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Graduate Student Experiences

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carol Mullenax, Tulane University

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Graduate Studies

AC 2007-565: THE ROLE OF THE MASTER'S DEGREE WITHIN ENGINEERINGEDUCATIONCarol Mullenax, Tulane University Carol received her BS in Engineering & Applied Science from Caltech, an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Washington University, and an MSE & PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Tulane. She is currently employed in industry by Bastion Technologies, Inc., as a Project Manager for the Non-Exercise Physiological Countermeasures Project, operated out of the Johnson Space Center for NASA. Page 12.1465.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 The Role of the Master’s Degree within

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Advice from the Experts for NEEs at Small Universities

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Claude Villiers, Florida Gulf Coast University; Diane Bondehagen, Florida Gulf Coast University; Chris Geiger

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New Engineering Educators

and innovations to ourcurriculum. It is also important to note that with our new program and limited faculty, we aremotivated to be flexible and creative in our course design to integrate our curricula and satisfythe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) criteria as recommended byFelder and Brent6, Froyd and Ohland7 and Nair et al.8. These creative efforts enhance theintegration of student research in our curricula while helping to identify promising students to aidin faculty scholarship.Other ActivitiesAs time permitted, each author of the paper participated in other activities within and outside the Page

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Innovation in Construction Engineering Education II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Pocock, U.S. Air Force Academy; Steve Kuennen, U.S. Air Force Academy

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Construction

the first constructionexperience for most students and form a literal foundation for the engineering courses tocome.Design OptionsThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) requires civilengineering programs to provide depth in at least four disciplines. At the Air ForceAcademy these four disciplines are construction, environmental, geotechnical, andstructures. The summer field course provides an introduction to each of these disciplines,not just construction. In the junior and senior years, students take the design courses Page 12.401.4required for their civil or environmental engineering majors. These design courses arevery

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Undergraduate Spacecraft Design II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lawrence Boyer, St. Louis University; Krishnaswamy Ravindra, St. Louis University; John George, St. Louis University; Kyle Mitchell, St. Louis University

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Aerospace

Engineering, Aviation and technology at Saint Louis University. His teaching experience includes both undergraduate and graduate courses in Aerospace Engineering. His research interests include fluid dynamics and structural dynamics. He received his doctoral degree in Aerospace Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University. He has published several papers in technical journals and conference proceedings. He is a fellow of ASME, associate fellow of AIAA and a member of ASEE. He is active in the aerospace division of ASEE and academic affairs committee of AIAA.Kyle Mitchell, St. Louis University Dr. Kyle Mitchell received his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-Rolla in 2004 in Computer

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Liberal Education Division Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gregory Tonkay, Lehigh University; E. Zimmers, Lehigh University

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Liberal Education

for more than 200 funded research and technology projects with over 115 industry and academic partners. He has co-authored one text and over 180 technical reports and publictaions. He is a fellow of SME and IIE technical societies. Page 12.1068.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Migration from a Leadership Honors Program to an Engineering Leadership MinorAbstractThis paper presents a new Engineering Leadership Minor developed for all engineering majors atLehigh University. This minor program utilizes the experience of engineering faculty, liberal artsfaculty, and

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2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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M. R. Wilhelm; J. P. Mohsen

EDC to not be true.But, the EDC Executive Committee has recently reiterated the remaining three reasons as validfor their opposing the permission of dual-level accreditation of engineering programs by ABET.Refutation of the ASEE EDC argumentsFrom the prior presentation of the facts in this paper regarding the engineering programs in the J.B. Speed School of Engineering, we are, obviously, very interested in seeing that ABETapproves dual-level accreditation of engineering programs by the EAC. Accordingly, we offerthe refutation of the remaining three justifications by the ASEE EDC opposing the issue: 2. Even though dual-level accreditation is possible for programs accredited by both the Applied Science and the Technology Accreditation

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International Case Studies:Collaborations, Exchanges & Interactions

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Raghu Echempati, Kettering University; Butsch Michael, FH-Konstanz, Germany

