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New Concepts for Alternative Energy Courses and Concepts

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Max Rabiee P.E. P.E., University of Cincinnati

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

) programs. He hasalso worked in industry, where he was responsible for designing, specifying, testing, andanalyzing electro-mechanical devices. In this paper, the author will describe topics that shouldbe included in an electric rotating machine course and explain why using Matlab is an efficientmethod for students to solve lecture problems and analyze laboratory data.Due to the time constraint in one quarter, seven (7) important AC and DC laboratory assignmentspertaining to electric machines are selected for this course. Using MatLab enables the in-depthteaching of these topics during the ten-week quarter period. In the following sections of thispaper, he will describe the subjects that he teaches in an electric rotating machine class, duringone

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering: Trends and Tools

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amanie N. Abdelmessih, Saint Martin's University; Irina Gendelman, Saint Martin's University

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2012-4064: SYNCHRONOUS DISTANCE LEARNING FOR UNDER-GRADUATE THERMAL ENGINEERING COURSES: TRIALS AND IM-PROVEMENTSDr. Amanie N. Abdelmessih, Saint Martin’s University Amanie Abdelmessih is professor and Chair, Mechanical Engineering Department, and Director of the Thermal Engineering Laboratory, Saint Martin’s University. Abdelmessih has industrial, teaching, and research experience. Abdelmessih started her career in the paper industry, then she taught in several higher education institutions, with the last 15 years at Saint Martin’s University. Abdelmessih has per- formed research at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Marshall Space Flight Research Center, Ar- gonne National Laboratory, and Pacific Northwest

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2012 Northeast Section Meeting

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Basile Panoutsopoulos

Enhancing Lectures with Calculations, Simulations, and Experiments. Basile Panoutsopoulos1Technology is widely used today in all places of human endeavors. Both academia and industry use varioustechnological tools to perform calculations and simulations before the experimentation. These powerful toolseffectively assist the professional to curry on calculations is short time, and simulate virtual prototypes avoiding theexpensive and long manufacturing and testing times. Both approaches allow investigations using the “What if”approach. These tools supplement and complement the Lecture and the laboratory. In this work, an integratedapproach of all four aspects, lecture

Conference Session

Projects in Alternative Energy

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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José Colucci Ríos P.E., University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Efrain O'Neill-Carrillo, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Miriam del Rosario Fontalvo

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Fontalvo Page 25.1403.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 CHEM E Sustainable Energy Demos, Workshops, Town Hall Meetings and Other Stakeholder Engagement: Working the Pipeline José A. Colucci-Ríos, Miriam Fontalvo, Efraín O’Neill-Carrillo University of Puerto Rico-MayagüezAbstract – A Sustainable Energy Laboratory in the Chemical Engineering Department has beeninstrumental in the effective incorporation of sustainability into chemical education targetingaudiences (hundreds per year) from the whole spectrum: K

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2012 EDI

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Roger Stancliff

/defense disease research Forensics, drugs of abuse Low-cost instrumentation Agilent g Research Laboratories Enabling technology breakthroughs across Agilent Agilent Profile3 April 2012 Advances in Fundamental Knowledge Measurement Technology Advances Improvements

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2012 EDI

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Yongmin Kim

scholars and students from around the world To move POSTECH to a next level of excellence 5 International Programs at POSTECH• Student mobility: 5% of our students per year go abroad for > 3 months• Distinguished foreign professors• Distinguished lecturers• Global leadership program• Cooperation with developing countries• WCU (World Class University) programs• IBS (Institute for Basic Science) campus site labs Research Platforms and InstitutesNational and international projects to host and build key research infrastructuresand institutes for the advancement of the R&D competency of Korea PAL XFEL Pohang Accelerator Laboratory X-ray Free Electron Laser 3rd generation 3 GeV

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adeel Khalid, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Aerospace

