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Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenny Mahan, University of Alabama; Jesse Huguet, University of Alabama; Joseph Chappell, University of Alabama; Keith Woodbury, University of Alabama; Robert Taylor, University of Alabama

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Mechanical Engineering

can be downloaded at the project website Page 14.600.20www.me.ua.edu/ExcelinME.Acknowledgement This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DUE-0633330. The authors gratefully acknowledge support from this NSF award.DisclaimerAny opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are thoseof the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.ReferencesASHRAE, (2005), Handbook of Fundamentals, http://www.ashrae.org/Chappell, J., Taylor, R. P., and Woodbury, K. A. (2008) “Introducing Excel-based Steam

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Chappell, University of Alabama; Keith Woodbury, University of Alabama; Robert Taylor, University of Alabama

author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.Bibliography1. Huguet, Jesse and Keith Woodbury. Development of Steam and Ideal Gas Property Functions for Use in Thermodynamics Curriculum, Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. June 2008, Pittsburgh, PA.2. Woodbury, K. A., Taylor, R. P., Huguet, J., Chappell, J., Dent, T., and Mahan, K., “Vertical Integration of Thermal Mechanical Curriculum using Excel,” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, October 31 – November 6, 2008, Boston, MA3. Excel in M.E. Project Website.2009. University of Alabama. January 23 2009 from: .4. Microsoft Developer Network. 2009. Microsoft HTML Help

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Hanson, California Polytechnic State University

andorigin of categories, common traits exist in the learning style identified for the majority ofengineering faculty. This learning style is then reflected in the teaching style of the faculty andleads to predominance of a single teaching style for much of engineering curricula. In thisregard, engineering is generally taught using exclusively technical and mathematical modes.However, student learning occurs using a broad variety of learning styles.Educational research indicates that active student participation in the classroom experience isbeneficial to learning effectiveness. Novel use of technology has been demonstrated to be highly Page

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment III

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, Santa Clara University

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Electrical and Computer

accumulate the results over time so that the statisticalanalysis of the results will become better reflective of the sample space, the student population atSanta Clara University.Finally, we have used the results to recommend alternate pedagogical methods for presenting thematerial in the Linear Systems course.In future work, we will analyze the SSCI DT Test results and compare with those of the SSCICT Tests in prior course. We will also track the performance of the students from the CT courseto the DT course.In summary, we met the goals of our study:(1) To determine how much conceptual understanding the students have developed by the end ofthe class (compared to the beginning of the class).(2) To correlate the performance on the end-of-term exam

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OMCED Topics

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Manhar Dhanak, Florida Atlantic University; Ronald Yeung, University of California, Berkeley; Spyros Kinnas, University of Texas, Austin

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Ocean and Marine

respectively directed at performance of single and multiple hulls and at the development of improved propulsion systems. • FAU/UT/UCB Faculty / CISD personnel campus visits and seminar programsSpecific emphasis of the program has evolved to reflect the thrust at CISD. For example, for2004 – 06, ship systems specific to development of the Seabasing concept and associatedtechnologies were considered. The Seabase is envisioned as a collection of mobile Navy ships atsea conducting operations that enable forces to mobilize ashore without a large logisticsfootprint. A Seabase has strategic advantages that include unconstrained maneuvering andreconfiguration, scalability to match operations, rapid deployment, reduced vulnerability toattack, local

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Laboratory Development in ECE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dietmar Moeller, University of Hamburg; Hamid Vakilzadian, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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Electrical and Computer

student surveys show that this courseis more versatile than physical implementation type courses because it permits architecturalstudies for optimized implementations, performance and delay analyses, and hardware andsoftware partitioning easily.AcknowledgementThis work supported in part by the National Science Foundation, Directorate for Educationand Human Resources (EHR), Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) under GrantNumber CCLI-0737530. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of theational Science Foundation. Fig. 10: Virtual prototyping through VHDL code – part 2

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Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Rabb, United States Military Academy; Andrew Biaglow, United States Military Academy; David Chang, United States Military Academy

