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Vasco D. Polyzoev; Eniko T. Enikov

demonstration of non-lineareffects occurring in the DC motor (due to dry friction) illustrated in fig. 5, and in the equations ofmotion of the pendulum (the sine term). Over the course of this experiment, the students alsoapply the method of feedback linearization by removing the sine term from the equations ofmotion of the pendulum (by including it in the computed control signal). 80 60 θ (degrees) 40 20 0 -20 0 5 10 15 20 25 Time (s) Fig. 4: Open loop response Fig. 5: Sine of the steady-state

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Arun K. Datta; Jacqueline Caesar; Daphne Rainey; Stephen Cammer; Julie Schuman; Oswald Crasta

448Figure 1. Relationships between the knowledge worker at the center of the CI with high-performancecomputers and Teragrid, middleware, VO (virtual organizations), data management and knowledgediscovery, and visualization services. The objective of CIBRED is to educate and bring awareness of CI(Courtesy of S. Wang12; courtesy of Stan Watowich13).from computational technologies, enables individuals, groups, and organizations to advanceresearch and education in ways that revolutionizes the practice of participation. Once again, a newworkforce empowered with the knowledge and skills to design, deploy, adapt and apply CI, areneeded to sustain this revolution across all areas of science and engineering. The OCI CI-TEAMprogram supports educational

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment III

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Jay Wierer, MSOE; Steven Reyer, MSOE

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Electrical and Computer

are often intuitors, though,and occasionally do not see why just presenting the mathematical result is not sufficient. Thismay be particularly true at MSOE, where our students are accustomed to courses that comprise Page 14.1131.6both lecture and lab experiences.Finally, thorough communications between the faculty teaching the two courses is necessary, sothat those concepts that students found difficult in the DSP course can be further addressed in theanalog course.Bibliography1. S. Williams, J. Mossbrucker, S. Reyer and O. Petersen, “A Forward Looking Electrical Engineering Curriculum,”ASEE North Midwest Section Meeting, Univ. of Wisconsin

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Embedded System Design

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mouna Nakkar, University of Sharjah

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Electrical and Computer

,” SIGBED Rev., vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 1-4, 2005.2. J. O. Hamblen, "Using a Low-Cost SoC Computer and a Commercial RTOS in an Embedded Systems Design Course," IEEE Trans. Education, vol. 51, no. 3, Aug. 2008.3. K. G. Ricks, D. J. Jackson, W. A. Stapleton, “An embedded systems curriculum based on the IEEE/ACM model curriculum,” IEEE Trans. Education, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 262-270, May 2008.4. A. Hoover, "Computer Vision in Undergraduate Education: Modern Embedded Computing," IEEE Trans. On Education, vol. 46, No. 2, May 2003.5. A. Bindal, S. Mann, B. N. Ahmed, and L.A. Raimundo, “An undergraduate system-on-chip (SoC) course for Computer Engineering students,” IEEE Trans. Education, vol. 48, no. 2, May 2005.6. G. Martin

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Multidisciplinary Capstone Design Projects

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yanfei Liu, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Jiaxin Zhao, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

4 individual tasks. Thetasks and the student(s) who was in charge of each task is shown in Table 1. Students worked ontheir assigned tasks individually and met at least once a week to present their work to the wholeteam for discussions and suggestions. Table 1: The task distribution Task # Task description Student(s) 1 Microcontroller selection, interfacing, and software 1 CmpE/EE 2 Solenoid driving circuit 1 EE 3 Sensor interfacing 1 EE 4 Kicking mechanism and driving system

Conference Session

Educational Issues in Civil Engineering

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wilfrid Nixon, University of Iowa; James Stoner, University of Iowa

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Civil Engineering

focus area, or pursue a tailored program of study as permitted by the policies of the major program.In the final curriculum guidelines adopted by the Faculty in June 2001, the above generaldescriptions of ways to package the 21 s. h. of flexible electives were adopted asrecommendations, rather than requirements. Each program was given the freedom andresponsibility to develop its own “Elective Focus Area” procedures and specificguidelines, according to their own disciplinary requirements and constraints.Between May 1999 and June 2001, the College Curriculum Committee worked on thedetails of the proposed new core curriculum, in close consultation with the Departmentsof Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, and Chemistry and prepared a

