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Molecular and Multiscale Phenomena

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Keith

mass transfer fundamentalswithin specific fuel cell components to improve their performance. These projects willinvolve both graduate students and the AFE enterprise. In addition, assessment of theAFE enterprise is currently underway and will be reported at a future ASEE conference.AcknowledgmentsThe author would like to thank the United States Army Tank Automotive and ArmamentsCommand (TACOM) and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation for projectfunding.Bibliography 1. J. M. Keith, C. Dugar, J. Meyer, and N. Norman, “A Hands-On Multidisciplinary Design Course for Chemical Engineering Students,” ASEE Conference Proceedings (2001). 2. J. M. Keith, “Learning Outside the Toybox,” ASEE Conference Proceedings (2002). 3. S

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Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Walsh; Sean Pearson; Jeffrey Cotton; Jane Hall; Robert Caverly

. These circuit components are introduced early in thestudent s academic career, but usually only as ideal circuit elements. Concepts such as resistive1 Now with Lockheed Martin Corp., King of Prussia, PA. Page 9.811.12 Now with Raytheon Corp., Chelmsford, MA

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Tricks of the Trade: The Tenure Process

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roli Varma

of Gains for Female Faculty?" Teachers College Record, 93, 697-709.5. P. Bronstein, E. Rothblum & S. Solomon. (1993). "Ivy Halls and Glass Walls: Barriers to Academic Careers for Women and Ethnic Minorities" in J. Gainen and R. Boice (eds.) New Directions for Teaching and Research. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.6. J. Buck. (2001). “The President’s Report” Academe, September-October, 18-20.7. D.E. Chubin & E. Hackett. (1990). Peerless Science: Peer Review and US Science Policy. Albany: State University of New York at Albany Press.8. R.T.D. De George. (1997). Academic Freedom and Tenure: Ethical Issues. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.9. J. Dewey. (1902). “Academic Freedom

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Curriculum Issues in Software Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Chenoweth; Donald Bagert

in the area of undergraduate softwareengineering education over the past five years. In the late 1990’s, the ABET, the accreditationbody for applied science, engineering, computing and technology degree programs in the UnitedStates, approved criteria for accrediting software engineering under the EngineeringAccreditation Commission (EAC). Four programs were accredited in 2003, and another two in20048. Page 10.653.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Category

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Pete Jankovsky; Matt Valerio; Jack Skinner; Khalid Al-Olimat

Calculation of Electrical Quantities in Three Phase Circuits using MATLAB Khalid S. Al-Olimat, Pete Jankovsky, Matt Valerio and Jack Skinner Ohio Northern UniversityAbstractThis paper presents a MATLAB program that utilizes a Graphical User Interface (GUI) tocalculate the electrical quantities of three phase circuits. The GUI is designed in a way to allowthe user to enter the resistances and reactances of the source, the transmission line and that of theload respectively. It also requires a voltage value of one of the phases at the generator end. Thisprogram performs the calculations with respect to the specified connection type. There are fourtypes: wye-wye, wye-delta, delta-wye and delta

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Victor Giurgiutiu; David Rocheleau; Jed Lyons

Big Picture Guy – Interview with Broadcom, Inc., Co-founder Henry Samueli”, Prism, American Society for Engineering Education, April 2001, pp. 16-21Carryer, J. E. (2000) “March Madness: a Mechatronics Project Theme”, Mechatronics 2000 – 7th Mechatronics Forum International Conference, September 6-8, 2000, Atlanta, GA, CD-ROMCraig, K. (2000) “Inverted Pendulum Systems: Rotary and Arm-Driven – a Mechatronics System Design Case Study”, Mechatronics 2000 – 7th Mechatronics Forum International Conference, September 6-8, 2000, Atlanta, GA, CD-ROMField, S.; Meek, S.; Devasia, S. (2000) “Mechatronics Education in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah”, Mechatronics 2000 – 7th Mechatronics Forum

