Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations and Applications

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ayanna Howard, Georgia Institute of Technology; Eva Graham, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Engineering Technology

thatby providing undergraduate students the ability to understand the linkage between theory andreal-world applications, it increases their motivation to remain in a STEM-related major.Discussion on the approach is presented in this paper and validated through implementation witha pilot student population to provide supportive evidence of the observed benefits.1. IntroductionAn essential element of NASA’s education mission to inspire the next generation of explorers,requires that the public is engaged through the implementation of innovative approaches such asinformal and formal education methods, science outreach, and research development efforts.1One of the direct outcomes of this focus is to contribute to the nation’s educational goals

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ChE: Innovations in the Classroom

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Bullard, North Carolina State University; Richard Felder, North Carolina State University

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Chemical Engineering

. Beginning in the late 1970s, an active learning-based approach to the stoichiometrycourse was adopted at N.C. State, in which most lectures included activities that providedpractice and feedback in the methods that would be required on homework and tests. A 1990paper outlined the new instructional approach and described the turnaround in studentperformance and evaluations that resulted from its adoption.1 The stoichiometry course hascontinued to evolve. Since the early 1990s, it has been taught using cooperative (team-based)learning, with measures being taken to hold all team members individually accountable for theentire content of team assignments. Instructional technology has played an increasinglyimportant role in the course, with variety of

Conference Session

Outstanding Contributions to ME

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Choate, Western Kentucky University; Kevin Schmaltz, Western Kentucky University; Stephen Howard, Western Kentucky University; Paul Graves, Western Kentucky University; Jonathan Martin, Western Kentucky University; Chris Kruckenberg, Western Kentucky University

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Mechanical Engineering

distribution of these funds is based on the relevance of the proposal to educational endeavorsin the Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (HVAC&R) disciplines. 1, 2In 2004, ME seniors and their faculty advisor in the ME Senior Lab I course at WesternKentucky University submitted a proposal to the ASHRAE Undergraduate Senior Project GrantProgram, requesting funds to design, build and test (DBT) an airflow test bench. The proposalwas selected by ASHRAE as one of the projects to be funded for the 2005 – 2006 academic year. Page 12.192.2The objective of this project was to design, assemble, calibrate and test the performance of

Conference Session

Computer Engineering Technology Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wangping Sun, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Engineering Technology

paper, the author will introduce a new approach to administer programming practices of the students. The benefits and implementation steps of this new paradigm will also be discussed. Keywords: Computer Education; Computer Programming; Engineering Education; Professional Development; Software Development Cycle.1. IntroductionComputer programming is an essential and integral part of any engineering program 1.Engineering students must be able to use a variety of rapidly changing computing systems andtools to solve an ever-expanding range of problems across disciplines 2. Engineering schoolsoffer the computer programming course in freshmen or semaphore year in engineering orengineering technology program 3,4.In our

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

Conference Session

Climate Issues for Women Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Dale Baker, Arizona State University; Chell Roberts, Arizona State University

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Women in Engineering

content knowledge. The studio course inwhich she was enrolled required introductory physics and calculus skills. Her physics and mathbackground was adequate to perform well with this type of content. She was interested inlearning engineering skills and concepts. On the other hand, her goal in taking the course was toexplore and learn more about the engineering learning environment without strong intentions topursue an engineering degree. This reflected a “typical” freshman student’s uncertainty inchoosing engineering as a career.There were three sources of data for this study: 1) the researcher’s observations and journalentries, 2) the researcher’s assessment of her self-efficacy, and 3) the self-assessment papers shewrote as assignments for the

Conference Session

Outstanding Contributions to ME

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hakan Gurocak, Washington State University-Vancouver

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Mechanical Engineering

the last three years we used the same project. The challenge was to design a machine to sortCD cases. The machine had to work as follows: CD sorting machine project 1. User will load a stack of CD cases into a stacking guide in the machine. Some cases will contain labels and be opaque; some will be empty and transparent. Presence of the CD cases in the stack must be detected. 2. When the user has placed the cases in the stack, he will press a START button. 3. The machine will then take the cases off the stack one at a time. If a case contains label, the machine will push it into the output stack for full cases. If it is

Conference Session

Engineering in High Schools

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sibel Uysal, Arizona State University; Sharon Kurpius-Robinson, Arizona State University; Dale Baker, Arizona State University; Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Chell Roberts, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

videotaped during the teaching process.These included: 1) the role of females in engineering; 2) a presentation of how engineeringaffects society, 3) teaching the iterative design process and design problem solving, 4) theapplication and use of modeling tools such as calculus and Excel spreadsheets in engineering, 5)configuration of teams and 6) career information. Using these findings, a classroom observationinstrument was developed. Each item of the rubric was related to Sociocultural Theory. Theinteraction of the students with on another, with the guest speakers and with the teacher helpedidentify these class features.Development of a RubricThemes emerged from the data that had been collected that were used to develop the rubric.Based on our

