Conference Session

Perspectives for Women Faculty

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicole Hawkes, WiSE / University of Southern California; Jean Morrison, University of Southern California; Cauligi Raghavendra, University of Southern California

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Women in Engineering

regular set-up funds for the faculty position. 2. Major Support for Current Faculty (original program, 2001) Supplemental funding for major research projects through WiSE offers a way to offset barriers and life-cycle related obstacles that have been shown to slow or interrupt the careers of women faculty. Some of these barriers are subtle and can range from difficulties in meeting teaching and research demands while simultaneously raising a small child, to a reduced chance a new funding opportunities because of a lack of access to a network group. Funds may also be requested to take advantage of opportunities that arise unexpectedly and therefore are not funded through regular agencies and programs. Any USC faculty member in

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jose Branco, Politecnico de Viseu; Odete Lopes, Politecnico de Viseu; Joao Vinhas, Politecnico de Viseu; Joao Paiva, Politecnico de Viseu

to 1998, she was a chemical technician and lab assistant at the Electrochemistry and Corrosion Laboratory in Coimbra. From 1998 to 2001, she was an industrial management lab assistant in the Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management Department of Instituto Politecnico de Viseu, Portugal. Since 2001 she is an assistant professor of Operations Management, Project Management and Quality Management at the Escola Superior de Tecnologia of the Polytechnic of Viseu, Portugal.Joao Vinhas, Politecnico de Viseu João Vinhas, MSc Professor of Physics and Mechanics; Assistant Professor since 1998; Director of the graduation in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management of the Escola Superior

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New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Walsh, California Polytechnic State University; Stacey Breitenbach, California Polytechnic State University; Robert Crocket, California Polytechnic State University

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Graduate Studies

offers comprehensive masters degrees, and has a total population of about 320graduate students (the undergraduate population is about 4800). Cal Poly is renown for its'laboratory intensive, hands-on approach to education. Faculty teaching loads are high, and thecommitment to the student is legendary. The senior project is still the capstone to theundergraduate experience, the school is unique in its' heavy commitment to the liberal artscomponent of a college engineering education. Unlike most other CSU campuses, which arelocated in areas of high population density, Cal Poly is rural. Thus, the majority of CENGgraduate students are full-time, only a small pool of part-time students is available. For thisreason, Cal Poly is focused on filling the

Conference Session

Mechanical Design and Projects

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Rajadas, Arizona State University Polytechnic; Alvin Post, Arizona State University; Bradley Rogers, Arizona State University

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Engineering Technology

has attracted otherstudents as well. Approximately ten students have participated in the UAV project teamover each of the past three years, and the teams have typically been divided into sub-teamsto allow better management and make optimum use of technical skill levels.Project DescriptionUAV Configuration and Design FeaturesDesign and development of a transforming fixed wing-autogyro unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV) prototype is the primary goal of the project. This is a truly multidisciplinary designproblem involving a wide range of engineering areas and associated technical issues. Thescope of the work encompasses the areas of design, development, analysis, testing andevaluation thus making this project a very valuable teaching tool that

Conference Session

Engineering in High Schools

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Douglas Oppliger, Michigan Technological University; Shawn Oppliger, Copper Country Intermediate School District; Mary Raber, Michigan Technological University; Robert Warrington, Michigan Technological University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Binational Forum for excellent educational programming. Shawn was recognized for outstanding service to education community by MTU in 2005 through induction into Academy of Educators.Mary Raber, Michigan Technological University Ms. Mary Raber is the director of the Enterprise Program at MTU. In this role, she secures funding and projects from external sources, oversees day-to-day operation of the program and teaches various instructional modules in the curriculum. Prior to Michigan Tech, Ms. Raber worked in the automotive industry for 14 years, holding various positions in engineering and management. Mary holds a B.S.M.E from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. from Wayne State

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New Trends in ECE Education II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Min-Sung Koh, Eastern Washington University; Esteban Rodriguez-Marek, Eastern Washington University; Claudio Talarico, Eastern Washington University

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Electrical and Computer

interfaces. This paper presents a set of digital signal processing (DSP) studentclass projects that include the design of GUI interfaces for simulation and testing of systemsentirely through the use of Matlab. The paper also presents a preview of follow-up labdevelopments which will include the implementation of complete systems into a DSP board usingMatlab. In addition, there are classes under development in which the projects will requiredownloading Matlab algorithms into FPGAs. This paper's overarching goal is to demonstrate thatEE curricula do not need the teaching of many different high-level programming languages ifMatlab is taught vertically throughout the curriculum.f f ff 1. IntroductionTypical Electrical Engineering (EE) curricula have

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Industrial Collaborations and Applications

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lawrence Wolf, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Engineering Technology

