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STEM Pipeline: Pre-College to Post-Baccalaureate

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julie Trenor, University of Houston; Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2008-592: UTILIZING A SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORETICALFRAMEWORK TO INVESTIGATE THE INFLUENCES OF A SUMMERUNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE ON PARTICIPANTS’ACADEMIC AND CAREER PLANSJulie Trenor, University of Houston JULIE MARTIN TRENOR is a Research and Instructional Assistant Professor at the University of Houston, and is the Director of Undergraduate Student Recruitment and Retention for the Cullen College of Engineering. Dr. Trenor holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Virginia Tech and a bachelor’s degree in the same field from North Carolina State University. Dr. Trenor develops and teaches freshman engineering courses, and directs the women-in-engineering program

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Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Norman Egbert, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Eugene DeLoatch, Morgan State University

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Graduate Studies

]. Page 13.561.9 To serve as working environment that fosters professional creative scholarship in the practice of engineering for innovation by establishing, developing, and implementing a ‘teaching – laboratory’ for advanced engineering development that serves to develop the creative engineering scholarship of center faculty for faculty development and that of promising undergraduate engineering students during the summers. Whereas NSF has successfully created and implemented Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) on university campuses across the nation, we can do in a similar manner to create and implement Technology Development Experiences for Undergraduates (TDEU) as a training

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Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Khanjan Mehta, Pennsylvania State University; Sven Bilen, Pennsylvania State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

philosophy,curriculum, instructional strategy, preliminary assessment results and the teaching toolsemployed to enhance the students’ entrepreneurial experience.IntroductionFrans Johansson, in his book The Medici Effect1 recounts the story of the Medicis, a bankingfamily in Florence who were patrons in a wide range of disciplines. Due to the Medicis and afew other like-minded families, sculptors, scientists, poets, philosophers, financiers, painters, andarchitects from all over Europe and as far as China converged upon the city of Florence. Therethey found each other, learned from one another, and broke down the barriers between theirdisciplines and cultures. Together they formed a new world based on new ideas—what becameknown as the Rinascimento or

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Successful K-12 Programs for Girls & Minorities

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bruce Gehrig, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Deborah Sharer, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Stephen Kuyath, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Anthony Brizendine, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2008-2128: A COMPREHENSIVE AND INTEGRATED APPROACH TOINCREASE ENROLLMENTS IN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGYBruce Gehrig, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Technology, Civil Engineering Technology and Construction Program, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. PI on the NSF funded Teaching Engineer to Counselors and Teachers (TECT)project.Deborah Sharer, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Technology, Electrical Engineering Technology Program, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. PI on the NSF funded Enhancing Diversity in Engineering Technology (EDiET)project.Stephen Kuyath, University

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Experiential and Service Learning

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jim Chamberlain, Clemson University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

iterative 3-way dialogue between the large group (10-15 students), themodule design group (2-4 students), and a recognized expert. The process encouragesdeep learning as students actively engage in creative conceptualizing, teaching each otherfrom general engineering principles and from their own disciplines, and interaction with aprofessional. Even though only a subset of the students will travel to the host country, allof the students on the project team have a sense of being involved with the siteassessment planning and are invested in the project from the point of view of their chosendiscipline. The IPD adventure is one that gives the student an actual engineeringexperience while engaging his/her passion for the social good

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Public Engineering of Engineering, K12 Standards, and Overview

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tylisha Baber, Michigan State University; Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

found on the Social Impact Games website. • The Learning Federation Project[6] of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) works on research and development strategies to harness the potential of emerging information technologies to improve how we teach and learn. In October of 2005, the FAS hosted a Summit on Educational Games. This summit marked the first meeting of individuals from academia, government, private foundations and the software development industry to determine the challenges that need to be addressed to create a strong marketplace for educational games. Although three games were identified on the website[7], none was determined to have a focus on engineering. • Finally, a general search of the web

