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2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Keith E. Hedges

The 2010 Haiti earthquake: Real-time disaster inquiry in the classroom Keith E. Hedges Drury UniversityAbstractCivil engineering education commonly has classroom instructional strategies that includesynchronous engagements between the instructor and the learner, but seldom has synchronousexperiences between the learner and real-time external phenomena. As a consequence, studentlearning has historical sensibilities that may inhibit formulating opinions and conclusions fromlive events. This paper explores a natural disaster as a real-time course inquiry and its semesterlong immersion into the structures classroom at a private liberal arts university. A

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Timothy B. Whitmoyer; David T. Vader; Joel Z. Bandstra; William H.J. Strosnider

-2006 senior projects used finiteelement truss analysis to find acceptable designs for the rebar truss pump frame. Although theproject is relatively low technology, the use of modern engineering tools is still needed.The narrative also provides insight into the challenges of working on a long-term project withstudents. Students, especially those taking the Senior Project sequence, tend to limit the scope ofthe project to what can be finished before they graduate. As a result, work on the pumpprogressed in a piecemeal fashion- focusing on performance, then cost, then reliability. Ideally,these factors should be accommodated in a single design cycle, but the two semester limit of theSenior Project course over focused the student’s scope. When

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2010 Northeast Section Meeting

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Timothy B. Whitmoyer; David T. Vader

-2006 senior projects used finiteelement truss analysis to find acceptable designs for the rebar truss pump frame. Although theproject is relatively low technology, the use of modern engineering tools is still needed.The narrative also provides insight into the challenges of working on a long-term project withstudents. Students, especially those taking the Senior Project sequence, tend to limit the scope ofthe project to what can be finished before they graduate. As a result, work on the pumpprogressed in a piecemeal fashion- focusing on performance, then cost, then reliability. Ideally,these factors should be accommodated in a single design cycle, but the two semester limit of theSenior Project course over focused the student’s scope. When

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POTPOURRI

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University

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Information Systems

AC 2010-1150: ONLINE VS. ON-PAPER EXAMSEdward Gehringer, North Carolina State University Ed Gehringer, efg@ncsu.edu, is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University. His main research area is collaborative learning technology. He received his Ph.D. degree from Purdue University, and taught at Carnegie Mellon University, and Monash University in Australia. Page 15.927.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Online vs. On-Paper ExamsAbstractAs information and education continue to migrate to an online format, on

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Innovations in Power Education in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Radian Belu, Drexel University

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2010-402: VIRTUAL LABORATORY FOR STUDY OF THE ELECTRICMACHINES PARAMETERS AND CHARACTERISTICSRadian Belu, Drexel University Page 15.1351.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010Virtual Laboratory for Study of the Electric Machines Parameters and CharacteristicsAbstractComputing and communication technology have had a significant impact on engineeringeducation. This technology has significantly improved online, distance, collaborativelearning, as well as the use of the virtual experiments and simulations in engineeringeducation. One of the distinguishing features of engineering education is that the laboratorywork is an integral part and its

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Teaching Mechanics of Materials & General Mechanics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ganapathy Narayanan, The University of Toledo

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Mechanics

itseffects on the system is very important and such quantification is done throughthe use of the concepts and methods of probability and statistics. Also, under theconditions of uncertainty, the design and planning of engineering systems involverisks, which in turn involve probability and associated consequences. Theimportance of the quantification of uncertainty on such calculated risks isdocumented by the National Research Council2, US Department of Energy3,NASA4, and NIH5.In the age of computers, and high technology, and Uncertainty RiskQuantification initiatives by major US national agencies, it seems appropriate touse of random values of materials properties, and known random external appliedloads in mechanical analyses. Three examples1 of

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vladimir De Delva, Rowan University; Muhammed Iftikhar, Rowan University; Keith McIver, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Katherine Whitaker, Rowan University; Mariano J. Savelski, Rowan University; C. Stewart Slater, Rowan University

technology with a particular focus on membrane separation process research, development and design for manufacturing sustainability, green engineering, pharmaceutical production. He received his Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. in chemical and biochemical engineering from Rutgers University. Page 15.809.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Introductory level textbook problems illustrating concepts in Structured Organic Particulate SystemsAbstractThe National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center for Structured OrganicParticulate Systems (ERC-SOPS) conducts research related to