University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia from 1972 to 1974. He was appointed as a dean at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, directing a joint project with MIT in Iran, after which he returned to St. Louis in 1975 as the associate dean of instruction. He headed the Department of Manufacturing Engineering Technologies and Supervision at Purdue University, Calumet, from 1978 to 1980. He then served for ten years as the dean of the College of Technology of the University of Houston. After a sabbatical year working on the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Wolf became the president of Oregon Institute of Technology. He

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation in Engineering Education II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alice Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology; Mike Pennotti, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2007-1099: MEASURING THE VALUE OF COURSE COMPONENTS IN THEONLINE CLASSROOMAlice Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology Alice Squires is the Director for Online Programs for the School of Systems and Enterprises, Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. Alice also teaches systems engineering as a faculty at Stevens and business and management as a faculty at University of Phoenix. Alice graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science of Electrical Engineering (BSEE) at University of Maryland in 1984 and Summa cum Laude with Recognition with a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) at George Mason University in 1996. She is concurrently pursuing her doctoral

Conference Session

CE Poster Session in Exhibit Hall

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Norma Mattei, University of New Orleans; Vijaya Gopu, Tulane University

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Civil Engineering

Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. It is historically considered among thenation's prestigious and most selective institutions of higher learning. It is also considered bymany to be among the group of schools termed the "Southern Ivies". Tulane is organized into 10schools focused on liberal arts, sciences and the engineering, architecture and businessprofessions. Undergraduate applications received annually more than doubled from 1998 to2006, growing from 7,780 to a record 21,000 undergraduate applications. Applicationacceptances lowered from 79% of applicants in 1998 to 33% in 2006.In July 2004, Tulane received two $30 million donations to its endowment, the largest individualor combined gifts in the university's history. The donations

Conference Session

FPD2 -- Highlighting First-Year Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Schimmels, Marquette University

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First-Year Programs

of eachcourse is reflected in their respective titles. The first course in the sequence is titled,“Engineering: The Art of Creating Change”. The title of the second is: “Engineering Projects:The Practice of the Art”.Both courses use assigned reading followed by reflection, writing, and discussion related to adebatable question (or questions) posed by the instructor. Section size is limited to 25 students.A relatively senior member of the regular faculty and one teaching assistant facilitate classdiscussion using Socratic questioning.Both courses also use design projects as vehicles in developing student understanding of keyconcepts. In the first, the course requirements manage student-team project activities; in thesecond, the student-teams

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marcos Esterman, Rochester Institute of Technology; Dorin Patru, Rochester Institute of Technology; Vincent Amuso, Rochester Institute of Technology; Edward Hensel, Rochester Institute of Technology; Mark Smith, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

"track" is a general category of projects to which a student project may belong.Tracks are helpful for students seeking project membership in that they provide a way to look fora project in an area without knowing what the specific projects necessarily are. Tracks of projectsare generally correlated with the various concentrations and options offered through thedepartments in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering at RIT.Some of the key learning objectives of the MSD program that the projects most contribute toinclude the: (2) Ability to perform a critical analysis of requirements, engineering specifications,and the relationship between them. (3) Ability to integrate theory from a broad range of courses,laboratory exercises and co-op

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ChE: Innovations in undergraduate and graduate programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen High, Oklahoma State University; Eric Maase, Oklahoma State University

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Chemical Engineering

AC 2007-1423: ACTIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING IN A GRADUATE COURSE ONMODELING AND NUMERICAL METHODSKaren High, Oklahoma State University KAREN HIGH earned her B.S. from the University of Michigan in 1985 and her M.S. in 1988 and Ph.D. in 1991 from the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. High is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering at Oklahoma State University where she has been since 1991. Her main research interests are Sustainable Process Design, Industrial Catalysis, and Multicriteria Decision Making. Other scholarly activities include enhancing creativity in engineering practice and teaching science to education professionals. Dr. High is a trainer for Project Lead the Way

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial Leadership and Non-traditional Ways to Engage Students in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen High, Oklahoma State University; Paul Rossler, Oklahoma State University; Martin High, Oklahoma State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2007-951: ENGINEERING ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR HIGH SCHOOL ANDEARLY COLLEGE STUDENTSKaren High, Oklahoma State University KAREN HIGH earned her B.S. from the University of Michigan in 1985 and her M.S. in 1988 and Ph.D. in 1991 from the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. High is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering at Oklahoma State University where she has been since 1991. Her main research interests are Sustainable Process Design, Industrial Catalysis, and Multicriteria Decision Making. Other scholarly activities include enhancing creativity in engineering practice and teaching science to education professionals. Dr. High is a trainer for Project Lead the Way pre

Conference Session

Engineering in Middle Schools

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Reid, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis; Christine Floyd, Brownsburg East Middle School

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Floyd has been teaching in Brownsburg for 7 years, with the past 5 years at the middle school level. She has been instrumental in piloting and promoting the Project Lead the Way Gateway to Technology program for Brownsburg. In addition to serving as Technology Education Department head, Chris is currently a member of the TECCA (Technology Education Curriculum Crosswalk Activity) project working with the Indiana Department of Education to develop technology activities for the State, and is the IEEE Pre-College Engineering Committee K-12 Liaison. Page 12.1476.1© American Society for

