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ChE: Innovations in Student Learning

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Christensen, Texas A&M University; Lale Yurttas, Texas A&M University; Janie Stratton Haney, Texas A&M University; Mahmoud El-Halwagi, Texas A&M University; Jeffrey Froyd, Texas A&M University; Charles Glover, Texas A&M University

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Chemical Engineering

. Therefore, students not only learned about the requirements for their homedesigns, but they also got an insight of things to consider when implementing certainaspects of their design. For example, students were warned not to put technologicalsystems in their homes that would frequently break and would be high in maintenancecosts because this would be an expense that home owners could not handle.Professor Jeff Haberl from the Energy Systems Laboratory [4] within the Department ofArchitecture at Texas A&M University and PhD student, Mini Malhotra, spoke to thestudents about past and current projects between the College of Architecture and Habitatfor Humanity. Both speakers were able to summarize past research and give feasibleideas to implement

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Communication and Professional Skills in BME

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joe Tranquillo; Daniel Cavanagh, Bucknell University

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Biomedical

large course project. Limiting thespace and time to convey ideas has the added benefit of focusing student attention on theimportant technical objectives of a laboratory exercise. After implementing thisinstructional model, the faculty have observed a rise in the quality of written, oral,graphical and technical work. Furthermore, end of course evaluations indicate thatstudents understand how the sequence of short assignments develop technicalcommunication skills. Page 12.331.2 Building Engineering Communication Skills 2IntroductionAll too often the authors’ have received reports that are 30 pages long with

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ERM Potpourri I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elif Kongar, University of Bridgeport; Tarek Sobh, University of Bridgeport

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Educational Research and Methods

Laboratory for Responsible Manufacturing (LRM) at Northeastern University since September 1999. She has also been employed as an Assistant Professor by Yildiz Technical University till February 2006. Dr. Kongar is currently an Assistant Professor at Bridgeport University and a Part-Time Researcher in the Center for Industrial Ecology at Yale University. Her research interests include the areas of supply chain management, logistics, environmentally conscious manufacturing, product recovery, disassembly systems, production planning and scheduling and multiple criteria decision making. She has co-authored several technical papers presented at various national and international

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Recruitment and Retention Topics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Lord, University of San Diego; Michelle Camacho, University of San Diego

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Women in Engineering

AC 2007-1964: WHY PEDAGOGY MATTERS: FACULTY NARRATIVESSusan Lord, University of San Diego Susan M. Lord received a B.S. from Cornell University and the M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. She is currently Associate Professor and Coordinator of Electrical Engineering at the University of San Diego. Her teaching and research interests include electronics, optoelectronics, materials science, first year engineering courses, as well as feminist and liberative pedagogies. Dr. Lord served as General Co-Chair of the 2006 Frontiers in Education Conference. She has been awarded an NSF CAREER and ILI grants. Dr. Lord’s industrial experience includes AT&T Bell Laboratories, General Motors

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Innovations in Teaching and Learning

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Collura, University of New Haven; Samuel Daniels, University of New Haven; Jean Nocito-Gobel, University of New Haven; W. David Harding, University of New Haven

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Educational Research and Methods

experimentation projects EAS 112 Methods of problem-driven, use of algorithm development, use Engineering Analysis18 spreadsheet and of computer tools, statistics, programming to develop numerical methods, algorithms to solve programming concepts engineering problems EAS120 Chemistry with a second semester science laboratory taught from an Applications in BioSystems course, provides background engineering perspective, for further study of chemistry includes design and analysis and

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Writing and Communication I: Innovative Models for Curriculum and Assessment

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech; Lisa McNair, Virginia Tech; Diana George, Virginia Tech; kelly belanger, Virginia Tech; Lisa Norris, Virginia Tech

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Liberal Education

incorporating documents such asproposals, laboratory reports, and design reports into engineering courses.22, 24, 35 Few, if any,offer models in which first-year composition courses serve as sites to ground students’ rhetoricaldevelopment in college and provide the framework for subsequent communication learning.Fewer still take full advantage of the broad skill base developed in the composition classroom. In Page 12.1135.4fact, disturbingly, a number of authors speak quite disparagingly of English courses, as thefollowing examples suggest: • “Traditional composition courses cannot adequately prepare students for the writing required to solve

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Innovative Curriculum in Engineering Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hamad Albadr, Riyadh College of Technology

