Conference Session

Sustainable Energy Issues in Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

lana El Chaar, Petroleum Institute

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

demand is among the largest in the region due to financial andtourist projects as well as a growing population. According to Global Insight2, UAE has added24 percent electricity-generating capacity at an annual rate over the last 30 years. Current totalcapacity for electricity production is around 16.7 Gigawatts (GW), but will need to increasefurther considering the 10 percent per year demand rise expected through 2010. Nearly all UAEpower comes from conventional thermal generation. In 2004, consumption reached over 0.45Terrawatt-hours (TWH). By mid-2006 the total capacity for electricity production in the UAEwas 16,220 Megawatts. The demand for electricity in the UAE has been growing at double-digitrates for many years and will continue to do

Conference Session

Experiential and Service Learning

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Odon Musimbi, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara Moskal, Colorado School of Mines; David Munoz, Colorado School of Mines

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

. Page 13.1072.2This four-year project began at the start of the academic year 2003-2004, during which newcourses, projects, and assessment activities were pilot tested. In the fall of 2004, baseline datawas collected concerning both student and faculty attitudes at CSM with respect to servicelearning activities using the “Community Service Attitude Scale” (CSAS). This instrument wasdeveloped and validated by Shiarella, McCarthy and Tucker8, but had not been used prior to thecurrent efforts to measure attitudes within engineering education.Based on the 2004 data, Bauer et al.6 completed and published a comparative analysis of studentand faculty attitudes with respect to community service. This analysis indicated that faculty hadmore positive

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Lawrence Whitman; Zulma Toro-Ramos; Dan Allison; Colin Davidson; Martha Shawver; Shelly Belles; Chris Wilkinson

motivation for the Spirit GlobalDesign Challenge, its linkage to ABET outcomes, defines global learning andhow it integrates into the Engineer of 2020 program, and provides implementationand initial assessment plans. I. Introduction and MotivationIndustry has made clear the need to graduate engineers with more than justtechnical skills. A key component for today’s graduate is the ability to thrive in aglobally collaborative workplace. Engineers must work with global colleaguesboth in face-to-face and computer mediated environments. Efforts to assessvirtual team projects have been performed [1]. This paper describes the SpiritAeroSystems Global Design Challenge (SGDC) which is an effort to integratedesign and global communication. The effort

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

R. Radharamanan; Ha Van Vo

mixing cup, and a spoon. The robot armshould be programmed to include all the necessary motions to complete the mixing process. The resultsobtained from the student team projects on the above three modules are also presented, analyzed, anddiscussed.1. IntroductionThe advancement of industrial applications of process technology, computers, and automation demandscontinuous improvement in the quality of engineering education both in classroom theory and in hands-onpractice in design, computer simulation, and manufacturing laboratories. There is a growing need forpreparing students both in theory and practice so that they are well prepared to meet the challenges of thejob market, especially in the manufacturing industries of the 21st century. A

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

R. Radharamanan; Ha Van Vo

mixing cup, and a spoon. The robot armshould be programmed to include all the necessary motions to complete the mixing process. The resultsobtained from the student team projects on the above three modules are also presented, analyzed, anddiscussed.1. IntroductionThe advancement of industrial applications of process technology, computers, and automation demandscontinuous improvement in the quality of engineering education both in classroom theory and in hands-onpractice in design, computer simulation, and manufacturing laboratories. There is a growing need forpreparing students both in theory and practice so that they are well prepared to meet the challenges of thejob market, especially in the manufacturing industries of the 21st century. A

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

R. Radharamanan; Ha Van Vo

mixing cup, and a spoon. The robot armshould be programmed to include all the necessary motions to complete the mixing process. The resultsobtained from the student team projects on the above three modules are also presented, analyzed, anddiscussed.1. IntroductionThe advancement of industrial applications of process technology, computers, and automation demandscontinuous improvement in the quality of engineering education both in classroom theory and in hands-onpractice in design, computer simulation, and manufacturing laboratories. There is a growing need forpreparing students both in theory and practice so that they are well prepared to meet the challenges of thejob market, especially in the manufacturing industries of the 21st century. A

