Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

E. Hirleman

GEARE: A Comprehensive Program for Globalizing Engineering Education E. D. Hir leman 1, D. Atkinson 1, E. A. Gr oll1, J . Matthews1, L. Xu 1, B. Aller t 2, W. Hong2, A. Alber s3, S. L. K. Wittig4, Z. Q. Lin 5, and L. F. Xi5 1 School of Mechanical Engineer ing, Pur due Univer sity / 2Depar tment of For eign Languages and Liter atur e, Pur due Univer sity / 3Institut für Maschinenkonstr uktionslehr e und Kr aftfahr zeugbau, Univer sität. Univ. Kar lsr uhe / 4Ger man Aer ospace Center (DLR), Köln / 5School of Mechanical Engineer ing , Shanghai J iao Tong Univer sity GLOBAL ENGINEERING ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION (GEARE)AbstractThe

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter

Session 3449 Teaching Applied Electromagnetics to Engineering Technology Students J. R. Porter Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843Abstract In a world where computer bus speeds have increased beyond 1 GHz and wirelesscommunications/connectivity are common place, electronics and telecommunication engineeringtechnology (ET) graduates require an understanding of basic applied electromagnetic concepts.To address this issue, many ET programs now offer

Conference Session

Improving Communication Skills in ME

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Norman Asper; Bijan Sepahpour

andfabricate a solar/electric boat with which to compete in ASME’s 1999 “Solar Splash”. All ofthese groups continue to operate within our relatively small program, without funding from thedepartment.We like to think that the successes that we have realized over this 20-year period are because ofgood engineering and preparation. If the truth were known however, in many cases, we were justlucky. We approach each competitive event with several goals in mind. First is to win the eventwith the best engineered, most finely prepared vehicle possible. The second goal is to finishevery event that we enter. The third goal is to bring the vehicle, and driver(s), back in one piece.We have come to recognize that winning any one of these events is often, in large

Conference Session

Design and the Liberal Arts

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Gayle Ermer; Steven VanderLeest

CaringThe design ought to show due care for persons. It should take into account its effects onindividuals – physically, socially, and psychologically. Technological solutions should address areal need, one that has been appropriately defined while keeping the individual in mind. Thisshould include an attitude on the part of engineers that recognizes that technology does not existfor its own sake, but to better the lives of others. For example, the graphical user interface ofmany modern operating systems can be difficult or impossible to navigate for the blind. Web pagenavigation can be done via an audio web browser if the pages are designed using standard HTML,but can become unintelligible when non-standard components are included (to “spice” it

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Nur Ozge Ozaltin, University of Pittsburgh; Angela Shartrand, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA); Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Phil Weilerstein, VentureWell

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NSF Grantees

hybridization of engineering with entre-preneurial/business competencies.In summary, the U.S. is entering a time in which it is essential for our workforce not only to betechnologically advanced and creatively innovative, but to be entrepreneurially minded as well.How do we best prepare technically sophisticated engineering students to engage in the innova-tion process through entrepreneurial activity? Though scientists and engineers have strong tech-nical skills and knowledge to create and develop new technologies, that knowledge alone will Page 22.1575.3not lead to the development of the needed new industries and markets that will benefit the

Conference Session

Advances in Assessment of Communication and Interdisciplinary Competence

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa R. Lattuca, University of Michigan; David B. Knight, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Inger M. Bergom, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

,researchers, and policy makers in a variety of fields. Perhaps most notably, since the shift to anoutcomes-based accreditation criteria, ABET promoted the development of related skills andhabits of mind. Criterion 3.d requires that all undergraduate engineers have the ability to workon multidisciplinary teams, and Criterion 3.h indicates that those same graduates mustunderstand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, andsocietal context1.These same contexts are acknowledged in the National Academy of Engineering’s Engineer of2020 report2 which contends that developing solutions that account for this enlarged problemspace requires engineers to access, understand, evaluate, synthesize, and apply information

