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Micah Lande; Larry Leifer

13 Classifying Student Engineering Design Project Types Micah Lande and Larry Leifer Center for Design Research Stanford UniversityAbstractMechanical Engineering 310 is a graduate-level product-learning-based mechanical engineeringdesign course at Stanford University that takes its project prompts from sponsoring companies inindustry. In the past 30 years, over 325 projects have been presented and worked on by studentsteams. The nature of these projects has shifted over time from Manufacturing

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Lizabeth Schlemer; Jose Macedo

162 Teaming Multi-level Classes on Industry Projects Lizabeth Schlemer & Jose Macedo Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering Cal Poly – San Luis ObispoAbstract For the past few years we experimented with teaming students from a sophomore-levelclass and a senior-level class to work on industry projects. The classes are “work design” and“facilities design.” Projects are selected to require the application of knowledge from bothdisciplines. In addition, the projects are selected from small

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Jiancheng Liu

422 Laboratory Projects Introduced in Teaching Manufacturing Processes Course Jiancheng Liu, Ph.D. Department of Mechanical Engineering University of the Pacific 3601 Pacific Ave., Stockton, CA 95211-0197 jliu@pacific.eduIntroductionMechanical engineering students should graduate with strong practical and interpersonal skills (1,2) . Manufacturing Processes is a fundamental mechanical engineering course

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179 Laboratory Projects Appropriate for Non-Engineers and Freshman Engineering Students Kate Disney, Mission College Engineering Faculty John Krupczak, Hope College Professor of EngineeringIntroductionThe engineering departments at Hope College and Mission College both offer technologicalliteracy courses targeted to non-science majoring students. These lab-based general educationcourses are designed with mechanical dissection and “make

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Yusuf Ozturk; Emrah Orhun; Chris Bowerman

386 TOWARDS A JOINT DEGREE PROGRAM IN AMBIENT COMPUTING1 Yusuf Ozturk*, Emrah Orhun**, Chris Bowerman*** Electrical and Computer Engineering, San Diego State University* Computer Science Department, Troy University** Department of Computing and Technology, University of Sunderland***Abstract ⎯ Funded by the US-EU Atlantis Program, International Cooperation in Ambient ComputingEducation (ICACE) Project is establishing an international knowledge-building community for

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taughtrespectively in the Fall and Spring semesters. These two courses have the goal of immersingthe students in the real-life engineering problems where they are engaged in systematicapplication of the principles of design and solving open-ended problems for specificsituations and/or needs and in utilizing knowledge acquired during their studies at theUniversity. Design is about testing ideas, failures and successes and solving problems asthese appear during the semester. Decisions have to be made at each step of the process,compromises must be reached among the team members, optimization of components isdone and ultimately the project must be fabricated, tested and it must perform as stipulated,that is the requirement that the department has imposed on

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. Perform simulations using SIMULINK (a MATLAB toolbox). Reinforce principles of computer science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering through open-ended robot design with the Basic Stamp (a micrcontroller). Engage students in problem solving via team work. Provide a brief introduction to the design process. Give students an opportunity to demonstrate oral and written communication skills through oral presentations and final project demonstrations. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 151 Serve as a useful

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Stephen Beck; Joshua Brent; Thomas Brown; Agostino Cala; Eniko T. Enikov; Richard Lucio

introductory engineering class is to present engineering as an exciting and welcomingfield of professionals who work together to solve problems. An introductory engineering classthat lacks creativity, teamwork and encouragement often fails to inspire students and may turnsome away from engineering. This paper describes a modern approach to team-based learningand peer teaching in the context of an introductory course for freshmen engineering students.More specifically, the use of LEGO NXT© construction kits was tested as tool to enhance theexperience of group projects. LEGOs are approachable, intuitive and have application innumerous construction projects. The low cost, reusability, and availability of a variety of sensorsfor LEGO kits make them ideal

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Phillip R. Rosenkrantz

for analyzing data over time. This is a useful feature for outcomes assessment.Examples of survey useBelow is a partial list of surveys divided into categories. Almost all examples are related tooutcomes assessment. Examples are shown at the College of Engineering level, program leveland course level. In some courses SurveyMonkey is being used for course management and/orformative assessment as shown with a few examples. The following link is to the IMEDepartment Assessment Page which includes links to several of the surveys. Readers arewelcome to look at these surveys and use them as needed:http://www.csupomona.edu/~rosenkrantz/imeassessmentdocs.htmCollege Level Assessment • Cal Poly Pomona Project Symposium Feedback – Industry

