Conference Session

Mentoring & Outreach for Girls & Minorities

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robin Liles, NCA&T State University; Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; Devdas Pai, North Carolina A&T State University; Courtney Lambeth, NCA&T State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

“thinking outside of the box” in the scientific discovery process. Following is afull description of the summer camp which was intended in part to forward the purpose of theERC Education and Outreach Program and the overall vision of the Engineering ResearchCenter. Also included are 1) assessment procedures utilized to measure change in camperlearning over time; 2) discussions surrounding ways the concepts of creativity and innovationwere intrinsically linked to summer camp activities; and 3) future directions.Nano-to-Bio Summer CampHeld in summer 2009, the Nano-to-Bio Summer Camp was the result of a major collaborationamong partnering institutions, utilizing faculty and mentors from two geographically distantcampuses. This five-day commuter camp

Conference Session

Curriculum in Mechanical Engineering Technology: Part II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nancy Denton, Purdue University; Marc Williams, Purdue University; Joseph Kmec, Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

ofrotation to the eccentric mass and ωf is the rotor’s rotational speed in units of radians per second.The resulting applied force is modeled as F(t) = (meωf2)sin(ωft).1 Experimental data verifies thevibration energy caused by mass unbalance is essentially all included in a single sine wave at thefrequency corresponding to operating speed. Figure 1. Typical unbalance conditionAwareness of the existence of mass unbalance dates back at least several centuries.2 As Page 15.855.2machinery operating speeds have increased, understanding the force that mass unbalance causesand reducing that force have become critical

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Igor Verner, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology; Leonid Revzin, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

DispenserTaking aliquots by the Moore pipette requires time, high attention and manual skills, the lack ofwhich causes errors in students' experiments9. We developed and implemented a simpleautomatic dispenser (see Figure 1). F E C B A D Page 15.815.3 Figure 1. A. Servo motor; B. Plastic rail; C. Syringe; D. Tip; E Crank; F Interface.The device is a slider-crank mechanism constructed out of a servo motor A

Conference Session

Mentoring and Development of New Faculty

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrea Surovek, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Jennifer Karlin, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Cassandra Groen, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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New Engineering Educators

 University  of  California,  San  Diego11   Formal   Dyadic  University  of  Missouri,  Columbia15   Formal   Dyadic  University  of  Montana23   Formal   Dyadic  University  of  North  Carolina14   Informal   Dyadic  University  of  Rhode  Island1   Formal   Group  Table 1: Mentoring Paradigms at Various UniversitiesFormal mentoring programs were deciphered from informal programs by the method in whichthe mentoring relationships were formed. Informal mentoring groups were not formed by astructured model and many participants were voluntary.In

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Design with External Clients

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ismail Orabi, University of New Haven

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Design in Engineering Education

process was to secure several projects from industry together with a commitment from apracticing engineer to serve as project liaison (the client). At the end of the semester, thecollege will hold a senior- project symposium in which each student team will present the resultsof its work to their clients and other invited to participate in the evaluation process.This paper will discuss the development of industry-sponsored projects into a mechanicalengineering capstone design courses. Examples of the current projects will be presented.IntroductionSenior design engineering courses have increasingly used industry-sponsored projectsthat give students opportunities to address real world problems [1-4]. Capstone design coursesare also a site for

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computer-Oriented Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Hacker, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Information Systems

AC 2010-803: HANDS-ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING: DEVELOPINGA CLUSTER COMPUTING COURSE FOR REAL WORLD SUPERCOMPUTINGThomas Hacker, Purdue University, West Lafayette Page 15.637.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Developing a Course for Hands-on High-Performance ComputingAbstractHigh-performance computing (HPC) based on commodity hardware and open-source softwarehas become the dominant paradigm for supercomputing today.1, 2 Thus a great unmet need existsfor skilled students and practitioners who can design, develop, deploy, and operate HPC-basedsystems to support discoveries in industry and academe.To address these needs, we have developed two courses in