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Engineering Technology

Page 12.315.5Technology (BMIT )”, who involves testing, maintenance, repair, and calibration of theequipment used to deliver health care. The Biomedical Instrumentation Technician (BMIT),who also known as a Biomedical Equipment Technician, or Biomedical EngineeringTechnician (BMET), works closely with other health care professionals. They are commonlypart of the hospital engineering division. Specialization areas include clinical radiology,ultrasound, cardiac monitoring, nuclear medicine laboratory, respiratory care, and therapeuticequipment. Graduates find employment with hospitals, biomedical instrumentationmanufacturers, and service organizations that specialize in biomedical instrumentation.Future Development of Biomedical Engineering:In

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ChE: Computers and Simulation in the Classroom

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jason Keith, Michigan Technological University; Faith Morrison, Michigan Technological University; Julia King, Michigan Technological University

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Chemical Engineering

back through the gas diffusion layer, bipolar plate, and electricload where they react with the protons and oxygen to form water. For more informationregarding fuel cell construction, the reader is referred to the text of Larminie and Dicks11or the Los Alamos National Laboratory fuel cell website12.Finite Element ProblemsIn this paper we develop five modules in the following areas: • Fluid Flow o The first module concerns the flow of polymer melts in a capillary rheometer. We note that rheology needs to be understood for compression molding analysis of complex bipolar plate designs. The objective of the module is to determine the velocity profile for laminar and power-law fluids

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Preparing Engineering Students for International Practice

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alan Parkinson, Brigham Young University

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International

number of universities, such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), provideinternational experiences for students which involve research. Such programs typically involveplacing one or two students at a time. The student travels to an abroad laboratory and conductsresearch under the guidance of a faculty member or post doc, etc.Exemplary ProgramsA number of exemplary programs were studied as part of the survey. Shuman et al. provide anoverview of some of these programs.9 The University of Rhode Island has also compiled a list ofprograms as part of the Ninth Annual International Engineering Colloquium.10 Several of thesewill be reviewed in this section.Of the programs studied, WPI appears to send the largest fraction of students abroad

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Teaching Courses in Renewable Energy Systems

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Samuel Lakeou, University of the District of Columbia; Esther Ososanya, University of the District of Columbia; Ben Latigo, University of the District of Columbia; Sisay Beru, University of the District of Columbia; Mamadou Keita, University of the District of Columbia; Steven Omoijunanfo, University of the District of Columbia

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

AC 2007-2346: DESIGN OF A RENEWABLE ENERGY BASED POWER SYSTEMFOR A ZERO-ENERGY VISITORS' CENTERSamuel Lakeou, University of the District of Columbia Samuel Lakeou received a BSEE (1974) and a MSEE (1976) from the University of Grenoble (Universite Joseph Fourier), and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Ecole Nationale d’Electronique et de Radioelectricite de Grenoble of the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, France, in 1978. He is currently a Professor and Chair of the department of electrical engineering at UDC. He was formerly staff member at the New Products Laboratory of RCA’s Consumer Electronics Division in Indianapolis, IN (1984-86).Esther Ososanya, University of the District

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Technical Capacity Building for Developing Countries

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohammad Saleh Keshawarz; MohammadOmar Andar, Kabul University; Maria Beebe, Washington State University

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International

settingstandards in Afghanistan as they are more attuned to donor requirements.Finally, purists in civil engineering are reluctant to consider why more management-orientedcourses, as in construction management, maybe necessary to integrate in the curriculum to equipgraduates to successfully compete for civil engineering projects. Moreover, the integration ofinformation-based tools, such as, AutoCad, engineering graphics, digital drawings, and globalinformation systems (GIS) in civil engineering2 has not been fully considered as non-existenttraditional laboratories remain the focus of attention.To address some of these issues, a series of workshops and meetings were held in 2006 withthose who follow the Kabul University model with an attempt to modify the

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jorge Dorribo-Camba, East Tennessee State University; Marty Fitzgerald, East Tennessee State University

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Engineering Design Graphics

, November 1990.Lily Lee. Gait Analysis for Classification. AI Technical Report 2003-014. Massachusetts Institute of Technology —Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. 2003.Yam, C. Y., Nixon, M. S. and Carter, J. N. (2001) Extended Model-Based Automatic Gait Recognition of Walkingand Running (Speech). In Proceedings of Proceedings of 3rd Int. Conf. on Audio- and Video-Based BiometricPerson Authentication, AVBPA 2001, pp. 278-283. Page 12.57.9

