Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Click; Dan Pearce; P. Paxton Marshall

the UVAteam and of the other top teams in the competition depended upon attaining a successfulcollaboration among engineering, architecture, and construction. Teams in which one orthe other disciplines elected to undertake the project alone did not fare as well. Similarly,the educational value of the experience for the students was significantly enhanced by themultidisciplinary orientation of the team. The project integrated many of the ABETrequirements of Criteria 3 and 4, demonstrating both the value of these criteria and avehicle for achieving them. This student-built home will serve as a lab and communityresource for studying solar energy and sustainable design in residential applications

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; Joseph Morgan

, students learn the basicsof computer-based instrumentation including analog and digital data acquisition,software-based signal conditioning, and industry standard instrumentation platforms.The first five weeks of the semester are devoted to individual labs that teach analog-to-digital conversion, digit-to-analog conversion, digital input/output, and transducerinterface. The lab then culminates in a ten-week project where students interface tomotors, transducers, and sensors and create an operational mobile platform that can beremotely monitored and controlled.To solve the challenge of making an instrumentation platform that is accessible from theweb, the authors have chosen to use National Instruments’ Fieldpoint data acquisitionsystem and

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mukasa Ssemakula

-likesetting1,2. The LF model emphasizes practical experience and consequently, EngineeringTechnology (ET) and other programs that emphasize hands-on experiences for students are wellsuited to implementing the LF model. This paper describes a project whose goal is to adapt theLF model for implementation in regular academic programs oriented to practical applicationswithout having to build an actual factory. This work is being accomplished by modifying five carefully selected courses in ourprograms, leading to the use of coordinated projects across those courses. The projects focus onthe making of functional model engines. In the various courses, students will generate CADdrawings of all the engine components, produce process plans for and make

Conference Session

Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin Sill; Elizabeth Stephan; Matthew Ohland

students are not in a major yet, and it must be designedto a proper level. This paper addresses some of the challenges, specifically: student preparation,differences among the majors, course content, and hands-on activities such as design projects andlab exercises.The General Engineering faculty members have broad disciplinary expertise, which is ofsignificant benefit in the incorporation of multidisciplinary activities. • General Engineering Director Ben Sill has a PhD in Aerospace and Ocean Engineering and has taught most of his career in Clemson’s Civil Engineering department. • Bill Park, Associate Professor, has a PhD in Electrical Engineering and regularly teaches courses for the Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Julia Apple-Smith; Dave Holger; Shannon Miner

vision, who see the value of having an international experience and are willing to work hard to promote the same.The following faculty comments provide an excellent summary of the value and success of thisprogram:"The trip to Singapore gave me the opportunity to discuss numerous potential interactions withNUS and NTU, in academia, research, and distance learning. The trip has resulted in theinvolvement of two of my faculty in research projects and the discussion of PhD studentexchanges as a method of improving research collaborations. Without this initial trip, the facultyand I would not have considered Asia as a viable place to do collaborative research; indeed, weseem to have "forgotten" this area of the world as a source of ideas and

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Craig L. Just; P. Barry Butler

Executive SummaryThe Colleges of Engineering at The University of Iowa and Iowa State University, the IowaSection of Water for People, the Universidad Technólogica de Xicotepec de Juárez, and RotaryInternational, have agreed to work together through the International Engineering ServiceProgram (IESP) to provide an educational and service internship experience for students thatemphasizes environmentally and economically sustainable engineering projects. The programinvolves substantial interaction between university-level students, faculty mentors at therespective universities, the Iowa Section of Water for People and members of RotaryInternational in the USA and Xicotepec, Mexico. Together, the team has begun to develop andexecute a long-term plan

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Harvey Lyons

Session 3648 Teaching and Assessing Teaming Skills via Design Courses Harvey I. Lyons, P.E., Ph.D. College of Technology Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI 48197The writer has had the experience to introduce open-ended, team-based design projects tofreshmen in an introductory course and, as well, supervise open-ended, team-based designprojects to upper classmen who had not experienced the noted introductory program, e.g.,Introduction to Engineering, Introduction to Engineering Technology, etc

Conference Session

Student Chapters - Formulas for Success

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Evans; Eric Lachance; Allen Estes

efforts on short duration activities, tryingto get the biggest benefit for the most valuable student resource: time. With limited and tightlycontrolled increments of available time, we attempt to tailor our activities to accommodate thisconstraint. Those USMA chapter activities that add the greatest value to our CE program, arelisted below, and described in the sections that follow: • Community service and outreach through adopt-a-highway clean up, Habitat for Humanity participation, and support of those community service independent study 6 projects in the CE program . • Exposure to professional societies such as ASCE, ASEE, The Society of American Military Engineers (SAME), and the