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Recruiting, Retention and Diversity in Engineering Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Claude Kansaku, Oregon Institute of Technology; Linda Kehr, Klamath County School District; Catherine Lanier, Oregon NASA Space Grant Consortium

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Engineering Technology

. She has numerous years of experience in elementary school education and is an adjunct faculty for Concordia University (Portland, OR) teaching science methods. She currently serves on Oregon Department of Education’s Science Content and Assessment Panel.Catherine Lanier, Oregon NASA Space Grant Consortium CATHERINE LANIER is the Assistant Director of the Oregon NASA Space Grant Consortium which is housed at Oregon State University. In addition to overseeing the operations of all OSGC programs, she is instrumental in the growth of the Oregon’s BalloonSat program. She created the LaunchOregon identity which currently unifies six affiliate university high-altitude balloon programs

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Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Louis Everett, University of Texas-El Paso; Arunkumar Pennathur, University of Texas-El Paso

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Mechanical Engineering

Cincinnati, with specialization in human factors engineering. Dr. Pennathur's interests are in the science of learning in engineering education. Dr. Pennathur has considerable expertise in human behavioral research methods. He has developed human behavior and performance models in personnel skills and training for advanced electromechanical troubleshooting and fault-finding tasks, disability models in older adults (work funded by NIH), and modeling physical and mental workload for soldier safety and performance (work funded by the US Army Research Laboratory jointly with Fort Bliss and William Beaumont Army Medical Center). These projects have all included extensive instrumentation, calibration, and

Conference Session

BME Assessment and the VaNTH ERC

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Blanchard, Florida Gulf Coast University; James Sweeney, Florida Gulf Coast University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

minimum of four (4) recognized major civil engineering areas (Remembering); the ability to conduct laboratory experiments and to critically analyze and interpret data in more than one of the recognized major civil engineering areas; the ability to perform civil engineering design by means of design experiences integrated throughout the professional component of the curriculum (Creating); and an understanding of professional practice issues such as: procurement of work, bidding versus quality-based selection processes, how the design professionals and the construction professions interact to

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fadi Kurdahi, University of California, Irvine; Judy Shoemaker, University of California, Irvine; John LaRue, University of California-Irvine

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Electrical and Computer

Logic Laboratory and Programming

Conference Session

CE Poster Session in Exhibit Hall

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Candace Sulzbach, Colorado School of Mines

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Civil Engineering

AC 2007-1440: ENHANCING ENGINEERING EDUCATION ? CONCRETE CANOECOMPETITIONCandace Sulzbach, Colorado School of Mines Candace Sulzbach is a Lecturer in the Division of Engineering where she has taught since August 1983. She is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Colorado. After 24 years of teaching engineering students, Candy has had the opportunity to see how their educations can be enhanced by their involvement in extra-curricular activities; specifically, participation in engineering design competitions like the National Concrete Canoe Competition and the National Student Steel Bridge Competition. Candy earned her B.S. degree in Mineral Engineering (civil specialty) at

Conference Session

Preparing Engineering Students for International Practice

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna Reese, Mississippi State University; Allen Greenwood, Mississippi State University; Mary Emplaincourt, Mississippi State University

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International

brought thisprogram to MSU in 1999 as an extension of the program he started at Clemson University. FredBurke, an MSU engineering alumnus, and his wife Sara, endowed the program in 2002.The focus of the program is to provide both engineering and humanities classes in anenvironment that promotes cultural understanding. Students earn six hours of degree credit fortwo courses: History of Technology and a technical elective, either Computer-Aided Design andManufacturing or Digital Signal Processing. The courses are taught by University of Bristolfaculty; however, a faculty member from Clemson and MSU accompany the students. Eventhough students are accompanied by faculty, the faculty do not teach; therefore, the program is

Conference Session

Retention Programs for Women Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Helene Finger, California Polytechnic State University; Tracy Van Houten, University of Southern California; Barbara Curry, California Polytechnic State University; Jennifer Harris, United Parcel Service; Malia Francisco, United Parcel Service; Betsy Sale, United Parcel Service

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Women in Engineering

developing strong leaders within the section. The officer team and executiveboard gives the students a great opportunity to learn and practice extensive leadership skills thatthey then carry with them into the rest of the campus and later into the work place.The entire officer team is given training at the three officer retreats during the year. The trainingis not limited to information about SWE and the section, but also includes leadership training andteam building activities. Being a part of the officer team teaches members to haveresponsibilities outside of academics, to interact on a one to one basis with other members of thesection and to manage their time and activities.Another integral part of the officer retreats is strategic planning for

Conference Session

Experiential and Service Learning

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry Bland, John Brown University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering