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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Geon S. Seo; Eniko T. Enikov

information—in order to create useful toolsand technologies. Consequently, engineering education has the objective of not only presenting thescientific principles, i.e., engineering science, but also of teaching students how to apply these toreal problems. It is not surprising, therefore, that hands-on laboratories have been an integral part ofthe engineering curriculum since its inception [1]. Their importance has been recognized by theAccreditation Board of Engineering Education (ABET) and its predecessors by creation of criteriarequiring adequate laboratory practice for students [2-6]. Unfortunately, during the last severaldecades, engineering laboratories have become highly complex and expensive, with multiplesimulation tools and computer

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Project-Based Student Learning: Part II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dale Litwhiler, Pennsylvania State University, Berks; Frances Jallu, Pennsylvania State University, Berks

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Engineering Technology

data could then bedownloaded for use in engineering technology classes to help demonstrate the operation ofequipment powered by solar energy and rechargeable batteries. Incorporating real-world solarpower projects into engineering curriculum has been presented by others. 2,3,4System Design and ConstructionFigure 2 shows a block diagram of the bus shelter custom audio system. The solar panel isconstructed of thin-film amorphous silicon and produces an operating voltage of 7.2V at 100mA.The battery is a 6V, 1.2Ah sealed lead acid deep-discharge battery. The amplifier and speakersare very inexpensive consumer electronic devices typically used with an MP3 player to listen tomusic without using headphones. Figure 2

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Introduction to Materials Courses

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Surendra Gupta, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Materials

slides on experimental principles and theory, (c) step-by-stepinstructions to use the equipment, (d) sample data and analysis, (e) a set of multiple-choicequestions, and (f) a student survey. At the beginning of each term, these instructional materialsare integrated into MyCourses, the online course management system developed by Desire 2Learn (www.desire2learn.com) for our institution. Thus, all lab instructors and students nowhave access to and use the same instructional materials.Assessment Rubrics and Design of Instructional MaterialsFor BSME curriculum to meet or exceed the accreditation criteria of the Accreditation Board ofEngineering and Technology (ABET), our department has developed a set of nine mechanicalengineering program outcomes

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Professional Practice and AEC Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mahmoud Alahmad, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Patrick Wheeler, University of Nebraska, Omaha; Avery Schwer, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Dale Tiller, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Andrea Wilkerson, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Joshua Eiden, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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Architectural

future capacity needs for peaking power plants.I. IntroductionA common difficulty amongst academic engineering programs is the minimal amount ofcoursework that makes a solid connection to industry applications. Upper level coursesshould ease the transition from the university to the work place environment. There are sev-eral program models that ease the transition by exposing students to the industry environmentduring their education.One program model provides students the opportunity to observe professionals in the work-place. Another program allows students to work in the engineering industry as part of theircourse curriculum. A third program model tells students to take time off from school towork independently for an industry partner1. With

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Student Learning

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathryn Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University-Great Valley; Pamela Vercellone-Smith, Penn State Great Valley; Sally Sue Richmond, Penn State Great Valley

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Educational Research and Methods

– 2008, we collected KAI scores for a total of 363 students enrolledin a core course within our Systems Engineering curriculum*. As mentioned earlier, this course isalso an elective for students in other engineering degree programs, as well as students enrolled innon-engineering degree programs, such as Management, Leadership Development, andEducation (e.g., Instructional Design). Of the total sample we analyzed, 327 students wereregistered in one of three engineering degree programs (Systems Engineering, SoftwareEngineering, or Information Science), 12 were registered in a Leadership Development degreeprogram (offered by the Management Division), and 24 had undeclared majors at the time of theKAI administration. While these last two sub-groups

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Measurement Tools

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lourdes Gazca, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla; Aurelio López-Malo, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla; Juan Manuel Garibay, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla

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Educational Research and Methods

Engineering Design (EI-100) is a first-semester 3 credit required course for everyengineering program of Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP). Course content andclassroom activities are divided into three, two-hour sessions (Modeling, Concepts, andLaboratory) per week. Students have six different EI-100 facilitators (an instructor and teachingassistant for each session). UDLAP’s engineering students have in EI-100 a great opportunity fora multidisciplinary collaborative experience. EI-100 is a team-taught course that uses active,collaborative and cooperative learning, which has been a major player in UDLAP’s efforts ofengineering education reform since 2001. However, EI-100 could be improved taking intoaccount technological advances and recent

