Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Louis Nadelson, College of Education; Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Pat Pyke, Boise State University; Anne Hay, Boise State University; Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

programs, math success, K-12 STEM curriculum, and recruitment and retention issues in engineering.Pat Pyke, Boise State University Patricia A. Pyke is the Director of Education Research for the College of Engineering at Boise State University. She oversees research projects in freshman programs, math support, mentoring, K-12 STEM, 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, Berkeley.Anne Hay, Boise State University Anne Hay is the Coordinator of the Idaho SySTEMic Solution, a K-12 research project at Boise State University funded by the U.S. Department of Education

Conference Session

Laboratories in Engineering Technology

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Edwards, Pennsylvania State University, Erie; Gerald Recktenwald, Portland State University

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Engineering Technology

mechanics, heat transfer, applications of numerical analysis, and in improving undergraduate engineering education. Page 14.1058.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 1 Simple Experiments for the Thermal and Fluid SciencesAbstract:An NSF funded project called The Engineering of Everyday Things (EET) uses simple, everydaydevices to help teach core concepts in the thermal and fluid sciences. Exercises are beingdeveloped which can be used for laboratory classes, in-class demonstrations, or as supplementalinstruction

Conference Session

Student Attitudes and Perceptions

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Deborah Kilgore, University of Washington

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Educational Research and Methods

-oriented projects, often carried out in teams,where feedback may not be given to individuals and may also include a larger subjectivecomponent. The relative uncertainty inherent in such an assessment of open-ended problemsolving skills may have a multiplicative effect when differences in confidence exist.These findings complement those found in previous research, and also demonstrate that not onlyare women less confident than men, the confidence gap persists from the beginning to the end oftheir engineering education. We recall that these seniors are high-performing, traditional studentswho have spent the last four years engaged in an intense educational experience that had moreinfluence on their transition to adulthood than perhaps any other

Conference Session

DELOS Best Paper Nominations

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jerry Keska, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

their own creativityand hands-on problem solving skills. This approach, which uses unique experiments and open-ended projects, gives students the opportunity to stretch their creative limits by formulating andinvestigating realistic, inventive, and complex problems. This approach not only increasesstudent’s enthusiasm, but it is also more closely aligns classroom topics with contemporarystandard industrial environments. Furthermore, it lowers the cost of laboratory instruction byminimizing the amount of hardware that is used.This paper reports the results of the development and implementation of hands-on laboratoryexperiments in a newly developed laboratory for a two-semester undergraduate course inInstrumentation and Measurements in Mechanical

Conference Session

Innovation in Construction Engineering Education II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erdogan Sener, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; D. Tom Iseley, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Construction

paper focuses on a recent collaborative researchundertaking to find more about the details of this technology and its impact so far on equipmentfleet management. The purpose of the research was to evaluate the use of this technology inconstruction companies, determine its user acceptance, and to assess the differences it wasmaking in fleet management. The difference made was to be assessed in terms of how this newtechnology had changed spatial equipment tracking, equipment utilization, equipmentmaintenance scheduling, operations analysis, job costing, and jobsite/project management relatedto construction equipment. The paper presents the results in terms of the details of thetechnology, the methodology of the research, the results of the

Conference Session

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

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anatoliy Protasov, National Technical University of Ukraine “KPI”

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International

in calculation-design activity provides a bachelor with abilities to: - calculate and design components of NDT devices; - check capability of the projects and technical documentations to technical requirements; - design of technical documentations.Competence in administration activity provides a bachelor with abilities to: - certificate and standardize NDT devices; Page 14.1245.5 - organize marketing and selling of NDT devices; - use economical and administrative methods of management.Analyzing bachelor’s professional activities, it is possible to consider that experimental-research activity belongs to common to the scientific area

Conference Session

Software and Hardware for Educators I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Miguel Latorre, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Manuel Blazquez, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Elio Sancristobal, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Sergio Martin, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Francisco Garcia-Sevilla, Castilla-La Mancha University; Catalina Martinez-Mediano, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Gabriel Diaz, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Manuel Castro, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia

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Computers in Education

resources reveals the need fornew tools which can treat metadata not only as static data but as information in constantevolution, thus supporting the effective development of educational resources. Secure andcomfortable authentication systems (SSO), trust facilities or how to connect on line communitiesare issues we are going to take into account in future developments.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to acknowledge the Spanish Science and Innovation Ministry and theSpanish National Plan I+D+I 2004-2007 the support in the project TSI2005-08225-C07-03"MOSAIC Learning: Mobile and electronic learning, of open code, based on standards, secure,contextual, personalized and collaborative" and to the CYTED-508AC0341 “SOLITE-SOFTWARE LIBRE EN

Conference Session

Concluding Thoughts in Engineering Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Harry Petersen, Minnesota State University, Mankato; William Peterson, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Industrial Engineering

discretion. Thus, web-based, on-line college classes offer theopportunity to teach classes to a much wider audience of students with schedule flexibility. Butnothing is perfect.The Minnesota State University, Mankato‟s Manufacturing Engineering Technology programculminates with our students completing a two-semester Senior Design Project, often at out-of-town manufacturing facilities. These students must travel between the sponsoring company andour campus almost daily in order to do their design project while also taking face-to-face classeshere. In addition, we are working with remote community college partners to developarticulation agreements to allow students to take the first two years at a local community college

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Musa Jouaneh, University of Rhode Island; William Palm, University of Rhode Island

students the opportunity to conduct an experiment at their own convenient time andlocation. However, it does not give the same experience as performing the experiment in person,and there could be issues in equipment availability, especially in large classes.Take-Home Laboratory KitThe take-home kit consists of three components. The first component is a hardware interfaceboard that interfaces with the student’s PC/laptop and with the experiment hardware. The secondcomponent is the User-Interface Program that is loaded on the student’s PC/laptop and is used torun the experiment and collect data. The third component is the actual experimental setup or thesensor system to perform the measurement. In this project, we are planning to develop and

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation of Graphics Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark Holdhusen, University of Wisconsin, Marathon County

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Engineering Design Graphics

graphics course. The four delivery modes aretraditional face-to-face instruction, synchronous distance education using audiographicstechnology, asynchronous online instruction, and hybrid of face-to-face with asynchronous andsynchronous online instruction. In general, each section of the course was delivered by the sameinstructor to undergraduate engineering students in their first or second year. In order to assessthe effectiveness of each delivery mode, this research considers the observations of the instructorand the commentary from the students. Also, a posttest was given to students to assess theirknowledge in basic areas of engineering graphics, including projections, visualization, anddimensioning. The results of this work will compare the

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering Education I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Philip Dunn, University of Maine

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Construction

CMTprogram builds mutual benefit with access to extended resources often not available in universitybudgets.Our program has an active and supportive industrial advisory committee. Participating membershelp in curriculum development and monitor the progress as the program expands. They providementoring opportunities, summer employment, and classroom assistance to enhance the learningenvironment. Many contractors open their active project sites to student groups to allow directobservation of the industry. We encourage professional networking and the industry encouragesstudent participation in the monthly trade meetings to give students greater understanding of theissues surrounding construction. This paper presents the structure of the industrial

Conference Session

Starting the Last Day with New Ideas

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shengyong Wang, State University of New York, Binghamton; Mohammad Khasawneh, State University of New York, Binghamton; Krishnaswami Srihari, State University of New York, Binghamton

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Industrial Engineering

Systems Engineering principles to a variety of domains, with a focus on health systems. He has been working with United Health Services and Virtua Health on numerous applied research projects and operational improvement initiatives. His research work on healthcare delivery systems is internationally recognized through his journal and conference publications.Mohammad Khasawneh, State University of New York, Binghamton Dr. Mohammad T. Khasawneh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Clemson University, South Carolina, in August 2003, and his B.S. and M.S

Conference Session

Educating Students for Professional Success

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary Bertoline, Purdue University; Mark Schuver, Purdue University

