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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Sarosh Patel; Khaled Elleithy

infrastructure networks. Most protocols in place suffer from low quality of service and overload the network with a large percentage ofoverhead (control data) when compared to the data packets. Any improvement in the routing protocol should be anextendible architecture to support high number of mobile units and at the same time ensure a good quality of service. Mobile routing protocols have been attracting the attention of a major section of the research community as isevident from the large number of ongoing projects at various universities and institutions on this topic. Numerousachitectures have been proposed such as the ExScal project in OSU [1], the Terminodes project in Switzerland [2],and the Roofnet project at MIT [3], the Waypoint Routing

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Imin Kao

lecture notes. With the availability of tablet PC and many software, making a podcast is nolonger a difficult task. The training and teaching of the usage of the technology is alsoimportant, not just for the instructors but also for the students if they are required to producepodcasting projects as part of their learning experience. 32.3 Sound Pedagogy and AssessmentTechnology is only a means to deliver the contents, and should not replace sound pedagogywhich is the fundamental rubric. Pedagogy which promotes active learning using suchtechnology can enhance the learning experience of students. It is the author’s experience thatstudents of this generation, who are savvy in learning and using new

Conference Session

Computer Education Management Tools I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sabina Jeschke, University of Stuttgart; Olivier Pfeiffer, Technische Universitaet Berlin; Thomas Richter, University of Stuttgart

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

University of Stuttgart. Additionally, she holds a co-professorship at the TU Berlin, in particular targeted towards the co-ordination of the design of new curricula in technology-oriented studies and the coordination of several eLearning and eResearch projects.Olivier Pfeiffer, Technische Universitaet Berlin Olivier Pfeiffer received his M.Sc. in Mathematics at the Berlin University of Technology in 2002. His thesis in numerical mathematics investigated “Error Control using Adaptive Methods for Elliptic Control Problems in Matlab”. He has been working in several eLearning projects at the TU Berlin, beginning as a student assistant in the Mumie project - a platform using new

Conference Session

Applications of Engineering Economy

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Robertson, Arizona State University; Michael Kozicki, Arizona State University; Slobodan Petrovic, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

success and the vulnerability to a weakness in any one of them. It is a useful framework for student projects where some reasoned case has to be made for the likely evolution path.Many parties have an interest in making objective assessments of the possible success ofemerging technologies - from investors to students pondering their career direction. Tomake the task more tractable, cases that are judged individually on merit have beenexcluded. This avoids the minefield of research project funding, venture capital andpeer-reviewed publications. Instead, this paper concentrates on cases where there is nosingle project advocate. The goal is to determine the maturity state and intrinsic merits ofan emerging technology rather than

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Friauf, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Stephen Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Steven Reyer, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

students experience in both team and individual communicationcovering a wide range of styles. The assignments naturally serve to propel the project, but alsoinvolve and demonstrate important aspects of team cooperation and lifelong learning. The intentis to assure personal and professional growth on the part of the students as engineers, teamplayers, and societal members, in conformance to the program outcomes and to enhance theirfuture success as prescribed by the program objectives.Our writing communication requirements have been developed over many years of teachinghundreds of senior electrical engineering students. The normal expectations of three major teamreports are guided by specific clearly communicated content and style requirements. But

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fred Cady, (Retired) Montana State University; John McLellan, Freescale Semiconductor

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

upcoming generations of engineers in a cooperative learning environment.First, we will discuss the adoption of a teaching methodology which spurs creative, scientific,and collaborative thinking. Initial care has been taken to re-think the way we write coursematerials so that they are more easily adapted to the changes in technology. With this approachwe are able to encapsulate the fundamental information and quickly and easily apply to the latesthardware.Next, we will show how the Freescale Student Learning Kits embrace an adaptive, modular and Page 13.1014.2reusable teaching platform. Modular hardware boards (Application Modules), a project board

Conference Session

Institutional and Curricular Reform

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Gardner, Boise State University; Pat Pyke, Boise State University; Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University; Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Amy Moll, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Boise State University. She oversees projects in freshman programs, math support, mentoring, outreach, and women’s programs. She earned a B.S.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Duke University and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley.Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University Cheryl B. Schrader is Dean of the College of Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boise State University. Dean Schrader has an extensive record of publications and sponsored research in the systems, control and engineering education fields. She received the 2005 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Engineering and Mathematics

