Web-based Instruction

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James G. Brasseur; Laura L. Pauley

Engineeringprogram at Penn State.1. The Learning Factory brings hands-on experiences to freshmen in the product dissection classes and to seniors in the capstone design courses. Students pursuing the Product Realization Minor are even more involved with the activities at the Learning Factory. The Society of Automotive Engineers also uses the facilities at the Learning Factory when building the Formula Car. The Learning Factory received the Boeing Educator Award in 1998 and has also participated in outreach to elementary and high school students including Take-Your- Daughter-to-Work Day.2. The senior capstone design projects are almost entirely sponsored by industry. Each student design team works on a unique project proposed by industry

Conference Session

The Fundamentals of Fun

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Brewer Stouffer; Jeffrey Russell

Session #1615 Making The Strange Familiar: Creativity and the Future of Engineering Education W. B. Stouffer, Jeffrey S. Russell, and Michael G. Oliva Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-MadisonIntroductionWhy does the perception persist that engineers are uncreative, or worse, do not need to tap intocreativity when most engineering projects demand creative or innovative approaches in thedesign of equipment, systems, and facilities? With the complexity surrounding everyengineering project mounting as natural resources dwindle, the world population

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Maria M. Larrondo Petrie

and measurable, and the most significant causes of poorquality and productivity are controlled or eliminated.The first CMM model developed was the Capability Maturity Model for Software (SW-CMM).Its use enhances the capabilities of the software development organization to deliver software ontime, within cost, and meeting the objectives of the system and the customer. This documentedsuccess resulted in the proliferation of CMM-based models to improve engineering processes, Page 9.1316.1which in 1998, prompted industry, the US government, and the SEI to begin the CapabilityMaturity Model Integration6 (CMMI) project to provide a single