Conference Session

Manufacturing Processes and Systems

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ajay Athale; Charlene Yauch

Session 2263 Increasing Manufacturing Competency with a ‘Dirt-Cheap’ Sand Casting Lab Charlene A. Yauch, Ajay J. Athale Oklahoma State UniversityAbstractThe Society of Manufacturing Engineers Education Foundation has identified competency gapsin a number of critical areas including manufacturing processes, materials, and teamwork. Toaddress these problem areas and provide students with a hands-on manufacturing experience, aneconomical sand casting lab was developed and implemented in an industrial processe s course atOklahoma State

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Daughton

Session 3642 An Analysis of the Career Value of a Graduate Engineering Management Degree William J. Daughton Lockheed Martin Engineering Management Program University of Colorado at BoulderAbstractThe Lockheed Martin Engineering Management Program in the College of Engineering andApplied Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder has been granting graduate degrees for14 years, and in that time over 200 engineers have graduated. The focus of the graduate programis to prepare individuals who have been working as professional engineers for two toapproximately

Conference Session

Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Joseph Emanuel

Session 2257 The Capstone Design Project: A Total Integration of Engineering Communications Joseph T. Emanuel, H. Dan Kerns, and Eric Kumpf Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Technology Bradley UniversityA common complaint from industry is that engineers are not good communicators. Althoughmost engineering programs require a speech course and one or more writing courses, thesecourses generally have two characteristics that prevent them from teaching students to be goodcommunicators. First, they are not focused on technical

Conference Session

Industry Participation and Ethics in BME

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2002 Annual Conference

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Gary Bledsoe

Session 2309 Determining the Rules: Applying Ethics in a Tissue Engineering Course J. Gary Bledsoe Department of Biomedical Engineering Saint Louis University, St Louis, MO As a part of a course in Tissue Engineering (TE), a three-lecture series of ethicaldiscussions has been implemented. The three lectures are meant to give the course participants abrief background in ethical theory and practice, to discuss current ethical issues in medicine andmedical research, and to implement a set of “ground rules” that the class must observe

Conference Session

The Computer, the Web, and the ChE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jim Henry

Session 3413 Using the Modern Chemical Engineering Laboratory at a Distance Jim Henry University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaAbstractThis paper describes the technical and pedagogical aspects of conducting laboratory experimentsfrom remote locations. 13 systems of laboratory equipment are available at UTC for students tooperate remotely via the Internet. Collected data can be shared with other students via the Web.The laboratory systems are described. The advantages and disadvantages in support of thelearning objectives are discussed.Experimental setupsAt UTC we have a

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

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Beverly J. Davis

Engaging K-12 Students in Technology as a Career: Differing Expectations Beverly J. Davis, Purdue UniversityNew technologies will continue to transform the way we live, work, and function in theglobal economy. The demand for engineers, scientists, technicians will exceed theavailable candidates this country will have to offer unless there is an investment in theexpansive female and minority segment of the workforce. Prism recently reported thatover 800,000 Programming and Information Technology jobs will not be filled for lack ofcandidates (7). Systematically, occupational sex segregation, an ingrained computerculture, and the digital divide threaten the goal achievement of providing the predictedone million new

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Education II

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2002 Annual Conference

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Patrick Tebbe

Session: 2677 Evaluation of a Flexible Simulator Structure for Nuclear Engineering Education Patrick A. Tebbe, Ph.D. Department of Engineering The College of Engineering Ewing, NJ 08628AbstractThis paper will explore the design and structure of a distributed, multi-code, simulation programdesigned specifically for educational purposes. A brief review of current nuclear plantsimulators will be covered. This will be followed by an examination of research aimed

