Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mathieu Desnoyers, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal; Michel Dagenais, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal

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Computers in Education

AC 2008-1339: TEACHING REAL OPERATING SYSTEMS WITH THE LTTNGKERNEL TRACERMathieu Desnoyers, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal Mathieu Desnoyers is the maintainer of the Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) project since November 2005, taking over the development with the new LTTNG. He is the author of Linux Trace Toolkit Next Generation (LTTNG) and the main developer of Linux Trace Toolkit Viewer (LTTV) since the project started in 2003. He did an internship at the IBM Research T.J. Watson Research Center in 2006 where he applied tracing in commercial scale-out systems. In 2007, he did an internship at Google, where he integrated ideas from Google ktrace into LTTng to merge themin a single project. He

Conference Session

Professional Development in Materials Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katie Cadwell, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Wendy Crone, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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Materials

pursueresearch projects with faculty members, these programs also offer workshops,2,3,4 courses,5,6 andeven “boot-camp”-style summer research experiences7 that focus on topics such as performingscientific literature searches, the role of the engineer in society, research and engineering ethics,communicating research findings, careers in research and even applying to graduate school.The topics covered by these programs and the ones we describe below are among the issues thatthe Council on Undergraduate Research points to as critical for a successful undergraduateresearch experience associated with "socializ[ing] students in the research laboratory culture."8This ranges from topics as diverse as the values and ethics of research, safety, group dynamics

Conference Session

Service Courses for Non-Engineers

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Krupczak, Hope College; David Ollis, North Carolina State University

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

Focus or Topics Courses ‚ These courses tend to address a single technological topic or issue. ‚ Subject matter is intentionally focused rather than intentionally broad. ‚ May have a substantial technical or quantitative component. ‚ May include laboratories or projects. ‚ May include some social and historical aspects of the topic.Examples: Klein and Balmer: .............................Converging Technologies at Union [7,22] Billington, Littman et. al ...................Civil Infrastructure. [8] George ...............................................Fuel Cells [17] Mechtel ,Korzeniowksi et al. ............Electrical Engineering for Non-Engineers [23] Kuc

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Engineering Economy -- Outside the Introductory Course

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Neal Lewis, University of Bridgeport; Ted Eschenbach, TGE Consulting

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Engineering Economy

analysishas received wide attention in advanced finance coursework, its application to engineeringeconomy and real engineering projects has been more limited. However, options analysis hasbeen a significant issue in engineering economy research, and one that regularly appears in ourliterature. How familiar are we as engineering educators with real options analysis? Are weteaching real options to our students? We found no information in the literature regarding thesequestions.Historical Development of Real OptionsFinancial options were developed in the early 1970s in academia. The famous Black-Scholesequation was developed by Fischer Black of the University of Chicago and Myron Scholes ofMIT’s Sloan School of Management1. They worked closely with

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Teaching Part Three

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanie Ivey; Anna Lambert, University of Memphis; Paul Palazolo, University of Memphis; David J. Russomanno, University of Memphis

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Civil Engineering

mightvolunteer as a judge for a local science fair competition, serve as a mentor for a communityimprovement project, and maintain the more traditional activities of teaching and research inengineering classroom, yet participate in each activity as a separate event instead ofincorporating these programs and activities to other areas of application. Our paper examines theopportunities to forge connections between college outreach programs and the processes of“continuous improvement” as professional engineering educators through the example of onesuch program in our own institution.Our experiences with the 2007 Canstruction® competition are included as a model applicable tomultiple concepts of civil engineering courses. We begin by discussing the “live

Conference Session

Improving the Teaching Skills of Graduate Students

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maura Borrego, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Graduate Studies

assessment.Assessment questions we would like to answer in these first few years of the project are: 1. How does the Graduate Teaching Fellow workload and level of responsibility compare to other departments? 2. Are Graduate Teaching Fellows receiving appropriate training and mentoring for their teaching activities? 3. What is the effect on other teaching assistants of interaction with elite Graduate Teaching Fellows?The role that Graduate Teaching Fellows (GTFs) and other graduate teaching assistants play inthis first-year program is called workshop leaders. There is little difference in the way GTFs andother workshop leaders are treated, other than being assigned fewer sections. Because of this,and the interest in interactional effects

