Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology; Jeanne Christman, Rochester Institute of Technology; Teresa Wolcott, Rochester Institute of Technology; Maureen Valentine, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Women in Engineering

Addition of a Social Support Network and Community Building ActivitiesAbstractThis paper describes a low-cost, successful program to help retain female EngineeringTechnology students with the ultimate goal of increasing the number of female graduates of ourEngineering Technology programs. This program was started in 2003. The programminginitially focused on academic support in the form of tutoring, formation of study groups andreimbursement for academic laboratory kits. This program did improve retention, but a survey ofour students found that they also desired social support and opportunities to serve thecommunity. Since the addition of programming involving social support and communitybuilding, retention of women students in

Conference Session

Engineering Education in India, Central and Eastern Asia

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fazil Najafi, University of Florida; Romitkumar Gajjar, University of Florida; Kirandeep Kaur, University of Florida; Sarah Jayasekaran, University of Florida; Nick Safai, Salt Lake City College

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International

or state approved high school or equivalent with at least 15 academic units. These units should include but are not limited to 3 years of Math, Three years of Natural Science with laboratories, 3 years of social science, 4 years of Page 14.325.3 English and 2 sequential years of foreign language. A minimum grade C is required for admit to University of Florida. ≠ For SAT a total score of 1330 is required with a minimum of 440 in either of verbal and quantitative. ≠ A composite score of 19 is required in the ACT with a minimum of 19 on math, 17 on English and 18 on reading. ≠ Applicants

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Engineering and Technology for Everyone

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

, history and culture, or reflecting on engineering in abroader context.1 Technology Survey Courses.Technology survey courses are those found to address a wide range of technologies. Manyinclude aspects of the social and historical dimensions of technology. The course formats werefound to be diverse but typically include lectures, demonstrations, and laboratories. Explanationof scientific principles utilized in technological devices is usually a major component. Thiscategory includes courses that classify themselves as “How Things Work” courses and includes Page 14.545.3physics courses that emphasize everyday technology. In some cases broadly based

Conference Session

Freshman Experience in Engineering Technology

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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JungHun Choi, Ohio University; Wieslaw Grebski, Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton; Kenneth Dudeck, Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton

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Engineering Technology

for the motivational purpose of studying Math (ODE and Matrices) and Dynamics. Robotics and Mechatronics are optional and can encourage studying Dynamics and Control.3.1.4 Fluid Part: Fluid Mechanics, Thermo-dynamics, and Heat Transfer. Can be separated to Fluid/Thermo Part or not. Provide basic concepts to the students to inspire the study of Math and Statics, and students will be able to link basic mechanics to Fluid Part ahead of times. Examples of Laboratory experiments are easy to understand. Can be strong motivation to study Math. (PDE)3.1.5 Miscellaneous Part: Mechanical Engineering Technology Profession and Engineering Software (AutoCad, SolidWorks, Matlab, Mathematica, and Ansys

Conference Session

Engineering Education in India, Central and Eastern Asia

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fazil Najafi, University of Florida; Ashutosh Upadhyay, University of Florida; Nick Safai, Salt Lake City College

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International

). International students are required to have either beeneducated in an English speaking country or provide results of the TOEFL test6.The minimum requirements for qualification into the engineering program are8:1. Graduation from a regionally accredited or state-approved secondary school or the equivalent (General Education Degree, G.E.D.) Page 14.326.32. Fifteen academic units, including 4 years of English, 3 years of math, 3 years of natural sciences (two with laboratories), 3 years of social sciences, and 2 sequential years of a foreign language.3. A cumulative C average in the academic core, as computed by the university, at all institutions

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Cady, National Academy of Engineering; Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering; Catherine Didion, National Academy of Engineering; Karen Peterman, Goodman Research Group, Inc.

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Women in Engineering

field. Female studentsespecially are turned away by images of engineers as males who work alone in a laboratory [3].Thus, it is important to disseminate accurate pictures of engineering to students of all ages.Programs designed to expose girls to exciting work in engineering fields have had some successin increasing their awareness and accurate mental images of engineering [4]. Ryerson Universitysaw an increase in female enrollment over the years they offered a summer camp that includedactive laboratory projects [4]. An extension of that project included short workshops during theschool year, and although boys and girls had similar knowledge about engineering prior to theworkshop, boys were far more likely than girls to indicate interest in

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Julie Trenor, Clemson University

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Educational Research and Methods

undergraduate research, the students as the newcomers workunder the direction of faculty mentors and graduate students as the old-timers. The old-timersprovide expertise and resources to enable the student newcomer to engage in the practice ofresearch. Peer undergraduate researchers being a part of the research laboratory community alsoplay a key role in fostering a successful experience. Figure 1 illustrates the data collected duringthis effort in the context of the CoP theoretical framework. The two main tools utilized were theNational Engineering Students’ Learning Outcomes Survey (NESLOS) and weekly self-reflective journal entries. The figure illustrates that pre-NESLOS was administered at thebeginning of the REU experience (during the first day

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Multidisciplinary Design in the Classroom

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jason Foster, University of Toronto; Alexandra Heeney, University of Toronto

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2009-2287: THE ENGINEERING SCIENCE PRAXIS SEQUENCE:CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES WHEN INTEGRATING SUSTAINABLEDEVELOPMENT INTO THE ENGINEERING DESIGN CLASSROOMJason Foster, University of TorontoAlexandra Heeney, University of Toronto Alexandra Heeney is a University of Toronto National Scholar in her 3rd year of undergraduate Engineering Science at the University of Toronto, majoring in computer engineering. She has been involved with Sustainable Development (SD) projects and SD education for several years, as a participant at the Design Science Laboratory at the United Nations in New York City, a delegate in sustainable development education for the Canadian Commission for UNESCO in Ottawa, and

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Subrata Bhattacharjee, San Diego State University; Christopher Paolini, San Diego State University

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2009-2477: THE CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMIC MODULE OF THEEXPERT SYSTEM FOR THERMODYNAMICS (“TEST”) WEB APPLICATIONSubrata Bhattacharjee, San Diego State University Dr. Bhattacharjee is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at San Diego State University. His research areas include combustion, radiation heat transfer, and web-based numerical methods for computational thermodynamics.Christopher Paolini, San Diego State University Dr. Paolini is the Unix System Administrator in the College of Engineering and is the Director of the Computational Thermodynamics Laboratory at Mechanical Engineering Department. His research areas include chemical equilibrium analysis, adaptive algorithm, and AJAX based

Conference Session

Issues and Direction in ET Education and Administration: Part I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott Wolcott, Rochester Institute of Technology; Todd Dunn, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Engineering Technology

CONSTRUCTION 41017-311 UNIVERSITY PHYSICS I 4 | 0608-340 SURVEYING II 41017-312 UNIVERSITY PHYSICS II 4 | 0608-360 ELEMENTARY SOILS 41017-313 UNIVERSITY PHYSICS III 4 | 0608-420 HYDRAULICS 31006-350 APPLIED GEOGRAPHICAL INFO SYSTEMS 4 | 0608-421 HYDRAULICS LABORATORY 11011-208 COLLEGE CHEMISTRY 4 | 0608-432 WATER AND W ASTEWATER TRANSPORT 21011-272 CHEMISTRY OF W ATER & W ASTEWATER 3 | 0608-438 PRINCIPLES OF TREATMENT 41011-276 CHEMISTRY OF W ATER & W W LAB 1 | 0608-490 STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

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Global Engineering Education: Developments, Implementations

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aurenice Oliveira, Michigan Technological University; Ivan Lima, North Dakota State University

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International

Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.was born in Juazeiro, BA, Brazil. He received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Salvador, Brazil, in 1995, the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in the field of photonics from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA, in 2003. In 2006, he served as Faculty Fellow in the 2006 Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program in the Wright-Patterson Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, USA. In 2003, Dr. Lima received the IEEE LEOS Graduate Student Fellowship Award, and he was co

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design Constituents

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Phillip Wankat, Purdue University; Kamyar Haghighi, Purdue University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

experience mustbe taken because extensive assessments are done and each student is tracked individually. Theengineering selectives ensure that students have a sufficient amount of design, laboratory, andcoverage of materials.Tailoring of the individual concentrations is mainly done in the engineering area and the area,and to a lesser extent in the general education program. The flexibility of the MDE program isillustrated in Table 2. For the student developed concentration up to 43.5% of the course creditscan be elective (although they must be chosen in the appropriate categories) and up to 50% of thecourse credits are either elective or selective. This flexibility allows the program to offer studentsthe opportunity to study almost any engineering

Conference Session

IT-based Instructional Technologies

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peng Li, East Carolina University

