Conference Session

Design Cognition

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Jensen, United States Air Force Academy; Jason Weaver, University of Texas, Austin; Kristin Wood, University of Texas, Austin; Julie Linsey, Texas A&M University; John Wood, United States Air Force Academy

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Design in Engineering Education

to improve engineering education. techniques to enhance creativity in the design process and also techniques to improve engineering education.John Wood, United States Air Force Academy DR. JOHN J. WOOD is an Associate Professor of Engineering Mechanics at the United States Air Force Academy. He completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University and is a retired Air Force officer. The current focus of Dr. Wood’s research includes the pioneering development of micro air vehicle systems using innovative conceptual design techniques for current technology implementations, as well as futuristic projections, applied in the framework of a senior capstone design course. Other

Conference Session

Outreach and Hands-on Materials

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Bahr, Washington State University

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Materials

visiting high schools topresent a one hour seminar about MSE to building a small impact tester for the local sciencecenter (the “Breakinator”) for children in grades 3-5 to explore the difference between brittle andductile materials. After carrying out activities for high school and grade school students, theWSU MA chapter decided to focus on developing an outreach program to middle schools inWashington; the choice of focusing on middle school has been shown to be an effective point inoutreach4. It should be noted that these were not mandatory service learning projects, butvoluntary activities driven by undergraduate and graduate student interest

Conference Session

Aerospace Workspace: Current and Future 1

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ramesh Agarwal, Washington University

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Aerospace

14.754.6In the Introductory course on Aerospace Engineering, the issues of environmentalchallenges such as noise and emissions will be introduced in the context of current statusand projected increase in noise and emissions in next twenty five years due to three foldincrease in air travel (and as a result two fold increase in flying aircraft). If no newtechnologies are introduced and status-quo is allowed to remain, the aircraft emissionswill contribute about 17-20% to total equivalent CO2 emissions from all sourcesworldwide, which will not be acceptable because of worldwide efforts to reducegreenhouse gas (GHG) emissions due to their adverse impact on climate.We are also planning to introduce other green aviation technologies mentioned in

Conference Session

Assessment and Continuous Improvement in Engineering Technology: Part I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xian Zhao, Inner Mongolia University of Technology; Joy Colwell, Purdue University, Calumet; Carl Jenks, Purdue University, Calumet

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Engineering Technology

-four courses required for the American B.S.degree are related to the technical aspects of the degree. A few of the Chinese courses deal withinternship or cooperative education at the end of the fourth year, whereas the American approachin a technology program is more likely to include a “Senior Project.” There is also militarytraining elective in the upper level curriculum of the Chinese curriculum, whereas the Americancurriculum has no mention of this line of training at all. Military training in China generallyconsists of a one week mandatory session, with the possibility of later taking an elective inmilitary training. Generally, those who go to college do not go into the military, and vice versa.The overall impression is that elective

Conference Session

Our Future in Manufacturing: STEM Outreach

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tom Brady, Purdue University, North Central

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Manufacturing

].As technology and computers have become pervasive in manufacturing, so too has the need formanufacturing employees to be technically proficient. Many high tech firms encourage andstrongly suggest that floor-level manufacturing employees have some type of college or technicalschool training.Manufacturing is the largest sector of the economy in the state of Indiana with approximatelytwenty one percent of the workforce employed in it. Major products manufactured in the stateinclude automobiles, trucks, engines, caskets, furniture, orthopedic implants, air compressors,bearings, steel, and pharmaceuticals.As a result of dire projections of manufacturing employee shortages, the Center for WorkforceInnovations(CWI), an agency of the Indiana state

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Assessment and Evaluation of Graphics Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Petros Katsioloudis, Old Dominion University

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Engineering Design Graphics

. Page 14.434.3In May 2002, the Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education in NorthCarolina State University’s College of Education received as a three-year grant (VisTE) from theNational Science Foundation to develop instructional units that utilize scientific and technicalvisualization. VisTE promotes technological literacy by attempting to link engineering,mathematics, science and technology concepts and promote technological literacy through theuse of scientific and technical visualization tools and techniques (Ernst & Clark, 6). The TECHknow Project was a National Science Foundation funded project that produced 20 instructionalunits based on technology problems issued by the Technology Student Association (TSA

