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Curriculum Development and Teaching Models in NRE

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Keith Holbert, Arizona State University; Jeffrey Goss, Arizona State University

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Nuclear and Radiological

AC 2009-163: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY NUCLEAR POWER OPERATIONSCOURSE CO-DEVELOPED WITH THE PALO VERDE NUCLEAR GENERATINGSTATIONKeith Holbert, Arizona State UniversityJeffrey Goss, Arizona State University Page 14.204.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 An Interdisciplinary Nuclear Power Operations Course Co-Developed With The Palo Verde Nuclear Generating StationAbstractThe development of an entire online course on interdisciplinary nuclear power operations isdescribed herein. This course is a unique industry-university team-taught course in cooperationwith the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station (PVNGS), and is part of a new graduate

Conference Session

Think Outside the Box! K-12 Engineering Curriculum

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tara Gomez, California Institute of Technology; Oliver Loson, California Institute of Technology; Douglas Yung, California Institute of Technology; Sindhuja Kadambi, California Institute of Technology; Paul Lee, California Institute of Technology; Luz Rivas, California Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

learning through experimentationenabled the course material to be better understood, and also better appreciated. We believe thatfeedback about our course will help to continue to refine our pedagogical strategy, and willenhance the way in which challenging and advanced science can be taught to young persons.With the emergence of fields that integrate engineering with other disciplines, it is becomingincreasingly important for the engineering education community to develop multidisciplinarycourses. The curriculum we presented provides an example of the role of

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Tech Session I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stacy Klein-Gardner; Rick Williams, East Carolina University; Stephanie Sullivan, East Carolina University; Loren Limberis, East Carolina University

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Biological & Agricultural

AC 2009-437: BIOPROCESS ENGINEERING CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENTAND ASSESSMENTStacy Klein, Vanderbilt University Stacy Klein is the Associate Dean for Outreach and an Associate Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering in the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering.Rick Williams, East Carolina University Rick Williams is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at East Carolina University.Stephanie Sullivan, East Carolina University Stephanie Sullivan is a Teaching Instructor in the Department of Engineering at East Carolina University.Loren Limberis, East Carolina University Loren Limberis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at East

Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Applications

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Claude Villiers, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Engineering Design Graphics

AC 2009-646: AN APPROACH TO SELECTING EFFECTIVE PROJECTS FORENGINEERING COMPUTER GRAPHICSClaude Villiers, Florida Gulf Coast University CLAUDE VILLIERS is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Florida Gulf Coast University. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with a concentration in Materials and Construction from the University of Florida in 2004. Previously Dr. Villiers was an Assistant Professor at The City College of New York. Prior to this position, he was employed by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) as a research engineer. Dr. Villiers also was employed by The University of Florida and worked on several projects sponsored by the FDOT and the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Bowles, University of South Carolina; Gang Quan, University of South Carolina

andpreparation for the course. The results are summarized in Table 1. A majority of the studentswere from the Computer Engineering (CE) major; this is not surprising since the course isrequired in the CE curriculum and most of them are interested in the topic. There were also afew Electrical Engineering (EE) majors who could take it as an elective. There were noComputer Science (CS) majors who could also take the course as an elective. In terms ofprerequisites, most of the students can program in C/C++ and assembly language but they are notnecessarily proficient. Most have also taken courses in digital logic design, computerorganization, and operating systems. The survey also indicated that a majority of students hadlittle prior knowledge or experience

Conference Session

IT-based Instructional Technologies

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley State College

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Information Systems

task. To prepare our students for parallel programming, it is essentialthat parallel design of software be integrated into the undergraduate Computer Sciencecurriculum. Parallel programming represents the next turning point in how software developerswrite software9. In the Computer Science Curriculum 2008 (An interim revision of CS 2001),within Recent Trends section, there is a section on the growing relevance of concurrency whichsays that“The development of multi-core processors has been a significant recent architecturaldevelopment. To exploit this fully, software needs to exhibit concurrent behavior; this placesgreater emphasis on the principles, techniques and technologies of concurrency.Some have expressed the view that all major future

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Salah Badjou, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Loutfallah Georges Chedid, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

