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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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James Craddock; Lizette Chevalier

Session 1526 Mechanics of Materials Interactive Multimedia Labware James N. Craddock, Lizette R. Chevalier, Kudzai Musumhi Department of Civil Engineering Southern Illinois University Carbondale Carbondale, IL 62901-6603 PH: 618-453-6648 FAX: 618-453-3044 e-mail: craddock@ce.siu.edu, cheval@engr.siu.eduIntroduction This paper concerns the development of a website and CD-ROM based laboratory manual fora Strength of Materials Laboratory. Similar work has been done for another

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; David Oglesby; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

Session 2468 Interactive Learning Tools: Animating Mechanics of Materials Timothy A. Philpot, David B. Oglesby, Ralph E. Flori, Vikas Yellamraju, Nancy Hubing, Richard H. Hall University of Missouri-RollaAbstractComputer-based instructional materials offer great potential for engineering education. A challenge that must beaddressed in the successful use of this medium, however, is overcoming the students’ tendency toward passivelyreceiving the instruction. Particularly in the impersonal domain of a student interacting with a computer,instructional

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nick Salamon; Gautam Wagle; Cliff Lissenden

Session 2468 Design Project for Advanced Mechanics of Materials C.J. Lissenden, G.S. Wagle, and N.J. Salamon Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Penn State UniversityAbstractAdvanced mechanics of materials is a broad subject encompassing many topics. However, oftenthere is only room in the curriculum for a single course. Thus, there is a tendency to pack thecourse full of topics, in which case sufficient depth of coverage can be lost. Furthermore, designis at the heart of engineering and demands attention. Advanced mechanics of materials is amajor part of many design problems. In this

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kevin Sutterer

Session 2468 Sophomore-Year Project Design in Mechanics of Materials Kevin G. Sutterer, P.E. Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyIntroductionCivil Engineering students at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (R-HIT) begin to learn open-ended, project-based design in a first year civil engineering design course where groups of 3-5students work for outside clients on a simple civil engineering project. In their Junior year,students participate in a three-course structural engineering sequence (1) where they design aproposed 2 to 3-story campus structure, beginning with design of

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Paul Steif

Session 2478 Courseware for Problem Solving in Mechanics of Materials Paul S. Steif Carnegie Mellon UniversityIntroductionBasic courses such as mechanics of materials focus on principles and methods which studentscan apply to a variety of new situations. This ability to transfer learning and knowledge isdependent on many factors, including the depth of the initial learning 1. Many factors affect thedepth of initial learning, such as, learning for understanding rather than memorizing facts 2, timeon task 3, and having deliberate practice with ample

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Wendy Reffeor; Jeffrey Ray

Session 1566 Incorporating Experimental Design in a Mechanics of Materials Course Wendy Reffeor, Ph.D., Jeffrey L. Ray, Ph.D. Seymour and Esther Padnos School of Engineering Grand Valley State University Grand Rapids, MI 49504AbstractA necessary part of any engineering design is the development of specifications that define itsfunction. Once these specifications are developed, testing of that design to ensure it meets thedesign specifications is essential. At Grand Valley State University, we have incorporateddesign and build projects into

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To Design and Conduct Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

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Joseph Owino; Ronald Goulet

Session # 2666 Experiential Problem Based Learning in the Mechanics of Materials Laboratory Ronald U. Goulet, Ph.D., P.E., Joseph Owino, Ph.D., P.E. College of Engineering and Computer Science University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaBackgroundThe College of Engineering and Computer Science at UT Chattanooga has reported broad effortsaimed to modernize and enhance undergraduate engineering laboratories and designcourses.1,2,3,4,5. This process of improvement was recently directed to the mechanics of materialslaboratory course. The College offers second year engineering students a one credit hourmechanics of materials lab concurrently

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mary Boyce; Jung-Wuk Hong; Jaspal Sandhu; Eberhard Bamberg

Session 2468 Active Engagement Pedagogy for an Introductory Solid Mechanics Course Jaspal S. Sandhu, Eberhard Bamberg, Jung-Wuk Hong, Mary C. Boyce Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Mechanical EngineeringAbstractAdvances in information technology (IT) are enabling universities to effectively integrate com-puters into the curriculum. An initiative to comprehensively transform the pedagogical format of2.001-Mechanics and Materials I, a sophomore-level Mechanical Engineering course at the Mas-sachusetts Institute of

