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FPD6 - First Year Curricula Development

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laura Ruhala, University of Southern Indiana; Richard Ruhala, University of Southern Indiana; Eric Sprouls, University of Southern Indiana

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First-Year Programs

Engineering) and ENGR 108 (Intro to Design). Other courses she is teaching are Dynamics, Dynamics of Machinery, and Engineering Materials. She is a member of ASEE and is developing a biomechanics laboratory as a center for research in bone and joint care.Richard Ruhala, University of Southern Indiana Richard Ruhala earned his BSME from Michigan State in 1991 and his PhD in Acoustics from The Pennsylvania State University in 1999. He has three years industrial experience at General Motors and three years at Lucent Technologies. He has been an Assistant Professor rank in the Engineering Department at USI since 2002, and has taught several of the freshmen engineering courses, including ENGR 103 and

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Plumley, US Coast Guard Academy; Vincent Wilczynski, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Design in Engineering Education

previously served as a national officer of the American Society for Engineering Education, as an evaluator for the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, and as a member of the State of Connecticut Department of Higher Education Board of Governor’s Advisory Committee on Accreditation. CAPT Wilczynski has had fellowships at MIT’s Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and the Harvard School of Public Health, and served as the National Director of the FIRST Robotics Competition. Before beginning his teaching career, he served as a shipboard engineer, and as a Staff Engineer and Staff Naval Architect at the U.S. Coast Guard Marine Safety Center. CAPT Wilczynski was named the 2001 Baccalaureate

Conference Session

Information Technologies Classroom Instruction

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Dadfar, Bowling Green State University

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Information Systems

. Page 13.925.7Bibliography1. DeHart, J., Kuhns, F., Parwatikar, J., Turner, J., Wiseman, C., and Wong, K., "The Open Network Laboratory," Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2006 (pp 107-111).2. Elsharnouby, T., Udaya Shankar, A., "Using SeSFJava in Teaching Introductory Network Courses," Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2005 (pp 67-71).3. Halsall, F., "Computer Networking and the Internet," (Fifth Edition), Addison-Wesley, 2005.4. Kurose, J., and Ross, K., "Computer Networking," (Third Edition), Addison-Wesley, 2005.5. Shay W., "Understanding Data Communications and Networks," (Third Edition), Brooks/Cole, 2004.6

Conference Session

FPD7 - Global Warming & Sustainability for First-Year Students

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Blair Rowley, Wright State University; Kumar Yelamarthi, Central Michigan University; Thomas Bazzoli, Wright State University

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First-Year Programs

, Central Michigan University KUMAR YELAMARTHI, M.S. is currently a Ph.D. student, and holds a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Wright State University. He serves as the lead Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Freshman Engineering and Computer Science Program. He was honored as the most outstanding Graduate Student in 2004, most outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant in 2005, and also has been nominated for excellence in teaching awards several times. He is currently an author on over fifteen publications. His research focus is low-power VLSI methodologies, and engineering education.Thomas Bazzoli, Wright State University THOMAS L. BAZZOLI, M.S. is Assistant Dean for Fiscal Affairs and

Conference Session

Accreditation Issues

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hakan Gurocak, Washington State University-Vancouver

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2008-778: DIRECT MEASURES FOR COURSE OUTCOMES ASSESSMENTFOR ABET ACCREDITATIONHakan Gurocak, Washington State University-Vancouver Hakan Gurocak is Director of School of Engineering and Computer Science and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Washington State University Vancouver. His research interests are haptic interfaces, robotics, automation, fuzzy logic and technology assisted distance delivery of laboratory courses. Page 13.439.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Direct Measures for Course Outcomes Assessment for ABET AccreditationAbstract - Direct measures provide