Conference Session

Contemporary Practices in Engineering Management Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Raymond Price, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Rose Mary Cordova-Wentling, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Engineering Management

. Understanding themselves andothers and being able to use that understanding to get better results in their interactions and in theirengineering projects is the ultimate objective. While there is certainly an intellectual and theoretical sideof the course, there is also a side of the course that demands practice, use, and skill acquisition. For manyengineering students the conceptual side is fairly straightforward, but the practice and skill building arequite foreign and somewhat daunting.While the topics of the course are described in Figure 2, the overall progression of the course follows askill development model outlined in Figure 3. The initial emphasis of the course on values results in thecreation of a personal mission statement that attempts to

Conference Session

Engineering Education in Africa, Asia and the Mid-East Region

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Nyarsuk, University of Florida; Fazil Najafi, University of Florida; Nick Safai, Salt Lake City College

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International

Soil Mechanics III 3 Comp App of Civil Engg 1 Semester 9 General CE Elective*: Project All Track Courses 15 Construction Engineering 3 Irrigation & Drainage 3 Design of Structures 4 Foundation Engineering 3 Elective Course I 3

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Using Technology to Enhance Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Parthum, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Educational Research and Methods

creation of the transparency be firstmaking a paper document and then copying to a transparency is time consuming. An alteration to lecturenotes contained on a transparency may require modification to the original paper document and then re-creating the transparency. It has been attempted to create transparencies that would have spacesincorporated so the instructor could add comments/diagrams, etc. to the slide during a lecture. Thisrequired that the slides be cleaned off after each lecture. It was also attempted to project the transparencyonto a whiteboard and using a marker add comments, diagrams, etc. eliminating the need to clean thetransparencies, but still required writing on the whiteboard and erasing it. Ensuring that the sequence

Conference Session

IT-based Instructional Technologies

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Information Systems

Based UnitsIntel Education informs that:Authentic project work puts students in the driver's seat of their own learning. Itis important that instructors take advantage of curriculum developed by teachersin a large collection of Unit Plans that integrate technology. Models ofmeaningful classroom projects that integrate instruction in thinking skills alongwith tools and strategies for developing one’s own exemplary technology-supported learning are always encouraged. They focus on three areas:1. It is important to learn how project-based units can effectively engage students in meaningful work and promote higher-order thinking.2. It is necessary to see how questions and ongoing assessment keep project work focused on important learning goals

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Assessment of K-12 Engineering Programs and Issues

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Debra Brockway, Stevens Institute of Technology; Elisabeth McGrath, Stevens Institute of Technology; Mercedes McKay, Stevens Institute of Technology; Dawna Schultz, Stevens Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

another chimes in “My dad’s an engineer and I never knew what it was and now Iunderstand what my dad does at work.” Or imagine an eighth grade class implementing anengineering unit where several students, characterized by their teachers as being disaffected, askpermission to bring their projects home so they can have more time to work on them. Forteachers in two New Jersey school districts, these are not imaginings; these are actualexperiences resulting from the introduction of engineering activities in their classrooms.As participants in the Engineering Our Future New Jersey (EOFNJ) Program, these teachers areamong the 2,400 elementary, middle, and high school educators in New Jersey who have beenintroduced to engineering concepts and curricula

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

interface. This configuration providesfor future flexibility in using the accelerometer to further introduce motion sensing andcontrol algorithms, either as abstract function calls to the ARM processor or directly inuser code written for the ATmega324P.Some of the circuitry, such as the RF transceiver and FPGA are not strictly necessarythough they do enable interesting laboratories and projects not directly related to controltheory, as well as provide the option of using this robot for other courses. It is entirelypossible, for example, to control the robot without an MW2 board and use the ARMprocessor for all functions, thus making this robot suitable for our senior-level course onmicrocontroller applications.PID ControlOur students employ PID

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Integrating Computer-based Technology in the Civil Engineering Classroom

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ayhan Irfanoglu, Purdue University; Yating Chang, Purdue University

