Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment III

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chao Chen; Carlos Pomalaza-Ráez; Ma Oo

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Electrical and Computer

Evaluation of IEEE 802.15.4 for Use in Smart Home Medical CareAbstractThe IEEE 802.15.4 wireless standard has been identified as a potential candidate to be used insmart home medical care. This undergraduate research project evaluates the performance ofIEEE 802.15.4 under interference from other wireless devices that operate in the same frequencyband. Specifically, we focus on two very common wireless interfering systems in typical homeenvironments: IEEE 802.11 WLANs and microwave ovens. The measurement results give arough indication about the mutual interference of different systems and showcase the challengesof utilizing IEEE 802.15.4 for smart home medical applications.1. IntroductionRecently, there has been a growing interest in

Conference Session

New Trends in CHE Education I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University; Keisha Walters, Mississippi State University; Bill Elmore, Mississippi State University; Rebecca Toghiani, Mississippi State University; Rafael Hernandez; Priscilla Hill, Mississippi State University; Hossein Toghiani, Mississippi State University; Todd French, Mississippi State University

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Chemical Engineering

Polymeric and Multicomponent Materials courses. Her funding includes NSF and DOE and she received the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award in 2006. Central to her research in polymer and surface engineering is the design and synthesis of molecules with well-defined chemical functionality and molecular architecture with current projects on stimuli-responsive and biomass-based polymeric materials.Bill Elmore, Mississippi State University Bill Elmore, Ph.D., P.E., is Associate Professor and Hunter Henry Chair, Mississippi State University. His teaching areas include the integrated freshman engineering and courses throughout the chemical engineering curriculum including unit operations

Conference Session

ERM Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Snyder, Taylor University; Elise Romines, Taylor University; Rachel Dodge, Taylor University; Jason Kruegar, Taylor University; Travis Booth, Taylor University; Josh Gates, Taylor University

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Educational Research and Methods

14.907.2Background of Program For four years, Taylor University’s HARP program has been providing students withthe opportunity apply their technical science and math instruction to interesting and relevantproblems. The unique experience of a high-altitude balloon launch, including team-basedproblem solving, prototyping, construction and testing of experimentation, and the “hard”deadline of a launch, gives students a taste of real-world project experience, and has helpedTaylor students be competitive as they pursue education and career goals beyond theundergraduate level. A student participant in the HARP curriculum component of a 2006Introduction to Electronics class said, “Working on the balloon project was an excellentopportunity to put theory

Conference Session

Women in K-12 Engineering

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michelle Porche, Wellesley Centers for Women; Corinne McKamey, Wellesley Centers for Women; Peter Wong, Museum of Science

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

?” (1 = not at all, 5 = a lot). Responses from the 5-point scalewere used to create a dichotomous variable representing plans to study engineering (“alittle” or “a lot”) versus lack of interest in studying engineering (“not at all” “not much”or “neutral”).Independent Variables:Knowledge of Engineering. A set of six questions was developed by the AssessingWomen in Engineering (AWE) Project 200517 asking students their ideas about what anengineer does. Sample questions include “Engineers mainly work with other people tosolve problems” and “I don’t know what engineers do” (reversed) which students wereasked to respond to on a 4-point Likert scale (disagree a lot to agree a lot). Of the sixoriginal items, 4 were retained with an internal

Conference Session

Engineering Courses for Non-engineers

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Blake, Austin Peay State University

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

system work. The story includesmany examples where engineers, operating under constraints, identify and solve problems.October Sky tells an autobiographical story of a group of young men who, after a long learningcurve with many failures, develops the technology to make very successful small rockets. Whilethis is a story about high school students, it reflects the perspective of an author who went on toan engineering career with NASA, and the story is a useful study for technological projects atany level. Moving to fiction and a setting in the distant future, Forbidden Planet tells a story ofthe enticing benefits of new technological marvels. It also explores the risks of unintended andunanticipated consequences. While these movies illustrate

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

and statistics – if they select anengineering course on this topic it counts as part of their 47 credits of engineering. Theengineering core typically consists of 19-22 credits. Except for the professional seminar IDE301 and the major design experience, either EPICS (Engineering Projects in CommunityService1,2) or IDE 485, the engineering core specifies topics not courses. These topics werechosen to match the topics in the Fundamentals of Engineering exam to facilitate graduatesbecoming professional engineers. Specifying topics instead of courses provides maximumflexibility for students transferring into the program either from other universities or from otherprograms at the university. The specified professional seminar and major design

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashland Brown, University of the Pacific; Kris Wood, University of Texas; Kristen Kaufman, Grad Student Universiy ot Texas; Daniel Jensen, United States Air Force Academy; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas; Christina White, Columbia University

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Mechanical Engineering

. He received a B.S. from Milwaukee School of Engineering in 1980, a M.S. from Northwestern University in 1982, and a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in 1985. V-mail: 479-575-4153; E-mail: jjrencis@uark.edu.Christina White, Columbia University CHRISTINA WHITE is a doctoral candidate in the Curriculum and Teaching Department at Columbia University. Her research focus is in engineering education with particular emphasis in both engineering diversity and humanitarian design projects. She earned a M. Ed from The University of Texas at Austin in Special Education. Contact: ckw.columbia@gmail.com

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jan Machotka, University of South Australia; Zorica Nedic, University of South Australia; Andrew Nafalski, University of South Australia; Ozdemir Gol, University of South Australia

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2009-1171: A REMOTE LABORATORY FOR COLLABORATIVEEXPERIMENTSJan Machotka, University of South Australia Jan Machotka is an electrical engineering graduate of the Czech Technical University in Prague. He spent more than 10 years working as a professional consultant in industry in Czechoslovakia and abroad. He started his academic career 20 years ago at the South Australian Institute of Technology. He is currently a Programme Director for undergraduate, postgraduate and transnational students at the University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia. He is also responsible for final year students’ projects for four engineering streams in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Geoff Wright; Paul Skaggs; Richard Fry, Brigham Young University; C. Richard Helps, Brigham Young University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

with activities to helpthem semantically encode the primary principles of innovation, and b) to help them prepare forthe final two innovation activities: a formative ideation project, and a summative capstoneexperience.Both the formative ideation project, and the innovation capstone experience required the studentsto demonstrate how they came to their solutions as a result of using/engaging the principles andprocesses of innovation. The participants were assigned and completed the ideation projectduring the first day of instruction. It provided the participants with the opportunity toimmediately put into action the principles and processes they had experienced in the innovationmini-activities. The ideation project required the participants to

Conference Session

Issues and Direction in ET Education and Administration: Part II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shekar Viswanathan, National University, San Diego; Howard Evans, National University, San Diego; Lal Tummala, San Diego State University

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Engineering Technology

Texas Electronics Association; past chairman of IBM’s Materials Shared University Research Committee; Ph.D. Recruiting Coordinator for IBM’s Systems Technology Division; and executive sponsor for 3M division’s student programs. He has published and presented widely in areas of surface science, electronic materials and processes, project management, and industry/university relations. He holds 4 patents and has received awards for excellence in technical innovation (IBM), technical authorship (IBM), teaching (University of Colorado), and scholarship (National Science Foundation).Lal Tummala, San Diego State University Lal Tummala is the Professor and Chair of Electrical and

Conference Session

Frontiers in Engineering Management Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Wyrick, Texas Tech; Adji Cisse, Texas Tech

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Engineering Management

others to constitute avirtual team” [1]. With the concept of virtuality, the notion of “working together apart” [2]very well captures the essence of what the virtual world presents to organizations. In fact,people no longer have to be confined in the same continent, let alone building or room, inorder to work on a project. The new face of organizations is that of a much decentralizedgroup, with diverse sub-groups dispersed all over the four corners of the world. Virtualteams and networked organizations are the latest stage in the evolution of organization [3].Virtual teams are a type of small group. They differ from other small groups in forms ofcommunication, number of relationships, and in the ability to create in a global context.The

Conference Session

SE Curriculum and Course Management

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zulfa Zakaria, IIUM

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

lecturers who were experienced teachers in these courses. However,as the tutor taught the course for more than one semester, it is considered that the answer isacceptable.The second issue related to one course which was taught by two lecturers in the same semester.Lecturer A taught from Week 1 until Week 7 and Lecturer B from Week 8 until Week 13. Table5 shows that for Category 1, after a follow-up discussion, the responses from Lecturer Aappeared incomplete. The reason was that Lecture A did not tick the right answer for thiscategory because he overlooked it. There was also some confusion about practical work in thiscourse in that it was considered either as assignments or as a project. This probably explains thedifferences revealed for Category 3

