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Salvatore Marsico

Session 3150 EXPERIENCE with the INTRODUCTION OF MULTIMEDIA INTO MECHANICAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY, Mechanics of Materials Laboratory Salvatore A. Marsico Penn Sate UniversityAbstractThe Penn State Associate Degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology program offersa two course sequence in mechanics of materials, one of which is a laboratory course(MCH T 214). The educational objectives of this one credit course, as described in thePenn State Associate Degree Programs Bulletin, are “measurement of mechanicalproperties of materials; structural testing; data acquisition and

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S. K. Khanna; David Roylance; C. H. Jenkins

Session 1464 Innovations in Teaching Mechanics of Materials in Materials Science and Engineering Departments David Roylance Massachusetts Institute of Technology C. H. Jenkins and S. K. Khanna South Dakota School of Mines and TechnologyAbstractTraditional mechanical design employs experimentally obtained or handbook material properties in selection andsizing to develop a product. This approach is increasingly inefficient as designs come to employ

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Sanjeev Khanna; Christopher Jenkins

Session 2325 Linking Mechanics and Materials in Engineering Design: A new Approach Sanjeev K. Khanna Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department University of Missouri – Columbia Columbia, MO 65211, U.S.A. C. H. Jenkins Mechanical Engineering Department South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Rapid City, SD 57701, U.S.A.ABSTRACTEducating

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Elliot Douglas, University of Florida

standardintroductory materials curriculum (diffusion, strengthening mechanisms, eutectic phasediagrams, etc.). Rather, its goal is to teach engineering applications of fundamental chemistryconcepts. This course consists of four basic units: atomic, molecular and supermolecularstructures; synthesis and processing; stability of materials; and biological materials. Each ofthese units consists of topics designed to show how fundamental concepts in chemistry can beapplied to engineering problems. For example, liquid crystal display technology is used to teachthe concept of molecular shape. The course also contains a laboratory section. This paper willdescribe the detailed contents of the course and its relation to the engineering curriculum.1. IntroductionThere is

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Don Zeller

Session 1547 PLC Systems - University Course Material or Industrial Training Material ? Don Zeller Assistant Professor, Engineering Technology Department, Fenn College of Engineering, Cleveland State UniversityIntroductionIn the late 1960’s, a new electronic device made its debut, at the request of the automotiveindustry. It was called a programmable logic controller (PLC) and its function was to replace anexisting system of machine control logic. The existing system was based on an electro-mechanical device called a relay and the machine

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Sanjeev Khanna; Chris Jenkins

Session 2525 Linking Mechanics and Materials in Structural Design: A Generalized Design Template and its Application C. H. Jenkins, S. K. Khanna Mechanical Engineering Department South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Rapid City, SD 57701 USAAbstractEngineering education follows much of what we do in engineering practice itself, for better orworse. One common activity that we must approach with great care in either field is thedecomposition of complex processes into smaller, simpler, more manageable

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Shih-Liang (Sid) Wang

simulation files of mechanical devices have been developed in thepast few years. These simulation files cover a wide range of mechanical devices includinglinkages, gears, cams, tools, machinery, automobiles, construction equipment, furniture, andothers. Sources of these devices are from textbooks, reference books, catalogues, servicemanuals, U.S. patent documents and technical papers. A portion of these files has already beenpublished as a part of a CD bundled to a textbook [3]. This courseware, with its homepageshown in Figure 1, can be used in lectures, as self-paced study, or as reference material forstudents.As more simulation files are being developed, the endeavor to create the courseware has evolvedto become building a multimedia handbook of

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George Homsy

Session 2793 Multi-Media Fluid Mechanics G. M. Homsy Stanford University (Current affiliation: University of California at Santa Barbara)AbstractThis paper summarizes the results of a two-year project sponsored by the National ScienceFoundation (NSF Project “Hypermedia Fluid Mechanics: Teaching Modules for the NextCentury”, NSF/DUE 9752199). This project was a multi-investigator effort to develop a CD-ROM, compatible with a wide range of platforms, processors, and operating systems, containingmultimedia materials for

