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International Initiatives, Partnerships, Teaching Strategies & Collaborative Networks (IUCEE, IFEES, LACCEI.... )

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maria M. Larrondo Petrie, Florida Atlantic University; Jose Carlos Quadrado, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa; Lueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard; Hans Hoyer, American Society for Engineering Education

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International

andteaching to better prepare engineers for the global economy. The planning phase involvedalmost 200 academic and business leaders from both countries and resulted in raising close toUS$1M to fund the first Summer Faculty Leadership Institute. The Institute was designed as aseries of 23 one-week Train-the-Trainer workshops taught by US faculty members and corporaterepresentatives known for their pedagogical skills. The topics covered general effective teachingtechniques as well as best practices teaching in specific engineering disciplines. The workshopswere held during a six week period during the Summer 2008 at the InfoSys Technologies’Global Education Center in Mysore India. The 585 Indian faculty participants were selected froma pool of 1400

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education III

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Buket Barkana, University of Bridgeport; Navarun Gupta, University of Bridgeport; Lawrence Hmurcik, University of Bridgeport

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Electrical and Computer

, and develop asynchronously9.In engineering education, there are two major types of courses: theoretical and experimental.Theoretical courses are usually held in the classroom. All the students sit and listen to theinstructor. Experimental courses are usually held in the laboratory, and students can movearound freely. Theoretical courses are predominantly an auditory environment in which thecurriculum, textbooks, teaching methods, and the teachers themselves are sequential. The over-reliance on auditory-sequential methods in these courses works against the visual-spatiallearners. Laboratory courses are predominantly a kinesthetic environment. The students who arevisual-spatial learner face disadvantages in mastering material in the normal

Conference Session

Widgets, Add-ons, Toolbars, and Videos: Web 2.0 Tools for Searching, Managing, and Teaching about Engineering Literature and Information

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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E. Michael Wilson, Ohio University

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Engineering Libraries

. Retrieved March 18, 2009, doi:10.1300/J101v18n35•052 Bernard, M.L. (2003) Criteria for optimal web design (designing for usability) Software UsabilityResearch Laboratory (Wichita State University). Retrieved from:http://www.hcomtech.com/documents/index.php?docid=5.3 Brown, M. (2007, September). Library Toolbars for Use and Development. Library Hi Tech News, 24(8),33-35. Retrieved March 18, 2009, doi:10.1108/074190507108360274 Rice, S. (2006) Take the Library with You on the Web: A Mozilla Firefox Toolbar. Brick and ClickLibraries: Proceedings of an Academic Library Symposium, Maryville, Missouri, 6, Nov. 3. ED493910. 78- 81.5 Booth, C., & Guder, C. S. (2009). If you build it, will they care? Tracking student receptivity to emerginglibrary

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Innovative and Nontraditional Curriculum in IT/IET

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Hata, Portland Community College; James Dockendorf, Normandale Community College

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Engineering Technology

educational materials, teaching laboratories, andfaculty expertise. This project, funded through a grant from the National ScienceFoundation, addresses these barriers to providing training in plasma-aidedmanufacturing for students at our nation’s community colleges. To date thisproject has developed eight instructional modules ranging in topics from anintroduction to plasma physics, to RF power delivery, to plasma-basedmanufacturing processes, e.g. sputtering of metals and non-metals. In addition,the project has enabled Normandale Community College (NCC) to implement a Page 14.1165.2plasma-aided manufacturing teaching laboratory. This laboratory is not only beused by

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E-Learning in Chemical Engineering

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tiffany Hesser, University of New Haven; Michael Collura, University of New Haven

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Chemical Engineering

reactions and chemical hazards, information onglassware set up, procedure and waste disposal.To assess the effectiveness of using Web based lectures to prepare students for the weekly labs,data has been obtained from laboratory instructors, teaching assistants and laboratory assistantsof how the lectures have impacted students’ preparation. Feedback has been obtained throughstudent surveys following the completion of the labs, questioning students about the usefulnessand ease of using a web program for pre laboratory lectures, if the video method is preferred tosupplemental readings or if it helped to enhance instruction from the text.Overall, the research proved to be a useful tool in saving laboratory instructors and students’time, while

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Innovations in ECE Education II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Radian Belu, Drexel University

