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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alex Waskiewicz, University of Colorado at Boulder; Deniz Gurkan, University of Houston; Ideen Taeb, University of Colorado; Driss Benhaddou, University of Houston; Frank Barnes, University of Colorado; Alan Mickelson, University of Colorado at Boulder

interfacing with GPIB/HPIB devices. Anothersoftware package that performs a similar task and is widely available is National InstrumentsLabVIEW. Using either software application, users can manipulate equipment as if they werephysically operating the device [8]. Fjeldly’s project has many parallels to this one with theexception that our lab setups were constructed using more off-the-shelf software and hardwarethat would reduce cost and production time.2.0 - Software, Equipment, & SetupA cornerstone of this project was to minimize the cost of each of the experiments. By making useof common or under-used equipment and software in the laboratory, the cost of all experimentalsetups was reduced. The majority of the analysis and simulation by both

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Engineering Management Program Management

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Elson, National University; Shekar Viswanathan, National University; Howard Evans, National University

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Engineering Management

AC 2007-2407: ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT WITHIN A SYSTEMSENGINEERING PROGRAMJohn Elson, National UniversityShekar Viswanathan, National UniversityHoward Evans, National University Page 12.646.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Engineering Management within a Systems Engineering ProgramIntroduction Designing curricula may seem to be just another design effort, similar to other design projects.And this might be a reasonable analogy if the design project is considered in its entirety, fromassessing marketplace needs all the way through to design and quality verification. Thus, onemight have this mindset when designing

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Frederick Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

been a renewed emphasis on student teams and onstudent-provided formative feedback within an assessment process anchored in learningoutcomes.The authors report on the integration of Calibrated Peer Review™ (CPR™) – a web-deliveredstudent feedback tool – used in three courses at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Sinceacademic year 2002, the authors have developed course activities that highlight writing and peerevaluation as central components of • RH131 (Rhetoric and Composition): An introductory composition course required of all students at this college of engineering. • ECE 361 (Engineering Practice): A sophomore-level course covering project design specifications, team roles, effective conduct of team

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Best Practices in Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Birmingham, Grove City College; Blair Allison, Grove City College; James Dupree, Grove City College

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

have strongentrepreneurial interests. These students want to develop their design projects into commercialproducts. One venue for commercializing design at our institution, Grove City College (GCC), isthe annual on-campus business plan competition. For the last four years, business andentrepreneurship students often partner in writing a business plan. Students received writtenfeedback from practicing technology entrepreneurs on their plans. That students report thecompetition as a favorable experience fostered the idea for what we called the High TechVenture Start-up course.The business plan competition, however, lacked several essential elements to be a fullyintegrated and maximally valuable educational experience. As important as business

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Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Manfred Hampe, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt; Lars Hagman, KTH; Jan Helge Bøhn, Virginia Tech

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International

AC 2007-1830: TRANSATLANTIC DUAL BACHELOR'S DEGREE PROGRAMSBETWEEN TWO EUROPEAN AND AN AMERICAN UNIVERSITYManfred Hampe, Technische Universitaet DarmstadtLars Hagman, KTHJan Helge Bøhn, Virginia Tech Page 12.1501.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Transatlantic Dual Bachelor’s Degree Programs in Mechanical Engineering between two European and an American University AbstractThe ATLANTIS project joins the European Union and the United States of America in an unprecededendeavor to foster international education on the undergraduate level.Technische Universität Darmstadt (TUD), Germany, Kungliga Tekniska

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Innovations in ECE Education II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tianxia Zhao, Indiana-Purdue University-Fort Wayne

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Electrical and Computer

261 and 363) are alsorequired. Transmission line theory is the basis for the RF circuit impedance matching andpassive circuit analysis. Out of the contents listed above, the students find the understanding ofthe vector space and fields the most difficult, let alone connecting the theories with the realengineering practice and phenomenon. So the first step to improve the course will be helping thestudents to develop the skills to “see” the abstract vector electric and magnetic fields, and beable to use some field simulation software, and work on hands-on projects in the area oftransmission-line, wave-guiding structures, and antenna radiation. In this way, the engineeringstudents will have the basic understanding of the important and recent EM

