Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bradley Burchett

damper. The actuator is a direct current servo-motor which is rigidly attached tothe first mass through a rack and pinion. The position of each mass is detected by a high-resolution optical encoder with a precision of 2196 counts per centimeter of travel. Open loopand closed loop control of the plant is facilitated by A/D and D/A interface with a desktoppersonal computer. ECP supplies a Windows based software interface with a wide assortment ofcontrol architectures, including implementation of continuous time transfer function controllers,direct digital designs, and state feedback.This laboratory upgrade provided the author with an opportunity to rethink the introductorycontrol theory course taught to mechanical engineering seniors. The course

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Turner; Joseph Hoffbeck

thencompile it and run the program on an actual hardware platform without any low levelprogramming. This process converts the model into an actual system that runs in real-time. Forsubjects such as DSP, where the system can be constructed in a laboratory setting, the studentcan then use real inputs to the system and observe the results of the actual system running in real-time, which is more engaging and realistic than working with a simulation. This process alsogives the students immediate feedback and tests their understanding of the theory behind thesystem. The experience with the real system should help them understand the context of thetheory and further motivate them to learn the material. Most of the topics in DSP can be supported using

Conference Session

Lab Experiments & Other Initiatives

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Guoping Wang

to use these tools in their future work. 2) Xilinx has an excellent university program supporting web site. This site includes lots of laboratory exercises, student projects collections and links as teaching resources. 3) An excellent step-by-step tutorial plus FAQs are available as Xilinx on-line documents8. Extensive collections of FPGA/CPLD application notes are also available on the Xilinx web site. 4) In the CPLD library of Xilinx ISE 5.2, there are lots of 74xx symbols 9. The library includes the popular logic blocks such as 74x138, 74x139, 74x151, 74x163, etc. In the lab

Conference Session

Controls, Mechatronics

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Pennell; Peter Avitabile; John White

andMathematics) material fits into all of their engineering courses. Because they have no clear-cutreason to embrace these concepts, the students hit the “reset button” after each and every course.This often comes back to haunt the students in subsequent upper level classes which require afirm understanding of this material.A new multisemester interwoven dynamic systems project has been initiated to better integratethe material from differential equations, mathematical methods, laboratory measurements anddynamic systems across several semesters/courses so that the students can better understand therelationship of basic STEM material to an ongoing problem. This paper highlights the overallconcept underlying the new approach. A description of the project

Conference Session

Design of Lab Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yasuhisa Komura; Tien-I Liu; Stefan Setiadharma; Akihiko Kumagai

thestudents with an excellent opportunity for exposure to mechatronics technologies as well as theexperience of being a part of a real-world engineering product development.IntroductionIn engineering education, it is essential for both students and faculty members to experiencesolving real world technical problems through industry sponsored projects. The key fordeveloping successful industry-sponsored projects is to identify clear mutual benefits for both theeducational institution and sponsoring companies1,9,11. This paper describes the activities at theComputer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) Laboratory at California State University,Sacramento for generating industry-sponsored student projects especially for master’s degreestudents. The most of

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ciletti; Gregory Plett

discrete-time systems(e.g., z-transforms), and branch into treatment of electromagnetics, solid-state device theory,electronics, and probability/statistics. The balance of courses required to complete the degreeconsists of laboratories, electives (technical and socio-humanistic), and a capstone senior designproject.Much of this legacy curriculum was designed before the literature documented a proper under-standing of learning theory, so our present structure and delivery comprise, to a large degree, tra-ditional lectures and homework assignments. As will be discussed, this is not a balanced ap-proach.An additional concern about our curriculum was a particular freshman-level course, Introductionto Engineering Problem Solving, which was developed

Conference Session

ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Lamancusa; Laura L. Pauley; Thomas Litzinger

analysis from different courseswithin one application. Course enhancement efforts have been developed by many facultymembers in the department. These activities include a computer simulations component in thefluid mechanics lab with an online tutorial, interactive computer analysis during class in thevibrations course, integrated lectures and laboratories in control systems, and an added CADcomponent to the components design course. Through these initiatives, cost-effective ways toincorporate active learning into MNE courses have been developed, with demonstratedimprovements in student learning. The faculty has observed benefits from active learningcomponents in the knowledge and interest that students display in their courses and inengineering in