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Embedded System Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Firas Hassan, Ohio Northern University; Srinivasa Vemuru, Ohio Northern University

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2010-2266: INTRODUCING HYBRID DESIGN APPROACH AT THEUNDERGRADUATE LEVELFiras Hassan, Ohio Northern University Dr. Firas Hassan is an assistant professor at Ohio Northern University. He finished his PhD studies at The University of Akron and worked for one year as a visiting professor. His area of research is hardware implementation of real-time embedded image processing algorithmsSrinivasa Vemuru, Ohio Northern University Srinivasa Vemuru obtained his bachelors and masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1984 and 1986, respectively. He received his PhD from the University of Toledo in 1991. From 1991-2001 he served as faculty member in

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Innovations in First Year Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zane Mitchell, University of Southern Indiana; Marco Lara Gracia, University of Southern Indiana; Ronald Diersing, University of Southern Indiana; Glen Kissel, University of Southern Indiana

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First-Year Programs

attitudes. A departmental strategyfor continuation of this program after expiration of the grant will also be explored.IntroductionAt the University of Southern Indiana (USI), and throughout the nation, post-secondary science,technology, engineering, and math (STEM) programs are having difficulty with the recruitingand retention of students. The National Science Foundation (NSF) created the STEM TalentExpansion Program (STEP) grants to help devise ways to address these issues. USI received agrant from the NSF in 2008 to take a 4-pronged approach towards increasing the number ofSTEM graduates in our region. The funds are being used to engage STEM majors in earlyundergraduate research, to provide more intensive academic advising to at-risk STEM

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Kevin John McDonnell; Anne Joan Caraccio; Nithin Susan Abraham; Nicholas Alexander Ruffini; Susan Gallardo; James Patrick Abulencia

realizing how fortunate they are to be in theposition that they are in. It will help them grow as individuals and as engineers, and stay withthem for the rest of their lives.References: 1. Food and Agricultural Organization of United Nations: Economic and Social Department: The Statistical Division. 2. Mohan, D., Singh, K.P., & Ghosh, D., 2005, “Removal of α- picoline, β- picoline, and γ- picoline from synthetic wastewater using low cost activated carbon derived from coconut shell fibers”, Environmental Science and Technology, Volume 39, Issue 13, May. 3. Ndabigengesre, Ansleme. 1998. “Quality of Water Treated by Coagulation Using Moringa Oleifera Seeds”. Pergamon. Elsevier Science Ltd. Great Britain. Volume 32

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2010 ERC

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Kei Koizumi

Research and Development in the2011 BudgetKei KoizumiOffice of Science and TechnologyPolicyyMarch 15, 2010ffor th the ASEE E Engineering i iResearch Councilwww.ostp.gov Trends in Discretionary Spending, FY 1976-2015 budget authority in billions of constant FY 2010 dollars 1600 1400 1200 Total discretionary 1000 800 Defense discretionary 600 400

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Experiences in Teaching Energy Courses

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Garcia, Miami Dade College; Jonathan Andrechik, U.S. Coast Guard

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

. Identify national regulators of ocean energy policy. 3. Identify the costs of various ocean energy sources and compare to traditional energy costs. 4. Show familiarity with existing ocean energy technologies. 5. Demonstrate awareness of navigational and security issues linked to ocean energy installations. 6. Argue for or against the further development of renewable ocean energy. 7. Communicate in terms that all majors (engineering, science, operations research, management, and government) can understand.The prerequisite to enroll in the course was that students were to be in their second year ofstudies or higher at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in any major.The final grade was determined as follows: 20% for class

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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R. Radharamanan; Jeng-Nan Juang

