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Lisa Wipplinger

Session 2606 Group Projects Lisa Wipplinger Kansas State UniversityAbstractAccreditation boards and industry are telling educators that the ability to work together in groups orteams is an important skill for engineering and construction graduates to have. As a result we aretrying to integrate this more fully into our classes. This paper presents several group projects thathave been tried in structural engineering classes over the last two years in the ArchitecturalEngineering and Construction Science programs here at Kansas State

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Nghia T. Le

Session Number 3226 Infrared Emitter – Detector Project Nghia T. Le Purdue UniversityI. IntroductionThe following project is a design of an infrared emitter-detector circuit. It reviews of some of theconcepts and applications the students have learned during the first few semesters in theElectrical Engineering Technology program at Purdue University. The advantage of this projectis that it progresses in steps that are manageable and easily to conduct laboratory activities.The project consists of an analog part and a digital

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William L. Scheller

Session 3563 Puttering Around -- An Interdisciplinary Manufacturing Project W.L. Scheller II, Ph.D. Kettering University, Flint, MichiganAbstractInnovative, interdisciplinary laboratory exercises are difficult to develop and successfully execute. Thispaper describes a joint manufacturing engineering/mechanical engineering project to design and machinethe head of a golf putter. The project spanned two terms. The project involved two separate courses,one in manufacturing engineering and another in mechanical engineering. Only one student in the firstterm was a member of both

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Patrick C. Gee; Marvin Needler; Barbara L. Christe

Session 1648 An EET Project for MEAP Students Barbara Christe, Patrick Gee, Marvin Needler Indiana University-Purdue University at IndianapolisAbstractThe Electrical Engineering Department at Indiana University – Purdue University at Indianapolishas designed and implemented a project for participants in the Minority EngineeringAdvancement Program (MEAP). 6th – 12th grade students interested in engineering andtechnology complete a project during a summer session designed to encourage minorities toconsider engineering and technology as potential careers. A volume monitor unit was chosen forthe

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Brian S Macherone; Jagdish T. Gajjar; Cherrice Traver

Session 2253 Introducing Freshmen to Engineering Design: Weather Station Project Cherrice Traver, Jagdish Gajjar, Brian Macherone Union College/State University of New York at AlbanyIntroductionIn recent years there have been many examples of engineering curriculum reform in thefreshman year 1,2,3,4. Some involve adding design to existing freshman courses 3, others involvethe development of optional design courses 1,2 , and yet others are quite focused on a particularengineering topic such as modeling 4. This paper reports on a group design project that is part ofa

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J. Wagner; Kenny Fotouhi; Ali Eydgahi

Session 3648 Microprocessor Controlled Milling Machine: A Student Project Mohammad Fotouhi, Ali Eydgahi, Joshua Wagner University of Maryland Eastern ShoreAbstractThis paper describes the details of an undergraduate design project in our DesignTechnology course and the experience gain by the student involved. The intent of thecourse is to expose students to real world design projects. Students are expected to becreative and innovative in their design projects and utilize a multitude of engineeringdisciplines that Engineering Technology Program offers at the University of MarylandEastern Shore. The objective of this

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Ronald K. Goodnight; Gary B. Randolph; Dennis O. Owen

Session 1675 The Pedagogical and Andragogical Validity of Capstone Projects Dennis Owen, Ron Goodnight, Gary Randolph Purdue UniversityAbstractNon-traditional students have been the mainstay of regional and satellite university campuses formany years. Purdue University’s Anderson, Indiana site is no exception. In an effort tomaximize the educational experience of these adult learners, the faculty has experimented withseveral different instructional methodologies. Some of these experiments have proven successfulwhile others have not. In order to better develop these instructional methods, the authors

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Andrzej A. Markowski; Harry Petersen

