AC 2012-4590: MULTIDISCIPLINARY MOBILE ELEMENTAL POWERPLANT PROJECTProf. Julanne K. McCulley, Weber State University Julanne K. McCulley possesses a master’s in engineering from Arizona State University and a bachelor’s of science degree in electronic engineering technology and a bachelor’s of science degree in mathematics teaching from Weber State University. McCulley is an Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator for the Electronics Engineering Technology program in the Engineering Technology Department for the College of Applied Science and Technology at Weber State University. She is the Faculty Advisor for the Weber State University Section of the Society of Women Engineers and a member of the American
AC 2012-4122: A NEW UNDERGRADUATE MAJOR IN MICROSYSTEMSAND NANOTECHNOLOGY ENGINEERINGDr. Harold T. Evensen, University of Wisconsin, Platteville Hal Evensen is a professor and Program Coordinator of engineering physics at the University of Wiscon- sin, Platteville, where he has taught since 1999. He received his B.S. in applied physics from Michigan Technological University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in engineering physics from the University of Wiscon- sin, Madison. He has research interests in nanoscale properties of photovoltaic materials, and has played a lead role in developing a new major in microsystems and nanotechnology engineering at UW, Platteville. He was awarded the National Academic Advising Association
AC 2012-3025: AN APPROACH TO DEVELOPING INTERDISCIPLINARYENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMSDr. Clifford R. Mirman, Northern Illinois University Clifford R. Mirman received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1991. From 1991 until 1999, he was a faculty member in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Wilkes Univer- sity. He is currently the Chair of the Department of Technology at NIU. His research areas are CAD, finite element analysis, and kinematics, both securing grants and writing publications. Mirman is actively involved in ASEE and SME.Lesley Rigg, Northern Illinois University College of Liberal Arts and SciencesDr. Melissa Lenczewski, Northern Illinois University Melissa
AC 2009-1906: INCREASING THE INNOVATION ABILITY AND APTITUDE OFTECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING STUDENTS THROUGH FOCUSEDCOLLABORATIVE, CROSSDISCIPLINARY DESIGN-THINKING BOOT CAMPSGeoffrey Wright, Brigham Young UniversityPaul Skaggs, Brigham Young UniversityRichard Fry, Brigham Young UniversityC. Richard Helps, Brigham Young University Page 14.731.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Innovation Boot Camps: a Collaborative, Cross-Discipline, Technology Enhanced Approach to Enhancing Student Innovation Aptitude and Ability Dr. XXXXX XXXXX University
Paper ID #9803The development and introduction of a new Bachelor of Science Degree inRobotics Engineering at Lawrence Technological University: A review of thefirst two yearsDr. Robert W Fletcher, Lawrence Technological University Robert W. Fletcher joined the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Lawrence Techno- logical University in the summer of 2003, after several years of continuous industrial research, product development and manufacturing experience. Dr. Fletcher earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Washington, in Seattle, Washington, a Master of
Paper ID #16003A Nanotechnology Summer Camp for High School Students: Activities De-sign and Student FeedbackDr. Liping Liu, Lawrence Technological University Liping Liu is an assistant professor in the A. Leon Linton Department of Mechanical Engineering at Lawrence Technological University. She earned her Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Uni- versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2011. Her research focuses on thermal sciences and energy systems, with special interest in addressing transport phenomena in energy processes. She is a member of ASME, ASHRAE, and SAE International.Dr. Mansoor Nasir, Lawrence
AC 2012-4224: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAM FOR EDUCATIONIN HYBRID AND ELECTRIC DRIVE VEHICLE ENGINEERINGDr. Wayne Weaver, Michigan Technological University Wayne Weaver received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering and a B.S. in mechanical engineering from GMI Engineering & Management Institute in 1997, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical en- gineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He was a Research and Design Engineer at Caterpillar, Inc., Peoria, Ill., from 1997 to 2003. From 2006-2008, he also worked as a researcher at the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, Engineering Research and Development Center (ERDC), Construction Engineering Research Lab (CERL), in Champaign, Ill., on