Conference Session

Emerging Issues in Engineering Education Research and Pedagogy

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Walden, University of Oklahoma; Cindy Foor, University of Oklahoma; Deborah Trytten, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

an open-ended interview protocol to allowstudents to tell us their stories in their own words. An optimal team for accomplishing thisresearch would need to include a cultural anthropologist who would be familiar withethnographic interview-based research and socio-cultural theoretical frameworks. We expect thatother kinds of social scientists would provide similar benefits to research projects with othergoals, as has been suggested by others [1, 20].When the STEM practitioners that dominated the initial group integrated social scientists intoRISE, we blithely assumed that the social scientists would be assimilated into the existing STEMresearch culture. We’d all share calendars using Outlook, track changes in Word documents, and

Conference Session

Enhancing Mechanics Instruction

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phillip Cornwell, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Mechanics

Instrumented hammer Figure 2. Vibrations kits used in lab Page 13.1382.4Brief descriptions of the current laboratories are shown in Table 1. From Table 1 it can be seenthat these laboratories can be grouped into four different categories: Introductory lab, ECP labs,PHOTON and DIAMOND labs, and project work time. Table 1 – Description of laboratory activities in Mechanical Vibrations Week Brief description of lab activities ‚ Load RT Pro software on laptops (for data acquisition and signal processing) ‚ Load DIAMOND12-13 (for curve fitting and mode shape animation) 1

Conference Session

LabVIEW and Mindstorms Based Experiments

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joel Dillon, United States Military Academy; Jose Salinas, United States Military Academy

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

science and other non-engineering degree programs. Theeffectiveness of the course at inspiring this somewhat reluctant student population to getexcited about applying engineering principles and problem-solving techniques isprimarily due to a syllabus that is structured around three engineering design projects, orEDPs. These projects, which become progressively more complex throughout thesemester, require students to take taught theory out of the classroom and apply it to thedesign of mechanical systems. Observations and data collected over the course of theprevious three years, to include direct student feedback and an analysis of embeddedlearning indicators, indicates that these design projects promote effective learning indirect proportion to

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

approach utilized various means of teaching mechanisms, consequently addressingvarious types of learners. These means, presented in the following sequence, were:1. Study of theory of machines including kinematics and dynamics22. Observation of working mechanisms and computer animations3. Reverse engineering of mechanisms found in animated toys4. Assembly and successful operation of commercially available automata kits5. An open-ended design project where a group of students had to design and build automata.During the course, students learned the theory governing mechanisms and their uses inthe real-world. The students followed a practical path to learn about joint, element, andmechanism types as well as functions of joints and

Conference Session

Assessment Issues in Environmental Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Bower, The Citadel; William Davis, The Citadel

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

onABET criteria to institute a Body of Knowledge (BOK) for civil engineering graduates.The ASCE-BOK [1] promulgates a wide variety of academic ideas and philosophies,including use of 15 program outcomes comprised of the eleven contained in ABETCriteria 3 a-k, and four additional outcomes on specialized areas of civil engineering;project management, construction, and asset management; business and public policy;and leadership. Table 1 includes a list of all 15 program outcome criteria identifying bothABET and corresponding ASCE-BOK designations. For the purposes of this paper,program outcome criteria will be referenced based on ASCE-BOK designations (1-15).In addition to program outcomes, ASCE-BOK promotes adoption of six levels ofBloom’s

Conference Session

Focus on IE Course Design and Assessment

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Judith Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology; Paul Griffin, Georgia Tech; Garlie Forehand, Georgia Tech

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Industrial Engineering

skills has beenintegrated into the Stewart School of ISyE at Georgia Tech Capstone Design course since2002[15]. The course involves student teams working on real-life design projects with for-profitcorporations, non-profits, health care organizations and government agencies. Students give sixpresentations during the course. The proposal presentation, interim presentation, and finalpresentation are each given to the Faculty Committee and class and to the client.ApproachThe presentation instruction is unique in its stress on information about communication collecteddirectly from people in the workforce: practicing industrial engineers, managers, and seniorexecutives of organizations employing many IEs. The interview process is described in

Conference Session

Engineering Education in the Mid-East / Asia

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rajeswari Sundararajan, College of Technology - Purdue University; Daniel Dangelo, Intel; kishore N.K., IIT Karagpur; Haritha Mogilisetti, Intel; Sundhasarath Somasundaram, Valliammai College of Engineering; umadevi S., highways; Robert Nowlin, retired

