Conference Session

Contemporary Instrumentation Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Shepard, University of Central Florida

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

-assurance era.”What the Physicists Do With Entangled PhotonsThe word “entangled” implies more than just correlation (however entangled photons willexhibit correlation in their measurement statistics). Systems A (or Alice) and B (or Bob) areentangled if their state vector is not a simple product, i.e., if it cannot be written in the form:(state of A)a times (state of B)b. Now taking (+) to represent the state of “spin up” along z and(-) to represent “spin down” – the only two possible spin states of an electron, an example of anentangled state is: (+)a (-)b + (-)a(+)b. If we ask “what is the spin of A?” the answer is – well itcould be up or down, depending on if we “draw” the first or second term respectively when wemeasure it’s state. However, we

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators: Tricks of the Trade II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claude Villiers, Florida Gulf Coast University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

Page 12.182.4the Superpave mix design criteria. They also performed laboratory testing on commonly usedCivil Engineering materials including asphalt binder, hot mix asphalt, aggregates, and Portlandconcrete cement. They analyzed and evaluated the data to make useful conclusions. Each studentwrote a final report on the mixture they designed. The student’s final grade for this class ispresented in Fig. 1. Two students obtained an A, two ended with a B+, while the other twofinished the class with Fs. The low performance was mainly driven by the student’s lack ofparticipation and discipline to return and complete all the assignments and tests. Materials (n=6), Pavements (n=15), Geometric Design (n=17), Highway (n=10

Conference Session

Novel Measurement Experiments

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seyed Allameh, Northern Kentucky University; Tom Ogonek Ogonek, Northern Kentucky University; Paul Cooper, Northern Kentucky University

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

respect to the plates, a uniform shear stress occurs across the plates.The steady state inelastic response that commences at a shear stress of 40 MPa continues until Page 12.1338.2fracture at 8% strain. The main role of inelasticity is its insensitivity to localized deformationsites that causes premature failure.The robustness of nacre arises from four design principles as postulated by He et al.1. These are:a) morphology which is optimized to maximize inelastic strain, b) nanoscale asperities that causemechanical interlocking at the interface; sufficient adherence of ceramic layers by the bond layerand d) lubrication provided by the polymer1. A

Conference Session

Communication and Professional Skills in BME

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo; Daniel Cavanagh, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

information to different audiences in separate works or communicateinformation to a varied audience in one work. In BMEG 472, students were required toprepared four written works all centered around a particular topic in neuroscience. Thefirst three short works were targeted to a layperson, clinical scientists and engineerrespectively. These works included children’s books, science fictions stories, medicalpamphlets, and video tutorials. The fourth work was a reflective written statementcomparing and contrasting the approaches used to convey the same material to threedifferent audiences. In BMEG 401 weekly memos were addressed to fellow teammembers, the faculty advisor and external clinical mentors (Appendix B). For oralpresentations, the role of the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mahmoud Quweider, University of Texas-Brownsville; Juan Iglesias, University of Texas-Brownsville; Amajd Zaim, University of Texas-Brownsville

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

bring major concepts in Science, Mathematics, Physics and Computer Sciencetogether in a game-centric action-based project. The game consists of many modules, but we, asa first stage effort, specifically target the game modules which relate to the following:1. Mathematics and Physics a. Relation to vector analysis, probability, transformations, integration and differentiation, physics motion equations, exponential and doubly exponential functions used in fogging. b. Matrix operations for basic translation, rotation, and scaling.2. Computer Science a. Object Oriented Programming (OOP) i. Classes and objects as game components b. Data structures used in maintaining players information and

Conference Session

Teaching Methods for the 21st Century: Part 2

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Amaneh Tasooji, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

schematic diagrams of beakers with water wereshown to students from which students had to match the appropriate word with the diagram. Theunsaturated solution had a low density of dots (sugar molecules dissolved in water) in the beaker(C). The saturated solution had a higher density of dots and also had a small mound of saturatedsugar sitting at the bottom of the beaker (B). The supersaturated solution had the highest densityof dots but there was no sugar sitting on the bottom of the beaker (A). A significant majority,78%, incorrectly chose beaker B as being supersaturated. The primary reason that was given wasthat there was excess solute (undissolved sugar) sitting in the beaker. This result is similar to theprevious one, with both studies having

