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Suxia Cui; John Fuller; Pamela Holland-Obiomon; Warsame H. Ali

Educate New Generation on Nuclear Technology through Collaborating Engineering Project Suxia Cui, John Fuller, Pamela Holland-Obiomon, and Warsame H. Ali Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Prairie View A&M University Session: Interdisciplinary programs, sustainability and alternative energy as related to engineering educationAbstractFor the past several decades, nuclear technology has remained as one of the top interested issuesdue to its application as a new energy resource as well as a threaten weapon of massivedestruction. In the United States, the National Nuclear Security Administration

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Rathika Rajaravivarma

Embedding LEGO Mindstorms in the Electromechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum Dr . Rathika Rajar avivar ma Depar tment of Computer Engineer ing Technology New Yor k City College of Technology Br ooklyn, NY 11201 Session: First year experience Abstract: The innovative use of LEGO as a tool for learning and exploring has leaped many boundaries. The use of LEGO is projected as a fun learning tool, while keeping the mind and the hands of the user engaged in creative activities. The degree of the diverse level of users captured by LEGO is practically boundless. The LEGO mindstorms is a fun learning tool for

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Ali Moazed; Richard L Roberts; Xiaobin Le P.E.; Anthony William Duva P.E.

Teaching Finite Element Analysis in Undergraduate Technology Curriculum Ali R. Moazed, Richard Roberts, Xiaobin Le, Anthony Duva Session: Tools, techniques, and best practices of engineering education for the digital generationI. AbstractTypically, FEA courses are offered at a graduate level, covering the theoretical basis with littleor no effort to apply this technology to real problems. In some institutions, this course is offeredto seniors, but the content is also mostly theoretical. At Wentworth, we have designed an FEAcourse based on our industrial experience which could be labeled “Applied Finite ElementAnalysis”. This paper describes the methodology followed in the development of this course,along

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Elif Kongar; Kurt A. Rosentrater

Greening the Engineering and Technology Curriculum via Real Life Hands- on Projects Elif Kongar 1 and Kurt A. Rosentrater 2 AbstractThis paper aims at demonstrating how greening efforts can be embedded into science andengineering courses without major curricular changes. In this regard, examples of final projectsassigned in a statistical quality control, a 500-level, graduate engineering course, focusing oncampus sustainability are provided. After completing ten weeks in the classroom, the studentswere asked to apply their engineering knowledge and learning of continuous processimprovement techniques to a given problem

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Paul C. King; Gerarda M. Shields

CITYPOLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO ARCHITECTURAL AND CIVIL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY STUDIES Paul C. King, R.A. Assistant Professor of Architectural Technology Gerarda M. Shields, P.E., Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Technology New York City College of Technology CUNY 300 Jay Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 Pking@CityTech.Cuny.edu GShields@CityTech.Cuny.eduABSTRACTAs educators, we are entrusted with the responsibility of instilling our students with the necessarytechnical and soft skills needed to succeed. In order to accomplish this, we need to respond to

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Chitra N. Javdekar

. competitivenessin high technology areas, and to its position as a world leader in critical S&E fields”. Also the numberof engineering graduates have declined in recent years as is evident from the reported eight percentdecline in the proportion of Natural Sciences and Engineering (NS&E) degrees as a share of totaldegrees conferred between 2002 and 2007 (NSB, 2010). The decline in the natural sciences andengineering degrees conferred can also be attributed to the student attrition from these programs afterthe students are on campus.Reasons for Student Attrition:Previous studies have indicated that significant student attrition or “switching” from science andengineering educational programs to other fields occurs during the first one or two years of

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Gloria A. Monaghan

Cr eativity and Engineer ing: Constr ucting Poems Gloria A Monaghan Wentworth Institute of Technology Assistant Professor of Humanities at Wentworth Institute of Technology“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” - Andre GideFocusIn the 21st Century engineering students are expected to use creative ways to findproblems and solve problems within their fields. A poetry course might be the leastlikely place you would find budding mechanical, civil and construction managementstudents- but as it turns out, these were the students who signed up for

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Enrique Sola; Anne E. Mohan; James Patrick Abulencia

did not utilize computers in creating visual aids or exams,students were not dependent on the internet for research, and the curriculum did not includeclasses that focused on computer-based techniques. In the last 23 years, Manhattan College, likethe rest of society, has undergone tremendous shifts with regards to technology. This paper willgive the reader insight to the evolution of chemical engineering education at Manhattan College,and how the students, professors, and curricula have been affected by the technological advancesof the last two decades. I. The Chemical Engineering Curriculum If chemical engineers are to be hired, they must receive the training that will make theirexpected contributions greater than those

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Xingguo Xiong; Linfeng Zhang; Lawrence V. Hmurcik P.E.

