Conference Session

Computer Tools for Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frank Kowalski, Colorado School of Mines; Susan Kowalski, Colorado School of Mines; Erich Hoover, Colorado School of Mines

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Computers in Education

AC 2007-2519: USING INKSURVEY: A FREE WEB-BASED TOOL FOROPEN-ENDED QUESTIONING TO PROMOTE ACTIVE LEARNING ANDREAL-TIME FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT OF TABLET PC-EQUIPPEDENGINEERING STUDENTSFrank Kowalski, Colorado School of Mines Frank V. Kowalski (Ph.D., Stanford University) is a professor of physics at Colorado School of Mines. He is a strong proponent of using technology to enhance active learning and classroom communication.Susan Kowalski, Colorado School of Mines Susan E. Kowalski (M.B.S., University of Colorado, Boulder) has been the project coordinator for the Colorado School of Mines Classroom Communicator Project since its inception in 2002.Erich Hoover, Colorado School of Mines Erich Hoover is a

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computer-Oriented Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sohail Anwar, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona College; Jungwoo Ryoo, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona College; Harpal Dhillon, Excelsior College; David Barnes, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona College

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Information Systems

Science from the University of Kansas in 2005.Harpal Dhillon, Excelsior College Dr. Harpal Dhillon is currently the Dean of the School of Business and Technology at Excelsior College. In the past he has taught undergraduate and graduate Courses in Information Systems, Software Engineering, and Project Management at University of Maryland, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, and George Washington University. Dr. Dhillon worked as owner/senior executive in three systems engineering companies over a period of 20 years. His research interests are in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction, Quality Assurance, and Applications of IT in Telemedicine and Web-based Distance Learning. Dr. Dhillon is a

Conference Session

IE and EM Program Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Brunkhorst, University of Missouri; Halvard Nystrom, University of Missouri; Donald Myers, University of Missouri

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Engineering Management

than they have before. However, there is an increasingneed for professionals to manage the technical projects, programs, and organizations. Thismarket need could be met by bioengineers who earn a Master’s Degree in EngineeringManagement. These professionals would not only understand engineering and life-scienceissues, but also management and strategic issues. The Massachusetts Biotechnology Education Foundation is a non-profit company thatpromotes and supports science and biotechnology education in Massachusetts. In the May 1,2005 issue of Genetic Engineering News, Cora Beth Abel, the Vice President of MassBioEdstressed that clinical and project management were the two areas most in need of workforcedevelopment. She was quoted as saying

Conference Session

Modern Software Measurement Techniques

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Akram Hossain, Purdue University-Calumet; Masoud Fathizadeh, Purdue University-Calumet

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Instrumentation

authored more than 25 refereed journal and conference publications. From 2003 through 2006, he was involved with Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL in developing direct computer control for hydrogen powered automotives. He is also involved in several direct computer control and wireless process control related research projects. His interests are in the area of industrial transducer, industrial process control, wireless controls, statistical process control, computer aided design and fabrication of printed circuit board, programmable logic controllers, programmable logic devices and renewable energy related projects.Masoud Fathizadeh, Purdue University-Calumet Masoud Fathizadeh received his B.S.E.E

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amjad Zaim, University of Texas-Brownsville; Mahmoud Quweider, University of Texas-Brownsville

. Page 12.1163.9Conclusion:In this paper, we discussed practical issues in the design and implementation of iris-basedrecognition security system. Although, the main concepts provided in this report can beused as general standard guidelines for development of iris-based recognition, ourprimary motivation behind this project is to familiarize our computer science studentswith this rapidly emerging technology and to increase their level of enthusiasm about theits promising future. The developed system is expected to support courses and facultyresearch, courses and visitor familiarity with this interesting application of computerscience. The system will also be installed in different laboratory modules for use incapstone projects and to demonstrate

Conference Session

New Trends in Energy Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noel Schulz, Mississippi State University; Herbert Ginn, Mississippi State University; Stanislaw Grzybowski, Mississippi State University; Anurag Srivastava, Mississippi State University; Jimena Bastos, Mississippi State University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

design and work withmanufacturers and system integrators to develop a final product. With the advancements in shipsystems, today’s shipbuilders are now taking a more active part in the research, development anddesign of the ships at a much earlier stage. In addition to those who build the ships, they alsoneed engineers to help with the research and development of the systems on the ship. With theneed for capabilities for fight-through and reconfiguration, many of the systems are moving tomore electrical based systems including power and controls applications. Additionally theOffice of Naval Research has been a major source of research funding for power engineeringfaculty within the last 10 years. Research projects related to the all electric