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Information Systems

andmaintaining a physical lab. It was easier to deploy new projects in virtual environments. Webelieved that virtualization technology had become mature enough and it would help us delivercertain laboratory courses efficiently and effectively.2. Virtualization Software SelectionCurrently there are many different virtualization software packages available, notably VMwareWorkstation, Server, and Fusion (for Mac), Microsoft Virtual PC, Virtual Server and Hyper-V,Sun xVM VirtualBox, Parallels Workstation and Desktop (for Mac), QEMU and Xen.QEMU and Xen are open source projects and are released under GNU General Public License(GPL). However, they are not as user friendly as some other virtualization applications. Xen canonly run under Linux/UNIX systems with

Conference Session

ASCE Policy 465: Raising the Bar

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jon Nelson, American Society of Civil Engineers; David Hornbeck, Southern Polytechnic State University; James Lambrechts, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Joe Manous, United States Army Corps of Engineers; Robert Stevens, Arcadis U.S., Inc; Leo Titus, ECS, Ltd; Jeffrey Russell

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Civil Engineering

engineering firm specializing in geotechnical engineering, construction testing and inspection and environmental consulting. He has over 17 years experience in geotechnical engineering and special inspections. He currently is very active on several ASTM committees and serves as Vice Chairman of ASTM E36 main committee which has governance over several related standards including ASTM E329: “The Standard Specification for Agencies Engaged in Construction Inspection and/or Testing”. He has served two terms as president of WACEL, a regional organization that accredits testing laboratories and certifies field technicians. He has served as a task group chairman for NICET’s development of new soil

Conference Session

Project-Based Learning in ECE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith Hoover, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; JianJian Song, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Edward Wheeler, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; James Drewniak, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Electrical and Computer

, microelectromechanical systems, and the electrical and magnetic properties of materials.James Drewniak, Missouri University of Science and Technology James L. Drewniak (S’85-M’90-SM’01-Fellow’07) received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1985, 1987, and 1991, respectively. He joined the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Missouri-Rolla in 1991 where he is one of the principle faculty in the Electromagnetic Compatibility Laboratory. His research and teaching interests include electromagnetic compatibility in high speed digital and mixed signal designs, electronic packaging, and electromagnetic compatibility

Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Hildebrand, Lake Superior State University; Wael Mokhtar, Grand Valley State University; Steve Bryan, Continental Automotive Systems

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Mechanics

wasconsciously built-in; of course, this has the benefit of bolstering enrollment in thesecourses.4.3 Course Content & ObjectivesTable 3 lists, for each of the component courses of the two options presented above, theinstructional formats, i.e., respective weekly lecture and laboratory hours allocated, andthe specific course objectives (as tracked in the course assessment schemes). Page 14.1345.6 5 Table 3. Instructional Format & Course Objectives of the ElectivesEGME240 Assembly Modeling & GD&T

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Design in the ECE Curriculum

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce Dunne, Grand Valley State University; Chirag Parikh, Grand Valley State University; Andrew Sterian, Grand Valley State University

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Electrical and Computer

development positions in industry. From 1991 to 2002, he was a Staff Engineer with Tellabs, Naperville, IL. Additionally, in 1991, he was with AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories, Naperville; from 1988 to 1991, he was with R. R. Donnelley & Sons, Lisle, IL; and from 1985 to 1986, he was with Zenith Electronics, Glenview, IL. His interests include adaptive filtering, speech enhancement, wireless and wireline communications, and engineering education. Dr. Dunne is a member of the IEEE, Eta Kappa Nu and ASEE. Chirag Parikh, Grand Valley State University Chirag Parikh is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan. He

Conference Session

Investigating Alternative-energy Concepts

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; Keith Coogler, Sam Houston State University; Dominick Fazarro, Sam Houston State University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

construction tools, willbe used to construct a demonstration house in the second phase of the project. The Computermodels of the house and self powered furniture and appliances are being designed usingComputer Aided Design and Drafting software tools by the Design Development major studentslocated in the _____ Building. The Electronics lab have been upgraded by purchasing newdevices, computers, and design/simulation software packages for the purpose of this project. Theupgrade will especially support the second phase of the project. Students majoring in Electronicswould use equipments in the electronics laboratory located in the _____ Building for theelectrical design, development, wiring, and testing of the electrical components prior tointegration

Conference Session

Getting Started: Objectives, Rubrics, Evaluations, and Assessment

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zbigniew Prusak, Central Connecticut State University

