Conference Session

Enhancing K-12 Mathematics Education with Engineering

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Celina Bochis, University of Alabama; Steven Hsia, University of Alabama; Pauline Johnson, University of Alabama; Karen Boykin, University of Alabama; Sandra Wood, University of Alabama; Larry Bowen, University of Alabama; Kevin Whitaker, University of Alabama

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Award in 2006. Dr Johnson is Co-PI on the NSF-EMAP project described in this paper and also co-founder and faculty adviser of the University of Alabama Chapter of Engineers without Borders.Karen Boykin, University of Alabama Dr. is the Assistant Director of the University of Alabama's Environmental Institute and a Research Engineer. She has broad experiences in environmental engineering and science. Dr. Boykin's personal research interests involve the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from both anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic sources. Prior work included modification of EPA landfill emission model to include applications for soil amendments to cover systems. Efforts have also

Conference Session

ChE: Bioengineering, nanotechnology, and systems engineering in the Classroom

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Danielle Amatore, Oregon State University; Shoichi Kimura, Oregon State University; Alexandre Yokochi, Oregon State University

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Chemical Engineering

features to promoteactive learning, including (1) hands-on activities and demonstrations, (2) the integrated use ofwireless laptops through an in-house developed web-based learning tool to promotemetacognition and assessment of student learning, and (3) a capstone ethics project wherestudents complete a risk assessment of the impact of nanotechnology on society. Additionally,this course will focus on synthesizing fundamental concepts in science and engineering towardsapplications in nanotechnology. The other new sophomore course, Material and Energy Balancesin Nanotechnology (ChE 214), is a ChE specific laboratory-based course, emphasizing how thefundamental skills students have just learned couple to nanotechnology. For ChE students, theapproach

Conference Session

Design Methodolgy

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rudolph Eggert, Boise State University

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Design in Engineering Education

presentations, written reporting, graphics, technicaldrawings, and presentation of engineering mathematics and numerical data. How we teachcommunication is also important such as having the appropriate mixture of lectures, activelearning, homework, projects and laboratories. Similarly, a series of progressive reinforcementsover the four year curriculum is ideal.This paper, however, will primarily focus on efforts to determine which design topics should betaught.2.0 Before ABET 2000In 1991, Dixon2 wrote a seminal article discussing the state of engineering design. He suggestedthat we broaden the scope of engineering design to include the entire product realization process(PRP) to include design and manufacturing processes that convert information

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mario Blanco, California Institute of Technology; Kenneth Pickar, California Institute of Technology; Luz Marina Delgado, GEMA; Oscar Arce, Universidad Rafael Landivar; Jeff Kranski, California Institute of Technology; Francoise Herrera, Universidad Rafael Landivar; Charles MacVean, Universidad Rafael Landivar

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Design in Engineering Education

” customer model. These include: • Cultural, religion, ethnicity and gender differences • Lack of infrastructure and/or communications: transportation, power availability • Government interference and corruption • Ethics of previous projects, a history of exploitation • Business partners of variable reliability • Lack of a large well established middle class • Business sustainability and access to capital • Lack of Social Organization • Appropriate profit/tax system • Distance between developers and users Page 12.691.4 • Differences in product cycle time

Conference Session

Engineering in High Schools

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ramzi Bualuan, University of Notre Dame

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

highschool students who have just completed their junior year. Students come from all aroundthe country, and in some cases from abroad. IEP’s purpose is to provide participants withan overview of all fields in engineering, while giving the students a taste of college life, alook at career opportunities, and a chance to meet professional engineers as well asengineering faculty. Students work on several projects, attend lectures, write reports,code programs, give presentations, do problem solving and design, go on field trips, andinteract with a very diverse group of peers.In this paper we describe the IEP program, and provide an overview of its selectionprocess and its structure and content. We examine how effective the program has been,and describe

Conference Session

Special Session on Fixed-Point Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Anderson, Georgia Institute of Technology; Tyson Hall, Southern Adventist University

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Computers in Education

transforms, FPGAs, and VHDL. These assumptions are valid giventhe enforced prerequisites (a senior–level fundamentals of DSP course) and the required corecurriculum for electrical and computer engineering majors at Georgia Tech, which includeslaboratories and classroom lecture on FPGAs and VHDL in the digital design and computerarchitecture sequences [15, 16]. Since the nature of this course is a convergence of DSP and computer engineering(CMPE), lecture material is pulled from both of these disciplines. The course scheduletypically consists of one week of lectures on DSP theory, optimization techniques, etc. fol-lowed by one week of implementation–related lectures. The laboratory projects then providestudents with an opportunity to combine these

