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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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James A. Ejiwale

beforegraduation, the integration of service learning and learning communities have been of immensebenefit. While service learning has provided the avenue for students to put into practice theknowledge gained in the classroom and laboratory, the learning communities have functioned inthe capacity of facilitators and mentors by giving constant feedback on students’ performancewhile engaged in service learning to enhance their leadership skills. Student’s leadership skillsdevelopment is assessed in ITC 400 – Technical Communication based on the following criteria: Daily Journal of Activities: 25% Weekly presentation to faculty and students: 20

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Parameswar Hari

toAm. J. Phys 69(7): S12-S23, (2001)3. Pelligrino, J.W., N. Chudowsky, R. Glaser, eds. Knowing What Students Know: TheScience and Design of Educational Assessment, National Academy Press, (2001)4. College Physics by Serway and Faughn, 5th Edition (Saunders College Publishing), (1998), Problem 6.26Biographical InformationDr. Hari is an assistant professor of physics and engineering physics at the University of Tulsa. Dr. Hari earned aPh.D. from the University of Utah . After Ph.D., Dr. Hari received post-doctoral training at The NHMFL (NationalHigh Magnetic Field Laboratory), Texas A& M University and Vanderbilt University. Dr. Hari has published over35 peer-reviewed articles and is represented in the 2006-07 edition of who’s who among

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Ryan Eckl; Christopher Johnson; Shawn Shields; Brad Cullipher; Wayne Helmer

of the 2008 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 2 Figure 1. Typical Engine Head Flow Test Data .[2].The primary focus of this project was to design, build and test a flow-bench for use in amechanical engineering laboratory while keeping the system within reasonable financial limitswithout sacrificing experimental performance. Standard components of a flow-bench are: testpiece, air-flow measuring device, air temperature measuring device, flow control mechanismand a device to measure the pressure drop across the test piece [3]. The unit should also be safefor the experimenters and the

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Rebeca G. Book

inputs. Each subgroup records the issues they think need to beworked on and names are assigned. The equipment group even takes a tour of the laboratory tolook at equipment and materials to see what is needed for students. Sometimes in order to beorganized and talk about what needs are, the advisory council will meet the day before the mainmeeting with just the committee chairpersons to guide the discussions the following day in thesubgroups.Balance on the advisory council is important to get good representation from the following areasof sales/marketing, manufacturing, equipment, processing, materials, and research anddevelopment. This is something that is difficult to achieve with fluctuating membership andneeds to be addressed. With so many

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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R.E. Babcock; Mark E. Arnold

Edition, 1998. 4. Moore, Holly, MATLAB for Engineers, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2007. R. E. BABCOCK Dr. Babcock, professor of Chemical Engineering, received his Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma. He currently teaches thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and unit operations laboratories at the University of Arkansas MARK E. ARNOLD Dr. Arnold, associate professor and vice-chair of Mathematical Sciences received his Ph.D. from Northern Illinois with a specialty in computational mathematics. He teaches linear algebra and numerical linear algebra at the University of Arkansas and is active in computational research.Proceedings of the 2008 Midwest Section Conference of

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Flexible Pavements, Transportation Research Record No. 1307, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 1991.(5) Robert Brooks (a/k/a: James Matthews) and Carl Monismith, Direct Tension and Simple Stiffness Tests---Tools for the Fatigue Design of Asphalt Concrete Layers, Transportation Research Record No. 1388, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 1993.(6) Robert Brooks (a/k/a: James Matthews), Investigation of Laboratory Fatigue testing Procedures for Asphalt Aggregate Mixtures, Journal of Transportation Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 119, No.4, 1993.(7) Robert Brooks (a/k/a: James Matthews), The Effect of Aggregate Gradation on the

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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David A Gray

and teach them the concepts, emphasizing the language. 3. Ask all faculty and advisors to use the language and concepts when dealing with students, for example, in advising sessions. (In a business that expects to improve, personnel would be told to do so.)It is not complicated. Perhaps in a few years an entire upper-class student body of a college will act asmentors when they shoot back, “Change your process.”David A. Gray, following retirement from AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories, has been an assistantprofessor of engineering at Messiah College since 2000. 51 Craig Gygi, Neil DeCarlo, and Bruce Williams, Six Sigma for Dummies, Wiley Publishing, Inc

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

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Flexible Pavements, Transportation Research Record No. 1307, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 1991.(5) Robert Brooks (a/k/a: James Matthews) and Carl Monismith, Direct Tension and Simple Stiffness Tests---Tools for the Fatigue Design of Asphalt Concrete Layers, Transportation Research Record No. 1388, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 1993.(6) Robert Brooks (a/k/a: James Matthews), Investigation of Laboratory Fatigue testing Procedures for Asphalt Aggregate Mixtures, Journal of Transportation Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 119, No.4, 1993.(7) Robert Brooks (a/k/a: James Matthews), The Effect of Aggregate Gradation on the

