Conference Session

Pedagogical Developments in BME

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Cawthorne, Purdue University; Osman Cekic, Purdue University; Monica Cox, Purdue University; Melissa Stacer, Purdue University

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Biomedical

results reported are trends associated with graduate student participants’ experiences withVaNTH. Page 14.262.4Quantitative analysis Prior to their involvement with the VaNTH project, many of the participants identifiedthat they were unfamiliar with education, research and learning strategies for engineeringeducation. Only 34% of graduate student participants had been engaged in some form ofeducation-oriented research. Nearly two-thirds of the participants had no extensive experiencewith implementing educational concepts into research for “understanding” of learning and/ordesign of biomedical educational modules. Figure 1 shows the HPL

Conference Session

Computational Tools and Simulation III

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lok PASUPULETI, Northern Illinois University; Omar Ghrayeb, Northern Illinois University; Hubert Ley, Argonne National Laboratory; Clifford Mirman, Northern Illinois University; Young Park, Argonne National Laboratory

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Computers in Education

. Through this software researcherswere able to model events and transportation into and out of the city. In addition, undergraduateand graduate students were involved in this complex year-long project. The authors will provideinformation as to the modeling, input, and output that was obtained. Through an analysis of themotion of the population working and living in the city, planners have a much better Page 14.494.2understanding of how to react to emergencies that might occur, and ensure that emergency reliefcan get to the targeted location in a timely manner.IntroductionTransportation planning is currently undergoing a metamorphosis from a

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Enhancing K-12 STEM Education with Engineering

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lydotta Taylor, EdVenture Group; Erika Shaffer, EdVenture Group; Gary Winn, West Virginia University; Robin Hensel, West Virginia University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

explaining engineering concepts than they think; Page 14.726.2once they build some expertise and confidence, they become enthusiastic about doing so.At West Virginia University, a STEP (Science, Technology, Engineering, and MathematicsTalent Expansion Program) project called “Engineers of Tomorrow” began in 2005 to bringmore Appalachian students, particularly rural students, underrepresented minorities and women,to engineering as a career path. This large-scale project brings together the College ofEngineering and Mineral Resources, the College of Human Resources and Education, theCollege of Arts and Sciences, and The EdVenture Group, a private

Conference Session

New Trends in Graduate Engineering Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joy Colwell, Purdue University, Calumet

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Graduate Studies

, with a small but increasingpercentage of residential students.ii The University is a master’s level campus, with a renewedemphasis on and commitment to graduate level education. Currently, the campus has 1000graduate level students, up from 904 for Spring 2008.iiiThe MS in Technology is a directed-project based, thirty-three hour degree program: three corecourses (9 credit hours) taken by all students in the program, Measurement and Evaluation inIndustry & Technology, Quality and Productivity in Industry & Technology, and Analysis andResearch in Industry and Technology; four primary area courses (12 credit hours) in the area ofconcentration, three courses in technical electives (9 credit hours), which vary by student area ofinterest

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering: Part II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Harris, Northeastern University; Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University

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Minorities in Engineering

Engineers (SHPE) chapter at Northeastern, Advisor: National Society of Black Engineers chapter at Northeastern, Instructor: GEU100 Course: Intro to the study of Engineering, Instructor: GEU900 Course: Career Management SeminarBala Maheswaran, Northeastern University Page 14.1095.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 SUMMER BRIDGE: A STEP INTO THE ENGINEERING GAP We face a major demographic imperative. The U.S. Census Bureau projections show a steady decline in the White population (from 81% in 2000 to 72.1% in 2050); a slight increase in the African American population (from 12.7% in 2000 to 14.6% in

Conference Session

New Trends in Graduate Engineering Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Descoteaux, Norwich University; David Muckerman, CH2M HIll; Scott Sabol, Vermont Technical College

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Graduate Studies

events with fellowstudents, families, faculty, and administrators, and a live-in experience in the University’sdormitories are but a few of the activities of residency week. The week culminates with atraditional commencement exercise.Our experiences have shown these residency events to be a fundamental component of theoverall educational process. After attending the events most students agree that Residency is ahighly enjoyable and useful experience that should be continued. Live, in-front-of-an-audiencecapstone design project presentations during the week, peer reviewed by students and faculty,present an opportunity for final academic and professional education and training as part of thegraduate program. Just as important, the week provides