Conference Session

Diversity and K-12 Issues

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nancy Denton, Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

Manufacturing group to generate funding for the PurdueUniversity recruiting initiative. As this effort matured, incorporating a school-based project wasviewed as a natural progression. Ford is committed to a diverse manufacturing workforce.ToyChallenge™ emphasizes encouraging girls in STEM fields. The partner school populationincludes both a significant number of minority students and a substantial number of students whoqualify for the federal reduced/free lunch program. These factors increase the likelihood thatFord’s financial support would eventually result in a more diverse STEM workforce and addedto its corporate appeal. Maintaining support at a level that allows team participation inToyChallenge™ could probably be accomplished without industry

Conference Session

Assessing the Efficacy of Non-traditional Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lanny Griffin; Daniel Walsh, California Polytechnic State University; Robert Crockett, California Polytechnic State University; Robert Szlavik, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

Principal Investigator of several projects from the Army, DOD, and NIH.Daniel Walsh, California Polytechnic State University Daniel Walsh is currently Associate Dean at the College of Engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He received his B.S. (Biomedical Engineering) , M.S. (Biomedical Engineering) and Ph.D. (Materials Engineering) degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Prior to joining Cal Poly, Dr. Walsh was employed by General Dynamics Corporation, as a principal engineer and group leader in the Materials Division.Robert Crockett, California Polytechnic State University Robert Crockett received his Ph.D. from University of Arizona in

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil Engineering Technology

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Wood, Youngstown State University; David Kurtanich, Youngstown State University; Robert Di Rienzo, Youngstown State University

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Engineering Technology

program at Youngstown State University. He is curently a Project Engineer at Taylor Engineering, Inc. Jacksonville, FL 32256, USA Page 13.1195.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Temporary Loads During Construction: Undergraduate Research And Course DevelopmentAbstractTeaching models have evolved as research on learning has progressed. Kolb and Felderchampioned a learning styles paradigm while Dale developed a “Cone of Learning” model toaddress teaching styles. To maximize the learning experience for one talented undergraduate, wedeveloped a project that required active leaning

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Controls Laboratories

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yanfei Liu, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne (Eng)

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

PORTB and displays each bit and thecorresponding decimal value on the monitor screen. There are two programs for the digitaloutput operations. “send_bits.c” and “send_bytes.c”. The “send_bits.c” allows the user toset/reset any specific pin of the 8-bit PORTA. The “send_bytes.c” asks the user to enter a Page 13.1371.4decimal number from 0-255 and then sends the input decimal number to PORTA. Both programscan only receive input and output the signal once. After the signal is sent through the port, theprogram exits automatically. Figure 3: DIP switch circuitStudents follow detailed procedures to create a new project

Conference Session

Preparing a Modern Aerospace Workforce

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Helbling, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Lance Traub, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Aerospace

for use of the Rapid Prototyping Lab by students to allow fair andequitable access to the printers. The build times for parts can be rather lengthy, especially forthose for which aerodynamic shaping is critical. Therefore, all parts to be fabricated must beapproved by a faculty member who is placed in charge of the lab and who ensures that the partshave some stated academic purpose. The CAD files are then brought to one of two labtechnicians, who evaluate the parts in terms of fidelity, projected build time, and cost. Build jobs(which typically consist of several parts which make up an assembly) are limited to a 48 hourbuild time and $500 cost. The senior capstone design courses are given priority, with all othercourses queued on a first come

Conference Session

Topics in K-12 Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado at Boulder

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2008-2327: DRINKING WATER ACTIVITY FOR HIGH SCHOOL OUTREACHPROGRAMAngela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado at Boulder Page 13.453.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Drinking Water Activity for High School Outreach ProgramAbstractEnvironmental engineering needs to recruit more students to meet the high demand projected forthe profession. Interest may be on the upswing, as noted by increased freshmen enrollments atthe University of Colorado at Boulder. During the High School Honors Institute (HSHI) in2007, a new activity on drinking water was introduced in an effort to make students aware of theimportance of environmental engineering in daily life

Conference Session

Improving Technical Understanding of All Americans

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kara Harris, College of Technology - Purdue University

