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Louis Manzione; Akram Abu-aisheh

business realities mandate that all firmsshould evaluate many design, development, and realization options available worldwide,not just locally. The current changes will only increase as the world economy becomesmore competitive, interdependent, and accelerated by broadband networks that facilitatehighly interconnected global relations to better prepare engineering students for theemerging global sourcing environment. This paper presents a plan for preparingengineering students for the new global sourcing environments.IntroductionIn the continuously changing world towards more globalization, there is a clear need forcollaborative and dynamic university-industry partnerships. In order to prepareengineering students for the global sourcing

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S Claudina Vargas

concepts and principles of DAE began with aresearch questions development exercise (RQDE) in which the students developedresearch questions or hypotheses about things they wanted to research about rockets andproposed experimental plans for discovering facts or improving their understanding. Thesequestions or ideas were discussed within the teams. At the end, each team selected thequestions or hypotheses they would research and elaborated an experimentation plan toverify or refute the questions. The teams recorded their proposals in logs, shared theirproposals with the class to further their discussion, and submitted copies for review andfeedback. Over time, these proposals evolved into the students’ final research proposals(see below).The next

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Christian Bach; Salvatore Belardo; Hassan Bajwa; Pushpa Kantharaju; Praveen Prasanth

systems steadily increase in scope and complexity, it is imperiousthat academia and practice develop the means to evaluate the successfulness or effectiveness of asystem and understand the factors and circumstances to build and maintain a successful system.The objective of conducting empirical research on systems success is to gain insight into thedetails of the complex systems processes and features which can be translated into prescriptiveaction plans for implementation. A focus of this article is to discuss how potential “userperceptions” influence on the information system effectiveness. The DeLone model is used as abase model for the systematic study of the features, factors and delivered benefits. The articleemploys the survey as an

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Christian Bach; Salvatore Belardo; Hassan Bajwa; Sahas Sakhare

of new systems is supported by IS staff.Items taken from: 9 [17]; 25 [21]; 5 [22]; Supporting sources: [15]7. The improvement of new systems development (with respect to user requests, updates, time, cost, quality, alignment).Items taken from: 12,14 [17]; 10,11,29,30,31,33,34,36,38,39 [21]; 32 [18]; Supporting sources: [1, 2, 15]8. High degree of interpersonal collaborative competence of IS staff.Items taken from: 2,3,(15) [17]; 5,6,7,8 [21]; 6 [22]; 30 [18]; Supporting sources: [15]9. Preparation of a strategic plan for developing IS.Items taken from: 19 [17]; 29,30,31,33,34,36,38,39 [21]; Supporting sources: [15, 24, 25]10. User understanding of systems.Items taken from: 16,27 [17]; 25,29,30,31,33,34,36,38,39 [21]; 4 [22]; 15 [18

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Cristian Craciun

lowest level it includes the actuators, sensors, and other lower devices. 2. Machine level, the hardware from device level is assembled into individual machines. Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Northeast Section Annual Conference University of Hartford Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education  3. Cell or system level, a group of machines or workstations connected and supported by a material handling system, computer, and other equipments needed for a manufacturing process. 4. Plant level, it receives instructions from the corporate information system and translate them into operation plan for production. 5. Enterprise level, the highest

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Steve Klosterman; Simon Pitts; Steven McGonagle; Carey Rappaport

should be for new products, systems and enterprises. 9. Realizing the Vision: Designing processes and approaches to move from abstraction to invention, innovation and implementation. Lead an organization to plan and deliver a project exercising solution judgment and critical reasoning. 10. Inquiry: Listen to others with intention of genuinely understanding their thoughts and feelings; recognize their ideas may be better than yours. 11. Interpersonal Skills: Respect needs of individuals and the group; recognition of others’ strengths; coaching, gracious professionalism. 12. Communicating and Advocacy: Clearly able to explain point of view, approach to those with differing backgrounds and cultures

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John Finnie; Neil Fennessey

current minimum needs. It wants to upgrade its existingsystem to handle fire flows. It has hired you to advise it on alternatives and to design alterationsto the pipe system, pump, and storage tank.Description of the system. Treated water enters the pipe network at node 1 (see Figure 1) and ispumped to an elevated storage tank. The storage tank has a volume of 20,000 gallons, with adiameter of 16 feet and a depth of 13 feet. The ground elevation at the storage tank is 112 feet,and the bottom of the tank is at elevation 170 feet. The pumps at the water treatment plan candeliver 500 gallons per minute to the storage tank, when its water surface is 190 feet elevation.Design Specifications. The goal of the city is to provide water at 40 to 65 psi to

