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Green Renewable Energy

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deepak Gupta, Southeast Missouri State University; Ragu Athinarayanan, Southeast Missouri State University; Bradley J. Deken, Southeast Missouri State University

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Engineering Technology

training modules, develop courses and laboratories and work towardbecoming certified in area/s of their teaching expertise.Partnerships and CollaboratorsSoutheast collaborated with TRCC and MAC to establish a career pathway that will allowstudents to seamlessly matriculate from a certificate and/or an AAS degree to the BS Technologydegree at Southeast. The transfer articulation established between Southeast and theseinstitutions was used for the same. Students completing programs at these institutions couldtransfer to Southeast using one of two models that we have available. Using the first model,students completing an AAS degree at a community college will directly matriculate to the BSdegree using the course-by-course transfer articulation model

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Innovations in Power Engineering Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Seyed Mousavinezhad, Idaho State University, (first, corresponding author)

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Electrical and Computer

University. Prior to this he was the Director of the Data Storage Systems Center, Associate Department Head in ECE, and was the founding co-director of the General Motors Collabora- tive Research Laboratory at CMU. He is currently the Director of the DARPA MISCIC Center at CMU. He received a B.Sc. degree in Physics from the University of Toronto in 1980 and an M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1982 and 1985 respectively. His research interests are in the areas of solid state electronic and optical devices, nanotechnology, and information storage systems. He has received a number of awards and honors including; the Carnegie In- stitute of Technology George Tallman Ladd

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Thinking Outside the Box! Innovative Curriculum Exchange for K12 Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Blake C. Wade, University of Texas, Arlington and Kennedale High School, Kennedale ISD; Yvette Pearson Weatherton, University of Texas, Arlington; Melanie L. Sattler P.E., University of Texas, Arlington

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

utilize computer simulations inconjunction with hands-on laboratory experimentation to stimulate their understanding ofengineering concepts. Through a National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored Research Experiences forTeachers (RET) program at the University of Texas-Arlington (UTA), several high schoolteachers worked with engineering faculty on research problems related to hazard mitigation. Theproject used for the work presented here was entitled “Air Dispersion Modeling: Planning forAirborne Terrorism Releases in Dallas/Fort Worth.” The RET participants used AERMOD, adispersion modeling software based upon Gaussian dispersion principles, to predict the ambientconcentrations of chlorine gas that would result if released from sites near

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FPD V: Gender and Engineering Education: A Panel Discussion and Workshop

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Caitrin Lynch, Olin College of Engineering; Alisha L. Sarang-Sieminski, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Lynn Andrea Stein, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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First-Year Programs, Women in Engineering

and Society, 20(4), 441-46422. Coleman, R. P. (1960), “The Significance of Social Stratification in Selling.” Marketing: A Maturing Discipline, Proc. of the American Marketing Association 43rd National Conf, ed. M. L. Bell, Chicago: American Marketing Association, 181-18423. Mclntosh, P. (1988). ‘White privilege and male privilege: A personal account of coming to see correspondences through work in women's studies.’ In Race, class, and gender: An anthology, 2st ed., edited by M. L. Andersen and P. H. Collins. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth24. Spertus, E. (1991). “Why are There so Few Female Computer Scientists?” MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Technical Report 131525. Laboratory for Computer Science and

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Information and Network Security

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Iem Heng, New York City College of Technology; Farrukh Zia, New York City College of Technology, CUNY; Andy Zhang, New York City College of Technology

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Computing & Information Technology

taught in the courses within the two year AssociateDegree program1. The students were able to understand the concepts and apply the hardware andsoftware interfacing and communication techniques in their laboratory exercises and designprojects2. However, the limitation of communication speed in parallel and serial ports and theirinflexibility in communicating with multiple devices prompted the introduction of wired USB(universal serial bus) port and wireless Bluetooth interface. The modern personal computers havemostly eliminated the parallel and serial ports, in favor of more flexible but much more complexUSB port3 and Bluetooth interface4. The complexity of underlying hardware and associatedcommunication protocol software for these new

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Factors Affecting Student Performance

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maddumage Karunaratne, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown

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Engineering Technology

buildingcareers based on digital circuit design will probably encounter electronic systems built on suchdevices in their professional work. Therefore, it has become necessary to introduce related courses atundergraduate level along with a considerable number of hands on laboratory sessions as well.This paper discusses the teaching and enhancements made to such courses in digital design toundergraduates majoring in Electrical Engineering Technology (EET). The author will elaborate theattempts taken in promoting a certain level of excitement in students during the digital designcourse. The paper also describes several considerations taken into account in the adaptation ofVerilog Hardware Description Languages (HDL) and automation based digital design flow