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pedro Gazmuri, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Gonzalo Pizarro, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Jose Bilbao, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

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International

obtained in 2003 the substantial equivalence certification from ABET, for the curricularprograms in Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, ComputerScience Engineering and Chemical Engineering. This is the first Engineering School in Chile andthe second in Latin America in obtaining this recognition.Despite this encouraging situation, the School decided two years ago, to start a deep curricularrevision process. One of the triggering facts for this decision was the award of public funding(project MECEUP UCH0403, www.reing.cl), in order to develop a joint initiative with ourcolleagues from Universidad de Chile. Its objective in short, was to do a thorough analysis of themethodologies that are been used internationally for

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Hansen, The University of Texas-Tyler

teacherpreparation programs, which typically represent adaptations of traditional technology educationteacher preparation programs. Traditional technology education programs continue to focus onlearning material processing, tool use, and project-based activities directed at making things(Custer and Wright, 2002; Lewis, 2005) and neglect the creative elements associated with Page 12.421.3inventing, innovating, and designing.Rigby and Harrell (2005) suggest that there is an accepted understanding of “pre-engineeringconcepts” that should be taught at the secondary level, however, the details of these concepts arenot provided. They also state, as a goal of their

Conference Session

Student Diversity: attracting and retaining a diverse population of students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ismail Orabi, University of New Haven

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Educational Research and Methods

Education, 2007 Gender Differences in Student Academic Performance and Attitudes in an Introductory Engineering CourseAbstractThis paper examines the gender differences in student academic performance and attitudestoward their education and themselves in an introductory engineering course. Student academicperformance was evaluated by comparing course work scores between the two genders usingassignments, projects, exams and class participation. The students’ perceptions of the coursewith respect to course outcomes were measured by a survey at the end of the semester. Thesurvey was designed to measure student perceptions about themselves and their skills in severalareas such as problem solving, computer usage, design

Conference Session

Implementing the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge into Courses and Curricula

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Norb Delatte, Cleveland State University; Paul Bosela, Cleveland State University; Kevin Rens, University of Colorado-Denver; Kenneth Carper, Washington State University; Kevin Sutterer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering

. Lessons learned from failures have substantiallyaffected civil engineering practice. For the student, study of these cases can help place designand analysis procedures into historical context and reinforce the necessity of life-long learning.Three approaches for bringing forensics and failure case studies into the civil engineeringcurriculum are possible. These are stand-alone forensic engineering or failure case studycourses, capstone design projects, and integration of case studies into the curriculum. The ASCETCFE Education Committee held four annual one-day workshops in Birmingham, Alabama andin Cleveland, Ohio for a total of approximately 75 engineering educators. The participantsestimated that over 135 courses and nearly 4,000 students

Conference Session

Innovations for the Senior Year of the ME Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Showkat Chowdhury, Alabama A&M University; Abdul Jalloh, Alabama A&M University; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo, Alabama A&M University; Mohamed Seif, Alabama A&M University; Amir Mobasher, Alabama A&M University

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Mechanical Engineering

Inc. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Clarkson University, New York and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from BUET.Abdul Jalloh, Alabama A&M University Dr. Abdul Jalloh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Alabama A&M University in Huntsville, Alabama. Dr. Jalloh has extensive background in teaching undergraduate and graduate students in Mechanical Engineering, and conducting research in composite materials, manufacturing processes, structural dynamics and the finite element method. He also spent many years in industry as a project engineer. He earned his BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sierra Leone

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil and Architectural Engineering Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vladimir Genis, Drexel University; David Spang, Burlington County College; Alexander Genis, G I I, Inc.; Tony Midora, PMT, Inc.