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Electrical and Computer

responsible forthe analysis and design of control circuitry which permits nominal operation of genericpower converters. The laboratory experience will culminate in projects where studentsanalyze, design, simulate and demonstrate power electronics related topics. Each projectwill be carried out by a team of three or four students. The projects and part of thelaboratory experiments will be focused on power applications in the fast growingemerging fields of the renewable industry, such as wind and solar energy or fuel cells.We believe that this will be an efficient approach in teaching power electronics because itcan give the students some of the necessary skills the industry is asking for.1. IntroductionPower electronics is the enabling technology for

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Outreach and Hands-on Materials

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dana Medlin, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Michael West, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Deborah Mitchell, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Jon Kellar, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Stuart Kellogg, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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Materials

metallurgicalengineering curriculum as a kinesthetic teaching tool will be implemented in several levelsstarting at the sophomore level. The first metallurgical/materials engineering courses availablefor SDSM&T undergraduates are sophomore level courses and they include two concurrentcourses: a 3 credit hour lecture “Properties of Materials” (MET-232) and a 1 credit hourlaboratory “Structure and Properties of Materials Laboratory” (MET-231). The next set ofcourses in the undergraduate curriculum sequence are “Physics of Metals” (MET-330) and the“Physics of Metals Laboratory” (MET-330L), and finally “Mechanical Metallurgy” (MET-440)and the “Mechanical Metallurgy Laboratory” (MET-440L). The curriculum modifications tothese lectures and laboratories are

Conference Session

Professional Practice and AEC Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Mwangi, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Craig Baltimore, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Brent Nuttall, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Architectural

tosixteen students per class and are usually conducted in smart rooms with layout as shown inFigure 3. This is also where the “learn by doing” comes to fruition similar to the old medicalexpression of: “see one, do one, teach one”.One condition on enrollment of the design laboratory courses is that the student cannot take twoof the above three courses from the same instructor. By limiting the number of students tosixteen and exposing the students to different instructors, who themselves have differentbackgrounds in the structural engineering consulting profession, the students get accustomed toworking close to their supervisors on a one to one basis. Before graduating, the students areexposed to working for different

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jin-Hwan Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology; Carla Purdy, University of Cincinnati; Ian Papautsky, University of Cincinnati

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Graduate Studies

mentored teaching activities applied the conceptslearned in the PFF courses. The individualized mentored teaching experience included teachingundergraduate and graduate courses, giving talks at research seminars, and mentoring seniorprojects and REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) students in the Department ofElectrical and Computer Engineering at UC. Various methods of active learning, motivatingstudents, problem-based active laboratory learning, and peer tutoring were explored and appliedto mentor students. The paper also includes feedback from the PFF program coordinator and theacademic research mentor.I. IntroductionPreparing Future Faculty (PFF) is a national initiative to better prepare Ph.D., M.S., andpostdoctoral students to

Conference Session

Innovation in Construction Engineering Education I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kirsten Davis, Boise State University; R. Casey Cline, Boise State University

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Construction

. Page 14.703.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Improving Construction Management Course Comprehension through Experiential LearningAbstractWhile lectures are the most common way to teach students, they are not necessarily the best wayto convey some types of information. Consider the famous quote by Confucius: “I hear and Iforget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”This paper discusses a hands-on experiential learning laboratory, which complements the lecturein a Construction Management (CM) materials and methods course. Many CM programs avoidhands-on experiences due to the vocational/technical stigma. However, experiential learningtransforms construction concepts that are often

Conference Session

Potpourri

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald Welch, University of Texas, Tyler

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First-Year Programs

have from the multiplecolleges within the university and may decide to change majors based on the quality ofthe teaching alone.4The UT-Tyler Freshman Engineering Course – ENGR 1200 Engineering MethodsSince the offering of the revamped course coincided with the completion of the newengineering and science building which has larger classrooms, the course was also team Page 14.537.4taught for the first time in the fall of 2006 with one large lecture for the entire course andmultiple smaller laboratory sections of 32 students or less each week. Each instructortaught all labs covering a particular topic to ensure consistent content coverage. The tablein

