AC 2010-84: COMPACT FLORESCENT LAMP HARMONIC ANALYSIS ANDMODEL DEVELOPMENT-AN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCECarl Spezia, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Carl J. Spezia is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Technology Program located in the Department of Technology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC). He joined the program in1998 as a Visiting Assistant Professor. He worked as a power systems engineer for electric utilities for eight years prior to seeking a career in higher education. He is a licensed professional engineer in Illinois. His industrial assignments included power system modeling, power systems protection, and substation design. He
AC 2010-112: CHEESEBURGER, FRIES, AND A COKE: IT'S ABOUT THEPRESENTATIONJohn K. Estell, Ohio Northern University John K. Estell is Chair of the Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department, and Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science, at Ohio Northern University. He received his doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His areas of research include simplifying the outcomes assessment process, first-year engineering instruction, and the pedagogical aspects of writing computer games. Dr. Estell is a Senior Member of IEEE, and a member of ACM, ASEE, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Upsilon Pi Epsilon.Kenneth Reid, Ohio Northern
AC 2010-1545: A NEW APPROACH: USING ELECTRONICS LABORATORYMORE EFFICIENTLY AND SAFELYFaruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University Page 15.63.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 A New Approach: Using the Electronics Laboratory More Efficiently and SafelyAbstractUse and administration of the electronics laboratories are very important due to safety concernsand variety of parts and equipment. There are a variety of components and devices which need tobe organized and monitored for different lab experiments. Electronics laboratories serve a varietyof students with different knowledge levels for their lab classes and various projects
AC 2010-1752: ENGAGING STUDENTS IN CRITICAL THINKING: ANENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING EFFECTNicole Berge, University of South Carolina Dr. Nicole Berge received her BS and MS degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of South Carolina in 1999 and 2001, respectively. In 2006, she received her PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of Central Florida. From 2006 – 2008, Dr. Berge worked as a Postdoctoral Associate at Tufts University. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina.Joseph Flora, University of South Carolina Dr. Joseph Flora is currently an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina. He received
AC 2010-1968: MIDDLE SCHOOL SUSTAINABLE OUTREACH? FUNACTIVITIES IN MATH AND ENGINEERING: A 2-YEAR CASE STUDYAlthea Smith, North Carolina State University Althea Smith is a PhD candidate in Biomathematics in the Department of Statistics. She earned her B.S. in Mathematics from Stony Brook University in 2004 and a M.S. in Biomathematics from North Carolina State University in 2007. Althea is a former graduate Fellow of the RAMP-UP program from the years 2006 to 2009. She is looking forward to obtaining her PhD in August 2010.Elizabeth Parry, North Carolina State University Elizabeth Parry received her B.S. in Engineering Management-Mechanical Engineering from the University of Missouri
AC 2010-2043: CREATION OF A MULTI-SKILL MANUFACTURINGAPPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM WITH ARTICULATED PATHWAYS INTOENGINEERING TECHNOLOGYEric Roe, Polk Community College - Corp. CollegeErnie Helms, Polk Community College - Corp. CollegeBob Lachford, RWD TechnologiesRick Johnson, Mosaic Company Page 15.335.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Creation of a Multi-Skill Manufacturing Apprenticeship Program with Articulated Pathways into Engineering TechnologyAbstractIn alignment with the creation of a unified educational pathway for Florida’s manufacturingworkforce, Polk State College (PSC), the Employ Florida Banner Center for Manufacturing, TheMosaic
AC 2010-2266: INTRODUCING HYBRID DESIGN APPROACH AT THEUNDERGRADUATE LEVELFiras Hassan, Ohio Northern University Dr. Firas Hassan is an assistant professor at Ohio Northern University. He finished his PhD studies at The University of Akron and worked for one year as a visiting professor. His area of research is hardware implementation of real-time embedded image processing algorithmsSrinivasa Vemuru, Ohio Northern University Srinivasa Vemuru obtained his bachelors and masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1984 and 1986, respectively. He received his PhD from the University of Toledo in 1991. From 1991-2001 he served as faculty member in
