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Erick Froede; David Saint John; Richard Devon

Understanding Open Source Design: A White Paper In the Beginning Was the Noösphere: Community and Collaboration in Open Source Evolution of Technology Richard Doyle Professor of English and STS Erick Froede Senior in Mechanical Engineering David Saint John Ph D Candidate in Material Science and Engineering Richard Devon Professor of Engineering Design The Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractThis paper seeks to

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Keith M. Gardiner

Embedding Sustainability into the Engineering Curriculum Keith M. Gardiner, Lehigh University Mohler Labs, 200 West Packer Av., Bethlehem, PA 18015AbstractThe background, conception, development and history of a course including the word„Sustainability‟ in the title are described. Subsequently the topic is being added whereverappropriate in courses that deal with „Introduction to Engineering Practice,‟ „OrganizationalPlanning and Control,‟ „Manufacturing Management, „Agile Organizations and ManufacturingSystems.‟ Students exposed to sustainability concepts range from first year through to graduatelevels. The original course offered in summer 2003 is now a regular university

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Richard Devon; Kathryn Jablokow

tasks and largely determine the usability, performance, and cost-effectivenessof a plant or unit. These in turn have a direct effect on the safety and environmental compatibilityof the plant or unit in subsequent operation.”3. An Approachable Process Model. The two-step FEED-Solution (F-S) design process modelis simple for students to understand, and as such, it is very likely to improve student learning. InFigure 2, we show the F-S model for the case of market pull. Since the market is the driver ofthis process, we refer to it as market driven. This is distinct from the case in which an invention(technology push), a spin-off (from say R&D), or public policy is the driver. None of thereferenced engineering design texts teach this F-S model

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Leslie Guadron; Alen M. Sajan; Olivia Plante; Stanley George; Yuying Gosser

to instill this same sort of basic knowledge in its students. In the case of the engineeringstudents who take the course, they are really learning this to enhance their general knowledge.They may never use this information in their future careers, but they will have an understandingof everyday occurrences. Many new technologies that involve genes raise concerns and causedebates because they impact our everyday lives. Some of the major issues related to genetics arethe use of DNA evidence in criminal trials, genetically engineered food products, cloning, andgenetic screening.2 Engineers should be able to form informed opinions about these subjectsbecause they will most likely encounter them in their lives. At some point, they may have

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Jaime D. Alava; Keith M. Gardiner

), and Mechanical Engineering andMechanics (MEM). The biggest source of change in the course has come from technological advancements thatcontinuously affect the learning experience in the classroom. Today, Lehigh University is oneamong many organizations in the process of implementing the free Course Management System(CMS), Moodle (Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment). The goal of thesoftware application is to allow course documentation, administration, and teaching to be simpleand available for students and faculty at all times. For the past ten years, Blackboard has beenthe official CMS for Lehigh University. Moodle has been under pilot testing since the Spring of2009 but is now mandatory and replaces Blackboard in the Fall

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Jason T. Kirby; Talat F. Salama

Globalization of Engineering Education – Alabama to Egypt: UAB Civil Engineering Study Away Certificate Programs Jason T. Kirby and Talat F. Salama Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering Department University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294AbstractIn 2007, an international partnership began between the Civil Engineeringdepartment at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and theircounterpart in Cairo, Egypt: Misr University for Science and Technology(MUST). This collaboration was developed not only to enhance cutting edgeresearch but to provide a series of unique educational opportunities to bothAmerican and Middle Eastern

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Pritpal Singh

International Service Learning Projects for Electrical and Computer Engineering Students Pritpal Singh Professor and Chairman Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19085AbstractStudents in various engineering disciplines have been involved in international service learningactivities through, for example, student chapters of Engineers without Borders. Most of theseprojects tend to be either civil works projects, such as water distribution systems or structuralengineering projects which are typically performed by civil and mechanical

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Andrea L. Welker; Leslie McCarthy; John Komlos; Alfred Fry

/divs/acrl/standards/informationliteracycompetency.cfm2. American Library Association Presidential Committee on Information Literacy (1989) Final Report, Chicago, IL.3. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) (2010) Criteria for Evaluating Engineering Programs. Available on line at http://www.abet.org/criteria.html.4. American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) (2008) Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century, 2nd Edition, ASCE.5. Catts, R.M. and Appleton, M. (1999) “Assessing Models of Information Literacy,” Selected Papers from the 10th International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, J.A. Chambers, Ed. pp. 23-326. Nerz, H.F. and Weiner, S.T. (2001) “Information Competencies: A