Conference Session

Program Development and Pipelines for Recruitment

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandy Feola, Sinclair Community College

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Manufacturing

industry professionals to activelyparticipate as content providers. Finally, influences to adopt social media technologiesfurther drove development of more features that promote collaborative relationshipsbetween students, teachers, and industry. Examples of how social media concepts plan tobe used used in the careerME.org website called my.careerme, are also explored.1. Introduction – How to Address a NeedWhen the project conceptualization process started in early summer 2008 for the Societyof Manufacturing Engineers (SME) – Education Foundation1, the idea was to create aweb portal to show high school and college students, primarily between grades 11-14,that there are and will continue to be lucrative, high paying jobs in manufacturing;despite

Conference Session

Teaching Technological Literacy - College Courses and Minors

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Austin Talley, University of Texas, Austin; Christina White, Columbia University; Kristin Wood, University of Texas, Austin; Richard Crawford, University of Texas at Austin

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

are effective, efficient, economical, and ecological. Each student in the class hasexciting opportunities to identify new product ideas, i.e., inventions, and embody theseideas in the development of prototypes and conceptual models.The course is not structured like a traditional lecture-type course. The classes areintended to be highly interactive, with a mixture of discussions, multimedia presentations(PowerPoint presentations, short videos, DVDs, etc.), and hands-on activities. A collageof images from the course activities is shown in Figure 1. Figure 1: Collage of Course ActivitiesClass participation is actively encouraged, highly valued, and key to an optimalexperience. Additionally, several out-of-class

Conference Session

Engineering Design: Implementation and Evaluation

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Pembridge, Virginia Tech; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech

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Educational Research and Methods

constructscorrelate to both specific teaching practices and student learning in the design classroom.IntroductionCognitive approaches to expertise across domains demonstrate that experts think in ways that arequalitatively different from novices, and these differences allow experts to approach problemsmore efficiently and creatively.1 Experts in any arena tend to recognize patterns and deepstructures, conduct extended qualitative analysis of problems, effectively monitor situations,apply well-tuned decision-making practices, and adopt an opportunistic, flexible approach.2 Butwhile researchers have examined expertise across a variety of domains, including the arts,games, athletics, and design, few sustained studies of teacher expertise are currently

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Williams, University of Virginia; Joanne Bechta Dugan, University of Virginia

research, Meyer2 describes three assumptions about human learning: 1. There are two channels. Human cognition occurs through two distinct channels: auditory (or verbal) and visual (or pictorial). The representation and manipulation of knowledge is different in each of these channels. 2. Each channel has limited capacity. Each of these distinct channels has limited capacity to manipulate and retain knowledge. Too many spoken words and other sounds at any one time can overload the auditory channel. Too many images presented together can overload the visual channel. 3. Active processing provides learning. People learn when they actively process information presented on either channel. The process of selecting and

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering Ethics into the Curriculum

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Glynn, Villanova University; Frank Falcone, Villanova University; Mark Doorley, Villanova University

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Engineering Ethics

ethicaland professional responsibility issues that are most pressing in contemporary engineeringpractice: 1. We often think about ethics primarily through the prism of some engineering disaster. Considering engineering / project disasters that you've been involved with, read or heard about; what do you think are the most important ethical and professional responsibility issues that need to be addressed in undergraduate engineering education? 2. Questions or issues involving ethics and professional responsibility occur regularly, on a day to day basis in engineering practice. Given your experience on the job, please identify the ethics and professional responsibility challenges

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Pembridge, Virginia Tech; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech

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Design in Engineering Education

understanding commonalities acrosscapstone experiences and help lay the foundation for training future design educators. This paperpresents the descriptive statistical results from the survey, examines national trends in capstonepedagogy, and addresses the implications of the findings for design education.IntroductionCapstone design experiences represent a critical transition between the academic classroom andthe contemporary workplace, and as such have become both important sites for industrypartnerships and essential components of programmatic assessment and accreditation.1 Capstoneprojects typically require students to move beyond rote knowledge and apply life-long learning,engineering judgment, analytical decision-making, and critical thinking to

