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Michael Carter; Sarah Rajala

opportunities.6. To expose students to advances in engineering practice and research as preparation for opportunities in professional practice and graduate education.7. To obtain resources necessary to recruit, develop, and retain faculty who are committed to the educational mission of the department and to acquire, maintain, and operate facilities and laboratory equipment appropriate to our engineering program, and to incorporate traditional and state-of-the-art educational technology and methods.3 Page 6.400.9 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright

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Michael Rudisill

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”An additional use of the computer that was utilized for both the lecture and lab was the use ofMicroSim PSPICE (a circuit analysis program). The students in both classes were required tolearn to use the software and had several assignments for which the software was used either toreinforce material learned in the classroom or to prepare the students for laboratory sessions sothat they had an idea of what they were looking for before preforming the lab. An additional useof the program was the drawing of schematics required in the lab reports. These were allowed tobe hand drawn, but many students preferred the ease and appearance

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Marilyn J. Smith; Bethany Bodo

Education, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1998. ISBN 0-309-05977-1, http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/dlibrary/3. Komerath, "Experimental Curriculum in Diagnostics and Control of Unsteady Flows". AIAA Paper 94-0850, Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, Nevada, Jan. 94.4. Komerath, "Flow Imaging and Control Laboratory: An Experiment in Iterative Learning". ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, ‘94, 1, p. 737-743.5. Komerath, "Progress Towards Iterative Learning". ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Session 3536, paper 2, June ‘95.6. Komerath, “Experimental Curriculum in Diagnostics and Control of Unsteady Flows”. J. Engg. Education, 85, 3, July ‘96, p. 263-268.7. Komerath, N.M., “Design-Centered

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Joseph H. Nevin; John L. Bellando

, and students.JOSEPH H. NEVINJoseph H. Nevin is a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. He also servescurrently as an Assistant Dean and is the director of the College of Engineering Instructional Technology Center.His teaching activities center around analog circuit design and he frequently teaches laboratory courses. Hisgraduate level research is in the field of MEMS. Page 5.461.14

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Tirupathi R. Chandrupatla; Shreekanth A Mandayam; Anthony J. Marchese; John L. Schmalzel; John Chen; Ravi Ramachandran; Paris von Lockette; Kevin Dahm

laboratory/design courses are offered simultane-Engineering Clinic sequence. ously to all engineering students in all four dis- Year Clinic Theme (Fall) Clinic Theme (Spring) ciplines. Indeed, the hallmark of the engineering Frosh Engineering Meas- Competitive program at Rowan University is the multidisci- urements Assessment Lab plinary, project-oriented Engineering Clinic se- Soph Total Quality Man- Multidisciplinary quence1,2. agement Design Project Junior Product/Process Product/Process The Engineering Clinic is a course that is Development

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Yvon Kermarrec; Ian R. Simpson

. (Duration : 4 months). Around 20 students per year currently use this program to register for courses in engineering colleges in Germany and Spain. Plans are being made to develop this program to other partners in Europe and North America, possibly on a « Student Exchange » basis. We are busy looking for potential, new partners !• Final year projects may be performed in companies or research laboratories abroad. (Duration : 6-10 months).In 1998-99, sixty final-year students performed their project abroad in 13 different countries.• A « Sandwich Year » (Jeune Ingénieur) exists between 2nd and 3rd years which enables around 50 students per year to go and work in industry. (Duration : 12 months). Around 20 students per year

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Teresa L. Hein

.” Numerous teaching strategies have been developed which correspond to theaccommodation of students’ needs and diverse learning styles 10 - 14. One such strategy involvesthe use of writing 15. A significant amount of research conducted in the sciences and inengineering suggests that the active process of writing can be an effective teaching and learningtool 16 – 24. In addition, the PMW course includes strong conceptual and problem solvingcomponents.Physics for the Modern World is a 3-credit course and consists of a lecture and a laboratorycomponent. Students meet twice a week for class sessions that are 75 minutes long. Onalternate weeks students meet for a two-hour laboratory. Approximately 120 students, with 60students in each of two sections