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tia Sharpe; Robert Maher; James Peterson; James Becker; Bradford Towle

otherwise become discouraged while taking the traditional physics,calculus, and chemistry prerequisites.1,2,3The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Montana State University(MSU) has developed and implemented a new laboratory experience in EE 101, our requiredfreshman-level introductory course, as part of an ongoing course and curriculum evaluationprocess. Students in EE 101 now work on a custom autonomous robot kit, assembling theelectronics and chassis components step-by-step with soldering irons and hand tools, whilegaining an understanding of basic laboratory instruments, measurement procedures, and circuitconcepts. The students learn to work both independently and with a partner to complete theassembly, measurement, and

Conference Session

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

notes and exercises, laboratory experiences (joining, physical testing, and metalography),and assignments.This progress report will focus on all aspects of this newly developed course including pedagogy,course content, and course structure. Results of course assessments and continuous improvementwill also be presented.Motivation and Need for CourseBefore introducing the details of the course, it is felt that one needs to better understand themotivation for creating a new upper level course. In this section of the paper the motivation forchanging undergraduate engineering will be reviewed. This section concludes by demonstratingthat there is currently a need to change the upper level courses. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ilan Grave

10.776.132 for the core. Similar loads are required in the other engineering majors offered. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”All students in Physics and Engineering at Elizabethtown College undertake in their freshmanand/or sophomore years three semesters in calculus-based physics. “College Physics II” (fourcredits) is dedicated mostly to electromagnetism. It includes a laboratory where students tackleexperiments in electrostatics and magnetostatics, and build some devices; in these lab studentsalso get an introduction to the oscilloscope and other basic lab measurement equipment, and acouple of

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Seth Bates; Patricia Backer

minicurriculumwas organized to be taught as problem-based group work that allows the students to developtheir analytical skills and work cooperatively as multidisciplinary teams to solve increasinglycomplex problems. The three courses are sequenced to provide the students with more complexprojects as they proceed through the three courses. This model for project-based, problem-basedlearning stems from seminal work done at Aalborg University in Denmark (Fink19). Figure 1shows the main principles in project-based learning as proposed by Fink. There are three steps tothis team-approach model: problem analysis, problem solving, and report/documentation. Thelectures and laboratory activities designed by professors in all three disciplines are integrated

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Young

critical role in the education strategydeveloped in the CDIO project (Berggren et al.2; CDIO Initiative Homepage3), an internationalinitiative that aims to develop a new model for engineering education, characterized by using theprocess of conceiving-designing-implementing-operating, i.e. the product lifecycle, as theeducational context. A prominent attribute of the CDIO initiative has been the design andimplementation of a new class of student workspaces (design studios, classrooms, study areas,laboratories) that enable student teams to design, build and test in project-based courses. This isin contrast to traditional student labs that are heavily oriented towards demonstrations(Gunnarsson et al.4; Wallin & Östlund5). The proper set-up

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Head

an engineering design project.Course StructureThe Sophomore Clinic is a four semester hour course with two 75 minute lecture sessions andone 160 minute laboratory session each week. Faculty from the College of Communication are Page 10.1112.1responsible for the lecture sessions and engineering faculty supervise the laboratory. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education”In both the lecture sections and the laboratory the emphasis on teamwork in this course isexceptionally strong. The students

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramachandran Venkatasubramanian; Brian Skromme

Session 1526 Spreadsheets to Promote Interactive Engagement in Semiconductor Device Courses R. Venkatasubramanian and B. J. Skromme* Department of Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-5706AbstractThe development and initial implementation of a prototype “virtual laboratory” based onMicrosoft Excel spreadsheets with associated Visual Basic for Applications modules isdescribed for use in semiconductor device courses for engineering undergraduates. Thespreadsheets use graphical methods to illustrate quantities

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Constantin Chassapis; Hamid Hadim; Kishore Pochiraju; George Korfiatis; Keith Sheppard; David Vaccari

, - Projects, ME Program Committee Select Student Work to represent Outcomes - Laboratory, etc. proposes changes to - Courses or Program, - Program Outcomes, or - Assessment Process Students Complete Course Survey via the Compile Information into Web SPAD Form

Conference Session

Useful Assessment in Materials Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech

, particularly as practiced in the workplace, usually involvesmultiple reports and presentations documenting the project for various stakeholders, includingclients, coworkers, and supervisors. A typical workplace document cycle might include thefollowing: Page 10.1422.5 • Project Proposal Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education • Progress Reports • Laboratory Notebooks • Final Technical Report or Journal ArticleNote that with the exception of the laboratory notebook, these texts may be either