Conference Session

Trends in Constr. Engr. Educ. I

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sonya Cooper

Session # 1421 A Project Delivery Technique for Historic Structures: A Case Study Sonya L. Cooper New Mexico State UniversityAbstractAs managers and superintendents utilize improved delivery systems, successful constructionprojects are increasingly delivered ahead of schedule and under budget. Historic preservationdiffers from new construction in that it utilizes several prescriptions for arresting deteriorationwhile retaining original materials and workmanship. Preservation techniques used in tandemwithin a single project may include protection, stabilization

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sohail Anwar; Eric Granlund

Session 2793 Teaching Engineering Design to First Year Engineering Students: A Case Study Sohail Anwar, Eric Granlund, Stephen Fokuo The Pennsylvania State University, Altoona CollegeIntroductionEngineering design is the communication of a set of rational decisions obtained withcreative problem solving for achieving certain stated objectives within prescribedconstraints. 1 Engineering design is a systematic and cognitive process. 2 The methodsfaculty choose to teach engineering design relate to the skills and competencies they wanttheir students

Conference Session

Laptop/Handheld Computing in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Robert Avanzato

Session 1620 Handheld Computers to Enhance Active Learning in a Digital Systems Course Bob Avanzato Penn State AbingtonAbstractPenn State Abington has integrated the student use of handheld computer technology tofoster active and collaborative learning experiences in the classroom and laboratory in asophomore-level introductory digital systems course in the fall of 2001 and 2002. Thehandheld computer provided each student with access to useful course material and tools,which enhanced the learning experience in and out of the classroom. Additionally

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Santhosh Thampuran

Session 2793 A New Course in Multimedia Systems for Non-technical Majors Wayne Burleson, Stephen Kelley, Santhosh Thampuran Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Massachusetts, AmherstAbstractThis paper describes a project which has developed, piloted, evaluated, and is currentlydisseminating, a novel course in Multimedia Systems for non-majors. The course forms part ofthe new Information Technology minor program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.The primary objective of the course is to expose students from non-technical majors to

Conference Session

Reaching Out to the Community

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2002 Annual Conference

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Paul Kirshen; John Durant; Chris Swan

Session 2561Environmental Engineering Education and Community Service: A Synergistic Partnership Christopher W. Swan, Paul Kirshen, John Durant Tufts UniversityAbstract Community-based service learning, the pedagogy of combining education withcommunity service, exists and has value in a number of academic fields. In the past few years,environmental engineering has become a field where community service learning has been foundto be synergistic, providing benefits to both the community and academia. This paper highlightsways in which community service learning can become

Conference Session

Multimedia and Product Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Michael Goldenberg; Carlos Morales

Session 3238 Development of a collaborative multi-user engineering design graphics collaboration tool Carlos R. Morales, Michael Goldenberg Purdue UniversityAbstractThe ability to collaboratively work on engineering graphics is of a great advantage. Thispaper details the development of a multi-user multimedia tool specifically designed toenhance collaboration in the engineering design graphics arena. The system providesusers with the capabilities to collaboratively explore 3D environments, video-teleconference, and share applications files.The system provides a centralized

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education and Outreach

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sarah Leach

Session 1463 Manufacturing Organizations from the Inside Out: Classrooms with a View Sarah E. Leach Purdue UniversityAbstractThis paper examines the experience of teaching a single course, Industrial Organization, to threevery different groups of students. The first group was a mixture of traditional and non-traditionalstudents, taking the course at a satellite campus location. The second and third groups were eachmade up of employees of a single employer, all attending the course at their respective industriallocations. In

Conference Session

Hunting for MINDs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Minnie McGee; Audeen Fentiman

Session 1470 Components of a Year-Long Bridge Program for Minority Engineering Students Minnie M. McGee, Audeen W. Fentiman The Ohio State UniversityAbstractHistorical data gathered and assessed as part of the Gateway Engineering Education Coalitio nprogram at The Ohio State University indicated that only about 1 in 10 minority engineeringstudents with math placement below college algebra completed a degree in engineering. Asignificant fraction of incoming minority engineering students, some with excellent high schoolgrades, do not perform well

