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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Kevin R. Lewelling; Kevin S. Woolverton; Michael C. Reynolds

Integration of Management Principles in an Open-Ended Community Service Project Kevin R. Lewelling, Kevin S. Woolverton, and Michael C. Reynolds University of Arkansas - Fort Smith 5210 Grand Avenue, Fort Smith, AR 72913-3649AbstractThe University of Arkansas at Fort Smith has developed a unique engineering project for firstyear students to experience the business world while gaining an understanding for engineeringtasks and how engineers function in the workplace. This project included five “Introduction toEngineering” classes, each tasked with designing, funding, and implementing a synchronizedholiday light show which could be received on any

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Roy Myose

Junior-level Jet Engine Design Project Incorporating Aircraft Performance, Cost, and Environmental Issues Roy Myose Department of Aerospace Engineering, Wichita State UniversityAbstract Capstone design classes in aerospace engineering oftentimes employ a multi-disciplinary team-based approach to design projects. In discipline-specific non-capstone classes, the typical emphasisis to cover the necessary conceptual material, and the design project in such a class tends to consideroptimization issues related to the discipline-specific topic. This paper discusses the author’s attemptto incorporate aircraft performance, cost, and environmental issues in the

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W. Roy Penney; Rachel M. Lee; Meagan E. Magie; Edgar C. Clausen

Design Projects in Undergraduate Heat Transfer: Six Examples from the Fall 2007 Course at the University of Arkansas W. Roy Penney, Rachel M. Lee, Meagan E. Magie, Edgar C. Clausen Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering University of ArkansasIntroductionOne of the main objectives of engineering education is to effectively transfer subject informationto the engineering students. A number of methods have been developed for enhancing thisstudent learning including multimedia developments1,2, active, problem-based learning3,collaborative learning4,5, and participation in cooperative education6. Several papers havespecifically addressed

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William A. Kline; Thomas Mason

Inc., the program has been an incubator/technology center engaging students and technology-based companies in project work thatprovides students employment with the challenges and excitement of real professional practice.Over 1500 internship positions have been offered to 575 students working on a range of design,prototyping, and testing projects for over 84 client companies.The challenges of educating the 21st century engineer call for innovative approaches in bothcurricular and co-curricular programs. The global economy and highly competitive workplace oftoday are creating needs for a solid technical education combined with professional practiceexperiences in the undergraduate curriculum. Many programs focusing on industrialpartnerships

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Christi Patton Luks; Laura P. Ford

International Education Through Engineers Without Borders Christi Patton Luks, Laura P. Ford The University of TulsaAbstractThe University of Tulsa started a chapter of Engineers Without Borders – USA (EWB-USA) in the fall of 2006. EWB is a non-profit humanitarian organization established topartner with developing communities worldwide in order to improve their quality of life.This partnership involves the implementation of sustainable engineering projects whileinvolving and training internationally responsible engineers and engineering students.The EWB-USA project application process requires that the students educate themselvesabout their partner international community

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Theodore W. Manikas; Gerald R. Kane

this purpose. Oklahoma universities andcompanies may apply for funding from the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Scienceand Technology (OCAST) 4 through their R&D Student Intern Partnership program. The statedpurpose of this program is to improve Oklahoma's R&D base by supporting undergraduatestudent internships at Oklahoma R&D facilities. The goal is to encourage undergraduatestudents to prepare for scientific and technical fields that support high-tech companies inOklahoma.This paper describes the approach used by the Department of Electrical Engineering at TheUniversity of Tulsa to develop and fund a specific internship project for its undergraduatestudents. It is hoped that the methods described in this paper will provide

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Surendra Singh

American Society for Engineering Education 2program usually end up extending the academic time from four to five years for a B.S. degree.With increasing competition in the job market, employers would prefer the freshly graduatingengineer to have some sort of work experience. From an employer’s perspective, less time spentin training a new hire means that person can be a productive engineer sooner than later.In this paper an internship program is described that has been in existence since 2002. The paperis organized as follows - In section II, we outline the purpose of the internship program and thepotential benefits. The internship projects

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Lawrence Whitman; S. Hossein Cheraghi; Janet Twomey

atenhancing student’s education by complementing the lecture and textbookmaterial. This paper presents a simulation-based project for various ProductionSystems/Operations Management courses. The challenge is to develop asimulation that is flexible to cover basic course content as well as recent industrytrends involving theory of constraints and the lean enterprise. This proveschallenging for instructors, because many of these concepts are counterintuitive totraditional manufacturing logic. The developed simulation model meets thechallenge faced by instructors and students as they try to expand currentcurriculum and get the most out of the simulation experience. The paper comparesother production system projects, presents the project itself, describes