Instruments Inc. [8]MEMS have been successfully commercialized and widely used in many applications.MEMS industry maintained strong need for qualified MEMS engineers each year.However, as MEMS technology is a newly developed interdisciplinary field, moststudents did not have a chance to know MEMS in their undergraduate study. In order tomeet the industry’s need for a strong MEMS workforce, we developed MEMScurriculum in Electrical Engineering department at University of Bridgeport, CT. In thispaper, we share the experience of the curriculum development, course teaching andstudent research advising in MEMS field. It has triggered tremendous interests amongstudents and attracted many students into the MEMS field. Students are also doing theirmaster

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Joanne Tuck

Designers of Death: Nazi Engineers during the Holocaust Joanne Tuck Wentworth Institute of Technology1. Introduction I’ve been teaching the Facing History and Ourselves: Holocaust and Human Behaviorcourse to juniors and seniors at the Wentworth Institute of Technology for twenty- five years.This humanities and social science elective is a unique course that deals with many social issuesusing the Holocaust as a case study. This is done through the explorations and analysis of a hostof ethical and moral concerns relating to and continually challenging Wentworth students on anindividual, societal and national level.To fully engage the students in

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Janet Baldwin

-person. My goal was to develop not just an adequate online course, but touse the vast technological resources available to create a great online course. Howsuccessful this was course surprised me and more surprising was how I found myselfimproving my face-to-face courses through incorporation of some online techniques.Online Course OverviewIn order to explore the possibility of online delivery for an engineering course, I chose astandard Statics course which is a basic course in any engineering program. At RogerWilliams University, Statics is taught as a 3 credit course for engineering, architecture,and construction management students. The prerequisite is one semester of calculus.The course has a required textbook and is assessed using graded

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Anne E. Mohan; Enrique Sola; James Patrick Abulencia

point in time. This modulation has been defined by thetug-of-war between practical training and academic training. Terry Reynolds provides acomprehensive view of the American engineer throughout history in his book, “The Engineer inAmerica: A Historical Anthology from Technology and Culture.” [1] The appearance of engineering in America is associated with the emergence of themilitary during the American Revolution. The large-scale projects necessary during this timesuch as conducting sieges, constructing fortifications, and building bridges, required theknowledge of technical military engineers. Prior to the Revolution, the level of capitalinvestment and risk in American society was never high enough to justify the expense of full-time

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Peter S. Rourke

technology course during the past 2 years at Arlington High School inthe Boston area, with the cooperation of a local undergraduate technical institution (WentworthInstitute of Technology). Enrollment in the course doubled in the second year, resulting in having toturn away interested students. The present digital generation of students quickly learns computerapplication skills. As these students begin to appreciate how these skills can be used to controladvanced manufacturing systems, it is hoped that they will become interested in investigating amanufacturing engineering or related degree.Section One: The Need for Manufacturing EducationAs some high volume production jobs leave for foreign factories the perception is that manufacturingcareers that

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Chiara Silvestri; Adriana Hera; Malcolm H. Ray; Siamak Najafi

advantage ofthis revolution and include technology into their courses as a tool to improve the learning processand enhance the curiosity of the students. Technology could be used for self-directed learning,especially in learn-distance classes, and would require the student to interactively becomeacquainted with the engineering concepts and to go beyond the information presented duringclass. Moreover, especially in classes that are predominantly theoretical, technology can be usedfor visualization of abstract notions, raising the interest of the students and facilitating theirunderstanding for a more complete and competitive preparation for their stepping into the work-world. This paper illustrates an approach of integrating software in teaching

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Ismail I. Orabi

Industry-Sponsored Capstone Design Course. Presented at the 1993 ASMEDesign Education Conference, March 24-26, 1993.[ 6] Magleby, S.P. et al. Selecting Appropriate Industrial Projects for Capstone Design Projects. Int. J. Engng Ed,Vol 17, Nos 4 and 5, pp. 400-405, 2001.[7] ABET, (2006). “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs,” Baltimore, MD, www.abet.org.Biographical InformationIsmail I. Orabi, Professor of Mechanical Engineering received his Ph.D. from ClarksonUniversity, and his M.S. degree from the State University of New York and B.S. from Cairo 9Institute of Technology (now Helwan University), all in mechanical engineering. He haspublished over 25 technical articles in refereed