Conference Session

Student Teams and Project-Based Learning

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology; Daniel Ferguson, Illinois Institute of Technology; Rachel Wasserman, Illinois Institute of Technology IPRO Program

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

the fourlearning objective areas. Students are provided with study materials, questions and answers onthe web. A pre-test is administered during the first week, and a post-test during the fifth week.One of the test versions is included below, with the answer key; see Figure 2. Figure 2: Knowledge Test Questions on Teamwork______________________________________________________________________________ 1. A(n) __________ is a small group of people with complementary skills, who work actively together to achieve a common purpose for which they hold themselves collectively accountable. A. Contingent B. Cohort C. Team D. Assemblage Answer: C 2. __________ are established to study specific problems

Conference Session

Preparing Engineering Students for International Practice

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saeed Khan, Kansas State University-Salina; Beverlee Kissick, Kansas State University-Salina

Tagged Divisions

International

” Nike shoes factor and helps using a shoe project certain sensor. image. Page 12.1021.4Survey Data:Tables 2(a) and 2(b) are responses to our two separate surveys. Table 2(a) Globalization Survey to Calculus Class Statements Level of Agreement

Conference Session

Integrating Mathematics, Science, and Engineering

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shane Palmquist, Western Kentucky University

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

) + C3 x + C4 Page 12.1545.5 b) Moment Area Theorems Component Graphical Description Governing Equations M( x ) M(x ) M(x) from statics due to w(x)Moment, EI EI a bSlope angle, xa/b b where, a/b M a b a/b = Ð

Conference Session

Engineering in Elementary Schools

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kate Hester, Museum of Science, Boston; Christine Cunningham, Museum of Science, Boston

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, teachers can choose those that are best suited for their students. If the lesson plans are written for beginning students, suggestions are included throughout the lesson plans for slight modifications that make the lesson more applicable for advanced students. If the lesson plans are written for advanced students, the reverse is true (suggestions are provided for teaching the unit with beginning students). Similarly, each lesson contains two levels of student handouts—beginning (labeled “B”) and advanced (labeled “A”). Teachers can choose which set best fit the capabilities of their students.c. Engineering Field: An engineering field (e.g., mechanical, materials science, environmental) is the unifying theme for each unit

Conference Session

Design of Lab Experiments II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gerald Recktenwald, Portland State University; Robert Edwards, Pennsylvania State University-Erie

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

of the thermocouples and the metal. Despite the anomalies in thetemperature measurements, the trend in the data is clear: the black toast gets substantially hotter Page 12.1562.13than the shiny toast. Figure 7. Temperature of individual thermocouples attached to each piece of toast. Figure 8. Average temperature of the thermocouples for each piece of toast. Figure 8 is a plot of the average temperature histories for the data in Figure 7. Averaginghides the variability between thermocouples attached to a given metal sample, and it makes theoverall trends easier to see. Three vertical reference lines labeled A, B, and C

Conference Session

What's New in Dynamics?

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arnaldo Mazzei, Kettering University; Richard Scott, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

– Restoring moment: Gs Torsional damper – Damping moment: Cs% FIGURE 1 – INVERTED PENDULUMThis equation can be written in the dimensionless form: d 2s ds - J - Bs / sin(s ) ? 0 dv 2 dv Page 12.327.3 (2) gHere v (dimensionless time) ? t , B is a dimensionless spring constant defined by

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I - Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Odete Lopes, Politecnico de Viseu; Joao Vinhas, Politecnico de Viseu; Joao Paiva, Politecnico de Viseu

Tagged Divisions

International

Duração: 2,5 horas + 30 min de tolerância 180 KJ/kg A) 370 KJ/kg B) 1. (2,0 val.) Um sistema cilindro pistão contém no seu interior 0,85 m3 de ar a 300 kPa e 25º C e um misturador de 100 W 515 KJ/kg para uniformizar a distribuição de temperatura. Durante 77 segundos o sistema passa por um processo de quase-equilíbrio C