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Graduate Studies

interest by business and industry toengage in pure applied research projects with universities to solve immediate problems orimprove processes. The relationship created with business and industry through a professionalprogram provides opportunities for funded research projects. If the professional program offeredis a MS degree program, student theses and directed projects can become pure applied researchprojects for the company.Our goals are to create a Center for Professional Studies in Technology that is supported bybusiness and industry as well as state and federal grants. This Center will coordinate and expandthe already significant efforts by the College of Technology to deliver graduate professionaleducation to practicing professionals. It

Conference Session

Faculty Development and Research in ET

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gary Bertoline, Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

times but alsoopportunities for collaboration. Pure applied research is furthest removed from pure basicresearch and is characterized as being extremely sophisticated and narrowly focused onimmediate results. Technology’s role in research is primarily focused on pure applied researchbut there is some overlap with other disciplines including engineering and science, which alsooffers additional opportunities for collaboration.Our strength in research is related to pure applied research projects in each of our technologydomains in colleges of technology and engineering technology. There are opportunities forresearch in all traditional technology departments that is unique although related to disciplinesand departments outside the colleges of

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexandre Probst, Colorado School of Mines; Aarthi Krishnaswamy, Colorado School of Mines; Vinita Singh, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara Moskal, Colorado School of Mines; Cyndi Rader, Colorado School of Mines

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Educational Research and Methods

the internet but so do their teachers. Additionally, their teachers have years of experience teaching through a lecture format, reinforcing lectures as an established habit for instruction. Furthermore, many of the software programs currently available to support secondary instruction contain examples which are culturally irrelevant to Ugandan students. According to Hodson [12], efforts to make science education more learner-centered must build on knowledge and experiences of the learners, which requires an understanding of the impact of different perspectives and experiences of dissimilar cultural groups. The purpose of the project described here is to develop a simulated science laboratory experiment, as a pilot for future software

Conference Session

The Ever-Changing Course

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathleen Harper, Denison University; Richard Freuler, Ohio State University; Stuart Brand, Ohio State University; Craig Morin, Ohio State University; Patrick Wensing, Ohio State University; John Demel, Ohio State University

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First-Year Programs

betterperformance (10%) on equivalent final examination problems than the LabVIEW students. Asecond result showed that both groups of students performed equally in MATLAB programmingexercises – their ‘second’ programming language. A third result compared the programmingbeliefs of the pilot and control groups with the instructors’ beliefs. The beliefs survey wasadministered at the beginning and end of the quarter. The pilot group of students exhibited ashift to more expert-like beliefs. This paper provides details about the processes and problemsused in this investigation. The work described here began in early 2007 and was completed in2008. This project was funded by the National Instruments Foundation.IntroductionOhio State’s First-Year Engineering

Conference Session

Student Learning

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Prince, Bucknell University; Margot vigeant, bucknell; Katharyn Nottis, Bucknell University

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Educational Research and Methods

14.469.3Temperature Change tells you something about the rate or amount of energy transferred.5. Radiation Students are often confused about the effect of surface properties on the rate of radiative heat transfer.In the initial phase of this research project, a concept inventory was developed whichsought to measure conceptual understanding in each of these targeted areas.MethodologyPhase 1The concept inventory was composed of 28 multiple choice questions, several with open-ended segments which asked students to explain their thinking in more detail. Theseopen-ended questions were intended to provide both richer assessment of students’conceptual understanding and to provide possible distractors on multiple choice

Conference Session

New Learning Paradigms I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Warren Hull, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Warren Waggenspack, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Lillian B Bowles, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; David Bowles, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Tiffany Walter Choplin, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

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Educational Research and Methods

. This core groupof eleven faculty members prepared for a leadership role in the communication project byattending a CxC-sponsored Faculty Institute during the summer of 2005. The engineering teamreceived a comprehensive orientation to the campus-wide CxC program and explored how theirparticipation could lead to the integration of communication goals in the COE curriculum. Theyworked on their individual syllabi, as well as college-wide plans for a COE CommunicationStudio. They shared their ideas about an engineering graduate’s need for communication skillsand their newly-revised syllabi with faculty members representing all colleges, who provided aninterdisciplinary audience for their perspectives. In many cases, the necessary communication