Paper ID #34213Work-In-Progress: Leveraging Interdisciplinary Topics in First-yearEngineeringDr. Brett Hamlin, Michigan Technological University Brett Hamlin is a student centered educator who focuses his effort in active collaborative discovery based learning designed around student driven interests. Dr. Hamlin spends much of his time engaging and mentoring students to guide them towards answering their own questions. Dr. Hamlin a Senior Lecturer and Interim Chair of the Department of Engineering Fundamentals at Michigan Technological University.Dr. AJ Hamlin, Michigan Technological University AJ Hamlin is a Principal
AC 2007-1814: USING THE EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING MODEL AND COURSEASSESSMENT TO TRANSFORM A MULTIDISCIPLINARY SENIOR DESIGNCOURSE SEQUENCEMargaret Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology MARGARET BAILEY, registered professional engineer, is the Kate Gleason Chair and Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at RIT. She earned her BSE at Pennsylvania State University in 1988 and her Ph.D. at University of Colorado at Boulder in 1998. She conducts research with students using advanced thermodynamic analyses and neural network modeling applied to various, energy-intensive, complex mechanical systems. Dr. Bailey serves in numerous leadership roles within her college, including Executive Director of
areas of teaming and leadership. She is also actively involved in coordination, curriculum devel- opment, assessment, and instruction in the Pavlis Global Leadership program. She received her B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. from Wayne State University and is currently working on her Ph.D. at Michigan Technological University. Before joining MTU, she held various engineering and management positions during a 15 year career in the automotive industry.Dr. Susan L. Amato-Henderson, Michigan Technological University Susan Amato-Henderson is an Associate Professor of psychology in the Department of Cognitive and Learning Sciences at Michigan Technological University, earning her
AC 2012-4372: ASSESSING A UNIQUE ENGINEERING UNDERGRADU-ATE DEGREE PROGRAMDr. AJ Hamlin, Michigan Technological University AJ Hamlin is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Engineering Fundamentals at Michigan Techno- logical University, where she teaches first-year engineering courses, including an Introduction to Spatial Visualization course. Her research interests include spatial visualization and educational methods. She is an active member in the Engineering Design Graphics Division of ASEE and is currently serving as the Associate Editor of the Engineering Design Graphics Journal.Dr. Jean-Celeste M. Kampe, Michigan Technological University Jean-Celeste M. Kampe is currently Department Chair of Engineering
AC 2008-2239: BIOLOGICALLY-INSPIRED DESIGN: A UNIQUEMULTIDISCIPLINARY DESIGN MODELBrent Nelson, Georgia Institute of Technology Brent Nelson received the B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California – Berkeley in 2002 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2004 and 2007, where he held an NDSEG graduate fellowship and a Woodruff Teaching fellowship. He currently holds a National Academy of Engineering CASEE postdoctoral fellowship to work with the Center for Biologically-Inspired Design (CBID) at the Georgia Institute of Technology, studying the use of BID as an engineering design education and
AC 2009-2413: A REVIEW OF PROBLEM-BASED APPROACHES TOENGINEERING EDUCATIONJosef Rojter, Victoria University of Technology The author has an academic background in chemical and materials engineering at bachelor and master level and a doctorate in engineering education.He teaches primarily in areas of materials, manufacturing and process technology and is an active member at University's centre for innovation and sustainability. Page 14.100.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 A Review of Problem-Based (PBL) Pedagogy Approaches to Engineering
AC 2009-2414: DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF PBL AND OTHERINDUCTIVE PEDAGOGIES IN ENGINEERING SCIENCE: WORK IN PROGRESSJosef Rojter, Victoria University of Technology The author has an academic background in chemical and materials engineering at bachelor and master level and a doctorate in engineering education.He teaches primarily in areas of materials, manufacturing and process technology and is an active member at University's centre for innovation and sustainability. Page 14.466.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Development of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) and Other
Paper ID #14884Development of a Low-cost Automotive Communications Network Course forEE and ME StudentsDr. Aurenice Menezes Oliveira, Michigan Technological University Dr. Aurenice Oliveira is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engi- neering at Michigan Technological University. She received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA, in 2005. Her current research interests include communication systems, digital signal processing, optical fiber systems, automative networks, and engi- neering education. Dr. Oliveira is member of the ASEE
