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Harold R. Underwood

Assistance for Asperger Syndrome from Communications Technology Developed through an Integrated Projects Curriculum Harold R. Underwood, Associate Professor of Engineering Messiah College, Grantham, PAAbstract: Asperger Syndrome (AS), classified among neurodevelopmental disabilitiesbetter known as autism spectrum disorders, affects 1 in every 150 children in the UnitedStates1. Adults with AS experience impaired social interactions with tendency towardrestricted and repetitive patterns of behavior, though gifted with average to above-average intellect. While neither specific cause (although genetics is suspected) nor cureis known for AS at this time

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Josh Wyrick; Catherine Booth

comparable multi-disciplinaryexperiments, (3) provide experiments that have relevance to real-world engineering issues, and(4) incorporate sustainable engineering topics into the curriculum while instilling a sense ofglobal responsibility in first-year engineers.Bibliography1. ASEE, http://www.asee.org/about/Sustainable_Development.cfm2. Woodruff, P. (2006). Educating Engineers to Create a Sustainable Future. Journal of Environmental Engineering,132 (4).3. Sukumaran, B., K. Jahan, D. Dorland, J. Everett, J. Kadlowec, Z. Gephardt, and S. Chin (2006). EngineeringClinics: An Integration of Research into the Undergraduate Curriculum. Council on Undergraduate ResearchQuarterly, 26(3), p.115-121.4. Thames & Kosmos, http://www.thamesandkosmos.com

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Raluca I. Rosca

Preparing a Diversity Statement- An Introduction to Diversity Issues for Future Faculty Raluca I. Rosca Engineering Sciences and Mechanics Department, Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractWhile the diversity in engineering classrooms strives to mirror the diversity of the society atlarge, our future engineering faculty are not explicitly prepared to deal with it. Using a mixeddata approach, this paper describes how a writing exercise (preparing a diversity statement) andthe associated peer-review discussion expanded the definition of diversity and the plans toaddress it in academia for two groups of participants in the Engineering Teaching PortfolioProgram at

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Kanti Prasad

MotorolaCampus at Schaumburg Illinois in 1995. Executive V.P. of Motorola articulated in hisinaugural address, “Industry neither has the resources nor will to train the people.Universities will have to do both i.e. teaching fundamentals as well as training thestudents on some state-of-art technology, so that they are productive right away”. Dr.John White (Dean of Georgia Tech, then) said, “Our job is to teach Fundamentals”.Motorola’s executive V.P. said, “You will be history, and to prove my point I am awarding $1 million to Purdue University to come out with an integrated curriculum, whichwill accomplish both”. I came overwhelmed with enthusiasm and shared thisconversation with our former Chancellor William T. Hogan who said, “This is ourmission in the

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Sustainable water in Hydraulic Course for construction management studentsAbstract:Water is the source of the life for human use and maintains the health of local ecosystem. Waterresources sustainability is the ability to use water in sufficient quantities and quality. Sustainablewater use has been defined as “the use of water that support the ability of human society toendure and flourish into indefinite future without undermining the integrity of the hydrologicalcycle or the ecological systems that depends on it.6” There is need for adding the new section inthe syllabus of hydraulic and hydrology that is been teaching to the colleges, especially technicalcolleges. As a part of this move to the greener environment in State College we are

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, andnumerical integration. ENGR117 covers these topics in the context of introductoryprogramming. Students learn fundamental data types, algorithms, and linear algebra functionsfor performing numerical analysis.3D modeling and scriptingThe last component in the development of ENGR117 is lectures and practicums in 3D-baseddesign software. The CE curriculum already contains course work in CAD and geometrics. Itlacks, however, any treatment of native 3D design, which is emerging as the standard designmedium for building engineering and construction. ENGR117 focuses on Google Skethcup, afree-ware 3D modeling utility that allows students to develop full 3D models of engineeringcomponents in an easy to use graphical design environment. The software includes

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D. Weber; G. Reluzco; D. Kaminski; B.W. Bequette

program with local highschools. The GK-12 goals are to expose STEM teachers to contemporary graduate research, raisethe level of enthusiasm for pursuing undergraduate STEM majors among the high schoolstudents, and develop new curriculum with the teacher. The specific challenge to the RPIgraduate fellows is to add games, scenario building, international comparisons, and authenticresearch to the STEM instructional tools. This presentation will discuss Dale Weber’sexperience as an RPI graduate student participating in our first year with a GK-12 program andhis unique task among the participants to reach GK-12 goals within the framework of ProjectLead the Way (PLTW). Typically, PLTW courses are designed by a central committee anddisseminated to

