Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shad Reed; Donna Dorminey

expenditure of resources. The ability to develop an appropriate experimentalprocedure is so vital that the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)requires that, “Engineering programs must demonstrate that their graduates have an ability todesign and conduct experiments”1. Given the number of experiments conducted throughout their undergraduate studies, moststudents that have graduated are well prepared to conduct an experiment that has an establishedset of experimental procedures. Unfortunately, students are not nearly as well prepared to designexperimental procedures. Occasionally, laboratory exercises require students to developexperimental procedures. But even this requirement fails to satisfy the criterion set forth

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention--Lower Division

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Hartmann; Greg Harstine; Andrew Milks

that can be earned back is based on the percentage of small group quizzesand the number of homework assignments submitted. A sliding scale is used to encouragestudents to attend class and turn in homework assignments. Many students are willing to reworkmissed problems; those students who are focused on grades are interested in improving theirgrade, and those students focused on learning are interested in improving their understanding ofthe material. · Have students work in small groups3 Students are divided into small groups at the beginning of the semester. Groups areformed based on the laboratory section in which the student is enrolled. Group size depends onlaboratory enrollment, and ideally three to five students are assigned

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brooks Byam

via a complete analytical and physical validation· Engine Dynamometer Laboratory Set Remote load, cooling, video controllers plus up-to-code Up ventilation, fuel, data cable plumbing· Engine Dynamometer Test Stand With Compact portable stand to test different engine Pitch and Roll Tilting Capabilities packaging configurations and simulate lateral g’s· Engine Dynamometer Cooling Tower Permanent tower eliminates need for radiator· Paddock and Display Lifts Front and rear lifts operated by cordless drills· Design of Experiment (DOE) Process Experimental process to efficiently and effectively test, of Testing, Tuning, Setting up

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Gross; David Clarke; David Bentler; Joseph Hitt; Janet Baldwin; Ronald Welch

self-assessments assist in fullyunderstanding the realized benefits of ETW.II. ETW OrganizationHow is ETW organized? ETW is a one-week short course (Figure 1) providing seminars on thebasics of excellent teaching (using Lowman5 and Wankat and Oreovicz6), demonstrations ofeffective teaching, laboratory exercises requiring the participants to teach lessons followed bygroup assessment, and discussions on how to apply the presented techniques in differentuniversity settings (laboratory, large classrooms, auditoriums, or seminar groups, etc.).The most critical and transformational part of ETW is the opportunity to learn new techniques,then practice them in the three classes presented by each participant. Team members assume therole of students

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

for the evaluation of different heatexchangers enhancement techniques. The apparatus/experimental setup is simple and relativelyinexpensive and can be incorporated in undergraduate heat transfer laboratory. These types ofexperiments assist the undergraduate mechanical engineering students in the understanding of thebasic heat transfer processes and the methods and devices that can be implemented to enhance theheat transfer.Bibliography1. Bergles, A. E. (1985), “Techniques to Augment Heat Transfer ,” Handbook of Heat Transfer Applications, 2ndedition, Chapter 1 McGraw-Hill, New York.2. Manglik, R. M. and Bergles, A. E. (1992), “Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop Correlations for Twisted-TapeInserts in Isothermal Tubes: Part I – Laminar Flows

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

S. K. Khanna; David Roylance; C. H. Jenkins

auxiliary material, such as film clips ofactual designs and laboratory experiments. The web page for the 1999 MIT/DMSE Mechanics of Materials subjectis at URL http://web.mit.edu/course/3/3.11/www/; this is a modest but useful web implementation for teaching. Ituses very plain HTML constructs, without the need for page design software.Most engineering educators seem to feel the web and other such technologies will augment rather than replacetraditional lecture-and-chalkboard methods. The seemingly tedious method in which students copy material as theinstructor chalks it onto the board actually seems to transmit technical information at approximately the right pace

