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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Elif Kongar; Paul Kontogiorgis; Nancy L. Russo; Tarek Sobh

Inclusion. in ASEE, EDI 2007 – Diversity in Engineering. 2007. San Juan, PR.[23] Morell, L. Women in Engineering. in ASEE, EDI 2007 – Diversity in Engineering. 2007. San Juan, PR.Biographical InformationDr. Elif Kongar received her BS degree from the Industrial Engineering Department of Yildiz TechnicalUniversity, Istanbul, Turkey, in June 1995. In June 1997, she received her MS degree in Industrial Engineering fromthe same university where, she was awarded full scholarship for graduate studies in the USA. She obtained herPh.D. degree in June 2003. She has been a research associate in the Laboratory for Responsible Manufacturing(LRM) at Northeastern University since September 1999. She has also been employed as an Assistant Professor

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Linda Ann Riley; Charles Thomas

, Tianjin and Qingdao and proposebuilding design criteria for athlete housing facilities to address these hazards.8. Analyze and recommend techniques that allow large populations of people to communicatesimultaneously during the event.4This competition is an excellent venue to bring students that excel in various subject areas together inmulti-disciplinary teams to develop solutions to applied engineering problems. Field Trips to the UniversityAs a component of the partnership, it is important to bring middle and high school students onto theUniversity campus to experience first-hand engineering and science activities and laboratories. In thisrespect, trips have been arranged or are in the planning stages for several collaborative

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Rashmi Jain; Keith Sheppard; Elisabeth McGrath; Bernard Gallois

commercial fire alarm system (multiple units – one per group –connected across the design laboratory to a master monitoring panel) is evaluated and then the individualalarm units disassembled to reveal their sensors (temperature and optical smoke sensors which relatenicely to sensors used in the course). Stakeholder requirements for the alarm system are considered andthen the 4th total design stage is introduced, namely Operational Scenarios, in which context diagramsand use case scenarios are developed. This requires a collection of scenarios to be established, one ormore for each group of stakeholders for the particular phase of the life cycle – only the first design phaseis considered in Freshman year. Each scenario addresses one way a particular

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Diana Schwerha; Chang Liu; Sertac Ozercan; Tripura Vadlamani; Lev Neiman

familiarized to Second Life and were asked to get an avatar. Thenight of the session was the first night that most students had spent any time in Second Life. The sessionwas conducted in the ISE computer lab at Ohio University. Three teams of students (ranging from 2-4students for a total of 10 students) participated in the project. The teams were arranged in rows and weregiven a color designation (Team Red, Team Blue and Team Green). Each student had the opportunity toaccess a written set of instructions and a glossary of statistical terms that were presented electronically.As soon as everyone appeared in the virtual Human Factors and Ergonomics Laboratory at OhioUniversity, the game began. Students went to their respective carrel to start the game

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Roger Chapman Burk

,”which meant that it had to include a laboratory component. All Princeton students are required to taketwo “S&T” courses. This was an additional incentive for liberal arts students to take the course. Therequired preparation for the class was limited to algebra, a little calculus, and good high-school science.It was open to all class years. Engineering students were welcome on the grounds that their knowledgewould enrich the class; they were expected to find the technical approach elementary but would get acomprehensive overview of the space flight problem. They were limited to no more than 25% of theavailable seats.2. Course DesignThe catalog description of the course was: This is an introductory aerospace engineering course for non

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Roy T.R. McGrann

) Demonstrate the integration of the elements of modeling and analysis in a CAE design project, and (VI) Prepare a complete design project report. 3The course is structured as two one-hour lectures each week and one 2½-hour computer lab. Thematerial presented in each of the two “lecture” sessions each week is distinct. One session consists ofpresentations of design methodology, engineering graphics fundamentals, kinematic and force analysisof mechanisms, and FEA. The other session consists of Pro/Engineer (Pro/E) training. The trainingsessions and the laboratory assignments are complementary. These training session lectures have beenrecorded for student self-study.Three projects are the

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Dean M. Aslam; Zongliang Cao; Cyrous Rostamzadeh

Innovative Engineering Education Using Programmable Lego Robotic VD Graaf Generators Dean M. Aslam, Zongliang Cao and Cyrous Rostamzadeh* Micro and Nano Technology Laboratory, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI 48824 * Robert Bosch LLC, EMC Department, Plymouth, MI 48170. aslam@msu.eduAbstract The Technology Assisted Science, Engineering and Mathematics (TASEM) learning, with majorfocus on innovations in the use of technology to explain new and complicated concepts rather than oneducation research, goes far beyond the

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Dean Aslam; Aixia Shao

Nanotechnology Learning Modules Using Technology Assisted Science, Engineering and Mathematics Dean Aslam and Aixia Shao Micro and Nano Technology Laboratory, Electrical and Computer Engineering Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI 48824 aslam@msu.eduAbstract Technology Assisted Science, Engineering and Mathematics (TASEM) focuses on innovative use oftechnology to explain new and complicated concepts rather than on education research. The explanationof nanotechnology is challenging because nano-dimensions require high-magnification electronmicroscopes to see them. Hand-on learning modules are difficult if