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Hector A. Ochoa

Friday Morning Session 1- Faculty The Implementation of Take Home Laboratories Using the NI myDAQ Hector A. Ochoa Electrical Engineering Department The University of Texas at Tyler AbstractEvery year, new technologies are been discovered, and they affect us in many different ways.They change the way we live, move, think, and learn. Kids these days are very familiar withcomputers, gaming consoles, the internet, and cell phones. For them, things like encyclopedias,chalk boards, and trigonometric tables are ancient history. That is the reason

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Danielle Reynolds; Nur Yazdani; Tanvir Manzur

, one Teacher modifiedher teaching approach for the AP Physics class as follows. Students were asked to researchand report on recent failures in engineering infrastructure and how ethics may have played arole. The AP students also complete the roof truss exercise, similar to the pre-AP Physicsstudents, extending the application into the building walls. Students are given a constructionbudget, simulating real life projects. In the first two years of the RET project, students wereable to take various field trips to UT Arlington. Students took the first trip to understand howvarious materials are tested in the laboratory. During the second visit, students were able toexplore the same areas plus the manufacturing and robotics laboratory, 3D

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Cyrus Omid Abbasi

testing machine (Fig. 1). The loosening of the suture knots in a natural settinginitiates after long periods of respiratory cycling of a patient’s skin or drain and resembles a fatigue testing.To simulate such the oscillatory behavior a custom-made fixture was designed and constructed(Fig. 1), which was attached to the stationary arm of the IM. The stationary sponge mimics theskin of a patient through which the drain runs through and oscillates.RS suturing techniqueFig. 2 shows one of the RS test trials that were experimented with in the laboratory. The RSsuturing technique involves two knot units. See Fig. 3. Each knot unit consists of 4 surgeon’s knots.MRS suturing techniqueFig. 4 shows one of the MRS test trials that were experimented with in

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Ronald E. Barr

there are guest PEVs who are on a training visit. Theteam members are expected to arrive on the Saturday before the visit, or at least in time for theSunday brunch and initial team meeting at 11:00 am. Before the visit, it is expected that the PEVhas read the program self-study, completed a pre-visit evaluation, and audited student transcripts.On the Sunday afternoon, the ABET team proceeds to the campus and initiates visits with thevarious program facilities starting around 1:30 pm and lasting until about 5:00 pm. This is thetime set aside for meeting program administrators, visiting laboratory facilities, and reviewingthe program outcome and course notebooks. Any clarification of the materials will be initiatedduring this first visit to the

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Chaka Berthe; E. H. Shaban

primaryelectrons during X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS). For lack of space, in this extendedabstract, the Maxwell SV plots for the single and triple GEM are not shown.We obtained results from the actual test experiment using a single GEM X-ray fluorescencedetector for a dilute sample, a leaf of tree as in Figure 4. We have used NSLS synchrotronfacilities at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Long Island, New York. The single GEMprovided a relatively good scan for Iron (Fe) in a dry tree leaf. Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March21-23, 2013 Copyright 2013, American Society for the Engineering EducationFigure 1a. The

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Jonathan Crosley; Vincent Ricketts; Amit Oza; Bernd Chudoba

Spirit of St. Louis will be not to follow the sameflight plan as the original Ryan NYP, but it rather retains the path-finding long-range design-challenge. Decades apart, the electric aircraft will generate new ideas that can alter the course ofaviation, just as the Spirit of St. Louis. The Ryan NYP had unique design features that allowed itto cross the Atlantic Ocean in a non-stop flight. In analogy, a unique long-range electric aircraftwill challenge the development of electric propulsion and its integration into modern aircraft.This paper documents the conceptual design performed by UTA’s senior design capstone class based on a preceding research forecasting study by the AVD Laboratory, overall identifying afeasible electric aircraft mission