(one three-credit junior design and two four-credit senior design courses,all five hours long).Finally, at Boston University, students graduate with a bachelor of science in a single discipline,biomedical engineering, while at Wentworth they will major in two disciplines as at TuftsUniversity, though at a more integrated and a broader level.Worcester Polytechnic Institute:Worcester Polytechnic Institute6 offers an accredited undergraduate program in biomedicalengineering. This program, like Boston University’s, suffers from being a specialized biomedicalengineering program, which limits student career opportunities in other areas of engineering. Inaddition, only one quarter of a four-credit capstone senior design course is required and there

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yoon Kim, Virginia State University; Shahzad Akbar, Virginia State University

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Computers in Education

to remotelymonitor the structural integrity of a truss metal bridge model. Triple axes accelerometers areattached to the trusses of the bridge such that the vibrations due to the bridge movements can betransmitted wirelessly using 2.4 GHz signals. The system then collects and analyzes the signalswith a receiver attached to a computer. Data logging of the bridge vibrations is implementedusing a multi-sensor data link to routinely collect the normal waveform patterns when an impulseimpact is applied to the bridge. Using the Fast Fourier transform MATLAB program, analysis ofthe waveforms yields a definite shift in the characteristic signature, when one or more of thebridge truss joints are intentionally compromised. Consequently, this simple

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Arun Ravindran, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Patricia Tolley, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Arindam Mukherjee, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Electrical and Computer

discrete signal {x[1]…x[8]} and an impulse response{h[1] …h[4]}, the students are shown that the output sequence {y[1]…y[11]} can be realizedusing the systolic array shown in Figure 1. Page 14.807.5Figure 1. Systolic array for 1D discrete time convolution.We spend approximately two weeks on this topic.Laboratory assignmentsA significant feature of the new course is the tight integration of the lecture with the laboratory.The course meets for one hour and 15 minutes twice a week, once in the classroom for thelecture and then in the laboratory for programming assignments. We have developed a series oflaboratory exercises that serve to reinforce the

Conference Session

Collaboration, A Cool Tool: Librarians/Faculty/Students Work Together for Quality Results

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patsy Hulse, University of Auckland; John St George, University of Auckland; Li Wang, University of Auckland

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Engineering Libraries

involved in consulting on a wide range of projects in slope stability, rock properties and subsidence.Li Wang, University of Auckland Li Wang is the Learning Services Manager at the University of Auckland. One of Li’s responsibilities includes working with subject librarians and academic staff to integrate information literacy into curricula. Li is completing her PhD study in education and her research topic is on how to integrate information literacy into curriculum in higher education. Page 14.676.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 How well does collaboration work in

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen High, Oklahoma State University; Pasha Antonenko, Oklahoma State University; Rebecca Damron, Oklahoma State University; Susan Stansberry, Oklahoma State University; Gayla Hudson, Oklahoma State University; Jean Dockers, Oklahoma State University; Alonzo Peterson, Langston University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2009-1747: THE EFFECT OF A TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTINTEGRATED CURRICULUM WORKSHOP ON PERCEPTIONS OF DESIGN,ENGINEERING, AND TECHNOLOGY EXPERIENCESKaren High, Oklahoma State University KAREN HIGH earned her B.S. from the University of Michigan in 1985 and her M.S. in 1988 and Ph.D. in 1991 from the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. High is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering at Oklahoma State University where she has been since 1991. Her main technical research interests are Sustainable Process Design, Industrial Catalysis, and Multicriteria Decision Making. Her engineering education activities include enhancing mathematics, communication skills, critical

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Kaylea Dunn

1 The Case for Leadership Skills Courses in the Engineering Curriculum Kaylea Dunn Olsson Associates, Lincoln, NEAbstractLeadership courses are often encouraged, but not mandatory for an undergraduate engineeringdegree. The research presented here focuses on implementing specific undergraduate leadershipcourses as part of an American Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) accreditedprogram at a Midwestern University.The purpose of this study is to identify what professional skills engineering companies expectstudents to develop through coursework before

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Srikanth Tadepalli, University of Texas, Austin; Cameron Booth, University of Texas, Austin; Mitchell Pryor

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New Engineering Educators

AC 2009-2050: EVALUATING ACADEMIC PROCRASTINATION IN APERSONALIZED SYSTEM OF INSTRUCTION-BASED CURRICULUMSrikanth Tadepalli, University of Texas, Austin Srikanth Tadepalli is a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas. After recieving his BS in Mechanical Engineering from India, he moved to UT where obtained his MSE in Manufacturing Systems Engineering specializing in Design for Manufacturing. He has worked as a Teaching Assistant and as an Assistant Instructor for the Computers and Programming course over a period of 3 years at The University of Texas at Austin and was awarded "The H. Grady Rylander Longhorn Mechanical Engineering Club Excellence in Teaching

Conference Session

Tree-huggers, Diggers, and Queers--Oh my!

