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2010 Northeast Section Meeting

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. Riddell, Paris R. von Lockette, Gerard J. Tigue, Jeremy M. Zee Departments of Civil and Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, Rowan UniversitySession III 14 – 15:15 P.M.Session III.A. AEC 306 – Integration of teaching and researchIII.A.1. Implementing a Histogram Equalization Algorithm in VHDL Stephanie Parker, J. Kemi Ladeji-Osias, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Morgan State UniversityIII.A.2. Relating the Increasing Scarcity of Mineral-Based Materials to the Materials Science Curriculum Jim McGuffin-Cawley, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve UniversityIII.A.3. Video Stabilization and Motion Detection Paterne Sissinto, Morgan State Univeristy

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Measurement Innovation

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

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Instrumentation

that deal with this emerging technology orthe modification of existing programs to meet the need for qualified individuals to support thisnew area and to also educate the end users of systems that employ it. The skill sets needed willbe interdisciplinary by today’s curriculum standards and certainly should be system centric andnot device centric in this era of system-on-a-chip (SoC) electronics technology. Faculty from thevarious legacy technology areas previously mentioned will need to work together to achievecommon goals in workforce development. An education summit of government, industry, andacademia stakeholders would be a good starting point in the development of any new curriculaand certifications. The National Science Foundation’s

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High School Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Todd Kaiser, Montana State University; Peggy Taylor, Montana State University; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Howard Tenenbaum, La Jolla High School, San Diego Unified School District; Seth Hodges, St. Michael Indian School, St. Michaels, AZ

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2010-478: INSPIRING FUTURE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS THROUGHSCIENCE TEACHERSTodd Kaiser, Montana State University Todd J. Kaiser is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Montana State University. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, a M.S. in Physics from Oregon State University and a B.S. in Physics from Montana State University. His current focus areas include microfabricated sensors and actuators.Peggy Taylor, Montana State University Peggy Taylor, Ed.D., is the Director of the Master of Science in Science Education (MSSE) program at Montana State University. As director of the program, Taylor recruits and advises

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Chemical Engineering Education: Upperclass Years

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Bullard, North Carolina State University; David Ollis, North Carolina State University

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Chemical Engineering

development in chemical engineering at a large publicuniversity. The topical content which has been developed may also be used “À la carte” forincorporating elements into existing engineering courses if there is not room in the curriculumfor an integrated course of this type. The complete course content, including the syllabus,subject matter presentations, assignments, and relevant links, is available on a public web sitefor use by engineering instructors: (www.courses.ncsu.edu/che395). Course evaluationsindicate that students assign high values to this required seminar.IntroductionEngineering departments employ different strategies for introducing soft skills such as writing,oral presentation, teamwork, information literacy, and ethics. A frequently

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Conceptual Learning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Morris Girgis, Central State University

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Educational Research and Methods

tools including the taxonomy, the CPI, and the assessment rubric. The paperoffers an integrated approach to develop and enhance the student’s concept and procedural skillsby utilizing the presented tools. The approach is iterative and requires flexibility and adjustmentwhile using these tools to best prepare and advance the classroom environment.I. IntroductionOne of the pressing challenges facing engineering educators is teaching students the engineeringconcepts while enhancing their problem-solving competencies. It has been observed thatstudents who are able to identify basic concepts and possess conceptual knowledge may stillstruggle to solve multi-concept or multi-disciplinary problems. In addition, professors mayunderestimate the

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Timothy B. Whitmoyer; David T. Vader; Joel Z. Bandstra; William H.J. Strosnider

to aid current and future project participants. These practices become internalized habits, not just a concession to faculty demands. 3. The Integrated Projects Curriculum alleviates the discontinuity caused by graduation. While the Modified Rower Pump project invariably experiences lulls after losing experienced members to graduation, the down time is reduced with the IPC project structure due to vertical integration and improved documentation practices.Endnotes and Bibliography1. SIM (Serving in Mission) is an organization committed to meeting the spiritual and physical needs ofdisadvantaged peoples. http://www.sim.org/index.php/content/our-purpose provides a more detailed description ofthis organization’s