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Integrating Technical Research into Professional Development and K-12 Classrooms

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy E. Landis, University of Pittsburgh; Christian D. Schunn, University of Pittsburgh; Monica Christine Rothermel, University of Pittsburgh; Scott Shrake, University of Pittsburgh; Briana Niblick, University of Pittsburgh

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

into research laboratories at the University of Pittsburgh. Thispaper presents an introduction to the RET program and delves into the findings from theinternship portion of the RET Site.The RET Site at the University of Pittsburgh has four main components including curriculumdevelopment for Pittsburgh area high school teachers during an intensive summer experience,teacher implementation of new engineering design units into their courses, an annual designcompetition where the teachers’ students present their projects, and finally high school studentinternships within research laboratories at the University of Pittsburgh. Interns participated inresearch activities with the aim of developing their interest in engineering, developing theirability

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Embedded System Design

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeanne Christman, Rochester Institute of Technology; Eric J. Alley, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Engineering Technology

many of today’sstudents, projects must have an end product that they find entertaining. The DE2 board providesan audio CODEC for voice and music applications along with a video in and video out (VGA)port. Although the board does provide other peripherals such as a LCD display, Ethernet andinfra-red, it has been found that assignments that involve audio and visual interfaces are the onesthat are more likely to hold the student’s interest. Page 22.47.3Lab DevelopmentThe laboratory described in this paper was developed for the Embedded Systems Design IIcourse to meet the objectives of quantitatively comparing the performance of a hardware and

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Curricular Developments in Energy Education I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hayrettin B. Karayaka, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi; Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi; Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; Korinne Caruso, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

specifically its Electrical Engineering Technology program and itsemphasis in Nuclear Power Systems. Considerable time and effort was also put on the workshopplanning activities. Local area teachers were made aware of the week-long workshop via email,program flyers and website advertisement. In addition, the faculty and staff spent many hours incurriculum and lab development activities (Figure 1). Here, the details of the Summer Workshopfor High School Teachers are presented, and the success of the workshop evaluated.Figure 1: Faculty and staff in summer workshop laboratory planning and development activitiesAttendeesParticipants were chosen from regional high school teacher applicants first then from junior highschool applicants. There were a total

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Engineering Mechanics Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter Schuster, California Polytechnic State University

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Mechanical Engineering

. Page 22.101.11AcknowledgementsThanks to Lance Mayhofer and Ann Hanks at PASCO for providing materials and technicalsupport to make this lab project possible.Bibliography1. An assessment of visualization modules for learning enhancement in mechanics. D. Rhymer, D. Jensen, M. Bowe. s.l. : ASEE Annual Conference, 2001.2. A remote laboratory for stress and deformation study. A. Choudhury, J. Rodriguez, S. Ramrattan, M. Keil, P. Ikonomov, A. Goyal. s.l. : ASEE, 2006.3. Web-based virtual torsion laboratory. P. Bhargava, J. Antonakakis, C. Cunningham, A.T. Zehnder. 1, s.l. : Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 2006, Vol. 14.4. A remote laboratory in engineering measurement. M.T. Restivo, J. Mendes, A.M. Lopes, C.M. Silva, F

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nathan W. Klingbeil, Wright State University; Scott Molitor, University of Toledo; Brian W. Randolph, University of Toledo; Shane A. Brown, Washington State University; Robert G. Olsen, Washington State University; C. Richard Cassady, University of Arkansas

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NSF Grantees

involves three primarycomponents:1) The development of EGR 101 "Introductory Mathematics for Engineering Applications," a novel freshman-level engineering mathematics course.2) A large-scale restructuring of the early engineering curriculum, where students can advance in the program without first completing the traditional freshman calculus sequence.3) A more just-in-time structuring of the required math sequence.The Wright State model begins with the development of EGR 101, a novel freshman engineeringmathematics course. Taught by engineering faculty, the EGR 101 course includes lecture,laboratory and recitation components. Using an application-oriented, hands-on approach, EGR101 addresses only the salient math topics actually used in the

Conference Session

Teaching Circuit Theory and Electronics

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Braun, California Polytechnic State University

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2011-369: TEACHING SUSTAINABILITY ANALYSIS IN ELECTRON-ICS LECTURE COURSESDavid Braun, California Polytechnic State University David Braun received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1991. From 1992 to 1996, he worked for Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, on semiconducting polymers for display applications. He joined California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo in 1996 and is now a Professor in the Electrical Engineer- ing Department. See www.ee.calpoly.edu/faculty/dbraun/ for more information. He teaches courses in electronics, solid-state electronics, polymer electronics and sustainability. He holds