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Course/Program Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Tolan; James Hurny

made and parameters are established. In our situation, this happened at thedepartment level with department chairs establishing boundaries, and at the college level wherethe steering committee and associate dean made decisions and sorted through requests. Further,connecting the faculty developing the metrics with the college technical support with regularmeetings, allowed ideas to be floated, technical possibilities explored, and realities of cost,availability, institute data supply issues, and technical capability to be addressed.All this is easier ‘said than done.’ There is an inherent, traditional culture at work in academia.The 1990’s saw many attempts to implement Total Quality Management (TQM) in highereducation with many failures. TQM

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

? - È y% Ù È sin cos ÙÚ ÈÉ v ÙÚ ÈÉ Vc sin c ÙÚ (1) É Ú É %?rwhere x, y, and s""are the planar position and rotation variables in the world or inertialframe of reference and u, v, and r are the surge velocity, sway velocity and yaw rate withrespect to a reference frame attached to the USAV.In Equation (1) Vc and sc represent the ocean current magnitude and direction. The oceancurrent directly modifies the velocities in the inertial frame as evidenced from Equation(1).Exact dynamics of marine vessels becomes extremely complicated if all the added inertiaand first and higher order

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Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Per G. Reinhall; Paula R.L. Heron; Lesley Low; Brian C. Fabien

during an interval of time is a = -2v m/s2. When t = 0,its position is s = 0 and its velocity is v = 2 m/s. Determine the router’s velocity as afunction of time.2. Engineers analyzing the motion of a linkage determine that the velocity of anattachment point is given by v = A + 4s2 ft/s, where A is constant. When s = 2 ft, itsacceleration is measured and determined to be a = 320 ft/s2. What is its velocity whens = 2 ft?Because of the nature of the class, the post-test was a typical end-of-chapter textbookproblem. Unlike the pretest, students were required not only to use relevant equations,but also to apply them correctly in solving the problem. Thus success on the post-testindicates a higher degree of skill and understanding than did success on

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DEED Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Tester; Jerry Hatfield

] Courter, S. S.; Millar, S. B.; Syons, L.; From the students’ point of view: Experiences in a freshman engineering design course, Journal of Engineering Education, v87, n 3, p 283 – 287, Jul 1998.[2] Parcover, J. A., McCuen, R. H., Discovery Approach to Teaching Engineering Design, Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, p 236-241, Oct 1995.[3] Richardson, Jim; Dantzler, John, Effect of a freshman engineering program on retention and academic performance, 32nd Annual Frontiers in Education, v 3, p S2C/16-S2C/22, Nov 6-9 2002, Boston, MA, United States.[4] Piket-May, M.; Avery, J.; Service learning first year design retention results, 31st Annual Frontiers in Education, v 2, p F3C/19-F3C/22, 2001, Reno

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TIME 9: Thermal Fluids/Fluid Mechanics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

Society for Engineering Educationand T(0) = To and T(L s ı) = Tı , (2)where hP m? . (3) kAcIn this relation, Ac is the cross sectional area of the fin rod, h is the total heat transfer coefficient(due to both convection and radiation), k is the thermal conductivity of fin, and P is the perimeterof the fin rod. See Figure 2 for a schematic of the fin.The resulting temperature distribution is given by T ( x) / T¢ ? (To / T¢ ) exp(/mx) or s ( x ) ? s o exp( /mx ) , (4)where s = T(x) - T¢ and so = To - T¢. The

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Integrating Math into Engineering

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Arlie Donaldson

o s É Eq. 4where ̇¦ is the wire resistivity and the prime temperature represents values at future time andunprimed temperatures represent present time values. For the first air node, the equation can bewritten: dT1 Ç Ã T / T1 Ô Ã T / T2 Ôm1 c p ? k È As Ä o Õ / A1 Ä 1 ÕÙ dt É Å Fr / 2 Ö Å Fr ÖÚ ] m1 ? tV1 ? t r *R - Fr + L / rR 2 L 2 _ As ? 2rRL A1