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Solomon G. Diamond

Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth.His research applies noninvasive functional neuroimaging technologies to study human brainphysiology. He uses a multimodal instrumentation approach to monitor neural activity andcerebrovascular hemodynamics with the goal of improving the early diagnosis and monitoring ofneurodegeneration. Prof. Diamond is a member of the IEEE, the ASEE and Tau Beta Pi. Solomon G. Diamond, PhD, Assistant Professor Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth 8000 Cummings Hall Hanover, NH 03755 Solomon.G.Diamond@Dartmouth.edu 8

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Anne Y. Boisvert; Bahaa E. Saleh; S. Hamid Nawab

NSF Engineering Research Center in 2000-2008. He is the author of two books, Photoelectron Statistics (Springer-Verlag, 1978) and Fundamentals of Photonics (Wiley-InterScience, 1991, 2nd edition, 2007, with M. C. Teich). Saleh is Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Optical Society of America, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is the recipient of the 1999 Optical Society of America Esther Hoffman Beller Award for outstanding contributions to optical science and engineering education, the 2004 SPIE BACUS award for his contribution to photomask technology, the 2006 Kuwait Prize for his contributions to optical science, and the 2008 Distinguished Service

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Marie Planchard

2006, by the Thayer School of EngineeringDartmouth, challenges college and university students to design, build, and race high-performance, plug-in hybrid vehicles. Structured on the Formula SAE program, Formula Hybridadds fuel efficiency as an extra level of complexity. With technological challenges for studentswith backgrounds in electrical, mechanical, and computer engineering, Formula Hybridencourages interdisciplinary teamwork and innovation. In 2010, to further encourage innovationfor efficiency, the teams will be required to complete the 22-km (13.7-mi) endurance event on areduced amount of fuel. The 2010 fuel allocation has been reduced to 2.3 liters (0.61 gal) from4.7 liters (1.24 gal) in 2009. This equates to 9.57 km/liter (22.5

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Haruna Hosokawa; Judy Robinson

is a department within Boston Public Schools whose mission is to provideadvanced technology opportunities for students. As such, we have been instrumental in bringingLEGO robotics to Boston Public Schools over a decade ago and have continued to supportteachers and students through professional development, competition opportunities, and roboticskit loans programs. Several years ago, we received a request from a teacher who was participating in ourrobotics workshop that she wanted to teach engineering and robotics to her kindergartenstudents. Until then, robotics had been primarily taught in middle schools, with some elementaryschools introducing it in upper grades (grades 3-5). At the time, TechBoston did not have acurriculum unit

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Hudson V. Jackson P.E.; Kassim M. Tarhini P.E.; Corinna Marie Fleischmann P.E.; Nathan Rumsey; Sharon Zelmanowitz P.E.

AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology (ABET) requirements. The structure of these courseshave evolved to incorporate changes in technology, needs of industry and changes in ABETrequirements. For example, Yost and Lane [1] reported the evolution of civil engineering designcapstone experience at a research university, discussed measures to assess communicationcompetence, and reported lessons learned while working with industry partners. They developeda capstone course designed to provide a unified effort in developing: teamwork skills,multidisciplinary interaction, communication skills, fundamentals of engineering designprocesses, and application of engineering design principles to a real engineering project. Thecourse provided greater breadth in

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Ali Alshubbak; Saeid Moslehpour; Eugenio Pellicer; Joaquín Catalá

2010 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Wentworth Institute of Technology Boston, 7 – 8 May, 2010 Implementation of Delphi methodology for designing engineering syllabus according to the industry’s needs Ali Alshubbak 1, Saeid Moslehpour 2, Eugenio Pellicer 3, Joaquín Catalá 4Construction and civil engineering are multidisciplinary professions where students areacquiring a career that is based on the durable knowledge; practical abilities andindustry’s needs. Other studies, such as mathematics or physics are pure science basedon theoretical knowledge. But a question persists: is the knowledge acquired

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Chiara Silvestri; Suzanne LePage; Paul P. Mathisen

FEA is considered to be an asset for technology incorporation in engineering classes.Nowadays FEA software has developed remarkably and it offers a variety of tools forvisualizing, understanding and solving problems in various areas. In civil engineering, animportant application of FEA is in the area of structural analysis design, where static anddynamic load conditions need to be taken into account to solve for forces and displacements in agiven structure. GIS software is a critical tool for civil engineers, community planners and environmentalanalysts. It combines a visualization workspace with an analytic and modeling framework,based in the science of geography [1]. GIS is the platform for spatial data, which is informationlinked to a

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GLENN E. VALLEE; RICHARD P. BENIOT