. Pogutz, A. Russo, and P. Migliavacca, “Innovation, Markets and Sustainable Energy: The Challenge of Hydrogen and Fuel Cells,” Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2009.[3] F. J. Barclay, “Fuel Cells, Engines and Hydrogen,” John Wiley, 2006.[4] K. Tuber, D. Pocza, and C. Hebling, “Visualization of Water Buildup in the Cathode of a Transparent PEM Fuel Cell,” Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 124, Issue 2, pp. 403-414, 2003[5] Z. Qi and A. Kaufman, “Improvement of Water Management by a Microporous Sublayer for PEM Fuel Cells,” Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 109, Issue 1, pp. 38-46, 2002.[6] B. Sorensen, “Hydrogen and Fuel Cells: Emerging Technologies and Applications,” Academic Press, 2005.[7] C. Wang, M. Waje, X. Wang, J

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Wei PAN; Yingbin Shi; Jeremy Li

Computer Simulation and Analysis of High-precision Automated Assembly Line in Telecommunication Industry Wei Pan Yingbin Shi Advisor: Prof. Jeremy Li Session: Tools, techniques, and best practices of engineering education for the digital ageAbstractIn this project, a mechanism for inserting assembly technology is described. The process isseparated into two portions: pick-up and assembly. In the pick-up portion, process planning forindustry assembly is a very complex task, which is mostly dependent upon the combination ofexperience along with up-to-date assembly technology. Attempts to simulate the automatedassembly process have been largely unsuccessful and it remains a difficult task

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2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Josh Coffman; Joseph J. Rencis; Daniel J. Jensen; Ashland O. Brown; Jiancheng Liu; Kristen Kaufman; Christina White

manufacturing and manufacturing systemautomation. He has published more than 70 peer reviewed technical journal and conference papers. Dr. Liu was alsoawarded 4 patents. He has invented many new technologies which have been practically applied in industries. Hereceived the Industrial LEAD Award from SME in 2001. Dr. Liu received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanicalengineering in China. After receiving his Ph.D. degree in Japan, he moved to the States in 1997 and did his PostDoctorate work at the University of California, Davis. V-mail: 209-946-3079; E-mail: jliu@pacific.edu.KRISTEN KAUFMANKristen Kaufman received her B.S. from the University of Texas at Austin in Mechanical Engineering, where sheworked as an undergraduate research assistant. After

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Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Deepika Sangam, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brent Jesiek, Purdue University

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Electrical and Computer

Ph.D. degrees in Science and Technology Studies from Virginia Tech. His research is focused on the social, historical, global, and epistemological dimensions of engineering and computing, with particular emphasis on subjects related to computer engineering, engineering education, and educational technology. Page 15.277.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Circuits Concept Inventories: A Comparative AnalysisKeywords: circuits, comparative analysis, concept inventories, DC, electrical engineering,conceptual understandingAbstractIn this

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New Learning Paradigms I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kendra Seniow, Oregon State University; Eric Nefcy, Oregon State University; Christine Kelly, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

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Educational Research and Methods

enzymes in biomass deconstruction for bioproducts and biofuels manufacture. She also has interests in developing tools to promote the use of higher cognitive skills in engineering coursework. Dr. Kelly recently earned OSU's Austin-Paul Engineering Faculty Award for mentoring students.Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University Milo Koretsky is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Oregon State University. He currently has research activity in areas related to thin film materials processing and engineering education. He is interested in integrating technology into effective educational practices and in promoting the use of higher level cognitive skills in engineering problem solving. Dr

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2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Robert M. O'Connell

. andPh.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois. He is a Professor of Electrical and ComputerEngineering at the University of Missouri-Columbia and a registered Professional Engineer. He recently completeda Fulbright Fellowship in the School of Electrical Engineering Systems at the Dublin Institute of Technology inDublin, Ireland, during which he studied modern teaching and learning methods for engineering education,including student-centered and group-based learning.Proceedings of the 2010 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

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Two-Year College Potpourri

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jana Fattic, Western Kentucky University; Andrew Ernest, Western Kentucky University; Christal Wade, Western Kentucky University