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Rose Marra; Andrew Lau; John Wise; Robert Pangborn

Session 2793 Student Assessments of Engineering First-Year Seminars Andrew S. Lau, Robert N. Pangborn, John C. Wise, Rose M. Marra Pennsylvania State University / University of MissouriAbstractAs of summer 1999, the Pennsylvania State University requires all first-year students tocomplete a one-credit first-year seminar (FYS) as part of their General Education requirements.In fact, many engineering FYS’s were first offered in fall 1998 (as electives), and assessment hasbeen ongoing since that semester. Engineering seminars have these four specific goals: 1. Introduce students to a specific field, or a number

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard N. Smith; Michael K. Jensen; Deborah A. Kaminski; Amir Hirsa

Session 1566 Development of an Integrated Thermal-Fluids Engineering Curriculum Richard N. Smith, Deborah A. Kaminski, Michael K. Jensen, and Amir Hirsa Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, and Mechanics Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 12180-3590AbstractWe present a new approach to teaching the core thermal/fluids curriculum for undergraduateprograms in engineering. Traditional introductory thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heattransfer classes are being replaced with two

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn Smith

Session 3202 Aerospace Engineering: Integrator for Cross-Disciplinary Learning Marilyn Smith, Narayanan Komerath School of Aerospace Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0150AbstractAerospace Engineers have a tradition of innovating across discipline boundaries. Each new flightvehicle design is a challenge requiring the application of advances in different disciplines. Thefast-changing technological marketplace makes it critical to prepare students to absorb andintegrate knowledge from any

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

M. N. Borges; F. H. Vasconcelos; M. Lewis

Session 1532 NEW PARADIGMS IN THE DESIGN OF ENGINEERING CURRICULA M. N. BORGES¹, F. H. VASCONCELOS², M. LEWIS3 ¹FUNREI - Federal IHE/2UFMG/3University of Huddersfield AbstractThis paper presents New Paradigms concerning the design of curricula for engineering degreecourses. It sets up the philosophical bases of curriculum design and outlines the LearningOutcomes Theory considered essential for the development of a new consistent pedagogicalapproach. Some course structures, being so fragmented, are labelled as the cause of

Conference Session

Broader Approaches to Engineering Ethics Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Markus D. Ong, Whitworth University; Kamesh Sankaran, Whitworth University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

and willing to investthe effort to develop these skills. Institutions can and should consider ways to encourage andcreate time for this practice.ConclusionThis work demonstrates how connections between philosophical ethical theories can be madewith practical engineering ethics codes. It is valuable for students to learn both of these and to beable to connect them with each other. The engineering ethics curriculum can be designed withthis student learning outcome in mind from the larger EAC concept down to the smaller detailsin individual assignments as demonstrated in this case with the introduction to engineering codesof ethics within an intermediate-level design class.AcknowledgmentsJust as the shared nature brings out the best of the

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Reimagining Pathways: Nurturing Diversity and Identity in STEM Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robyn Mae Paul, University of Calgary

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

hierarchical dualisms (e.g. man-woman, mind-body, rational-emotional, culture-nature, technical-social, etc.), I aimed to increase the criticalconsciousness of engineering education and bring awareness to these normative value systems.This paper provides a story of how storytelling methodology saved my sanity, improved myresearch, and led to greater outcomes. Much of the words in the paper are adapted from Chapter3 of my dissertation (Paul, 2024).Prologue: ContextWriting a PhD thesis is a daunting task filled with trepidation, uncertainty, and anxiety. Afteryears of research, reading, data collection, and analysis, somehow this information is to bepresented into a coherent sequence of scholarships that demonstrates enough ‘rigour’ (Riley,2017) to be