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Electrical and Computer

University before joining NKU. At NKU, he teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in the area of computer networks and network security. He has chosen academic career since he believes that by teaching he can contribute towards community development.Wei Hao, Northern Kentucky University Dr. Hao came to NKU in August 2008 from Cisco Systems in San Jose, California, where he worked as a software engineer. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2007. He brings both academic and industrial expertise, having also worked for Motorola and Alcatel. His research interests include Web Technologies (such as web caching, web services, and web-based

Conference Session

Computational Tools and Simulation III

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Priya Goeser, Armstrong Atlantic State University; Wayne Johnson, Armstrong Atlantic State University; Felix Hamza-Lup, Armstrong Atlantic State University; Ivan Sopin, Armstrong Atlantic State University; Carlos Sanchez, Armstrong Atlantic State University; Patrick Hager, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

and information retention12-14. A key benefit of a Webbased virtual laboratory compared to traditional laboratories is its lower cost, space requirements,and implementation. In recognition of these new trends15-17 and benefits of Web based teachingtechnologies, the authors have sought to develop and implement a Web based 3D computergraphics framework: Virtual Interactive Engineering on the Web (VIEW), dedicated to theadvancement of teaching and learning in the pre-engineering curriculum. This paper presents thedevelopment of the initial phase and first module in VIEW - the development of a VirtualTensile Testing Laboratory (VTTL) used as a supplement in the course: Introduction toEngineering Materials

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Holden, California Maritime Academy

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Computers in Education

maximum and to add material requires removing other material. There simplyisn’t room in the curriculum for another class, so either electives must be traded or themicrocontroller skills must be taught in existing classes.The disadvantage of the integrated approach presented in this paper is that more faculty must“buy in” to the program and be able to teach microcontroller applications, and that some originalmaterial in each course featuring microcontrollers will be replaced. This paper will measurestudent perceptions of the approach taken in order to measure whether the advantages outweighthe disadvantages.The three courses targeted to add microcontroller material at the California Maritime Academyare Computer Programming, the Circuits Laboratory

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rachid Manseur, State University of New York, Oswego; Adrian Ieta, State University of New York, Oswego

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Electrical and Computer

designed to function as studios and are equipped withmodern lecture aids, including projector, projection screen, networked computers with aninstructor console, as well as lab stations arranged so that students can easily alternate betweenexperimenting on their benches and following lectures and instructor directions.The robotics laboratory combines practice and training support for robotics and embeddedsystems courses but also serves as a project construction room in those areas. This helps satisfyminimum usage requirements in effect in some higher education institutions and providesefficient use of the teaching space.The institution will need to provide these facilities and their corresponding equipment for theengineering program. It is a common

Conference Session

Curriculum in Mechanical and Power Engineering Technology

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Engineering Technology

couple of issues that needed to be addressed. First,teaching AC before DC in ENTC 210 was confusing for the students since the textbook coversthe DC material first. Second, the review of circuit analysis techniques scheduled for thebeginning of the second course took much longer than anticipated since there was a substantialamount of material to review. Student feedback also indicated a need for more problem solvingexamples and experience before they were ready to apply the circuit analysis techniques taughtin the first course to the more complex topics introduced in the follow-on course. Third, thearrangement for laboratories became an issue: the students did the DC experiments, but did notfinish all of the AC experiments in the first course

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Burkett, University of Alabama; Charles Snead, University of Alabama

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Electrical and Computer

this laboratory.Project ImplementationA few years ago, ECE faculty at The University of Alabama decided to focus on teaching circuitanalysis in an introductory course (ECE 125) to better prepare students for subsequent Circuitsand Electronics courses, courses that rely on fundamental concepts and skills and are thecornerstone of the ECE curriculum. This course is the first required course in the ECEcurriculum and sets the stage for the remaining courses in the curriculum. The lecture portioncontains instruction on fundamental circuit analysis techniques as well as lectures on engineeringethics and the profession. The laboratory spans two hours and includes instruction in basiccircuits, breadboarding and solder skills, analyzing an automobile

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Michalson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Gregory Fischer, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Taskin Padir, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Gary Pollice, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

theseconflicting constraints, certain compromises are made in the delivery of the material to thestudents and in the exercises performed in the laboratory. Page 14.269.5The first compromise relates to the material that is selected. Rather than attempt to teach all ofthe material that might normally be associated with a 2000-level course in any one discipline, thechoice was made to pare the material to that which is essential to provide sufficient depth for thestudents to understand the related laboratory exercises. In this context, the emphasis in theclassroom is on the most commonly encountered concepts rather than interesting special cases.In