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Two Year College Division

Environmental and Water Resource engineering, having managed a variety of organizational units with varying missions, encompassing consulting, academic, revenue-driven, research and service activities. Dr. Ernest currently serves as the Director of the Center for Water Resource Studies and the Associate Dean of the Ogden College of Science and Engineering at Western Kentucky University, is the founding partner of the technology startup Open Environment, a consultant with Ernest and Sons Civil and Environmental Engineering consultants and a proponent of the principles of Open Engineering. He serves on Kentucky’s Environmental Quality Commission, the Kentucky Board of Certification for Wastewater

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Research on The First Year II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Junqiu Wang, Purdue University; P.K. Imbrie, Purdue University

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First-Year Programs

score.IntroductionThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)1 Engineering Criteria 2000requires engineering students should “be able to function effectively in a multidisciplinary team”.The question is: how can students’ team skills be taught and assessed2,3,4? In a previous study,we defined student’s team skills through a three-construct theoretical model: interdependency,goal setting and potency. This model entails possible application in both pedagogy andassessment. Peer evaluation has been used as an effective instrumentation tool to assess students’team skills and performance5,6,7,8,9. We developed a 9-item peer evaluation questionnaire tomeasure student’s individual perceptions on their teammates along our three-constructstheoretical

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Peter J. Shull; Jessica M. Crandall

addition to the primary goals, the coursecovers professional skills with a focus on personal responsibility and awareness.Typically, ten sections of the course are taught in the fall semester of each year. The majority ofthe students were white males (~80 to 85%) with ~15 to 20% women and ~0 to 10% otherethnicities. All of them were engineering or 4-year engineering technology students ranging inage from 17 to 21 with a few adult students (>24 years of age).MethodsThe specific exercise was designed to teach both a stated goal and unstated goal. The stated orovert goal was to help students develop the ability to visualize how a 3-D object might beunfolded into a 2-D object. Apart from an important general skill for engineering students, thisis a

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2010 Northeast Section Meeting

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Peter J. Shull; Jessica M. Crandall

addition to the primary goals, the coursecovers professional skills with a focus on personal responsibility and awareness.Typically, ten sections of the course are taught in the fall semester of each year. The majority ofthe students were white males (~80 to 85%) with ~15 to 20% women and ~0 to 10% otherethnicities. All of them were engineering or 4-year engineering technology students ranging inage from 17 to 21 with a few adult students (>24 years of age).MethodsThe specific exercise was designed to teach both a stated goal and unstated goal. The stated orovert goal was to help students develop the ability to visualize how a 3-D object might beunfolded into a 2-D object. Apart from an important general skill for engineering students, thisis a

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Web-based Learning in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sumit Dutta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Shreya Prakash, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; David Estrada, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Eric Pop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Electrical and Computer

, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, and the Ph.D. degree in EE from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 2005. Since 2007, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign. He is also with the Micro and Nanotechnology Lab and the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois. His group studies nanoscale energy transport, power dissipation in integrated circuits, and novel nonvolatile memory. Prior to Illinois, he spent 16 months at Intel, working on phase-change memory, and completed a postdoc at Stanford, investigating thermal properties of carbon nanotubes. Dr. Pop is also a member of MRS

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brock LaMeres, Montana State University; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Fred Cady, (Retired) Montana State University

AC 2010-415: IMPROVED STUDENT LEARNING OF MICROPROCESSORSYSTEMS THROUGH HANDS-ON AND ONLINE EXPERIENCE:Brock LaMeres, Montana State University Brock J. LaMeres is an Assistant Professor in the electrical and computer engineering department at Montana State University (MSU). LaMeres teaches and conducts research in the area of digital systems and engineering education. LaMeres is currently studying the effectiveness of online delivery of engineering education including the impact of remote laboratory experiences. LaMeres’ research group is also studying the effective hardware/software partitioning using reprogrammable fabrics. This work involves exploiting the flexibility of modern FPGAs to

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Student Paper Presentation

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Melanie Watson, Louisiana Tech University; Krystal Corbett, Louisiana Tech University; Kyle Prather, Louisiana Tech University; Jenna Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University; Stanley Cronk, Louisiana Tech University

