Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: The Tenure Process

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Lozano

. These activities were initially developed to provide faculty members withmeaningful feedback on their performance in the classroom. However, they are used by administrators toevaluate faculty members, therefore distorting their original intent although it is necessary to point outthat it has been demonstrated the high correlation of student evaluations with other indicators of teachingquality (Felder, 1992). In any case, we expect evaluative assessment to be present in academia. Whilemost institutions have their own standardized measure of faculty performance, most of them allowindividual faculty member to complement them by developing their own assessment tools. These have theadvantage of being able to provide meaningful information instead of

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell

always vote a person off their own tribe. Initially, I was reluctant to let them vote atall. I worried that feelings would get hurt and the students who needed the reinforced problemsolving the most would be eliminated quickly. The students, however, were unambiguous. Theywanted to vote. As it turns out, the alternating system described above cures many woes. On almostevery tribe, there is one player who wants to leave the game (for a variety of reasons). Thisperson is almost always voted off first. Absent students are also assigned to a tribe and they arealso voted off quickly. When the victorious tribe votes a member off of another tribe, theyuniformly take out the strongest students. The random round is, of course, random. Ultimately

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Camille George

. Thomas (UST) where students were challenged to acquire new information, tocollect data, analyze it and express an educated opinion. The pedagogy of the class wasdiscovery-oriented. The approach was in stark opposition to the established lecture, textbook,homework and exam tradition. Students initiated their own learning, an experience that cannotbe overemphasized for future problem solvers. Assignments included student-led lectures anddiscussions, a formal laboratory notebook, and a final thought experiment written in the form ofa proposal. Students’ experimental proposals, lecture topics, and lab experiments will bepresented in this paper.IntroductionEngineering education must create innovators. How does one gather new information, assembleit

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Willie Ofusu; Austin Asgill

incomputing, and the fact that computers were incorporated in telecommunications hardware.Wireless applications, a necessary component in telecommunications, are experiencingresurgence along with the growth of the telecommunications industry. The initial growth neededthe type of graduates who could support the construction of the telecommunicationsinfrastructure. These graduates were practical oriented individuals who had the capabilities ofputting together the modules and components of equipment, connecting them and making surethat they worked effectively as an assembled unit. Page 9.726.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for

Conference Session

Capstone Course in Industrial Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Akbar Eslami

, theconveyor belt is activated, conveying the part to a specific location, where the robot will place itin a storage container. If the robot receives a FAIL signal, the conveyor belt is activated,conveying the part to the actuator, which pushes the part into a scrap bin. The actuator iscontrolled by a blast of air initiated by a line of robot program. The PLC is the go-between fromthe robot output and the motor that drives the conveyor belt. Robot controller output #1 and +24 Page 9.13.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Copyright © 2004, American Society for

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein

is to improve thequality of the capstone design course in the fluid-thermal systems area by obtaining feedback aboutthe course from students who have completed it.The process goals are to provide the students with the ability to: solve practical pipe flow problems;determine the pipe diameter that will minimize the initial and operating costs for an installation; tsizea pump for a given piping system and to select an operating configuration to avoid pump cavitation;demonstrate the ability to analyze a heat exchanger: given two flow streams, calculate expectedoutlet temperatures; and effectively function as a member of a design team.With regard to the ABET a through k program outcomes, the students are expected to gain:(c) the ability to

Conference Session

Diversity in Materials

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Nowak

option for those students seeking a deeper knowledge in the field.This combined course was initially taught successfully to the Civil Engineering students, while theMechanical Engineering students and those in Biomedical Engineering remained in the traditionalsystem of separate laboratory and materials courses. When the curricula were later changed, theBiomedical and Mechanical Engineering students were required to enroll in the combined course. Page 8.504.2Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationThe principal

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Merredith Portsmore; Melissa Pickering; Chris Rogers

research on topics, and helping to brainstormactivities. They also work with teachers in off school hours to help them with their engineeringknowledge. Aside from helping to support education, the STOMP program aims to promotecitizenship in the engineering students by helping them to understand the educational system andto encourage their involvement, as future members of industry, in K-12 education.Getting Started The STOMP program is open to any engineering student who is interested. STOMP isnot a volunteer program but a paid position. The program recruits from engineering classes andthrough campus advertisements. Extra effort is made to recruit minorities and females to helpserve as role models. The program has easily met its self

