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Real-world Applications in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Randall Timi; Dannie Hutchinson; William Strenth; James Otter

Session 2147 A "REAL WORLD" APPROACH TO CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION: PHASE II - SENIOR CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE James L. Otter, William Strenth, Randall Timi, Dannie Hutchinson Pittsburg State UniversityINTRODUCTIONWhat happens when successful professional construction design/build activities are integratedinto an established four-year construction engineering technology and construction managementprogram? Hopefully, the result will be a highly skilled and educated construction professionalprepared to respond to the ever-changing fast-paced world of

Conference Session

Real-world Applications in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Newman; Albert McHenry; John Robertson; Lakshmi Munukutla

Session 2147 Microelectronics Teaching Factory, a Venue for Learning and Building Real World Products By Engineering Technology Students Lakshmi Munukutla, Albert McHenry, John Robertson, and Richard Newman College of Technology and Applied Sciences Arizona State University East Mesa, Arizona, 85212AbstractArizona State University East (ASUE) is leading a project in preparing Engineering Technologystudents majoring in Microelectronics with real world

Conference Session

Real-world Applications in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Vavrek

follower position to determine the cam profile.This gives the student a cam and follower that they can actually visualize and analyze.III. Gear Kinematic AnalysisThe kinematic analysis is done on simple gear trains, compound gear trains, and planetary geartrains. A simple gear train is one where there is only one gear on each shaft. A compound gearrain has multiple gears on one shaft. The kinematic analysis of gears includes calculations ofratios and speeds of the different types of gears for various applications. Working Model allowsthe user to model all the different applications discussed above. The user can use WorkingModel to layout a simple gear train or a compound gear train and track the angular speeds of allthe gears based on the speed of

Conference Session

Real-world Applications in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Mueller

engineering problem as a project are many-fold but getting these projects is notalways easy. This paper discusses a real-world senior project done at Penn State University NewKensington in collaboration with local industry. By way of this project, this paper discusses theadvantages of real-world projects, suggests ways to find corporate partners to participate, andalso provides some suggestions on ways to ensure success.IntroductionThe senior project is a capstone project course taken in the final term of the 4-year Bachelor ofScience in Electromechanical Engineering Technology degree offered at Penn State UniversityNew Kensington (PSUNK). The objectives of the course are to train the students in projectmanagement, communication skills (both written

Conference Session

Real-World Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Donald Falkenburg; Tina Harkin

supportlearning. Several of these e-learning activities are described here, and will be discussed in otherpapers in this session. Production Experiments to Support Learning in Probability and Statistics: Many courses in probability and statistics present simple examples to illustrate basic principles. The problem is that many students cannot see the real world application to support and motivate learning. Mandrekar and Tummala [2] have created a set of experiments set in the Focus:HOPE Center for Advanced Technologies, and presented in a web-based environment. The first experiment targets the concept of a histogram, the mean, and standard deviation. An engine head is shown in a machining operation, and sources of

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Martha Cyr; Lacey Prouty; Erik Rushton

direct impact on people will bediscussed in establishing realistic, yet different contexts, particularly in terms of “real -world”applicability for students. In one classroom, the ‘real-world’ context for the activity will be anunmanned space probe landing on an unexplored planet, gaining relatively inapplicableknowledge for its own sake. A second group will perform an identical task within t he context ofmapping a local woodland area, a task with limited human application or impact. The finalgroup will focus on a context involving developing an assistive device to enable an impairedperson to map an unknown space, in order to safely and effectively manage independently.AssessmentThe activity will contain multiple levels of attainment and

Conference Session

Real-World Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Syed Azmat; Snehamay Khasnabis; Richard Darin Ellis; Pratap Srinivasa Murthy; Frank Plonka; Diane M. Schuch-Miller

learning environment. They have an advantage over students enrolled intraditional manufacturing engineering curricula because they have the daily opportunity to applynew concepts learned in the classroom to real situations on the manufacturing shop floor. Thischaracteristic of Greenfield Coalition’s curricula is not only unique, but also provides a naturalcontextual environment for the application and transfer of new knowledge and skills. In terms ofteaching and learning, we could not simulate a better environment. Therefore, we capitalizedupon this feature by making it a critical component of our teaching and learning strategies.However, we wanted to find a way to share this advantage and paradigm with other studentsenrolled in similar