Conference Session

Knowing Our Students, Faculty, and Profession

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janel Sutkus, Carnegie Mellon University; Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Cynthia Finelli, University of Michigan; Trevor Harding

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Educational Research and Methods

U of M. She is a member of the Association for Institutional Research, the Association for the Study of Higher Education, and the American College Personnel Association.Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University Dr. Donald D. Carpenter is Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Lawrence Technological University (LTU). In this role, he is an instructor for several engineering courses (from freshman to senior level) that involve ethics instruction. Dr. Carpenter is also Director of Assessment for LTU and recently served as Founding Director for LTU’s Center for Teaching and Learning. Dr. Carpenter has conducted funded pedagogical research and development projects, has published

Conference Session

DELOS Best Paper Nominations

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene Liao, Wayne State University; Chih-Ping Yeh, Wayne State University; Qunfang Liao, Panasonic Automotive Systems

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

converter, CAN communication, Pulse Width Modulation (PWM)control, and motor real speed measurement. The motivation of this work is to establishlaboratory and project oriented learning environment which encourages students to apply andabsorb knowledge gained in lecture in a hands-on environment. This work would be useful incontrolling various motors in modern vehicles.Hardware ApparatusFigure 2 shows the developed platform which uses a Renesas single chip microcomputerM16C29 MCU, three module boards, BLY17 PM BLDC motor, TelCom TC4469 logic inputcomplementary CMOS quad driver, International Rectifier power MOSFET logic level gatedriver, and communicates through a CAN bus. The control block diagram for motor is alsoshown in Fig. 2.A brushless motor

Conference Session

Assessment and Curriculum Development

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Godfrey, University of Auckland; Rosalind Archer, University of Auckland; Paul Denny, University of Auckland; Margaret Hyland, University of Auckland; Chris Smaill, University of Auckland; Karl Stol, University of Auckland

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First-Year Programs

survey14,conducted over 35 institutions, revealed that eleven institutions offered, or will offer in thenext year, a first-year program, of which at least 75% of the courses were taught byacademics from within Engineering. All of the first-year programs surveyed include anintroduction to the engineering profession and engineering life-cycle and/or an EngineeringDesign course, with some excellent examples of active and project based learning based onreal-life engineering problems.The longest-lived of these integrated, common first-year programs is that offered by theUniversity of Auckland (hereafter named U of A), taught entirely in-house since 1996. Thispaper charts the evolution of that program from its first incarnations in 1996

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sorraya Khiewnavawongsa, Purdue University; Edie Schmidt, Purdue University

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Graduate Studies

faculty worked with these graduate studentsboth in Master and Ph.D. level. Several studies on the relationship between graduate student andtheir advisors have been conducted in the past. These studies are concerned with various issuesaffecting the mentoring relationship. However, there has never been a study on this mentoringrelationship specifically at Purdue University. This project is a study of the mentor relationship between mentor and mentee, or facultyand graduate students at Purdue University. Graduate students were invited to participate in thesurvey through email. The survey was conducted online anonymously. This study consists ofquantitative and qualitative analysis. The existing mentoring relationships are identified in orderto

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Environmental Engineering

Engineers released a draft of the Bodyof Knowledge for Environmental Engineering (EnvE BOK). The BOK outlines the skills andabilities that are needed to become a licensed Professional Engineer, and describes which shouldbe acquired as part of an accredited Bachelor’s degree. The ABET-accredited EnvE B.S.curriculum at the University of Colorado at Boulder has been mapped onto the BOK outcomesand knowledge domains. Most topics are well covered, however multimedia breadth and theknowledge domain of systems analysis are not the main focus of any required courses becauseour curriculum was built primarily from existing courses in Civil, Chemical, and Mechanicalengineering. The outcomes of project management and business knowledge are coveredprimarily in