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Knowing Our Students, Faculty, and Profession

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2009-611: CAREER MOTIVATIONS OF FRESHMAN ENGINEERING ANDNON-ENGINEERING STUDENTS: A GENDER STUDYMarisa Orr, Clemson University Marisa K. Orr is a doctoral candidate at Clemson University. She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson in 2005. She has been an Endowed Teaching Fellow and is currently chair of the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Advisory Committee. In her research, she is studying the way that students progress through a Mechanical Engineering curriculum and terramechanics.Zahra Hazari, Clemson University Zahra Hazari is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering & Science Education and the Department of Mathematical Sciences at

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LABVIEW-Based Experiments and Robotics Laboratory

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alejandra J. Magana; Sean Brophy; George Bodner, Purdue University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

for using simulations for learning and describing in detail a student’s perception of thismethod.Methods The goal of this research study is to describe an instructor’s and his students’ perceptionsand experiences with simulation tools as laboratory simulations in the context of an advancedgraduate elective course for electrical engineering students. These graduate students arespecializing in the area of very-large-scale integration (VLSI) and circuit design. The coursefocuses on examining advanced transistors and its physical principles. Considerations that enterinto the development of new integrated circuit technologies were also explored. This course hasas pre-requisite a course related to solid state devices only offered to master’s

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Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2009-237: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY UNDERGRADUATE PROJECTIMPLEMENTING A ROBOTIC ARM FOR THE ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATIONOF ENDANGERED AMPHIBIAN SPECIESClaudio Talarico, Eastern Washington University Claudio Talarico is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Eastern Washington University. Before joining Eastern Washington University, he worked at University of Arizona, University of Hawaii and in industry, where he held both engineering and management positions at Infineon Technologies, IKOS Systems (now Mentor Graphics), and Marconi Communications. His research interests include design methodologies for integrated circuits and systems with emphasis on system-level design, embedded

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Outstanding Contributions to Mechanical Engineering Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Wagner, Clemson University; Katie Knaub, National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors

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Mechanical Engineering

amplifier. Wagner et al.8 reviewed the operational behavior of an eightday mechanical clock through mathematical models, numerical simulation, and computeranimation for dynamic system studies. A series of five laboratory and simulation experimentswere report by Burchett et al.9 which emphasize fundamental concepts in dynamic systemsincluding a swinging pendulum whose bob is located to offer maximum angular velocity.Delson10 discussed the use of a model clock project for students to analyze and fabricate apendulum and escapement wheel with integration into a clock11. In terms of K-12 audiences, theNational Science Resources Center developed the measuring time (life & earth sciences)curriculum model (grade 6) within the science and technology for

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Communication and Collaboration

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julie Sharp, Vanderbilt University; Marilyn Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education

facilitate the group’s functioning.Since the students themselves discuss, develop, and refine peer review criteria each term,performance expectations are clear. Furthermore, by the end of the first week of senior project,each group is responsible for creating a set of group “operating guidelines,” which generallydovetail the formal review criteria. Coupled with the meetings with faculty, these documentsprovide an accurate snapshot of how groups function. Page 14.1287.14Teamwork AssessmentTeamwork is an assessment point in the civil curriculum, and in 2007-2008, the departmentassessed two facets of the senior project class: peer reviews

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Arun K. Datta; Jacqueline Caesar; Daphne Rainey; Stephen Cammer; Julie Schuman; Oswald Crasta

, analyzing, visualizing andinterpreting the experimental data and results4. Through competitive, merit-reviewed awards forleading-edge, IT-based infrastructure, which is increasingly essential to science and engineeringleadership in the 21st century, OCI is developing an infrastructure, termed Cyberinfrastructure (CI)to facilitate rapid progress in education and research.Cyberinfrastructure and teragrid“Cyberinfrastructure” describes integrated information and communication technologies fordistributed information processing and coordinated knowledge discovery, which promises torevolutionize the way that science and engineering are done in the 21st century and beyond3. It isthe coordinated aggregate of software, hardware and other technologies, as

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Infusing Engineering Content Through Curricular Innovation

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Austin Talley, University of Texas, Austin; Kathy Schmidt, University of Texas, Austin; Richard Crawford, University of Texas, Austin