Conference Session

Industrial Interactions and Educational Resources

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gilah Pomeranz, Sinclair Community College; Shep Anderson, Sinclair Community College; Robert Mott, University of Dayton; Steve Wendel, Sinclair Community College

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Manufacturing

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering - Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Jones, Louisiana State University; Kelly Rusch, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Warren Waggenspack, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Roger Seals, Louisiana State University; Vaneshette Henderson, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

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Minorities in Engineering

while attrition rates for those students starting in engineering haveincreased during the last quarter of the 20th century 2, 3. This is happening as the first wave ofengineers from the baby boom years prepare to retire from the active workforce; thus, thiscreates a gap between the insufficient number of engineers (and other scientist & technologyworkers) entering the workforce and the number of technologically focused researchers andinnovators needed to continue economic growth 1.Nationally, minorities and women continue to be under-represented in the engineering fields 4,and the ability to increase engineering undergraduate enrollment, persistence and graduation ofthis group will be necessary to meet the demand for more engineers 1, 5

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Laguette, University of California-Santa Barbara

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Design in Engineering Education

project name to the project description (Figure 1). Page 15.419.4Figure 1. Project Selection TableAt the start of the school year and at the first class meeting, a Projects Kick-Off meeting isconducted. Each project is introduced by the sponsor and a brief description of the project ispresented. Because of time constraints, not much project detail is provided. Interested studentsare introduced to the sponsor and contact information is provided for further more detailedmeetings or discussions. These meetings and discussions are conducted during the first week ofschool

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rosalind Wynne, Villanova University

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Electrical and Computer

member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), the Optical Society of America (OSA), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) and the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). Page 15.1219.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 The Diary of a Mad Student: Exam Diaries and Other Evaluation SchemesAbstractThe human cerebral cortex structure supports functions such as 1) sensing, 2) generalizing and 3)evaluating, which are important to the learning process.1 This

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stuart Wentworth, Auburn University; S. Hossein Mousavinezhad, Idaho State University; Mani Mina, Iowa State University; Wei PAN, Idaho State University

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Electrical and Computer

engineering laboratories with accessavailable to all faculty and students, mainly for classroom use. Many electrical/computerengineering leading industries use MATLAB and its toolboxes.Waves on Transmission LinesIn a transmission lines first approach towards teaching electromagnetics, students are first (a) (b) Figure 1: MATLAB movie snapshots taken (a) just before and (b) just after wave is incident on the load. The incident wave is blue and reflected wave is red. Page 15.509.4exposed to wave behavior on transmission lines

Conference Session

Outstanding Contributions - Mechanical Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Green, LeTourneau University; Carolyn Conner Seepersad, University of Texas, Austin; Katja Holtta-Otto, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

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Mechanical Engineering

future projects. Surveys also indicate strong agreement that extremeexperience interviews “inspired ideas that are better for average users as well.” An examinationof interview transcripts shows the extreme experience interviews are valuable not only foruncovering a much more comprehensive set of customer needs, especially with respect toproduct-user interactions, but also for obtaining innovative redesign suggestions from customersthemselves. The results collectively show extreme experience interviews are an effective andvaluable addition to the design process in these courses, with additional room for improvementin teaching technique.1 IntroductionIn the last decade the engineering design community has shown tremendous interest in

Conference Session

Measurement Tools

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lindsey Nelson, Purdue University; Alice Pawley, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods

women’s underrepresentation in the context of Purdue, and creating new models via institutional ethnography. Her past research has focused on using the metaphor of a boundary as a tool to better understand how faculty determine what counts as engineering, and to identify how engineering might be understood as a gendered discipline. Address: School of Engineering Education, 701 W. Stadium Ave., West Lafayette, IN 47907, 1-765-496-1209 (v), apawley@purdue.edu. Page 15.1343.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Using the Emergent Methodology of Domain Analysis

