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Manufacturing Education and Outreach

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Ballinger; Craig Somerton

student organizations. It has also been the authors' experience that collegejuniors and seniors relate especially well to middle school students, perhaps even better thanmost engineering faculty. With the student organization leading the tour, presentation, andhands-on activities, the faculty member is then able to put his/her efforts into developing thecontacts with middle school classes, training the members of the student organization for theirparticipation, organizing the manufacturing facility tour, and soliciting the small amount offunding required. The need to develop the three activities of the program, manufacturing facilitytour, class presentation, and hands-on project, are, hopefully, thoroughly addressed in this paper.There are many

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Graphics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Wiebe; Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

DOCUMENTATION DATA INTEGRATIONThere has been an issue raised during past presentations of this model regarding pedagogicalapproaches to teaching with this model. The engineering student will be given an overview ofeach of these topics with an exemplary activity to match. The goal is to give them an appreciationof how each of these topics impacts the design process. Unfortunately, most engineers spendlittle of their time on the job actually doing what most of them would consider “design work”. Alltoo often, engineers are tasked with responsibilities, in addition to those mentioned in theIntroduction of this paper, relating to field issues and problems, negotiations with suppliers,testing, project management, and

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Daniel Pack; Barry Mullins

microcontrollers using high level programming languages anddesign and implement an embedded computer for a large project. The 68HC11EVBU has beenthe platform for this course.Both modules have provided educators with necessary tools to fulfill microcontroller courseobjectives. If so, why change? The primary reason for switching from the 68HC11 to 68HC12microcontroller is that Motorola is no longer producing both evaluation boards due to oldtechnology-based components on the boards. Rather than creating new boards based on the68HC11, Motorola is pushing universities to use the next generation microcontroller, the68HC12.The 68HC12 improved the 68HC11 system performance by incorporating an instruction queuingsystem, similar to a parallel-pipe instruction

Conference Session

The Use of Technology in Teaching Math

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Murat Tanyel

EducationThe “experiment” was a good candidate, but it was too time consuming. I decided to simulate theexperiment on the computer (once slowly, to let the students experience it) and then to repeat thesimulation many times almost instantaneously to achieve the better estimates. Fig. 5 is a snapshotof the front panel of the VI that I projected on the screen for the statistical exponential decayexperiment. Each student in the class is represented by a LED on the panel. If the LED is on, thestudent is standing. If it is off, the student has “starved”. I gave the students the opportunity toact it out as the simulation ran on the projector screen and soon the simulation turned into a gamewith the last ones standing receiving enthusiastic cheers.At the end

Conference Session

Programmatic Curriculum Developments

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Massie

solutions.8. Evaluate remaining alternatives - often using more than just technical criteria - and rank results.9. Select - again with the client - the best choices and fix the design.10. Supervise construction or realization. This can involve such diverse aptitudes as project planning and control, labor relations and client interaction as well as being able to alleviate or circumvent immediate technical difficulties that may arrise.11. Supervise and monitor use and lifetime condition. Interaction with users is important here.12. Remove and recycle.Most will recognize that steps 5 through 7 in this list form the heart of the curriculum’stechnical content

Conference Session

Building Bridges with Community Colleges

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon Robinson; Scott Segalewitz; Raymond Lepore

features of LotusQuickPlace.To facilitate the use of technology to support classes, all distance students are required to haveaccess to a PC, in the same manner as is required for full-time traditional students.Program LaunchIn Fall 2002 the first two classes in the program were offered: Manufacturing Design (MFG 240)and Project Management (IET 323). MFG 240 enrolled a total 19 students – 13 in Dayton, andsix in Piqua. IET 323 had enrollments of 34 and 13 in Dayton and Piqua, respectively. Full-timefaculty members at Dayton instructed each class, with students in Piqua participating though thevideoconferencing system. To treat students equitably at each site, all supplemental classroommaterials (handouts) were either posted on the class Web site

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2003 Annual Conference

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Paul Bishop; Gary Lewandowski; Joel Fried; Carla Purdy; Anant Kukreti

Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationacademic job search and time management skills and also includes a proposal writing workshop.Finally, the Mentored Internship, for which a student may earn up to 9 credits, provides amentored teaching experience. Activities and appropriate credit are determined individually bycontract with the student's assigned teaching mentor. Individual mentors for the studentparticipants may come from partner schools in the UC cluster or may be Engineering Collegefaculty, but all students are exposed to the broad range of teaching opportunities throughinteraction with partner faculty in the seminar series. The internship may be scheduled as anintensive one-quarter project or may be spread over a full