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Walter O. Craig

advisory board can serve as a powerful tool to help the school or department in theaccreditation process. The board can also serve as a fund raising mechanism by having itsindustrial partner give grants for scholarships for incoming freshman, or monies to help purchaseequipment and supplies to maintain a laboratory of the department. The industry advisory boardmembers can also serve as mentors on an industry sponsored project. Another important purposeis to advise the department in the area of curriculum development. Industry participation incurriculum development will ensure that ET students are taking the necessary classes to givethem the industry skills to compete globally with other engineering technology graduates.The Industry advisory board

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Jason Moore; Mitchell A. Thornton; Ronald W. Skeith

enough to coverseveral of these topics should be used. The choice of what language to use for an indrotuctoryprogramming class is in fact a greedy algorithm in which you choose the most versatilelanguage. This greedy algorithm should yield the selection of the Perl programming languagesince Perl is a versatile enough language to cover all of the mentioned programming skills plusmany more. However, programming skills to be taught is not the only variable that should be takeninto consideration. One most also consider whether or not students will have access to theprogramming language on their personal computers. Since students are likely to spend more timeworking on programs and projects that can be done on their computers as opposed to

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Wei Zhang

presents a newapproach to teaching the introductory computer architecture courses with anexplicit emphasis on the systematic picture of the computer system. Introducing thehigh-level framework of computer as a system can enhance students’ understandingof various architectural components, and mitigate the difficult of performinghardware design or assembly programming projects on specific architecture topics.In addition, we also highlight the importance of software and its interaction with theunderlying hardware by introducing a set of MIPS assembly programming projects.Based on our experience in two subsequent semesters, such an approach canenhance the instruction of the introductory computer architecture course and helpstudents improve their

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Day W. Radebaugh

what an engineer isentitled to claim to be certain, and what is regarded as uncertain should precede anyattempt to evaluate the ethical implications of the technology under consideration.I. IntroductionThere are eight categories of decisions that must be made during the course of anengineering project. The accuracy of these eight categories of decision depend in eachcase on the degree of certainty of the information used to make these respectivejudgments.I.A Project IssuesEvery undertaking, from the small to the large, the simple to the complex, is subject tothe dynamics of the project. We can associate 5 management dimensions with eachproject: scope (roughly, the requirements or objectives), deadline, budget, quality of thework

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Behnam Bahr; Kurt Soschinske; George Gray

attend and participate in a MechanicalEngineering seminar series that will expose them to topics such as Ethics, Safety, EnvironmentalIssues, Global Collaboration, Energy Conservation, Entrepreneurial Aspects of Engineering,Engineering Professionalism, Sustainability, Manufacturability, Project Management, and othertopics of professional interest and use. Furthermore, students will have opportunities to work asa team on faculty’s research project or a creative project of their own. These hand-onopportunities will give Mechanical Engineering students a more insightful appreciation formanufacturing capabilities and limitations, and permit them to coordinate more effectively withengineering technologists to create more competitive products in the

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Abu S.M. Masud; Don E. Malzahn

deficiencies areremedied by revision of the curriculum or course contents, development/reorganization oflaboratory or other facilities, and reallocation of financial resources. The tools used forassessment and their efficacy in assessing the outcomes are discussed in the next section.The main instrument by which the program can ensure the achievement of desiredoutcomes is the curriculum. Appropriate faculty, facilities, and financial resources arethe accessories required to ensure effective impartation of knowledge, skills, andexperience as intended in the curriculum. Inclusion of industry-based projects and planttours in courses and industry-based capstone projects in the curriculum are the means bywhich the ‘Metropolitan Advantage’ of WSU is used to

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Lawrence Whitman; Zulma Toro-Ramos; Steven Skinner

]. Students participate in aglobal learning project within a class at WSU or complete credit bearing classesin a foreign country. The faculty teaching the global learning class or the Officeof International Programs approves the activity and signs the form.Global learning is defined as the combination of global reach, achieved withmodern communication technology, and global perspectives arising frominteraction between students living in different countries, to educate the globalcitizen. Features of global learning include: • An authentic and substantive goal, such as producing a design for a client or solving an engineering problem • Working in a team with people living in other countries or with a client from another country

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Saeed M. Khan; Gregory Spaulding; Deanna Livengood; Paul Benjamin; Justin Schemm; Kenton Dreilling; Chase Maxton; Fred Kreiman