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Students Constituent Committee

, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduate programs typically provideinsufficient instruction for doctoral students electing to pursue a career in higher educationinstruction. Often, doctoral students who teach classes are required to offer lectures or even fullcourses without any formal training1, 2. Therefore, a doctoral student’s transition to a facultyposition may raise concerns from a university administration concerned with maintaining thequality of its course delivery. This paper documents the account of three doctoral students andtwo engineering faculty members while co-teaching/teaching a project-centered first-yearintroductory engineering course. The implementation of a preparatory teaching program fordoctoral students in the

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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Navarun Gupta; Sarosh H Patel; Lawrence V. Hmurcik P.E.

Engineering with Distinctionfrom the Faculty of Engineering Osmania University, India in 2002, and M.S. degrees inElectrical Engineering and Technology Management from the School of Engineering, Universityof Bridgeport (UB), in 2006. He is currently pursuing Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at U.B.Lawrence V. Hmurcik is Professor and chairman of Electrical Engineering at the University ofBridgeport, Bridgeport, CT. He earned his Ph.D. in semiconductor devices at clarkson Universityin 1980. He worked in diamond Shamrock's research division for 3 years before joining theUniversity of Bridgeport in 1983. Dr. Hmurcik has 50 publications and 5 grants. He is also aprofessional consultant with 240 case entries, including 14 appearances in Court and

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Qinghai Gao

each other. Make use ofplagiarism detection tool Turnitin and search engine to check some questions for possibledishonesty.To date the majority of colleges and universities use these methods. However, these measures arenot enough to prevent e-cheating since the traditional password-based system is inadequate tosuccessfully authenticate students remotely. For example, a student can give his or her accountinformation to a person and let that person take the exam for him/her. One proposed solution tothe problem is to use biometrics. We believe that the recent developments of biometrics havemade it a viable technology to prevent e-cheating. With this paper we will look at the state of thearts of the solution.The rest of the paper is organized as

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Faculty Development for Distance Learning

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gene Dixon, East Carolina University

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Continuing Professional Development

AC 2010-574: AN EXPLORATION OF P&T POLICIES RELATED TO THESCHOLARSHIP OF ENGAGEMENT AND OUTREACH AT E&T PROGRAMSWITHIN THE USGene Dixon, East Carolina University Page 15.152.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 An Exploration of Promotion and Tenure Policies Related to the Scholarship of Engagement and Outreach at Engineering and Technology Programs within the USAbstractThis paper describes research identifying how the scholarship of outreach, engagement, andservice-learning (SOES-l) is recognized in promotion and tenure (P&T) decisions within thedisciplines of engineering and technology (E&T). The research seeks to

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

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A. Richard Vannozzi

modern engineering learning environment. Second, thestudents who come to us, for the most part, are technologically savvy and have a comfort withutilizing technology in their education that often outstrips our own. Third, engineering softwareis the workhorse in the modern engineering practice and research environments we are preparingour students for. Software crunches our numbers, brings our ideas to life, and even controls themanufacturing and construction that springs from engineering designs. If anyone is stillwondering, software is here to stay and debate no longer can center on whether we utilizesoftware in our teaching, but rather how do we utilize software effectively in order to best helpour students achieve the learning outcomes we

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Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wei Zhang, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

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Electrical and Computer

-Famoso. Problem-based learning: a case study in computer science. In Recent ResearchDevelopments in Learning Technologies, 2005.[17] Homepage of problem-based learning at the University of Delaware.http://www.udel.edu/pbl/courses.html.[18] Homepage of PBL lab, Stanford. http://pbl.stanford.edu/.[19] Homepage of the Samford PBL Initiative, Samford University.[20] Hompage of Learning Initiative of the Penn State College of Information Sciences andTechnology.http://pbl.ist.psu.edu/.[21] A. Striegel and D. T. Rover. Problem-based learning in an introductory computer engineering course.In Proc. of the 32nd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, November, 2002.[22] J. Kay and B. Kummerfeld. A problem-based interface design and programming course