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Yau

favor of SSH.)6A description of the assignments follows:Assignment #1: XHTML Basics, Online File CreationXHTML syntax is introduced and students create an initial Web site consisting of a singleXHTML document with a heading and a biographical paragraph about themselves. Thisassignment is completed online using the Unix pico editor although, a standard Unix editor, like vior emacs could also be used7. Students are taught to use the SSH secure shell to connect to their Page 8.940.2Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Derek Maxwell; Kathleen Kramer

design more relevant to these applications resulted in thedevelopment of student digital design projects based both upon their relevance tocommunications topics and their suitability as undergraduate design projects within a digitaldesign course. The projects selected included a direct digital synthesizer (DDS) and aspects of adigital delay-locked loop (DLL). Both projects offer an opportunity for a variety of approachesand the use of realistic constraints.IntroductionThe study of wireless and other advanced communications systems topics at the undergraduatelevel has developed at some universities, largely in response to the increased interest resultingfrom the impressive research and development in such technology over the past several

Conference Session

TIME 9: Thermal Fluids/Fluid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Pines

agood visual example of the relationship between head loss, shear stress, and radial velocity.Students learn in lecture that head loss is directly proportional to pipe length for fully developedflow. However, the static pressure plot as shown in Figure 4 shows a non-linearity at the inlet ofthe pipe. In their lab reports, the students are expected to explain this non-linearity by analyzingthe velocity cross section profiles throughout the pipe. Students should observe that the velocitygradient at the wall of the pipe is greater at the inlet of the pipe then when the flow becomes fullydeveloped. They should then conclude that this results in the higher initial head loss. Figure 4. Static Pressure Profile along the Pipe Wall

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Keshav Varde

Science 4 Electrical/Computer Engineering 9 Industrial/Manufacturing Engineering 2 Mechanical Engineering 5In addition to providing truly broad learning experience to engineering and computer sciencestudents in an international environment, the program has made efforts to place students ininternships at international sites. Some students have gained internship experience in Sweden.The process of placing students in internships in complicated by local regulations and workpermit requirements. This requires that the process be initiated quite early, a task that cannot beeasily

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Smith; Joseph Ekstrom

system, create and save notesas well as retrieve and view any previous notes they may have made. They can alsoretrieve a history of the code they have written for skill evaluations and the feedback theyreceived. At any time, students can also provide complaints, suggestions, bug reports, orpraise through a system-wide feedback mechanism, again in an effort to measure andimprove the SOP experience.After the initial registration process, students are taken directly to the first of thepredefined required lessons. Currently the content of the lessons is concise and assumes abasic understanding of programming principles. After each required lesson, a SkillExercise and Evaluation (SEE) task is presented to the student, and successful completionis

Conference Session

Teaching with Technologies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rocio Alba-Flores; Fernando Rios-Gutierrez

access to the faculty and student body atany place inside campus, and to make the learning experience for the students more interactive.The main academic interest for the use of the wireless network as a teaching and research toolinvolves but is not limited to the following applications: Page 9.1425.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Education” a) Increase interaction between instructor and students in large classes b) Enhance communication outside class c) Support students software

Conference Session

Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheryl Sorby

discovered in the initial deploymentof this program include a lack of structure for things such as advising. There were some studentsbeing advised by the Associate Dean of Engineering, others advised from the Engineering Funda-mentals Department, and still others from one or more disciplinary departments. Another problemhas been in assigning students to computer labs, etc. We are currently working through theseproblems and developing some common procedures and processes..ConclusionsAn accredited engineering degree program that allows students flexibility in pursuing interestsoutside of engineering has been successfully developed and launched at Michigan Tech. The pro-gram consists of core courses in math, science, and engineering. The program also

Conference Session

Integrating Math in Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Surendra Gupta

five hardened tool steel specimens.The instructor may choose to use a single specimen or to compare several specimens. Guideddata analysis with appropriate contextual questions is provided for exploring graphs, descriptivestatistics, population models, and statistical inference. The instructor may use any parts of themodule individually or together.The analysis begins with an examination of the data. Students create histograms and/or boxplotsand use these for an initial assessment of typical value, variability, unusual observations, anddistributional shape. Next, descriptive statistics (mean, median, standard deviation, etc.) areobtained. Students must choose the “best” measure of center and spread among those obtained.A histogram of the

