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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hamid Vakilzadian, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Dietmar Moeller, University of Hamburg

. j) A knowledge of contemporary issues. k) An ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering and M&S tools necessary for engineering practice. l) Ability to consider the entire system in project solutions. m) Awareness of contemporary tools and techniques of M&S throughout the M&S and system life cycle. n) Awareness of issues of architecture, scale, complexity, and utility in the design and maintenance of models and simulations. o) An ability to exert the effort necessary for job success.These outcomes are similar to Criterion No. 3 but tailored for M&S. Thus, it is important intoday’s global market that an electrical and computer engineering program provides the skillsand knowledge

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University; Arunachalanad Kannan, Arizona State University; Richard Newman, Arizona State University; Slobodan Petrovich, Arizona State University; Govindasamy Tamizhmani, Arizona State University

matter experts or SMEs (pronounced “smees”) who possessthe most current hi-tech knowledge and skills. These experts are familiar with the recentadvances in technology, new processes, equipment, and industry “best practices.” To maintaincurrency with technology and produce work-ready graduates, SMEs are needed to help createand maintain curriculum that addresses key technologies and emerging industry trends. Topromote greater breadth of student learning, SMEs are needed to help integrate specific technicaltopics within core college curriculum—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.Teaming SMEs with faculty developers, instructional designers/developers (IDs) produces aneffective blend of unique abilities for scoping, structuring, and

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Preparing and Retaining Engineering Students

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Rabb, United States Military Academy; Margaret Nowicki, United States Military Academy; Elizabeth Bristow, United States Military Academy

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

AC 2009-468: ENGINEERING INTERNSHIPS FOR FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERINGAND UNDECLARED MAJORSRobert Rabb, United States Military AcademyMargaret Nowicki, United States Military AcademyElizabeth Bristow, United States Military Academy Page 14.557.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Impacts of an Early Research Experience on Recruiting and Retention in EngineeringAbstractOne of the premier events in an engineering curriculum is participation in a summer internshipprogram. The United States Military Academy (USMA) has developed a program to promoteacademic activities beyond the basic engineering requirements. This program has

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Manufacturing Curricula for the Year 2015 and Beyond

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University; Venkitaswamy Raju, State University of New York, Farmingdale; David Wells, North Dakota State University; Robert Mott, University of Dayton

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Manufacturing

curriculum documents was revisited and used as thefoundation for a new document, Curriculum 2015 3. The current structure of this document isshown below. Part I - Surveying the landscape: What Industry Needs From Our Graduates Predicting the future through research Innovation in education K-12 recruiting and outreach Part II - Surveying the educational process: 2 year program issues and recommendations 4 year program issues and recommendations Graduate program issues and recommendations Part III - Goals and Strategies: The role of education in preparing for our future in manufacturing A plan to revitalize

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ECE Pedagogy and Assessment II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Esteban Rodriguez-Marek, Eastern Washington University; Min-Sung Koh, Eastern Washington University; Michael Brzoska, Eastern Washington University; Claudio Talarico, Eastern Washington University

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Electrical and Computer

AC 2009-234: TRIBULATIONS OF A NEW ELECTRICAL ENGINEERINGPROGRAM: FROM PROGRAM INCEPTION TO ABET ACCREDITATIONEsteban Rodriguez-Marek, Eastern Washington University ESTEBAN RODRIGUEZ-MAREK is an Associate Professor in the department of Engineering and Design at Eastern Washington University. He did his graduate work in Electrical Engineering at Washington State University. He worked as a research scientist at Fast Search & Transfer before transferring to the Department of Engineering & Design at Eastern Washington University. His interest include image and video processing, communication systems, digital signal processing, and cryptographic theory and applications.Min-Sung Koh

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Innovations in ECE Education II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Radian Belu, Drexel University

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Electrical and Computer

power electronics is the problem-oriented and project-basedlearning approach. Students are often unaccustomed to assimilating materials from manyareas at one time, thereby making it difficult for them to simultaneously bring togetherthe circuit, signal and system analysis, electromagnetics and control theory topics whichare required to fully describe the operation of a power electronic converter. The project-based course and laboratory described in this paper directly addresses these difficulties byhelping students to reduce theory to practice. This approach supports the prerequisitelecture material and allows study of some practical issues which are best handled in alaboratory setting. The course format makes the students gradually more