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Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Wood; Jason Bartolomei; Dave Winebrener; Don Rhymer; Brian Self; Daniel Jensen

Session 2468 CREATING A VISUALLY RICH, ACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR TEACHING MECHANICS OF MATERIALS John J. Wood*, Dave Winebrener, Jake Bartolomei, Daniel Jensen, Don Rhymer *Department of Mechanical Engineering, Colorado State University/ Department of Engineering Mechanics, U.S. Air Force AcademyAbstractFor the last 4 years we have been working to develop a suite of tools to enhance our Introductionto Mechanics course here at the US Air Force Academy (USAFA). The course is taught to over1000 students per year and covers

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Trends in Mechanics Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Wendy Crone

Session 2268 Using an Advanced Mechanics of Materials Design Project to Enhance Learning in an Introductory Mechanics of Materials Course Wendy C. Crone Department of Engineering Physics, Engineering Mechanics Program University of Wisconsin-MadisonAbstractDesign projects and experiments demonstrating mechanics concepts are two ways in whichlearning can be enhanced in undergraduate mechanics courses. This paper will discussincorporation of these concepts in two mechanics of materials courses at the University

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Materials and Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ronald Smelser; Edwin Odom

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Materials and Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sanjeev Khanna

to thrive, power generation, and reliable communications, among a host ofapplications.An optimum and reliable design of a welded structure requires an integrated approach tounderstand welding processes, materials science, fatigue design, joint failure, experimentalmechanics, and inspection. Hence, the total design of a structure involving welding as one of thejoining methods needs an integrated and interdisciplinary approach. Figure 1 shows the largenumber of variables involved in the design of a safe welded structure.Today, examples abound which show the need for engineers and scientists who have anintegrated, interdisciplinary background bridging mechanics, materials science, manufacturing,and design. Consider, for example, the High Speed

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Teaching Ceramic, Polymer, and Electric Materials

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Gilbert; Andrew Hoff; Marilyn Barger

extending into nanotechnology such as fluid, photonic, mechanical, nano-electrical, and molecular. Material science—Physical and molecular parameters and how they change with the size and scales of structures. For example proceeding from macro to micro and then to nano, how parameters such as resistivity, friction, and force on an object change with size? When do you stop and abandon predictions set by a given parameter, or apply a corrective model? In the absence of a corrective model when do you look for another variable to use that might fit the situation better? Parameters at semiconductor scales—Micron-sized applications such as appliances and sensors. How are appliances dependent on the data that a sensor provides? What are the

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Scott Kiefer

courseofferings. Teaching independent study courses of six to eight students does not require thecourse material to be completely polished, and the students can be evaluated without spending alot of time grading written homework or exams. Furthermore, the students can be used todevelop projects and handouts that will later be used as hands-on laboratory exercises orclassroom demonstrations. At the same time, the students are getting the background necessaryfor them to be valuable to a research program.This paper presents the results of teaching an independent study course in mechatronics to agroup of six mechanical engineering students. The course included both undergraduate andgraduate students working in teams of two. The first ten weeks of the course

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Trends in Mechanics Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Duke; Don Morris

Session 2268 Assessing Undergraduate Mechanics Courses John C. Duke, Jr. and Don H. Morris Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics Virginia TechAbstractA uniform procedure for assessing courses for continuous improvement, consistent with ABETEC2000, has been developed at Virginia Tech in the Department of Engineering Science andMechanics. This paper will describe the details of this procedure and how the procedure fitswithin an overall process for Student Outcomes Assessment. Specific examples of the courseassessment process and

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Modeling in Materials Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sergey Yarmolenko; Jagannathan Sankar; Juri Filatovs; Devdas Pai

Session 1464 Materials Characterization by Digital Microscopy G. J. Filatovs, S. N. Yarmolenko, D. M. Pai and J. Sankar Department of Mechanical Engineering and NSF Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures, NC A&T State University, Greensboro, NC 27411AbstractMaterials characterization and analysis is the central theme of materials science. While computer-based methods greatly extend the scope of characterization techniques, these methods areassociated with their own set of implementation issues in terms of image processing, statistical,and mathematical problems. Classical metallography does not

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Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

