Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum and Practices in Engineering Technology

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Walk, Old Dominion University; Roland Lawrence, Old Dominion University

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Engineering Technology

. Students in this knowledge-deficitsituation generally benefit from direct interaction with an instructor, such as in the traditionalvisit to an instructor‟s office for private one-on-one tutoring. In this personal interaction, theinstructor will assess „in real time‟ the student‟s understanding of any number of prerequisiteskills and knowledge and will adjust the direction and pace of the meeting, and ideally respondwith sensitivity, insight, and accuracy at teach point of assessment during the tutorial session.The long-term goal of this effort is to create, using interactive software, an effective substitutefor the one-on-one, across-the-desk tutorial experience for the advanced placement engineeringor engineering technology student needing

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lie Tang, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Robert Landers, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Hong Sheng, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Richard Hall, Missouri University of Science and Technology

(1)where is the time constant (s), x(t) is the axis position (mm), K is the gain ((mm/s)/V), and FC isthe Coulomb friction (mm/s), which is modeled by ⎧ FC + if v (t ) > 0 ⎪ FC = ⎨ 0 if v (t ) = 0 (2) ⎪F if v (t ) < 0 ⎩ C−where v(t) is the axis velocity (mm/s). The X, Y, and Z axis parameters are listed Table 1.Ignoring Coulomb friction and using position and velocity as the system states, the linear axisstate

Conference Session

Teaching Technological Literacy - Engaging Students

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Walk, Old Dominion University

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

on characteristic patterns in time.A quantitative technology forecast includes the study of historic data to identify one of severalcommon technology diffusion or substitution models. Patterns to be identified include constantpercentage rates of change (so-called “Moore‟s Laws”), logistic growth (“S”- curves), logisticsubstitution, performance envelopes, anthropological invariants, lead/lag (precursor)relationships, and other phenomena. These quantitative projections have proven accurate inpredicting technological and social change in thousands of diverse applications, on time scalescovering only months to spanning centuries.Invariant, or well-bounded, human individual and social behavior, and fundamental humanagency and evolutionary drives

Conference Session

Teacher and Counselor Professional Development

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Beth Spencer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Donna Llewellyn, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

students to matriculate intocollege science and engineering programs, or to enroll in the state‟s technical and communitycolleges. There is a strategic imperative for Georgia Tech to promote teaching as a valued careergoal and to support those STEM majors who wish to pursue a career in teaching in the K 12arena. As part of a new, campus-wide initiative, supported by the NSF, Georgia Tech hasimplemented a series of activities to promote careers in K-12 teaching, and has set up theinfrastructure to track and evaluate these initiatives. This paper will describe the initiativesimplemented so far, the types of road blocks encountered, and the numbers of students enteringteaching from various engineering fields. Our goal is to change the perceptions

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Glen Dudevoir, United States Air Force Academy; Andrew Laffely, United States Air Force Academy; Alan J. Mundy, United States Air Force Academy

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

team resources. Page 15.3.2ABET‟s adoption of “Engineering Criteria 2000” (now just “Engineering Criteria”), introducedan entirely new dynamic.1 The new criteria required students to demonstrate the ability tofunction on multidisciplinary teams. This outcome requires that students work with (ordemonstrate the ability to work with) members of other disciplines on a projects where both (all)disciplines are required for success of the project. Moreover, the ABET requirement forassessment requires the program to assess the students‟ accomplishment of this outcome.Assessing Individual Performance on TeamIn the early days of team projects, before the

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer-Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Israel Urieli, Ohio University-Athens

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Mechanical Engineering

extensive use of pressure-enthalpy(P-h) diagrams that enable intuitive visualization of even the most complex steam power plantsto a high degree of accuracy. This is contrary to all current thermodynamic textbooks in whichtemperature-entropy (T-s) diagrams are used to represent steam power plants. This standardtextbook approach is non-intuitive in that there is no indication of the turbine power output, andincorrect in that the ideal feedwater pump process is always represented by a line when in fact itshould be closer to a single point.Another significant departure from traditional thermodynamic texts is the use of the ideal Stirlingcycle machine to represent the ideal reversible machine. The ideal Stirling cycle machine has athermal efficiency

