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James Helbling

474Six years ago the Aircraft Detail Design course underwent a curricular update to better prepareAE students for professional life. The results from annual internal reviews were documented inpreparation for a program review by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET) in addition to the results from alumni surveys. These results indicated that AEgraduates required more intensive and timely preparation in two primary areas: application andcommunication.The impetus for a more application-based curriculum came from a change in faculty at the DetailDesign level. The new design faculty had many years of industrial and managerial experienceprior to joining the ERAU staff and understood that typical undergraduate training does

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Yusuf Ozturk; Emrah Orhun; Chris Bowerman

386 TOWARDS A JOINT DEGREE PROGRAM IN AMBIENT COMPUTING1 Yusuf Ozturk*, Emrah Orhun**, Chris Bowerman*** Electrical and Computer Engineering, San Diego State University* Computer Science Department, Troy University** Department of Computing and Technology, University of Sunderland***Abstract ⎯ Funded by the US-EU Atlantis Program, International Cooperation in Ambient ComputingEducation (ICACE) Project is establishing an international knowledge-building community for

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Paul Blowers

pre-knowledge of MRI technologies and then drew asecond one after exposure to the material. Students were evaluated on the structural changes inthe hierarchy of organizing concepts, their use of expert terms, and then through a blind-evaluation of the pre- and post-mapping exercises. Of the 78 concepts detailed by instructors, Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 116only 28 showed up on any of the student maps, and at that, only half of the module sections wererepresented. It was noted that preknowledge of the material or prior experiences were a verystrong

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Gordana Jovanovic Dolecek; Fred Harris

National Researcher System (SNI) Mexico.fred harris is professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at San Diego State University, where he holds theCUBIC Signal Processing Chair of the Communication Systems and Signal Processing Institute. He has extensivepractical experience applying his skills to satellite and cable TV communication systems, wire-line and wirelessmodems, underwater acoustics, advanced radar and high performance laboratory instrumentation. He holds severalpatents on digital receiver and DSP technology, lectures on DSP worldwide, and consults for organizations requiringhigh performance DSP systems including the SPAWAR, Lockheed, Cubic, Hughes, Rockwell, Northrop Grumman,SAIC, GDE, and Motorola. He is has published over 160

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Gemunu Happawana; Amaranath Premasiri; Arye Rosen

89 Design, Fabrication, and Analysis of Photodynamic Therapy Oxygen Monitoring System For Use In Esophageal Carcinoma Gemunu Happawana1, Amaranath Premasiri2, Arye Rosen31 Department of Mechanical Engineering, California State University, Fresno, CA 93740, email:ghappawana@csufresno.edu, 559-278-6832, Fax: 559-278-2368. 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, 75275, email:apremasi@smu.edu, 214-768-1966, Fax: 214-768-1473.3 Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, Bossone 7-504, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, email: ar86

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Ranjan K. Sen; Pradip Peter Dey

Primitives http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms228964.aspx 13) T. Leighton, Introduction to Parallel Algorithms and Architectures: Arrays:Trees:Hypercubes - Morgan Kaufmann, 1992. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 357 Appendix I: Microsoft Parallel Processing Technology Recent .NET Framework, 3.0 and later versions of .NET Frameworks support more than one high level parallel processing technologies (see figure). These provide the high level programming model missing in the legacy thread models

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Xiaomin Jin; Dennis Derickson; Simeon Trieu; Samuel O. Agbo

51 Photonics Research and Education at California Polytechnic State University Xiaomin Jin, Dennis Derickson, Simeon Trieu, and Samuel O. Agbo Electrical Engineering Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 AbstractCalifornia Polytechnic State University is a major undergraduate teaching institute. We have avery active photonic teaching and research program in the Electrical Engineering (EE)department. In the recent years, the photonics group went