Conference Session

Focus on ETAC Accreditation

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Thomas M. Hall Jr., Northwestern State University of Louisiana; Scott Danielson, Arizona State University; April Chit Cheung, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

student learningthat many find most important in guiding continuous improvement actions.Aside from collecting too much data, programs often fail to link course-level assessment ofCLOs to the program’s student outcomes, making it difficult or impossible to determine theextent to which student outcomes are attained. In other instances, it becomes difficult todetermine if students in the program have attained the desired knowledge or skill. Assessmentinstruments that are simultaneously used to measure attainment of more than one studentoutcome or performance indicator1 confound the data. For example, grades on a laboratoryreport are used as data for assessing written communication. If the same grade covers bothtechnical aspects of the laboratory and

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Chemical Engineering in the Sophomore Year

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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David L. Silverstein P.E., University of Kentucky; Sarah A Wilson, University of Kentucky

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Chemical Engineering

(Taxol) through the use of plant cell cultures from the Taxus Yew Tree. Throughout her time at Rowan and UMass, she developed a passion for undergraduate education. This passion led her to pursue a career as a lecturer, where she could focus on training undergraduate chemical engineering students. She has been teaching at UK since 2015 and has taught Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Computational Tools and the Unit Operations Laboratory. She is especially interested in teaching scientific communication and integration of process safety into the chemical engineering curriculum. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Student Performance in an Online Chemical Engineering

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Aerospace Student Projects, Engineering Design and Research

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Kuldeep S Rawat, Elizabeth City State University; Chandra Bhushan Asthana P.E., Elizabeth City State University

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Diversity

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Aerospace

integrate modern educational technology tools and inquiry-basedhands-on learning activities to reinforce science and mathematical concepts required to enterSTEM careers, especially high-demand and emerging field of drone technology.Students learned about potential college and career opportunities and why a background inadvanced science and mathematics is crucial to achieving these careers. However, a balancemust be met for providing a rigorous informal academic environment for the students whileallowing them to enjoy the program’s activities so that they will remember the experiencepositively and perhaps consider STEM-related degrees and careers. We met this challenge bysupplementing classroom instruction with exposure to laboratory and field-based

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Potpourri

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Heather E. Dillon, University of Portland; Jeffrey Matthew Welch, University of Portland; Nicole Ralston, University of Portland; Rebecca D. Levison, University of Portland

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Mechanical Engineering

Paper ID #28288Students Taking Action on Engineering EthicsDr. Heather E Dillon, University of Portland Dr. Heather Dillon is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Portland. She recently served as the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in STEM Education. Her research team is working on energy efficiency, renewable energy, fundamental heat transfer, and engineering education. Before joining the university, Heather Dillon worked for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a senior research engineer.Jeffrey Matthew Welch, University of Portland Jeff Welch is a doctoral student in

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 1

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Genaro Zavala, Tecnologico de Monterrey and Universidad Andres Bello; Carlos Eduardo Martinez-Torteya, Tecnologico de Monterrey

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Engineering Physics and Physics

following the same design as that reported inthe previous study [4]. The textbook for the course was “University Physics” by Young andFreedman [9]. Students of the course also attended weekly laboratory sessions where “Tutorialsin Introductory Physics” by McDermott and Schaffer [10] was used extensively. All the courseactivities, including the tests, were conducted in Spanish.To measure conceptual understanding, we administered a version in Spanish [11] of theConceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism (CSEM) [12] as a pre- and post-test along with12 DC circuits questions from the Electric Circuits Concept Evaluation (ECCE) [13]. While allthe students enrolled in the course participated in the pre-test, only 63 students took the post-test.During

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2019 ASEE Zone I Conference & Workshop

Authors

Peter Mark Jansson

laboratory pedagogies available in our engineering students’ educational milieu.The ChallengesAs previously described, engineers participate in the tasks of scientific discovery in many ways.These include the design of better sensor equipment and arrays, in data collection systems andthe computational algorithms that analyze such collected data. In our students’ summer researchexperience, it was not much different. The challenge we faced as a research team includedmultiple requirements. The feedback that we had received from earlier presentations of theresults of experiments made it clear that in order for a larger portion of the scientific communityto be interested in the potential “discovery” apparent from the empirical results we would have

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2019 Fall Mid Atlantic States Conference