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

the vision of a multidisciplinary engineering study. The course modeldescribed in this report can be emulated elsewhere to pave partnerships between variousengineering departments and disciplines. Nevertheless, teaching an interdisciplinary courserequires a committed, motivated faculty who are creative and willing to change. Cultivating amultidisciplinary course such as Dynamic Modeling and Control is a growing experience for thefaculty as well as the students, but the rewards are worth the additional time required to make itinteresting and relevant to the students.AcknowledgementThe views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not purport to reflect the position ofthe USMA.Bibliography

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yunjun Xu, University of Central Florida; Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma; Charles Remeikas, University of Central Florida; Xiaojun Geng, California State University, Northridge; Sagar Chowdhury, University of Oklahoma; Chen Ling, University of Oklahoma

design and development. The team proceeds to develop detailed contentsof the courses selected and much attention has been paid to form a serial of questions andanswers for each course module. Such questions need to be designed and given to the students ina progressive manner, and answers should be flexible enough to reflect different thinking angles.Video clips are often used as hints in modules. Four different databases were identified and builtpreliminarily, which is flexible enough such that it can be easily used by all course modules. Inaddition to the development of the course modules, the assessment tools are under investigationas well, through which the GIVE system is expected to be evaluated in the coming fall semesterof 2009.This paper

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Develop Course / Materials / Topics for a Global Engineering Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lawrence Whitman, Wichita State University; Zulma Toro-Ramos, Wichita State University; Barbara Chaparro, Wichita State University; Veronica Hinkle, Wichita State University; Colin Davidson, Spirit Aerosystems; Chris Wilkinson, Spirit Aerosystems

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International

this case, the student Page 14.87.5 must prepare a two-page report outlining: ≠ Summary of previous experience, including dates and locations ≠ Description of the student experience (typically a reflective paper, though not restricted to this) ≠ Contact information of faculty/sponsors involved in the global learning experienceThe effort described in this paper directly applies to the “Global Learning” criterion of theEngineer of 2020 program. More details on the complete Engineer of 2020 program at WichitaState University can be found in11. IV. Linkage to ABET

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Teaching Statics

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anna Dollar, Miami University; Paul Steif, Carnegie Mellon University

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Mechanics

, learning-intensiveclassroom activities can be chosen appropriately.2. DESCRIPTION OF OLI ENGINEERING STATICS COURSEAs judged for example by design instructors, students often fail to utilize Statics adequately inthe analysis and design of mechanical systems and structures, which they confront subsequently[15]. A detailed critique of traditional Statics instruction was presented by the authors [11],including the observation that mathematical analysis had come to overwhelm physical reasoningin Statics instruction. As a remedy, a more deliberate, sequential, object-centered, concept-driven approach to Statics was proposed [11]. This rather substantial reorganization ofinstruction in Statics was devised to reflect conceptual difficulties exhibited by

Conference Session

Measuring Success of Graduate Program Components

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lynita Newswander, Virginia Tech; Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech

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Graduate Studies

institutionalizing change21-24. Theseinclude barriers to faculty, students, and administrators25. According to Gumport andSnydman26, the organization of universities is both programmatic and bureaucratic. As they seeit, “…universities and colleges both reflect and reconstitute classifications of knowledge and inso doing establish categories of expertise and knowledge worth knowing”26. The popularity of anew idea may also be at issue, as innovations that are well-liked are more likely to be Page 14.683.3 2integrated27. The first step to overcoming

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Global Engineering Education: Developments, Implementations

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alan Parkinson, Brigham Young University; John Harb, Brigham Young University; Spencer Magleby, Brigham Young University

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International

than one third of the world’s population, have become important players inglobal markets and technology development. Across the world, free trade barriers havedropped, and the influence of multi-national corporations has increased.3As a result of these changes, product design and manufacture often cut across nationalboundaries. It is not uncommon for companies to develop products with teams that includemembers located throughout the world. These teams may reflect high cultural and nationaldiversity. The products they design will often be for sale in numerous countries and thereforemust address customer needs in those countries. Products may be manufactured abroad, withraw materials or sub-assemblies coming from various parts of the world

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Computers and Software in Teaching Mathemathetics

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jenna Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University