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

David A. Gray

and teach them the concepts, emphasizing the language. 3. Ask all faculty and advisors to use the language and concepts when dealing with students, for example, in advising sessions. (In a business that expects to improve, personnel would be told to do so.)It is not complicated. Perhaps in a few years an entire upper-class student body of a college will act asmentors when they shoot back, “Change your process.”David A. Gray, following retirement from AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories, has been an assistantprofessor of engineering at Messiah College since 2000. 51 Craig Gygi, Neil DeCarlo, and Bruce Williams, Six Sigma for Dummies, Wiley Publishing, Inc

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

David A. Gray

and teach them the concepts, emphasizing the language. 3. Ask all faculty and advisors to use the language and concepts when dealing with students, for example, in advising sessions. (In a business that expects to improve, personnel would be told to do so.)It is not complicated. Perhaps in a few years an entire upper-class student body of a college will act asmentors when they shoot back, “Change your process.”David A. Gray, following retirement from AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories, has been an assistantprofessor of engineering at Messiah College since 2000. 51 Craig Gygi, Neil DeCarlo, and Bruce Williams, Six Sigma for Dummies, Wiley Publishing, Inc

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Flexible Pavements, Transportation Research Record No. 1307, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 1991.(5) Robert Brooks (a/k/a: James Matthews) and Carl Monismith, Direct Tension and Simple Stiffness Tests---Tools for the Fatigue Design of Asphalt Concrete Layers, Transportation Research Record No. 1388, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 1993.(6) Robert Brooks (a/k/a: James Matthews), Investigation of Laboratory Fatigue testing Procedures for Asphalt Aggregate Mixtures, Journal of Transportation Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 119, No.4, 1993.(7) Robert Brooks (a/k/a: James Matthews), The Effect of Aggregate Gradation on the

Conference Session

Use of Technology to Provide Civil Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jakob Bruhl, United States Military Academy; James Ledlie Klosky; Elizabeth Bristow, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

leisure4. Education repositories such as ED-CAST orMERLOT5 contain examples of these. Other professors have integrated digital videos to provideaccess to demonstrations6 or present laboratory preparation guidance or even allow for conductof a laboratory experiment from a remote location7.The authors recently implemented an alternative method of using recent technology to providestudents with a learning resource that they can use at a time and place of their choosing. Themethod is referred to here as “Video AI” (AI stands for “Additional Instruction”) and has beenimplemented in the United States Military Academy’s Department of Civil and MechanicalEngineering with measurable positive effects on both academic performance and studentperceptions of

Conference Session

Anything New in Dynamics?

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brian Self, California Polytechnic State University; Charles Birdsong, California Polytechnic State University; Eileen Rossman, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

themotion first hand. Similarly, toy gyroscopes can be used to help teach students about precessionand demonstrate how gyroscopic navigational devices operate. These hands-on laboratories canbe much more powerful than demonstrations and lecturing – the students can actually feel thegyroscopic moments generated. These demonstrations were assessed through two problems onthe final examination. The first asked what happens to the motion of a gyroscope when you pushgently on the outer gimble. The second involved the action-reaction moments involved withgyroscopic motion (e.g., if you are riding your bike and lean to the left, which way to do youhave to push on your handlebars). Scores on these different problems along with subjectivesurvey results were

Conference Session

Use of Technology to Provide Civil Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jean-Pierre Bardet, University of Southern California; Dennis McLeod, University of Southern California; Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Nazila Mokarram, University of Southern California

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

AC 2008-1449: ONTOLOGIES AND WEB-SEMANTICS FOR IMPROVEMENT OFCURRICULUM IN CIVIL ENGINEERINGJean-Pierre Bardet, University of Southern California Jean-Pierre Bardet is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Chair of the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology.Dennis McLeod, University of Southern California Dennis McLeod is currently Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California, and Director of the Semantic Information Representation Laboratory at USC. He received his Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT. Dr

Conference Session

Accreditation Issues

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2008-1485: ADDRESSING CONTEMPORARY ISSUES, LIFELONGLEARNING, AND THE IMPACT OF ENGINEERING ON GLOBAL ANDSOCIETAL ISSUES IN THE CLASSROOMKenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University Dr. Van Treuren is a professor on the faculty in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Baylor University. He teaches the capstone Mechanical Engineering Laboratory course as well as courses in heat transfer, aerospace engineering, fluid mechanics, and wind power. His research interests include energy education and literacy and gas turbine heat transfer. He can be contacted at Kenneth_Van_Treuren@baylor.edu. Page 13.153.1

Conference Session

Opportunities for Entrepreneurship Programs and Program Assessment

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Green, University of Maryland; Georgina Johnston, University of Maryland