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William Jordan; Norman Pumphrey

and Napper.2II. The Current Materials Course and Companion LabsThe new materials lecture course (MEMT 201 -- Engineering Materials) replaced two lecture coursestaught separately by the Mechanical Engineering (ME) and Civil Engineering (CE) programs. This two-hour lecture course maintained the flavor of the former Mechanical Engineering materials course, with asubstantial amount of time being spent on a material’s crystalline and atomic structures and how heattreatment affects its mechanical properties. A two-lecture sequence on portland cement concrete wasadded to expose all engineering students to this very important engineering material. Electricalproperties of materials were covered in some detail to give students basic knowledge in

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Robert Rice; Christian Ochei; Alamgir Choudhury

the area. This simulation and programming task replaces previous laboratoryexperiment on wooden beam deflection. Therefore, curriculum objectives are achievedwithout utilizing additional laboratory time.1. IntroductionAt Cuyahoga Community College (CCC), Strength of Materials is a required course forthe mechanical engineering technology and architecture/construction technologyprograms. Beam deflection theory and the associated exercise problems are anindispensable part of a traditional strength of materials curriculum in similar programs.The subject is taught using both moment-area and superposition methods [1,2]. While themoment-area method uses properties of bending moment diagram area, the superpositiontechnique requires the combined use

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Laurence Logue; Kathleen A. Hall

analysis of objects and structures. The topics covered include FEMprinciples, element geometries, element types, material properties, boundary conditions, modelloading, and accuracy and precision. These topics are discussed in lectures as well as in aseries of exercises in which students model and analyze several different systems. Non-linearmaterial models are introduced which show permanent deformations and residual stresses. Thepaper focuses on our successes, our less-than-successes, and our proposed plans for futuredevelopment and improvement.I. IntroductionThe Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) Department at Southern Polytechnic StateUniversity (SPSU) was forced to completely redesign its curriculum recently when theUniversity System of

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Jeffrey Fergus

SensorsLeading courses: Electrical Circuit Analysis (for Electrical Engineers) and Digital ElectronicsProduct Reliability / Quality Control – Industrial EngineeringAdvanced course: Reliability Engineering or Off-Line and On-Line Quality ControlLeading courses: Engineering Probability and Engineering StatisticsMechanics and Dynamics – Mechanical EngineeringAdvanced course: Advanced Mechanics of Materials or Mechanics of Electronic PackagingLeading courses: Kinematics and Dynamics of Machines and Mechanics of Materials.The leading courses are sophomore- or junior-level courses and the advanced courses are senior-level courses. In some cases, some of the required courses outside of the cross-disciplinary courseare modified. For example, as shown above

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Phillip J. Cornwell; David Stienstra

. A Q U T TotAshby, M.F., Materials Selection in Mechanical Design, 4 4 5 5 18 Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1992, pp. 123-127.Haberle, J.G., and Matthews, F.L., "The Influence of 5 5 5 2 17 Test Method on the Compressive Strength of Several Fiber-Reinforced Plastics", Journal of Advanced Materials, Vol. 25, No. 1, 1993, pp. 35-45.Stienstra, David, Personal interview, 21 March 1995. 3 2 3 1 9www.chaseelastomer.com, Chase Elastomer Corporation 4 3 1 2 9 on Hypalon Rubber ProductsA - AuthoritativeQ - QuantitativeU - UnbiasedT - ThoroughIV. AssessmentThe students were surveyed both before (Survey 1) and after the

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Jeremiah Neubert; Cynthia Widstrand; C. Swanson; Arthur Ellis; Ann Pumper

Session1519@ INTEGRATING MATERIALS SCIENCE INTO THE HIGH SCHOOL CHEMISTRY CURRICULUM Jeremiah J. Neubert Ψ †, Cynthia G. WidstrandΨ ‡, Ann M. Pumper*, C. Bruce Swanson*, and Arthur B. Ellis‡ † Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin/ ‡Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin/ *James Madison Memorial High School, Madison, WisconsinAbstractThe focus of this project was to provide secondary chemistry teachers with creative, inexpensive,hands-on, minds-on

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N.J. Salamon; Renata Engel

factors, reliability,environmental concerns, international diversity and ethics and responsibility. In short, designprojects provide a means to bring modern pedagogy into the mechanics curriculum and plugmechanics education into the engineering mainstream.In this paper we focus on teaching and learning through a design project in introductory Strengthof Materials with Design (SOMD). After setting out the learning objectives for a design project,we summarize the primary milestones employed so that learning occurs in steps and so that theeleven-week-long project remains on schedule. Highlights of student learning are annotated byactual student work. This is followed with a sampling of typical projects: as assigned andstudent solutions. In the