Conference Session

High School Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed Abdelrahman, Tennessee Technological University; Holly Stretz, Tennessee Technological University; Angela McCulley, White County High School; Bridget Pugh, Monterey High School

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

appendix provides more details of one of the legacy cycles.RET module #1: Aspect Ratio of Synthesized Polymer NanorodsA. Research SummaryNanorods have been widely investigated, and one significant application is in medicaldiagnostics4. Aspect ratio for a nanorod is defined as the length of the “fiber” divided by itsdiameter. It is believed that higher aspect ratio in the nanorod will contribute to theireffectiveness in protein separations when the nanorods are combined in a composite withhydrogels and then the composite is used in electrophoresis5. Electrophoresis is the movementof charged molecules (proteins) through the hydrogel driven by electrical current. In addition,balance of properties for the hydrogel composite is important, and nanorods

Conference Session

Engineering Education in Africa and the Middle East

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mazen Hasna, Qatar University; Abdelmagid Hamouda, Qatar University; Boualem Boashash, Qatar University

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International

outcomes are realized.1. Introduction, Perspective and Guiding Principles1.1 Population SizeAccording to the latest census, the total population of Qatar is 1.58 millions of which Qatarinationals represent only 20%. Considering the male/female ratio of the population we notice thatfemale constitute only 22% of the population which reflects the fact that a large ratio of thepopulation is of labor nature. The two major industries in Qatar that attract this kind of labor arethe oil and gas, and the construction industries. But, in an apparent paradox,the ratios within theuniversities in Qatar, we notice that female students are dominant: about 70% of QU students arefemales. Even in the College of Engineering, females constitute 60% of the student

Conference Session

Learning about Power Systems and Power Consumption

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua Baumgartner, LeTourneau University; Timothy Hewitt, LeTourneau University; Edgar Licea, LeTourneau University; Nolan Willis, LeTourneau University; Matthew Green, LeTourneau University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

aspirations.1 Introduction and BackgroundMany engineering schools are now employing a service-learning approach to globally-basedhumanitarian projects3,4,5. The importance of integrating both globalization and social needs intothe engineering curriculum is acknowledged by the ABET criteria6, and human need is a clearpriority of the engineering profession, as indicated in the NSPE creed*,7. However, the majorityof North American engineering students are not familiar with the contexts in which vast needsexist, such as those among the physically disabled or the estimated 4 billion people living on lessthan $2 a day (PPP)8. These conditions represent a formidable “frontier design environment”, orenvironments outside the experience and expertise of most

Conference Session

Research on The First Year II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nancy O'Connor, Villanova University; Gerard Jones, Villanova University

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First-Year Programs

.”1 Harvard University andUniversity of Virginia researchers, after examining the question of whether students who hadtaken AP courses in high school performed as well in college as AP advocates said they should,concluded that “doing well in an Advanced Placement science course in high school does notguarantee that a student will do equally well in an introductory college-level course in the samesubject.”2A study at Notre Dame University examined the question of how students with AP credit forcalculus compared with students who arrived at the university without having had the APcalculus experience. “In Calculus III, those students who arrived with AP credit for the first twocalculus courses outperformed those students who took Calculus I and

Conference Session

Simple Classroom Demonstrations for Mechanics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tanya Kunberger; Kristine Csavina; Robert O'Neill

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

they will construct inclass and then solve for the variables of kinematic motion.Most engineering students are visual, sensing, active, sequential and inductive learners 1 whilemost teaching is verbal, intuitive, sequential and deductive 2. In an effort to change the teachingstyle to address the students preferred learning styles, the K’NEX projects and subsequent in-class worksheets address visual, sensing, active and inductive learning styles. To assess studentlearning, comparisons will be made of students with no model usage, students who createdmodels but did not utilize the model/worksheet in-class activities, and those students who notonly created, but also were exposed to hands-on activities using models during the dynamiclessons

Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Shelley, United States Air Force

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Mechanics

for developing the advanced skills in students that industryfinds valuable and that are necessary to differentiate ones own engineers from thosetrained elsewhere. Efficient educational processes can be created through the application of CPI by:1) reducing variability in learning outcomes by having a higher percentage of studentsdemonstrate the skills and learning outcomes required to pass the class; 2) eliminatingnon-value-added activities from the learning process for both students and faculty in andout of the classroom; and 3) improving the satisfaction both of the industry customer byproducing graduates with stronger skills who have more confidence in their basicengineering skills, and of the student products with their educational

Conference Session

Faculty Set the Preliminary Standards for Co-ops

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Mark Schreck, University of Louisville; Angela Cline, University of Louisville

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

until three co-op training sessions are completed as shown in Figure 1below. Division of General PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL OF Engineering Studies ENGINEERING Division of Basic Studies Higher Studies First Year Second Year Basic Studies -1 Basic Studies -2 Graduate Program Academic Academic CO-OP Academic Studies Studies Studies Academic Academic CO-OP Academic

Conference Session

Understanding and Measuring the Impact of Multidisciplinarity

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Schaffer, Purdue University; Daniel Gandara, Illinois Institute of Technology; Xiaojun Chen, Purdue University; Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology; Jill May, Illinois Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

their learning. The following questions helped drive theselection of theories: 1. How do individuals become effective team members? 2. How do projectteams become high performing teams (and what does a high performing team look like)? 3. Howdo such teams effectively adapt to project and situational demands? Some of thedisciplines/fields and theories that inform the evaluation framework include: experientiallearning and project-based learning in education1; design theory and cross-disciplinary learningin engineering2,3,4; teamwork and diverse teams in psychology 5,6; design theory in management7,8 ; socio-cultural systems and organizational learning in system theory 9,10.Evidence from team research studies indicates that design task complexity

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer-Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Chasnov

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

be written as the product of three contributing factors: 0net = 0thC0fcC0ec (EQ 1)where 0th is the cycle thermal efficiency, 0fc is the fuel conversion efficiency, and 0ec is theelectrical conversion efficiency, students were asked to find at least one of the non-computedvalues on the right-hand-side (RHS) of equation EQ 1 and compute and compare the remainingunknown efficiency.Students were then given an alternative fuel source to research. When the alternative fuel was a“heat producer” (i.e. either a hydrocarbon or nuclear), students were asked to assume that theircoal plant could be simply converted for use of their alternative fuel. Clearly, this approachwould not work for

Conference Session

Launching Successful Academic Careers

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Engelken, Arkansas State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

experience and often without) as a professor, andinject their knowledge, innovations, and standards. The difference between this situationand that discussed above is that the person now usually already has (1) some idea ofweaknesses in the program and faculty (at least from a former student’s perspective), (2)a genuine loyalty and concern for, and desire to improve, the program, and (3) personalrelationships with his/her former professors. However, he/she still often doesn’t knowwhat he/she doesn’t know about behind-the-scenes operations and, thus, has only a partial Page 15.1265.6view of realities (political, logistical, bureaucratic, interpersonal, and

Conference Session

Measurement Tools

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dina Banerjee, Purdue University; Alice Pawley, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

; transnational feminism and globalization; and sociology of developing nations. In her doctoral dissertation she has examined the effects of sex-segregation and racial/ethnic segregation on the job-related well-being of women workers in U.S.A. She is also associated with the Women’s Studies Program at Purdue University. Before coming to the U.S. as a graduate student, she worked as a lecturer in the University of Calcutta (Kolkata, India) teaching courses on gender, industry and labor market; gender and social change; women and development; and sociological theories and methods. Address: Discovery Learning Research Center, Suite 228, 207 S. Martin Jischke Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907, 1-765-494