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Department of The University of Arizona, it isnot unusual for the Control System Design course to have enrollment of about 100 students. Thismakes offering a lab section with the course nearly impossible. As a way to avoid canceling thepractical experience of the course, we developed an inexpensive and portable setup, which canbe taken home by the students, and they can work on it as their term project. Besides addressingour organizational problems, this solution brought an opportunity to demonstrate to students amodern approach towards control systems using computers and implementing the controller insoftware.II. Experimental setup descriptionThe setup consists of a small DC electrical motor, operating at 0-5V, attached to one of the endsof a light

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develop aphysical model of the actual system that they attempt to analyze - this is already done for them inthe problem. An example of this can be found in any dynamics book; the work-energy chapterinvariably contains problems with springs attached to different slender rods in a variety ofdifferent contrived orientations.We have attempted to improve student analytical skills and to provide real world context to thestudy of rigid body dynamics by creating a catapult project. Students are given rubber bands,catapults, rulers, weights, and a scale. They must determine how to model the arm, the energystored in the rubber bands (e.g., linear or non-linear springs), and the ensuing projectile motion.Their computations are then tested on launch day

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Xiaomin Jin; Dennis Derickson; Simeon Trieu; Samuel O. Agbo

through a big transition of the programwith one professor retirement (founder of the program) and two new faculty members arriving.Our recent activities comprise following three major parts: 1) Expanded teaching laboratory, 2)Strong faculty/students research projects, and 3) Active SPIE student club. We are presenting theabove three efforts in this paper.1. IntroductionCalifornia Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) has one of the nation's largest primarilyundergraduate engineering colleges. The photonics program within the EE department began in1985. Currently, there are two senior elective lecture courses and one graduate-level lecture inthe photonics area. A 700 ft2 fiber-optics laboratory was introduced in 1986. This laboratoryserves dual

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industry toward using Agile (“ease of movement”) techniques in programming andproject development has motivated the faculty at the National University (NU) School of Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 482Engineering and Technology (SOET) to introduce agility into pedagogy. Agile Problem DrivenTeaching (Dey et.al., 2009) as used in teaching IT is described in this paper.1.1 The IT Industry Evolution Toward AgilityIt has been fascinating to watch the evolution of IT project management (PM) from the rigidstructure of the 60’s through the early 90’s to the triple

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Thomas MacCalla; Jacqueline Caesar; Michael Maxwell; Shay Vanderlaan; Sandra Valencia; Terena Henry; Matt Leader

426 CIBRED via CIERRA for Educating the Next Generation of EngineersThomas MacCalla, Ed.D., NUCRI, Jacqueline Caesar, Ph.D., and Michael Maxwell, Ph. D., NUCRI and National University College of Letters and Science, VBI Project Teachers Shay Vanderlaan, Sandra Valencia, Terena Henry, and Matt LeaderAbstractThe National Science Foundation CI-TEAM (Cyber-Infrastructure Training, Education,Advancement, and Mentoring for Our 21st Century Workforce) awarded the VirginiaBioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech University a two-year Implementation grant for aCIBRED* (Cyber-Infrastructure for Biological

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transferred and viewedacross locations. Industrial wireless modems use electromagnetic waves to transmit modulateddata typically using RS-232 standards. The focus of this work is the development of a“Multipoint Remote Temperature Monitoring and Radio Data Acquisition Embedded System”that is taking advantages from embedded microcontroller, such that interaction and processingwith the wireless transceivers and the temperature sensors. The multipoint remote temperaturemonitoring radio data acquisition embedded system project is implemented using DS-18B20digital thermometers that gives 12-bit resolution, long range 433Mhz HAC-UM96 with serialinterface RF modems and the Freescale HCS12 microcontrollers. This hands-on project aims touse the mentioned

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Institute (NUCRI), School of Engineering and 3Technology, College of Letters and Science (COLS), National University, San Diego, CA;4 Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA.*For CorrespondenceABSTRACTAlthough the role of cyberinfrastructure in engineering education and research is advancing, theuse of the concept and infrastructure are quite limited in the courses for the allied healthprofessionals. CIBRED* (CI-TEAM Implemenrtation for Biological Researchers, Educators, andDevelopers), an NSF funded project, provides a unique opportunity for these authors to introducethe concept of cyberinfrastructure to non-engineering educators and students by designing,developing, and deploying course