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachel Murdell; Piper James; Gary Kinzel; Blaine Lilly; Anthony Luscher

Murdell is a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering at The Ohio State University. She has taught inCAD/CAM instructional laboratories while working on her M.S. thesis and has emphasized creativity and ideageneration as part of her research. Page 6.599.8 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mileta Tomovic

Session 2525 Integrating Product Optimization and Manufacturability in Graduate Design Course Mileta M. Tomovic Purdue UniversityAbstractAs CAD/FEA/CAM software tools are becoming increasingly user friendly and seamlesslyintegrated, it became feasible to use a number of them simultaneously in a senior/graduate leveldesign course in order to provide students with opportunity to experience all aspects of productdesign cycle, from concept design, product optimization, to manufacturability. In the past,teaching a hands-on laboratory

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Heather Nachtmann

Level CourseThe freshman level course, Industrial Cost Analysis, was offered in the Spring 2001 semester.The class was made up of 66 undergraduate students, primarily in their first year of industrialengineering. The goal of the course was to introduce the field of cost analysis to future industrialengineers. The course was delivered via an active learning lecture/discussion and a problem-solving laboratory. The primary course topics were basic financial accounting, cost behavior,cost management systems, product costing, decision making, and budgeting.Literature reviewThe students were teamed in small groups and required to conduct a literature search and review.A presentation and tutorial by a research librarian was made to the class and along

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Scanlon; Andrea Schokker

in the laboratory. However, the primary objective of a structural design courseis to provide the students with an experience that will enable them to enter a design office andhave an understanding of the process by which a complete set of design calculations, drawingsand specifications is produced. In addition, because the design process in large projects involvesa team effort with input from experts in different fields, students need to understand how thedesign process works in the broad sense.The approach being used to integrate these various facets of the design process is to use a themeproject in related courses at various stages of the curriculum. The initial effort has been todevelop the theme project in the introductory reinforced

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Sutharin Pathomvanich; Fazil Najafi

are normally much lower than developedcountries. The tuition fee is set in the reasonable range for the native people. The lack of funds isa major constraint in developing countries. Without funding, universities in developing countriesare not able to update their laboratories or offer courses comparable to developed nations.Furthermore, the computer facilities, both hardware and software, are limited. Their libraries arelacking many new books and journals. By studying abroad, students will have a chance to study incourses that may not be available in their home country. Their library access is unlimited in thedeveloping countries. This provides foreign students with the opportunities to use their owntalents to build upon their knowledge and

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Horan

: http://education.nasa.gov/implan/framewrk.html. Page 6.656.7“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”2. Center for the Education and Study of Diverse Populations, “New Mexico Content Standards and BenchmarksReference Guide,” URL: http://www.cesdp.nmhu.edu/standards/download/index.htm3. S. Horan, “Use of High-Power Model Rockets as a Laboratory for a Microcontroller Data Acquisition System,”A.S.E.E. Computers in Education, Vol. VI, No. 1, January-March 1996, p. 53-56.4. New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, “Student Launch

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Joey Parker

test stand with several pneumatic cylinders,solenoid valves, pushbutton inputs, and other function is used for laboratory exercises in PLCprogramming. Specific examples of PLC program analysis, de-bugging, and program design Page 6.660.7have been presented. Senior design projects that use PLCs for control have also been described. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationStudent response to this material has been uniformly positive, primarily due to their recognitionthat this is useful, “real

Conference Session

Aerospace First-Year Project-Based Learning

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alok K. Verma, Old Dominion University

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Aerospace

AC 2011-876: IMPACT OF PROJECT BASED LEARNING IN INTRO-DUCTION TO ENGINEERING/ TECHNOLOGY CLASSAlok K. Verma, Old Dominion University Dr. Alok K. Verma is Ray Ferrari Professor and, Director of the Lean Institute at Old Dominion Univer- sity. He also serves as the Director of the Automated Manufacturing Laboratory. Dr. Verma received his B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from IIT Kanpur, MS in Engineering Mechanics and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from ODU. Prof. Verma is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Virginia, a certi- fied manufacturing engineer and has certifications in Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma. He has orga- nized several international conferences as General Chair, including ICAM-2006

