Conference Session

Experiments and Laboratories in Mechanical Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexander Colletti, The College of New Jersey; Joseph Monaghan, The College of New Jersey; Bijan Sepahpour, The College of New Jersey

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

AC 2008-2556: A COMPREHENSIVE LABORATORY CURRICULUM IN SINGLEDEGREE OF FREEDOM (S-D-F) VIBRATIONS; PHASE I – WORKING MODELEXPERIMENTSAlexander Colletti, The College of New Jersey Alexander Colletti Alex Colletti is a senior mechanical engineering major at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). He has been involved in TCNJ’s Mini-Baja SAE project and Society of Automotive Engineers (where he was secretary). He is also a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). After graduation Alex plans to go on to graduate school to obtain a PhD in the field of energy and heat transfer. He is working on the forced response system of the apparatus.Joseph Monaghan, The College of New Jersey

Conference Session

Capstone Design III

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohamed El-Sayed, Kettering University; Steven Beyerlein, University of Idaho

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Design in Engineering Education

-based classroom practitioners at the University of Idaho Page 13.362.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 DESIGN AND INTEGRATION OF A CAPSTONE COURSE TO ACHIEVE PROGRAM OUTCOMESAbstractA capstone is the top and last stone in a building. Similarly, a capstone course is usually the peakand last experience for students in a higher education program. Depending on the discipline andinstitution capstone courses may take the form of group projects, senior seminars, research, orany other activity that successfully integrates and synthesizes what students have learned throughthe academic program

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ece Yaprak, Wayne State University; Karen Tonso, Wayne State University

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Computers in Education

1999 Mary Catherine Ellwein Outstanding Dissertation Award (Qualitative Research Methodology) and the 1998 Selma Greenberg Distinguished Dissertation Award (Research on Women and Education) from the American Educational Research Association. She received the 2006 Distinguished Paper Award for her article “Engineer Identity” from Cultural Studies of Education. She is currently the PI of ESCALATE: Engineering & Science Careers in Academia, Learning from ADVANCE and Translating Effectively, an NSF ADVANCE-PAID Project. Address: #319 Education, 5425 Gullen Mall, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, 313-577-1764 (v), 313-577-5235 (f), ag7246@wayne.edu

Conference Session

Design: Content and Context

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mieke Schuurman, Pennsylvania State University; Christine B. Masters, Pennsylvania State University; Peggy Van Meter, Pennsylvania State University; Gül Okudan, Pennsylvania State University

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Educational Research and Methods

the issues of students' strategic processes in learning settings. Currently, she is working on NSF funded projects in engineering including projects to incorporate design experiences into engineering classes and the design of interventions for students in Statics.Gül Okudan, Pennsylvania State University Gül E. Okudan is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Design and Industrial Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. She received her Ph.D. from University of Missouri-Rolla. Her research interests include product design and product design teams. Her published work appears in journals such as Journal of Mechanical Design, Design Studies, Journal of Engineering Design, Journal

Conference Session

FPD1 - Early Success and Retention

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna Reese, Mississippi State University; Robert Green, Mississippi State University

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First-Year Programs

Tougaw4 provide a survey of the common philosophies behind currentIntroduction to Engineering classes at other institutions. Although the MSU class is closelyaligned with the category that they identify as providing the basic survival skills for collegestudents, the MSU course also covers engineering specific topics as well. A conscious decisionwas made not to develop a project-oriented course (e.g., Elzey1; Lo, Lohani and Griffin7) due tothe significant investment of faculty resources for such a course. Typically students in thesetypes of courses have been admitted into engineering and the goal of such courses is to developtheir design skills and pique their interest in engineering. The faculty have a vested interest inputting the required

Conference Session

Sustainability and Environmental Issues

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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P. Paxton Marshall, University of Virginia; Farhad Omar, University of Virginia; Alexander Hydrogen Martin, University of Virginia; James Durand, University of Virginia

