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Jose A. Macedo

Session 3157 Documentation of Automation Projects Jose A. Macedo Texas Tech UniversityThis paper describes a method to teach documentation skills as part of automation designprojects. At the beginning of the semester, students are given a simple automated system andassigned the task of improving it in some sense. They are guided through the following steps:generate ideas for improving the existing system, prepare a proposal for approval by theinstructor explaining the improvements, plan and execute the approved modifications, andprepare technical documentation

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John E. Mayer

Session 1663 Manufacturing Engineering Technology Senior Projects Course John E. Mayer, Jr. Texas A&M UniversityAbstract The primary emphasis of the manufacturing engineering technology projects course is toprepare senior students to face the challenge of solving real manufacturing problems in industry.Students work together in teams of three or four students. The team leader is responsible forarranging and conducting meetings of the group outside of the classroom time, and for meetingdeadlines and completion of the project

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Stephen Gwinn; Kenneth Reid

Session 1275 Administration and Results of Extra Credit Projects Kenneth J. Reid, Stephen Gwinn Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI)Abstract:This paper discusses an extra credit project from the educator's perspective for students in theComputer Technology Department at Purdue University (IUPUI). The paper discusses boththe administration of the project and the results obtained by the students.Students in two courses in the Computer Technology program were offered the chance to do aproject for extra credit. The entire extra credit process was administered outside of the scheduledtime

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Jack Waintraub

Session 2248 Institution Wide Reform Through NSF Supported Projects Jack L. Waintraub, P.E. Middlesex County CollegeMiddlesex County College is Preparing for the 21st CenturyInstitutional reform efforts at Middlesex County College are multi-pronged efforts that engagefaculty across disciplines in cooperation with other community colleges, four-year institutionsand local school districts. The College has forged alliances with business, pre-college educators,and other colleges to increase the level of college preparedness of school populations, revise andstreamline curricula among

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Daniel Davis

Session 2606 Design as a Process The Project Development Process Daniel Davis Ward College, University of HartfordAbstractThere has always been a lot of discussion about the design process, and yet it remains verydifficult to define in precise terms. Architectural design is both an art and a science, both actionand reaction, and both intuition and analysis. But essentially, design is a problem solving anddecision making process.This paper proposes the belief that the entire project development process requires a constantstream of

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David A. Lopez

Session 2348 Project Based Instruction in Manufacturing: A New Approach David A. Lopez Central Michigan University This paper will describe the instruction methodology of an undergraduate course inmanufacturing which was restructured to use small “hands-on” projects as a basisinstruction. the course was previously taught using a methodology of sequentiallypresented lecture material. the revised course divides the class into teams ofstudent and has each team completely analyze an entire product by dissecting theproduct into its various component parts. An engineering report is written by eachstudent

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Kirk E. Hiles

Session 2325 A Project-Based Freshman Engineering Design Experience - FIRST Kirk E. Hiles United States Coast Guard AcademyAbstract During the Spring Semester of 1997, a freshman engineering class was immersed into theengineering design process by working side-by-side with faculty, engineers and high schoolstudents to design and construct a robot to compete in the FIRST Competition. The studentsstudied and applied a nine step design process to bring their conceptual paper designs to life bybuilding a 3'x'3'x4', 120 pound robot in just

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Scott Aten; Derek T. Schade; Kurt J. Colella

Session 3525 SOLAR SPLASH AS A CAPSTONE DESIGN PROJECT Kurt J. Colella U. S. Coast Guard Academy Derek T. Schade USCGC FORWARD (WMEC-911) Scott Aten USCGC SPAR (WLB-403)Introduction The senior-level design project is the capstone experience for all graduating engineeringstudents. Senior design is the culmination of the design integration process, where the student’spast experiences with design are called upon to successfully complete

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Jon E. Freckleton

Session 2563 Sources of Industrial Projects for DFMA Course Jon E. Freckleton Rochester Institute of TechnologyAbstractIt has been our experience in both the Capstone Senior Design course and the Design forManufacturing and Assembly (DFMA) course that students are far more interested in working on“real” projects. The problem is finding industrial support for about 100 projects per year. Thispaper will consider the various sources we have used. RIT works on the quarter system; DFMA isa four credit hour course; the project represents 25%-40% of the grade.BackgroundThe

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Mary Kathryn Mathis; Duane Stucky; Ahad S. Nasab

Session 2633 University Cogeneration Initiative as a Class Project Opportunity Mary Kathryn Mathis, Ahad S. Nasab, Duane Stucky Middle Tennessee State UniversityIntroductionEnergy management and budgeting has long been a major concern of academicinstitutions which usually operate on a shrinking operations budget and a generallyrising demand due to increase in student enrollment and addition of new buildings andfacilities and laboratories.In recent decades cogeneration has been looked upon as one way of managing the energycosts as well as replacing older technology with the more environmentally-friendlyhardware. Like many

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Nikhil K. Kundu

Session 1426 Automated Vehicle Cleansing System A Laboratory Project in Fluid Power Nikhil K. Kundu Purdue UniversityAbstractFluid power plays a major role in the automation industry. Along with programmable logic controllers it belongs tothe forefront of today’s technology. The purpose of this project is to introduce the importance of this industry in thecollege level and train students of mechanical engineering for the challenge they are going to face in

