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Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Pei-Fen Chang; Jiunn-Chi Wu

Project-Oriented Capstone Courses, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 86, no. 1, pp. 19-24.JIUNN-CHI WUJiunn-Chi Wu is Associate Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National Central University in Taiwan, ROC.PEI-FEN CHANG Page 9.508.11Pei-Fen Chang is Assistant Professor of the Graduate Institute of Teaching and Instruction at theNational Central University in Taiwan, ROC.Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for EngineeringEducation Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Edgar; Joel Farber

the end of the semester, they learn that everyone can bring valueto a team. A far worse problem is the nonproductive team members that commonly createproblems in teams. At the end of the semester, everyone is given a team review sheet in whichthey estimate the percentage of time each person contributed to the project and can makecomments about how the team worked together. Projects are normally selected at one of several local sites that have the potential for adam to be built on them. Alternatively, sometimes a knowledgeable owner will have the classinspect an existing dam and provide recommendations for modifications to improve stability,storage capacity and/or safety. A knowledgeable owner is one who understands the complexity

Conference Session

How We Teach Problem Solving?

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

understand how each of these coursescontributes to the necessary foundation for their upper-tier courses. The lower tier courses thatseem to have the most disconnectedness to upper tier courses are: • American Thought and Language (the traditional English composition course) • Humanities • Interdisciplinary Social Studies • Mathematics • Chemistry • Physics • Statics • Thermo-fluidsThe current courses being studied for connections to the above are: • ME 332 - Fluids • ME 412 - Heat Transfer • ME 451 - Controls • ME 461 - Vibrations • ME 371 - Design I • ME 471 - Design II • ME 481 - Capstone DesignThe project requires that eventually all units within the College of Engineering be a part of thedata

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fabio Urbani; Juan Iglesias

of commercial analysis packages are currently available, they are ratherexpensive, and the source code is not available. The latter prevents students from understandingthe logic behind the simulation.In this paper we describe an ongoing project being developed at the University of Texas atBrownsville (UTB) that intends to overcome these limitations by implementing, based on aconsolidated frequency domain technique, a novel electromagnetic structure simulator using apre-existent 94-node Beowulf machine.The merit and innovation of this project is how it integrates disperse tools and techniques into asingle coherent framework that can be utilized with minimal effort and high confidence by thecommunity interested in the research, teaching

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Hensel; Elizabeth DeBartolo

Grad Math II 5 Grad Elective #1 Grad Elective #2 Grad Elective #3When BS/MS students successfully complete the entire program, they leave RIT with valuableindependent research experience, a thesis project completed, and possibly a publication withtheir name on it. They graduate in the same time as the rest of their entering freshman class,with no additional college loans to pay off in exchange for their advanced degree. Otherinstitutions have active undergraduate research programs, where students participate in semester-long or year-long research projects individually or as part of a team1,2. The general opinion isthat the students involved gain valuable experience and learn important new skills, whether ornot the

Conference Session

Engineering/Education Collaborators

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Connor; Vinod Lohani

and development. Page 9.159.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education" Session 3130In September 2003, a group of ENGE faculty, aided by a number of engineering and educationfaculty, received a planning grant (project title: Bridges for Engineering Education-Virginia Tech(BEEVT)) under the Bridges for Engineering Education program of the NSF to create acontemporary framework for undergraduate

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yi Cheng

Page 9.1374.1autonomous navigation, scientific data collection and communication with a base station.Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThrough their participation and contributions towards the mission of this project, studentsreceive degree credit, which can be used to fulfill their degree capstone requirement,Team Senior Project.The project is an interdisciplinary project including students and faculty from theElectrical and Computer Engineering Department, the Computer Science Department, theEngineering Technology Department and the Mechanical Engineering Department. Allfaculty and students are divided among five sub

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Gasper; Keith Whites; Michael Batchelder

is planning to enter the AerialRobotics Competition that requires transmission of pictures or video of a remote facility.The team is experimenting with an ATV transmitter on the 70 cm ham band.One of the projects in CENG 442, micro-based system design, was to design a PICmicrocontroller system that converts ASCII character data to output as Morse code andconversely accepts Morse code returning the equivalent ASCII characters.The capstone design requirement provides another venue for projects involving amateurradio. For example, the previously mentioned telemetry for the solar car was a seniordesign project [16]. Another example is a project [17] designing a hidden transmittersystem for a “fox hunt” [18] [19]. The competition involves