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Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Experiments and Labs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Afshin Goharzadeh, The Petroleum Institute; Peter Rodgers, The Petroleum Institute; Christian Mandel, The Petroleum Institute

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

through a one semesterdedicated course entitled Core Measurements. As part of this course, two innovativehands-on experiments related to experimental fluid dynamics are given, with theobjective of familiarizing the students, through simple projects, on how to characterizefundamental fluid flow phenomena. A hands-on project consists of design, fabrication,data acquisition and validation of a simple experiment. In this paper an overview of two hands-on fluid mechanics based experiments arepresented, with the specific educational objectives sought given. The first experimentinvestigates the dynamics of a jet flow inside a cylindrical enclosure, with the secondexperiment characterizing a single phase flow over a backward facing step. State of

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Computer Education Management Tools

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Anneliese Watt, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Julia Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

InventoryAbstractThis paper provides a report on a project investigating the impact of pen-based computing on students’peer review strategies. The context for the project is an introductory technical communication coursefor engineering students from multiple disciplines. The project investigators created three peerreviewing contexts in which to assess the impact of tablet PCs on the quantity and quality of students’peer review comments. A Comment Inventory form was then developed that allowed the investigatorsto categorize each comment based on comment location, content, and form. Initial results from thestudy are presented.Keywords: technical communication; peer review; pen-based computing; tablet PCIntroductionFor many engineering educators, the challenge of

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Introductory Materials Science for the 21st Century

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dhananjay Kumar, North Carolina A&T State University; Devdas Pai, North Carolina A&T State University; Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; Jagannathan Sankar, North Carolina A&T State University

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Materials

class: hands-on experienceAs a part of this course, each student was required to complete a project (Table 3). Depending onthe number of students enrolled in the course, the project work involved working individually orin groups on an experiment and then writing an individual or a group report. At the end of theproject, each individual/group was required to make an oral presentation on his/her/their workcontribution and findings. The individual/group report was 10-15 pages in length with adequatetechnical content and literature survey.Guest Lectures and Laboratory Tours: The special feature of this course was lectures by a limitednumber of guest speakers (maximum two). In Spring 2005, one of the guest speakers (from ourDepartment of Electrical

Conference Session

Preparing Engineering Students for International Practice

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Korth, Brigham Young University; Owen Carlson, Brigham Young University; Mason Webster, Brigham Young University; C. Greg Jensen, Brigham Young University

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International

. Table 1: Proposed engineering/language program layout. Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Traditional Traditional Engineering/General Completed at Return to U.S. language and language and ed. courses taught via partner institution. university. cultural courses. cultural courses. video conference by a Classes and International foreign faculty member project. capstone project. from a partner institutionYears 1 and 2: Basic Language ClassesThe first two years of the

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Kadlowec, Rowan University; Howard Pearlman, Drexel University; Greg Biren, Rowan University; John Chen, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Ali Navvab, Gloucester County College; Anthony Marchese, Rowan University; Robert Sterner, Rowan University

sports. The modules will be used in afreshman level course focused on engineering measurements, a new senior undergraduateelective course and integrated into other core courses in mechanical and chemical engineering.The purpose of this paper is to describe the experiments that will be conducted by the students,their relation to science and engineering principles found in sports, various measurements andcalculations that the students will perform and how the modules fit within the curriculum.IntroductionFaculty at Rowan University, Drexel University and Gloucester County College are working onan integrated effort to develop effective modules for teaching engineering from an applied,multidisciplinary point of view. The basis of the project is the

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Engineering and Poverty

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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George Catalano, State University of New York-Binghamton

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Engineering Ethics

and six Indigenous Peoples organizations, and the International Arctic ScienceCommittee (IASC) representing 18 national academies of science released its reportImpacts of a Warming Arctic in November 2004.The report establishes evidence of rapid climate change in the Arctic over the last halfcentury and projects much larger changes ahead. Global climate models use emissionsscenarios based on the anticipated greenhouse gas emissions from factors such as economicgrowth and energy consumption to project future climate outcomes. The Arctic ClimateImpact Assessment researchers selected the mid-range emissions scenario used by the 2001Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).13The trends cited in the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment are