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Civil Engineering

initiate discussion bysuggesting a relevant topic or project.Besides the regular class-material based homework assignments, on average given every otherweek, completion of a term project on Istanbul, “Istanbul: the past, the present, and the future”,was a requirement to receive a passing grade in the course. The term project, with its separateparts on cultural history, seismic history, seismic hazard setting to be completed before theoverseas trip, and the state of the built environment of the city, estimation of the state of the builtenvironment immediately after a major earthquake in the near future, and mitigation andemergency-response recommendations, allowed the students with different levels of education topresent their understanding at

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eduardo Montanez, Freescale Semiconductor; Michael Norman, Freescale Semiconductor

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Electrical and Computer

of real, modern hardware to a curriculum. The ability to add student-created customhardware to an existing modular platform provides many options for a satisfying undergraduatefinal project or graduate level lab or research project.Software Development ToolsThere are several options when it comes to choosing software development tools to supportdevelopment on a Tower platform. The basic need is a compiler and debugger or an integrateddevelopment environment (IDE). CodeWarrior® Development Studio7 is a good option for anIDE. It supports most of the Freescale MCU and MPU architectures and offers a Special Editionversion that has some restrictions on object code size but is complimentary. Having freeprofessional tools available to outfit all

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering Education II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Muge Mukaddes Darwish, Texas Tech University T-STEM Center; Mary Frances Agnello, Texas Tech

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Construction

population ≠ Provide focal points for the increasing environmental awareness ≠ Coordinate GREEN engineering research projects that engineering professors and students from cross engineering and other related disciplines pursued independently in the past ≠ Provide GREEN perspectives for an interdisciplinary approach to students from a variety of disciplines ≠ Facilitate and advocate for sustainability issues in Engineering Colleges, through the university and the society at large ≠ Develop innovative interdisciplinary courses which can be taught through multi- discipline faculty(The Georgia Institute of Technology's Center for Sustainable Technology is an exemplarymodel to this approach.)Whole curriculum

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hetal Jasani, Northern Kentucky University; Wei Hao, Northern Kentucky University

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Electrical and Computer

systems), Computer Networks, and Operating Systems. Page 14.738.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Innovative Network Security Course DevelopmentAbstractNetwork security courses become increasingly popular in colleges (including communitycolleges) and universities. This paper discusses about developing the novel course of networksecurity using laboratory activities. It elaborates innovative projects that are suitable forlaboratory work in network security curriculum. It explores both hardware and softwarecomponents that are now being used for practical exercises in network security courses. Mostoften these

Conference Session

Measuring Success of Graduate Program Components

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Graduate Studies

gathering. It also encompasses essential functions of meaning-making,action, and commitment to improve. Absent any of these elements, the doing ofassessment becomes hollow. Ted Marchese, Senior Consultant at Academic Search,served 18 years as vice president of the American Association for Higher Education(AAHE) and was a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He isalso a trustee of Eckerd College and of the Transnational 21st Century LearningInitiative. While at AAHE he edited Change (higher education’s most-read magazine),the AAHE Bulletin, and directed a foundation-supported project that resulted in hiswidely praised publication, “The Search Committee Handbook.” Assessment as‘learning’ is not a third-party research project

Conference Session

Enhancing Recruitment and Retention in Engineering Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eugene Brown, Virginia Tech; Robert McGahern, DDR&E; Robert Stiegler, NSWC-DD

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Systems Safety and Engineering Division. Page 14.1241.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 The Pre-Engineering Program Initiative of the National Defense Education Program—A Navy FocusAbstractThrough the Pre-Engineering Program (PEP) initiative, a part of the National Defense EducationProgram (NDEP), the Department of Defense (DoD) is mounting a nation-wide effort to assurethe viability of the nation’s future scientific and engineering workforce. Building on lessonslearned from the Navy-supported Virginia Demonstration Project (VDP) begun in 2001, the PEPwill grow to reach from coast to coast in 2010 when

Conference Session

Advanced Materials Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ajit Kelkar, North Carolina A&T State University; Ronnie Bolick, North Carolina A&T State University