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Roselli

PR, Brophy SP, Eggers DE and Brock J. Development of an interactive free body diagram assistant for biomechanics. Procedings of the Joint 2002 EMBS and BMES Meeting, Houston, TX, October 20022. Howard LP. Courseware and Packaging Environment (CAPE). http://www.isis.vanderbilt.edu/projects/VaNTH/index.htm3. XML RPC protocol. (http://www.xmlrpc.com/spec).ROBERT J. ROSELLIRobert J. Roselli is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. Healso serves as Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Education Director forthe VaNTH Engineering Research Center in Bioengineering Learn ing Technologies, VaNTH Domain Leader inBiotransport, and active contributor to the

Conference Session

Manufacturing Systems Design

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Devdas Shetty

Block- National Instrument DAQ Card-AI-16XE-50- National Instrument Bread Board SC -2075- Festo Sensor Practice SystemLaboratory activities for the Mechatronics course include an introduction to sensors andtransducers, calibration, uncertainty analysis, frequency response, signal processing and analysis,and independent projects. Before shifting to a virtual instrument based experiments for this course,laboratory activities tends to focus on programming examples in order to understand LabVIEWfundamentals. In this step, each laboratory activity is based on a LabVIEW virtual instrumentwritten by the instructor, where the student can easily activate switches to energize the instrumentor start the process.Virtual Instrument Based ExperimentsPrior to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Gehringer

an unlimited right to reuse their materials in the users’ own courses. Reuse rightsdo not extend to publication in any other form, however. Because of this, the databasematerials are an example of open courseware, and stand in contrast to the proprietary Page 8.39.10databases being developed by publishers. Because it is a database of small units ofProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition 10Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationmaterials (individual problems and programming exercises), it is quite different from theelectronic library projects like Merlot [1

Conference Session

Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Giesey

Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education”After deciding on the award, the nextstep is to complete the application. It Nambiaincludes a project title, list of COMPUTER SCIENCE OR ENGINEERINGaccomplishments, list of accompanying Award#1804dependents, and description of past Category · Lecturing/Researchinternational experience. There is a Grant Activity · Teach undergraduate courses infive-page project statement that computer software development, datatbaseaddresses topics such as how the development or network administration; electrical orapplicant’s background relates to the electronics engineering. Assist with curriculumneeds of the host institution, the

Conference Session

Curriculum Issues in Graphics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alice Scales

/D and Geometric Controls was listed most often. For thesecond most commonly listed course selected as the second favorite course, a three way tieoccurred among GC 496N, Introduction to Animation, GC 420, Visual Thinking, and GC 496O,Surface Modeling.Hobbies and ActivitiesOf interest to the faculty in the program were the hobbies of the students in the program.Knowing the interests of the students allows instructors to better tailor their projects to studentinterest. The data revealed that the majority of the students were interested in some form ofsports. The hobbies that the respondents listed second generally involved building or fixingthings in some fashion.SoftwareWhen respondents were asked about their preferences for software taught

Conference Session

Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi; Nick Safai

assessment tables should alsobe developed to reflect the student’s research work progress. From these tables, applicants areable to analyze their work, adjust and make improvements on a regular basis, and report to theiradvisors. Reports can regularly be collected by a student advisor and submitted to the IHE’sFellowship Project Director. The director evaluates the reports, makes necessary comments andreturns to the student’s advisors.Time-Line Chart A table can be prepared showing student name, admission date, semester attended (e.g.,Fall, Spring, Summer). For instance such a table can be compared with another table (workprogress) showing student name, list of activities, person responsible, start date, completion dateand status. These types

Conference Session

Integrating Math, Science, and Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

FE TABAMO; CRISTINO CARBONELL; Conchita Javier; Clarita Guevara

modules of PlaneTrigonometry and Solid Geometry were developed to allow its Engineering Freshmen to learnthese courses at their own pace.The authors of this paper were tasked to prepare the learning materials of the courses; to designand implement the program of activities for both the learners and the teacher; and to conduct aresearch on the feasibility of this novel project for continuous implementation and the possibleadoption of other courses in the Faculty of Engineering. The authors perceived the project as atough act considering that learning with instructional modules is a novel concept in tertiaryeducation and in Engineering Mathematics courses at that.2. Independent Learning: Then and NowOxford University in England is credited as the

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Lisa Lebduska; David DiBiasio

presented their research to the class, and,at our behest, talked about the role communication played in conducting and presenting theirresearch.EvaluationAn external evaluator administered surveys and conducted focus groups with students who hadenrolled in the course and concluded that the project had succeeded in producing gains in studentknowledge of the activities in which chemical engineers engage. One of the greatest struggles forthe students involved the group writing assignments, which they found difficult to completebecause of incompatible schedules. Some also felt that the course required too much writing for asingle-credit course. In the second iteration of the course we addressed the group logisticsproblem by giving them more instruction