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Barbara Fleck

technology course. Current Study Abroad Student Participation RatesCollege study abroad programs are available to many college students in the UnitedStates. Many high school students believe they will participate in these programs whenthey are in college, but actually only a small percentage do. In 2000, according to DavidWheeler:“48 percent of high school students said they planned on studying abroad. But in recentyears, only about 1 percent of college students did so annually. And while enrollments in Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Northeast Section Annual Conference University of Hartford Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Educationstudy-abroad programs are at a

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Ying Yu

encouraged students tofrequently interact with each other and thus helped create better learning communities.The author plans to continue to design more and refine the current ConcepTests. It is alsoimperative to gauge students’ performance improvements quantitatively, which is thenext step in the near future.References:1. http://www.turningtechnologies.com/2. Mazur, E. 1997. “Peer Instruction: A User’s Manual. Englewood Cliffs”. NJ: Prentice Hall.3. C. Crouch, J. Watkins, A. Fagen, and E. Mazur. 2007. “Peer Instruction: Engaging Students One-on-One, All at Once”, Reviews in Physics Education Research, Ed. E.F. Redish and P. Cooney.4. M. K. Smith, W. B. Wood, W. K. Adams, C. Wieman, J. K. Knight, N. Guild, T. T. Su. “Why PeerDiscussion Improves

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Xingguo Xiong; Hassan Bajwa; Lawrence Hmurcik

in academic conferences and journals. Figure 4. A full adder circuit design with QCA (Quantum-dot Cellular Automata)In the future, we plan to further develop some more VLSI courses. We are also planning toarrange a multi-semester project to cover both the VLSI design and testing. In the VLSIdesign course (e.g. EE 548 - Low Power VLSI), students are asked to design the physicallayouts of VLSI circuits. Once the designs are completed, students will submit their designsto MOSIS [12] for fabrication. In the next semester, students will take the VLSI testing (EE549) course. When the real fabricated chips are shipped back to students, they will utilize theknowledge they learned in VLSI testing class to thoroughly test the fabricated circuits

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Craig Stringer

a technically challenging project that students work on throughout thesemester in small groups. This introduction to engineering course is offered at most of PennState’s 24 locations and offers a wide assortment of project possibilities, faculty and studentexpertise and perspectives that can be used to compare and contrast project planning andexecution. The coalition of commonwealth campuses (locations other then University Park)attracts more than 600 first year students who declare engineering as their preferred major. 1 Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Northeast Section Annual Conference University of Hartford

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Sigrid Berka

the following differences between IEP students and DB young employees in their wayof problem solving:Generally, the German participants were more direct in their comments compared with theirpolite US counterparts. They tended to plan longer ahead and then strived for fast executionwhile their US counterparts usually approached the problem by experimenting with varioussolutions and correcting them along the way if faced with an obstacle. Looking at the differencebetween university and corporate culture we observed: IEP students were much younger thantheir German program counterparts and showed well trained analytic skills and impressivepresentation techniques. They were group-oriented, openly sharing their problem solvingapproaches with others

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Wendy Otoupal-Hylton; Pete Hylton

. This article will discuss how IUPUI has used this connection to promoteSTEM growth. Introduction The number of American high school graduates entering engineering and technology careers incollege has fallen significantly in the past decade. [1] One of the major ways that colleges can reversethis trend is by outreach to minority students and females, both of whom are significantly under-represented in engineering and technology careers, and encourage them to pursue STEM plans of study.Currently, minorities and females are so underrepresented in such programs, that they comprise less than20% of the total students. [2, 3] Grose states that low income minority students can present a special setof

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Frank Caserta; Robert J. Lind; Loutfallah G. Chedid

of the student’s core personal values with what he or shebelieves it is to be an engineer (attainment) or the usefulness of engineering in terms of attainingone’s long- and short-term goals (utility)). In contrast, value-related constructs predicted careerplans more accurately. Interestingly, Jones, et al. reported that the means for the aboveexpectancy-related beliefs, value-related beliefs, and career plans rated in the upper-third duringthe entire first year, but the means were lower at the end of the first year than at thebeginning[11]. This agrees with our findings in that only one student in our survey expressedlack of confidence in the student’s ability to succeed in engineering. Based on Jones, et al., wecan speculate but not

