Conference Session

Introductory Materials Science Course

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Amaneh Tasooji, Arizona State University

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Materials

of students in introductory materials engineering classes. Most recently, he has been working on Project Pathways, an NSF supported Math Science Partnership, in developing modules for a courses on Connecting Mathematics with Physics and Chemistry and also a course on Engineering Capstone Design.Amaneh Tasooji, Arizona State University Amaneh Tasooji is an Associate Research Professor in the School of Materials at ASU and has been teaching and developing new content for materials science and engineering classes and laboratories. She has developed new content and contextual teaching methods from here experience as a researcher and a manager at Honeywell Inc. She is currently working to develop

Conference Session

Case Studies & Engineering Education Around the Globe

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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International

previous work by the author, on viablestrategies to improve the classroom environment of engineering colleges in the Region. At thestart, the paper provides an overview of relevant benchmarks of engineering education in theRegion. Then, relates author’s preliminary findings on teaching/learning practices in engineeringcolleges of the Arab Gulf States, sheds light on the pros and cons of the lecture format, andexamines the literature on meanings and substance of different active learning protocols focusingon cooperative engagement strategies. Next, it identifies common barriers to reformation ingeneral, and to the use of modern pedagogical skills in particular. The paper also argues that anymeaningful change in Region’s classroom practices today

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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W. Roy Penney; Kendal J. Brown; Joel D. Vincent; Edgar C. Clausen

transfer problems7, the use of a transport approach in teaching turbulentthermal convection8, the use of computers to evaluate view factors in thermal radiation9,implementation of a computational method for teaching free convection10, and the use of anintegrated experimental/analytical/numerical approach that brings the excitement of discovery tothe classroom11. Supplemental heat transfer experiments for use in the laboratory or classroomhave also been presented, including rather novel experiments such as the drying of a towel12 andthe cooking of French fry-shaped potatoes13. Suggestions for the integration of heat transfercourse material into the laboratory and classroom were described by Penney and Clausen14-19,who presented a number of simple

Conference Session

Emerging Information Technologies

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Dampier, Mississippi State University

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Information Systems

AC 2008-129: BUILDING AN EDUCATION PROGRAM FOR ENGINEERS INDIGITAL FORENSICSDavid Dampier, Mississippi State University Page 13.264.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Building an Education Program for Engineers in Digital Forensics David A. Dampier Jansen Cohoon Department of Computer Science and Engineering Mississippi State University dampier@cse.msstate.edu; jec9@msstate.eduAbstractThis paper describes an innovative laboratory based program that offers life-long learningactivities to working professionals in the law

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Megan Arnold, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Aman Yadav, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Gregory Shaver, Purdue University; Eric Nauman, Purdue University

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Mechanical Engineering

emphasizedeclarative learning, memorization and recall.2, 3. When there is an emphasis on memorizationand not application or content understanding, retention of students within the math and sciencebased majors becomes problematic.4Recently, the engineering field has begun to incorporate learner-context teaching such as case-based instruction and other problem based learning methods in the classroom. Since World WarII, many educational reforms have been made in the field of engineering based on the idea thatunderstanding concepts in a meaningful context and understanding the science behind thetechniques learned in laboratories was an essential part of student learning. More recently,various reports (e.g., Engineering Education for a Changing World; Engineering

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Reginald Rogers, University of Michigan; Anthony Lachawiec, University of Michigan; Jeffrey Ringenberg, University of Michigan

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Graduate Studies

AC 2008-824: TO SINK OR SWIM: EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES FORMAINTAINING AND NURTURING AN ASEE STUDENT CHAPTERReginald Rogers, University of Michigan Reginald Rogers is a 4th year Ph.D. student in Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan. He holds a B.S. degree from MIT and M.S. degree from Northeastern University, both in Chemical Engineering. While at Northeastern, Reginald served as a teaching assistant to many Chemical Engineering courses including Material & Energy Balances, Thermodynamics, and Transport Processes. He was awarded several teaching awards and served on the TA leadership committee focused on improvement of the teaching assistant position in the classroom at