AC 2007-2905: CATALYZING SYSTEMIC CHANGE TOWARDS AMULTIDISCIPLINARY, PRODUCT INNOVATION FOCUSHarvey Palmer, Rochester Institute of Technology Professor & Dean, Kate Gleason College of Engineering Page 12.347.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Catalyzing Systemic Change towards a Multidisciplinary, Product Innovation FocusAbstractThe mission statement of RIT’s newly created honors program focuses on product innovation fora global economy. The critical elements of this program emphasize the importance of amultidisciplinary, systems oriented approach to engineering practice with a special focus oncustomer
. This includes two years, as a postdoctoral research fellow in chemical engineering at the National Center for Scientific Research in France (C.N.R.S.), and more than nine years teaching physics, electrical and mechanical engineering, mathematics, chemistry, physical science, astronomy, biology, and earth science at several colleges and universities throughout the USA. He worked as a high-voltage R&D engineer at Thomson Consumer Electronics, Lancaster, PA from 1998 to 2000, and as a consultant in biomedi- cal imaging (PET). He has been a full-time faculty in electronics and electromechanical engineering at Wentworth Institute of Technology since 2000, where he has been teaching in the areas of electronics and
AC 2011-591: NANOTECHNOLOGY UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATIONINITIATIVEAli Khabari, Wentworth Institute of Technology Dr. Ali Khabari is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Technology at Wentworth Institute of Technology. His area of specialty is nanotechnology research and education. Page 22.1094.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education InitiativeThe emerging field of nanoscience has experienced explosive growth in the last decade,particularly in the field of biomedical engineering, making it
Paper ID #13871A Comprehensive College-Centered Engineering Undergraduate ResearchProgramDr. Natacha Depaola, Illinois Institute of TechnologyDr. Eric M Brey, Illinois Institute of TechnologyProf. Fouad Teymour, Illinois Institute of TechnologyProf. Paul R. Anderson, Illinois Institute of Technology Paul Anderson is a registered professional engineer with over 30 years of combined industrial and aca- demic experience related to water resources. At the Illinois Institute of Technology for more than 20 years, he teaches courses in water chemistry, ground water contamination, chemical transport in the envi- ronment, and industrial
AC 2007-2386: DEVELOPMENT OF INTEGRATED PROJECT TRACKS FOR ACOLLEGE-WIDE MULTIDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING DESIGN PROGRAMAT RITMarcos Esterman, Rochester Institute of TechnologyDorin Patru, Rochester Institute of TechnologyVincent Amuso, Rochester Institute of TechnologyEdward Hensel, Rochester Institute of TechnologyMark Smith, Rochester Institute of Technology Page 12.535.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Development of Integrated Project Tracks for a College-Wide Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Program at RITAbstractSince 2002, the Kate Gleason College of Engineering (KGCOE) at the Rochester
Paper ID #22320Correlation Between Academic Credit-use Policies and Student Persistencein Multidisciplinary Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) CoursesJ. Sonnenberg-Klein, Georgia Institute of Technology Assistant Director, Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program, Georgia Institute of Technology; Doc- toral student in Education at Georgia State University, with a concentration in Research, Measurement and Statistics; Master of Education in Education Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.Prof
Paper ID #22319Social Network Analysis: Peer Support and Peer Management in Multidisci-plinary, Vertically Integrated TeamsJ. Sonnenberg-Klein, Georgia Institute of Technology Assistant Director, Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program, Georgia Institute of Technology; Doc- toral student in Education at Georgia State University, with a concentration in Research, Measurement and Statistics; Master of Education in Education Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.Dr. Randal T. Abler, Georgia Institute
