Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shana Craft; David Click; P. Paxton Marshall

the system is not necessarily optimized byoptimizing the subsystems individually. It connects with the real world experiences of students.It provides an ideal vehicle for “incorporating engineering standards and realistic constraints thatinclude most of the following considerations: economic; environmental; sustainability;manufacturability; ethical; health and safety; social; and political”. [ABET EC2000, criterion 4]It demands initiative and provides leadership opportunities in project management, costestimation and budgeting, marketing and fund-raising. It develops manual skills, communicationskills, and teamwork skills. It values and develops aesthetic judgment and creativity. This paper will describe the Solar Decathlon, the UVA

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Wanke; Stephen Williams; Michael Scheuerell; Glenn Wrate

conversion principles from this project to their classmates during class.References1. Wrate, G, “Focus on Energy – Wisconsin’s Initiative to Reduce Industrial Energy Consumption,” Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Page 9.533.122. Wisconsin Division of Energy, Department of Energy, “Public Benefits in Wisconsin: The Focus on Energy Plan” Request for Proposals, October 2000.3. Neun, J.A., “Improving the Efficiency of Plastic Injection Molding Machines: A Case History,” Kadant-AES white paper, September, 2002, Queensbury NY.4. Schaufelberger, W., “Engineering

Conference Session

Building Bridges with Community Colleges

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Blanton

TeamworkEffective instructor-to-student communication Oral and written communicationsEffective student-to-instructor communication Incorporation of leading edge technologiesEffective student-to-student communicationAnytime, anyplace learningSelf-paced scheduleSimulates an in class "feel"Class sizeFeedback clear, timely, and meaningfulAdequately prepared for online courseIncorporation of leading edge technologiesSelf reported learningChallenging learning The Genesis Project, a Texas Engineering and Technical Consortium (TETC) and NationalInstruments Initiative, brings together electrical engineering programs from throughout Texas todiscuss and implement new ways to engage students early and throughout their electricalengineering experience with

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

AHAMAD FARHOUD

crucial to farming. The idea isto water the plants when the soil becomes dry beyond a certain level. Students are expected toselect, design and build each component based on required specifications. Students areencouraged to take initiative in examining all the available options. This works to incite curiosityand inquisitiveness in students. To monitor the moisture levels of the soil, students are toinvestigate the conductivity of electrodes constructed from different metals and then choose theone with the widest range of variations in resistance reflecting changes in soil wetness. A signalconditioning circuit is then designed to change output resistance of the sensor to voltage, whichis then amplified and fed into the controller to be compared

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Andrew Smith P.Eng., Ryerson University

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

Paper ID #9584Inductive Learning Tool Improves Instrumentation CourseProf. James Andrew Smith P.Eng., Ryerson University Dr. Smith specializes in Biomedical Engineering at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. He was Biomedical Engineering Program Director in 2010/11 and is currently Biomedical Engineering Stream Coordinator. His research combines aspects of biomechanics and robotics, with active research projects in legged systems, obstetrics and surgical systems. In addition to teaching awards received at the University of Alberta and Ryerson University, he is a recipient or co-recipient of four IEEE Real World

Conference Session

Laboratories

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ming Sheu; Michael Ohadi; Arman Molki

the oil and gas industry, and particularly for the companies involvedin the sponsoring consortium. PI offers undergraduate (and soon graduate studies) in the fivemajor engineering fields of chemical, electrical, mechanical, petroleum, and petroleumgeosciences engineering. Additional engineering disciplines are expected to be added in thefuture, in-line with the needs of the sponsoring consortium and the local oil companies. ThePetroleum Institute also provides research and continuing education services to its sponsors thus Page 10.197.1justifying the need for state-of-the-art laboratories at both undergraduate and graduate levels

Conference Session

Improving Statics Instruction

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jon-Michael Hardin

1668 Into, Through, and Beyond: An Integrative Framework for the Teaching of Statics Jon-Michael Hardin Virginia Military InstituteIntroductionStatics is universally recognized as a fundamental foundation course in engineering.Therefore, much research has focused on specific pieces of the Statics teaching puzzle,such as Statics Concept Inventories, concept-based hands-on experiments ordemonstrations, and engineering design. However, there has been little discussionconcerning a pedagogical framework by which to integrate those pieces to achieve

Conference Session

Useful Assessment in Materials Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kendree Sampson; Darin Ridgway; Valerie Young