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Rasool Kenarangui; Ratan Kumar; Lynn Peterson

will continue to be at a high level among our students in this minor,as shown in student surveys, class enrollments, large attendance at seminars where attendancewas voluntary, and perceived interest among pre-college students.In addition, the establishment of the NE minor has improved the educational infrastructure of theCollege of Engineering by the establishment of the Radiation Measurement ApplicationLaboratory though a grant from the Department of Energy and an educational grant from theNuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for web-based learning. Furthermore it has facilitatedthe establishment of collaboration with NRC Region IV in Arlington, Comanche Peak NuclearPower Plant in Granbury, nuclear industries, national laboratories and other

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Chaudhry M. A. Arafat; Mohammad R. Hasan; Panos S. Shiakolas; Samir M. Iqbal

has worked as Quantitative SoftwareDeveloper at Stochastic Logic Ltd. before joining UTA in direct PhD program in Fall of 2011. His research isfocused on nanopores and quantification of cell behavior.PANOS S. SHIAKOLASDr. Shiakolas is the director of the MicroNano Manufacturing Automation and Robotics Systems laboratory and anAssociate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He has authored or coauthoredmany peer reviewed journal papers, and presented his research at national and international conferences andsymposia in the areas of micro-nano manufacturing and robotics, optimization and educational activities. He is amember of American Society of Mechanical Engineers.SAMIR M. IQBALDr. Iqbal directs the Nano-Bio

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Mohammed Arif I. Mahmood; Samir M. Iqbal

measured at these points. (b) Shows the voltage and current in the output window. The Green and Redgraphs represent voltage and current, respectively. The phase difference of a typical AC circuit is noticeable in the output.This probe window closely mimics the expensive oscilloscopescommonly used in the laboratories. The output parameters can also be programmed to find, for example, voltage difference between two specific nodes etc.AC sources are ubiquitous in our everyday life and sinusoidal AC sources are provided withinthe SPICE component library to manipulate as desired. Voltage amplitude, phase and frequenciesof these sources can be adjusted and optimized accordingly. Root mean square (RMS) output, aswell as time

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Priscila Martinez-Avila; Emmanuel Varona; Doug D. Carlton; Abegayl Thomas; Kevin A. Schug

(TAs) and two undergraduate Peer Academic Leaders (PAL) that werepresent at all times and stayed constant throughout the program. Subjects were recruited byadvisors and registered for the program prior to the first session. Separately from regularclassroom and laboratory sessions, students attended four hour sessions of supplementalinstruction scheduled once a week, in which material was reinforced using the model of aTreisman-style Emerging Scholars Program (ESP)5,6. In ESP, an emphasis is placed on buildingcommunity among the students through active learning and fostering collective efforts aimed tosolve challenging problems.Students enrolled in ESP, henceforth the ESP group, received the benefits of the AURASprogram while the comparison non

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Waqas Ali; Samir M. Iqbal

- 146, 2006.2. T. T. Wu, and  C.  K.  Lee,  “Taiwan:  Ministry  of  Education  and  NTU  implementing Taiwan Nanotechnology K–12 Education Program,” Asia–Pac. Nanotechnol. Forum News J., vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 17–19, 2003.WAQAS ALIWaqas did his undergraduate in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore,Pakistan in 2007. He taught at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology in the same city before joining UTAin 2010 for his Ph.D. His research is focused on the fabrication of nano-devices for biomedical applications.SAMIR M. IQBALDr. Iqbal directs the Nano-Bio Laboratory in Nanotechnology Research and Education Center. He is a member ofthe Joint Graduate Studies Committee of the joint

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Amit Oza; Gary Coleman; Lex Gonzalez; Bernd Chudoba; Paul Czsyz

, subtract, and document the data & information provided; (DB)5. extraction, combination and utilization of data/ information in a pre-defined manner. (KB)Figure 1. Dedicated AVD Laboratory DB and organization scheme. (Reference 1)The first four steps are handled within the DB. The DB has been put to use to provide in anintermediate step (step four) suitably selected, structured, and condensed flight vehicleconceptual design data and information. The research goal, to develop an evolutionary andrevolutionary N+3 generation commercial subsonic large long haul transport, requires to accountfor as many design-related interactions as necessary, since the rationale for the evolution of Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE

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Mohammed Zubair; Cherif Aissi