Conference Session

Robotics in Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carlotta Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

anoption. The reason was that programming at the bit level could be cumbersome and it took thestudents a long time to set hardware configurations, timers, interrupts, etc. There was asignificant amount of code and hardware preparation just to get the robot going. Therefore in2009, the controller was changed to the Robotics Connection Serializer that could beprogrammed with Visual C# using MSRS services54, 55. This format was actually moreappropriate because it moved the focus from components to higher level functions and behaviors.The object oriented programming in an IDE afforded the creation of a GUI to make it possible tovisualize the framework of the student‟s work. By changing to this software platform, studentswere able to accomplish more

Conference Session

Innovation and Measuring Success in Graduate Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Fleisig, McMaster University; Harry Mahler, Ontario College of Art and Design

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Graduate Studies

AC 2010-247: SCHOLARLY CREATIVE ENGINEERING DESIGN?Robert Fleisig, McMaster UniversityHarry Mahler, Ontario College of Art and Design Page 15.1052.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Scholarly Creative Engineering DesignAbstractMcMaster University has initiated a new Master of Engineering Design degree inengineering practice aimed at educating tomorrow s leaders in engineering designGraduates of engineering schools are well versed in first-principles approaches totechnology application and must acquire new skills and competencies in innovation anddesign in order to become global leaders in their field. The leading thinkers in engineeringdesign must be

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Keith M. Gardiner

parallel concepts but perhaps with a slightlydifferent vocabulary (and spin). Adam Smith (1723-1790), the noted Scots philosopher left anexcellent trove of ideas relating to wealth creation and the societal importance of engineeringmethodologies for contributing to the quality of life. Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832),1 a notedprecursor of socialist ideas under the banner of “Utilitarianism” followed with an objective oftenexpressed as the axiom “It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure ofright and wrong” In 1784 Samuel Gregg (1758-1834) opened Europe‟s largest cotton mill atStyal, near Manchester. David Dale (1739-1806) ultimately assisted by Robert Owen (1771-1858) followed in 1786 with a huge mill at New Lanark in

Conference Session

Innovations in First Year Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Quamrul Mazumder, University of Michigan - Flint; Anita Ainsworth, University of Michigan-Flint

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First-Year Programs

/Nov). Ausubell‟s learning theory: An approach to teaching higher order thinking skills,The High School Journal, 82(1). Research Library[13] Ausubel, D.P. & Robinson, F. G. (1969). School learning: an introduction to educational psychology. (p.46). New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.[14] Oxford, R.L. (1990). Looking at language learning strategies. In Language learning strategies: what everyteacher should know, (pp. 1-37). New York: Heinle & Heinle Publishers.[15] Bransford, J.D., Brown, A.L., Cocking, R.R. (2000). How people learn: brain, mind, experience andschool. (p.20). Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press

Conference Session

Sustainability, Service Learning, and Entreprenuership

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Northrup, Western New England College

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

, manyengineering programs have incorporated international service projects4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11.. In his Ph.D.dissertation regarding humanitarian aspects engineering in the engineering curriculum, Page 15.896.2Vandersteen provides and eloquent history of the evolution of engineering education discussinghow the profession has evolved to see the interconnection between technology and humanity.He further states that the “2000s (have seen an) increased interest in social, environmentalimpact of engineering”12. In fact, six years after the advent of ABET‟s EC-2000, thefundamental change in engineering accreditation, the International Journal for Service

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2010 Public Policy Colloquium

Authors

Thomas W Peterson

ERC Strategic Framework: Proposal #, PI Name, ERC Name, Lead University Name Barriers Testbed(s) Systems Research QoLT 3-plane chart Requirements Testbed(s) Stakeholders Systems Research

Conference Session

Innovations in Power Education in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Lau, Universidad del Turabo; Sastry Kuruganty, Universidad del Turabo

