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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gerald Recktenwald, Portland State University; Jenna Faulkner, Portland State University; Robert Edwards, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College; Douglas Howe, Portland State University

for students in the third year of engineering and engineeringtechnology programs. Students volunteered to participate in the research study by allowing theresearch team to track their grades and survey responses. This paper presents results fromanalyzing student responses to attitude surveys given before and after the use of the inquiry-based exercises.Inquiry-Based Demonstrations and Laboratory Exercises The exercises use common, everyday hardware such as a kitchen blender, a toaster, and ahair dryer. This equipment (1) is familiar and potentially interesting to students, (2) isinexpensive, and (3) clearly exposes important topics in the thermal and fluid sciences. Theexercises are based on a guided inquiry model of pedagogy. Students

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brock LaMeres, Montana State University; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Fred Cady, (Retired) Montana State University

AC 2010-415: IMPROVED STUDENT LEARNING OF MICROPROCESSORSYSTEMS THROUGH HANDS-ON AND ONLINE EXPERIENCE:Brock LaMeres, Montana State University Brock J. LaMeres is an Assistant Professor in the electrical and computer engineering department at Montana State University (MSU). LaMeres teaches and conducts research in the area of digital systems and engineering education. LaMeres is currently studying the effectiveness of online delivery of engineering education including the impact of remote laboratory experiences. LaMeres’ research group is also studying the effective hardware/software partitioning using reprogrammable fabrics. This work involves exploiting the flexibility of modern FPGAs to

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BME Course and Curriculum Development

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lily Laiho, California Polytechnic State University; Nikki Adams, California Polytechnic State University; Kristen Cardinal, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo; Matthew Burd, California Polytechnic State University; Daniel Walsh, California Polytechnic State University; Trevor Cardinal, California Polytechnic State University

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Biomedical

Engineering, Biological Sciences, or AnimalScience.After completing their coursework, students complete a nine-month internship in a stem cellresearch lab at one of our partner institutions. The nine-month internship, which addresses all ofour programmatic learning goals, allows students to further develop their laboratory and criticalthinking skills in a research-intensive environment with a rigorous and independent project.Upon completion of their research internships, students return for one final quarter ofcoursework. During the quarter, students complete a Master’s Project Course that allows them toapply the skills gained during the research internship to existing research efforts at ouruniversity. This Master’s Project provides students with

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Software and Hardware for Educators I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Warren Rosen, Drexel University; Eric Carr, Drexel University

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Computers in Education

AC 2010-1304: AN APPLICATION-BASED APPROACH TO INTRODUCINGMICROCONTROLLERS TO FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING STUDENTSWarren Rosen, Drexel University Dr. Warren A. Rosen received his Ph.D. in physics from Temple University in 1978. Between 1978 and 1985 Dr. Rosen served as assistant professor of physics at Colby and Vassar Colleges where he carried out research in optical physics, solar physics, and medical physics. From 1985 to 1996 he worked at the Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division in Warminster, PA where he established an optical communications laboratory for development and characterization of optical components, systems, and protocols for high-performance avionics data networks. In 1996 Dr

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Engineering Management Program Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Douglas Timmer, University of Texas, Pan American; Miguel Gonzalez, University of Texas, Pan American; Connie Borror, Arizona State Universtiy; Douglas Montgomery, Arizona State University; Carmen Pena, University of Texas, Pan American

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Engineering Management

often small6. There are many excellent textbooks, such as Montgomery,that provide explanations and practice problems. However the use of textbook and homeworkproblems stress the categories of knowledge, comprehension and application in Bloom’sTaxonomy7 of cognitive skills. But this mode of instruction is less likely to emphasize thehigher-order cognitive skills of analysis, synthesis and evaluation. In the laboratory teachingcontrol charts for variables, students must design a control chart that involves select the subgroupsize and the sampling interval. Students are able to implement their control charts and evaluatethe effectiveness of their control charts upon the number of good parts produced and the defectrate. These activities emphasize

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Instrumentation in Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David McDonald, Lake Superior State University

