Conference Session

CE Poster Session in Exhibit Hall

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clara Fang; David Pines, University of Hartford

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Civil Engineering

elective for both seniors and graduate students. The curricula of these coursesdevote a considerable amount of time to students, developing an understanding of fundamentalsin highway design, traffic flow theory and traffic control. Thus, in my recent developedtransportation engineering course, computer micro-simulation tools are applied to provide ainteractive learning environment and engage students’ motivation in experiments and knowledgeconstruction. The course, covering an entire semester, is divided into two stages. The first half ofthe semester is to create a simulation learning environment for students to learn traffic modeltheory and control methods, while during the second stage, the students work on a real-lifeproject using traffic

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Terrance Boult, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs; Jeremy Haefner, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

innovation awards, including an NSF PYI, IEEE CVPR Best Paper 2004 and U. Colorado's Innovator of the year. He is chair of the IEEE PAMI TC and in 2006 was inducted into the IEEE Golden Core. Dr. Boult's research spans computer vision, image processing, medical imaging, biometrics as well as Computer Networks and wireless sensor networks. Dr. Boult's Vision and Security Technology Lab as over $2M in research funding, with 1 postdoc, 9 graduate students and 16 paid undergraduate students. He has been the primary advisor for more than two dozen Ph.D. students; has published over 150 Papers and holds 5 patents with 8 pending. He has been involved in 3 startup companies, all

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Youakim Al Kalaani, Georgia Southern University; Kurt Rosentrator, USDA

oil price fluctuationcontinue to pepper the news 1-3, it is likely that the use of renewable energy will become anincreasing national priority that will affect the next generation of college students4. Indeed, astatewide survey5 has found that the vast majority of American residents want to see more useand development of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power. However, it isapparent6 that there is still a widespread lack of understanding about the benefits of usingalternative energy sources. As such, there is clearly a need to educate the public of sustainableenergy and our institution provides the best venue for reaching a large audience in creative andeffective ways.An enormous benefit of “green” power is its impact on air

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Engineering Education in the Arab World / Mid-East Region

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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International

Page 12.1119.11hiring, promotion and tenure policies (32) .To insure a fair and equitable system, it is importantthat sufficient weight be allocated to practical experience (past and present), and also, to begin achange in cultural norms that have favored research over teaching for decades.ii) Second, initiating and supporting efforts to educate graduate students, early on, about thebenefits of acquiring industrial experience, and its relevance to their future careers as facultymembers, and becoming engineering educators. Encourage them to get in touch with industry,have a connection with someone on the inside, and plan to get involved with the practice whenthey do graduate. This notion of reaching out to industry at an early stage is foreign

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Teams

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Crockett, California Polytechnic State University; Jon Whited, St. Jude Medical; Daniel Walsh, California Polytechnic State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

words of our corporate champion, “The morewe work together, the better it gets.”Case Study: Accurate Heart ModelThe impact of this program on individual students can best be illustrated by an example from ourfirst trial experience. A typical case involves a Biomechanical Engineering student with noprevious research experience, and pre-class survey results illustrating her belief that she hadbelow-average aptitude for computer use and independent learning. The industrial challengeoffered to her team came from a pacemaker manufacturer: create both an accurate CAD modeland a mechanically-accurate physical model of the human heart to be used in the development of

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Morteza Sadat-Hossieny, Northern Kentucky University

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International

and study abroad practices. The pertinent question at hand is:could this be done without jeopardizing national security, and at what price? This paperwill look at these challenges and provide some examples and solutions to guide policymakers at institutions within the US and abroad interested in having student exchangeprograms.IntroductionPolicy implications affecting international graduate students and postdoctoral scholars inthe United States impact the success of US educational institutions in producing qualifiedengineers and the success of the US economy in the long run. Since the end of WorldWar II, the United States has been the most popular destination for science andengineering graduate students and postdoctoral scholars choosing to

Conference Session

An International Perspective

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carmen Maldonado, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Tatiana Ramirez, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Idalis Vazques, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Alexandra Medina-Borja, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez

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Women in Engineering

. These statistics translate in that at theUPRM only the top tier of high school graduates is granted admission in engineering every year.Regarding economic status of students, around twenty percent of the student body in the collegeof engineering reported family income in the highest bracket while no less than forty five percent(45%) could be categorized by income in the low brackets of society9, 10.II. MethodologyFocus groups have been used in the past to evaluate engineering programs and to elicit studentcharacteristics [e.g. 11,]. The design of the study was based in the seminal work of RichardKrueger’s book, Focus Groups: A Practical Guide for Applied Research12. Design, execution,and analysis of the study took place over one academic (fall

