Conference Session

Liberal Education Revisited: Five Historical Perspectives

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College, Dublin

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

instrument, textile 6 Totals (%) 100 105*  The mis-match is due to difficulties in making direct comparisons between the studies. For example Social Science could be classified a liberal study in the US A major problem was that only rarely did universities show any interest in design. It was not arespectable subject, and in any case it was debatable as to whether it could be taught. This wasnot the case among those who undertook project work especially in dip.tech courses whobelieved that they helped students understand the design process. W. A. Pullman argued thatbecause of the industrial experience obtained on sandwich courses students could undertakeambitious

Conference Session

Professional Identity

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine M. Morley; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Shawn S. Jordan, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

from McGill University, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering with a Ph.D. minor in Women’s Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is Co-PI and Research Director of Purdue University’s ADVANCE program, and PI on the Assessing Sustainability Knowledge project. She runs the Research in Feminist Engineering (RIFE) group, whose projects are described at the group’s website, http://feministengineering.org/. She is interested in creating new models for thinking about gender and race in the context of engineering education. She was recently awarded a CAREER grant for the project, ”Learning from Small Numbers: Using personal narratives by underrepresented undergraduate students to

Conference Session

Two-Year College Special Topics Potpourri

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela Minichiello, Utah State University; Tracy D Blake, Utah State University; Wade H. Goodridge, Utah State University; David Dwight Sam PhD, Utah State University

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Two Year College Division

: thehistory of engineering , engineering specialties, problem solving, computer tools, teamwork,communication, design and ethics. Material from the text is augmented with group discussionsled by the team of instructors (all of whom are engineers), invited speakers (practicing engineersfrom the regional communities), speakers from university groups that can help regional studentsprepare for academics on main campus (academic advisors, librarian, student representatives ofengineering related clubs), hands-on exercises (laboratory exercises and homework related to thetext), an oral presentation project (the five-minute engineer), and a culminating end of course

Conference Session

Nanotechnology/RFID

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed S. Khan, DeVry University,Addison, Illinois; Aram Agajanian, DeVry University, Chicago

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Engineering Technology

Society. He teaches Wireless Engineering, Net- work Engineering, Fiber Optic Communications, Technology and Society, and Project Management. He also advises students on their senior design projects. He is the author of ”The Telecommunications Fact Book, 2E” and co-author of ”Technology and Society: Crossroads to the 21st Century,” ”Technology and Society: A Bridge to the 21st Century,” and ”Technology and Society: Issues for the 21st Century and Beyond.” He is a member of ASEE, and a senior member of IEEE.Aram Agajanian, DeVry University, Chicago Dr. Aram Agajanian is a senior professor at DeVry University in Chicago. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Rochester, a M.S. in Electrical

Conference Session

Information and Network Security

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peng Li, East Carolina University; John M. Jones, East Carolina University; Kris Kareem Augustus, East Carolina University

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Computing & Information Technology

machines efficiently. From 2008, westarted experimenting with new centralized virtual lab automation systems, specifically VirtualComputing Lab (VCL) which was used in several projects that year. The next year VMware(vCenter) Lab Manager (VLM), another virtual lab automation package, was made available inselected courses.Our VCL infrastructure was supported by 84 IBM HS21 blade servers, each with two Intel dual-core Xeon processors and 12 GB memory. 1 TB Network-attached storage (NAS) was available Page 22.856.4for students to save their work. In contrast, the VLM system was supported by a total of six LS22blade servers with each blade consisting of

Conference Session

Educating Students for Professional Success

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ajit D. Kelkar, North Carolina A&T State University; James G. Ryan, Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering

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Graduate Studies, New Engineering Educators, Student

numberof times in the presentations and papers of Mihail Roco 1 of NSF who has projected thatapproximately 2 million nano-related jobs will be created by 2015 (40% of them in the US) andif typical multipliers are used the number of Nano-related jobs would be substantially more. Thiscorrelated with the predictions made by Lux Research (a well known contract research firm) thatnanotechnology will contribute $3.1 Trillion to the world's economy by 2015. We expect JSNNgraduates to find positions in industrial, academic and government research labs in fieldsincluding pharmaceuticals, defense, materials and electronics companies. The Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering (JSNN) currently offer twodegree programs (a Professional M.S. in