Freshmen Research Project: Design, Development and Testing of Variable Pitch Propeller Thrust Measurement Apparatus – A Case StudyAbstractWhen students first start their engineering education, they often do not know what to expect interms of the curriculum. Students are often discouraged by the rigor of freshmen theoreticalcourses. One of the ways to motivate them and keep them interested in engineering is to havethem work on hands on projects. In this project, freshmen students designed, developed, andtested a variable pitch propeller apparatus. The apparatus was intended to become a part of theaerospace engineering laboratory that future students would use to conduct experiments. Thechallenges of working

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hirak C. Patangia, University of Arkansas, Little Rock

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engineering as a career path or for personal enrichment. He has written a textbook and a laboratory manual for the course ”Introduction to Electronics and Electrical Systems: A PBL Approach.” He has received numerous awards for teaching excellence at UALR, including the Donaghey Outstanding Teacher Award. He has also received recognition for re- search excellence from the chancellor and college. His research interest is in the general area of signal processing (analog/digital), and he is working on new approaches in inverter design and solar controller to improve efficiency of solar energy conversion. Another area of interest is engineering education research. He received a bachelor’s degree with honors from the Indian

Conference Session

Four Pillars of Manufacturing Engineering

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David L. Wells, North Dakota State University

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Manufacturing

corporate sponsor. Students are challenged to design effective and efficient part manufacturing methods and complete production systems for commercial and industrial products. The common theme for students is mastering process and system design procedures that are applicable to any product in any industry. Graduates have been successful in manufacturing enterprises that produce virtually every type of product, literally, from spacecraft to foodstuffs. Wells also leads in- novation teams in two engineering venues: product realization and transforming laboratory research into commercial products. Wells’ active research lies in orthopedics, micro-assembly, micro-machining, cir- cuit board process engineering, printed

Conference Session

K-12 Experiences in Energy Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jana Sebestik, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Quanyan Zhu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

integrate technology into K-12 classrooms. TCIPG is addressing the challenge of how to protect the nation’s power grid by significantly improving the way the power grid infrastructure is built, making it more secure, reliable, and safe.Mr. Quanyan Zhu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Quanyan Zhu is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineer- ing and the Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), working with Prof. Tamer Bacsar at the Information Trust Institute (ITI). He has received his master’s and bachelor’s degrees from University of Toronto and McGill University, respectively and both in electrical engineering. He has been

Conference Session

Robotics and Automation

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

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Engineering Technology

applications of electronic components and controllers utilized on industrialequipment. Laboratory sessions focus on instrumentation, programming, downloading,and wiring discrete input / output devices.Specific Course Competencies of the course include the ability to: 1. Identify major applications of programmable logic controllers in industry, transportation, construction, and environmental control. 2. Identify, discuss, and describe the purpose and function of the primary components utilized in open and closed loop process control systems. To assist in this outcome, each student will develop an appropriate theoretical base, and a complete comprehension of the associated

Conference Session

New Classrooms, New Challenges I: Novel Approaches to Courses

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arthur Felse, Northwestern University

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Chemical Engineering

AC 2012-4579: REGULATORY COMPLIANCE TRAINING IN BIO/CHEMICALENGINEERING COURSESDr. Arthur Felse, Northwestern University P. Arthur Felse is a lecturer in the master’s of biotechnology program and the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering at Northwestern University. His responsibilities include teaching, student advis- ing, coordinating master’s research training, and managing the biotechnology teaching laboratory. Before joining Northwestern University, Felse completed his postdoctoral training at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, where he was awarded a NSF fellowship. He and his colleagues at Polytechnic Institute received the EPA’s Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award in 2003

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ana T. Torres-Ayala, University of South Florida; Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Student

uncertain how to adjust their instruction tomotivate their students. Many instructors who design new laboratory-based and project-basedinstruction to boost motivation find that these efforts are often greeted by apathy or resistancefrom the students. This situation is further exacerbated by curriculum (re)design efforts whichemphasize the presentation and transmission of course material rather than everyday teachingdecisions that motivate, or demotivate, the students to learn the material3. Based on the premise that educational psychology must inform the practice of teaching4,this primer first presents and synthesizes a selection of recent theories of motivation. With thesetheories as a backdrop, we discuss how these theories can be used in

