Conference Session

Embedded Computing

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sang-Hoon Lee, Polytechnic University; Anshuman Panda, Polytechnic University; Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic University; Hong Wong, Polytechnic University

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Computers in Education

is currently pursuing a dual B.S/M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and expects to graduate in June 2007. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi. He has worked as a teaching and research assistant with responsibilities in the area of mechatronics.Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic University VIKRAM KAPILA is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, where he directs an NSF funded Web-Enabled Mechatronics and Process Control Remote Laboratory, an NSF funded Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics that has been featured on WABC-TV and NY1 News, and an NSF funded GK-12 Fellows project. He has held visiting positions with the Air Force Research

Conference Session

Distance, Remote, and Virtual Experiments

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jim Henry, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga; Richard Zollars, Washington State University; Charles Knight, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Fall2000/McAtee/ accessed 17 January 2007. 2. “The Trojan Room Coffee Pot,“ http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/qsf/coffee.html accessed 17 January 2007 3. "Enhancing Classroom Demonstrations and Home Assignments with Remote Experiments ", Page 12.1444.4 Henry, Long and Gadzke, AIChE Meeting, 2004 4. The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman, first ed., 2005, page 168.5. http://www.jimpinto.com/writings/flatworld.html accessed 17 January 2007. Page 12.1444.5

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Web-Based Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Manuel Castro, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Africa Lopez-Rey, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; juan peire, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Julio Freijeiro, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia

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Computers in Education

Science and Education Ministry and theSpanish National Plan I+D+I 2004-2007 the support for this paper as the project TSI2005-08225-C07-03 "mosaicLearning: Aprendizaje electrónico móvil, de código abierto, basado enestándares, seguro, contextual, personalizado y colaborativo".Bibliography 1. Program JKarnaugh V 4.2. Available on January 15th, 2007. http://meteo.ieec.uned.es/www_Usumeteo1/ 2. Programa KV- Diagram-Applet. Available on January 15th, 2007. http://tams-www.informatik.uni- hamburg.de/applets/kvd/kvd.html 3. Programa Karnaugh Minimizer Pro. Available on January 15th, 2007. http://karnaugh.shuriksoft.com/ 4. Programa Karnaugh Map 1.2. Available on January 15th, 2007. http://www.puz.com/sw/karnaugh/kmap12.exe

Conference Session

Perceptions of Women's Success in STEM

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maria Brunette, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; paula rayman, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; meg bond, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Lu Yuan, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

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Women in Engineering

Figure 1. Flowchart of Delphi Study. Groundwork In-depth Literature Review on “Workplace Factors Associated with Women's Success in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields Project Selection of 8-10 Directors REPRESENTATIVE Research Themes

Conference Session

Ocean, Marine, and Coastal Engineering Topics

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barb Howe, FishSafe B.C.; Gina Johansen, Fish Safe

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Ocean and Marine

people learn, and completed a M.Ed.(adult education) from the University of British Columbia in 1999. Barb works now doing vessel deliveries, most recently part of the delivery crew for a 120' tug boat from Vancouver to Trois-Rivieres near Montreal. For the last year and a half she has been the educational consultant to Fish Safe, designing the course and mentoring fishermen/facilitators for the Fish Safe Stability Education Program.Gina Johansen, Fish Safe Gina Johansen is a familiar personality in the B.C. fishing industry. She grew up a third generation fisherman, and raised her two children on board a seine boat. Since 1992 she has operated her project management business providing

Conference Session

Hands-on Materials Science and Engineering

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Otto Wilson, Catholic University of America

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Materials

. 2.) Students can synthesize the nanoparticles as part of the demonstration 3.) Surfactant and colloid stability effects can be incorporated into this demonstration by using PEI and/or gum Arabic. Figure 3 shows a picture of a well dispersed hydroxyapatite suspension that contains gum Arabic (left hand bottle) and an unstable hydroxyapatite suspension with no additive (on the right). 4.) This demonstration can be performed using a Petri dish or glass microscope slide and projected onto a screen with an overhead projector for large audiences.Figure 3 Influence of gum Arabic surfactant on the colloid stability of hydroxyapatite. Thebottle on the left contains hydroxyapatite and gum Arabic and