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin Hulme, State University of New York, Buffalo; Edward Kasprzak, Milliken Research Associates; Kenneth English, State University of New York, Buffalo; Deborah Moore-Russo, State University of New York, Buffalo; Kemper Lewis, State University of New York, Buffalo

to both the ABET criteria and the NSEE isthat students should both study the theoretical basis for phenomena and practice the application Page 14.1323.2of their knowledge in an active manner that is similar to what they will experience after college.As suggested by PITAC, simulation can be used to actively engage learners. The workingdefinition used in this work is that simulation is “the process of designing a model of a realsystem and conducting experiments with this model for the purpose either of understanding thebehavior of the system or evaluating various strategies for the operation of the system”.Simulation enables a designer to

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Manufacturing Curricula for the Year 2015 and Beyond

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Venkitaswamy Raju, State University of New York-Farmingdale

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Manufacturing

to develop their tertiary educationand become a strong force in research and innovation.The third most important factor that is driving the transformation in manufacturing todayis the growth in technology. There have been unprecedented progress in the technologiesused for product design, fabrication, assembly and how the products are marketed anddistributed. The technological advances in fabrication and assembly at the macro, microand nanoscale level are major contributors to the current transformation. In a wide varietyof fields ranging from agricultural to biological, metals to plastics, and from medicine topharmacy, the advances in the associated manufacturing processes have expanded thescope manufacturing industry. The advances in the

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ECE Pedagogy and Assessment II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Neelam Soundarajan, Ohio State University

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Electrical and Computer

. Designing such questions, as noted earlier, can be quite challenging. But it is precisely thesort of challenge that faculty engaged with the course are glad to take on. This is not the sortof mind-numbing assessment activity performed simply for the sake of meeting EC requirementsthat faculty rightfully resent. This challenge requires faculty to think deeply about what the centralconcept in question is, what are the additional concepts and ideas that might be related to it, perhapsperipherally, which might confuse students, how best to capture these potential confusions in a fewcarefully worded distractors, etc. As noted earlier, the fact that student performance in the POCATdoes not affect their academic record means that the test helps us assess

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Engineering Courses for Non-engineers

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Blake, Austin Peay State University

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

components and subsystems, 3) that a system can fail due to failure of a very small part of the system, 4) that, despite the best efforts of all involved, the risk of failure exists. It also includes elements that demonstrate 5) an engineering team in action, including situations where major differences exist, 6) design within constraints (the CO2 filter problem) and the arbitrary nature of some design decisions (the existence of both square and round filter cartridges), and 7) dealing with uncertainty.Finally, 8) the story behind the Apollo program is used as an example of societal needs leading to the creation of technology.The decision to develop the technology and go to the moon came from a need for the

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Goal Specific First-Year Courses

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Taryn Bayles, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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First-Year Programs

AC 2009-1482: INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING DESIGN: AN EMPHASIS ONCOMMUNICATIONTaryn Bayles, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Taryn Bayles is a Professor of the Practice of Chemical Engineering in the Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department at UMBC, where she incorporates her industrial experience by bringing practical examples and interactive learning to help students understand fundamental engineering principles. Her current research focuses on engineering education, outreach and curriculum development. Page 14.813.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Introduction to

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Early Engineering Design Experiences

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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M. Reza Emami, University of Toronto

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Design in Engineering Education

proven to be useful in addressing the critical feedback from industryperceiving graduating engineers as unable to tackle real problems and manage professionaldesign practice, because of the change of focus from theoretical to practical2,3. Yet, thealternative paradigm seeks a more integrative role for design, and thus introduces it at thefreshman and sophomore levels, usually dubbed as cornerstone design courses4. Both anecdotaldata5 and hard evidence6 have indicated that cornerstone courses enhance students’ motivation,their retention in engineering programs, and their performance in senior engineering science andcapstone design courses. A major breakthrough in teaching cornerstone design courses, albeitpreviously practiced in the senior

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Design in Engineering Education Potpourri

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dominic Halsmer, Oral Roberts University; Nate Roman, Oral Roberts University; Tyler Todd, Oral Roberts University

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Design in Engineering Education