  2004.6. H. Yang, et all, “ A study on overall vehicle monitoring system for black box using  Labview,” 11 th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems, Oct. 26- 29,2011 in KINTEX, Gyeonggi-do, Korea.7. H.  Li, et all “Research on Network of Remote Real-time Surveillance System based on LabVIEW,” 7th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics 200.98. J. Anthony, “Application of labview In higher education laboratories,” IEEE Frontiers In  Education Conference Proceedings, pp. 444-446, 1988.9. H. Wenhai, “Design of the measurement system of the pump based on Labview,” The 8th International Conference on Electronic Measurement and Instruments, Vol. 2, pp 475-478, 2007.10. G

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John Sibert; Matthew Goeckner; Dave Galley; Kory Goldammer

articulation agreements have beeninstitutionalized, they now represent a platform for recurring future communication/collaborationamong the STEM departments across all three campuses.Summer Undergraduate Research Experiences for Transfer StudentsUndergraduate research experiences have been shown to be an excellent opportunity forengagement and persistence within STEM degree plans.10 Thus, the Collaborative placed twentySTEM students from Collin and Richland College in the research laboratories of UT Dallasfaculty in the summers of 2011 and 2012 with an additional twelve planned for the summer of2013. The research areas covered a wide STEM base including biology, chemistry, geosciences,applied mathematics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering

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Cherif Aissi; Mohammed Zubair

control and avoid chaos butalso how to design chaotic circuits and develop applications, which explore these phenomena.Realizing the educational value to introduce undergraduate students to the phenomena of chaos, Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright ©2013, American Society for Engineering EducationLonngren [1] describes an interesting electronics experiment to illustrate the existence of chaos.The described laboratory experiment with the accompanying theory is a good start for the studentto grasp and understand chaos. As a continuation of this goal and to enhance studentsunderstanding of

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Amit Oza; Gary Coleman; Lex Gonzalez; Bernd Chudoba; Paul Czsyz

Saturday Morning Session 1 - Student Solution Space Screening of a Hypersonic Endurance Demonstrator Amit Oza, Gary Coleman, Lex Gonzalez, Bernd Chudoba Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department University of Texas at Arlington Paul Czysz Hypertech Concepts LLC St. Louis, MO AbstractThe Solution Space Screening for a Hypersonic Endurance Demonstrator program was atwo and one-half month study to: Demonstrate the Aerospace Vehicle Design (AVD) Laboratory

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Eric Haney; Lex Gonzalez; Amen Omoragbon; Thomas McCall; Xiao Peng; Vincent Ricketts; Jon Crosley; Bernd Chudoba

Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright 2013, American Society for Engineering Educationthe modern engineer is the overabundance of information, and the lack of time and emphasis bymost engineering environments to utilize historic documents, thus lessons learned. It is theintention of the Aerospace Vehicle Design (AVD) Laboratory at the University of Texas atArlington to demonstrate with an example best-practice design re-engineering case study, howtoday’s engineers can leverage a historic project like Project Mercury to gain insight andincrease systems-level design proficiency.Project Mercury IntroductionProject Mercury was a

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Nripendra N. Sarker; Mohan A. Ketkar

connecting wires leading to power and ground connections of the board. When inputsand outputs are connected together with the chips themselves being connected to implement acircuit, it becomes a nightmare to debug any single bug in the circuit. The bugs could beanywhere, from wrong circuit design, to wrong connections, loose pins or the board itself being aproblem. It does not need to wait long to see students getting frustrated with the lab.Considering all these practical problems faced in the laboratory, we decided to upgrade the labwith three objectives 1. Make the lab hour an enthusiastic period of learning by removing all unnecessary hurdles in completing each lab with satisfaction 2. Complete the lab syllabus on time

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Lex Gonzalez; Gary Coleman; Eric Haney; Amit Oza; Vincent Ricketts; Bernd Chudoba; Paul Czsyz