Conference Session

Innovations in Learning by Doing

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wood; David Hansen; Brian Self

, experimental determination of center of mass and other assignments areused to prepare the students for a detailed analysis of their race car. Students used theseproblems to analytically determine the maximum acceleration of their cars during a 50-foot raceand the time required to complete a hill climbing contest. The stall torque of the car’s motor(s)is calculated using an incline test, then compared to the published motor torque of 0.276 in-lbs.If the students choose to use gearing or pulleys for their cars, they are required to calculate theeffective output torque using appropriate gear ratios and estimated power losses. Using thedetermined values for the vehicle center of mass, the mass moment of inertia, and the motortorque, the students

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Burbank

internal to the chip SIGNAL s : INTEGER RANGE 0 to 3; BEGIN PROCESS (carrier_clk, data_clk) -- if either clock changes, then execute this loop VARIABLE count : INTEGER RANGE 0 to 3; -- this is local variable for PROCESS only BEGIN -- Define a 4-bit D flip-flop for shift register IF (carrier_clk 'EVENT and carrier_clk = '1') THEN q <= d; ELSE q <= q; END IF; -- two bit counter for mux select IF (data_clk 'EVENT and data_clk = '1') THEN count := count +1; END IF; s <= count; END PROCESS; -- D flip flop section to create 50% duty cycle

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reuben Fan; Sean Brophy

it becomes apparent new fields are needed,DateTime Allowd that the information from previous versionsNumber of students contains the material.testedNumber of test itemsTest items thatmatch exactlyItem formats forthose that matchexactlyNature of thedifferences betweenassessments. Pre1vs. Pre2; Post1 vs.Post 2; Pre vs. Post;Pre1 vs. Post1ScoringType (rubric,summed score, %correct, rating…)Min/Max PossibleScoreScorer(s)ReliabilityDate of reliabilityassessmentWho conductedreliabilityassessmentReliability Estimate Page 8.248.5

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Design for Community

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Traig Born; Joel Glidden; Ann Wright; Andrew Wright

picture of the stacker mounted on the entire robot is shown in Figure 2.ConclusionFIRST provides an unparalleled opportunity to advance mechanical design education. Themain barriers include the inconvenient starting time, the short design time-line, the lack ofprepared educational materials, and the difficulty of reconciling the university’seducational goals with the service to the high school. This paper presents some ideas onhow to overcome these barriers.Dr. Andrew Wright, during his stay in industry and during his time teaching in thegraduate program at UALR has interacted with dozens of engineering graduates at alllevels (B.S., M. S., and Ph.D.). These graduates uniformly lack even the most basic designskills. The students who have passed

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: A Potpourri

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariesa Crow; Karen Butler-Purry; Noel Schulz

Science departments), seventeen (53%) of thewomen have left the university. While faculty members of all academic ranks have left UM-Rolla, there is a far greater percentage of women faculty members who leave early in theircareers than men.A preliminary study of the poor retention of women faculty has yielded several trends. On thepositive side, the Engineering and Science (E/S) women faculty are successful comparable totheir men colleagues. This conclusion is based on qualitative and quantitative metrics such asleadership positions, national awards and recognition, external funding levels, and scholarlypublications. Of the fourteen E/S women faculty, four hold significant leadership positions: oneis a department chair, one is the Director of an

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Leland

II. Polar Plots III. Drawing the Nyquist Diagram Class 3. Phase and Gain Margins. Goal: At the end of this class, each student should be able to determine the phase and gain margins of a feedback system from the Bode diagram of the loop transfer function. I. Nyquist Stability Test II. Example of a Third Order System III. Stability Margins a. Gain Margin b. Phase Margin c. Design ConsiderationsEach of the three classes included four cooperative learning exercises of about 5 minuteseach. Most exercises require students to make choices among two or more options andarticulate explanations of those choices.Examples:Exercise: Which GH(s) yield stable closed loop systems? Give