AC 2010-186: ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS' ROLES IN ATTRACTING &RECRUITING STUDENTS TO THEIR UNIVERSITYJim Miller, University of Maryland Jim Miller has been the College Park PTDL (Patent & Trademark Depository Library) Representative since 1998, and was the 18th PTDL Fellowship Librarian from June 2001 through June 2002. He has been a librarian at the University of Maryland for 37 years; since 1980 in the Engineering & Physical Sciences Library (EPSL). He is currently the subject specialist for the departments of Aerospace, Bioengineering, and Mechanical Engineering. As Senior Reference Librarian, he is the specialist for patents and trademarks, technical reports, and any other "tough
AC 2010-922: RE-INVENTING ENGINEERING EDUCATION ONE NEW SCHOOLAT A TIMESusan Blanchard, Florida Gulf Coast University Susan M. Blanchard is Founding Director of the U.A. Whitaker School of Engineering and Professor of Bioengineering at Florida Gulf Coast University. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University in 1980 and 1982, respectively, and her A.B. in Biology from Oberlin College in 1968. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Biomedical Engineering Society, and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.Robert O'Neill, Florida Gulf Coast University Robert J. O'Neill, P.E. is
AC 2010-403: DEVELOPMENT OF AN E-LEARNING SYSTEM AND A VIRTUALLABORATORY FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCESRadian Belu, Drexel UniversityDarko Korain, Desert Research Institute Page 15.414.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Development of an E-learning System and a Virtual Laboratory for Renewable Energy SourcesAbstractIn the modern world where everything changes at an extremely fast rate a constant and continualupgrading of knowledge is vital. Nowadays most utility and energy companies use advancedtechnology such as renewable energy sources applications. There have been significant advancesin renewable energy conversion
AC 2010-2054: STUDENT-PERCEIVED VALUE OF ACADEMIC SUPPORTINTERVENTIONSValerie Young, Ohio University-Athens Valerie Young is Associate Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Ohio University. She currently serves as Awards Co-Chair for the Chemical Engineering Division of ASEE, and previously served as Division chair. She teaches chemical engineering courses at all levels, from freshmen to graduate. Her research area is atmospheric chemistry and air pollution. Page 15.1118.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Student
AC 2010-1903: A SPIRAL LEARNING CURRICULUM IN MECHANICALENGINEERINGRobert Roemer, University of Utah Robert B. Roemer is currently a professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University. He teaches courses in engineering design, and is interested in integrating the use of design projects and active learning throughout the curriculum to improve engineering education.Stacy Bamberg, University of Utah Stacy J. Morris Bamberg is an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah. She received her S.B. and S.M. in Mechanical Engineering
AC 2010-1866: A WEB SERVICE AND INTERFACE FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICECHARACTERIZATIONSumit Dutta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Sumit Dutta is currently pursuing a B.S. in electrical engineering at the University of Illinois, expecting to graduate in 2011. His research interests lie broadly in physical electronics. He is a recipient of the NASA Aeronautics Scholarship and Raytheon US FIRST Robotics Scholarship, and is an Edmund J. James Scholar. Sumit is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Engineers without Borders, and Eta Kappa Nu.Shreya Prakash, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Shreya Prakash is currently pursuing a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of
AC 2010-2057: JOINT MATH-ENGINEERING PROJECTS TO FACILITATECALCULUS SUCCESS IN FIRST YEAR STUDENTSAndrew Lowery, West Virginia UniversitySteve Kane, West Virginia UniversityVicki Kane, West Virginia UniversityRobin Hensel, West Virginia UniversityGary Ganser, West Virginia University Page 15.820.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Joint Math-Engineering Projects to Facilitate Calculus Success in First Year StudentsAbstractIt has been observed that most first year engineering students seem to enjoy and often performwell in their project and project-oriented freshman engineering course, but seem to havedifficulty and
AC 2010-2138: NANOPHOTONICS MODULES FOR DIVERSE CURRICULARINCORPORATIONNatalia Litchinitser, SUNY at BuffaloAlbert H. Titus, SUNY at BuffaloAlexander N. Cartwright, SUNY at BuffaloVladimir V. Mitin, SUNY at Buffalo Page 15.901.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Nanophotonics Modules for Diverse Curricular IncorporationAbstractNanophotonics is a field within science and engineering that includes research to createnanoscale structures with desired optical properties as well as using photons to fabricate andcharacterize systems at the nanoscale. The field of nanophotonics has resulted in a plethora ofnew devices including highly efficient light emitting
