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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Bradford Cross; Susan M. Morgan; Mark P Rossow

for the faculty to collect materialsfrom across the curriculum to assess the Department’s performance in meeting most of theDepartment’s outcomes.The Outcome PortfolioThe Department has 18 outcomes, which are based closely on the ABET 2000 "ProgramOutcomes." The Department chose to adopt verbatim all 11 ABET outcomes and added 7outcomes (including 5 ABET-prescribed "Program Criteria"). The faculty noticed that therewere common themes among the outcomes. In fact, 16 of the outcomes can be grouped in sixgeneral categories--communication, design, engineering tools, laboratory experience, problemsolving/analysis, and professional practice (Table 1). The outcome portfolios were developedaround these categories. Two outcomes (program graduates

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara L. Christe

students in the program varies tremendously. Some people have extensive electronics backgrounds; yet have not had exposure to the clinical laboratory environment. Others have medical technologist degrees with relatively little formal electronics training. The self-paced instructional method allows each person to concentrate on specific areas and proceed quickly through familiar material. Be patient with the other participants! o remember each person gained their knowledge from different places in different ways. o remember each person may or may not use material a course may cover. If you work with electric circuits everyday, your skills will be different than someone who has not used those concepts in a long

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Berreen

be used in either study mode or lecture mode and contains various exercises,animations and quantitatively correct simulations. The combining of these with other learningresources such as mathematical packages and laboratory work is considered.1. IntroductionThere would appear, from recent reviews of engineering education in the USA1 and inAustralia2 that there is strong impetus towards a broadening of engineering courses and astriving to make students more central in the whole educational process. Coupled with thesedirections is a highlighting of longlife learning aspects so that students progressively takegreater control of their learning. This means that as important as the technical skills is theobtaining of the learning skills to ensure

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Cataldo

Hydrography Package(HEC-1)4,” and “River Analysis System (HEC-RAS)5.” It is virtually impossible to find theinstructions on the use of these programs in an introductory course in Water ResourceEngineering. This has placed an added burden in teaching hydraulics and hydrology to theundergraduate engineering students.Approximately a decade ago, the course in Water Resource Engineering (hydraulics andhydrology is introduced to junior civil engineering students in this course) at Cooper Union wasrevised to include a three hour laboratory and problem solving weekly session. In order toincorporate the use of the latest techniques in this course, projects in urban storm water runoffand flooding were assigned. The HEC-1 program and HEC-2 program was used to

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Yue-Chung Wong

background, the subject does become very hard for the students to grasp and for thelecturer to teach. Before the integrated approach was developed, a great deal of the time of alecture had to be used to recap or even re-teach what had been taught in previous lectures. Whatfollows is a discussion of the evolution of teaching power electronics in an integrated approachwith much higher success rate.2. Problems and solutions in the first 2 years of teaching the subjectDuring the year (1994-95) when the subject was taught for the first time, it was found out that,almost right from the beginning, the subject was difficult for most of the students judging fromtheir performance in laboratory, tutorial and lecture classes. In order to help the students

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Renata Anna Gorska

counterparts from the high Page 3.246.2technology countries? A short description of the relevant courses from our graphics curriculumin Poland follows.GRAPHICS CURRICULA AT THE CUTGenerally, Engineering Graphics (EG) at the Polish technical universities is covered in differentcourses, which are delivered under many various titles at the freshmen level. Among others thereare:Descriptive Geometry (1 lecture hour + 2 laboratory hours per week) with the following topics:• geometric constructions • true length of a line (auxiliary view plane &• theory of projections (auxiliary view plane & cutting plane

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Nosenchuck

fabricationmethodologies are introduced in the accompanying laboratory. Parametric TechnologyCorporation suite of applications form the basis of the CAD/CAE/CAM toolset (CAD:Pro/Engineer (parametric solid modeling); CAE: Pro/Mechanica (FEA) and Pro/Motion(dynamics/kinematics); CAM: Pro/Manufacture (CNC toolpath generation)) introduced andapplied in the laboratory.A key objective in design is to give students an early introduction into teaming. IntegratedProduct Teams (IPTs) are formed with the aim of creating a heterogeneous, yet coherent mix ofskills and interests. Figure 1 illustrates a notional multiply-skilled six-member IPT comprised ofstudents who have multiple skills, which interact with other team members. Such a skill mix isunlikely to occur in most