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Linda Ann Riley; Charles Thomas

materials for use in K-12classrooms, professional development for K-12 teachers, web-based resources, activities that take place atthe institution of higher education, activities in the K-12 school (such as design competitions or somemember from a higher institution partner– a student or instructor teaching in the K-12 classroom). Aswith other classification systems, there is room here for crossover, thus there are also “blended models”which would encompass one or more of these forms.Given the nature of the time scales involved (it might be as many as 10 years after the “outreach”experience occurs that the student makes a decision about what to study) it is somewhat difficult to assesswhether one form of “outreach” is more effective at attracting

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Rashmi Jain; Keith Sheppard; Elisabeth McGrath; Bernard Gallois

commercial fire alarm system (multiple units – one per group –connected across the design laboratory to a master monitoring panel) is evaluated and then the individualalarm units disassembled to reveal their sensors (temperature and optical smoke sensors which relatenicely to sensors used in the course). Stakeholder requirements for the alarm system are considered andthen the 4th total design stage is introduced, namely Operational Scenarios, in which context diagramsand use case scenarios are developed. This requires a collection of scenarios to be established, one ormore for each group of stakeholders for the particular phase of the life cycle – only the first design phaseis considered in Freshman year. Each scenario addresses one way a particular

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Linda Ann Riley; Charles Thomas

materials for use in K-12classrooms, professional development for K-12 teachers, web-based resources, activities that take place atthe institution of higher education, activities in the K-12 school (such as design competitions or somemember from a higher institution partner– a student or instructor teaching in the K-12 classroom). Aswith other classification systems, there is room here for crossover, thus there are also “blended models”which would encompass one or more of these forms.Given the nature of the time scales involved (it might be as many as 10 years after the “outreach”experience occurs that the student makes a decision about what to study) it is somewhat difficult to assesswhether one form of “outreach” is more effective at attracting

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Linda Ann Riley; Charles Thomas

materials for use in K-12classrooms, professional development for K-12 teachers, web-based resources, activities that take place atthe institution of higher education, activities in the K-12 school (such as design competitions or somemember from a higher institution partner– a student or instructor teaching in the K-12 classroom). Aswith other classification systems, there is room here for crossover, thus there are also “blended models”which would encompass one or more of these forms.Given the nature of the time scales involved (it might be as many as 10 years after the “outreach”experience occurs that the student makes a decision about what to study) it is somewhat difficult to assesswhether one form of “outreach” is more effective at attracting

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Rashmi Jain; Keith Sheppard; Elisabeth McGrath; Bernard Gallois

commercial fire alarm system (multiple units – one per group –connected across the design laboratory to a master monitoring panel) is evaluated and then the individualalarm units disassembled to reveal their sensors (temperature and optical smoke sensors which relatenicely to sensors used in the course). Stakeholder requirements for the alarm system are considered andthen the 4th total design stage is introduced, namely Operational Scenarios, in which context diagramsand use case scenarios are developed. This requires a collection of scenarios to be established, one ormore for each group of stakeholders for the particular phase of the life cycle – only the first design phaseis considered in Freshman year. Each scenario addresses one way a particular

Conference Session

Innovative K-12 Engineering Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacqueline Isaacs, Northeastern University; Jay Laird, Metaversal Studios; Lisa Regalla, Museum of Science Boston; Carol Barry, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Ahmed Busnaina, Northeastern University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

teaches multimedia courses and develops curricula for both the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Professional and Continuing Studies. His research focuses on creating new forms of educational and social engagement through games. He is the Lead Game Designer at Metaversal Studios, a game company founded by NU alumni and faculty, which frequently collaborates on Northeastern University projects.Lisa Regalla, Museum of Science Boston LISA REGALLA is an Education Associate in Nanoscale Science and Engineering at the Museum of Science in Boston, MA. She develops and presents programs on a variety of nanoscale topics and acts as the liaison between the Museum and the NSF-sponsored

Conference Session

Computer ET Innovation

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Schneider, University of Dayton