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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Jay Porter; Clay Barbee; Brian Lenahan; Michael Warren; Joseph Morgan

Session 3147 Implementing a Wireless Network Infrastructure to Enhance ET Curriculum Clay Barbee, Brian Lenahan, Michael Warren, Jay R. Porter, Joseph Morgan Texas A&M UniversityAbstractDuring the summer of 2001, a team of students was brought together to design, install, and test an802.11b wireless local area network (WLAN). The team was tasked with installing a WLAN in andbetween two buildings on the Texas A&M main campus that house the Engineering Technology andIndustrial Distribution Department (ETID). The primary goal of the WLAN installation was to

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ronald Lessard

Session 2620 A Lego-Based Soccer-Playing Robot Competition For Teaching Design Ronald A. Lessard Norwich UniversityAbstractCourse Objectives in the ME382 Instrumentation Laboratory at Norwich University include1.Design of systems involving both computer hardware and software. 2.Use of modern computertools for data acquisition and control. By having the students use a Lego Mindstorms robot kitand Robolab graphical programming software as a rapid prototyping tool combination abeginning at achieving both outcomes can be efficiently accomplished. The problem to

Conference Session

Innovative Courses for ChE Students

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2002 Annual Conference

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Basil Baltzis; Dana Knox

Session 2213 Introduction to Chemical Engineering - A New Course for Freshman Students Dana E. Knox and Basil C. Baltzis Department of Chemical Engineering New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ 07102AbstractOftentimes entering freshman students know little about the major they have selected.Furthermore, the transition from high school to university is not straightforward and may createserious problems impacting retention. In order to address the foregoing issues we

Conference Session

To Design and Conduct Experiments

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2002 Annual Conference

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Wayne Walter

Session 1566 A Micro-Controller Based Robotics Course for ME Students Wayne Walter, PhD, P.E. Gleason Professor of Mechanical Engineering Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY 14623IntroductionFor many years the emphasis of our robotics course has been on projects where students design,build, and test tooling to accompany an industrial robot in a workcell. At the end of a ten-weekquarter, students were expected to demonstrate a working prototype that integrates sensors,actuators, and feeders together

Conference Session

Innovative Courses for ChE Students

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ramani Narayan

world with consideration of issues such as the nature of entrepreneurship, opportunity identification, intellectual property creation and strategy, market research, operations, financing, valuation of technology, and cash flow analysis in a technical environment. These are necessary ingredients of all successful technical business ventures, regardless of size. Student teams of 2-3 will apply their engineering skills and abilities in a business environment to identify innovative product/process opportunity/opportunities, investigate the potential for an entrepreneurial business opportunity, keeping in mind the differences between an "idea" and

Conference Session

Assessment in Large and Small Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

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Ronald Terry; W. Vincent Wilding

Session 2613 Chemical Engineering and Society—A Response to Constituency Concerns Ronald E. Terry, W. Vincent Wilding Chemical Engineering Brigham Young UniversityAbstract — As members of the faculty of the Chemical Engineering Department at BrighamYoung University (BYU), we have used feedback from constituency groups to assist in the designof a new course called Chemical Engineering and Society. These constituency groups consistedof students, alumni, our own faculty, members of faculty of other

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Klaus Weinmann; Michele Miller

Session 1566 Improving the Relevance of Manufacturing in a Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Michele H. Miller, Klaus J. Weinmann Michigan Technological University Houghton, MIAbstractIn the 2000-01 academic year, Michigan Tech University implemented a new mechanicalengineering curriculum (coincident with a change from quarters to semesters). To improve therelevance of manufacturing in that curriculum, faculty and staff developed a new sophomorelevel course Integrated Design and Manufacturing. The course is part of a

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Case; Binaya Acharya; Bruce Segee; Isaac Horn