Conference Session

The Biology Interface

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Mosto; Gregory Hecht; Kathryn Hollar; Stephanie Farrell

to introduce students to avariety of biological principles that are relevant to chemical engineering. Additionally, Page 8.722.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationseveral laboratory modules and projects that can be easily incorporated at the freshmanand sophomore levels have been developed. These modules include reverse engineering ofthe human body, reverse engineering of the beer making process, and designing amicrobial fuel cell. Modules developed for the freshman year expose students to

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bret Van Poppel; Blace Albert; Daisie Boettner

Session 1566 A PROPOSAL FOR AN INTEGRATED MECHANICAL ENGINEERING PROGRAM AT THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY Major Bret P. Van Poppel, Major Blace C. Albert and Lieutenant Colonel Daisie D. Boettner Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering United States Military Academy West Point, NY 10996Abstract This paper presents a proposal for an integrated, project-based mechanical engineeringcurriculum. Several justifications support this significant change to the existing curriculum. Thispaper discusses

Conference Session

Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Smith; Angela Quick

to Georgia Tech's French campus (Georgia Tech Lorraine) is the Frenchhigh school, the Lycée de la Communication. In early 2002 and with the support of the GeorgiaTech’s Atlanta and French administrations, the Lycée de la Communication (in Metz, France)and Rockdale Magnet School for Science and Technology (25 miles from Georgia Tech’sAtlanta campus in Conyers, Georgia USA) agreed to an experiment in which French and USstudents are paired to perform joint research projects. In autumn 2002, ten US students visitedFrance to meet with their French research partners. In April 2003, French students willreciprocate and visit Georgia. Each visiting group resides in local homes and participates in theacademic and home life of their host families. The

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods in Industrial Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Silvanus Udoka; Paul Stanfield

seniordesign projects. Additionally, most industrial engineers have experience interacting with otherengineers earlier in their academic career through common engineering courses. However,interaction with business students rarely occurs before the senior year, if then. This deficiencyprevents the development of a key skill required for industrial engineering practice. This paper describes two innovative approaches to experientially teach multidisciplinaryproblem solving to teams of engineering and business students. Both approaches allow theinteractions to occur earlier in the curriculum. The first approach is through class partnering.Such partnering emulates more long term interdisciplinary efforts such as design teams andconfiguration

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Duda

the need for technical assistance,financial aid and education. This is made clear by past research done by others 3, 4, 5. However,because of the differences in culture, we needed to ask the questions, hear the answers anddevelop potentially helpful projects around the answers.Survey MethodologyThe surveys were done on an informal basis built around three questions and 150 to 200 leaders.The methodology for the survey was to meet with the leaders and informally ask the threequestions and then to record the responses. The questions and answers were further support forour belief in the basis for a successful new research center model.This study used qualitative research methods, in particular in-depth interviews, focus groupdiscussions and a

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Katie Torrey; James Hertel; Douglas Oppliger; Gretchen Hein; Glen Archer; Jason Keith

students to the concept of mass balances. This problem wasused to illustrate how to properly set-up and document engineering problems, design and usespreadsheets, and observe the effect of changing process variables on an overall design. Thestudents also learned technical writing skills by summarizing the project in a short report.Additionally, ENG1101 students were given a problem where they had to use unit conversions tosolve a Biomedical Engineering problem. In Fundamentals of Engineering II (ENG1102), anElectrical Engineering project introduced the students to control logic design. Starting with aconceptual 3- D model of the mechanical design, the project required the team to develop asystem configuration diagram, energy budget, functional

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Johnson; Bill Kitchen

The Case Files James Johnson, William Kitchen Nashville State Technical Community CollegeThe Case Files is a National Science Foundation funded project designed to produce a readilyaccessible inventory of case studies and professional development workshops to help facultyimplement case studies in their technology classes. This project is built on two previous projectsthat explored techniques for training faculty how to use authentic case studies that incorporate the“Case Files Learning Cycle” defined by project partners from the Learning Technology Center atVanderbilt University.Four case studies were developed and tested in colleges and