Conference Session

Evaluation of Teaching Methods for Mechanics Courses

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Somnath Chattopadhyay, Georgia Southern University

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Mechanics

tool in its ability to determine the principalstresses and the associated principal directions. The features of proportional and non-proportional loadings have been exemplified in this paper by studying the stresses in a shaftunder combined bending and torsion using Mohr’s circle.INTRODUCTIONThis study constitutes a laboratory component of the Mechanics of Materials courses taught toengineering students at the sophomore or junior levels. It is important that the students learn howthe external loads combine to produce stresses in a critical location of a structure or acomponent. This is fundamental to the understanding of the response of a structural componentto a combined system of loads that result in normal and shear stresses. Mohr’s circle

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehdi Shadaram, University of Texas, San Antonio; Thomas B. Morrow, University of Texas, San Antonio; C. Mauli Agrawal, University of Texas, San Antonio

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Aerospace

published more than 100 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He has been either PI or Co-PI for numerous grants and contracts, totaling more than $10 million in the past 15 years. NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Na- tional Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, Department of Defense, Department of Education, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Texas Instruments, and Lucent Technologies have funded his research projects. He is the recipient of the excellence in engineering research award at the College of Engineering at UTSA in 2010, the best teacher award in the College of Engineering at UTEP in 1994, and the NASA monetary award for contribution to the space exploration. He has been

Conference Session

Design Spine

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey L. Schiano, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Design in Engineering Education

. Moreover, as the professionalengineering topics are required for graduation, students cannot replace the capstone designcourse with other opportunities closer to their professional interests, for example, completing aproject in the Student Space Programs Laboratory. Page 25.51.2Following a critical review and discussion of the design component of our curriculum, theundergraduate committee identified three areas for improvement: (1) coupling the undergraduateand graduate programs by engaging undergraduates in faculty research projects, (2) diversifyingthe spectrum and depth of capstone design projects, and (3) increasing the number of credit

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rafic Bachnak, Texas A&M International University; Rohitha Goonatilake, Texas A&M International University

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Minorities in Engineering

AC 2012-3244: SUMMER ENRICHMENT WORKSHOPS FOR PROMOT-ING ENGINEERING EDUCATIONDr. Rafic Bachnak, Texas A&M International University Rafic Bachnak is professor and Chair at Texas A&M International University (TAMIU). He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Ohio University in 1983, 1984, and 1989, respectively. Prior to joining TAMIU in 2007, Bachnak was on the faculty of Texas A&M, Corpus Christi, Northwestern State University, and Franklin University. His experience includes several fellowships with NASA and the U.S. Navy Laboratories and employment with Koch Industries. Bachnak is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Texas, a senior member of IEEE and

Conference Session

Methods, Techniques, and New Programs in Graduate Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer H. Gross, Lehigh University; Donna M. Mohr, Lehigh University; Stephen Pessiki, Lehigh University

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Graduate Studies

executive advisory board, composed of representatives fromall areas of the building design and construction profession.The hallmark of the 30-credit, 10-month program is a 9-credit, 3-course design project sequencein which student teams design a real-world structure from initial concept to final constructiondocuments. An individual project assignment, as well as technical elective courses, allowsstudents to tailor the program to their unique interests and career goals. A laboratory classprovides hands-on learning of structural behavior. Interaction with industry leaders throughseminars, field trips, and externships provides students ample opportunity to network withprofessionals and gain an understanding of their chosen industry.Assessments were

Conference Session

Arduinos, Microcontrollers, Inexpensive Robotics, and Other Tech Bytes

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yan Xu, Del Mar College; Muhittin Yilmaz, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Allen Babb, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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Two Year College Division

field.The developed learning module has been implemented in a six-week curriculum and the projecteffectiveness is evaluated for enhanced faculty-student experiences during transferring researchknowledge to a two-year college educational curriculum.  Page 25.60.2Learning Module Development: The learning module activities took place during the Summer-Fall 2011 period and included the legacy cycle and engineering design process concepts, theresearch experience and associated technical knowledge from the RETainUS program at TexasA&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK) laboratory, and the module implementation in afreshman level robotics course at Del-Mar

Conference Session

Energy Education Courses, Labs, and Projects

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carl J. Spezia, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Dwight Harold Thomas Jr.