Conference Session

1553 FPD3 - Computer & Programming Tools in First Year Instruction

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Robertson, Arizona State University; Sarah Roux, Arizona State University; Vivek Ramanathan, Arizona State University; Mark Rager, Arizona State University

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First-Year Programs

Perspectives on a Freshman Treatment of Electronic SystemsAbstract.The conventional approach to curriculum design is that students start with the basics of scienceand math and gradually progress towards a realistic integration of all their engineering skills in asenior capstone project. That approach is now challenged by changes in the assumed boundaryconditions. Students no longer progress through the program in lock-step. Electronicsapplications have evolved far beyond the components level and many cross-disciplinary skillsare needed. Finally, all students require a level of communications, team-working, trouble-shooting and representational skills that take a long time to mature so it is too late to wait till thesenior year to introduce them. The

Conference Session

Challenges of CE Education in a Global World

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Hanson, California Polytechnic State University; Senro Kuraoka, Nippon Koei Co., Ltd.

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Civil Engineering

- Madison and was a Research Associate at the National Research Council of Canada before joining Nippon Koei. His expertise includes numerical modeling, rockfall analysis and mitigation, and general geomechanical analyses. Page 13.789.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 International Collaboration for Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory ExercisesAbstractThe project described in this paper is a collaborative effort between California Polytechnic StateUniversity and Nippon Koei Co., Ltd. based in Tokyo, Japan. The collaboration was establishedfor the Geotechnical

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Farison, Baylor University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

presentation on that subject. 3. Each student’s own (“modest”) image processing research project. – As late in the course as the sequence involved allows, each student selects and upon approval for appropriateness conducts an actual image processing project (normally, MATLAB Image Processing Toolbox-based) to test and/or compare the image processing effectiveness of some desired imaging processing algorithm(s). Again, each project’s results are written and presented to the class.The extra requirement for graduate credit for graduate student enrollees is related to thepresentations. While the expectations for the first presentation are about the same for all enrolledstudents, the second project (research literature) has a slightly higher

Conference Session

Novel Courses and Content for ChEs II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ruben Morales-Menendez, Tecnologico de Monterrey; Tomas Lopez, Tecnologico de Monterrey; Ricardo Ramirez Medoza, Institute Tecnologico De Monterrey; Luis E Garza, Tecnologico de Monterrey

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Chemical Engineering

the following way: First, a state-of-the-art review of similar projects ispresented. Second, the design principles of the engineering course at Tecnológico de Monterreyare briefly described. Third, the academic proposal is described. Fourth, results of undergraduatesenior students are presented. Finally, conclusions and future work end this paper in sectionFifth.State-of-the-artAlthough there are many significant projects in this field, the projects described below aremainly related to the continuous control systems domain. The papers were organized in threetables based on the main contribution/innovation: simulation, laboratories and remotelaboratories

Conference Session

FPD4 - Teaching Methods for First Year Students

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Haungs, California Polytechnic State University; John Clements, California Polytechnic State University; David Janzen, California Polytechnic State University

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First-Year Programs

fourth course goal, “understand iterative design, implementation, andtesting.”2.3 RequirementsWe have developed a set of course requirements to ensure that courses created from our model areconsistent, stay true to our tenets, and conform to our course goals. Our requirements are: 1. Students work on a project in a relevant, interesting, and accessible domain, 2. teaching design is the major focus of lecture, 3. students work in teams on the course project, 4. students write a final report on their project that describes their project’s design choices, implementation, and assessment, 5. the course has a midterm and a final, 6. students present their work a minimum of two times to the class

Conference Session

Assessment of Engineering Technology Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Esteban Rodriguez-Marek, Eastern Washington University; Min-Sung Koh, Eastern Washington University; Claudio Talarico, Eastern Washington University

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Engineering Technology

achievement of the programeducational outcomes. These outcomes are further connected to standardized assessment criteria Page 13.326.2provided by accreditation boards. A case study will be presented for the B.S. in ComputerEngineering Technology (CET) at Eastern Washington University (EWU). Expected benefits ofthe application of the proposed method are threefold: 1. Increased student ownership of learning objectives. 2. More cohesive and relevant set of class activities (i.e. tests, homework, laboratory experiments, projects, etc.). 3. A uniform program-wide way of assessing program outcomes against a set of accreditation criteria