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Engineering Technology

College. The outcome of the proposed project will bea hands-on laboratory course in which NDE techniques of parts and materials will be presentedand applied through real-life problems. NDE curriculum will be designed to fulfill Levels I andII NDE in theory and training requirements, according to American Society for NondestructiveTesting (ASNT ) Recommended Practice No. SNT-TC-1A (2001). Once fully developed, theNDE laboratory will serve as a training center for engineering technology students, as well as forthe workforce of local companies, such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and PECO Energy, withwhom Drexel has a rich history of partnership in terms of internships and researchcollaborations. Such educational laboratories are nearly non-existent in

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina; John Bardo, Western Carolina University; Duane Dunlap, Western Carolina University; Stephen Tricamo, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Eugene DeLoatch, Morgan State University; Dennis Depew, Purdue University; Mark Schuver, Purdue University; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University; Albert McHenry, Arizona State University; Timothy Lindquist, Arizona State University; Joseph Tidwell, Boeing Co.; Mark Smith, Rochester Institute of Technology; Raymond Morrison, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co.; Harvey Palmer, Rochester Institute of Technology; Norman Egbert; David Quick, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Roger Olson, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Mohammad Noori, California State Polytechnic University; Samuel Truesdale, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Edward Sullivan, California Polytechnic State University; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas; Carla Purdy, University of Cincinnati

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Graduate Studies

report Science: The Endless Frontier. But, as Project Hindsight [U.S. Department of Defense] and other reports indicate, the basic research-driven paradigm of the practice of engineering for technology development & innovation is in error.7, 8 As Martino, formerly of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, noted ─ the linear basic research-driven paradigm of how technology is primarily created is erroneous because scientific research and engineering development serve two very different functions with different methods, which are not linear, sequential processes as the 1945 paradigm portrayed. 9III. Paradigm Shift ─ Modern Practice of Engineering forContinuous and Systematic Technology Development & InnovationDuring

Collection

2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

K. A. Narh; R. N. Dave

NSF-Research Experience for Undergraduates in Engineered Nano- Composite Particulate Materials at NJIT K. A. Narha and R. N. Daveb a Department of Mechanical Engineering b Otto York Department of Chemical Engineering New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102-1982IntroductionThe NSF funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site program at NJIT, was designed tofulfill the main requirements of the NSF solicitation document for this program - that REU projectsinvolve students in meaningful ways in ongoing research programs or in research projects

Conference Session

Entrepreneurial Leadership and Non-traditional Ways to Engage Students in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wilburn Clouse, Vanderbilt University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

different ActionGroups and is designed to be cross disciplines and across different learning environments.In this paper, the Learning in Action! pedagogy will be discussed and learning experiences willbe outlined in details. Reactions to 11 University and 4 Public School learning experiences willbe discussed and selected final projects will be shown. For example, we will demonstration howthe Santa Fe case can be used to redevelop a small down town area where the “big box stores”and interstates have created ghost towns and we will investigate other engineering cases relate topower sources and home land security systems.Our process is designed to be a creative force to help students see new and different ventures inlife and to help the US regain

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cameron Coates, Armstrong Atlantic State University; Wayne Johnson, Armstrong Atlantic State University; Chris McCarthy, Armstrong Atlantic State University

and may sometimes include a financial incentive. Thispaper describes and assesses a one-week summer program designed to push the academic andtime management limits of students who are already interested in science and engineering. Theprimary objective is early exposure to research, design and communication with the expectationthat all participants in the program will become undergraduates who are motivated to pursueresearch projects. Other objectives included the successful introduction of advanced concepts to12th grade students through software; pushing the intellectual pace of these students, who aregenerally unaccustomed to academic pressure, and the development of the participants’leadership and teamwork skills. This program distinguishes

Conference Session

Graduate Education and Undergraduate Research in ET

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jerry Visser, South Dakota State University; Kurt Rosentrater, USDA-ARS

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Engineering Technology

astudent a well rounded opportunity. Most undergraduates work within internships or cooperativeeducational frameworks with one entity. At South Dakota State University, the ProductDevelopment Center (PDC) has initiated a collaborative research project with the USDAAgricultural Research Service (ARS) in Brookings for the benefit of undergraduate students.This collaborative framework with the United States Department of Agriculture ARS grows fromthree key aspects. First, the students at both the ARS and the PDC exchange concepts and workinteractively on projects. This provides a wider scope to how their research efforts connect tothe greater scope of both the PDC and ARS. Second, the PDC and ARS pool equipment andlaboratory tools which would be

Conference Session

Software Engineering Topics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Sebern, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Mark Hornick, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

www.msoe.edu/se/AbstractData management tools are necessary for effective support of disciplined software processes thatmake use of historical data for planning and process improvement. This paper reports describestwo such tools and how they have been applied in an undergraduate software engineeringprogram and to support software process improvement initiatives in industry. One of the tools, anopen-source development project, has recently added new capabilities that may make it anattractive choice for both educators and practitioners.IntroductionSoftware engineering programs generally incorporate courses and other learning experiences thatare designed to provide breadth and depth of coverage across the discipline, addressing bothpractice and process