Conference Session

Topics in Engineering Ethics IV

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brent Nelson, Northern Arizona University

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Engineering Ethics

discussions of „found Page 14.1221.3objects,‟ which were biological objects and organisms identified and researched by the students.The remainder of the course alternated between guest lectures on various technical topics withinBID, such as locomotion and materials design, and continued discussion of found objects orstudent design projects. Guest lecturers were faculty members from various departments whowere actively researching the BID topics on which they lectured.Outside of class, the primary assignment was a design project in which the students chose abiological system to mimic and translate into a manufacturable conceptual design. Students

Conference Session

Issues of Persistence in Engineering

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peggy Meszaros, Virginia Tech; Catherine Amelink, Virginia Tech

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Women in Engineering

engineering at nine institutions distributed throughout the U.S. Thepreliminary sample of institutions consisted of nine institutions that supplied a letter fromthe dean of a college or school of engineering to accompany a grant applicationindicating their willingness to participate in the project and to designate an institutionalliaison to work with the project over the course of two years. Using information from2003 Profiles of Engineering and Engineering Technology Colleges16, private and publicinstitutions were selected based on the number and percentage of women completing anundergraduate engineering degree in 2003. From among institutions graduating at least50 female engineers in 2003, we labeled a group of universities as “high” where

Conference Session

BME Curriculum Development

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Samantha Jacques, Milwaukee School of Engineeirng; John D. Gassert, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Thomas Swiontek, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Jeffrey LaMack, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Charles Tritt, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Larry Fennigkoh, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Ron Gerrits, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Vincent Canino, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Nancy Schlick, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Biomedical

Biomedical Engineering faculty saw manyplaces to incorporate these together.During the freshman design course, teams are used to design, build and test a product intendedfor rehabilitation. Student teams work with the machine shop and the rapid prototyping center tocomplete these projects. In this course, the teamwork is stressed and effective teamcommunication is discussed.Students take this experience and apply it to their senior design courses. Students spend over twoyears in a team completing the senior design sequence. This includes a marketing analysis,business plan, feasibility study, system and component design, design reviews, building andtesting. Students have the ability to “hire” engineers from other majors to help them completetheir

Conference Session

The Role of Engineering in Public Policy

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Cady, National Academy of Engineering; Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering

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Engineering and Public Policy

previous workshops that have explored the representations ofengineers and engineering in films and television in order to advance the implementation of a“prime-time” commercial television series that highlights the positive roles of engineers inmodern society. A key first step was to have a committee plan and convene a forum whereinexperienced producers, writers, and directors devoted one and one-half days in November, 2008,to discussion of key questions which will determine the viability of attaining an engineering-focused narrative television series. This project builds upon social constructivism and cultivationtheory to offer the hypothesis that those who view positive television and/or movie images ofengineers are more likely to believe that

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment III

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chao Chen; Carlos Pomalaza-Ráez; Ma Oo

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Electrical and Computer

Evaluation of IEEE 802.15.4 for Use in Smart Home Medical CareAbstractThe IEEE 802.15.4 wireless standard has been identified as a potential candidate to be used insmart home medical care. This undergraduate research project evaluates the performance ofIEEE 802.15.4 under interference from other wireless devices that operate in the same frequencyband. Specifically, we focus on two very common wireless interfering systems in typical homeenvironments: IEEE 802.11 WLANs and microwave ovens. The measurement results give arough indication about the mutual interference of different systems and showcase the challengesof utilizing IEEE 802.15.4 for smart home medical applications.1. IntroductionRecently, there has been a growing interest in

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Kellie Schneider; Heath A. Schluterman; C. Richard Cassady

, the FEP staff works closely with the Fulbright College toimplement block scheduling for the Fall Semester. In the block scheduling system, each FEPstudent is assigned to a block consisting of 22–25 students. All students in a given block havesimilar class schedules.The Freshman Engineering Student Services ProgramThe FESSP provides proactive support to FEP students through summer orientation, academicskills and personal wellness workshops, academic advising, peer mentoring, supplementalinstruction and tutoring, and extracurricular activities. The FESSP is housed in the 5500 sq ftFreshman Engineering Center. The Freshman Engineering Center includes faculty and staffoffices, a peer mentoring center, a tutoring room, a project room, a 60-seat

