Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Summers

material thatbridge the gap between the university classroom and student studying the material over the internet orthrough some other remote study program. Using his own “on-line” students as a laboratory, Dr.Summers was able to improve their performance and success by recording streaming lectures of keylearning concepts, and developing circuit design trainers and experiments that his students could useanywhere to build and test each learned concept. The teaching packages produced and tested by Dr.Summers included state of the art multimedia CD ROM text books, recordings of streaming white boardlectures on each learning concept, laboratory circuit design trainers, laboratory parts kits, partsdescriptions and documentation, and CD ROM laboratory

Conference Session

The Biology Interface

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos; Kyongbum Lee; Howard Saltsburg; Gregory Botsaris; David Kaplan

continuing to focus on these systems throughout thecore courses, we will establish a “thread” that connects all these courses and continually placesthe courses in context, something lacking in traditional programs. This concept of a “threadedcurriculum” has been explored previously in a laboratory context 5 and the extension to the fullcurriculum is viable. As an example, by considering a biological cell, a biological organ, achemical plant with reaction complexity (e.g. polymer production), a modern material production(e.g. electronic grade silicon, aluminum), and a commodity chemical process (e.g. NH3or H2SO4)in parallel, one can demonstrate the overall applicability of the approach exemplified by the ChEparadigm, and with these five systems

Conference Session

Computer-Based Measurements

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Edwin Rezaei; Sri Kolla

laboratories for distanceeducation using LabVIEW and its communication protocols. Researchers at the Fort valley StateUniversity studied LabVIEW’s Internet capabilities [3]. The research identified the advantagesand disadvantages of this technology [3]. A remote web-based engineering laboratory was Page 8.772.1developed at Drexel University, where every workstation has accessibility and controllability Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationover the Internet. The faculty at the Drexel University

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New Electrical ET Course Development

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Aaron Gold; Walter Banzhaf

Polytechnic Institute in an era whenall EE students knew the filament pins for a 12AX7. A senior member of IEEE, Banzhaf is the author of two bookson computer-aided circuit analysis using SPICE.AARON GOLDAaron Gold just graduated with B.S.E.E.T. and A.S.C.E.T. degrees from the University of Hartford's Ward Collegeof Technology with a minor in Computer Science. While taking courses himself, he taught laboratory sections ofcourses in both algebra-based physics and electronic engineering technology, including three sections of the EL 110course described in this paper. Gold was a president’s list student for all eight semesters, and plans to pursue agraduate degree as well as a career in Information Technology, while likely continuing to teach at the

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

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Serdar Tumkor; Mahmut Fetvaci; Ismail Fidan

design, assembly, andclassification of gear drive systems. So many universities also have a separate course forthe advanced design, analysis and performance of the gears at the graduate level.With the aid of powerful computers, many software systems are developed for design andanalysis of gears. The processes from design to manufacturing of gears are automated withthe developed CAD/CAM systems. The developed programs can also be used in theproduction of visual materials in education.The objective of this study is to prepare visual gear design materials for Machine Designcourses and establish a design system in CAD laboratory, so that the students can run theprogram with their own design parameters

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Dempsey; Craig Totman

provides much moreconstructive feedback as the students who participated in the experiments have a more per-sonal view on the subject matter. Following several questions generic enough to be usedwith any course, feedback with respect to the particular course objectives is obtained aswell. Next, an evaluation of the various teaching and learning methods, lectures, homeworkassignments, reading assignments, designing and conducting laboratory experiments, ana-lyzing and reporting data and results, etc., is conducted in order to help provide a basisfor the effectiveness of the learning tools. Finally, several questions are asked pertaining Page 8.375.6

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Oerther

outlinedin those documents, we propose to describe the broader impacts of this course for the educationof environmental engineers, in particular, and engineering students, in general.Details of the NSF CCLI-sponsored project.Project objective. The objective of our Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Innovation (CCLI)proposal is the development and evaluation of proof-of-concept educational materials exposingundergraduate students in Civil Engineering to state-of-the-art advances in EnvironmentalBiotechnology research and genome-enabled environmental science and engineering.Specific aims. To meet the objective of the project, we are addressing six specific aims (SA)over a period of two years, including: 1. We converted preliminary teaching materials