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Christopher G. Braun

Session 3532 Being Efficient in Lab: Multi-media Tutorials for Laboratory Projects Christopher G. Braun Colorado School of MinesIntroductionOne of the most time consuming teaching tasks is running a mainstream laboratory with alimited number of hardware setups. These setups can be complex and requireconsiderable effort from both faculty and students to master. With limited setups,students attempt laboratory modules long after receiving training on the equipment. As aresult, they are sometimes unable to complete the lab, even with detailed instructions, andfaculty

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Elmer A. Grubbs

Session 2348 CENT 354 - Computer Architecture - A Project Class Using Cooperative Learning Elmer A. Grubbs The University of Southern ColoradoINTRODUCTIONCENT 354, a junior level course in the Electronic Engineering Technology (EET) and ComputerEngineering Technology (CENT) department at the University of Southern Colorado, has beentaught once a year for the last eight years. In its present form, it includes a substantial project,which involves building a four bit microprocessor using a XILINX XC3000 series integratedcircuit and some external circuitry

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Tom L. Powers; Roger Wright; O'Neill Burchett; Michael R. Manning; Bruce W. Farmer; Brad Gilbreath

Session 2663 The Challenges of Teaching an Interdisciplinary Multi-Participant Manufacturing Projects Course Brad Gilbreath, O'Neill Burchett, Bruce W. Farmer, Michael R. Manning, Tom L. Powers, Roger Wright New Mexico State University ABSTRACTGood projects courses simulate the real world, generate student enthusiasm, and are rich inlearning experiences. One way to enhance the real-world nature of projects courses and enrichthe learning experience is to incorporate customers and senior managers--groups similar to

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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James A. Reising

Session 1232 Senior Design Project Course Sequence Electrical and Computer Engineering James A. Reising University of Evansville AbstractThis paper describes the senior design project course sequence at the University of Evansville.The two-semester sequence of courses (along with a non-credit seminar) serves as the capstonedesign course for electrical and computer engineering students. It combines a senior designproject, practice in oral and written presentation of a design proposal

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Randall L. Kolar; David A. Sabatini

Session 1675 Changing From a Lecture-Based Format to a Team Learning/Project-Driven Format: Lessons Learned Randall L. Kolar, David A. Sabatini School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019-0631ABSTRACTIn a number of courses in the School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science (CEES) atthe University of Oklahoma (OU), we are making a transition from the traditional lecture-basedparadigm to a new paradigm that includes active, team-based learning, team teaching, and aproject-driven syllabus. Based on our

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Mark A. Shields

Session 2660 Enhancing Cross-Cultural Understanding Among Engineering Students:The Technology and Human Development Project Mark A. Shields University of VirginiaIntroductionThis paper discusses a unique curriculum unit designed to promote cross-cultural analysis andunderstanding in a technology-related problem-solving context. The “Technology and HumanDevelopment Project” (THDP), a five-week team-based project for 55 first-semester engineeringstudents (12% of the entering class) at the University of Virginia, had the

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Gwan-Ywan Lai; Laura L. Sullivan; Winston F. Erevelles

Session 1526 Implementing Concurrent Engineering Through Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing - An NSF-Funded Project Laura Sullivan, Winston Erevelles, and Gwan Lai IMSE Department, GMI Engineering & Management InstituteIntroduction Over the last 10 years the manufacturing sector in the U.S. has applied several tools,strategies, and philosophies to reverse declining trends in the global marketplace in an attempt toimprove productivity, flexibility, time to market, product quality and reliability, and to reducecosts. Concurrent engineering has been successfully deployed

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Stuart Wilkinson; G. Mark Pennington

Session 1559 An Innovative Student Project to Develop a Precision Instrument for Undersea pH Measurements Stuart Wilkinson, Ph.D., G. Mark Pennington, M.S.M.E. University of South FloridaAbstract The present paper describes the design and prototype construction of a teleoperated robotic sensorfor precision pH measurement of sea water at deep ocean locations. The need for such an automateddevice originated with NOAA. The design and construction was undertaken at the USF MechanicalEngineering Department's Robotic Systems Laboratory. The completed prototype will be

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Jens Jorgensen; Lueny Morell de Ramírez; José L. Zayas; John Lamancusa

Session 2266 Making a Partnership Work: Outcomes Assessment of a Multi-Task, Multi-Institutional Project Lueny Morell de Ramírez, José L. Zayas/University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, John Lamancusa/Penn State University Jens Jorgensen/University of WashingtonThis paper describes the Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership (MEEP)project's summative assessment strategy. Since 1994, three universities, Penn State,University of Washington and University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, in collaborationwith Sandia National Laboratories, have been

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Jens Jorgensen; Lueny Morell de Ramírez; José L. Zayas; John Lamancusa

Session 2313 Making a Partnership Work: Outcomes Assessment of a Multi-Task, Multi-Institutional Project Lueny Morell de Ramírez, José L. Zayas/University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, John Lamancusa/Penn State University Jens Jorgensen/University of WashingtonThis paper describes the Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership (MEEP)project’s summative assessment strategy. Since 1994, three universities, Penn State,University of Washington and University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, in collaborationwith Sandia National Laboratories, have been

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Mulchand S. Rathod; Joella H. Gipson

Session 1547 THE SMARTE ENRICHMENT PROJECTS: LABORATORY BASED LEARNING FOR 8TH GRADE STUDENTS Mulchand S. Rathod Joella H. Gipson Division of Engineering Technology College of Education Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48202SUMMARY The Southeast Michigan Alliance for Reinvestment in Technological Education (SMARTE) is a consortiumof community colleges, school systems, Wayne State University (WSU), and businesses in southeast Michiganformed in September 1993. The alliance exists to promote communication