Conference Session

IE Technical Session I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abhijit Gosavi, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Jane M. Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

problem.ConclusionsThe goal of our paper was to study some of the buzzwords frequently used in industrialengineering, their origins, the nature of their usage, and the impact they have had on ourteaching and profession. It was interesting to find that most textbooks avoided usingthem while job sites such as monster.com used them widely. An important question is: isthere a disconnect here that professors of industrial engineering should be concernedabout? In our paper, we have tried to analyze this question and numerous other issues inan objective manner, keeping in mind that our long-term goal is to keep our professionalive, healthy, and useful. Also, most educators realize that the education imparted tostudents must have lasting value, and from this viewpoint

Conference Session

Design Communications & Cognition I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicole E. Genco; Katja Holtta-Otto, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; Carolyn Conner Seepersad, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

AC 2011-1315: FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE CREATIVITY OF EN-GINEERING STUDENTSNicole E GencoKatja Holtta-Otto, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth Dr. Holtta-Otto is assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of Massachusetts Dart- mouth.Carolyn Conner Seepersad, University of Texas, Austin Page 22.705.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Factors that influence the creativity of engineering studentsAbstractMany engineering curricula focus on educating engineers who are not only technicallycompetent but also capable of designing innovative engineering

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Bernd S. W. Schroeder; Jenna Carpenter

have been taken.Aside from the obvious benefit of formally having all mathematical tools “in place”, bothapproaches have their problems. Building mathematical tools “on the spot” can force studentsto struggle so much with the mathematics that the engineering/science content looses priorityin the students’ mind and is not as well understood as it could be. Delaying classes until aftertheir mathematical prerequisites have been taken is not an option if we are to have anengineering class every term. Moreover such delays can lead to delays in graduation or toterms in which students take only mathematics and electives. (For example, in many curriculaany class that requires the use of differential equations would become a junior level classtaken

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank J. Fronczak; John G. Webster

Session 2309 A Series of Design Courses in Biomedical Engineering Frank J. Fronczak, John G. Webster University of Wisconsin-MadisonAbstractThe curriculum for the BSBME degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison requires a seriesof six design courses. Students begin in their third semester with prerequisites of calculus,physics and chemistry. We solicit real projects from faculty in biomedical engineering and thelife sciences. Groups of two or three students interact with these clients to define thespecifications for their projects. Instructors teach them design principles and

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

John Eby; David Vader; Carl A. Erikson

, promote, develop, and implement its principles are pursued with our engineeringstudents, the Messiah College community, and the worldwide community. AppropriateEngineering provides a broad and interdisciplinary view of the engineering design process andprofession so as to foster an ethical and service oriented mind set as well as technical andcommercial considerations. Three general ways that we strive to accomplish this distinctive are:1. Provide cross-cultural learning and service opportunities for students and faculty through an elective course on Appropriate Engineering, projects in courses like Introduction to Engineering and Senior Project, and service-learning teams. Student-faculty project teams work throughout the academic year

Conference Session

Assessment & Continuous Improvement in ET: Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carmine Balascio, University of Delaware; Thomas Brumm, Iowa State University; Steven Mickelson, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

AC 2010-756: COMPETENCY-BASED ASSESSMENT OF ENGINEERINGTECHNOLOGY PROGRAM OUTCOMESCarmine Balascio, University of Delaware Carmine C. Balascio, Ph.D., P.E. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioresources Engineering at the University of Delaware. He earned bachelor’s degrees in Agricultural Engineering Technology and Mathematics from U.D. He earned an M.S. in Agricultural Engineering and a Ph.D. double major in Agricultural Engineering and Engineering Mechanics from Iowa State University. He teaches courses in surveying, soil mechanics, and storm-water management and has research interests in urban hydrology, water resources engineering, and assessment of student learning. He is

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Trivett, University of Prince Edward Island