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Tom Goulding; Durga Suresh

engineering manager and a Socratic hardware and software concepts that must beinstructor is not that of subject matter expert. It is mastered when programming at the lowest level in aexceptional organizational, motivational, and computer system. A complex project had not beencommunication skills that matter to both. A Socratic previously considered for this type of course atinstructor is skilled at problem definition and Wentworth Institute of Technology.decomposition, guiding the search for applicableThe plan which the authors adopted involved the they would discover that the rotors turn after eachSocratic instructor (Professor Goulding) joining the character is typed. This ensures

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Kenneth Edward Dudeck; Wieslaw Grebski

of these workshops and grants were focused in the area of alternativeenergy. An additional workshop on this topic is being currently being developed.These Act 48 teacher in-service workshops were hands-on and interactive. Teachers performedexperiments and materials were available through Penn State Hazleton for use in theirclassrooms. Workshop activities and lesson plans were linked to the Pennsylvania AcademicStandards for Science and Technology and the Academic Standards for Environment andEcology.Teachers also participated in field experiences related to a 3.2 kW photovoltaic power stationwhich is connected to the Pennsylvania Power and Light grid and a full-size solar powered car.These field experiences and related activities were

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Matthew R. Stein

competition in which the winning device must perform wellFigure 3 Schematic of the course design project. on both days. Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Northeast Section Annual Conference University of Hartford Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education  Figure 4 Best performing device, 2008. Figure 5 Best performing device, 2010.MilestonesInitial offerings of the course that trusted the maturity of senior level students to analyze requirementsdocuments and plan accordingly yielded disappointing results, perhaps not surprisingly. Top studentsperformed

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Biswanath Samanta

theirapplications. The students applied the CI algorithms in their term projects. In addition, an exploratoryproject to provide research experiences on swarm robotics to high school students was initiated. A groupof three simple mobile robots (Lego NXT) was used to study search and rescue operation. PSO was usedas the main algorithm. Figures 5(a) and (b) respectively show the two assembled LEGO NXT robots andthe paths of the swarm of three such robots [47]. Undergraduate students are also engaged as summerinterns for research experiences with university and external support. The author is working on offering asimilar elective course on CI at the graduate level in his current university. The offering of summerinternship is also being planned for

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Buket D. Barkana; Nelson Ngoh; Allen Cook

transmission of light raysbrought about digital imaging and seeing. Students realized practically how the convex andconcave lenses were used to correct myopia, hypermetropia as well as astigmatism and diplopia.Our original plan was to explain rather general mathematical principles of logic, algorithms andrecursion formulas used in computer engineering, and then illustrate these principles in light ofspecific content materials in the course. Our first meeting concentrated on truth tables, basicprinciples in Boolean algebra and elementary circuit design, with specific problems involvingsimple series and parallel circuits. For some of the students the material was a review, othersfound it a bit challenging.While all had backgrounds in various sciences

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Sarah Tasneem

aspects of programdesign that are persistent. No matter how small a program is, each and every program should have thebasic structure with three main parts as follows: Input Data, Process Data, Print Result. Moreover, thesteps of Program Development Life Cycle (PDLC) do not change. PDLC provides an organized plan ofbreaking down the complete program development into manageable tasks. Each of the tasks needs to becompleted before one proceeds to the next phase. The phases are namely: defining the program,designing the program, coding, testing and debugging, documentation, implementation andmaintenance. As the focus of the paper is on the beginning programmer, we omit the maintenance partin our course. During this phase of the course, students

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Gaetan Garcia; Matthew R. Stein

deliverable.Students work in teams of two for all assignments an must deliver a work allocation plan prior tocompleting the assignment, • Objective 13: Sensory Awareness. Use the human senses to gather information and to make sound engineering judgments in formulating conclusions about real-world problems.Students uses their own senses of vision and hearing to diagnose problems and determine success.Appendix A contains objectives are not accomplished by this laboratory experience either due to theintrinsic nature of the laboratory or due to the remote location of the students. For example, althoughthe laboratory in local form presents significant safety issues to the students, remote students areisolated from these issues.From the analysis above, we