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Capstone Mechanical Engineering Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Yves Mercadier; Pierre Vittecoq; Patrik Doucet; Jean-Sébastien Plante; Francois Charron; Yves Van Hoenacker

undergraduate curriculum. The students work on the sameproject during the last four terms of their program (more than two calendar years as a result ofthe work terms). They receive 12 credits for their design project work.This paper presents our ten years of experience in using design projects as a tool for teachingengineering design. It also sets out our development plan for teaching engineering design overthe next five years. NSERC (National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada)Engineering Design Chair will support these future developments.2.0 ENGINEERING DESIGN PROJECTS 2.1 1992 to 1994 - Pilot Program in Engineering DesignFollowing a literature review on the use of design projects as a tool for teaching engineeringdesign in other

Conference Session

Balancing Personal and Professional Life

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Penny Knoll; Lisa Bullard; Ann Saterbak

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition CopyrightÓ 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationWill you ever pursue a tenure-track position? “At the end of the most intense laboratory course Iteach, one student asked me, ‘How will you ever get tenure when you spend so much time withus?’ I explained that I did not do research and thus could devote most of my time to teaching. Ialso explained that I will never get tenure unless the criteria for tenure at Rice Universitychanges. Some days I think I should get tenure for my contributions in bioengineeringeducation, and maybe at another university it could happen. Together with two colleagues, Ihave a contract with Prentice Hall to develop the content of the

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconected World

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Ratnajeevan Hoole; Dushyanthi Hoole

education, is vitiated, particularly for women and thepoor and more particularly in the physical sciences where women do especially badly, by thenecessary laboratory, quiz and examination components that cannot be offered in distance mode.The solution we have come up with is as follows: 1. Use web-based teaching 6 so that students, communicating over the Internet, do not have to come to meet their teachers. Further, the attendant peer-interaction over the network will diminish the prospects of failure. 2. Redesign traditional experiments so that they can be done at home through home-kits7 and thereby obviate the need to come to a central campus for laboratory sessions. 3. Use the opportunity of using the web to make women

Conference Session

What's in Store for the ChE Curriculum?

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2002 Annual Conference

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Helen Hollein; Nada Assaf-Anid

Biopharmaceuticals,” Chemical & Engineering News, August 12, 1996, pp. 13-21. 7. P.A. Belter, E.L. Cussler, W.-S. Hu, Bioseparations: Downstream Processing for Biotechnology, John Wiley & Sons, New York (1988). 8. H.C. Hollein, C.S. Slater, R.L. D'Aquino, A.L. Witt, "Bioseparation via Cross Flow Membrane Filtration," Chemical Engineering Education, 29, pp. 86-93 (1995). 9. C.S. Slater, H.C. Hollein, “Educational Initiatives in Teaching Membrane Technology,” Desalination, 90, pp. 291-302 (1993). 10. T.D. Conlee, H.C. Hollein, C.H. Gooding, C.S. Slater, “Ultrafiltration of Dairy Products as a ChE Laboratory Experiment,” Chemical Engineering Education, 32, pp. 318-324 (1998). 11. M. Mulder, Basic Principles of Membrane Technology

Conference Session

ET Interdisciplinary Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Biswajit Ray

understanding ofelectronics to building a television to learning new technology innovations and breakthroughs.The course becomes interesting to students only when the subject material is discussed inrelation to real-world electronic gadgets as evidenced by the course-level assessment-improvement-verification feedback process. The course starts with basics of electricity and endswith microcomputer architecture, and encompasses significant hands-on circuit building andtesting throughout the semester. Details on curriculum, assessment, l aboratory exercises,teaching and laboratory methodologies, homework and textbook issues, and techniques that workas well as the ones that do not work are presented herein.IntroductionAn introductory electronics course as

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gilbert Wedekind; Chris Kobus

-upSchool of Engineering. He is responsible for the vast majority of course development as well as the development ofmost of the hands-on laboratory experiences integrated into every fluid and thermal science course. In addition to ahighly respected research program that has garnered half a dozen NSF Grants as well as a number of corporatesponsorships, Dr. Wedekind has received numerous teaching awards, including the 1992-93 Outstanding TeacherAward by ASEE, North Central Section.CHRISTOPHER J. KOBUSChris Kobus is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. (1998) from Oakland University. Dr. Kobus was hired by Oakland Universityin 1998 and is maintaining a