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DingXin Cheng; Joel Arthur; Albert M. Johnson

materials.To promote sustainable and successful waste tire applications in civil engineering, a curriculumdevelopment and dissemination project was funded by CIWMB. Undergraduate engineeringstudents are the future engineers; they need to learn how to utilize recycled materials such aswaste tires in civil engineering applications as well as traditional materials such as steel, wood,and concrete. The primary purpose of this project was to produce and disseminate teachingmaterials that could be used in undergraduate civil engineering courses on utilizing waste tires incivil engineering applications. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference

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248 Using Model Eliciting Activities in a Dynamics Course Teresa M. Ogletree, Brian P. Self, and James Widmann California Polytechnic State University San Luis ObispoAbstractTypical assignments in a traditional dynamics course often do little to motivate students or togive them an indication of how they would use the material in a future job situation. Manyinstructors are now attempting to provide motivational projects, hands-on demonstrations, andeven laboratory assignments to increase understanding and motivation. To

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Pradip Peter Dey; Thomas M. Gatton; Mohammad N. Amin; Mudasser F. Wyne; Gordon W. Romney; Alireza Farahani; Arun Datta; Hassan Badkoobehi; Ralph Belcher; Ogun Tigli; Albert P. Cruz

200basis of APDT and consequently, it may combine a variety of teaching strategies. In addition toPBL, many other teaching and learning methods can be employed including the following:lecture (Cashing 1990); class discussion, brain storming (Instructional Methods, 2009);technology-based teaching learning (Kearsley & Shneiderman, 1999; Trondsen, 1998); game-based learning (Prensky, 2004; Van, 2008); experience based learning (Experience BasedLearning Systems, 2008); inquiry-based learning (Eick & Reed, 2002; Educational BroadcastingCorporation, 2008); community-based learning (Owens & Wang, 2008); brain based learning(Brain Based Learning, 2008); work-based learning (Bailey 2003; Cunningham, Dawes &Bennett, 2004); project-based

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5. Dinner Speech: Cultivating Collaboration and Interdisciplinary Practice, Thomas MacCalla 10 6. Keynote Speech: Innovations in Undergraduate Bioengineering Education, Melissa Kurtis Micou 11 7. Concluding Speech: When Did Engineering Become so Cool? Engaging a New Generation, David Hauhurst 12 8. Classifying Student Engineering Design Project Types, Micah Lande 13 9. Learning Communities Improve Retention in Engineering and Computer Science, Raman Menon Unnikrishnan and Ricardo V. Lopez

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theopportunities for undergraduate research projects, students can significantly advance theireducation by applying first-hand the curricula they are learning in class. This approach allowsfor a greater understanding of the advanced sciences and an early exposure to the laboratoryskills, both technical and practical, utilized by the professional engineering industry. One way of accomplishing this is through the pursuit of research inmicroelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and the technologies it encompasses. MEMS researchis an innovative research area for undergraduates because it incorporates a diverse range oftechnical skills in various engineering fields and represents many current and emergingapplications in society. With a history of over 30

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; else BCD1 <= BCD1 + 1; end else BCD0 <= BCD0 + 1; endendmoduleLaboratory Experiments 1. Introduction to Quartus II6 software 2. Introduction to combinational logic and Verilog 3. Multiplexes and Decoders 4. Introduction to Flip-Flops 5. Counters 6. State Machine Design2 7. Projects Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 88ConclusionsThe FPGA course was successfully taught and provided students with good basic knowledge ofVerilog HDL. The Altea DE-26

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Gordon W. Romney; Paul D. Juneau

projects were the installation of MS Internet InformationServices (IIS) 6.0, with Active Directory and Domain Controller, a Certificate Authority andWindows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0. The security component that is the purpose of thispaper, and the Problem addressed in Section 1.5, above, was to provide a useable two-factorauthentication process for users who want to access the WebPortal, and, initially, the SharePointFront End server SOETWS1 that is to the left on the bottom row in Figure 1.8.1.Juneau’s team decided to employ Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and require a client to present thefollowing two authentication factors in order to gain access to the WebPortal: 1) the firstauthentication factor (something you know) of a username and