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Assessing Design Coursework II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patricia Brackin, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; J. Darrell Gibson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2007-2366: CAPSTONE DESIGN PROJECTS WITH INDUSTRY: USINGRUBRICS TO ASSESS STUDENT DESIGN REPORTSPatricia Brackin, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology M. PATRICIA BRACKIN is an Associate Professor of M.E. at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology where she teaches a variety of design courses, and graphics. Her BS and MS are from the University of Tennessee in Nuclear Engineering and her Ph.D. is from Georgia Institute of Technology in ME. She has also been an Associate Professor at Christian Brothers University. Her industrial experience includes Oak Ridge National Laboratories and Chicago Bridge and Iron. She is a registered PE.J. Darrell Gibson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Eduaction - Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janis Terpenny, Virginia Tech; Clinton Dancey, Virginia Tech; Doug Nelson, Virginia Tech; Michael Ellis, Virginia Tech; Richard Goff, Virginia Tech; Dennis Hong, Virginia Tech

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Design in Engineering Education

Egnineering at Virginia Tech. His research interests include: Applications of Fuel Cell Systems for Building Cogeneration, Solid Sorption Heat Pump Modeling, Modeling and Analysis of Building Energy Consumption, Analysis of Energy Uses in Industrial Processes, Fuel Cell Performance Modeling, and Optimal Design of Hybrid Gas/Electric Chilled Water SystemsDennis Hong, Virginia Tech Dennis Hong is an Assistant Professor and the Director of RoMeLa(Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory) of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Virginia Tech. His research expertise lie in the area of autonomous robots, design and analysis of mechanical systems, kinematics, and dynamics. Dr. Hong won the NSF

Conference Session

Design of Lab Experiments I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lanny Griffin, California Polytechnic State University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

: Menu items and tool bars for the VCAOptimaS software showing the important items for this laboratory. We found that it was useful to include an image which shows the correct starting position for the syringe tip before conducing the lab (Figure 9). Figure 9: Image of the tip. The “meat” of the lab is to create a sessile drop on the surface. It is imperative to note that the contact angle measurement technique samples approximately 3-20 Å of the surface and so students should wear gloves and keep your specimens clean as the oils, dirt, etc, from your fingers will affect measurements. Note too that static electricity can adversely affect results. We found that dispensing 0.25 µl drop

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Product Innovation And Entrepreneurship

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter Johnson, Valparaiso University; Kathleen Sevener, Valparaiso University; Doug Tougaw, Valparaiso University; Jeffrey Will, Valparaiso University

/Indiana Conference (2005).4. D. Tougaw and M. Barrett, “Determination of Individual Performance on a Team,” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Illinois/Indiana Conference, 124-127 (2002). Page 12.302.75. R. H. King, T. E. Parker, T. P. Grover, J. P. Goshink, and N. T. Middleton, “A Multidisciplinary Engineering Laboratory Course,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 88, no. 3, 1999, pp. 311-317.6. R. L. Miller, R. L., and B. M. Olds, “A Model Curriculum for a Capstone Course in Multidisciplinary Engineering Design,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 83, no. 4, 1994, pp. 311- 316.7

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Interdisciplinary Education in Engineering Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ramin Sadeghi, Power & Water University of Technology; Saeid Moslehpour, University of Hartford; Mark Rajai, Northern Kentucky University; Robert Matthews, University of Louisville

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Engineering Technology

the University of Louisville. He serves as the coordinator of engineering graphics, a service unit for all Speed School departments. Matthews is credited for the development of the CADD program and its laboratories at Speed School. He is published nationally and internationally in areas of teaching methodology. During his tenure at the University of Louisville he has generated in excess of 2.2 million dollars in grants and gifts in kind. He founded and was the first manager of the AutoCAD Training Center at the University of Louisville. Matthews’ research activity evolves around innovative teaching methods, techniques and creative activity. Academic computing initiative involving web-assisted

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Youakim Al Kalaani, Georgia Southern University; Kurt Rosentrator, USDA

http://www.fsec.ucf.edu/en/education/k-12/curricula/use/index.htmBiography Page 12.975.10Appendix A Several resources exist to aid teachers in curriculum design. Below is a list of agencies withestablished programs that could assist in developing renewable energy curriculum in conjunctionwith the installation of solar or wind power systems:WebsitesThe National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is a Department of Energy lab involved inwind, solar, and other renewable energy field. Their web site has excellent information regardingthe various renewable energy sources and an educational resource page athttp://www.nrel.gov