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Instrumentation

ElectricalEngineering and Mechanical Engineering Plans of Study. An overview of the course and it’splacement within a vehicle system option in electrical and mechanical engineering is outlined asa context for the data acquisition and control laboratory activities. Course instruction presentsvehicle data acquisition applications while including discussions on the operation and testing of ageneric electric vehicle drive train. An internal combustion vehicle and a vehicle chassisdynamometer are also used in the laboratory experience.A sample laboratory project and assessment discussion is presented. An assessment datasummary is also provided for the previous offering of the course along with the larger setting ofengineering professionalism data in electrical and

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Multidisciplinary First Year Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Timothy Hinds, Michigan State University; Thomas Wolff, Michigan State University; Amanda Idema, Michigan State University; Neeraj Buch, Michigan State University; Carmellia Davis-King, Michigan State University

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First-Year Programs

-year engineering students 2008-09. Following the two years ofexperience in delivering these courses, we were able to objectively examine course content ascompared to course learning objectives and measured outcomes. This resulted in severalmodifications to both lecture content and delivery as well as to laboratory assignments as isdetailed below.Since 1993 the College of Engineering at MSU was actively involved with the ResidentialOption for Science and Engineering Students (ROSES) initiative. This was a residential living-learning program intended to provide a supportive and collegial environment for new freshmenintending to pursue majors and careers in technical fields. Starting in fall semester 2009, ournew program, Engineering Residential

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Curriculum in Telecommunications Engineering Technology

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Muhammad Hasan, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Technology

a laboratory environment. The laboratoryexercises would certainly enhance experiential learning of the students. However, choosing asuitable platform to accommodate the laboratory exercises is challenging as it needs to satisfypeculiar needs of different types of designs. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) provide aflexible hardware platform to accommodate digital systems. FPGAs, such as the ones providedby Xilinx, are quite useful in applications requiring hardware changes to accommodate systembehavior. As such, these devices offer the opportunity to implement different computer systemcomponents conveniently in hardware using VHDL (Very high speed integrated circuitHardware Description Language). FPGAs can be easily reconfigured to

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Division Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adrian Ieta, State University of New York, Oswego; Rachid Manseur, SUNY-Oswego; Thomas Doyle, McMaster University

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Electrical and Computer

regular basis. The lab content was integrated with the Electronics course that it essentiallyserves. The lab experience and the collected feedback are being used for writing a laboratory manual andfurther fine tuning will be performed with the help of the incoming students enrolled in the course. Theexperience with restructuring the course and blending in the students’ needs has been very positive andthe lessons learned from this initiative may prove useful to other instructors in their own approach tomodifying electrical engineering labs. I. IntroductionEngineering education is an important factor for sustained economic growth and progress throughtechnological innovation. The analysis of global development suggests that the next economic

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Foster, George Fox University; Chad Hammerquist, George Fox University; Robert Melendy, George Fox University

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Mechanical Engineering

suggestphysical applications. Some engineering programs have gone a step further and chosen to includea laboratory experience along with the lecture. 31 This approach enhances the in-class learning byproviding hands-on applications.In addition to focusing on continuous-based control systems, few engineering programs alsoinclude coverage of non-continuous (process or discrete) control that are common in industrialenvironments. Mechanical engineering graduates engage with both continuous andnon-continuous control systems; however, they play a more key role in the development ofnon-continuous systems 30 than continuous-based systems where additional education is usuallyrequired and/or their electrical engineering counterparts are better equipped. A valuable

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Web-based Learning in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sumit Dutta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Shreya Prakash, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; David Estrada, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Eric Pop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Electrical and Computer

connected computer or web-browsing mobiledevice (Fig. 1). Web browser (AJAX client)The initial WS design is aimed as part of a large under- Figure 2. Photograph of hardwaregraduate electronic device course (~150 students), where used for our remote laboratory (top)individual lab access is prohibitive. With the WS access, and schematic of the remote instru-students benefit from doing real-time measurements, and ment WS and Web interface archi-can perform subsequent data analysis. Currently, the WS tecture (bottom).enables measurements of typical silicon transistors fab-ricated at the University of Illinois (Fig. 2 and Fig. 5),state of the art nanoscale transistors provided by Intel

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Critical Issues in IT and IET: Focus Group

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University; Ram Prasad Diwakaran, Texas A&M University; Justin Zsiros, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Technology