Conference Session

Thinking Outside the Box! Innovative Curriculum Exchange for K12 Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lelli Van Den Einde, University of California, San Diego; Samuel Lee, University of California, San Diego

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

” cluster within the contexts of experiential and problem-based learning theories, andwill document the curriculum used such that its successes may be improved and replicated.2. Overview of High School Summer ProgramCOSMOS is a residential math and science summer camp that provides an opportunity formotivated high school students to work alongside university researchers and faculty to exploretopics that extend beyond the typical high school curriculum. The program encompasses fouruniversity campuses, each offering a variety of clusters in science and engineering thatconcentrate on hands-on activities in laboratory settings highlighting current universityresearch[1]. The objective of the “Earthquakes in Action” cluster described herein is to

Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Technical Session II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Frankie Santos Laanan, Iowa State University; Balaji Narasimhan, Iowa State University; Monica H. Lamm, Iowa State University; Carlos Lopez, Iowa State University ; Dimitra Lynette Jackson, Iowa State University

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Biological & Agricultural

choice “opportunity to determine ifinterested in graduate school.” However, 10% of the students ranked as their first choice “good Page 22.288.2summer job” as their primary reason for participating in the REU BioMaP Summer ResearchProgram. Additionally, students reported that they felt the program improved their computationaland laboratory research skills as well as provide them with a better understanding of the researchprocess. They believed the program helped them to clarify their goals regarding their majors andfuture career choices; the program also demonstrated to students the importance of networkingwith other colleagues in their field

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CANCELLED: This session has been replaced by session W269 in room 223: Panel: Building Effective Pathways and Programs for Women and Minoritities

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hyun Kyoung Ro, Pennsylvania State University; Rose M. Marra, University of Missouri, Columbia; Patrick T. Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Ardie D. Walser, City College of the City University of New York, Grove School of Engineering; Lois Calian Trautvetter, Northwestern University; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego

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Minorities in Engineering

collaborative NSF-funded Gender in Science and Engineering project investigating persistence of women in engineering undergraduate programs. Dr. Lord’s industrial experience includes AT&T Bell Laboratories, General Motors Laboratories, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and SPAWAR Systems Center. She served as the President of the IEEE Education Society in 2009 and 2010. Page 22.794.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 If You Build It, They Will Come (and Stay): Recruiting and Retaining Women and Underrepresented Minority Students The 2006 Spellings

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Panel on Recruiting and Retaining Women and Underrepresented Minority Students

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hyun Kyoung Ro, Pennsylvania State University; Rose M. Marra, University of Missouri, Columbia; Ardie D. Walser, City College of the City University of New York, Grove School of Engineering; Patrick T. Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Lois Calian Trautvetter, Northwestern University; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego

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Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

collaborative NSF-funded Gender in Science and Engineering project investigating persistence of women in engineering undergraduate programs. Dr. Lord’s industrial experience includes AT&T Bell Laboratories, General Motors Laboratories, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and SPAWAR Systems Center. She served as the President of the IEEE Education Society in 2009 and 2010. Page 22.795.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 If You Build It, They Will Come (and Stay): Recruiting and Retaining Women and Underrepresented Minority Students The 2006 Spellings

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SPECIAL SESSION: Interdisciplinary Course Design Opportunities for Chemical Engineers

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph J. Biernacki, Tennessee Technological University; Christopher D. Wilson, Tennessee Technological University

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Chemical Engineering

a CHE-ME elective entitled, “Interdisciplinary Studies inCeramic Materials Processing,” and a CHE-ECE-ME elective entitled, “Introduction toMicroelectromechanical Systems (MEMS). Designed with more than one pedagogical focus,these courses were implemented not only to provide real interdisciplinary team-based activities,but also to be true design experiences with either laboratory and computational experiences orboth. Over the past ten years, this pair of courses have been test-beds for examining theeffectiveness of various team selection strategies, the integration of inquiry-based learning, andeven the introduction of a novel inter university collaboration on entrepreneurship. These twoexperiments in interdisciplinary instruction provided

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation of K-12 Engineering Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gisele Ragusa, Ph.D., University of Southern California