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Rebecca A. Pinkus; Craig A. Simmons

were not very useful. The poor return from these exercises may stem from thestudents’ unfamiliarity with in-class writing and peer review exercises. The majority ofengineering classes at U of T are delivered as traditional lectures, with opportunities for smallgroup work in tutorials and laboratories, but little exposure to in-class exercises or peer review.Certainly, the students do not receive formal training on how to review a peer’s paper, despite theimportance of this activity to engineering practice. Because of time constraints, we were unableto incorporate peer review techniques into the seminar. In retrospect, doing so would bevaluable not only to make the in-class exercises more beneficial, but also for the students’ futureactivities

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Wieslaw M. Szydlowski

analyzed for themobility and the redundant constraints. Then a self-aligning version of the same mechanism isdesigned . The loop method is the only tool available to the students.The teams build mechanisms from parts purchased at hardware and hobby stores. The mostfrequently used parts are: brass tubing with slightly different diameters, used in building jointsof the IV-th class, small self-aligning joints used by hobbyists to build RC cars, brass flats andminiature screws and nuts (see Fig. 10).The cost of parts per team is about $8.00, and money comes from the laboratory fees paid by thestudents. The parts are glued together with a glue gun, the holes are drilled and parts cut with asmall Dremel tool. Some safety precautions have to be taken

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Winthrop J. Aldrich; M. Catharine Hudspeth

placed into one of three groups which then determines their schedule for the program.In an effort to prepare the students for the rigor of a university program and to instill theimportance of successful time management, the schedule is intensive. In the mornings, allstudents attend three 75-minute classes, while the afternoons consist of a 2 ½ hour activity fivedays a week for the four weeks. The morning classes combine the more traditional lectures onnew topics with collaborative problem solving and discussions. The afternoons, on the otherhand, consist of laboratory hands-on activities in support of the topics discussed as well as aweekly orientation to college and discussions of what it takes to excel as a technical student.Senior faculty

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Zheng-Tao Deng; Abdul R. Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

. He has worked at U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory at Fort Rucker, Alabama onaircrew protection.ABDUL JALLOHA. Jalloh is Assistant Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Alabama A&M University inHuntsville, AL. Dr. Jalloh earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, with a minor in EngineeringMechanics from the University of Arizona, he obtained his M.S. Mechanical Engineering also from theUniversity of Arizona, and he holds a B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Sierra Leone.His research interest is in areas of mechanical vibrations, structural dynamics, structural mechanics, appliedelasticity, probabilistic design, finite element analysis, manufacturing and reliability

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Diana G. Somerton; Craig W. Somerton

Undergraduate Program in Mechanical Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering Michigan State UniversityThe undergraduate program in mechanical engineering must ensure that our graduates are very wellprepared to enter into and continue progressing in the mechanical engineering profession. Toachieve these goals, the program must provide a sufficiently broad and deep base of mathematics;physical science; engineering science; and computer, laboratory, design, and communicationexperience. The program must also provide breadth, depth, and a balanced view of the engineeringprinciples in both the thermal/fluids area and the mechanical systems area, including the

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Cultivating Professional Responsibility

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Julia Williams

Science and TechnologyPolicy, argued that historically scientists and engineers have always played a significant, albeitparticular, role in society. Possessing knowledge of science and technology, engineers haveacted on behalf of society, developing and implementing beneficial technologies that serve theneeds of individuals and their communities. Lane suggests that more recently, the nature of theengineer's role has been changing, creating a new and additional function that engineers andscientists must play in society: I termed this role the "civic scientist," with civic meaning "concerning or affecting the community or the people." In this new civic capacity, scientists and engineers step beyond their campuses, laboratories

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K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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Mary John O'Hair; Mark Nanny; Teri Rhoads

-world experiments, observations, and measurements, to study problems that affect their daily lives.· To use these activities to link students from different classes and schools, via peer teaching, collaborations, and the Internet, as they focus on common themes.· To include computers and up-to-date sampling and laboratory equipment in all activities so Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Page 7.21.3 students gain experience with current technology.· To incorporate computer-based

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Focus on Undergraduate Impact

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Andrew Vavreck

as a critical area fortechnology and engineering students, who are increasingly likely to encounter project teams andmay serve as project managers. Many other efforts focused on team skills. Interdisciplinaryteams (industrial engineering and physical therapy) were formed in another program2 0 to helpimplement Americans with Disabilities Act modifications to the campus. Students gain exposureto open ended problems and to a need for others’ skills. Even though such teams can ofteninvolve conflict, such difficulties can be used to strengthen the team if the conflict is managedwell.2 1 Using such team skill building, a widely multidisciplinary course has been developed2 2involving a bioprocessing laboratory. Components of the course included