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

technology to a larger group, the secret is to make the environment one that the larger group wishes to join. (p. 22) 10 Shanahan (2006) further stated that having role models that females could identify with,such as other females, could also be a factor in recruitment. With very few females in theprofession there are few role models with whom young women can identify. 10 One must remember that the key to effective recruitment is to understand whatinfluences the individuals one is trying to motivate. In a recent National ScienceFoundation (NSF) funded project, Extraordinary Women Engineers (2005) stated that: Professional interests for high school girls hinge upon relevance. Relevance incorporates that a job is rewarding

Conference Session

Instructional Innovations in AEC Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Cowan, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis

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Architectural

required to house interior buildingsystems. This proof of concept study is set within the context of an undergraduatecourse and the limited amount of literature on this specific topic. It examines andassesses student responses to the survey and projects the results into a setting formore rigorous, future research within this topical subject area.IntroductionIt is quite common in the context of today’s architectural education to witnessstudents studying computer models of their design projects to analyze items suchas proportion, solar gain, daylighting and structural failures. The use of thesemodels and modeling tools is prevalent, as the computer performs these tasks welland accurately and does so in a rapid manner that a student laden with

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joe Bradshaw, U.S. Naval Academy; Jack Nicholson, U.S. Naval Academy

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Computers in Education

AC 2008-755: THE INERTIAL NAVIGATION UNIT: TEACHING NAVIGATIONPRINCIPLES USING A CUSTOM DESIGNED SENSOR PACKAGEJoe Bradshaw, U.S. Naval Academy Electronics Technician at the US Naval Academy for the Weapons and Systems Engineering Department for 7 years. Design special hardware and develop software for projects and labs.Jack Nicholson, U.S. Naval Academy Page 13.1241.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 The Inertial Navigation Unit: Teaching Navigation Principles using a Custom Designed Sensor PackageAbstractThis paper describes the application

Conference Session

Topics at the intersection of Aero and Naval Eng.

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edwin Wiggins, Webb Institute

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Ocean and Marine

1, there are many parameters that affect the overall cycle efficiency. Some ofthese, like Brayton cycle pressure ratio and boiler steam pressure, are under the designer’scontrol. Others are fixed by external constraints. For instance, the gas turbine exit pressure isconstrained by atmospheric pressure, which may vary, but it is not under the designer’s control.Similarly, the saturation temperature in the condenser is controlled by the seawater temperature,which can vary considerably from place to place and season to season. An important part of thedesign project is the exploration of how these parameters influence the cycle efficiency andtherefore the cost of fuel to produce the required power.For various combinations of parameter values

Conference Session

Student Learning Techniques & Practices in Engineering Technology

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Engineering Technology

certain espritde corps among employees. Some exercises are active; some are passive. Some are physical;others are intellectual. Whatever the venue, the objective is to produce teams that exhibitsynergy.Most universities are not equipped with either materials or budget to allow instructors the luxuryof taking their students surfing in Maui. However, there are a number of inexpensive, funexercises that can promote congenial collaboration in classes that depend on positive, long-termgroup interactions.This paper focuses on a team-building exercise used in a senior project class that requiresstudents to be in the same groups for 30 weeks; it includes background information onbusiness/industry practices, explains the exercise, and offers student

Conference Session

Innovations in Computer Engineering Technology Curriculum

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Veeramuthu Rajaravivarma, SUNY-Farmingdale

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Engineering Technology

. Page 13.295.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Classroom Experience of Peer-to-Peer Network Technology as Next Generation TelevisionAbstractOne of the more challenging aspects of undergraduate Electrical and Computer EngineeringTechnology program is to bring the state-of-the-art technology experience into classroom. Formany students, the traditional lecture/exam format is not effective at instilling the key conceptssuch that students truly understand. In the Digital Communication course during 2007, a newtechnology application class project called Joost “Bring TV to the Web” was introduced andreceived positive student responses. This paper describes the details of the class projectinformation that can

Conference Session

Impacts of Public Policy on Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zarjon Baha, Purdue University; Bahawodin Baha, University of Brighton