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

( ) p.u. 2 = p.u. ( ) p.u. ( ) (1) synwhere = power angle in radians, p.u. = angular speed of the rotor in p. u. , = time in seconds, syn = synchronous angular speed in rad/s = machine inertia constant in seconds, p.u. = mechanical power in p. u. , p.u. = electrical power in p. u. Page 15.19.3In the per-unit swing

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

M. Minnucci; J. Ni; A. Nikolova; L. Theodore

to define this important property. It isnormally designated as S with units of energy per absolute temperature, e.g., BTU/˚R or cal/K. Furthermore, entropycalculations can provide quantitative information on the “quality” of energy and energy degradation (2, 3). There are a number of other phenomena which cannot be explained by the law of conservation of energy. Itis the second law of thermodynamics that provides an understanding and analysis of these diverse effects. However,among these considerations, it is the second law that can produce the means of measuring the aforementioned“quality” of energy, including its effect on the design and performance of heat exchangers. Exergy is another term that is closely related to both

Conference Session

SE Curriculum and Projects

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Conry, Clarkson University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

engineering is a young discipline. Although the term “software engineering” wascoined in 1968, development of the first undergraduate programs in the discipline did not beginin the United States until the mid to late 1990’s. The first software engineering programsdeveloped in the United States were not baccalaureate programs. Early programs were focusedat the graduate level, working with students who already had a base of knowledge in computerscience. Although there were isolated courses in software engineering offered at someinstitutions as early as the mid-1980’s, it was not until the early to mid-1990’s that softwareengineering concepts began filtering into undergraduate programs. Sometimes these conceptswere incorporated into computer engineering

Conference Session

Standards For Future Engineering Practitioners

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charlotte Erdmann, Purdue University; Bruce Harding, Purdue University

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New Engineering Educators

themean Treasure Hunt grade has remained fairly constant with a slightly positive slope. 100 95 90 Mean Project Grade 85 80100 75 90 70 6580 6070 55 60 50 50 S '00 S '01 F '02 S '03 F '04 F '05 S '06 F '06 F '07 S '07 S '08 S '09 S '00 S '01 F '02 S '03 F '04 F '05 F '06 F '06 F '07 S '07 S '08 S '09 SemesterFigure 1. Average grades for the Treasure Hunt from Spring semester 2000 -- Spring semester2009. S = Spring semester , F = Fall semester. Data was unavailable for earlier semesters and forsome semesters during this timespan.Evolution of the Project: Anecdotal Observations

Conference Session

Structure and Form in Architectural Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cole McDaniel, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Graham Archer, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Architectural

of structural engineering, fresh graduates often producecomputational models of a building structure that bear little resemblance to reality.Unfortunately, the construction of a computational model is typically one of the first tasks ayoung engineer is asked to perform. An understanding of the phenomenon being modeled aswell as the limitations of the software is necessary to accurately model the behavior of abuilding. In order to address this issue, the authors are constructing a series of experimental andanalytical laboratory exercises which challenge the student‟s confidence in computer results.Last year, the authors presented a paper6 comparing student computational modeling before andafter a simple ambient vibration test7 to determine

Conference Session

Women in Biomedical Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Naomi Chesler, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Rice University; Sangeeta Bhatia, MIT; Gilda Barabino, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

diversity are substantial – both forstudents in BME and society at large. Actively pursuing strategies to remove or reduce thebarriers to women’s success in BME will promote a more diverse workforce in BME disciplines,which may in turn create a more productive workforce.Bibliography1 Lane, N., Why are there so few women in science? Nature Debates, 1999.2 Nemeth, C., Dissent, group process, and creativity: The contribution of minority influence. Advances in Group Processes, 1985. 2(57).3 McLeod, P., S. Lobel, and T. Cox Jr, Ethnic diversity and creativity in small groups. Small Group Research, 1996. 27(2): p. 248-264.4 Hong, L. and S.E. Page, Groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamad Ahmadian, Eastern New Mexico University; Tom Brown, Eastern New Mexico University