University Civil Engineering majors scored an average of 3% above thenational average, but with a standard deviation of 5%, indicating no significant difference inperformance between our students and the national average. For the four years after the changeOhio University Civil Engineering students scored an average of 9% above the national average,with a standard deviation of 2%, indicating that our students now significantly out-perform thenational average on the Materials Science portion of the FE Exam.Writing-to-learn can have additional positive effects. Even though the initial goal is to increaselearning of the course material, it can also help students mature as effective communicators.This of course is an EC2000 outcome. In fact this course

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ferruzza

included. The non-uniformly accelerated motion is approximated by uniform acceleration within small pathincrements. The students (freshmen or sophomores) are requested to update the motion in aspreadsheet, while solutions with other software packages are assigned extra credit. Similarly, avariety of “what if” questions, some of them to be discovered, bring the students to criticallyanalyze the results and find interesting solutions for specific initial or other conditions. We arguethat this type of exercise/simulation, that requires students to intermix theoretical analysis withcomputer simulation and common-sense engineering data analysis, should become veryimportant tools in physics and engineering. Such composite exercises do mimic in some

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Teerasak Asvahem; Campana Claudio; Devdas Shetty

Session 1566 Graphical User Interface Product Simulator for Motion Control of Machine Path Teerasak Asvahem3, Claudio Campana2, Devdas Shetty1 1. Vernon D. Roosa Professor in Manufacturing Engineering 2. Research Engineer, Mechanical Engineering 3. Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering College of Engineering, University of Hartford,West Hartford, CT 06117, USA Tel: 860 768 4615, Fax 860 768 5073Abstract:This paper examines the current status of machine tool control simulation and

Conference Session

Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Erekson

and scientific careers in the US in their August, 2003, report The Science andEngineering Workforce: Realizing America’s Potential 1. A national policy imperative wasrecommended by the NSB in this report: The Federal Government and its agencies must step forward to ensure the adequacy of the US science and engineering workforce. All stakeholders must mobilize and initiate efforts that increase the number of US citizens pursuing science and engineering studies and careers. (p. 10) Science and technology have been and will continue to be engines of US economic growth and national security. Excellence in discovery and innovation in science and engineering (S&E) derive from an ample and well-educated

Conference Session

Innovations in the ChE Laboratory

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramesh Chawla; Ali Pourhashemi

to 20 mg/l and measurestemperature from 0 to 45°C. The DO meter is calibrated according to the manufacturerspecifications on a daily basis.Contents of the vessel are well mixed by circulating water through a 4.5 mm ID plastic tube anda pump with a flow rate of 4.4 l/min. This helps in three ways: 1- allows sufficient mixing, 2-aids in breaking up the gas bubbles, and 3- eliminates the vortex formed at the surface. Theexperiment is carried out as follows:The vessel is filled with tap water to the set height. The temperature of the water is recorded.The location of the dissolved oxygen probe is 2 cm below the water level. The water circulationpump is started and the initial reading for the dissolved oxygen concentration is read from theDO

Conference Session

Non-Technical Skills for ET Students

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn Dyrud

more discussion-oriented than in engineering andtechnology.This paper gives instructors new to ethics tips on content and pedagogy: what dostudents need to know about ethics in order to assist them in their careers, and how doinstructors impart that information? Specifically, this paper examines definitions, codesof ethics, major issues in engineering ethics, and pedagogical techniques.While ABET provides a pragmatic reason for including ethics in engineering andtechnical curricula, Michael Davis, who has widely published on the topic of appliedethics and is senior researcher at the Center for the Study of the Ethics in the Professionsat Illinois Institute of Technology, suggests more compelling reasons:• increased ethical sensitivity

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Hunter

disguised himself as one of his captains so he could move among the troops and talk with them to assess their condition and will to fight. Several aspects of the battle are of engineering significance. The English troops consisted primarily of archers with longbows, which proved to be highly effective weapons against the French armored cavalry (knights). The English archers also employed portable defensive structures consisting of sharpened stakes to fend off cavalry charges. Issues of soil trafficability on the muddy battlefield were a major factor in the English victory.Most of the material for this vignette was obtained by Internet research.8,9,10This vignette has been used in a

Conference Session

Interactive Technology in the Classroom

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Kowalski; Luke Campagnola; Frank Kowalski

form of Socratic teaching to a group ofstudents and strongly encourages active learning by every student in the group3. There is a solidbody of research evidence showing that enhancing the practice of such formative assessment,with timely feedback to the students, can produce significant and often substantial learninggains4.The combination of student-centered content enhancement and real-time feedback allowsmeaningful active learning and a novel, sophisticated level of classroom communication.Students are engaged with the subject material and instructors receive real-time feedback toquestions that probe misconceptions and comprehension, reinforce main concepts and problem-solving strategies, and encourage higher-level thinking skills. This