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K-12 Engineering Outreach Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Powers, Clarkson University; Bruce Brydges, SUNY Potsdam; Gail Gotham, SLL BOCES; James Carroll, Clarkson University; Peter Turner, Clarkson University; Douglas Bohl, Clarkson University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Clarkson’s GK-12 program has been extended significantly with other specificoutreach programs that include extensive teacher professional development (Table 1). The K-16,or even K-20+, professional development is important as many of the teachers are initially lessfamiliar with the project-based approach, and with the interplay between the different disciplineareas. The St. Lawrence County Mathematics Partnership was funded by NYS EducationDepartment (NYSED) as a three year MSP (math science partnership) program to enhance bothcontent knowledge and teaching skills of math teachers. Additional NYSED-MSP funding wasreceived in June 2007 for the current STEM Partnership Program that will engage students andteachers in integrated STEM activities and

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina; Joseph Rencis; Eugene DeLoatch, Morgan State University; Mohammad Noori, North Carolina State University; Edward Sullivan, California Polytechnic State University; David Woodall, Oregon Institute of Technology; Norman Egbert, Rolls-Royce Corporation; David Quick, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Albert McHenry; Roger Olson, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Samuel Truesdale, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Timothy Lindquist, Arizona State University; Harvey Palmer, Rochester Institute of Technology; Joseph Tidwell, Arizona State University Polytechnic; Mark Smith, Rochester Institute of Technology; Duane Dunlap, Purdue University; Mark Schuver, Purdue University; Edmund Segner, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Stephen Tricamo, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Barry Farbrother, University of New Haven; Ken Burbank, Western Carolina University; Carla Purdy, University of Cincinnati; Randall Holmes, Caterpillar Inc.

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Graduate Studies

Conference Session

Issues of Cooperative Education I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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ROBERT GRAY, Penn State Erie

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

with a local industry.Perceived Shortcomings to Traditional Systems Design CurriculumBefore I began a career in academia as a professor of (electrical) engineering, I worked inindustry for nearly 20 years. A major part of my career was in the military performing duties asan avionics maintenance technician, a flight crewmember in remote operations in Alaska, anavionics systems engineer for the F-16 aircraft, and researcher for guidance and controls systemsin an avionics laboratory. Once in front of the classroom, it did not take long before I noticedthat my senior students had a good grasp of the individual subjects (circuits, digital electronics,microprocessors, mathematics, physics, etc.), but they lacked a solid understanding of how

Conference Session

Alternative Energy Source Projects

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Craig Somerton, Michigan State University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

AC 2008-1054: AN OCEAN ENERGY PROJECT: THE OSCILLATING WATERCOLUMNCraig Somerton, Michigan State University CRAIG W. SOMERTON Craig W. Somerton is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Undergraduate Program for Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University. He teaches in the area of thermal engineering including thermodynamics, heat transfer, and thermal design. He also teaches the capstone design course for the department. Dr. Somerton has research interests in computer design of thermal systems, transport phenomena in porous media, and application of continuous quality improvement principles to engineering education. He received his B.S. in 1976, his M.S. in 1979

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patrick Tebbe, Minnesota State University-Mankato; Stewart Ross, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Michael Ostendorf, Minnesota State University-Mankato; Scott Cray, Minnesota State University-Mankato

AC 2008-1803: PROMOTING STUDENT ENGAGEMENT INTHERMODYNAMICS WITH ENGINEERING SCENARIOS (YEAR 2)Patrick Tebbe, Minnesota State University-MankatoStewart Ross, Minnesota State University, MankatoMichael Ostendorf, Minnesota State University-MankatoScott Cray, Minnesota State University-Mankato Page 13.1012.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Promoting Student Engagement in Thermodynamics with Engineering Scenarios (Year 2)I. IntroductionMany thermo-fluids courses are taught with traditional teaching methods and textbooks.Thermodynamics, in particular, is prone to elicit a negative impression from students "whoperceive the subject as dry

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Multidisciplinary Teams

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Denine Northrup, Western New England College; Steven Northrup, Western New England College