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International

grasping of the young, well-educated, andflexible engineering students of both genders. Since “business as usual” doesn’t work anymore,the curricula are kept current and up-to-date. Topics such as mechatronics, bioinformatics arecovered to meet the competition and challenges posed by outsourcing and globalization. Theimportance of soft skills, such as project management skills, IT, and good communication skillsin addition to the basic sciences, engineering sciences and in-depth skills in a specificengineering discipline has been realized and implemented in the curricula. In this paper, thecontemporary curricula in EE at Indian Universities will be investigated and compared to pre-outsourcing curricula. The merits of these curricula and areas for

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Yeary, University of Oklahoma; Robert Palmer, University of Oklahoma; Kevin Kloesel, University of Oklahoma; Tian Yu, University of Oklahoma; Kent Johnson, University of Oklahoma; Mike Biggerstaff, University of Oklahoma; Phil Chilson, University of Oklahoma; Guifu Zhang, University of Oklahoma

papers. Prior to joining OU, Dr. Zhang was a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Page 13.89.2© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 A Progress Report on a Hands-On Interdisciplinary Program for Severe Weather and Next-Generation Multi-Function Radar Through the team’s community of scholars, this paper describes the pedagogical detailsof an on-going NSF Department of Undergraduate Education (DUE) project that com-menced in the fall 2004 semester. Fostering deep learning, this multi-year project offersa new active-learning and hands-on laboratory program that is

Conference Session

Research Infrastructure in STEM Disciplines

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacqueline Fairley, Georgia Institute of Tehnology; Jill Auerbach, Georgia Institute of Technology; Adrianne Prysock, Georgia Institute of Technology; Leyla Conrad, Georgia Institute of Technology; Gary May, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

• Lodging, meals and a travel allowance for student participants • Local industrial research site visits • Oral and written research project summaries prepared by the student participants • Social interaction between the student participants and their graduate mentors • Program evaluation by the student participants This knowledge-base provides information regarding the program time constraints(ten weeks), research support network (faculty advisor and graduate student mentor),academic enrichment (weekly emerging research seminars), student participantaccommodations (stipend, meals, lodging, and travel allowance), professional enrichment(industry visits), requirements (oral and written research project summary), andassessment

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Papadopoulos; Andrew Hable, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

demonstrated, these fractions of overall disciplinaryeffort can be construed to underestimate the actual numbers of engineers who work ondefense-related projects. With respect to research efforts, based on data from theNational Science Foundation, about 50% of federally supported research in engineering isdefense-related, far higher than for most other disciplines.A variety of ethical questions surround the engineer’s participation in military or defense-related work. But despite this, and despite the historically strong and persistingassociation between engineering and the military, surprisingly little attention is paid toquestions of military, defense, or weapons research and development in engineeringethics literature. We surveyed several

Conference Session

Two Year College Tech Session I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Ernest, Western Kentucky University; Jana Fattic, Western Kentucky University; Sherry Reid, Western Kentucky University; Alan Cranford, Murfreesboro Water & Sewer Department

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Two Year College Division

AC 2008-2258: AN INTEGRATED SYSTEMIC APPROACH TO DEVELOPING APROFESSIONAL WATER AND WASTEWATER WORKFORCE: ETD IT/IETINTEREST GROUPAndrew Ernest, Western Kentucky University Dr. Ernest has over 16 years of professional experience with progressively increasing management responsibility. He has managed a variety of organizational units with varying missions, encompassing academic, revenue-driven, research and service activities. He has supervised, students, faculty, administrative and technical staff, and sub-contractors, in a wide range of organizational groups, and directed the research of over 40 M.S. and Ph.D. students. Dr. Ernest has managed over $12M in projects, coordinated and served as prime

Conference Session

Research Infrastructure in STEM Disciplines

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Miguel Labrador, University of South Florida; Cesar Guerrero, University of South Florida; Rafael Perez, University of South Florida