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2002 Annual Conference

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Patricia Shamamy

Engineering Education1. Altiero, Nicholas, “Grip and Win,” ASEE Prism, vol. 10, no. 7, 2001, p. 39-40.2. Callister, William D., “Materials Science and Engineering – An Introduction,” John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 2000.3. Johnston, Stephen F. et al, “Engineering and Society,” Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 1999.4. Popper, Stephen W. et al, “New Forces at Work, ” Rand, Santa Monica, California, 1998.5. Randolph, Gary B., “Collaborative Learning in the Classroom: A Writing Across the Curriculum Approach,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 89, no. 2, 2000, pp. 199-125.Biographical InformationPATRICA M SHAMAMY, P.E. is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at LawrenceTechnological University in Southfield, Michigan

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Capstone Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jagannathan Sankar; Juri Filatovs; Devdas Pai

Session 2425 Integration of Materials Science into an Industrially-Sponsored Engineering Design Course D. M. Pai, G. J. Filatovs and J. Sankar NSF Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures Department of Mechanical Engineering NC A&T State University, Greensboro, NC 27411AbstractAn industrially-sponsored aluminum product design elective course offered over the past six yearshas dealt with a range of design projects principally chosen from the transportation and structuralfield. Engineers from industry present the

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Innovative Lab and Hands-on Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ismail Orabi

Session 2168 Application of LabVIEW for Undergraduate Lab Experiments On Materials Testing Ismail I. Orabi University of New HavenAbstractThis paper describes the implementation of LabVIEW, in a torsion experiment in the MechanicsLaboratory in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of New Haven, to allowthe acquisition of real time data for display, analysis, control and storage. The input moment andthe angle of twist are measured directly from torsion transducers. The real-time measurementsand display acquired waveforms

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Innovative Lab and Hands-on Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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Anant Kukreti

course. One of the primary objectives of thecourse is to introduce the concept of stresses, strains and displacements in structures and theircomponents due to different types of loads. The perception is that if one can determine thesequantities for all types of loads, including the loads that cause failure, one will have a completepicture of the mechanical behavior of these structures (Gere and Timoshenko, 1997). Anunderstanding of mechanical behavior is essential for the safe design of all types of structures,whether airplanes and antennas, buildings and bridges, machines and motors, or ships andspacecrafts. The contents of the Strength of Materials course at OU can be divided into thefollowing three broad categories: (1) Material Behavior

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Design in the Engineering Core

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mark Palmer

).Supply and demand shifters:- as changing performance and price will change sales, the studentsare given the basics for “estimating” the effects of changing sales price and performance. Theyare asked to justify there assumptions.By interspersing statics, and business with programming the students are given programmingassignments which are immediately relevant and time to debug their programs.Strength of Materials (Design for Mechanical Engineers)Although material selection was simplified for freshman, it is possible for sophomores to selectmaterials for a given application and do some design. This course was taught with thephilosophy that the innovative learning techniques used in statics had to be applied or all was fornaught.The emphasis on

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Palm; Thomas Keggler; David Taggart; David Chelidze; Brent Stucker

sophomores, juniors, seniors and graduate students. Working invertically integrated teams, students were asked to design components using a commercialcomputer-aided design software package, perform analytical and finite element stress analyses,manufacture components using rapid manufacturing methods, and test components to verify theirmechanical performance. In the first project, a planar structural component was machined usingan abrasive waterjet (AWJ) cutting system. AWJ’s ability to machine a wide variety of materialsallowed students to select from materials with widely varying mechanical properties. In additionto satisfying loading requirements, each team was required to consider material costs, machiningcosts and recycling costs. In the second

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Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mark Orwat; Mark Evans; Joseph Hanus

, incoming/outgoing GPAs and the course objectivessurvey.E. Effect On National Standardized Engineering TestsThe national Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) Exam administered each year provided onemore area of observable academic performance for comparison. A significant portion of thisnational standardized exam consists of engineering mechanics material. Clearly, the students’performance on this exam would address their retention of the material taught in the EM302,Statics and Dynamics course. Figure 10 shows the overall average passing percentage of theCivil and Mechanical Engineering majors at USMA relative to the national average for the samegroup. The USMA average passing rate has been consistently 89% over the last three yearsduring which the

