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Innovations in CE Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kristine Martin; Kenneth Leitch; Jeffrey Will

of student learning andwill be the subject of future study. The low cost of these systems point to their increasinguse in classroom and laboratory settings. Integration of this technology into educationmust be predicated upon proper methods and associated software. In this work, weintroduce the concept that visualization software in conjunction with virtual realityhardware may form an important extension to two areas of civil engineering education,and shows great promise for the future.References[1] P.C. Wankat and F.S. Oreowicz, Teaching Engineering. New York: McGraw-Hill,1993.[2] J.D. Will and E.W. Johnson, “Scientific Visualization for Undergraduate Education,”in Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Stephan A. Durham; Mark L. Kuss; Ernest Heymsfield; Hanna Sheppard

which neither parent holds acollege degree. The overall objective of this program is to increase enrollment for students inhigher education institutions. This program involves a six week summer program in which thestudents are engaged in “hands on” activities in the areas of math, laboratory sciences,composition and literature. The Department of Civil Engineering assists in the laboratory scienceportion of the program. Since the Department’s involvement, students have become involved ininnovative ongoing research. Research the students perform is practical and experimental andincludes topics such as field permeability of asphalt, in situ permeability of concrete, andtheoretical specific gravity of asphalt mixtures. At the end of the six week

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Turner; Joseph Hoffbeck

, John S.; O'Donovan, Thomas E., Using SIMULINK as a design tool, ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Jun 16-19, 2002, p 8505-8517. 12. Bolton, Robert W.; Zoghi, Behbood, Enhancing system dynamics instruction for technologists with simulation, ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Jun 22-25, 2003, p 11408-11411. 13. Avitabile, Peter; Goodman, Charles; Hodgkins, Jeff; White, Karl; Van Zandt, Tracy; StHilaire, Gary; Johnson, Tiffini; Wirkkala, Nels, Dynamic systems teaching enhancement using a laboratory based hands- on project, ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Jun 20-23, 2004, p 4129-4144. 14. Avitabile, Peter; Goodman, Charles; Van Zandt, Tracy, Development of a measurement system for response of a second

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Crossing the Discipline Divide!

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steven Krumholz; Robert Martello; Jonathan Stolk

course, and we elucidate the importantrole the course plays in our engineering curriculum.IntroductionIn the fall of 2003, two faculty members at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering beganteaching a new course offering, titled Paul Revere: Tough as Nails. Referred to as a “courseblock” due to the fact that it was twice the size of a typical undergraduate course, Paul Revere:Tough as Nails attempted to accomplish several key learning objectives:• Teach students to pose questions and solve materials science and historical problems in an interdisciplinary manner, using the content, methods, and perspectives of both fields to achieve a greater contextual and qualitative understanding of common topics.• Encourage students to control

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mohamed Chouikha; Don Millard

Electronics”, Proceedings of 1997 Frontiers in Education Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, November 1997.14. Holmes, M., “Breaking down traditional disciplinary boundaries in the classroom,” Selected Papers from the 13th International Conf on College Teaching and Learning, 75-96, (J. Chambers, ed.), FCCJ, Jacksonville, 2002.15. D.A. Kolb, Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1984.16. Hagler, M., “Laboratory Exercises for Analog Circuits and Electronics as Hardware Homework with Student Laptop Computer Instrumentation”, International Symposium IGIP / IEEE / ASEE 2004, September 27-30, Fribourg, Switzerland.17. R.M. Felder and L.K. Silverman

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Program Level Assessment

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2005 Annual Conference

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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

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Virtual Instrumentation in ET

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2005 Annual Conference

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Arif Sirinterlikci

instructor to establish a healthyand balanced base of theory and practice.Previously the department owned out-dated electronics workstations (experimenters) and asimulation package that was not current and suitable for integration with hardware. Sincepractice is an important part of the program just like any other technology program,laboratory activities took a good portion of the two courses mentioned above. There waslimited time available for simulation, hence the students lacked computerized design andanalysis skills. This paper elaborates on the efforts of improving the quality of electricity andelectronics education with the help of simulation and virtual instrumentation tools.The author obtained 9 NI (National Instruments) ELVIS (Educational