Conference Session

Building Bridges in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Djafar Mynbaev

expectedresults of the measurements. Another important factor that we emphasize to the students is theanalysis of the results. In doing the analysis, a student must compare the obtained results with thetheoretical predictions and with characteristics given in the manufacturer’s data sheet. Allmanufacturers’ data sheets that are necessary for the laboratory work are appended to ourlaboratory manual3. The analysis must also include a discussion of any discrepancies among theorypredictions, the manufacturer’s data, and the results of the actual measurements.References: 1. Djafar K. Mynbaev and Lowell L. Scheiner, Fiber-Optic Communications Technology, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2001. 2. Djafar K. Mynbaev, Survey About Teaching of

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Dunning

revisions in the course material reflect a shift in focus from typical machinetheory to motor system applications. We have decided to spend less time teaching students howto build machines and more time how to communicate with them and control them. This is indirect response to needs expressed by our Industrial Advisory Committee. As educators, we are often conflicted when balancing theoretical concepts with practicalapplications. We want to ensure that we cover sound basics and not just train students to operatespecific equipment. Our new laboratory experiments require a fair amount of training todemonstrate theoretical principles. This tradeoff is necessary to familiarize students with typicalequipment applications and communications

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Freeman; Rebecca Kellogg

opportunity to explore how we could teach this course more effectively.Innovative use of technology and media impacted not only what we were able to do in thelecture, but also the laboratories that are part of part of the course. The lectures were captureddigitally and made available using streaming video. This gives students flexibility in viewinglectures multiple times as they learn. Before this, students only had the option of viewing thecontent in a synchronous mode. One of the other powerful advantages of using technology wasthe ability to bring examples from the real world into the classroom. For example, in discussingfinite state machines the instructor did a remote session in front of a vending machine, whichillustrated the concepts using

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kim Blair; David W. Miller; David Darmofal; Col. Peter W. Young; Doris Brodeur

checklist has useful applications to higher education. The problem statementshould be grounded in student experience, be curriculum based, allow for a variety ofteaching and learning strategies and styles, be unconstrained, focus on a question, and beassessable. 9PBL in Aerospace Engineering at MITAbout five years ago, the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department at MIT launched anew strategic plan committing faculty and instructional staff to major curriculum reform.Program and learning outcomes were identified and validated with key constituent groups,new teaching and learning strategies were initiated, and laboratories and workshops werebuilt or re-modeled to emphasize student-centered education. Major resources, bothpersonnel time and funding

Conference Session

Issues of Concern to New Faculty

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Leach

surrounding area have a high concentration ofmanufacturing employment, from manufactured housing and recreational vehicles to musicalinstruments and pharmaceuticals. I have taught the course in the evenings, every fall semester,for three years. The course includes a lecture period and laboratory exercises. Most of thestudents are enrolled in the Mechanical Engineering Technology degree program, pursuing anAssociate of Science degree. Teaching in the evening at a regional location makes the course,and the entire degree program, available to students who would not otherwise have access to acomparable educational program. Many of the students work full-time and are older than thetraditional age for beginning undergraduate students.Course FormatAt the

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in BIO Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Nowak; Adrezin Ronald; Donald Leone

same level of depth as the more “traditional” engineering majors as the corebiomedical courses do not need to teach elementary engineering concepts. This follows thepyramid model of only teaching advanced concepts once the basics are understood, and notattempting to teach high level biomedical engineering concepts first.Traditional undergraduate engineering education, especially in Civil and MechanicalEngineering, allows a graduate to shift among different areas of expertise over their career due tothe similarity of fundamental principles. Using this approach, as well as the recent emphasis onengineering design throughout the four-year curriculum, the University of Hartford developed itsundergraduate Biomedical Engineering Program. During the

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mina Hoorfar; Homayoun Najjaran; William Cleghorn

development of a series of software programs that can be used byinstructors, teaching assistants, and students involved in the undergraduate curricula. Theprograms are primarily developed for the teaching purposes, but they can be used in distancelearning, student projects, research laboratories, and educational workshops. This paper presents Page 7.1001.1 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”two sample programs developed for two mechanical systems including mechanical vibrationsystems

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Carl Steidley; Stephen Dannelly

Session 2620 “Choo Choos”, Robots and Computer-Based Instrumentation for Students 1 R. Stephen Dannelly, Carl W. Steidley Texas A&M University – Corpus ChristiAbstract This paper describes a versatile and innovative active learning laboratory currently underdevelopment that will be used to teach a wide variety of computer science and mathematicssubjects. The laboratory, equipped with a model railroad system, autonomous mobile robots anda network of control computers, offers students hands-on experiences with hardware interfacing,data

