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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vipin Kumar; Scott Eberhardt

that I am trying tocommunicate. I draw on various active learning techniques: small group activities,laboratories and demonstrations, some form of "hands-on" experience.Upon returning from the Welliver Fellowship I enthusiastically became Chair of theUndergraduate Education Committee of our department. I championed the " credit-for-coop" idea, which has been implemented now for over a year. A coop program has beenin existance for mechanical engineering students for a long time, but the students nevergot any credit for it, and this led to a delay in their graduation. Under this program,mechanical engineering students can earn up to 4 credits for a six-month industrialinternship (or 2 credits for a three-month internship). The program was

Conference Session

Special Topics

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Moshe Hartman; Harriet Hartman

from faculty;direct hands-on “real world” laboratory and teamwork experience in every semester of the four-yearprogram, entrepreneurial expertise. Instead of an emphasis on competition between individuals, muchof the work is organized in project teams replicating real-world interdisciplinary collaboration; usuallythese teams are set up to avoid having only one female with multiple males, although interest in theproject may supercede the gender composition, especially in the more advanced years. Nearly 2/3 ofRowan’s juniors and seniors have the opportunity to do summer internships, gaining further real-worldexperience. Rowan prides itself on its low student-faculty ratio and its high level of student-facultyinteraction. Relatively small class

Conference Session

Panel on Entrepreneurship Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Norman Kaderlan; Mary Ann Rankin; John Butler; Steven Nichols

the development and commercialization of technology with anemphasis in commercializing technology from university laboratories. The coursecombines traditional lectures emphasizing the theory of product development and ofproduct (and service) commercialization. The course used numerous outside speakerswho emphasize more pragmatic aspects of product development and commercialization.The course requires students to -Develop a process framework for commercialization of technology from the laboratory to the marketplace within a university context, -Develop an understanding of how to assess technologies for commercialization potential, -Develop an understanding of how to create a commercial venture

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ECE Design, Capstone, and Engr. Practice

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mustafa Guvench

Reference [9]) Page 7.317.6 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering EducationThis work would not have been possible without the equipment and funding received fromSandia Laboratories, National Science Foundation and Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation. REFERENCES [1] P.E. Allen and D.R. Holberg, ”CMOS Analog Circuit Design”, Oxford University Press, New York 1987. [2] R.J. Baker, H.W. Li and D.E. Boyce, “CMOS Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation", IEEE

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Monique Osborn; Dilip Nag

a result, bothengineering academics and students have had to consider the merits of a process driven approachrather than an emphasis on product. For the Gippsland campus educators, an approach such asthis has taken sometime to develop, particularly for those who have limited pedagogicalknowledge and also equate in depth content knowledge with effective teaching practices. Forfirst year undergraduates, there was a need to reconsider how students personalise and internaliseinformation presented in lectures, tutorials and laboratories. Previously too many assumptionshad been made by both academics and students concerning the efficient processing of knowledge(4).MAJOR ASSUMPTIONS OF LEARNING AND TEACHING1. Held by Freshmen · the purpose of a

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Herrera; Stephen Stafford

the failure. In the case of fatigue failures, the service history of the componentcan sometimes be read from the fracture face in a manner similar to the way that aforester interprets the growth rings of trees. Fracture patterns in glass and in variousbrittle materials, can also be very revealing as to the origin and progression of thefracture, and thus the likely cause.Fundamental to an understanding of design for failure avoidance is an equally thoroughunderstanding of how and why materials, in their fabricated forms, fail. The latterunderstanding is not generally obtainable from studying laboratory fractures of standardtest specimens. These fractures are usually quite different in appearance from thefractures typically found in

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Beatrice Isaacs; Donald Leone; Mohammad Saleh Keshawarz; David Pines

identify the software and matching computer hardware. With help from localprofessionals, we determined that the ArcView2/PC system for GIS, and the Trimble3 GPSsystem would be most advantageous for instruction and for the students’ future needs. Thehardware and software were purchased under the NSF/ILI grant “A Multi-media StudentCentered Approach to Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Laboratory Instruction”.The expanded part of the new course was designed primarily to be web based4. For the GPSportion, the Trimble tutorial was well suited for our purposed and served as a text. We developedhomework questions based on the tutorial, and laboratory exercises that introduced the GPSequipment. All labs and homework were submitted via e-mail from

Conference Session

Student Learning and Assessment I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Wroblewski, Boston University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

problems, example problems, and laboratory experiences. Theseare integrated through a Website that provides a framework for the coursework, as well as aportal for independent inquiry into related topics. When fully implemented, specific CATs willfollow cohorts through their 4-year curriculum.The concept of CATs draws inspiration from aeronautical engineering for which exists aninherent application thread—an aircraft—touched upon throughout the curriculum, and also thesubject of a focused capstone design experience; the latter is a course taught by the author for thepast 12 years. The result is a more unified, though admittedly narrower, view of fundamentalengineering concepts, and an exposure to a critical systems engineering lesson—that