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Engineering Technology

Capstone Software Engineering ExperienceComputer Engineering Technology students at the University of Dayton take two fundamentalprogramming courses teaching the basics of algorithmic problem solving along with the VBAand C++ syntaxes. These courses develop a strong programming foundation for the students;however, they lack the ability to introduce software programming within larger softwaresystems. The final course related to software development is a required operating systemscourse. This course contains three fundamental goals: to develop the students’ understanding ofkey operating system concepts, to increase the students’ software engineering capabilities, and tointroduce the students to the internal workings of the Linux and Windows

Conference Session

Institutional and Curricular Reform

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Gardner, Boise State University; Pat Pyke, Boise State University; Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University; Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Amy Moll, Boise State University

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Educational Research and Methods

communities) and recruitment (community programs, camps). The Page 13.1251.2overarching goal defined by the sponsoring agency, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation,was to “support programs to increase retention and recruitment efforts, and to improve studentlearning through better undergraduate teaching.” 1 The breadth of our university initiative ispresented in Appendix A, along with information about assessment methods for each component,resulting publications and reports, and institutionalization status.We believe our experience, particularly in affecting lasting change at our institution, providessome valuable lessons not only for recipients

Conference Session

Our Future in Manufacturing

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bradley Harriger, Purdue University; Mike Aikens, Butler County Community College; Mark French, Purdue University; Steve Shade, Purdue University

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Manufacturing

• Final Assembly • Neck SandingSupporting Facilities The workshops will be held in a large teaching space and supported by a dedicated stringedinstrument manufacturing lab. The lab houses two CNC routers, a CNC laser cutter, associatedcomputers and a range of woodworking tools. These include a band saw, a resaw (wide bladeband saw), a table saw, thickness planers, thickness sanders, spindle sander, drill presses andassorted hand tools. Air quality is maintained by several dust collectors and an air filtrationsystem. In addition, there is a machine shop equipped with several large CNC milling machinesand other equipment. Page

Conference Session

Research and Education in Radiation and Radiologic

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shripad Revankar, Purdue University

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Nuclear and Radiological

AC 2008-2665: NUCLEAR HYDROGEN -CHEMICAL AND NUCLEARENGINEERS’ DREAMShripad Revankar, Purdue University Prof. Shripad Revankar is an Associate Professor in the School of Nuclear Engineering, Purdue University. He teaching and reserach interests are in nuclear reactor thermalhydraulics, reactor safety, nuclear hydrogen generation, fuel cells and general multiphase flow and heat transfer. He received M.S. and Ph.D. from Karnatak University in india both in Physics and M.Eng. in Nuclear Engineering from McMaster University Canada. Page 13.937.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bevlee Watford, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Catherine Didion, Association for Women in Science; Patricia Paddock, NYC Department of Education; Suzanne Jenniches, Northrop Grumman; Annette Gildea, Gildea Media Group; Katie Gramling, Diamax; Greta Zornes, Tulane University

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Women in Engineering

Column for the Journal of College Science Teaching from 1993-2002.Patricia Paddock, NYC Department of Education Patricia J. Paddock has developed online educational resources for a variety of formal and non-formal educational institutions including The United Nations, Girl Scouts of the USA, and the New York City Department of Education.Suzanne Jenniches, Northrop Grumman Suzanne Jenniches, a 33-year veteran of the Northrop Grumman Corporation, currently serves as Vice President and General Manager of the Government Systems Division. The division encompasses 17 operational sites, seven in the US and ten in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. These operational sites supply

Conference Session

Case Studies & Engineering Education Around The Globe

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Floyd Wilkes, Utah Valley State College; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley State College

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International

databases (OODB). Usingan OODB allows a developer to store objects in the database as objects rather than mapping their data into a relational structure [2]. Asecond approach, usually referred to as the Object-Relational (ORDB) approach, has required modifying or extending the relational modelto allow complex data to be stored in the database. This is accomplished through a data structure called a user defined data types (UDT)[3]. Many of the ORDB concepts have been incorporated into the SQL 1999 standard [4].2. BACKGROUNDOur teaching experience indicates to us that most students understand relational database concepts quite quickly. But, understandingObject Relational and Object-Oriented database concepts is more challenging for many of them. It

