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Multi-disciplinary Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Byron Newberry

involving specific technical areas. In addition to these design experiences, which aresimilar in form to those in many engineering undergraduate programs, Baylor undergraduateengineering students take a required first-semester junior course in design, EGR 3380 –Engineering Design I, commonly known as Junior Design.Our objectives in placing a comprehensive design course at the midpoint of the curriculum are:to provide students with a motivating and peer-bonding experience; to reinforce the importanceand application of the fundamental concepts they have been, are currently, and will be learning;to develop and promote a professional attitude among students toward engineering; and, todevelop students’ teamwork, communication, project management, and

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Samir Moujaes

2002-147 - ALTERNATIVE WAYS TO TEACH HVAC AND RELATED SUBJECTS THROUGH ACTUAL PROJECT INVOLVEMENT -THREE CASE STUDIES Samir F. Moujaes, Ph.D., P.E. ME Dept. University of Nevada Las VegasAt UNLV two courses in HVAC design are taught on a regular basis. These courses alsoattract students who are interested in the subject and in some cases may have someprevious experience to continue in that general area by taking these two courses as anelective which can count towards their undergraduate degree or as part of their coursefulfillment towards a Masters Degree. When the student has had some exposure to thesubject

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Proulx Denis; Martin Brouillette; Jean Nicolas; Charron François

Session 1566 The integrated mechanical engineering curriculum at the Université de Sherbrooke Martin Brouillette, Jean Nicolas, François Charron, Denis Proulx Department of Mechanical Engineering Université de Sherbrooke Sherbrooke (Québec) Canada J1K 2R1 Since 1996, the School of Engineering at the Université de Sherbrooke has been offering a totally renovated mechanical engineering curriculum. Starting from scratch, this new curriculum is based on a competency development approach which is

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Graphics

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2002 Annual Conference

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David Forsman; Kathryn Holliday-Darr; Michael Lobaugh

Session 1338 Process Education in Computer Graphics David R. Forsman, Kathryn Holliday-Darr, Michael Lobaugh Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeAbstract:Changes in the student culture have dictated that we need to change our approach to teaching.These changes have made it necessary for us to reevaluate our teaching methods and how wepresent material to our students. Because we desire to improve our students’ performance andfind a way to have the student be more prepared for class we decided to apply a processeducation approach to our instruction. Process education is “an educational

Conference Session

Cross-Section of Construction Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Joseph Cecere

Capstone Course in Construction Management Joseph J. Cecere , Ph.D., CPC Pennsylvania State University/ HarrisburgABSTRACTCapstone courses offered in most construction engineering programs are designed to pull together much of whatthe student has already learned in previous courses. This will enable the student to gain an appreciation of howthe different aspects of a construction project come together. The course is not an in depth study of any onefunction or technical aspect, but rather a synergistic overview of the project

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Brian Peterson; Barry Mullins

Session 2620 BattleBots and the Electrical Engineering Education Barry E. Mullins, Brian S. Peterson Department of Electrical Engineering / Air Force Institute of Technology United States Air Force Academy, CO / Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OHAbstractThe use of robotics as a learning tool within computer/electrical engineering as well as computerscience curriculums is ever increasing for a variety of reasons including stimulating interest inengineering. This paper describes the educational experiences gained through the design,construction, and competition of two robots called

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Paul King

Session 2793 Freshman Biomedical Engineering Design Projects: What Can Be Done? Paul H. King, Ph.D., P.E. Vanderbilt UniversityAbstract: During the 2000 ASEE meeting the question arose in the Biomedical Engineeringdivision about the paucity of information on design projects for freshman introductory designcourses (cornerstone courses.) This paper will present an overview of what can be gleaned fromthe literature on such projects.Introduction: Design challenges in a freshman level introductory course can serve to introducea student to the design process early in their

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

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2002 Annual Conference

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Carlos Mendieta; Carl Steidley; Mario Garcia