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Bouzid Aliane; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

these courses include electricalcircuits, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, material balances, properties of materials, structuralmechanics and thermodynamics. Unlike the traditional approach, however, each of thefoundation courses includes a mix of these topics, presented in a variety of disciplinary contexts.A solid background is developed by touching key concepts at several points along the spiral indifferent courses, adding depth and sophistication at each pass. Each foundation course alsostresses the development of several essential skills, such as problem-solving, oral and writtencommunication, the design process, teamwork, project management, computer analysis methods,laboratory investigation, data analysis and model development. Students

Conference Session

Expert Advice on Instructional Methods

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Felder

learning in a course takes place in the context of projects, with lectures playing asubsidiary role or not taking place at all. The way the capstone design course is usually taught isproject-based learning, as is the engineering laboratory in which each experiment can beconsidered a project. Several engineering departments have shifted some of their traditionallecture courses to project-based courses, and a few universities have made the switch for all oftheir courses, the best known of which is the University of Aalborg in Denmark. Whetherproject-based learning or one of the forms of problem-based learning is adopted, if student teamsare involved, all of the methodologies of cooperative learning can be used to maximize theeffectiveness of the

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Whalen; Chris Fernandes

general trends and entities and events statistics Table 1: Contrasting OLTP and OLAPA Warehousing ProjectAt Union College, every Computer Science major in the senior year must undertake anindependent capstone design project. Its purpose is to encourage the student to bring togetherconcepts from his/her coursework and allow the student to do independent research on a subjectof interest. One student’s idea for a project stemmed from a request from a professor in theComputer Engineering department. The professor lamented about the difficulty in arranginggroup meetings with her four advisees. It was usually done over email and took several dayssince most initial suggested times conflicted with

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Tester; Jerry Hatfield

program at Northern Arizona University is a 13 credit hour sequence ofteam-based engineering design courses beginning in the freshman year and culminating with asenior capstone design course. The sophomore course [8] divides 60 to 80 students from fourdifferent engineering majors into 9 to 12 mixed-discipline teams. Each team is responsible forthe design of one of three subsystems that make up the overall design project, with groups ofthree teams being combined to form three to four integrated project teams, called divisions.Project team and subsystem team activities and products are evaluated and graded. Team gradesare then allocated to individual students based on a combination of instructor assessments andpeer evaluations.The peer evaluation

Conference Session

Programming Issues for Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Hankley

comprise a tour of UML notation, which is commonly used in both programming andsoftware design courses. The point is not that engineers should see UML notation; if that werethe intent, then adequate introduction could be done in a first programming course. Rather, thepoint is that engineering students (beyond just Computer Science and Engineering majors)should have an experience of software design. Today, that design experience is often reservedas a senior capstone course for CSE majors.A key point of a design course is that students should see many different kinds of softwaremodels, such as structures for data management, visual direct manipulation, real-time control

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Clive Dym; Anthony Bright

collegescience/math core and introduced a new engineering design course (E4) for first year students.Warren Wilson, the first Chair of the Engineering Department presented the course objectivesthat were to become the goals of the engineering program for the next thirty years15: 1. Acquaint students with engineering practice; 2. Develop skills, by use, in computation; 3. Foster creative ability through projects; 4. Gain insight into management through group projects; 5. Develop appreciation for non-technical aspects of design; and 6. Foster willingness to responsibly attack open-ended problems.The Clinic courses and the first-year design course expose students to client-based designproblems. Each year about 25 new Clinic projects

Conference Session

Experience with Experiential Learning

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Adam McGough; Coral Nocton; Ken Patton; Ismail Fidan

, tooling, and robotics).Although this technology has been advancing swiftly in teaching, training, and learning,it is still in its infancy. Since this vital technology is very important for the progression ofthe manufacturing industry, an NSF grant has been awarded for the RP Education (DUEAward Number 0302314: Technician Education in RP and Virtual ManufacturingTechnologies). Project team members organized a workshop on Training the RP trainersat San Diego City College from July 27 to August 1, 2003. Tennessee Tech University(TTU) faculty and assistants attended this workshop because TTU was in the process ofbuilding a RP Lab and organizing workshops for high school students/instructors. Thispaper intends to report learning practices, adaptations