Session 2663 Rapid Prototyping for Manufacturing Engineering Technology Program Andrzej Markowski, Harry Petersen Automotive and Manufacturing Engineering Technology Minnesota State University, MankatoAbstractDevelopment, presentation and evaluation of a Rapid Prototyping class for ManufacturingEngineering Technology (MET) students at Minnesota State University, Mankato is presented.The two credit (400/500 level) class has been designed as an open-ended one-semester project inwhich students work in small groups following the typical stages of product development -designing, prototyping

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William C. Oakes; Ronald Wukasch; Richard Foretek; Jennifer Watia; Jeffery L. Gray; Leah H Jamieson; Edward Coyle

Session 2625 EPICS: Experiencing Engineering Design Through Community Service Projects William C. Oakes Edward J. Coyle, Richard Fortek, Jeffery Gray, Leah H. Jamieson, Jennifer Watia, and Ronald Wukasch Purdue University/AlcoaABSTRACTIn the search for ways to simulate “real” design experiences in our classrooms, the model ofservice learning is often overlooked within engineering. It is, however, a powerful model forlearning the engineering design process. At Purdue University the EPICS - Engineering Projectsin Community Service – program is doing just that

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Bernard Hoop; Thomas E. Hulbert; Robert B. Angus; Eric W. Hansberry

Session 3425 First-Year Student Design Projects In Engineering Graphics Eric W. Hansberry, Associate Professor, Bernard Hoop, Visiting Scientist Thomas E. Hulbert, Professor Emeritus, And Robert B. Angus, Senior Lecturer Northeastern University School of Engineering Technology 360 Huntington Avenue, Room 120 SN Boston, MA

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Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

AC 2000-246: The Formula SAE Racecar Project at WPIJoseph Rencis, University of Arkansas Page 5.622.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2000 Session 3268 The Formula SAE® Racecar Project at WPI Joseph J. Rencis1 Worcester Polytechnic InstituteAbstractThe Formula SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) is a design-based competition that isattended by universities throughout the world. The competition is for engineering students toconceive, design, fabricate, construct, test, and market

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Sidney J. Brandon; Michael R. Sexton; Justin W. Douglas

Session 3433 GAS TURBINE ENGINE: A SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT Sidney J. Brandon, Justin W. Douglas, Michael R. Sexton Mechanical Engineering Department Virginia Military InstituteAbstractThis paper describes a senior design project conducted by two senior mechanical engineeringstudents at the Virginia Military Institute. Completion of a capstone design project is arequirement for VMI’s bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. The objective, of thisproject was to design and build a radial flow gas turbine engine, that will be incorporated as partof an undergraduate energy

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F. Andrew Wolfe

Session #2315 Integrating Service Projects into CER-021 Elementary Surveying F. Andrew Wolfe Union CollegeAbstractThis paper discusses the use of service projects in the Elementary Surveying course at UnionCollege. The use of service projects gives the students a chance to give back to the communitywhile learning surveying, organizational, and time management skills. This year’s success andease of finding projects has opened the way for the service project to become a permanent partof the surveying experience at Union.IntroductionCommunity service has become a major part of

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Andrew J. Strubhar; Dennis Kroll

Session 2557 Interdisciplinary Teams? An Industrial Engineering/Physical Therapy Project Dennis E. Kroll1, Ph.D., Andrew J. Strubhar2 1 Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering & Technology 2 Physical Therapy Bradley University Peoria, IllinoisAbstractAt the 1995 ASEE Annual Conference, we reported on a newly developed project combining 4thsemester Industrial Engineering students and 8th semester Physical Therapy(PT) students.[3]This project required them to

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Bryan L. Gassaway; Masoud Rais-Rohani

Session 3425Manufacturing and Testing in Support of Aerospace Structural Design Projects Masoud Rais-Rohani, Bryan Gassaway Mississippi State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes the experience with two projects conducted by students in the seniorAerospace Structural Design course in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at MississippiState University. One project involved the design, fabrication, and testing of columns withunstable cross sections while the other involved the design, optimization, fabrication, and testingof stiffened panels under axial compression. An overview of each project