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K12 Teachers

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jodi Cullum, Utah State University; Christine Hailey, Utah State University; Daniel Householder, Utah State University; Chris Merrill, Illinois State University; James Dorward, Utah State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Christine E. Hailey is a Professor and Senior Associate Dean in the College of Engineering at Utah State University. She is Director of the National Center for Engineering and Technology Education, an NSF-funded Center for Learning and Teaching. She is a member of the ADVANCE-US team, an NSF-funded program to address issues that impact female faculty's effectiveness and satisfaction in the four engineering and science colleges at Utah State.Daniel Householder, Utah State University Daniel L. Householder is Co-Principal Investigator of the National Center for Engineering and Technology Education and holds visiting professorships in the College of Engineering at Utah State University and the

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cordelia Brown, Purdue University; Yung-Hsiang Lu, Purdue University; David Meyer, Purdue University; Mark C Johnson, Purdue University

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Electrical and Computer

deliver sufficient performance due to network delays.The study by our colleagues1 is closely related to the teaching style presented in thispaper. They offered two parallel sessions, one using traditional lectures and the otherusing streaming video and “direct problem solving” in laboratory. The comparison wasconducted on a sophomore-level course on digital systems and a junior-level course onmicrocontroller. They discovered no significant difference in students’ performance butstudents strongly preferred the new teaching style.Our work differs from previous studies in the following ways. First, all students are oncampus and this course is not distance learning2. In fact, students are encouraged to usecampus computers to watch the videos with a

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald Kander, James Madison University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2008-416: BUILDING A NEW KIND OF ENGINEERING DEGREE AT JAMESMADISON UNIVERSITYRonald Kander, James Madison University Dr. Ronald Kander is Director of the School of Engineering at James Madison University (JMU), where he teaches and does research in the area of polymer processing, manufacturability, and rapid prototyping/tooling technologies. He received a BS in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1980, and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware in 1987. Before becoming Director of the School of Engineering at JMU, Dr. Kander was Department Head of Integrated Science and Technology, and before that was a faculty member in the

Conference Session

Diversity and K-12 Issues

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Seyed Allameh, Northern Kentucky University; Thomas Brackman, Northern Kentucky University; C. Dale Elifrits, Northern Kentucky University; Morteza Sadat-Hossieny, Northern Kentucky University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

its efficiency in terms of theprogram’s educational contents, its target audiences, and its outreach impacts.IntroductionInterest is growing in the reorientation of educational programs to make them moreoutcome-based and results-oriented [1-4]. Outreach programs, as parts of recruitmentefforts of educational institutions, are especially appropriate for outcome assessment. Theresults of such assessment allow evaluation of the accomplishment of the objectives andprovide for fine tuning of outreach activities leading to the improvement of the quality ofthe educational programs.Assessment tools used to evaluate the accomplishment of the outcomes of conventionaleducational programs that include class and laboratory activities may not be

Conference Session

Design Project Based Learning

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Forsberg, Hofstra University

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2008-1308: A VENTILATION SYSTEM CAPSTONE DESIGN PROJECTCharles Forsberg, Hofstra University Charles H. Forsberg is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Hofstra University, where he primarily teaches courses in the thermal/fluids area. He received a B. S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (now Polytechnic University), and an M. S. in Mechanical Engineering and Ph. D. from Columbia University. He is a Licensesd Professional Engineer in New York State. Page 13.129.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 A Ventilation System

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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Edward J. Smaglik

impacted by thedesign. To address this disconnect, a series of lectures and laboratory exercises havebeen incorporated into coursework at the university level. This material has beendemonstrated useful for orienting students to field issues that should be considered duringdesign, and may be useful to introduce other engineers whose responsibilities for trafficissues are not substantiated by their prior engineering experience.IntroductionAs a subset of Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering has several sub-disciplines,ranging from urban planning and transportation systems analysis to highway design andtraffic operations. Materials are available for teaching theory in all of these areas,however, the application of traffic theory into applied

Conference Session

FPD10 - Freshman Engineering Introduction to Design

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Phil Schlosser, Ohio State University; Michael Parke, Ohio State University; John Merrill, Ohio State University