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International

Dominion University and Rajagiri College in Cochin, Page 12.1048.5India is discussed by Chaturvedi, et al11,12. Their overall program is assessed for itsbenefits, efficiency and students understanding of the US and Indian university systems.Thompson and Sterkenburg13 of Aviation Technology at Perdue University discussanother international program in terms of the true meaning of global engineering asapplied to their Aviation Technology program. At the ASEE 2002 Colloquium held inBerlin, Germany several papers on study abroad programs were presented. For example,refer to the paper by Rogers14, which outlines a program sponsored by Siemens

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Enhancing K-12 Mathematics Education with Engineering

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Celina Bochis, University of Alabama; Steven Hsia, University of Alabama; Pauline Johnson, University of Alabama; Karen Boykin, University of Alabama; Sandra Wood, University of Alabama; Larry Bowen, University of Alabama; Kevin Whitaker, University of Alabama

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. Previously, she was employed as the Director of Outreach & Redshirt Engineering at the UAB School of Engineering in Birmingham, Alabama (2000-02) and as the Science, Math, and Relevant Technology (SMART) Coordinator at Girls Incorporated of Central Alabama (1999-00). Her current level of involvement in the UA Freshman Engineering Program includes assisting with academic advising, mentoring, retention, and freshman level curriculum instruction. During the summer months, she also assists with the development and instruction of high school students and teachers in UA’s engineering outreach programs and with incoming freshman student orientation and registration. Prior

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Best of the NEE

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yi-Min Huang, University of Washington; Jessica Yellin, University of Washington; Jennifer Turns, University of Washington

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New Engineering Educators

AC 2007-1288: DECISIONS ABOUT TEACHING: WHAT FACTORS DOENGINEERING FACULTY CONSIDER?Yi-Min Huang, University of Washington YI-MIN HUANG is a Research Scientist for the Scholarship on Teaching element of the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (CAEE). She holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Washington State University.Jessica Yellin, University of Washington JESSICA M. H. YELLIN is a Research Scientist for the Scholarship on Teaching element of the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (CAEE). She holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington with dissertation research on structural vibration and damping of acoustic

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Women, Minorities and the New Engineering Educator

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Sharon Jones, Lafayette College; Jaime Hernandez, Texas State University-San Marcos; Rebecca Bates, Minnesota State University-Mankato; Robin Adams, Purdue University

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New Engineering Educators

. Here, student diversity is defined as differences in learning styles which may or maynot be addressed in a typical college classroom. At this Midwestern comprehensive universitywith both engineering and engineering technology programs, the student population appears tobe quite homogenous, primarily male, primarily white. In teaching the students, however, it isquite clear that the students are very diverse in their learning styles (as opposed to aptitudes andabilities which also vary). The investigator’s experience with teaching a single class to studentsin both engineering and engineering technology was the driving force for designing a study thatexamines learning styles in this context. When students learn differently than faculty teach, it

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Engineering Student Involvement in K-12 Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jed Lyons, University of South Carolina; Veronica Addison, University of South Carolina; Stephen Thompson, University of South Carolina

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

design.Stephen Thompson, University of South Carolina Stephen Thompson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Instruction and Teacher Education at the University of South Carolna. He teaches and conducts research in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. Page 12.785.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 GK-12 Engineering Workshop for Science and Math TeachersAbstractThis paper describes the implementation and outcomes of a summer workshop for middle schoolmathematics and science teachers. The focus was on engineering-oriented activities thatintegrated

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Educational Software

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeff Joines, North Carolina State University; Stephen Roberts, North Carolina State University; Dianne Raubenheimer, North Carolina State University

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Computers in Education

that there are other approaches to this course. We describe our own “solution.” Page 12.391.2A Bit of HistoryThe computing course was introduced to the engineering curriculum sometime in the late 1950sand early 1960s. If you got your engineering degree before 1965, you probably took a Fortranprogramming class using something like an IBM 1620. You prepared your program on punchedcards and “loaded” the cards along with the operating system components onto the machine.Computing technology dramatically changed over time - from cards to terminals and magnetictapes and from 16 bit machines to 64 bit machines (mainframes). Even the programminglanguage