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Engineering and Public Policy, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

student learning inSTEM via formation, nurturance and sustaining an important targeted school-university urbaneducational partnership. Our university has partnered with a large urban school district to plan,deliver and sustain a targeted inservice teacher professional development and a middle and highschool STEM curriculum intervention.Teacher Intervention Through our university partnership with local urban public middle and high schools, weengaged in a targeted recruitment of mid career teachers in the sciences. The project’s leadershipteam has worked with teams of two teachers who were placed, based on research interest, in anengineering laboratory that is conducting research using societally relevant engineeringtechnologies. The teacher

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ying Tang, Rowan University; Sachin Shetty, Tennessee State University; Xiufang Chen, Rowan University

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NSF Grantees

laboratory setting of the four target courses, this approach immerses students inactual engineering design challenges where a selection of metacognitive and problem-solvingstrategies is unfolded. With no additional software and hardware required, the game system canbe installed, configured, and run in any personal computer, making this development costeffective and easily transportable.INTRODUCTIONEngineering Circuit Analysis (e.g., Network I and II offered at Rowan University) is so-called“gateway” course within the curricula of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). It isfoundational in that many of the upper level courses have a heavy reliance on the application ofthe concepts from them, and therefore poor performance often discourages

Conference Session

Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emre Selvi, Muskingum University; Sandra Soto-Caban, Muskingum University; Richard S. Taylor, Muskingum University; William R Wilson, Muskingum University

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Design in Engineering Education

studentsaimed to find the maximum compression member and tried to minimize it by changing theirdesigns, which was indeed a redesign. That necessitates them to carefully examine their bridge’struss, which led them to better comprehend why the trusses are constructed the way they are.It has been observed that students enjoy and learn better from laboratory lectures when they areconnected together as a single project rather than a discrete set of unrelated exercises8. By meansof the bridge design project, students did not only perform an experiment with beams and loadcells but they used those equipments to test and improve their designs. They also had theopportunity to observe some reasons that caused the calculated and the measured values to bedifferent

Conference Session

Innovative Instructional Strategies and Curricula in ECE I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cordelia M. Brown, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Yung-Hsiang Lu, Purdue University

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2011-2557: TEAMING IN AN ENGINEERING PROGRAMMING COURSECordelia M Brown, Purdue University, West Lafayette Cordelia M. Brown is an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Engineering Education at Purdue University. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Vanderbilt Univer- sity, her M.S. in Electrical Engineering at Vanderbilt University, and her B.S. in Electrical Engineering at Tuskegee University. Her research interests include assessment of instructional methods, laboratory design, collaborative learning, and retention and recruitment issues in engineering education.Dr. Yung-Hsiang Lu, Purdue University

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To Boldly Go... Engineering Librarians Explore New Connections with Users

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aleteia Greenwood, University of British Columbia; Eugene Barsky, University of British Columbia

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Engineering Libraries

courses for inner city residents are certainly not anew idea. However, the majority of these courses have been focused on preparing highschool students for science courses 1-3 and on resources to support the teachers thatinstruct these students 4. Usually, these courses focus on introducing basic scientificconcepts and laboratory skills. Many formal adult education programs exist (i.e.continuing education) that are committed to a formal agenda (i.e. a diploma or degree). Ifthere are programs offered that provide access to the academic institutional approach toteaching and learning for underprivileged/disadvantaged/inner city adults they are notwell advertised.BackgroundThe Science 101 course at the University of British Columbia provides an

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Collaborations, Accreditation and Articulation Issues for International Engineering Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yuemin Zhao, China University of Mining & Technology; You-jun Tao, China University of Mining & Technology

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International

, and it has been important base for personnel training and scientificresearch of mineral processing in China, and has a higher international outstanding academicand influence. The major has achieved outstanding achievement in undergraduate teaching,experiments and practice teaching. It has two national content courses of ‘mineralprocessing subject’ and ‘concentration plant design’, six of them are top-quality coursesof Jiangsu; Laboratory of mineral processing is the key laboratory of ministry of education.And in 2009, it was awarded as national experimental teaching demonstration centers withmining engineering and safety engineering, and it has formed a training system of mineralprocessing to adapt the new century. Nearly 60 years

Conference Session

New Developments in Teaching Electromagnetics and Related Topics

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taufik Taufik, California Polytechnic State University; Dale S.L. Dolan, California Polytechnic State University

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Electrical and Computer

University in San Luis Obispo we have taken the position that magnetic designis a critical design skill set to electrical engineering that it has had for a long time a technicalelective course in magnetic design5. The course is numbered EE 433 entitled “Introduction toMagnetic Design” whose description is as follows6. Design of magnetic components. Fundamentals of magnetics, magnetic cores, design of power transformer, three-phase transformer, dc inductor, ac inductors, dc-dc converter transformer design, actuators. Use of commercially available software. 3 lectures, 1 laboratory. Prerequisite: EE 255&295 or consent of instructor.In 2008, the course underwent a major revision to cover more applied topics and to introducenew laboratory