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, CPLDs (complexprogrammable logic devices) and FPGAs. In EE375, students continue to learn computerarchitecture and VHDL by studying the MARC processor. The final course in the digital threadis EE484 (Advanced Computer Architecture using VHDL) covering topics to include branchprediction, static and dynamic scheduling, multiprocessors, memory and cache coherency,interconnects, and various I/O interfaces. The purpose of this paper is to fully describe theMARC architecture implementation on an Altera DE2 board and how it can be utilized inundergraduate electrical and computer engineering coursework.2. Related WorkMany universities have FPGAs and in-house VHDL processor cores integrated into theircurriculum. We have leveraged the educational

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W. Riddell; S. Bakrania; K. Bhatia; J. Courtney; K. Dahm; R. Harvey; L. Weiss

Putting the horse before the cart – Fitting a new project into established design and writing pedagogy W. Riddell†, S. Bakrania†, K., Bhatia†, J. Courtney, K. Dahm†, R. Harvey‡, L. Weiss†† College of Engineering† College of Communication‡ College of Liberal Arts and Sciences†† Rowan UniversityProject-based learning has been an important aspect of the Rowan University College ofEngineering curriculum since its inception in 19961. In the fall of the sophomore year,engineering students take a multidisciplinary, integrated, project-based course that is designed toteach both

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Kauser Jahan; Jess W. Everett; Gina Tang; Stephanie Farrell; Hong Zhang; Angela Wenger; Majid Noori

funded by the National Science Foundation (DUE-0737277).References1. http://www.nsf.gov2. http://www.engineeringk12.org/Engineering_in_the_K-12_Classroom.pdf3. Jahan, K., Hesketh, R. P., Schmalzel, J. L. and Marchese, A. J. (2001). Design and Research Across the Curriculum: The Rowan Engineering Clinics. International Conference on Engineering Education. August, 6 – 10, 2001 Oslo, Norway4. Harvey, R., Johnson, F., Marchese, A. J., Newell, J. A., Ramachandran, R. P., and Sukumaran, B. (1999). Improving the Engineering and Writing Interface: An Assessment of a Team-Taught Integrated Course. ASEE Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO.5. R.P. Hesketh, S. Farrell, and C.S. Slater, An Inductive Approach to Teaching Courses in

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Josh Coffman; Sachin S. Terdalkar; Joseph J. Rencis; Jiancheng Liu; Ashland O. Brown

in industry and is now a standard engineering tool for both analysis and design.When FEM first appeared in the 1960’s it was introduced into the engineering curriculum at thegraduate level. As the method and computer technology matured, FEM was introduced at theundergraduate level in engineering and engineering technology programs, even in some two-yearengineering technology programs. Today, FEM is primarily offered as an elective undergraduatecourse in mechanical, civil, and aeronautical engineering programs. Fatigue analysis that in the past was carried out by hand and/or in-house computer programsis now done using commercial FEM software. Fatigue design modules have recently beenintegrated into commercial FEM codes that include ABAQUS

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Orla LoPiccolo; Amit Bandyopadhyay

building orientation to reduce energy use, planting suitablevegetation and reducing the development of open space. 16Background:In our Fall 2008 paper titled Sustainable Construction – An Education and ResearchPerspective,4 we concluded the following: • 46% of construction management programs offer at most two courses in sustainable construction. • None of the construction management programs studied offer a course in sustainable site planning and design.We recommended the integration of sustainable construction practices throughout constructionmanagement programs, as opposed to offering separate sustainable courses as electives, to reflectthe standardization of “green” development.Methodology:This paper will examine the

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XingYing Cheng; Daren Wilcox

Introductory Digital Logic Design and Bluespec XingYing Cheng1, Daren Wilcox2AbstractMost digital logic courses in engineering curriculums introduce hardware design using VHDL.The three primary levels of abstraction in VHDL taught in the introductory course follow closelyto the traditional steps of Boolean logic, namely structure, data flow, and behavior. However,presenting the introductory material at a higher level of abstraction might just be as beneficial.Recently, a new electronic design automation tool, Bluespec, has emerged that promises a highlevel of abstraction for digital hardware design. In this paper, Bluespec will be introduced inrelation to current VHDL design concepts

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Andrew Grossfield

were mandated in engineering design andproblem solving.During the 1960’s, as a young engineer in graduate school, I saw many teaching mathematiciansdistrusted and disparaged graphs and visual techniques. Their conventional view was thatmathematical theorems could not be proved with pictures and so visualizations were dangerous.The fears of mathematicians, the constructions of Cantor and Dedekind, were rarely confrontedby engineering students who needed to become more familiar with continuous and smoothfunctions. I tried to rely on Russian books1, which were more likely to contain pictures and bedescriptive, to gain mathematical insight. I do not believe that my fellow math majorsconfronted the questions that were in my mind as an engineer. By