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Mathematics

weekend, making such assignments challenging to complete. For thepurposes of this study, assignments due during the weekend (Friday or Saturday night) wereassigned early enough to permit students to complete them prior to leaving campus. Still, itwould be prudent to make weekend assignments due on Sunday evening so that commutingstudents or those who leave campus for the weekend are not penalized for lack of access to theinternet.The wiki, podcasts and blog again generated only a few, mixed comments, reflecting minimalstudent use.Based on this feedback, it appears that shifting the podcasts and assignment information toBlackboard, along with posting of grades on Blackboard, would be a smarter strategy forattempting to reach students with these

Conference Session

Knowing Our Students, Faculty, and Profession

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marisa Orr, Clemson University; Zahra Hazari, Clemson University; Philip Sadler, Science Education Department, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Gerhard Sonnert, Science Education Department, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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Educational Research and Methods

order to examine the relationship between outcomeexpectations and occupational preference in more depth, the detail provided by Vroom’sExpectancy Theory3, specifically the valence model, is useful.Social Cognitive Career Theory2 can be used as a lens through which to examine which types ofoutcome expectations women and men have about an engineering career. According toBandura’s social cognitive theory4, outcome expectations are the anticipated consequences of acourse of action and can be physical, social, or self-evaluative. For example, a student mightexpect that the outcome of earning an engineering degree will be making money (physical),becoming well-known (social), or developing new knowledge (self-reflective). Lent, Brown,and Hackett used

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Global Engineering Education: Intercultural Awareness and International Experience

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Tront, Virginia Tech; Rebecca Gunter, Virginia Tech; Cheryl Peed, Virginia Tech; Joseph Tront, Virginia Tech

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International

, reflecting their thoughts andexperiences while traveling. Another class was devoted to web page development. Classdiscussion was strongly encouraged. The topics covered were diverse and thought provoking.There were a number of assignments given throughout the semester. Each student was asked, forexample, to look into their personal national and racial background and tell the group about it.The students seem to genuinely enjoy reporting on their background and hearing about others.Student buy in for the travel portion of this class is crucial so groups of two were assigned one ofthe stops abroad and were charged with researching that town. The assignment read: Be the virtual tour guide for the class. Each group will present to the

Conference Session

Assessing Design Course Work

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rhonda Young, University of Wyoming; April Heaney, University of Wyoming; James Kladianos, Wyoming Department of Transportation

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Design in Engineering Education

the report, focused mainly on the writing, account for 6% of the course grade.Seven percent of the course grade is based on the writing style, grammar, punctuation, andproper citation of references in the final report. This grade is determined from a final versionsubmitted at the end of the semester, reflecting the results of two separate reviews by the courseinstructor. A typical project report for a design group of three students is approximately 55pages long. Writing the report accounts for approximately 20 of the 100 hours put in by eachstudent during the fall portion of the course. Therefore, the amount of work done by the studentsin writing the final report is approximately proportional to the portion of the course grade

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International Initiatives, Partnerships, Teaching Strategies & Collaborative Networks (IUCEE, IFEES, LACCEI.... )

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bhushan Trivedi; Maria M. Larrondo Petrie

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International

results in both courses.We compared results of the first test in both the subjects. We could have compared either thesecond test results or final results but first test results reflect better for the experiment for thefollowing reasons.1. Traditionally the first test in both classes is a strict test that is graded harshly, with no curving, with the aim of awakening those who are complaisant. Thus, results tend to be poor then the second test is traditionally easier to see that students get fair internal marks. Page 14.271.7 Most of the time the second test requires being lenient while examining and curve the result to some extent

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ASCE Policy 465: Raising the Bar

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Russell, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Gerry Galloway, University of Maryland; Thomas Lenox, American Society of Civil Engineers; James O'Brien, American Society of Civil Engineers

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Civil Engineering

Jul08, together with several visits Advocate changes to the licensing laws in each of the 56 to key state and industry leaders. CAP3,9. jurisdictions to reflect the NCEES model law and raise the 3, 5 2035 Conducted two “town hall” CGA bar for the licensure of engineers. meetings in NE in Oct08. Completed a four-day visit to LA

Conference Session

Goal Specific First-Year Courses

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lesley Strawderman, Mississippi State University; Bill Elmore, Mississippi State University; Arash Salehi, Mississippi State University

