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John Anderson

Session 3563 Real World Learning in Distance Education John C. Anderson, PE Mechanical Engineering Technology Dept., Purdue University, 1417 Knoy Hall, W. Lafayette, IN 47909-6219 Ph. (765) 494-7526 email: jcanderson@tech.purdue.eduAbstractObtaining and maintaining laboratory equipment in technology courses is a constantproblem. This paper proposes an alternative to the use of simulation or to buying laboratoryequipment for a school laboratory, and uses a course in Programmable Logic Controllers(PLC) to illustrate the concept.With the reduction in pricing of

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Martha W. Ostheimer; Elmer Grubbs

. The class is team taught by an ECE faculty member and the ECE Department’sTechnical Communication Expert. We believe that students’ enthusiasm for the course resultsfrom both the uniquely collaborative design of this class and the real world application of all ofthe material provided in this innovative course.1. IntroductionMany of today’s engineering graduates lack the necessary skills to become contributing membersin an industrial team environment immediately upon graduation. Most engineering schools haveconcentrated their efforts in preparing engineers to go to graduate school, or have simplyneglected the more practical aspects of the profession, preferring to let industry train theirengineers through co-op or on site training programs

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R. Williams; F. Edwards; E. Egemen; Adrian Hanson

INTEGRATING THE REAL WORLD INTO THE CAPSTONE EXPERIENCEA. HansonCivil, Agricultural, and Geological Engineering Dept., New Mexico State UniversityLas Cruces NM 88003E. EgemenCivil, Agricultural, and Geological Engineering Dept., New Mexico State UniversityLas Cruces NM 88003F. EdwardsDepartment of Civil Engineering, University of ArkansasFayetteville, AR 72701R. WilliamsDepartment of Civil Engineering, University of ArkansasFayetteville, AR 72701AbstractThe capstone design course has traditionally been intended to be an experience that brings together all ofthe design tools that students have learned over the four years of course work. There is a strong incentiveto incorporate more "real world" experiences into the class. This

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David Kelso; John D. Enderle; Kristina Ropella

Session 2209 Preparing Biomedical Engineers for Real-World Problem-Solving Kristina M. Ropella, Ph.D.1 , David M. Kelso Ph.D.2, John D. Enderle, Ph.D.3, 1 Dept. Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University / 2 Dept. Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University/ 3 Biomedical Engineering Program, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of ConnecticutI. IntroductionOver two-thirds of graduating engineers pursue industrial positions immediately followingcompletion of their bachelor’s degree. Upon entering the workforce, the rookie engineer isimmediately confronted

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Les Kinsler; David Delker

Session 1347 Moving the C Language Course into the Real World David Delker, Les Kinsler Engineering Technology Department, Kansas State University – SalinaAbstractThe Kansas State University-Salina Engineering Technology Department offers a Cprogramming course for non-Computer Science Technology majors. The course is designed toteach the C language syntax, structured programming design and implementation, and to link thelanguage to applications within the students’ areas of specialization. In the Fall 2000 semester, alocal manufacturer requested help in upgrading an existing

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Morteza Sadat-Hossieny

Session 1547 Essential issues related to the purchase of automated machinery that play a vital role in providing real world (industrial) applications to students Morteza Sadat-Hossieny Northern Kentucky UniversityAbstractColleges and Universities purchasing automated equipment particularly CNC machinery androbotics have the choice of either purchasing smaller machineries made specifically foreducational applications or buying small to medium size industrial machines. The decision to goeither way not only effects what type of

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Robert Krchnavek; Shreekanth Mandayam

projects knownas “Clinics” that students are required to take every semester of their curriculum. As a team ofinstructors who teach the Engineering Electromagnetics (EEMAG) I and II sequence, we weremotivated by a desire to create a set of courses, that require students to do real and relevantengineering electromagnetics – and utilize these skills effectively in later courses and clinicprojects. It is difficult to tackle all topics in a 7-week period so care must be taken to emphasizekey topics and strengthen understanding through real-world laboratory exercises. We present someexamples of a successful implementation of these objectives in this paper. We discuss numerousreal-world applications that are studied during our single semester sequence

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Tomoki Abe; Richard Thurlkill; Krishna Kurpad; Jay Porter; Anthony Vaughan; Joseph Morgan