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2008-733: RENEWABLE ENERGY FOR LEARNING BARGEP. Paxton Marshall, University of VirginiaFarhad Omar, University of VirginiaAlexander Hydrogen Martin, University of VirginiaJames Durand, University of Virginia Page 13.1035.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Renewable Energy for Learning BargeTM American Society for Engineering Education 2008 Annual ConferenceIntroduction Learning BargeTM is joint project of the schools of architecture and engineering atthe University of Virginia to design and build an energy self-sufficient floating classroomthat offers an interactive, hands-on learning experience focused on ecological restoration

Conference Session

Instructional Methods and Tools in BME

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ann Saterbak, Rice University; Tracy Volz, Rice University

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Biomedical

Director and an award-winning instructor for the Cain Project in Engineering and Professional Communication at Rice University. She supports written, oral, and visual communication instruction in science and engineering courses. In addition to working with students, Dr. Volz has conducted communication seminars about oral presentations, interviewing, and technical poster design for the Texas Society of Professional Engineers and Baylor College of Medicine. Page 13.708.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Implementing Calibrated Peer Review™ to Enhance Technical

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Richard B. Mindek

. The topicof PLC’s was covered as the eleventh of twelve three-hour lectures given over the entire semester. Thelecture was quite extensive, covering Chapter 8 in Reference [1], including the characteristics andelements of PLCs, the use of truth tables, Boolean algebra, ladder logic and associated symbolism, andexamples demonstrating discrete process control using both logic (event) driven and sequence (time)driven system changes. Students were then asked to read the corresponding material in the text [1] forhomework, given instruction for about 15 minutes on the use of the PLC platform and its associatedsoftware as described above, and then given a PLC project to complete. The project required students tocomplete the exercises, as outlined in

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Richard B. Mindek

. The topicof PLC’s was covered as the eleventh of twelve three-hour lectures given over the entire semester. Thelecture was quite extensive, covering Chapter 8 in Reference [1], including the characteristics andelements of PLCs, the use of truth tables, Boolean algebra, ladder logic and associated symbolism, andexamples demonstrating discrete process control using both logic (event) driven and sequence (time)driven system changes. Students were then asked to read the corresponding material in the text [1] forhomework, given instruction for about 15 minutes on the use of the PLC platform and its associatedsoftware as described above, and then given a PLC project to complete. The project required students tocomplete the exercises, as outlined in

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Richard B. Mindek

. The topicof PLC’s was covered as the eleventh of twelve three-hour lectures given over the entire semester. Thelecture was quite extensive, covering Chapter 8 in Reference [1], including the characteristics andelements of PLCs, the use of truth tables, Boolean algebra, ladder logic and associated symbolism, andexamples demonstrating discrete process control using both logic (event) driven and sequence (time)driven system changes. Students were then asked to read the corresponding material in the text [1] forhomework, given instruction for about 15 minutes on the use of the PLC platform and its associatedsoftware as described above, and then given a PLC project to complete. The project required students tocomplete the exercises, as outlined in

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Research

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Lambrechts, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Environmental Engineering

buildings.IntroductionIn Boston, there are many thousands of rowhouse residences that are founded on wood piles.The information presented herein provides an overview of the problems of groundwater andwood piles and the struggle to preserve these vital foundations for many thousands of buildingsin the filled land areas of Boston. Several issues related to the preservation of wood pilefoundations are discussed with particular reference to the work of a number of students fromWentworth Institute of Technology over the past decade both on their co-op work semesters, assenior design projects, and as special topics study. Their efforts have included observation wellreadings, research for wood pile top elevations, details on fill soil composition and location,study into

Conference Session

Topics in K-12 Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Miller, Society of Automotive Engineers International; Elizabeth Bachrach, Goodman Research Group, Inc.

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

managed over 35 projects at GRG, ranging from national outreach initiatives accompanying public television series and documentaries to multimedia educational packages, and professional development workshops and distance learning for K-12 teachers. In addition to managing multiple projects, she has written proposals and designed evaluation plans for projects that have received funding from the NSF, NIH, and HHS, and serves as an internal consultant on several evaluations. Dr. Bachrach earned a Certificate of Completion from RIVA (Research in Values and Attitudes) Moderator Training and has expertise conducting focus groups with children and adults as well as evaluating

Conference Session

Fostering and Assessing Effective Teaming

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Senay Purzer; Dale Baker, Arizona State University; Chell Roberts, Arizona State University; Stephen Krause, Arizona State University

