-Access Engineering and Technology Laboratory through a Graduate Level Team Project Jonathan Godfrey, James Z. Zhang, Aaron K. Ball, Robert Adams Kimmel School of Construction Management, Engineering and Technology Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723Abstract:For many distance engineering courses, labs are either accomplished by gatheringstudents at a central location or are comprised by requiring students to perform computersimulation. Aimed at improving learning effectiveness for the students, Kimmel Schoolgraduate students are set out to implement a real-time, remotely accessible engineeringlaboratory for an undergraduate automation class based on the previous research results[1], [2
Society for Engineering Education, 2007 A Simple Multitasking Library for Student Projects and Introducing Embedded Operating Systems PrinciplesAbstractThe cxlib multitasking library is written for teaching embedded microprocessor principles toelectrical and computer engineering students, serving as a stepping stone toward real timeoperating systems. The students also use cxlib in their projects. The library supportscooperative multitasking and a recent change allows for preemptive round-robin scheduling.The cxlib library was first written during the spring 2002 semester as the author surveyed theliterature for material to use in a new course.The intent of the cxlib library is to provide simple multitasking that
AC 2007-917: EXCITING STUDENTS ABOUT MATERIALS SCIENCE ANDENGINEERING: A PROJECT-BASED, SERVICE-LEARNING MUSEUM DESIGNCOURSEKatherine Chen, California Polytechnic State University Katherine C. Chen is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Materials Engineering Department at the California Polytechnic ("Cal Poly") State University, San Luis Obispo. She received a B.A. in Chemistry and a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering at Michigan State University. Her Ph.D. is in Materials Science from MIT. She is active in outreach activities and has a strong interest in informal science education
AC 2007-922: WEB-BASED DESIGN AND ANALYSIS PROJECTS FOR A JUNIORLEVEL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS COURSEDavid Braun, California Polytechnic State University David Braun is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. He worked at Philips Research Labs in Eindhoven, the Netherlands from 1992 to 1996, after completing the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at U.C. Santa Barbara. Please see www.ee.calpoly.edu/~dbraun/ for information about his courses, teaching interests, and research. Page 12.1599.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Web Based Design
AC 2008-375: EVOLUTION AND ASSESSMENT OF AN INDUSTRY-BASEDSINGLE LARGE PROJECT CAPSTONE DESIGN COURSEPatrick Walter, Texas Christian UniversityRobert Bittle, Texas Christian University Page 13.582.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Evolution and Assessment of an Industry-Based Single-Large-Project Capstone Design CourseAbstractThis paper describes 12 years of growth and evolution of an industry-supported single-large-project capstone design course within the engineering program at Texas ChristianUniversity. This relatively new program has graduated only 12 senior classes since 1996,and currently
AC 2008-392: READING, WRITING - ENERGY: AN NSF CCLI PROJECT TOENHANCE A FRESHMAN CORE CURRICULUM NATURAL SCIENCE COURSEChristine Ehlig-Economides, Texas A&M University Christine Ehlig-Economides is a full professor of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University. She worked for 20 years for Schlumberger in the oil industry in more than 30 countries. Dr. Ehlig-Economides has a B.A. in Math-Science from Rice University, an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kansas, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Petroleum Engineering. She is currently developing education and research programs in energy sustainability. She was elected to the National Academy of
entering the workforce must be prepared with excellent technicalcommunication skills. Obtaining a desirable job requires certain skills in job searchcommunication, one subset of which is interviewing. In addition to being prepared for thestandard face-to-face interview, graduates need, now more than ever, to be prepared for thetelephone interview. Companies have increased their use of the telephone interview, particularlyas a first screening to select job candidates.For the last six years, job search communication has been a part of technical communicationinstruction in a senior chemical engineering laboratory (ChE 229w). A new project was recentlyinitiated to improve students’ interviewing skills, providing a transition from school to