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

Civil and Agricultural Engineering as well as the Dean of Engineering at that faculty before joining Purdue University. The Department of Vocational and Technical Education (VTE) was one of the five departments of the faculty as the first such department in the country. The main focus of VTE was to train teachers for the Vocational and Technical High Schools in the country. Since 2002, Prof. Z. Baha with other team members of Purdue University has made four trips to Afghanistan to help the country in the area of higher education. The latest project where Z. Baha served as the principal investigator was on Vocational and Technical Education for Afghanistan. There were two

Conference Session

Educating for Results: Tools used in Engineering Technology

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Hundley, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis; Terri Talbert-Hatch, Indiana University; Joshua Killey, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis; Elizabeth Wager, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, such as Information Systems, also found that “68% of CIOs said that ‘soft skills’ such ascommunication and team building are more important today than five years ago” (pg 1)1. A gapexists between what employers expect from academic programs and what they discover in newlyhired graduates1. Paramount to all skill sets, the ability to learn is crucial. Many fields require‘retooling’, or learning new approaches and technologies. Instructors at the post-secondary levelmust foster the ability to learn through “incorporating sufficient challenge into courseassignments and projects,” (pg 6)1.There are two categories that employers fall into: those who are hiring to fill a specific job, andthose hiring for raw skills2. Many graduates do not possess the

Conference Session

Professional Skills and the Workplace

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Johannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica Cardella, Purdue Engineering Education

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Educational Research and Methods

mills, and trouble-shooting systems that have severe performanceproblems.B. Data SourcesFor the single case study, the following data sources were utilized:a. Design drawings, specification with documents, contract informationb. Ten formal interviews and numerous informal interviewsc. Informal observations during design and troubleshooting sessionsC. Data collectionThe data of the single case study were collected over the period of a year and drew from tworelated but different projects. In the first project, the installation of a large steel mill was nearlycomplete, though fine-tuning, troubleshooting, and assessment questions were in the foreground.The second project started within the second month of the year and was focused on early

Conference Session

Innovations in Biological/Agricultural Education-I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kurt Rosentrater, USDA-ARS; Jerry Visser, South Dakota State University

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Biological & Agricultural

in this area has beengrowing, and has become fertile ground for innovative individual projects,3 courses,4 and evenentire degree programs.5 Including these topics in existing coursework has also been explored.6Although wind, solar, hydroelectric, and geothermal sources have been the staple of most of thediscussions regarding renewable energy over the years, biofuels and biomass have recentlybecome mainstream topics as well. The opportunities that biorenewable energy and bio-basedproducts offer to engineering and technology programs has been discussed thoroughly.7, 8Concurrently, the role of biology in many traditional engineering disciplines has been increasingin popularity as well.9, 10 Although the literature is still fairly sparse, it is

Conference Session

FPD9 - First Year Learning & Assessment

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Whalen, Northeastern University; Susan Freeman, Northeastern University; Beverly Jaeger, Susan Freeman and Beverly Jaeger are members of Northeastern University's

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First-Year Programs

and organization of an activity. A good example of this may be the DesignDeconstruction project. This requires a great deal of coordination and preplanning, and it is very easy forthe instructors to be zeroing in on the details, instead of the significant benefits the activity yields.In assessing this particular course, we can also note that extensive revision to the curriculum and learningmodes used in the course and classroom has already been accomplished, resulting in a much improvedcourse5,6,12. This was seen in increases in retention and significantly better course evaluation ratings in thecategories of Overall Course, Instructor Effectiveness and Amount Learned in the course. In both of oursurveys, most modes cluster in the high/high

Conference Session

DELOS Best Paper Nominations

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Drushel, Case Western Reserve University; John Gallagher, Wright State University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

curricula online. Project and practica-based courses are integral parts of such curricula and are identified as such both by commonassessments of good practice and formal accreditation requirements. Synchronous, lecture-stylecourses can be translated into online environments with little difficulty. Translating practicacourses, in which instruction tends to be more individualized and rich in interpersonal contact,can be somewhat problematic. In this paper, we will report on some of the difficulties we haveencountered over several iterations of a WWW-based autonomous robotics laboratory course forengineering undergraduates, as well as during the gradual migration of a two-week summerrobotics practicum for secondary-school students and STEM educators