Conference Session

Student Learning and Teamwork

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alok Verma, Old Dominion University

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Engineering Technology

manufacturing and out of theseonly three were using physical simulation as a tool for teaching Lean. This paper discusses the implementation of five simulation tools in a seniorelective within the MET program to teach students about Lean and Six Sigmaphilosophies and their implementation.II. Research on Understanding and Learning Ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius once said "I see and I forget, I hear and Iremember, I do and I understand." We all know this instinctively, however, turn-of-the-century educationist Edgar Dale illustrated this with his Cone of Learning as illustrated inFigure 1. He made an observation that “After two weeks we remember only 10% of whatwe read, but we remember 90% of what we do!.” Existing literature on

Conference Session

Scientific Literature and Data: Proliferation, Storage, and Open Access

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Stout, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Anne Graham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

AC 2007-155: THE DATA DILEMMAAmy Stout, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAnne Graham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Page 12.1402.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 The Data Dilemma There’s a famous allegory about a map of the world that grows in detail until every point in reality has its counterpoint on paper; the twist being that such a map is at once ideally accurate and entirely useless, since it’s the same size as the thing it’s meant to represent 1.IntroductionThe proliferation of scientific data is inspiring a paradigm shift in the way we manageinformation. Scientists frequently use other

Conference Session

Partnerships in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Rezak

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Nuclear and Radiological

).Operating Success Traditionally, the evaluation of electric power generation facility performance has focused onthe ability of plants to produce at design capacity for high percentages of the time. Successfuloperation of nuclear facilities is determined by examining capacity or load factors. Load factoris the percentage of design generating capacity that a power plant actually produces over thecourse of a year. Table 1 indicates cumulative load factors for nuclear power producing nations through 2005(International Atomic Energy Agency Power Reactor Information System database). Thenumbers in parenthesis indicate the number of nuclear power plants operating in the country.This information is corroborated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Conference Session

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

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Marcek

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International

ofglobalization and apply those understandings to classroom experiences and reform of curriculum.The Engineering for the Americas initiative has emerged as a thought leader in this space overthe past several years. The combination of faculty, collaborating with industry to integrate real-world needs and improve competitiveness of graduates, with Ministerial involvement, with thepolitical mandate expressed in the Lima Declaration (2004)[1] and the Declaration of Mar delPlata (2005)[2], has produced a robust dialogue and comprehensive interaction.Recently, Engineering for the Americas leadership adopted a three-pronged strategy goingforward, designed to facilitate the entire engineering education ecosystem through collaborativeprojects and jointly seeking

Conference Session

Freshman Design and Other Novel Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul King, Vanderbilt University; Mark Richter, MaxMobility

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Biomedical

) after bowel movements. Students were put into design teams (5teams of 3 and 1 team of 4) and implored to interact with the client in order to better understandhis needs. The design project was structured as a competition, wherein the winning team wouldbe exempt from the publication review assignment. The teams had 4 weeks to deliver theirprototype and complete their design report. The first two sections of their design reports,including the need and brainstorming sections, were due 2 weeks into the project. The studentswere given unlimited access to the client and encouraged to interact with him during the designprocess.The third class meeting covered the technological and human resources available to theindividual with disabilities. These

Conference Session

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

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Morell presents the multistakeholder model developed in Latin America, which the African program leverages, and which this paper complements. The World Bank recommends that nations which wish to develop knowledge-based economies concentrate their efforts on four major areas: education and training, communication and information infrastructures, economic incentives and institutional regime, and innovation systems.1 Knowledge has become a primary factor of production – many economists would argue the most important component - in addition to capital, labor and land. For a small, natural resource poor, landlocked emerging economy, knowledge may be the only factor of production.2 Most globalization experts agree that technology is critical

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Steiner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Langdon Winner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Design in Engineering Education

understanding oftechnology and design in societies across the world. Among the guiding values of PDI are (1) todevelop designs that support democratic participation and multiple user perspectives; (2) todevelop designs that take society, culture, and human potential as a nodal point of reference fordesign innovation.3. The Studio SequenceThe heart and soul of the PDI program lies in its studio sequence, one studio for each of the eightsemesters. The studios are taught by faculty from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds andlevels of experience. The PDI studio sequence includes the following: Studio 1: Provides an introduction to design as an on open-ended process, while stressing critical thinking, interdisciplinary collaboration

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Said Abubakr, Western Michigan University; Dewei Qi, Western Michigan University