TRANSLATING DENTAL PERFORMANCE INTO ENGINEERING SCIENCE WITHIN A SENIOR CAPSTONE DESIGN PROJECT by Dr. GLENN E. VALLEE, Ph.D., P.E. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERING WESTERN NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE SPRINGFIELD MASSACHUSSETS and Dr. RICHARD P. BENIOT, DMD DIRECTOR OF DENTAL SERVICESUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER FARMINGTON, CONNECTICUT Session 1C Mechanical Engineering ABSTRACTA capstone senior design project in mechanical engineering at Western New England Collegewas developed to provide a student the opportunity to work with dental professionals todetermine the causes of porcelain

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Ronald C. Lasky

able or hardworking than in the past.As a result of these observations, I am now teaching my senior/graduate level statistics coursesby adding some assignments in which the students perform calculations by hand, and yes evenwith slide rules. This paper will review what I have learned from this experience and somethoughts on how to address this engineering education need for today’s students.Introduction: My First ExperienceIt was in the early 1990s and I was responsible for the optical interface in IBM’s ECSL (EarlyCorporate Serial Link) optical networking technology. In this assignment I had to assure that acertain amount of light would be “coupled” from the transmitting laser into the receiving fiber,too little light and the signal would be

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Amos Joseph St. Germain

deficient inwriting, speaking, cultural awareness and foreign languages by all means have thatyoung person major in engineering perhaps the most structured of college majors(298-300.) So it goes.However the good fight continues and in engineering education scholarship andculture scholarship there are bright lights to be sure. In American Studies there isDavid Nye who is in the myth, symbol, allegory, metaphor tradition of Henry Nashsmith and Leo Marx. His recent work includes a study of technology and history inthe nineteenth century, AMERICA AS SECOND CREATION: TECHNOLOGY ANDNARRATIONS OF NEW BEGINNINGS (2003.) And of course there is the work ofSamuel Florman who hold degrees in civil engineering and English. His “In Praise ofTechnology,” (HARPERS

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Suxia Cui; Younhui Wang; Felecia M Nave; Kendall T. Harris

Teach Computer Techniques through Multimedia Suxia Cui1, Younhui Wang2, Felecia M. Nave3, and Kendall T. Harris4 1 Electrical and Computer Engineering Department 2 Engineering Technology Department 3 Chemical Engineering Department 4 Mechanical Engineering Department Prairie View A&M UniversitySession: Tools, techniques, and best practices of engineering education for the digital generationAbstractPrairie View A&M University (PVAMU) College of

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Douglas E. Dow; Stephanie Cheney

Integrating Web-Based Learning Modules into a Traditional Course Douglas E. Dow, Department of Electronics and Mechanical Stephanie Cheney, Division of Technology Services Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MASession: Tools, techniques, and best practices of engineering education for the digital generationAbstractInteractive delivery of content and assessment enhance learning for many students.Delivery of concepts solely through lectures and textbook readings limits interactivityand does not meet the needs of all learning styles. When interactive web sites areintegrated into learning modules as part of a traditional course (for homework orlaboratory assignments), students

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Salah Badjou

Integrating Online Learning to Junior-Level Electromechanical Design Salah Badjou, Ph.D. Department of Electronics and Mechanical Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA 02115 Session Topic: online and distance learning for engineering and technology AbstractThe following paper reports on the results of efforts at integrating online learning to the currentJunior-level Electromechanical Design course at Wentworth Institute of Technology. This is anintense course where in one semester students are expected to complete an original design and aprototype. Project and time management are critical. Groups are

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Gautham Das; Sameer Shaik

Optimization of the Design of a Concrete Canoe using Finite Element Analysis Das, Gautham1 and Shaik, Sameer2 1 Assistant Professor, Wentworth Institute of Technology, 550 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA2 Engineer, GL Noble Denton, 1155 Dairy Ashford, Suite 315,Houston, TX 77079, USA Session: All other topics relevant to engineering educationStudents at Wentworth Institute of Technology (WIT) participate in the annual concretecanoe competition conducted by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Every yearstudents design and fabricate a canoe. For the 2009 competition, a Finite

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Steve Zilora

Preparing High School Students for College with Informatics Stephen J. Zilora Information Sciences and Technologies Department Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY 14623 Session: All other topics relevant to engineering educationABSTRACTAs we begin the 21st century, a concern among many educators is whether we are providing ourstudents with the skills they will need in this brave new world. Discussion often centers on theissues of globalization and the demands it brings for cultural awareness and appreciation. Whilethese factors do distinguish the 21st century, another equally