Conference Session

Training Faculty to Teach CE

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Decker Hains, U.S. Military Academy; Mark Evans, U.S. Military Academy; Stephen Ressler, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

Issues & Their 26. Leadership Relationship to Engineering 15. Risk/Uncertainty 27. Life-Long Learning 16. Sustainability 28. Attitudes 17. Project Management 18. Technical Specialization Page 12.1371.3Each outcome has a specified level of achievement that must be met to fulfill the Body ofKnowledge. The levels of achievement are based on Bloom’s Taxonomy of EducationObjectives and are defined in Table 2 below.7 The

Conference Session

Graphics and Visualization

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jianping Yue, Essex County College

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Engineering Design Graphics

. Page 12.1292.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Spatial Visualization by Realistic 3D ViewsAbstractSpatial visualization skills are essential in many engineering and technology fields. These skillsare especially important in hand sketching and computer-aided design (CAD) of engineeringgraphics, when it is necessary to visualize and represent three-dimensional (3D) objects andassemblies. Educators and researchers have developed various types of tests to assess students’abilities in spatial visualization tasks. Conventional visualization tests usually use axonometricdrawings, mostly isometric projections, to represent 3D objects. However, isometric drawingsare dimensionally distorted and lack many features

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tom Moran, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education

them to a physical system.So, getting my head around a three dimensional physical system with a free body diagram aboutit and force vectors, that really turned me on.” he recalls with amusement. He was an avidbicyclist in college and as he began taking mechanical design classes, he turned to his bicycle,looking at it as a machine, isolating every part and analyzing its design and function. For hissenior design project, his team worked with the Food Machinery Corporation (FMC) andredesigned an actuator to brake and release a machine gun. “I was proud of myself because Icame up with the concept for our design which instead of a squeeze braking system, used areverse cantilever braking process. We ended up getting the specified braking force using

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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E. Hou; T. N. Chang; A. Dhawan; J. Ji; E. Luxford; D. Rodriguez; W. Stoddart; S. Siddiqui

autonomous vehicle that cannavigate in a complex urban environment. The innovation of the NJIT system lies in its human-likeability that can make judgments based on the vehicle’s surroundings. This system is able to respond withthe speed and accuracy needed to complete all the objectives of this competition safely and effectively. The goal of this paper is to provide an overview of the initial architecture and design of the NJITautonomous vehicle. In addition, this project presents a number of education and management relatedproblems such as administration of a large student-centered project, interaction of diverse andmultidisciplinary subgroups, recruitment and supervision of team members, and relationship-buildingwith sponsor companies. In

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2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Carl A. Lundgren

to distinguishing products, companies and individuals1. Surveys of graduates of theMechanical Engineering Technology (MET) program at RIT 2 indicate the majority of alumnimigrate toward management. This is not unique, Fisher, et al at Penn State Behrend recentlyreported3 on the results of alumni and businesses surveyed for “business knowledge attributes”necessary for engineering technology graduates.Incorporating business and management skills has been accomplished with specific courses such asengineering economics, and project management, available as electives or as required courses inmany if not most engineering and engineering technology degree programs. At RIT students elect toparticipate in a wide range of College of Business minors

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2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Lisa Schneider

participated in these programs or organizations during their time in theCollege.Program Seniors –Ever participatedAcademic Excellence Workshops (AEWs) – one-creditcollaborative learning supplements to 1st- and 2nd-year core 35.5%math, chemistry, and computer science courses.Undergraduate Research (in faculty research program) 44.2%Student Project Team – competitive student-run design 26.0%teams.Peer Tutoring 20.3% Seniors –Ever Member Seniors –Ever LeaderEngineering Student

Conference Session

Teaching Courses in Renewable Energy Systems

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Samuel Lakeou, University of the District of Columbia; Esther Ososanya, University of the District of Columbia; Ben Latigo, University of the District of Columbia; Sisay Beru, University of the District of Columbia; Mamadou Keita, University of the District of Columbia; Steven Omoijunanfo, University of the District of Columbia

