Conference Session

Best Zone Paper Competition

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ross McCurdy, Ponaganset High School

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Council of Sections

2006-712: ESTABLISHING HYDROGEN FUEL CELL EDUCATION IN THE HIGHSCHOOLRoss McCurdy, Ponaganset High School Ross McCurdy received a B.A. in Biology and M.Ed. from Rhode Island College and is currently teaching Chemistry, Biology, and Fuel Cell classes at Ponaganset High School in Glocester, Rhode Island. An advocate of renewable energy and founder of the Fuel Cell Education Initiative, he strives to bring unique and exciting learning opportunities to students that effectively demonstrate renewable energy technologies. Page 11.596.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006

Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Design

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fitra Khan, University of Texas-Brownsville; Mahmoud Quweider, University of Texas-Brownsville; Juan Iglesias, University of Texas-Brownsville; Amjad Zaim, University of Texas-Brownsville

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Electrical and Computer

2006-1733: DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING A PARALLEL COMPUTINGCURRICULUM BASED ON BEOWULF CLUSTERINGFitra Khan, University of Texas-BrownsvilleMahmoud Quweider, University of Texas-BrownsvilleJuan Iglesias, University of Texas-BrownsvilleAmjad Zaim, University of Texas-Brownsville Page 11.418.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Designing and Implementing a Parallel Computing Curriculum Based on Beowulf Clustering1IntroductionThe Computer Science/Computer Information Systems (CS/CIS) Department at The Universityof Texas at Brownsville (UTB) has improved its curriculum by including parallel computingtopics based on a computing and

Conference Session

Innovative and Computer-Assisted Lab Studies

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Veton Kepuska, Florida Tech; Mihir Patal, Florida Tech; Nicholas Rogers, Florida Tech

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

2006-472: A MATLAB TOOL FOR SPEECH PROCESSING, ANALYSIS ANDRECOGNITION: SAR-LABVeton Kepuska, Florida Tech Kepuska has joined FIT in 2003 after past 12 years of R&D experience in high-tech industry in Boston area in developing speech recognition technologies. Presented work is partially the result of the belief that cutting edge research can only be conducted with appropriate supporting software tools. In order to bring that cutting edge research to undergraduate level, the software tools have to be not only easy to use but also intuitive. Thus, presented SAR-LAB software was designed and developed with a clear goal in mind to evolve into a standard educational as well as research tool

Conference Session

Use of Technology to Improve Teaching and Learning

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margherita Landucci, Liceo Artistico Statale; Fabio Garganego, Municipality of Venice

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Educational Research and Methods

in Electronic Engeneering of Padua University. He is a specialist in telecomunications and is at present IT Senior consultant at the Municipality of Venice, Venezia. Page 11.1201.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Teaching Chemistry as a Cross-cultural Subject IT & LinguisticsAbstractThe main theme of this paper is the language of chemical formulae rather than the languageexplaining the chemistry ; the focus of our interest is the code used in writing chemicalformulae.This paper describes the nature and scope of the research project started by an out-of