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Chiou, Drexel University; Michael Mauk, Drexel University; Sweety Agarwal, Drexel University; Yueh-Ting Yang, Drexel University

in Kathmandu, Nepal in 1983.She received her Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication from Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim, India in 2005. She has received M.S in Electrical Engineering at Drexel University in 2008. Her interests in working with various quality control automated devices like Smart Image sensor. She is presently working on a E-quality control project and a 3d Online lab project.Yueh-Ting Yang , Drexel University In order to carry his interests into the academic realm, Yueh-Ting Yang did his Bachelor from Department of Power Mechanical Engineering at National Tsing Hua University. He is pursuing M.S. in Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics at

Conference Session

Student Learning and Assessment

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Constantin Ciocanel, Northern Arizona University; Suzanne Pieper, Northern Arizona University

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Mechanical Engineering

Engineering at the OhioState University redeveloped the freshman engineering classes into a combined course withhands-on laboratory elements2. Teamwork, project management, report writing, and oralpresentations were the main parts of this program.Another recent study3, focused on the classroom-based pedagogy of engagement, recognizedactive and collaborative learning as better ways for students to learn by being intensely involvedin the educational process. These learning methods can further be implemented by encouragingstudents to apply their knowledge in many situations. The study attempts to highlight thesuperiority of problem-based learning over subject-based learning by contrasting the twoapproaches in Figure 1. Problem based learning (PBL

Conference Session

Student Learning and Assessment

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andre Butler, Mercer University; William Moses, Mercer University

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Mechanical Engineering

Method of Assessment to Examine Experimental Design in Mechanical Engineering LaboratoriesStudents in the mechanical specialization at Mercer University are currently required to take twogeneral mechanical engineering laboratory courses—one in the third year of the curriculum andthe other in the fourth year. The first of these courses begins with seven or eight single periodlaboratories in which the students are directed to complete a well-defined set of procedures andperform simple analyses. In an effort to more formally introduce experimental design into thelaboratory experience, this course ends with a three project sequence in which students areprovided with an experimental objective (e.g., determine the coefficient of

Conference Session

Innovative Methods to Teach Engineering to URMs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amir Mobasher, Alabama A&M University; Mohamed Seif, Alabama A&M University; Kenneth Fernandez, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center; Showkat Chowdhury, Alabama A&M University

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Minorities in Engineering

, might “drop off” the school altogether, might find jobsand abandon their educational objectives or perhaps discontinue for a short period of time andstart again later. Although it is nearly impossible to eliminate loss of students from the program,it is possible to minimize this loss by implementing several tactics. Critical factors affecting theretention of the students within the mechanical engineering program at AAMU are classattendance and participation, early exposure of potential students to mechanical engineeringtopics, advising, student competitions, participation in summer internship programs, participationin externally funded research projects, and utilization of multimedia and other technologies forunderstanding of topics.Class

Conference Session

Computational Tools and Simulation I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nabil Lehlou, University of Arkansas; Nebil Buyurgan, University of Arkansas; Justin Chimka, University of Arkansas

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Computers in Education

. Amongstthe encouraged work, there is the I-ATMUS project (Integrated Auto-ID Technology forMultidisciplinary Undergraduate Studies) that involved developing a remotely controllable RFIDlaboratory system. Technological resources can now be accessed by learners through the Webtechnology to apply appropriate configurations to the system, conduct experiments using RFIDtechnology, and perform statistical analysis on the acquired data. Furthermore, the developededucational tool was used by a class of student that showed improvements in their confidence,knowledge, and skills.IntroductionFor some technologies, the supply of their qualified users struggles to match the pace of theassociated growing demand. In other words, the growth of the skilled-user

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jerry Samples, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown

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New Engineering Educators

conspicuous, preparing for and conducting good classes, meeting with students individually, supervising individual research projects, serving on committees. This is inherent in the job: college teaching offers tremendous freedom to structure time and channel energy, but it requires commensurate levels of internal motivation, personal organization, self-discipline, and ability to pursue multiple goals.”He goes on to say that faculty have a difficult time deciding how to spend their time and energywhen it comes to their various requirements. He adds that: “It is not the workload per se that most creates discomfort among college instructors but the necessity of deciding how to spend time. To borrow a thought from