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Kamesh Namuduri; Ravi Pendse

which have IAScurriculum certified by the Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) 4. If one of these institutions happens to be within the vicinity, it is strongly advised topartner with such an institution. Especially, institutions designated as Centers ofAcademic Excellence are already well established with several IAS related education,training and research programs. Associating with such CAEIAE institutions andpartnering with the teaching and research faculty at these centers will tremendouslyreduce the amount of initial preparations that are needed to offer IAS courses and trainingprograms at your own institution. The University of Tulsa, in Oklahoma is one of the first few universities that receivedthe CAEIAE designation

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

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Tolga Duman; Cihan Tepedelenlioglu; Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola; Venkatraman Atti; Andreas Spanias

elective UG course entitled “Introduction to signal processing forcommunications research,” is being developed for Fall 2005. Evaluation and assessment procedures are inplace to evaluate the modules and measure the success of our objectives.* This work is sponsored by the NSF CRCD-EI award 0417604. Page 10.19.1 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”1. IntroductionTraditional undergraduate (UG) topics in electrical engineering and computer science rely on structuredclasses, laboratories

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Programming for Engineering Students

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2005 Annual Conference

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Andrew Sterian; Bruce Dunne; Andrew Blauch

withvaluable skills that they will need in industry.Despite the fact that many engineering programs have altogether dropped teaching computerprogramming to their non-ECE majors, other programs have continued to require an introductoryprogramming course at the freshman level for all engineering majors1,2,3,4,5. A variety ofplatforms are used in these courses, from the traditional general-purpose programming languageslike C, C++, or Java to programmable engineering tools such as MATLAB, Mathcad, and evenExcel. We present our case for keeping programming as a key introductory course in anengineering curriculum. Our program utilizes a common course thread for the first two years ofstudy. Having a student population already programming-literate enables us

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Tricks of the Trade for Research

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2005 Annual Conference

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Beverly Davis

cooperativelyhave involved supporting the educational mission of our institution. In fact, some of our moreresearch-oriented projects have their roots in teaching techniques and instructional problems.And more importunately, successful and meaningful interdisciplinary collaboration cumulativelybenefits students in the classroom. A second key component of interdisciplinary collaboration isto let go of rigidity of thought and process and find common ground. Lastly, a key component isinstitutional support. Institutional leadership should not only recognize but encourageinterdisciplinary cooperation.In this paper, the authors review the strategies and rationales they have used in interdisciplinaryactivities. With creativity and a disciplined focus, the authors

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Student Learning and Research

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ronald Rockland

problem rather than the actual solution found 3. Considering that concept,students are really solving problem, not performing problem solving. Page 10.1067.1Several papers 4,5 and texts6-7 have addressed the concepts of teaching problem solvingtechniques in the classroom. However, these concepts need to be reinforced in everything the Proceedings of the 2005 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society of Engineering Educationstudent does, and one of the areas that traditionally are not addressed is reinforcing theseconcepts during exams. .New Jersey

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ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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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

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Steven Reyer; Stephen Williams; Glenn Wrate; Joerg Mossbrucker; Owe Petersen

increased emphasis on developing the professional skills of ourgraduates.Curriculum modifications include a greater focus on microprocessor based systems, interfacing,signal processing, and material science. Core electrical engineering topics are introduced duringthe freshman year and include both lecture and laboratory experiences. The curriculum hasretained its broad range of content topics and its traditional strong design and laboratory focus.The curriculum changes are intended to provide the breadth and depth of technical knowledgeand the professional skills that will enable our graduates to: enter industry with immediateproductivity, pursue changing career opportunities, adjust to life-long technological changes, andpursue graduate school

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Morrow

teams arerequired to prepare a written contract detailing the members’ responsibilities (rotation of respon-sibilities is required), weekly meeting arrangements, and how disputes will be resolved. The teammaintains a lab notebook throughout the course, and meets weekly with the course instructorand/or teaching assistant.The course is structured to contain both a lecture component ( three 50 minute periods per week)and an intense laboratory/project component (one 3 hour period per week). The lecture compo-nent initially focuses on giving the students the required background to successfully implementa design using the course’s hardware and software platforms. The focus then shifts to a sam-pling of more pragmatic design issues that most students

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Interdisciplinary Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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Seth Bates; Patricia Backer

design and manufacturing for students in Mechanical Engineering, ManufacturingTechnology, and Industrial Design. The prototype work for this project was funded by a San JoseState University (SJSU) curriculum grant, a seed grant of $20,000 from Hewlett Packard forcomputer equipment, and Unigraphics software donated by UGS. The project team developed athree-course sequence using solid modeling as a medium to teach design, materials andmanufacturing technology constraints through innovative design case studies. Students learn byfacing design challenges while being instructed about the constraints of manufacturabilityincluding properties of materials and modern manufacturing methods. In each course, studentsdevelop three to four products. All