Conference Session

Industry Initiatives for Graduate Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Trioloa; Charles Garnett; Barry Mohle; Alfred Wicks; Robert Kavetsky; Eugene Brown

revitalization effort.BackgroundThe Department of the Navy is one of a growing number of Federal agencies which is expressingconcern about its ability to meet its future Science and Technology (S&T) workforce needs. Therecent trends in the number of Ph.D.s awarded in engineering which are given in Fig. 1 illustratethe nature of the problem. 8000 7000 6000 Number Awarded Engineering, total 5000 U.S. Citizens International

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Moriarty

vehicle and payload across the track, and forpreliminary estimates of potential vehicle mass and approximate completion time. A moredetailed model was then developed which incorporated multiple steps, thus moreaccurately reflecting the actual track contour, as shown in equation (1):  ( Vi + Vw) 2 + ( Vi+1 + Vw) 2 1  2 2 ⋅m⋅ ( Vi+1) − ( Vi)  + We⋅tan θ ⋅∆S + µ ⋅We⋅∆S + ⋅A⋅Cd ( ) 1  2⋅∆S 2  2  2 0

Conference Session

Virtual Instrumentation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

M. Kostic

appearance of fan blades to be stationary,moving slowly forward or even backward when lighted with certain blinking light frequencies bya stroboscope; or an unusual interference fringes on an image, or appearance of staircase stepsalong edges (jaggies) in an image when we know that the edge s are smooth. Each and every ofthese and other false appearances of something that is not, is due to limitations and interferenceof a perceiving or measurement system and perceived or measured signal, as effectivelyillustrated in Figure 3, with the developed virtual instrument.The ChallengeLearning is a challenging intellectual process, and new technologies have tremendous potentialto make an immense difference with its interactive (computational) and multimedia

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bianey Ruiz; Stephanie Adams

willbe safe to assume that the team experience is going to contribute to and support a better attitudetowards working in teams in the future.References1. Busse, R. (1992, May). The New basics: Today’s Employers Want the “Three Rs” and So Much More. Vocational Education Journal, 67(5), 24-25, 47.2. Alexander, M. W. & Stone S. F. (1997, February). Student perceptions of teamwork in the classroom: An analysis by gender. Business Education Forum, 51(3), 7-10.3. McFarland, W. P. (1992, May). Meeting of the Minds: Recognizing Styles of Conflict Management Helps Students develop ‘People Skills’. Vocational education Journal, 67(5), 26-274. Kunkel, J. G. & Shafer, W. E. (1997). Effects of student team learning in undergraduate auditing

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Nora Valeiras; Luis A. Godoy

of Engineering of UPR-M. The authorsacknowledge the contribution of Dr. Wanda Rodriguez-Arocho, who acted as aconsultant to the project in topics related to the psychology of learning.Bibliography1. Ashman, A. F. & Conway, R. N. F. (1997) An Introduction to Cognitive Education, Routledge, London.2. Brown, H. I (1977) The New Philosophy of Science, Precedent, Chicago, IL3. Brusaw, C. T., Alred, G. J. y Oliu, W. E. (1997), Handbook of Technical Writing, St. Martins Press, New York.4. Corso, G. S. & Williamson, S. C. (1999) The social construct of writing and thinking: Evidence of how the expansion of writing technology affects consciousness, Bull. Science, Technology and Society, 19(1), 32-45.5. Daniel, H. D. (1993

Conference Session

Design and Innovation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Monica Cardella; Cynthia Atman

Session 2630 Engineering Student Design Processes: Looking at Evaluation Practices Across Problems Monica E. Cardella 1, Cynthia J. Atman 1,2, Robin S. Adams 1, and Jennifer Turns1,3 1 Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching/ 2Department of Industrial Engineering/ 3Department of Technical Communication University of Washington, Seattle, WashingtonAbstractThe act of evaluating solutions is a common engineering design activity. Over the past eightyears we have used