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Elimchili Lyaro; Jennifer Biddle; Jaclyn Stanfield

speculated as one way to reduce and possibly eliminate driverfunctions during commuting.The purpose of this design project was to develop a Smart Car (SC) vehicle system whichwould be integrated into a 2009 Honda Civic and shall enable the vehicle to be operatedin a preexisting Modified HOV Lane System with little to no user intervention.Smart car project was divided into three major parts namely conceptual design, detaildesign and system integration or final production.The presentation will focus on the conceptual design which explores different optionsavailable to implement driverless car. The conceptual design is expected to find bestways to enable the vehicle to attain a maximum speed of 85 miles per hour safely andefficiently.The team that was

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Said Shakerin

projects in independent studies orundergraduate research, and informal science education for general public and youngerstudents through school visitation programs. Later in the paper, several homeworkassignments based on these toys are also suggested as challenges for students. A B C Figure 1 – Density differential fluids toys - (A) colors in motion toy # 1 (1 x 3 x 5 inches), (B) colors in motion toy # 2 (7/8 x 4 x 7 inches) , (C) sand painting (1/2 x 5 x 7 inches). These toys are trademark by Westminster, Inc. Atlanta, GA.Colors in Motion Toy # 1 - This simple toy as shown in Figure 1A contains coloredliquids in four chambers. If observed carefully, one can see and enjoy a variety

Conference Session

New Trends in CHE Education I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University; Keisha Walters, Mississippi State University; Bill Elmore, Mississippi State University; Rebecca Toghiani, Mississippi State University; Rafael Hernandez; Priscilla Hill, Mississippi State University; Hossein Toghiani, Mississippi State University; Todd French, Mississippi State University

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Chemical Engineering

Polymeric and Multicomponent Materials courses. Her funding includes NSF and DOE and she received the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award in 2006. Central to her research in polymer and surface engineering is the design and synthesis of molecules with well-defined chemical functionality and molecular architecture with current projects on stimuli-responsive and biomass-based polymeric materials.Bill Elmore, Mississippi State University Bill Elmore, Ph.D., P.E., is Associate Professor and Hunter Henry Chair, Mississippi State University. His teaching areas include the integrated freshman engineering and courses throughout the chemical engineering curriculum including unit operations

Conference Session

ERM Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Snyder, Taylor University; Elise Romines, Taylor University; Rachel Dodge, Taylor University; Jason Kruegar, Taylor University; Travis Booth, Taylor University; Josh Gates, Taylor University

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Educational Research and Methods

14.907.2Background of Program For four years, Taylor University’s HARP program has been providing students withthe opportunity apply their technical science and math instruction to interesting and relevantproblems. The unique experience of a high-altitude balloon launch, including team-basedproblem solving, prototyping, construction and testing of experimentation, and the “hard”deadline of a launch, gives students a taste of real-world project experience, and has helpedTaylor students be competitive as they pursue education and career goals beyond theundergraduate level. A student participant in the HARP curriculum component of a 2006Introduction to Electronics class said, “Working on the balloon project was an excellentopportunity to put theory

Conference Session

Women in K-12 Engineering

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michelle Porche, Wellesley Centers for Women; Corinne McKamey, Wellesley Centers for Women; Peter Wong, Museum of Science

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

?” (1 = not at all, 5 = a lot). Responses from the 5-point scalewere used to create a dichotomous variable representing plans to study engineering (“alittle” or “a lot”) versus lack of interest in studying engineering (“not at all” “not much”or “neutral”).Independent Variables:Knowledge of Engineering. A set of six questions was developed by the AssessingWomen in Engineering (AWE) Project 200517 asking students their ideas about what anengineer does. Sample questions include “Engineers mainly work with other people tosolve problems” and “I don’t know what engineers do” (reversed) which students wereasked to respond to on a 4-point Likert scale (disagree a lot to agree a lot). Of the sixoriginal items, 4 were retained with an internal

Conference Session

Engineering Courses for Non-engineers

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Blake, Austin Peay State University

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

system work. The story includesmany examples where engineers, operating under constraints, identify and solve problems.October Sky tells an autobiographical story of a group of young men who, after a long learningcurve with many failures, develops the technology to make very successful small rockets. Whilethis is a story about high school students, it reflects the perspective of an author who went on toan engineering career with NASA, and the story is a useful study for technological projects atany level. Moving to fiction and a setting in the distant future, Forbidden Planet tells a story ofthe enticing benefits of new technological marvels. It also explores the risks of unintended andunanticipated consequences. While these movies illustrate