Conference Session

Real-World Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Attila Yaprak; Ece Yaprak; Mulchand Rathod

of Engineering Technology at Wayne State University(WSU) falls into this category. The National Science Foundation funded GreenfieldCoalition’s (GC) capstone design course, however, is unique since students are given creditfor their projects based on real-work experiences. This paper discusses how this is done atthe Greenfield Coalition and the implications of adapting this course to Wayne StateUniversity’s Division of Engineering Technology (ET) curricula.INTRODUCTION The last two decades have been marked by the globalization of markets, technology,and competition. This transformation has necessitated sharpened skills and competencies inengineering applications that are relevant to the business community’s needs. An importantarea in

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Gross; David Dinehart

is to tie together technical (structural, materials,and construction) and humanistic issues through a challenging real world project. This paperfocuses on the constructability issues of the project and is divided into the following sections :project development, course description, design and construction challenges, project construction,outcomes, and continuing work.Project DevelopmentOne of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere, Honduras is a country still trying torecover from recent guerilla wars and has an overwhelming number of children whose parents areunable to provide for them. Amigos de Jesus (Friends of Jesus), a Catholic orphanage, offers arefuge for abandoned and abused boys. The orphanage was co-founded in 1998 by

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Education Research

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Sullivan; Harpreet Singh; Kimberly Sward; Janis Terpenny

Session 2139 Utilizing the Internet to Improve Student Learning in a First Course in Engineering Economy with Real-World Unsolved Problems in Collaboration with Industry Janis P. Terpenny1, William G. Sullivan2, Harpreet Singh3, Kimberly Sward1 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA1/ Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA2/ Alstom Power, Windsor, CT3AbstractThis paper reports on results of an experiment to investigate whether technology and the Internetfacilitate student learning of Engineering Economy through

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Hoffbeck

such as noise, distortion, andtiming imperfections.Capturing signals from real systems and processing them using simulated systems has theadvantage of using real world signals recorded directly from actual systems, and at the same timeretaining the flexibility and convenience of using simulated systems. Only the instructor needsto have access to the actual system to record the signals, and the students can process the resultsusing appropriate software, experimenting with different methods simply by making changes insoftware.To demonstrate this teaching method, a project is described that captures the caller identification(CID) signal that is used to transmit the name and number of a telephone caller, and demodulatesthe signal using the numeric

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Puttiphong Jaroonsrisphan

of being disconnected from the real world. Therefore, a series of webexperiments are introduced to complement the lecture materials. The students form teamsof two to tackle to experiments. For the “prime time” period (9am-9pm), the students arerequired to sign up for a weekly schedule while the off hours (9pm-9am) are available ona first come first serve basis with a maximum 60 minutes time allocation. Each team hasa unique ID and password for access control purpose.(IV) Web ExperimentsTo participate in the web experiments, the students connect their PCs to the serverlocated in the NJIT Real-time Control Lab by using Web Page Plug-In and applying IPaddress of the server. The students (client) connect to the server containing DataSocketreader

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Arch. Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gouranga Banik

actual job site management and coordination support through linksto the schedule of a project, photographs of job progress, and safety information. Meetingannouncements are posted on the system, and the site also has an E-mail capability that allowscommunication about current issues at the job site between the contractor, subcontractor and thearchitect. Some portions of the web sites are not available because of passwords to maintain theconfidentiality of certain issues within the project. The students found this application veryinteresting, particularly the photographic images of the job site as a real world example.Student FeedbackAfter the course was concluded in the Fall of 1998, each team was asked, "What did your teamlearn out of the class

Conference Session

Programming and DSP Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

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Delores Etter; Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

steps can be iterated asneeded.Over the last few years, we have developed a systematic method to teach DSP to undergrad-uates. It provides students with a firm bridge from their first exposure to theory all the wayto practical implementation of real-time DSP code on industry-standard hardware, such asthe Texas Instruments (TI) C6711 digital signal processing starter kit (DSK). Previous ar-ticles4–11 have described the application of this method to specific DSP concepts; this articlegeneralizes the lessons learned and outlines the overall method in such a way that it couldbe applied to any DSP topic. A world wide web URL is provided at the end of this articlefor downloading the software that is a key component of our method for “bridging the gap

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bradley Bazuin; S. Hossein Mousavinezhad; Ikhlas Abdel-Qader

processing (DSP) course, ECE 455.This has come about in response to industrial demands for students with more real-time, real-world experience, not just theory and computer simulations. In the laboratory, students workdirectly with audio signal sources, TI DSP based evaluation modules and development tools, andwrite software for real-time operations. This approach helps the students to better understand theapplication of the DSP concepts learned. Working with real-time signal processing at theundergraduate level has proven to be a challenge for both students and instructors. This paperdiscusses the real-time DSP laboratory and enumerates the opportunities and challengesassociated with teaching real-time, hands-on signal processing to undergraduate