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Johnson; Mark Rajai

seminars.Documenting your classroom instructions. Develop detailed syllabus that includes suchitems as test dates, assignment deadlines, expectations, reading assignments, attendancepolicy, office hours, e-mail address, telephone number, contact people for disability services,etc. Too often student evaluations of instructions are not based on instructions alone, but onother variables, that indirectly affect the learning. For example, a student may have questionsthat need to be addressed during your office hours. If you are unavailable, the students’perception of your teaching effectiveness will be adversely affected.It is extremely important to save samples of student work (original copies), exams, projects,and other types of assignments as clear indications

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2001 Annual Conference

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Eric Wiebe; Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

Engineering Education• Design and manufacturing processes• Dimensioning, sectional views• Auxiliary views• Working drawingsHomework assignments are completed via sketching, instruments, and computer-aided design.CAD assignments are integrated throughout the course and range from 2D geometric constructionsto 3D solid modeling activities. Students also complete a final project, which typically consists ofmodeling a machine part and producing a detail drawing of the design.IV. Revisions to the Introductory CourseThe proposed revision of the introductory course is based on national trends in engineeringgraphics in both industry and education. Although some of the topics look similar to what iscurrently taught, the material in the revised course will be

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

John Martin; Mohammed Haque

medium for the learning” 20. “In the university,the professor’s role has historically been that of an expert who lectures or ‘professes.’ Onlinelearning is less likely to use top-down knowledge delivery methods, such as lecturing, and morelikely to rely on peer-to-peer learning in the form of collaborative discussions and team projects”10 .Concluding RemarksThe collaborative mode is manifested out of necessity in the distance learning archetype that maybe why the global acceptance of degrees received from distance institutions are uniformlyaccepted in many countries outside the United States. Teaching style does differ in the virtualuniversity and many in traditional universities will struggle to adapt to new styles of teaching.The technology

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2001 Annual Conference

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Hakan Gurocak

software.III. Laboratory sessions in the first offeringThe development of the course is a two-year project that started in July 1999. When the projectis finished, the course will have 10-12 lab sessions. We developed five lab sessions for the first Page 6.399.3offering of the course in the Spring 2000 semester. There were 5 students at the Boeing Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationclassroom, 2 at WSU Pullman and 11 in the WSU Vancouver classroom. Students worked inteams in all laboratory sessions.A

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Neal Armstrong; Steven Nichols

, Westminster, London, November, 1989,Brereton, Margot F, et al, An Exploration of Engineering Learning, DE-Vol. 53,m Design Theory andMethodology, ASME, 1993.5 Peterson, Carl R., "The Desegregation of Design", Engineering Education, pp. 530-532, July/August, 1990.6 See for example:Integrating the product Realization Process (PRP) into the Undergraduate Curriculum, A CurriculumDevelopment Project of the ASME Council on Education,. ASME December 1995.Devon, Richard, "Toward a Social Ethics of Engineering: The Norms of Engagement", Engineering Education,Vol. 88, No. 1, p. 87, January 1999.Marra, Rose M, Palmer, Betsy, and Litzinger, Thomas A, "The Effects of a First-Year Engineering DesignCourse on Student Intellectual Development as Measured by

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2001 Annual Conference

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K. Arthur Overholser

, and (7) to develop communications skills – were not always beingachieved. In particular, objectives (2), (4), and (7) were not being realized in our rather standardfirst year, which consists of mathematics, science, liberal arts electives, a slate of “technology-society” electives, an introductory engineering course emphasizing team projects and basiccomputer skills, and a C++ programming course.Many of our freshmen made it clear to us in our constituent polling that they felt they were Page 6.435.1getting insufficient help in career choices and that they were sometimes disappointed in their Proceedings of the 2001 American Society

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2001 Annual Conference

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Aaron C. Clark; Eric Wiebe

the usage and perceived importance ofnetworked computing based activities. The Campus Computing Project 2 reports that 59.3 percentof all college courses now utilize electronic mail, up from 54.0 percent in 1999 and 20.1 percent in1995. Similarly, 42.7 percent of college courses now use Web resources as a component of thesyllabus, up from 10.9 in 1995.Coupled with the trend of increased computer usage on campus is the requirement by someuniversities to require students to purchase a computer when they come to campus 3. Whilecurrently only ten percent of campuses require computer purchases, this trend is expected toincrease sharply. NC State University currently has a computer purchase requirement in place fora few of its professional programs

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Vladimir Nikulin; Victor Skormin