Conference Session

Global Engineering Models: Curriculum Development, Improvements, and Partnerships

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jian Yu, Auburn University and Tsinghua University, China; Chetan S. Sankar, Auburn University

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International

in developed countries (National Project ImplementationUnit, 2011). Several educational institutions in India have obtained World Bank funding and Page 22.833.2have recruited U.S. educators to improve the quality of education to help them (NationalProject Implementation Unit, 2011; NIT Trichy, 2011). Two researchers from the Laboratory for Innovative Technology and Engineering Education(LITEE), Auburn University, were invited to use LITEE multi-media case studies to trainengineering students at the National Institute of Technology, Trichy, during summer 2008, andto train several educators and students in a workshop at the National Institute of

Conference Session

Effective Projects and Experiments in Instrumentation and Control

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chao-Chia Cheng, National Central University; Lee king-lien, Department of Electro-Optic Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan 542, R.O.C.; Chih-Hsiung Ku, National Dong Hwa University

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Instrumentation

identification Data analysis Curve Fitting Error EstimationSystem DesignThe design work in this instrument includes two parts: electronics and optics. The well- designedelectronics system can improve the data collection more reliably and automatically. And thewell-designed optical system can allow more tolerance of installation errors and increase theaccuracy of measurement result.The optical system consists of laser, mirrors, beam splitter, beam expander, and prism shapedcell. Except the cell, all of the others are well-known components which can be found in aneducational optical laboratory. Since the main optical path in this method is similar to many

Conference Session

Making Students Aware of Their World: Five Perspectives

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda M. Head, Rowan University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Department. The initial target audience isfirst-year electrical and computer engineering majors and undergraduate music majors, althoughthe course will have neither math nor music prerequisites and can be taken by any student on theRowan University campus. The course will treat the title-topics from a holistic perspective asboth a systems-engineering project and a music-composition project. A syllabus for the currentoffering of the course is shown in Table 3. Table 3: Course Syllabus SIGNALS, SYSTEMS & MUSIC SYLLABUSSESSION TOPICS LABORATORY 1 History of Electronic Music & Music Theory Demonstration Units 1-4

Conference Session

Active and Project-Based Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynn Albers, North Carolina State University; Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University

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Mechanical Engineering

Bottomley, North Carolina State University Laura Bottomley received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1984 and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1985 from Virginia Tech. She received her Ph D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University in 1992. Dr. Bottomley worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories as a member of technical staff in Transmission Sys- tems from 1985 to 1987, during which time she worked in ISDN standards, including representing Bell Labs on an ANSI standards committee for physical layer ISDN standards. She received an Exceptional Contribution Award for her work during this time. After receiving her Ph D., Dr. Bottomley worked as a faculty member at Duke University and

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carl White, Morgan State University; Clifton Sean Martin, Innovative STEM Foundation (ISF); Maisha Drew, Innovative STEM Foundation (ISF); Givon Forbes, Innovative STEM Foundation (ISF)

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Minorities in Engineering

exposed to critical thinkingprinciples, system engineering basics, and team-working skills. During the program, the CASHstudents conduct NASA-related research, complete a project, and present their findings in aresearch exposition at the conclusion of the summer program.For the 2010 program, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA-JPL) in Pasadena, Californiaworked with ISF over the spring and provided the CASH program with both a Solar-based and aTelecom-based project for its CASH students. These two projects allowed the CASH students towork in research areas relevant to NASA.Program DescriptionSelection of ParticipantsFor the first two years of the CASH program, students have been provided to the programthrough a partnership with the Bluford

Conference Session

Oceans & Marine Technical Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deidre Sullivan, Marine Advanced Technology Education Center; Jill Marie Zande, Marine Advanced Technology Education Center