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Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

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2005 Annual Conference

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Richard Goff; Janis Terpenny

Session 3255 Design in Engineering Education and Practice Janis P. Terpenny and Richard M. Goff Department of Engineering Education Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, Virginia 24061AbstractThis paper reports on a new core graduate course that has been developed for the recentlyestablished Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and StateUniversity (Virginia Tech). The course is focused on preparing future engineering facultymembers and practitioners to teach

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ilan Grave

studio type of instruction and collegesand universities nationwide are being encouraged by funding agencies and common perceptionto incorporate these teaching methods throughout science, math, engineering and technologycurricula. In an ideal studio classroom, students are presented with engineering concepts duringshort lecture periods. Students then engage in activity geared toward demonstrating thisinformation by participating in hands-on laboratory activities that utilize computers andcomputer-interfaced laboratory equipment. Students work in teams of two-to-three under theguidance of an instructor. The studio approach allows for immediate application of theory,thereby creating a more effective learning environment for students.”A second grant

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

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

Interdisciplinary Freshman Experience Chuck Cone, Steve Chadwick, Tom Gally, Jim Helbling, and Randall Shaffer College of Engineering Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Prescott, ArizonaAbstractThis paper summarizes a cooperative effort undertaken by the Aeronautical, Electrical, andComputer Engineering Departments at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University that led to thedevelopment of a team-taught interdisciplinary engineering course offered to incomingfreshmen. The authors discuss the inception of the project, the development of the coursecontent, and the lessons learned from the first year of teaching the

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Communication Skills in Aerospace Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Patric McElwain; James Helbling; Angela Beck

, ERAU’s focus is on technical/technology-relateddisciplines such as engineering.All engineering programs at ERAU require students to take a Technical Report Writing course asa prerequisite for advanced engineering courses; however, many students who have passedTechnical Report Writing still exhibit difficulty adequately completing written assignments, asthe majority of their courses in engineering almost exclusively require such skills as mathematicsand engineering problem-solving. The lab report has proven particularly challenging. In order tobetter serve the students of the COE, then, the HU/COM and COE faculty decided to engage in aprogrammatic modification to the teaching of engineering writing derived from best practices inwriting education

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2005 Annual Conference

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John Board; April Brown; Joseph Holmes; Hisham Massoud; Steven Cummer; Jungsang Kim; Michael Gustafson; Leslie Collins; Lisa Huettel; Gary Ybarra

each of 15EBI-based questions since both types of data provide useful and different information [2].Analysis of the resulting data suggested that students were generally pleased with theireducational experience, and that the three curricular areas the respondents felt neededsome improvement were teaching, laboratory facilities and relationship between lab andcourse, and design experiences. These results support our faculty’s assessment of areasneeding curricular reform and improvement.The second component of this follow-up study was a student focus group that wasdesigned to elicit detailed input about the current curriculum and to discern reactions tothe planned curriculum. The results from the focus group validated the results of theinitial

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Alley; Jenny Lo; Bevlee Watford

curricula has proven to be challenging. This paper presents the initial phase of anexperiment in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech to address this problem by means of aresearch option in the traditional technical communication course. In this research option,students have the opportunity to prepare for and to document a summer research experience. Tothat end, the research option of the course is divided into two segments: (1) a spring segment toprepare students for a summer research experience, and (2) a fall segment to teach students tohow document that research experience. This research option culminates in an undergraduateresearch symposium that is to show other undergraduates the benefits of and opportunities for aresearch experience

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BME Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

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Daniel Cutbirth; Brett Hughes; Sundararajan Madihally

Paper # 854Introducing Biomedical Engineering Using Creatinine Based Time-in-Dialysis Experiment Daniel Cutbirth, Brett Hughes and Sundararajan V. Madihally School of Chemical Engineering, Oklahoma State UniversityAuthor for correspondence – Sundar Madihally email address: sundar.madihally@okstate.eduIn the emerging field of biomedical engineering, there is a need for experiments which canillustrate the importance of engineering concepts in medicine. One of the laboratory exerciseused in demonstrating the fundamental concepts is hemodialysis device. Typically it is usedunder simulated conditions via salt solutions