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Subra Ganesan

DSPprocessor and is widely used for communication, multimedia and control applications.This paper describes a top down approach for the selection of DSP processor, thehardware board design using TMS320C5X processor, software development using thecustom board which can be interfaced with the personal computer (PC). A typical courseon this topic starts with an introduction to the DSP chip and then provides a step by stepinstruction with hands on training using several lab experiments.Some of the laboratory experiments described here are: FIR filter and IIR filterimplementation, word recognition, touch-tone phone dialer and Fuzzy logic based enginecontrol Application of DSP in Automotive control and use of application developmenttools such as Matlab

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas W. Graver; Leon F. McGinnis; David W. Rosen

Session 1463 Engaging Industry in Lab-Based Manufacturing Education: RPM at Georgia Tech Thomas W. Graver, Leon F. McGinnis, David W. Rosen Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstractLeading edge manufacturing technologies present major challenges in education, both for degreestudents and for continuing education. Creating and maintaining the necessary instructionalfacilities can easily overwhelm typical university budgets. At Georgia Tech, a uniqueuniversity/industry partnership has been formed to create and sustain a laboratory for RapidPrototyping and Manufacturing (RPM

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Deran Hanesian; Angelo J. Perna

Session 2326 Freshman Engineering Design - Process Design and Siting of a Municipal Wastewater Facility Deran Hanesian, Angelo Perna New Jersey Institute of TechnologyAbstractTo bring “practical” engineering into the freshman year, a hands on lecture/laboratory chemicalengineering introductory course was developed which meets twice a week for a total of 3 hoursfor seven weeks. The course was well received by students. In order to broaden the designexperience and include concepts of manufacturing into the freshman course, an interdisciplinaryEnvironmental

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric W. Tisdale

Session 1663 Instrumentation of ASTM Tools Eric Tisdale Ball State UniversityAbstractThis paper will focus on a laboratory experience using a chip level pressure sensor that will bepresented as both a force gauge and a level meter. The goal is to present sensors to the studentswith enough information to allow them to see how sensors can be adapted to collect differentdata parametersBackgroundLaboratory experiments often seem disconnected from the “real world”. Examples ofinstrumentation used in commercial enterprise are used to stimulate conversation

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Henry G. Ansell

coursecalled Activity Analysis: Therapeutic Devices is that occupational therapy students design andconstruct a therapeutic device. This course is given in the second semester of the four-semesterprogram. In the spring 1995 semester this writer taught a one-credit introductory electricalengineering laboratory course, called Electrical Engineering Laboratory, given concurrently withan introductory electrical circuits course. No design project was required. These two courseswere normally taken in the fourth semester of a student’s electrical engineering program. It was apparent that encouraging cooperation between the occupational therapy andengineering students would enrich the engineering lab course by inserting a bit of design

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard L. LeBoeuf; Gregory Spaulding

. Although the senior project courses at KSU traditionally have been industrial projectsfunded by industry, the ASHRAE Undergraduate Senior Project Grant Program was attractivebecause it could encompass many aspects of students’ course work, require a significant amountof learning, and last up to an entire academic year.Prior to the year the senior project grant was procured, ASHRAE sent a proposal solicitation tothe college in September. The deadline for proposals was in December and notification ofapproval was given by ASHRAE in March of the following year. Since a laboratory componenthad just been added to the Thermodynamics course (now called Thermodynamics and HeatTransfer), this project was viewed as a perfect way to develop essential

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven E. LeBlanc

and hone their problem solving skills while theyare with us.Where should we introduce this material in the curriculum? It's already too full, you say.What should we leave out to make room for it? I don't believe that's the correct approach.There is a variety of ways that can (and should, in my opinion) be used to cover theseskills in a traditional engineering curriculum. One alternative is as part of an introductoryengineering course for freshman. Many schools have decided to move some designactivities down into the freshman year courses. Design activities (at the freshman or evenat the level of the senior capstone course) provide an ideal vehicle to insert this materialinto the curriculum. Laboratory courses also are a good time to cover

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald D. Earley

with the necessarybackground to gain basic working knowledge of the analysis method. These courses should introduce thefollowing general topics: engineering materials, statics, strength of materials, and machine design. Materials Page 3.602.1testing such as tension, impact, shear, and fatigue are introduced within the engineering materials course. Thestrength of materials course provides instruction in the various mathematical relationships and procedures thatmay be used to perform stress analysis on structural parts of simple geometry. Instead of the usual testlaboratory a computer laboratory module is provided. To help prepare

Conference Session

Simulation

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert L. Avanzato, Pennsylvania State University, Abington