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

practical demonstration of the operation of a combination ofsolar and wind energy sources. Through the visitors’ center, a variety of audiovisual systems willbe operated for demonstration and educational purposes. The proposed project is expected todeliver up to 2,000W (Watts) of electric power from an array of photovoltaic (PV) solarmodules, and up to 900 W of electric power from a wind turbine generator, to give a total of 2.90KW of electricity. This hybrid system will power a 600 square-foot mobile visitors’ center with aself-maintained cooling system, and equipped with a big screen television, and other smallappliances. The electricity generated from the hybrid system will also be used to light up selectedareas of the university’s campus at

Conference Session

Service Learning Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tao Hong, Purdue University; William Oakes, Purdue University; Susan Maller, Purdue University; Carla Zoltowski, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2007-2401: CONSTRUCT VALIDITY OF THE EPICS SCALES ACROSSGROUPS: A MIMIC MODELING INVESTIGATIONTao Hong, Purdue UniversitySusan Maller, Purdue UniversityWilliam Oakes, Purdue UniversityCarla Zoltowski, Purdue University Page 12.400.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Construct Validity of the EPICS Scales across Groups: A MIMIC Modeling Investigation Abstract Using the Multiple Indicators, Multiple Causes (MIMIC) modeling approach, thisstudy focused on the investigation of the construct validity of the Engineering Projects inCommunity Service (EPICS) program evaluation instrument. Possible

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering II

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Frank Yeboah, North Carolina A&T State University; Harmohindar Singh, North Carolina A&T State University; Shamsuddin Ilias, North Carolina A&T State University

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Architectural

AC 2007-2480: BUILDING SECURITY AND BIO-CHEMICAL TERRORISM ? ANINTERDISCIPLINARY COURSEFrank Yeboah, North Carolina A&T State University Research Associate and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Center for Energy Research and Technology (CERT), North Carolina A&T State University. He graduated with a doctoral degree in Earth and Environmental Engineering, with focus on Energy Economics, from Columbia University in the City of New York in October 2004, and an ME degree in Mining and Mineral Economics from the Technical University of Clausthal, Germany. Currently, he co-teaches “Sustainable and Secure Building Design” in the Architectural Engineering Department. He is also the Project

Conference Session

Computer Tools for Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Frank Kowalski, Colorado School of Mines; Susan Kowalski, Colorado School of Mines; Erich Hoover, Colorado School of Mines

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Computers in Education

AC 2007-2519: USING INKSURVEY: A FREE WEB-BASED TOOL FOROPEN-ENDED QUESTIONING TO PROMOTE ACTIVE LEARNING ANDREAL-TIME FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT OF TABLET PC-EQUIPPEDENGINEERING STUDENTSFrank Kowalski, Colorado School of Mines Frank V. Kowalski (Ph.D., Stanford University) is a professor of physics at Colorado School of Mines. He is a strong proponent of using technology to enhance active learning and classroom communication.Susan Kowalski, Colorado School of Mines Susan E. Kowalski (M.B.S., University of Colorado, Boulder) has been the project coordinator for the Colorado School of Mines Classroom Communicator Project since its inception in 2002.Erich Hoover, Colorado School of Mines Erich Hoover is a

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computer-Oriented Programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sohail Anwar, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona College; Jungwoo Ryoo, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona College; Harpal Dhillon, Excelsior College; David Barnes, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona College

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Information Systems

Science from the University of Kansas in 2005.Harpal Dhillon, Excelsior College Dr. Harpal Dhillon is currently the Dean of the School of Business and Technology at Excelsior College. In the past he has taught undergraduate and graduate Courses in Information Systems, Software Engineering, and Project Management at University of Maryland, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, and George Washington University. Dr. Dhillon worked as owner/senior executive in three systems engineering companies over a period of 20 years. His research interests are in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction, Quality Assurance, and Applications of IT in Telemedicine and Web-based Distance Learning. Dr. Dhillon is a

Conference Session

IE and EM Program Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Megan Brunkhorst, University of Missouri; Halvard Nystrom, University of Missouri; Donald Myers, University of Missouri

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Engineering Management

than they have before. However, there is an increasingneed for professionals to manage the technical projects, programs, and organizations. Thismarket need could be met by bioengineers who earn a Master’s Degree in EngineeringManagement. These professionals would not only understand engineering and life-scienceissues, but also management and strategic issues. The Massachusetts Biotechnology Education Foundation is a non-profit company thatpromotes and supports science and biotechnology education in Massachusetts. In the May 1,2005 issue of Genetic Engineering News, Cora Beth Abel, the Vice President of MassBioEdstressed that clinical and project management were the two areas most in need of workforcedevelopment. She was quoted as saying

