Conference Session

Course-Based Approaches to Entrepreneurship

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelly Crittenden, Louisiana Tech University; Jon Pratt, Louisiana Tech University; James Nelson, Louisiana Tech University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

environment for the development ofnew products based around faculty research and student ideas. One of the major goals of theIMPaCT program is to create an entrepreneurial environment for students and faculty thatpromotes the development of high-tech startup companies in the region.The IMPaCT program essentially began during the Fall 2004 and subsequently received twoyears of NSF funding (NSF-0536482). IMPaCT began as an adaptation of Purdue’s EPICS(Engineering Projects in Community Service) program. EPICS was initiated in the fall of 1995with NSF funding and has been hugely successful.1 The IMPaCT program provides opportunitiesfor students from all over campus to work together to solve problems. Students can elect to

Conference Session

Assessment of K-12 Engineering Programs and Issues

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Faik Karatas, Purdue University; Amy Micklos, Purdue University; George Bodner, Purdue University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Page 13.1083.3researcher from a major engineering school gave an hour lecture/seminar about engineering tothe target population at the same school long before the study began. As seen in Table 1, total of370 students enrolled in 6th grade in these schools. Participants were 20 Caucasian 6th-gradestudents that were 11-12 years old. An equal number of male and female students waspurposefully selected among the volunteers in the study. In phenomenographic studies, a samplesize of 15-20 with maximum variation is traditionally believed adequate to investigate thephenomenon. In this study, variation was sought only for gender. Ethnicity and economic statuswas not part of our selection process because of ethnic homogeneity among the volunteers

Conference Session

Engineering for Nonengineers: Ideas & Results

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Neeley, University of Virginia; W. Bernard Carlson, University of Virginia; Sarah Pfatteicher, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Bruce Seely, Michigan Technological University; Douglass Klein, Union College; Ronald Miller, Colorado School of Mines

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

AC 2008-1732: TECHNOLOGY IN CONTEXT: INTEGRATINGTECHNOLOGICAL "LITERACY" WITH SCIENCE REQUIREMENTS FORNON-MAJORSKathryn Neeley, University of VirginiaW. Bernard Carlson, University of Virginia Chair of Technological Literacy Constituent CommitteeSarah Pfatteicher, University of Wisconsin - Madison Former chair of Liberal Education Division of ASEEBruce Seely, Michigan Technological UniversityDouglass Klein, Union CollegeRonald Miller, Colorado School of Mines Page 13.1190.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Technology in Context: Integrating Technological “Literacy”1 with Science Requirements for Non

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

El-Sayed Aziz, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Mechanical Engineering

traditional hand computational methods to provide multiple exposures of computer analysisin the mechanism synthesis, as shown in Figure 1. In addition, the course instruction used to helpstudents organize the knowledge, some learning activities should challenge them to select,identify, and defend their choices of concepts and principles for use in a given context. Dealingwith this matter, many modifications have been made and new features have been added sincefall 2007 semester. Figure 1: Features of the mechanisms and machine dynamics courseThe Design of Machinery textbook by Robert Norton7 was chosen to emphasize both the use ofmanual computational methods and computer software to solve mechanisms analysis problems.The textbook has an

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vladimir Mitin, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Nizami Vagidov, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Xiufeng Liu, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

andScience teachers from New York State. Therefore, these manuals were adjusted to undergraduatestudents’ level.The following describes the nine labs developed:1. Propagation of ErrorsFirst, the students carried out an introductory experiment on uncertainty in measurements and thepropagation of errors. The concepts introduced in this lab were used to analyze the data from allthe subsequent experiments.2. Introduction to Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM)The students learned: 1) basic principles of operation of the STM and 2) user-oriented STMsoftware. Using this knowledge the students obtained images of (111) Au film surfaces.3. Study of the Highly Oriented Pyrolytic Graphite (HOPG) Surface Using STMThe students learned in more detail the operation

Conference Session

AEC Education: Instructional Strategies and Innovation

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Cowan, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis

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Architectural

definition refers to reflective activity that has been asignature statement of Schön 1 that began with his work within Educating theReflective Practitioner. In this seminal book, Schön speaks of the value of postreflection on activity to gain an educational overview of the experiences that canthen be fit into one’s tool kit of architectural experiences. In summing up his ideason the state of architectural education, Schön 1 (p.171) supports the notion thatresearch should be focusing on methods of linking research with design:Creation of a reflective practicum calls for research new to most professional Page 13.14.4schools: research on the reflection-in action

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Willis, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; James Conrad, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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Design in Engineering Education

SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT: A ROBOTIC SYSTEM USING STEREOSCOPIC CAMERAS FOR NAVIGATIONAbstractThis paper describes a senior design project involving eight undergraduates split into two teams:(1) a computer vision based navigational control team and (2) a robot vehicle design team. Eachteam was tasked with a specific goal relative to completing the project. The computer visionteam’s goal was to develop an embedded stereoscopic vision system that will observe the scenearound the robot and automatically provide navigational controls to the vehicle. The robotvehicle design team’s goal was to develop a robotic system capable of navigating coarse terraingiven a sequence of navigation of commands.Each team had to accomplish a series of

Conference Session

Hands-on Materials Science and Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

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Materials

into an electromagnet. Since magnets attract, the coil attempts to alignitself with the magnet. However, when the coil turns to face the magnet, contact isbroken, and the magnetic field collapses. Inertia causes the coil to continue around untilcontact is reestablished and the process repeats itself. In other words, the motor revolvescontinuously. Page 13.868.2Needed Supplies One 'D' cell alkaline battery One wide rubber band Two three inch lengths of 12 gauge copper wire One rectangular ceramic magnet (.5” x .1” x 2”) 22 gauge magnet wire Fine sandpaper Needle-nosed pliersImageProcedure 1. Start

Conference Session

Preparing Engineering Students for International Practice

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Clauss, Grove City College; Blair Allison, Grove City College; Mark Reuber, Grove City College; Stacy Birmingham, Grove City College; Vincent DiStasi, Grove City College

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International

Program expects students to study a year at a foreign institute9. TheUniversity of Rhode Island along with Technische Universitat Braunschweig has a dual degreeprogram where engineering students receive an engineering degree as well as a foreign languagedegree10. The program typically takes five years to complete. Virginia Tech engineeringstudents can receive a dual degree from either Technische Universitat Darmstadt or the RoyalInstitute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden)1. Students spend their senior year at the foreignfacility, then earning them a degree from this site as well as Virginia Tech.Still another consideration is that international experience does not have to be limited toacademics. Students can obtain work experience through foreign

Conference Session

Instructional Methods and Tools in BME

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Roselli, Vanderbilt University; Stephen B. Gilbert, Clearsighted, Inc.; Stephen B. Blessing, University of Tampa; Larry Howard, Vanderbilt University; Aditya Raut, Vanderbilt University; Puvi Pandian, Iowa State University

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Biomedical

been designed to assist the author inconstruction of an assignment: 1) Assessment, 2) Feedback, 3) Data, and 4) Resources (Figure1). The tool comes with a built-in html editor, online help, a data viewer, and an onlinedebugger.Questions are composed in the Assessment view. The system supports 'fill in the blank'questions (string, essay, integer, floating point), 'multiple choice' questions, 'selections', and'true/false' questions. The author can provide an overall problem statement, as well as anynumber of questions relating to the problem. Numerical values used in problem statements canbe randomized, so every student is presented with a unique numerical problem.Comparisons between the student's response and various diagnosed responses

Conference Session

Industry Collaborations in Engineering Technology

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wesley Stone, Western Carolina University; Larry Smith, Western Carolina University

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Engineering Technology

expose them to the challenges that they willface after graduation; they have also been exposed to potential employers through their project.The engagement model has benefited the involved faculty by exposing them to current industryneeds, and keeping their skill set up-to-date.1 The university has received a great deal of positivepublicity through the exposure of industry to the facilities and human resources on campus.Industrial partners have seen benefits in several modes: they have received technical assistanceat little or no cost to the company, while gaining exposure to a multitude of students, potentially Page 13.493.2their future hires

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids and Heat Transfer - II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jesse Huguet, University of Alabama; Keith Woodbury, University of Alabama; Robert Taylor, University of Alabama

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Mechanical Engineering

that could be called in a spreadsheet to findthis data would simplify the process, provide more accurate answers, and reduce time spent onrepetitive tasks.Upon searching the public domain, a number of Excel macros providing steam propertycalculating functions were identified. Of these, Magnus Holmgren’s Xsteam compilation waschosen as a starting point due to its wide range of property functions, and their logical namingscheme. A companion paper by Chappell, et al.1, discusses this comparison and the selection ofHolmgren’s Xsteam. A list of the functions available in version 2.5 of Holmgren’s Xsteam isprovided in Table 1. Each function can be called in a spreadsheet to calculate the first propertyin its name using the required input properties

Conference Session

Inter- and Multidisciplinary Laboratories

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samuel Lakeou, University of the District of Columbia; Esther Ososanya, University of the District of Columbia; Wagdy Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia; Fatou Mbengue, University of the District of Columbia; Bodjona Coboyo, University of the District of Columbia; Abdulaziz SIrag, University of the District of Columbia; Ben Latigo, University of the District of Columbia

