Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Pin-Hui Tan; Roman Stemprok

noise barriers. Sometimes these passive methods were obviously noteffective and could not be applied to smaller systems such as single rooms, working cubicles,cars or a table in a restaurant and spectral shaping methods are necessary1. An active noisecancellation technology is presented in this research. The idea of "fight noise with noise“ can beadopted to solve problems of noise pollution. Active Noise Control (ANC) is the practice ofreducing unwanted sound in a system by introducing additional sound that is the inverse of (180° Page 7.1298.1out of phase with) the unwanted noise, Figure 1. Active control systems are best suited

Conference Session

Learning Styles of Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Malgorzata Zywno

Table 1. The distributions weresimilar in each of the years when data were collected, and students registered in ELE639 tendedto be Active, Sensing, Sequential and overwhelmingly Visual. This is consistent with the findingsreported in the literature 27, 33, 34, 35. Table 1: Learning Style Distributions of ELE639 Students Year n Ref. Act. Int. Sen. Verb. Vis. Glo. Seq. 1999 28 50.0% 50.0% 42.9% 57.1% 17.9% 82.1% 25.0% 75.0% 2000 85 49.4% 50.6% 32.9% 62.1% 15.3% 84.7% 25.9% 74.1% 2001 119 39.5% 60.5% 33.6% 66.4% 10.9% 89.1

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Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie A. Jernigan; Garlie Forehand; Alexander B. Quinn; Judith Norback

work. The results will be made available for use in otherinstitutions’ undergraduate engineering curricula.I. Introduction Communication skills are more important to engineering graduates than ever before,partly because of the recent Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)criteria that include written and oral communication. 1 Communication courses have beenincluded in engineering curricula for years. However, according to recent research, “graduatingengineers are inadequately equipped to meet” the written and oral communication needs oftoday’s technical workplace.2 In a 1993 survey of employers, 70 to 80 percent indicated thatcommunication skills are valuable in new engineers. “Engineers struggle with writing

Conference Session

Instructional Technology--What Works

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Trippe

the author related to teaching morethan sixty online courses and to the types of preparative training he received. Suggestedtraining opportunities and a list of training topics which an organization should makeavailable for its faculty is included.IntroductionIn an effort to attract and keep students enrolled, the distance learning organizations ofmost universities and colleges provide a number of support services for students.However, research has shown that one of the factors highly correlated to student retentionin the online environment is faculty performance. (1) It is generally accepted that there isalso a connection between student satisfaction with the faculty conduct and studentlearning. (2) (3) Student satisfaction rises when

Conference Session

Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammed Zribi; Mohammad Al-Ansary; Ibrahim Nashawi; Haitham Lababidi; Faridah Ali; Aziz Tayfun; Adel Aly; Andreas Christoforou; Ahmet Yigit

equivalent to accreditedprograms with similar titles in the United States. A fourth evaluation is scheduled for the Fallof 2002. The evaluations are based on the ABET conventional criteria, also known as theEngineering Topics Criteria.In a major shift influenced by pressure from industry and global competition, ABET hasintroduced the new Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC 2000) 1, which address the effectiveness ofengineering education programs by focusing on an assessment and evaluation process thatassures the achievement of a set of educational objectives and outcomes. The new criteriaprovide a new basis for accrediting engineering programs in the United States, that is based onthe principles of outcomes assessment and a continuous improvement process

Conference Session

Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Edmund Tsang

properties andmicrostructure of a metal. As a result of these activities, students will be able to synthesize therelationship between processing (mechanical as well as thermal), properties and structure, andapply the knowledge in the design project. Students will apply statistical concepts such as meanand standard deviation for product description, tolerance, reliability, and quality control.The service-learning pedagogy was adopted to meet the needs of the College and the SECMEpartner as identified above. This is accomplished through two design projects for the 1 credithour laboratory course, ME 211, “Materials, Manufacturing and Design.” The two service-learning design projects are:Design Project for Fall Semester: “Design a process, including a

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

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

) boards. The principal software used in the laboratory is the CodeComposer Studio (CCS) package developed by Texas Instruments specifically for their DSPprocessors and evaluation boards 1. CCS enables students to develop programs in C within a usersupportive framework. CCS also allows the students to optimize the C code and produce a codethat is equally efficient to assembly without assembly programming. Developing code in Cprovides students with widely reusable code examples and makes it possible to teach studentswho did not have assembly language programming experience. While WMU ComputerEngineering majors are required to take courses in computer architecture and assembly languageprogramming, the Electrical Engineering majors are only required

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning Courses and Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Harold Broberg