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New Engineering Educators

Multiple Intelligences (MI) proposed in1983 by Howard Gardner 5, 6 ; their relation to student evaluations is described later in the paper.Kotys et al. 7 studied impact of interactivity in the engineering classroom on student performanceand attitudes in course the Manufacturing Processes and Systems, a required senior level coursein mechanical engineering. Their approach to creating different levels of active learning was touse different levels of interactions that take place in classroom and laboratory. The three levelsof interaction used were: low-level interactivity, mid-level interactivity, and high-levelinteractivity, corresponding respectively to the following types of personal interaction: learner-teacher, learner-content and learner

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ECE Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eduardo Montanez, Freescale Semiconductor; Michael Norman, Freescale Semiconductor

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Electrical and Computer

trendcontinues, the learning curve for tomorrows’ engineers grows steeper and the gap betweendesigning embedded systems in industry and teaching embedded systems development at auniversity widens. Educators are therefore challenged to adapt to advances in embedded systemswhile maintaining courseware that is broken into simple building blocks capable of maintainingcontinuity along the growth path. This requires a rich hands-on curriculum that encapsulatesmodular hardware, software, and courseware that can scale from fundamental concepts to moreadvanced topics.This paper introduces a modular demonstration, development and learning hardware platformand an example set of progressive laboratory exercises that help to meet this challenge. Theplatform includes

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Hitt, United States Military Academy; Daisie Boettner, United States Military Academy; Stephen Suhr, United States Military Academy; Joel Dillon, United States Military Academy

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Design in Engineering Education

format of thefinal report ensured students followed a systematic and efficient approach in completing a majorassignment. Students readily recognized the benefits of methodically completing their finaldesign report as a series of smaller, more-manageable tasks. Figure 2 shows a comparison ofstudent time survey data from 2007 and 2008 – indicating a significant reduction in the severityof the time spike associated with the individual project final report. Instructor feedback also wasrequired to be incorporated into each subsequent homework submission – underscoring theimportance of the revision process in achieving clear and concise technical writing results.Second, the creation of a dedicated fabrication laboratory provided the necessary facility

Conference Session

Aerospace Workspace: Current and Future 2

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michele Dischino, Central Connecticut State University; Nidal Al-Masoud, Central Connecticut State University; Peter Baumann, Central Connecticut State University; Zdzislaw Kremens, Central Connecticut State University; Viatcheslav Naoumov, Central Connecticut State University

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Aerospace

Page 14.650.8and principles of the engineering profession. As mentioned previously, the high drop-out rate Nomination By High School Teachers On Campus Kick-off Dinner On Campus On Campus On Campus On Campus Rocket Launch Laboratory Tour and Laboratory Tour and Rocket Design Project Competition Experimentation Experimentation Filed Trip 1 Field Trip 2 Field Trip 3

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International Aspects of Civil Engineering

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric Crispino, United States Military Academy; Andrew Bellocchio, United States Military Academy; Scott Hamilton, United States Military Academy; Aaron Hill, United States Military Academy; Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

AfghanistanOn January 25, 2009 the National Military Academy of Afghanistan (NMAA) in Kabulgraduated its first class of cadets. Of the 84 graduates in this class, 18 of them studied CivilEngineering in a program designed and implemented by faculty members from the U.S. MilitaryAcademy at West Point and U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado. The initial tasks these facultymembers faced included design of curriculum and courses, development of laboratory facilities,and hiring faculty. We deployed to Afghanistan between January and August 2008 as the CivilEngineering program entered its second year (the NMAA school year, which follows the Islamiccalendar, begins in March and ends in January). Our tasks included developing the final courses

Conference Session

Project-Based Student Learning: Part II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jay Porter, Texas A&M University; Joseph Morgan, Texas A&M University; Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Technology

Circuit Analysis I and II, Digital Electronics, Digital Logic Circuits,Electronic Devices & Circuits, and Microprocessors. It is a technical course that allows studentsto combine the basic knowledge they have learned in previous semesters and apply it to the fieldof instrumentation. In fact, while the primary objective of the laboratory is to introduce studentsto the concepts in instrumentation, it has also had a secondary objective of integrating the analogand digital concepts learned in previous courses. Since instrumentation is a critical part ofcontrol systems and all the senior design projects need some type of instrumentation, theElectronic System Interfacing course is one of the key courses in the Program.Traditionally, the Electronic