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Parker; Max Anderson

first-year student by introducing him or her to engineering design through five design projects.Specifically, the goals of the project are to:1) Create a “portable” first year Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering (ICEE) course based on the Sooner City program.2) Assess the success of the ICEE course at meeting the following global objectives: a) Stimulate interest in engineering among freshmen; b) Provide freshmen with an understanding of the breadth of the civil and environmental engineering profession; c) Positively impact retention of freshman civil and environmental engineering students.3) Provide course materials on a web page to

Conference Session

Intro to Engineering: Not Just 1st Year Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Schmidt

first year students were introducedto the design process through the realization of an actual product (e.g., human powered waterpump) by working in small teams, Teaching Fellows (called TFs) have a variety of roles atypicalof most undergraduate teaching assistants.2 Specifically, TFs act as role models, tutors, and teamfacilitators in addition to assisting the faculty member with tasks such as grading, supervisingstudy sessions and occasionally teaching a class section on material related to the class project orteam dynamics. The purpose of the present paper is to describe the Teaching Fellows programtoday, ten years after its inception. While many features have remained virtually the same,significant changes in the students targeted for

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeremy Poling; Emily Blakemore; Lee Greguske; Glenn Wrate

to determine if additional funding of either technology was warranted. Theresults were also published on a student-developed web page. Since the study was performedwith students, in a high traffic area, this research was a wonderful vehicle to increase studentinterest in the energy efficiency area. This paper documents the two technologies, the students’response to the different technology, the methods used to compare the technologies, and thedevelopment of the web page. In addition, suggestions for further work in the area are made, andlessons learned on this project are discussed. It was found that while the amount of energy savedis small for an individual machine, Wisconsin alone has over 75,000 of these machines, so thetotal energy

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Courter; Jay Martin

Session 1653 2nd and 3rd Order Refinements/Improvements to an Experiential Design and Introduction to Engineering Course for First-Year Students Sandra Shaw Courter and Jay K. Martin University of Wisconsin-MadisonABSTRACT A three-credit course for first-year students with the objective of providing anauthentic engineering design experience and an introduction to engineering has been inplace at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1994. From the inception, the coursehas been centered on real projects the students carry out in collaboration with bona fideclients. During

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Corradeschi; Raymond Carr; Lewis Natiello; Donald Carlucci; Albert Messano; Keith Sheppard

introductory design experience with some linkageto a concurrent Graphics course2. Elements of teaming, project management, economics andeffective communication are included. The second half of the course is focused on a major teamproject to build a robot that can negotiate obstacles and fulfill a prescribed task in competitionwith the robots from other teams. The project introduces students to sensors, algorithmdevelopment and microprocessor programming, and it is also fun! The design sequence continuesin the 2nd semester of Freshman year with a design course that strongly links to a Mechanics ofSolids lecture course3. The third design course links to the Thermodynamics and EnergyConversion course4. These design laboratories further advance the

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

MICHAEL HOLTZ; Chandra Sekhar; Ashfaq Ahmed; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

Session 1311 INTERNET BASED LESSON AND TEST DELIVERY, AUTOMATIC GRADING AND RECORD KEEPING SYSTEM Omer Farook, Chandra R. Sekhar, Jai P. Agrawal, Ashfaq Ahmed and Michael Holtz Purdue University CalumetABSTRACTThe paper describes the “Internet Based Lesson and Test Delivery, Automatic Grading and RecordKeeping System”. This system is conceived and designed as part of the Senior Design Project ofElectrical Engineering Technology curriculum during a two-semester course offering. These twocourses are the capstone courses in Electrical Engineering Technology curriculum offered in 7th and8th semester. This

Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Schmidt; David Bigio; Linda Schmidt; Paige Smith

Session 1430 Engineering Students and Training in Teamwork: How Effective? Linda Schmidt, Janet Schmidt University of Maryland Carol Colbeck Pennsylvania State University David Bigio, Paige Smith, and Lee Harper University of MarylandAbstractThe motivating principle of the BESTEAMS (Building Engineering Student Team Effectivenessand Management Systems) project is to create a modular student team training program that canbe integrated into any

Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv; Rosalyn Berne

Session 2330 Eight-Dimensional Methodology for Innovative Thinking About the Case and Ethics of the Mount Graham, Large Binocular Telescope Project Submitted by:Rosalyn W. Berne, Division of Technology, Culture and Communication,University of Virginia, 351 McCormick Road, Thornton Road, Charlottesville, Va. 22904.434-924-6098. rwb@virginia.eduAnd,Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University, Electrical Engineering Department, FloridaAtlantic University, Boca Raton Florida, 33431. 561-297-2773. ravivd@fau.eduAbstract Case analysis is a common method for