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Leroy R. Cox; Katie Grantham Lough

communication. Technical Communication Quarterly, 8(3), 16.2. Bailey, D. (1983). Foreign teaching assistants at U.S. universities: Problems in interaction and communication. TESOL Quarterly, 17(3), 308-310.3. Boyd, G. & Hassett, M. (2000). Developing critical writing skills in engineering and technology students. Journal of Engineering Education, 89(4), 409-412.4. Bruffee, K. (1986). Social construction, language, and the authority of knowledge: a bibliographic essay. College English, 48(8), 19.5. Felder, R.M. & Silverman, L.K. (1988). Learning and teaching styles engineering education. Engineering Education, 78(7), 674-681.6. Oakley, B., Connery, B., & Allen, K. (1999). Incorporating writing skills

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Foster Excellence

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tony Mitchell, North Carolina State University; Angelitha Daniel, North Carolina State University

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Minorities in Engineering

success was proved with our engineeringmodel, it was replicated across campus in other schools and colleges. Research has shown thatfirst year student success is highly dependent on support services and programs, particularly forminority students1, 2.On our campus, student diversity is enhanced by increasing the numbers of African-American, Page 12.1298.2Native-American and Hispanic students (together referred to as minority or under-representedstudents). These three groups are designated under-represented by the US federal governmentbecause the rate at which they seek college degrees in science, technology, engineering andmathematics, is

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FPD3 -- Professional Issues for First-Year Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen High, Oklahoma State University; Rebecca Damron, Oklahoma State University

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First-Year Programs

criteria of ABET(Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology) call “professional” skills. Theseprofessional skills highlight recognition in the field of engineering that in order to Page 12.253.2compete in a global context, students must be prepared to communicate, work in teams,understand the impact of various decision-making processes, and engage in lifelonglearning among others. Shuman, Besterfield-Sacre and McGourty2 outline the elements ofthese professional skills and categorize them as either “process” or “awareness” skills andargue that these skills can be taught and assessed. The challenge then becomes how toteach these skills. Smith

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Deborah Switzer, Clemson University; Lisa Benson, Clemson University

capability of the individual). If any one of these elements is zero, motivation will be zero. Toincrease motivation, one must try to guarantee that none of the elements are zero, or even nearzero. Additionally, it is important to realize that increasing any ONE of the elements will resultin increased motivation. VIE Theory has been used as a theoretical base for motivationalplanning in industry and business2.Context: Outreach Activity Freshman engineering students typically participate in a design course during theirsecond semester. During the Spring 2006 semester, these students were assigned a designchallenge to create active learning tools for middle and high school students that demonstrate aconcept, process or technology in science

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Entrepreneurial Leadership and Non-traditional Ways to Engage Students in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen High, Oklahoma State University; Paul Rossler, Oklahoma State University; Martin High, Oklahoma State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

-Engineering curriculum. Dr. High is involved with the development of an undergraduate entrepreneurship program at Oklahoma State University.Paul Rossler, Oklahoma State University PAUL E. ROSSLER directs the Engineering and Technology Management Program and co-directs the Legal Studies in Engineering Program at Oklahoma State University and is an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management. He is a licensed professional engineer and holds a M.S. and Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Virginia Tech.Martin High, Oklahoma State University MARTIN S. HIGH founded and co-directs the Legal Studies in Engineering Program at Oklahoma State University and is an Associate Professor of

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Assessment of K-12 Engineering Programs and Issues

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kelly Hutchinson, Purdue University; Shawn Stevens, University of Michigan; Namsoo Shin Hong, University of Michigan; Molly Yunker, University of Michigan; Cesar Delgado, University of Michigan; George Bodner, Purdue University; William Fornes, Purdue University; Nick Giordano, Purdue University; Joseph Krajcik, University of Michigan

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2007-2278: SECONDARY STUDENTS' BELIEFS ABOUT THEIR INTERESTSIN NANOSCALE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERINGKelly Hutchinson, Purdue UniversityShawn Stevens, University of MichiganNamsoo Shin Hong, University of MichiganMolly Yunker, University of MichiganCesar Delgado, University of MichiganWilliam Fornes, Purdue UniversityGeorge Bodner, Purdue UniversityNick Giordano, Purdue UniversityJoseph Krajcik, University of Michigan Page 12.1258.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Secondary Students’ Beliefs about their Interests in Nanoscale Science and EngineeringAbstractResearch has shown that increasing students’ interests in science