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Sullivan, The College of New Jersey; Stephen O'Brien, The College of New Jersey

OverdriveStudent comments on their FVC experience.My Experience in a FVC Team By Marissa ScalzoI have learned many things from being in a FVCteam. I have learned specifically about robots: howthey work, how to build them, and how to drive them.I have learned team-building skills, how to organizebrainstorming using House of Quality and Fishbonediagrams, how to keep a laboratory notebook, andhow to work within a team. But my favorite thingthat I learned is Project Management. I used Microsoft Projects to keep up a Gantt chartfor my team’s schedule. A couple of my team’s mentors helped me use MicrosoftProjects, and gave me some pointers as I went along. I had so much fun! I also learnedthings while at competitions. I learned even more things about

Conference Session

Mechanical Design and Projects

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jorge Rodriguez, Western Michigan University; Sam Ramrattan, Western Michigan University; Alamgir Choudhury, Western Michigan University; Pavel Ikonomov, Western Michigan University

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Engineering Technology

data collection to take place. Additionally, the proposed procedurecollects data (e.g., shear strength, mass degradation) that is useful in the task of predicting behaviorof sand-binder combinations.The protocol consists of four major steps5, with all specimens being prepared and tested in acontrolled laboratory environment (Temperature is controlled at 23.9±1.1C (75±2F), and relativehumidity is controlled at 50±3%). The steps are: 1. Preparation of disc specimen 2. Disc transverse strength testing 3. Scratch hardness testing of specimen 4. Thermal distortion testing at specified loads for 3 minutes

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Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Kean, California Polytechnic State University; Glen Thorncroft, California Polytechnic State University

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Mechanical Engineering

1997, with a research emphasis in Boiling Heat Transfer. His current activities focus on improvement of undergraduate laboratory education, including new experiments, instrumentation, and pedagogy in Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Sciences, as well as introducing Uncertainty Analysis into the undergraduate curriculum. Page 12.432.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Curricular Assessment Using Existing On-Campus Information DatabasesAbstractAssessment of engineering program success is critical for continual improvement. While thisassessment can take

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Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Miller, Saint Cloud State University

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Mechanical Engineering

graphs, as shown in figures 6 and 7. Page 12.140.9Figure 5 - NIST12 Property Selection Figure 7 - Sample NIST12 PlotFigure 6 - NIST12 Unit selectionOne related link available at NIST is http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/fluid/ . This is asimplified calculator for find point properties for a large number of fluids.The author has copies of the first three packages and uses GPCalcs® and TEST in teachingthermodynamics and a related thermal sciences laboratory course. One of the primary advantagesin these two programs (and EES) is the ease of creating a cycle using the relationships betweenvarious

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New Trends in ECE Education II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Saeed Monemi, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Tim Lin, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

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Electrical and Computer

that produces the interrupts required fortiming and running your model, either on our hardware target or on a simulator 8. Figure 2. Student experiment on the lab Page 12.943.43. Lab ContentsWeekly laboratory assignments are provided enhancement on Discrete time signal and systemlab. A brief description of the some topics covered and the use of exercises are given below.3.1 Analog/Digital ConversionIn many continuous time signal applications, it is getting more attractive to convert a continuous-time signal into a digital-time signal. Sampling and quantization determine the accuracy of thedigital signal. The ideal

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Emerging Technologies in Manufacturing Education II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ertunga Ozelkan, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Agnes Galambosi, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

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Manufacturing

facilities. Johnson etal.[5] describe lean laboratory exercises that combine two methods of discovery-based learning:learning by exploring and simulation-based learning, based on a physical simulation of a clockassembly. Other games available to highlight important points in lean manufacturing include:airplane manufacturing exercises (Billington[1]), the Lean Leap Logistics game (Holweg andBicheno[4]), classroom simulations (Prusak[7], Verma[9], or production projects simulating anassembly production environment (Blust and Bates[2]).Simulations can significantly increase students knowledge on lean, as Verma et al.[9] proves itusing pre- and post-simulation surveys. A common important point for these games is, asChaneski3 emphasizes when describing a

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Computer-Assisted Lab Studies