Conference Session

Web-Based Instruction

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Austin Asgill

course.Additionally a chat room facility will be used for each course to facilitate communication amongstudents and between instructor and students9. Many of the distance-learning courses offerings also make use of the MicrosoftPowerPoint software, application software for demonstrations, and the overhead documentcamera for problem solving. Each site has a designated teaching assistant to handle allcontingencies related to the course. The challenges involved in delivering the laboratory material, differs from program toprogram. For the EET courses, some of the laboratory exercises can be performed using availablecomputers at the remote sites. Those courses that require the use of laboratory hardware havebeen handled by using available equipment

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

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater; Kevin Dahm

Session 1526 Realistic Reaction Engineering Experiments for the Undergraduate Curriculum Kevin D. Dahm, Stephanie Farrell, Robert P. Hesketh and Mariano J. Savelski Department of Chemical Engineering, Rowan UniversityIntroductionThe pedagogy of teaching chemical reaction engineering is continually advancing through theuse of new computational tools such as POLYMATH and MATLAB; interactive computerapplications; and a new emphasis in textbooks on relating theory to industrially relevantchemical reactions. What is currently lacking in this area are chemical reaction engineeringexperiments that employ

Conference Session

Computer Assisted Data Acquisition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

M.L. Meier

, Page 8.1026.6 American Society for Engineering Education”Format of a Typical Spreadsheet ApplicationAn important aspect of teaching students how to use spreadsheets to solve engineering problemsis teaching them how to set out their solution in a logical and readable manner. The format forthe spreadsheet exercises, analogous to laboratory report formats, is derived from goodprogramming style and from the type of reports often found in ASTM standards. The sections ofthe spreadsheet are:Header Identify the author, creation and revision date, and file name and a brief description of what the spreadsheet does.Constants Physical constants and conversion factorsParameters

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Diggelman; Michael McGeen

essential for success. • Dedicated faculty with relevant, up-to-date experience are the heart of our teaching process. • Scientific and mathematical reasoning and processes are essential. • Applied research and evolving and interdisciplinary technologies are vital in exploiting opportunities. • The development of communication skills is needed to function effectively. • The student experience is strengthened by interaction with the business, industry and healthcare fields. • The development of leadership and entrepreneurial characteristics are essential. • Students, faculty, staff and volunteers all share the responsibility of learning. • Strong personal values are necessary for success. • The

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

M.J. (John) Frye; Myron (Ron) Britton

responsibilities and formal trainingin team development is discussed.Engineering Design is a required Preliminary Year course for all Engineering students at theUniversity of Manitoba. More than 1200 students have taken this course since its introduction inJanuary 1999. Classes as large as 100 students attend one lecture and one three-hour laboratoryperiod per week. Laboratory work is Design Team based, so effective operation of the teams iscritical if we are to meet our teaching goals.Team membership is assigned by the professor. A maximum of 20 Design Teams are created persection, each with a target size of five students. Initially no Design Team will have fewer thanfour or more than six members. Team size can decrease during the term because of

Conference Session

Advisory Boards & Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sindee Simon; Theodore Wiesner; Lloyd Heinze

, coupled with the course survey results, was the documentation of poorinstruction by a particular instructor. In this case, the instructor was temporarily removed fromthe classroom and from teaching required chemical engineering courses. Upon makingimprovements in his or her teaching, as documented by course surveys of the elective coursestaught, the instructor was re-integrated into the teaching of required chemical engineeringcourses.Significant changes in the Chemical Engineering curriculum have also resulted fromimplementation of our assessment/improvement/assessment cycle. For example, we recentlycombined three junior-year transport laboratories, associated with fluid mechanics, heat transfer,and mass transfer, into a single two-credit

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Turso; David Johnson; Shannon Sweeney

vibrations courses,course goals and their relation to Mechanical Engineering Technology program outcomes,student evaluation of the course value and effectiveness, and plans for continuous improvement.It will also discuss current laboratory activities, the selection of textbook and laboratory manualmaterials, and vibration laboratory equipment needs.IntroductionThe course is currently entitled Vibrations for Technologists and has been offered twice to date;the Fall semester of 2001 and the Fall semester of 2002. Each offering has had 14 students.Based on laboratory capacity, the course limit has been set at 16 students. It will continue to beoffered every fall semester. In addition to providing basic vibration theory, the course is set upto address

Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

, scholarship in ET has to achieve the following:• ET scholarship must improve our teaching, add value to the education of our undergraduate/graduate students, and involve our students in meaningful ways.• ET scholarship must be relevant to industry, and lead to improvement in the curriculum and in undergraduate laboratories• ET scholarship must be documented and disseminated to others and be open to critical examination by peers outside our department in order to ensure the quality of the scholarly activity and to facilitate continuous improvement in this area of faculty endeavor.9, 11Based on this premise, we propose the definition of ET scholarship to include the following: 1. Scholarship of discovery in applied research

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

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Batchelder; Elaine Linde; Dan Dolan; Daniel Dolan

the Center for Advanced Manufacturing andProduction [1] that provides rapid prototyping capability for fused deposition modelingand circuit board milling. Students interact with technicians who help support theequipment and the lab giving the students an opportunity to gain respect for the expertiseof the technicians. Page 8.844.3LaboratoryThe laboratory is used to develop student skills in many areas including interdisciplinaryteaming, data acquisition and analysis, using sensors and actuators, using amicrocontroller to interface with both sensors and actuators. The laboratory equipment islisted in Table 1 and Table 2 details the laboratory

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Keyser; Polly Piergiovanni; S. Scott Moor

Control Laboratory Course”, Chemical Engineering Education, 27, (3), pp. 184-187,193, (Summer 1993). 11. Johnson, S. H., Luyben, W. L. and Talhelm, D.L., “Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Controls Laboratory”, Journal of Engineering Education, 84, (2), pp.133-136, (April 1995). 12. Dunn-Rankin, D., Borrow, J.E., Mease, K.D., and McCarthy, J.M., “Engineering Design in Industry: Teaching Students and Faculty to Apply Engineering Science in Design”, 87, (3), Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 219-222, (July 1998). 13. Edgar, T. F., “Process Control – From the Classical to the Postmodern Era –“, Chemical Engineering Education, 31, (1), pp. 12-17,21, (Winter 1997). 14. Baum, Dave

Conference Session

Internet Programming and Applications

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Crahen; Bina Ramamurthy

paper, we present a pedagogy that seamlessly integrates the modernconcepts to the existing conventional methods for teaching distributed systems. Wepropose a set of laboratory experiments that will not only illustrate how to integrate thenewer concepts into existing framework but will also provide the students with hands-onexperience in the application of these concepts. The design and description of threelaboratory projects that cover newer topics in Distributed Systems, namely, (i) location-independence, (ii) active discovery and (iii) interoperability and persistence are shown.These projects will serve as models for development of similar projects illustrating otherconcepts of interest. A major contribution of this paper will be the pedagogy

Conference Session

Innovative Curricula and Outreach

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Berdanier

application of fundamental math andscience relationships to solving real-world engineering problems. Programs are needed in the K-12 experience that deliver hands-on, project-based curricula providing the opportunity for K-12students to experience the wonders and opportunities of education and careers in engineering andtechnology 1.K-12 teachers typically have not majored in the science field of the courses they teach. Also, inthe United States students are less likely than students in other countries to be taught science byteachers with a major area of study in science 3. Generally, across all countries, only 20% ofstudents are taught science by teachers who believe that they are well prepared. The US teachersgenerally report higher levels of

Conference Session

Mathematics in the Transition

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Robinson; Demetris Geddis; Adam Austin; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

Session 2665 Incorporating Engineering into High School Algebra and Trigonometry: An Initiative of the Georgia Tech Student and Teacher Enhancement Partnership (STEP) Program William H. Robinsona, Adam O. Austina, Demetris L. Geddisa, Donna C. Llewellynb, and Marion C. Usselmanc a School of Electrical and Computer Engineering/ b Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL)/ c Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics

Conference Session

K-20 Activities in Materials Science

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jed Lyons

the RET was to enhance the ability ofselected high school teachers to teach ENGR 101 - Introduction to Engineering in their schoolsfor college credit. This project was designed to increase the teacher’s content knowledge andinquiry skills through a complete engineering research experience, from experimental design tofinal reporting. The participating teachers also developed several laboratory modules that werederived from their research and could easily be taken back and used in their classroom. The participants were recruited from a pool of 14 high school science teachers who hadpassed the University of South Carolina’s course ENGR 701 - Introduction to Engineering forTeachers. This course qualifies them to teach ENGR 101 in their

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Hofinger

to give theelectrical engineering technology program immediate relevance, ECET 196 “Introduction toECET and Projects” has been designed to incorporate the teaching of these communication skills.This paper focuses specifically on my efforts to incorporate these features into this course andinto our undergraduate laboratory courses.IntroductionThe ability to communicate effectively is expected of all college graduates. The ability tocommunicate technical concepts well, distinguishes an outstanding technologist from an averageone. Students seeking to become engineering technicians or technologists often lack the basiccommunication skills. It has been written many times, that employers regard goodcommunication skills as a necessary element of

Conference Session

Integrating Math in Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Surendra Gupta

, and case studies) they could help educatethe statistics instructors about engineering applications; provide high-quality resources tostatistics instructors for easy integration into their statistics courses for engineers; begin acollaboration among statistics and engineering faculty that teach the same sets of students; andprovide engineering students the motivation to learn statistics well, and be able to apply theirstatistical skills to engineering data in a meaningful and productive way.The engineering modules proposed are based on concepts and laboratory experiments from twocourses: Materials Processing (a 1st year course) and Materials Science (a 2nd year course). Bothare mandatory courses for mechanical as well as industrial engineering

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Velegol; Ronald Ziemian; Richard Zaccone; Richard Kozick; James Baish; Margot Vigeant

students to take an introductory engineeringcourse. The course is typically taught by a team of six faculty and has an enrollment of over 200,while the size of a typical class at Bucknell is below 35. While this course has been successful atachieving its objectives in the past, it was felt that it could be improved in terms of class size anddepth of coverage. This year the class was taught in four segments. The first segment was notaltered – lectures were delivered to the whole class in the traditional manner, combined withsmaller laboratory segments. Lectures included: engineering as a profession, the engineeringdesign process, information on each engineering discipline, teamwork and learning styles. Thiswas complemented by a team project in

Conference Session

Topics in Mechanical ET

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Emin Yilmaz; Kenny Fotouhi

. Lecture part covers different types of transportation methods (land, marine,air and space), energy resources, gasoline and diesel engines, and turbines. Laboratorytime is used to disassemble and service small engines. Students work in a group of two orthree on one engine. Engine kits were purchased from Megatech Corporation in 1984.Most of them are Briggs & Stratton, 3 Hp, 4 cycle gasoline engines. Some are Tecumseh,2 Hp, and two cycle gasoline engines.In fall semester of 1997 I was assigned to teach the EDTE 341 course. We had twoengine-dynamometer systems in Power and Transportation Laboratory. They werepurchased in 1984 and came with the new, 50 000 square-ft Arts and Technologiesbuilding. The gasoline engine-dynamometer system was only

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jackie Sullivan; Daniel Knight

Session 1392 Women’s Manufacturing Workshop Series that Supports Inclusiveness and Skill Building in Undergraduate Engineering Education Beverly Louie, Daniel W. Knight and Jacquelyn F. Sullivan Women in Engineering Program/Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory and Program College of Engineering and Applied Science University of Colorado at BoulderAbstractDuring the past six years, pre-semester assessments of student skills have revealed a lack of hands-on experience by women students in the First

Conference Session

Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ted Thiede; James Hereford

practical experiences with sufficient breadth.k. Usability in student projects. The purchase of expensive equipment for perhaps one use in a given year may be wasteful. Since students are required to do projects, it is nice if the measurement equipment supports their other work in design and research.3. Development of Mechanical Engineering LaboratoriesMost mechanical engineering departments have extensive laboratory facilities that have beendeveloped through years of grant-funded research. When this equipment is no longer needed forresearch it becomes available in the teaching labs. In the MSU program, mechanical engineering Page 8.322.4labs