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Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Physics I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia F. Mead, Norfolk State University; Ruth A. Streveler, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Lauren D. Thomas, Virginia Tech; Candace A. Cobb, Norfolk State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

maintains an active laboratory group that develops laser systems for optical sensing and LIDAR applications. Dr. Mead has previously served as Senior Program Officer at the National Academy of Engineering and served as study director for the pivotal report, Engineering of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century.Dr. Ruth A. Streveler, Purdue University, West Lafayette Ruth A. Streveler is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Before coming to Purdue she spent 12 years at Colorado School of Mines, where she was the founding Director of the Center for Engineering Education. Dr. Streveler earned a BA in Biology from Indi- ana University-Bloomington, MS in Zoology from the

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Communication: From Pecha Kucha to Bullets

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Micah Hale, University of Arkansas; Richard A. Coffman, University of Arkansas

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

is a licensed professional engineer and licensed professional land surveyor in the state of Missouri, and is a member of ASCE, the Missouri Society of Professional Engineers, and the United States Society on Dams. Rick’s research focuses on laboratory and field testing of soils and remote sensing applications within geotechnical engineering. Page 22.1115.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Observations from an Engineering Writing ProjectAbstractWritten and oral communication skills are highly sought after abilities in engineering graduates.However

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Innovations in Materials Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew P. Conkey, Texas A&M University, Qatar; Richard B. Griffin, Texas A&M University, Qatar

Tagged Divisions

Materials

laboratory course were explicitly designed to mesh with the MEEN401 Capstone project. Any survey instrument would not have revealed any deeperrelationship. However, the students were clearly able to see how a complex project(design of a concept vehicle) could be broken into smaller and more manageablepieces to facilitate analysis and design.The perspective from the MEEN 401 instructor’s standpoint is as follows.Enlisting the MEEN 360 teams made the MEEN 401 students become the client.The fact that the MEEN 360 students were able to come up with reasonableestimations and feasible designs although their “client” provided limited and vagueinformation gives them an excellent foothold of experience when they do enter intothe capstone design class. Also

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Innovations in Materials Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Surendra K. Gupta, Rochester Institute of Technology; Steven John Kosciol, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Materials

Process.” This introduces the students to the machine shop environment and hands-on engineering. Page 25.1416.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Using a pair of iPods to Measure Angle of Twist in a Torsion ExperimentIntroductionEvery mechanical engineering undergraduate student at our university must take a sophomorelevel one quarter-credit hour course titled “Mechanics of Materials Lab”. A four quarter-credithour Mechanics of Materials course is a co-requisite to this laboratory course. One of the fiveexperiments in the laboratory course focuses on the study of elastic and plastic

Conference Session

Projects in Alternative Energy: Wind and Solar

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leonel Aguilera, University of Texas, Pan American; Jaime Ramos-Salas P.E., University of Texas, Pan American; Sanjeev Kumar, University of Texas, Pan American

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

arraysthat we have in campus, and to also study security aspect of data collection in future forsmart grid project.Our research objective is to measure the actual efficiencies of each one of our arrays in anaccurate way.The Solar System we have designed is the research methodology that gives the studentsaccess to a wide variety of data generated by the Solar Radiation Lab, ENGR and TXUarrays. They will have to calculate different angles of the sun at diverse hours of the dayand the solar noon time in a manual way using formulas presented in this paper in orderto compare their theoretical results with the actual measurements found in the system.A compound of class exercises, homework and laboratory experiments have beendesigned to introduce this

Conference Session

K-12 Experiences in Energy Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Liping Guo, Northern Illinois University; Mansour Tahernezhadi, Northern Illinois University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

StateBoard of Education. The main focus of the project is to provide middle school and high schoolscience, math and technology teachers with hands-on interdisciplinary experience with faculty instate-of-the-art laboratories of alternative energy, nanotechnology, fuel cell, and modernmanufacturing. The goal of the institute is to improve teachers’ content knowledge and teachingpractices in ways that increase the academic performance of their students and in ways that buildcapacity within their schools for continued, sustained student learning. Problem-based learning is a student-centered pedagogy in which students learn about asubject in the context of complex and real problems. The problem drives the learning, as studentsneed to acquire new

Conference Session

Engineering Education for Modern Needs Part I: Non-traditional Learning Methods and Expanding Student Markets

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary L. Fletcher, Johns Hopkins University; Allan W. Bjerkaas, Johns Hopkins University

