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2013 GSW

Authors

Hector A. Ochoa

why they considerthe internet the place where most, if not all necessary information can be found. We need toremember that the internet was introduced to the public in the 1990s. That means that most of thekids graduating from high school have been interacting with the internet since they were born.The question is: How we take advantage of all these new technologies to improve, or captivatethe attention of this new generation of students in the classrooms and laboratories? We all knowthat online learning is becoming more and more popular. However, in engineering, learning isnot limited to lecture; there are multiple laboratories that require sometimes expensive pieces ofequipment. For that reason, the teaching community has been studying

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2013 GSW

Authors

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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2013 GSW

Authors

Nripendra N. Sarker; Mohan A. Ketkar

tosimulation tools, such as MultiSim. Use of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) board iseven a better choice. This helps students to create schematic circuits at ease and also indeveloping Hardware Descriptive Language (HDL) program. The schematic or the HDL codecan simulate a circuit and help to fix any possible problems and finally to download the programon to FPGA board. The whole process is clean, neat, and encouraging to the users. As an addedadvantage, this hands-on process keeps the students engrossed in learning by keeping them awayfrom side-talks, high-tech distracters, such as smart phones and iPads. On another front, we haveintroduced high-end technology in teaching assembly language using microcontrollers. Thereare newer versions of

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2013 GSW

Authors

Rasool Kenarangui; Ratan Kumar; Lynn Peterson

graduate by the end of fall semester (rather than stay to complete the 2 additional corecourses), and some are interested in only learning the fundamentals of nuclear engineering. Impact of NE Minor at COE at UT ArlingtonUT Arlington is a comprehensive research, teaching and public service institution whose missionis the advancement of knowledge and the pursuit of excellence. It is striving to attain nationalresearch university status. As such, the offering of additional engineering curriculum optionssuch as NE is completely in line with the university’s mission. Since its initiation in fall 2009,the UT Arlington NE minor has begun contributing to the nation’s NE education infrastructure.  Indications are that interest

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2013 GSW

Authors

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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2013 GSW

Authors

Mohammed Zubair; Cherif Aissi

forward. Once thedesign is made, it is build and the prototype is tested repeatedly for flaws that require arectification. Validating, rectifying and justifying are prime attributes to solve a technicalproblem. This entire process will teach students all the steps that are required to obtain the bestdesign that meets all specifications.This project is a control system that could be included in an engineering/technologist curriculumto demonstrate the process of converting theoretical knowledge into practical implementation.This will boost the confidence in the engineering students and encourage them to come up withnew ideas and solutions [12]. It has the strength to inspire students to be more interested inSTEM fields by knowing the process that

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2013 GSW

Authors

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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2013 GSW

Authors

John Sibert; Matthew Goeckner; Dave Galley; Kory Goldammer

selection of STEM majors and classroomsuccess. Second, it has increased opportunities for internships and undergraduate researchexperiences for students early in their college career to encourage students to remain committedto the pursuit of STEM majors. Finally, a concerted effort of curriculum alignment across allSTEM fields at the three participating institutions combined with a formal professionaldevelopment program aimed at spreading effective pedagogical techniques across all threeinstitutions has been designed to enhance teaching effectiveness at the critical introductory level.The Dallas STEM Gateways Collaborative program is built to enhance the number, quality, anddiversity of undergraduates successfully earning STEM degrees

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2013 GSW

Authors

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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2013 GSW

Authors

Gustavo Narez; Sarah Hussein; Bernd Chudoba; Amit Oza

teams to become proficient with the process of designing. Even though the chief engineer in the project selects the final point of design, this process requires a full collaborative effort of every individual in the team. With such an effort, arduous feats can be accomplished through the contribution of critical thinkers organized to achieve specific objectives. References1. Anderson, Lorin W., and David R. Krathwohl. A taxonomy for learning, teaching and assessing: A revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of educational objectives: Complete edition . New York: Longman, 2001.2. Forehand, Mary. Bloom's Taxonomy-From emerging prespectives on Learning, Teaching, and Technology. Atlanta, Georgia

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2013 GSW

Authors

Tyler Crosson; Monica Hew; Bernd Chudoba; Amit Oza

aircraft. The capstone course mini-project experience during this first semester hasbeen initiated to teach students when and how to operate disciplinary design tools thatprepare them for design trade-studies they will encounter in the second semester seniordesign project. The class has been divided into three groups of 14 people and assigned theMesserschmitt Bf 109, Supermarine Spitfire, and the North American P-51 Mustang.This paper is the story of the group that focuses on the North American P-51 Mustang.The engineering team first forms a methodology that parametrically reproduces thedocumented aircraft performance specifications; the simulation results are validated bydirect comparison with historical data found in research; this validation