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

undergraduate research on the subject.Keywords: III-V Semiconductors, Concentrator Cells, High-Efficiency, MultijunctionSolar Cell, Gallium Arsenide Based Cells, Lattice-Mismatched, MetamorphicII. Solar Energy Basics a. Solar cell equationsThe basic structure of a solar cell is an illuminated (collection of photons, hv) P-Njunction as depicted in Fig. 1. When the junction is not illuminated, there exists ajunction built-in potential resulting from the formation of a space charge zone at thejunction level as shown in Fig. 2. When the junction is uniformly illuminated by photonswith hv > Eg (energy gap of the junction material), electron-hole pairs (EHP) will begenerated at a rate gop (in EHP/ cm3.s) and will participate in the diode

Conference Session

Computer Applications in Energy Courses

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frank Li, Youngstown State University; Theodore Burke, Ajax Tocco; Jalal Jalali, Youngstown State University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

temperaturecontrol capabilities and minimum environmental impacts. Induction heating has been widelyapplied to industrial operations such as forging, heat-treating, soldering, hardening, and otherforms of heat transfer. As the oil shortage and global warming become imminent, many newalternating energy sources such as wind, ocean and solar requires better power management inthe energy conversion1. Engineering students should learn the impacts of their designs to theenvironment and induction heating demonstrates such practical energy conversion process. Figure 1: High frequency power supply system schematics The schematic of the induction heating system is shown as Fig. 1, the 3-phase 60 Hzregular industrial standard 480 V supply

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Schrage, Georgia Institute of Technology; Michael Richey, The Boeing Company; Kenneth McPherson, The Boeing Company; Xavier Fouger, Dassault Systemes; Cedric Simard, Dassault Systemes

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Design in Engineering Education

studies emphasize theneed to advance science and engineering teaching and learning by adopting aninterdependent systems-level strategy. Page 13.649.4According to Spellings report6, they conveyed that they wanted (1) a world-class higher-education system that creates new knowledge, contributes to economic prosperity andglobal competitiveness, and empowers citizens; (2) a higher-education system that givesAmericans the workplace skills they need to adapt to a rapidly changing economy; and(3) postsecondary institutions to adapt to a world altered by technology, changingdemographics and globalization, in which the higher-education landscape includes

Conference Session

Professional Skills and the Workplace

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Ferguson, Illinois Institute of Technology; Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology; Carolyn Wood, Illinois Institute of Technology

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Educational Research and Methods

Program (IPRO) at Illinois Institute of Technology is aproject-based experiential learning experience with the primary learning objectives of [1]strengthening multidisciplinary teamwork skills, [2] improving communication skills, [3]learning project management, and [4] recognizing ethical behavior. In the last four yearswe have developed a multipart assessment system for the purposes of measuring ourachievement of these and other IPRO learning objectives. In this paper we will discusshow we measure learning objectives attainment at the project team level and theinconsistencies in those measures that prompted us to better define our learningobjectives, and align our assessment measurement instruments with these newdefinitions. We conducted rank

Conference Session

Software Engineering Course Content

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce Maxim, University of Michigan - Dearborn

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

semesters. These coursesare required of all software engineering majors. Most students taking these courses do not createserious games as part of their capstone design projects. The educational outcomes for thecapstone design experience appear in Table 1.Students enroll in CIS 4961 after they complete all required software engineering courses. Thecapstone projects generally require about 500 hours of student effort to complete. The majoractivities in CIS 4961 are requirements gathering and project planning (including riskmanagement and quality assurance efforts). The major activities in CIS 4962 are product design,implementation, and testing. Serious game projects usually make use of a rapid prototyping

Conference Session

Re-Imagining the Higher Ed Classroom -- Tablet PCs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vinod Lohani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Ricky Castles, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Aditya Johri, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Dewey Spangler, Virginia Western Community College; David Kibler, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Computers in Education

Engineering (COE) at Virginia Tech1. This initiative made itmandatory for all engineering freshmen (~1300 each year) to own a Tablet PC starting fall 2006.Figure 1 shows the response to an exit survey question (~220 respondents in fall 2006 and ~540respondents in fall 2007) showing ownership of Tablets by brand. In 1984, the COE was the firstpublic institution in the U.S. to require its entering engineering freshmen to own a personalcomputer. In 2002, the college moved to a laptop requirement and many of its academicbuildings were outfitted to offer wireless communication capabilities. Tablet PC Ownership by Brand Tablet PC Ownership by Brand Fall 2006