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

exhibits. Benefits of employing virtual world simulation tools include rapidprototyping, low-cost development and delivery, collaboration, and access to aninternational community. An interactive robotics exhibit in the area of mobile robotprogramming education has been constructed and deployed in the virtual world. Asecond exhibit to enable 3D human-robot interaction studies has also been established.Student access, involvement, and collaboration in the virtual robotics exhibits have beensuccessful. Simulations developed in 3D virtual worlds, such as Second Life, can serveas a highly accessible virtual laboratory and can support a variety of educational andresearch objectives in the area of mobile robotics and human-robot interactions.1

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Howard Medoff, Pennsylvania State University, Ogontz; Robert L. Avanzato, Pennsylvania State University, Abington

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

in science, technology,engineering and mathematics courses, as well as increase retention in thesecourses/fields. A Toy-FUN-damentals first-year seminar course has been taught at the UniversityPark campus, and it has ‘proven to increase retention of women in the College ofEngineering’. At the Abington campus, we have developed a modified version of thiscourse, using Power Wheels® cars to illustrate engineering principles. Our overall projectinvolves students in two existing courses -- Engineering Design (EDSGN 100-forfreshmen students) and a sophomore-level Computer Engineering laboratory course indigital design (CMPEN 275). This paper will outline the educational outcomes and contributions of each classin the analysis and

Conference Session

ETD Design I: Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claudio Talarico, Eastern Washington University; Min-Sung Koh, Eastern Washington University; Esteban Rodriguez-Marek, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, this paper introducessome experiment we have developed to test the simplified lab environment.IntroductionLearning to use the various instruments and devices that equip a typical electronics laboratory isboth very challenging and time consuming. Based on our experience most students need muchmore time than the typical two-hours per week provided by classes such as circuit theory, analogelectronics and digital electronics. Unfortunately, students who would like to spend more timeoutside of class working on labs and projects cannot afford to do so, due to the significant cost ofthe equipment. This issue is even more problematic for students enrolled in distance educationprograms. Over the last couple of decades, somehow “justified” by the

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Asad Yousuf

particular concern in the aerospace industry is the tendency of some PMCmaterials to become irreversibly damaged when exposed to elevated temperatures. This paperwill discuss fluorescence based imaging system capable of identifying regions of thermaldamage in polymer-matrix composites.In an effort to further understand the intervening functions assigned to the assessment of thermaldamages in polymer composites this paper will demonstrate a PC-based virtual instrumentationsystem using the Image Acquisition (IMAQ) Vision software with the General Purpose InterfaceBus (GPIB) controlled by the LabView (Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench)software.I. INTRODUCTIONSpectral imaging is the determination of spatially distributed and chemically

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert P. Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

industrially integrated NSF workshop on Novel Process Science andEngineering conducted at Rowan University. We believe that reaction engineering comes alivewith students conducting innovative experiments in a laboratory setting. Students are able to seethe catalyst; measure gas phase concentrations and flowrates; and use these measurements to Page 4.117.1examine at least 6 principles of reactor design.IntroductionThis experiment explores the area of heterogeneous catalysis using the automotive catalyticconverter which is the largest market for heterogeneous catalytic reactors. Autocatalysts havebeen placed in approximately 225 million of the world’s 400

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Serpil Guvench; Mike Denton; Mark Rollins; Mustafa Guvench

. Therefore,the system is also suitable for measuring and characterizing magnetic, radiation and temperaturesensors as well as the standard semiconductor devices.1. IntroductionPrinciples of automated measurement of bipolar and field-effect transistors by employing the standard IEEE-488 interfaced electronic test bench instruments available in undergraduate electronics laboratories andmethodologies that can be used to extract their SPICE parameters from the acquired I-V data were describedearlier[1,3]. However, limited dynamic range of such electronic test bench instruments, although excellent asteaching tools, cannot be relied on for higher level modeling work needed at senior or graduate level coursesand in research, particularly if CMOS components

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher R. Carroll

image scanners.This paper details the techniques used in a microprocessor laboratory to generate a CRT imageof both text and graphics using the rasterizing hardware built into the AMD 29205 processor. BackgroundThis paper is an extension of a paper presented previously at the 1995 ASEE annualconference1 that detailed the techniques for designing a microprocessor lab around the 29205processor. The lab station described in that paper included both the SA-29205 demonstrationboard for the processor and a separate terminal for interaction with a host computer. The labstation in that microprocessor laboratory is evolving away from the need for the separateterminal by using the processing power available in

Conference Session

Student Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Austin Talley, University of Texas, Austin; Jason Albert, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Divisions