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E-Learning in Chemical Engineering

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeremy VanAntwerp, Calvin College; Aubrey Sykes, Calvin College; xiuhua si

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Chemical Engineering

transfer class;concurrent with thermodynamics. In this paper, we present a non-iterative method students canuse to solve multiple effect evaporator problems using a free add-in for Microsoft Excel.In a typical multiple effect evaporator homework problem (Figure 1) the feed conditions andflow rate (F) are given. The overall heat transfer coefficients (Ui) are assumed to be known. Thedesired final concentration (x1) is specified as well as the pressure (or equivalently, thetemperature) of the saturated steam used as the heat source (Ps). Additionally, the pressure inone effect (usually the last) is specified (P3). The task of the students is to find the amount ofsteam that must be fed to the first effect (S), the unknown liquid and vapor flow rates

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andreas Spanias, Arizona State University; Linda Hinnov, Johns Hopkins University; Michael Stiber, University of Washington, Bothell; Marios Pattichis, University of New Mexico; Costas Pattichis, University of Cyprus; Cajetan Akujuobi, Prairie View A&M University; Shalin Mehta, Arizona State University; Ed Doering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Raja Ayyanar, Arizona State University; Karthikeyan Ramamurthy, Arizona State University; Harvey Thornburg, Arizona State University

. Energy, D MOD 5 : Music ASU Local Assessment A ≠ collaborations among students using scripts. Synthesis, MOD 4 Software S MOD 6 : Arts and Media, Modules/Demo Evaluation S ≠ instructors to monitor student simulation steps. MOD 7 : DSP/FPGA, E MOD 8a: Ion

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Capstone Design II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susannah Howe, Smith College; Ron Lasser, Tufts University; Katie Su, Smith College; Sarah Pedicini, Smith College

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Design in Engineering Education

survey link were asked, in addition to completing the surveythemselves, to send a link with the survey to their students encouraging them to take the studentsurvey too. Hence, respondent pairings of faculty and students were expected. Figure 6 showsthe numbers of students associated with a given faculty member or a group of faculty from thesame department, for those faculty and students who clearly reported their discipline; each circleon the chart represents one set of students with its respective faculty member(s). As is clear fromthe figure, the majority of faculty responses are connected with 0-4 student responses, though afew faculty members had 19 or more students from their class(es) respond

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Emerging Information Technologies

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Bailey, Brigham Young University; Joseph Ekstrom, Brigham Young University

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Information Systems

spacebarriers. Since our goal was to deploy about 100 identical LAMP servers, we didn’t need theflexibility of a full Virtual Machine Monitor that emulated the hardware. We turned to a morescalable solution that we discovered was being used by a local web hosting company: OS-Virtualization using Virtuozzo by SW-Soft (now Parallels).In this paper we will first give a brief history of the use of the term “virtual machine” from theearly 70’s until the present. We explain the different models that have been implemented underthe term and how usage of the terms seems to have stabilized recently. We then look at oneapproach in greater detail, OS-Virtualization (sometimes called OS containers), or creating avirtual operating system interface rather that a

Conference Session

Laboratory Development and Technology in the Civil Engineering Classroom

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nurdan Beyenal, Washington State University; Cara Poor, Washington State University; Paul Golter, Washington State University; Gary Brown, Washington State University; David Thiessen, Washington State University; Bernard Van Wie, Washington State University

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Civil Engineering

pressure head at 1 b) velocity head at 2 is much greater than velocity head at 1, and pressure head at 1 is much greater than pressure head at 2 c) y1 should be equal to y2, because pressure at 1 is equal to pressure at 2, and velocity heads are equal d) E1 is not equal to E2, because velocity head and pressure head at 1 are greater than velocity head and pressure head at 2 Page 14.58.7Appendix B. The worksheets given to the students.CE 351 Water Resources Engineering Fall 2008Worksheet #1: Hydraulic JumpName(s

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Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Creamer, Virginia Tech