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First-Year Programs

traditionally assessed in academe. However, this must beaccompanied by a meta-cognitive ability to reflect, assess and regulate one’s engagement inlearning. For a learner human agency constitutes a foundation upon which new knowledge isassembled and integrated into a framework for choosing and adequately performing vocationalpursuits. Our students bring these traits to bear upon their decisions when choosing a vocationand the requisite educational training/certification necessary to enter this vocation. Unquestionably, causal factors (e.g. prior knowledge, socio-economic factors, psychological―tenor‖) influence ―agency‖—thus our current study of these factors. The centrality of one’sbeliefs about individual capabilities to control events affecting his

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SE Curriculum and Course Management

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Francis Lutz, Monmouth University; James McDonald, Monmouth University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

in the US is growing. In 2007, therewere almost 2,000 students enrolled in software engineering programs and approximately 625bachelor’s degrees were awarded.Concomitantly, bachelor degree programs in Information Technology (IT) and InformationSciences (IS) are expanding more rapidly. The graduates of these programs will be an increasingproportion of the technical, professional labor force. Their backgrounds will be different fromthose hired with degrees in either computer science or engineering. They will seek out differentcontinuing professional development opportunities and aspire to different target positions. Theincreasing popularity of accredited IT, IS and SE programs is reflected in the data of Figure 1.Many influences affect the

Conference Session

Issues and Opportunities in IE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marlin Thomas, Air Force Institute of Technology

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Industrial Engineering

. This also presents the greatest challenge for IE educators tomaintain a curricula core for the discipline and profession.End NotesThe views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect the official positionof the Air Force, Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government.References1. ALDRICH, J.G., 1912. “The Present State of the Art of Industrial Management,” Trans. of the ASME, Vol. 34, Paper 1378, pp. 1182-11872. BILLINGS, C., J.J. Junguzza, D.F. Poirier, and S. Saeed, 2001. “The Role and Career of the Industrial Engineer in the Modern Organization,” Ch. 1.2, Maynard’s Industrial Engineering Handbook, Ed. K.B. Zandin, Ch. 1.2, pp. 1.21-1.373. EMERSON, H.P. and D.C.E. Naehring, 1988 , Orgins of

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OMCED Topics

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Simpson, United States Coast Guard Academy

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Ocean and Marine

the fact that it is a groupproject and that the grade may only reflect the efforts on one or two members of a three or fourmember team.ConclusionThe sheet metal barge project has added a dimension of realism and practical experience in theShip Structures course at the Coast Guard Academy. It gives the students a challenging butachievable design, analysis, and construction task that requires integration of hull design,structural design, and construction planning. It gives direct correlation between theory andpractice. The students learn from firsthand experience the need for care in metal shipconstruction. They experience the ease with which single curvature can be used in metalconstruction and how difficult it is to use double curvature. In

Conference Session

Learning about Power Systems and Power Consumption

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kala Meah, York College of Pennsylvania; Wayne Blanding, York College of Pennsylvania

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

GammaFig. 14: Simulink/SPS model of the CIGRE HVDC Benchmark systemLecture 3Simulation: The HVDC system simulated in this study is modeled based on the CIGRE HVDCBenchmark system. For the simulation, a time-step of 50 µs is customarily chosen, which isslightly less than 1″ for a 50 Hz waveform. To implement the model with Simulink/SPS, a totalof 109 states; 37 inputs; 86 outputs; 31 switches were used. Matlab 7.6.0 (R2008a) was used toconduct the simulation. The normal operation of the HVDC system is affected by faults on theDC line, converters, or the AC system. The impact of a fault is reflected through the action ofconverter controls. In an AC system, relays and circuit breakers are used to detect and removefaults. On the other hand, the faults

Conference Session

Introduction to Materials Courses

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Surendra Gupta, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Materials

because of (A) Strain Hardening A 52 100 (B) Preipitation Hardening B 0 0 (C) Grain Size Hardening C 0 0 (D) None of the choices shown D 0 0L3/Q8 For lattices with BODY-CENTERED point arrangement and a crystal basis of one N 52 100 atom per point, the permitted x-ray reflections are from planes that have Miller indices where (A) any h or k or l is permitted

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Educational Issues in Civil Engineering

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heiko Merle, Darmstadt University of Technology; Joerg Lange, Darmstadt University of Technology

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Civil Engineering

. Therefore the students had tochange their role. After the development of the cognitive structure they had to use thisknowledge to analyze and evaluate the written knowledge of other learners. In “Bloom’sTaxonomy – learning in action” [4] the educational objective describes in its hierarchy theanalysis and the evaluation as its upper levels. Due to this the students had to raise this level andchange from the learner into the role of a teacher respectively an expert. The amplifying of thestudents examples also asked the students to reflect their still existing example as well as thesolution. This reflexive and evaluative analysis of the work helped to tighten the cognitivestructure and the mental model. After amplifying the example the students got a

Conference Session

Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace & Successful Graduates for a Flat World: What Does It Take?