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Gary P. Halada

Teaching by Disaster: The Ethical, Legal and Societal Implications of Engineering Disaster Gary P. Halada Department of Materials Science and Engineering Stony Brook University Stony Brook, New York 11794-2275In a new course developed in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences atStony Brook University, we are exploring the use of engineering disasters as ateaching tool to enhance student learning of the ethical, legal and societalimplications (ELSI) of engineering and technology. ELSI instruction oftenpresents a difficult challenge for engineering programs, but is one that

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William J. Kelly

A Distance Education partnership between Villanova and IT Sligo in Graduate Biochemical Engineering William J. Kelly Department of Chemical Engineering Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19473Recently, Ireland has become a hotbed of research and manufacturing in the PharmaceuticalIndustry. A unique partnership was created betweenVillanova and IT Sligo (Ireland), wherebyIrish graduate students pursuing an MS in Biopharmaceutical science and Villanova graduatestudents pursuing an advance engineering degree can take two Villanova classes together viaDistance Education (DE) technology. These two classes focus on upstream and

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Carol Siri Johnson

The Advantages of Literacy in Engineering Education: a Case Study from Lukens Steel 1910-1940 Carol Siri Johnson Humanities Department New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102This paper presents the emergence of the “stenographer typist” at Lukens Steel in the 1930s as asocial force that set high standards for written communication. Additional education wasrequired to gain the literacy and mechanical expertise to be able to create reams of flawlesslytyped text. Gradually, these new workers took nearly complete responsibility for producingwritten documents in the workplace. Concurrently, men could make more than double

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Bill Lorenz; Pritpal Singh

worldexamples.For example, we have utilized the Princeton Wedge Stabilization program [5] to evaluate and select apersonal portfolio of technologies to reduce Green House gas emissions by 50% in 2050. The studentsalso calculate their own carbon and ecological footprints and assess alternatives to reduce by 25% and50%. Other examples include an examination of the impacts of alternate diets and how individualscan switch to lower impact foods while also increasing their nutritional benefits. In summary, thegroup projects truly get the students interested in personal, company and company impacts whileproviding the tools to implement engineering solutions.Overview of EGR 7111 Impact Assessment, Life Cycle Evaluations, and Industrial EcologyThis course has a

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Amy Fleischer; Aaron Wemhoff; James O'Brien; Ani Ural; LeRoy Alaways

computer applications to the exclusion of the world aroundthem.The next generation of mechanical engineers will face extreme challenges in the need to developnew energy sources, modes of transportation and health care technology, and in the need to leadthe development of emerging countries in a sustainable and effective manner. Surveys of middleand high schools girls have consistently shown that they are drawn to careers with a strong“helper” or “outreach” aspect4,5, and the high female enrollments in the engineering disciplinesmost closely tied to this “helper” image (environmental, biomedical, chemical) continues toreinforce this idea. Thus, if mechanical engineering is going to effectively promote higherfemale enrollments it needs to promote

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Frank T. Fisher; Hong Man

Virtual Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Nanotechnology Frank T. Fishera and Hong Manb a Department of Mechanical Engineering b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ 07030Nanotechnology, the ability to leverage and exploit fundamental processes at the nanometerlength scale, suggests the potential for a technological revolution. To sustain and propagatetechnologies at the nanoscale, continued efforts toward understanding the fundamental principlesgoverning nano-science must be coupled with a focus on nano

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Allison L. Felix; Joel Z. Bandstra; William H.J. Strosnider

middle and high-schoolteachers in a two-week summer science institute to design and construct a system to remediatewater impacted by acid mine drainage, a ubiquitous and locally-relevant issue, and involvedthem in field experiences with real remediation systems. The design and construction of theremediation systems also involved learning and application of science concepts from chemistryto environmental science, the engineering design process, mathematical problem solving, and theuse of technology for data acquisition and analysis. In addition, the project involved studentsand teachers in 21st century thinking skills and the characteristics of scientific and technologicalliteracy as they collected data, designed systems and subsystems, utilized

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Kevin Dahm

goals: Goal 1 - Develop students who understand and apply the core scientific, mathematical, and engineering principles that form the basis of chemical engineering. Goal 2 - Develop students who work individually and in diverse teams and effectively utilize advanced technology to solve complex problems. Goal 3 - Develop students who gain a perspective on the role of engineering in a global society including the importance of ethics, professional responsibility, diversity and culture, lifelong learning, safety, sustainability and the environment. Goal 4 - Develop students who communicate their ideas effectively in various formats to both technical and non-technical audiences.Fall 2010