Conference Session

Modern Software Measurement Techniques

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Akram Hossain, Purdue University-Calumet; Masoud Fathizadeh, Purdue University-Calumet

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Instrumentation

authored more than 25 refereed journal and conference publications. From 2003 through 2006, he was involved with Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL in developing direct computer control for hydrogen powered automotives. He is also involved in several direct computer control and wireless process control related research projects. His interests are in the area of industrial transducer, industrial process control, wireless controls, statistical process control, computer aided design and fabrication of printed circuit board, programmable logic controllers, programmable logic devices and renewable energy related projects.Masoud Fathizadeh, Purdue University-Calumet Masoud Fathizadeh received his B.S.E.E

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amjad Zaim, University of Texas-Brownsville; Mahmoud Quweider, University of Texas-Brownsville

. Page 12.1163.9Conclusion:In this paper, we discussed practical issues in the design and implementation of iris-basedrecognition security system. Although, the main concepts provided in this report can beused as general standard guidelines for development of iris-based recognition, ourprimary motivation behind this project is to familiarize our computer science studentswith this rapidly emerging technology and to increase their level of enthusiasm about theits promising future. The developed system is expected to support courses and facultyresearch, courses and visitor familiarity with this interesting application of computerscience. The system will also be installed in different laboratory modules for use incapstone projects and to demonstrate

Conference Session

New Trends in Energy Curriculum

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noel Schulz, Mississippi State University; Herbert Ginn, Mississippi State University; Stanislaw Grzybowski, Mississippi State University; Anurag Srivastava, Mississippi State University; Jimena Bastos, Mississippi State University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

design and work withmanufacturers and system integrators to develop a final product. With the advancements in shipsystems, today’s shipbuilders are now taking a more active part in the research, development anddesign of the ships at a much earlier stage. In addition to those who build the ships, they alsoneed engineers to help with the research and development of the systems on the ship. With theneed for capabilities for fight-through and reconfiguration, many of the systems are moving tomore electrical based systems including power and controls applications. Additionally theOffice of Naval Research has been a major source of research funding for power engineeringfaculty within the last 10 years. Research projects related to the all electric

Conference Session

Introductory Materials Science for the 21st Century

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carolyn Skurla, Baylor University

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Materials

their major in mechanical engineering has risen sharply. The number ofjuniors enrolling in Materials has doubled in the last three years and is projected to see anadditional 30% or more increase in enrollment in Spring 2008. While growth is exciting, it hasstretched the capacity of our teaching laboratory facilities and the capacity of the instructor tograde the increased volume of laboratory reports with the same degree of rigor. However, therecent addition of a masters program made teaching assistants available to assist duringlaboratory sessions.Keeping a larger group of students engaged in active learning activities during a laboratoryexercise that requires students to take turns using a single, major piece of equipment (e.g., thesingle

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Abu-Hajar, San Francisco State University; Michael Holden, San Francisco State University

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Computers in Education

andresultant data, and section 6 concludes the paper with discussion and futuristic trends.2. Traditional engineering classrooms: Challenges and solutionsTraditional engineering classrooms adopt the objectivist approach—the instructor leads thelearning process and students passively receive information. Students’ learning is evaluatedusing a combination of homework, quizzes, projects, and exams. The problem with such anassessment approach is that it limits the students’ incentives to learn beyond grades. we arguethat traditional classrooms are effective in some respects such as when lectures focus onpresenting defined and agreed-upon facts and skills14.New themes have emerged with the intention of improving the efficiency of teaching andreducing

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention and Diversity in Engineering Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Irene Ferrara, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona; Andrew Vavreck, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona

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Engineering Technology

(AutoCAD) as well as a solidmodeling software package (SolidWorks). The design component is intended to give students an Page 12.241.3introduction to a design philosophy that is repeated in subsequent courses, to advance studentunderstanding of what engineers actually do in industry, and to provide students with team-oriented project work. Team experiences and effectively functioning as a part of a team areaddressed as students become involved in the project work.In spring of 2006, ED&G 100, Introduction to Engineering Design, was offered for the first timeas a common course for Engineering and Engineering Technology majors. In addition, with