Conference Session

Introductory Materials Science for the 21st Century

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carolyn Skurla, Baylor University

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Materials

their major in mechanical engineering has risen sharply. The number ofjuniors enrolling in Materials has doubled in the last three years and is projected to see anadditional 30% or more increase in enrollment in Spring 2008. While growth is exciting, it hasstretched the capacity of our teaching laboratory facilities and the capacity of the instructor tograde the increased volume of laboratory reports with the same degree of rigor. However, therecent addition of a masters program made teaching assistants available to assist duringlaboratory sessions.Keeping a larger group of students engaged in active learning activities during a laboratoryexercise that requires students to take turns using a single, major piece of equipment (e.g., thesingle

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Abu-Hajar, San Francisco State University; Michael Holden, San Francisco State University

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Computers in Education

andresultant data, and section 6 concludes the paper with discussion and futuristic trends.2. Traditional engineering classrooms: Challenges and solutionsTraditional engineering classrooms adopt the objectivist approach—the instructor leads thelearning process and students passively receive information. Students’ learning is evaluatedusing a combination of homework, quizzes, projects, and exams. The problem with such anassessment approach is that it limits the students’ incentives to learn beyond grades. we arguethat traditional classrooms are effective in some respects such as when lectures focus onpresenting defined and agreed-upon facts and skills14.New themes have emerged with the intention of improving the efficiency of teaching andreducing

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention and Diversity in Engineering Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irene Ferrara, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona; Andrew Vavreck, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona

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Engineering Technology

(AutoCAD) as well as a solidmodeling software package (SolidWorks). The design component is intended to give students an Page 12.241.3introduction to a design philosophy that is repeated in subsequent courses, to advance studentunderstanding of what engineers actually do in industry, and to provide students with team-oriented project work. Team experiences and effectively functioning as a part of a team areaddressed as students become involved in the project work.In spring of 2006, ED&G 100, Introduction to Engineering Design, was offered for the first timeas a common course for Engineering and Engineering Technology majors. In addition, with

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nihad Dukhan, University of Detroit Mercy; Michael Jenkins, University of Detroit Mercy

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Graduate Studies

in many engineering schools in thepast few years. Traditionally, engineering undergraduate students are provided with some designexperiences in the cap stone design course, and as part of some other engineering courses, whichinclude design-type small projects or open-ended problems, throughout the curriculum. Whilevery valuable in many ways, this design experience does not constitute scientific research: Itmainly aims at providing a design for a working or manufactureble part or system. To achievethis, the students usually apply their existing knowledge and technical skills that they acquirethrough their engineering courses. Engineering research includes the aspect of pursuing a scientific topic, a hypothesis or anidea in a systematic

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Industrial Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ghassan Ibrahim, Bloomsburg University; Jeremy Sensenig, Bloomsburg University

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Engineering Technology

retail stores andmanufacturing environment, where fluorescent lights are commonly used. Fluorescent lights areenergized with AC power at certain frequencies depending on their design and go through twocycles of ionization/de-ionization during each power cycle which makes them time varying RFreflectors. There is a possibility that the time varying component of the RFID signal reflected bythe fluorescent light may share the same spectrum as similar components originating from theRFID tags, when they are operating in backscatter mode. This dynamic reflection of RF signalsmay interfere with the operation of the reverse link of the RFID systemA research project was conducted within the Bloomsburg University electronics engineeringtechnology (EET

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abul Azad, Northern Illinois University; Xueshu Song, Northern Illinois University

. Thestudents’ perceptions of the lasting impact of this project and the effectiveness of verticalintegration will be addressed through the performance evaluation of the students during theirsenior years. Acceptability of the remote laboratory facility: Towards this students are provided with aweekly survey (multiple choice), where they queried regarding their interest level in the material,adequacy of background preparation, usefulness of the handouts, effectiveness of the tutorials,the knowledge they acquired from each topic, relevance of course materials, ease of access to the Page 12.1235.10Internet facility, and suggestions they have for