Conference Session

New Ideas

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Tebbe

explain the purpose of the plant and theadvantages to co-generation on campus. Students get to see the control room, gas turbine, steamgenerators, and absorption coolers. As a concluding activity to the semester the tou r hasreceived great interest from the students and has become a favorite part of the course. Tocontinue this real world effect in the Thermodynamics II course a tour was taken at the Salemnuclear plant in southern New Jersey. The tour was arranged through the TCNJ student sectionof ASME and was attended by approximately a dozen students (this was limited due torestrictions at the plant). Future tours to Salem and other locations are anticipated. The region isrich with unique HVAC and power generation facilities to draw upon

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

M. P. Sharma; Edward Anderson; Roman Taraban

recently awarded major contracts Page 7.208.11 Project sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation under CCLI grant 0089410. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2002, American Society for Engineering Educationfor the Advanced Distributed Learning project whose goal is to develop systems and standardsthat better integrate the rather static world of today’s web-based instruction materials withmodels and real-time simulations.It is well known that students learn and retain more as they become more engaged with thematerials. Reiseman

Conference Session

Biomedical Engr. Design and Laboratories

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Saterbak

.· Characterization Using GPC - Students run the GPC to determine the molecular weight of various PLLA and PLGA samples.· Characterization Using DSC - Students run a Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC) trace to identify the melting and glass transition temperatures of PLLA and PLGA.· Characterization Using FTIR - Students run Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) to identify functional groups on PLLA and PLGA.· Degradation of PLLA and PLGA - PLLA and PLGA films are incubated in PBS at 37 °C with gentle shaking. Weight, appearance, and molecular weight of both polymers are monitored over 4 weeks.Interaction of HDF Cells with PLLA FilmsThis segment of the Tissue Engineering Module simulates “real-world” research and industrialenvironments

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert McFarlane; James McBrayer

Session Number 2202 REMOTE OPERATION OF AN AXIAL TURBOFAN WINDTUNNEL VIA THE WORLD WIDE WEB Robert M. McFarlane, B.S.M.E., James D. McBrayer, D. Sc., P.E., Professor Emeritus University of Central FloridaIntroduction - The Engineering Laboratory and Engineering Education Contemporary engineering training requires learning on two parallel tracks. One islearning the basic science and theoretical foundations of science, in subjects such as physics,chemistry, thermodynamics, and mechanics. The other track is the practical application of thistheoretical groundwork to the investigation and solution of

Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Development and Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathaniel Whitmal

-term of 2001 to 28 students, all of whom hadtaken EE 2312 in previous terms. Evaluation data for the most recent offering will be presentedin a future paper.5. SummaryEE 3703, an experimental course in real-time DSP, was offered in B-term of 2000 and D-term of2001. EE 3703 used the “studio” format to provide students with both the theoretical knowledgeand the hands-on experience needed to program DSP chips for real-world applications. EE 3703has been successful in achieving its goals of (a) building on fundamental background in signals& systems and embedded system design, (b) preparing students for DSP -based MQPs, (c)teaching students new design skills and methods that are consistent with ABET 2001 goals

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Massood Atashbar

Session Number 2632 A New Course for Electrical and Computer Engineering Majors: Engineering of Real Time Systems Massood Z. Atashbar, Hakeem Ogunleye Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI 49004IntroductionUniversity Computer Engineering programs continue to be a popular draw for students. Still,since they are relatively

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Pack; Barry Mullins

fewconcluding remarks complete the paper.ImplementationThe course goals of our first microcontroller/microprocessor course, EE 382, include “Cadetsshall develop the skills to design, implement, test, and debug microcontroller-based systems bydeveloping operational assembly language programs that incorporate the built-in microcontrollerfunctions, and by successfully interfacing the microcontroller to the external world.” 1 To thisend, cadets in EE 382 learn the basics of computer architecture, microcontroller hardware, Page 7.863.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

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ET International Collaborations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Yves Hascoet; Benoit Furet; Marek Balazinski

of the challenges explored during this project.Design teaching with concurrent engineering projects was introduced dur ing this study todifferent student teams. Our objective was to improve the relationship between our Designteaching practices and the ‘real-world’ industrial context. Page 7.31.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education2 First Project in integrated design2.1 The pedagogical approach using industrial projectsThe establishments of Nantes that created this project have always

