Conference Session

Effective Energy Laboratory Ideas

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Skvarenina

shows a photograph of an experimental setup to Page 7.467.7Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 10: Experiment to observe capacitor switching transientsFigure 11: (a) circuit layout for capacitor switching and (b) equivalent circuitdemonstrate capacitor switching transients, while Figure 11 shows a sketch of the setup and theequivalent circuit. As shown, a small transformer was used to provide series inductance and anordinary household light switch was used to switch the capacitors into the

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Beth Kolko; Linda Whang

worksheet developed byMichael O’Sullivan and Thomas Scott which asks students to look at several factors related tospecific criteria. These include questioning whether links are accurate, sources are cited, theauthor has listed qualifications, and information contains a bias as well as whether informationon the site is updated regularly. [12]In the discipline of English, several instructors have generated strategies for using Webresources, and their innovations can form the basis of engineering-specific information literacyskills. For example, Catherine B. Elliott has found the following three strategies crucial tohelping students use Web resources effectively. She advocates teaching students key word skills,how to use databases that are available

Conference Session

Pedagogical Best Practices

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Navratil

Session 1451 Teaching Actinide Environmental Chemistry at Clemson University James D. Navratil Department of Environmental Engineering and Science, Clemson University, 342 Computer Court, Anderson, SC 29625-6510ABSTRACTA combination of teaching/presentation techniques was used in a new actinideenvironmental chemistry course to accommodate the various learning styles of thestudents. The course focused on the environmental, inorganic and process chemistry ofthe fascinating elements at the bottom of the periodic table. Lectures covered chemicaland physical aspects of actinide metals and compounds

Conference Session

The Modern ChE Laboratory

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

number ofpressure drops at different flowrates. As the laboratory data is collected the students are asked tomake the above plots on the laboratory computer (excluding the roughness plot). They arerequired to turn in the following plots as part of a laboratory write-up: a) Graph 1: Pressure drop as a function of flowrate for brass pipes. Use a separate data series for each pipe diameter. b) Graph 2: Pressure drop as a function of the square of the flowrate for brass pipes. Use a separate data series for each pipe diameter. c) Graph 3: Pressure 120 drop as a function of 100 flowrate for pipes of 3/8" Dia

Conference Session

Biomedical Engr. Design and Laboratories

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Christianson; Paul King

Err is Human; Building a Safer Health System”, National Academy Press, 2000.4 Bogenr, M.S., Human Error in Medicine, Lawrence, Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, N.J., 1994.5 Witkin, Karen B. 1997 Clinical Evaluation of Medical Devices: Principles and Case Studies, Humana Press.6 Casey, S., 1993, Set Phasers on Stun and other True Tales of Design, Technology, and Human Error , SantaBarbara, CA, Aegean Publishing Company.7 Geddes, Leslie, 1998, Medical Device Accidents With Illustrative Cases, New York, CRC Press.8 See www.baddesigns.com for example.9 http://www.cyberus.ca/~sjordan/pmmain.htm10 http://www.mtn.org/quack/11 see www.designsafe.com12 see http://www.nsc.org/istd.htm13 see www.nsc.org14 http://www.accessdata.fda.gov

Conference Session

Multi-disciplinary Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Satish Mahajan; Joe Biernacki; Glenn Cunningham; Jeff Frolik

micro-machined mirrorsusing simple floating and fixed hinge designs for three layer process,” International Mechanical EngineeringCongress and Exposition, NY, November 11-16, 2001.11 B. George and J. Knight, “A nine-position, electrostatic micro-stage,” submitted to the 2002 IEEE SoutheastConference, Columbia, SC, April 2002.12 N. Panduga, G. Cunningham, C. Darvennes, J. Frolik and J. Biernacki, “Capacitive micromachined ultrasonictransducers (CMUT),” to be submitted to Sensors and Actuators.13 E. Roan, Design and Microfabrication of an All-Optical Mechanical Switch, M.S. Thesis, TennesseeTechnological University, December 2000.14 N. Panduga, Design, Analysis and Testing of Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers, M.S. Thesis

Conference Session

Novel Classroom Environments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Skip Rochefort; Keith Levien

(ChE) Department. in undergraduate education.3) apply basic engineering skills for a successful engineering career at OSU and beyond. a) use computers for: word processing (WORD); spreadsheet analysis (EXCEL) of engineering data; drawing of engineering flowsheets (Power Point or WORD); presentations (Power Point) , email correspondence, and internet access of information. b) use basic engineering problem solving skills in classroom and laboratory environments. c) work in TEAMS in the classroom environment to "brainstorm" for process analysis, engineering problem solving, ethics discussions, ChE career discussions, etc. d) work in TEAMS in a laboratory environment to plan