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Jr., Richard T. O'Brien

Session 2520 Matlab Simulation Projects for a First Course in Linear Control Systems Richard T. O’Brien, Jr. The United States Naval AcademyAbstractComputer simulation is vital part of a first course in linear control systems. At the United StatesNaval Academy, MATLAB simulation projects are used to reinforce the lecture material andpresent “real-world” design projects at an introductory level. In this paper, a series of threeprojects on the design of an automated steering controller are presented. The projects introducethe students to the

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Thad Welch

Session 1432 An Open-ended Design Project for a First Communications Course Thad B. Welch Department of Electrical Engineering U.S. Naval Academy, MDAbstractThe United States Naval Academy offers a junior level communications systems course thatincludes a significant amount of hardware design. A signals and systems class is the prerequisitefor this course, during which the necessary fundamentals are developed to allow for an immediatediscussion of higher order modulation schemes. The open-ended design project deals withdesigning, building, and

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Rebecca A. Pinkus; Craig A. Simmons

Session 3561 Professional Writing Seminar for Engineering Students: A Pilot Project and Evaluation Rebecca Pinkus, Craig Simmons University of Toronto1. Background and IntroductionThe ABET EC 2000 goals and the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board both identify theability to communicate effectively as an essential skill required of graduates of engineeringprograms. Apparently, a large number of engineering students agree. In response to numerousstudent requests for additional writing courses, we have designed a pilot program for a non-creditwriting

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Kenneth Manning

Session 2620 Project Links: Interactive Web-Based Modules For Teaching Engineering Kenneth S. Manning, Ph. D. Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteAbstractProject Links, an NSF-supported project at Rensselaer, is a cooperative effort by faculty fromseveral departments, schools, and institutions to develop materials linking mathematical topicswith their applications in engineering and science. The primary product of this effort is a set ofinteractive, web-based learning modules that rely heavily on hypertext, animations, andinteractive Java applets.We employ

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Doug Jacobson; Barbara L. Licklider

Session 1453 Project SUCCESS: Sustaining Undergraduate Careers: a Computer Engineering Support System Doug Jacobson, Barb Licklider Iowa State UniversityAbstractLearning Communities, a growing initiative at Iowa State University, aid freshmen in thetransition to college life as students live in the same residence hall and attend a common block ofclasses. By combining learning communities with the concept of student-centered active learning,students will gain control of and adjust more quickly to their new environment, experienceincreased achievement, and persist

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Steven M. Miner; Richard E. Link

Session 2520 A Project-Based Introduction to the Finite Element Method S.M. Miner, R.E. Link United States Naval AcademyAbstractAll mechanical engineering majors at the Naval Academy are required to take a course in Com-puter Aided Design during their senior year. The underlying philosophy of the course is to intro-duce students to computer based solution techniques that are currently used in engineeringpractice. To emphasize the utility of the computer the problems selected for solution are ones thatwould be difficult to solve by hand. In particular, students are introduced to the

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Stephanie G. Adams

Session 3557 Project-Based Learning in a Statistical Quality Control Course Stephanie G. Adams University of Nebraska-LincolnAbstractDue to the different ways in which students learn, professors must vary their teaching styles.This variation in teaching styles will aid students in their understanding of course materials andenhance student learning. Richard Felder, a leading scholar in the area of learning styles reports,“Students preferentially take in and process information in different ways: by seeing and hearing,reflecting and acting, reasoning logically and

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Ralph Carestia; J. Robert Burger; Doug Lynn

Session 1655 Project-oriented MS Degree in Engineering Technology Emphasizes Educational Depth Ralph A. Carestia, Douglas W. Lynn and J. Robert Burger Graduate Faculty, Computer Systems Engineering Technology Department, Oregon Institute of Technology, Klamath Falls, OR 97601AbstractEngineering technology at Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT) today maintains a hands-on,practical mode that not so long ago characterized much of engineering education. Since 1967,the Technology Accreditation Commission of the ABET has accredited many colleges who nowgrant thousands of baccalaureate