Session 1347 Protein Titration Control and Monitoring System: A Collaborative, Real-world Course Project Anthony Vaughan, Tomoki Abe, Krishna Kurpad, Richard Thurlkill, Jay Porter, Joseph Morgan Texas A&M UniversityAbstractCurrently, The Texas A&M University System Health Science Center College of Medicine usesa manually-operated system for the pH titration of histidine penta-peptides, model compoundsand proteins. The data collected from this system will be used to determine the pKa of thehistidine side-chain in these different compounds

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Han Bao; David Dryer; Derya Jacobs; William Swart

Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationIII. Course Conceptual ModelA pilot freshman course was developed and implemented to provide students with the necessaryskills in virtual collaborative methodologies and technologies, and application of themethodologies to a real-world multidisciplinary project. The course was taught by threeinstructors from mechanical engineering, engineering technology and engineering managementprograms with the following objectives: 1) introduce students to project management, collaborative engineering concepts and methodologies, 2) introduce students to e-engineering communication and information technologies, 3) cultivate team-oriented problem solving approach in a virtual collaborative environment

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Binaya Acharya; Bruce Segee

of an OLE container for MicrosoftExcel Charts and a “Print Graph” button as shown in Figure 3. The OLE containerdisplays the graph plotted by the application. Most of the functionability of MicrosoftExcel can be used from the OLE container. This is a real help as the user can work on thegraph to extract more information from the data using the features of Excel, such asdrawing trend lines in a XY plot. Figure 3 The Graphing Interface with a sample Graph3.3 The Model DatabaseThe default database for the application is “db1.mdb” and it resides in the same folder asthe application. However, the default database can be changed at runtime by using the“Change Database” button. The application will run on any database provided

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Floyd LeCureux

respond to questions to individual students or turn over the screen to any student with a question. 13. The instructor can show his/her own picture on the streaming video, or show any of the students picture if they have an attached camera. 14. The instructor can use a live screen within the Portable Home Learning screen so that applications can be demonstrated live. Students will see the actual application execute in real time as it is demonstrated by the instructor. 15. The instructor can use pre-recorded quiz questions or create quiz question on the fly. Students will respond to the

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Raghu Echempati

will use automotive and other real-world industrial applications to extend the fundamentals introduced in Manufacturing Processes, Engineering Materials, Solid Mechanics, and CAE to perform virtual formability studies of sheet metal parts. Other topics such as rolling, forging and extrusion will also be covered. Deformation behavior of axisymmetric, symmetric and nonsymmetrical sheet metal parts will be discussed. For the computer simulation software tools such as I-DEAS, DYNAFORM and QuickStamp will be used to perform the modeling and analysis. Several practical design projects will be demonstrated during the term of this

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Gregory Kremer; Bhavin Mehta

Session 1520 Interactive Problem Solving for Mechanical Engineering on the World-Wide-Web Gregory G. Kremer and Bhavin V. Mehta Ohio UniversityAbstractThe world-wide-web has established its place in computer-based education due to its greatadvantages in terms of access, distribution, communication, and timeliness of feedback.However, software for internet-based applications is still far behind that for PC basedapplications in many respects, most notably in the types of interactive experiences available andin techniques for dealing with

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Shahriar Emami; Fazil Najafi

Internet is utilized as the medium of thechoice for the live and interactive delivery of lectures. The content of e-learning issomewhat different from what Internet has been used to. For this reason, e-learningcannot be looked upon as just another Internet application. In practice, e-learningpresents a challenge to Internet and requires new transport protocols capable of Page 6.650.1providing real-time multimedia.Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright Ó 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationThe content of e-learning (mainly audio-visual signals) is not the typical

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Paul Flikkema

, synthesis and evaluation.These concerns have driven the development of a new laboratory and a senior-level electricalengineering course: EE 440 Embedded Control. Three major goals of the course are to ✁ spark students’ interest by connecting exciting real-world problems to abstract concepts, ✁ show students how seemingly disparate and abstract systems disciplines such as signal pro- cessing, communications and embedded systems design can be joined to attack important problems, and ✁ help students develop the cognitive skills that allow them to use systems principles in the development of new technologies and applications of them.More generally, we hope that this course illuminates other deep connections

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Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