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First-Year Programs

addition to his teaching activities, he has started several successful electronics companies in Columbus, OH.Michael Parke, Ohio State University Dr. Parke has been teaching courses in the First-Year Engineering Program at The Ohio State University for the past eight years. He earned dual B.A. and B.S. degrees in Mathematics and Physics from Humboldt State University and a Ph.D. degree in Physical Oceanography from U.C. San Diego. He worked for 12 years at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on satellite missions and the design of satellite missions. He then worked at the Center for Space Research at the University of Colorado and later at The Ohio State University, on global applications of

Conference Session

Graphics and Visualization

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jon Duff, Arizona State University

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Engineering Design Graphics

AC 2008-751: MODELS FOR EVALUATING VISUALIZATION CENTEREFFECTIVENESSJon Duff, Arizona State University Jon M. Duff received his Ph.D. in art education from The Ohio State University after undergraduate and graduate study in technology at Purdue University. He then served on the faculty in Engineering Graphics at Ohio State from 1976-1984 and in Technical Graphics at Purdue from 1984-1997. Professor Duff joined the faculty at Arizona State University Polytechnic Campus in 1997 and currently teaches a variety of courses including modeling, animation, illustration, and technical publishing. He has served as Editor of the Engineering Design Graphics Journal as well as Chair

Conference Session

Educating for Results: Tools used in Engineering Technology

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Steffen, Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne

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Engineering Technology

, and sometimes un-purposely, inject mistakes into lecture andlaboratory problems. The student is encouraged and rewarded for identifying mistakes. Once amistake is found, the problem is further analyzed to see how such an error would have affectedthe final results.IntroductionLearning from history has always been a valuable teaching tool. Scanning the cable televisionchannels you come across multiple shows discussing historical and practical aspects of scienceand engineering. One such series, discusses engineering disasters throughout the ages. Eachstory thrashes out mistakes that were made in the implementation or design of an engineeringproject and sometimes shows how a simple mistake or change could have avoided catastrophes.These

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Robert M. Brooks; Soumitra Basu; Shriram Pillapakkam; Kurosh Darvish; Keerthi V. Takkalapelli

conferences.IntroductionThe weakness of the traditional lecture is well established by the regular calls from the academicworld to improve the standard of teaching (1-3). The lecture method of teaching must be replacedby providing more empowerment to students in various categories of learning such as design,discovery, innovation, and creativity (4,5).The objective of this paper is to describe the effect of various types of student empowermentprojects on student performance in a civil engineering course.MethodologyA course, CE 342: Transportation Engineering repeated over four years was considered. In theyear 2000, the course was taught in the traditional lecture format for nineteen students. Theaverage grade for this student population was sixty nine out of one

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Robert M. Brooks; Soumitra Basu; Shriram Pillapakkam; Kurosh Darvish; Keerthi V. Takkalapelli

conferences.IntroductionThe weakness of the traditional lecture is well established by the regular calls from the academicworld to improve the standard of teaching (1-3). The lecture method of teaching must be replacedby providing more empowerment to students in various categories of learning such as design,discovery, innovation, and creativity (4,5).The objective of this paper is to describe the effect of various types of student empowermentprojects on student performance in a civil engineering course.MethodologyA course, CE 342: Transportation Engineering repeated over four years was considered. In theyear 2000, the course was taught in the traditional lecture format for nineteen students. Theaverage grade for this student population was sixty nine out of one

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Northrup, Western New England College; John Burke, Western New England College

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Electrical and Computer

Engineering at Western New England College. Prior to joining WNEC, Dr. Burke was with EM Observables Division of Mission Research Corporation (95 to 2000), he was with the MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation (92-95), with Compact Software (90-92), with the Microwave Electronics Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts (87-90), and with the Hughes Aircraft Corporation (84-86). He received the B.S.E.E. degree from Northeastern University, Boston, MA, in 1984 and the M.S.E.E. degree from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1986, and the Ph.D. degree from University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1993. Dr Burke’s primary teaching interests are Electromagnetics, High Frequency Circuit

Conference Session

Materials in Design and Manufacturing

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhiqiang Hu, University of Missouri - Columbia