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Faculty Development: Creating successful NEEs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kam Jugdev, Athabasca University

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New Engineering Educators

AC 2007-126: ADVICE FOR NEW ENGINEERING FACULTY: INSIGHTSGAINED FROM FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMSKam Jugdev, Athabasca University Dr. Kam Jugdev is an Associate Professor of Project Management and Strategy in the MBA program at Athabasca University in Alberta and an Adjunct Professor at the Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Alberta. Her specific areas of interest and research include project management as a source of competitive advantage, project lessons learned, project management maturity models, project success/failure, project management education, and distance education. Dr. Jugdev actively contributes to the advancement of academic and professional communities of

Conference Session

Building Knowledge Based Economies: the Role of Industry-University-Government Partnerships

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard; Martina Trucco, Hewlett-Packard; Edgardo Torres-Caballero, Hewlett Packard; Francisco Andrade, Hewlett-Packard México, S. de R.L. de C.V.

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International

citizens globally. This paper describes the role that HP University Relations is playing in theLatin America region in building engineering/science human capacity and infrastructure; fromengineering education activities, sponsored research, and infrastructure projects; to student andfaculty internships and the development of new technology communities. The paper willdescribe specific examples and the role of academia, government; non-governmentalorganizations as well as HP and other partners are playing. I. Introduction – on capacity building, technology infrastructure and innovationRecent research by ECLAC (UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean)[1] on the contribution of investment and other sources of funding to Latin

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Building Knowledge Based Economies: the Role of Industry-University-Government Partnerships

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barbara Waugh, Hewlett-Packard Company; Claudia Morrell, University of Maryland-Baltimore County; Russel Jones, World Expertise LLC; Nancy Hafkin, Knowledge Working

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International

role of HP University Relations (UR) and the Engineering for the Americas initiative, summarized here. Hewlett-Packard Company engages with the higher education community at over 100 academic institutions around the globe in many ways. From joint research and student recruitment, to customer relationships and policy advocacy - numerous HP organizations and hundreds of HP employees advance the company's interests with higher education globally. To build capacity in Latin America, the UR team has collaborated with the World Federation of Engineering Organizations to focus on quality assurance for engineering education and professional mobility throughout the region. In seven years, grassroots conversations and projects led by

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Margaret Hunter, Hofstra University

students seemed to find the whole first part of the courseunrelated to engineering. To get the students to understand the complexity involved inenvironmental engineering especially related to designing or selecting a treatment system adirected project was developed which asks student to answering leading question which relate tocurrent course content, in the pursuit of developing a case study of an industry, business ormunicipality. The students do not fully develop a written case study. They identify a problem,investigate and gather information and begin to evaluate and develop their cases for presentationat the end of the semester.The students meet for a few minutes in class to discuss potential industries to use for their casestudy. They then

Conference Session

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

such visualizations. Using such a visualization tool alongwith TI DSP boards, we can provide real-time experiments to increase student interest in DSP asan area of concentration. Our DSP Lab involves computer based real time exercises to reinforcethe concepts introduced to students. Students become more familiar with MATLAB, Simulink,and CCS and will gain experience using TI DSP boards.The Embedded Target for the TI TMS320C67xx DSP Platform integrates Simulink andMATLAB with TI eXpressDSP (tm) tools. The software suite lets us develop and validate DSPdesigns from concept through code and automates rapid prototyping on the TI DSP board. Thebuild process creates a Code Composer Studio project from the C code generated by Real-TimeWorkshop. All

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Liberal Education

a Law andSociety Concentration. The fifth concentration was essentially a venue that provided freedom Page 12.8.4for student self-determination and a curricular flexibility that acknowledged the existence ofpertinent tracks neither proscribed nor envisioned by the program developers.Program UniquenessThe proposed program is unique to the institution, and the general geographic area. It draws uponCal Poly’s unique character of “learn by doing,” culminating in a multidisciplinary service learningor other group project. Another unique feature of the proposed program is that is has severalconcentrations designed to prepare students for careers in