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2010 Northeast Section Meeting

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Timothy B. Whitmoyer; David T. Vader

to aid current and future project participants. These practices become internalized habits, not just a concession to faculty demands. 3. The Integrated Projects Curriculum alleviates the discontinuity caused by graduation. While the Modified Rower Pump project invariably experiences lulls after losing experienced members to graduation, the down time is reduced with the IPC project structure due to vertical integration and improved documentation practices.Endnotes and Bibliography1. SIM (Serving in Mission) is an organization committed to meeting the spiritual and physical needs ofdisadvantaged peoples. http://www.sim.org/index.php/content/our-purpose provides a more detailed description ofthis organization’s

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International Study Abroad Programs & Student Engagements

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joerg Mossbrucker, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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International

AC 2010-1075: THE PERFORMANCE OF U.S. EXCHANGE STUDENTS ABROAD,A LONGITUDINAL STUDYJoerg Mossbrucker, Milwaukee School of Engineering Page 15.1250.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 The Performance of U.S. Exchange Students Abroad, A Longitudinal StudyAbstractThe Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) and the University of Applied Sciences Lübeck/Germany (FHL) have a well-established, dual-accredited, bi-directional exchange program inElectrical Engineering that is completely integrated into the curricula of both institutions. Thebasic layout of this tuition-neutral exchange program is shown in Figure 1. MSOE and

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Andrew Grossfield P.E.

a limit of sequences of rational numbers, the student is in no position to understandany derivations regarding limits. A student who has just been introduced to the word, limit, issimply in no position to appreciate limits of difference quotients. The limit of the differencequotient is just a method of obtaining the value of the slope, not the derivative itself. There ismuch to be learned about curves with such an approach without belaboring the difficultiesinherent in limit processes. The integral of a positive piecewise monotonic function should bedefined as the area under the curve and again the limiting process should be viewed as just amethod of obtaining the value.All references to the concepts and perplexities of the 19th century

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Administering First-Year Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gretchen Hein, Michigan Technological University; Amber Kemppainen, Michigan Technological University; Susan Amato-Henderson, Michigan Technological University; Jason Keith, Michigan Technological University; Melissa Roberts, Michigan Technological University

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First-Year Programs

education. At Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech),we had three different groups (faculty, graduate students and upper level undergraduate students)develop design activities. These activities were developed for the ENG1001/1100 coursesequence for first-year students who were enrolled in pre-calculus as their first math course atMichigan Tech as part of an NSF CCLI Phase 1 grant (DUE: 0836861). All groups developedengineering activities that included a: Design/Model/Build sequence, Matlab mathematicalmodel, spreadsheet analyses, and technical communication of their activities. For thecomponents listed previously, lectures and class activities, project description and deliverablesand example Matlab codes were developed for the

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Andrea Baruzzi; Theresa M Calcagno

instill a desire for lifelong learning ensuring they will be valuedemployees and citizens in the future. Incorporating information literacy skills into a curriculumor specific course, in an organized manner, is difficult. The ABET standards for informationliteracy highlight the importance of including this instruction in the engineering curriculum. Atnumerous institutions, the individual instructor determines how and when this is accomplished.For many instructors, there is not enough time in the academic calendar to do all that is required.Consequently, information literacy skills maybe mentioned in passing or completely eliminatedto make room for other topics in the syllabus. Academic libraries have developed tools to helpstudents learn basic

Conference Session

Materials Selection & Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Olshefsky, ASTM International

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Materials

meet criteria outlined by the code body.Standards must be developed through a consensus process and be written in mandatory languageto insure that the application and intent of a standard is clear. The resulting referenced standardsare considered part of the requirements of the code. Page 15.1087.4Best Practices for Integration of Standards Education in CurriculaABET, Inc., formerly known as The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, setsengineering accreditation requirements for the incorporation of standards in engineeringcurricula: “Students must be prepared for engineering practice through a curriculum culminatingin a major