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Maggio; Sandra Yost

Session 1692 The Mechatronics Road Show: Building on Success in Mechatronics Curriculum Development Sandra A. Yost, Daniel D. Maggio Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering/ College of Engineering and Science University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MichiganAbstract:This paper describes a progression of successful pre-college programs that have grown from acomprehensive mechatronics curriculum development project sponsored by the National ScienceFoundation’s Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI

Conference Session

A Potpoturri of Innovations in Physics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean Hertzberg

example,the flume required a controllable dye injection system. The wind tunnel is an open circuit tunnel Figure 5: String in Turbulence. A timed exposure reveals the motion of three 1.5 mm diameter strings in the turbulent flow generated by a box fan. Brianne Hovey, Jason Campbell, Nate Lee, Derek Paul, Kate Schwerin.in a large laboratory, precluding the use of smoke visualization. Development of visualizationhardware for some of these facilities was found to be outside the scope of the course asstructured, with the present emphasis on the creation of images. In the future, these facilities willbe developed as student projects via independent study, capstone design projects and paidassistantships. Students were more successful

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Staver; Naiqian Zhang; Masaaki Mizuno; Gurdip Singh; Mitchell Neilsen; Donald Lenhert

- Page 9.528.3 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationrate planting, and yield mapping. For these applications, fast computation speed is always acentral issue and is an excellent application of our research on hardware/software tradeoffs. Figure 1. Redroot pigweed at different density levels.For example, one capstone project focuses on agricultural applications involving variable-ratetechnology (VRT). Infrared sensors are used to collect information (Figure 1). Then, distributedcontrollers evaluate the input and generate variable-rate application recommendations in real-time

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Denny Davis

systems. He maintains anactive interest in incorporating student centered learning practices in running the engine researchfacility. This is used to modify and calibrate engines used in Future Truck, Formula SAE, andClean Snowmobile Competitions. For his efforts in this area he received a UniversityTransportation Centers Student of the Year award in 2004.DENNY DAVISDenny Davis is professor of Biological Systems Engineering at Washington State University andDirector of the Transferable Integrated Design Engineering Education (TIDEE) project, a PacificNorthwest consortium of institutions developing improved curriculum and assessments forengineering design education. Dr. Davis teaches and assesses student learning inmultidisciplinary capstone design

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

O. Geoffrey Egekwu; Prince Anyalebechi

,students, in addition to the ISAT courses, must also satisfy a required 30 credit hours ofliberal studies (general education) electives. Twenty-one credit hours are available asapproved electives to encourage the student to develop further in an ISAT related area ofinterest. The capstone of the program is a senior project, in which students work in teams offour to six members to solve an industry or government-related problem. These problems Page 9.212.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyrightø 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationare usually

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Walsh; Sean Pearson; Jeffrey Cotton; Jane Hall; Robert Caverly

based on both test performance in the class as well as interest in pursuing aresearch project. These two issues are key elements since one wants motivated students as wellas those intellectually prepared for open-ended projects. During this same time period, thestudents were also exploring topics for their senior capstone design project and theundergraduate research project provided added synergism.The undergraduate research phase of the project began in earnest late in the spring semester andcarried through the summer and fall terms. The students were presented the foundationalmaterial using a variety of methods including in-person tutorials on the subject by the facultymentor, on-line tutorials on the foundational material, and readings of

Conference Session

Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Beverly Davis

Paper 2004-51 The Recognition of and Increasing Value of Professional Engineering Skills Beverly Davis Purdue UniversityAbstractStudies by EAC/ABET have identified skill gaps engineers and engineering technologistslack upon graduation. Some of the skills identified were project management, teamwork,engineering economics, organizational behavior, decision-making, andcommunications12. Hundreds of ASEE conference attendees, in 2003, listened to keynotespeaker, Shirley Jackson, discuss the increased importance of “soft skill” education forengineers today. Dr

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wafeek Wahby

the construction industry is no exception. Ithas also come from the collaboration and the hard work of risk takers.Universities and industry organizations have traditionally maintained informal ways of workingtogether, including student internships, faculty exchanges, and industry capstone projects tocomplete a degree program.A more recent phenomenon is the formal collaboration between a university (or group ofuniversities) and an industry organization (or group of organizations). The purpose of theseformal collaborations is to meet the construction technology education and training needs ofundergraduate and graduate/adult learners through joint ventures such as higher educationprograms, graduate programs (degree and certificate) and