Conference Session

First-Year Design Experiences

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michelle Sabick; John Gardner; Patricia Pyke; William Knowlton; Amy Moll

modifications. Overall, the moduleprovides a fun and informative introduction to some fundamental manufacturing concepts.IntroductionProcess Engineers, Manufacturing Engineers, Quality Engineers – a search on any of thecommon job hunting Internet sites will turn up numerous positions across the United States forthese classifications of engineers. Manufacturing activities contribute significantly to U.S.industrial vitality and to research and development of products and services that drive economicgrowth.1 The requirements for an entry level position in these fields include degrees in ElectricalEngineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Chemistry, Physics, Chemical

Conference Session

Engineers & Engineering Education in Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, and Turkey

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Birgül Tantekin-Ersolmaz; Gülsün Saglamer; Ekrem Ekinci

Session 3460 Engineering Education in Turkey: From Ottomans to the Republic Ş. Birgül Tantekin-Ersolmaz, Ekrem Ekinci, Gülsün Sağlamer Istanbul Technical University, Maslak, Istanbul 34469, TurkeyHistory of Engineering Education in TurkeyThe establishment of higher learning institutions in Turkey dates back to the eleventh century1.Initially these higher learning institutions were affiliated with the most important mosques andtheir curriculum consisted of Muslim law and study, and interpretation of the Koran. Theirprograms were later expanded to include subjects like logic, mathematics and geometry. Thistradition

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approaches

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Dunn; John Brauer

stage-gate product development processes. Students are introduced Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationto the characteristics of a project, the key roles in a project and the five stages of projectmanagement; initiate, plan, start, monitor, close. This segment of the course is enhanced withvideo excerpts from the PBS special entitled “21st Century Jet – The building of the 777”9.Students are required to identify the five stages of project management from the case study “TheBoeing 767: From Concept to Production” 10.Building on foundation of project management, the seven elements of PRTM

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Gibson; Dorene Perez; Rose Marie Lynch

discipline: marketing students survey potential buyers to Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Page 9.878.2 Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineeringgauge product and pricing preferences and research any competition, engineering studentsconsult with electronics students and produce designs, accounting students start on productionbudgets, business students plan the fair where the products will be sold. Students also assumeresponsibility for facilitating company meetings on a rotating basis, with

Conference Session

Teaching with Technologies

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zahed Siddique

Educationand software, such as distributed editors like SimulEdit created at CIT8, collaborativevisualization construction environment Sieve9, Alibre Design10, etc, have been developed tosupport collaboration in a distributed environment using the Internet. Most of the tools that areavailable to support design do not focus on supporting initial stages of design, which areessential to support student design teams.III Architecture of Internet Design Studio A three-tier architecture, similar to the one introduced by Qiuli and Gramoll11 was adapted inthe development of the Internet Design Studio. The three-tier architecture contains an onlinedatabase server, a Web server, multi-user servers, and client browsers. Product information ismanaged by the

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Adams; Vance Poteat

with the hardware using the Intel Assembly ProgrammingLanguage. The most popular lab assignments were in the areas of generating color graphics anddirect hardware interfacing.In “Embedded Processor Design” (EE-227A) the students appreciated learning about thehardware / software interactions and tradeoffs. One of the first lab assignments was to programthe processor to make several LEDS alternately flash on and off initially very slow and thenextremely fast. The excitement within the lab was amazing as they learned how to both turn themon and off but also how to control the brightness by changing the duty cycle. This enthusiasmcontinued throughout the semester as they also learned how to interface to buttons, 7-segmentdisplays, com ports

Conference Session

Creative Ways to Present Basic Materials

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Hisham Hegab

to the students. This was a challenge to thefaculty as well as the students, for many students had difficulty in calculating the volumes ofrelatively simple shapes. The education students created sketches of what they wanted to create.Many of them had to be further refined into something that could actually be made. In mostcases the students did not initially provide enough dimensions for the parts to be made.An example of their drawings is shown in Figure 4 below. Figure 4 Actual design of a paperweight by an education majorThis portion of the project was frustrating to many of the students, for it was very open ended.The need for proper dimensioning was difficult for them. However, they learned a great dealabout some

Conference Session

Industrial-Sponsored Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed El-Sayed; Jacqueline El-Sayed

components. All parts of the manufacturing design must be takeninto consideration. Manufacturing students’ work on material selection, procurement, process design andsimulation, manufacturing planning, automation requirements and implementation plan. During weeks 1-3 students work on a proposal for design that includes initial sequence ofoperations, budget, and material selection. Weeks 4-7 an interim progress report that includes detaileddrawings, analysis, material procurement, manufacturing operations, procure devices, build prototype iscompleted. The final build and work cell construction is finished during weeks 8-11. Example projectsare small parts such as desktop utility sets, clock and cardholders, CD racks, and jewelry.Proposed

