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2000 Annual Conference

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Craig W. Somerton

Session 2425 Using Student Evaluations for Individual Grading in Team Projects Craig W. Somerton Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State UniversityI. IntroductionOne of the challenges involved in using teams in the engineering educational process is theassessment of individual performance in the team activity. Typically, there are two extremeapproaches to this challenge. One approach is to ignore individual contributions and assign thesame grade to all members of the team. This approach can lead to poor student morale, andeven more important good

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2001 Annual Conference

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Shirley Fleischmann

Session 2793ABET 2000 and Community Service Projects for Engineering Students Shirley T. Fleischmann, Ph.D. Seymour and Esther Padnos School of Engineering Grand Valley State UniversityAbstractABET 2000 criteria require that students show a knowledge of professional ethics as wellas a knowledge of cultural and global issues. These topics are not often easily addressedin traditional approaches to engineering courses, however they are a natural part ofcommunity service projects. The author will discuss how community service projectshave been used with great success in the ASME student

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2001 Annual Conference

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Valarie Arms; J. Weggel; Aly Valentine

Session 2453 Assessing Innovative, Project- Based Learning In Drexel’s Freshman Core Curriculum Aly Valentine, Valarie M. Arms, J. Richard Weggel Drexel UniversityIntroductionAlthough ABET and ASEE have cited the importance of innovation in engineering curriculumdevelopment, one of the enduring challenges is their assessment. In fact, ABET’s EC2000criteria reflect the program goals initiated by Drexel’s E4 (An Enhanced Engineering Educationfor Engineers), a program initially funded by the National Science Foundation. That programwon ABET’s

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1998 Annual Conference

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Ece Yaprak; Attila Yaprak; David Wells

DESIGN PROJECT VALIDATION FOR THE GREENFIELD COALITION FOR NEW MANUFACTURING EDUCATION Ece Yaprak Wayne State University Attila Yaprak Wayne State University David L. Wells Focus:HOPE Center for Advanced TechnologiesABSTRACT The Greenfield Coalition is a National Science Foundation funded coalition whichsets a new paradigm in manufacturing engineering education. One of the key goals of thecoalition is the development of a unique, experiential, learner-centered curricula

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1998 Annual Conference

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Hussein Anis

Session 2260 EGYPT’s ENGINEERING EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT PROJECT - FINAL ASSESSMENT AND FUTURE OUTLOOK Hussein Anis EEDP Project Director Cairo University , EGYPT INTRODUCTIONEgypt’s Engineering Education Development Project (EEDP) has been funded through a loanagreement between the World Bank and the government of Egypt. The project generally hasbeen aiming at the upgrading or the redesign of educational programs at the eighteen Egyptianfaculties of engineering 1,2,3. The participation of the different

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1998 Annual Conference

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M. A. Mooney; K. K. Muraleetharan; H. Gruenwald; B. E. Vieux; Randall L. Kolar

Session 1526 Integrating Design Throughout the Civil Engineering Curriculum - The Sooner City Project R. L. Kolar, K. K. Muraleetharan, M. A. Mooney, B. E. Vieux, H. Gruenwald University of OklahomaABSTRACTEvaluations of existing undergraduate engineering programs continually cite three weaknesses:graduates lack technical literacy; graduates lack oral and written communication skills; andgraduates lack design experience. To address these weaknesses, the School of Civil Engineeringand Environmental Science (CEES) at the University of Oklahoma, is proposing a systemicreform initiative that

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1997 Annual Conference

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Robert George; Allen Soyster; John Lamancusa

Session 1463 Industry-Based Projects in Academia - What Works and What Doesn’t John Lamancusa, Allen Soyster, Robert George Penn State/Northeastern University/DuPontAbstractIn June of 1994, three universities and a national laboratory (Penn State, the University ofWashington, the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, Sandia Labs) formed a partnership, underthe auspices of the Technology Reinvestment Program (TRP) of the Advanced Research ProjectsAgency (ARPA). This partnership focused on injecting a stronger manufacturing emphasis intothe engineering curriculum

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1997 Annual Conference

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David S. Cottrell; Stephen J. Ressler

Session 1268 Integrating Design Projects into an Introductory Course in Mechanics of Materials David S. Cottrell, Stephen J. Ressler United States Military AcademyAbstractThis paper describes the use of design projects in an introductory mechanics of materialscourse at the United States Military Academy. These projects serve to reinforce topics taughtin the classroom and to introduce students to the engineering design process with their firsthands-on design experience. Three representative examples of actual projects are presented.Students’ end-of-course

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1997 Annual Conference

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Sheng-Hsien (Gary) Teng

Session 1663 Integrating Hands-on Manufacturing Project Experience into Manufacturing Education Sheng-Hsien (Gary) Teng Western New England College ABSTRACTEngineers are required to obtain state-of-the-art manufacturing knowledge, people skill,information gathering ability, time and project management background, and communicationskill to face the challenges on their jobs. This paper will discuss the implementation of hands-onmanufacturing projects to compensate the missing training in these skills.I. Introduction

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1997 Annual Conference

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Brian Armstrong

1232 A Design Project for a Second Course in Controls Brian Armstrong Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, P.O. 784, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, U.S.A. bsra@ee.uwm.edu Abstract It can be challenging in a course on feedback controls, to implement a design project inthe wider sense of open-ended questions and student exploration. While it is straightforward toassign the task of ‘designing’ a controller by tuning the

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1997 Annual Conference

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Richard L. LeBoeuf; Gregory Spaulding

Session 2348 Designing a HVAC Demonstrator - an ASHRAE Undergraduate Senior Project Richard L. LeBoeuf, Gregory Spaulding Kansas State University at SalinaThe American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc.(ASHRAE) provides funds for undergraduate senior projects to encourage students to pursueASHRAE-related careers. As a result of this grant program, the mechanical engineeringtechnology (MET) seniors at Kansas State University have designed and built a Heating,Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) Demonstrator that will be

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1997 Annual Conference

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Alan K. Karplus

Session 1225 National Sponsored Design Project Initiatives for Mechanical Engineering Students Alan K. Karplus Western New England CollegeOver several years the second semester Junior Mechanical Engineering Laboratoryprogram has emphasized formal team building activities. A project format is used whichrequires the completion of an entry into a National Design Competition. For the 1995/96year the Student Safety Engineering Design Contest sponsored by the Safety Engineeringand Risk Analysis Division of ASME, National Institute For Occupational Safety andHealth

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1997 Annual Conference

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Joan A. Burtner

Session 2553 Nine Years of Freshman Design Projects at Mercer University Joan A. Burtner Mercer UniversityIntroduction For the past nine years, the Mercer University School of Engineering has requiredfreshman engineering students to enroll in a three-quarter freshman engineering sequence: EGR101, 102, and 103. In EGR 101 and EGR 102 students are taught basic visualization skills andengineering drawing techniques. They learn to use WordPerfect, Lotus 123, and AutoCAD. Theywork in teams to deliver a brief oral presentation

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1997 Annual Conference

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Tracy S. Tillman

Session 3230 Planning Activities and Evaluating Student Performance for Concurrent Engineering Class Projects Dr. Tracy S. Tillman, CMfgE, CEI Eastern Michigan University Introduction This paper will describe student-based planning and evaluation techniques for a 300-leveldesign for manufacturing course and a 400-level manufacturing program capstone course, inwhich students learn and apply concurrent engineering techniques in order to design andmanufacture a product

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1998 Annual Conference

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Gary B. Randolph

Session 1275 Using Gantt Chart Software in Managing Student Team Projects Gary B. Randolph Purdue University School of Technology Anderson, Indiana INTRODUCTIONStudent team projects have become a popular way to teach. Good teams develop an environmentof effective adult learning andragogy,1 emphasizing student self-direction in their own learning,shared experiences, near-term application and performance feedback. But coaching teams andkeeping them on track is a difficult and delicate job for faculty.2 The