AC 2010-996: CONVEYING THE IMPORTANCE OF MANUFACTURINGPROCESS DESIGN USING SIMULATION RESULTS AND EMPIRICAL DATAMichael Johnson, Texas A&M University Johnson is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M, he was a senior product development engineer at the 3M Corporate Research Laboratory in St. Paul, Minnesota for three years. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Johnson’s research focuses on design tools, specifically, the cost modeling and analysis of

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Newly Developed Engineering Courses

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jorge Alvarado, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Technology

; analysis and design of heat exchangers; and cooling towers. The course also consists ofa laboratory component where specific emphasis is given to thermal system hardware design andselection, and analysis and performance optimization of thermal systems through computationalactivities. The course laboratory activities also include hands-on exercises where students learnto characterize the performance of a commercial pump system, a convective heat transfer device,a lab-scale Rankine cycle, and lab-scale ground source heat pump. In the course, students alsolearn about the importance of component integration and how it affects the overall performanceof a conventional thermal system.IntroductionRecent studies and statistics1 have shown that there will

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michelle Baker, Rowan University; Brian Lefebvre, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University

associated with isolating and purifying the desiredbiological compound.2 In many of the later stages of purification, over 50% use some type ofchromatography.3 Exposing students to biochromatography provides an introduction tobioseparations and the underlying biochemistry concepts. Alternative bioseparation techniquescan also be introduced, as a comparison to chromatography. As separation processes are basedon the physical and chemical properties of the product and chief impurities, a wide range ofconcepts can be included, such as overall cell composition, protein biochemistry, recombinantprotein production techniques, and bioprocess optimization.These concepts can be introduced by improving undergraduate courses and laboratories throughthe

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Programs Using New Instrumentation Concepts

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jerry Keska, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

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Instrumentation

AbstractThis paper reports the results of the development and implementation of hands-on laboratoryexperiments in a newly developed laboratory for a two-semester undergraduate course inInstrumentation and Measurements in Mechanical Engineering. The course, designed for theundergraduate junior level, was a two-semester course for a total of four credits, and it took placein conjunction with a one-hour classroom lecture in mechanical engineering. A modified versionof this approach, however, can easily be used at all levels of the mechanical engineeringcurriculum. An important component to the process involves the utilization of a two-semesterlong, open-ended project (OEP) that required the students to come up with creative approaches toproblem solving

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Experiential Learning in BME

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rebecca Willits, Saint Louis University; David Barnett, Saint Louis University

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Biomedical

AC 2010-1038: EARLY CAREER BIOENGINEERING RESEARCH EXPERIENCEFOR UNDERGRADUATESRebecca Willits, Saint Louis University Rebecca Kuntz Willits is an associate professor of Biomedical Engineering at Saint Louis University and has developed courses in Transport Phenomena, Biotransport, Drug Delivery, Tissue Engineering, and Design of Laboratory Experiments. She was the 2009 Director of BE@SLU, an NSF-sponsored REU in Bioengineering.David Barnett, Saint Louis University David Barnett is the Chairperson of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Saint Louis University, as well as the Director of the 2010 BE@SLU program

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Mentoring & Outreach for Girls & Minorities

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Keith Holbert, Arizona State University; Lisa Grable, North Carolina State University; Patricia Dixon, Florida State University; Sharon Schulze, North Carolina State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Adjunct Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Lisa's extension and research projects have included work with public schools in the areas of instructional technology and science, including numerous in-service workshops for teachers.Patricia Dixon, Florida State University Dr. Dixon is Director of the Center for Integrating Research and Learning at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, conducting educational programs for students, teachers, and the general public. She has administered REU and RET programs since 1999, participates in a national RET Network, and has published and presented research on RET programs. Dr. Dixon is currently directing a study to

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Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yusuf Mehta, Rowan University

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Civil Engineering

applications. The objectives of the laboratory experiments werewell defined; however, the students determined the process of conducting the experiment. Theinformation provided to the students focused on the rationale behind developing standardizedlaboratory procedure and their broad ranging applications on the civil engineering industry.The transportation course, which is traditionally a lecture course, was redesigned to ensure thatevery student actively participates and understands the physical elements of transportationdesign. Throughout the course, the faculty conducted a stimulating and engaging exercise ofrequiring students to solve practical problems during class in teams of two immediately aftercovering the relevant theory. The practical