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

improves based on improved access to information.33Particularly for students working within university laboratories or serving as research assistantsfor faculty, students’ information access to innovative science-based concepts should improvetheir access to information and therefore improve their abilities in entrepreneurial opportunitydiscovery. Page 13.48.7Search ProcessesEmpirical evidence suggests that those searching for information on entrepreneurialopportunities are more likely to discover opportunities.19 While these searches can be based onpublicly available information, non-public information discovered through personal contacts is

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Phy

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Kohlmyer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Michael Schatz, Georgia Institute of Technology; Richard Catrambone, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marcus Marr, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

07 2 sections, 200 students total 1 section, 150 students Summer 07 None 1 section, 150 students Fall 07 1 section, 150 students 2 sections, 300 students total Spring 08 2 sections, 300 students total 2 sections, 300 students totalIn addition to the lectures, the M&I course entails many changes in the laboratory component ofthe course. In the M&I labs, there is a strong connection between lab and lecture content—theactivities in lab each week are designed to explore and reinforce the concepts being discussed inlecture that particular week. (In contrast, many of the labs in the traditional introductory courseat Georgia Tech are on topics

Conference Session

Engineering and ET Relationships & Professional Development

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Lambrechts, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

courses will have to be replaced.At Wentworth, the ‘hands-on’ aspect of education has several meanings, including;demonstrative laboratory exercises in the engineering mechanics, hydraulics, materials and soilmechanics classes, problem-solving laboratory exercise in structural analysis and structuraldesign, software application exercises in highway design, and design experiences in municipalplanning, foundations, earthwork, water and wastewater treatment subjects. Surveying, which isobviously hands-on, is also part of our present curriculum. What of these elements can weretain, or do we need to retain?We must be cognizant of the ‘hands-on’ elements that enhance student learning, and thisassessment is best made internally. Comment is sought from

Conference Session

Introductory Materials Science Course

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

Issues in the Professional Practice of Faculty Members in Civil Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Rose, University of Pittsburgh -Johnstown; Norman Voigt, Penn State, New Kensington

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

their institution. In one Page 13.1257.8 recent case, a well-qualified Ph.D. student at a major research university was interested in teaching a hydraulics and hydrology course and two sections of laboratory as an adjunct faculty member at another institution. The compensation for the course and laboratory section, however, did not justify the time involved in preparation, travel and actual teaching, and as a result, the individual had to decline the position.Insights from Personal ExperiencesWhen discussing the role of adjunct faculty in engineering education, personalexperiences provide a sense of reference and add insights

Conference Session

Innovations to Curriculum and Program

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado at Boulder

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Environmental Engineering

other products. C2B2 issupported by state, institutional, and industry funds. The center includes the three primary stateuniversities and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). At CU-B most of theefforts associated with this center are located in the Department of Chemical Engineering(http://www.colorado.edu/che/c2b2/index.html). Recently, the CHEN degree added an option toallow students to gain competence in energy-related areas. The Energy Option allows studentsto select one of three core concentrations: fossil fuels or petroleum, photovoltaics, and biofuels.Course requirements for each option are shown in Table 1. Note that students pursuing thesecurriculum options have no remaining free technical electives in their 4-year B.S

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew O'Fallon, Washington State University; Jack R Hagemeister, Washington State University; Clint Cole, Washington State University, Pullman; Joseph Harris, Digilent Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

free developmenttools now allow each student to have access to state of the art development tools and hardware.Students must be provided access to these industry leading tools to be competent and competitivein the marketplace.A study to be conducted at Washington State University will measure changes in studentperformance and retention when first year engineering students have exposure and unlimitedaccess to state of the art development tools and hardware. Data will be collected from surveys,exams, project reports, laboratory assignments, and homework.Quantitative data will be analyzed by comparison to historical data gathered from studentgroups that did not have exposure to and unlimited access to development tools.Qualitative data will be

Conference Session

Engineering Student Involvement in K12 Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Malinda Zarske, University of Colorado at Boulder; Jacquelyn Sullivan, University of Colorado at Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado at Boulder; Janet Yowell, University of Colorado at Boulder

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

MS in civil engineering from CU-Boulder.Jacquelyn Sullivan, University of Colorado at Boulder JACQUELYN F. SULLIVAN is founding co-director of the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program and Laboratory. She co-created and co-teaches a First-Year Engineering Projects course, an Innovation and Invention course, and a service-learning Engineering Outreach Corps elective. Dr. Sullivan initiated the ITL's extensive K-12 engineering program and leads a multi-institutional NSF-supported initiative that created TeachEngineering, an online collection of K-12 engineering curricula. Dr. Sullivan has 14 years of industrial engineering experience and directed an interdisciplinary water resources

Conference Session

Student Engagement and Motivation

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Crown; Arturo Fuentes; Bob Freeman