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Leadership and Strategic Planning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cynthia Fry, Baylor University; Gregory Leman, Baylor University; William Jordan, Baylor University; Brian Garner, Baylor University; Brian Thomas, Baylor University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

ProgramBaylor University was awarded a $50,000 grant from the Kern Family Foundation in July 2008,and became a member of the Kern Entrepreneurial Education Network (KEEN). The grant wasto extend the work done in integrating entrepreneurship with engineering & computer science inthree specific ways: 1. Implementation of an intense hands-on, coached learning classroom style to accelerate skill acquisition and demonstration (the SuperCoach® curriculum) in the existing two- course sequence; 2. Creation of a KEEN Innovators program to assist faculty in embedding entrepreneurial content into their engineering and computer science courses; and 3. Formalizing a Technology Entrepreneurship (TE) certificate for engineers and

Conference Session

DELOS Best Paper Nominations

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Satterfield, National Institute of Standards and Technology; Susan Heller-Zeisler, National Institute of Standards and Technology

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

NISTSummer Institute provides to each teacher a LabQuest and sensors for measuring temperature,magnetic field strength, pH, motion, force, gas pressure, heart rate, and electrical conductivity.The LabQuest is currently integrated into several of the NIST Summer Institute activitiesincluding thermometry and diffraction and there is an ongoing effort to encourage scientists todevelop activities using the LabQuest and probes, with loans made to scientists for this purpose.Scientists are eager to investigate use of the LabQuest and probes for their own edification andalso because as befits people in their career field they enjoy learning new things. The NISTscientists and engineers who participate in the NIST Summer Institute are also eager to sharehow

Conference Session

Innovative Instructional Strategies and Curricula

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Schmeelk, Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Branch; Jean Hodges, Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Branch

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Mathematics

organization that manages Education City, among other projects. Initiallysupervised solely by Qatar Foundation, VCUQatar began in 1998 as Shaqab College of DesignArt, but in 2002 the school became an official branch campus of VCUR, began to operate morefully under its direction, and was officially renamed Virginia Commonwealth University inQatar.VCUQatar’s approximately 200 students come not only from Qatar but from all over the world.Regardless of their nationality, all must study in English because the country’s rulers recognizeEnglish as the lingua franca of global business.VCUQatar undergraduates may major in Fashion Design, Graphic Design, Interior Design, orPainting and Printmaking. The curriculum imposes specified Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kevin Dahm

subsequently outlinedstrategies for writing instructional objectives for courses and pedagogical strategies fordelivering courses that were consistent with meeting the ABET A-K criteria.5This paper presents an example of a programmatic assessment strategy that integrates thecourse and program levels as follows:1) Identify courses that offer a culminating experience in the curriculum2) Identify essential elements for each of these courses3) Prepare grading rubrics that evaluate student achievement with respect to each element4) Map the elements of the courses to the programmatic objectives; verify that eachprogrammatic objective is well represented5) Evaluate student design reports and final presentations using the grading rubrics6) Use the data

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Outstanding Contributions - Mechanical Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Willis, Southern Methodist University; Paul Krueger, Southern Methodist University; Alice Kendrick, Southern Methodist University

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2010-1721: PERCEPTIONS, EXPECTATIONS AND OUTCOMES OF THETHIRD YEAR OF A RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR UNDERGRADUATESPROGRAMDavid Willis, Southern Methodist University David A. Willis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Southern Methodist University (SMU). He received his B.S. degree from North Carolina State University in 1995 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University in 1997 and 2001, respectively. His areas of research interests are heat transfer, phase change, and fluid mechanics problems associated with short pulse laser-material interactions. His research involves experimental studies of laser microfabrication, high power laser-ablation, laser

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Faculty, and Profession

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tershia Pinder-Grover, University of Michigan; Chris Groscurth, University of Michigan

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Educational Research and Methods

line-by-line reading ofparticipant comments, where each comment is compared to similar comments. This stage isexploratory and reflexive rather than linear. During open coding data are sorted (and resorted)and individual participants’ comments are contrasted against one another. Each author engagedin open coding independently to get a “feel” for the data, after which time we met to discusstentative themes observed in the transcripts. This process produced an initial set ofapproximately 10 codes or themes (Table 2).The second stage of our analysis involved axial coding.22 According to Ezzy (2002), “the aim ofaxial coding is to integrate codes around the axes of central categories” (p. 91).22 During axialcoding less-central codes are integrated