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Jeffrey L. Newcomer

Session 1625 Reassessing Design Goals: Using Design Projects to Meet Assessment Goals Jeffrey L. Newcomer, Ph.D. Engineering Technology Department Western Washington University Bellingham, WA 98225-9086AbstractThe ability to set and assess desired student learning outcomes is key not only to maintaining ac-creditation, but to providing students with a high quality education as well. This paper discussesusing integrated design projects to meet student learning objectives and also to provide

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O. Kenneth Sergeant; Linda O. Hardymon

à à Session 3433 Solar BikeRayce Competition Caps Success in Technology Student Team Project Linda O. Hardymon, O. Kenneth Sergeant Middle Tennessee State UniversityAbstractAfter a solar bike workshop was held at Middle Tennessee State University, the“we can do this” syndrome hit some of the students and faculty on campus. Agroup of engineering technology and industrial studies students felt they coulddesign, engineer, manufacture limited parts, construct, and compete in a vehicleof their own creation. The ongoing demands of

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Karl Smith

Session 1630 Strategies for Developing Engineering Student’s Teamwork and Project Management Skills Karl A. Smith University of MinnesotaAbstractEngineering students are increasingly expected to work in teams and participate in projects.These expectations are motivated by employer expectations, ABET EC2000 criteria, andresearch on the importance of active and cooperative learning. Seldom is there explicit attentionpaid to helping students develop teamwork and project management skills. This paper outlinesessential teamwork and

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Thomas M. Jacobius; Gerard Voland

Session 3422 Crossing Professional Boundaries: The Interprofessional Projects Program at IIT Thomas M. Jacobius, Gerard G. S. Voland Illinois Institute of Technology Illinois Institute of Technology is transforming its undergraduate program through theconcept of interprofessional education by requiring project-based team experiential learningacross the span of disciplines within the Undergraduate College and by involving graduateprograms from across the university, including those in engineering, science, law, business,psychology, design and architecture

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Slobodanka Nestorovic; Sarra Elhassan; Hayder A. Rasheed

Session 2793 Designing a Self-Instructed, Project-Based Multimedia Course in Engineering Education Hayder A. Rasheed, Slobodanka Nestorovic, Sarra Elhassan Bradley UniversityAbstract:Multimedia applications are finding their way into every engineering discipline aspowerful tools to facilitate more effective learning via visualization and multi-dimensional comprehension. However, the high cost to develop such applications isrecognized. A proposed economical solution to this issue is to utilize the senior ormaster’s level engineering student projects in this endeavor. This solution requires

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Arpita Gupte; Patricia F. Mead; Marjorieanne Natishan; James Greenberg; David Bigio; Linda Schmidt

Session 1630 Engineering Project Team Training System (EPTTS) For Effective Engineering Team Management Patricia F. Mead, Marjorieanne Natishan, Linda Schmidt, James Greenberg, David Bigio, Arpita Gupte BESTEAMS Mini-Teaching Center A. James Clark School of Engineering University of Maryland, College ParkAbstractThe BESTEAMS: Building Engineering Student Team Effectiveness and ManagementSystems Mini-Teaching Center has implemented a pilot, in-class, workshop highlightingthe influence of learning style preferences on project team management

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Richard R. Johnston

Session 3432 Equipping a Process Control Lab via Department Sponsored Senior Projects Richard R. Johnston Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. of Lawrence Technological UniversityAbstractThis paper discusses the equipping of a Process Control Lab with realistic process simulators byhaving the ECE department sponsor student teams to build the apparatus as their capstonedesign project. This sponsorship involves having the department specify the behavior of theapparatus, specify the Input / Output connections between the apparatus and the ProgrammableLogic Controller (PLC I/O