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Marvin Gayle, Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York; Dugwon Seo, Queensborough Community College; Danny Mangra, Queensborough Community College

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Diversity

professional considerations, are considered. ET-540: Digital Computer Theory: Provide an understanding number systems; Boolean algebra; logic elements; multivibrators; clock circuits; decoders; counters; data registers. Laboratory hours complement class workThe course contents for these two classes were modified so that a prerequisite is not required.Also, it benefits students by allowing them to take these courses and remedial mathematics in thesame semester.Women in Technology Summer WorkshopThe goal of any diverse program is to have a group that represents the makeup of the largersociety. Therefore an effort had to be made to increase the female representation in theEngineering Curriculum. Women represented 50% of the population, and over

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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Tariq Khraishi

,even whole degrees, on-line. A lot of them offer graduate courses and programs online. Some,even at the high-school level, are offering online degrees.LaMeres and Plumb (2014) found out that converting undergraduate digital circuits to onlinedelivery is as effective as in-classroom offerings. They even found the same result for anundergraduate digital systems laboratory using a remote lab approach. Reid (2006) in theElectrical and Computer Engineering Technology Department at IUPUI studied the conversionof two courses (Digital Fundamentals and C++ programming) has gradually changed twocourses from a traditional lecture / laboratory format to an online format. They found that studentsuccess was comparable to success in a traditional format

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2020 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Kyle Trenshaw; Emily Weber; Rachel Monfredo

.). Classroom activities rangefrom simple and quick team-building exercises (e.g., building towers or bridges from notecardsor newsprint, etc.) that provide a low-stakes window into engineering principles and informalopportunities for students to interact all the way to more formal laboratory exercises withassigned teams and peer evaluations. The course culminates in a final open-ended team designproject to investigate the iterative nature of engineering design through a solar heating challengein which students present the struggles they faced and their resulting solutions orally. Together,these assignments and activities aim to enhance the skillsets highlighted by Landis and Peuker asimportant for students’ ultimate success as engineers.CHE 150 has

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2019 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Kishore Chidella; Srikanth Gampa; Abdulrahman Almohaimeed

developing microprocessor based embedded systems students get hands-onexperience. Students form groups for team-projects; each group of students is encouraged to finda topic for their project. This approach is expected to motivate students to continue researchingin the related areas even after the semester ends. With the tests such as quiz, optional labs andevaluations (such as SPTE and ABET evaluations), students’ feedback are collected forassessment of the proposed approach. Based on the laboratory observations, the proposedapproach helps students involve more with the course materials and improve their academicperformance and helps in understanding the needs and standards of the industry. According tothe SPTE and ABET evaluation outcomes, the

Conference Session

A Technology Potpourri I

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Vassilios Tzouanas, University of Houston, Downtown; Lisa Deane Morano, University of Houston, Downtown; Hung Pham; Anish Khatiwada, University of Houston, Downtown; Jonathan Lopez

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Engineering Technology

of a real world problems. This includes an reflective thinking, ability to gain appreciation for solving a real world perspective, making connections, and problem and the connection and problem solving through a student communication required to accomplish reflection, modeled off of the survey and this. rubric of the CTLE.VI. Project SafetyRegardless of the work setting, industrial or laboratory, there are potential risks. Ensuring safework practices is of paramount importance. Operating companies place a strong emphasis onsafety by establishing procedures and methods to identify potential risks, developing andimplementing risk

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Exploration of Broad Issues and Promotion of Engineering and Technological Literacy

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Carl O. Hilgarth

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

industrial management, financial management, computer technology, and environmental technology, as well as leading seminars in the university’s general education program. Prior to academia, Mr. Hilgarth was employed as as engineer in the aerospace industry in laboratory and flight test development, facilities management, and as a manager in quality assurance. He has contributed papers on management, ground-test laboratory and flight test facilities, and ethics to several technical and professional organizations. In education, he has served as a consultant and curriculum developer to the Ohio Board of Higher Education and the Ohio Department of Education. He holds an M.S. in engineering management from the Missouri

Conference Session

DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: 2019 Best PIC, Zone, and Diversity Papers Live Q&A

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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La'Tonia Stiner-Jones, Ohio State University; Wolfgang Windl, Ohio State University