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2008-259: DEVELOPMENT OF A TEAM INTERACTION OBSERVATIONPROTOCOL AND A SELF-EFFICACY SURVEY USING SOCIAL COGNITIVETHEORY AS A FRAMEWORKSenay Yasar Purzer, Arizona State University Senay Yasar-Purzer is a Ph.D. candidate in Science Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Arizona State University (ASU). She currently works as a graduate research associate in the Communication in Science Inquiry Project, an NSF-funded teacher professional development program. She earned her master’s degree in Science Education at ASU. She has a BS degree in Physics Education and is currently pursuing another B.S.E degree with a concentration in mechanical systems. In 2007, she received the Dean’s

Conference Session

Assessing the Efficacy of Non-traditional Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Melani Plett, Seattle Pacific Univ; Donald Peter, Seattle Pacific University; Steven Parsons, Seattle Pacific University; Brad Gjerding, Seattle Pacific University

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Continuing Professional Development

pursuing one. To serve this population, and enable theirrich practical work experiences to enhance the education of our traditional on-campus students,we are implementing the following scenario.Local technical workers stay in their offices at lunch-time sitting at computers armed withheadphones and microphones to attend, and participate in, an electric circuits class via aninternet connection. Other students, on the university campus, sit in a traditional classroomsetting augmented with room microphones. Both groups of students view the electronicwhiteboard that is generated by the instructor writing on a Tablet PC projected to the campusclassroom through an LCD projector and to the off-campus students through Adobe Connectsoftware. Two students

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M.P. Sharma, University of Wyoming; Robert W. Peters, University of Alabama at Birmingham

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Engineering Ethics

Bruntland commission’s definition which defines it “as meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet their own needs.” The concept and practice of sustainability has become very important in engineering profession. We conducted a project to determine and unravel the current state of integration of sustainability in engineering education at the colleges and universities across the nation. We conducted a survey and collected data from universities in US on teaching of the subject of sustainability in their curricula. We asked questions on what topics of sustainability were integrated in those courses. We also researched on identifying several key activities and indicators in this study. This paper

Conference Session

Bridging and Freshman Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phillip Mlsna, Northern Arizona University; Janet McShane, Northern Arizona University; Jennifer Maynard, Northern Arizona University; Maya Lanzetta, Northern Arizona University; Chester Ismay, Northern Arizona University; Sarah Brown, Northern Arizona University

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Mathematics

the basis of our TIMES project: Training Intuition in Math for EngineeringSuccess. Measurement of the improvements in student mathematical abilities as well as rates ofretention and academic success are very important goals of the project.The TIMES project is a significant pilot effort that has potential for broader implementation infields beyond engineering. TIMES consists of several different types of activities, all focusedupon improving targeted math and conceptual reasoning skills in the students. The overallstrategy is to give the students the guidance, help, and training on an individual basis as much aspossible. The focus lies upon the individual student’s needs and how he or she can achieve thebest gains in the topic skills. The

Conference Session

Applications of Engineering Economy

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Merino, Stevens Institute of Technology; Jakob Carnemark, SKANSKA

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Engineering Economy

AC 2008-835: OPTIMIZING DATA CENTER REDUNDANCYDonald Merino, Stevens Institute of Technology Donald N. Merino is a tenured full professor and the Alexander Crombie Humphreys Chaired Professor of Economics of Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. He teaches Engineering Economy, Decision Analysis, Total Quality Management, and Strategic Planning. He is Founder Emeritus of the undergraduate Bachelor of Engineering in Engineering Management (BEEM) and the Executive Master in Technology Management (EMTM) Program at Stevens. He won the Morton Distinguished Teaching Award for full professors at Stevens. John Wiley published his book, “The Selection Process for Capital Projects”. Dr

Conference Session

International CIase Studies: Collabs, Exchanges & Interactions

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Willie Ofosu, Pennsylvania State University - Wilkes-Barre

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International

and KwameNkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana in incorporatinglocal environmental conditions in a telecommunications program at the baccalaureatelevel through a student project in Broadband Powerline Communication.IntroductionInformation dissemination is a major contributor to development and at present, severalsources of data are available to those who can access them. The sources are availablethrough the Internet and to access these, two factors must be attended to. These areinformation communication technology (IT or ICT) and the digital divide. These two are Page 13.557.2essential for obvious reasons. ICT is a world-wide