Conference Session

Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Demel

Program (IEP) and the Freshman EngineeringHonors (FEH) Program. These new programs retain part of the traditional material but add inhands-on laboratory experiences that lead to reverse engineering and design/build projects. Therelational practices – teamwork and project management, along with report writing and oralpresentations and ethics have assumed important roles in this program. The programs aredesigned to have faculty from all of the degree granting departments teach freshmen. Theseprograms were developed to improve the retention and early decision to stay or leave for newfreshmen and to lay a foundation to better address some of the ABET 2000 accreditation criteria.Retention has improved markedly. This paper provides a brief description

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Trippe

individual laboratory assignments.Text SelectionIt is imperative that the instructor use a text which completely covers the key topics foreach course. Additionally, the text must be technically accurate, readable, concise andhopefully filled with example programs and graphics (to accommodate visual learners).Finding a textbook that meets these requirements and emphasizes technical problemsolving is not an easy task.Generally texts address the use of programming and software code development to solvebusiness problems, display and graphics problems or engineering problems. The textselected for the first two courses of the sequence is based upon the solution of scientificand engineering problems (5). In addition to the basic C++ language features

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Feng Liu; Fazil Najafi

planning.The program incorporates Information Technology (IT) to facilitate students’ creativity andindependent thinking. Lectures, tutorials, laboratory sessions, design projects, practical training,industrial visits and seminars are employed to equip the students with principles and practicalaspects of CE.In both institutions, students typically complete the degree course requirement in four years. Atthe UF, a bachelor degree study is divided into two phases: general education and upperdivisions. In the first two years, students take: Writing for Engineer, Humanities, Social &Behavior Science ,General Chemistry, General Chemistry Laboratory, Analytical Geometry &Calculus, Physics with Calculus and Physics Laboratory (see Table 1).In the

Conference Session

New EET Course Development

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Lozano

and satellite communicationservices, few Engineering Technology (ET) programs incorporate these teachings in theircurricula. This is a concerning issue as we need to produce professionals from our ET schoolswho will be able to work with the current and future technologies with minimal additionaltraining. We can think of several reasons to explain the absence of these subjects in ourclassrooms. First, because these are relatively new services and technologies not all programdirectors or instructors may be familiar with them, especially given the complexity of systemsoperating at microwave frequencies. In second place, it may not be very clear in which ETprograms these topics should be taught. Most of the current Electrical Engineering

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Teofilo Caceras; James Ochoa

externaldevices. At the end of the course students will complete a final project that makes use of allmodules and all capabilities previously demonstrated in lab. This project provides students aglimpse of what microcontrollers are capable of.II. Course OverviewThe course has a close relationship between the lecture and the laboratory. In lecture studentslearn how the MC68332 operates and in the laboratory students apply this understanding to gainpractical applied knowledge. During the first few weeks of the semester, the students are taughtthe architecture and the operations of the CPU while the laboratory teaches students, assemblyprogramming, debugging, and how to communicate with the MC68332 through the use of aresident debug program. Following

Conference Session

Use of Labs to Introduce Students to Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathaniel Allen; Mike Klein; Matthew Cunnington; Levi Westra; Ronald Smelser; Edwin Odom

currently teaches themechanics, materials, and Sophomore Laboratory courses and is involved with the Idaho Engineering Works. Page 7.147.13 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca Willits

transportknowledge3. Topics include physical properties of the body and cells, solute and oxygentransport in biological systems, transport properties of blood, pharmacokinetic analysis,extracorporeal devices, and bioartificial organs. Throughout the course, it was essential thatstudents recognize the limitations of solving problems with fundamental equations and theimportance of assumptions when investigating realistic problems. Therefore, the objectives forthis course were: (i) to analyze mass and fluid transport both in the body and in bioartificialorgans, (ii) to create, fabricate, and implement a laboratory for introductory transport, and (iii) toimprove oral communication skills for scientific presentations.The text was used in combination with

Conference Session

Control in the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Nippert

DMC and comparisons to PIDare presented.IntroductionThe Online Widener Laboratories (OWL) is an online series of instructional modules forvarious aspects of Chemical Engineering written as JAVA applets running clientside(1,2). A portion of OWL is dedicated to process control including Model PredictiveControl (MPC) especially dynamic matrix control (DMC). Simulations of Single InputSingle Output (SISO) process and a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) process areused to illustrate and compare MPC to classic PID control. The modules illustrate bothDMC and conventional PID control of the same processes, allowing students to perform avariety of interesting and instructive process control experiments; several of which arediscussed in this

Conference Session

Issues in Physics and Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Harold Evensen