“Building the Largest Cantenna in Kansas: An Interdisciplinary Collaboration between Engineering Technology Programs” Saeed M. Khan, Gregory Spaulding, Deanna Livengood, Paul Benjamin, Justin Schemm, Kenton Dreilling, Chase Maxton and Fred Kreiman Kansas State University at SalinaAbstract:This paper describes the design and development of a large 20 dBi (decibels isotropic)Wi-Fi antenna for a class project in the Communication Circuit Design course. This largeantenna is based on smaller Wi-Fi antennas commonly referred to as cantennas (gain ofabout 10 dBi). The smaller version is made with a single can (3-4 inches) in diameter andan

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J. Oh; B. Kissick

been the integration of information literacy (or informationfluency) instruction into the existing course curriculum. The projects process andprogress have been shared in various professional communites.5, 6 For example, thecollaborators’ regular meetings to discuss, evaluate, and reflect the information literacythemed projects have produced campus-wide information literacy perception assessment,inter-institutional grant activities to promote information literacy across the curriculumand seamless integration of information literacy instruction into the course via courseassignments (e.g. University General Education Chemistry course information literacyassignment). The collaboration has amplified teaching effectiveness of each unit

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Ana Goulart; Charles Watkins; Robert Hegedus

network architectures and protocolsthat have not been used together very often. New and usually expensive equipment may not beavailable in our laboratories to test these new technologies. Thus, we are taking advantage of ourcommunication networks modeling and simulation course to teach new technologies andprotocols and test their integration.As an example of this approach, this paper presents a course project that our junior studentsperformed. The goal of this project was to evaluate voice over IP (VoIP) over 802.11 wirelesslocal area network (WLANs). As discussed in [1], “both IP voice and 802.11 WLANs are newtechnologies, and so the base of practical experience in merging the two is small.” Voice over IPapplications are real-time applications

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Keith L. Hohn; LaVerne Bitsie-Baldwin; Julia Keen; Hani Melhem; Anil Pahwa; Jan Wiersema; Barb Licklider

encourage and promote the development of all members into citizens whointeract effectively with others and continue to learn for a lifetime. The stated student learningoutcomes were: • Learn and practice skills for making group and team projects more fun and more productive. • Be part of a safe place to give and receive encouragement and support for the variety of challenges you experience as a college student. • Develop skills to learn more in classes without relying on cramming before tests. • Figure out how you tend to work with others and how to better use your strengths. • Develop and carry out plans to actually use your new skills and knowledge for higher success and satisfaction as a student. • Learn and practice

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R.L.A. Jordan

images written on paper and then projected on a screen. Ineither of these scenarios, the instructor is writing where they are looking and they are usingan instrument (pencil or chalk) that they are familiar with. When the class is taught using theinternet and the computer, the images that you normally put on a board, or write on paperunder a document camera have to be accomplished in a different manner. Some systems likeMedia Site use a document camera, which is not too different from the conventionalclassroom. Some experimentation was done with a digital camera operating as a web cam,but the resolution was not good enough for the students to understand what was beingwritten. Like the lectures, it was found that annotation on pdf files was the

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Christopher C. Ibeh; Monika Bubacz; Andrey Beyle; Stefano Bietto; Stan Scoville; Dilip Paul; Charles Blatchley

Structures” project. CNCMM’spartners include the University of New Orleans, North Carolina A & T University andseveral companies. CNCMM’s interdisciplinary efforts comprise of faculty andpersonnel from several departments and colleges at PSU, and provide a critically neededmechanism for expertly coordinated efforts of basic, applied and innovative research andeducation in the areas of nanocomposites and multifunctional materials for naval structuresand homeland security. Specifically, activities of this project and the Center forNanocomposites and Multifunctional Materials (CNCMM) are in five focus areas:fundamental and applied research on radar transparent, flame retardant, corrosion resistant,blast resistant/impact, and self-repairing advanced

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Johannes Strobel

sessionsC. Data collectionThe data of the single case study were collected over the period of a year and drew from tworelated but different projects. In the first project, the installation of a large steel mill was nearlycomplete, though fine-tuning, troubleshooting, and assessment questions were in the foreground.The second project started within the second month of the year and was focused on early-stageconstraints, design issues, and goals.During the first meetings the researcher asked the engineer to describe in as much detail aspossible what he knows about the two projects, including goals, constraints, foreseeableproblems, and possible solutions. In the remainder of the interviews, the engineer was asked toexplain and walk the researcher