Page 14.751.2of mechanical devices to reverse engineer the design thinking that went into their development.It is widely recognized that this constitutes a valuable design training exercise. But now, with therealization of the powerful utility of reverse engineering for understanding complex naturalsystems, engineering students at ORU are challenged to consider how this finding impacts thebigger picture of life on Earth. The study of the reverse engineering of natural systems not onlyenables students to relate engineering to other technical fields such as biology, chemistry andphysics, but also fields such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, cosmology, philosophy,religion, and other humanities. Thus, a valuable mechanism for enriching the

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The Role of Engineering in Public Policy

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bruce Harding, Purdue University; Paul McPherson, Purdue University

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Engineering and Public Policy

apply applicable standards, regulations, and codes;”10 • In the general criteria for engineering programs (2008-09) and (2009-10) it specifies that the curriculum is to include courses in which students can apply engineering standards, stating specifically, “Students must be prepared for engineering practice through a curriculum culminating in a major design experience based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work and incorporating appropriate engineering standards and multiple realistic constraints.”11 • In the aeronautical engineering technology program criteria under outcomes, “… program must demonstrate that graduates can apply … b. Technical expertise in assembly and support processes, industry standards

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Sustainability and Environmental Issues

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Catherine Skokan, Colorado School of Mines

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

State University, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, andSonoma State University9,10,11,12 were investigated. Although more advanced than our needs,graduate programs such as that at Wayne State University7 were also surveyed. Many of theseprograms offered technician certification or emphasized alternative energy. In response to thetribal college desires, we designed a six-course curriculum with coverage of both alternative andtraditional energy sources as well as skill sets (general mathematics, general science, andtopographic surveying) that the unique set of tribal students need.The first course requested by the Tribal colleges was a land surveying course, as there was animmediate need for mapping of tribal lands and resources and

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Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Physics

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Franck, California Institute of Technology; Ted Yu, California Institute of Technology; Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux, California Institute of Technology; James Maloney, California Institute of Technology; Angela Capece, California Institute of Technology; Luz Rivas, California Institute of Technology

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Engineering Physics & Physics

ability levels for some courses.In contrast, the YESS program offers only two classes, “Neuroscience” and “Physics andEngineering”, each instructed by a team of five graduate students and research staff from avariety of disciplines at Caltech. The courses are designed to be representative of Caltech,providing a glimpse of the undergraduate lifestyle, academic rigor, and active research interests.Similar to the Institute, the YESS program has a remarkably low instructor to student ratio of Page 14.723.23:1, allowing for great amounts of formal and informal interaction with active researchers. Sinceinstructors each incorporate their research

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Engineering in the Middle Grades

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jed Lyons, University of South Carolina; Bethany Fralick, University of South Carolina; Jennifer Kearn, University of South Carolina

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2009-1372: A SURVEY OF MIDDLE-SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ATTITUDESTOWARD ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTSJed Lyons, University of South Carolina Jed Lyons is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Faculty Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of South Carolina. His passion is developing laboratory experiments and other hands-on active learning experiences for pre-college, undergraduate and graduate students.Bethany Fralick, University of South Carolina Bethany Fralick is a graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Carolina, conducting research on engineering education.Jennifer Kearn, University of South Carolina Jennifer

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Projects and Problems in First-Year Courses

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vinod Lohani, Virginia Tech; Ganesh Balasubramanian, Virginia Tech; Ishwar Puri, Virginia Tech; Scott Case, Virginia Tech; Roop Mahajan, Virginia Tech

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First-Year Programs

Success in the Collegiate Engineering Program. Proceedings of the 2007 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Hawaii, June 24- 27, 2007, 11 pages.[18] Robson, V., Lohani, V. K., and Muffo, J., 2008. “Assessment in Engineering Education, Book Chapter in Assessment in the Disciplines,” Vol. 3, Assessment in Engineering Programs: Evolving Best Practices, Editor: William E. Kelly, pp. 173-192, Association for Institutional Research, Tallahassee, FL.[19] Lohani, V. K., Castles, R., Johri, A., Spangler, D., and Kibler, D., 2008. “Analysis of Tablet PC Based Learning Experiences in Freshman to Junior Level Engineering Courses,” Proc. 2008 ASEE Annual Conference, June 22-25, 2008, Pittsburgh