-loading CD’s to provide students with anentire semester of lectures. This paper explains the use of these methods and lessonslearned from the courses.IntroductionA lecture-like presentation may be needed to convey information to students inundergraduate Internet courses. Building Internet courses 1, 2 is a difficult and time-consuming task 3. This paper discusses the utility and effectiveness of some of themethods available for dissemination of audiovisual material via the Internet. A source ofmaterial to assist the higher education community in use of the Internet is the JointInformation Systems Committee 4 and related sites. The methods to be discussed here are:creating PowerPoint 5 audio presentations using WAV files, creating PowerPoint

Conference Session

Unique Lab Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Terrance O'Connor; Nghia Le

variation inthe capacitor. The block diagram of the design is in Figure 1 below. SINE WAVE WINDOW OSCILLATOR COMPARATOR RC WHEATSTONE INSTRUMENTATION ACTIVE BANDPASS ACTIVE PEAK WINDOW BRIDGE AMPLIFIER FILTER RECTIFIER DETECTOR COMPARATOR WINDOW COMPARATOR Figure 1 – Block Diagram of the ProjectB. The Position Detector Project1. The Variable

Conference Session

Combining Research and Teaching

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Melanie Daniel; Joshua Becker; Carlos Ortiz

environmentallaboratory, while encouraging the students to participate in applied research.Studies conducted by Kolthoff and Overholser (1-2), and subsequent work by Davies, Leckie,Benjamin and others (3-7) have demonstrated the effectiveness of co-precipitation and theadsorptive capacity of hydrous oxides. Our intent was to increase the precipitate in contact withsynthetic rinse water, and determine its impact on the overall efficiency of the precipitationprocess in two different scenarios. The first scenario evaluated consisted of a synthetic rinsewater containing copper only. The second scenario consisted of rinse water containing differentcopper to iron ratios.MaterialsThe precipitation experiments were conducted on synthetic rinse water containing

Conference Session

Grad. and Upper Level Undergrad. BME Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Dominique M. Durand; Dmitri Kourennyi

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Takoi Hamrita

objectives, laboratory hardware and software and the set of experiments used willbe described in this paper.IntroductionMicroprocessor courses have typically been taught within electrical engineering departmentswith an emphasis on computer architecture and software development. Recently, a shift is beingmade from teaching microprocessor architecture and the design of software to the use ofmicrocontrollers in solving monitoring and control problems 1. Several NSF funded investigatorshave explored and demonstrated the potential of teaching microprocessor -based design courseswith an emphasis on mechatronic systems. Of particular interest are the courses developed inStanford, Iowa State, and Berkeley 2,3.We are aware of few engineering departments that

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Venkat Allada; Rajiv Mishra; Ming Leu; Anthony Okafor; Ashok Agrawal; Frank Liou

, engineering schools need to take moreserious steps for change in order to perform more effectively their functions as suppliers of welleducated personnel with the attributes desired by world-class corporations. The problem of thedeficiencies between skills taught and those needed in industry has already been identified byvarious national organizations and agencies who are advocating a variety of reforms andenhancements in engineering education.1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 18 The Society of Manufacturing Engineers recently conducted a workshop for industrial andacademic leaders to review and identify the critical competency gaps for improved training of thefuture-manufacturing workforce. Among which business knowledge/skills

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Eberhardt

Session 2793multi-faceted learning environment but may be the element that appeals most to a certaincross-section of students.WEB page enhancementsThis year several changes have been made to the AA101 web page to increaseinteractivity. Tools include interactive 3D models, estimators and on-line quizzes.An interactive web tool, developed by Pulse3, is used to allow students to learn howairplane controls work. The utility uses a 3D model of a "stick figure" airplane withmoving control surfaces. The student can rotate the model to any view and then selectpre-programmed controls for pitch, roll and yaw. Figure 1: 3D interactive model of stick figure airplaneThe advantage of this tool is that students, who are unfamiliar with the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett; Eugene Audette; Debra Ricci

Page 7.97.1designed a qualitative assessment approach to gather impressions from a self-selected group of Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright American Society for Engineering Educationcurrent students (freshmen to seniors) and from their parents. Particularly interested in suchintangibles as lifelong learning and critical thinking, the department chair, faculty and staffbelieved that capturing oral or written subjective impressions and perceptions would add to thequantitative data derived from Likert-scale Senior Self-assessment ratings on ProgramEducational Objectives and Outcomes. Three key questions shaped the design: 1) What’s goingon? 2