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1998 Annual Conference

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Nikhil K. Kundu

Session 1547 Wheel Bearing Tester Project: Machine Elements to Design Engineering Nikhil K. Kundu Purdue UniversityIntroductionIn order to be competitive in the job market engineering graduates are required to haveunderstanding in fundamentals as well as training in the state of the art technology along withrealistic design experience. This demand can be satisfied by introducing real world applicationsin design courses, where students can use theories as well as training in solving problems.In this project students were presented with

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1999 Annual Conference

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Philip Doepker

Session 2323 The Design and Manufacturing Clinic: Bringing Industrial Projects into the Classroom Philip E. Doepker University of DaytonAbstractFor over a decade capstone design courses and other project related courses haveimplemented projects that have roots in industry. This was done on an informal basisbetween professors and contacts in industry. This process lacked consistency in thatsome projects would be repeated from previous terms or projects would be completelydefined by faculty with no input from industry. With recent findings (1,3,8) from varioustechnical

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1999 Annual Conference

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M. Mavromihales; K. Sherwin

Session 1613 Design, Fabrication and Testing a Heat Exchanger as a Student Project K Sherwin, M Mavromihales University of Huddersfield, UK1. IntroductionThis paper describes the design-fabrication-test of a simple heat exchanger as a final yeardesign project for undergraduate engineering students. Design can be defined as the use ofimagination, knowledge, experience and judgement to define a particular end project (1).Much of this activity cannot be taught as a body of knowledge, like an engineering science.Students can only learn to design and gain experience by being actively involved

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1999 Annual Conference

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Don L. Dekker

Session 2225 DESIGN/BUILD/TEST PROJECTS ARE NOT ALL CREATED EQUAL Don L. Dekker Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyABSTRACTProjects which include designing something, constructing something, and testing something arenot all the same, and students will not learn the same set of skills from all of the projects. It is,therefore, important that the characteristics of different design/build/test (D/B/T) projects beunderstood so that the skills that the students learn are the same skills that will be required whenthey enter the workforce. Three very diverse examples of D/B/T projects will be used

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1999 Annual Conference

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Omar Barkat

Session 3660 Engineering Final Projects in a 5-Year Program Higher Education Institution Omar Barkat, Ph.D., Dr. es-Sc., P.E. McNeese State University College of Engineering and technology P.O. Box 91735 Lake Charles, Louisiana, 70609-1735AbstractIn this paper, final projects work for engineering graduates in Algeria during the students lastyear are discussed. The Industrial Chemistry Institute at The University of Science andTechnology of Algiers is taken as an

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1999 Annual Conference

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Winston F. Erevelles

Session 2263 Experiences in Integrative Research and Education Projects with Undergraduate Engineers Winston Erevelles Kettering UniversityIntroductionAcademic careers offer engineering faculty an array of activities that they are expected toparticipate in - these include teaching, research and publications, laboratory development,student advisement, accreditation documentation, committee work, and service to professionalorganizations, to mention a few areas of involvement. Time constraints, the diversity in the setof responsibilities, and

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1999 Annual Conference

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Thomas Wagner; Daniel C. Gray

Session 3226 An FPGA Project for use in a Digital Logic Course Daniel C. Gray, Thomas D. Wagner United States Military AcademyAbstractThe Digital Computer Logic Course offered at the United States Military Academy teachescadets the principles of combinational and sequential logic, with an emphasis on programmablelogic design. Classroom principles are reinforced with six lab exercises and two projects. Inprevious versions of the course, cadets were given a digital alarm clock kit that they constructedas credit for one lab.In 1995, a decision was made to replace the alarm clock with