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Women in Engineering

). Page 14.1368.31 Drs. Elizabeth G. Creamer, Peggy S. Meszaros, and Carol J. Burger, all of Virginia Tech, served asprincipal investigators on the grant.While the original sample was more balanced, loss of institutions agreeing to participate in thestudy between the time the grant proposal was written and the year of implementation of thedata collection, resulted in 5 high and 3 low enrolling institutions in the final sample.Data collection procedures occurred in two phases within a six-month window. During the firstphase, an institutional liaison identified by the dean of the college/school of engineering at eachsite worked with one of the principal investigators to negotiate human subjects clearance and toprovide contact information for all

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New Research on Retention of URM Groups in STEM

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Terrell Strayhorn, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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Minorities in Engineering

. Additionally, campus administrators andfaculty members might use these findings to demonstrate the value added of [summer]undergraduate research experiences.ConclusionAccording to results presented here, students are not only exposed to a faculty mentor and theresearch process, but well-designed experiences that engage students in the doing of researchyield additional outcomes such as increased research self-efficacy.Bibliography1. National Science Board. (2006). Science and engineering indicators 2006 (Two volumes). Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation.2. George, Y. S., Malcom, S., Campbell, P. B., Kibler, T., & Weisman, J. L. (2008). Changes in the annual number of underrepresented minorities: New enrollees in STEM graduate

Conference Session

Graphics and Visualization

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patrick Connolly, Purdue University; La Verne Abe Harris, Purdue University; Mary Sadowski, Purdue University

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Engineering Design Graphics

be administered again at the conclusion of thecourse, to see if spatial skills are improved through other course activities, making the additionaltreatment modules unnecessary for this class. Finally, it is recommended that the study bereplicated with more balance in participant numbers in the treatment and control groups, andmore balance in pretest measured spatial ability between the control and treatment groups. Page 14.868.8 Bibliographic Information1. Sorby, S., Wysocki, A. F., & Baartmans, B. (2003). Introduction to 3D Visualization: An Active Approach. CD- ROM with workbook. Clifton

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Ranjan K. Sen; Pradip Peter Dey

  emory and the distributed me emory models of parallel p programming g.    The shareed memory m model is also  known as the e symmetric  multiprocess sing or SMP wwhere cost off data access  by different  sequential  program  insta y  s ances  of  a  parallel  com mputation  are the  same. This  e  . assumptioon is not nece essarily alway

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Gordana Jovanovic Dolecek; Fred Harris

. Fig. 9. Rating scheme.AcknowledgementThis work was supported in part by the CONACYT under Grant No. 91013.References1.T. C. Hutchinson, F. Kuester, „ Hardware Architecture for a Visualization Classroom: VizClass, 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput appl Eng Educ 12:232-241.2. Fuller D.A. and Moreno A.F. (2004). Experimenting With a Computer-Mediated Collaborative Interaction Model to Support Engineering Courses, Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 12 (3), 175-187.3. Li, S. G. and Lie, Q.(2004). Interactive Groundwater (IGW): An Innovative Digital Laboratory for Groundwater Education and Research, Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 11 (4), 179-203.4. Fu, T.T. (2003). Applications of Computer Simulation in

Conference Session

Computational Tools and Simulation III

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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El-Sayed Aziz, Stevens Institute of Technology; Sven Esche, Stevens Institute of Technology; Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

/10569.2. Kolb, D. A., (1984), “Experimental learning: experience as the source of learning”, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.3. Freitas, S., (2006), “Learning in immersive worlds: a review of game-based learning”, Prepared for the JISC e- Learning Program: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/elearninginnovation/gamingreport_v3.pdf.4. Pivec, M. & Kearney, P., (2007), “Games for learning and learning from games”, An International Journal of Computing and Informatics Journal, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 419-423.5. Arango, F., (2007), “Tools and concepts to transform a multi-player computer game into a virtual laboratory environment”, Master’s Thesis, Stevens Institute of Technology.6. World of

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Professional Issues in Civil Engineering Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen Chou, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Deborah Nykanen, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Civil Engineering

with theengineering community, both academia and industry, the experience they had with theirrespective second job at an architectural firm and a civil engineering firm and the factors theybelieve need be addressed to make this concept effective.BackgroundIn the 1950’s the engineering students were taught by professors whom a majority of them wereengaging in engineering practice. These faculty members either worked as private consultants orworked with an engineering firm. The highest degree these faculty members possessed mayhave only been a master of science or master of engineering. As the focus of fundamentalresearch heightened and the availability of research funding increased during the early 1960’s,many engineering professors directed