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Kadlowec, Rowan University; Howard Pearlman, Drexel University; Greg Biren, Rowan University; John Chen, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Ali Navvab, Gloucester County College; Anthony Marchese, Rowan University; Robert Sterner, Rowan University

half the distance of its dimpled counterpart. Students will study the effectof dimples on the drag coefficient of a golf ball. The objectives of this module are as follows: (1) Perform background research todetermine the velocity of a golf ball upon impact and estimate the Reynolds number. (2)Develop an experiment using the 0-100 MPH wind tunnel to measure the drag coefficient vs.Reynolds number of a golf ball. (3) Repeat the experiment on a smooth, golf ball sized sphere.(4) Make a plot of drag coefficient vs. Re number for both experiments and interpret the resultsin terms their impact on the game of golf. (5) For a given impact velocity, numerically calculatethe distance that a golf ball will travel in a vacuum, in air with dimples

Conference Session

Our Future in Manufacturing

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Truc Ngo, San Diego City College; Armando Abina, San Diego City College; Gene Lyons, Kyocera America Corporation

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Manufacturing

AC 2007-645: SUSTAINING MANUFACTURING WITH INNOVATIVERECRUITMENT STRATEGIESTruc Ngo, San Diego City College Dr. Truc Ngo holds a Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering, earned at Georgia Tech in 2001. During her time at Georgia Tech, she has published multiple research papers in major professional journals, including American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Journal, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Journal of Supercritical Fluids and Green Chemistry. She was a National Science Foundation Research Fellow, President’s Fellow and the Recipient of Waldemar Ziegler Best Paper Award. Dr. Ngo has also spoken at many national and international conferences in the past ten years. For her

Conference Session

Industry-Academia Collaborations

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University; Jim Subach, Arizona State University; John Magrane, Microchip Technology Inc.; Carol Popovich, Microchip Technology Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

have this experience contribute to the success of their Page 12.889.2organization in a shorter timeframe, and can add more value than those who lack thatexperience. Universities are competing to attract and enroll the best overall students. Onemechanism to achieve enrollment of top students is to demonstrate how curriculum willprepare them for the job market.Academia-Curriculum Approach to Preparing Business-Ready Graduates To build a successful technology enterprise, it is vital to have a knowledge-basedworkforce with skills in science and engineering. That is, knowledgeable workers who alsohave the appropriate practical skills help to

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Cooperative Education Addresses ABET

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Mathews, Mississippi State University; Donna Reese, Mississippi State University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

educationemployers that would provide additional data for the student achievements of ABET outcomes a-k. Since we did not want to have a negative impact on the return rate of the current surveys, weheld a focus group with a small group of employers to find out the best way to present theseadditional assessment questions without negatively impacting the return on our surveys. Thispaper will present the feedback from this focus group, the survey developed for this assessment,and the results from the first several semesters of the survey, including the affect on return rates.BackgroundMississippi State University (MSU) is a public, land-grant, doctoral, research universityclassified as Doctoral/Research-Extensive by the Carnegie Foundation. Enrollment

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Engineering Without Borders: Programs Involving Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Belle Wei, San Jose State University; Jacob Tsao, San Jose State University

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International

“Energy and Environmental Issues for China.”Each student was assigned to study selected sites in depth and present his or her findings to thegroup on the day of the visit. In addition, students were expected to keep a journal documentingtheir reflections on what they had witnessed and learned throughout the trip. After the study-tour, the GTI Study Program participants made presentations to 200+ students in the College ofEngineering about the information they had learned and the impact of globalization oneveryone’s lives.2.4. Study Program Site SelectionAs mentioned earlier, all participants were undergraduate students; most of them were juniorsand seniors. It was discovered that stimulating student interest was best achieved by selectingstudy

Conference Session

Curriculum Reform with Cooperative Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cheryl Cates, University of Cincinnati; Kettil Cedercreutz, University of Cincinnati

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

curricula with industrial needs. The proposed three-year project would focus on: a) identifying curricular activities exhibiting astrong correlation with student co-op work performance; b) designing andimplementing processes allowing the systematic use of employer assessment incurriculum design; c) evaluating the impact of changes in curricular design uponstudent work performance; d) piloting and contrasting projects in both differentacademic fields and at different colleges; and e) developing a set of best practicesto be used for further refinement and dissemination of the process. Initialcollaborators include University of Cincinnati (UC) academic units as follows:the Department of Architecture (College of Design, Architecture, Art, andPlanning

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

William M. Baer

paper.Additionally, the upcoming generation views materials retrieved online differently than thoseobtained from other sources. Clifton Poole stated “there is a tendency to think that cutting andpasting from the Internet is a form of good research and not plagiarism.”6 Several students arefurther confused because of online access to scholarly journals and conference reports throughtheir libraries web sites. Townley and Parsell note that “the Internet presents mixed messagesthat may confuse people as to what is and what is not acceptable appropriation practice.”7 The Internet also facilitates the ultimate form of plagiarism, turning in someone else’spaper as one’s own. A simple search for “research papers” on Google will produce a list ofplaces to

Conference Session

FPD2 -- Highlighting First-Year Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Burton, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

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First-Year Programs

workedtogether as part of the video and then the students take a break and work through individualproblems. This “hands-on”, learning by doing approach is one that is very popular withstudents since it is in tune with the way students learn best. It is also in tune with the ethos ofRMIT University as an institution producing practically focused, work ready graduates, aspreviously discussed.Videos, which have now been produced for use in conjunction with several different lectureand laboratory classes, are accessed via Blackboard, which is part of RMIT’s Learning Hub.They are thus a practical and readily accessible learning tool as well as an innovative one.Since these videos are comprehensive in their coverage and segmented into appropriatelearning