Conference Session

Applied Mathematics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S.K. Sen, Florida Institute of Technology; Gholam Ali Shaykhian, NASA

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

, thusimplementing the autocatalytic process. A Matlab code ( a modified version of the code in [6]) for Ant algorithm for TSP is:function [] = antalgorithm()D = load('cityloc.txt'); % The file cityloc.txt is n x 3 matrix% Each row of cityloc has three elements. The second and third% elements representing the numerical coordinates (location) of the city%while the first element is the numerical name of the city starting from 1.Ncity = length(D); % number of cities on tourNants = Ncity; % number of ants=number of cities (each b(i) is taken as 1)% Cities are located at (xcity, ycity)x = [D(1,2)]; y = [D(1,3)];for i=2:Nants, xcity=D(i,2); x=[x xcity]; ycity=D(i,3); y=[y ycity]; end;% Calculate distance matrixfor i=1:Ncity-1, for j=i+1:Ncity,if i==j, dcity(i,j

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Cutlip, University of Connecticut; Mordechai Shacham, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Michael Elly, Intel Corp.

for Iterative SolutionThis problem (Cutlip and Shacham[1]) involves the calculation of the concentration profiles andmolar fluxes in simultaneous multi-component diffusion of gases. Gases A and B are diffusingthrough stagnant gas C. There is multicomponent molecular diffusion between two points wherethe compositions and distance apart are known. The model of the problem and the specialnumerical data are shown in Table 1. The problem is specified in a format that is also appropriate Page 12.1023.2as Polymath input file for the solution. The Polymath input coding with the comments (markedby #) provide a compete definition and clear

Conference Session

Retention Programs for Women Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly Douglas, Kansas State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

university experience in demanding curricula. Freshmenwomen are matched with upper-class women who are in the same major. The mentorsoffer advice, answer questions, and provide support throughout the academic year.WMW structures monthly opportunities for all participants to network. Activities rangefrom a ceramic event to attending a theatrical performance to a semi-formal dinner withthe deans and administrators on campus.Historically, this program was an individual (one-on-one) mentoring program. Afterattending a panel discussion on mentoring programs at the 2004 WEPAN conference, theprogram transitioned to a group mentoring structure in the fall of 2004, and the structuralchanges were modeled after the mentoring program at Penn State (Ruel, Bogue

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

maze or to modify an existingone, respectively. The third one runs the algorithm selected by the radio buttons to find theshortest path in the user-designed maze. The green block indicates the starting point and thepink block shows the finish line. The rectangular window for a maze is composed of 16x16blocks, as defined by the IEEE Region 6, USA, for the micromouse competition [7]. The resultsof two different algorithms are shown in Figures 4(b) and 4(c) with blue lines. Figure 4(b) is theresult of the flooding algorithm and Figure 4(c) is the result of students’ algorithms. Anunexpected side result of this project is the student-designed search algorithm, which showspromise in terms of complexity when compared to the flooding algorithm

Conference Session

Distance, Remote, and Virtual Experiments

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Chiou, Drexel University; Yongjin Kwon, Drexel University; Shreepud Rauniar, Drexel University; Horacio Sosa, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

INPUT LOGIC OUTPUT CR-1 10001 SW-1 2 10001 1 00001 00001 L4 RL 10002 SW-2 SW-2 10002 2 00002 00002 L4 3 CR-2 4 CR-1 4 GL (a) (b)Figure 3. (a) Relay ladder logic diagram in comparison with (b) PLC ladder logicdiagram.Figure 4: Programmable logic operations with

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Eduaction - Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rahul Rai, Virginia Tech; Asli Sahin, Virginia Tech; Ashley Studd, Virginia Tech; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

focused on reactively managing component obsolescence, i.e., minimizing thecost of resolving the problem after it has occurred. Product obsolescence and its managementremains poorly understood in theory, and poorly addressed in practice. Governing principles andproven, teachable guidelines are needed for managing product obsolescence. These principlesa) Sony walkman b) e-filmproduct family c) Mobiblu Mp3 player Page 12.1508.4Figure 1. Examples of product family and piggyback products a) sony walkman product family b) e