Conference Session

Experiential Learning Programs and the Transition to Industry

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Hoe, University of Texas, Tyler; Mukul Shirvaikar, University of Texas, Tyler

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College Industry Partnerships

that the elective class in semiconductor test really helped thestudents pull together the theory from all their course work, this integrative approach willprovide this benefit to the students as they progress through the program rather than waiting fortheir senior year.6 Third, from a pragmatic perspective, the gradual introduction of the tester labsinto the curriculum will allow the faculty to get up to speed on using the tester, introducingmaterial as the lab projects are developed. The proposed learning objectives for each testlaboratory are summarized in Table 2. Table 2. Learning Objectives for Test Laboratories Laboratory Main Learning Objectives Resistor Understand overall ATE

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering: Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine E. Hailey, Utah State University; Chandra Y. Austin, Auburn University; Cameron Denson, North Carolina State University; Daniel L. Householder, Utah State University

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Minorities in Engineering

, understanding ideas, participating in activities, and design projects. Factor two,Communication and Problem Solving, includes five items. These items deal with communicatingengineering knowledge, solving problems, and developing solutions. One item did not meet the0.40 loading criterion required for inclusion within a factor. The results of the factor analysis ofthe self-efficacy items are reproduced in Table 2.Engineering Self-Efficacy ScaleFactor 1 – Understanding, Learning, and Demonstrating Item Loading Statement 2 0.800 Perform an engineering task in MESA 1 0.742 Understanding the engineering ideas taught in MESA 3 0.696 Learn new material relating to engineering

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

K. Hodge, Mississippi State University

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Mechanical Engineering

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Using Travel and the Internet to Develop and Formulate Enhanced Homework AssignmentsIntroductionOne student criticism of homework and project exercises in engineering courses is thelack of connection that the projects have with the “real world.” The author has taught arequired course in thermal systems design in Mechanical Engineering at MississippiState University for many years and has endeavored to make assignments as realisticand credible as possible. Over the last decade the realism has been enhanced bydeveloping homework exercises from engineering “examples” observed on trips. Thispaper will delineate in detail the process of evolving assignments based on

Conference Session

Student Learning and Assessment II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anca L. Sala, Baker College; Raghu Echempati, Kettering University

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Mechanical Engineering

. Understand the effects and apply basic control actions commonly used in industrial automaticcontrollers in modeling different control systems.11. Complete a course project involving topics of the course and transient and steady-stateresponse analysis of the control system.The course format includes lectures, and computation and visualization sessions using Matlab.As stated before, the mathematical modeling of mechanical systems overlaps with the similartopic in the Vibrations course. Anecdotally, students who have already taken Vibrations, or aretaking Vibrations concurrently with DCS, remarked they already knew some of the material fromthe Vibrations course. This can be of great help to students in the DCS course, allowing themsome confidence

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah M. Brown, National Society of Black Engineers; Lauren D. Thomas, Virginia Tech

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Minorities in Engineering

, program titles, and categories. Most service hours reported aretraditional community service projects, for which hours are tracked, but no other evaluationoccurs. A Walk For Education is also widely adopted, with Informal Science and Engineeringthird, STEM community training next and no chapters reporting Technical Expertise Servicesprograms. A Walk for Education has been a popular for several years as many membersparticipated in the event for the first time when it was hosted at the regional level. Through theTORCH program evaluation it became apparent that the program needed adjustment whichresulted in chapter based events. This program is also popular for chapter collaboration. InformalEngineering and Science takes many forms for the chapters

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Summer Dann Johnson, Louisiana State University; Paige Davis, Louisiana State University; Ashley Elisabeth Thibodeaux, Louisiana State University; Laura H. Ikuma, Louisiana State University; Kelly A. Rusch P.E., Louisiana State University; Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2011-680: PEER MENTORING, A TRANSITIONAL PROGRAM TOIMPROVE RETENTION IN THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERINGSummer Dann Johnson, Louisiana State University Ms Dann is the Project Manager for the College of Engineering’s STEP program. She has her Master’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering and worked for industry for 9 years prior to returning to academia.Paige Davis, Louisiana State University Paige Davis has 20 years experience as an Instructor in the College of Engineering at Louisiana State University. In addition to teaching she assists with the STEP program. She received her baccalaureate degree in Engineering Technology and her master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Louisiana State University.Ashley