Session 1532 Predicting Primary Water Levels Using Backpropagation and General Regression Neural Networks Carlos Mendieta, Mario Garcia, Carl Steidley Texas A&M University-Corpus ChristiAbstract This project applied two Artificial Neural Network models (Backpropagation and theGeneral Regression Neural Network (GRNN)) to predict primary water levels at a single port onthe Texas coast. The data for this project was provided by the Division of Nearshore Researchand is collected hourly from several ports along the Texas coast. Important variables needed

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

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William Cockayne; John Feland; Larry Leifer

Session 2002-1817 Teaching the “How” of Engineering Innovation William R. Cockayne, John M. Feland III, Larry Leifer Center for Design Research, Stanford University Innovative capacity is a function of ‘knowledge how’, not ‘knowledge 1 what’.In order to create greater value for society, the engineer of the 21 st Century needs to buildon the traditional content-driven education by becoming fluent in multiple disciplines.Drawing on expertise from multiple fields will enable today’s engineer to becomesociety’s cultivator and harvester of innovations. This pandisciplinary approach is

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Sylvia Alexander

Session Number: 2002-1829 Integrating Entrepreneurship in Informatics Education S Alexander & H G McAllister, University of Ulster, N. IrelandAbstractThe University of Ulster places a strong emphasis on vocational education and work-based learning. Furthermore, the Faculty of Informatics has recognised achievementsin technology transfer and industrial collaboration. This paper outlines how theindustrial partnerships forged and experiences gained through these ventures have beenutilised in the design, delivery and assessment of an undergraduate module inentrepreneurship. Different models for

Conference Session

The Computer, the Web, and the ChE

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Bell; Scott Fogler

Session 3413 No Food Allowed – The Latest Virtual Reality Laboratory Accident John T. Bell and H. Scott Fogler University of Illinois Chicago / University of Michigan Ann ArborThe authors of this paper are in the middle of a multi-year project to create, distribute, andevaluate a series of virtual reality based laboratory accidents, with the dual goals of promotinglab safety and determining the optimal applicability of this medium for this purpose. This paperdescribes the current status of the project, with special emphasis on the most recently developedaccident, involving food in a

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kathryn Hollar; Beena Sukumaran

Session 2251Teaching Students Sustainability: An Interdisciplinary Design Project for Sophomore Engineering Students Kathryn A. Hollar and Beena Sukumaran Department of Chemical Engineering Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Rowan University Glassboro, NJ 08028AbstractUniversities can be leaders not only in research advances in reducing greenhouse gasemissions, but also have the potential to be leaders in practices that reduce greenhousegas emissions. All 56 colleges and universities in New Jersey recently

Conference Session

Effective Energy Laboratory Ideas

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2002 Annual Conference

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Howard Arthur; Michael Sexton

Session 3233 LABVIEW APPLICATION: ENERGY LABORATORY UPGRADE J. Howard Arthur Michael R. Sexton Mechanical Engineering Department Virginia Military Institute Lexington, VA 24450AbstractThis paper describes an effort to upgrade the quality and timeliness of the VMI’s MechanicalEngineering Department Energy Laboratory. Two of the current laboratory experiments wereselected for modernization. These experiments were a steam power plant experiment and acooling tower experiment. Both of these

Conference Session

Pre-College and ECE Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Barbara Coburn Stoler; Douglas Gorham

Session 3532 Colleges of Engineering and Colleges of Education: Successful Campus Collaborations Douglas Gorham Manager, Pre-college Education IEEE Educational Activities Barbara Coburn Stoler Acting Managing Director IEEE Educational ActivitiesAbstractWith the growing influence and increasing complexity of technology, the public musthave a certain level of technological understanding to make informed decisions and toattain a reasonable

Conference Session

Multi-disciplinary Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kris Dick; Don Petkau; Danny Mann; Myron (Ron) Britton

Session 3225 Biosystems Engineering Design Trilogy: An Overview D.D. Mann1, M.G. Britton 2, K.J. Dick 1 and D.S. Petkau 1 1 Department of Biosystems Engineering, University of Manitoba / 2 Engineering Design Program, Faculty of Engineering, University of ManitobaAbstractIn the fall of 1998, the Department of Biosystems Engineering at the University of Manitobaintroduced a package of three courses to enhance the teaching of engineering design. Theobjective was to teach undergraduate engineers how to design by exposing them to the type ofdesign environment they will