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Teaching Outside the Box

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2002 Annual Conference

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R. Artigue; M. H. Hariri; M. Misovich; M. Anklam; David Miller

state Liquid-liquid systems Application of conservation of energy to open Transient systems systems Mass balances in reactive systems Steam table, mechanical energy balance, Bernoulli Stoichiometry, conversion, and equilibrium equation Multiple reactionsEnergy balances – additional material Degree of freedom analysis, atomic and molecular Heat capacity balance, extent of reaction. Phase changes & latent heat Reaction with separation, recycle and purge Proceedings of the

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Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

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2002 Annual Conference

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Mark Palmer

throughout the engineering curricula, then students need to be taught how toselect materials and evaluate potential alternatives earlier in their career. Over the last ten years acourse, Applied Materials Science originally intended to be the second semester of an integratedchemistry-materials sequence5 has been developed for first year students. The course descriptionis below. Students will learn how to specify materials for a given performance criterion based on experimental data. Mechanical, chemical (corrosion) and electrical property- performance issues will be discussed, as will the fundamental scientific principles

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Modeling in Materials Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michael Falk

. Page 7.1105.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationThis report details a class that has been offered at the University of Michigan over the past twoyears. The course, entitled “Molecular Simulation of Materials” presents a subset of thesesimulation skills at the graduate level. The students who have enrolled in this class come from avariety of academic disciplines. Over the course of one semester these students become familiarwith the theory and techniques of atomistic simulation. These techniques sit between the morestandard continuum mechanics methods and significantly more detailed

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Zhengtao T. Deng; Xiaoqing (Cathy) Qian; Abdul Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

Session 2793 Incorporating MatLab in the Mechanical Engineering Courses at Alabama A&M University Amir A. Mobasher, A.R. Jalloh, R. Rojas-Oviedo, Z.T. Deng, C. Qian Mechanical Engineering Department Alabama A&M University Huntsville, AL 35762 Amobasher@aamu.eduAbstractNowadays, entry-level engineers may find themselves in an environment thatprogramming, simulation and modeling may become an integral part of their career. Ininstances that they are involved with enhancement and

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CE Rap Session and Toys in the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

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Reid Vander Schaaf; James Ledlie Klosky

demonstration are presented.Conversion of Force and Stress Objective: To clearly show the relationship between force, area and stress, whilesimultaneously demonstrating a key mechanical concept; the pressurized cylinder and pistonsystem. Equipment: The equipment required for this demonstration is shown in Figure 1. Whilesomewhat more costly and complex than the other systems presented in this paper, the total costfor materials is still less than $250. Some machining is also required. The device consists of a 3ft acrylic tube having an inside diameter of 3 in, capped at each end with a threaded PVC cap.The top cap has a hole for the pushrod, and the bottom cap has an access port to which a 15 psipressure gage and bleeder valve is attached

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Hong Zhang; Jennifer Kadlowec

mechanical design, whichincluded a mini lecture of material selection and a major project of engineering drawing.With the example of the Soccerbot, we discussed various types of materials, theirproperties and functions, and the way to choose them for different purposes. After that,we would bring them to the computer lab for a short course of engineering drawing usingSolidworks. The students were first directed through a tutorial of the software, and thenthey would try themselves to draw the Soccerbot control box, a shelled box with variousextrusions and openings. Finally, we would move to the more sophisticated BOEBot in the third week. Beforeplaying with it, we gave a brief presentation about sensors and their applications onrobots. Then we

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Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Harvey Abramowitz

, Engineering Mechanics of Deformable Bodies, New York, NY, Harper and Row, 1983, p.5185. Ibid., p.495.6. M. F. Ashby and D. R. H. Jones, Engineering Materials 1, An Introduction to their Properties and Applications, Oxford, England, 1987, pp.31-32.7. DynaMOEtm OperationManual, Madison, WI, Structural Reliability Consultants, 1991, pp.3-4.8. A. Jensen and H.H. Chenoweth, Statics and Strength of Materials 3 rd ed., New York, NY, McGraw Hill, 1975, pp.325-327.Biographical InformationHarvey Abramowitz received a B.S. in Materials Science from the Henry Krumb School of Mines, School ofEngineering and Applied Science, Columbia University. He completed M.S. and D.Eng.Sc. degrees from the sameschool in