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Materials

, strength etc. Furthermore, it is also stressed that the cost ofmaterials and manufacturing, is comparable to the parts that are being reengineered.Session 3: Reengineering of an actual engineering component made out of AluminumIn the lectures 1 and 2 of Session 3, a replacement for a typical aerospace part made out ofAluminum 2024- T3 is considered as a reengineering project. First students are provided withphysical properties of the aluminum and fiberglass/carbon composites. In general students followthe following procedure for reengineering the component using composite materials.Reengineering procedure≠ Tape properties are calculated using classical micro-mechanical theory for S-Glass fibers and Carbon fibers with Epoxy resin system

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

addition to engineering education, his research interests include simulation and software engineering.Christa Chewar, United States Military Academy Dr. Christa Chewar is an Army Major and an Assistant Professor in the computer science program of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the United States Military Academy, currently serving as an engineer on a major software project in Virginia. Her research interests include human-computer interfaces in addition to engineering and computer science education.Jean Blair, United States Military Academy Dr. Jean Blair is a Professor of Computer Science and director of the computer science program of the Department

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arlen Planting, Boise State University; Sin Ming Loo, Boise State University

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Computers in Education

separately. The material has been developedto promote both a thorough understanding of microprocessors, and greater productivity thatallows students to do more intriguing and relevant projects. The course presents just enough C,at a very low level and in a specific topic order, to enable the students to better comprehendmicroprocessors and how they can control a broad range of devices. The updatedMicroprocessors course is currently in its fourth iteration.IntroductionThe C programming language is increasingly being utilized in development of embeddedsystems and ultra-small microcontrollers that were previously the domain of assembly language-only programming. Teaching assembly only in a Microprocessors course does not providestudents the skills they

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenny Mahan, University of Alabama; Jesse Huguet, University of Alabama; Joseph Chappell, University of Alabama; Keith Woodbury, University of Alabama; Robert Taylor, University of Alabama

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Mechanical Engineering

. This paper reports on the second yearof an NSF CCLI Phase I project to implement a sequence of Excel modules for use in theThermal Mechanical Engineering Curriculum.A collection of Excel Add-ins has been developed for use in solving thermodynamics problems.This paper reports on development of three Add-ins to compute properties of refrigerants R134and R22 and to compute gas dynamics relations for isentropic, Fanno, and Rayleigh flows ofideal gases. All of the Excel Add-ins developed can be downloaded at the project websitewww.me.ua.edu/ExcelinME.IntroUnder a National Science Foundation (NSF) Curriculum, Classroom, and LaboratoryImprovement (CCLI) grant a number of software modules have been developed to facilitateengineering analysis in a

Conference Session

Computers and Software in Teaching Mathemathetics

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenna Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University

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Mathematics

around the clock and around the globe, and to provideimmediate feedback. Consequently, using web-based technologies in conjunction with atraditional calculus course provides opportunities to provide personalized, interactive learningthat is available 24-7 and gives students instant feedback. The goal of this project was toincorporate several web-based services into a standard calculus course and determine which, ifany, of these technologies students were willing to use, which they found most helpful and why.Reviews of literature on the use of educational technology and mathematical learning over Page 14.1337.2several decades show that use of

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering: Part II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Roberts, University of Florida; Karen Bray, University of Florida; Vikram Shishodia, University of Florida; Jeff Citty, University of Florida; Deborah Mayhew, University of Florida; James Ogles, University of Florida; Angela Lindner, University of Florida

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Minorities in Engineering

course. Students earn one hour of credit by enrolling in a course, “Introductionto Engineering,” that provides an overview of each undergraduate major in the College, and theyparticipate in a project, involving design of a rubber band-powered car with robotics andculminating in an end-of-summer poster presentation and competition. Program courses arefacilitated by a team composed of faculty members, engineering graduate students, departmentadministrators and program mentors, who were also graduates of the program, as describedpreviously.Table 1: Schedule of STEPUP Activities during a Typical Monday-Thursday Summer Session Day Time Activity

Conference Session

Attitudes, Self-Confidence, and Self-Efficacy of Women Engineering Students

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Women in Engineering

engineering-relatedevents that have garnered prominent news coverage may impact students’ views: the bridgecollapse in Minneapolis in August 2007; the levee failures in New Orleans during hurricaneKatrina in 2005 and in the Midwest during summer 2008; Salmonella contaminated water inAlamosa, CO, in spring 2008; arsenic contamination of water in Bangladesh; etc. Doperspective students realize that engineers are involved in these projects? If so, do they blameengineers for these failures, which might be reflected in responses on the PFEAS survey?Hilpert9 received 374 responses to the PFEAS survey in fall 2007 from mechanical andaerospace engineering majors at a large, public university (16.7% women). Upon data analysis,the questions related to students