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education

accreditation rules (especially criterion h) and professional societies’ pronouncements tojustify and orient innovations around sustainability. 17 One specific example is the use ofASCE’s “Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge,” which has “embraced sustainability as anindependent technical outcome,” to guide integration of sustainability criteria into a civilengineering program. 18 Finally, others have reached beyond “engineering” to develop graduateprograms in “Sustainability” more broadly, but which extend out of engineering perspectives andare targeted to include, but not be limited to, graduates of engineering programs. One such effortextends the project-based engineering curriculum approach to an interdisciplinary, professional“Masters of

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

recognition in the healthcare sector. The strategic use ofthese tools, such as statistical quality control, supply chain management, modeling andsimulation, failure-mode effects analysis, lean thinking, and human factors and ergonomics, canbe readily used to measure, characterize, and optimize performance at various levels in ahealthcare system. Even though there is currently a shortage of health systems engineers at theMS and PhD levels, very few universities have an established health systems curriculum in theirindustrial and systems engineering departments.The Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering at the State University of NewYork (SUNY) at Binghamton (a.k.a. Binghamton University) has been actively involved inteaching and

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xingguo Xiong, University of Bridgeport; Linfeng Zhang, University of Bridgeport; Junling Hu, University of Bridgeport; Lawrence Hmurcik, University of Bridgeport

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Electrical and Computer

helpful for the effort of theConnecticut Nanotechnology Curriculum Committee.1. IntroductionNowadays, the technology advancement has the trend of making things smaller andsmaller. Taking VLSI technology as an example, the feature size of a CMOS transistor isshrunk to deep submicron or nanometer domain. A state-of-the-art Intel CPU chip maycontain millions or even billions of transistors. As the VLSI technology continue tobecome smaller and smaller, people are also considering shrinking the size of mechanicalcomponents (mirrors, gears, pumps, etc.) to microns and integrating them with VLSIcircuits into a system. MEMS and nanotechnology are exactly the enabling technologiesfor this dream. MEMS mainly deal with things in the scale of 1µm~1000µm

Conference Session

Learning as a Community

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janet Meyer, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Patrick Gee, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Laura Masterson, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

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First-Year Programs

AC 2009-1256: INTEGRATED LEARNING IN FRESHMAN ENGINEERING: THETHEMED LEARNING COMMUNITYJanet Meyer, Indiana University-Purdue University, IndianapolisPatrick Gee, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis Patrick Gee, MSME, is a Lecturer in the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUI. He is also director of the Minority Engineering Advancement Program (MEAP). Patrick has both a B.S. and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering.Laura Masterson, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis Laura Masterson is a joint advisor in the School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUI and University College at IUPUI. She has a B.S. degree from the University of Notre Dame and a Masters

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Aerospace Workspace: Current and Future 1

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ramesh Agarwal, Washington University

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Aerospace

AC 2009-450: INTEGRATING CONCEPTS OF SUSTAINABLE AVIATION INUNDERGRADUATE AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COURSESRamesh Agarwal, Washington University Page 14.754.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Integrating Concepts of Sustainable Aviation in Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering CoursesAbstractThe titles “Sustainable Aviation” or “Green Aviation” are recently being used withincreasing frequency to address the technological and socioeconomic issues facing theaviation industry to meet the environmental challenges of twenty-first century. Air travelcontinues to experience the fastest growth among all modes of transportation. Thereforethe

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Measurement Innovation

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Farid Farahmand; Leela Mohan Kesireddy, Central Connecticut State University; Mark Lynch, Central Connecticut State University