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Page 14.383.11 future, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C. 2007.[2] University of Texas. DTEACh Online. http://www.engr.utexas.edu/dteach/aboutus/, July 27, 2007.[3] Crawford, R.H., Wood, K.L., Fowler, M., and Norrell, J., "An Engineering Design Curriculum for the Elementary Grades," ASEE Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 83, No. 2, pp. 172-181, 1994.[4] Jensen, D., Wood, J., and Wood, K. L., "Design of Hands-on Experiences to Optimize Learning through Correlation with Learning Styles and Pedagogical Theory," Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, June 2004.[5] Talley, A., Schmidt, K., Wood, K., and Crawford, R., “Understanding the Effects of Active Learning in Action: What Happens When

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Successful Mentoring and Outreach Programs for Girls and Minorities

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katherine Chen, California Polytechnic State University; Daniel Belter, California Polytechnic State University; Teana Fredeen, California Polytechnic State University; Heather Smith, California Polytechnic State University; Shirley Magnusson, California Polytechnic State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

scientists. Her current work is exploring how to integrate engineering with science in the elementary curriculum in a way that empowers children and supports teachers in finding time to teach science. Page 14.743.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Inspiring a Diverse Population of High School Students to Choose Engineering as a Career PathAbstractA week-long, summer day-program was created to expose and inspire high school students toconsider engineering as a career path. The goals of the program were to 1) bring high schoolstudents of diverse backgrounds to our university campus, 2) excite

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Critical Thinking and Creative Arts

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Beth Todd, University of Alabama; Garry Warren, University of Alabama; Susan Burkett, University of Alabama; David Cordes, University of Alabama; Marcus Brown, University of Alabama

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Liberal Education

Page 14.392.6 and societal issues in the classroom,” Proc. ASEE Conf., Pittsburgh, PA, 2008.7. S. M. Lord, “Fabulous Fridays: Satisfying ABET 2000 criterion I and J in an optoelectronics elective,” Proc. ASEE Conf., pp. 6315-6322, 2005.8. P. Benkeser and W. Newsletter, “Integrating soft skills in a BME curriculum,” Proc. ASEE Conf., Salt Lake City, UT, pp. 7823-7830, 2004.9. L. J. Shuman, M. Besterfield-Sacre, J. McGourty, “The ABET "professional skills" - Can they be taught? Can they be assessed?,” J. Engineering Education, Vol. 94, No. 1, pp. 41-55, 2005.10. D. Carpenter, “Using a hybrid classroom environment for the instruction of ethics and contemporary civil engineering issues,” Proc. ASEE Conf., Honolulu

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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47253. The Integration of Ruby on Rails As An Agile Teaching Tool in IT Curricula, Gordon Romney 48154. Problem-based Learning: Implementation of Efficient Two Factor Authentication for University Computer Systems, Gordon W. Romney and Paul Juneau 493 Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 6Welcome by Conference Host     Howard Evans, Ph.D., PE Dean, School of Engineering and Technology, National University

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Sustainable-energy Education: Lessons Learned

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sharon deMonsabert, George Mason University; Jeremy Jessup, George Mason University; Lenna Storm, George Mason University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

contacts and organizing all interactions between all included parties.This responsibility is very similar to the responsibility experienced in a professional setting. Byproviding the student with control over the project, it required the student to take a leadershiprole and integrate many different people into the project. The project also offered an avenue forthe application of educational principles in a professional setting. The student was responsiblefor identifying the problem, selecting possible alternatives to correct the problem, andrecommending the best solution. The student was able to incorporate environmental systemsanalysis techniques covered in the academic program’s curriculum, in addition to otherengineering principles, to arrive

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Engineering Design: Implementation and Evaluation

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gül Okudan, Pennsylvania State University; Alexander Yin, Pennsylvania State University; Saraj Gupta, Pennsylvania State University; Lisa Lattuca, Pennsylvania State University; Patrick Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University

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Educational Research and Methods

isensuring that the task would still be a learning experience for the design team.Design ProcessThe design process is where the design learning facilitator provides the most guidance to theteam. Even though within the curriculum students are taught a design process (first E4 and thenemphasized throughout their other courses), students still deviated from an organized process. Asa coach, the faculty advisor guides the team towards the process they have learned. As oneprofessor says: “So they get to try [the design process] out early on, and then what we do as advisors in clinic is remind them about the process. Because I think a lot of times when they are given a real world project in clinic, the inclination is just to run out

