Emerging Technologies for Industry and Education Annual Meeting of the St. Lawrence Section American Society for Engineering Education Friday, March 30 and Saturday, March 31, 2001 Rochester Institute of Technology Friday: March 30, 2001 9:30 - 4:00 10:00 - Noon Noon Registration: Gordon Atrium - Kate Gleason College of Engineering Tours: Engineering and Engineering Technology Facilities and off campus sites Luncheon: Gordon Atrium Executive Committee Meeting: Mobil Foundation Conference Room, 2030 Tour for Spouses starts at 1:00 p.m. George Eastman House and Museum 1:00 – 1:15 Welcome - Harvey Palmer, Dean, Kate Gleason College of Engineering & Wiley McKinzie, Dean, College of Applied Science and Technology Keynote Speaker: John Bourne, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Olin College “The Birth of a New Engineering College, Funded by the Olin Foundation” Xerox Auditorium 1:15 – 2:30 2:30 – 3:45 Session #1a: Room 2129: Moderator: Barrie Jackson, Queens University, Canada * Hands-on Modules for Use in Chemistry of Materials Course, Linda Schadler, J.H. Hudson and J. Moore, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute This talk will outline the structure of the course, the educational strategy, and present in detail the following laboratory experiments: “One Component Phase Diagram”, “Kinetics of Phase Transformations”, “Diffusion”, “Tensile Testing”, and “Brittle Failure.” * NSF Sponsored Composite Materials Manufacturing and Experimental Evaluation Facilities for Undergraduate Engineering Students, Ronald B. Bucinell, Union College With the help of the National Science Foundation’s ILI program, Union College has developed manufacturing and experimental evaluation laboratories dedicated to introducing composite materials to undergraduate students. Undergraduate students at Union College now encounter composite materials as early as their sophomore year in their materials science and mechanics of materials courses. * Using Bulletin Boards to Build Learning Communities, S. K. Gupta, RIT In the Spring of 1999-2000, I volunteered to teach 0304-359: Dynamics (5 quarter credits) when a senior colleague remarked that many students in his upper-division courses were poorly prepared in mechanics and dynamics. This presentation will describe what WWWboard is, how to set it up, how to administer it, and how the students can use it. Session #1b: Room 2149 Workshop: Developing the Creative Edge for Engineers, Frank L. Maraviglia SUNY-ESF This workshop will introduce the cultivation of deliberate efforts to enhance and increase creative flow and outputs by using the Creative Problem-solving Process (CPS). 4:00 – 5:15 Session #2a: Room 2129 * Establishment of an Inter-Disciplinary Curriculum and Laboratory in Surface Mount Electronics Packaging, S. Manian Ramkumar & Richard S. Clothier, RIT This paper describes the development of one such interdisciplinary curriculum in Surface Mount 1 Electronics Packaging, at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). This is a joint venture between the Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering Technology and the Electrical Engineering Technology departments, in collaboration with leading industrial partners. * An Image Sensor as an Undergraduate VLSI Project Chip, Wallace B. Leigh, Alfred University We have used an image sensor as a multi-year project chip for undergraduates. With this project, students experience VLSI through an entire design cycle from start to finish. * Case Study Based Laboratories for an Undergraduate Human Factors Engineering Curriculum, Victor Paquet & Ann Bisantz, SUNY at Buffalo This paper describes the ongoing implementation and evaluation of a set of design-oriented laboratory exercises for two undergraduate Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) courses, which draw from a case study. Session #2b: Room TBA Workshop/Demonstration: Virtual Simulation for Mechanical System Design and Analysis in Mechanical Engineering Technology Education, Ti Lin Liu, RIT The computer simulation tools are introduced in upper lever mechanical design courses in the mechanical engineering technology curriculum. The combination of 3-D solid modeling with finite element software provides a virtual reality of image generation, and product performance evaluation for mechanical design and analysis 6:15 7:00 8:00 Reception: Mario’s Via Abruzzi, 2740 Monroe Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618 Banquet (at Mario’s) Speaker: Paul Ruben, a Roller Coaster Historian, “Wild Rides” Saturday March 31, 2001 7:30 - 8:30 Continental Breakfast - Gordon Atrium, Buffet, tables and chairs provided General Committee Meeting: Lee & Sharon Garelick Conference Room, 3119, breakfast, attendance by invitation: Executive Committee plus one representative from each attending institution 8:30 - 9:15 Keynote Speaker: Richard Kenyon, Dean Emeritus, RIT “Engineering Education: An American Model Goes Abroad”, Xerox Auditorium Why has the U.S. model been so overwhelmingly selected and why is the pseudo-accreditation of “substantial equivalency” seemingly so important to these schools (and the host nation)? 