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2019 Best Zone & PIC Papers

Ohio State’s College of Dentistry and served as Director of Minority Student Recruitment and DENTPATH, a post baccalaureate program to prepare disadvantaged students for dental school.Dr. Wolfgang Windl, Ohio State University Wolfgang Windl is Professor and Graduate Studies Chair in the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University. Before joining OSU, he spent four years with Motorola, ending his tenure as Principal Staff Scientist in the Digital DNA Laboratories in Austin, TX. Previously, he held postdoctoral positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Arizona State University and received his diploma and doctoral degree in Physics from the University of Regensburg, Germany. His

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anthony Dean, Old Dominion University; Moustafa Moustafa, Old Dominion University; Julie Moustafa, Old Dominion University

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Engineering Design Graphics

3 COMM 101R, Public Speaking 3 Gen Ed, Soc ial Sc ience Perspective (S) 3 Page 12.1538.3Figure 1Three course in the first two years are dedicated to drafting and design. Those coursesare:MET 100 – Engineering GraphicsCourse (Catalog) DescriptionLecture 2 hours; laboratory 2 hours; 3 credits. A modern treatment of the basic principlesof engineering drawing, including graphing, orthographic projection, sectional views,multiview drawings, pictorial

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Bramhall, Sheffield Hallam University; Keith Radley, Sheffield Hallam University

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International

theCETLs within the UK, and then will go on to discuss the learning, teaching and assessmentmethods used on a first year engineering undergraduate module, in order to promote learnerautonomy within the students. The module, ‘Materials, Manufacturing and EnvironmentalEngineering’, has traditionally been taught over 2 semesters through a series of keynotelectures, followed by seminars and laboratory practical classes. Previously, case study workwas undertaken by the students in semester 2 of the module; however, this did not developautonomous learning in an effective way. The new assignment project work in semester 2provided an opportunity for students to work in groups. Each group either undertookinvestigations into ‘engineering disaster management

Conference Session

ECET Curriculum

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Goodmann, Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne

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Engineering Technology

not actually do anything of use inthe “real world”. Typical laboratory exercises are similar, and similarly dry. If our retentionpercentage is not what we would like it to be, we should not be surprised.Of course, there are a significant number of students who do not leave for the greener pastures ofmicroeconomics. Some of them already know that our discipline is rewarding in many waysother than a paycheck, possibly because they began tinkering with technology while in highschool. If we could give the rest of our students a first-year experience something like theexperience these tinkerers and radio amateurs give themselves, it seems reasonable to think thatour retention rates would benefit. That kind of experience can be provided by

Conference Session

Electrical Technology Projects and Applications

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Pocock, Oregon Institute of Technology; Kevin McCullough, Oregon Institute of Technology; Andrew Carpenter, Oregon Institute of Technology; Brant Hempel, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Engineering Technology

EngineeringTechnology that includes a senior level capstone course in analog integrated circuit design. Thiscourse includes a two credit hour (six contact hours per week) laboratory in which studentswould normally perform six to eight individual “canned” experiments. Recently the author hasre-structured the laboratory to become a term-long group project in the area of analog integratedcircuits. This paper describes the results of one of these team projects.IntroductionThe objective of this capstone course is to expose senior EET majors to the design process foranalog integrated circuits by working as a member of a design team. Upon completion of thiscourse, a student will have been exposed to the processes of working in a team, picking an idea,researching the

Conference Session

Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

C. Diane Matt, WEPAN

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Women in Engineering

attending included 51% Caucasian, 22% Hispanic, 16% African American and 11% other. Each program's format was similar but tailored to highlight a participating university's areas of expertise. Among the subjects covered in seminars were teamwork, problem solving, decision-making, and communicating effectively. Laboratory experiences included animated web-page design, computer-chip design, laser optics, computer hardware and more. WEPAN member universities which participated in the pilot project were Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.; University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; The University of Texas at Austin; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Binghamton University, NY; and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. EXITE

Conference Session

Capstone Design & Project Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Smith, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Tracy N Schierenbeck, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Linda McCloskey, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

development. Coursework and assignments aredesigned for students to gain topical knowledge, analyze and apply basic concepts, and expandwritten and oral communication skills. An early description of the course was reported byMcCloskey, et al.2.Students take and also evaluate the use of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator3. Corporate guestsfrom ExxonMobil and the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory participate in some of the classes toreinforce some of the concepts and applications in industry. PD-1 is integrated into the SecondYear Introduction to Engineering Design (IED) course, which for most students is the first majorexperience in working in multidisciplinary teams, and they are crucially interdependent forsuccess. It is important to understand that the