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

. Instead, it is fairly open, givingstudents a broad range of research project options in Computer Science and Engineering. Forexample, research projects in robotics, computer networks, transportation, computer architecture,data mining, artificial intelligence, security, distributed systems, pattern recognition, and digitalimage processing have been included. The second unique aspect is that, based on the statisticspresented above, the commitment was to recruit the majority of the students from the Hispanicminority group, mainly from Florida and Puerto Rico. In addition, the University of SouthFlorida (USF) committed to bringing at least one student from a Latin American country eachyear.Most of the other aspects of the program are fairly standard

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharlene Katz, California State University-Northridge; Robert Alldredge, Allan Hancock College

Hancock College Robert (Bob) Alldredge holds a B.S. degree in electronics from Chapman University and is a full-time instructor at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, California where he has worked and taught for the past thirty-seven years. He also has been involved in the design and manufacture of hardware training apparatus for the nuclear power industry and is a recipient of the NISOD Excellence Award from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a founding member of Project CREATE, serves as its Co-PI and is PI for a three-year NASA-CIPA (NASA Curriculum Improvement Partnership Award) grant. Mr. Alldredge has developed course work and contributed efforts to NSF SpaceTEC’s

Conference Session

Design for Society and the Environment

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Pappas; Ronald Kander, James Madison University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

,engineering educators have been modifying engineering curricula by initiating coursesand projects that foster in their students advanced thinking skills and an understanding ofthe creative process. The educational modes in these "new engineering classrooms" areboth diverse and experimental, crossing disciplines, and involving processes oncereserved for artists and writers. The topography of progressive engineering programsvaries dramatically from university to university, as professors draw inspiration fromnon-traditional sources including the social sciences, philosophy, business, architecture,and art. The future of engineering education and practice is now largely the responsibilityof university programs that must respond flexibly to market

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Research

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Goodarz Ahmadi, Clarkson University; Suresh Dhaniyala, Clarkson University; John Mclaughlin, Clarkson University; Cetin Cetinkaya, Clarkson University; Stephen Doheny-Farina, Clarkson University; Fa-Gung Fan, Xerox Corp.

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Environmental Engineering

, Potsdam, NY, 13699-5725, USA 2 Xerox Corporation, Webster, NY, 14580, USAAbstract Understanding particle transport, deposition and removal are of crucialimportance to many technologies such as microelectronic, imaging and pharmaceuticalindustries. In addition, solving a number of environmental problems requires a detailunderstanding of particle transport processes. In the last decade, significant researchprogress in the areas of particle transport, deposition and removal has been made. In this“combined research and curriculum development” project a sequence of two new courseson particle transport, deposition and removal and re-entrainment was developed and anexisting course was fully revised

Conference Session

BME Courses & Curricular Content

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Cardinal, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

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Biomedical

preclinical and clinical testing, in order to prepare them to succeed in a regulatory-basedenvironment.This is a case-study based course, where cases range from small in-class examples that facilitateactive student engagement in the material, to large cases that span multiple lessons andincorporate out of class assignments and projects. Cases are selected and presented such thatstudents gain insights into the progression and complexities of “real-life” devices, while learningin vitro and in vivo preclinical evaluation techniques, clinical trial guidelines, FDA processes andrequirements, and overall regulatory constraints.IntroductionFDA regulations are a large part of many facets of life in the medical device industry. In rolesranging from business

Conference Session

Engineering in High Schools

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Darryl Morrell, Arizona State University; Chell Roberts, Arizona State University; Dale Baker, Arizona State University; Tirupalavanam Ganesh, Arizona State University; Annapurna Ganesh, Mesa Community College; Rachelle Beard, Arizona State University; Janel White-Taylor, Arizona State University; Neeru Khosla, CK12 Foundation; Murugan Pal, CK12 Foundation; John Kobara, CK12 Foundation; Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Meera Vaidyanathan, CK12 Foundation

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

“seed” textbooksfor the CK12 Foundation; these books are intended to form the nucleus around which communitieswill form that use, extend, and adapt the material.A team of university faculty was assembled to write the book. This team included faculty withexpertise in K–12 STEM from the Mary Lou Fulton College of Education at Arizona State Univer-sity; engineering faculty from the Engineering Department at the Polytechnic campus at ASU; andfaculty from the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering at ASU. Several members of this team hadworked together previously on proposals and funded research projects; the development of a highschool engineering text was a new endeavor for all involved.This paper is a progress report on the development of the

Conference Session

Industry and Engineering Technology Partnerships

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Dobrowski, Purdue University-North Central