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2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Patrick H. Oosthuizen

report on the procedures used in the crash investigations of some ofthe crashes considered here. The official reports on the crashes that can be downloaded from theinternet can be used as a basis for these reports.References[1] H. Petroski, To Engineer is Human: the Role of Failure in Successful Design, St Martin's Press, New York, 1985.[2] D. Lawson, Engineering Disasters – Lessons to be Learned, ASME Press, New York, 2005.[3] R.M. Boisjoly, Ethical decisions - Morton Thiokol and the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Paper No. 87-WA/TS-4, 1987.[4] J.H. Fielder and D. Birsch, Eds., The DC-1O Case: A Study in Applied Ethics, Technology and Society, State University of New York Press, Albany, NY

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Programmatic Issues in Engineering Physics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Denise Martinez, Tarleton State University

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Engineering Physics & Physics

AC 2007-764: FIRST-TIME ACCREDITATION OF A SMALL,MULTIDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING PHYSICS PROGRAMDenise Martinez, Tarleton State University Dr. Denise Martinez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Physics and Engineering at Tarleton State University. Her research interests include K12 Outreach and Engineering Education Techniques and Assessment as well as Control Systems and Signal Processing. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2001 and is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education and the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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FPD10 -- Pre-Engineering and Bridge Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Blair Rowley, Wright State University; Kumar Yelamarthi, Wright State University; Cory Miller, Wright State University; Thomas L. Bazzoli, Wright State University

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First-Year Programs

THOMAS L. BAZZOLI is Assistant Dean for Fiscal Affairs and Research. He holds the MS in Nuclear Science and Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology. During his Air Force career he directed diverse research programs in modeling and testing of system performance, compositional mapping of submicron materials and machine translation of text. He was instrumental in establishing the college’s freshman program. Page 12.764.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Freshman Engineering Student Responses to a Pre-College Perception SurveyAbstractEngineering

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Yahong Rosa Zheng; Sarat K. Chitneni; Daryl G. Beetner

athttp://ece.umr.edu/documents/112_exp_4_10_Aug06-2.pdf.[8] José Ignacio Mateos Albiach, “Interfacing a processor in FPGA to an audio system”, Master thesis in Electronicssystems at Linköping Institute of Technology, 2006.[9] Altera literature documents: Quartus II v 5.1 Handbook, AN 306: Implementing Multipliers in FPGA Devices(ver 3.0, Jul 2004, data sheets provided with quartus software: DE2 pin table, Wolfson microelectronics WM8731Audio codec data sheet. Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 10Biographical informationYAHONG ROSA ZHENGDr. Yahong Rosa Zheng received the B.S

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Waleed K. Al-Assadi; Mandar V. Joshi; Sagar R. Gosavi; Daryl Beetner

Incorporating Altera FPGA Demo boards in Computer Engineering Labs Waleed K. Al-Assadi, Mandar V. Joshi, Sagar R. Gosavi, and Daryl Beetner Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Missouri-Rolla Rolla, MO 65401 {waleed, mvjvx8, srggz3, daryl} @ umr.edu Abstract Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are widely used as teaching tools in universitycomputer engineering laboratories. Numerous computationally intensive applications such as IPcores, ASICs and microcontrollers are prototyped on FPGAs to reduce the number of cycles andthe time to market. This paper

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Student Diversity: attracting and retaining a diverse population of students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Deborah Kilgore, University of Washington; Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Heidi Loshbaugh, Colorado School of Mines; Janice McCain, Howard University; Marcus Jones, Howard University; Ken Yasuhara, University of Washington

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Educational Research and Methods

argue thatproviding opportunities to foster contextual awareness and student engagement should result ingreater satisfaction for all students.BackgroundEducators, professionals and policy-makers alike recognize that contemporary engineering mustbe studied and practiced in context. The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) envisions an“Engineer of 2020” who demonstrates “dynamism, agility, resilience, and flexibility” to designfor an uncertain and rapidly changing world.1 Contextual conditions like a fragile globaleconomy, increased mobility of jobs and workers, rapid development of information andcommunication technologies, growing calls for social responsibility,2 and rising complexity ofengineered products3 all warrant engineering students