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

multimedia is a pervasive part of our lives. Content of all types is available fromwebsites such as YouTube, Hulu, and Pandora. Individuals consume this content using homeentertainment systems, personal computers, tablet PC’s and cell phones giving them access tomultimedia information at any time or place. Applying this approach to education gives studentsbetter access to course content, expands instructor time, assures uniform delivery, and can beconstructed to engage students using several learning styles simultaneously. This paperdocuments the application of on-demand multimedia content into electric machines lecture-laboratory courses. It will explore software tools, application techniques, and student responsesto on-demand video and screen

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in Engineering Technology

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pamela S. Frinzi, Southern Polytechnic State University; Scott Larisch, Southern Polytechnic College of Engr and Engr Tech

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Engineering Technology

online, with laboratories being offered in a ‘low-residency’format. This low-residency format will require students to complete a group oflaboratory assignments on two or three Saturdays during the semester. Weanticipate future efforts to offer both the lectures and laboratories completelyonline.SPSU’s approach, in collaboration with the TCSG, to the development of thesecourses was to require consistency in the format of each of our courses byimplementing a standard template. This will facilitate courses to have the samelook, feel, tools, and structure. Faculty developing these courses must havecompleted our Teaching Academy for Distance Learning (TADL) training courseprior to writing courses. To ensure quality course development and structure

Conference Session

First-year Programs Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clifford A. Whitfield, Ohio State University; Dustin W. West, Ohio State University; Lowell Toms P.E., Ohio State University; John A. Merrill, Ohio State University

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First-Year Programs

laboratory experiences for first year engineeringstudents that culminate in a quarter-long design-build project. The course sequences retain thetraditional material covered - engineering orientation, engineering graphics, and engineeringproblem solving with computer programming while offering several design-build project topics.One important objective for the first-year design projects, commonly called cornerstone projects,is to provide a team-based experience that includes all aspects of engineering design anddevelopment. This objective also includes successfully providing students with awareness of,and experience with, the iterative nature of design throughout the design cycle. The sequencesare one of the most innovative and successful of their

Conference Session

Green Renewable Energy and Engineering Technology

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Muhammad Zafrul Hasan, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Technology

about 10% weight of the course. Students spend timefor this project beyond scheduled hours. Although the project announcement is done at thebeginning of the semester and is due at the end, the actual work needs about three weeks to Page 25.1377.3finish.Digital Electronics (ENTC 219): In this introductory course to Digital Logic, students design andimplement hardware into an FPGA that controls a mobile platform. It is a team project consistingof two members. It spans over the last 4 weeks of formal laboratory time and carries a weight of15% of the course.Advanced Digital Circuits (ENTC 249): This course primarily involves digital system

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ravi P. Ramachandran, Rowan University; Robi Polikar, Rowan University; Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; Ying Tang, Rowan University; Sachin Shetty, Tennessee State University; Richard J. Kozick, Bucknell University; Robert M. Nickel, Bucknell University; Steven H. Chin, Rowan University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

AC 2012-3281: PROJECT-BASED DESIGN OF A BIOMETRIC FACE RECOG-NITION SYSTEMDr. Ravi P. Ramachandran, Rowan University Ravi P. Ramachandran received the B.Eng degree (with great distinction) from Concordia University in 1984, the M.Eng degree from McGill University in 1986 and the Ph.D. degree from McGill University in 1990. From Oct. 1990 to Dec. 1992, he worked at the Speech Research Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories. From Jan. 1993 to Aug. 1997, he was a Research Assistant Professor at Rutgers University. He was also a Senior Speech Scientist at T-Netix from July 1996 to Aug. 1997. Since Sept. 1997, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rowan University where he has