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sushil K. Chaturvedi, Old Dominion University; Kaustubh A. Dharwadkar

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NSF Grantees

Implementation of Virtual Experiments in a Laboratory CourseKeywords: Virtual labs, simulation, visualization, assessmentAbstractThis paper presents results from a National Science Foundation grant titled “Simulation andVisualization Enhanced Engineering Education”, funded by the EEC division. Although thescope of the project is quite broad, embracing a wide range of courses in three engineeringdisciplines, the present work describes the results obtained from application of simulation andvisualization for development and implementation of web-based virtual engineering laboratories.The present work leverages the advancement in hardware and software technologies to mapphysical experiments into web-based virtual experiments

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reid Bailey, University of Virginia; Alexandra Emelina Coso, Georgia Institute of Technology; Heather T. Rowan-Kenyon, Boston College; Michael J Cabral, Virginia Commonwealth University; Joanne Bechta Dugan, University of Virginia; Marie F. Creager, University of Virginia

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NSF Grantees

year, students continue to concentrate onintegration while completing capstone projects designed specifically for TLP teams.Purpose/need and critical reflection are incorporated into the TLP curricula through theTLP Learning Community. The TLP Learning Community meets every two weeks forone hour with goals of developing a sense of belonging among the students, educatingstudents about the engineering field, strengthening leadership skills among students, andhelping students learn skills for getting jobs and internships. All students in the program– sophomores through seniors – participate in the learning community together. Page 22.1177.3An overview of

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2011 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Jonathan Cefalu; Timothy Roemer; Pawel Kosakowski; Shankar Krishnan

effective alternative tomachining a part within the confines of a semester is to use a three-dimensional rapid prototype(3D RP) system to fabricate the part. This is a practical method to quickly and accuratelyestablish the proof of concept. The primary objective of this paper is to study, design, and buildan artificial mitral heart valve with 3D RP and to explore the feasibility of including 3D RPprocess in BME design courses.In most engineering projects the product designs are conceptualized, fabricated, tested, analyzed,and refined. The rapid prototyping system uses three dimensional Computer Aided Design (3DCAD) files to fabricate a physical model. These models are usually made from ABS-plastics,starch, rubber, or another suitable material

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Sheikh Ghafoor; Stephen Canfield; Michael Kelley; Tristan Hill

move to solving advanced models thatdescribe how the world works. A recent model has been implemented in the college ofengineering at Tennessee Tech (TTU) to base the initial programming experience onhardware in the loop approach where the programming target is a micro-controller. Thiscourse has been offered in both C/C++ and Matlab programming language. From multiple previous implementations, we see that the students that engaged in thehands-on, hardware-based programming activities reported a more positive earlyexperience with programming and its relation to the engineering curriculum relative totheir comparison-group peers. The students participating in the project also reportedimproved confidence in their ability to learn and use

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Sunghoon Jang; Peter Spellane; Mohammad Razani

conducted an undergraduate research project “Proposing a New Study inNon-Invasive Amperometric Glucose Sensing Technology through the NYC-LSAMP SummerFellowship Program” – with a freshman student. Since a non-invasive method of monitoringblood glucose would present major advantages over existing methods which use invasivetechnologies, our group has studied the possibility of using a novel sensing technology, anamperometric glucose sensor, based on the information derived from the relationship betweenglucose molecules and their electrochemical impedance within physiologic glucose levels.Changes in glucose concentrations can be monitored by measuring the impedance within awide range of frequencies in order to optimize the impact of glucose solution