Conference Session

History and Future of Engineering Technology

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University; Terence Geyer, Eastern Washington University

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Engineering Technology

bringing the past into the present in a tangible format, studentsdeveloped a more complete understanding of historical technologies along with the engineeringchallenges they presented, overcame, and all of the steps in between.The results from this project indicate an increased student awareness, interest, and retention ofjust how technology has evolved. In addition, graduates of the Engineering Technology Programnow have a better understanding of past technological issues that can be used to address futurechallenging and competitive situations.IntroductionEngineering students are taught to design, develop, and build things of all sizes, shapes, anddescriptions. In most cases, their objectives are to solve a problem, create a new product, orsimply

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn Barger, University of South Florida; Richard Gilbert, USF; Eric Roe, Hillsborough Community College; Bradley Jenkins, Saint Petersburg College

, Hillsborough Community College ERIC A. ROE is the Director of FLATE, an NSF Regional Center of Excellence in Manufacturing Education. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of South Florida (USF). During his time at USF, he has researched fluidized bed drying, been a consultant to the Citrus Industry, worked on Florida Department of Citrus research projects, and the High School Technology Initiative - funded by NSF. Prior to USF, he was employed as a technologist in Research and Development at Tropicana Products, Inc. with process and product development responsibilities. His research interests are food engineering, fluidized bed drying, and the

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Northrup, Western New England College; John Burke, Western New England College

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Electrical and Computer

circuits courses.In the original sequence of courses, the two courses had a total of approximately 12 laboratoryexperiments and one project. In the modified linear circuits sequence, there was a strongeremphasis on laboratory experience, project work, and open-ended design. There was also anincreased use of pre- and post-lab simulation. In the second linear circuits course, an activelearning model was also employed to improve learning by allowing students to practice moreproblem solving at their own pace10,11. The students met with their professors twice a week for 2½ hours for lecture, recitation, problem and/or laboratory work. The lectures were typically abrief introduction to theory followed by one or two example problems. The students used

Conference Session

Challenges of CE Education in a Global World

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fred Meyer, United States Military Academy; C. Conley; Joseph Hanus, United States Military Academy; James Ledlie Klosky

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Civil Engineering

shaded) are part of the USMA corecurriculum that is taken by all students. An elective in geotechnical engineering is availablewithin the CE program, and several electives in environmental engineering are also availablefrom outside the program. There is currently not an additional course in constructionmanagement or hydrology & hydraulics available within the USMA CE program.The Need for ChangeReports from the field have indicated that CE graduates are adequately proficient in thetraditional areas of engineering, but lack additional expertise in areas like project management,power generation, transmission and distribution, geomatics, and infrastructure assessment. Theterm “SWEAT” which is an acronym standing for Sewage, Water, Electricity

Conference Session

Research Infrastructure in STEM Disciplines

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Liu, California State University-Los Angeles; Jianyu Dong, California State University-Los Angeles

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Minorities in Engineering

Project which allows Hispanic students froma local High School district to participate in the SERENADES researches in summers. Inaddition, three senior/graduate level courses have been developed to leverage the research resultsof real-time and embedded systems, and image processing from the SERENADES laboratory tothe electrical engineering curriculum at CSULA. Page 13.1133.21. IntroductionCalifornia State University (CSULA), Pasadena City College (PCC), and University of SouthernCalifornia (USC) have established partnerships through an educational pipeline under theNASA’s MUCERPI program. The associated activities were conducted mainly in the

Conference Session

Beyond Individual Ethics: Engineering in Context

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Byron Newberry, Baylor University; William Lawson, Texas Tech University; Kathy Austin, Texas Tech University; Greta Gorsuch, Texas Tech University; Thomas Darwin, University of Texas at Austin

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Liberal Education

. Gorsuch, Ed.D. Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Second Language Studies, Texas Tech UniversityThomas Darwin, University of Texas at Austin Thomas Darwin, Ph.D. Director, Professional Development & Community Engagement, The Graduate School, The University of Texas at Austin Page 13.372.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Design of Web-based Professional Ethics Modules to Alleviate Acculturation Barriers for International Graduate Students in EngineeringAbstractThis paper reports on an ongoing National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored research andeducation project.1 In recent years