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ira Lockwood; Caleb Chitwood; Byron Newberry

stiffness matrix. (Ψ - λI)v = 0 P = [v1 v2 v3 …. v4]The governing equations and the initial conditions are next decoupled by converting to the“modal coordinates”, denoted r(t). This is accomplished by substituting q(t) = P r(t) and pre-multiplying by PT. In the equation below, Λ is symmetric. I r’’ + Λ r = PT M-1/2 F(t)Energy dissipation may be present in the original system of governing equations (usuallydenoted by a damping matrix, C). The modal matrix does not in general decouple the dampingmatrix. In the development herein, modal damping will be implemented. The alternative is toutilize proportional damping. The reader is referred to any quality vibration textbook to

Conference Session

The Use of Technology in Teaching Math

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Gurney; Daniel Bankston; Allen Battles; Edgar Reyes; Carl Steidley

. Mostapplications of Visual Basic, including ours, consist of frames such as the ones shownin Figures 1 and 2. One can think of a frame as consisting of combinations of drop-down menus and text boxes. After the data has been entered in the text boxes, thenthe user clicks on a command in the drop-down menu. Then another frame shows theresults that consist of numbers or graphics inside text boxes or picture boxes,respectively.The current applet consists of four frames. The initial frame describes the applet.Another frame is used for computing the hyperbolic distance between two points, themidpoint of a hyperbolic line segment, and shows a graphic representation of thehyperbolic line segment. A third frame is used for computing the hyperbolic lengthsof the

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sridhar Condoor

should stop the level clock bits to conveyor motor. If stop pressed flash at different during the initial ten seconds, frequencies. the warning light should shutoff. 5. Emergency stop button should switch off the system. Page 8.226.4“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Energy Project and Laboratory Ideas

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Yanfeng Gong; Mike Collum; Noel Schulz

power engineering fundamentals coupled with other areas of expertise suchas controls, computers, electronics and communications. Some high-tech power-relatedcompanies such as SEL are finding it more and more difficult to identify qualified engineers fortheir entry level positions. In some cases, power-related industries hire non-power engineers andprovide training on power topics to bring entry-level engineers up to speed. In the case of SEL,the challenge is even tougher as they try to identify candidates with additional training related toprotection and relaying. SEL has been supportive of educational initiatives to help powerprograms across the U.S. and world. In the summer of 2000, SEL sponsored a teachingworkshop at the IEEE Power

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Schreiner; John Burns

basic principles andterminology as well as a field trip to a local agricultural facility to see application of genetics andmicrobiology to agriculture. The entire second day was spent in the laboratory performingpolymerase chain reaction (PCR) and electrophoresis.The participants learned about many of the advanced biomedical devices used in the clinic andnewly developing devices that are still in the research laboratories. The intent of this session wasto give the teachers many high-tech biomedical applications that they could disseminate to theirstudents as motivation to study mathematics and science. Moreover, the participants selected adevice of interest to them and presented a technical poster about this device to the rest of theclass at

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Joanne Lax

largeMidwestern public research university devised a thirty-minute writing sample which isadministered every semester to all students enrolled in the sophomore and senior seminars, bothrequired large lecture courses. This paper describes how the writing topics are selected, how thestudent papers are rated, and how the communications specialist works individually with thestudents who receive low scores. The paper suggests that once this program is well-established,comparing the same students’ performances on the writing samples as sophomores and seniorswill help document the students’ improvement in their written communication skills.I. IntroductionWith ABET 2000 influencing curricular decisions in American undergraduate engineeringprograms

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Marquard; Bruce R. Dewey; Sally Steadman; Raymond Jacquot

the laboratory to give hands-on work done in the cooperative learning setting.The work reported here is the initial efforts toward implementation of those concepts.1. IntroductionIn addition to the usual calculus, chemistry, and English, first-year engineering studentstraditionally take an engineering course that focuses on technical subjects. For most of the lastcentury, this first-year engineering course involved graphics, descriptive geometry and slide ruleoperation. Over the last two or three decades, graphics courses have largely been replaced by anoffering that involves computing; however, there is no standard course content.Goals for a first engineering course have been the subject of much discourse. Common themesfor a first year

