Conference Session

Computational Tools and Simulation III

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Priya Goeser, Armstrong Atlantic State University; Wayne Johnson, Armstrong Atlantic State University; Felix Hamza-Lup, Armstrong Atlantic State University; Ivan Sopin, Armstrong Atlantic State University; Carlos Sanchez, Armstrong Atlantic State University; Patrick Hager, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

and e-Learning.Ivan Sopin, Armstrong Atlantic State University Ivan V. Sopin has received a B. S. in Computer Science from Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, GA, where he continues his studies as a graduated student. Ivan’s research interests deal with investigating new interaction models for 3D Web interfaces in application to medical and engineering education.Carlos Sanchez, Armstrong Atlantic State University Carlos Sanchez is an undergraduate student at Armstrong Atlantic State University, and is working on obtaining his B.S. in mechanical engineering. His current areas of interest are robotics and aerospace applications. He hopes to pursue a graduate degree in mechanical

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology; Jeanne Christman, Rochester Institute of Technology; Teresa Wolcott, Rochester Institute of Technology; Maureen Valentine, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Women in Engineering

Jeanne Christman is an Assistant Professor in the department of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering Technology at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is currently the Program Chair for the Computer Engineering Technology Program. Christman received her B. S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Clarkson University and her M. S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas. Christman is the coordinator for the Engineering Girl Scout Badge workshop at RIT. She also tracks retention data for the female students in the Engineering Technology departments.Teresa Wolcott, Rochester Institute of Technology Teresa Wolcott has a Bachelor of Science degree in

Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Applications

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claude Villiers, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Engineering Design Graphics

. Page 14.179.4 S 07 S 08 F 07  F 08 Figure 1. Percentage of students’ experience with AutoCAD prior to this course Test 1 Test 2 Test 3Figure 2. Average drawings per testI. Assessment of Project ApproachThe term project was presented to students at the end of the second phase of the course. At thispoint, the students were well experienced in reproducing any 2-Dimensional shape drawingswith details including text and dimensions. The school

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen Butler-Purry, Texas A&M University; Vinod Srinivasan, Texas A&M University; susan pedersen, Texas A&M University

obtaining two skill upgrades. At eachlocked door, the player is presented with a sum-of-products combinational circuit designproblem. Successfully designing a circuit that satisfies the problem unlocks a door. Skillupgrades are obtained in a similar fashion. A static overview map provides the player withinformation about where s/he is in the 3D world and where the doors, upgrades and exit arelocated. Figures 1 and 2 show screenshots of the 3D environment.The game switches to a 2D environment for the digital circuit design problems. The problems arepresented in the form of a truth table specifying the desired output for the given inputs usingproblem based learning18. The students are taught sum of products design concepts through aninitial problem

Conference Session

Engineering and Technology for Everyone

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

. Page 14.545.7Technological literacy focus courses will go into great depth within one or more technologytopic areas (see Figure 2b) with a higher fraction of C and D values in that column(s) whencompared to a survey course.Technological Literacy Design Courses and Critique, Assess, Reflect, or Connect (CARC)Courses will cover these respective rows in the matrix for one or more of the technology topicareas as shown in Figures 2c and 2d, respectively. It is expected that these courses will also havea higher percentage of C and D values in the corresponding rows – specifically for the detailedcross-cutting concepts within each group – compared to a survey course.To satisfy the diverse requirements of curriculum committees on varied campuses

Conference Session

Measurement Tools

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elliot Douglas, University of Florida

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Educational Research and Methods

.”using prior knowledge: Some students expressed that they did not look solely at the informationin the problem, but also looked to prior knowledge that might help them. Jose felt that your levelof prior knowledge affected how you might answer a question. “I know, because I have seen theword maybe a thousand times by now…But if we bring [in] someone that [does] not…know[s]anything about the problem, this would not be enough information.” For Alice, the ability to useknowledge is a key component of critical thinking: “I had to really like, reach in and kind of pullout something that maybe wasn’t right on the paper. And when you have to like go through yourfiling cabinet of stuff, then that would be a lot more critical.” Mike saw critical thinking

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nihad Dukhan, University of Detroit, Mercy; Mark Schumack, University of Detroit, Mercy

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Mechanical Engineering

challenged by this activity. strongly agree agree neutral disagree strongly disagreeexhibit an appreciation Did you speak with the resident(s) I believe my conversation Page 14.102.4of communication with about the benefits of your energy- with the residents wasnon-engineers

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Strategies in Engineering Graphics

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Bedward, North Carolina State University; Eric Wiebe, North Carolina State University; Lauren Madden, North Carolina State University; James Minogue, North Carolina State University; Mike Carter, North Carolina State University

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Engineering Design Graphics

cycle.A “graphic vocabulary wall”, synonymous with a word wall (commonly used in elementaryclassrooms) should be established to support student use of graphics. The facilitation in graphicproduction will further student spatial abilities by eliminating mental road blocks that hindertheir thought processes.AcknowledgementsThis work is supported by NSF (DRL # 0733217) as part of the Discovery Research K-12program. The project team would also like to extend its sincere thanks to our partner elementaryschools, including the administration, staff and teachers.References1. Appleton, K. (2007). Elementary science teaching. In S. Abell & N. Lederman (eds) Handbook of research on science education. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates

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Meeting the Needs of Engineering Faculty, Researchers, and Students

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Baer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Lisha Li, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Engineering Libraries

suurvey tool. Students S anddfaculty inn the School of Civil andd 80%Environm mental Engin neering and thet 70% DoctoralGeorge W.W Woodruff ff School of 60% MasterMechanical Engineerring were sent 50% Senioremail meessages invitting them to 40% Juniorparticipatte in the surv vey. Theseschools were w selected d for the survvey 30