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Wronecki, East Tennessee State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

6, surfaces A and B were created before C. Note that both A and Btouch patch C at its C’s edges labeled 1 and 2. Note, when A and B were built the continuity onthese shared edges was set to Free. To build patch C, the surface edges of A and B were selectedand NURBS curves selected at edges 3 and 4. Selecting surface edges enables the surface tool tobase it’s continuity off a 3D surface, in this case patches A and B. To set the desired continuityfor patch C, the square surface edit box was opened. C’s edges 1 and 2 were set to curvature,edges 3 and 4 were set to free. This freedom enables the surface tool to position the patch C’ssurface cv’s and achieve surface curvature continuity at edges 1 and 2. The results are zebrastripes that

Conference Session

FPD7 -- Service Learning

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Cordon, University of Idaho; Barbara Williams, University of Idaho; Steven Beyerlein, University of Idaho; Donald Elger, University of Idaho

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

the identified problem.Week 13: The activity described below occurred.Step 1 - Process analysis and application: Each team was provided a handout depicting Tool 1(Table 1) and Tool 2 (Figure 1). Each team was asked to (a) Describe two similarities between the processes of problem solving and design. (b) Describe two differences between the processes of problem solving and design (c) Recall that during the previous class, they were asked to solve a problem that their team was having within their design process. For the case study, they were asked to analyze what things seemed different during the problem solving experience that hadn’t been occurring during the design experience.Observations taken by facilitators

Conference Session

Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics Instruction

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Gerhart, University of Evansville; Andrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Bruce Cain, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

reasons for selecting a pump test and PTC 8.2 for this exercise. Perhaps themost obvious is that there is a pump available and it had been used in the course many timesbefore! Another is that space constraints in the laboratory usually require that the pump testingset-up be disassembled after use in a given Spring semester so that it must be (can be)reassembled by the students for “their” pump test. Besides these, there are also reasons thatderive from PTC 8.2 itself. Unlike many other PTCs, PTC 8.2 provides for two levels of testing;a “Type A” test and a “Type B” test. Type A testing is similar to most other PTC tests; it isintended to be run on large equipment (in this case, a boiler feed pump) in the as-installedcondition and it requires

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wagdy Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

involved in using continually-evolving system-level design tools and theefforts made to reduce their learning times.IntroductionABET 2000 requires providing students with a significant hands-on design experience.Graduating electrical engineering students should have the ability to develop system-leveldesigns for a variety of applications, implement these designs in functional hardware, and test thehardware in real-life operating conditions. To achieve such professional competence, studentsshould be required to participate in a sequence of hardware design experiments and projects.These laboratory exercises aim at: a) sharpening students’ abilities to design complex digitalcircuits and systems, and to interface these designs to peripheral devices, b

Conference Session

How to Effectively Teach Using Teams

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristopher Lengieza, Weitz Golf International; Jennifer Caffrey, Pennoni Associates Inc.; Gerard Lennon, Lehigh University; John Ochs, Lehigh University; Joe Sterrett, Lehigh University; Vincent Munley, Lehigh University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

. Copies of the three project reports are availablefrom the authors1,2,3.B. Learning ObjectivesUpon completion of this course the student should be able to: 1. Work effectively as a member of an interdisciplinary project design team, bringing unique skills perspectives and background not shared by all team members, and using information provided outside the student’s own background to complete the design. 2. Carry out a sports facility design including the evaluation of considerations such as economics, ethics, societal, environmental impacts, and constructability. 3. Write a project report that is of a quality commonly found to be acceptable in the engineering profession. 4. Orally present the results of an

Conference Session

Faculty Development: Creating successful NEEs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Jackson, East Carolina University; Robert Chin, East Carolina University; Charles Coddington, East Carolina University; Paul Petersen, East Carolina University; Fonooni Hamid