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Instrumentation

AC 2009-386: A LOW-COST APPROACH TO INTEGRATING SENSORTECHNOLOGY IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY COURSESFarid Farahmand, FARID FARAHMAND is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Science at Sonoma State University, CA, where he teaches Advanced Networking and Digital Systems. He is also the director of Advanced Internet Technology in the Interests of Society Laboratory. Farid's research interests are optical networks, applications of wireless sensor network technology to medical fields, delay tolerant networks. He is also interested in educational technologies and authored many papers focusing on eLearning and Active Learning models.Leela Mohan Kesireddy , Central Connecticut State

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Integrating Computer-based Technology in the Civil Engineering Classroom

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chad Caldwell, United States Military Academy; Joseph Hanus, United States Military Academy; Adam Chalmers, United States Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

AC 2009-1059: INTEGRATION OF INFORMATION-TECHNOLOGY SOFTWAREIN A CIVIL ENGINEERING PROGRAMChad Caldwell, United States Military AcademyJoseph Hanus, United States Military AcademyAdam Chalmers, United States Military Academy Page 14.775.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Integration of Information Technology Software in a Civil Engineering ProgramAbstractThe Civil Engineering profession demands rapidly advancing skills in information technology.As a result, many universities include the development of information technology knowledge intheir vision and goals, and ABET outcomes and objectives. There are many

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Goodarz Ahmadi, Clarkson University

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Mechanical Engineering

abroad.Introduction Nano- and micro-particle transport, deposition and removal are of critical interestto many modern technologies, as well as in a number of environmental processes. Thelast decade has seen development of significant computational as well as experimentaltools for studies of particle transport, deposition and removal. The primary objective ofthis combined research and curriculum development project is to make these newimportant research findings available to seniors and first year graduate students inengineering through developing and offering of sequence of specialized courses. Anotherobjective was to integrate the simulation and experimentation into these courses, as wellattract industrial interactions. In these courses, the

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Potpourri

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dominic Halsmer, Oral Roberts University; Nate Roman, Oral Roberts University; Tyler Todd, Oral Roberts University

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Design in Engineering Education

systems in theengineering curriculum provides a rich vehicle for making connections with several other fieldsof study, which engineering students would do well to consider. An example is developed whichconsiders the system of life on Earth as a complex network of multiple interacting andinterrelated subsystems. The integration of the concept of affordance into a function basedreverse engineering approach is sketched. This approach provides additional insight into thesystem, which may lead to significant implications for the humanities and social sciences.Reverse Engineering in the Undergraduate CurriculumMuch of modern engineering education typically involves the infusion of ideas from thehumanities and social sciences in an effort to help

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Integrating Computer-based Technology in the Civil Engineering Classroom

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vinod Lohani, Virginia Tech; Parhum Delgoshaei, Virginia Tech; Chelsea Green, Virginia Tech

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Civil Engineering

AC 2009-1764: INTEGRATING LABVIEW AND REAL-TIME MONITORINGINTO ENGINEERING INSTRUCTIONVinod Lohani, Virginia Tech Vinod K Lohani is an associate professor in the Engineering Education Department and an adjunct faculty in the Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. He received a PhD in civil engineering from Virginia Tech in 1995. His research interests are in the areas of knowledge modeling, water and energy sustainability, engineering learning modules for freshmen, and international collaboration. He leads a major curriculum reform project (2004-09), funded under the department-level reform program of the NSF, at Virginia Tech. A spiral curriculum approach is adopted to

Conference Session

Information Literacy Integration and Assessment

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna Riley, Smith College; Rocco Piccinino, Smith College

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Engineering Libraries

indicate areas for future innovation. We discuss course-level innovationsin the context of the larger curriculum-integrated information literacy program in engineering. Page 14.761.2IntroductionOver the last several years, advocates of information literacy education have supported the ideaof curriculum-integrated instruction as an effective student learning strategy, and this strategyhas begun to be employed within engineering education.1,2 Curriculum integration necessarilyrequires buy-in and collaboration from faculty3 as well as detailed attention to course-levelintegration. 4,5 Despite some support found in the ABET 2000 outcomes criteria,6

Conference Session

Integrating Math, Science, and Engineering

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Evelyn Brown, East Carolina University; Heather Ries, East Carolina University