course teachesthe fundamentals of engineering design, design sketching, computer-aided design, andengineering graphics. A major component of the course is a team design project. This paperdescribes the course in general and the design project in detail. Emphasized within thedescription of the team project is the utilization of a collaborative product data managementapplication to improve data sharing efforts between team members.IntroductionThe management of design data is critical for manufacturing enterprises. The wealth ofknowledge that goes into the design of a product can be overwhelming and difficult to manage,especially when attempting to leverage geographically dispersed resources. But competition in aglobal economy demands that a
AC 2008-596: PARTNERSHIPS FOR BUILDING THE NATION’S STEMEDUCATIONAL ENTERPRISE: A NSF GK-12 FELLOWS PROJECTRajesh Ganesan, George Mason University Rajesh Ganesan is an Assistant Professor of systems engineering and operations research at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. He received his Ph.D. in 2005 and M.S. in 2002 both in Industrial Engineering, and M.A in Mathematics in 2005, all from the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL. His areas of research include stochastic control and wavelet analysis in statistical applications. He was the project manager of the STARS GK-12 project at Univ. of South Florida and is now the Principal Investigator of the SUNRISE GK-12 project at George
AC 2008-686: FRESHMAN PROJECT: DISCOVERING GLOBAL TRENDS – ASURVEY OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES OF THE AEROSPACEINDUSTRYAlexander Friess, Dubai Aerospace Enterprise University Alexander Friess is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Dubai Aerospace Enterprise University. He received his B.Sc. in Physics and M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Aeronautical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research background includes experimental fluid dynamics, composite materials and performance optimization, and he has been active globally as consultant and design engineer working on a variety of projects, including participating in the design and engineering of South Africa’s yacht for the America’s
AC 2007-3085: ALTERNATIVE METHODS FOR PRODUCING WIND TUNNELMODELS FOR STUDENT PROJECTS IN FLUID MECHANICSEric Zissman, University of Texas-Austin Eric Zissman is a December 2006 BSME graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.Philip Schmidt, University of Texas-Austin Philip Schmidt is the Donald J. Douglass Centennial Professor and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He serves as Associate Chair for Undergraduate Program Development and Director of the PROCEED Program in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Page 12.195.1© American Society for
AC 2008-142: INTEGRATION IMAGE ANALYSIS PROJECTS IN ANINTRODUCTORY COMPUTATIONAL METHODS COURSE USING MATLABSOFTWARE ENVIRONMENTAbhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland Eastern Shore Abhijit Nagchaudhuri is currently a Professor in the Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences at University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Prior to joining UMES he worked in Turabo University in San Juan , PR as well as Duke University in Durham North Carolina as Assistant Professor and Research Assistant Professor, respectively. Dr. Nagchaudhuri is a member of ASME, SME and ASEE professional societies and is actively involved in teaching and research in the fields of engineering mechanics, robotics
AC 2008-185: A COMMON DESIGN-BUILD-TEST PROJECT INCORPORATINGFRESHMAN AND SENIOR UNDERGRADUATE ANALYSIS SKILLSMichael Plumley, US Coast Guard Academy LT Michael Plumley is on active duty in the U.S. Coast Guard and is a faculty member and 1998 graduate of the Mechanical Engineering program at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy where he has served as course coordinator for a variety of subjects including Machine Design, Heat Transfer, and Modeling and Control of Dynamic Systems. He holds Masters of Science degrees in both Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of
of the SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award. Dr. Reisel is a member of ASEE, ASME, the Combustion Institute, and SAE. Dr. Reisel received his B.M.E. degree from Villanova University in 1989, his M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in 1991, and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in 1994. Page 13.1278.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 THE USE OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN A LONG-TERM AIR POLLUTION REDUCTION RESEARCH PROJECTAbstractOver the last ten years, a research project involving the study of the air pollutant emissions fromsmall
Engineering at Alabama A&M University in Huntsville, AL. Dr. Qian earned her Ph.D. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tennessee. Dr. Qian is the principal investigator of the high performance computing research and education project at AAMU.Ruben Rojas-Oviedo, Alabama A&M University Dr. Ruben Rojas-Oviedo is a Chairperson of Mechanical Engineerinf Department at Alabama A&M University. Page 12.250.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007Applying CFD and Novel Development in Electromagnetic Flow Control to A Mechanical Engineering Senior Design ProjectAbstractA