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Harwood; David Shaw

behavior, FEA, and materials testing in a single project.Students gained a real-world appreciation of crack propagation in a brittle material whenobserving the testing of acrylic components in a tensile test.An important unanticipated benefit was an improvement in the skills and confidence in the areaof solid mechanics for freshman students who went on to take the sophomore-level solidmechanics course. In particular, student groups who were required to use wood with the grain ata 45 degree angle had already thought about and seen practical applications of stresstransformations prior to formal classroom exposure.The low level of connection of lessons from this project to further coursework, and particularlyto internships, is a point of concern for

Conference Session

Internet Programming and Applications

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Lin; Aik Mon; Harold Broberg

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education 9. Paul I-Hai Lin, Lecture Notes and Laboratories of C++ Objected-Oriented Programming with Industrial Applications, www.etcs.ipfw.edu/~lin, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fall 1999. 10. Deitel, Deitel & Nieto, Internet & World Wide Web - How to Program, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, 2001. 11. Deitel, Deitel & Stantry, Advanced Javas Platform - How to Program, Prentice Hall, 2001. 12. Deitel, Deitel & Nieto, Visual Basic.NET - How to Program, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, 2001. 13. Deitel, Deitel & Nieto, C#.NET - How to Program

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Control Applications

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Marcal de Queiroz; Hartono Sumali

students studying outside their countries toprepare them for the global business world 2,3. Very few articles address the training ofengineering educators to prepare them to train engineering students for globalization. Part of thisfaculty preparation is to study globalization of education from the literature 4,5,6,7,8. However,many of the studies show that successful international endeavor requires plenty of face-to-faceinteractions9. Ideally, the educators themselves must gain real teaching experience outsidehis/her own country. The first purpose of this paper is to promote awareness of the facultypreparation aspect of international education. The second purpose is to present lessons learned byan American faculty member from teaching a

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Control Applications

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Knight

) to expand the student's computer application skillsthrough use of word processing, spreadsheets, and graphics, (5) to develop the student's oral andwritten communication skills through oral presentations and technical report writing, and (6) todevelop student team coordination skills.The laboratory experiments consist of three modules (common, thermal, and mechanical) withthe common labs being related to thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer that istaken by all mechanical engineering students. The thermal labs cover thermal sciencecurriculum content while the mechanical systems labs contain content that is related to the Page

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconected World

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2002 Annual Conference

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A.K.M. Abdul Quader; Shamsuddin Ilias; Franklin King; Keith Schimmel

,” IUCN – The Word Conservation Union, 2000.7. IUCN Bangladesh 2000, “Red Book of Threatened Birds of Bangladesh,” IUCN – The Word Conservation Union, 2000.8. Quader, A.K.M.A., Design and Building of Process Plants – some practical guidelines, World University Service Press, Dhaka (1992), ISBN 984-30-0018-8.9. Quader, A.K.M.A., Pilot plant – a forward step to technological break-through for Bangladesh, Proceedings of the seminar on ‘Problems of Transfer of Laboratory Research to Industrial Application’, Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR), Dhaka vol. 1,265(1976).10. Quader, A.K.M.A., Considerations in the design of an ammonia-urea synthesis plant, Proceedings of

Conference Session

Computer Based Measurements

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Widmer; Jan Lugowski

. Page 7.941.64.2. Advantages of using LabVIEW programming for problem–based learning · Students develop understanding of how data acquisition system works. · Students develop their own and unique skills to solve hardware and software problems. · The instructor has more time to assist students when they encounter overwhelming problems. · Students learn data acquisition techniques and software applications to solve real world problems. · Students take initiative to solve problems on their own without the help of instructor.4.3. Disadvantages · Students may struggle with software and hardware for data acquisition. · Learning how to use new software in two hours can be a challenge. · Laboratory sessions

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerson de Oliveira

Session 1520Computer techniques and formative evaluations at brazilian universities : a real possibility in presential, semi-presential and distance learning courses Gerson Pastre de Oliveira Politécnica de Jundiaí College (Brazil)IntroductionA brief analysis of the evaluation of the teaching-learning process at college courses isrequired when we have the intention to describe an experimentation of the use of computersystems in the graduating students formative evaluation38.How to evaluate learning? Or even before, what evaluation are we talking about? Sub