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

- tion, and the Tate Geological Museum Advisory Board. She is also an instructor for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Casper College in the subject of the ”History of Mysteries.”Dr. Allan W. Bjerkaas, Johns Hopkins University Allan W. Bjerkaas holds a bachelor’s degree with a double major in physics and mathematics from the University of North Dakota and a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He joined the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in 1973 after completing a two-year postdoctoral appointment at the University of Pittsburgh. While at the Applied Physics Laboratory, Bjerkaas was a Project Manager in the Submarine Technology Department and

Conference Session

CoED General Technical Session II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher R. Carroll, University of Minnesota, Duluth

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

synthesis software.Otherwise, digital design degenerates into just another programming exercise, albeit using ahardware description language rather than traditional software languages.During Fall semester 2011, programmable logic devices were used for the first time1 as the basisfor lab exercises in a second semester, advanced digital design laboratory at UMD, replacingdesign using discrete digital integrated circuits. The experience exposed some limitationsimposed by the technology. For example, when circuits must avoid logic hazards (momentary“glitches” during transitions) as in asynchronous finite state machine design, FPGAs cannot beused properly, and CPLDs must be coerced into working by clumsily “fooling” the synthesissoftware. These specific

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ruane

periods. Page 6.888.1Faculty develop modules that will help students understand their area of engineering, and Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationprovide general introductory engineering skills. The module format has increased student-faculty interaction in the freshman year, helped students in selecting majors, and served as acurriculum laboratory where faculty can experiment with new pedagogy, including introducingdesign. Recent courses have included AutoCAD design of mechanical systems

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Yaw Owusu

).Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education 7. Practical Knowledge (not the same as experience) • Reasonable "shop tolerance" capabilities. • Cost associated with tight tolerances. • Trouble shooting skills. • Awareness of difference between real world and modeled or laboratory world. 8. Concept of continuing education while working 9. Engineers must be willing to go to Manufacturing/factory Floor to work with Shop Floor people to help solve problems. 10. Understand the Concept of Cross Functional Training/Learning (in order to satisfy customer

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Culbreth

engineeringstudents often have difficulty in working with these devices.To help our students better meet the needs of local industry, a mechanical engineering coursewas developed to teach students to use microcontrollers, to integrate sensors and actuators withthese devices, and to connect to larger computers for communication with the user. The coursewas taught in the spring semester of 2000 to a class of undergraduates and master’s students.In addition to this course in microcontrollers, computer technology is integrated into a number ofour undergraduate mechanical engineering courses. The introductory engineering course has acompanion laboratory course1 that introduces Microsoft Office, Mathsoft Mathcad, andAutodesk Autocad. They are also required to take

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Case; Bruce Segee

of Maine’s Instrumentation and Research Laboratory andSensor Research and Development Corporation, a device used to control the temperature of solidstate thin film gas sensors has been in development. A block diagram of the sensor temperaturecontrol circuitry is shown in Figure 1. A host computer can interact with the system using ashared RS-232 network to set or check temperature and many other things, but a goal of thesystem is to also allow independent operation. When running independently, the only form ofinteraction between the user and the temperature controller is by means of a set of DIP switchesthat can be used to specify a temperature setting. Although the system is precalibrated to provideprecise temperature control, confirmation

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas E. Hulbert; Robert B. Angus

laboratory,interwoven using J.I.T. methodology. More than 45 participants have taken the courseand provided feedback via a questionnaire. A Supervisors’ Course is being developed.Labs are provided; the supervisors will analyze and evaluate the lab material from theicons backwards.IntroductionFor several years, Northeastern University’s Continuing Education Center for CorporateOn-Site Training has been working to devise new courses that apply the Just-In-TimeEducation™ technique. This technique examines the technical topics desired to betaught to potential participants. It then sequences these topics so the knowledge andskills are gradually applied in the course. Potential participants are given a mathematicsDiagnostic Tool developed by the authors

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Melanie Basantis; Zenaida Otero Keil

Planning Center worktogether to make certain that the experience is technically and developmentallyappropriate for students. Internships provide students with valuable real worldexperience. When well organized, internships are an enhancement to the academicexperience. The Rowan internships have served to show students the importance ofclasses and laboratories in engineering practice. In addition, they have served to developand educate students in many areas related to industrial practice that are not available inan academic setting. Student interns work in companies as professionals and gainpractical experience. Students learn by doing and from the mentoring by experiencedengineers, which is part of the internship experience. The College