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Teaching Statics

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sue Rosser, Georgia Institute of Technology; Laurence Jacobs, Georgia Institute of Technology; Janet Murray, Georgia Institute of Technology; Wendy Newstetter, Georgia Institute of Technology; Christine Valle, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Mechanics

, although the forces themselves are labeled and simply ask them to add the directions. Such problems will provide important practice opportunities that focus students on various aspects of proper free body diagram generation that our recent findings have shown students have difficulty with.3. We will, of course, keep adding to our library of problems in order to cover all topics of the course. This will help us expose our students more and more to the InTEL tools, and hopefully positively impact both their grades in the class and overall satisfaction with engineering.We propose that software allows for the possibility of a risk-free environment forexperimentation and practice. We should do our best to capitalize on this and engage

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BME Laboratory Courses and Experiences

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Timothy Allen, University of Virginia; Jeffrey Saucerman, University of Virginia; Jason Papin, University of Virginia; Shayn Peirce-Cottler, University of Virginia

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Biomedical

teaching activities have focused on developing and teaching the undergraduate Capstone Design course in the BME department at the University of Virginia, and her research is focused on using in vivo and computational models to elucidate the mechanisms of vascular differentiation and the efficacy of stem cell-based therapies for wound repair. Page 14.462.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Development and Assessment of a Novel Systems Bioengineering Course Integrating Modeling and ExperimentationAbstractAdvances in the biomedical sciences are becoming increasingly dependent upon

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Raluca I. Rosca

race/ethnicity, butissues of age, nontraditional students, socio-economic status, first generation college students,and different styles of learning might need prompting from a facilitator to come into discussion.We can suggest a connection with the evolution from ‘design for the American with DisabilitiesAct’ to universal design. Indeed, teaching methods that ‘attract minorities’ are overall methodsthat engage and retain more of our engineering students.ConclusionsAs this author proved10, ETPP can be transferred to another institution, and it is a low-cost,good-impact way to prepare one’s engineering graduate students for the teaching aspect of theirfuture career. In particular, the participants reported that the diversity statement exercise

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2009 Northeast Section Meeting

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Raluca I. Rosca

race/ethnicity, butissues of age, nontraditional students, socio-economic status, first generation college students,and different styles of learning might need prompting from a facilitator to come into discussion.We can suggest a connection with the evolution from ‘design for the American with DisabilitiesAct’ to universal design. Indeed, teaching methods that ‘attract minorities’ are overall methodsthat engage and retain more of our engineering students.ConclusionsAs this author proved10, ETPP can be transferred to another institution, and it is a low-cost,good-impact way to prepare one’s engineering graduate students for the teaching aspect of theirfuture career. In particular, the participants reported that the diversity statement exercise

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Aerospace Workspace: Current and Future 2

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michele Dischino, Central Connecticut State University; Nidal Al-Masoud, Central Connecticut State University; Peter Baumann, Central Connecticut State University; Zdzislaw Kremens, Central Connecticut State University; Viatcheslav Naoumov, Central Connecticut State University

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Aerospace

participating in the 2003 Program forInternational Student Assessment (PISA) examination, which is designed to assess students’ability to apply scientific and mathematical concepts to real-world problems.6 Furthermore, theretention rate for engineering students is one of the lowest among all college majors. About one-third of all U.S. students intending to pursue engineering switch majors before graduating.5 Inpart, this is due to a demanding and rigorous curriculum, but the fact that some engineeringstudents realize quite late that the program is not the best fit for them also has a negative impact.Demographic Disparities in Math and Science AchievementAccording to the National Science Board’s Science and Engineering Indicators 20084, there

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Faculty and Program Exchanges: Internationalizing, Collaborations and Interactions

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fanyu Zeng, Indiana Wesleyan University; Chao Liu, Southeast University; Xiaodong Zhang, Southeast University

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International

Student Learning OutcomesAbstractThis paper presents an initiative of an engineering curriculum enhancement and an example ofcollaborative junior student’s project development, based on the enhanced curriculum. The maingoal of this research is to integrate the best practices from the American engineering educationprograms into existing engineering curriculum, and to study the effectiveness of theenhancement, made up of a number of new focus areas in critical thinking and practical problemsolving.The research is carried out to study the feasibility and effectiveness of newly designed projectcollaborations between an American professor and a Chinese student, involved in a juniorproject. American professor helps to integrate successful American