Conference Session

Course Assessment in ET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wiggins

materials.External review should include such areas as the market into which program graduate aremoving, that is, what does industry want?As an example, the current ABET criteria for the 2002-2003 breaks the accreditation process intocriteria, a conventional criteria and the TC2K criteria.The conventional criteria1 for Construction Engineering Technology reads as follows: Page 7.253.2II.H.2.b. Technical Specialties II.H.2.b.(1). Associate degree curricula must include topics in contract and specifications, construction materials, construction methods, cost estimating , elementary structures, engineering graphics

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Feldman; Wayne Mackey

modules. The tests are a typical mixture of multiple choice,true/false or yes/no, and open answer questions and problems. Partial and full credit is awardedin an absolutely uniform way for every student according to rigorous standards. Of course, allcolleges and universities try to ensure uniform, high standards for all their classes but even withcommon tests or finals it can't be known that a grade of A in one class means the same thing as agrade of A in another. With IMME it is possible for this to be absolutely assured.The system was initiated at the University of Arkansas for Beginning/Intermediate Algebra inthe fall of 1998 using the text developed by the aurthors 2. The success rate (A,B, or C) improvedfrom 26% to 48%. Encouraged by these

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Hedrick

learning. To encourage student participation in the learning processwe had individual students and groups of students solve problems on the board. We alsodeveloped in-class group exercises to help students master important concepts (see Fig. 1,Boolean Algebra In Class Group Exercise in the Appendix).B. Developing a problem solving strategyWhen students are having trouble with course work or assignments we frequently tell them thatthey must work harder, but we don't tell them how to work harder. For example, word problemsin assignments and on exams frequently cause students trouble. To help students understand howto develop strategies for dealing with troublesome concepts we developed a process for solvingword problems in class with the students

Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Development and Innovations

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Beenfeldt; John Field; Eric Beenfeldt; Edward Williams

following instructions have been assembled and stored in memory as shown. Fill in theblanks to the right of each instruction below to give the addressing mode used as well as registercontents AFTER the instruction is executed. Assume the instructions are accessing the data aboveand the PC is initialized to 0100. Give your answers in hex.Addr Machine Source Addr Reg. Contents (After Instr. Executes) Code Instruction Mode A B X0100 86 54 LDAA #$540102 F6 01 60 LDAB $01600105 FC 01 60 LDD $01600108 FE 01 60 LDX $0160010B CE 01 80 LDX #$0180010D A6 04 LDAA 4,X010D 08 INX010E EE 05

Conference Session

Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Omid Ansary; Walter Buchanan; Alireza Rahrooh

consistent with the mission of the institution and these criteria (b) a process based on the needs of the program’s various constituencies in which the objectives are determined and periodically evaluated (c) a curriculum and processes that ensure the achievement of these objectives (d) a system of ongoing evaluation that demonstrates achievement of these objectives and uses the results to improve the effectiveness of the program.Criterion 3. Program Outcomes and AssessmentEngineering programs must demonstrate that their graduates have: (a) an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering (b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in EET

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Stewart; William Lin

Education” Suggested Instructional Objectives A. Introduce the concepts of carrier, signal, symbol, transmission, bandwidth, and information. B. In a semi-qualitative way (i.e. with minimum math), explain modulation and demodulation as necessarily non-linear processes. C. Draw block diagram of a typical communication system, including transmitter, channel, and receiver. D. Explain the functions of critical sub-systems such as transducers, modulators, demodulators. E. Explain the effects and sources of noise, and the significance of S/N ration. F. Explain the significance of the channel capacity equation: C = (BW) ´ log 2 (1

Conference Session

Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Val Stamboltsian; Robert Dennis; Khy Huang

): p. 937-949. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Education16. Novak, J.D. and D. Musonda, A twelve-year longitudinal study of science concept learning. American Educational Research Journal, 1991. 28(1): p. 117-153.17. Heinze-Fry, J.A. and J.D. Novak, Concept mapping brings long-term movement toward meaningful learning. Science Education, 1990. 74(4): p. 461-472.18. Novak, J.D., & Gowin, D. B., The use of concept mapping and knowledge Vee mapping with junior high school science students. Science Education, 1983. 67(5): p. 625-645.19. Novak, J.D., Concept maps and Vee diagrams

Conference Session

Freshman Success/Retention Strategies

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachelle Heller; Nathan Campeau