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amir Rezaei, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Mariappan Jawaharlal, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Kyu-Jung Kim, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Angela Shih, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

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Mechanics

students.The problems addressed by the hybrid courseThe ME department has addressed the failure problem in many different ways. One way was toprovide an additional one-unit Vector Statics Mechanics Laboratory, which was developed basedon the study on cooperative learning in engineering through academic excellence workshop [3].Under the cooperative learning environment, the students demonstrated significantly betterperformance in learning Vector Statics as noted in their final grade of 2.88 as compared with1.33 for those who only took Vector Dynamics [4]. In the laboratory, the students learnfundamental concepts of Vector Statics through teacher demonstrations, group projects &discussion, and additional exercises. However, it is a co-requisite to

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mahmoud Ardebili, Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY

robotics kits to design and built modules inorder to meet specified requirements. The competition activities are planned to promotecollaborative group learning skills. The mentoring component further sustains this effortby bringing sophomores / juniors as peer group leaders in weekly sessions focusing onlearning in fundamental classes.Majority of cohort do not meet placement requirements, start at remedial mathematicslevel. The long series of remediation needed to enroll in freshman level classescontributes greatly to large attrition rate. The integrated enrichment activates engagesthis group; provides counseling, stipend and a nurturing up-to-date environment. Thisprogram is part of a larger project to increase baccalaureate level graduation rate

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FPD4 -- Hands-on & Real-World Studies

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Menicucci, Montana State University; James Duffy, Montana State University; Betsy Palmer, Montana State University

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First-Year Programs

Industrial Applications of • Read Lab Handout Leaching • Read F&R 3.2, 3.4,3.510/10 to 10/14 Fluidized Bed Polymer Coating II Nuclear Submarines10/17 to 10/21 Biological Fuel Cells Biological Engineering10/24 to 10/28 Introduction to term project Materials and Product Design10/31 to 11/4 Developing the Experimental Plan Exam11/7 to 11/11 Presentation of Experimental Plan No class – Veterans Day11/14 to 11/18 Student Designed Experiment MRI Research in Antarctica11/21 to 11/25 Student Designed Experiment No class – Thanksgiving11/28 to 12/2 Student Designed Experiment PowerPoint Basics12/5 to 12/9 Student

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Innovative Curriculum in Engineering Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kari Clase, Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

results in ever-expanding needs for college graduates who haveknowledge of life-science based products and processes. There have been numerousreports of current and projected shortages of human resources possessing the requiredknowledge in the growing industry. In order to address the gap between education andthe workforce, the Department of Industrial Technology has developed an academicminor in biotechnology being implemented in fall 2004.This interdisciplinary biotechnology initiative is the result of a partnership among theDepartment of Industrial Technology, the Department of Biology, and the Department ofPharmacy. The program is administered within the Department of Industrial Technology.The minor is taken while the student continues his

Conference Session

Experiences in Teaching Energy Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ilya Grinberg, Buffalo State College; Mohammed Safiuddin, University at Buffalo, SUNY

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

component sequence impedances. Steady-state performanceof systems including methods of network solutions. The course was selected for the samereasons as EE 582 Z.EAS 521 Z Principles of Engineering Management I.Basic engineering management functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling asapplied to project, team, knowledge, group/department and global settings, including discussionof the strengths and weaknesses of engineers as managers, and the engineering managementchallenges in the new economy. Emphasis is placed on the integration of engineeringtechnologies and management. Students are to understand/practice the basic functions inengineering management, the roles and perspectives of engineering managers, and selected skillsrequired

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New Engineering Educators: Off the Beaten Path

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Tech; Michael Gregg, Virginia Tech; Richard Goff, Virginia Tech

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New Engineering Educators

courses. The firstsemester course, Engineering Exploration EngE1024, involves ethics, problem solving,algorithmic development, programming, graphing, teamwork, design, and technicalcommunication. The second semester course primarily focused on the design process, technicalcommunication, project management, teamwork, sketching, and computer aided design. In2005, the second semester course was reformulated into two tracks. One track focuses onintroductory design related needs for students bound for electrical and computer engineering aswell as computer science. The other track covers introductory design related skills required forremaining nine engineering departments at Virginia Tech.Prior to spring 2005, the two introductory-level engineering