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Megat Johari Megat Mohd Noor

engineering is losing its status in the society [1], aperception widely accepted by many in the profession. It was irony that the findings of thestudy coincide with the reduction of the study period.In 1999 there was conflicting interpretations of the professional institution guidelines foraccreditation of the 3-year programmes, which were undergoing review at that time. Thisincluded interpretation of core and non-core engineering subjects as well as compulsorysubjects that were outside the curriculum. As a result a 3.5 year programme was formulatedto satisfy the requirement of the accreditation body that was imposed retrospectively.The study on the Malaysian Engineering Education Model (MEEM), commissioned by theMalaysian Council of Engineering

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Angus; Thomas Hulbert

two corporations – HP and Agilent Technologies – theVEE software was assigned to Agilent. A new release was announced: VEE Pro, version 6 1, 2, 3.Our latest package, which will be much more extensive than the original manual, is beingdeveloped and tested. This new package is also capable of being used with the previous release(VEE5.01).The material is presented step-by-step so the learner has full comprehension before proceeding tothe next lab. An example from the book is given below. It is based upon a virtual “vehicleradiator” whose temperature and pressure is to be monitored. The recorded data points are thenprocessed statistically. Finally, an operator is allowed to initiate and terminate the program butcannot modify the program. (The

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Angus; Thomas Hulbert

Chapter Title 3/6/2002 page X-1 Session 3549 A Circuits Course Family for Technology Students Using Just-in-Time Techniques Robert B. Angus, Thomas E. Hulbert Northeastern University; Boston, MA 02115IntroductionThe teaching of electronics to students of other disciplines and majors is becoming more prevalentin technology curricula. “Non-electrical” majors are often turned off by a non-major subject. Also,many electrical/electronic faculty members have difficulty teaching “watered-down

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa Anneberg; Ece Yaprak

in addition to using our traditional laboratory materials, when we teach in alaboratory environment today [1-4]. Traditionally, we have used simulation laboratories (using either OPNET by Mil3, orCOMNET by Compuware) in addition to using off-the-shelf network equipment such asrouters, bridges, and network cards. These laboratory settings gave our students an insight Page 7.1191.1 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ? 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”into how to design computer networks and run different scenarios under

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Proulx Denis; Martin Brouillette; Jean Nicolas; Charron François

aimed at educating engineers beyond knowledge transfer through the development of student know-how and know-how-to-be (i.e., attitudes). This is achieved via four major program thrusts, which are: integrating knowledge, learning in an engineering context, promoting technical and personal achievement and increasing student responsibilities. As salient programmatic features, this curriculum incorporates, among others: design from day 1, a closely integrated sequence of courses within a semester and from one semester to the next, engineering integration semester projects and a large-scale capstone design activity. In addition to presenting a broad overview of this curriculum, the paper focuses on the first semester

Conference Session

Freshman Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Harris

training learn to solder, design and breadboard digitalcircuits, understand how transistors work, draw schematics and layout logic gates, and work as ateam to produce a complete integrated circuit for fabrication. At the end of the semester theytake home a plot of the chip they designed and a good sense of what a practicing engineers mightspend their time doing.The freshman advising seminar grew out of a previous seminar offered by the author at MIT in1992, 1993, and 1994 in collaboration with Dr. William Dally 1 and a further experiment by theauthor teaching chip design in 24 hours to high school students with the Stanford EducationalStudies Program. This paper presents the structure of the advising seminar. It describes theprojects that freshmen

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Yonael Teklu; Saifur Rahman; Peter Wiesner

NSDL’s Core Integration System. The shared specifications and corecommonalities will enable a high degree of interoperability and functionality with NSDL andfederation libraries.The objective of this paper, therefore, is to provide an introduction of DLNET by way ofdescribing its conceptual architecture and the ongoing development process. The approachadopted in this document will be to describe the architecture using the flow of content andinformation throughout the system.III. ArchitectureDLNET’s architecture is that of a typical digital library consisting of three core elements,namely, content-receiving, content-management and user-interface sub-systems. Thebuilding blocks are shown in Figure 1 together with a listing of key functions and

Conference Session

Computer Based Measurements

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sanjeev Arora; Fariborz Asadian; Masoud Naghedolfeizi

Internet. These set-upsare: (1) a motor-generator with a variable speed motor and a variable resistive load and (2) avariable-speed water pump, flow and level system.Laboratory ExperimentsThe pedagogical approach used in conducting computer-based experiments is to introduce theprinciple of computer-based measurement through a series of simple hands-on experiments.Students learn the importance of signal conditioning, sampling rate, instrument resolution andaccuracy, error sources, and the type of sensors (active or passive) in designing simple scientificexperiments. With the knowledge gained in these experiments, students are better equipped todesign more advanced computer-based measurement systems. Since the minor program isstructured around the