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Zheng-Tao Deng; Abdul Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

. Include Lab or Utilizes Lab No. Course Title Project No: (L or P) 1 ME101 Intro to Mechanical Engineering L&P 1,9,11,16 2 ME205 Statics P 15,16 3 ME206 Dynamics P 15,16 4 ME210 Materials Science P 15,16 5 ME231 Strength of Materials P 15,16

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Joseph K. Hitt; Wayne Whiteman

information available at the respective school’s web site on the internet.2-19 Degreerequirements were broken down into ten sub-areas for technical subjects and a lumped categoryof liberal arts and social science subjects. The technical subject breakdown included topics in: 1)mathematics; 2) physics, chemistry, and basic sciences; 3) computer-aided design, engineeringdesign graphics, and numerical methods; 4) statics, dynamics, solid mechanics, and mechanicsof materials; 5) electrical engineering and electronics; 6) thermal fluid sciences and heattransfer; 7) vibration, system dynamics, and controls; 8) material sciences; 9) mechanicaldesign, machine design, and manufacturing; and 10) technical and free electives.Admittedly, the grouping of technical

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Donald Richards

, 6.In 1993, seven schools came together as the Foundation Coalition under the auspices of the NSFEngineering Education Coalitions Program. One of the major thrusts of this group was curriculumintegration. Building on the early work at Texas A&M, Texas A&M and Rose-Hulman developednew sophomore engineering curricula organized around the conservation and accounting principleto help students see the connections within their courses. At Texas A&M, this resulted in theSophomore Engineering Science Sequence consisting of five courses covering mechanics, ther-modynamics, materials, continuum mechanics, and electrical circuits and electronics.7 At Rose-Hulman, this resulted in a new core curriculum called the Rose-Hulman/Foundation

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Don Rhymer; Marty Bowe; Daniel Jensen

Session 1668 An Assessment of Visualization Modules for Learning Enhancement in Mechanics Don Rhymer, Dan Jensen, Marty Bowe Department of Engineering Mechanics USAF Academy, CO 80840AbstractUntil recently, there has been a lack of content designed to enhance understanding of mechanicsof materials through the use of visualization. Therefore, visualization content in this area, aswell as quantitative assessment establishing its effectiveness, is needed. This paper builds on ourprevious work using visualization content by

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Elsa Napoles

, Materials and Systems courses arelinked.Hollister3, describes two integrated courses teaching named Unified Engineering that has thefollowing subjects: Static, Mechanics of solid and materials, Dynamic, Fluid Mechanics,Thermodynamics, Propulsion, and Lineal Systems.Miller and Cooper4 present an integrated model based upon the engineering practice in themechanical engineering teaching.Carr et al5, describe the university experience where all the engineering branches have a commonbasis of integrated courses named Scientific and Mathematical Foundations I, II, III, in whichessential calculus, physics, and basic aspects of the engineering are included.Perdomo6establishes the integration in the mechanical engineering curriculum through theintegrated

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David Purdy; Christine Buckley; Don L. Dekker; Phillip J. Cornwell

Session Number 1566 The Development of the Procedures for Our ABET Visit in Mechanical Engineering Don Dekker, David Purdy, Phil Cornwell, Christine Buckley Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyThe Mechanical Engineering Department at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology was visitedBy ABET the last two days of October 2000. A description of the steps that led to our ABETvisit will be described in the paper. The paper has the following areas that describe the differentparts of the ABET accreditation process that was developed at Rose-Hulman. 1 Establish Goals and Objectives 2

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William Edward Howard; Joseph Musto

Session 2793 Integration of Laptop Computers into a Freshman Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Joseph C. Musto, William Edward Howard Milwaukee School of EngineeringAbstractThe implementation of the Notebook Computer Program at Milwaukee School of Engineering(MSOE), in which all new incoming students are provided with a laptop computer, has had amajor impact on curriculum development in the Mechanical Engineering Program. Theimplementation of this program resulted in a number of curricular changes, including a revision ofthe first course in programming, a

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Terry Creasy, Texas A&M University; Richard Griffin, Texas A&M University at Qatar