Conference Session

TIME 8: Materials, MEMS, and Nano

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Byrne

interactionon projects. Numerous students are impacted by Faculty exposing them to their professional andscholarly activities. Faculty bring industry supported projects into courses for studentparticipation where appropriate. Especially in the extra-curricular projects, students can take therole of learner, observer, assistant or practitioner while working with Faculty. In thisenvironment the students can be exposed to the Faculty field of expertise and recognize them aspractitioners of engineering, not simply educators. This is true for Faculty scholarship rangingfrom research to consulting activities. The Faculty reward system is structured to put to theforefront such interaction with students and thus provides a unique environment. The

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Barry Farbrother

working on involves chemical deicers that are used onconcrete pavements. The project initially involved writing a standard, but after its reviewit was determined that further research regarding de-icing chemicals was necessary. Acomplete analysis of different materials is currently being completed, which will result ina decision of the best product to use. This project has allowed me to use skills that Ilearned in my mechanical design classes relating to the five-step engineering problemsolving method and decision making.I am also currently working on a project that pertains to convenience store buildings. I amcompleting an investigation regarding the cost savings expected regarding lumber,masonry piers, foundation cell grout, and bond beams

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J.W. Bruce

tested on hardware beforebeing certified in the inspection process described above. Tools like compilers are used only tocheck syntax. Design function is to be verified by the author mentally. Therefore, students areforced to understand their design thoroughly and verify every contingency. Too often, students(and mature designers, as well) design thinking if that some esoteric, unexpected behavior is Page 9.381.3created that it will be caught in testing. Much research has shown that correcting defects at later Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

IE Outreach and Advancement

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tycho Fredericks; Steven Butt; Jorge Rodriguez

Difference, Electrical Construction and Maintenance, vol 102, no. 1, January 2003. 3. Yates, Janet K., Voss, Madeleine, and Tsai, Kuei-wu, Creating Awareness about Engineering Careers: Innovative Recruitment and Retention Initiatives, Proceedings of the 29th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 1999, Session 13d7, pp. 9-14. 4. Robinson, Mike, Fadali, M. Sami, Carr, J., and Maddux, C., Engineering Principles for High School Students, Proceedings of the 29th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 1999, Session 13a7, pp. 20-25. 5. Smith, Heather, Harris, Cheryl, and Velasquez-Bryant, Norma, 2003 SIT - Proposed assessment

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Miskimins

, but the content of the quizzes was notvaried between the middle and end of the project. The students were not informed that thecontent would not change. The intent of this format is to establish if interdisciplinary discussionand peer learning occurs between the two quizzes for each project. Since no faculty lectures aregiven during the class, the assumption is that the most likely way students will gain thisknowledge is through peer interaction and discussion. Obviously, the students are aware of theprocess during the second semester project, but results indicate this may actually lead to increasedpeer mentoring.Cluster Effect AnalysisStandard statistical analysis was initially performed on the results of each quiz. This includedaverages

Conference Session

Current Issues in Information Technology

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Jantzi; Xiannong Meng; Maurice Aburdene

configure the switch and monitor output. Each switch comes without anetwork configuration in its memory so the students were forced to start from scratch. Eachlaptop computer is given a temporary IP address to connect to the network. Students weretemporarily granted the administrator’s privilege on the Windows 2000 systems so that theycould configure these computers for network operation. Initially students configured a hyper-terminal on the console computer to connect to the switch.The exercise includes three tasks. The first is to connect the console computer to the switch viathe hyper-terminal. The second task is to configure the 24-port switch into four VLANs asshown in Figure 2. VLAN 1 is required to be at Port 1 of Slot 0. Other VLANs can

Conference Session

Sustainability and the Environment

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Domenico Grasso

, require a course devoted entirely to the complexityof environmental consequences accompanying engineering decisions. It is true thatgeneral civil engineering curricula commonly require a course in environmentalengineering. However, this course often centers on purely technical aspects of thetreatment of water and wastewater with an occasionally diversion into air quality.Although sustainability has become a fashionable buzzword and many engineeringprograms are eager to attract research funds to address issues associated with greenmanufacturing, industrial ecology, etc., few programs have found it necessary to educatethe undergraduate engineers who will comprise the majority of the future workforce inthese pressing topics. Society can ill-afford