Conference Session

Partnerships in IE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Griffin; Paul Griffin; Donna Llewellyn

The Impact of Group Size and Course Lengthon a Capstone Design CoursePaul M. Griffin¹, Susan O. Griffin and Donna C. Llewellyn²¹School of Industrial and Systems Engineering²Center for Excellence in Teaching and LearningGeorgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta, GA 30332January 15, 2003AbstractIn the spring semester of 2003, the School of Industrial Engineering at Georgia Tech ranan experimental one-semester version of their capstone course, Senior Design. Thestandard version is two semesters in the length, and the purpose of the experiment was tocompare the marginal benefit of the second semester for the student (and project sponsor)to the cost of running the second semester in terms of faculty and sponsor resources. Inaddition, a survey was

Conference Session

Engineering / Education Collaborations

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Shooter; Micheal Hanyak; Matt Higgins; Marie Wagner; Ed Mastascusa; Dan Hyde; Brian Hoyt; Bill Snyder; Michael Prince

Session 3531 Engineering Engineering Education A Conceptual Framework for Supporting Faculty in Adopting Collaborative Learning Brian Hoyt, Michael Prince, Steve Shooter, Michael Hanyak, , E.J. Mastascusa, William Snyder, T. Michael Toole, Mathew Higgins, Daniel C. Hyde, Marie Wagner, Margot Vigeant Bucknell UniversityAbstractOver the last three years, nearly a quarter of Bucknell’s engineering faculty haveparticipated in Project Catalyst, a NSF funded project to promote systemic change

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Michael Klein; Matt Walker; Kevin Organ; Dan Gerbus

(IEW) at the University ofIdaho is formed of a diverse group of graduate students whose purpose is to develop anenvironment that fosters professional as well as technical excellence. This paper analyzes theactions taken each year by IEW leading to the formation of well-trained, collaborative, and highly-reflective cohort of graduate students that support design education. This team is developedthrough directed study courses, team projects, personal reflections and monumental technical andinterpersonal challenges. Since 1994, IEW has been successful in delivering hardware thatexceeds expectations of industry customers, shortening time frames required for large-scaledesign projects, enriching senior design mentoring, and expanding the number of

Conference Session

Trends in Biological & Agricultural Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Lacey; Ann Kenimer

Session 2003-1240 Teaming Freshmen with Seniors in Design Ann Kenimer, Ronald Lacey Associate Professors, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M UniversityIntroductionThe Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at Texas A&M University offersdesign-focused courses for freshman and senior engineering students. The senior-level coursesconstitute the curriculum’s capstone design experience. Seniors work in teams of four to five on adesign project suggested by industry clients. Many of these same projects are used in the freshman

Conference Session

Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marlee Walton

Session 2615 The Integrated Civil Engineering Curriculum: The Gap Between the Blackboard and Business Marlee A. Walton Iowa State UniversityAbstract:Civil Engineering curricula have been criticized for not effectively preparing engineering studentsfor the workplace. Industry wants technically competent students who also can work as part ofteams, manage projects, communicate well and understand the economic, social and politicalcontext of their professional activities. The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET), with

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Manuel Toledo-Quinones

participate in a multidisciplinary program focused on promoting careers inmass transport. Participating students from the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)Department of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM) improved and acquired skillsin areas such as software development, distributed computing, embedded systems, machinevision, image processing, and multimedia. The program complements UPRM’s ECE curriculumby combining a year-long development experience with participation in workshops, publicpresentations and report writing.As a way of illustration, this article presents two projects being developed by ECE students aspart of UPR/MIT/Tren Urbano Professional Development (TUPD) program, which is brieflyoverviewed first. The first

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Taylor

program has threephases: a seminar series, a project experience with strong ties to entrepreneurial business, and aformal course of study leading to a certificate. Student interest has been excellent, withattendance at the seminars being as high as 160. Approximately 30 students are pursuing thecertificate in the second year. The program has been endowed by an alumnus who established theJack Hatcher Chair in Engineering Entrepreneurship. An advisory board of successfulentrepreneurs is providing leadership for the program.Introduction The role of the engineering entrepreneur in the expansion of the economy is self-evident.Engineers with entrepreneurial sprit and skills are the locomotives of the technology-based startupcompany and, perhaps