Conference Session

IE Curriculum Design

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abdul Kamal, Western New England College; Herb Eskot, Western New England College

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Industrial Engineering

Engineering, and students enrolled in certain graduate disciplines andother continuing education programs.There is some literature relating the experiences of multidisciplinary teaching involvingengineering and business courses. The experience in combining a marketing research course witha bio-resource engineering course was assessed5. The latter combines biology and engineering tosolve problems in a variety of environmentally related fields. The approach of this course was toteam together students from both courses to work collectively on a project involving bothdeveloping and marketing a new product. The engineering students worked alone or in groups oftwo over a two-semester period on one project. The engineering students working on a

Conference Session

The Impact of Curriculum on the Retention of Women Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Keathly, University of North Texas; Robert Akl, University of North Texas; Ryan Garlick, University of North Texas

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Women in Engineering

of robots can attract new female students to computerscience and engineering. As a result of this research, and our experience hosting the BESTRobotics competition, we conducted one-week Robotics Day Camps for young women enteringthe ninth, tenth and eleventh grades; one camp was offered at the North Texas Research Park inDenton and a second at a second UNT campus in south Dallas. The motivation for these campswas to increase the number of women selecting computer engineering as a field of study.The Robotics Camps were organized around team, project-oriented activities that utilize anumber of mobile resources, including laptops and the BOE-BOT (Board of Education BasicStamp Microcontroller Carrier Board produced by Parallax

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New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Phillip Sanger, Western Carolina University

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Graduate Studies

impact of these shifts is two-fold: increased demand for healthcare Page 12.1393.3services for an aging population and decreased availability of intellectual resources to addressthe challenges.Finally, the rising cost of healthcare is a national problem. Projected healthcare costs willconsume 15.5% of the GDP according to the Adaptive Business Leaders Organization or $1.9trillion annually 8. Advances in technology through new treatments and particularly diagnosticimaging are estimated to have contributed 10% to 40% of the cost growth during the 1990s, andtechnology is expected to continue to be a cost driver 4. An aging population is also

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K-12 Engineering and Pre-College Outreach Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kauser Jahan, Rowan University; Kathleen Sernak, Rowan University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Multidisciplinary Design 16-Week Multidisciplinary Design Project—Composition & Rhetoric Project—Public Speaking Junior Product/Process Development or Product/Process Development or Research Research Senior Multidisciplinary Capstone Design/Research ProjectFreshman Clinics expose students to basic engineering skills including problem solving,teamwork fundamentals, engineering measurements and entrepreneurship. Students areintroduced to a variety of activities relevant to engineering measurements5. This is followed inthe second semester by intense study of engineering design through reverse engineering(“dissection”) and

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Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fernando Class-Morales, Cessna Aircraft Company; Jim Leake, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign; Brenton Hall, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

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Engineering Design Graphics

Page 12.520.2Carnegie-Mellon University have found that self-paced and web-based CAE tutorials are apractical method of complementing traditional engineering instruction on all levels ofundergraduate mechanical engineering courses.2 For example, freshmen complete a web tutorial-led project that introduces them to computer-aided design, finite-element analysis (FEA) andcomputer-aided manufacturing (CAM) of a specific product. It has been observed throughfeedback and course enrollment statistics that this experience both motivates the students andintroduces available engineering software tools.The Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering (IESE) of the University ofIllinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has also developed

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Improving ME Education: Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seifollah Nasrazadani, University of North Texas; Reza Mirshams, University of North Texas

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2007-832: TEACHING HEAT TRANSFER THROUGH INDUSTRIALPARTNERSHIPSeifollah Nasrazadani, University of North TexasReza Mirshams, University of North Texas Page 12.1361.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Teaching Heat Transfer through Industry Partnership S. Nasrazadani and R.A. Mirshams College of Engineering University of North Texas Denton, TX 76203Abstract In this research project, a heat transfer course was taught to senior undergraduate studentsin a new way that involved an industrial engineer as a