Conference Session

IE and EM Program Innovation

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Duening, Arizona State University

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Engineering Management

Systems Management(ESIM). As it will be defined by this program, ESIM will cover a wide range of competenciespertinent to enterprise systems at all levels, including: • Management and human resource systems • Organizational design and structure • Decision making and strategy setting • New product/service development • Project management • Production and operations • Information technologies and expert systems • Financial and accounting systemsTo accommodate this range of ESIM opportunities within the enterprise, the following core andelective curricula are proposed:Required Core:FSE 598 Introduction to Strategic Enterprise InnovationThis course introduces students to the varieties of innovation that occur across

Conference Session

Biology and Engineering

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ernest Tollner, University of Georgia-Athens; Caner Kazanci, Univ. of Georgia

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Biological & Agricultural

structuredseminar that seems appropriate. The syllabus is summarized as follows: • Gain a qualitative understanding of terminology, the first law, the second law from an introductory text (We used Whalley, 1992). We also focused on worked examples of first and second law analyses found in Cengel and Boles (2002). • Spend two days per week covering fundamentals in ecological thermodynamics (Jorgenson and Svirezhev, 2004) and spend one day per week analyzing papers of Ichiru Aoki and other leaders in the field. • Students tackled a project based on the papers for a detailed energetics analyses as a final project The course considered the laws of thermodynamics in the classical sense andinvestigated some models

Conference Session

Mentoring

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suzanne Zurn-Birkhimer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Beth Holloway, Purdue University

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Women in Engineering

engineering graduate students, several successful outcomes are achieved: more studentsare being reached, students are choosing to participate in the type of program that best suits theirneeds, and students who need more frequent mentoring take the opportunity to interact withother members a minimum of once each week.References[1] Walthall, L.M., Holloway, B.M., and Reklaitis, J.K. (2006). Bridging into Graduate Studies: Purdue University’sWomen in Engineering Graduate Mentoring Program. Proceedings of the WEPAN Conference, June 11-14,Pittsburgh, PA[2] Hall, R.M. and Sandler, B.R. (1982). The classroom climate: A chilly one for Women? Project on the Status andEducation of Women, Association of American Colleges, Washington, DC.[3] Sandler, B.R. and

Conference Session

CAD/CAM in Manufacturing Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrian Teo, Arizona State University; Scott Danielson, Arizona State University; Trian Georgeou, Arizona State University

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Manufacturing

network via standardfile transfer protocols.Modern CNC controls come with block look ahead where the controller loads in multiple lines(typically 30 or more lines) of CNC code ahead of the current code block being executed. Thepre-loaded blocks are preprocessed by the CNC controller, allowing it to adjust the optimumfeedrate for the projected toolpath, and eliminate inherent delays in the servo system, whichincrease with higher feedrates.Modern CNC controllers are able to automatically maintain a constant surface feedrate for atoolpath. This feature helps HPM by maintaining a constant cutting load, improving surfacefinish, tool life, and reduces the probability of tool chatter.At high cutting rates, abrupt direction changes can cause a loss of

Conference Session

Industry Collaborations in Engineering Technology

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ken Barnard, K-State at Salina; Greg Stephens, K-State at Salina; Raju Dandu, Kansas State University at Salina

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Engineering Technology

from around the world to be trained at the Climate Project founded by the Honorable Al Gore. Ken is active on the lecture circuit addressing climate change issues.Greg Stephens, K-State at Salina Greg Stephens teaches business and management courses in the Technology Management program at Kansas State University at Salina. He is an Associate Professor and serves on several non-profit organization boards. Greg also produces local TV programs for Community Access. He served as chair for the Institute for Rural America and has worked with sustainable agriculture organizations for over 30 years. In 2007, he was awarded The Inspire by Example faculty award for community service by K-State.Raju

Conference Session

Hands-on Materials Science and Engineering

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mir Atiqullah, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Materials

impact properties are studied as part of overall materials education within anundergraduate curriculum. Materials and mechanical design are interrelated which wasorchestrated by this project. A student group designed and built a bench top tensile impact testerfor polymers. The prototype is successfully tested. Experimental procedure has been laid outclearly for easy experimentation. The quality of data and confidence in procedure can beimproved by using standard and accurately produced specimens. The design can be scaled up fortesting stronger or larger specimens as energy is limited by the arm length and weight of thependulum. However, it is not practical to keep building new testers but a well calibrated testerand carefully designed laboratory

Conference Session

IT-based Instructional Technologies

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University

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Information Systems

what pagesthey can edit, but usually each page can be edited by multiple students and/or each student canedit multiple pages. This makes assessment a challenge, since it is difficult to keep track of thecontributions of each student. Several assessment strategies have been proposed. To ourknowledge, this is the first attempt to compare them. We study the assessment strategies used insix North Carolina State University classes in Fall 2007, and offer ideas on how they can beimproved.1. IntroductionAs an instructional medium, wikis have many advantages. Their collaborative nature enables aclass to tackle projects larger than a single individual could attempt. The ability of students toview their colleagues' work allows cross-fertilization of

Conference Session

Web-Based Learning in Engineering Technology

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sohail Anwar, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona College; Harpal Dhillon, Excelsior College

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Engineering Technology

Dhillon is currently the Dean of the School of Business and Technology at Excelsior College. In the past, he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Information Systems, Software Engineering, and Project Management at University of Maryland, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, and George Washington University. Dr.Dhillon worked as owner/senior executive in three systems engineering companies over a period of 20 years. His research interests are in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction, Quality Assurance, and Applications of IT in Telemedicine and Web-based Distance Learning. Dr. Dhillon is a member of the Executive Board of the NASA Oklahoma Space Grant Consortium

Conference Session

Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Faley, University f Michigan; Peter Adriaens, University of Michigan

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

innovation) in the context of identifying market opportunities. Since this course immersesthe engineering students in the language and thought-processes of business, it also serves as aprerequisite for later-stage joint-enrollment courses. These courses, in the later Phases ofbusiness development continuum, include business assessment and business plan development.Modifying existing experiential entrepreneurial programsThe creation of these two new courses and their integration with the existing courses (productdesign, business assessment, and business plan writing) gives us a set of courses that cover thecontinuum of product design and new business development. While each of these individualcourses incorporates hands-on projects, we wanted to

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Birmingham, Grove City College; Vincent DiStasi, Grove City College

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Computers in Education

OneNote™ which directly support note taking (andenhance it by allowing notes to be automatically indexed by desktop search engines). Mostimportantly, the Tablet PC allows the student to use the modality with which he or she feels mostcomfortable: typist, writer or a combination of both.Finally, every seat in classrooms at Grove City College have network access through wiredand/or wireless connections. In addition, all students have network folders for backup, sharedproject space and course folders.While most faculty expected that Tablet PCs would be used in the classroom for note taking,running demonstration projects, and so forth, this was not occurring at the rate in which weexpected. We observed over the years that Tablet PCs (and the laptops

Conference Session

Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Abbott, University of Missouri; Katie Lough, University of Missouri

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Design in Engineering Education

Background2.1 Approach in Design CurriculumThe functional modeling method has been or is currently used in several design relatedcourses at the Missouri University of Science & Technology (Missouri S&T and formerlyknown as the University of Missouri-Rolla) such as IDE 20 Introduction to EngineeringDesign with Computer Applications, IDE 105 Design Representations, IDE 106 DesignPerceptions, IDE 220 Engineering Design Methodology, IDE 315 InterdisciplinaryDesign Project, IDE 420 Modern Product Design, IDE 427 Function-Based RiskAnalysis, and ME 161 Introduction to Design. Other universities also apply functionalmodeling techniques such as Penn State, Carnegie Melon University, University of Texasat Austin, Virginia Tech, and Bucknell University

Conference Session

FPD2 - First-Year Advising and Transition

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kate Baxter, University of Southern California; Louise Yates, University of Southern California

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First-Year Programs

within common parameters set for the program.The seminar is not meant to be rigorous in content but rather interactive and high energy,introducing thought provoking activities that introduce the student to the world of engineeringoutside of the technical realm. The seminar is intended to enable students to visualize the linkbetween what they are currently learning in their core classes and what they will do in futureyears in both academia as well as industry. Class syllabi include presentations by guest speakersfrom various engineering departments to industry professionals to prominent engineering alumniand friends. In addition, there are class projects surrounding problem solving approaches thatinclude building trebuchets and catapults