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

-disciplinary teams”1. Western New England College has a long history of incorporatingengineering design into laboratory and course work. Additionally, interdisciplinary team effortsare initiated in the freshman year and continue for all four years.2,3 This paper describes theassessment instrument used in a senior-level interdisciplinary course that students take during thefall semester. The design project brings together students from mechanical, electrical, andcomputer engineering in teams typically consisting of 4-5 members. During the most recentdelivery of the course, due to a limited number of platforms and a larger senior class, the teamsconsisted of 7-8 students.To achieve a good level of interdisciplinary teamwork, educators need to motivate

Conference Session

Factors Affecting Minority Engineering Students

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barbara Christie, Loyola Marymount University

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Minorities in Engineering

Page 13.1045.4classes, or have a school assembly or invite parents for a career night discussion? Mosthigh schools do not have the infrastructure to support extra phone calls, or communityoutreach partnerships. If you have tried to call a high school and reach the principal orfaculty members, you are aware of how difficult it can be to develop a line ofcommunication. Many times you will have to call a teacher at home in the evenings todiscuss a project or program. The engineering faculty and staff within a university arealready stretched between research and teaching and do not have the luxury of time forcommunity outreach programs unless they can operate smoothly and efficiently. Thebarriers to working with several high schools in your

Conference Session

Computer Simulation and Animation II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Brooks, Temple University; Asher Madjar, Temple University; William Miller; Keerthi V. Takkalapelli, Temple University

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Computers in Education

AC 2008-2967: FINITE ELEMENT METHOD - A TOOL FOR LEARNINGHIGHWAY DESIGNRobert Brooks, Temple University Dr. Brooks is an Associate Professor and the Undergraduate Director of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Temple University. He was voted the "Transportation engineer of the year" by the ASCE-Philadelphia Section. Dr.Brooks' expertise includes finite element methods, highway and runway design, innovative materials in transportation engineering. He won the Tempe University College of Engineering’s Teaching Award for the year 2008.Asher Madjar, Temple University Prof.Madjar is a research professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Temple

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Innovations in ECE Education II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald Hayne, The Citadel

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2008-346: BEYOND VHDL SIMULATION TO ON-CHIP TESTINGRonald Hayne, The Citadel Ronald J. Hayne, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Citadel. His professional areas of interest are digital systems and hardware description languages. He is a retired Army Colonel with experience in academics and Defense laboratories. Page 13.251.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Beyond VHDL Simulation to On-Chip TestingAbstractDigital systems design relies heavily on hardware description languages and their associatedsoftware tools

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Interdisciplinary Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jay Porter, Texas A&M University; Jorge Alvarado, Texas A&M University; Joseph Morgan, Texas A&M University; John Poston, Texas A&M University; Kenneth Peddicord, Texas A&M University; John Crenshaw, STP Nuclear Operating Company

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Engineering Technology

Science from Washington University in 1991. From 1991 to 1995 he worked at University of California, San Diego and Wayne State University. From 1995 to 2006, he worked in the automotive industry as a system engineer. In 2006 He joined the Electronics Engineering Technology faculty at Texas A&M. His research activities include control system theory and applications to industry, system engineering, robust design, modeling, simulation, quality control, and optimization.Jorge Alvarado, Texas A&M University Dr. Jorge Alvarado is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M University. He teaches courses in the areas of thermal

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Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Farris, Grand Valley State University; Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University; Shabbir Choudhuri, Grand Valley State University; Christopher Pung, Grand Valley State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

students to shape their lives, their professions, and their societies. The universitycontributes to the enrichment of society through excellent teaching, active scholarship, and public service”.To fulfill the pubic service aspect of the mission statement, the School of Engineering (SOE) was establishedin 1980 to supply local industry with engineers capable of assuming leadership roles. Since it founding theSOE has been able to expand and build two buildings with the financial support of local industry. In the pastdecade, the forces of globalization and international competition have challenged manufacturing companiesof all sizes that have traditionally supplied much of the economic vitality to the region.At the same time the growth and maturation

Conference Session

Two Year College Tech Session III

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexander Shayevich, Pima Community College; Jeff Goldberg, University of Arizona; Judy Edson, University of Arizona