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Ani Ural; Joseph Yost

new technologies such as finiteelement modeling in a freshman level project-based course not only provides a powerfulvisualization tool for mechanical concepts that are new to the freshman level students but alsoincreases the students’ interest in engineering. In addition, the integrated approach developed inthis project helps students understand how to interface computational and experimentalapproaches to solve an engineering problem and allows them to evaluate the significance of eachcomponent in engineering analysis, design and research. The exposure of students to finiteelement modeling at an early stage in their undergraduate education is expected to broaden theirunderstanding of engineering and improve their preparedness for engineering

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Orla S. LoPiccolo

Drawing Comparisons: “What I See, I Remember. What I do I Understand” Orla S. LoPiccolo, M Arch, RA, Assistant Professor Department of Architecture and Construction Management Farmingdale State College, State University of New York“What I hear, I forget. What I see, I remember. What I do I understand.” ConfuciusAbstractThis paper tests “What I see, I remember” against “What I do, I understand” via astudy conducted among two sections of freshman Architecture and ConstructionEngineering Technology students in a course that does not have a laboratorycomponent. The author‟s preceding investigation had verified

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Eunice E. Yang; Beverly W. Withiam

Efficient Statics Lecture Through the Use of Worksheets Eunice E. Yang, Beverly W. Withiam Engineering Technology Division University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, PA 15904 This paper presents research on the effectiveness of the use of lecture worksheets and 3D computer models to assist students in understanding concepts taught in the undergraduate Statics course. Statics is a course that requires many students to reproduce time consuming schematics during lecture. These schematics begin with simple 2D systems at the start of the semester and progress towards more complicated 3D systems taxing lecture time even further. To address this

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Qinghai Gao

each other. Make use ofplagiarism detection tool Turnitin and search engine to check some questions for possibledishonesty.To date the majority of colleges and universities use these methods. However, these measures arenot enough to prevent e-cheating since the traditional password-based system is inadequate tosuccessfully authenticate students remotely. For example, a student can give his or her accountinformation to a person and let that person take the exam for him/her. One proposed solution tothe problem is to use biometrics. We believe that the recent developments of biometrics havemade it a viable technology to prevent e-cheating. With this paper we will look at the state of thearts of the solution.The rest of the paper is organized as

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Duy K. Dao; Shankar Krishnan

DESIGN OF LAB EXPERIMENTS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING APPLIED TO SOLVING BIOMEDICAL PROBLEMS Duy K. Dao, Shankar Krishnan Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA 02115Abstract--Several challenges are faced by the educators to train engineers for the next decadedue to fast pace of advancement in technology. One of the challenges is to introduce interestingmulti-disciplinary applications of engineering concepts and tools, especially at the junior level.Signal processing is an essential course in most engineering programs. Introducing to students abiomedical problem and applying relevant signal processing techniques to solve such a problemcan be an effective pedagogical approach

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Peggy Leonowich-Graham; Katie Blue; Steven Condly

research aimed at identifying those kinds ofencouragement that might prove helpful in assisting students in choosing to majorin IT/CS. Fall 2010 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 15-16, 2010, Villanova UniversityBackgroundThe growing concern for the future of America and her ability to remain competitive in a highlytechnological age has prompted much research over the number of students pursuing degrees inScience, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) at the undergraduate level. Theproblem is commonly referred to as the pipeline shrinkage problem where the ratio of women tomen involved in computing shrinks from early student years to working years .1 Much researchhas been conducted in an attempt to determine the reasons behind

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M. Nazrul Islam

through the journey of learningand for this purpose they need to have proper training, continuing education and research. Butthe main quality requirements for a good teacher are motivation and responsibility. We can onlycome up with some guidelines, but it is the teacher who will develop his/her own style ofteaching. Teaching is a creative work, no matter what you teach whether art or technology. So ahighly knowledgeable person is not necessarily a good teacher. It is also the responsibility of theadministration to ensure the quality of teaching and to provide all kinds of support to motivatethe teachers towards developing an excellent academic environment.The objective of this research is to analyze the reasons for the students not being

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James C. Peyton Jones; Connor McArthur; Tyler Young

”, National Science Foundation DUE #0088158 (2001). 6. N. Chao, “A Low Cost Hands-On Laboratory Experience for Introductory Engineering Students”, National Science Foundation DUE #0125583 (2001). 7. L. Fairchild, “Robots in an Introductory Survey Course in Computer Science”, National Science Foundation DUE #0087963 (2001). 8. N. McNulty, “Understanding Technology through Robots and Multimedia”, National Science Foundation DUE #0088370 (2001). 9. Parallax Inc, website: http://www.parallax.com/ 10. The Handy Board, website: http://www.handyboard.com/ 11. Mobile Robots Inc, website: http://www.mobilerobots.com/ 12. LEGO MindStorms RCX, website: http://www.lego.com/ 13. LEGO MindStorms NXT, website: http