Conference Session

Computer ET Innovation

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren Koontz, Rochester Institute of Technology; Chance Glenn, Rochester Institute of Technology; Mark Indelicato, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Engineering Technology

AC 2008-937: INCORPORATION OF BROADBAND ACCESS TECHNOLOGY INA TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMWarren Koontz, Rochester Institute of Technology Warren is currently a professor in the College of Applied Science and Technology at RIT and chair of the Telecommunications Engineering Technology program. He joined RIT in December 2000 after retiring from Bell Laboratories. He began his thirty two year career at Bell Labs as a member of technical staff in the Electronic Switching Division in Naperville Illinois. He was involved in a variety of projects at a variety of Bell Labs locations, including international assignments in The Netherlands and Germany. At the time of his retirement, he

Conference Session

Recruitment & Retention in ET Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irene Ferrara, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona; Andrew Vavreck, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona

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Engineering Technology

engineers actually do in industry, andto provide students with team-oriented project work. Team experiences and effectivelyfunctioning as a part of a team are addressed as students become involved in the projectwork.In spring of 2006, EDSGN 100 was offered for the first time as a common course forengineering and engineering technology majors. Prior to this time, engineeringtechnology freshmen students instead took three one-credit courses, in mechanicaldrawing, basic computer aided design (CAD), and an orientation to engineeringtechnology. The courses were aligned to enhance the mobility of students between thedisciplines, to increase interactions between students in the two disciplines to foster betterunderstanding of their commonalities and

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Jewell, Union College

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International

exception, these programs do not accommodate students takingengineering courses abroad. Term abroad (engineering) refers to engineering exchanges thathave been developed, and will be discussed in detail later. Mini-terms are programs with threeweeks of international travel during the winter or summer breaks. International design projectsinvolve collaboration over the Internet with students in engineering programs overseas, withapproximately one week of travel to the international university at the end for some type ofdesign competition. These projects took a three-year hiatus, but there has been a resurgence ofinterest on the part of faculty for these programs in the 2007-08 academic year, which will bereflected in the data for the class of 2008

Conference Session

Graphics and Visualization

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Hamlin, Michigan Technological University; Norma Veurink, Michigan Technological University; Sheryl Sorby, Michigan Technological University

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Engineering Design Graphics

spatial skills and invite them to take an optional 1-credit course to helpdevelop these skills. This class meets for 1.5 hours once a week for 14 weeks. Thetopics covered in this class include: isometric drawing, orthographic projections, flatpatterns, 3-D rotations, object reflections and planes of symmetry, cutting planes,surfaces and solids of revolution, and combining solids. Topics are listed in the orderthat was thought to develop 3-D spatial skills and in the order they have beentraditionally covered in this class.In the past we have noticed that 1) some students have a difficult time jumping right intoisometric sketching and 2) that by the end of the semester students seem bored, especiallywhen coving the topics of surfaces and solids of

Conference Session

Enhancing Mechanics Instruction

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gangbing Song, University of Houston; Mithun Singla, University of Houston; Christy Chang, University of Houston; Richard Bannerot, University of Houston

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Mechanics

ability ofpiezo materials to both deform under an electrical stimulus and to generate a voltage under amechanical stimulus allows them to act as both a solid state actuator and sensor. Further, thinsheets of PZT can be surface bonded or otherwise structurally integrated into a system, allowingfor easy implementation in a dynamic system, and the nearly linear proportionality between themechanical strain and the applied/sensed voltage allows for easy control of PZT behavior.The Flexible Beam SystemA horizontal and a vertical flexible beam have been developed as educational tools. The verticalbeam presented here is based on the horizontal beam system developed in previous work 9, 10 andwas developed as a senior capstone design project. The vertical

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Darryl Morrell, Arizona State University; Robert Grondin, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

, devoting several courses to several of the individual topics.2 Multi-Disciplinary ContextOur multi-disciplinary engineering program at ASU is built around core values of engaged learning,agility and a focus on the individual. The main spine of the program is eight semesters of projectwork conducted inside an engineering studio. The freshman and sophomore years of the programare multi-disciplinary, with all students sharing a common set of projects and courses. At the upperdivision, a student will individually select two focus areas: a primary engineering emphasis area Page 13.366.2and a secondary emphasis area, which may or may not be in