Conference Session

Re-Imagining the Higher Ed Classroom -- Tablet PCs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elliot Moore, Georgia Institute of Technology; Monson Hayes, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

at four different universities. Oneof the primary initiatives at GTS is to develop a blueprint for building a campus that utilizescomputer-based technology to enhance the effectiveness of education in synchronous DLenvironments (i.e., live classroom instruction transmitted to remote sites).This paper describes how Tablet PCs installed with Dyknow Vision software are being used inclassrooms at GTS to improve student learning in a distributed learning environment. The TabletPC is an attractive technology for use in synchronous distributed learning environments becauseof its mobility, and its ability to not only serve as an effective note taking device but also as ahigh-resolution course content viewing device. In this project, the instructor

Conference Session

Use of Technology to Provide Civil Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean-Pierre Bardet, University of Southern California; Dennis McLeod, University of Southern California; Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Nazila Mokarram, University of Southern California

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

this project is a tool that specifies evolving ontologies, and supports informationdiscovery and queries, i.e., Protégé20, 11. Protégé is open-source software which can be extendedwith plug-ins. Protégé has visualization tools for web-ontology applications (e.g., TGViz andOWLViz), and exports data into various formats, e.g., XML, RDF, and OWL. Protégé alsosupports the design of forms and templates to input data and query subsets of data. Table 1 listsof few examples of ontologies developed using Protégé. Figure 2 displays the objects andrelationships of the Science Ontology10, which models scientific and educational events, e.g.,scientific conferences, research projects, and software development projects. As shown in Figure

Conference Session

Off the Beaten Path

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

their professors, and make itclear what is expected of them so they will not erroneously assume that educational practices arethe same as in their home countries. The educational systems they come from are very diverse,although some are adopting elements of the American educational model. In other countries,there is less emphasis on project work and other homework, and more on exams. While it seemsto be rare for final grades to be based entirely on the final exam, it is not unusual for them to bebased entirely on finals plus midterm exams. Homework counts for less, perhaps because thefew teaching assistants that do exist are responsible for lab sections, so there is no support forgrading of homework. In many places, a variety of homework is

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Teaching Part Two

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gerald Himes, United States Military Academy; Jakob Bruhl, United States Military Academy; Joseph Hanus, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

developing these coursesis the challenge of teaching engineering to those who are not fully committed to an engineeringmajor. As a critical piece of the liberal education at the United States Military Academy, asequence of engineering courses is required for all majors, including non-engineering majors.Many of the means and methods used in these courses are applicable to the introduction-to-engineering courses at other universities. This paper focuses on a semester-long EngineeringDesign Project (EDP) - used in the third sequence course - for the design and constructionplanning of a base-camp to house, support and sustain a given population. The EDP is developedwithin a broad math, science, social, economic, and political context. Base-camp

Conference Session

Public Engineering of Engineering, K12 Standards, and Overview

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Don Giddens, Georgia Institute of Technology; Greg Pearson, National Academy of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

publications and book chapters, 186 paper presentations and proceedings, and maintains an active research program in cardiovascular hemodynamics.Greg Pearson, National Academy of Engineering Greg Pearson is a senior program officer at the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in Washington, D.C. In that capacity, he manages activities within the NAE Program Office related to technological literacy, K-12 engineering education, and public understanding of engineering. He currently directs a study examining the status and nature of efforts to teach engineering to K-12 students, a related study examining the feasibility of developing content standards for K-12 engineering, and a project on developing

Conference Session

Research in Multidisciplinary Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol Barry, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Jacqueline Isaacs, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

of an REU Summer ProgramAbstractAn NSF-funded Center, a three-university partnership with research focused onnanomanufacturing, has held a Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)Program for undergraduate students over the past three years. Over 70 students have participatedin the program, in which each student is guided in a project to learn more about research relatedto nanomanufacturing. In our laboratories, students with diverse technical backgrounds gainskills in electron and atomic force microscopy; chemical synthesis; MEMS and NEMSfabrication; dip pen nanolithography; template-guided assembly and transfer of polymers andnanoparticles; high rate polymer processing; assessing the impact of nanoparticles on theenvironment