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eugene Ressler, United States Military Academy; Michael Miller, United States Military Academy; Christa Chewar, United States Military Academy; Jean Blair, United States Military Academy

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Electrical and Computer

principlesthey are meant to illustrate become lost in a blizzard of factoids about perishable tools andtechniques that have little long-term value.Various drags also combine to make curricular change difficult. Sources of drag include thelogistics of laboratory technologies. These tend to be expensive in dollars, with price magnifiedby the number of copies needed in the teaching environment. Another expense is the time spentby faculty and technicians to install and make new technologies functional for teaching purposes,including time to learn new tools and techniques and to address in advance the problems thatstudents are likely to encounter. The latter costs are particularly hard to quantify and articulatefor purposes of resource allocation within the

Conference Session

Educating Students for Professional Success

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hazem Tawfik, State University of New York; K. Shahrabi, State University of New York, College of Technology at Farmingdale; Beverly Kahn, Farmingdale State College - State University of New York

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Graduate Studies

AC 2009-2468: THE PROFESSIONAL SCIENCE MASTER’S (PSM) DEGREE INENGINEERING TECHNOLOGYHazem Tawfik, State University of New York Dr. Tawfik obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, from University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, in 1980. Since then he has held a number of industrial & academic positions and affiliations with organizations that included Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Stony Brook University (SBU), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Atomic Energy of Canada Inc., Ontario Hydro, NASA Kennedy, NASA Marshall Space Flight Centers, and the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center at Carderock, Md. Dr. Tawfik is the author of

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education: Intercultural Awareness and International Experience

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aparajita Mazumder, Formerly Director of International Relations

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International

avirtualclassroombringingstudents, laboratories, white boards to the other side of the globe. Thisis a new direction in global education practice that can be used effectively to buildinternational competency. The emergence of the global classroom is apparent in the GlobalProduct Realization course offered simultaneously via satellite initially to students in theNetherlands, at Delft Institute of Technology, in Korea, at Seoul National University,and atthe University of Michigan in 2000 (refer to Michigan Engineer, Spring/Summer 2001,article on “Going Global,” pgs. 4-5).Time zone differences were accommodated with theclass meeting at 8 am in Michigan, 2pm in the Netherlands, and 10 pm in South Korea onthe same day. A multicultural team worked on a team project together

Conference Session

Implementation of Experiments in Manufacturing Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benxin Wu, Illinois Institute of Technology

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Manufacturing

response of the students in the final anonymous class evaluation of MMAE 546in Fall 2008 to some survey questions on the lab session of the class.The following are some comments from the students on the experimental section:• “Laboratory experiments were very helpful in understanding course material “• “The labs are extremely helpful”The comments above and Figures 2 and 3 have shown that most of the students strongly agreethat adding an experimental section has improved the class quality, and also the lab session hasbeen well organized.Figure 4 and Figure 5 show the students’ evaluations on the author’s teaching quality (in theofficial class survey organized by the university at the end of the semester) for MMAE 546 inFall 2007 and Fall 2008

Conference Session

Computational Tools and Simulation II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian Belu, Drexel University; Alexandru Belu, Case Western Reserve University

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Computers in Education

which are too complexto calculate or too expensive to be reproduced in a laboratory, or are simply notaccessible to the senses. The successful use of computer algebra systems does not implythat mathematical skills are no longer at a premium: such skills are important as ever.However, computer algebra systems may remove the need for those poorly understoodmathematical techniques which are practiced and taught simply because they serve asuseful tools. The usefulness of this approach will be evaluated by direct observation andformative assessment, and feedback from other educators will be highly appreciated.1. IntroductionEngineering electromagnetics is considered one of the most difficult courses and mostabstract and conceptually difficult areas

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Project-Based Student Learning: Part I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saeed Foroudastan, Middle Tennessee State University

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Engineering Technology

. Derived from a small group of college students, ranging fromseniors to freshman, these projects create a learning atmosphere that enables students to developknowledge of what a future in the Engineering and Technology field requires. Since all parts willbe manufactured within the laboratory, the project strengthens knowledge concerning control andpower systems, instrumentations systems, modern modeling, and testing protocols10. It has beenproven that students who are involved in these projects perform better in both their ET andgeneral studies classes5. The PL-TL model at MTSU creates an internal support group as well asa mentoring program that has aided in sustaining the success of the ET department.PL-TL Model as Support Group Faculty