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High-School Engineering Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jan DeWaters, Clarkson University; Susan Powers, Clarkson University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

(integrating science, math, technology, writing andcommunication) and approaches the investigation and application of new automobiletechnologies and transportation fuels within a societal and global context. Table 2 summarizesthe general outline of the course, which follows a standard engineering problem solvingapproach. In any given year, the specific details have varied within this framework. The entiremodule is designed to extend over a total of 16 to 20, 40-minute class periods. Detailed unit andlesson plans for this module are available.14ParticipantsStudents enrolled in an advanced placement environmental science (APES) class at a high schoolin rural St. Lawrence County, NY have been study participants for all three years. This nonregents-based

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Exemplary Teacher and Counselor Professional Development

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Macon Beck, Purdue University; Heidi Diefes-Dux, Purdue Universtiy; Teri Reed-Rhoads, Purdue University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

well with other people (Item 1) and have good verbal skills (Item 2). Schoolcounselors agree to a greater extent that most people feel that males can do well in DET careers(Item 10) as compared to females (Item 9) or minorities (Item 11), but this may or may not be areflection of what school counselors feel. It is not clear whether counselors believe that DETshould be integrated into the K-12 curriculum (Item 8). These results are similar to those found Page 14.824.5for K-12 teachers16. This leads us to believe that school counselors and K-12 teachers havesimilar perceptions of engineering. Therefore, the same content that is used in

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Teaching Mechanics of Materials and General Mechanics Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Henry Christiansen, Brigham Young University; Steven Benzley, Brigham Young University; Spencer Guthrie, Brigham Young Univeristy; Gaurab Paudel, Brigham Young University

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Mechanics

integral portion of lower division engineering curricula for Civil, Mechanical, andManufacturing Engineering. These courses are crucial in the engineering education process forthese disciplines because they introduce students to the engineering approach in problem solving,provide basic principles that are used in following courses, and let lower division studentsrecognize if they are equipped for an engineering curricula. In addition, many questions for theFundamentals of Engineering exam have their roots in these courses.Providing the proper teaching environment for these courses is a challenge for faculty anddepartment administrations because a) there are numerous students that must be accommodated,b) the students deserve a quality experience to

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Multidisciplinary Design Constituents

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elif Kongar; Jani Pallis; Tarek Sobh

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

compares similar entities, i.e.,decision making units (DMUs), against the “best virtual decision making unit”. Due to variousadvantages and ease in its use, DEA has been employed extensively in various areas, such as healthcare, education, banking, manufacturing, and management.One of the relevant studies is published by Johnson and Zhu1. In their work, the authors employedDEA to select the most promising candidates to fill an open faculty position. DEA has also beenutilized extensively in the environmental arena. To this extent, Sarkis2 proposed a two-stagemethodology to integrate managerial preferences and environmentally conscious manufacturing(ECM) programs. Subsequently, Sarkis and Cordeiro3 investigated the relationship betweenenvironmental

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ASCE Policy 465: Raising the Bar

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Civil Engineering

, and others, interested in engineering educational reform. 2. Investigating and documenting how programs are incorporating the formal educational components of the first edition of the Body of Knowledge into their curriculum. Compiling best practices on how programs fulfill the formal education requirements of the BOK1. 3. Investigating and documenting how programs are incorporating and/or can incorporate the formal educational components of the second edition of the Body of Knowledge into their curriculum. 4. Disseminating their findings through appropriate forums including the preparation of written reports suitable for publication to the BOK (regardless of version).It is anticipated that they

Conference Session

Modern Software Measurement Techniques

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Saleh Sbenaty, Middle Tennessee State University; Stan Mitchell, LogicForce Consulting, LLC; Hugh Berryman, Middle Tennessee State University

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Instrumentation

“electronic autopsy” of a digital media, becausespecialized training and hardware/software tools and techniques are all required to make an exactimage/copy of the drive. The retrieved data is then analyzed along with the various levels atwhich that data is stored.2. Computer CrimesComputers and digital media have become integral parts of our lives. In 1997, the US Censusestimated that only about 18% of households in the US had computers. In 2000, this numbergrew to 51% with 42% of those households having Internet access. In 2003, the number hasincreased to 62% of households with 52% having Internet access. Currently, almost 90% ofhouseholds in the US have computers. Therefore, crimes committed on computers are no longerlimited to skinny guys with