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Programming and DSP Potpourri

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Roger Mayne

using Microsoft’sVisual C++. The VC++ programming environment has proven to be very satisfactory. Students whohave very little computer science background are able to adapt to C++ object-orientedprogramming and to the Application Wizard of VC++. They are able to do their programming inour department PC laboratories, they can take their work home easily using their own computers,and the programs that they produce look very much like the commercial programs they useroutinely. At many points in the course there is the common reaction: “so this is the way it’sdone”. The course develops specific programming and theoretical skills in computer graphicswhich transfer to any computing environment. But, by exposing students to PC

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Freshman Design

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Hazel Pierson; Daniel Suchora

lecture hours and threelaboratory hours per week. The project is presented, explained, and discussed in the lecturesetting. However, questions that arise because of the project are addressed in the laboratory orthe lecture. Prior to the project, the students have received instruction and completed exerciseson web searches, web page construction, and word processing with equation editor. Concurrentwith the project, students receive instruction on MS EXCEL in the lab. The completed projectdraws from the skills taught in both the lecture and the lab setting. In addition to this course, the Page 7.1183.1typical student is taking pre-calculus

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Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

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Nilufer Gozacan; Reza Ziarati

example in their Manual. A Model Handbook will be developed.R – The Course Team* This important section outlines the membership of the Programme Team, calendar of ‘Programme Team Meetings’, agreed Programme, etc.S – Course Support Services* This section will be a source of information for Programme Teams, and they should add any systems which operate in their own Faculty of Department, eg for obtaining laboratory/workshop materials for classes.T – Student Support Systems* This will be an information section about services available to help students. Programme Teams will need to be aware of these and make their students aware of them.U – Non-Attendance Systems* This section will give the safety net system for

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New Ideas

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David Zietlow

would need to exceed $91,000,electricity costs would need to drop below $.042/kwh, the operating time would need to dropbelow 1500 hours a year, the cooling load would need to drop below 240 tons (840 kW) or thelife of the equipment would need to drop below 6.5 years before the high efficiency equipmentwill not provide an adequate return on investment. Use this case study to introduce your studentsto a powerful economic tool to aid them in helping their employer make decisions that maximizetheir return on investment. This case study was introduced to students as a part of a junior level laboratory class formechancial engineers. The student feedback was favorable. They appreciated the practicalaspects of applying life cycle costs when making

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Tanya Zlateva; Julia Burstein

hasperformed research in environmental engineering at Parson’s Laboratories, MIT. Her current interests are inthe application of multimedia for education. Page 6.127.13Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Education

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Harriet Cornachione; Tim Brower

to those in the ET programs due to the inherent differences in the perception of what ET is? ET is typically portrayed as a "hands-on" discipline where you get dirty. At Oregon Tech, the emphasis and strength of the curriculum are laboratory intensive courses rather than a purely theoretical bent. This approach helps the student better understand the engineering science principles involved, and, facilitates the student’s transition to industry, which is part of the Oregon Tech mission. However, this approach may "backfire" in our recruiting of women students.2) Are the underlying reasons for low women percentages in certain ET disciplines our faculty’s and male student’s fault as a result of a "gendered apartheid system12?" The

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CE Rap Session and Toys in the Classroom

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Tonya Emerson

Load Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationbecomes a useful illustration to show that shear does exist on axes inclined from the longitudinalaxis.V. ConclusionPresented herein is a collection of toys developed over a period of four years of teachingmechanics of materials laboratories and lectures. Initial courses were taught with little to novisual aids and I immediately discovered that many of the topics in the course were quitedifficult to explain by words only and even more difficult for students to grasp. By no means doI suggest that this collection is complete or dormant in its evolution.Of

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Tools of Teaching

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Richard Jacques; Mark Shields; John O'Connell; Matthew Mehalik

hedidn’t know, “learned that big groups aren’t as bad as I thought they would be. I thought Iwouldn’t have much to say in a groups with so many people, but that turned out not to be true.”SR who did not at all want to be there except for the pizza admitted that it “helps people to learnto work in groups so that in their daily jobs they work better together and form a more cohesivewhole. This is somewhat like the real engineering world.”The year 2000 version was also run in 2002 by one of the authors with a class of 36 juniorChemical Engineering students at the beginning of their first unit operations laboratory, whichrequires extensive work by teams of three. None of these students had done the simulationbefore. Though the ultimate rate of