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Easley, Louisiana Tech University; David Hall, Louisiana Tech University; Nicholas Beard, Louisiana Tech University; Glenn Fardsalehi, Louisiana Tech University; Nathan Wallace, Louisiana Tech University; Michael Swanbom, Louisiana Tech University

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Computers in Education

. Project-focused approaches increase theworkload of already busy faculty members and can be difficult to sustain, particularly whenbudgets are tight. Added responsibilities such as ordering and managing supplies, resolvingtechnical issues faced by students, and maintaining tools and machinery rob faculty of time thatcould be better spent focusing on the learning experience.Louisiana Tech University has addressed this issue by implementing a project-focusedcurriculum that we call Living with the Lab. This curriculum decreases a portion of the facultyworkload by transferring the ownership and maintenance of laboratory platforms and tools fromthe university to the students. Each student purchases a robotics kit with a programmablecontroller, sensors

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

energyworkforce by providing relevant education at the AAS, certificate program, and the BS degreelevels both in the state of Arizona and Texas. The consortium partners of this project arecurrently serving a large percentage of underserved minorities and will further assist and nurturethese minority groups by preparing them for STEM careers in high technology industries. Page 15.192.2 The energy field is becoming a major economic driving force in the State of Arizona [4],the nation, and the world. The Department of Electronic Systems has academic programs in thisemerging field supported by a unique set of laboratories that facilitate hands-on

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Improving Mechanics & Structural Modeling Courses

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Praveen Malali, Old Dominion University; Pooja Bais, Old Dominion University; Robert Choate, Western Kentucky University; Sushil Chaturvedi, Old Dominion University

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Mechanical Engineering

a Web- Based Virtual ExperimentAbstractKey words: Web-based, Virtual Experiment, Instrument selection, Uncertainty Analysis.A methodology has been developed and successfully implemented for transforming physicalexperiments in an undergraduate thermo-fluids laboratory at Old Dominion University (ODU), adoctoral university, into web-based virtual experiments while the Mechanical Engineering (ME)faculty at Western Kentucky University (WKU), an undergraduate university, have developedand implemented a Design of Experiments (DOE) Plan to assure that graduates of their programhave acquired the skills necessary to design and conduct experiments and analyze experimentalresults. This paper presents details about a web-based

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Innovations in Power Education in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher Lashway, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg; Peter Idowu, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg

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Electrical and Computer

backup system [2]. The system can be generalized as thecombination of a rectifier and inverter; two power electronic subsystems commonly covered inelectrical engineering courses. A software system to study and design ideal UPS systems forpower electronics course is featured in [3]. The ideal UPS system is fostered by the creation ofan integrated graphical interface calculating the optimal configuration of each component.Though the system has a notable visual interface, it focuses only on the construction aspect, notthe monitoring of a system that has already been assembled.Integration of custom-designed hardware into laboratory and the classroom is growing at anumber of universities. Software solutions have even been developed for robotics

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Case Studies, Engineering Education and Outcome Assessment Around the Globe

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Frempong, State University of New York

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International

pageproposal for approval.3. Project approved or disapprovedThe instructor decides on project difficulty and standards, and Page 15.242.3approved or disapproved the proposal.If proposal is disapproved, the team is given two weeks toresubmit.4. Project research/designStudents research details of the project (technical information), andproject design using available software such as: PSpice,Circuitmaker, Microsoft Visio, and etc.5. Obtain materials/components neededEach team is responsible for purchasing components needed fortheir project. However, students are welcome to use availablecomponents and devices in laboratory. In some cases, thedepartment had purchased some of the needed

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Student Learning and Assessment

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicholas Harlow, Western Kentucky University; Robert Choate, Western Kentucky University; H. Joel Lenoir, Western Kentucky University

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Mechanical Engineering

, designing telecommunication, data communication and information technology equipment.H. Joel Lenoir, Western Kentucky University Joel Lenoir is the Layne Professor of Mechanical Engineering at WKU, and primarily teaches in the dynamic systems and instrumentation areas of the curriculum. His industrial experience includes positions at Michelin Research and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as well as extensive professional practice in regional design and manufacturing firms. Page 15.570.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Extracurricular Project Enhances Student Learning