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design Constituents

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Skokan, Colorado School of Mines; Michael Ewing, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara Moskal, Colorado School of Mines; Heidi Barker, Regis University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

physical science. Offering a workshopthat focused on the television series NUMB3RS and that used the previously developedcurriculum seemed to be a natural extension of these prior efforts. The specific goals ofthe workshops that were developed as part of the CDE program are as follows: 1. Improve middle school mathematics and science teachers’ knowledge of the disciplines that they teach through practical examples of the use of mathematics, science, engineering, and technology. 2. Assist middle school mathematics and science teachers in developing a repertoire of standards based teaching strategies, activities and lesson plans that employ engineering and technology in their mathematics and science classrooms. 3. Provide

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aly Tawfik, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Richard Goff, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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New Engineering Educators

(represented in assignment, quiz and test scores) are discussed. Next, detailed description of fourexperienced modified activities, along with the rationale behind and the benefits gained fromthese modifications, are presented and analyzed. Furthermore, suggestions to improve two otheractivities that were not modified during the semester are similarly presented and analyzed. Next,conclusions are drawn with respect to the high influence of the fine details of the instructiondelivery process and the high impact an instructor has on the progress of the class. Finally, thepaper ends with several suggestions for possible future research.Workshops’ profilesTable 1 presents the gender demographic classification of the three workshops taught. Workshop1

Conference Session

Sharing Best Practices

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles McIntyre, North Dakota State University

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Campus Representatives

Department of any changes. In lieu of an active and conscientious SectionCampus Rep, these duties, by default, become the duties of the Section Chair. However, severalof the recommendations and suggestions presented in this paper may be conducted by either theSection Chair or the Section Campus Rep. Effective and ongoing communication between theSection Chair and the Section Campus Rep is needed to decide who should address each of theissues presented in this paper.In general, before making changes to any process or program, one must become knowledgeableof the overall process or program. From the perspective of a Section Chair, with regard to theCampus Rep Program within the Section, the Section Chair must: 1.) understand theresponsibilities of a

Conference Session

Preparing Engineering Students for International Practice

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Aidoo, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Shannon Sexton, Rose Hulman Institute of Technology; James Hanson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Kevin Sutterer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Robert Houghtalen, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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International

include: (1) problem-basedlearning (of the civil engineering design process), (2) communication proficiency, (3) team-workskills, and (4) project management orientation. The year-long experience contains many keyelements and deliverables to achieve these learning objectives. The design process experience iscultivated through problem identification, development and assessment of alternative solutions,data collection, engineering design, and cost estimation. Team-work and project managementskills are developed through rotating group assignments. Written communication skills comefrom the three deliverables required of each group: the proposal, progress report, and final report.Faculty assessment of these written reports is demanding and thorough

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Freudenthal, University of Texas at El Paso; Brian Carter, University of Texas at El Paso; Frederick Kautz, University of Texas at El Paso; Alexandria Ogrey, University of Texas at El Paso; Robert Preston, University of Texas at El Paso; Arthur Walton, University of Texas at El Paso

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Electrical and Computer

implementations of programfragments. Lab assignments utilize both languages and introduce students to commandinterpreters, scripting, collaborative development tools, and subroutine linkage of procedurallanguages. Assignments are distributed, “handed in,” and grades distributed using thesubversion source code repository.The reformed course’s outcomes are a superset of the original, with extensions including (1)understanding of C and its runtime environment, (2) parse trees, and (3) implementation ofdynamic memory management.ContextObject-oriented design is accepted as a primary programming model2 and many computerscience departments have adopted Java as their principal teaching language in many lower-division courses. Furthermore, Java programs are

Conference Session

Web-Based Learning in Engineering Technology

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Djafar Mynbaev, New York City College of Technology; Candido Cabo, New York City College of Technology; Roman Kezerashvili, New York City College of Technology; Janet Liou-Mark, New York City College of Technology

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Engineering Technology

produced by its universities. According to Internet reports, China educates about 600,000 engineers annually, while India graduates Fig. 1. Number of engineering graduates each year about 350,000 engineers each and their percentage in China, India and USA. year. On the other hand, American colleges award only some 69,000 bachelor’s degrees in engineering annually. These numbers are shown in Figure 1 with the indication of the percentage of engineering

Conference Session

Innovations in ME Laboratory Instruction

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Widmann, California Polytechnic State University; Charles Birdsong, California Polytechnic State University; John Ridgely, California Polytechnic State University; Frank Owen, California Polytechnic State University