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Emin Yilmaz

Session 3548 WHEEL BALANCING MACHINE DESIGN Emin Yilmaz Department of Technology University of Maryland Eastern Shore Princess Anne, MD 21853ABSTRACTThe goal of the Wheel Balancing Machine Design project was to introduce students to designingmechanical systems in the ETME475-Mechanical Systems Design course. Project was completedin stages as a laboratory requirement for the course. The machine consists of a frame, an electricmotor, a belt driven shaft on two spherical bearings, an anchoring system to

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

B. S. Sridhara

we arelooking forward to competing in Sunrayce 99. Acknowledgment The author wishes to thank each and every one responsible for the success of theSolaraider II project at Middle Tennessee State University. Bibliography1. “Request for Proposals (RFP) for Sunrayce 97,” National Renewable Laboratory. Golden, Colorado,January 1996.2. B. S. Sridhara, “Design, fabrication and testing of a solar-powered car for competing in Sunrayce 97,”Proposal submitted to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, January 1996.3. “Sunrayce 97 Regulations,“ U. S. Department of Energy, Washington, D. C., November 1995.4. B. S. Sridhara, “Report on chassis impact

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Jack Zecher; Kenneth Rennels; Douglas Acheson

Manufacturing Technology, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI, hasundertaken a project to make use of modern marketing technology by developing an interactiveCD-ROM aimed specifically at recruitment. The development of this recruiting tool is beingpartially funded by a grant from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Education Foundation.The objective of this project is to develop an interactive CD-ROM. This tool will allow theviewer to: learn about engineering technology careers; learn about IUPUI’s campus; investigatedegree programs and curricula; tour the department’s laboratories; meet the department facultyand students; and have frequently asked questions answered. The obvious benefit to thedevelopment of this CD-ROM will be the

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Kassim M. Tarhini; Gerald R. Frederick; Benjamin Koo

requirements for legal entry into the U.S. as a student, as specified by theImmigration and Naturalization Service, should be provided.Orientation programs should comprise two phases; a personalized orientation program focusing oncultural activities and student services provided by the university should be conducted, followed byan academic orientation program. These programs should be completed before classes begin. Thepersonalized orientation will assist international students in making a successful transition from theirhome countries to U.S. engineering institutions by familiarizing them with university services suchas the library, computer center, student recreation center, student union, major laboratories, culturalcenter and legal office. In

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Naseem Ishaq; Salahuddin Qazi

equipment and laboratories which is critical because of the strong hands-on emphasis [3].An interdisciplinary Master of Science program in Advanced Technology with emphasis on practicalapplications is also jointly offered by the departments of electrical , mechanical and industrialengineering technologies.To incorporate research into curriculum, the authors actively sought funding for research from boththe private and government sectors in the last twelve years. The objective was to undertake appliedresearch and relate it to the development of new courses, updating the existing labs and courses, andinvolving students in these efforts. Parts of the research project were used as topics forundergraduate student projects which were later incorporated

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Swami Karunamoorthy; K. Ravindra

cr.Advanced Mathematics 3 cr.ENGINEERING SCIENCE: (34 credits)Computer Science 3 cr.Freshmen Engineering 4 cr.Statics 3 cr.Dynamics 3 cr.Solid Mechanics / Lab 4 cr.Fluid Dynamics 3 cr.Thermodynamics 3 cr.Linear Vibrations 3 cr.Linear Systems 3 cr.Electrical Eng. / Lab 5 cr.ME MAJOR: (41 credits)Foundation to Eng. Design 3 cr.Kinematics 3 cr.Machine Design 3 cr.Material Science 3 cr.Measurements 3 cr.Manufacturing 3 cr.Mechatronics 3 cr.Applied Thermodynamics 3 cr.Heat Transfer 3 cr.Design I & II 6 cr.ME Laboratory 2 cr.Technical Electives 6

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Lozano-Nieto

Engineering and Engineering Technology, actualindustry experience is greatly appreciated not only by future employers, but also by the students.Employers feel more comfortable with future employees that have some experience beforegraduating from college, and have acquired a basic knowledge on how their specific industryworks (Lessard, 1996). Students recognize that the lectures and laboratory experiences deliveredwhile in college are necessary to learn the basic and theoretical principles for a given subject.However, they also recognize that due to the limitations of the campus infrastructure, they cannotreproduce as much as would be desirable, the actual industry settings. This is especially true inBiomedical Engineering Technology, as the teaching

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Carlos Balda

Through Long Leads This project consisted of developing a Matlab-based model to analyze the effects of long cables on PWM inverter-fed induction motors. Another faculty member, who teaches the Page 2.162.3 Electromagnetic courses, was enlisted for this project. An experimental set-up was established in the Energy Conversion Laboratory to verify the results from the Matlab-based model. This research project was sponsored by a motor-drive manufacturer who offered a position to the student after graduation. Unfortunately, the student accepted a better economical offer. Both faculty members