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nihad Dukhan, University of Detroit Mercy; Michael Jenkins, University of Detroit Mercy

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Graduate Studies

in many engineering schools in thepast few years. Traditionally, engineering undergraduate students are provided with some designexperiences in the cap stone design course, and as part of some other engineering courses, whichinclude design-type small projects or open-ended problems, throughout the curriculum. Whilevery valuable in many ways, this design experience does not constitute scientific research: Itmainly aims at providing a design for a working or manufactureble part or system. To achievethis, the students usually apply their existing knowledge and technical skills that they acquirethrough their engineering courses. Engineering research includes the aspect of pursuing a scientific topic, a hypothesis or anidea in a systematic

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Industrial Technology

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ghassan Ibrahim, Bloomsburg University; Jeremy Sensenig, Bloomsburg University

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Engineering Technology

retail stores andmanufacturing environment, where fluorescent lights are commonly used. Fluorescent lights areenergized with AC power at certain frequencies depending on their design and go through twocycles of ionization/de-ionization during each power cycle which makes them time varying RFreflectors. There is a possibility that the time varying component of the RFID signal reflected bythe fluorescent light may share the same spectrum as similar components originating from theRFID tags, when they are operating in backscatter mode. This dynamic reflection of RF signalsmay interfere with the operation of the reverse link of the RFID systemA research project was conducted within the Bloomsburg University electronics engineeringtechnology (EET

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Abul Azad, Northern Illinois University; Xueshu Song, Northern Illinois University

. Thestudents’ perceptions of the lasting impact of this project and the effectiveness of verticalintegration will be addressed through the performance evaluation of the students during theirsenior years. Acceptability of the remote laboratory facility: Towards this students are provided with aweekly survey (multiple choice), where they queried regarding their interest level in the material,adequacy of background preparation, usefulness of the handouts, effectiveness of the tutorials,the knowledge they acquired from each topic, relevance of course materials, ease of access to the Page 12.1235.10Internet facility, and suggestions they have for

Conference Session

IE and EM Program Innovation

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Duening, Arizona State University

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Engineering Management

Systems Management(ESIM). As it will be defined by this program, ESIM will cover a wide range of competenciespertinent to enterprise systems at all levels, including: • Management and human resource systems • Organizational design and structure • Decision making and strategy setting • New product/service development • Project management • Production and operations • Information technologies and expert systems • Financial and accounting systemsTo accommodate this range of ESIM opportunities within the enterprise, the following core andelective curricula are proposed:Required Core:FSE 598 Introduction to Strategic Enterprise InnovationThis course introduces students to the varieties of innovation that occur across

Conference Session

Biology and Engineering

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ernest Tollner, University of Georgia-Athens; Caner Kazanci, Univ. of Georgia

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Biological & Agricultural

structuredseminar that seems appropriate. The syllabus is summarized as follows: • Gain a qualitative understanding of terminology, the first law, the second law from an introductory text (We used Whalley, 1992). We also focused on worked examples of first and second law analyses found in Cengel and Boles (2002). • Spend two days per week covering fundamentals in ecological thermodynamics (Jorgenson and Svirezhev, 2004) and spend one day per week analyzing papers of Ichiru Aoki and other leaders in the field. • Students tackled a project based on the papers for a detailed energetics analyses as a final project The course considered the laws of thermodynamics in the classical sense andinvestigated some models

Conference Session

NAFP Panel Discussion

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohan Aggarwal, Alabama A&M University; Benjamin Penn, NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center; Ravindra Lal, Alabama A&M University

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Minorities in Engineering

theauthors, Dr. R. B. Lal was awarded a major NASA grant to grow crystals in the microgravity ofspace. It may be mentioned that this NASA project was awarded even before the maiden voyageof the Space Shuttle. This achievement provided the inspiration and enthusiasm to the physicsfaculty to pursue a graduate program in the department. Fortunately, various federal agenciesoffer a wide range of funding opportunities for every aspect of initiating research that includeyoung faculty awards to initiate research, funds to equip the undergraduate and graduatelaboratories, major instrumentation awards for research equipment, research scholarships forundergraduate and graduate students for their studies leading to Bachelor’s, Master’s andDoctoral degrees in