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Engineering Education in India, Central and Eastern Asia

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xia Wang, Oakland University; Gary Barber, Oakland University; Laila Guessous, Oakland University; LianXiang Yang, Oakland University; GuangZhi Qu, Oakland University; Ishwar Sethi, Oakland University

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International

paramount for U.S. engineers and researchers to develop the skills and backgroundnecessary to effectively work, communicate and innovate on an international scale and to be ableto collaborate on complex engineering and research projects with colleagues and collaboratorsacross the world. Countries such as China and India, by virtue of their size, are graduating everincreasing numbers of engineers and scientists each year and are making great strides inscientific research. The effects of the globalization of science, engineering and manufacturinghave been particularly felt in rust-belt states such as Michigan and Ohio where the loss of marketshare by the big three U.S. automakers has resulted in large job losses and a migration of agrowing number of

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LABVIEW-Based Experiments and Robotics Laboratory

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alejandra J. Magana; Sean Brophy; George Bodner, Purdue University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

for using simulations for learning and describing in detail a student’s perception of thismethod.Methods The goal of this research study is to describe an instructor’s and his students’ perceptionsand experiences with simulation tools as laboratory simulations in the context of an advancedgraduate elective course for electrical engineering students. These graduate students arespecializing in the area of very-large-scale integration (VLSI) and circuit design. The coursefocuses on examining advanced transistors and its physical principles. Considerations that enterinto the development of new integrated circuit technologies were also explored. This course hasas pre-requisite a course related to solid state devices only offered to master’s

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Christine Kelly, Oregon State University

AC 2009-992: ENHANCEMENT OF STUDENT LEARNING IN EXPERIMENTALDESIGN USING VIRTUAL LABORATORIESMilo 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. Koretsky is a six-time Intel Faculty Fellow and has won awards for his work in engineering education at the university and national levels.Christine Kelly, Oregon State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nathan Klingbeil, Wright State University; Kuldip Rattan, Wright State University; Michael Raymer, Wright State University; David Reynolds, Wright State University; Richard Mercer, Wright State University

Model for Engineering Mathematics Education, and has also led an NSF supported research project to develop the nation's first undergraduate curriculum in bioinformatics.David Reynolds, Wright State University David B. Reynolds is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical, Industrial and Human Factors Engineering at Wright State University. He is a Co-PI on WSU's National Model for Engineering Mathematics Education, and has also conducted NSF supported research to develop human factors engineering undergraduate design projects for persons with disabilities.Richard Mercer, Wright State University Richard E. Mercer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and

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Engineering Education in India, Central and Eastern Asia

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bob Lahidji, Eastern Michigan University; Walter Tucker, Eastern Michigan University; Jianhua wang, Eastern Michigan University

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International

same part, for the same price, anywhere in theworld.”4 In the previous vertical integration model, the design and manufacturing ofproducts was an internal affair and regulated by long-held standards, procedures, andhierarchies. This world is disappearing and being replaced by the much more chaotic“flat” de-verticalized and global design and manufacturing For technical professionalsincluding engineers, globalization and de-verticalization means that instead of thepredictable long-established world of a Ford or an IBM, new graduates must master theirprofession in the largely undefined universe of 12,000 mile supply chains, multiplelanguages, and dozens of suppliers all with differing roles as to design andmanufacturing. This problem has been

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Robots in Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ryan Meuth, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Paul Robinette, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Donald Wunsch, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Computers in Education

competition requires the team to design and build a medium-sized robot to autonomously traverse an outdoor obstacle course. Obstacles normally consist of colored barrels, construction netting, white lines and trees. The team uses stereovision cameras as the primary obstacle detection sensor. The team is currently exploring several algorithms for path planning. Paul recently become a member of the UMR Applied Computational Intelligence Lab. He recently spent the summer developing adaptive user-interfaces as part of a research partnership with Boeing.Donald Wunsch, Missouri University of Science and Technology Donald C. Wunsch II (S’87–M’92–SM’94–F’05) received the B.S. degree