Conference Session

Design for Community

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2002 Annual Conference

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Kevin Grant; Ronald Welch

Session 2625 Implementing a Historically Constrained Student Design-Build Project in an Austere Environment LTC Ronald W. Welch 1LT Kevin Grant United States Military AcademyAbstractThis paper describes a one-semester design-build capstone project in which three senior civilengineering (CE) students designed and built two timber pedestrian bridges at an extremelychallenging, remote site. Design and construction was completed as part of a course within theABET-accredited CE program at the U.S. Military Academy

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

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Barry Davidson; Anthony Ingraffea; Alan Zehnder

features of virtual, collaborative engineering environments, state-of-the-artsimulation tools, and advanced learning management systems. An integral part of this projectinvolves the development and teaching of a new, two-semester senior level design course that isoffered synchronously at both institutions and which emphasizes teamwork, collaboration at adistance and multidisciplinary activities. One long-term goal of the project is that the courseprovides the context for feedback on the nature of virtual interactions, and therefore on how toimprove the AIDE. In addition, we aim to study whether multifaceted instructional methods thatleverage emerging information technologies can enhance student learning on fundamentaltechnologies, systems-level

Conference Session

Capstone Mechanical Engineering Design

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2002 Annual Conference

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Yves Mercadier; Pierre Vittecoq; Patrik Doucet; Jean-Sébastien Plante; Francois Charron; Yves Van Hoenacker

INTRODUCTIONSince 1992, students in our undergraduate mechanical engineering program have been carryingout major design projects. The process of integrating major design project activities was spreadover three phases. The first phase, which took place between 1992 and 1994, consisted of a pilotprogram with forty students. The implementation of an engineering design option between 1995and 1999 constituted the second phase. The last phase embraced the complete reform of theundergraduate curriculum based on the development of competencies and the horizontal/verticalintegration of engineering sciences and engineering design.One of the principal objectives of the major design projects is to allow the students to live amajor design experience within the

Conference Session

New Ideas

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2002 Annual Conference

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Patrick Tebbe

Session: xxxx The TCNJ Energy Effort: Applications to Thermodynamics Courses Patrick A. Tebbe, Ph.D. Department of Engineering The College of New Jersey Ewing, NJ 08628Abstract The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) is a small primarily undergraduate in stitution currentlyoffering degrees in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and computer engineering, aswell as engineering management. Due to its small size TCNJ does not have a specialization orprogram track in the power or energy areas. Lack of student and

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Naiqian Zhang

* Abstract An NSF-funded, interdisciplinary project of curriculum development and research on embedded system design has benefited teaching and research programs of the BAE Department at Kansas State University. The benefits included improvement in teaching of instrumentation and control courses, curriculum opportunity for BAE undergraduate and graduate students on embedded systems, enhancement of graduate research, and undergraduate research experiences.IntroductionIn a report of the Academic Program Administrators Committee of American Society ofAgricultural Engineers (ASAE) issued in 1990

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

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Naseem Ishaq; Salahuddin Qazi

Session 1520 Use of Graphical Programming Tools for Electrical Engineering and Technology Courses Salahuddin Qazi and Naseem Ishaq School of Information Systems and Engineering Technology State University of New York Institute of Technology Utica, New York 13504.AbstractThe design and implementation of algorithms based on graphical language or blockdiagram programming tools using PCs make a design and its implementation easier,faster and is a natural way of expressing certain algorithms. The increasing use of thesesoftware tools in industry makes it important to

Conference Session

What's in Store for the ChE Curriculum?