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Ocean and Marine

Geology from UC Santa Barbara and has Master’s Degrees in Marine Geology, GIS/ Marine Resource Management from Moss Landing Marine Laboratories and Oregon State University.Jill Marie Zande, Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center Jill Zande Associate Director & ROV Competition Coordinator Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center VP Education and Research Marine Technology Society (MTS) Jill Zande is the Associate Director and ROV Competition Coordinator for the Marine Advanced Tech- nology Education (MATE) Center and the current VP of Education and Research for MTS. At the MATE Center, Jill’s role is to work closely with industry to ensure that educational programs are aligned with

Conference Session

Institutional Perspectives and Boundary Work

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ron D Dempsey, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Page 23.1.8University, Pittsburg State University http://www.pittstate.edu/dotAsset/10561.pdf“many students enter engineering or engineering technology without a clear perception of thedifferences between engineering and technology curricular and their respective employmentopportunities upon graduation.”40 Expertise: The term “applied” and “hands-on” are the traditional nomenclature ofengineering technology. This applied nature of the technology programs manifests itself inlaboratory experiences which play a major role in the educational process. Programs inengineering also contain laboratory courses but as Robison points out “those courses inengineering that contain laboratories show strong orientation toward experimentation orresearch

Conference Session

International Engineering Education: Developments, Innovations, Implementations, and Pedagogical Challenges in Engineering Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phillip Albert Sanger, Western Carolina University; Julia Ziyatdinova, Kazan National Research Technological University; Svetlana Vasilievna Barabanova, Kazan National Research Technological University; Vasiliy DUPE Ivanov

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International

among American curricula but hope that the generalstructure of the curricula selected is sufficiently representative to facilitate comparisons anduseful observations. Several observations are quickly apparent: 1) Regardless of degree, the number of instruction contact hours for a degree program in Russia is considerably higher than comparable degrees in the American system. American bachelor degrees are in the 120-130 credit hours range compared to ~220 contact hours in the Russian system. The authors realize that contact hours are different than credit hours. The hours included in Figure 1 are also a mixture of lecture and laboratory for both Russian and American systems. It has been assumed that the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; David L. Silverstein, University of Kentucky; John L. Falconer, University of Colorado, Boulder; Ronald L. Miller, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

facultywho are interested in incorporating educational methods and tools into their classrooms toencourage students to think more deeply about concepts central to chemical engineering. Page 25.322.3If you would like to use the AIChE Concept Warehouse, the address is http://cw.edudiv.orgAcknowledgementsThe authors gratefully acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation’s Course,Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement Program, under the grants NSF 1023099, 1022957,1022875, 1022785 “Collaborative Research: Integration of Conceptual Learning throughout theCore Chemical Engineering Curriculum.” Any opinions, findings, and conclusions

Conference Session

FPD XI: Tidbits and Cookies

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas J. Vasko, Central Connecticut State University; Peter F. Baumann, Central Connecticut State University

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First-Year Programs

-technologycurricula start with an introductory course [6, 12, 14, 21, 25, 39, 40, 41, 43]. Improvements tothe introductory course have been proposed by including design topics early in the program toretain students’ interest [15, 16, 21, 24, 28, 43], offering laboratory instruction [3, 10, 14, 20], oremphasizing the development of problem-solving skills [1, 10, 15, 16, 24, 25, 39, 40, 41].Baylor University developed a further refinement of a problem-solving course through a self-paced subject-matter-mastery program [41].Our university also includes within its introductory course a culminating team design project toreinforce learned problem-solving principles and skill sets as an experiential-learningopportunity [2]. In many respects, this team-project effort

Conference Session

Innovative Course Developments in Construction

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chung-Suk Cho, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; David S. Cottrell Sr. P.E., University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Candace Mazze, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Sandra Loree Dika, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Construction