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International Engineering Education II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sucharit Koontanakulvong; Direk Lavansiri

produced 102 Because the system had to dealprocedures covering all operations at with more than 600 staff members andthe departmental level and the Faculty 5,000 students among 12 departments,(Central Administration) levels such as the implementation was divided intostrategic planning, budgeting, two phases; Phase 1 on system setupcurriculum development, teaching and (2001-2002), and Phase 2 on selfevaluation, laboratory maintenance, quality assessment (2003). Theresearch management, etc. [3, 4]. implementation of quality system setup The assessment based on the started at the Central AdministrativeUniversity criteria (34 indexes) can be units and followed with thegrouped into 5

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Interdisciplinary Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jung Oh

teachingstrategy were rewarding: (1) students were motivated in learning about the subjects,chemistry and various engineering technology areas, (2) students connected theirpersonal areas of interests to academic majors programs and daily lives, and (3) manystudents in engineering technology programs incorporated kinesthetic learning styles forthis assignment. In course portfolios and survey, students indicated that theseassignments became enjoyable and valuable learning projects they were attached to in apersonal way. This non-traditional teaching strategy has increased my enthusiasm toknow my students on a personal level through observations of their unique talents andways of connecting chemistry with engineering technology program courses.Introduction

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Mathematics Curriculum in Transition

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2005 Annual Conference

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Nathan Klingbeil

, and has led an NSF supported effort to integrate Mathematica laboratory sessions intothe freshman calculus sequence at Wright State University.KULDIP S. RATTAN is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Wright State University. Hereceived his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kentucky in 1975. Professor Rattan conductsresearch in the area of electrical control systems, and is active in engineering education reform. He has been therecipient of the CECS Excellence in Teaching Award at Wright State University in both 1985 and 1992, and of theCECS Excellence in Service Award in 1991, 1996 and 2003.MICHAEL L. RAYMER is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at

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Computed Simulation and Animation

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sarangi Parikh; Joel Esposito; Robert DeMoyer; Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic

andmathematical concepts of modeling physical systems, it is much more difficult to give students anunderstanding of the artful aspects of the modeling process outlined above. In this paper wedescribe a series of laboratory and homework exercises designed to help students hone these skills,discuss how to assess their performance on the exercises and share the results of student opinionsurveys.1 IntroductionIn the Systems Engineering Department at the United States Naval Academy all students arerequired to take a junior level course on mathematical modeling. During their senior year allstudents in the department form teams of two or three to design and build a device. Many of theseprojects contain some type of basic automatic control system. Most

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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William White; George Engel; Cen Karacal; Ai-ping Hu; Jerry Weinberg

on Teamwork (NSF Grant #9972758)8, and from Southern Illi-nois University Edwardsville’s Laboratory Experience for Teaching Participatory Design (NSFCCLI Grant #9981088).17This paper presents the outcome of the first offering of the course. The course is cross-listed forcredit to students in each of these areas. It incorporates team-based robotics projects in which theteams are cross-functional and composed of one student from each area. For the first year, thecourse was taught by a team of faculty members from all of the represented areas. Emphasis wasplaced on cross-functional teamwork aspects, including the development of materials in eacharea as applied to robotics that was accessible to all of the students regardless of their majors

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Innovative Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

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Kellen Maicher; Patrick Connolly

inthe current user interface and navigation components.The interactive drawing and response tool portion of the tutorial was presented separately toapproximately eighty students in an introductory engineering graphics course at PurdueUniversity. These students had some basic experience with multiview drawing and had completedseveral simple problems of this nature in course laboratory exercises. The students were asked tocomplete ten problems in the interactive drawing and response module and were asked tocomplete a short survey regarding the interactive tool. From these responses, the followingoverall opinions were noted: • The students consistently found the tool to be easy to use. • The error messages were not clear or were somewhat

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Real World Applications

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mark French

outside speaker – an engineer from a racing team – discussed his duties andresponsibilities on an actual team, both in preparation for and during a race. He brieflytouched on tire pressure, recording, adjusting wing angles, ambient conditions and theireffects on the car.12. Develop an understanding of the role of the “factory” in the manufacture of the engine, chassis, tires, etc.No activity in initial course offering. We are seeking a guest lecturer for the next courseoffering.Dynamics ModuleIt is not possible to present details on from all the modules in this paper, so we will usethe vehicle dynamics module and the engine module, as representative examples.Approximately three weeks of lecture and four weeks in the laboratory were devoted