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Curriculum Development in MFG ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacob Chen; Joseph Chen

U.S., and particularly in the Midwest.As part of a three-year Advanced Technical Education (ATE) project granted by theNational Science Foundation (NSF), this project focuses on improving the way that theaforementioned topics are taught in community college manufacturing educationprograms. It also focuses on increasing the pool of qualified applicants to these programs.Four flexible course modules and instructor-training materials were developed forintegration into a wide range of existing curricula. These modules integrate design formanufacturability (DFM), teamwork skills (including communication skills) andparametric solid modeling (PSM) content to improve the efficiency and effectiveness ofinstruction in these areas.The modules were

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Johnson

Session 1532 “Smart Pallet” Design using Optoelectronics and Programmable Microcontrollers Richard T Johnson Ball State University Muncie, IndianaIntroduction:The project goal was to design and implement a cost effective and autonomous product transportdevice capable of functioning in an automated assembly line manufacturing environment. Allthe information necessary for the automated assembly of a finished product accompanies theproduct through the manufacturing process. Specific assembly

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Martin; Shailendra Mehta; Ronald Steuterman; Leah Jamieson; Donald Blewett; William Oakes; Edward Coyle

Session 2793 The EPICS Entrepreneurship Initiative: Combining Engineering and Management to Improve Entrepreneurship Education and Practice Edward J. Coyle, Leah H. Jamieson, William C. Oakes, Stephen Martin, Ronald J. Steuterman, Shailendra R. Mehta, Donald A. Blewett1, Marie C. Thursby2 The Schools of Engineering and the Krannert School of Management Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907Abstract The Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) Program at Purdue, working inpartnership with Purdue's Discovery Park and Krannert

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman; Gordon Kingsley

Fellows with teachers andstudents in their assigned schools. Our approach towards the remaining goals is through thecreation and nurturing of partnerships between Georgia Tech and area high schools.We propose that aggressively pursuing the development of meaningful and sustainableuniversity-school partnerships, is the strategy most likely to produce long-term success in the K- Page 7.1155.11 NSF Project Number DGE-0086420 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education12 arena for Georgia

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2001 Annual Conference

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Oliver Sitton; Neil Book; Douglas Ludlow

Session 3213 Development and Implementation of a Computer-Based Learning System in Chemical Engineering Neil L. Book, Douglas K. Ludlow and Oliver C. Sitton Department of Chemical Engineering University of Missouri - RollaAbstractThis paper describes the development and implementation of a computer-based learning systemfor the University of Missouri – Rolla (UMR) chemical engineering curriculum. The project hasthree major goals: provide a learner-centered study environment for our students, integrate thelearning system into

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheikh A. Akbar; Prabir K. Dutta

funded bythe NSF-CRCD (Combined Research-Curriculum Development) program. Moreover, OSU’sHonors House is funding an interdisciplinary course on "Sensor Materials," targeted for honorsstudents in engineering and physical sciences. This multifaceted program is strengthening tiesbetween the federal, state, university and industry partners. The greatest benefit has come fromintroducing industry projects into the university’s engineering and physical sciences, thusproviding students and faculty the opportunity to work on research relevant to industry.I. Introduction On most campuses of higher education with significant research activity, there is acontinuing debate on the appropriate balance between research and education. Should we bedoing

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Louis Rivest

students electing to specialize in Aerospace Production atÉcole de technologie superieure, located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. These students previouslyreceived formal training on basic Computer Aided Design (CAD) topics such as graphicssystems, transformations, curves, surfaces and solid modeling, viewing and rendering, graphicexchanges standards, and so on. Thus, this optional CAD course departs from traditional basicCAD courses by focusing on practical aspects of design tools usage and implementation. Moststudents have limited or no prior knowledge of the aerospace field. The structure of this advancedone-semester course rests on three poles: formal teaching hours, labs and a project. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for

Conference Session

Teaching Design

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Cary Fisher; John Feland

and Page 7.336.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationthe original design of new products. A key element in this course was the use of hands-onexperiences through the use of “reverse engineering” projects. 2 After running successfully for a few years, the course was stable enough to weather a fewdesign modifications. We canvassed our faculty and our Air Force constituents for theirsuggestions on course content and process enhancements. Unfortunately, the list of suggestedenhancements