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Curricular Developments in Energy Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ilya Grinberg, Buffalo State College; Mohammed Safiuddin, State University of New York, Buffalo; Chilukuri Mohan, Syracuse University; Steve Macho, Buffalo State College

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

at West Virginia University. He worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico Highlands University, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Technology Education for at Buffalo State College. He became a member of the Oxford Roundtable in 2008 and plans to present another paper there in 2010. Page 15.895.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Multi-Institutional Approach to Engineering EducationIntroductionMany specialized areas of study exist for which there is a definite but small market in theindustrial world. The size of this market may preclude the development of

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Embedded System Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Firas Hassan, Ohio Northern University; Srinivasa Vemuru, Ohio Northern University

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Electrical and Computer

with knowledge of VHDL from sophomore level introductorydigital logic course. The course focuses on getting a hardware/software codesign experiencethrough a combination of lectures and laboratory sessions. The laboratory component will be thefocus of the paper. The course has the following learning outcomes:Laboratory learning outcomes:L1. Students will develop a capability of embedded systems design by programming a microcontroller board using C with modern development tools.L2. Students will develop a custom reconfigurable embedded platform using FPGA based development boards including appropriate drivers for peripherals.Course Outcomes:After successfully completing this course the student should be able to:C1. Understand bottom-up and

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Innovations in ECE Education

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2010 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

containing electronic devices to control signals5-7.4. Use PSpice to design and analyze electronic circuits.Network Analysis deals with a general introduction to elementary rules, theorems, and lawsapplicable to AC circuits. The course includes an introduction to differential equation modelingand analysis of linear circuits with sinusoidal inputs (power, phasors, impedances, andadmittances). A complete treatment of circuit analysis in the frequency domain (Bode plots,frequency response, Laplace transforms, and Fourier analysis) is included. Laboratory workemphasizes frequency response, circuit synthesis, and PSpice simulation/modeling. This includesbuilding and testing circuits to show and support theoretical concepts. Differential Equations

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Graduate Student Experience

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Monica Cox, Purdue University; Jeeyeon Hahn, Purdue University; Nathan McNeill, Purdue University; Asawaree Kulkarni, Purdue University

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Graduate Studies

the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He obtained a B.S. in engineering from Walla Walla University and an M.S. in mechanical engineering from The Georgia Institute of Technology. His current research work focuses on the outcomes of globally oriented engineering education experiences. He has also been involved in the development of tools for the direct observation of pedagogy employed in laboratory teaching environments.Asawaree Kulkarni, Purdue University Asawaree A. Kulkarni, graduated from Purdue University's College of Technology with a degree of M.S. in Computer and Information Technology. She obtained her B.S. in Computer Engineering from University of Pune

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Conceptual Learning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Morris Girgis, Central State University

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Educational Research and Methods

levelsof the taxonomy: fundamental, intermediate and advanced. The incremental growth ofengineering problem-solving skills, as illustrated by the taxonomy and the CPI, is also applicableto other STEM disciplines: science, technology and mathematics. The CPI served as theframework for developing an assessment instrument with measurable outcomes that enablescoring, as well as placing the student at the appropriate level within the taxonomy. Further, asample laboratory assignment is presented to demonstrate the positive impact of hands-onexperiences on the student’s conceptual understanding and problem-solving skills. Initial resultsof a test series given to engineering juniors are reported. These results indicate the effectivenessof the developed

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Innovations in ECE Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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George Gibbon, University of The Witwatersrand; Ian Jandrell, University of the Witwatersrand

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2010-695: CHANGING THE MINDSET: THE LECTURER’S RESPONSIBILITYWHEN PRESENTING A FIRST YEAR COURSE.George Gibbon, University of The Witwatersrand George Gibbon obtained a National Diploma in 1973 and was awarded an MSc(Eng) in 1990 and a PhD in 1995 by the University of the Witwatersrand. Before joining Wits in 1986 he worked at S A Philips (now Philips South Africa) from 1971 to 1974, and the Chamber of Mines Research Laboratories (1974-1986) where he was responsible for the design and development of instrumentation for seismic, rock mechanic and sequential blasting research. His research interests include measurement systems, marine electromagnetic radiation and its influence on sharks