Conference Session

BME Laboratory Courses and Experiences

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Melissa Micou, University of California, San Diego

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Biomedical

to the graduate students and post-doctoral researchers who were directlyinvolved in the REU projects. The workshop included topics and activities selected fromEntering Mentoring: A Seminar to Train a New Generation of Scientist, a series of eightseminars providing an intellectual framework for mentoring and a forum to discuss and solvementoring dilemmas 6. Specifically, the workshop included a discussion of what qualities make agood mentor, examples of mentoring philosophies, motivation for being a good mentor, definingmentor and mentee expectations, elements of a good research project, diversity issues, andstrategies for dealing with challenges. Workshop activities included developing a personalmentoring philosophy, defining the mentee’s

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Michalson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Gregory Fischer, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Taskin Padir, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Gary Pollice, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

the crux of the problem. Students tend to learn facts in their, inthis case Physics, classes but, like the researchers referred to in the above quote, they don’tnecessarily learn how those facts are relevant to their chosen discipline. This phenomenon wasactually observed during an internal bi-annual review of the capstone design projects in theElectrical and Computer Engineering Department at WPI where it was observed that studentswere having a difficult time synthesizing designs.3 To correct this problem, a radically differentcourse in ECE Design was developed to teach the fundamentals of designing electrical systemsto students at the end of their sophomore year. With this course we were able to reach studentsimmediately after foundational

Conference Session

Information and Network Security

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyle Lutes, Purdue University; John Springer, Purdue University; Kelly Howard, Purdue University

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Information Systems

Pathology in Washington, D.C. She has a Master's degree in Technology from Purdue University, and her research interests are in data privacy and software security. Page 14.123.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 A Survey of Embedded Database Technology for Mobile ApplicationsAbstractA recent project required us to develop a software application that runs on mobile devices ofvarious form factors. Almost all non-trivial software requires data persistence of some sort, eventhose running on small mobile devices. For very small amounts of data, a simple sequential

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Bahr, Washington State University

projects, particularly at the underclassman level. In particular,one of the major problems is misunderstanding of the role of independent research projectswithin a larger research organization, and disconnected expectations of workloads and faculty –mentor roles. However, faculty members that have mentored students from the freshman yearonward report outstanding relationships and successes occur by the junior year. Another keyfactor noted by faculty participating on campus was that there is an initial “incubation” periodfor each student where their research productivity is relatively low, while their requirements forfaculty time are high. While this is true for all students, there was a perception that this might bea larger challenge for younger

Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Teaching Models in NRE

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brenden Mervin, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Guillermo Maldonado, University of Tennessee

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Nuclear and Radiological

of the fundamental principlesbehind cross-section processing, reactor physics, criticality safety, and other related applicationsby demonstrating how these computational packages are used in these specific areas. This willalso open a gateway for national laboratory initiatives as well as university-laboratory-industrypartnerships for the professional development of future nuclear engineers. Figure 1 illustrates thetimetable associated with this educational project. Figure 1: Overview of US NRC Project led by University of Tennessee and Texas A&M The modules outlined in Figure 1 will be structured into “standalone” educational toolsable to independently provide substantial fundamental and interactive information on the

Conference Session

Micromachining in Manufacturing Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clifford Mirman, Northern Illinois University; Andrew Otieno, Northern Illinois University

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Manufacturing

, especially for steels, and cutting conditions are stilluncertain and work continues to be done in these areas [2, 9, 10]. In addition to these factors, themechanics of micro-cutting is still a relatively new area, not well understood. In micro-cutting,there is no formal explanation of scaling effects (also referred to as “size effects”), for example,in the relationship between material removal rate and the specific cutting energy [5]. Thus, thereis a need for continued research in this area.Through funding provided by the U.S. Army, TACOM, Northern Illinois University (NIU)engineering and technology researchers developed a new generation low cost machine tool. Inthe same project, studies were conducted to examine material removal rates for different