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Fahmida Masoom; Abulkhair Masoom

maybe implemented to keep up with the changing circumstances. The possibilities range fromupdating of the course periodically by adding and deleting time appropriate topics, to completelyrefurbishing the introductory course sequence using a different format.How it StartedLandis3, as part of his NSF grant activity, ran a workshop in 1992 with faculty from severalengineering programs around the country including one from UW-Platteville. The workshopidentified five major themes as the focus of his project: 1) community building, 2) academicsuccess skills, 3) personal development, 4) professional development, and 5) orientation. As peragreement, resource materials in support of these activities were developed at participatinginstitutions throughout

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education for Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ofodike Ezekoye; John Doggett; J. Nolen; John Butler; Steven Nichols

culminates in a simulation where the students start a business and run it overseveral years with the objective of maximizing shareholder equity. The details of implementingthis collaborative program are provided in this manuscript.Introduction The evolution of a collaborative project between the Colleges of Engineering andBusiness at the University of Texas at Austin with a goal of creating a business skills shortcourse for engineering students is discussed in this manuscript. The project is one piece of alarger project formulated within the mechanical engineering department at the University ofTexas on implementing project based learning into the curriculum. One of the tenets of project -based learning is the direct application of

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha N. Cyr; Barbara Bratzel; Ben Erwin

and debug something - outside of his head (2,3,4,5).Parallel to both of these ideas is the importance of a learning experience that is personallymeaningful to the student. In other words, re-creating somebody else's experience (theexperience of a famous scientist, for example) in the classroom is not sufficient to facilitate thebest learning environment. A personally meaningful project is more directly related to astudent's own direct life experience, and hence is more motivating and more likely to lead to asense of accomplishment and true understanding (1,6,7,8). Page 6.624.1 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for

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2001 Annual Conference

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Gwan-Ywan Lai

Session 1526 Integration of Enhanced Coordinate Measuring Machine Systems with Manufacturing Engineering Laboratories and Curriculum at Kettering University Gwan-Ywan Lai Kettering UniversityI. IntroductionCoordinate Measuring Machines (CMMs) are one of the most powerful and widely usedmetrological instruments in the manufacturing industry. There is virtually no workpiece whosedimensions cannot be measured with a properly equipped CMM system [1-6]. This NationalScience Foundation funded project (NSF-ILI: DUE-9851082) is to enhance two existing CMMsin

Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Technical Session II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; Sanjiv Sarin, North Carolina A&T State University

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Biological & Agricultural

formetallic biomaterials, the partnership between engineering and biology has strengthened and isyielding significant benefits for students. The partnership has grown in several dimensionsincluding coursework, funded proposals, joint faculty positions, and shared facilities. During2010 a team of faculty representing engineering and biology and administrators were awarded anNSF Innovation through Institutional Integration (I3) grant titled EBEE: Enhancing Bioscienceand Engineering Education through curriculum integration and research experiences in systemsbiology. The main theme of the project is to incorporate life sciences education and researchacross the campus and to demonstrate it by creating intentional and sustained collaborationsbetween the

Conference Session

Mechatronics in the Curriculum

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yunfeng Wang, College of New Jersey; Christopher Ault, College of New Jersey; Teresa Marrin Nakra, College of New Jersey; Andrea Salgian, College of New Jersey; Meredith K. Stone, Independent Evaluator

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Mechanical Engineering

United States and Europe. Teresa earned her doctorate at the MIT Media Laboratory with Tod Machover and Rosalind Picard. Her doctoral project, the Conductor’s Jacket, was selected by MIT alumni for inclusion in the exhibition celebrating 150 years of the institute’s founding.Andrea Salgian, The College of New JerseyMeredith K. Stone, Independent Evaluator Page 22.1484.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 The Outcomes of an Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Course Involving Engineering, Science and ArtsAbstractAn interdisciplinary undergraduate course that

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Development

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yuan Liao, University of Kentucky; Lawrence Holloway, University of Kentucky; Paul A. Dolloff, University of Kentucky

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

grid into five areas: A) integrated communications, B) sensing andmeasurement, C) advanced components, D) advanced control methods, and E) improvedinterfaces and decision support. In terms of functionality, the smart grid technologies fall intogeneral categories of generation automation, transmission automation, distribution automation,and power utilization automation.On the other hand, implementation of smart grid projects and deployment of smart gridtechnologies will involve and affect various stakeholders such as utilities, customers, regulators,environmentalists, etc. 1 With more electric vehicles coming into being, smart grid may alsoaffect and be affected by electric vehicle technologies.Successful implementation of smart grid projects