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1999 Annual Conference

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Michael Sexton

Session 1633 GAS TURBINE ENGINE SIMULATION USING MATHCAD: A STUDENT PROJECT Michael R. Sexton Mechanical Engineering Department Virginia Military Institute Lexington, VA 24450AbstractThis paper describes an energy system simulation project assigned to mechanical engineeringstudents at the Virginia Military Institute. This project is part of a required, senior level, coursein energy conversion design. The class exposes the student to methods of energy system designbased on system simulation

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1999 Annual Conference

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Michael McGeen; Larry Groser; J. Michael Hassler; Douglas C. Stahl; Craig Capano

Session 1606 Implementation of Project Specific Web Sites in a Capstone Design Course Douglas C. Stahl, Michael McGeen, Craig Capano, J. Michael Hassler, Larry Groser Milwaukee School of EngineeringAbstractProject Specific Web Sites (PSWS) promise to revolutionize the way designers, constructors,and owners process and transmit information regarding a design/construction project. ThePSWS can be thought of as a clearinghouse for project data, including text, graphical, and videodata ranging from contracts and meeting minutes to final

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1998 Annual Conference

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Jennifer T. Ross

Session 1526 A Microelectronics Curriculum Designed with Industry Input and Project- Based Laboratories Jennifer T. Ross Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of the Pacific 1. Introduction With the changes in the ABET 2000 criteria, universities have considerably more freedom indefining “sufficient” coverage in their curricula. With this freedom comes uncertainty in findingthe right mix between depth and breadth for the fast paced microelectronics field. Another issuein preparing students for this field is not only

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1998 Annual Conference

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Henry G. Ansell

Session 1547 Senior EET Design Projects to Aid Individuals with Disabilities Henry G. Ansell Penn State Berks-Lehigh Valley College Abstract There are engineering programs throughout the U.S. that offer senior design coursesinvolving projects to aid individuals with disabilities, but technology programs that do this arerarer. This paper discusses experience with technology students doing successful client-basedsenior design projects to aid individuals with disabilities. It explains how projects were chosenand how funding was obtained

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1998 Annual Conference

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Paul D. Schreuders; Arthur T. Johnson

Session 1608 Session 1608 Sprints vs. Marathons: Two Potential Structures for Assigning Engineering Design Projects. Paul D. Schreuders, Arthur T. Johnson University of Maryland, College ParkAbstractWhile a major goal of an engineering education is the preparation of students for solving “realworld” problems, actually assigning these problems is rarely possible in a teaching environment.A number of different strategies exist for structuring student projects, so that they prepare thestudents for

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1998 Annual Conference

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Elmer A. Grubbs

Session 1238 Student Learning Project with 3-D Visualization and Virtual Reality Elmer A. Grubbs Department of Electronic Engineering Technology The University of Southern ColoradoABSTRACTThis paper presents work done in Three-D and Virtual Reality in the Department of ElectronicEngineering Technology at the University of Southern Colorado during the 1996 - 1997academic year. Two student projects, one using Three-D imaging and the other presenting avirtual reality representation of the campus of the University of Southern

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1998 Annual Conference

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Frank Wicks

Session 2633 A SUCCESSFUL INDUSTRY BASED AND ENERGY CONSERVATION RELATED SENIOR PROJECT Frank Wicks Union College Schenectady, New York, 12308ABSTRACT One such student and his manager proposed The Mechanical Engineering program at Union analyzing a cascade of industrial compressors that nowCollege which is on a trimester system requires a two consumes

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1998 Annual Conference

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Karen E. Schmahl

Session 3263 TEACHING AN ADVANCED PROCESSES COURSE USING AN INDUSTRY PROJECT Karen E. Schmahl Miami UniversityA semester-long course in advanced manufacturing processes can barely scratch the surface inteaching students the many emerging technologies. An alternative approach to such a course hasthe students learning a single process very well, thus “learning what is takes to learn” a newprocess. This knowledge can then be applied to any process encountered. Senior students inMiami University’s Manufacturing Engineering program were given the opportunity