Conference Session

Educational Opportunities in Engr. Abroad

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Lucey

is based at the existing Not re Dame Centre just off Trafalgar Square. One classroom and two facultyoffices are used. The existing Centre staff is utilized. During the summer the facility is shared with Notre Dame'sSummer Law Program and a small Architecture program. The Notre D ame Centre is fully utilized during theacademic year by a Masters of Law program, an MBA program and the Undergraduate program, which hasincluded Engineering students since 1995. Students are housed in flats in the Bayswater (W2) area of London, adjacent to Kensington Gardens and some2 1/2 miles from the classroom building. Some students elect to walk, most use the buses or trains of LondonTransport. Four or five students occupy each flat. Each flat has two

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert McFarlane; James McBrayer

system. Itpermits students to conduct experiments on a variety of phenomena such as laminar versusturbulent flow, pressure and velocity relationships, turbine blade properties, electric powergeneration, behavior of aerodynamic shapes, nozzle behavior and flowmeter and manometerusage. The basic components are:1) An air turbine mounted in a clear cylindrical tube 5.125” in diameter.2) The turbine is driven by a ¼ hp electric motor, which has a d-c power supply, providing speeds up to 35 mph.3) Air-drive venturis, exit venturi and exit nozzle, air straightener and orifices.4) Instrumentation includes pressure gauges and manometers, Pitot static tube, torque load cell,air velocity meter, air taps for pressure measurements, and stroboscopic disc

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn Smith

done at the K-12 level to study how students access and utilize the Internet, thisresearch is not yet available for graduates and undergraduates in advanced engineering programs.The objectives of this paper are: 1) to relate research on learner styles to the role of such digital resources for engineering students. 2) to explore some aspects on how engineering students are adapting to the use of digital library resources.II. Learning in a Complex Educational EnvironmentThe technology of access to information has changed drastically over the past decade, andengineering students are well informed to the technology (the Internet) itself. However , there is adearth of published information on how students are in fact using

Conference Session

Enhancing Engineering Math with Technology

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shirley Pomeranz

order to code and solve the same problemwith Mathematica. They were also instructed to write brief reports describing their experienceswith this use of Maple.My purpose in giving this assignment was to see if students found the Maple template helpful. Ifthey did find it helpful, then in what ways did it assist them? If they did not find it helpful, thenwhat was problematic or confusing?2. Background and motivationDuring the previous year, I had been working on a Mathematica project, transcribing givenMaple code into corresponding Mathematica code. I was part of a faculty team at TheUniversity of Tulsa (TU) that was working with the text, Advanced Engineering Mathematics,Robert J. Lopez 1. Maple solutions to the computer problems in this text

Conference Session

Real-world Applications in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mueller

and oral), budgeting, application of engineeringskills, and team building. Each project team consists of 2 students (or 3 only if the course has anodd number of students) and the students are allowed to pick their own teams. The team isusually responsible for selecting its project with the condition that the project must contain atleast 3 fundamental components: measurements from an electromechanical system, controldecisions based on those measurements, and then the control of electromechanical elements toachieve some design criteria.Other papers have been published on capstone projects done in conjunction with industry [1 -3].But these papers deal with projects that have the students solving engineering problems and notwith the actual

Conference Session

What's in Store for the ChE Curriculum?

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Farhad Sharifi

chemical engineering fundamentals. Industrial experiences of an engineer inaddition to his educational career have enabled him to grasp a brighter image of the realities inthis field of engineering worldwide.1 Introduction It is required to know about the history of the chemical engineering profession in order tounderstand its concept and purpose. Although chemical engineering came to era over a centuryago, but many people still don’t know what chemical engineering is. Old stories about the Page 7.292.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Barker

source software (Linux, Apache, PHP4, PostgreSQL, C, and Octave).WebCHARLIE has two parts: 1) a homework generator based on C and used only by the teacherto create the homework exercises and insert the answers into the databases, and 2) an internetengine (delivery system) based on Apache, PHP4 and PostgreSQL. C is used in thewebCHARLIE homework generator, but not in the webCHARLIE engine. The webCHARLIEengine is a simple extension of HTML web pages through Apache, PHP4, and PostgreSQL. Theinteraction among these components seems to happen quite easily and naturally. Hard copies ofindividual homework exercises are delivered to students during class. For the few students whorequested extra copies because they could not come to class, or who