Friday Morning Session 2 - StudentConceptual Architecture Planning for Manned Geo Satellite Servicing Lex Gonzalez, Gary Coleman, Eric Haney, Amit Oza, Vincent Ricketts, Bernd Chudoba Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department University of Texas at Arlington Paul Czsyz Hypertech Concepts LLC AbstractIn an effort to quantify the feasibility of candidate space architectures for manned geostationary(GEO) satellite servicing (MGS), NASA and DARPA have teamed up with the AerospaceVehicle Design (AVD) Laboratory

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, the grandsons ofCharles Lindbergh and the Ryan NYP designer Donald Hall along with the Aerospace Vehicle Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright 2013, American Society for Engineering EducationDesign (AVD) Laboratory have decided to define a modern challenge to honor the 1927 designand operator team to better understand the impact of state-of-the-art technology on advancedaircraft performance.It would not be a stretch to say that since the 1950s there have been no significant gains ingeneral aviation (GA) operations and technology. This study hopes to re-energize

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Xiao Peng; Lex Gonzalez; Eric Haney; Amen Omoragbon; Bernd Chudoba

, categorizing, applying, inventing and updating knowledge. A truly practical aerospaceKBS implementation is still absent in the current aerospace engineering design community. TheAVD Laboratory at UTA makes the very first effort in developing an industry-relevant thuspractical aerospace KBS dedicated to the strategic conceptual design phase. Methodology and ImplementationIntroduction AVDSIZING Knowledge AVDDBS Base Data Flow Control

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Tyler Crosson; Monica Hew; Bernd Chudoba; Amit Oza

Vehicle Design laboratory under the supervision of Dr. Bernd Chudoba.BERND CHUDOBADr. Chudoba has developed conceptual design tools for advanced aircraft with the Future ProjectsDepartments of Airbus Industrie (Toulouse, France), British Aerospace (Bristol, England), AérospatialeAirbus (Toulouse, France), DaimlerChrysler Airbus (Hamburg, Germany). He has also been involved in thedevelopment and production of general-aviation aircraft, ultra-light aircraft, solar-powered aircraft andflexible hand gliders. Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright 2013, American Society for Engineering

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Gustavo Narez; Sarah Hussein; Bernd Chudoba; Amit Oza

over Engineering Student Council in 2011.AMIT OZAMr. Oza is a graduate Aerospace Engineering student at the University of Texas at Arlington working in theAdvanced Vehicle Design laboratory under the supervision of Dr. Bernd Chudoba.BERND CHUDOBADr. Chudoba has developed conceptual design tools for advanced aircraft with the Future ProjectsDepartments of Airbus Industrie (Toulouse, France), British Aerospace (Bristol, England), AérospatialeAirbus (Toulouse, France), DaimlerChrysler Airbus (Hamburg, Germany). He has also been involved in thedevelopment and production of general-aviation aircraft, ultra-light aircraft, solar-powered aircraft andflexible hand gliders. Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual

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George Kitamura; Kristin Milam; Elvin Hii; Chris Kniffin; Alexander Graves; Amit Oza; Bernd Chudoba

and Development Laboratory, Nov. 1973.4. Phillips, W.F., “Mechanics of Flight,” 2nd ed., John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New Jersey, 2010, Chap. 2.7. Roskam, K., “Airplane Design – Parts I-VIII,” Roskam Aviation and Engineering Corporation, Ottawa, KS. 1985-1986.8. Loftin,  L.K,  “Subsonic Aircraft: Evolution and the Matching of Size to Performance”, NASA Scientific and Technical Informational Branch, Langley Research Center, Aug. 1980.9. Air Ministry, “Pilot’s Notes for Spitfire VA, VB and VC Aircraft – Merlin 45, 45M, 50, 50A, 50M, 55 or 55M engine,” 1st ed., Air Publication 1565E and Air Publication 2280A, B and C, Air Data Publication, Cheshire, UK, 1940.GEORGE D. KITAMURAMr. Kitamura is an undergraduate student in the

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Eric Haney; Lex Gonzalez; Amen Omoragbon; Amit Oza; Bernd Chudoba

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Oscar N. Garcia; Garima Bajwa; Cynthia L. Claiborne; Shanti R. Thiyagaraja; Mohamed Fazeen; Eric H. Pruett