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International

Consulate visit labs Wangjiang Chinese Park studentsMay 27: May 28: May 29: May 30: May 31: June 1: June 2:Visit Visit 8:30-12:00 8:30-12:00 8:30-12:00 Lecture on 8:30-12:00Panda Dujiangy Lecture on Lecture on Lecture on Chinese Lecture onPark; Irrigation chemistry; Taiji; biological acupuncture; calligraphyevening System and visit labs; afternoon engineering; afternoon andSichuan Qincheng afternoon visit visit labs; visit painting;Opera Mountain lecture on Nationality

Conference Session

Innovation in Construction Engineering Education I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Virendra Varma, Missouri Western State University

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Construction

Page 12.925.8Hyatt walkway design switch exemplifies the need for a strictly enforced change-of-designprocedure including technical review and documentation. Technical people sometimes feel thisprocedure is a burden and does not apply to them. Then we see examples where the procedurewas not followed.”6As a foot-note to the lesson learned from the Hyatt Regency Hotel failure, the hotel was repairedwith in five months of the collapse, and the three walkways were replaced by a single walkwayat the second-floor level, which was not suspended but supported on 10 large reinforced concretecolumns.7Bibliography 1. Lavoie, D. “Massachusetts to Sue Big Dig Companies.” Associated Press, Nov. 28, 2006 2. “Investigators Probe Boston Central Artery

Conference Session

Applied Mathematics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Josue Njock-Libii, Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne

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Mathematics

solutionapproximates the actual motion.1. IntroductionThe motion of a pendulum is studied in the first college physics course; and its governingdifferential equation is amongst the first ones that are solved in an introductory course onordinary differential equations. This equation is encountered again and again in coursessuch as dynamics, controls, vibrations, and acoustics. In all these cases, however, it islinearized by assuming that the amplitude of oscillation is small. As a consequence,students do not see what happens to the oscillation of a pendulum when the amplitudesare large and the restoring force becomes nonlinear. More importantly, they do not knowthe limits of applicability of the linearized solution they have studied.In this article, we present

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computer-Oriented Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mario Garcia, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

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Information Systems

discretize any of the attributes. Theexperiment was carried out using the normal data as the training data and a subset of attack dataas the test data initially and subsequently using attack data as both training and test data. Wekacannot handle large datasets since it loads everything into memory before it processes the data.To overcome this shortcoming, 5,900 records were generated randomly from the normal data andtwo sets of 6,600 and 3,400 records were generated randomly from the attack data. The subset ofattack data with 3,400 records was used as test data in both cases. The results of using J4.8decision tree on the data are presented in Table 1.Normal data as training data and attack data as test data: Here the normal data (attack-freesubset

Conference Session

Professional Development and Scholarship

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Fox, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis; Stephen Hundley, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis; James Johnson, Indiana University; H. Oner Yurtseven, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Dynamics, 75.4. Dessler, G. (1992). Winning commitment. New York: McGraw-Hill.5. Meyer, J P. and Allen, N. J. (1997). Commitment in the Workplace: Theory, research, and application. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publication, Inc.6. Patel, D. (2002). The round-trip ‘brain drain’. HRMagazine, 47 (7): 128(1).7. Kasworm, C.E. (2003). Setting the stage: Adults in higher education. New Directions for Student Services, Summer, 2003, 102.8. Alexander, F. K. (2000). The changing face of accountability. The Journal of Higher Education, 71 (4).9. Dunn, D.D. (2003). Accountability, democratic theory, and higher education. Educational Policy, 17 (1).10. Lazerson, M., Wagener, U. and Shumanis, N. (2000

Conference Session

Engineering and Sustainability

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Engineering Ethics

aweek from the federal government alone–3 totaling some 250 million units annually.1 Whilesome are technologically obsolete, most are not. They are, however, psychologically obsolete, asthe life of a PC has deceased from five years in 1997 to two currently.4 About 70% of old PCslanguish in basements and attics, collecting dust;5 some 60 million lie in municipal landfills.1Less than 10% are recycled,6 and, of those, most are destined for disassembly in third worldcountries. In fact, about 80% of “recycling” efforts in the US consist of exporting e-wasteabroad.7 Exporting old PCs has resulted in environmental degradation and public health risks inthe recipient countries.Health HazardsA computer sitting on a desk poses no health risk. However, a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frederick Berry; Patricia Carlson

ABET ASSESSMENT USING CALIBRATED PEER REVIEWIntroductionMost engineering programs have some type of capstone design experience. At Rose-HulmanInstitute of Technology (Rose) the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department alsohas a similar set of courses. Therefore, the ECE Department decided to use senior design toassess EC3(g) (ABET Engineering Criterion 3-g): “ability to communicate effectively”.However, we needed/wanted a tool to help us develop our assessment process for EC3(g).The ECE Department was introduced to the Calibrated Peer Review (CPR) [1]. CPR is anonline-tool with four structured workspaces that perform in tandem to create a series of activitiesthat reflect modern pedagogical strategies for using writing