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Mechanical Engineering

modernengineering tools necessary for engineering practice.” Undergraduate engineering students willface these significant challenges and their education and training must adapt in order toadequately prepare the next generation of engineers for these new realities.Engineering faculty at MU started to develop an sustainable nanotechnology program forundergraduate students. We are developing a new course and laboratory modules throughenvironmental nanotechnology research to integrate them into the existing engineeringcurriculum. Research activities related to sustainable nanotechnology and challenges insustainable engineering education were discussed. By integrating the sustainable nanotechnologyresearch into the undergraduate curriculum, students will

Conference Session

Hands-on Materials Science and Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harvey Abramowitz, Purdue University Calumet

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Materials

instructorsadded to laboratory sections as needed. Around ten years ago, it was decided to split the coursein two, with half being oriented to mechanical engineering and the other half to electricalengineering. This made sense since the Department of Engineering offered majors inmechanical, electrical and computer engineering, and student surveys indicated a desire for anelectrical component in the course. In recent years, the single Department has been divided intoa Department of Mechanical Engineering and a Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering. Therefore, it was decided to team teach the course using instructors from the Page

Conference Session

Design Project Based Learning

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Choate, Western Kentucky University; Kevin Schmaltz, Western Kentucky University; Joel Lenoir, Western Kentucky University

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Mechanical Engineering

Design and the Senior Project Design course sequence. Prior to teaching at WKU, he was a project engineer for Shell Oil, designing and building oil and gas production facilities for offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.Joel Lenoir, Western Kentucky University Joel Lenoir is the Layne Professor of Mechanical Engineering at WKU, and primarily teaches in the dynamic systems and instrumentation areas of the curriculum. His industrial experience includes positions at Michelin Research and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as well as extensive professional practice in regional design and manufacturing firms

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, Santa Clara University

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Electrical and Computer

-IP.Most of the fundamentals are on Digital Signal Processing but we focus on the applications tospeech and voice coding.In this paper, we first describe the DSP curriculum for both undergraduate and graduate students.We describe our experiences and the challenges encountered in developing these courses. Wedetail some of the laboratory and teaching materials and the exercises developed, etc.We discuss as an example the internet low-bit rate speech coder (iLBC) which is used to codespeech under packet loss conditions that exists on the internet.Finally, we present possible future directions in the course development. Page 13.967.2IntroductionThe area

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Michael Khoo, University of Southern California; Ellis Meng, University of Southern California

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Electrical and Computer

Career outcomes. This paper reports both on baseline access, retention, andcareer data and a logic model associated with a comprehensive curricular reform resulting fromthe access, retention and career baseline data. As a result of this baseline data, the ERCeducational team has found innovative ways to infuse inductively based, situated curriculum andinstruction in addition to a student-centric outcome metrics into all aspects of the BMEcurriculum and associated laboratory experiences. These assessment measures build on theprinciples established in educational psychology and include pre and posttest BME conceptinventories, rubric-based laboratory assessments, BME efficacy measures and employersatisfaction measures. A comprehensive assessment

Conference Session

Hands-on Materials Science and Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mir Atiqullah, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Materials

AC 2008-1447: UNDERGRADUATE MATERIALS RESEARCH: TENSILEIMPACT TOUGHNESS OF POLYMERSMir Atiqullah, Southern Polytechnic State University Dr. Mir Atiqullah is an Associate Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering Technology at Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta, GA. He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Purdue University, West lafayette, Indiana in 1996. He has been teaching engineering and engineering technology since 1996 and has interest in design, materials, manufacturing, mechanics, optimmzation, biosensor, among others. He is a regular participant in ASEE conferences and active member of various divisions

Conference Session

Looking at the ChE Curriculum

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Annette Jacobson, Carnegie Mellon University; Rosemary Frollini, Carnegie Mellon University; Susana Steppan, Carnegie Mellon University