York Times, 22 August 2001, Section B, p. 9.Author BiographyNathan Campeau is currently serving as the Dean’s Fellow for Undergraduate Relationsat the School of Engineering and Applied Science at The George Washington University.In this role, Nathan planned and executed the Freshman Retreat in September 2001. Healso served on the retreat leadership team in 2000, in addition to numerous studentleadership positions over the past five years that he has attended GW. Nathan is alsoresponsible for the assessment programs, as well as continuing to encourage retentionthrough leadership of the Student Peer Advising Network, a student group of peermentors who advise the freshman class. He is pursuing his masters degree in CivilEngineering with a

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Cremin

Education9. Course Notes, CDA 328 Speech Science, Saint Louis University, Spring 199710. Course Notes, SPPA 441 Disorders of Articulation, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Fall 199811. Shames, George H., Wiig, Elisabeth H., Secord, Wayne A., Human Communication Disorders: An Introduction, 4th Ed., Merrill Macmillan Publishing Company, 199412. Martin, Frederick N., Introduction to Audiology, 5 th ed., Prentice-Hall, 199413. Denes, Peter B., Pinson, Elliot N., The Speech Chain: The Physics and Biology of Spoken Language, 2 nd ed.,W. H. Freeman and Company, 199314. Fromkin, Victoria, Rodman, Robert, An Introduction to Language, 5 th ed., Harcourt Brace Publishers, 199315. Berthal, John E., Bankson, Nicolas W., Articulation and

Conference Session

Perceived Quality of Graduate Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Shell; Ali Houshmand

, University of Cincinnati, will, demonstrate that its graduates meeteleven ABET outcomes: a. Ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering b. Ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data c. Ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs d. Ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams e. Ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems f. Understanding of professional and ethical responsibility g. Ability to communicate effectively h. Broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context i. Recognition of the need for and the ability to engage in life-long

Conference Session

Freshman Curriculum Development

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Nowak; Laurence Gould; Hisham Alnajjar; Diego Bernardete; David Pines

determining the constants A, K, and B thatbest fit the data, the equations for position and acceleration of the mass as function of time weredetermined. Students used the software package MAPLE for this lab.Each of the Principle of Design sections had a different statistics and curve-fitting project. Forexample, students in one section measured their heart rate before and after sixty seconds ofexercise. Statistical analysis and curve fitting of the data was performed using a spreadsheetsoftware package (Microsoft Excel). The mean and standard deviation of the classes’ heart rateswere determined before and after exercise. In addition, paired and unpaired t-tests wereperformed to determine if exercise caused a significant change in heart rate.While it

Conference Session

Strategic Issues in EM Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Harwell; Donna Shirley; Hillel Kumin

Education”3. Job Excelling and Creating Graduates - Attract and retain the very best students by our leadership in producing graduates widely known for not only being in great demand for existing jobs, but for their understanding of, and unique preparation for, creating jobs.These goals led to the definition of specific educational objectives for the College, suchas:1. Cutting Edge Education a. Improve the student/faculty ratio to at most 15/1 in every school, which will require increasing the faculty by 40-50%. b. Increase project-based, multidisciplinary educational opportunities. c. Increase our focus on technology-based learning to enable educational innovation. d. Improve the educational infrastructure.2. Cutting Edge

Conference Session

Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vis Madhavan; Janet Twomey; Don Malzahn; Lawrence Whitman

., Cygnus, M.W., Storch, R.L. & Farnsworth, K.D. (1993). Virtual reality for manufacturing simulation. Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference.[11] Lefort, L. & Kesavadas, T. (1998). Interactive virtual factory for design of a shopfloor using single cluster analysis. Proceedings of the IEEE conference on Robotics and Automation .[12] Henning, K. (1995). Simulation: the virtual factory. Proceeding of the APICS Annual International Conference.[13] Geller, T., Lammers, S., & Mackulak, G. (1995). Methodology for simulation application to virtual manufacturing environments. Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference.[14] Rembold, U., Reithofer, W., & Janusz, B. (1998). Role of models in future enterprises

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mina Hoorfar; Homayoun Najjaran; William Cleghorn

in Fig. 6, the schematic of thecam and follower may be shown in any desired cam orientation. The rotation and animation toolsare other features of the program that help the students to obtain a better imagination of theperformance of the system designed. S e Y Y rr rb X rb (a) (b) Fig. 4 Cam and Follower Systems (a) Pivoting flat

Conference Session

The Modern ChE Laboratory

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jimmy Smart

to the air suction or discharge. A pitottube and manometer can then be used to measure air velocity through the known diameter duct.(b) If the oven design utilizes once through air, this flow can be measured by a technique similar Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 7.647.4 Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationto one used by environmental engineers to measure breathing losses from atmospheric storagetank discharge vents. With the oven at a very low heat setting, tape a plastic bag over thedischarge vent of the oven to