, autocorrelation, crosscorrelation, and the Wiener-Khinchintheorem are conveniently reiterated by this method of performing SI. By combining thiswith a real-time demonstration, immediate reinforcement of the how the real world matchesup with seemingly esoteric theory provides a powerful tool for the professor’s “teaching kit.”3 Making Transfer Functions More “Real”In the past, proceeding beyond a Matlab-only simulation to a real-time hardware imple-mentation has been impeded by a very abrupt transition, in terms of both cost and thelearning curve of unfamiliar systems and software. By developing a software and hardwarebridge between Matlab and real-time DSP hardware, we have made it possible to smoothlyand incrementally transition from simulation to

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George York, U.S. Air Force Academy, CO; Cameron Wright, U.S. Air Force Academy, CO; Michael Morrow, U.S. Naval Academy, MD; Thad Welch, U.S. Naval Academy, MD

hardware. The desired progression would be as follows. 1. Study the traditional DSP theory, 2. Use MATLAB with simulated data, 3. Use MATLAB with real-world data, 4. Implement the process (in part or whole) in real-time on the TI DSK hardware 5. Repeat to improve the design or to develop new features.The third step of this process presents a practical problem. While MATLAB now has a verycapable data acquisition (DAQ) toolbox that allows for direct data acquisition and data insertioninto the MATLAB workspace which works with a number of different DAQ hardware boards, itdoes not support programmable DSP systems such as a DSK. Even if the DAQ Toolbox couldsomehow be used with a DSK, you could not avoid the fact that

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Josette Rice; Thad Welch

gives ample time for presenting new material, such as theoverall data acquisition process, and an in depth discussion and demonstration on detailed analysis ofall types of real world signals, such as those generated from a physiological source.The data acquisition system used in this course is interfaced with MATLAB to facilitate further signalprocessing, analysis, and display of signals. Data acquisition combined with MATLAB is a convenientand powerful signal processing system that has been popular in many undergraduate electricalengineering programs throughout the country, and is ideal for use in an instrumentation course for non-electrical engineering majors.2. Overview of DAQ Oriented Instrumentation Course:The impetus behind developing

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Paul Lin; Hal Broberg

Programming class. Being a student and working full time gives me a chance to see how useful this class can be in the real world. With the Internet changing in the work place, I see this type of class as a necessary for the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology program. … " • " .., I want you to know that looking back over all the classes that I have ever taken I would rate this one as one of the best. It had very practical application for me since I was already involved in an OPTO 22 project. Even though I had never Page 6.1152.7 had html, C, C++, JavaScript, PERL or VB, my appetite was wetted enough that

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John Field; Janelle Tonti; Eric Beenfeldt; Isaac Horn; Edward Williams

Session 2793 The Best of All Worlds - A First-Year Course at the University of Maine Eric Beenfeldt, John Field, Isaac Horn, Janelle Tonti, Edward Williams University of MaineAbstractECE 101 Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering, a first-year course for electricaland computer engineers at the University of Maine, is described. It uses a variety of approachesto introduce students to their major and to help make them successful students.I. IntroductionMany engineering programs have an introductory course in the first year. These introductorycourses use a wide range of approaches to

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Michael Gorman; Edmund Russell III; Donald Brown; William Scherer; Kathryn Neeley

gained throughout their undergraduatecurricula. Perhaps most importantly, both require students to meet a “real” need and to locate theproject in a real-world context beyond the laboratory or library, i.e., both are very concerned withthe wide range of technical and non-technical factors involved in the world of engineeringpractice. For the SE faculty, the key aspect of “realness” is dealing with an actual client to whomstudents are accountable in the client’s setting, with all the messiness and unpredictability thatimplies. For the TCC faculty, the key aspect of “realness” takes the form of clearly identifiedusers of the project’s final product who lie beyond the community of other experts in the technicalfield of the thesis. (Both ways of

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William Miller; Stephen Lombardo; Christa Weisbrook; Patrick Tebbe

thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and thermal systems courses. TheTHERMOVIEW software is being designed within the LabVIEW programming environment. Itis hoped that by making use of the visual environment of THERMOVIEW and LabVIEW thatstudents will gain greater insights into the processes involved and the flavor, if not the actualfeel, of how systems behave in the real world. The purpose of this paper and presentation will beto provide an overview of the project to date and a description of current evaluation results.I. Introduction Advances in technology and pedagogy imply that the engineering curriculum must beperiodically reformed or supplemented in order to provide the best education possible forstudents. Particular shortcomings must be