Conference Session

ET Capstone Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Currin

the curriculumincluding those areas beyond which the department has co ntrol or is it only those areas within thedepartment s area of responsibility? We found these to be extremely difficult questions to answer.While outcomes assessment is meant to improve the program in its entirety, realistically dealingwith other departments and programs to facilitate changes is difficult if not impossible. This Page 7.1125.2affected our ability to develop the list of learning outcomes to be evaluated. Recognition thateven if a weakness were found that it would be nearly impossible to bring about a change causedus to avoid including those learning

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Haering

the use ofprograms that the students write themselves.I. IntroductionThe use of computer applications in engineering practice has grown significantly in the past 15years. At the same time, the nature of computer applications has changed. The mass adoption ofdesktop personal computers and the development of powerful applications for them haveprovided many useful alternatives and/or replacements for traditional mainframe applicationsthat have existed since the mid 1960's. At the same time, the need to understand traditionalanalytical engineering theory and problem solving techniques has not diminished. This presentsa dilemma to for instructors teaching basic sophomore-level engineering mechanics courses.Namely, early introduction to computer

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeanne Garland; Christine Helfers; Ronald Roedel; Sarah Duerden

, the company for which they work, their position, etc., you may also want to consider what makes them different from the stereotypes. Therefore, you may want to create questions that will allow you to discover that information. You may also want to note details about their lives outside work, their appearance, and so on.2. During the speaker(s) presentation(s), answer the following:• Name, Company, Position• Years of work/overview of career Page 6.627.4• Physical appearanceProceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright©2001 American Society for Engineering

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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching and Outreach

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith J. Bowman, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brenda Capobianco, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

(MSE) Outreach Efforts of Evolving Design Standards for Elementary EducationIntroductionThe recently awarded National Science Foundation project, Science Learning throughEngineering Design (SLED) is one of nineteen targeted Math and Science Partnerships (MSPs)focused on science education and one of four MSPs focused on elementary education1. Severalstates, including Massachusetts2-4, Indiana5 and Minnesota6, have established engineering design-based standards that have potential implications for effectively engaging elementary schoolteachers and students with content related to materials science and engineering. Thirty-ninestates, the District of Columbia and the U. S. Virgin Islands, have also adopted

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melanie R. Ford, Pennsylvania State University, Erie; Vibhuti Dave, Pennsylvania State University, Erie; Kathryn Holliday-Darr, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

unique outreach program specially designed for sixth grade students. Page 22.954.3The program incorporated hands-on activities from all the engineering majors offered at PennState Erie, The Behrend College into a fun interactive day within a limited amount of time.Penn State Erie, The Behrend College (Penn State Behrend) a stand-alone college of the PennState University has 4,700 students and is located in Pennsylvania. Penn State Behrend‟s first K-12 women and minority outreach event, Minority College Experience/Women in Science andEngineering (MCE/WISE), was launched in 1988 with 20+ incoming high school seniorsparticipating. The students

Conference Session

Innovative Instructional Strategies and Curricula in ECE I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hasina Huq, University of Texas, Pan American

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Challenge Based Instruction (CBI) have provided insightfulcomments and suggestions for the study. The authors would like to extend their gratitude tothe class of 2009 of The University of Texas-Pan American.References[1] M. Usman, H. Ryu, I. Woo, D. Ebert, G.Klimeck, "Moving towards nano-TCAD through multi-million atom quantum dot simulations matching experimental data," IEEE Trans. Nanotechnol, Vol. 8, Issue 3, pp. 330-344 , 2009.[2] G. Klimeck, M. McLennan, S. B. Brophy, G. B. Adams III, M. S. Lundstrom, "nanoHUB.org: Advancing Education and Research in Nanotechnology," IEEE Comput. Sci. Eng. Mag., Vol. 10, pp. 17-23, 2008.[3] M. S. Lundstrom, G. Klimeck, G. B. Adams III., M. McLennan, "HUB is where the heart is," IEEE