Conference Session

The Impact of Curriculum on the Retention of Women Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Keathly, University of North Texas; Robert Akl, University of North Texas; Ryan Garlick, University of North Texas

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Women in Engineering

activities. Results from student surveys andparent surveys will be presented. The paper concludes with recommended changes andimprovements in the program, as well as a discussion of adaptations that would create programssuitable for implementation at other institutions as well as programs aimed at a different targetpopulation.The three phases previously enumerated each build upon currently accepted educationalpractices. The robotics summer camp in particular used problem-based learning approaches,similar to those described in The Power of Problem-Based Learning2. This study clearlydemonstrates the significant benefits of teaching students how to think by using a problem-basedapproach. We also developed a mobile laboratory so that the summer camp can

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dick Blandford, University of Evansville; Deborah Hwang, University of Evansville

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Electrical and Computer

appropriate equipment tosupport those labs. Computer and electrical engineering have an array of laboratories including anetworks lab and labs for electronics, optics, control systems, circuits, and projects. It iscommon to see computer science students working in electrical engineering project labs, andelectrical engineering students using the resources in the computer science project lab. From theviewpoint of both faculty and students, we appear to have more space and resources than we Page 12.1117.7would have if we were in separate departments.The UpsideThere are genuine advantages to the combined department arrangement. Each advantage alongwith a

Conference Session

International Case Studies:Collaborations, Exchanges & Interactions

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ian Robinson, Edge Hill University; Michael Bramhall, Sheffield Hallam University; John Rowe, Sheffield Hallam University

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International

in the mid 1990s, and the extension ofthe fee limit to £3000pa was introduced in 2005. The total fee accruing from an engineeringBachelors student is insufficient to pay the actual cost of delivering laboratory-basededucation, and so universities rely upon distributing the surplus fees from other disciplineareas and other business activities to support science and technology provision.The majority of students secure loans from the English Student Loan Company in order topay their fees; the debt being collected through the taxation system over the graduate’sworking life. Page 12.627.2It has thus, in the last few years, become increasingly

Conference Session

Educational Software

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Smith, U. of St. Thomas - St. Paul

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Computers in Education

; Sons, New York. Everett and Swain, “Whirlwind I Computer Block Diagrams,” Report R-231, MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory, 1946. Gilmore, J. T., Jr., and H. P. Peterson, “A Functional Description of the TX-0 Computer,” Memorandum 6M- 4789-1, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lincoln, MA, October 1958. On-line (retrieved 8 July 2004) at http://bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/tx-0/6M-4789-1_TX0_funcDescr.pdf Goering, Richard, “Doors 'open' to hardware,” EE Times, 6 June 2005. Hanna, K. 2002. Interactive visual functional programming. In Proceedings of the Seventh ACM SIGPLAN international Conference on Functional Programming (Pittsburgh, PA, USA, October 04 - 06, 2002). ICFP '02. ACM Press, New York, NY, 145-156. Kay, A., “Computer Software

Conference Session

Development of Undergraduate Distance Education Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Rajala, Mississippi State University; Tom Miller, North Carolina State University

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Continuing Professional Development

the first two years included introduction to engineering,statics, dynamics, electric circuits, and introduction to logic design, and introduction to computerorganization. During the first four years of the program delivery of courses was shared amongthe three colleges of engineering. As technology, faculty and curricula changed, NC Stateassumed more responsibility for the 2+2 programs. By 2001, all distance courses were beingdelivered by NC State faculty.Over the past twelve years, the technology has evolved substantially. 4,5,6 However, throughoutthis time we provided a combination of synchronous and asynchronous lectures, along with theon-site laboratories. Courses have originated from all three colleges of engineering, as well asfrom the

Conference Session

Projects & Partnerships Result in Student Learning

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen Horton, University of Maine-Orono; Constance Holden, University of Maine at Augusta; Ken Wild, National Park Service