Conference Session

Design, Build, Fly (DBF)/AIAA Student Competition/UA

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lawrence Boyer, Saint Louis University; Christopher Peck, Saint Louis University

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Aerospace

= Induced Drag Coefficient RAC = Total System Weight S = Wing Area SFC = System Complexity Factor W/S = Wing Loading I. Introduction The AIAA Design, Build, and Fly (DBF) Competition brings schools from around the world to compete. Each year the teams design, fabricate, and demonstrate the flight capabilities of an unmanned, electric powered, radio controlled aircraft in order to meet a specified mission profile. This year the competition calls for a surveillance/attack UAV. The capabilities of the aircraft include carrying a large simulated fuel tank and four Estes rockets. There will be five stages of judging for the contest: 1) Written paper. 2

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Subrata Bhattacharjee, San Diego State University; Christopher Paolini, San Diego State University

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Mechanical Engineering

sufficient forfinding an equilibrium state. Press the Enter key or the Calculate button and the complete state iscalculated and displayed. The green background signifies input and the cyan backgroundindicates a computed property. The property symbols are also color coded – red for materialproperties such as the molar mass MM, blue for all thermodynamic properties, green for extrinsicproperties, and black for system properties34. Page 14.1187.6While the ideal gas table displays only hk (T ) , uk (T ) , and sk0 (T ) , the state daemon producesthe complete set of thermodynamic properties – v , u , h , s , g , and c p . To obtain mole basedvalues

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Pradip Peter Dey; Thomas M. Gatton; Mohammad N. Amin; Mudasser F. Wyne; Gordon W. Romney; Alireza Farahani; Arun Datta; Hassan Badkoobehi; Ralph Belcher; Ogun Tigli; Albert P. Cruz

202Figure 3. The Turing Machine of Figure 2 after the HALT state and its incoming transition are destroyed.If the input is: aba, then the machine will start in the START state and reach state 4 after goingthrough the loop of state 3. However, the input is not accepted.You are asked to complete the following three tasks: 1) In the first step, destroy the HALT state(s) and their incoming transitions of your machine of the assigned problem (of PART_1) and examine the consequences. 2) In the second step, destroy the START state and the associated transitions of your machine (in addition to the destructions mentioned in step 1) and examine the consequences. 3) In the third step, reconstruct the machine so that it is distinct

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Professional Development in Materials Engineering

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barry Dupen, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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Materials

choices do not cover all datapatterns, such as the S-curves for impact vs. temperature graphs.Student performance is assessed with a grading rubric which evaluates graphs within laboratoryreports. Low performance on three laboratory reports has led to instructional improvements,including additional focus in the lecture and detailed handouts. Subsequent assessment showscontinued improvement in skill levels from one laboratory report to the next, and from onesemester to the next.IntroductionTAC/ABET requires that engineering technology graduates have an ability to communicateeffectively (Criterion 3, Program Outcome g).1 The MET program at IPFW includes twocommunications courses and three English courses which develop students’ skills in

Conference Session

Technology Integration in the Classroom

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ann Goebel, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Harry Petersen, Minnesota State University, Mankato; William Peterson, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Manufacturing

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Conference Session

Design Communications

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sharad Oberoi, Carnegie Mellon University; Susan Finger, Carnegie Mellon University

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Design in Engineering Education

bigger corpus, but also extend their hypotheses to see how connections betweendifferent ideas in an engineering project evolve with time.AcknowledgmentsThis research was supported in part by National Science Foundation grant EEC-0203448.Bibliography1. Mabogunje, A., Carrizosa, K., Sheppard, S., and Leifer, L., Towards a science of engineering design teams, International Conference on Engineering Design ICED’01, Glasgow, August 21-23, 2001.2. Krsul, I. V., Software Vulnerability Analysis, Ph.D. Thesis, Purdue University, 1998.3. Dym, C. L., Representing designed artifacts: The languages of engineering design, Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 1(1), pp. 75-108, 1994.4. Hmelo-Silver, C. E., Problem-Based Learning: What and