Conference Session

The Challenges of Tech Transfer

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce Mutter, Bluefield State College; Frank Hart, Bluefield State College

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

our School of Engineering Technology and ComputerScience (SETCS) with in-house internship experience and the School with a source of increasedfunding through CART, the operation of our own Course Management System (CMS) as a fee-based self-sustaining business operation, our ongoing applied research projects for industry andagencies, our partnerships with other colleges, universities, industry, and government, and theoperation of the shop CART store.The vision of CART is to become a highly respected resource for innovative engineering andmerging technologies in the discovery of applied research and design of applications that driveour economic viability, solve industrial problems, and strengthen homeland security and nationaldefense.Our

Conference Session

International Case Studies:Collaborations, Exchanges & Interactions

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joerg Mossbrucker, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Stephen Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Edward Chandler, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Holger Dahms, Lübeck University of Applied Sciences; Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Jens Thiedke, Lübeck University of Applied Sciences

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International

Applied Sciences the MSOE faculty generally teach a shortintensive 2 week course at the end of the spring semester. An appropriate number of credits andassociated grade are given and entered on both university transcripts. The Lübeck universityfaculty visit MSOE in the fall quarter to participate in the project defense of their own studentswho perform their Diplom Arbeit (senior thesis project) at a company generally in theMilwaukee region. During the visit the Lübeck faculty also provide a series of special topiclectures in various courses depending on the expertise of the faculty member.The benefits of the faculty exchange are many. Not just does the experience foster a strongerbond to the partner abroad, but the presence of the faculty serves

Conference Session

IE Program Design II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Furterer, East Carolina University; Sandra Furterer, University of Central Florida; Abeer Sharawi, University of Central Florida; Luis Rabelo, University of Central Florida; Lesia Crumpton-Young, University of Central Florida; Kent Williams, University of Central Florida; H. Gregg St. John, EMG Consulting

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Industrial Engineering

Learning Theory and Instructional Design Theories that will provideexperiential learning and student experiences in the classroom.• Integrate Cognitive Learning Theory and Instructional Design Theory to identify appropriateuses of technology to support classroom instruction goals and student learning objectives.• Develop aggressive recruiting strategies that increase awareness of IE careers among HighSchool students and serve to entice them to pursue Industrial Engineering with special emphasisupon exposing members of historically underrepresented groups and females.The project has contributed to engineering education in two major ways: 1) to provide a strategythat other departments of higher education can use to reform their curriculum; and 2

Conference Session

Effective Learning Innovations in Civil Engineering Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Ramseyer, University of Oklahoma

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Civil Engineering

. Challenges for the facultyand staff include; providing enough raw materials to keep up with the students' phenomenalvolume of work, helping make the work fun and exciting, and expanding the students horizonsbeyond the immediate research focus of their team. As the summer progresses, the students takeover day-to-day management of the projects. To ensure that all the students are engaged in theresearch and understand its goals and challenges, weekly meetings are held to discuss progress,difficulties and preliminary results. Keeping the work fun and exciting, while granting thestudents control of the research process, encourages the students to pursue graduate study. Several research sponsors make this challenging program possible. Each of the

Conference Session

IT-based Instructional Technologies

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Mariga, Purdue University

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Information Systems

• Establish, configure, and properly protect a remote desktop connection to the 2003 Server using terminal services • Configure File EncryptionAt the end of each lab project, the students are required to write a laboratory reportdocumenting their experiences with the software installation and configuration. Thestudents do not like having to do this activity but as IT professionals they must be able tocommunicate technical information in a non-technical way. By providing them with theexperience of writing lab reports they get some exposure of having to write technicalreports. Many students take the course during their second semester sophomore year orsometime during their junior year and many students have come back and informed thefaculty

Conference Session

Innovations for the Senior Year of the ME Curriculum

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory Davis, Kettering University; Craig Hoff, Kettering University

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2007-2879: USING THE SAE COLLEGIATE DESIGN SERIES TO PROVIDERESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNDERGRADUATESGregory Davis, Kettering University DR. GREGORY W. DAVIS is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kettering University, formerly known as GMI Engineering & Management Institute. Acting in this capacity, he teaches courses in the Automotive and Thermal Science disciplines. He also serves a Director of the Advanced Engine Research Laboratory, where he conducts research in alternative fuels and engines. Currently, Greg serves as co-faculty advisor for the world's largest Student Chapter of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and the Clean Snowmobile Challenge Project. Greg is