AC 2012-3515: UTILIZING PROJECT-BASED MULTIDISCIPLINARY DE-SIGN ACTIVITIES TO ENHANCE STEM EDUCATIONDr. Andy Shaojin Zhang, New York City College of Technology Andy S. Zhang earned his master’s in mechanical engineering from the City College of New York in 1987 and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 1995. Zhang’s research area includes materials testing, product design and prototyping, CAD/CAE, and mechatronics. From 2007 to 2009, Zhang served as a member of the Pre-engineering Advisory Commission of Advisory Council for Career and Technical Education of NYC Department of Education, which was designed to help high schools to enhance existing technology
Paper ID #9357Integrating Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and Computational Methods at aPolytechnic Institution: Experiences of Interdisciplinary Course Designs forCritical ThinkingDr. Mehmet Vurkac¸, Oregon Institute of Technology Mehmet Vurkac¸ is an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering and Renewable Energy (EERE) at Oregon Institute of Technology, where he has also taught courses in decision-making, samba percussion, math, and machine learning. Vurkac¸ earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in December 2011 at Portland State University, with research at the confluence of machine learning
Paper ID #22513Redesigning Undergraduate Engineering Education at MIT – the New Engi-neering Education Transformation (NEET) initiativeProf. Edward F. Crawley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Ed Crawley is the Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a recipient of the Bernard M. Gordon Prize for engineering education of the NAE. He is the Founding President of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) and. the Co-Director of NEET at MIT.Prof. Anette ”Peko” Hosoi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Anette (Peko) Hosoi is Associate Dean
Paper ID #17245Project-based Learning in a Forensic Engineering CourseDr. Mansoor Nasir, Lawrence Technological University Dr. Mansoor Nasir received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of California-Berkeley. He worked as a research scientist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. before joining the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Lawrence Technological University. He has several publications in the areas of microflu- idics, chemical and biological sensors, and MEMS technology. He is also passionate about
Paper ID #10356Enabling Institute-wide Multidisciplinary Engineering Capstone Design Ex-periencesDr. Amit Shashikant Jariwala, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Jariwala is the Director of Design & Innovation for the School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. He graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Production Engineering from the University of Mum- bai, India with honors in 2005 and received Masters of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2007 from IIT Bombay, India. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2013, with minors in Entrepreneurship. Dr. Jariwala has more than
AC 2011-523: MEDICAL PHYSICS CURRICULUM FOR UNDERGRAD-UATE ENGINEERING STUDENTSRenat Letfullin, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Renat R. Letfullin is associate professor of physics and optical engineering department at the Rose- Hulman Institute of Technology. He has extensive academic credentials in nanotechnology and specializes in laser physics, wave and quantum optics, aerosol physics, biophotonics and nanomedicine, where he is using laser-induced explosion of absorbing nanoparticles in selective nanophotothermolysis of cancer. Letfullin served as senior researcher at the Lebedev Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Samara branch), 1993-2002, and research associate at Mississippi State
AC 2007-1382: REDESIGNING A COLLEGE-WIDE MULTIDISCIPLINARYENGINEERING DESIGN PROGRAM AT RITWayne Walter, Rochester Institute of Technology WAYNE W. WALTER is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at RIT. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Wayne has worked for the U.S. Army, Rochester Products and Delco Products Divisions of General Motors, and Xerox, and is a registered professional engineer (P.E.) in New York State. He can be reached at wwweme@rit.edu.Jeffrey Webb, Rochester Institute of Technology JEFFREY B. WEBB is a Mechanical Engineer with the Engineering Modeling and Simulations group in the Southeast Division of Applied Research Associates. He
Paper ID #10350Case study of a Multidisciplinary Engineering Capstone Design Project: Elec-tric Drive Control SystemDr. Amit Shashikant Jariwala, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Jariwala is the Director of Design & Innovation for the School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. He graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Production Engineering from the University of Mum- bai, India with honors in 2005 and received Masters of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2007 from IIT Bombay, India. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2013, with minors in Entrepreneurship. Dr