Conference Session

Tablet and Portable PCs for Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sabina Jeschke, University of Stuttgart; Lars Knipping, Technische Universitaet Berlin; Nicole Natho, Technische Universitaet Berlin; Erhard Zorn, Technische Universitaet Berlin; Olivier Pfeiffer, Technische Universitaet Berlin

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Computers in Education

AC 2009-747: FACING THE INFORMATION FLOOD WITH TABLET PCSSabina Jeschke, University of Stuttgart After receiving her M.Sc. in Physics at the Berlin University of Technology in 1997, graduating with distinction, Sabina Jeschke worked as an assistant teacher at the department for mathematics and natural sciences and earned her doctorate in 2004. Holding a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation, she spent several months of research at the NASA in Moffet Field, CA. In 2000 and 2001, S. Jeschke worked as an instructor at the GaTech (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta). Since 2005, Sabina Jeschke has been associate professor for "New Media in Mathematics and Natural

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University

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New Engineering Educators

the instructor/TA relationship with a contract. Examples ofcontracts are presented.1. IntroductionAlthough virtually unknown in liberal-arts colleges, teaching assistants1 (TAs) are a fixture ofmost engineering programs, where class sizes are large and the subject matter is technologicallycomplex. Usually, teaching assistants are assigned to instructors to assist with a particular coursesection. Sometimes TAs are paid hourly, but more often, they are on a monthly stipend for tenor twenty hours’ work per week. It is difficult for a beginning instructor to know how to makeeffective use of that time until (s)he has taught a class several times.Much has been written about teaching assistants at the ASEE Annual Conference [1–6] andelsewhere [7–9

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International Aspects of Civil Engineering

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric Crispino, United States Military Academy; Andrew Bellocchio, United States Military Academy; Scott Hamilton, United States Military Academy; Aaron Hill, United States Military Academy; Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

gapbetween the developed and developing worlds.13 In providing assistance to developingcountries, faculty development may be one of the best ways to improve education in thedeveloping world and close the higher education gap.References1. Lowman, J., Mastering the Techniques of Teaching, 2nd ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1995.2. Ressler, S., Conley, C, Gash, R. “Designing a Civil Engineering Program for the National Military Academy ofAfghanistan.” American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.3. Ressler, S.J., Gash, R., Conley, C., Hamilton, S. R. , Momand, F., Fekrat, Q., and Gulistani, A.. "Implementinga Civil Engineering Program at the National Military Academy of Afghanistan." American Society for

Conference Session

Innovation in Construction Engineering Education I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Cottrell, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; John Hildreth, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Amy Kitts, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Construction

AC 2009-1915: AGC COMPETITION: SOME LESSONS LEARNED--THIRDTIME'S THE CHARM!David Cottrell, University of North Carolina, Charlotte DR. DAVID S. COTTRELL is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1978 and retired in 2000 after more than 22 years of service with the US Army Corps of Engineers. Studies at Texas A&M University resulted in an MS Degree in Civil Engineering in 1987 and a PhD in 1995. He is a registered Professional Engineer and has taught courses in statics, dynamics, mechanics of materials, graphic communications, engineering economy, and

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Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Laboratories

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Messiha Saad, North Carolina A&T State University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Isentropic compression in a pump 2–3 Constant pressure heat addition in a boiler 3–4 Isentropic expansion in a turbine 4–1 Constant pressure heat rejection in a condenser Figure 8. Components Associated with a Simple Rankine Cycle T 3' 3 2' 2 1 4 4' S Page 14.662.8

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Programming for Engineering Students I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Arlen Planting, Boise State University; Sin Ming Loo, Boise State University

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Computers in Education

.c memory image.text.global set_bit5set_bit5: andi r6,r5,1 # isolate passed bit slli r2,r6,5 # move to ACTIVE position movi r3,~(1<<5) # movi r5,~(0x20) ==> -33 and r4,r4,r3 # zero ACTIVE position or r2,r4,r2 # merge new bit value Page 14.1112.11 ret.endFigure 14. set_bit5.s (Assembly language) source code 100x00020214 : andi r6,r5,10x00020218 : slli r2,r6,50x0002021c : movi r3,-330x00020220 : and r4,r4