Conference Session

Think Outside the Box! K-12 Engineering Curriculum

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tara Gomez, California Institute of Technology; Oliver Loson, California Institute of Technology; Douglas Yung, California Institute of Technology; Sindhuja Kadambi, California Institute of Technology; Paul Lee, California Institute of Technology; Luz Rivas, California Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

-week summer residential course that brings togetherextraordinarily talented high school students from underrepresented minority groups to study atthe California Institute of Technology. The YESS program is intended for students who exhibitan interest in engineering and science, and wish to engage in collaborative learning. During thethree-week program, students take science courses and are exposed to laboratory tours, facultylectures, and college admissions workshops.The neuroscience course for the 2008 YESS program was an intensive survey of many differentfields, and used lectures, demonstrations and laboratory activities to teach topics such as brainanatomy, Drosophila melanogaster pain perception, electrophysiology, recombinant

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Mwangi, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Craig Baltimore, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Design in Engineering Education

week for three hours each meeting (for a total of nine hours a week). Thestudents use the ARCE 305 design course as prerequisites and other architecture courses toprepare complete structural documents (structural calculations, structural plans, sections, detailsand specifications) for real masonry buildings that the instructors bring to class from theirpractice. The laboratory course is limited to sixteen students per class. The course is usuallyconducted in smart rooms with layout as shown in Figure 3. In this format, the “learn by doing”comes to fruition similar to the old medical expression of: “see one, do one, teach one”.The two masonry courses are mandatory for all students in the ARCE program.Constructability is

Conference Session

DELOS Best Paper Nominations

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jerry Keska, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

working prototype (that included bothsystem and measurement sensors on prototyping boards), and concluded the project by conductinga feasibility study by writing a report and delivering a class presentation. Because the ELVISsystem has been used primarily as an instructional tool in electrical engineering laboratories, anextensive process that adapted it to the needs of mechanical engineering was implemented. Thisincluded the development of completely new experiments that involved newly-designed hardwareand instructions that were all developed and built in-house with student participation. IntroductionIn the undergraduate teaching process, both instructors and students often get bored solving simpletextbook

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Research and Education in Radiation and Radiologic

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sheldon Landsberger, University of Texas, Austin; Ofodike Ezekoye, University of Texas, Austin; David Hearnsberger, University of Texas, Austin; Rose Stiffin, Florida Memorial University; Michael Elliott, Florida Memorial University; Dimitri Tamalis, Florida Memorial University; Carlos Handy, Texas Southern University; Elena Stefanova, Texas Southern University; Muchere Russ, Huston-Tilliston

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Nuclear and Radiological

addition, two of the senior students participated in a summer internshipthis summer at the Nuclear Engineering Teaching Laboratory (NETL) with the University ofTexas at Austin. Two faculty members have also taken an intense two week laboratory trainingprogram at the same site. It is our intention to use the funds available from the three year NavalResearch grant to strengthen further this program through the following areas: 1. Undergraduate Scholarships 2. Travel (to attend/present at professional meetings) 3. Acquisition of additional equipment and supplies 4. Public relations to promote the programStudent scholarships are a cornerstone of our program. The vast majority of our students comefrom underprivileged backgrounds and

Conference Session

Novel Measurement Experiments

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amit Nimunkar, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Silas Bernardoni, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Tyler Lark, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Andrew Watchorn, National Instruments; John Webster, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Instrumentation

the SFs also took leadership roles to organize and teach these training sessions. The use ofstudents as teachers resulted in promoting mentoring of inexperienced students by moreadvanced students, higher rate of acceptance of the material and also minimized the cost ofproviding the training6-7, 10-11.II. LabVIEW ActivityWe organized two LabVIEW training sessions through the supplemental training session. Thefirst session was dedicated to provide students with a basic understanding of LabVIEW andfamiliarize them with the LabVIEW software, while the second session was dedicated foradvanced LabVIEW training4.Activity I: LabVIEW basicsThe first half of this laboratory activity familiarized the student with the software package LabVIEWfrom