Conference Session

FPD2 - First-Year Advising and Transition

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean Kampe, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Whitney Edmister, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Christi Boone, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Bevlee Watford, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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First-Year Programs

, so two lectures and two workshops wereheld each week. In moving to the summer 2007 offering, which spanned only six weeks, alecture and then a workshop were held each weekday, with a two-hour break between them. Afaculty member ran the lectures and workshops, but the workshops also had a teaching assistant:a graduate student in fall 2006 and an upper-class undergraduate in summer 2007. Thebreakdown of course content and delivery is presented in the Appendix (see Table A1, which is acompressed version of the summer course syllabus). The major content items for the courseinclude graphics, design, problem solving, graphing, computer programming, handling digitaldata, project management, communication, and ethics. In each offering of EngE2984, a

Conference Session

Non-Technical Skills Build Success in ET

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Khan, DeVry University; Gene Gloeckner, Colorado State University; George Morgan, Colorado State University

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Engineering Technology

promoting student learning and success. Therefore, an investigation is warranted toexplore the relationship between student learning/success with these faculty constructs. 2II. Purpose of the Study The purpose of this research project was to explore the relationship betweenstudents’ perceptions of the importance of three faculty dimensions – technical currency,teaching techniques, and commitment to student success – and their self-reported learningand success. The research project answers the following questions: 1. How do students perceive the importance of three faculty dimensions – technical currency, teaching techniques, and

Conference Session

Hands-on Materials Science and Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harvey Abramowitz, Purdue University Calumet

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Materials

. Page 13.248.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Basswood BridgesAbstractThe “Elementary Engineering Design” course for freshmen students at Purdue UniversityCalumet consists of two components: one ME and one EE. Due to the two part structure and inorder to expose the students to the faculty, it is also team taught. The course counts as twocredits, with the format one hour lecture and three hours lab. The basswood bridge is the majorproject of the ME half and counts for one quarter of the total course grade. The object, as isusual with bridge projects, is to design, build and test a truss bridge having a high strength toweight ratio. The design process includes statics analysis in combination

Conference Session

Curricular Developments in Energy Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University; Ian Gravagne, Baylor University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

technical and social content.This need for energy education is the fundamental motivation for the energy awareness efforts atBaylor University. According to the National Energy Policy7, the U. S. must have between 1,300and 1,900 new electricity generation plants in place to meet the projected 45% increase inelectrical demand by the year 2020. Economic and political policies often reflect the unspokenassumption that the United States will be able to continually increase its reliance on naturalresources and more importantly, energy resources. On May 2, 2007, a local newspaper editor Page 13.491.2took time to remind the public of the energy history

Conference Session

Sustainability and Engineering Courses

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Curtis Larimer, University of Pittsburgh; Michaelangelo Tabone, University of Pittsburgh; Matthew Mehalik, University of Pittsburgh; Kim Needy, University of Pittsburgh

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Environmental Engineering

Pittsburgh Undergraduate Review. Over the past three years he has participated in two sustainable engineering research projects involving sustainable drinking water systems and safe combustion on hydrogen gas. Following receiving his degree, he hopes to eventually go on to either Engineering and Public Policy Graduate School or Law School. Michaelangelo is a member of AIChE.Matthew Mehalik, University of Pittsburgh Matthew Mehalik serves as Program Manager at Sustainable Pittsburgh, a nonprofit that researches and promotes polices and practices of sustainability in the 10-county region of Western Pennsylvania. Dr. Mehalik also serves as Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of

Conference Session

Use of Technology to Provide Civil Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Sutterer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; shannon sexton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering

, hereinafter referred to as the instructor, joined this institute project with sometrepidation. As a graduate and former assistant mentor in the American Society of CivilEngineers (ASCE) Excellence in Civil Engineering Education (ExCEEd) program (Estes, et al.,2005; ASCE, 2008), the instructor is an outspoken institute proponent of the tenets of ExCEEd,including appropriate use of technology in the classroom. In fact, the instructor’s campusreputation in this regard was one significant reason the project PI contacted the instructor aboutjoining the project. The adoption of this technology-based instruction process for most all of theclass meetings seemed to the instructor to be a significant departure from his ExCEEd roots.Similarly, the project PI