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Engineering Technology

themselves, and the other at the Archeology Laboratory at CinnamonBay in the Park, demonstrating the close-range photogrammetry results to that point. The publicpresentation at the Leinster Bay factory site is shown in Figure 5. Figure 5. Wild introduces the virtual preservation project at the Leinster Bay site.The VICH defines the Humanities: “The humanities explore what it means to be human, throughhistory, literature, folklife studies, cultural anthropology, archaeology, philosophy, ethics,comparative religion, law, and the history and criticism of the arts.” 12 The notion of applying Page 13.1387.9engineering to explore what it means to

Conference Session

FPD7 - Global Warming & Sustainability for First-Year Students

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amber Kemppainen, Michigan Technological University; Gretchen Hein, Michigan Technological University; David Shonnard, Michigan Technological University

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First-Year Programs

to sugar and 85-92% conversion of sugar to ethanol leads to anoverall process efficiency of approximately 50%.2,3,4 When looking at this kind of processefficiency, two major questions arise: is a biomass-to-ethanol process using lignocellulosicbiomass as a feedstock a sustainable solution? If not, what can be done to make this process aviable long-term alternative to fossil fuels? As part of their ENG1102 experience, MichiganTech students will answer these questions.Biomass-to-Ethanol FacilityThe basic design for the biomass-to-ethanol facility for the alternative fuel design process isbased upon an ASPEN Plus Simulation developed by National Renewable Energy Laboratory(NREL) in 1999. This process, shown in Figure 1, uses yellow poplar as a

Conference Session

MIND: Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ali Mehrabian, University of Central Florida; Tarig Ali, University of Central Florida; Alireza Rahrooh, University of Central Florida

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Minorities in Engineering

courses with less available resources for thefaculty.4. “Hands-on” Demonstration of Concept: In some online laboratory environments somefaculty would like to see their students to demonstrate their understanding of the concept. This isnot an easy task for online students that take the course remotely. We recommend utilizingscreen-capturing software in which every movement of the cursor on the computer screen can becaptured and traced back. Our experience with experimenting with screen-capturing software at Page 13.338.4this stage is a work in progress. We should be able to provide more information of ourexperimental approach in the near future.5

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norb Delatte, Cleveland State University; Paul Bosela, Cleveland State University; Rosemary Sutton, Cleveland State University; Joshua Bagaka's, Cleveland State University; William Beasley, Cleveland State University

Materials, Freshman Seminar, Introduction to Structural Design, Soil Mechanics and Lab, Structural Analysis, Structural Steel Design Laboratory, Small Scale Structures for Architects, Large Scale Structures for Architects, Reinforced Concrete Design Laboratory, Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design, Design Studio, Geology and Soil Mechanics • Graduate or UG/Grad: Building Performance Failures and Forensic Techniques, Nondestructive Testing, Forensic Engineering, Seepage – Flow Through Porous Media, Consolidation and Settlement, Geosynthetics, Shear Strength and Slope Stability, Shallow Foundation Design, Foundation Engineering, Rock Mechanics, Structural Dynamics

Conference Session

Improving Technical Understanding of All Americans

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Engstrom, ITEA/Cal U

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

learning resources based onselected technological and science literacy standards; and disseminating the units to teachers intraining workshops and distance learning. Each unit has standards-based content, suggestedteaching approaches, and detailed learning activities including brainstorming, visualizing, testing,refining, and assessing technological designs. Students learn how inventions, innovations, andsystems are created and how technology becomes part of people’s lives.The primary goals of the project were to: 1. Create a model for standards-based instructional units addressing the study of technology and science to be implemented in grades 5 and/or 6. 2. Align contemporary classroom/laboratory instruction with technological literacy

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Curriculum Development and Teaching Models in NRE

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erich Schneider, University of Texas at Austin

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Nuclear and Radiological

AC 2008-657: TEACHING THE SN METHOD: ZERO TO INTERNATIONALBENCHMARK IN SIX WEEKSErich Schneider, University of Texas at Austin Dr. Schneider is an Assistant Professor of Nuclear and Radiation Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Since joining the UT faculty in 2006, Dr. Schneider has been active in the development of a modern nuclear energy systems analysis curriculum including courses in computational radiation transport and the nuclear fuel cycle. Prior to joining UT, Dr. Schneider was a Technical Staff Member in the Nuclear Systems Design group at Los Alamos National Laboratory