AC 2010-2063: A FUNCTIONAL K-12 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FORTEACHING TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACYSteve Macho, Buffalo State College Steve Macho completed a BS at St Cloud State University, and M.A. & Ed.D. in Technology Education at West Virginia University. Steve is a Minnesota farm boy who has been involved in technology his entire life. 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
AC 2010-2064: A WORKSHOP FOR INDIAN ENGINEERING FACULTY UNDERTHE INDO-US COLLABORATION IN ENGINEERING EDUCATIONVinod Lohani, Virginia Tech Vinod K Lohani is an associate professor in the Engineering Education Department (EngE) and an adjunct faculty in the Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. He received a PhD in civil engineering from Virginia Tech in 1995. His research interests are in the areas of knowledge modeling, water and energy sustainability, engineering learning modules for freshmen, and international collaboration. He led a major curriculum reform project (2004-09), funded under the department-level reform program of the NSF, at Virginia Tech. A spiral curriculum
AC 2010-1026: DATA ACQUISITION IN A VEHICLE INSTRUMENTATIONCOURSEDavid McDonald, Lake Superior State University David McDonald is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Lake Superior State University and the ASEE Campus Representative. He also does consulting in the area of test cell development for electric vehicle engineering. Page 15.341.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Data Acquisition Applications in a Vehicle Instrumentation CourseAbstractThe paper introduces instrumentation and data acquisition instruction in a course on vehicleinstrumentation. The goal is to build students’ skill
AC 2010-1554: ISU ADVANCE – TRANSFORMATION ACROSS THEUNIVERSITY HIERARCHY TO ENHANCE RECRUITMENT, RETENTION ANDADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN FACULTY IN ENGINEERINGKristen Constant, Iowa State University Kristen Constant is an Associate Professor in Materials Science and Engineering at Iowa State University. She serves as the College of Engineering Equity Advisor with the NSF-funded ISU-ADVANCE program. Page 15.817.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 ISU ADVANCE – Transformation Across the University Hierarchy to Enhance Recruitment, Retention and Advancement of Women
AC 2010-1022: FACULTY'S USE OF TABLET-PC TO ENHANCE LEARNING FORTECHNOLOGY STUDENTSRungun Nathan, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Dr. Rungun Nathan is an assistant professor in the division of engineering at Penn State Berks from the fall of 2007. He got his BS from University of Mysore, DIISc from Indian Institute of Science, MS from Louisiana State University and PhD from Drexel University. He has worked in the area of Electronic Packaging in C-DOT (India) and then as scientific assistant in the Robotics laboratory at Indian Institute of Science. He has also worked as a post-doc at University of Pennsylvania in the area of Haptics. His research interests are in the areas of unmanned vehicles
AC 2010-1125: COURSE CHANGE AS A DARWINIAN PROCESSJohn Robertson, Arizona State University John Robertson is a Professor in the Engineering Technology Department at Arizona State University Polytechnic. He was formerly an executive with Motorola and now participates in many senior technical training programs with the JACMET consortium. Page 15.327.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Course Change as a Darwinian ProcessAbstract. Continuing Professional Development programs provide access to theindustry professionals who are developing new and complex engineering systems.Through these
AC 2010-1140: 'EXPANDING TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY THROUGHENGINEERING MINORMani Mina, Iowa State UniversityJohn Krupczak, Hope CollegeRobert J. Gustafson, Ohio State UniversityJames Young, Rice University Page 15.4.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 EXPANDING TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY THROUGH ENGINEERING MINOR(Due to the nature of this study, the names of the schools etc are not hidden from thereviewer, we apologize however, without the names the essence of this project could notbe correctly captured)This paper describes our effort to design, implement, and expand a valid platform forproviding a technological literacy program that is adaptable for a
AC 2010-1176: CONTINUOUS QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN ENGINEERINGEDUCATION: FACT OR FICTION?Gloria Rogers, ABET, Inc. Gloria Rogers is currently the Managing Director, Professional Services at ABET, Inc., the international accrediting agency for academic programs in engineering, technology, applied science and computing. She provides workshops, webinars, seminars and institutes for the development of continuous quality improvement of educational programs and institutional effectiveness related to strategic planning. She serves as a reviewer for the Fulbright Senior Scholars program and was also the guest editor of a special edition of the 2008 International Journal of Engineering Education
