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Melanie Sattler

Friday Morning Session 2 - Faculty Benefits of Service-Learning in Meeting Learning Objectives: Examples from Air Pollution/Environmental Engineering Courses Melanie Sattler Civil Engineering Department University of Texas at Arlington AbstractService learning is “a teaching method which combines community service with academic instruction as it focuses on critical, reflective thinking and civic responsibility.”1 Dozens ofstudies have documented many benefits of service learning for students, including improved 1)ability to

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Christina K. White; Richard H. Crawford

) connect socially and culturally to engineering; and c) find solutions to theworld’s  most  pressing  societal  and  technical  issues.  These  experiences  will  be  described  with examples of interdisciplinary and design-based teaching at The University Texas at Austin. TheGrand Challenges Scholars’ reflections and survey results will represent ways that they engagedin and responded to international and interdisciplinary engineering education projects.Specifically, the experiences of the design and launch of an enterprise in Ghana will create athick and rich description about interdisciplinary, international, service-learning, andentrepreneurial components of engineering designs framed within the 21st Century EngineeringGrand Challenges. This

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Camille A. Issa

Overseas InstitutionsMany well-established U.S. specialized/professional accreditation agencies have in recent yearsbeen offering international accreditation evaluations, and status, as appropriate: engineering,business, and soon teacher education. In each case, the move to offering full accreditation abroadhas reflected an evolutionary process on the part of the accrediting agency, often starting with aMemoranda of Understanding (MOU), then some sort of "substantial equivalency", then fullaccreditation. There are many issues involved in evaluating foreign institutions utilizing U.S.standards. This paper draws upon the experience of the author in quality assurance andaccreditation in the U.S. and abroad to explore such issues by examining

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A. Baheri; Yucheng Liu P.E.; M. Hedayati

Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright©2013, American Society for Engineering Educationdies move during the performing and crushing steps can be precisely controlled at 17mmwhen the two time periods are set as 17s.The movements of the dies are described as follows: in the performing step, the side diesmove 17mm inwards during 17s and immediately move back to the original position at theend of the time period; at the same time the upper dies begin to perform the crushingoperation at a total stroke of 17mm from 17s to 34s. As reflected in Fig. 1, the internalpressure of the tube appears at t = 29s, which means that the internal pressure does notappear during the

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Amir Karimi; Randall D. Manteufel

shown in Fig. 1 more than once. One student repeatedMAT 1214-Calculus-I five times.Fig. 1. Number of students repeating courses required for the BS degree in mechanical engineering SurveyA survey was conducted to assess the perception of students on graduation rate issues. It isrelatively well-known that faculty have ideas about retention. These ideas are reflected in thecurriculum and in the assignment of instructors to particular classes. There is less information Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright 2013, American Society for

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L. Massa; P. Jha

. Gordon and B.J. McBride. Computer program for calculation of complex chemical equilibrium compositions, rocket performance, incident and reflected shocks and Chapman-Jouguet detonations. NASA-SP 273, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1971.LUCA MASSADr. Massa currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University ofTexas at Arlington. His research interests include combustion, detonation, transition modeling, boundary layers andcomputational fluid dynamics.PALLAV JHAMr. Jha is a PhD student in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Texas atArlington. He is currently a teaching assistant at this institution. His research interests are internal

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Edward E. Anderson

Wankat and Oreovicz2 problem solving strategy, McMaster problem solvingprogram of Woods3 and Woods, et al.4, Gray and Costonzo5 structured approach to problemsolving, Mettes and associates6 Systematic Approach to Solving Problems, and Litzenger, etal.’s7 Integrated Problem Solving Model. The Wankat and Oreovicz strategy divides problemsolving into definite steps including motivation, exploration, and reflection as well as the morecommon define, plan, execute and check steps. The McMaster problem solving program uses astructure similar to that of Wankat and Oreovicz and implements it across entire curricula.Gray’s structured approach emphasizes pattern-matching that starts with a small number ofgeneral equations that students reduce to fit a

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

, platform, software or any or all of them. In more detail:IaaS: Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (sometimes called Hardware as a Service). This is where the computing is done in real or more often virtual machines; if the latter they use a hypervisor (Xen, KVM) under a coordinating system. You could have images in a virtual machine image library, raw (block) and file-based storage, firewalls, load balancers, IP addresses, virtual local area nets and software bundles. Cloud providers typically bill IaaS services on a utility computing basis, that is, cost will reflect the amount of resources allocated and consumed.SaaS: Software as a Service. Seldom including tenancy (such as VMs). SaaS includes the use