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Fry

each of the disciplines about how they relate to oneanother in a larger picture.In the spirit of interdisciplinary product development, students in the College of Engineering andTechnology at Brigham Young University participate in a “Capstone” experience that is meant toexpose them to the comparative peculiarities of the three disciplines of Manufacturing,Engineering, and Industrial Design. Despite the success of various individual team projects, ageneral dissatisfaction exists in the ranks of the students about what the actual benefit is for alltheir collaborative effort.Interdisciplinary Product Development efforts (both in and outside of industry) suffer from onesided biases based on the discipline of the sponsoring body. Engineering based

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dwight Egbert; Dave Williams

likelihood of theirsuccess in a conventional programming class in a future semester. Equally significant, the coursemaintains student participation in the technical curriculum and will therefore be likely toimprove student retention. Other students seeking Matlab instruction, additional problem-solvingdevelopment, or an introduction to elementary game programming are also invited to enroll. Thecourse has also been accepted as a technical elective for non-engineering majors but is notapplicable toward the college’s Engineering Technology or Engineering Science degrees.The structure, curriculum, and class project used in the initial offering of the course are presentedin this paper. The real centerpiece of the course was a collaborative class project

Conference Session

Entrepreneurism in BME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy Newstetter; Paul Benkeser

theseskills into the final capstone design course. Somehow this is to be the magic bullet in which allthese skills suddenly coalesce through one design experience. Research suggests, however, thatstudents need quasi-repetitive activity cycles and practice in multiple settings to developproficiency.3Integrative Approach to Soft Skills DevelopmentThe Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and EmoryUniversity has begun to implement an integrative approach to the development of these softskills in its undergraduate biomedical engineering degree program. This approach anchors softskills development in the context of problem solving and design experiences over the 4-yearcurriculum. It provides multiple opportunities for the

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sami Ainane; Joseph Hoffman; Gary Pertmer; Chandra Thamire

-solving skills, basic design skills, report writing and presentation skills,teamwork, and experimental skills are emphasized to varying levels.A.3. Major RequirementsStudents begin taking the required courses in mechanical engineering in their sophomore yearwith Numerical Methods in Mechanical Engineering and Thermodynamics. During the junioryear, the focus is on providing the strong technical base required of all students in the program.These offerings combined with those given in the second year form the mechanical engineeringcore that must be mastered before beginning the capstone design experience and thespecialization of the final year of study. Typical core courses are fluid mechanics, heat transfer,material sciences, and vibrations. The

Conference Session

Novel Upper-Level Materials Curricula

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rajiv Asthana; Richard Rothaupt; Danny Bee

on density and porosity in single-action compaction, 2) the spatialvariation of density and porosity within a part prepared using double-action compaction, and 3)the effect of sintering atmosphere on densification (using Fe and Cu metal powders).3. The ExperimentHigh-purity alumina (doped with 0.05% MgO) was chosen for the student project because it isthe best studied ceramic. The alumina powders specified as RC-HPF DBM were provided byReynolds Metals Company (Bauxite, AR). The average particle size (from sedimentationanalysis) was 380 nm, and the specific surface area (from the BET method) was 8.19 m2.g-1;these data were supplied by the manufacturer. The powder size analysis from sedimentation testshows that ∼60% powders are finer than

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial/Innovative Communication

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

ourselves or to the world around us. Because this activity is so much a partof our lives, we cannot separate it from any of the other activities that we perform. Communicationis not an entity unto itself. A number of years ago Ronald L.Miller and Barbara Olds in "A ModelCurriculum for A Capstone Course in Multidisciplinary Engineering Design", Journal ofEngineering Education reported that at Harvey Mudd College, engineers enrolled in design classesmust, as part of their design experience, "interact with their client in a professional manner andcommunicate with a variety of audiences (peers, faculty members, clients, etc.) orally and inwriting." It is embroiled in all the activities of existence. It is, therefore, vitally important thatengineers

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Robinson; Kevin Sutterer

Engineering Education”much modification to satisfy the complete formal education component of the BOK and that itwould be to our students’ disadvantage to seek a BOK B.S. Our current B.S. curriculumemphasizes project-based design and a broad civil engineering education, with an outside-client-based senior capstone design project. Therefore, we can not achieve the Specialization Areaoutcome (outcome 12) with the existing curriculum. Further, it was clear that even withsignificant modification to the scope of course work, additional credit hours would have to beadded to the curriculum. The Civil Engineering Department has a high success rate in graduatingstudents in four years. The additional credit hours may reduce that success and lead to anincrease