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Waleed K. Al-Assadi; Mandar V. Joshi; Sagar R. Gosavi; Daryl Beetner

ideally suited for student design projects in the coursework. Students can create theirdesigns using schematic capture or HDL synthesis and download them to the FPGA for real timehardware verification. The complexity of the designs can vary from simple gate-levelcombinational circuits (that the students create in “introduction to computer engineering” course)to highly structured microcontroller based embedded applications. This paper addresses the issues of design considerations for efficient resource allocation forFPGA demo-board based digital design laboratories. The paper is organized as follows; section 2introduces the hardware and software interface features of Altera DE-2 board. Section 3 givesdetails of incorporating Altera DE-2 into

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Day W. Radebaugh

1 Complexity in Engineering: The Silent Killer Day W. Radebaugh Assistant Professor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy Wichita State University Wichita, Kansas 67260AbstractA review of the list of recent technological disasters suggests that the risk to society oflarge-scale engineering projects has grown in proportion to the complexity of thedesigned system. Illustrative cases include the Challenger explosion, the power gridblackouts of

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Stephan A. Durham; W. Micah Hale; Seamus Freyne

• Class Project • Extra CreditEach of these folders contains information that would traditionally be distributed during classtime in hard copy. With the course information and handouts online, the students can access thisinformation at anytime and anyplace. This also reduces the amount of printing and copying bythe instructor prior to class time and enables the instructor to better prepare for class.Course InformationPertinent course information is uploaded into the course information folder. The courseinformation folder contains the following files: • Course Syllabus • Lecture/Laboratory Schedule • Other Handouts “Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for

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Leroy R. Cox; Katie Grantham Lough

– in1997, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), expressed concerns that newly-hiredengineers could not communicate well, specifically in the areas of “Specification and ReportWriting”3, 9. Consider the following excerpt, taken from a student’s project report about aprocess improvement: I have viewed results that look promising and conclusive to a clean and safer power supply to the sensitive equipment used in the lab. If I can recover the wasted energy from the discharges of these power cells and inject them back into the main grid saving this company enormous revenue yearly. I project a payback interval as short as 4 years to recoup the cost of installation. If this would be implemented plant wide

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Kamesh Namuduri

of this core body of knowledge,developing a set of core courses, enhancing the existing courses taught at community colleges by addingrelevant IA modules, and building a laboratory facility for student training. Depending on the uniquestrengths of the community colleges, community colleges will be encouraged to consider developing newcourses, and to enhance their existing courses. For each course in the core body of knowledge, we plan todevelop necessary classroom instruction materials, laboratory exercises and projects that provide hands-on training. In the following sections, the proposed courses with their overall objectives, the major topicsthat will be covered and development plans will be described.Information Assurance and Security

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Ramesh V. Narang

, linearity, impact of R&R onprocess capability, measurement uncertainty, inspection of size, form and orientation tolerancesusing 1994 GD&T standard. The course includes a written report and oral presentation ofstudent projects showing application of the measurement principles and practices.The course has nine laboratory experiments that students perform hands-on in groups. Theseexperiments are: (1) determining gage R &R of vernier calipers, (2) determining gage R&R ofoutside vernier micrometers. In both these labs students use short and long form methods, drawaverage and range charts for the measurements taken by them, (3) calculating bias and linearity Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society

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J. Collins

, awareness, and demonstration of knowledge Information literacy: the performance of secondary research to retrieve, synthesize and explain high-quality information Negotiation and consensus building among team membersCollaborating faculty in this study found the concept of distributed cognition useful todescribe their observations, after gathering and examining students’ communicationmaterials. Although our chemistry and technical writing courses were not discipline-specific in our college programs, (and could not capture students’ constructions of“emerging communities of practice”) we believe that distributed cognition describesvirtual interactions leading to the goals of our project. These are: control, awareness anddemonstration

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Ramazan Asmatulu; Mehmet B. Yildirim; Waseem Khan; Adebayo Adeniji; Humphrey Wamocha

industry, nanoelectromechanical systems,microelectromechanical systems and nanotechnology applications for fuel and solar cells. In the Introduction to Nanotechnology course which is offered in Fall 2007, the similartopics will be covered at introduction level. There will be homework, term project, exams andlaboratory sessions. A nanotechnology laboratory is being developed in the Department ofMechanical Engineering at Wichita State University, and dedicated to do a number ofnanotechnology experiments for students. We plan to have undergraduate students work on theelectrospinning method in the nanotechnology laboratory. Students will produce nanofibersusing the described electrospinning method and then characterize properties such as