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design Constituents

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Phillip Wankat, Purdue University; Kamyar Haghighi, Purdue University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

and statistics – if they select anengineering course on this topic it counts as part of their 47 credits of engineering. Theengineering core typically consists of 19-22 credits. Except for the professional seminar IDE301 and the major design experience, either EPICS (Engineering Projects in CommunityService1,2) or IDE 485, the engineering core specifies topics not courses. These topics werechosen to match the topics in the Fundamentals of Engineering exam to facilitate graduatesbecoming professional engineers. Specifying topics instead of courses provides maximumflexibility for students transferring into the program either from other universities or from otherprograms at the university. The specified professional seminar and major design

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ashland Brown, University of the Pacific; Kris Wood, University of Texas; Kristen Kaufman, Grad Student Universiy ot Texas; Daniel Jensen, United States Air Force Academy; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas; Christina White, Columbia University

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Mechanical Engineering

. He received a B.S. from Milwaukee School of Engineering in 1980, a M.S. from Northwestern University in 1982, and a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in 1985. V-mail: 479-575-4153; E-mail: jjrencis@uark.edu.Christina White, Columbia University CHRISTINA WHITE is a doctoral candidate in the Curriculum and Teaching Department at Columbia University. Her research focus is in engineering education with particular emphasis in both engineering diversity and humanitarian design projects. She earned a M. Ed from The University of Texas at Austin in Special Education. Contact: ckw.columbia@gmail.com

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Innovations in ECE Education II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jan Machotka, University of South Australia; Zorica Nedic, University of South Australia; Andrew Nafalski, University of South Australia; Ozdemir Gol, University of South Australia

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2009-1171: A REMOTE LABORATORY FOR COLLABORATIVEEXPERIMENTSJan Machotka, University of South Australia Jan Machotka is an electrical engineering graduate of the Czech Technical University in Prague. He spent more than 10 years working as a professional consultant in industry in Czechoslovakia and abroad. He started his academic career 20 years ago at the South Australian Institute of Technology. He is currently a Programme Director for undergraduate, postgraduate and transnational students at the University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia. He is also responsible for final year students’ projects for four engineering streams in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Geoff Wright; Paul Skaggs; Richard Fry, Brigham Young University; C. Richard Helps, Brigham Young University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

with activities to helpthem semantically encode the primary principles of innovation, and b) to help them prepare forthe final two innovation activities: a formative ideation project, and a summative capstoneexperience.Both the formative ideation project, and the innovation capstone experience required the studentsto demonstrate how they came to their solutions as a result of using/engaging the principles andprocesses of innovation. The participants were assigned and completed the ideation projectduring the first day of instruction. It provided the participants with the opportunity toimmediately put into action the principles and processes they had experienced in the innovationmini-activities. The ideation project required the participants to

Conference Session

Issues and Direction in ET Education and Administration: Part II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shekar Viswanathan, National University, San Diego; Howard Evans, National University, San Diego; Lal Tummala, San Diego State University

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Engineering Technology

Texas Electronics Association; past chairman of IBM’s Materials Shared University Research Committee; Ph.D. Recruiting Coordinator for IBM’s Systems Technology Division; and executive sponsor for 3M division’s student programs. He has published and presented widely in areas of surface science, electronic materials and processes, project management, and industry/university relations. He holds 4 patents and has received awards for excellence in technical innovation (IBM), technical authorship (IBM), teaching (University of Colorado), and scholarship (National Science Foundation).Lal Tummala, San Diego State University Lal Tummala is the Professor and Chair of Electrical and

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Frontiers in Engineering Management Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Wyrick, Texas Tech; Adji Cisse, Texas Tech

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Engineering Management

others to constitute avirtual team” [1]. With the concept of virtuality, the notion of “working together apart” [2]very well captures the essence of what the virtual world presents to organizations. In fact,people no longer have to be confined in the same continent, let alone building or room, inorder to work on a project. The new face of organizations is that of a much decentralizedgroup, with diverse sub-groups dispersed all over the four corners of the world. Virtualteams and networked organizations are the latest stage in the evolution of organization [3].Virtual teams are a type of small group. They differ from other small groups in forms ofcommunication, number of relationships, and in the ability to create in a global context.The