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Design in Engineering Education

many engineering programs, just as in many plant process systems,the path from input (high school) to the output (qualified graduate) is quite separate for thedifferent streams (i.e. mechanical engineering stream, versus the electrical engineering, versusbiological engineering).In this conceptual model of the education of young engineers, the decision of which processstream the students enter would, in their minds, have a huge impact on their careers. Studentsspend a great deal of time and suffer sleepless nights deciding which stream to enter, notknowing at the start what they will end up looking like at the end, nor what sort of careeropportunities they will have when they graduate. Unfortunately, a student has very little

Conference Session

Reception & Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Edward Godfrey Ochieng, Liverpool John Moores University; Andrew David Price, Lougyhborough University; Ximing Ruan Ruan, University of the West of England

Tagged Topics

ASEE International Forum

. National Grid and the Royal Academy of Engineering Report (2013). http://www.cihe.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/NGEngineeringFutureCaseStudy.pdf [Accessed 2nd March 2013]. 2. Harris, A (2013). Addressing skills shortage. http://annualreview2012.laingorourke.com/overview/engineering_excellence/addressi ng_the_skills_shortage.html [Accessed 2nd March 2013]. 3. Quality assurance agency (QAA) enhancements (2008). Publications [online]: http://www.enhancementthemes.ac.uk/publications/Default.asp. [Accessed 10th March 2013]. 4. Dreyfus, H.L. (1986). Mind over machine: the power of human intuition and expertise in the era of the computer, Oxford, Basil Blackwell. 5. Anderson, L.W. (1994). Lecturing in large

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Technology

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Vaishalee Naruka; Stephen Raper; William Daughton

interested in Engineering Management. Students alsomentioned Engineering Management might be easier for some who think communication andmanagement classes are easier than the hardcore “traditional” engineering classes, but to thosewho do not have good interpersonal skills or a business mind, it might as well be the hardest. Anumber of the alumni surveyed confirmed that engineering management is indeed very popularin industry and most students get jobs easily. Starting salaries for Engineering Managementgraduates are nearly the same as traditional engineering degrees such as Electrical andMechanical Engineering. However, as careers advance, and Engineering Management graduatesmove into the mid and executive level positions, a distinct salary

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Doucette; Gunter Georgi

engineering student. On the other hand, even a partial victory had some measure of reward. As new engineering students, it was important to keep their interest and enthusiasm.• It had to have some sort of competition. For the Robolab projects, it was easy to have scoring systems based on time or difficulty of tasks.With these characteristics in mind, we began to consider projects. Also, our FreshmanEngineering course has heavy participation of upperclassmen as mentors, so we solicited theirinput as well.As a parallel activity, some of the Freshman Engineering mentors were building a model train setto put in one of the building lobbies during the Winter holidays. This project attractedconsiderable interest, with many of the participants having

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Newcomer

An Ergonomics Course for Manufacturing Engineering Technology Students Jeffrey L. Newcomer Engineering Technology Dept. Western Washington UniversityIntroductionErgonomics has become an important part of manufacturing process design, for even without anOSHA standard in the area, the potential savings of having an ergonomics program in place aresignificant. As such, it is important for students in a Manufacturing Engineering Technology(MET) programs to be versed in the basics of ergonomic process design. To address this need,the Engineering Technology (ET) Department at Western Washington University

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Gad-el-hak; Judy Richardson; John Speich; James McLeskey

instrumented to measure pressure and temperature using adata acquisition system. The additional experience gained would have to be balanced against theloss of simplicity.AcknowledgmentsThe authors would like to thank the National Science Foundation for its support of this projectunder the Grants for the Department-Level Reform of Undergraduate Engineering EducationProgram, NSF Grant # 0342865.Bibliography1 Vygotsky, L., Thought and Language. 1962, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.2 Vygotsky, L., Interaction between learning and development, in Mind in Society: The develoment of Higher Psychological Process, M. Cole, et al., Editors. 1978, Havard University Press: Cambridge, MA. p. 79-91.3 Norman, S., EPSS: A constructivist learning environment