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Rohrback; Donald Carpenter; Lisa Anneberg; Andrew Gerhart

handles the planning, administrativeand promotion of the Exploration Days.The Exploration Days consist of high school students spending a half day on our campus duringa normal school day. During their time on campus, the high school students experience thevarious disciplines (or sub-disciplines) of engineering through a combination of presentations,interactive demonstrations, laboratory experiences, and hand’s-on activities. Depending on theexploration event, sessions have included utilizing a three dimensional river model to explorewatershed processes, demonstrations by the Mini-Baja and Formula SAE competition teams,destructive testing of concrete beams, ballistics experiments, programming of electrical circuitboards, and building a small

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Martin Johnston; Christopher Greene; Jeff Jalkio

non-engineering clients to define the technicalrequirements of their projects. In parallel, individuals from other disciplines can benefit fromexposure to engineering problem solving techniques. In this paper the authors present the resultsof an ongoing effort to integrate the benefits of both student-faculty collaborations and real-world design by incorporating undergraduate engineering students into physics research projects.Over the course of several years, engineering students at the University of St. Thomas have beenincorporated into physics department research laboratories, working side by side with physicsstudents and faculty. These students design, build and test instrumentation and other equipmentused in all aspects of the physics

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tomas Cavanagh; Richard Gilbert; Linda Austin; Edwin Goolsby; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

Florida.In the summer of 2003, Workforce Florida, Inc. awarded a $1.2 million contract to FloridaCommunity College at Jacksonville (FCCJ) and its partners from Florida academic institutions andindustry to develop a comprehensive training curriculum for three biotechnology disciplines:biotechnology laboratory technology, biomanufacturing, and regulatory affairs. This new coalitionof industry organizations, educational institutions, and other agencies, The Florida Consortium forBiotechnology Workforce Development, is chartered specifically to address one major issue;creating and sustaining a skilled biotechnology workforce.The Consortium consists of: • Three Florida community colleges – Florida Community College at Jacksonville (FCCJ), Santa Fe

Conference Session

ABET Issues and Capstone Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Davis; Craig Hoff

design. Decliningenrollments forced universities to reduce program length. In order to accomplish this,many programs reduced application oriented courses and laboratories.1 This shift hasresulted in an increasing gap between what engineers are expected to know and how theyare to perform in industry, and what universities are teaching.2 Engineers in industryspend much time working on complex system integration, yet few engineering graduatesunderstand this process.3 Reference 2 adds “the state of education in this country,especially in science, engineering and technology, has become a matter of increasingconcern to many of us in American industry.”In order to meet the professional needs of industry, engineering educators must place arenewed

Conference Session

BME Introductory Courses

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Samantha Richerson; Daniel Cavanagh

introductory course, we have implemented a newteaching approach which is centered on the integration of lecture and lab. The underlyingmotivation of this new approach is to enhance retention of the fundamental concepts by studentsthrough the concurrent offering of lecture and hands-on laboratory experiences. We believe thatthis methodology has several benefits over traditional course formats where lecture andassociated labs may be presented days apart. These benefits might include the ability to quicklyaddress student misunderstandings which may arise during lecture, immediately reinforcecomplex technical concepts through hands-on activities and to provide the students with a realworld application of the concepts. To implement this course, we

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Gally; Steve Chadwick; Randy Shaffer; Milton Cone; Jim Helbling

experience.IntroductionThe purpose of this paper is to provide insight into the development of an Introduction toEngineering course at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) in Prescott, Arizona. Thiscourse was created as a part of a ‘common core’ freshmen program, and was intended to providestudents with a multi-disciplinary experience branching the aerospace engineering, electricalengineering, computer engineering, and computer science fields of study. As such, the coursewas team-taught by faculty drawn from each of the various disciplines. Each instructor wastasked with developing lecture and laboratory content which would allow students to developcross-discipline engineering design skills.This paper begins by describing the course goals and objectives as

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Vladimir Sheyman; Mulchand Rathod

Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationcurriculum with community college partners (Henry Ford Community College and MacombCommunity College) and an ideal articulation plan was devised where up to half the degreecredits (freshman and sophomore years) would transfer. An example of possible transferprogram with Henry Ford Community College is shown in Table 1. (iv) Created upper divisioncourses and related laboratories for the EGT curriculum. (v) Program launch of the modelBSET-EGT degree was delayed pending funding from external sources.ENERGY TECHNOLOGY BS DEGREE CURRICULUM It was important to design the BSET-EGT curriculum to satisfy the accreditationrequirements of the Technology Accreditation Commission of the