Skills through Development of a Conceptual Business PlanAbstractAs part of the NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) grant the scholarship recipients at Eastern New Mexico University are required toregister for a one-credit project course. The course encourages students to hone theircommunication skills and gain knowledge in functioning effectively on a multidisciplinary team.This article presents a conceptual business plan to assist students in understanding thecomponents of effective teamwork and the importance of good communication skills. Studentsare provided with a weekly task. The first task includes choosing a company name, andproviding descriptions for: the business, product

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Richard Devon; Kathryn Jablokow

spending more time on problem development, and the ease with which the FEED-Solution (F-S) approach can be taught to students.1. Design Maturation. Novice designers often neglect problem development, becoming fixatedon particular solution concepts that are later found to be unsatisfactory.5 Even then, novicedesigners may continue to hold on to their early ideas and try to “design out” their flaws insteadof starting over with a new design concept and/or returning to the problem definition to makesure they have understood it correctly - as an expert designer is more likely to do.At the same time, other studies in design education have shown that a systematic approach to theearly stages of design can be helpful to students,20 as long as it is not too

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Johnson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Aerospace

by the military and NASA. FMEA standards have been established since the1960’s such as Mil-Std 1629A and SAE J1739 3, 4. There are also other standards for FMEA suchas IEC 60812 and SAE ARP5580. There are two SAE standards: J1739 is for automotive, andARP5580 is the aerospace recommended practice.The SAE J1739 standard identifies the intended use of FMEA as a “before-the-event” way toreduce the probability of needing corrective action for failure modes after the process or productis implemented 4. The FMEA is a continuous improvement tool that is useful three majorapplications: new designs or processes, changing existing designs or processes, and usingexisting designs or processes in new environments or applications 4. In the J1739 standard

Conference Session

Conceptual Learning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marisa Orr, Clemson University; Lisa Benson, Clemson University; Sherrill Biggers, Clemson University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

. Future work includes dissemination ofthe materials required for such a change as well as recommendations for implementation.References1. L. Benson, S. Biggers, W. Moss, M. Ohland, M. Orr and S. Schiff, Adapting and Implementing the SCALE-UP Approach in Statics, Dynamics, and Multivariable Calculus. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education (2007).2. L. Benson, S. Biggers, W. Moss, M. Ohland, M. Orr and S. Schiff, Student Performance and Faculty Development in SCALE-UP Engineering and Math Courses. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education (2008).3. L. Benson, S. Biggers, W. Moss, M. Ohland, M. Orr and S. Schiff, Adapting and Implementing the

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Foster, George Fox University; Chad Hammerquist, George Fox University; Robert Melendy, George Fox University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Page 15.82.5both areas of engineering investigate the control of DC motors 6,25 and conveyors 5,26 .Table 1: PLC projects from the literature with the area(s) of engineering in which the course isoffered, the project, and the equipment necessary (other than a PLC and a computer). Area(s)† Project(s) Equipment E 28 Controlling a stepper motor Driver board, stepper motor E 19 Automatic control of laundry wash- Rockwell’s WinView (provides a virtual environ- ing machine ment) 1. Control of filling a tank 1. Tank with sensors ET 22 2. Hybrid boat control system 2. Various motor and photovoltaic components

Conference Session

A Systems Thinking Approach to Solving Problems

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Cochran, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Systems Engineering Constituent Committee

AC 2010-2395: COLLECTIVE SYSTEM DESIGN IN SYSTEMS ENGINEERINGEDUCATIONDavid Cochran, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dr. David S. Cochran Managing Partner System Design, LLC. Dr. Cochran is one of the world’s authorities on production and enterprise systems engineering and supply chain techniques and technologies. As an MIT Mechanical Engineering faculty professor (1995-2003), he established the Production System Design (PSD) Laboratory at MIT (1995). He is a two-time recipient of the prestigious Shingo Prize (1989 and 2002) for manufacturing excellence for his work in the design of effective “lean” systems. He also received the Dudley Prize for best paper from the

Conference Session

BME Course and Curriculum Development

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Sweeney, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Biomedical