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Engineering Technology

there were several other programs that could beused for a template. However, the content of many of the classes was still open for debate andtook considerable time to complete. It was at this time that the author decided to look to industryleaders for some suggestions. The first source was the Department’s own Advisory Committee.This committee was comprised of designers (both architectural and civil), a County BuildingCommissioner, a City Engineer, and a Construction Company President. In addition to this,several “Guest Speaker” utilized in various classes by the author were also consulted. Theseincluded Construction Project Managers, Estimators, Engineers, and the Secretary of a majortrade union. It should be noted that several of the industry

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ian Papautsky, University of Cincinnati; Cathy Maltbie, University of Cincinnati; David Eddington, University of Illinois at Chicago; Ali Asgar Bhagat, University of Cincinnati; Hugo Caicedo, University of Illinois at Chicago

Services Center, CECH, UC. Dr. Maltbie has a combination of educational and industry experience and coordinates projects related to K-16 STEM education and teaches research methods courses.David Eddington, University of Illinois at Chicago Dr. Eddington earned his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He did a postdoctoral fellowship in Tissue Engineering at MIT as an awardee of an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA). From undergraduate research to present, Dr. Eddington has worked with microfluidic systems with diverse applications ranging from recreating the pathophysiology of sickle cell disease on a microfluidic chip to

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Salil Desai, North Carolina A&T State University; Leotis Parrish, North Carolina A&T State University; Marcia Williams, North Carolina A&T State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Undergraduate Research Program based on a minimum GPAof 3.0 (scale of 0 to 4.0) and faculty recommendations. Over the past year this program standardshave risen with average student GPA around 3.3 of 4.0. Students have been selected fromdifferent disciplines including computer, industrial, mechanical, electrical, and chemicalengineering. On an average the cohort size for this program is around 8 students per semester.The intent of choosing an interdisciplinary group is to share their experiences across differentdepartments. Students are recruited primarily on faculty recommendations within respectivedepartments as they work closely with faculty in their research projects.4. Faculty MentoringActive faculty researchers from College of Engineering were

Conference Session

Hardware Descriptive Language Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Han-Way Huang, Minnesota State University-Mankato

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

program execution process. From there, studentslearn to locate the source of errors.Programming style is another area that deserves a lot of attention. By following certainguidelines, many syntax errors can be avoided while at the same time programs becomemore readable and extensible. Students were taught to write reusable code. They weretaught to convert common operations into functions and group them into files so that theycould be included in other projects and be reused.The choice of microcontroller to teach in an embedded system course is also important.There are several microcontroller families with good development tools and demo boardssupport. We have taught the Freescale HCS12, Microchip PIC18, and Silicon LaboratoryC8051 in the embedded

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bevlee Watford, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Catherine Didion, Association for Women in Science; Patricia Paddock, NYC Department of Education; Suzanne Jenniches, Northrop Grumman; Annette Gildea, Gildea Media Group; Katie Gramling, Diamax; Greta Zornes, Tulane University

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Women in Engineering

websites that achieve project and organization objectives.Greta Zornes, Tulane University© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Greta Zornes recently completed her PhD in Environmental Health Sciences at Tulane University in New Orleans. She is active in Engineers Without Borders and is currently involved in a project in the community of Amayo, Nicaragua. Currently a fellow at the National Academy of Engineering, Greta is working with the Diversity in the Engineering Workforce (DEW) program supporting the Engineer Girl and Engineer Your Life projects. Greta is employed as an engineering consultant with CH2M HILL

Conference Session

Two Year College Tech Session II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elaine Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; Joshua Phiri, Florence-Darlington Technical College; Patressa Gardner, Florence-Darlington Technical College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

AC 2008-589: ADDRESSING FACULTY DEVELOPMENT AS A VITAL STEP INTRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE TO IMPROVE ENGINEERINGTECHNOLOGY AND TECHNICIAN EDUCATIONElaine Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical CollegeJoshua Phiri, Florence-Darlington Technical College Principal Investigator, SCATE National Resource Center for Expanding Excellence in Technician Education and Instructor of Physics, Florence-Darlington Technical CollegePatressa Gardner, Florence-Darlington Technical College Project Manager, SCATE National Resource Center for Expanding Excellence in Technician Education and Business/Industry Liaison, Florence-Darlington Technical College