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Mathematics

and includedapplications to the life sciences. The mathematics faculty felt that a similar tailoring of coursescould be done for engineering students.Members of the mathematics undergraduate committee met with a group of engineering facultyto talk about the possibility of designing a sequence of calculus courses specifically forengineering students. In the initial engineering curriculum, Precalculus was included1. At theadvice of an outside reviewer familiar with ABET standards, the curriculum was modified duringthe fall 2006 semester. Precalculus was removed from the engineering curriculum and CalculusIII was added. Due to the number of required engineering credit hours in the curriculum and thenumber available for math and science credit

Conference Session

Think Outside the Box! K-12 Engineering Curriculum

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nichole Au, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Julia Ross, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Taryn Bayles, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

14.554.3The INSPIRES Curriculum StructureEach of the five modules in the INSPIRES Curriculum follows the same general outlineof sections to integrate the many different styles of content, including the web-basedmaterials and the hands-on activities. Students start with a pre-module Interest &Attitude Questionnaire and the Module Pre-Assessment to gauge both student interestand abilities in the particular topic specific to the module as well as in generalengineering prior to completing the module. The students then watch an introductoryvideo with a practicing engineer discussing a “real-world” design problem, itsconstraints, and the need for finding a solution to the problem. In the professionallyproduced video segment for the Engineering Energy

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Engineering Ethics, Academic Integrity

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adam Melvin, North Carolina State University; Lisa Bullard, North Carolina State University

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Engineering Ethics

accept responsibility.IntroductionThe university classroom creates a multitude of opportunities and challenges for both the studentpopulation and faculty teaching the class. With rising enrollments in engineering curricula andgreater numbers of students matriculating per year, higher emphasis is placed on course gradesas a metric for student distinction which results in amplified pressure on the students to not onlysucceed, but to excel. This leads some students to try and find an easy way out, namely cheating.For faculty, the challenges are to minimize the likelihood of cheating, to detect it when it occurs,and to deal sternly but fairly with the cheaters.Academic integrity violations (such as cheating, lying, and stealing) are a widespread

Conference Session

Developing Tomorrow's Leaders through Co-op Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacqueline El-Sayed, Kettering University; Denise Stodola, Kettering University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

AC 2009-1151: INTEGRATING CO-OP AND CLASSROOM LEARNINGEXPERIENCESJacqueline El-Sayed, Kettering University Dr. Jacqueline El-Sayed is a professor of mechanical engineering at Kettering University, the Richard L. Terrell Professor of Excellence in Teaching. She has been an engineering educator for over 20 years and currently is an American Council on Education Fellow placed at Harvey Mudd College. In addition, she is the Chair of the Michigan Truck Safety Commission for the State of Michigan.Denise Stodola, Kettering University Dr. Denise Stodola is an assistant professor of communication at Kettering University. Her research focuses on rhetoric and composition, particularly its

Conference Session

Sustainable-energy Education: Lessons Learned

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Linfeng Zhang, University of Bridgeport; Xingguo Xiong, University of Bridgeport; Junling Hu, University of Bridgeport

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

AC 2009-129: INTEGRATING ALTERNATIVE-ENERGY TECHNOLOGY INTOENGINEERING EDUCATIONLinfeng Zhang, University of Bridgeport Linfeng Zhang is an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering at University of Bridgeport. His research interests are in sensors and actuators, fuel cells, and phtovoltaic cells.Xingguo Xiong, University of Bridgeport Xingguo Xiong is an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering at University of Bridgeport. His research interests are in MEMS, nanotechnology, VLSI.Junling Hu, University of Bridgeport Junling Hu is an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of Bridgeport. Her research interests are in computational fluid dynamics

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark McDermott, University of Texas, Austin; Jacob Abraham, University of Texas, Austin; Mihir Ravel, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Electrical and Computer

Architecture and Design including: Register Transfer Level, Block Level and Component Level • Physical planning and design • Performance modeling and analysis • System Integration • System Verification and ValidationThe type of coursework is determined depending on whether the student is required to have aconceptual understanding and/or a practicing knowledge of the subject material. The optimalbalance across virtual and physical prototyping is determined by the desired competencies.Based on the goal of encouraging systematic engineering competencies, we analyzed the listabove and generated an importance scorecard that is summarized in the table below. Coursework Prototyping Model