Conference Session

SE Curriculum and Course Management

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zulfa Zakaria, IIUM

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

lecturers who were experienced teachers in these courses. However,as the tutor taught the course for more than one semester, it is considered that the answer isacceptable.The second issue related to one course which was taught by two lecturers in the same semester.Lecturer A taught from Week 1 until Week 7 and Lecturer B from Week 8 until Week 13. Table5 shows that for Category 1, after a follow-up discussion, the responses from Lecturer Aappeared incomplete. The reason was that Lecture A did not tick the right answer for thiscategory because he overlooked it. There was also some confusion about practical work in thiscourse in that it was considered either as assignments or as a project. This probably explains thedifferences revealed for Category 3

Conference Session

Knowing Our Students, Faculty, and Profession

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janel Sutkus, Carnegie Mellon University; Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Cynthia Finelli, University of Michigan; Trevor Harding

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Educational Research and Methods

U of M. She is a member of the Association for Institutional Research, the Association for the Study of Higher Education, and the American College Personnel Association.Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University Dr. Donald D. Carpenter is Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Lawrence Technological University (LTU). In this role, he is an instructor for several engineering courses (from freshman to senior level) that involve ethics instruction. Dr. Carpenter is also Director of Assessment for LTU and recently served as Founding Director for LTU’s Center for Teaching and Learning. Dr. Carpenter has conducted funded pedagogical research and development projects, has published

Conference Session

DELOS Best Paper Nominations

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gene Liao, Wayne State University; Chih-Ping Yeh, Wayne State University; Qunfang Liao, Panasonic Automotive Systems

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

converter, CAN communication, Pulse Width Modulation (PWM)control, and motor real speed measurement. The motivation of this work is to establishlaboratory and project oriented learning environment which encourages students to apply andabsorb knowledge gained in lecture in a hands-on environment. This work would be useful incontrolling various motors in modern vehicles.Hardware ApparatusFigure 2 shows the developed platform which uses a Renesas single chip microcomputerM16C29 MCU, three module boards, BLY17 PM BLDC motor, TelCom TC4469 logic inputcomplementary CMOS quad driver, International Rectifier power MOSFET logic level gatedriver, and communicates through a CAN bus. The control block diagram for motor is alsoshown in Fig. 2.A brushless motor

Conference Session

Assessment and Curriculum Development

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Godfrey, University of Auckland; Rosalind Archer, University of Auckland; Paul Denny, University of Auckland; Margaret Hyland, University of Auckland; Chris Smaill, University of Auckland; Karl Stol, University of Auckland

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First-Year Programs

survey14,conducted over 35 institutions, revealed that eleven institutions offered, or will offer in thenext year, a first-year program, of which at least 75% of the courses were taught byacademics from within Engineering. All of the first-year programs surveyed include anintroduction to the engineering profession and engineering life-cycle and/or an EngineeringDesign course, with some excellent examples of active and project based learning based onreal-life engineering problems.The longest-lived of these integrated, common first-year programs is that offered by theUniversity of Auckland (hereafter named U of A), taught entirely in-house since 1996. Thispaper charts the evolution of that program from its first incarnations in 1996

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sorraya Khiewnavawongsa, Purdue University; Edie Schmidt, Purdue University

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Graduate Studies

faculty worked with these graduate studentsboth in Master and Ph.D. level. Several studies on the relationship between graduate student andtheir advisors have been conducted in the past. These studies are concerned with various issuesaffecting the mentoring relationship. However, there has never been a study on this mentoringrelationship specifically at Purdue University. This project is a study of the mentor relationship between mentor and mentee, or facultyand graduate students at Purdue University. Graduate students were invited to participate in thesurvey through email. The survey was conducted online anonymously. This study consists ofquantitative and qualitative analysis. The existing mentoring relationships are identified in orderto

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Environmental Engineering

Engineers released a draft of the Bodyof Knowledge for Environmental Engineering (EnvE BOK). The BOK outlines the skills andabilities that are needed to become a licensed Professional Engineer, and describes which shouldbe acquired as part of an accredited Bachelor’s degree. The ABET-accredited EnvE B.S.curriculum at the University of Colorado at Boulder has been mapped onto the BOK outcomesand knowledge domains. Most topics are well covered, however multimedia breadth and theknowledge domain of systems analysis are not the main focus of any required courses becauseour curriculum was built primarily from existing courses in Civil, Chemical, and Mechanicalengineering. The outcomes of project management and business knowledge are coveredprimarily in