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

enhanced learning obtained from integrating elements of the learning environmentwhere it yields optimal results considering learning, costs, and complexity9,10,11. An SIenvironment seeks to integrate course content and the learning process with content from othercourses, the educational setting, accessible assessment/feedback, and family and studentinvolvement. Integration of the educational setting takes advantage of the many opportunities forguided learning in settings outside of the classroom and laboratory and allows for makingstronger connections by instructing students in different mental and/or emotional states. Interests Goals STUDENT Aspirations Values Activity #1: Activity #2

Conference Session

Mechanics of Materials

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vince Prantil, Milwaukee School of Engineering; William Howard, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

AC 2008-2957: INCORPORATING EXPECTATION FAILURES IN ANUNDERGRADUATE FINITE ELEMENT COURSEVince Prantil, Milwaukee School of Engineering Vince Prantil is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. Dr. Prantil received his BS, MS, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University. His research interests lie in micro-structural material modeling, finite element and numerical analysis. He was a senior staff member at Sandia National Laboratories California in the Applied Mechanics and Materials Modeling departments for eleven years. He joined the mechanical engineering faculty at MSOE in September 2000.William Howard, East Carolina University

Conference Session

Innovations in Biological/Agricultural Education-II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kumar Mallikarjunan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Christan Whysong, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jenny Lo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

ethics by participating in agroup exercise, which has included group skits and presentations in past semesters. Students areput in groups and asked to present or act out a given ethical situation. The class then participatesin a discussion about what they have just observed. This introduction to professional ethics Page 13.716.3becomes the foundation for ethical training received in the upperclassman years.BSE sophomore year: ethics instructionBSE sophomores are required to take an Introduction to BSE course which includes an oilextraction laboratory. The lab exercise focuses on reintroducing the systems concept to studentsthrough process flow

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dmitriy Garmatyuk, Miami University

Course with Broader Appeal to StudentsAbstractThis paper features course material being designed at Miami University under the NationalScience Foundation’s (NSF) Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) grant tospecifically address the problem of students’ declining interest in electromagnetics (EM), whileapplications of EM continue to permeate many areas of electrical engineering both in theindustry and academia. The new approach to teaching introductory course of EM aims to sparkstudents’ interest to the subject via offering them several real-world problems from the selectareas of signal integrity engineering, radar, antenna analysis and EM field propagation in humantissue. The problems are intuitively relevant and presentation of

Conference Session

Sustainability and Environmental Issues

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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P. Paxton Marshall, University of Virginia; Farhad Omar, University of Virginia; Alexander Hydrogen Martin, University of Virginia; James Durand, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

3616.8 Table 3 Late Fall / Early Spring normal operational day (Ayman [14] with Modifications)Based on analysis in table 3 the Learning Barge will require about 3.7 kilowatt-hours ofenergy per operational day.After identifying each individual load and determining their power consumption, themost important analysis is to understand the solar radiation we receive each day. Table 4provides a thirty-year average, from 1961 to 1990, obtained from the National RenewableEnergy Laboratory (NREL) [1]. The average solar radiation, in the Money Point areawhere the barge will be located, from March to September is over four hours. However,the average of direct solar exposure is 2.5 hours or less in November

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland Eastern Shore

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Computers in Education

the robot-vision system set-up in the University ofMaryland Eastern Shore Mechatronics and Automation Laboratory (UMESMAL). Alsothe dual water tank, rotary pendulum and flexible rotary arm utilize Simulink andRealtime Workshop from Mathworks Inc. for real-time control applications in theUMESMAL. The visual representation of control algorithms in Simulink is translated to Page 13.769.4Matlab m-files, which are subsequently translated to optimized ‘C/C++’ code andcompiled using a Visual C++ compiler for real time control solutions [18].Matlab “Image Processing Toolbox” has been utilized along with other softwareenvironments such as PCI-Geomatics, ArcGIS

Conference Session

Mechanics and the Internet

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Calvin Ashmore, Georgia Institute of Technology; Bo Yeon Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology; Geoff Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology; Daniel Upton, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sneha Harrell, UC Berkeley; Christine Valle, Georgia Institute of Technology; Wendy Newstetter, Georgia Institute of Technology; Janet Murray, Georgia Institute of Technology; Laurence Jacobs, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sue Rosser, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

better engineering education overlap withstrategies that have been shown to be particularly effective for the recruitment, success, andretention of women and minorities12. Of particular importance is offering students extendedexperience in experimentation, observation, and holistic problem-solving, throughinteractive methods. Engineering is an intrinsically “hands-on profession,” historically learnedby apprenticeship, but increasingly distanced from laboratory experiences 13. With previousgenerations of engineering students, it was common for extended experience opportunities tooccur prior to entering university. Backyard explorations and repair of the family car,disassembly and reassembly of common household devices or machines often served as