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Two Year College Division

AC 2008-605: PERFORMANCE AND RETENTION OF TRANSFERENGINEERING STUDENTSAlexander Shayevich, Pima Community CollegeJeff Goldberg, University of Arizona Jeff Goldberg is currently Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Engineering, at the University of Arizona. He was employed at Vector Research Incorporated and Bell Laboratories previously. Jeff has strong interests in increasing the retention rate of engineering students, improving the classroom experiences, increasing student learning, and increasing the diversity of the engineering student population. Jeff received his Ph.D. from the Michigan, in IOE 1984, and the M. ENGR.and BS from Cornell in ORIE in 1980 and 1979

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FPD5 - Teaming and Peer Performance

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Arlisa Labrie Richardson, Arizona State University

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First-Year Programs

complexities of cooperative learning group work in order toadequately provide an equitable access for all students. Critical parameters involved in settingup successful groups include preparation to work as a group; group size, student abilities, race,gender and previous experience 30. Teams should engage in teambuilding exercises before thecooperative learning exercise. Research studies have shown that teaching students cooperativebehaviors such as task-related interaction skills, sharing of ideas and information, staying on taskand helping others to understand what was being taught has a significant impact on improvingthe learning experience for everyone in the group 25,35. Some research has found that studentteams should consist of three to six

Conference Session

Design Communications

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Jonassen, University of Missouri; Tamara Knott, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Richard Goff, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2008-717: SCAFFOLDING COLLABORATIVE DESIGN ONLINEDavid Jonassen, University of Missouri Dr. David Jonassen is Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Missouri where he teaches in the areas of Learning Technologies and Educational Psychology. Since earning his doctorate in educational media and experimental educational psychology from Temple University, Dr. Jonassen has taught at the Pennsylvania State University, University of Colorado, the University of Twente in the Netherlands, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and Syracuse University. He has published 30 books and numerous articles, papers, and reports on text design, task analysis, instructional

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Sustainable Energy Issues in Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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lana El Chaar, Petroleum Institute

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

introducing these topics in the core of the electricalengineering program. Since our target was to teach such technologies to the largest number ofstudents possible, and since these are energy sources, then it made great sense to integrate thesetopics into the energy engineering course. The course covers energy conversion and utilization.The course also touches upon the environmental consequences of energy conversion and howrenewable energy can reduce air pollution and global climate change. Below is a short syllabusof the course. Renewable energy as a whole was introduced however solar energy and inparticular Photovoltaic technology (PV) and concentrated solar power (CSP) were covered indetail. In addition to that wind turbines and the internal

Conference Session

History and Future of Engineering Technology

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lawrence Wolf, Oregon Institute of Technology; Michael O'Hair, Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

1974. He was appointed as a dean at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, directing a joint project with MIT in Iran, after which he returned to St. Louis in 1975 as the associate dean of instruction. He headed the Department of Manufacturing Engineering Technologies and Supervision at Purdue University, Calumet, from 1978 to 1980, then served for ten years as the dean of the College of Technology of the University of Houston. After a sabbatical year working on the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Wolf became the president of Oregon Institute of Technology. He retired from administration in 1998, designated as a president emeritus. He

Conference Session

Potpourri

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

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Women in Engineering

Chandler-Gilbert Community College atthe Williams campus has provided numerous opportunities to bring this partnership to a newlevel.10 Sharing resources is a tremendous advantage for the community college which normallyhas a difficult time providing state-of-the-art laboratories for its students. ASU East, twocommunity colleges, and an education center were awarded an NSF grant to build a seamlesslaboratory curriculum for lower division classes. Community college instructors utilize theMicroelectronics Teaching Factory and associate degree-seeking students enrolled at thecommunity colleges travel to the Factory to use the facility.11Challenges: Some programs are quite successful, but are very time and money-consuming, soare difficult to maintain