AC 2001-244: The Development of a Combined Materials/Manufacturing ProcessesCourse at Texas A&M UniversityRichard Griffin, Texas A&M University at QatarTerry Creasy, Texas A&M University Page 6.990.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2001 Session 2464 The Development of a Combined Materials/Manufacturing Processes Course at Texas A&M University Richard B. Griffin, Terry S. Creasy Mechanical Engineering Texas A&

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John Bridge

submits that in most classes, some degree of direct instruction is necessary to “actively”engage the student’s minds, particularly in introducing new material, but also insists that student-based class activities are essential to reinforce and “connect” this knowledge. Materials sciencenaturally lends itself to a variety of interesting and exciting activities that allow the student tointeractively learn about the world of engineering materials. Some of these activities arediscussed in their application to atomic structure, diffusion, strengthening mechanisms, failuremechanisms, and ferrous and nonferrous materials.I. IntroductionIn a typical college-level engineering materials science class, which is part of an accreditedmechanical engineering

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Daniel Walsh

industries – the keys to our information age andthe basis for our development of the “knowledge” economy of the 21st century rely on epitaxialprocessing. Clearly, from ships to chips, our economy relies on an ability to manipulate processparameters to produce desirable structures at inter-phase interfaces – in large welds or in minuteelectronic or electro – mechanical systems.The study of nucleation, growth and interfacial stability often lacks immediacy. Akin to the lonelypaleontologist, students of materials scan the "fossil" remains of long-past-solidified weld pools to gainclues about the nature of the solidification event. Similarly, akin to the forensic pathologist, studentsof chemical vapor deposition (CVD) or molecular beam epitaxy (MBE

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Rick Duley; A Boyanich; S P Maj

Session 1520 Too Much Material, Too Little Time: The computer education curriculum dilemma Rick Duley, S P Maj, A Boyanich Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western AustraliaAbstractAdding an engineering component into an already overcrowded computer science course tocreate a course suitable for the graduation of a potential professional Software Engineer (SE)reminds people of the problem of getting a quart into a pint pot — there is far too much materialand far too little time. Since Curriculum ’68 was published, designers of computer sciencecurricula have

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Richard McNitt; Cliff Lissenden

Session 2268 “Catastrophic Failures”, “Designed for Failure”, and “Adventures in Mechanics” One Credit Freshman “Mechanics” Seminars Cliff J. Lissenden, Richard P. McNitt Penn State UniversityAs part of its mission to provide, through service courses, the fundamentals of mechanics andmaterials, the Penn State Engineering Science and Mechanics Department created the followingone-credit freshman seminars: Catastrophic Failures, Designed for Failure, and Adventures inMechanics. The objectives of these three one-credit mechanics/materials-related seminarcourses include

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Trevor Tyler; Steven Miner

% on theviews. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 6.83.6 Copyright c 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Figure 6 Visualization Test Rotation Question Figure 7 Visualization Test View QuestionIV. Mechanical Engineering TopicsThe mechanical engineering program at the U. S. Naval Academy addresses three major areas,thermo-fluid sciences, mechanics, and materials. The purpose of this portion of the course is tointroduce the students to each of these areas. Each topic is covered in

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William Szaroletta; Lloyd Ewing; Nancy L. Denton

Session 2168 Analog to Digital Mechanics Lab Conversion: Lessons Learned Nancy Denton, Bill Szaroletta, Lloyd Ewing Purdue UniversityAbstractTo upgrade the laboratory supporting an introductory sophomore-level strength of materials courseto reflect current industry practice and address student requests, the authors have begun convertingthe current experiments from analog instrumentation with hand-recorded data to NationalInstruments LabVIEW based testing. This paper reviews the challenges encountered during theconversion of one experiment; a three-point beam bending experiment

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William Schultz; Marc Smith; Marc Perlin; John Foss

issues considered by the steering group to be most relevant to the workshop: (1) desiredoutcomes of a newly minted undergraduate fluid mechanics course and of the workshop; (2)motivation for faculty participation in such a program; (3) course and workshop assessment; (4)use of multimedia in the classroom and beyond; and (5) administration and pedagogy of thecourse and the consortium. Workshop participants were free to chose their working group.We report the findings of the subgroups. The first group considered the desired outcomes of a new Page 6.568.3course, and of the workshop. The new course material included a national pool of high-quality