Conference Session

Laboratory Exercises for Energy, Power, and Industrial Applications

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David S. Ochs, Kansas State University; Ruth Douglas Miller, Kansas State University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

they apply torenewable energy by using solar panels, wind turbine models, and an actual wind turbine as partof the exercises.The organization, pedagogical approach, and goals of a new course on power electronics withrenewable energy applications are presented. A summary of the equipment needed for the courseand two sample labs and a final project are presented as well. A first iteration of this new coursehas been completed by four undergraduate students and one graduate student, and their feedbackis presented.Organization of the courseMany new laboratory classes in power electronics have been developed in recent years, makinguse of various pedagogical techniques1-6. For this lab, the authors chose to combine traditional,instruction-based labs

Conference Session

Engineering Management Applications

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Jimmy Gandhi, Stevens Institute of Technology; Alex Gorod, Visiting Fellow, University of Adelaide

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

-authoring two books on risk management and case studies in system of systems engineering and is also a member of several professional societies such as ASEM and ASEE, Gandhi is also a Project Manager for the Taproot Foundation.Dr. Alex Gorod, Visiting Fellow, University of Adelaide Alex Gorod received his B.S. in information systems, M.S. in telecommunications from Pace University, and Ph.D. in engineering management from Stevens Institute of Technology. Prior to his graduate studies, he held a research analyst position at Salomon Smith Barney. He is a former Robert Crooks Stanley Doctoral Fellow in engineering management at Stevens Institute of Technology, with research interests in the area of management of complex

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Phillips; Charles V. Camp; Paul Palazolo

created with the primarygoal of generating new knowledge and excitement about the fields of math, science, andengineering for middle school students. Two separate one-week sessions were offered June 12-16, 2000 and June 26-30 at The University of Memphis’ Herff College of Engineering, and each Page 6.1061.1day’s session was scheduled from 9:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationII. Project Goals and ObjectivesThis pilot program was designed with the major goal of

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

David Kelso; John D. Enderle; Kristina Ropella

with challenges like circuit board fabrication, software validation,design reviews, functional requirements, specifications, project scheduling, project management,FDA compliance, 510K’s, clinical trials, ethical debate, patient risk, intellectual property,documentation, and a variety of other responsibilities. Having spent four or more years studyingthe theory of p-n doping, free-body diagrams, Laplace transforms, Fourier transforms, Kreb’scycle and Poiseuille’s law, it is no wonder that the recent graduate is frustrated by the seeminglydisconnect between higher education and the “real-world”.Academicians struggle to establish that balance between theory and practice. Many fear that toomuch “real-world” is simply job training. Yet, too little

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

David Loker

Session 2259 Remote Data Acquisition using LabVIEW David R. Loker, P.E. Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeAbstractIn this paper, a remote data acquisition laboratory project is presented for a senior technicalelective telecommunications course in the Electrical Engineering Technology BaccalaureateProgram at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. There are several unique characteristics ofthis project. First, the project is multidisciplinary in nature since it combines material from thetelecommunications course with material from a junior level instrumentation

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark R. Rajai; Hollis Bostick; Byrne Bostick; Mel Mendelson

project evaluations. The teams set up virtual companies using Internetsoftware, ipTeamSuite, from Nexprise, Inc.I. IntroductionGlobal out-sourcing of technology and new products is starting to take place in virtual teams inorder to reduce costs and development times1. In this way, the product team members are notco-located in the same place at the same time. It is important to introduce this into theclassroom, because virtual collaboration is becoming increasingly important as separated teamsjointly develop products 2.Over the last few years, a problem has evolved in the teaching of Loyola MarymountUniversity’s New Product Development graduate course. The course requires that team ofengineering and business students’ work together to develop new

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Horton

have replaced individual question-and-answer homework assignments. Teams arerequired to design wrenches and to describe the relevant design parameters for the manufacturingmethod selected. Projects are presented orally and in written reports that incorporate computer-aided design and drafting (CADD) drawings and design calculations. The drawing andcalculations relate directly to prerequisite and corequisite coursework. The reports referencedesign criteria suitable for use at a professional level.Student work quality, class participation, and class morale have improved with the changes. Iarrived as a new faculty and taught to the established syllabus in Fall 1997. Coming from anengineering position at a shipbuilding firm, I was experienced with

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany S. Oberst; Russel C. Jones

Session 2360 International Experience for Engineering Students through Distance Learning Techniques Russel C. Jones, PhD., P.E. World Expertise, LLC Bethany S. Oberst, PhD. James Madison UniversityAbstract A new mechanism is being developed for expanding international exposure forundergraduate engineering and computer science students in the United States, usinginformation technology and distance learning techniques. Technical students in theUnited States, in a few instances, have begun working on projects with

