AC 2009-1416: THE WRIGHT STATE MODEL FOR ENGINEERINGMATHEMATICS EDUCATION: NATIONWIDE ADOPTION, ASSESSMENT, ANDEVALUATIONNathan Klingbeil, Wright State University Nathan W. Klingbeil is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and former Robert J. Kegerreis Distinguished Professor of Teaching at Wright State University. He is the lead PI for WSU's National Model for Engineering Mathematics Education. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his work in engineering education, including the CASE Ohio Professor of the Year Award (2005), the ASEE North Central Section Outstanding Teacher Award (2004), and the CECS Excellence in Teaching Award in both 2002 and 2007.Kuldip Rattan, Wright State University
AC 2009-2441: TEACHING REAL-TIME EMBEDDED SYSTEMS NETWORKINGAND ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT LEARNINGZaydoun Rawashdeh, Wayne State University Zaydoun Rawashdeh has received his Master’s degree from the University of Michigan. He is currently a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Wayne State University. Since 2007 he has been working as a Teaching Assistant in the department. His research area is Vehicular Ad hoc Networks.Syed Masud Mahmud, Wayne State University Syed Masud Mahmud received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1984. Since 1988, he has been with Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
AC 2009-25: AN ANALYSIS OF FIFTEEN YEARS OF THE NATIONALEFFECTIVE TEACHING INSTITUTERichard Felder, North Carolina State University Richard Felder is Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University. He is a Fellow Member of ASEE, a founding director of the ASEE National Effective Teaching Institute, and the recipient of the ASEE Chester F. Carlson Award for Innovation in Engineering Education and the ASEE Chemical Engineering Division Lifetime Achievement Award for Pedagogical Scholarship.Rebecca Brent, Education Designs Inc. Rebecca Brent is an education consultant and licensed program evaluator specializing in faculty development for
AC 2009-88: UNIVERSITY AND PERSONAL FACTORS THAT HINDER ORASSIST WOMEN IN COMPLETING A DEGREE IN ENGINEERINGRose Mary Cordova-Wentling, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignCristina Camacho, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Page 14.1299.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 University and Personal Factors that Hinder and Assist Women When Completing a Degree in EngineeringAbstractResearch on women in engineering confirms the presence of gender barriers that affect theirrecruitment and retention. These barriers stop some women from choosing engineering as a fieldof study, and impede some women from completing a degree in
AC 2009-760: PROGRESS OF THE EXCEL PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OFCENTRAL FLORIDA: AN NSF STEP FUNDED PROJECTMichael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida Michael Georgiopoulos has received a Diploma in EE from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1981,and an MS in EE and a Ph.D.in EE from the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, in 1983 and 1986, respectively. He joined the University of Central Florida in1986,where he is currently a Professor in the School of EECS. His research interests lie in the areas of Machine Learning and applications with special em-phasis on ART neural networks. He has published his work in over 250 journal and conference venues. He has been