Conference Session

New Learning Models

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Johannes Strobel; David Jonassen

talked about were large scale or small-scale projects, in which a set ofproblems (some of which were unanticipated) occurred. What is interesting is that theunanticipated problems that arose were a combination of engineering and non-engineeringproblems, as described by an electrical engineer. Also at different times we don't live in a perfect world and when buildings get put together at times people can make mistakes. Sometimes they can't be rectified and need to be ripped out and other times it would be disastrous to do that, so we develop equivalency concepts for that. The other unanticipated thing is you can get in a project is that the owner can change his mind and all of a sudden the whole dynamics

Conference Session

Developing ABET Outcomes F--J

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Di Bella

that most closely represents how the ethical dilemma would be presentedin the real world of engineering.Some Ethical Challenges and Examples of InstructionThe author finds some comfort in presenting an ethical dilemma to the student when thestudent is in the mist of a mind absorbing exercise offered in the Machine Design course.This is particularly effective when the machine design course is combined with thetraditional Capstone Design Project Course (typically taken by the senior engineeringstudent). During this course instruction a full range of diverse design topics are discussed.Examples of mechanical design techniques must be given via a variety of design projectswhether they are ‘real-life’ engineering examples or purely conceptualized

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paige Smith

the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition CopyrightÓ 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”References1. Accrediting Board of Engineering and Technology. (2000). Engineering Criteria 2000. Engineering AccreditationCommission, Baltimore, MD.2. Bandura, A. (1986) Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:Prentice Hall.3. Barra, R. (1993). Tips and techniques for team effectiveness. New Oxford, PA: Barra International.4. Belinky, M.F., Clency, G.M., Golderger, N.R., and Tarule, J. (1986). Women’s ways of knowing: thedevelopment of self, voice and mind. New York: Basic Books.5. Betz, N., and Hackett, G. (1983). The relationship of mathematics

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Reischman; Eugene Brown

result, the United States needs to fill this void by importing them from foreign countries. This has the potential of jeopardizing the quality of undergraduate engineering education as well as putting the United States at a technological disadvantage in comparison with other countries. ASEE needs to help promote the importance of graduate level engineering education.I hope that the Society will accept Gerry’s challenge and find multiple opportunities in itsCouncils, Divisions, and meetings to explore, debate, and formulate appropriate actions on thisimportant topic. However, any discussion needs to be well grounded in the data which concernsthis topic. With this end in mind, to stimulate discussion of the trends in

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques in the Classroom

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald W. Welch, The Citadel; Kevin C. Bower PE, The Citadel; Kaitlin Marley, The Citadel; Ally Kindel Martin, The Citadel

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

years [6]. More recentlyin 2011, Mercer University focused solely on engineering courses they determined were the“weed-out” classes [7].Keeping in mind the struggles that students were facing in engineering courses, The Citadelselected to review the D, F and Withdraws grades (DFW) in courses that were prerequisites toengineering courses. Beginning in fall 2012, it became apparent that many of the prerequisiteclasses to get into engineering courses were some of the most troubling for our engineeringstudents, therefore resulting in high DFW rates.As shown below in Figure 3, a comparison of DFW rates for Fall 2012 and Fall 2013 for courseswith SI session demonstrates a decrease in the DFW rates in Chemistry, Math and Physicscourses, whereas

Conference Session

Themes in Renewable Energy and ET

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Florian Misoc P.E., Southern Polytechnic State University; Tommy D Ball; Austin B. Asgill, Southern Polytechnic State University; Cyril B Okhio P.E., Southern Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Paper ID #6038Project-Based Curriculum for Renewable Energy Engineering TechnologyDr. Florian Misoc P.E., Southern Polytechnic State University Dr. Florian Misoc is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology. He joined Southern Polytechnic State University in August, 2011. Dr. Misoc earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Kansas State University. He also holds a Master’s of Science Degree in Engineering Technology from Pittsburg State University, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Physics from the University of Bucharest, Romania. Dr. Florian Misoc is a registered Professional Engineer