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projects in independent studies orundergraduate research, and informal science education for general public and youngerstudents through school visitation programs. Later in the paper, several homeworkassignments based on these toys are also suggested as challenges for students. A B C Figure 1 – Density differential fluids toys - (A) colors in motion toy # 1 (1 x 3 x 5 inches), (B) colors in motion toy # 2 (7/8 x 4 x 7 inches) , (C) sand painting (1/2 x 5 x 7 inches). These toys are trademark by Westminster, Inc. Atlanta, GA.Colors in Motion Toy # 1 - This simple toy as shown in Figure 1A contains coloredliquids in four chambers. If observed carefully, one can see and enjoy a variety

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are covered in atraditional undergraduate course, (b) a basic knowledge of finite element theory, and (c) theability to apply commercial finite element software to engineering problems involving thermalsystems. Assessment has been done through the use of pre- and post-tutorial quizzes, studentopinion surveys, and demographic surveys of student learning styles. Furthermore, theimplementation of a design project that involves an application of the knowledge gained from thetutorials is also discussed.Introduction The finite element (FE) method is a widely used tool in industry for analyzing engineering problems. The most basic FE theory and applications are offered primarily as a graduate- level course, or in some cases, as an upper-level

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Debra Larson

paperpresents a review of the two versions of the BOK, BOK1 and BOK2, and a comparison of theseversions to the undergraduate civil engineering curriculum at Northern Arizona University(NAU), which is benchmarked to the 2007-2008 ABET Criteria for Accrediting EngineeringPrograms2.BOK1In January of 2004, the ASCE published the BOK3 (known as the BOK1) that identified fifteenlearning outcomes, of which the first eleven came directly from Criterion 3 of the ABET Criteriafor Accrediting Engineering Programs, herein referred to simply as the ABET Criteria. Theadditional four outcomes addressed technical specialization, project management, construction,asset management, business and public policy and administration, and leadership and itsattending

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Vince Bertsch; John Krupczak; Kate Disney; Elsa Garmire; Tim Simpson

widest sense.Other efforts have been underway for over a decade to develop standards and guidelines todefine what K-12 students need to know and be able to do in regard to technology. In 1993, theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) published, Project 2061:Benchmarks for Science Literacy [6] and in 1996 the National Science Education Standardswere published by the National Academies Press [7], both of these contained sections addressingtechnology. In 2000 the International Technology Education Association (ITEA) releasedStandards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology [8] with the goal ofencouraging educational curricula and programs that would provide technological literacy to K-12 students.In the

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be built asadvisors bridge their own experiences to what the students will soon be experiencing.Questioning the student about why they are choosing their major also allows the advisor to selectappropriate exploration routes. If a student says they are choosing a discipline like engineeringbecause they love math and its applications, then the advising can direct students to findindependent research projects or summer programs where they will be exposed to these types oflearning. Finally, a complete student background can be done by filling in information about thestudents academic background on grades, extracurricular activities, courses taken, and workexperiences. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education

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Kurt Colvin

identify desired results -> determine acceptable evidence ->plan learning activities was repeated for every topic and module in Aero 510. The output of thisprocess is tightly-packed, efficient teaching plan with lecture, reading and support materials thatsupport the learning objectives.DiscussionIronically, this method of curriculum development follows an abstracted systems engineeringprocess: clearly identify the requirements, and then plan all subsequent activities to verify therequirements will be met. Backward design establishes what an instructor wants to achieve (therequirements), determines the acceptable evidence to prove those requirements are met(verification) and directs the development activities accordingly (project planning

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Lora Goodwin; Brian P. Self; James Widmann

instruction were used in thesecourses. We will call the first group the Active Learning (AL) sections taught by two differentinstructors and the second group the Traditional (Tr) sections taught by a single instructor. TheAL sections utilized collaborative learning and Model Eliciting Activities (MEA’s), where the Trsections were taught in a more traditional lecture format.The AL sections were specifically given MEA’s as a part of their coursework to see if theywould have an impact on student’s gained conceptual knowledge throughout the quarter. MEA’sare new teaching tools being developed which use project-oriented assignments that aim topromote real-world application of engineering principles. Their focus is to use student’sconceptual knowledge to