Conference Session

Mentoring & Outreach for Girls & Minorities

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patricia Backer, San Jose State University; Belle Wei, San Jose State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

undermined by amyriad of additional non-cost-related sociocultural factors”.9 Therefore, a way to expandparticipation by Hispanic students is to allow them to pursue personally rewarding, group valuedinterests while providing them with a rich and dense social support network. We includedcomprehensive student mentoring as an integral part of the HCB initiative to draw the highschool students into both the university and the technology communities.Several studies10 11 12 show that Hispanics generally have greater intrinsic motivation orunderlying interests in social and relational issues. That is, they could be attracted to computingif it was presented in a social context as a means to solve “community problems” that were

Conference Session

Historical Perspectives for Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education

. Boelter rose to the position of Associate Dean by1943. The earliest proposal to offer an engineering curriculum at the Los Angeles campus datedback to 1937, but it was only in the context of war preparedness that the University of CaliforniaRegents finally authorized an engineering degree program in 1941, initially in industrialtechnology. It was through direct legislative intervention, as backed by a special appropriation aswell as through the vocal support of a UCLA alumni organization, that UC President RobertGordon Sproul was compelled to open a new College of Engineering at UCLA in 1944. Involvedin the planning process, Boelter placed himself in the candidate pool for the deanship.11Boelter is generally credited with pioneering a unified

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanics of Materials & General Mechanics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ganapathy Narayanan, The University of Toledo

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Mechanics

4initially for a new learner to appreciate the difficult random concepts, but whenthe student comes in touch with randomness in other aspects of life, the studentwould be prepared well to deal with the randomness issue in solving theengineering problem rather than brush it aside, due to ignorance, by not dealingwith randomness in any quantity or with any random analysis.For completeness, an attempt is made to discuss briefly the subject materials thatwould be appropriate as an extension to the Probability and Statistics taught in theundergraduate curriculum. Of course, the author tries to be coherent in thepresentation. More details of these random topics in this paper can be found inmany references2,6-8.This paper discusses first the basic

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Arthur D. Kney P.E.; Nancy Ball; Traci Shoemaker; Danuta Bukatko; Angela Moran; Joe Colosi

interest in technology. However,Butler11 noted that students between kindergarten and fifth grade start to develop a gender-basedtechnology gap which peaks at the eighth-grade level; females lose interest in technology asreflected in their levels of computer usage. Similarly, Cady and Terrell12 found that girls asyoung as 10 years old began to have negative self-attitudes with regard to computers andtechnology. However, by incorporating technology in the science curriculum, the girlsdeveloped higher levels of confidence in their ability to use technology and also raised their viewof the importance of using technology. Finally, Sun, Lin, and Yu13 found that the integration oftechnology into the science curriculum had a very positive impact on all

Conference Session

New Learning Paradigms I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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Educational Research and Methods

are identified and corrected. Using procedures such as informalcooperative learning guarantees that students have been exposed to some active and interactive Page 15.919.6methods prior to engaging in PBL.B. Infusing PBL in the Curriculum: There are several strategies that may be utilized to infusePBL in an engineering curriculum. The selected strategy depends upon: 1) the commitment ofthe institution, as a whole, to the process of deploying active learning schemes in general, andPBL in particular, 2) the readiness of the teaching staff, and 3) available recourses, facilities, andsupport services. Table 1 illustrates three approaches to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brock LaMeres, Montana State University; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Fred Cady, (Retired) Montana State University

Page 15.689.3physically located on campus.In order to evaluate whether including measurement-based microprocessor laboratory experienceis worth the cost and development time, a baseline assessment must be made on a control groupof students who do not have access to the test equipment. In this project, we developedassessment tools that were used to collect data on a set of five learning objectives on a controlgroup of students during the fall of 2009. Our interventions (the use of a logic analyzer) will beimplemented in the curriculum in fall of 2010 in an attempt to improve the student learningrelated to the learning objectives. The same assessment tools will be used on the subsequentcohorts of students in order to measure the impact of the