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

details of thisnew mentorship program and its effectiveness thus far.Introduction Originally established in 1996 and presently administered by Dr. Dorothy HowseClayton, the primary mission of East Carolina University’s (ECU’s) “…Center for FacultyDevelopment is to provide faculty members with resources and services that foster and supporttheir efforts to create effective teaching and learning environments”.1 The Center (a) serves asone of the many sources of resources and materials appropriate for the common components ofthe tenure and promotion process, (b) helps facilitate the annual university-wide teaching awardsprogram, (c) helps facilitate the tenure track probationary term faculty's mandatory classroomobservation, (d) facilitates

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques in Mechanics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Papadopoulos; Josh Bostwick, Cornell University; Andrew Dressel, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

we believe is important in developing student problem-solving skillsis the systematic organization of equations. In traditional problems in undergraduateStatics and Dynamics, the basic governing equations (  F ? ma CM and  M / O ? H % ) /Ogenerally yield a system of linear equations. State variables such as reactions, internalforces, and accelerations at particular instants can appear in various combinations asgiven or unknown quantities. Depending on what is given and what is unknown, directtranscription of the governing equations in the standard “Newton” form does notnecessarily yield the standard linear form Ax = b, in which all of the unknown

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Teams

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelly Crittenden, Louisiana Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Education 2005, 21, (1), 139-150.2. Benedict, B.; Napper, S. A.; Guice, L. K., Restructuring for Strategic Outcomes. Journal of Engineering Education 2000, 89, (2), 237-246.3. Guice, L. K.; Napper, S. A.; Nelson, J. D., Interdisciplinary Administration Supports Interdisciplinary Education and Research. Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Education 2003, 2003-216.4. Nelson, J. D.; Napper, S. A.; Elmore, B.; Carpenter, J.; Deese, B., An Integrated Freshman Engineering Curriculum. Frontiers in Education Conference 1998.5. Nelson, J. D.; Napper, S. A., Ramping Up an Integrated Engineering Curriculum to Full Implementation. Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference 1999.6

Conference Session

Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Experiments and Labs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Afshin Goharzadeh, The Petroleum Institute; Peter Rodgers, The Petroleum Institute; Christian Mandel, The Petroleum Institute

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

) Side View b) Top View Figure 2. Schematic diagram for vertical jet flow characterization. The entire experiment is placed in a rectangular Plexiglass tank, figure 3, with theexternal enclosure filled with Dow Corning silicon oil (DC 550) in order to avoidcurvature issues during the flow visualization. The fluid flow is obtained using a lasersheet adjusted in vertical direction and CCD camera perpendicular to laser light, figure 3.A field of view of 0.5 x 0.4 m2 is obtained. Flow meter External square CCD camera enclosure

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques In Mechanics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyu-Jung Kim, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Amir Rezaei, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Angela Shih, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Mariappan Jawaharlal, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Michael Shelton, California State Polytechnic University

) (b) Figure 3. (a) Implementation of the painter problem in Fig. 2, (b) Demonstration for additional pulley problems A second experimental apparatus is a 3D tower system (Fig. 4), another computerproblem from the same textbook5, for students to learn physical natures of 3-D force and momentvectors, rigid body force and moment equilibrium, and equivalent force-couple system. It wasalso conceived to solve an open-ended problem that a person pulls a guy wire to stabilize a towerin a way that the three resultant forces acting vertically downward. In the actual experimentalapparatus (Fig. 1), the tower was modeled using a 1-1/2" diameter, 3' long stainless steel pipewelded with a 5" outer diameter

Conference Session

EMD Recruitment and Certification

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Daughton, University of Missouri

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

degrees and do not want to obtain a second one. Theyare more interested in filling gaps in their personal knowledge base, and the certificatesreadily meet their needs in that regard. However, the certificates do also serve two otherimportant needs for working engineers who do wish to pursue an advanced degree.The Certificate AdvantagesThe graduate certificates provide a relatively safe way to try out a graduate program andto avoid the trauma of the GRE. Graduate certificate programs in the EMSE departmentare governed by the following conditions.10 1. Students must formally apply and be accepted as a certificate student. 2. To be admitted a student must: a. Hold a B.S. degree in engineering or a related field b. Have a 3.0 or