Students Constituent Committee

of Engineering at the University of Texas for the student chapter volunteers. • Speaker meeting: What it is like to work at a government at Austin. laboratory, led by a NETL engineer visiting UT for business Page 15.1043.2

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Josh Goldowitz

unique “doing” approach for deeper understanding of groundwaterhydraulics. Each year, students in Introduction to Hydrology Laboratory at Rochester Institute ofTechnology install a groundwater monitoring network into a confined silty sand aquifer.Students working in small groups install wells to approximately 15 feet depth using hand augersand standard materials (well points, slotted screen, riser, lockable cap, sand pack, bentonite seal,cement grout, and concrete surface completion). Design elements include well placement, welldepth, well construction material, and well screen slot size. After preparing well logs andgeologic cross sections the students determine hydraulic conductivity, groundwater flowdirection, gradient, discharge and velocity

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hata

designed to provide a basic understanding of theelectrical and optical properties of gas plasmas. They range from inexpensive Page 10.397.1demonstrations and experiments to more sophisticated studies using a Langmuir Probe. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”They have been tested in the laboratory at Portland Community College in PCC’s MT240 RF Plasma Systems course.DemonstrationsStructure of a DC Glow Discharge in a Long Tube The equipment for this demonstration can be purchased from scientific supply

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Bazzoli; Blair Rowley

was a three hour per quarter, two quarter course. It had a fall-winter, winter-spring structure. Each first quarter had one 2-hour lecture and two, 1-hourlaboratories per week. The curriculum the first quarter had two teaming events, basics ofengineering drawing, an introduction to instrumentation, resistive circuits involving Ohms andKirchoff’s laws, and integrated circuits used for timers, flip-flops, counters, and an introductionto two of the college programs. In addition the students learned to use HTML to design their ownweb sites and MatLab and Excel to solve statistical problems involving normal distributions.The second quarter had one, 2-hour lecture and one, 1-hour laboratory, and one teaming event.The students were introduced to

Conference Session

Energy Program and Software Tools

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Keshav Varde

limited researchopportunities in combustion engines and fuel systems to its undergraduates. The program waslimited to a select few who had keen interest in the subject matter. The laboratory researchfacilities were recently expanded to cater to increased funding in the subject area and the awardof the National Science Foundation REU site has allowed expansion of undergraduate researchopportunities to students from academic institutions across the country. Up to eightundergraduate students have been involved in the project each year, receiving financial supportduring summer to conduct research in combustion engines, exhaust emissions, fuel systems andrelated areas. Undergraduate research programs provide a range of opportunities to students

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Robinson; Jody Finnegan; Gene Stuffle; D. Subbaram Naidu; Al Wilson; Jay Kunze

sequences A and B, C and D and E and F, we had severalstudents choosing combinations of sequences A and C, C and E, and C and F showing a trueinterdisciplinary background for such students. During this period, the School of Engineeringbecame the College of Engineering and General Engineering renamed as Engineering. Further,graduate programs (MS) in Nuclear Science and Engineering and an interdisciplinaryMeasurement and Control Engineering were established along with PhD program in NuclearScience and Engineering mostly to cater to the needs of Idaho National Engineering Laboratory(INEL now INEEL) in Idaho Falls, Idaho, operated by the Department of Energy (DoE). Also, aBS program in Engineering Management was initiated in cooperation with the

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Klaus Weinmann; Michele Miller

design andmanufacturing thread that begins in the freshman year and extends to the senior year. The coursepresents an overview of the product development process, discusses the major unitmanufacturing processes along with part design implications, and introduces manufacturingsystems. The course departs from the earlier quarter long manufacturing course by emphasizingpractice more and theory less. A new laboratory provides hands-on manufacturing experience toall students.IntroductionThe Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics Department at Michigan Tech has formany years placed a high value on manufacturing in its curricula and research. A change fromquarters to semester in the 2000-01 academic year prompted faculty and staff to review the

Conference Session

CE Rap Session and Toys in the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa Wang

in structural dynamics and earthquake engineering and structural failure modes into the undergraduate civil engineering curriculum. This way students will enhance the understanding of principles in both the structural analysis and design courses. The objective is to tie the concepts covered in class to laboratory models and experimentation. Automatic data acquisition and display methods will be used during testing to illustrate these concepts. • To help students develop a better understanding of structural design criteria. Students will observe the physical behavior of structural systems such as ductile moment resisting frames, buckling phenomena of columns, or the plastic hinging of beams