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2009 GSW

Authors

Dr. Farzin Heidari

Session FA4-4 Innovative CAD/CAM Curriculum for Industrial Technology Programs Dr. Farzin Heidari Industrial Technology Department, Texas A&M University--Kingsville AbstractThe CAD/CAM process integrates the geometry, toolpath and the G-code program to create apart on a milling machine. Three different steps are taken for a CAD/CAM process. First thegeometry for the part is created as a CAD file. The second step is to create a toolpath byassigning a cutting option to a section of the drawing. Each selected toolpath has its ownparameters. The result

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2009 GSW

Authors

Tzu-Liang (Bill) Tseng; Richard Chou; Yongjin Kwon

Copyright © 2009, American Society for Engineering Educationthe new sequence continues to operate in a lecture/laboratory format. The infusion of hands-onlaboratory exercises has been used over the last three years of teaching this course withtremendous success. For Fall 2008, the course consisted of a two-hour lecture and one three-hourlaboratory session each week, with the course credit hours remaining at three. The combinedlecture/lab offering has been assisted by generous contributions from the USF faculty whodeveloped the WAMI Lab and RF/Microwave Circuits courses, which have been adapted ashardware and software lab experiences for the Baylor course and used in Fall 2008, and byAgilent Technologies [5] which donated Advanced Design System

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2009 GSW

Authors

Dr. Lynn Peterson; Dr. Carter Tiernan; Lynard Broussard

to collaborate with one another. Likewise the girls-only structurewas anticipated to reduce the effects of any unintentional negative gender bias in presentationsand activities. Also after attending the camp, the girls should also be able to counter engineeringstereotypes among their peers and should be more able to recognize the impact of engineering ona personal, social, and community level. Increasing the girl’s’ positive engineering interestthrough the Girlgeneering camp should result in increased recruitment to engineering, science,technology, and math classes and careers.The unique components of the Girlgeneering camp are described later in this paper and include atailored individual hands-on engineering project for the girls, a high

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2009 GSW

Authors

Kendrick Aung; Ryan Underdown P.E.

Technology) for female highschool students under the sponsorship of Texas Higher Education Certification Board and LamarCollege of Education and Human Development and College of Engineering. The summer campis intended to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) related topicsand increased awareness of STEM-related careers to the female students who are under-represented in these disciplines in colleges and universities. Two of the faculty members fromCollege of Engineering took part in the summer camp, teaching robotics, engineering, and otherSTEM related topics to the students. This paper describes the experience of the faculty membersin conducting these classes as well as lessons learned from these camps that might be useful

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2009 GSW

Authors

Steve Weis; Michael Yakubovsky; Becky Bittle René Coté; Janet Kelly

Baylor University Copyright © 2009, American Society for Engineering Education  The prototype for the project was created by Michael Yakubovsky, a science teacher in CoppellIndependent School District. He created a four-year pre-engineering program (EXCITE) atCoppell High School that combines the faculty’s talents and knowledge of mathematics, scienceand technology and their desire to work on meaningful projects. Since implementation, the pre-engineering program at Coppell ISD has been recognized as a highly successful endeavor, andstudent enrollments have ballooned. We visited with Mike regarding the pre-engineeringprogram and discovered that many of the investigative activities could be readily integrated intoalready

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2009 GSW

Authors

Kenneth W. Van Treuren

skills or qualities thatshould be also pursued in the high school setting to encourage the students to be successful at theuniversity level.Today, in spite of all the technology and educational emphasis surrounding secondary schoolstudents, freshmen entering into the university to study engineering are not prepared for whatthey face. High school student believe they are technology literate because they have a cellphone but few have ever pondered how the cell phone works or how they are able to talk, orshould one say, text their friends. Most students know how to use a computer but few havetaken the time to “look under the hood” and see how it works. Students are very proficient atcomputer games such as Guitar Hero and Rock Band but few have ever

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2009 GSW

Authors

Melissa C Lott; Dr. Carey W King; Dr. Michael E Webber; Dr. Kathy J Schmidt

Bill 20 was passed to require 5,000 MW of newly installed renewable Proceedings of the 2009 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Baylor University Copyright © 2009, American Society for Engineering Educationcapacity by 2015. That bill also includes a target of installing 500 MW of non-wind renewablecapacity within the 5,000 MW. Further, Senate Bill 20 established a long term goal of 10,000MW of new installed renewable energy capacity by 2025. 2, 4To reach these goals, and to guide further decision-making, Texans must understand thetradeoffs of different generation technologies in order to make educated choices. All existingtechnologies have economic or

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2009 GSW

Authors

Charles Baylis; Randall Jean

Copyright © 2009, American Society for Engineering Educationthe new sequence continues to operate in a lecture/laboratory format. The infusion of hands-onlaboratory exercises has been used over the last three years of teaching this course withtremendous success. For Fall 2008, the course consisted of a two-hour lecture and one three-hourlaboratory session each week, with the course credit hours remaining at three. The combinedlecture/lab offering has been assisted by generous contributions from the USF faculty whodeveloped the WAMI Lab and RF/Microwave Circuits courses, which have been adapted ashardware and software lab experiences for the Baylor course and used in Fall 2008, and byAgilent Technologies [5] which donated Advanced Design System

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2009 GSW

Authors

James (“Jim”) R. Morgan; Luciana R. Barroso

require a paradigm shift in re-conceptualizing their role as a teacher. Due to this difficulty, tapping both individual andcollective capacity are best within the context of professional learning communities (PLCs),which are characterized by shared norms and values, reflective dialogue, de-privatization ofpractice, collective focus on student learning, and collaboration. These PLCs set the foundation,so teachers can begin inquiry into their practice in a new way for increased student learning.The integration of Professional Learning Communities and Project-Based Learning serve toaddress the issues discussed above. Currently, the North Texas STEM (Science, Technology,Engineering and Math) Center is collaborating with the Waco Independent School