AC 2007-1888: THE NATIONAL PROJECT FOR THE INNOVATIVEDEVELOPMENT OF THE HIGHER ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN RUSSIAVasili Zhurakovskiy, Russian Association of Engineering Universities Prof., Dr. of Sc., Former Rector of the Rostov-on-Don Institute of the Agricultural Machinebuilding, Former 1st Deputy Minister of the Russian Federation Ministry of Education, President of the Russian Association of Engineering UniversitiesAleksey Nesterov, Russian Association of Engineering Universities Prof., Dr. of Sc., Head of Welding Department in the Moscow State University of Aviation Technology (MATI), General Director of the Russian Association of Engineering Universities
outreach projects as program coordinator and program director. He has worked collaboratively with tribal college instructors and high school teachers. He serves as the faculty advisor for American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) Student Chapter at NDSU.G. Padmanabhan, North Dakota State University Dr. G. Padmanabhan is a Professor of Civil Engineering in North Dakota State University. He also serves as the Director of North Dakota water Resources Research Institute. He served as the Chair of the Civil Engineering Department from 1999 through 2003. Dr. Padmanabhan has more than twenty five years of teaching experience in engineering. He has attended several engineering education
students progress from basic data collection and reverse engineering projects throughmore open-ended, industry-sponsored capstone design experiences. The team ofmultidisciplinary faculty from Engineering and Communications who teach the sophomore levelcourses have observed the difficulty students have tackling the fundamental open-ended natureof true design problems and have subsequently revised the sequence. For the Fall of 2005 theSophomore Clinic sequence was revised to introduce Dym et al.’s converging-divergingframework for design by incorporating a series of three projects of increasing complexity withaccompany activities designed to reinforce the converging-diverging concepts. For the thirdproject in the series, roughly sixty students
AC 2007-2198: LABORATORY IMPROVEMENT: A STUDENT PROJECT TODEVELOP INITIATIVE AND INNOVATION AS A PERMANENT STATE OFMINDSorin Cioc, University of Toledo Sorin Cioc is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering (MIME), College of Engineering, University of Toledo. He received a Ph.D. degree in aerospace engineering from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania, and a Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Toledo. His main research and publishing area is tribology. He is a past recipient of the Wilbur Deutsch Memorial Award for the best paper on the practical aspects of lubrication
Projects in Engineering Education: The Students’ PerspectiveAbstract:International service projects are increasingly recognized as a way to prepare students for theglobal marketplace. Project-based service learning is a valuable educational tool, and expandsupon a traditional engineering education. Accordingly, increased opportunities for this have beenprovided to students through various national and university institutions. In the past three years,students from Tufts University have initiated projects in Ecuador, El Salvador and the TibetAutonomous Region. These projects provide diverse perspectives, from which important lessonscan be extracted.This paper will address lessons learned from student-run international service
AC 2007-2201: SELF-MANAGEMENT OF COGNITION IN A TEAM-BASEDENGINEERING DESIGN PROJECT: A CASE STUDYOenardi Lawanto, Univ Of Illinois-Urbana Champaign Page 12.1264.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 SELF-MANAGEMENT OF COGNITION IN A TEAM-BASED ENGINEERING DESIGN PROJECT: A CASE STUDYDespite little direct guidance and instruction received from their professors, working on an open-ended task such as designing an engineering artifact is expected to be a rich learning experiencefor students. In order to be successful on such a task, students need to set reasonable goals forthemselves and adopt intrinsic standards for success so that they will be able to
AC 2007-2246: INDUSTRY-BASED CAPSTONE DESIGN PROJECTS: YOU CAN'TSELL THE SOLUTION IF YOU CAN'T COMMUNICATEJoseph Emanuel, Bradley University Joseph T. Emanuel hold a BS in Math from the University if New Mexico and MS and PhD degrees in Engineering Psychology from The Ohio State University. He is Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Associate Dean of the College of Engineering and Technology. He has coordinated the IMET Department capstone design course since 1975. Among his awards are both the Engineering College and the University awards for teaching and the University award for public service. He also has received the student senate award for academic advising.H. Dan