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

F. Pinto; E. Sheybani; Singli Garcia-Otero

Antenna Beta cloth Rotating test fixture Square cut patch This table shows the return loss, gain, axial ratio, and half power beam width results from bothcircular and square cut patches that I measured in the chamber. Each test was run with either a circularpatch or a square patch that had different serials. The one that was the best was the circular patch #1because it met the requirements that were called for in this project. This graph shows the measured radiation pattern of circular patch #1. It

Conference Session

Sustainability, Diversity, and STEM in Contemporary Energy Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John M. Robertson, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Slobodan Petrovic, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

long term planning.Maturity is defined by the ability of a class of products to generate enough marketrevenue to sustain evolution and growth without subsidies or preferential trade conditions.At that stage of development, market growth is often determined more by constraints thanby new applications or performance features. These constraints are opportunities forthose who recognize them.Many parties have an interest in making objective assessments of the possible success ofemerging technologies - from venture capital investors to students pondering their careerdirection. To make the task more tractable, the process described in this paper is directedtowards generic new energy technologies rather than individual projects or products thatuse

Conference Session

Two-Year College Special Topics Potpourri

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Fraser, Long Beach City College

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Two Year College Division

differs here is the application. Ocean ScienceApplications in the form of underwater robotics is one that seems to capture theimagination of students of all ages and gender. Students love to build things thatexplore underwater. Much of underwater exploration is shrouded in mystery and areasthat they know they will never go themselves. Simple student projects such as“Finding Nemo” with a ROV must not be dismissed. Whatever the reason, it is thisauthor’s experience that the area of underwater robotics appeals to a wide studentbase regardless of their exposure or familiarity with the ocean.In response to the interest in the underwater robotics applications, changes were madeto the course outlines and course delivery. Previously, the three-robotics

Conference Session

Multimedia and Distance Learning

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie M. Little-Wiles, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Linda L. Naimi, Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

No. of Respondents Percent Course Content 236 88% Messages 43 16% Announcements 97 36% Calendar 67 25% Assignments 170 64% Web Links 82 31%The focus turned to the issue of grades. Students were asked if their instructors used Blackboardto report grades on assignments, projects and tests. 37% of students responded that all of their

Conference Session

Simulation and Virtual Instrumentation

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Antonio Francisco Mondragon, Rochester Institute of Technology; Prafull Purohit, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Engineering Technology

design with a strong emphasis on hands-on experience for the students.The last module in the sequence is being taught as a capstone course that is geared more towardsindustrial like applications and industrial design environment. This includes project managementtechniques, version control and project sign-off milestones.Based on the above guidelines, we are developing a design experience for the students based ona popular commercial computer architecture such as the ARM processor[1, 2]; the flexibility ofextending this architecture by creating hardware accelerator blocks by the integration of a highdensity FPGA; and by the addition of off-the-shelf sensor components that are interconnectedthrough the popular I2C communications bus.During the

Conference Session

Improving Visualization Skills

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nancy E. Study, Virginia State University

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Engineering Design Graphics

if they did change their major.IntroductionAs part of ongoing research, data was gathered on the visualization abilities of students enrolledin introductory engineering graphics courses at Virginia State University, an HBCU. The pretestscores of these students on the Purdue Spatial Visualization Test (PSVT) (Guay, 1976) weresignificantly lower than the average expected for incoming engineering and technology students.The visualization abilities of these subjects were improved through a variety of methodsincluding sketching, haptic activities and multimedia exercises. The content of the courses variedslightly throughout the years referenced in this study but consistently covered the topics oforthographic projection, section views, auxiliary

Conference Session

Assessment in Engineering Graphics

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert A. Chin, East Carolina University

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Engineering Design Graphics

-chair and chair and as the Instructional Unit’s secretary, vice-chair, and chair. Page 22.1055.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Measuring the Performance of the Engineering Design Graphics JournalIntroductionThe Engineering Design Graphics Journal (EDGJ) recently transitioned from being a print-onlyjournal to being an online-only journal aided by Open Journal Systems (OJS). Developed andadministered by the Public Knowledge Project, OJS is an integrated open source journalmanagement and publishing system that facilitates the

Conference Session

Impact of the Gulf Coast Oil Spill on Chemical Engineering Education & Misc.