Conference Session

Programmatic Issues in Physics or Engineering Physics Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Winston Jackson, California Institute of Technology; Jennifer Franck, California Institute of Technology; James Maloney, California Institute of Technology; Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux, California Institute of Technology; Julian Rimoli, California Institute of Technology; Luz Rivas, California Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

focused on MATLAB. Caltech graduate students andinstitute staff lead each course. Course instructors are hired in the spring preceding the programand meet weekly to develop the course curriculum. Through lectures, hands-on experiments andhomework assignments, each course exposes participants to fundamental science principleswhile giving students the opportunity to propose further questions in the fields. As a culminatingproject for each course, participants produce a group research project with the help of a YESSinstructor. The successful completion of the project relies upon all the skills and concepts that thestudents acquire throughout the courses. At the end of the program, students present their projectfindings to Caltech faculty

Conference Session

New Trends in Engineering Management Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Galloway, The Nielsen-Wurster Group, Inc

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Engineering Management

AC 2008-191: THE 21ST CENTURY ENGINEERPatricia Galloway, The Nielsen-Wurster Group, Inc Dr. Patricia D. Galloway is the chief executive officer of The Nielsen-Wurster Group, Inc. and Director of Pegasus Global Holdings, Inc. Dr. Galloway was the first woman to serve as president of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in the organization’s 154-year history, her proudest accomplishment by being able to serve as a role model to young women engineers. She was appointed by President Bush in 2006 to the National Science Board for a six-year term. She is a licensed professional engineer in fourteen U.S. states, Canada and Australia, a certified project management

Conference Session

Reaching Students: Innovations to Curriculum in ET

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sofia Vidalis, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg; Joseph Cecere, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg

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Engineering Technology

changes and provide the most updated equipment forstudents and faculty. In order to start integrating cutting edge classroom technology, changes andupdates needed to be made. First, there were components that had to be integrated in the room tomaximize the program’s technological classroom with an updated laboratory facility and add anew addition of portable computer tablets would provide excellent instructional environment forthe students and faculty.The planning of this project incorporated the present needs while considering the maximumnumber of students for various classes and laboratories that may use the room in the future.Enhancing the traditional “lecture only” classroom environment included purchasing Tablet PCs.They were incorporated

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Smith, University of Southern Maine

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Mechanical Engineering

manufacturing cell. • One department of engineering housing both programs with flexible faculty, some teaching both mechanical and electrical engineering courses, as appropriate. • The existing faculty teach the foundational courses. In the implementation stage a number of the upper-level and elective courses are taught by adjuncts. This allows the program to develop and to be “tweaked” before commitments are made to full-time, tenure-track faculty. • The new program focuses on just two areas, materials and electromechanical systems. These two areas aligned well both with the existing skill sets in the department and with the needs of local industry. • The senior design project, the capstone project

Conference Session

Educating for Results: Tools used in Engineering Technology

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alok Verma, Old Dominion University

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Engineering Technology

successfully in Lean Trainingprograms in industry. Effectiveness of such activities as a pedagogical tool has been supportedby research in the acquisition and retention of knowledge. The Shipbuilding and Repair Career Day Events (SBRCD) project was funded by theNational Shipbuilding research Program to increase awareness about shipbuilding and repaircareers. Four simulation activities developed under the grant were incorporated into freshmenengineering course to encourage creative thinking and keep students engaged while providinginformation about shipbuilding and repair processes.I. Introduction The project team consisting of university faculty, industry personnel, school andcommunity college teachers developed these four simulation

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

J. Moore; M.A. Thornton; R.W. Skeith

. The Digital Systems Design course has been offered in dual conventionaland distance modes for several years and methods for dealing with laboratory assignments anddesign projects have been developed and are described here.IntroductionDistance education is becoming more common and is very popular for students with fulltimeprofessional careers seeking to obtain an advanced degree. Most universities that offer distanceeducation courses usually restrict their offerings to classes that are largely theoretical and havethe traditional homework, report, and examination assignments. In engineering fields, thisrestriction imposes severe limitations to overall degree programs since class work that involves a“hands-on” component is not included