Conference Session

Graduate Education in Engineering Technology

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bimal Nepal, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne (Eng); Jihad Albayyari, Indiana-Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

will learn and get hands-onexperience with quality engineering software which will be enhanced further by working onsemester projects involving analysis of real world projects and published case studies. Further,the paper also outlines the teaching modules and modalities to enhance the learning outcomes ofthe subject.Course objectives and outcomesThis course will expose students to modern quality philosophies and advanced qualityengineering techniques. Topics include fractional factorial design, advanced statistical processcontrol techniques, and correlation and regression analysis to understand the relationshipamongst quality factors. The course will prepare students to take positions such as lead qualityengineer or engineering technologist

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education III

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Idowu, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg; Mohamed Omer, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg

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Electrical and Computer

quadratic costfunction parameters. Ct is the total cost, while PL and PD are the total loss and demandrespectively.REFERENCES[1] M. Kezunovic, A. Abur, H. Garng, A. Bose, K. Tomsovic, “The role of digital modeling and simulation in power engineering education,” IEEE Trans. Power Systems, vol. 19, n 1, pp. 64 – 72, Feb. 2004.[2] P. Idowu, “Development of a prototype resource optimizing, access delimited (ROAD) laboratory,” Proc. 2000 IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, vol. 2, pp. 1405-1409.[3] M. M. Albu, K. E. Holbert, G. T. Heydt, S. D. Grigorescu, V. Trusca, “Embedding Remote Experimentation in Power Engineering Education,” IEEE Trans. Power Systems, vol. 19, n 1, pp. 139-143, Feb. 2004.[4] M., Varano; M., Patel; D., Asnani

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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Peg Pankowski

included.IntroductionApplications for accreditation, along with accreditation visits, are stressful times for all collegesand universities. The previous NWCCU accreditation visit to the college yielded arecommendation that student learning outcomes be defined and consistently assessed for allprograms of the college and that the assessments clearly inform the planning process of thecollege to drive improvement. At that time, the college adopted a framework for assessment thatattempted to link programs to the college mission. Engineering technology faculty had listedspecific student outcomes such as “construct, test and verify the operation of various digitalcircuits” and indicated that tests and laboratory reports would be used as measurement devices.Unfortunately

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

James A. Ejiwale

. According to McPherson7 (2005) “Service learning is a method of teaching throughwhich students apply their academic skills and knowledge to address real-life needs in their owncommunities.” Eyler & Giles4 (1999) highlighted the importance of service learning as “a formof experiential education where learning occurs through a cycle of action and reflection asstudents work with others through a process of applying what they are learning to communityproblems, and at the same time, reflecting upon their experience as they seek to achieve realobjectives for the community and deeper understanding and skills for themselves.” It is essentialtherefore to provide a structured environment in which participants will be able to discover theirown styles of

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Parameswar Hari

solving skills and critical thinking in introductoryphysics courses. In this paper we discuss a new approach to teaching problem solving and criticalthinking skills to physics and engineering physics students. We propose a new method in whichphysics students are asked to evaluate different solutions to a given problem and decide why aparticular solution is the correct one compared to various other approaches leading to the exactlysame final answer. This technique could facilitate critical thinking in students taking introductoryphysics courses.IntroductionPhysics is traditionally considered a difficult subject to master because of the high degree ofproblem solving skills demanded in learning the subject. Besides requiring a high level