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Willie (Skip) E. Rochefort, Oregon State University; Gail Ellen Gerdemann, STEPs at Oregon State University

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Chemical Engineering

. This engineering project is designed to match the National Research Council'sNational Science Standards for 5-8 Abilities of Technological Design: i identify appropriate problemsfor technological design, design a solution or product, implement a proposed design, evaluate completedtechnological designs or products, and communicate the process of technological design.The lab described earlier in this paper and developed for undergraduates can be adapted for success for students ingrades four to eight. The age-appropriate adaptations for younger students include: (1) presenting the context forthe problem, (2) choosing appropriate materials, (3) devising a materials distribution and cleanup system, and (4)helping students understand trade-offs by

Conference Session

Unique Developments in Engineering Technology

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie M. Little-Wiles, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Adrie Koehler, Purdue University; Stephen Hundley, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Engineering Technology

use of chat rooms and forums for posting questions so that students could conduct discussionswith each other. A significant number of students did convey to the researchers that their instructorswere not using the chat or forum tools and that some of the instructors actually turn that feature off intheir LMS. Students expressed the need for such tools due to collaboration efforts on projects or simplyto be able to hold discussions on course topics outside of class. Other students mentioned that theirinstructors had actually required forum postings and incorporated both tools (chat and forum) withintheir courses which students liked.Students also wanted the ability to be able to have their message tool in the LMS linked to their email sothat

Conference Session

Assessment Methods and Learning Pedagogy I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qiu Liu, McNeese State University

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Engineering Technology

resistance and measure the offset voltage, then students will see how the offsetvoltage varies over the input resistance as a dependent variable3,4. Only very few add physicalquantity measurements such as adding a thermister. However, they did not point out the use ofthis circuit in a signal conditioning function and a process control loop. Also the author postedmessage in technology listserve to ask for the inputs about how other colleagues using the sametextbook do. Dr. Julio Garcia’s in San Jose State University uses a project similar to Capstone asin Figure 4.It would be the best way to train students if they can design and complete a small but including-everything project after finishing the class. The difficulty here is that they still have to

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University; Arun R. Srinivasa, Texas A&M University, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Jefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University

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First-Year Programs

UC Berkeley and has been a faculty in the mechanical Engineer- ing Department at Texas A&M University. He is one of the curriculum coordinators for the freshman engineering program of the Dwight Look COllege of Engineering at Texas A&M University,Jefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University Jeffrey E. Froyd is the Director of Faculty Climate and Development at Texas A&M University. He served as Project Director for the Foundation Coalition, an NSF Engineering Education Coalition in which six institutions systematically renewed, assessed, and institutionalized their undergraduate engineering curricula, and extensively shared their results with the engineering education community. He co-created the

Conference Session

Learning From Experts

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Indira Nair, Carnegie Mellon University; Eden Fisher, Carnegie Mellon University; Mustafa A. Biviji, Carnegie Mellon University

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Educational Research and Methods

worked in education at high school and university levels. Mustafa Biviji holds a BS in Electronics from Bombay University and a MS in Engineering & Technology Innovation Management from Carnegie Mellon. Mr. Biviji’s current position involves innovations in alternative energy.Dr. Eden FisherMr. Mustafa A. Biviji Mustafa A. Biviji holds a BE in Electronics Engineering from Mumbai University and a MS in Engineer- ing & Technology Innovation Management from Carnegie Mellon. Mr. Biviji’s current position involves working on projects in field of future electric grids and alternative energy. Page 22.1100.1

Conference Session

Pedagogical Issues in Computing

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tumkor Serdar, Stevens Institute of Technology; El-Sayed Aziz, Stevens Institute of Technology; Sven K. Esche, Stevens Institute of Technology; Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science)

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Computers in Education

element methods and has interests in remote laboratories, project-based learning and student learning assessment. His research is in the areas of remote sensing and control with applications to remote experimentation as well as modeling of microstructure changes in metal forming processes. He publishes regularly in peer-reviewed conference proceedings and scientific journals. At the 2006 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition in Chicago, USA, he received the Best Paper Award for his article ’A Virtual Laboratory on Fluid Mechanics’.Dr. Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology Page 22.527.1