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Curriculum Issues

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chih-Ping Yeh, Wayne State University; Gene Yeau-Jian Liao, Wayne State University; William Stark, Macomb Community College

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Engineering Technology

energy storage, including advanced battery systems for hybrid electric vehicles. Yeh is also experienced in developing formal degree programs and professional development programs for incumbent engineers, community college instructors, and high school science and technology teachers. He is the PI and co-PI of several federal and state funded projects for course, curriculum, and laboratory development in advanced automotive technology.Dr. Gene Yeau-Jian Liao, Wayne State University Y. Gene Liao is currently Director of the Electric Transportation Technology program and Associate Pro- fessor of engineering technology at Wayne State University. He received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from National Central University

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2012 ERC

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Harriet Kung

Intercontinental Rail System, mid 1800s Eisenhower Highway System, 1956 U.S. Energy Production and Usage in 2008 Units in Quadrillion BTUs (Quads) Today compared to 1950: U.S. population ~2x that in 1950 Total primary energy ~3x that in 1950 Primary energy (petroleum) for transportation ~4x that in 1950 Primary energy used for electricity generation ~10x that in 1950 Little or no imported petroleum in 1950 “Used” and “Wasted” energy were about equal in 1950Source: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration, 2009 (based on datafrom DOE/EIA-0384(2008

Conference Session

Learning and Assessment II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Randy Dean Kelley P.E., University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown

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Mechanical Engineering

actual heat transfer topics, a benefit over justdoing homework. The actual graphs are plotted on the same graphs as the theoretical curves andthe students are to comment on the similarities and differences. Some university engineeringprograms have an adjacent heat transfer laboratory class to help students visualize the varioustopics, but some do not.Having the assignment be “mini” research papers instead of actual research papers lessens thework impact but at the same time increasing the students’ writing opportunities. This activelearning technique motivates the students to become interested in the practical aspects of thethree experiments conducted in this class

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Pennsylvania State University; Mark D. Maughmer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Robert H. Bishop P.E., Marquette University; Wallace T. Fowler P.E., University of Texas, Austin

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Aerospace

the Joe. J. King Professorship and was a Distinguished Teaching Professor.Previously, Dr. Bishop was a practicing engineer on the technical staff at the MIT Charles StarkDraper Laboratory.Dr. Bishop is a specialist in the area of guidance, navigation and control. His research sponsorshave included the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,NASA Johnson Space Center, Oerlikon-Contraves of Switzerland, NEC Corporation of Japan,National Instruments, Air Force Research Laboratory, Emergent Space Technologies, LockheedMartin, and the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. He is currently working with NASA ontechniques for achieving planetary precision landing to support human and robotic missions. Dr.Bishop also initiated

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Jianming Liu; Steven L. Grant

PhD candidate of Missouri S&T, and he received his BS from Shandong University, China in2005 and MS degree from Tsinghua University, China in 2009. He was an audio design engineer of Nokia inBeijing, China, and currently his research in Missouri S&T mainly focuses on speech signal processing,especially adaptive signal processing and doubletalk in echo cancellation.Steven L. Grant is currently the Wilkens Missouri Telecommunications Professor at Missouri S&T, and hereceived his B.S.E.E from Missouri S&T in 1979, M.S.E.E from Caltech in 1981, and Ph.D. from Rutgers in1994. In 1980, he was with Bell Laboratories. He was with International Telephone and TelegraphCorporation--Defense Communications Division from 1982 to 1984 and

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2012 EDI

Authors

Dan Sayre

learners around the world.O It will also enhance the educational experience of its on-campus students, offering them online tools that supplement and enrich their classroom and laboratory experiences.When you come to a fork in the road, take it. Yogi Berra The disruptor’s credo I could do that a lot betterfor a lot less money.3 trends for the coming decade O eReading will penetrate higher education as it has pleasure reading O New business models for materials acquisition will make much more available for much less O Digital learning tools will make dematerialized higher education a feasible, if not desirable, alternative to traditional degree completion3 trends for the