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Learning about Power Systems and Power Consumption

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carl Spezia, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

deliverchallenging and technically relevant capstone design courses.Finding relevant industrial power systems design and energy management projects is particularlyimportant for two reasons. In the past fifteen years, the electric power industry underwent aneconomic restructuring that reduced the number of employed engineers. Engineering schools de-emphasized or eliminated power systems curriculum in response to reduced industrial demand.The electric power industry now faces an aging engineering workforce with a large number ofindividuals near retirement.5 The current electric power engineering workforce must transferpractical knowledge to students and novice engineers before leaving the workforce so that thepower grid can grow reliably.Volatile electricity

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“And Other Duties as Assigned”

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Megan Sapp Nelson, Purdue University

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Engineering Libraries

imperative that there is buy-in throughout the organization for a successful marketing plan tobe implemented.13Librarians have been implementing marketing approaches in increasingly systematic ways. Inrecent years, several libraries have attempted to integrate marketing into library work flows.Hallmark Kennedy et al. provided a brief overview of the development and implementation of amarketing plan in an academic library. The resulting plan included a separate budget of $10,000to carry out activities to market the library.7 Conley and Tucker described the process of creatinga marketing plan beginning from a strategic plan and presented tools that may be helpful to thepractice of marketing in an academic library.8Other libraries have approached

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Andrew Grossfield

were mandated in engineering design andproblem solving.During the 1960’s, as a young engineer in graduate school, I saw many teaching mathematiciansdistrusted and disparaged graphs and visual techniques. Their conventional view was thatmathematical theorems could not be proved with pictures and so visualizations were dangerous.The fears of mathematicians, the constructions of Cantor and Dedekind, were rarely confrontedby engineering students who needed to become more familiar with continuous and smoothfunctions. I tried to rely on Russian books1, which were more likely to contain pictures and bedescriptive, to gain mathematical insight. I do not believe that my fellow math majorsconfronted the questions that were in my mind as an engineer. By

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Engineering and Mathematics Potpourri

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Grossfield, Vaughn College of Aeronautics

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Mathematics

AC 2009-700: VISUAL ANALYSIS AND THE COMPOSITION OF FUNCTIONSAndrew Grossfield, Vaughn College of Aeronautics Throughout his career Dr. Grossfield has combined an interest in engineering design and mathematics. He studied Electrical Engineering at the City College of New York, graduating with a BSEE. During the sixties, he attended the NYU Courant Institute at night, obtaining an M.S. degree in mathematics, while designing circuitry full time during the day for aerospace/avionics companies. He earned his doctorate studying Continuum Mechanics under the direction of L. M. Milne-Thomson, CBE at The University of Arizona. He is a member of ASEE, IEEE, and MAA. Grossfield@IEEE.org is his email

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Kate Disney; John Krupczak

ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”Technological literacy should be as important to our students as cultural literacy. A foundationof technological literacy not only helps explain the workings of technology but illustrates howfully integrated technology is into the fabric of society.Technological literacy courses can serve as an educational bridge between the liberal arts andengineering. Samuel Florman 3 called for educational bridges to provide a route for engineers toaccess the arts. In the case of technological literacy courses, they are the bridge that gives thenon-science student access to engineering and technology.Types of Technological Literacy coursesEngineering departments on

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Case Studies and Engineering Education Around the Globe / International Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anatoliy Protasov, National Technical University of Ukraine “KPI”

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International

bachelor studies such different subjects as Ultrasonic, Electromagnetic, Optical,Thermal, and other Methods of Testing during four years. In order to form necessary systemof knowledge and skills (see Fig. 2), connect fundamental and applied knowledge, we bringinto the curriculum a series of integrated subjects (see Appendix A). For example, they areNDT Systems, Microcontrollers in NDT Systems, Scanner Designing for NDT Systems, andothers. The content of these subjects helps students to find common features of the differenttesting methods compare and determine preference and disadvantage each of them, and findthe most appropriate field for application.In order to form students’ creative thinking we apply following system. The first-yearstudents get