Conference Session

Beyond Individual Ethics: Engineering in Context

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna Riley, Smith College

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Liberal Education

Page 13.570.5engineering that integrate a variety of ethical considerations that mean to address critiquesencountered throughout the course. Forms of resistance including dissent of individualexperts41,42, collective dissent of professional societies43, and citizen action44. New visions ofdoing and teaching science in response to macroethical concerns are presented45-49, along withdiscussions of teaching and doing engineering in ways that promote peace and social justice 50-52.Challenges posed by the content. It may be apparent that at least some of the readings presentedhere, particularly those that draw either on philosophy or critical theory (or both), may be quitechallenging for engineering students. If this material is important to their

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Outstanding Contributions to ME 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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Mechanical Engineering

for engineering. During the 2004 Duke study, onlytwo science or engineering courses used iPods and in both instances the iPods were used tocapture and/or playback audio for a laboratory experiment. At Bryn Mawr, iPods have beenused to record lectures and pre-lab information in science courses.To date, many of the uses of vodcasts, which include both sound and video, in higher educationsimply add an instructor’s face to what can be heard on a podcast. In many cases, a slide show isnarrated. Over half of the videos found on Merlot.org are lectures and range in length from 30-minutes to one hour. Some instructors17,18,19 have used video cameras and document cameras tocreate shorter (5 to 10 minutes) videos focused on specific topics or example

Conference Session

Accreditation Issues

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

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Innovations in Biological/Agricultural Education-II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Biological & Agricultural

the National Science Foundation (NSF), is currentlyunderway. The goal of the DLR program for these two departments is to reformulate curriculawithin the EngE and BSE programs by utilizing a theme-based spiral curriculum approach. Page 13.716.2Jerome Bruner, the twentieth-century psychologist, proposed the notion of a spiral curriculum inwhich basic ideas are visited repeatedly in an increasingly complex manner.3 Figure 1 provides avisual description of the spiral curriculum being implemented by the EngE and BSE faculty.Active learning in the form of hands-on activities is one of the strategies being used to teach themain theme 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

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

, sustainable practices, art & literature, and history & geography.They will also gain knowledge about energy sustainability through alternative sources ofenergy provided by photovoltaic solar panels, wind turbines, and solar thermal spaceheating for the classroom produced by an evacuated tube heating system. A monitoringsystem with a large display will provide feedback on energy generation and consumptiononboard the Learning BargeTM to collect accurate data on the performance of the solarand wind systems, and to teach visitors about conservation and renewable energy.Multidisciplinary Collaboration The project is conducted through classes taught by Phoebe Crisman of the Schoolof Architecture and Paxton Marshall of the School of

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Engineering in Middle Schools

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul Crips, Laramie Middle School; William Parker, Laramie County School District 1; Steven Barrett, University of Wyoming; Jerry Hamann, University of Wyoming

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

for academic year 2007/2008. We also plan on pursuing funding toextend this to the ninth grade in the coming year. We would be happy to share materialdeveloped for this project as well as other information for schools wanting to implementa similar program. References1. “Science Notebook Essentials, A guide to Effective Notebook Components,” Michael Klentschy, Science and Children, Nov-Dec. 2005, pp.24-272. “Information and Inspiration for Innovative Teaching in K-12 Schools,” edutopia, The George Lucas Educational Foundation, http://www.edutopia.org/pbl3. “6 + 1 Trait ® Writing,” NW Regional Educational Laboratory, http://www.nwrel.org/assessment/4. “Terra Nova, The Second Edition (CAT/6

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Investigating Fuel Cells and Alternative Fuels in the Classroom and Lab

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Recayi 'Reg' Pecen; Faruk Yildiz; Kenan Baltaci, University of Northern Iowa

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

that would work together in a system toaccomplish the required task and meet performance requirements at the design operating point.In this data acquisition and monitoring scheme, the decision to select particular components forthe overall system was considered with high importance to avoid system failures. Relevant andcompetent system modules will be more efficient and save sufficient money over the life of thesystem to avoid the additional expense and time.The teaching of the design and implementation of energy systems and the use of data acquisitionand monitoring scheme allow the students to consider alternative equipment selections andprogramming interfaces. The utilization of data acquisition system allows the students or systemdesigners