Conference Session

Descriptions of Outreach Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kauser Jahan, Rowan University; Krishan Kumar Bhatia, Rowan University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

van (weather permitting) • Activities inside the classroom (Activities are also conducted inside the school typically in the science classrooms or computer laboratories. A number of notebooks have been purchased and can be taken during a school visit in the event a school does have portable computers or a computer laboratory.) Figure 5: Indoor Classroom ActivitiesThe school visit duration depends on the nature of the request. Typical fifty minute classroom Page 22.610.7periods are popular. Multiple science sections maybe exposed to the activities on the same day.Visits are made to elementary

Conference Session

Structural Education Applications in Architectural Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cole C. McDaniel, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Graham C. Archer, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Blake A. Roskelley, CYS Structural Engineers, Inc.

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Architectural

Engineering Senior Project. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 2008.5. (Humar 1990) Humar, J. L. “Dynamics of Structures.” Prentice-Hall, Inc., New Jersey, 1990.6. (MathWorks 2009) MathWorks Inc. “Matlab 7 Getting Started Guide.” The MathWorks Inc. Natick, MA, 2009.7. (McDaniel and Archer 2009) McDaniel, C.C., Archer, G. “Developing a ‘Feel’ for Structural Behavior.” American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, 2009. Page 22.682.88. (McDaniel and Archer 2010a) McDaniel, C.C., Archer, G. C. “Full-scale, Real-time Building Dynamics Laboratory.” 9th U.S. National and 10th

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shawn Wagoner, Binghamton University; David Klotzkin, Binghamton University; E. White, Jr., Binghamton University

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NSF Grantees

students to get familiar with micro-fabrication 5. The substrate used for thisexperiment is a 4” silicon wafer. The master for the device is first created from a negative resiston the surface of the wafer. The microfluidic device is then molded in poly(dimethylsiloxane)(PDMS). After molding the PDMS device and its glass cover are exposed to low-power oxygenplasma either in a plasma asher, RIE or PECVD and plasma-oxidized, then bonded together. ASEM of the channels is shown in Figure 4.6 Page 22.683.5 Figure 4. SEM of Microfluidic Device6Capstone Course Logistics Laboratory safety is the chief concern when introducing undergraduates to techniques

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brent A Nelson, Northern Arizona University; Constantin Ciocanel, Northern Arizona University

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Mechanical Engineering

their analysis, and although engineering students generally havecourses on experimentation, such courses are rarely combined with any significant theoreticalmodeling activities.1.2 A Low-Cost Joint Design Project1.2.1 Course StructureIn order to address the disconnect between theory and real systems that often occurs inengineering education, we developed a low-cost design project, administered jointly between atheory-focused course on heat transfer (ME450) and an experimental laboratory course inthermo-fluid systems (ME495). Note that the heat transfer course has been renumbered since theprevious implementation of the design project, when the number was ME350. The ME450course is focused on the physics of heat transfer, calculating and

Conference Session

Investigating Alternative Energy Concepts

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ignacio B. Osorno, California State University, Northridge

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

AC 2011-212: APPLIED MODELING OF SOLAR CELLSIgnacio B. Osorno, California State University, Northridge I have been teaching and researching Electrical Power Systems for over 25 years, and currently I am a professor of ECE. Published over 20 technical papers and given several presentations related to the ”smart grid” and electric power systems. Consulting with several major corporations has been accomplished in the areas of power electronics and solar energy. I am the lead faculty member of the Electric Power Sys- tems Program. I have established the electrical machines and microprocessor-relay laboratories and power electronics laboratory (in progress). Research interests are solar energy, wind energy, power

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Innovative Methods to Teach Engineering to URMs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Showkat Chowdhury, Alabama A&M University; Mohamed A. Seif, Alabama A&M University

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Minorities in Engineering

to the students o Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory o Materials Laboratory o Experimental Mechanics Laboratory o Propulsion Laboratory o Machine Shop o Paint BoothThe team maintains a web site for the project, and all the members have access to the internet.Other tools and resources include numerous computers uploaded with tools such asRockSIM, MATLAB, Solid Edge, and Microsoft Office. The school provides the IT facility Page 22.773.4required during the progress of the proposed tasks. As mentioned above, the project will be  under the supervision of Dr. Showkat Chowdhury and Dr