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Scott D. Baldwin

end-user. The MCU manages this data flow and helps save on the required network bandwidth. The MCU can be a software application or a hardware device such as Cisco’s IP/VC 3510 Videoconferencing MCU7. With Cisco’s solution, the video conference can be set up such that the audio from each user is mixed and redistributed back to all participants. The video can be set up to be voice activated. In this scenario, all participants see the person who is speaking. When someone else starts to speak, the video is switched to that person. This is not an optimal situation for a classroom environment. The real benefit of the MCU is that it is

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Xian Zhao; Matthew Lee; Jiang Li

Session 2793 APPLICATIONS OF COLDFUSION TO INTERACTIVE TEACHING IN ENGINEERING COURSES J. Li, X. Zhao and M. Y. Lee Morgan State University/SaLute Inc./Amherst CollegeAbstractThe present paper is written to demonstrate applications developed with CFML(ColdFusion Markup Language) for online interactive teaching in engineering coursesthrough the World Wide Web. How to design such online interactivity with CFML forteaching engineering courses utilizing a web site is discussed. The interactivecomponents including online assignments such as online homework, tests, quizzes,projects, etc. are designed for both

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Eugene McVey; Gary Dempsey

time and frequency domain specifications. Section V will expand the method to non-minimum phase and sampled-data systems. Section VI will briefly discuss the undergraduate controltheory sequence at Bradley University for electrical and computer engineering students.II. Frequency Domain DesignMost real world systems are better described in the frequency domain. For example, time delay can betreated exactly in the frequency domain. Time domain analysis and design (root locus) is normally thefirst approach to present in control theory classes. We feel that time domain methods and the associatedspecifications should be clearly understood before teaching frequency domain approaches. Sometextbooks do a better job showing the design procedures and

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Marie Plumb; Jerry Fong; Arnold Peskin

practically anywhere else complexphenomena are modeled. A number of new approaches have been deployed recently todecompose images into meaningful 3D constituents and these can be explored by one ormore teams.Each of these applications represents an interdisciplinary scientific/engineering activitysuitable for a capstone experience. Engaging in these efforts as part of a technical groupprovides the student with real-world analytic experience as well as lessons in the valuesof a teamwork approach. A gallery of images representing these areas and more appearsin http://www.itd.bnl.gov/visualization/.Progress and ObservationsThere are several unique aspects of this project. First and foremost, it focuses on two-year technical students who are an under

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Qiuli Sun; Kurt Gramoll

design simple structuresand deposit them into the 3D virtual world. Employing the geometric modeling module, users inthe same group can work on the same geometric object at different locations. Real-timeinformation sharing and real-time manipulation of the same design object are implemented.Real-time text-based chat room is also integrated to support communication between groupmembers. These features are the key requirements of distributed collaborative concept.Interactivity, 3D visualization, encouragement of teamwork are emphasized in the Virtual City.Multiple Internet-based technologies are used in the development of the Virtual City framework.These technologies include Java, Java 3D, VRML, Director Shockwave, Perl, ASP, SQL,JavaScript, SQL

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Don Zeller

) graduates enter the research anddevelopment workforce. Eighty five per cent of the graduates enter the manufacturing industryworkforce where they are required to apply and maintain designed and developed pieces ofequipment and devices for production processes. As such, in order to prepare these eighty fiveper cent, it is important to present a course which is more real world and application orientated,such as a course in PLC systems. The author’s own experience is a perfect example of betterpreparing engineering (technology) students for an engineering career in one of themanufacturing industries. One of his first assignments after graduation was working with anelectrical schematic with many -| |- symbols in it. He kept asking, “What are all those

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Paul Lin

Session 0458 Workshop on Web Access to Controls and Measurement Paul I-Hai Lin lin@ipfw.edu Indiana University-Purdue University Fort WayneAbstractThis workshop addresses technological issues in building a Web-based real-time systemfor instrumentation and control applications. A Web-based real-time system, in general,incorporates Internet, Web clients and servers, CGI scripts, and remote access devices.This workshop covers World Wide Web, TCP/IP applications, HTTP (HyperTextTransfer Protocol), Web clients and servers software, HTML (Hypertext

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James Barrott

many Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 6.1162.2 Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationalternatives. By so doing, the students develop the ability to find opposing views and support theviews with rational arguments.In technical education programs, programs steeped in mathematical and science applications,students are conditioned to look for the one right answer. For example, 2+2 always equals 4. Itis heresy to suggest another answer, thank goodness. But, in the real world, answers to complex,perplexing technical problems