Conference Session

Implementation of Experiments in Manufacturing Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

of activities with students from local high schools. He regularly teaches courses for the Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Education, and Materials Science and Engineering Departments at Virginia Tech. Dr. Clark has instituted a laboratory course at VWCC based upon the Lab-in-a-Box concept and is involved in the development of the learning materials that will support the circuits and electronics courses within the Engineering and Engineering Technology degree programs offered by the Virginia Community College System.Carl Shek, Virginia Tech Page 14.828.1© American Society for Engineering

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Curriculum Development and Applications

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Doyle, McMaster University

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Engineering Design Graphics

laboratories, and freehand sketching tutorials. The threecomponents run in parallel: lectures introduce new topics; labs develop CAD and solid modelingskills; and tutorials teach technical freehand sketching and visualization skills. While each waseffective, students had some difficulty resolving the connection between each component. Thedissection approach was introduced to tie lecture, laboratory, and tutorial into a cohesive targetto enhance motivation and overall learning.2.2 McMaster Engineering CornerstoneThe McMaster Engineering Cornerstone project uses the dissection/reverse engineeringapproach. Groups are restricted 3 members within the same lab section and the dissectionproduct is assigned based on laboratory day. There are ten lab sections

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jean-Claude Thomassian, State University of New York, Maritime College; Anoop Desai, Georgia Southern University

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Electrical and Computer

employed in the teaching ofElectronics and Network Analysis. The analysis of this paper follows comparable studies onmedia-based instruction. Cohen et al1 who found that students learned additional informationfrom such instruction techniques in contrast to traditional modes of instruction. Moreover,Powell et al2 further explored this analysis and found that such instructional techniques werehelpful in raising the GPAs of the students.PSpice, an acronym for Personal Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis, is ageneral purpose analog circuit and digital logic simulation software used to check the reliabilityof circuit designs and to predict circuit behavior. SPICE3 was originally developed at theElectronics Research Laboratory of the

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexandre Probst, Colorado School of Mines; Aarthi Krishnaswamy, Colorado School of Mines; Vinita Singh, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara Moskal, Colorado School of Mines; Cyndi Rader, Colorado School of Mines

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Educational Research and Methods

the internet but so do their teachers. Additionally, their teachers have years of experience teaching through a lecture format, reinforcing lectures as an established habit for instruction. Furthermore, many of the software programs currently available to support secondary instruction contain examples which are culturally irrelevant to Ugandan students. According to Hodson [12], efforts to make science education more learner-centered must build on knowledge and experiences of the learners, which requires an understanding of the impact of different perspectives and experiences of dissimilar cultural groups. The purpose of the project described here is to develop a simulated science laboratory experiment, as a pilot for future software

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Maixner, United States Air Force Academy; James Baughn, UC Davis

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Mechanical Engineering

APPROACHWhile many other approaches have implemented teaching tactics focused principally on eitherexperimental or computer methods, the approach adopted at USAFA was hybrid in nature using both. Itmay be accomplished as either a demonstration in the normal sequence of class lectures, or as a moreformal laboratory. No separate heat transfer laboratory course exists in the curriculum at USAFA, sothese laboratories experiences for our students are conducted within the allotted lesson times for eachcourse; many are, in fact, performed as demonstrations, with students performing data reduction on theexperimental results. Still, the authors recognize that it is always desirable that students have a hands-on experience whenever possible, rather than having

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark Yeary, University of Oklahoma; Tian-you YU, University of Oklahoma; Robert Palmer, University of Oklahoma; James Sluss, University of Oklahoma; Guifu Zhang, University of Oklahoma; Phil Chilson, University of Oklahoma; Mike Biggerstaff, University of Oklahoma

AC 2009-2426: A STATUS REPORT ON A COLLABORATIVE PROGRAM FORHANDS-ON LEARNING, SEVERE WEATHER, AND NEXT-GENERATIONMULTIFUNCTION RADARMark Yeary, University of Oklahoma Dr. Mark Yeary is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a member of the Atmospheric Radar Research Center (ARRC). He has many years of experience as a teaching assistant, lecturer, and faculty member. Since January of 1993, he has taught many students in various laboratories and lecture courses, culminating in approximately 14 years of teaching experience. For the 1999-00 academic year, he received the Outstanding Professor Award, given by the Texas A&M student chapters of IEEE and Eta