Conference Session

Projects to promote eng.; teamwork,K-12

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

demonstrations for K-12students. These demonstrations included lumped mass models, a fluid tank model, and aportable shake table, each of which are described in this section. The lumped mass model basically consisted of a steel/aluminum cylindrical solid masspiece screwed to one end of a 1/8 in. diameter rod, and the other end of the rod was rigidlyconnected to a wood block. The lumped mass models were an additional simplification of the1/24-scale models described in the previous section, as illustrated in Figures 6(a) and 6(b).These are intended for physical observation only. In the lumped mass model shown in Figure6(b), the rod represents the building columns, and the cylindrical lumped mass represents therigid top floor. Both the models shown

Conference Session

Program Assessment in ET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Erdogan Sener

. Action will be takenas appropriate by faculty in case of conflicts.2. Assessment of the Curriculuma. Accreditation Organization RequirementsThe Department reviews the current ABET accreditation and university requirements and notesany discrepancies between requirements and the current curriculum. Appropriate faculty will beappointed to take action to correct the discrepancies as needed.b. Review of Curriculum by the IABThe Department will send a copy of the following items to the members of the industrialadvisory board (IAB). A cover letter will ask for the participants to review and providecomments by a deadline. a. Current curriculum b. Current syllabus of each course in curriculum c

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Vollaro

Instrumentation Division Session 2559 Field Trips: An innovative approach in teaching ‘Manufacturing Processes’ to traditional undergraduates Mary B. Vollaro, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Engineering, Western New England College, Springfield, MA 01119AbstractTeaching manufacturing processes to undergraduates with industrial and mechanical engineeringmajors poses a challenge, in that, students have little background from which to begin buildingtheir knowledge. Comparing and contrasting different processes becomes just another ‘book’problem to solve and/or

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Miers; Carl Anderson; Paula Zenner

”Bibliography1. Fussell, L., Paddelford, B., “The SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge 2001 Rules”, 2001.2. 2000 - 2001 Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs - Engineering Criteria 2000.SCOTT A. MIERSScott A. Miers is currently a doctoral student at Michigan Technological University. He received his B.S. inMechanical Engineering from Michigan Tech in 1995. Before returning to graduate school, he spent two years inindustry as a research engineer. In addition to research, Scott is actively involved in the Michigan Tech CleanSnowmobile Enterprise and has participated in an NSF teaching fellows program at a local high school.CARL L. ANDERSONCarl L. Anderson is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan Technological University

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Arthur Brodersen; Richard Shiavi

– Questions 1 to 3 Over 95% of the students agreed that we accomplished the course goals and felt that theyreally learned something. The comfort level with computers increased dramatically as well. Atthe end 83% of the students felt comfortable with computers, an increase from 31%. However,the level of comfort was significantly higher in the laboratory sections, p-value = 0.028. b. Materials – Questions 4 to 6 Almost all of the students liked having the course materials on-line, 87%. As one wouldexpect almost all of the students reported using the on-line material at least once a week.Question 6 was designed to get general feedback on the degree of difficulty posed by the varioustopics. The average challenge scores are shown in

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research and New Directions

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Habibur Rahman

-in-time approach which proved to be veryfruitful. A few examples are in order: (a) The radar detection process is statistical in nature. The radar engineer must use statistical techniques to assess detection performance. The concept of continuous probability density function is developed through discrete probability histogram1, and is used to explain the probability of detection without overwhelming students with the complexities of probability theory. (b) Antenna is one of the integral components of a radar system. The concept of antenna theory is quite complex, so only pertinent features of antenna are covered with minimum amount of mathematical rigor. Only the antenna types commonly

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Lawrence; Michael Warner; Douglas Bayley

acquisitions and design process. Curricular Outcomes: (1) Define and explain the phases of the DoD Acquisition process and identify associated milestones (2) Given a request for proposal (RFP), you should be able to: a.) validate the user’s requirements and present various design alternatives, highlighting how each will meet the user’s requirements b.) develop a technical, cost and management proposal that will demonstrate how your selected design will be developed through studies, engineering analysis, subsystem fabrication, system integration, and testing. (3) Once a design has been selected, demonstrate through oral and

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Soda

optimized through scale modifications, introduction of new axes or plots Page 7.564.2Proceedings of the 2002 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society of Engineering Education B. Schematic Property Editor A. Capture Schematic C. Simulation Profile EditorFigure 1. OrCAD-Cadence Capture Screens. A) Capture window with completed circuitschematic. B) Property Editor window through which component values may be set inspreadsheet fashion. C) Simulation