AC 2007-2287: DISTINGUISHING AMONG PROCESSES OF PROBLEMSOLVING, DESIGN, AND RESEARCH TO IMPROVE PROJECT PERFORMANCEDan Cordon, University of IdahoBarbara Williams, University of IdahoSteven Beyerlein, University of IdahoDonald Elger, University of Idaho Page 12.555.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Distinguishing Among Processes of Problem Solving, Design, and Research to Improve Project PerformanceAbstractProfessionals in all disciplines are continually engaged in problem solving, design, and research.Because steps in these processes appear similar, many faculty conceptualize a single, universalmodel for all three processes. However
2006-1838: KATRINA IN THE CLASSROOM: ENGINEERING AND PUBLICPOLICY THROUGH PROJECT-BASED LEARNINGJoel Haight, Pennsylvania State University JJoel M. Haight, Ph.D., P.E., CIH, CSP was appointed in January 2000 as an Assistant Professor in Penn State University’s Department of Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering. He has a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering and Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering, both from Auburn University. Dr. Haight worked as a safety engineer for the Chevron Corporation for 18 years prior to joining the faculty at Penn State. In addition to human error research, Dr. Haight also does research in the areas of safety program effectiveness and leading
2006-2078: WHAT IS RECYCLING? A PROJECT TO DEVELOP K-12ENGINEERING CURRICULUM ABOUT REUSE OF WASTE MATERIALSChris Swan, Tufts University Dr. Swan is an Associate Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at Tufts University. His current interests are the reuse of recovered or recyclable materials and sustainable construction. Page 11.1442.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 What is Recycling? A Project to Develop K-12 Engineering Curriculum about Reuse of Waste MaterialsAbstractWhile over the last 25 years, recycling programs have developed
, pattern recognition, semantic web technologies, and computer science education. She has been involved in several computer science curriculum projects. Most recently she chaired the Intelligent Systems focus group of the IEEE-CS/ACM Task Force on Computing Curricula 2001.Jimmy Secretan, University of Central Florida JIMMY SECRETAN is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Central Florida. His research interests lie in the areas of Machine Learning and cluster computing. Page 11.234.2© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006
2006-1330: A COMPREHENSIVE MODEL FOR INTEGRATINGENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION AND CAPSTONE PROJECTS WHILEEXCEEDING ABET REQUIREMENTSJohn Ochs, Lehigh University John B Ochs is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Lehigh and Director of the Integrated Product Development Program (IPD), which he co-founded with Dr. Watkins in 1994. He is the past chairman the Entrepreneurship division of the American Society for Engineering Education. From 1985-95 Dr. Ochs did extensive industry consulting and was involved in the start up of three companies. In 1996 the pilot courses IPD won the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ curriculum innovation award and in 1997 IPD won the Newcomen Society award for
2006-1454: PROJECT-BASED LEARNING IN A FIRST-YEAR CHEMICALENGINEERING COURSE: EVAPORATIVE COOLINGCharles Coronella, University of Nevada-Reno Chuck Coronella is Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he has taught since 1993. His Ph.D. is from the University of Utah, and B.S. and B.A. from Lehigh University. He has research interests in model-predictive control and in renewable energy. His teaching interests are wide ranging, and include undergraduate and graduate courses in chemical engineering, as well as engineering education of the broader society
2006-1605: INCORPORATION OF A COMPREHENSIVE DESIGN EXPERIENCEIN THE INTEGRATED ENGINEERING PROJECT DESIGN MODELJose Guevara, University of Puerto Rico Dr. Guevara is an associate professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico, he is leading the work to make improvements to the capstone course and helping also in the improvements to the curriculum. He has also work as a structural consultant for a wide variety of projects including commercial, residential, industrial, transportation, marine facilities as well as the tren urbano.Ismael Pagan-Trinidad, University of Puerto Rico-MayaguezDidier Valdes-Diaz, University of Puerto Rico-MayaguezEileen Pesantes, University of Puerto Rico
Laboratory, an NSF funded Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics that has been featured on WABC-TV and NY1 News, and an NSF funded GK-12 Fellows project. He has held visiting positions with the Air Force Research Laboratories in Dayton, OH. His research interests are in cooperative control; distributed spacecraft formation control; linear/nonlinear control with applications to robust control, saturation control, and time-delay systems; closed-loop input shaping; spacecraft attitude control; mechatronics; and DSP/PC/microcontroller-based real-time control. He received Polytechnic’s 2002 Jacob’s Excellence in Education Award and 2003 Distinguished Teacher Award. In 2004, he was selected