Conference Session

Sustainable Engineering

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stanley Greenwald, New York Institute of Technology

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Environmental Engineering

ofScience in Environmental Technology and is required for the Master of Science in Energy Managementprograms at New York Institute of Technology in addition to a six-credit thesis and studies in airpollution, waste management, law, risk analysis, auditing, groundwater contamination, GIS, OSHA-Hazwopper and many more. Each student is required to submit a feasibility study for the development ofa Distributed Generation system in their homeland including a demographic analysis of the local area inquestion and estimation of electric load requirements for residential, commercial and industrial customers.The course and project outcomes include a site plan, type of power plant, quantities of fuel, generatingcapacity, construction and generating costs. The

Conference Session

Computer-Assisted Lab Studies

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Parten, Texas Tech University; Timothy Maxwell, Texas Tech University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

interfaced to the overall system control.System interfacing through a controller area network (CAN) bus is standard inautomotive systems. The increasing complexity of sub systems is requiring validationtesting before inclusion into the system. This leads to test procedure concepts such ashardware in the loop and software in the loop.The development of the vehicle is a complex, large team, multidisciplinary project withstudents primarily from mechanical engineering, electrical and computer engineering.The majority of the team members are enrolled in a two-semester senior design sequencein either Electrical or Mechanical Engineering. Some graduate students and volunteersalso participated in the program. The project last longer than the courses. In

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques in Graphics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Holdhusen, University of Wisconsin-Marathon County

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Engineering Design Graphics

. Specifically, they had trouble manually creating the multiview projections andproperly dimensioning the drawings. This research finds that all students, regardless of theirexperience, benefit from taking engineering graphics at the university level.IntroductionStudents start engineering programs with many different experiences. Some students begin anengineering program with some knowledge of engineering graphics. This knowledge ofengineering graphics ranges from knowing the basics of technical sketching, to the ability to readtechnical drawings, to an intimate knowledge of 3D modeling using CAD. Students gain theseexperiences from many places including job training and high school CAD classes. Mostuniversity engineering programs require a course in

Conference Session

K-12 Programs (Co-sponsored by K-12 Division)

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynn Fujioka, isisHawaii and Women in Technology; Sheryl Hom, isisHawaii and Women in Technology; Leslie Wilkins, Maui Economic Development Board

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Women in Engineering

AC 2007-2310: ISISHAWAII: THE POWER OF ONE PLUS ONE FOR BRINGINGGIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN INTO THE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERINGPIPELINELynn Fujioka, isisHawaii and Women in Technology In 2002, Lynn Fujioka left the advertising industry after 25 years to launch isisHawaii, a women's online mentoring resource. Since partnering in 2003 with The Women in Technology (WIT) Project (a statewide workforce development initiative administered by The Maui Economic Development Board and funded, in part, by the U.S. Departments of Education, Agriculture and Labor), Lynn's new-found passion in educational outreach provides a rewarding outlet for her creative and business skills.Sheryl Hom, isisHawaii and Women in

Conference Session

Design of Lab Experiments II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmad Pourmovahed, Kettering University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

energy systems. A design project isincorporated into this laboratory course. Currently, experiments performed in this laboratoryinclude a Jet Engine, Road Load Simulation, PEM Fuel Cell Performance, Centrifugal Pump,Fan Laws, Compressible Flow, Pipe Flow and Flow Meters, Lift and Drag, Heat Exchanger,and Cylinder Convection. Among other things, the students learn how jet engines work; howaircraft wings produce lift; how a fuel cell works; how supersonic velocities are produced; howto use a dynamometer to predict the gas mileage of a car; how to match pumps and fans to pipingsystems and ducts and how to cool hot objects effectively. They also learn to apply thefundamental principles of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer in an

Conference Session

Freshman Design and Other Novel Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul King, Vanderbilt University; Mark Richter, MaxMobility

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Biomedical

, wheelchair setup, adaptive exercise equipment and recreational technologies. He has taught several project-based courses where student teams designed assistive devices for clients with disabilities Page 12.431.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Current Topics in Rehabilitation EngineeringAbstractThis paper describes a new introductory one hour freshman module developed to cover currenttopics in Rehabilitation Engineering. The course was team taught by an engineer/owner of alocal mobility aids firm and by a biomedical engineering design instructor. Students whoenrolled for the course were