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

William Jemison; Christopher Nadovich

requirements that comprise both technical and non-technical constraints. They are given this document on the first day of class andare expected to demonstrate and deliver a working system that meets itsrequirements by the last day of class – a mere fourteen workweeks later.In our model of a real world work arrangement, students are required to work as ateam to perform system architecture tradeoffs, develop a schedule, and organizeinto sub-groups for design and project management. They are required to conducta design review with an outside group of industry engineers. Finally, they arerequired to procure parts, build and test subsystems, integrate everything into asystem, and demonstrate compliance with the SOW in a final acceptance test

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2010 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

William D. Jemison; Christopher T. Nadovich

requirements that comprise both technical and non-technical constraints. They are given this document on the first day of class andare expected to demonstrate and deliver a working system that meets itsrequirements by the last day of class – a mere fourteen workweeks later.In our model of a real world work arrangement, students are required to work as ateam to perform system architecture tradeoffs, develop a schedule, and organizeinto sub-groups for design and project management. They are required to conducta design review with an outside group of industry engineers. Finally, they arerequired to procure parts, build and test subsystems, integrate everything into asystem, and demonstrate compliance with the SOW in a final acceptance test

Conference Session

New Learning Paradigms II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ming-Chien Hsu, Purdue University; Monica Cardella, Purdue University; Senay Purzer, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods

received a Ph.D. and a M.A in Science Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction from Arizona State University. Her creative research focuses on collaborative learning, design & decision-making, and the role of engineering self-efficacy on student achievement. Page 15.200.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Development of an Instrument to Assess Elementary Teachers’ Design Process Knowledge: Findings from a Pilot TestAbstractAs more states are adding engineering to their teaching and learning standards, teacherprofessional development activities are necessary to foster

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2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Ramesh K. Agarwal

environmental issues are critical capacity constraints and business risk and therefore must be included in expansion as well as new airport designs• Planning for long term (+30years)• Infrastructure development should include environmental costs and lifecycle costs• Strategy towards carbon neutrality• Securing adequate land for future development• Effective land use planning of the area around the airports• Airport and its service partners must adopt an integrated approach• Multi-stakeholder corporate responsibility program• Active investment in surrounding communitiesAerospace Courses at WUSTL• Aerospace Minor MEMS 2701 – Introduction to Aerospace Vehicles MEMS 5700 - Aerodynamics MEMS 5701 – Aerospace Propulsion MEMS 4302 – Aircraft Stability and

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International Initiatives, Partnerships,Teaching Strategies, and Collaborative Networks

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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International

AC 2010-2104: A MULTINATIONAL 1+2+1 ELECTRICAL ENGINEERINGPROGRAMEsteban Rodriguez-Marek, Eastern Washington University ESTEBAN RODRIGUEZ-MAREK is an Associate Professor in the department of Engineering and Design at Eastern Washington University. He did his graduate work in Electrical Engineering at Washington State University. He worked as a research scientist at Fast Search & Transfer before transferring to the Department of Engineering & Design at Eastern Washington University. His interests include image and video processing, communication systems, digital signal processing, and cryptographic theory and applications.Min-Sung Koh, Eastern Washington University MIN-SUNG KOH

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Technological Literacy and K-12 Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vaneshette Henderson, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Kelly Rusch, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Brenda Nixon, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Warren Waggenspack, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

kit included an oil pump, solar cell, solar vehicle, crane, rotating swing, wind power system Page 15.66.8 and water turbine. Kathy Moise, pictured right in Figure 5, discuss implementing program strategies into her curriculum. “The program was excellent! I enjoyed meeting math/science educators from around the Louisiana. We are implementing the engineering design process in both our junior high and high school science classes this year. We look forward to introducing our students to the amazing field of engineering.”• Bioengineering – Rehabilitation Engineering – Figure 5. Kathy Moise and Jesse The