. Page 25.425.95. Colburn, A., “A guided primer.” Science Scope, 42-44, 2000.6. Gleixner, S., Douglas, E., and Graeve, O., “Prime Modules: Teaching Introduction to Materials Engineering in the Context of Modern Technologies.” Proceeding for the 2007 American Society of Engineering Education National Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2007.7. Gleixner, S., Douglas, E., and Graeve, O., “Engineering project laboratory modules for an introduction to materials course.” Proceeding for the 2008 American Society of Engineering Education, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2008.8. Douglas, E., Gleixner, S., Graeve, O., “Project Based Modules for Teaching Materials Chemistry.” http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/sgleixner/PRIME/, 2006, (Mar. 23

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching and Research in Physics or Engineering Physics II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marie Lopez del Puerto, University of Saint Thomas; Jeff Jalkio, University of Saint Thomas; Paul R. Ohmann, University of Saint Thomas

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Engineering Physics & Physics

this study in three sections of Classical Physics II, the second semestercalculus-based introductory physics course, and in one section of the upper-level Electricity andMagnetism. Classical Physics II is taught in a modified workshop style, with lecture, laboratory,and problem-solving combined into a two and a half hour class period. The students in the courseare predominantly Electrical and Mechanical Engineering majors, but it is also a required coursefor Chemistry, Biology, Geology, and Physics majors. Electricity and Magnetism (E&M), on theother hand, is lecture based, although in the last two years the instructor has added an optionalproblem-solving session that is well attended by students. E&M is almost exclusively taken

Conference Session

Experiential Learning Programs and the Transition to Industry

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Stamper, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; William A. Kline, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Mitchell A. Landess, Rose-Hulman Ventures

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College Industry Partnerships

samemeasure requires that blood samples be sent to a lab and can take approximately 1 day to obtainthe results.An entrepreneur recognized the market potential for a clinical device based on this research.However, as developed in the laboratory, the technology was too complicated and expensive forbroad clinical acceptance. Rose-Hulman Ventures provided the venue for exploring differentoptions for productizing the technology and building functional prototypes for the clinicalsetting. This project required multi-disciplinary teams with student interns drawn frombiomedical engineering, optical engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering

Conference Session

Methods, Cases, and Directions

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bidhan C. Roy, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Osama M. Jadaan, University of Mount Union; Mitchell Dean Cornelius, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

labs in industry, university, and government laboratories. Some of the equipments deal with metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) for LED’s and solar cells, and molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) products. The financial health of the company (all number in 1000’s) as described in its income statement is as follows5 -Year 12/2007 12/2008 12/2009 12/2010Total Revenue $402,475 $442,809 $380,149

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering: Trends and Tools

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wayne E. Whiteman, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Mechanical Engineering

completely online is theinability to adequately fulfill the ABET criteria associated with laboratory and experimentalrequirements.Contrary to the lack of mechanical engineering degrees offered at the undergraduate level viadistance learning, the number of distance master level mechanical engineering degrees offeredhas experienced the same sort of growth cited by Harris above for the distance educationenvironment in general.Purpose of this StudyOne of the challenges in learning more about the distance education programs in mechanicalengineering at the graduate level is the lack of a single comprehensive source that lists all of the Page

Conference Session

Robotics and Automation

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yonghui Wang, Prairie View A&M University; Yubin Lan, USDA ARS; Jian-ao Lian, Prairie View A&M University; Suxia Cui, Prairie View A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, Analysis, and Imaging Laboratory (VAIL), the GeoResources Institute (GRI), Mississippi State University. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Engineering Technology, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, Texas. His research interests include image and signal processing, data coding, and scientific visualization.Dr. Yubin Lan, USDA ARS Yubin Lan works as an Agricultural Engineer with Aerial Application Technology Group, Areawide Pest Management Research Unit, USDA-ARS at College Station. He is also an adjunct professor and graduate faculty with Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. Lan received his B.S. (1982) and M.S