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aisling O'Sullivan, University of Canterbury; Thomas Cochrane, University of Canterbury

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International

selection ≠ Individual student GPA in project course compared to their overall GPA ≠ Gender differences ≠ Professional skill sets developed in course components ≠ Research and teaching partnerships developed with industryProject diversity and selection: Page 14.973.8The variety of the research projects over the years has been wide reflecting the nature of theNatural Resources Engineering programme. Many projects were concerned with finding moresustainable solutions to managing urban stormwater, municipal wastes, land erosion andsediment transport, energy efficiency in buildings and river engineering. Usually projects wereprescribed

Conference Session

Learning as a Community

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Ricks, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Rhonda Kowalchuk, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; John Nicklow, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Loen Graceson-Martin, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Lalit Gupta, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; James Mathias, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Jale Tezcan, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Kathy Pericak-Spector, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

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First-Year Programs

establishaccountability guidelines for my mentees,” with mean of 3.50 (sd = 0.98), and item 55, “Iencouraged my mentees to reflect on their progress toward their goals,” with mean of 3.63 (sd =0.92). Page 14.185.13Table 9Miscellaneous Aspects of the Peer Mentoring Experience Percent of Responses (n = 24) # Item M sd SA A N D SD NR 41 I was able to answer mentee questions about university life 4.25 0.61 33.3 58.3 8.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 43 I was able to assist

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Contemporary Practices in Engineering Management Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gene Dixon, East Carolina University

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Engineering Management

clear that as a normal part of the business cycle, priorities change. As they change, we must makeinformed decisions and move on. That may result in a series of reductions that are much smaller thanwhat we are accustomed to seeing, but are much more reflective of how a typical business responds tochanging conditions. We have requested the authority to conduct additional such reductions as early asthis month. I anticipate no such "ebb and flow" reductions in December, but I would not rule out any suchactivity either before December or after the first of the year.I hope that all of the above information better clarifies the situation.[company] PresidentNovember 11, 2002bTransition Update: Employee Movement - November 11, 2002Since I announced our

Conference Session

Measurement Tools

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux, Purdue University; Matthew Verleger, Purdue University; Judith Zawojewski, Illinois Institute of Technology; Margret Hjalmarson, George Mason University

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Educational Research and Methods

reflect engineering practice. High quality andreliable feedback and assessment strategies must accompany these learning experiences to ensurethat student learning is achieved (e.g. misconceptions are addressed) and the quality of studentwork increasingly reflects what is valued in engineering practice.Model-Eliciting Activities (MEAs) are one instructional approach to developing these and othercompetencies3,4. These client-driven, open-ended, team-oriented problems have beenimplemented in a large (N = 1200-1600) required first-year engineering problem solving andcomputer tools course since Fall 20025,6. Over 20 different MEAs have been implemented and anumber of feedback and assessment strategies have been employed with varying degrees ofsuccess6

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Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gerald Recktenwald, Portland State University; Robert Edwards, Pennsylvania State University, Erie; Douglas Howe, Portland State University; Jenna Faulkner, Portland State University; Calvin Hsieh, Portland State University

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Mechanical Engineering

Project. Page 14.1215.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 The Engineering of Everyday Things: Simple Experiments for the Thermal and Fluid SciencesAbstractA series of demonstrations and laboratory exercises have been developed to teach fundamentalconcepts in the thermal and fluid sciences of the undergraduate engineering curriculum. Thismaterial is part of an educational research project called the Engineering of Everyday Things.The title reflects the use of common technology like hair dryers, blenders, toasters and bicyclepumps, which are used to demonstrate principles of thermodynamics