9:00 - 10:00 Spouse Breakfast, Radisson Hotel – Restaurant: Baxter’s 9:25 - 10:40 Session #3a: Room 2129 * Integration of Electronics, Math, & English and Its Impact on Retention, Ramesh Gaonkar, Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, NY At present, three forces are converging: 1) industry must compete globally in a rapidly changing technology, 2) the nature of the workforce is changing; new employees will be older and ethnically diverse, and will include more women, 3) the basic mathematical and communication skills of incoming students are steadily declining. The project is concerned with preparing underprepared students for the technical workforce in an environment of globalization, rapidly changing technology, and the declining of basic skills (communication and math) of incoming students. * Project Lead the Way, A Pre-engineering Program for Secondary Schools, Guy Johnson, RIT Project Lead The Way® (PLTW) is a national program forming partnerships among public schools, higher education institutions and the private sector to increase the quantity and quality of engineers and engineering technologists graduating from our educational system. The Rochester Institute of Technology has joined in a partnership with PLTW by establishing a National Technology 2 Training Center to work on the professional development of new and existing teachers in schools that have adopted the PLTW curriculum. Currently operating in 26 states from New York to California, PLTW also partners with the High Schools That Work initiative of the Southern Regional Educational Board (SREB) with schools in 23 states. Session #3b: Room 2149 * Autonomous Robots in Engineering Teaching: SPARKy and RITBug, Ferat Sahin, RIT The design of autonomous mobile robots is used as an effective teaching tool in engineering schools such as the Rochester Institute of Technology and Virginia Tech. * Reconfiguring Interactive Platforms for use in Undergraduate Laboratories, Kimberly E. Newman, RIT As part of the introductory course in digital logic and systems, students are exposed to sophisticated development platforms in their laboratory sequence. While the students are learning the fundamentals of combinational and sequential logic design, they are able to develop, simulate, and implement a wide variety of designs using professional quality design packages. The students also work in teams to implement designs on reconfigurable development boards and verify their circuits using simulators and actual devices. * Harnessing Industry-Standard Software for the Classroom, M. A. Hopkins, RIT This talk presents a well-developed example of how industrial software (MATLAB®) can be extended to help students visualize concepts during classroom lectures, and help them explore the same concepts on their own time. 10:40 - 10:50 Morning Break – Coffee 10:50 - 12:30 Session #4a: Room 2129 Moderator: Paul French, SUNY College at Oneonta * Successful Methods Which Improve Math Skills of Engineering Technology Students at Buffalo State College, Steven Barker, Buffalo State College This presentation will describe the successful methods used to improve math (primarily algebra) skills of engineering technology students at Buffalo State College (BSC). The difficult and sensitive nature of the task will be explored along with failed attempts over a five-year period. The ingredients of the successful methods for improving math skills will be itemized. Proof that math skills actually improved will be presented. * Cooperative Learning as a Teaching Tool, Philip D. Krasicky, Cornell University This talk surveys our experiences with cooperative learning in introductory physics courses for engineering and science majors, including ideas about pedagogy and methodology as well as examples of activities. * The Inexperienced Educator’s Guide to Managing a Large Hierarchical Staff, David I. Schwartz, Cornell University To balance the needs of the course and staff with regard to time management, I will focus on strategies that flatten portions of the hierarchy. * Paper to be presented by Richard Culver, SUNY Binghamton Session #4b: Room 2149 * Blurring the Boundaries: The EE/CE/CS Continuum, Raman Unnikrishnan, RIT This talk will focus on the curricular synergies of these three disciplines and the strategies for utilizing the strengths of faculty, students and facilities to meet professional needs. It will also address some of the difficulties in such an ecumenical approach * Concurrent Product/Package Design Concepts, Daniel Goodwin, RIT Package designs can be developed much more effectively if the product designer has taken the factors of use, disposal, remanufacturing, storage, handling and transportation into consideration. * Teaching Technical Electives Based on Hands-on Research Projects, Satish Kandlikar, RIT Some of the advanced courses in specific topics are intended to enable the students to undertake 3 independent project work from conceptualization to design, fabrication, data collection and data analysis. Such an approach has been adopted in teaching Heat Transfer II in the Mechanical Engineering Department at RIT for the past decade. * An Innovative, Hands-on Vehicle Dynamics Laboratory Class, Kevin Kochersberger, RIT This paper presents laboratory activities that have been created to take a student from measuring vehicle dynamic parameters to driving a course that demonstrates typical dynamic response. The lab complements analytical predictions of vehicle handling so that the students can experience first-hand, the characteristics of understeer and oversteer by driving standard skid-pad and step-steer experiments. 12:30 12:30 Lunch - Pick up Box Lunches, Gordon Atrium- Tables and chairs provided Section Annual Business Meeting: By invitation, Lee & Sharon Garelick Conference Room, 3119 4