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ramesh Prasad, University of New Brunswick-St. John; Ryan Munro, University of New Brunswick-St. John

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

experiment is carried out in a non-adiabaticsystem to allow a greater insight in this experiment and to enhance its pedagogical value. Thisexperimental system has been developed for an undergraduate laboratory in thermodynamics forMechanical/Chemical Engineering students.IntroductionThe heat of combustion1 of a fuel is the amount of heat generated by the complete combustionof a unit weight of fuel and it is expressed in Joules/kg (or other similar units such as BTU/Ib orcalories/gram). It is experimentally determined by combustion of an accurately weighed sampleof fuel in a calorimeter and measurement of the heat released. In this experimental system, anOxygen Bomb Calorimeter2 has been used. The temperature rise, T, resulting from the heatreleased

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Design for the Environment

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Graham Armitage, University of Calgary; Phillip du Plessix, University of Calgary; Kara Chomistek, University of Calgary; Daryl Caswell, University of Calgary; Clifton Johnston, University of Calgary; Mohamed Nazir, University of Calgary; Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary; Diane Douglas, University of Calgary; Brigit Knecht, University of Calgary

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Design in Engineering Education

farmers in a Village in Africa. Students weregiven two laboratory sessions (4 hours), over 2-5 days to complete the project and encouraged toresearch the environmental, social, and cultural characteristics of the region which their groupwas assigned (eg. Ghana, Zimbawae, Burkina Faso).Food for thoughtThroughout the entire “Food For Thought” project students were utilizing all the fundamentals ofengineering design (Conceptualization, Evaluation, Testing, and Redesign). This project provedto be extremely challenging for students given the time allotted for the project (8 hrs, over 4 lab Page 12.437.4sessions).This project was created by building

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Computer Tools for Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jianyu Dong, California State University-Los Angeles; Nancy Warter-Perez, California State University-Los Angeles

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Computers in Education

designs from different groups into more complex systems. After students havelearned the design process in class, they repeat the process in their collaborative term project,typically an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) designed using different modeling techniques.3) CPBL implementation in Microcomputer Programming (EE345)Due to the promising implementation results of CPBL in EE442 and EE347, we began to use itin EE345 staring from Fall 2006. Assembly language programming and microcontrollerinterfacing are often taught with a lab component or at least TA office hours. In lieu of those, wecan integrate simple hands-on exploratory and development projects into the lecture. Years ago,our microcomputer programming course was taught in a laboratory with

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers – I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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R. Mark Nelms, Auburn University; Regina Halpin, Program Evaluation and Assessment

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

? Page 12.712.7 Figure 2. Advanced Scientific Process and Application Skills For the morning session of the second workshop day, the teachers were divided into twogroups. One group went to the Auburn University Solar House shown in Figure 3. This housewas constructed for the 2002 Solar Decathlon competition held in Washington D.C. by the USDepartment of Energy. The operation of the electrical system in the solar house was describedand related to the ideas and concepts presented on the first day of the workshop. The solar housewas utilized as a platform to discuss energy efficiency in the design and construction ofresidential dwellings. A second group convened in a computer laboratory to discuss weatherdata. A real-time

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Engineering Entrepreneurship and K-12 Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Gregory Feierfeil, Lawrence Technological University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Innovation Laboratory where students involved inindustry sponsored projects and entrepreneurial projects will develop and prototype theirinventions.Program Evaluation PlanTo assess the success of the proposed project, the team has devised a comprehensiveassessment and program evaluation plan that includes periodic collection of quantitativeand qualitative data. The evaluation plan consists of two primary components; 1) overallevaluation of the program and individual program components by various constituents(students, faculty, alumni, and industry), and 2) assessment of student learning andgraduate capability to perform published program learning outcomes.Program EvaluationThe proposed program has five goals for enacting our vision for

Conference Session

Direct Measures of Student Performance

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Bronzini, George Mason University; John Matusik, The Engineering Groupe

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Civil Engineering

AC 2007-502: USING THE SENIOR DESIGN JURY TO DIRECTLY ASSESSPROGRAM OUTCOMESMichael Bronzini, George Mason University Michael S. Bronzini currently holds the Dewberry Chair in Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering (CEIE) in the Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and is also the Chair of the CEIE Department. Prior positions include Director of the Center for Transportation Analysis at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering at Penn State University, and Director of the Transportation Center and Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Tennessee. Dr