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Unique Approaches

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul A. Nelson, Michigan Technological University; Edward Lumsdaine, Michigan Technological University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2008-1354: CREATING AN ENTREPRENEURIAL CULTURE IN ANENGINEERING UNIVERSITYPaul A. Nelson, Michigan Technological University Dr. Paul A. Nelson is Associate Professor of Economics and Engineering Management in the School of Business at Michigan Technological University, with a PhD in Industrial Organization Economics from the University of Wisconsin. In the 1970s and 1980, he was the Director of a graduate program in Business Administration designed for engineering students. Also, he administered a one-year second undergraduate degree program in Engineering Management for engineering students. He supervised many Master of Science projects which dealt with starting businesses and

Conference Session

FPD9 - First Year Learning & Assessment

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Johnson, Valparaiso University; Doug Tougaw, Valparaiso University; Kenneth Leitch, Valparaiso University; Barbara Engerer, Valparaiso University

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First-Year Programs

(especially ABET’s Engineering Criteria 2000 and theNational Academy of Engineering’s “The Engineer of 2020” report) have prompted changesthroughout the engineering curriculum. Many universities 8-14 increased the emphasis onengineering design and engineering analysis in their first-year engineering course, including theintroduction of hands-on context-rich design projects to be completed by teams of students.15Some universities created courses that explicitly attempted to increase their students’ teamworkskills,16 while others sharpened their focus on improving their students’ problem-solving skills9and creative and critical thinking skills.17 Perhaps the most difficult mandate of EngineeringCriteria 2000 is that students be able to work effectively

Conference Session

Challenges of CE Education in a Global World

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy; Richard Gash, United States Military Academy; C. Conley; Scott Hamilton, United States Military Academy; Farid Momand, Kabul University; Qaium Fekrat, Kabul University; Aziz Gulistani, Kabul University

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Civil Engineering

Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the U.S. Military Academy (USMA), West Point for 7.5 years, teaching courses in engineering mechanics, structural analysis and Home Brewing.Farid Momand, Kabul University Farid Ahmad Momand holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Kabul University in Kabul, Afghanistan. He has served as an Assistant Professor (Pohialay) at Kabul University for two years, an adjunct instructor at the National Military Academy of Afghanistan for one semester, and a practicing structural engineer for 14 months at United Infrastructure Projects, a private company. He is currently enrolled in the master’s degree program in civil

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aleksandr Panchul, UTSA; David Akopian, UTSA

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Electrical and Computer

% send email on their phones, exchanging some 200 email messages eachweek. 66% email peers about classes; 44% email for studying. In contrast, only 43% email onPCs, exchanging an average of only 2 messages per week. Only 20% had used a PDA. 71% ofthe subjects preferred receiving educational materials on mobile phones rather than PCs. 93%felt that its valuable to use phones for teaching. In the UK it is estimated that 81% of 11-15 yearolds and 96% of 16-24 year olds have a mobile phone [7]. Similar projects have been establishedin Europe as well. An example of a pan-European research and development study with partnersin Italy, Sweden and the UK is the "m-learning" project [8]. Its aim is to use portabletechnologies to provide literacy and

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roger Olson, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Randall Holmes, Caterpillar Inc.; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

included directing/coaching/mentoring degreed engineers in the performance of detailed finite element analyses and life analyses, in support of the preliminary design, final design, upgrade, engine testing, and the failure analysis of military, commercial, helicopter, and industrial gas turbine engine components. Chief Secretary/Treasurer of the Rolls-Royce Indianapolis, Engineering Education Committee. Member of the Indiana State Leadership Team for Project Lead the Way Member of the steering committee for the Rolls-Royce Purdue Master of Science in Technology Cohort degree program. Prior to my work at Rolls-Royce, I worked in various engineering and management

Conference Session

Accreditation and Assessment Concerns in Civil Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Hanus, United States Military Academy; Scott Hamilton, United States Military Academy; Jeffrey Russell

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Responding Knowledge Receiving Independent Study Guest Speakers Enrichment ASCE Student Projects Summer Chapter Relevant Faculty Field Trips Experience