) explain how both intracellular and extracellular biopotentials ariseand are recorded; (4) explain how electric fields and currents can be used to stimulate cells andto defibrillate the heart; and (5) record and analyze common biopotential signals arising from theheart, nerves, and muscles.Books & ResourcesBy far the most popular textbook for courses in Bioelectricity is Plonsey and Barr‟sBioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach (now in its 3rd edition)3. In our course we use Plonseyand Barr as the required text, and also refer to the free on-line text Malmivuo and Plonsey‟sBioelectromagnetism4. Other texts in use in Bioelectricity courses listed in the onlineBiomedical Engineering Curriculum Database (see above) include J. Patrick Reilly‟s

Conference Session

Demonstration and Project Enhancements in Chemical Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Zenaida Otero Gephardt, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

values would be most meaningful andappropriate for this process. Typically, students chose water temperatures in the range of 70 - 95°C and times between 30 s and 6 min. Some teams chose wider ranges of temperature or timeand would subsequently observe differences in the significance of the factors. Additionally, aseparate set of experiments were conducted to determine the value of the standard deviation. 1 2 Figure 1. French Press Coffee Maker. First coffee grounds are brewed with hot water for a Page 15.804.3 designated time (1). Then the plunger/filter is depressed, separating the coffee grounds

Conference Session

Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rupa Iyer, University of Houston

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2010-2377: CENTER FOR LIFE SCIENCES TECHNOLOGY – A MODEL FORINTEGRATION OF EDUCATION, RESEARCH, OUTREACH AND WORKFORCEDEVELOPMENTRupa Iyer, University of Houston Page 15.268.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Center for Life Sciences Technology – A Model for Integration of Education, Research, Outreach and Workforce DevelopmentAbstractThe biotechnology industry that originated in the 1970’s has since mushroomed from $8 billionin revenues in 1992 to $50.7 billion and is one of the most research intensive industries in theworld. While biotechnology originated based largely on recombinant DNA techniques,tremendous research in biotechnology has

Conference Session

Computational Tools and Simulation I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arnaldo Mazzei, Kettering University; Richard Scott, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

(16)The linear natural frequencies and mode shapes can be found by assuming solution forms: λ1 ? A sin ∗ s Τ + , λ 2 ? B sin ∗ s Τ + (17)Substituting into equations (16) gives: A 1 − χ / s 2  − B ] /χ _ ? 0 A ] /χ _ − B 1 − χ / s 2  ? 0 (18)For non-zero solutions, the determinant of the coefficients must be zero. This gives a polynomialin s , from which the natural frequencies can be obtained. Equations (18) give the associatedmode shapes

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Erick Froede; David Saint John; Richard Devon

established an “informal rulethat anyone making improvements had to send them back to him”17 cultivating a fundamentalpractice of what Stallmann would later call Free Software. When the AI Lab was left as a shell ofits former self due to corporate rivalry, Richard decided to take things into his own hands andkeep his ideals alive by creating a new, UNIX-like operating system. Again, an act ofevolutionary selection ( a corporate raid) yielded innovation, and this innovation was based ontwo tactics often seen in evolutionary systems: mimicry and stigmergy. That GNU ( therecursively named operating system Stallman would develop out of his desire for a printerdriver) modeled itself on UNIX is not controversial, despite it‟s name: GNU‟s Not Unix. And

Conference Session

Special Session: Impacts of Service in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

subjectmatter of the course, and reciprocity with the community partner. The approach of S-L, with itsroots in experiential learning, is consistent with the theories and empirical research of a numberof leading educators and developmental psychologists, as documented by Jacoby (Jacoby, 1996).The approach is also consistent with the relatively recent change in paradigm in education from afocus on teaching to a focus on learning (Bradenberger, 1998).More recently, Astin’s group reported that its 2007-2008 survey of over 12,000 full time facultymembers at 379 institutions that the percentage of faculty who found it “very important” or“essential” to encourage commitment to community service rose 19 percent compared to 2004-05 (55.5 % vs. 36.4 %), the