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Louis Nadelson, College of Education; Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Pat Pyke, Boise State University; Anne Hay, Boise State University; Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

programs, math success, K-12 STEM curriculum, and recruitment and retention issues in engineering.Pat Pyke, Boise State University Patricia A. Pyke is the Director of Education Research for the College of Engineering at Boise State University. She oversees research projects in freshman programs, math support, mentoring, K-12 STEM, and women’s programs. She earned a B.S.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Duke University and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.Anne Hay, Boise State University Anne Hay is the Coordinator of the Idaho SySTEMic Solution, a K-12 research project at Boise State University funded by the U.S. Department of Education

Conference Session

Laboratories in Engineering Technology

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Edwards, Pennsylvania State University, Erie; Gerald Recktenwald, Portland State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

mechanics, heat transfer, applications of numerical analysis, and in improving undergraduate engineering education. Page 14.1058.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 1 Simple Experiments for the Thermal and Fluid SciencesAbstract:An NSF funded project called The Engineering of Everyday Things (EET) uses simple, everydaydevices to help teach core concepts in the thermal and fluid sciences. Exercises are beingdeveloped which can be used for laboratory classes, in-class demonstrations, or as supplementalinstruction

Conference Session

Student Attitudes and Perceptions

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Deborah Kilgore, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

-oriented projects, often carried out in teams,where feedback may not be given to individuals and may also include a larger subjectivecomponent. The relative uncertainty inherent in such an assessment of open-ended problemsolving skills may have a multiplicative effect when differences in confidence exist.These findings complement those found in previous research, and also demonstrate that not onlyare women less confident than men, the confidence gap persists from the beginning to the end oftheir engineering education. We recall that these seniors are high-performing, traditional studentswho have spent the last four years engaged in an intense educational experience that had moreinfluence on their transition to adulthood than perhaps any other

Conference Session

DELOS Best Paper Nominations

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jerry Keska, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

their own creativityand hands-on problem solving skills. This approach, which uses unique experiments and open-ended projects, gives students the opportunity to stretch their creative limits by formulating andinvestigating realistic, inventive, and complex problems. This approach not only increasesstudent’s enthusiasm, but it is also more closely aligns classroom topics with contemporarystandard industrial environments. Furthermore, it lowers the cost of laboratory instruction byminimizing the amount of hardware that is used.This paper reports the results of the development and implementation of hands-on laboratoryexperiments in a newly developed laboratory for a two-semester undergraduate course inInstrumentation and Measurements in Mechanical

Conference Session

Innovation in Construction Engineering Education II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erdogan Sener, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; D. Tom Iseley, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Construction

paper focuses on a recent collaborative researchundertaking to find more about the details of this technology and its impact so far on equipmentfleet management. The purpose of the research was to evaluate the use of this technology inconstruction companies, determine its user acceptance, and to assess the differences it wasmaking in fleet management. The difference made was to be assessed in terms of how this newtechnology had changed spatial equipment tracking, equipment utilization, equipmentmaintenance scheduling, operations analysis, job costing, and jobsite/project management relatedto construction equipment. The paper presents the results in terms of the details of thetechnology, the methodology of the research, the results of the

Conference Session

Case Studies and Engineering Education Around the Globe / International Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anatoliy Protasov, National Technical University of Ukraine “KPI”

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International

in calculation-design activity provides a bachelor with abilities to: - calculate and design components of NDT devices; - check capability of the projects and technical documentations to technical requirements; - design of technical documentations.Competence in administration activity provides a bachelor with abilities to: - certificate and standardize NDT devices; Page 14.1245.5 - organize marketing and selling of NDT devices; - use economical and administrative methods of management.Analyzing bachelor’s professional activities, it is possible to consider that experimental-research activity belongs to common to the scientific area

Conference Session

Software and Hardware for Educators I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Miguel Latorre, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Manuel Blazquez, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Elio Sancristobal, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Sergio Martin, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Francisco Garcia-Sevilla, Castilla-La Mancha University; Catalina Martinez-Mediano, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Gabriel Diaz, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Manuel Castro, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia

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Computers in Education

resources reveals the need fornew tools which can treat metadata not only as static data but as information in constantevolution, thus supporting the effective development of educational resources. Secure andcomfortable authentication systems (SSO), trust facilities or how to connect on line communitiesare issues we are going to take into account in future developments.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to acknowledge the Spanish Science and Innovation Ministry and theSpanish National Plan I+D+I 2004-2007 the support in the project TSI2005-08225-C07-03"MOSAIC Learning: Mobile and electronic learning, of open code, based on standards, secure,contextual, personalized and collaborative" and to the CYTED-508AC0341 “SOLITE-SOFTWARE LIBRE EN

Conference Session

Concluding Thoughts in Engineering Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harry Petersen, Minnesota State University, Mankato; William Peterson, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Industrial Engineering

discretion. Thus, web-based, on-line college classes offer theopportunity to teach classes to a much wider audience of students with schedule flexibility. Butnothing is perfect.The Minnesota State University, Mankato‟s Manufacturing Engineering Technology programculminates with our students completing a two-semester Senior Design Project, often at out-of-town manufacturing facilities. These students must travel between the sponsoring company andour campus almost daily in order to do their design project while also taking face-to-face classeshere. In addition, we are working with remote community college partners to developarticulation agreements to allow students to take the first two years at a local community college

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Musa Jouaneh, University of Rhode Island; William Palm, University of Rhode Island

students the opportunity to conduct an experiment at their own convenient time andlocation. However, it does not give the same experience as performing the experiment in person,and there could be issues in equipment availability, especially in large classes.Take-Home Laboratory KitThe take-home kit consists of three components. The first component is a hardware interfaceboard that interfaces with the student’s PC/laptop and with the experiment hardware. The secondcomponent is the User-Interface Program that is loaded on the student’s PC/laptop and is used torun the experiment and collect data. The third component is the actual experimental setup or thesensor system to perform the measurement. In this project, we are planning to develop and

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation of Graphics Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Holdhusen, University of Wisconsin, Marathon County

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

graphics course. The four delivery modes aretraditional face-to-face instruction, synchronous distance education using audiographicstechnology, asynchronous online instruction, and hybrid of face-to-face with asynchronous andsynchronous online instruction. In general, each section of the course was delivered by the sameinstructor to undergraduate engineering students in their first or second year. In order to assessthe effectiveness of each delivery mode, this research considers the observations of the instructorand the commentary from the students. Also, a posttest was given to students to assess theirknowledge in basic areas of engineering graphics, including projections, visualization, anddimensioning. The results of this work will compare the

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering Education I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Dunn, University of Maine

Tagged Divisions

Construction

CMTprogram builds mutual benefit with access to extended resources often not available in universitybudgets.Our program has an active and supportive industrial advisory committee. Participating membershelp in curriculum development and monitor the progress as the program expands. They providementoring opportunities, summer employment, and classroom assistance to enhance the learningenvironment. Many contractors open their active project sites to student groups to allow directobservation of the industry. We encourage professional networking and the industry encouragesstudent participation in the monthly trade meetings to give students greater understanding of theissues surrounding construction. This paper presents the structure of the industrial

Conference Session

Starting the Last Day with New Ideas

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shengyong Wang, State University of New York, Binghamton; Mohammad Khasawneh, State University of New York, Binghamton; Krishnaswami Srihari, State University of New York, Binghamton

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

Systems Engineering principles to a variety of domains, with a focus on health systems. He has been working with United Health Services and Virtua Health on numerous applied research projects and operational improvement initiatives. His research work on healthcare delivery systems is internationally recognized through his journal and conference publications.Mohammad Khasawneh, State University of New York, Binghamton Dr. Mohammad T. Khasawneh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Clemson University, South Carolina, in August 2003, and his B.S. and M.S

Conference Session

Educating Students for Professional Success

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Bertoline, Purdue University; Mark Schuver, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

interest by business and industry toengage in pure applied research projects with universities to solve immediate problems orimprove processes. The relationship created with business and industry through a professionalprogram provides opportunities for funded research projects. If the professional program offeredis a MS degree program, student theses and directed projects can become pure applied researchprojects for the company.Our goals are to create a Center for Professional Studies in Technology that is supported bybusiness and industry as well as state and federal grants. This Center will coordinate and expandthe already significant efforts by the College of Technology to deliver graduate professionaleducation to practicing professionals. It