Conference Session

Novel Courses and Content for ChEs I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allen White, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Glen Livesay, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Kay C Dee, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Chemical Engineering

their informed consent to participate (IRB approval, RHS#0068), and studentparticipation was voluntary and compensated. All students completed the Index of LearningStyles (ILS)6,7 and the VARK questionnaire8,9, and the supplemental learning opportunities(SLOs) described in this work were held on campus in a teaching laboratory on Tuesdaysbetween 6:00 and 7:00 pm. Five one-hour kinesthetic active SLOs were held during the 10-weekFall 2007/08 quarter: the first two SLOs were held before the first exam in ES 201, the next twooccurred between the first and second exam, and the final SLO occurred prior to the third examin ES 201. Page

Conference Session

Impacts of Public Policy on Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Cady, National Academy of Engineering; Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering

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Engineering and Public Policy

status • Percentage of faculty with discipline specific terminal degree • Percentage of full-time faculty • Promotion Tracking: Number and % of faculty who submit tenure or promotion applications with outcome – assistant to associate, associate to full • Number of years in each faculty rank (time to promotion) • Sabbatical year per years teaching by rank, percentage and tenure status • Number, discipline, and institution of faculty serving on inter-institutional graduate thesis committees • Number, rank, and tenure status of faculty that participated in an NSF review process, advisory committees, or Committee of Visitors • Number, rank, tenure status of faculty participating in professional development symposia/workshops

Conference Session

Use of Technology to Provide Civil Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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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

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

area.Catherine Peters proposed that civil/environmental engineering curricula should “teach studentsthe fundamentals of sustainable energy, in addition to incorporating sustainable engineering andglobal warming issues14. To effectively engineer sustainable systems, energy flow must beunderstood. For example, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has estimated that about4% of all electricity consumption in the U.S. is consumed by water and wastewater treatment andtransmission, and that electricity accounts for 80% of municipal water treatment and distributioncosts2. Environmental engineers have the potential to lead systematic analysis of products andprocesses from a life-cycle perspective. Environmental engineers may be the best suited of allthe

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

BME Courses & Curricular Content

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Linsenmeier, Northwestern University; David Gatchell, Northwestern University

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Biomedical

AC 2008-1467: PHYSIOLOGY CONCEPTS AND PHYSIOLOGY PROBLEMS FORBIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING STUDENTSRobert Linsenmeier, Northwestern University Robert A. Linsenmeier has a joint appointment in Biomedical Engineering in the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, and in Neurobiology and Physiology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. His primary teaching is in human and animal physiology. He is the Associate Director of the VaNTH Engineering Research Center in Bioengineering Educational Technologies, former chair of the Biomedical Engineering Department at Northwestern, and a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and the

Conference Session

Learning Needs and Educational Success

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brenda Hart, University of Louisville; Veronica Hinton-Hudson, University of Louisville; James Lewis, University of Louisville

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Minorities in Engineering

Page 13.751.4industry is scheduled for each week. The selection of the industry primarily depends upon a fewcritical factors such as schedule availability, INSPIRE access to practicing engineers at work,availability of transportation, interdependencies of other sessions, etc.The program participants utilize the classroom and laboratory facilities at University ofLouisville Speed School of Engineering for both engineering as well as non-engineeringsessions. Figure 4 provides a succinct synopsis of seven of the engineering, discipline related,sessions. Over the last decade, several engineering modules have been developed across theengineering discipline that can be used for pre-college students in 9th through 12th grades. Eachdisciplinary

Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Applications

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory Nail, University of Tennessee-Martin

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Engineering Design Graphics

of Toledo. The author explains that, because of trends promoted bystate departments of transportation, his program opted to integrate GEOPAK © into designclasses. Specifically, GEOPAK © was integrated into a synchronized CAD laboratory whichincluded highway geometric design, and site and utility layout. A semester long project was usedas the vehicle with which the software was introduced to the students. The conversion fromquarters to semesters was the original impetus for the expansion of the CAD laboratory courseoffering. The prerequisite is a freshman level course which incorporates Microstation ©instruction. The author refers to the challenge of adequately exposing students to all of thecapabilities of GEOPAK © within the available 33