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bradley Bishop, U.S. Naval Academy; Joel Esposito, U.S. Naval Academy; Jenelle Piepmeier, U.S. Naval Academy

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Computers in Education

walkingrobot.The projects discussed in this paper have the following set of objectives. 1) To introduce and explore methods for locomotion other than wheels and tracks. 2) To demonstrate the methodology for both structural design and gait synthesis in articulation-based locomotion. 3) To demonstrate a methodology for extrapolating biological locomotion methods to robotic systems.The metrics for success in these endeavors involve measurement of the performance of thestudents’ designs as well as evaluation of the insight generated during the exercise. As such, allprojects receive a performance grade separate from the report grade, wherein students maymitigate some of the poor performance of the system through careful exposition and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Rabb; David Chang, United States Military Academy

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

projects and examples, elucidated by discipline specific instructors, to academic settings.IntroductionRecently the National Academy of Engineering developed a publication “Educating the Engineerof 2020”, which mentioned many ideas of co-teaching, just in time teaching, and multi-disciplinary teaching. Industry and various academic institutions feel that it is vital to integrateengineering because most systems existing presently are developed with integrated engineeringteams1. Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA) proposed and was awarded National ScienceFoundation funds in 1987 to develop an Enhanced Experience for Engineering Education (E4)2.This program integrated students and faculty from all engineering disciplines for the first twoyears of

Conference Session

Topics at the intersection of Aero and Naval Eng.

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Konstantin Matveev, Washington State University

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Ocean and Marine

. One research project andoutreach activities are described in this paper.IntroductionAdvanced air-assisted marine craft, such as Power Augmented Ram Vehicles (PARV), Wing-In-Grounds (WIG), and Air Cavity Ships (ACS), can benefit many naval and civil applications,including landing/patrol/rescue missions, high-speed Sealift, Arctic operations, and shipping andrecreational industries. For example, a demand for these craft has been demonstrated by a recentBroad Agency Announcement of the Office of Naval Research.1 Due to complexity oftechnologies associated with high-speed motion at the air-sea interface and complex physics ofmulti-phase flows, traditional rigorous R&D approaches require enormous resources andsophisticated facilities. These

Conference Session

International Division Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Boyer, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg; Aldo Morales, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg

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International

University at Harrisburg. Page 13.16.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 A Color Image Merging Algorithm Using MATLAB Eric Boyer and Aldo Morales Electrical Engineering Program Penn State Harrisburg Middletown, PA 17057Abstract:Students in the Electrical Engineering program at Penn State Harrisburg have manyopportunities to apply their acquired knowledge through hands-on course projects andlaboratory experiences in electronics, digital and image processing, VLSI, power andother courses, in addition to their capstone

Conference Session

Educating Graduates in Engineering for a Flat World

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melany Ciampi, Organization of Researches in Environment, Health and Safety; Claudio Brito, Council of Researches in Education and Sciences

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International

Engineering Program proposed by COPEC-OPASS educational programs designteam can be described as: The field of study, which main goal is to solve social issues promotingthe civilization evolution. It is not just the application of technology to solve social issues. It is apractical study which tries to reform the society by means of the development of new policies,planning, or by presenting concepts. Certainly it is not an easy task to accomplish such programprincipally because it is a bold ambitious project and because it is an engineering program lesstechnical and more practical. Anyway the whole concept is very new and feasible once it is Page

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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jeffrey S. Burmeister; Kyle A. Watson; Maria Garcia-Sheets

mostly middle and senior high school students (some sitesoffer services to elementary schools) and is administered through local centers, located onuniversity campuses, that partner with area school districts. The main program components ofthe MSP model include: MESA Day Academies where students follow MESA developed curriculum that reinforce California Math and Science Standards to build hands-on projects bringing lessons learned in the classroom to reality. Students enter these projects in rigorous local competitions; winners advance to regional, and in some instances, national competitions. MESA Periods which are classes, taught during the regular school day, dedicated to highlighting engineering, science, and mathematical