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FPD11 -- Multidisciplinary Experiences

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John-David Yoder, Ohio Northern University; Beverly Jaeger, Northeastern University; John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University

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First-Year Programs

really learned a lot about new engineering and technology innovations.It must also be noted that there were some areas of negative comments. Many studentscommented on the lack of depth in topics, while others noted that in their section, the topics werenot distributed evenly. Other students did not see connections between global issues and theirlives. Common examples were: Only about 2 or 3 students gave presentations having to with engineering issues in history so I didn't really learn much. Again, people chose issues in foreign countries, not many any relation to me. Not to[sic] many local presentations. Very little depth, however a few new concepts.The next two questions asked whether the students found the

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New Trends in ECE Education I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Lord, University of San Diego

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Electrical and Computer

. Students are addressing their peers in their remarks in the discussion aswell as their summaries so they are communicating to a well-defined audience. Engineers in theworkplace often present summaries, investigate new technologies, and/or lead meetings, so thisexperience provides useful practice for an engineering career. Finally, the experience is notoverly burdensome to the engineering faculty instructor as there is not too much grading to bedone and some class time is led by students so there is less need for the professor to prepare. Itdoes, however, require organization at the beginning of the semester to insure that every studenthas the opportunity to present.Student response to the class was quite enthusiastic as may be expected for a small

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International Distance & Service Learning for Engineers- Discussion on Best Practices

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chris Swan, Tufts University; David Gute, Tufts University; Douglas Matson, Tufts University; John Durant, Tufts University

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International

AC 2007-1294: INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY-BASED PROJECTS ANDENGINEERING EDUCATION: THE ADVISOR'S VIEWPOINTChris Swan, Tufts University Dr. Swan is an Associate Professor in and current chair of the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at Tufts University. His current interests are the reuse of recovered or recyclable materials and sustainable construction.David Gute, Tufts University Dr. Gute is an Associate Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Tufts university. He has traveled numerous times with the teams who have gone to Ghana. His research interests are in occupational and environmental health.Douglas Matson, Tufts University Dr. Matson is an

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Capstone Design III

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Abbott, University of Missouri; Katie Grantham Lough, University of Missouri

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2007-2927: COMPONENT FUNCTIONAL TEMPLATES AS ANENGINEERING DESIGN TEACHING AIDDaniel Abbott, University of MissouriKatie Grantham Lough, University of Missouri Page 12.388.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 A Review of Component Functional Templates as an Engineering Design Education AidAbstractFunctional modeling is an essential part of engineering design education. At the University ofMissouri-Rolla, functional modeling is taught in an introductory engineering design course,required of every freshman-engineering student, and is exhibited through some graduate studentlevel courses as well. In these courses, often an active

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Marketing Engineering to Minority Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela Lemons, NC A&T State University

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Minorities in Engineering

AC 2007-2552: ATTRACTING AND RETAINING MINORITIES INPROFESSORIAL RANKSAngela Lemons, NC A&T State University Angela Lemons is a full-time Instructor in the Department of Electronics, Computer, and Information Technology at North Carolina A&T State University. She is currently working on her Doctorate degree at Nova Southeastern University in Information Systems with a concentration in Information Security. She teaches Computer Hardware and Software, Information Technology Project Management, Network Security, and other courses within the Information Technology program. Her area of research/technology interest is security. Angela Lemons and colleague Ronnie Rollins started an

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Design Experiences in Energy Systems

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Lau, Pennsylvania State University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

AC 2007-568: USING MODEL SOLAR RACERS AS AN INTRODUCTION TOENGINEERINGAndrew Lau, Pennsylvania State University Page 12.1556.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Using Model Solar Racers as an Introduction to EngineeringAbstractThis engineering first-year seminar course was first offered in spring 2001 and is based on thesuccessful middle school program, the Junior Solar Sprint. Student teams compete to design,build and race small-scale photovoltaic (PV)-powered vehicles. This hands-on experience servesmany goals, most notably as a fun introduction to engineering design, analysis, and testing.Solar Racers makes a great topic because of the many relevant