. Therefore,the upper-level physics curriculum was modified and course content was altered in order to addand codify the needed engineering content. This was developed collaboratively by all three EPfaculty, and includes: developing an “Engineering Physics Lab” to introduce concepts inexperimentation, modeling, design and communication; and incorporating engineering intocourses on classical mechanics, optics, and quantum mechanics. Additionally, a course onsensors has been created; engineering ethics appears throughout the curriculum; and the ModernPhysics laboratory has been altered to serve as a better “bridge” to the Engineering Physicsportion of the curriculum. This continuing development has been aided by feedback from ourstudents, graduates and

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vipin Kumar; Scott Eberhardt

teaching methodologies so as to better prepare tomorrow's engineers.The co-authors participated in the program in 1997 (Kumar) and 1998 (Eberhardt). Uponleaving the program each participant had to present what was learned and what new goalswill be set after leaving the program. There is no long-term follow-up of these goals. Inthis paper the co-authors will provide their long-term achievements resulting from theWelliver program.IntroductionThe Boeing Company initiated a program in 1995 called the Boeing - A.D. WelliverFaculty Summer Fellowship program (WFSF), in honor of the former chief engineer,Bert Welliver. This program is a product of a series of joint workshops organized byindustry and academia to identify effective measures that promote

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Takoi Hamrita

objectives, laboratory hardware and software and the set of experiments used willbe described in this paper.IntroductionMicroprocessor courses have typically been taught within electrical engineering departmentswith an emphasis on computer architecture and software development. Recently, a shift is beingmade from teaching microprocessor architecture and the design of software to the use ofmicrocontrollers in solving monitoring and control problems 1. Several NSF funded investigatorshave explored and demonstrated the potential of teaching microprocessor -based design courseswith an emphasis on mechatronic systems. Of particular interest are the courses developed inStanford, Iowa State, and Berkeley 2,3.We are aware of few engineering departments that

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Young

goal is to produce graduates with the technical background tounderstand both the devices being produced and the processes by which they are manufactured.This bachelor's degree program includes coursework from the traditional disciplines of electrical,chemical, materials and industrial and systems engineering, as well as a laboratory coursesequence in which integration of the disciplines is explicitly achieved. A detailed description of Page 7.34.1“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Angus; Thomas Hulbert

” fundamentalsto non-electrical/electronic majors. Yet the demands of industry for multi-disciplined B.S.graduates are increasing as more high-technology firms strive to become increasingly effective andefficient in the global marketplace.This paper describes the development of a multidisciplinary instructional package for teaching acircuit and system-design sequence. It includes a: (1) theory-oriented text that emphasizes the connection of engineering-technology technical material to the physics, (2) companion laboratory-experiments text required to reinforce the theory, and (3) technical-communications text to assist students in learning and tying written and verbal communications to their newly-found knowledge.More than ten

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman; Gordon Kingsley

wasuseful as a preparation for teaching. One student put it this way, “After a summer oftraining, I feel confident entering my high school and I am looking forward to my firstteaching experience.” This perception was explored through several questions on the surveyand in the interviews. When the question was put as a simple up-or-down vote eleven of thetwelve Fellows felt that the training program had helped them plan for the upcoming year.A major issue for the Fellows was the need for greater practice at applying many of thethings that they learned during training session. Ironically several Fellows suggested thatnot enough attention had been paid to their own learning style of absorbing theory throughapplication in the laboratory or in simulation

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Klaus Weinmann; Michele Miller

design andmanufacturing thread that begins in the freshman year and extends to the senior year. The coursepresents an overview of the product development process, discusses the major unitmanufacturing processes along with part design implications, and introduces manufacturingsystems. The course departs from the earlier quarter long manufacturing course by emphasizingpractice more and theory less. A new laboratory provides hands-on manufacturing experience toall students.IntroductionThe Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics Department at Michigan Tech has formany years placed a high value on manufacturing in its curricula and research. A change fromquarters to semester in the 2000-01 academic year prompted faculty and staff to review the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Nebojsa Jaksic

Caine8 state thatthe brain learns optimally when appropriately challenged, but downshifts under perceived threat.The aforementioned self-efficacy enhancement activities are applied in the Computer IntegratedManufacturing (CIM) course at the University of Southern Colorado in the IndustrialEngineering Program. The CIM course is a senior-level design-based course dealing withmodern technologies such as automation, computer-numerically controlled (CNC) machines androbotics. The CIM laboratory curriculum includes hands-on experiences with programmablelogic controllers (PLC), CNC mills and robots. PLCs are industrial grade computers usedextensively in automation. In this study, we concentrate on the PLC experience. A set oflaboratory exercises based