Conference Session

MIND - Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atin Sinha, Albany State University

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Minorities in Engineering

’ x 1’ test section • EMCO PC Turn 55, 2 axis CNC machine • Stratasys Dimension 3D Printer • Tinius Olsen H50K-S 50 kN Bench Top Universal Testing Machine • Axiovert inverted microscope, Hitachi color camera and image analysis workstationA set of 8 programmable Lego-Mindstrom robots were also purchased from a separate grantfrom Georgia Space Grant Consortium, a funding agency of NASA.The detail description of the laboratory equipment is available in the ASU’s engineeringwebsite1. A total of twelve experiments were developed with these set of equipment specificallyfor our transfer engineering students. These experiments were published as a supplementarytextbook2 to support the lab component of the course ENGR 1103. Students

Conference Session

Design of Lab Experiments I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atin Sinha, Albany State University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

experiments have become a prominent part of the new course structure withoutsacrificing any of the materials covered in the original course. The three hour laboratory sessionis held once a week. Students work in groups of 2 to 3 and complete about 7 to 8 experiments intotal: 1 in RoboLab, 2 in Wind Tunnel, 2 in CNC machine, 2 to 3 in SolidWorks. At thecompletion of each experiment they have to submit an individual lab report in order to get thecredit for conducting that experiment. Because of the wide variation of the nature of eachexperiment, the reports are to some extent dependent on the equipment and the specificexperiment. In general, the lab report is expected to contain title and objective of the experiment,brief description of the procedural

Conference Session

Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics Instruction

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Maixner, U.S. Air Force Academy; James Baughn, University of California-Davis

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

teaching this subject3, thecurrent authors deemed it necessary to devote five lecturesto this material.Prior to their introduction to psychrometry, most studentsare familiar with many of the other diagrams associatedwith property variations: h-s, T-s, T-v, and p-v.Unfortunately, the psychrometry chart can be somewhat Page 12.1369.3intimidating the first time it is encountered by a buddingthermodynamics student, and some link with prior Figure 1: Basic layout of psychrometric chartknowledge facilitates the introduction of this topic. Figure 1 illustrates a fairly commonfirst exposure to the psychrometric chart. Unfortunately, most

Conference Session

What's New in Dynamics?

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arnaldo Mazzei, Kettering University; Richard Scott, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

availability and of its increasing use inundergraduate mathematics courses, MAPLE[1] is employed. The central goal of the work is tointroduce new phenomena, and the examples treated are: (i) The effect of viscous damping onthe stability of an inverted pendulum. It is shown that with a linear model viscous damping doesnot stabilize an unstable state, whereas damping plays an important role when a non-linear modelis considered. (ii) Forced harmonic motion of a non-linear hardening spring-mass system. Thenumerical simulation of the response illustrates the “jump phenomena” in which the steady stateamplitude undergoes a jump in passing through frequencies close to the linear resonancefrequency. (iii) A simple pendulum with an oscillating support

Conference Session

Perspectives for Women Faculty

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Creamer, Virginia Tech; Margaret Layne, Virginia Tech

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Women in Engineering

onprevious research7 using results from the AdvanceVT Work-Life Questionnaire8 to identifyelements of departmental and university policies and practices that contribute to the ability ofengineering faculty members to manage work-life tensions. As compared to the expression“worklife,” we use “work-life” to refer to managing the demands of both a work and personal orfamily life.The paper addresses three research questions: RQ 1: How does the overall job satisfaction of faculty members in engineering compareby gender and to non-engineering faculty? RQ 2: Is there a relationship between perceptions of work-life tensions and overall jobsatisfaction and how does this vary by gender and among engineering and non-engineeringfaculty? RQ

Conference Session

Curriculum Reform with Cooperative Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl Cates, University of Cincinnati; Kettil Cedercreutz, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

onbuilding feedback structures that keep schools abreast with a rapidly-changingenvironment through the use of co-op work performance data for continuouscurriculum improvement. The budget of this FIPSE project is presented in table1.Table 1. Project Budget Year FIPSE UC Total 04/05 $253,356 [81%] $59,132 [19%] $312,488 05/06 $178,175 [54%] $154,418 [46%] $332,593 06/07 $123,602 [37%] $207,846 [64%] $331,448 Total: $555,133 [57%] $421,396 [43%] $976,529Examination of the LiteratureContinuous improvement and total quality management has been used in businessand industry