AC 2010-1185: EXPLORING THE STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE, MOTIVATION ANDSELF-EFFICACY IN PHYSICS LEARNING: A STUDY IN THE UNIVERSITIESOF TECHNOLOGY IN TAIWANChih-Hsiung Ku, National Dong-Hwa University, Taiwan(R.O.C.)Wen-Cheng Chen, National Dong-Hwa University, Taiwan(R.O.C.) Page 15.565.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Exploring the Students’ Attitude, Motivation and Self-efficacy in Physics Learning: A study in the Universities of Technology in TaiwanAbstractThe purpose of this study was to investigate the reality of physics curriculum/learning in theuniversities of technology in Taiwan. It should be noticed, university of technology (UT) inTaiwan is
AC 2010-1367: DYNAMICS BUZZWORD BINGO:ACTIVE/COLLABORATIVE/INDUCTIVE LEARNING, MODEL ELICITINGACTIVITIES, AND CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDINGBrian Self, California Polytechnic State University Brian Self is a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Prior to joining the faculty at Cal Poly in 2006, he taught for seven years at the United States Air Force Academy and worked for four years in the Air Force Research Laboratories. Research interests include active learning and engineering education, spatial disorientation, rehabilitation engineering, sports biomechanics, and aerospace physiology. He worked on a team that
AC 2010-106: TEACHING REVERSE ENGINEERING FOR NON-INDUSTRIALAPPLICATIONSArif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris UniversityJohn Mativo, The University of Georgia Page 15.1187.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Teaching Reverse Engineering for Non-Industrial ApplicationsAbstractThis paper focuses on teaching non-industrial applications of reverse engineering technology toengineering and non-engineering students. Manufacturing and mechanical engineering studentsas well as forensics minors studied three key elements in history preservation, medical andforensics applications in this Reverse Engineering and Rapid Prototyping course which is asenior-level
AC 2010-159: TECHNOLOGY AND LEARNING OBJECTS IN THEENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY CLASSROOMRonald Rockland, New Jersey Institute of Technology RONALD H. ROCKLAND is Chair of the Department of Engineering Technology and a Professor of Engineering Technology and Biomedical Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He received a B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. in bioengineering and electrical engineering from New York University in 1967, 1969 and 1972 respectively. He also received an M.B.A. in marketing from the University of St. Thomas in 1977. He is a 2000 award winner in Excellence in Teaching for NJIT, a 2004 recipient of the F.J. Berger award from ASEE, and the past chair of the Master
AC 2010-1409: INTEGRATING HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP INTO UNIVERSITYAUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING PROGRAMSMichael Wahlstrom, Argonne National LaboratoryFrank Falcone, Argonne National LaboratoryDoug Nelson, Virginia Tech Page 15.767.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Integrating Hardware-in-the-Loop into University Automotive Engineering Programs Using Advanced Vehicle Technology CompetitionsAbstractWith the recent increase in complexity of today’s automotive powertrains and control systems,Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation has become a staple of the vehicle development processin the automotive industry. For
AC 2010-1540: A LABORATORY/DESIGN BASED, PROBLEM SOLVINGCAPSTONE HELPS ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGISTS HIT THE JOB MARKET!John Marshall, University of Southern Maine John Marshall received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University and is the Internship Coordinator for the Department at the University of Southern Maine. His areas of specialization include Power and Energy Processing, Applied Process Control Engineering, Applied Automation Engineering, Fluid Power, and Facility Planning. Page 15.44.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 A Laboratory/Design Based, Problem Solving Capstone
AC 2010-1557: PRISM: THE REINCARNATION OF THE VISIBLE COMPUTERAnne Clark, USAF Academy, COBrian Peterson, United States Air Force Academy Page 15.982.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 PRISM: The Reincarnation of the Visible ComputerAbstractFor over thirty years, the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) has used training aids tohelp students in our introductory digital course visualize computer architecture concepts byshowing the inner workings of a simple microprocessor made primarily of the SSI and MSI chipswhich they were already familiar with. The original “EDUcational COMPuter” or EDUCOMPwas replaced with a more visual and improved