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yong-Kyu Jung

necessary. Forrealistic, real-world experiences, an efficient rapid design method must be developed to enhancequality and scale of classroom projects.What do we usually do in the classroom?We usually offer a series of courses such as Digital Logic Circuits and Computer Architecturescoupled with laboratory exercises that include HDL-based implementations. Since technologiesand tools are continuously evolving, digital design education must catch up with the pace of thetechnology evolution in industry. Furthermore, engineering education should predict and lead thedirection of the future technology paradigm shift. We should offer a few intensive courses ratherthan do a series of many courses taught in the current curricula!Is a commercial FPGA

Conference Session

Curriculum Development

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hung Tao Shen; Amy Zander

is expected that the proposed program will enroll 10 students per year. This number assumesfive students 'new' to Clarkson University, that would have otherwise chosen this major from ourcompetitors, and five 'current' Clarkson University students, that will chose environmentalengineering as their major instead of civil engineering or engineering studies. Thus, each yearbeginning in Fall 2005 a cohort of ten new majors is expected, providing a critical mass ofstudents in the program.ResourcesCurrent library holdings and electronically accessible journals are sufficient for the major.Laboratory facilities in the William J. Rowley Laboratories are also sufficient to support theexpected program enrollment. Expendable laboratory supplies can be

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Schleicher; Aubrey Hunt; Sean Brophy; Christopher Garay; Cynthia Paschal; Stacy Klein-Gardner

in the image? What can we do to make this mass appear more clearly? How sure can we be about our diagnosis and what might make us reach an erroneous conclusion?This initial grand challenge sets up a sequence of follow-on challenges that provide a context forlearning about many imaging concepts such as specificity, accuracy of diagnosis, andtomographic imaging with computed tomography (CT). These challenges provide an orientingcontext for the laboratory experiments students perform to learn more about the details of thefundamental concepts of medical imaging.The curriculum is provided in three parts – an instructor’s manual, electronic slide presentations,and a student edition of the laboratory manual

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Venkitaswamy Raju

program known as the LINK Nanotechnology Program launched in 1988started the nanotechnology research with an annual budget of about $2 million per year.The governmental funding for Nanotechnology in the UK has grown since then to over abillion dollars in 2002. In France, the Centre National de la Récherche Scientifique(CNRS) has developed research programs on nanoparticles and nanostructured materialsat about 40 physics laboratories and 20 chemistry laboratories. The CNRS projects innanotechnology started in 1996 with an estimated budget of about $40 million a year.During the same period, Sweeden has spent $10 million a year for nanotechnologyresearch. Further, the governmental support has been strong for nanotechnology researchin countries like

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jiaxin Zhao

, respectively. These two signals were then hooked up directly to the dataacquisition hardware. A LabVIEW program was written to acquire the signals and then generatethe stress-strain curve in real time using the built-in calibration equations for load and elongation.IntroductionComputer data acquisition is more and more widely used in today’s undergraduate laboratorycourses. While the newly acquired laboratory equipment likely will have the computer dataacquisition built into it, it is the old equipment that presents a challenge to institutions of how tomodernize it with computer data acquisition. Going back to the equipment’s originalmanufacturer or other vendors for a retrofitting package with computer data acquisition is onepossible solution, which

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Developments

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Madhumi Mitra; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

utilized at present on this tract with uniformapplication of fertilizers and seedlings. No special irrigation or weed managementtechniques are currently used. The overall objective of the first phase of the ECPA effortsat UMES will be to develop baseline data via systematic record keeping, whilecontinuing with the current farming practices. This data will be valuable in the future toα Associate Professor, Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciencesβ Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Sciencesδ Dean, School of Agriculture and Natural Sciencesε GIS Laboratory Coordinatorφ Lecturer, Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences (Aviation Program

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Lillie

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationFigure 4: Image of the working project PEDA LCD ProjectLab StepsThe following steps are followed and documented for each laboratory. 1) Analysis 2) Design 3) RTL Coding 4) Test-bench Coding 5) Verification 6) Validation 7) Lab report write upTopics covered and reinforced each Lab 1) Coding Guidelines – The coding guidelines for both Digital System design and Principals of Electronic Design Automation are reviewed with the students at the beginning of the quarter. All labs are graded based on the coding guidelines. 2) Code Reviews – Students are chosen at random to perform a code review on a