Session 2559 Microprocessor Networking with a Minimum Number of External Connections Dr Bruce E. Segee (email: segee@eece.maine.edu), Binaya Acharya (email: bacharya@eece.maine.edu), Isaac Horn (email: isaac.horn@umit.maine.edu), Michael Case (email: michael.case@umit.maine.edu) Department Of Electrical and Computer Engineering Instrumentation Research Laboratory University of Maine, OronoAbstract Networking refers to the connection of multiple systems together to allow

Conference Session

Laptop/Handheld Computing in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Susan Hudson

Session 1620 Laptop Computer Integration in a Lower Level Mechanical Engineering Course Susan T. Hudson Department of Mechanical Engineering Mississippi State UniversityAbstractMississippi State University’s (MSU) College of Engineering (COE) began requiringincoming freshmen to either purchase or lease a personal computer in the 1999 fallsemester. Following the COE’s computer initiative, the Mechanical Engineering (ME)Department implemented a laptop computer requirement for all of its courses. This paperwill begin with a

Conference Session

Rethinking Culture and Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Matthew Mehalik

Session 3561 Teaching Strategic Security Using A Case Study of Environmentally Sustainable Design Matthew M. Mehalik University of VirginiaI. AbstractI present a case of a practitioner network that invented a secure environmentally sustainabletextile product and production system. Once the practitioners created such a network, theystruggled with how it would be possible to ensure that others external to the network, such ascustomers, were not able to dilute the very specific and documented accomplishments of theirenvironmental

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2002 Annual Conference

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Andrew Otieno

Session number: 3548 Machine Vision Applications within a Manufacturing Engineering Technology Program. Andrew W. Otieno and Clifford R. Mirman Department of Technology, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL 60115, USA Email: otieno@ceet.niu.edu or mirman@ceet.niu.eduAbstract The implementation and usage of industrial automation is undergoing major and rapidchanges. This change is driven by the need for industry both remain competitive in their coststructure and to increase the levels

Conference Session

New Computer ET Course Development

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kyle Hebsch; Jefferey Stevens; Andrew Gilchrist IV; Joel Weinstein

Session 2137 Providing a Real World Experience in the Teaching of Computer Technology By Joel Weinstein, Andrew Gilchrist IV, Kyle Hebsch, Jefferey Stevens Northeastern UniversityAbstractOne of the greatest challenges facing engineering technology educators is preparation forwhat graduates will face in the real world. Unlike the classroom, problems are notpredefined, solutions do not come from answer books and personnel are not nearly asexpert as the instructors that have prepared the students. This paper describes a courseand its methodology that helps to better prepare students for

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Eberhardt

Session 2793 Developing WEB-based tools for a General-Education course in Aerospace Scott Eberhardt Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of WashingtonAbstractWEB-based tools have been introduced into a general education engineering class. Thispaper outlines some of the tools used and shows how they impact student learning.Students were surveyed about specific tools and over 92% made use of the tools and 70%claimed that the tools helped them learn. Comments are included from both student andfaculty perspectives, and include a discussion of barriers in using WEB

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett; Eugene Audette; Debra Ricci

Session 2793 A Qualitative Measurement Method for an Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Program Debra M. Ricci, Ph.D.; Eugene J. Audette, Ph.D.; and Ronald J. Bennett, Ph.D. The University of St. ThomasAbstract The faculty of a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (BSME) program in theCollege of Arts and Sciences at a private university wished to know how two groups ofstakeholders, current students and the parents of current students, perceived the program.Program administrators and staff could use these sources of information to gain qualitative dataas it

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Yonael Teklu; Saifur Rahman; Peter Wiesner

Session# DLNET: Creating a Digital Library for Learning Objects in Engineering Saifur Rahman, Yonael Teklu Peter Wiesner Alexandria Research Institute Institute for Electrical and Virginia Tech Electronics Engineers, Inc.AbstractFunded by the National Science Foundation, the DLNET project is developing a specialized collection ofengineering and technology-related “learning objects” targeted at the practicing engineer and technologist so as