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie G. Adams

, and making value judgments • create a climate within which students can learn and practice a variety of "learning to learn" skills and dispositions (e.g., skimming and note-taking, questioning, listening) • the development initiative, persistence, and autonomy amongst students. • the integration make learning meaningful by integrating concepts across subject-matter areas link cognitive, social, emotional, and self-management goals just the way these goals are linked in real lifeThe ProjectA key aspect of project-based learning is the selection of the projects to be assigned. Projectsshould be open-ended and complimentary to the curriculum. Furthermore, the faculty membershould provide a clearly defined objective

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert McCulley; Joseph Arumala; Emin Yilmaz

stress(tension) can and will be induced during the torque process. Since tensile force in a Page 5.639.1fastener cannot be measured during assembly, the torque that creates this tension shouldbe understood and those variables that affect tension must be controlled.The most critical value in determining the torque is the nut factor "K". Due to its widerange, when possible, nut factors should be determined experimentally rather than relyingon tables. The recommended procedure for evaluating "K" factors is to insert a load cellor force washer between the assembly and apply a specific torque (1).An initial purpose of this project was to design and

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack

instrumentation.There have been a variety of factors that have hindered the adoption of PLCs. Many faculty whohave not designed industrial controls lately are unaware of what PLCs can do. They are alsounaware of capabilities that have been added in the last two decades. The original use of PLCs inthe 1970s were as relay replacers. Modern PLCs are quite sophisticated, and can give access tocomplex computational functions. This perception is changing quickly as PLCs are finding theirway into research publications4.The Padnos School of Engineering at Grand Valley State University has a clear mission to supportthe local community. One of the clear messages from local companies was a need for PLC experi-ence. This need was satisfied with the introduction of a PLC

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry W. Blackwell; Charles N Eastlake

S = maximum speed in knots Q = total number of aircraft producedThen a subjective judgment was made on the question of how time consuming or difficult eachsegment is when done on a general aviation aircraft as opposed to being done on a militaryaircraft. The results of this weight factor decision are summarized in Table 1. The valuesselected are indeed subjective but they are logical, being based on the author’s own experience asa light aircraft owner and as an engineer working on both military and GA aircraft and militaryjet engines. The initial list of weighting comments like “a little too big”, “way too big”, and“probably about the same” was converted into numerical form as multiplying factors. “Way toobig” resulted in

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paula Zenner; Charles Van Karsen

Transfer are integrated through individual experiments and a combinedsystems experiment at the conclusion of the course. Faculty is directly involved teaching thelecture component of the course and one lab section weekly. Graduate students work closelywith these faculty members and teach the balance of the weekly labs. Progress in educationaloutcomes has been noticed in the second semester of senior design. Students now haveknowledge and hands-on experience of experimental techniques to incorporate and utilize in thedevelopment and testing stages of their capstone design project.IntroductionThe Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics initiated a full curriculumreview that coincided with Michigan Technological University’s

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Reyer; Glenn T. Wrate, Northern Michigan University; John Wheeldon; Owe Petersen

helps to ensure the desired student satisfaction. Initial feedback has shownthat the students are excited to experience the breadth and flexibility of EE by understandinghow familiar, everyday electronic items work1. A pass/fail type grading system lessens studentfirst-term stress, while encouraging participation and no-risk experimentation.Motivation for the Development of the Course2At the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE), engineering freshmen have traditionally beenrequired to take a general engineering course to acquaint them with the various branches of thefield, and to excite them about the profession. However, for the EE freshmen, it has becomeclear that the course’s minimal exposure to EE did little to reinforce their career

Conference Session

Graphics Applications in ME

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Raymond Yee

of theproduct design projects are initiated by identifying the needs for the market. The productdevelopment can be either market-driven or new technology-driven. Once the needs areidentified, the first thing to do is plan for the design. This may include forming the design team,developing the required tasks, and establishing a project schedule. Employing concurrentengineering, design team usually consists of project manager, design project engineer,manufacturing engineer, material engineer, and quality assurance engineer. Depending on thesize of a company, a person may serve in multiple roles as mentioned earlier.Secondly, engineering specifications are developed based on who the customers are, what theirrequirements are, and what the