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2002 Annual Conference

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David Kauffman

Session 3213 The Core Graduate Chemical Engineering Program: Does It Exist? David Kauffman Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Department University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New MexicoAbstractA survey was undertaken to determine the prevalence and co ntent of a “core” ofcourses in chemical engineering graduate programs in the United States. The surveywas sent to 127 schools. Every school of the 83 replying to the survey had either a setof required courses or a “cafeteria” set of core courses required for graduate

Conference Session

Computers in Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Alan Leduc

Session 3263 3-D Modeling/GD&T – Cornerstones for Manufacturing Education Alan M. Leduc Ball State University Department of Industry & Technology Muncie, Indiana aleduc@bsu.eduAbstractThree-dimensional (3D) modeling allows graphics to be taught as the virtual manufacturing of apart. Modeling of parts begins with a primitive – raw material. The primitive is then modifiedusing features such as slots, pockets, holes, etc. – manufacturing methods. By using 3Dmodeling

Conference Session

Web Based Laboratories and Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Richard Jerz

Session 2158 Creating Multimedia Courseware for an Engineering Graphics Course Richard Jerz St. Ambrose UniversityAbstractIn an attempt to improve student learning in an Engineering Graphics course, computer-basedmultimedia courseware is being developed. Can a professor, without professional services, besuccessful in creating multimedia courseware? How much time and effort are involved? Whatquality results can be expected? What does it cost? Do students learn more efficiently usingmultimedia courseware? These are

Conference Session

International Graduate Students

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2002 Annual Conference

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Julie Jessop

Session 1655 Helping Our International Students Succeed in Communication Julie L. P. Jessop University of IowaIntroductionWe are seeing more international students in graduate studies as American students chooseindustry rather than academia. Maybe this trend will change as the economy goes through adownswing and jobs become scarcer, but maybe not. Regardless, if we expect internationalstudents to perform at a similar level with American students in written and oral communicationforms, we need to provide them with sufficient instruction and practice. We cannot

Conference Session

Assessment and Its Implications in IE

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2002 Annual Conference

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Justin Chimka; Teri Rhoads

Session 2557 Balanced Scorecard for Education Assessment Teri Reed Rhoads, Justin R. Chimka, and Melisa Moore The University of Oklahoma School of Industrial EngineeringAbstractIn choosing a method to evaluate an academic unit, there are multiple choices to consider. Thispaper begins with a discussion of the decision process that one college of engineering took alongthe path of deciding how to assess their newly formed strategic initiative. The four sets ofperformance measures that compose Kaplan and Norton's Balanced Scorecard

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Xue; Robin Qiu

Session 2793 Customizable Lectures, Assignments, and Virtual Classrooms for Professionals Robin Qiu Jane Xue Division of Engineering GL AgilityTech, Inc. Penn State Great Valley Collegeville, PA 19426 Malvern, PA 19355Abstract -- A designated class for professionals could be quite different from one for collegestudents due to a variety of professionals in light of attendees’ totally different profiles. Forinstance, each individual has different

Conference Session

Cross-Section of Construction Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Enno Koehn

particularlyimportant. In addition, graduating seniors in Civil (Construction) engineering believe theircoursework has given them a strong background in the identical two areas. These include: (1) anability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering; and (2) an ability toidentify, formulate, and solve engineering problems. In contrast, two attributes received lowerratings from both groups. They include: (1) the broad education necessary to understand theimpact of engineering solutions in a global/societal context; and (2) a knowledge ofcontemporary issues. This suggests that not all ABET educational attributes are considered byCivil (Construction) students and practitioners to have the same level of significance and perhapsshould not be

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachel Shinn

the students work better in teams duringthe spacecraft design experience, we have implemented a series of exercises and structures. Thispaper outlines the tools we have used to enable teaming, the grading strategies we haveimplemented and the interdisciplinary aspects of our design teams.I. IntroductionBecause of the complexity of spacecraft design, with its many subsystems, teaming is an essentialpart of our design courses. We cannot take for granted that students will know how to operate ina team environment and we must enable students to learn the teaming process. Students needboth guidance and structure to enable them to work effectively in teams.In this paper, we will present various tools we have used to teach teaming to our senior

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Morel; Jerry Schumacher; Ed Mattison

Session ____ Using Handheld Computers to Teach Information Technology and Problem Solving Rusl Flowers, Ed Mattison, Tom Morel, Jerry Schumacher United States Military Academy at West Point1. Introduction Handheld computing has reached a point in its evolution where we believe that it isnecessary to incorporate mobile information devices, such as, PDAs, mobile phones, and textmessengers, in computer science and information technology courses. Furthermore, we believethat handheld computing should be considered also for use in non-computer related courses inthe same way