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Mechanical Engineering

experiences are tied to the lecture content in order of increasingcomplexity and knowledge. Each lab experience lasts for two weeks. The five experiences are: 1) Modeling and Simulation with Matlab/Simulink® 2) Electric Motor Modeling and Control (Motomatic) 3) Fluid Level Modeling and Control (Two Tank System) 4) Hydraulic Position Modeling and Control 5) PID Design (Hydraulic System)One aspect of all the laboratory experiences involves creating linear system models and usingSimulink®4 to analyze these models. With the exception of the first experiment, models arecreated for existing laboratory hardware, and the students make comparisons between predictedresponses and actual system responses. Students are expected to operate all

Conference Session

Design in the BME Curriculum

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Judy Cezeaux, Western New England College; Thomas Keyser, Western New England College; Eric Haffner, Western New England College; Anne Kaboray, Goodwill Industries of the Springfield/Hartford Area, Inc.; Carol Hasenjager, Goodwill Industries of the Springfield/Hartford Area, Inc.

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Biomedical

the design process. Such design experiences commonlyoccur in first year introduction to design courses 1, 2 and capstone design courses. 3, 4, 5 Facultymembers in biomedical engineering and industrial engineering at Western New England Collegehave previously described a 5-week design experience,6 based on the NISH National ScholarAward for Workplace Innovation & Design,7 that provided an opportunity for students to designassistive technologies for workers with disabilities at Goodwill Industries of theSpringfield/Hartford Area, Inc., a local nonprofit agency performing light manufacturing work.These projects were completed in interdisciplinary teams as requirements in senior biomedicalengineering and industrial engineering laboratory

Conference Session

K-12 Engineering and Pre-College Outreach Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

on 2004/2005 statistics 1, 95.4 % of theUniversity’s student population was “White/Non-Hispanic”. In an effort to increase ourtotal enrollments and also address our lack of racial diversity, we found a very“reachable” population in the local public schools. The public school student populationin the region is in fact significantly more diverse 2 with a “White/Non-Hispanic”population of 80.81%. In both instances the balance of the populations were comprisedof Blacks, American Indian, Asian/Pacific Islander, and Hispanic.On average, two high school classes per month have traveled to campus to participate inlaboratory based sessions. As a direct result of these sessions, four new majors havejoined our program and several others have requested

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics IV

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

B. Kyun Lee, LeTourneau University; Paul Leiffer; R. William Graff, LeTourneau University

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Engineering Ethics

, current students are the most media-savvy and computer-literategeneration yet seen. They have grown up with the internet, with cell phones, video games, and Page 13.1013.2fast-paced television and video. They are very skilled at multitasking.The downside is that they may have short attention spans, are easily bored, expect to multitaskin every situation, and may have little company loyalty or perseverance. Comments in print: 1. “This age group hates to be bored and they seek entertainment in everything they do -- including college and the work they expect to do when they graduate. Many studies we reviewed indicated this generation

Conference Session

Engineering for Nonengineers: Ideas & Results

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah Mechtel, U.S. Naval Academy; Andrew McCue, U.S. Naval Academy; Keith Kintzley, U.S. Naval Academy; Robert Voigt, U.S. Naval Academy

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

literacy ofstudents with majors as diverse as English, Political Science, Economics, Mathematicsand Chemistry by offering a two course overview of fundamental Electrical Engineeringtopics. The goal of this course sequence is not to train engineers, but to introducestudents to the language and concepts of electrical engineering so that they are effectivein their role as future Navy or Marine Corps Officers. An additional goal is animprovement in their problem solving and critical thinking skills. These goals correspondto some of the traits that characterize the knowledge and capabilities components oftechnological literacy.1 As pointed out by Ollis and Pearson2, it would be difficult to findany person that exhibited all the characteristics

Conference Session

Engineering Education in the Mid-East / Asia

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rajeswari Sundararajan, College of Technology - Purdue University; Daniel Dangelo, Intel; kishore N.K., IIT Karagpur; Haritha Mogilisetti, Intel; Sundhasarath Somasundaram, Valliammai College of Engineering; umadevi S., highways; Robert Nowlin, retired

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International

of engineering graduates to thedeveloped nations like the USA and Australia for the past two decades. All this was possible,thanks to the engineering education of India. The engineering education in India is offered bypremiere institutions, such as the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs, ranking 50 in the worldand #1 in India) at 7 cities, as well as by other institutions, such as the University of Madras(Anna University) and Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT). The essence of Indian engineeringeducation is strong math, science, and engineering basics, problem-solving and analytical skills.Not all Indian universities have fully equipped labs or the latest equipment. However, this ismore than compensated by the hard work and quick