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula III

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University

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Environmental Engineering

AC 2007-1012: PODCAST-ENHANCED LEARNING IN ENVIRONMENTALENGINEERINGKurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University Kurt Paterson has been on the Civil & Environmental Engineering faculty at Michigan Tech since 1993. His research interests include public health, engineering and social justice, effective teaching methods, and multimedia-based learning. His teaching repertoire ranges from first-year students to graduate students, all his classes are designed along best learning practices. Kurt is coordinator for several international study programs at Tech, and is co-director of the International Sustainable Engineering Initiative there. He is involved in many engineering projects

Conference Session

Emerging Technologies in Manufacturing Education - I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leslie Pagliari, East Carolina University; David Batts, East Carolina University; Lawrence Behr, LBA Group; Kenneth Dingle, Allvac

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Manufacturing

transmitting facility or renewal of alicense. Failure to comply with the FCC’s RF exposure guidelines could lead to the preparationof a formal Environmental Assessment, possible Environmental Impact Statement and eventualrejection of an application.”19 Beyond this, the FCC Rules impose a continuing duty to ensureoperating facilities are in compliance and a not a danger to workers or the general public.Substantial fines are imposed for failing to comply with radio frequency radiation (“RFR”)maximum permissible exposure (“MPE”) limits applicable to facilities, operations, ortransmitters5,6,7.The FCC’s policies with respect to environmental RF fields are designed to ensure that FCC-regulated transmitters do not expose the public or workers to levels of

Conference Session

Marketing Engineering to Minority Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; John Duffy, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

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Minorities in Engineering

simultaneously the objectives of financial success while operating in an environmentally sound manner and a socially responsible way.3.2 Attracting Minority Students to EngineeringThe same caliber of research on women is not readily available on minority career motivatorstoward engineering. In fact, Black, Hispanic and American Indian/Alaskan Native men may beattracted to engineering at the same rates as white men, but the retention and graduation rates arepoor.18 As already shown, overall college enrollments are low to begin with. Much of the focusfor minority students is on readiness for college, obtaining solid math and science foundations,and paying for college. 9, 19, 20 The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Pre-CollegeInitiative

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robi Polikar, Rowan University; Ravi Ramachandran, Rowan University; Linda Head, Rowan University; Maria Tahamont, Rowan University

research interests include signal and speech processing, speaker verification. He teaches systems and control, signal processing, speech processing, adaptive filters and DSP architectures at Rowan. He is a member of IEEE and ASEE.Linda Head, Rowan University LINDA HEAD is an Associate Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ. Her research interests include semiconductor reliability, VLSI design and their applications to DSP as well as neurophysiology. She teaches VLSI systems, electric networks, ASIC design for DSP and biomedical electives at Rowan. She is a member of IEEE, ASEE and SWE.Maria Tahamont, Rowan University MARIA TAHAMONT is a

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I - Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Odete Lopes, Politecnico de Viseu; Joao Vinhas, Politecnico de Viseu; Joao Paiva, Politecnico de Viseu

Tagged Divisions

International

Management. Thefirst one appears in the 3rd year of the course and concerns ‘production’ in the classic sense ofthe word, i.e., production of goods, complemented with inventory management. Specifically,the contents of the Inventory and Production Management included issues like strategy,design of productive systems (including size, location and plant layout), aggregate planning,production scheduling and control and inventory management.The Operations Management course appeared in the 4th year of the graduation with thepurpose of looking at production management from a broader perspective. In other words, theterm production is now applied for both goods and services. However, for the OperationsManagement course the need to establish more ambitious

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Leroy R. Cox; Katie Grantham Lough

Department at theUniversity of Missouri – Rolla (UMR). She holds a Bachelors, Masters, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering, allfrom UMR. Her research interests include risk mitigation and management, mechanical engineering design, andengineering education.Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

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Meeting ABET Requirements

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anne Spence, University of Maryland-Baltimore County; Liang Zhu, University of Maryland-Baltimore County

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UMBC and holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. Her research focuses on the effects of vascular geometry and blood perfusion on local heat transfer in microcirculation and the simulation of temperature fields in tissue during hyperthermia and hypothermia treatment for various diseases. Dr. Zhu was actively involved in the ABET data collection and analysis process. Page 12.1314.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Student Outcomes Assessment Methodology in Mechanical EngineeringIntroductionFor many years

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Liberal Education Division Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanne Lax, Purdue University

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Liberal Education

AC 2007-2658: HELPING ENGINEERING STUDENTS WRITE EFFECTIVEEMAILJoanne Lax, Purdue University Ms. Lax is the communications specialist for the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. She is a graduate of Northwestern University (B.S.J., 1977; M.S.J., 1978) and Purdue University (M.A. 1994). She teaches graduate courses in academic writing and speaking for international engineering students. Page 12.800.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Helping Engineering Students Write Effective EmailAbstractWith the widespread availability of text