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MINDing Our Business

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Geoffrey Bland; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

University in Calcutta, India with a honors in Mechanical Engineering in1983, thereafter, he worked in a multinational industry for 4 years before joining Tulane University as agraduate student in the fall of 1987. He received his M.S. degree from Tulane University in 1989 and Ph.D.degree from Duke University in 1992.GEOFFREY BLANDGeoffrey Bland is a member of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Laboratory for HydrosphericProcesses, Observational Science Branch, located at the Wallops Flight Facility, VA. Primary researchactivities are focused on the development and utilization of uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAVs) andassociated sensors for Earth science related measurements. Previous work includes mission managementand engineering support of sub

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multim engr edu;dist.,servi&intern based

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Ann Wright; Andrew Wright

outlined in the lectures. The demonstrations require that students interact withthe demonstration, after the fashion of a laboratory. The machine shop training occursseparately from the lecture.Lecture material: indicial notation, coordinate systems, strain, stress; material propertiesand isotropic constitutive laws; failure: yield, fatigue, buckling; friction; mechanicalelements: fasteners (screws, rivets, welds), bearing surfaces (bushings, bearings,lubrication), power transmission (pulleys, chains & timing belts, gears), shaft couplings(set screw, key, Woodruff key, spline, couplers); basic operation and mounting of DCmotors; basic operation and mounting of sensors (potentiometer, switch, yaw rate).Advanced students will be given the

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NSF Opportunities for Undergrad Eng Ed

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Jeannette Neal

regarding industry practices, procedures, tools, issues, environments, and tasks. The infusion is being accomplished through the use of real world industry examples, case studies, collaborative projects, virtual environments, and guest lecturers, among others. This topic is discussed further in Section 4. · The Web-Net Tech web site consisting of four major parts: Information Center, Course Materials Hosting, Virtual Workplace Laboratory, and Technology Showcase. This web site is being designed and developed to support the program, permit a “hands on” software development experience, provide students with a s howcase for their efforts, and promote the program to potential students and partners. The

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Raymond Kliewer

://www.ncees.org/fundamentals/feafternoon.html 9. URL: http://www.ncees.org/publications/Feintro.htmRAYMOND M. KLIEWERRaymond M. Kliewer received his BSME, MSME and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas TechUniversity. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Technology Department at VirginiaState University and has been selected “as an ASME/ABET Mechanical Engineering TechnologyEvaluator.” He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Texas and Indiana. He worked 15 years for Brown& Root, Inc. in Houston, Texas in various engineering design, research and management capacitiesand over 11 years as a Senior Staff Research Engineer in the Research Laboratories of Inland SteelCompany in East Chicago, Indiana where he was active in

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James Bean; Aparajita Mazumder

taken in Chinese/Mexican/English Chinese, Mexican China, Mexico or UK industry (6 credits) (8 credits) Or• Chinese/European/ • Hands-on laboratory • International Mexican Technology experience (1 credit) internship placement Management (4 credits) • Chinese/Mexican/ in China/Mexico/UK• Manufacturing in China, European Civilization through IAESTE or UK and Mexico (4 credits) Course (3 credits) AIESEC

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Wang Chien Ming; Mohamad Ridwan; Ang Kok Keng

components: (1) three open-book quizzes(25%), (2) one exploratory laboratory experiment (5%), (3) web-based tutorials (10%) and (4)an open book examination (65%).3. Participatory Workshop-LecturesOne problem of the conventional teaching method is in the presentation of the material.Frequently, lecturers tend to teach in the form of a monologue in front of a generally passiveaudience. This form of lecturing provides little incentive for students to attend classes. The factthat most of what they presented comes straight out of the textbooks and/or lecture notescompounds the problem. Only outstanding lecturers would be able to hold students’ attention for

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Rebecca Blust

Educationstudent mentors. After a while, students begin to realize that group learning can be dynamic,productive and fun. Additionally, students learn how to function successfully in groups,invaluable experience for the future. Engaging in teamwork also lessens the feelings ofisolation for minority students while encouraging the positive aspects of community.In addition to academic workshops, another method used to enhance academic success iscourse clustering which puts minority students together in large general education courses inorder to increase diversity and reduce academic isolation. Increasing the number of minoritystudents within classrooms and laboratories diminishes any feelings of seclusion thattraditionally many minority students have had