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Chemical Engineering

engineeringdepartment to introduce colloid and surface science as a focus for graduate study. The result wasa new interdisciplinary graduate program titled “Colloids, Polymers and Surfaces”, beginningwith lecture courses in 1972 and hands-on laboratory training added in 1974. On the academicside it was a cooperative effort under the direction of Professor D. Fennell Evans, employingpersonnel and physical resources of both the chemistry and chemical engineering departments.Input of R&D supervisors from eight local industries came from the Advisory Board, who Page 13.1303.2participated in major policy decisions and periodic reviews, and encouraged qualified

Conference Session

Measuring Success of Graduate Program Components

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Zhang, Western Carolina University; Ken Burbank, Western Carolina University; Brian Howell, Western Carolina University; Bill Yang, Western Carolina University; Yeqin Huang, Western Carolina University; Robert Adams, Western Carolina University

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Graduate Studies

through Applications: Comparison of Engraving Capabilitiesbetween the Haas CO2 Laser and the Oxford Lasers Solid State Diode Pumped Laser, abstract accepted bythe Proceeding of the 2008 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference. Pittsburg, PA,June 2008.9. Zhang, L. T., Adams, R. D., Zhang, J. Z., Graduate Learning through Teaching: Design of a DSSSSystem for Undergraduate Wireless Communications Laboratory, abstract accepted by the Proceeding ofthe 2008 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference. Pittsburg, PA, June 2008. Page 13.1065.10

Conference Session

Electrical ET Curriculum and Projects

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Dutko, Bloomsburg University; Cathy Auburger, Bloomsburg University; Patrick Anderson, Bloomsburg University; Biswajit Ray, Bloomsburg University

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Engineering Technology

of the industry providing additional motivation for an instrumentation and dataacquisition course2 at the sophomore level of a four-year EET program. This course consists oftwo hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory per week. Students have had courses inelectrical circuit analysis, electrical machines, and analog and digital electronics before takingthis course. The first three weeks of the fifteen-week semester are devoted primarily toLabVIEW programming. During the next eight weeks, the concepts and integration of sensorsand actuators, interface electronics, and data acquisition and instrument control hardware/software are covered. The final four weeks are dedicated to student-initiated laboratory designprojects3-6. This paper

Conference Session

FPD2 - First-Year Advising and Transition

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto

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First-Year Programs

) Course instruction 5) Laboratories 6) Teaching assistants 7) Class size (i.e. large class sizes) 8) Interactions with instructors 9) Working in groupsThe interviews provided meaningful comments on the greatest challenges in the transition andthe first year experience. All interviews were transcribed, and the transcripts carefully reviewedand coded. Three main themes emerged from the examination of the interview transcripts:Social LifeStudents defined how elements of the social atmosphere impacted their experience as a first yearstudent: “Before, you could introduce yourself…Like, I’d want to know other people and they’d want to know me, but now, it’s more like I know the people I know, and I don’t feel that other

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan Klingbeil, Wright State University; Kuldip Rattan, Wright State University; Michael Raymer, Wright State University; David Reynolds, Wright State University; Richard Mercer, Wright State University; Anant Kukreti, University of Cincinnati; Brian Randolph, University of Toledo

National Model for Engineering Mathematics Education. He is active in curriculum reform, and has led an NSF supported effort to integrate Mathematica laboratory sessions into the freshman calculus sequence at Wright State University.Anant Kukreti, University of Cincinnati Anant R. Kukreti is Associate Dean for Engineering Education Research and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Cincinnati (UC). He is the lead investigator for the UC adoption of WSU's National Model for Engineering Mathematics Education. He teaches structural engineering, with research in experimental and finite element analysis of structures. He has received two Professorships, and won four

Conference Session

Research in Multidisciplinary Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol Barry, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Jacqueline Isaacs, Northeastern University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

of an REU Summer ProgramAbstractAn NSF-funded Center, a three-university partnership with research focused onnanomanufacturing, has held a Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)Program for undergraduate students over the past three years. Over 70 students have participatedin the program, in which each student is guided in a project to learn more about research relatedto nanomanufacturing. In our laboratories, students with diverse technical backgrounds gainskills in electron and atomic force microscopy; chemical synthesis; MEMS and NEMSfabrication; dip pen nanolithography; template-guided assembly and transfer of polymers andnanoparticles; high rate polymer processing; assessing the impact of nanoparticles on theenvironment