Page 6.437.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationengineering laboratory to the level of leading engineering schools and result in significantimprovement of the quality of engineering education and reduce its variability betweenuniversities. The presented approach has many potential applications, including training ofpersonnel to operate complex machinery in hazardous environments.Being prompted by revolutionary changes in information technology, this project will result inthe further integration of this technology in education. Implementation of the Internet-accessiblelaboratory courses and

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2001 Annual Conference

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John Marshall

majors for our department.The design and fabrication of the high school modules was a college-based class activity.The university class made two PLC and pneumatic modules with the high school districtpaying for all of the components. The secondary educators were thrilled to have a “plugand play” module that genuinely turned-on their students. This is definitely one of thosewin/win initiatives that can provide an enjoyable, meaningful class project, and at thesame time establish a pipeline for recruiting talented incoming majors!During the first high school visit, we provided the group with a basic overview ofprogrammable logic controllers. We intentionally kept the subject matter simple andclear. The overview began with definitions and an

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2001 Annual Conference

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Joseph J. Delfino

for environmental engineers cannot be underestimated in this regard.If the World Bank, the Global Water Partnership and the Global Environmental Facilityintend to assist developing nations with grants and loans to meet the World Water Visionobjectives, then they will need to include an education component in their plans.Otherwise, there will be many projects that won’t be completed due to the lack ofsufficient numbers of educated and trained environmental and civil engineers. Thesolution to the environmental engineering availability problem will have to involve acombination of support for initiating or increasing engineering education in thedeveloping nations while also providing financial support for students in those countriesto attend

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Yogesh Potdar; Patricia Spencer; Kathryn Hollar

am almost certain that I will be talking to a person of my race, color or gender.At the end of reading these statements, we ask for any comments. We have had mixed reactionsfrom the participants, from complete silence to a discussion that lasted for 10 minutes and neededto be cut short in the interest of the agenda. We have found that some of the minority groupmembers – by race or gender--are willing to say that they can identify with these situations, andwhen that happens the workshop becomes very interactive. During the course of one workshopdiscussion, a female participant stated that in project group meetings she was frequently asked to“speak for all women.” To address the common occurrence that women and minorities are oftenseen and

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2000 Annual Conference

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David F. Ollis

, one imagines with little difficulty the repeated challenge in professional life whenoffered a new project or product opportunity in a somewhat or completely unknown area. Auseful response based on our lab sequence (as well as Dale’s “Cone of Learning”) is first togather information (READ everything appropriate, and interview past participants involved),then get some samples of product or process to DISSECT/ASSEMBLE and otherwisecharacterize current successful examples, then CALCULATE/ANALYZE what improvementsare needed in yield, performance, speed, cost reduction, etc. would be required to produce anupgrade or competitive product, and finally PRESENT/TEACH to a corporate managementthrough oral and written progress reports. The parallels

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2000 Annual Conference

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Akihiko Kumagai; Mukasa Ssemakula

material itself being intellectually demanding, it is frequently taught in alecture format with little opportunity for active student participation or experimentation.Consequently, students often find it difficult to make the connection between the theoreticalconcepts covered in the lectures and the corresponding physical phenomena.This paper describes the development of a course for kinematics and dynamics of machines,aimed at students pursuing BS degrees in Manufacturing and Mechanical EngineeringTechnology. The course is being developed under the auspices of the Greenfield Coalition (NSFsupported project) at the Focus:HOPE Center for Advanced Technologies (CAT) in Detroit,Michigan. The course material is also used in the Kinematics of Machines

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2000 Annual Conference

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Theodore J. Stokes; Jeffrey B. Hargrove

Board (HCDB).It was further determined to design a PC board that would incorporate a microprocessor andflash memory to permit the students to embed real microprocessor control in design andfabrication projects associated with mechatronics courses and other courses that might includethe opportunity to design and build mechatronic devices. For example, senior-level designprojects in mechanical engineering courses at Kettering University such as “Medical EquipmentDesign” (ME-460) and “Vehicle Design Project” (ME-422) often present the student withopportunities to apply mechatronic principles and utilize embedded microprocessor controls. Toaccomplish this capability, an “Embeddable Microprocessor Board” (EMB) was designed andfabricated that would

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2000 Annual Conference

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William H. Dennis; Jeff A. Risinger; Thomas Hall

a pre-hire training program.After the initial investigation, the University’s president appointed a committee to work withAlliance representatives on how NSU could best meet their education and training needs. This Page 5.470.2ad-hoc group strove to make NSU @ Alliance a seamless process for the Alliance students,including the course offerings, financial assistance, registration, and textbook and supplypurchases. The teamwork approach to project development led to several worthwhile programsbetween NSU and Alliance.IV. The NSU @ Alliance ProgramsAccording to an article in the Financial Times, “Forty percent of corporate universities plan