Conference Session

ASCE Policy 465: Raising the Bar

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Russell, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Gerry Galloway, University of Maryland; Thomas Lenox, American Society of Civil Engineers; James O'Brien, American Society of Civil Engineers

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Civil Engineering

Academy of Engineering. 2005. Educating the Engineer of 2020: Adapting Engineering Education to the New Century. National Academies of Sciences, Washington, DC. (http://www.nae.edu) 4. Augustine, N. R. “Re-engineering Engineering: 21st-Century Needs Can’t Be Met With Just a Four-Year Degree.” ASEE Prism. Feb. 2009. 5. Duderstadt, J.J. Engineering for a Changing World: A Roadmap to the Future of Engineering Practice, Research, and Education. The Millennium Project, The University of Michigan. 2008. (http://milproj.dc.umich.edu/) 6. National Science Foundation. 2007. The “5XME” Workshop: Transforming Mechanical Engineering Education and

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Rubaai, Howard University; Ramesh Chawla, Howard University

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Electrical and Computer

on different real-worldcontrol configurations. This adjustment to incorporate the more practical format into theclassroom has taken different forms throughout the academic world. In the TechnischeUniversiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands, the modeling of control systems is an important part oftheir Bachelor’s in mechanical engineering degree curriculum3. There is a gradual introduction toreal world systems that begins with a lower level course where the students are introduced tomathematical concepts and A/D conversion and ends with a final year project that incorporatesthe manipulation of various feedback controllers to accomplish a specific task. In this way thestudents are transported from the theoretical understanding to actual

Conference Session

Learning about Power Systems and Power Consumption

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kala Meah, York College of Pennsylvania; Wayne Blanding, York College of Pennsylvania

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

installed around the globe in more than 100 projects and over 25,000 MW ofadditional HVDC transmission capacity is under construction. The HVDC system is suitable forinterconnecting two asynchronous power systems, as well as for undersea and undergroundelectric transmission systems. For bulk power transmission over long distances, HVDC systemsare less expensive and suffer lower losses compared to high voltage alternating current (HVAC)transmission systems. Multi-terminal HVDC systems may provide a better alternative forunderground transmission systems in urban areas and large cities. As a power systems engineer itis important to have a basic understanding of HVDC transmission system operation, controlfeatures, advantages and disadvantages compared

Conference Session

Student Attitudes and Perceptions

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Johannes Strobel, Purdue University; Inez Hua, Purdue University; Jun Fang, Purdue University; Constance Harris, Purdue University; Lindsey Tracy, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods

(key concepts or gate keeper concepts) of beginning engineering studentstowards the relationship between environment/ecology and engineering specifically towardschoosing: either (a) engineering as a career to make an environmental impact or (b) choosingenvironmental and ecological engineering as a specific engineering profession. The project issituated in the context of life cycle analysis and the environmental impacts of design,manufacturing, use and disposal of products. The study employs also an innovative researchdesign: The researchers investigate students’ conceptions and attitudes (and change of both) byasking students to co-design an educational game with them – through a series of workshops. Ofparticular focus will be the change of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Meehan, Virginia Tech; Robert Hendricks, Virginia Tech; Peter Doolittle, Virginia Tech; Richard Clark, Virginia Western Community College; Carl Shek, Virginia Tech

Education, 2009 Lab-in-a-Box: Development of Materials to Support Independent Experimentation on Concepts from CircuitsAbstractA project known as Lab-in-a-Box (LiaB) was developed in 2004 as one of the outcomes of a department-level reform within the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at VirginiaTech, addressing a need that was identified through student and employer surveys for concrete examplesof fundamental concepts in electrical engineering. LiaB is a set of ‘hands-on’ exercises in which studentsdesign, build, and test at home various d.c. and a.c. circuits using an inexpensive electronics kit, digitalmultimeter, and a software oscilloscope and, thus, has not require significant resources to implement