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Gehringer

style guidelines. The project can be supervised by graduatestudents, who undertake the responsibility of assigning work to students and integrating the workinto the site. Benefits of the project include (i) giving the students an in-depth look at severaldifferent ethical issues, (ii) constructing a resource that has been used by instructors around theworld, and (iii) providing a low-overhead mechanism for adding another course to thecurriculum. This methodology should be applicable to courses involving professional issues inall areas of engineering.1. IntroductionEthics in Computing is a fast-changing field. The “hot issues” of one year frequently were noteven on the radar screen the year before. The past seven years have seen the rise and fall

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Michele H. Miller

toaccelerate the pace of curricular change. This paper describes the activities that comprised thisinternship as well as the skills observed to be most important. With a few exceptions, my list ofskills matches the lists derived from employer surveys. Based on these observations, myrecommendations for curriculum change are: (1) provide more opportunities for students todevelop the soft skills (for example, by requiring more practical team projects); (2) explicitlyteach process skills, such as problem solving and project management; (3) emphasize the basicsin engineering science courses and how to apply them to a variety of problems; (4) offer moresystems courses to help students deal with the complicated products and organizations they willencounter

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Hussein Anis

Session 1260 Developing Engineering Education In Egypt- Experience and Achievements Hussein Anis Cairo University , EGYPTIntroductionAn Engineering Education Development Project (EEDP) was initiated in Egypt in January,1992 1,2. The project has been funded through a loan agreement between the World Bank andthe government of Egypt. The project generally aims at the upgrading or the redesign ofeducational programs at the eighteen Egyptian faculties of engineering. This includes theupgrading of academic curricula, human resources (teaching and

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Gulser Kosal; Hasan Nadir Derin

principles are used. Planning for the future, clearobjectives, participation, motivation, teamwork, leadership, problem solving,continuous improvement, empowered students, and learning assessment are givenspecial emphasis. Major stakeholders are identified as students, graduates, instructorsof the course, potential employers of the students, and the university management.Their expectations from the graduates are taken into account while designing thecourse. Difficulties due to the asynchronous nature of the course conduct are studied,and tried to be minimized by the design. In conducting the course, a student team isformed to improve the quality of the course as a project. The instructor works with theteam in collecting data each week to assess the

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

Page 4.59.5take place in various learning modes. The author favors “hands-on” project development.This mode is widely represented both in Canadian and Mexican institutions of higherlearning. And therefore presents itself as a common ground through which engineeringstudents from either Canada, Mexico and the U.S. can learn in teams. But some issues mustbe resolved beforehand.First, a joint learning project must be a win-win for all. Students and faculty members fromparticipating institutions must receive corresponding academic credit. To this effect,project development must be integral part of the undergraduate engineering program.Faculty members in consultation with, or sponsored by industry should determine if thenature of the project has the

Conference Session

ELOS Technical Session 5 - Remote, Virtual, and Digital Realities

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Hicks, Texas A&M University, Kingsville ; Lifford McLauchlan, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi; Hemanth Kumar Reddy Bhimavarapu

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

wide variety ofapplication areas. The availability of low-cost versions of the hardware elements that form thebasis of these systems, including processor boards, sensors, and communication devices,combined with expanding software support, such as cloud based IoT resources, ensure thepopularity of IoT approaches will continue to expand further. Consequently, the inclusion of IoTconcepts and technologies is becoming an increasingly important part of many engineeringdegree programs (e.g., computer engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, andmechanical engineering).An ongoing NSF funded project at Texas A&M University-Kingsville and Texas A&MUniversity-Corpus Christi has focused on expanding the coverage of IoT concepts

Conference Session

Refining Manufacturing Education Practices

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Huachao Mao, Purdue University; Yujie Shan, Purdue University; Hamid EisaZadeh, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing Division (MFG)

educational institutions to incorporate this technology intotheir curriculum. This ensures that students are adequately prepared with the skills and knowledgeneeded for future career opportunities. One crucial task is to teach students how to use moderntechnology to evaluate the quality of AM parts because AM has not reached the point of competingwith traditional manufacturing in terms of surface finish and repeatability. Moreover, the printedparts are often treated as black boxes with invisible defects, such as pores and cracks. Such non-transparency significantly challenges the qualification and certification of additively manufacturedparts. In this paper, we present a semester-long project designed for a new AM course offered atUniversity A to