Conference Session

Best Zone Paper Competition

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rashmi Jain, Stevens Institute of Technology; Keith Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology; Elisabeth McGrath, Stevens Institute of Technology; Bernard Gallois, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Council of Sections

foundations of systemsengineering.IntroductionIt is increasingly recognized that the context of engineering is one dominated by systems and that thepractice of engineering is typically directed towards design of engineering systems, ranging from thesmall to large scale and even complex systems of systems. Engineering curricula, with their traditionalfocus on the disciplinary contributions to design, encourage a mindset in which students seek technicalsolutions often rooted in a specific engineering discipline with little regard for the context in which theirproduct, system, or service may be deployed, the societal or business need(s) it may fulfill or even itsrelations to all the other engineering, business or ‘environmental’ domains that can

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

B. Samanta

=1,…,s, s being the number of sub-swarms and r is a random integer between 1 and s,representing the random index of the sub-swarm whose gbest is selected in the velocity update.             C. COPSO Based Learning of SMN Model ParametersThe aim of the present approach is to select the SMN model parameters (wii and bi) such that anobjective function representing the mean square error (MSE) is minimized. J ∑N y y (8) Nwhere o is the observation (sample) index and N represents the total number of samples. In thepresent work, COPSO was used to select the SMN model parameters from a user

Conference Session

ELD Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry Thompson, Virginia Tech

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Engineering Libraries

series. Many of thesedocuments contain information which is still useful to both students and faculty, as well asresearchers involved with NASA’s current missions. Because of this, it is imperative thatcomprehensive and accessible indexing tools are available to search the NACA / NASAliterature.Purpose of the paperIn order to find and retrieve these reports, NACA / NASA has developed various indexes, first inprint and now online. In addition, commercial database vendors have developed products whichindex some of the NACA / NASA produced documents. This paper samples the NACA / NASAliterature and evaluates the ability of five databases to index that literature. The purpose of thestudy is to determine the best database(s) for librarians and

Conference Session

Structural Education Methods

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cole McDaniel, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Graham Archer, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Architectural

. 0. 0. 0. 0. M M Estimated Period (s) Estimated Period (s)Figure 3: Computer and

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shanmugalingam Easwaran, Pacific Lutheran University

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Electrical and Computer

), and if so, how?Let us first adapt the equation for histogram equalization to use a (U, V) notation instead of the(R. S) notation (just only a change in notation) for reasons that will become clear soon. Here Uor R refers to the histogram or the cumulative histogram of the base image, and V or S refers tothe same for the histogram equalized image. rk ⎛L⎞With this notational modification, the equation s k = ⎜⎝ N ⎟⎠ ∑h i=0 R (i) - 1: k=0,1,2,...,L-1; rk = k for

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jean-Claude Thomassian, State University of New York, Maritime College; Anoop Desai, Georgia Southern University

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Electrical and Computer

circuits in the s-domain including Bode plots and frequency response. Also, perform Fourier circuit analysis7-10.4. Use PSpice to simulate and analyze simple circuits.The abovementioned courses have a laboratory component where students build simple electriccircuits and make measurements in the laboratory by using basic laboratory equipment, computersimulation tools, and work in teams.The aforementioned course outcomes support and realize the ABET Criterion 3 outcome andassessment for accrediting Engineering programs11.Method for Evaluation and Information GatheringThe objective of this research is to evaluate the results and feedback of a survey concluded bythe students. These surveys were based on their attitude towards media based modules

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashland Brown, University of the Pacific; Kris Wood, University of Texas; Kristen Kaufman, Grad Student Universiy ot Texas; Daniel Jensen, United States Air Force Academy; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas; Christina White, Columbia University

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Mechanical Engineering

other hand prefer more of a relatively passive role andgain energy internally. The second category describes how a person processes information.People who process data with their senses are referred to as Sensors (S), and a person who seeswhere data is going in the future is called an iNtuitor (N). The Sensor versus iNtuitor category isan interesting area of study when it comes to engineering education, because professors arehistorically intuitors while most engineering students are sensors50. The third category for MBTI Page 14.75.6preference describes the manner in which a person evaluates information. Those who tend to usea logical cause and

Conference Session

Innovative Methods to Teach Engineering to URMs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zheng, Jackson State University; Gordon Skelton, Jackson State University; HuiRu Shih, Jackson State University; Evelyn Leggette, Jackson State University; Tzusheng Pei, Jackson State University

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Minorities in Engineering

Set positive learning belief and U gi til a te compare it with goals Plan, motivation; ize s tr Reflect on the effectiveness of Aware of different learning

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Improving Mechanics & Structural Modeling Courses

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raghu Echempati, Kettering University; Andrew Fox, Kettering University

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Mechanical Engineering

undergraduate or even at the graduate levels. Numerous studies were reported in thepast by analyzing the ‘instantaneous structure’ of the mechanism in different orientationsto identify the most critical orientation(s) of the mechanism and the high stress or highdeflection locations in the members of the flexible mechanisms. Several special purposecomputer programs have also been written by different academic and industry researchersthat address this issue to some extent1,2 (for example), but there seems to be no evidenceof an undergraduate course that combines these two approaches. Simplified theory thatcovers the important mechanism design and FEA concepts can be complimented byvalidation using simulation tools. This may be a good starting point

Conference Session

Innovation in Construction Engineering Education II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ifte Choudhury

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Construction

orders, CAT = category ofinfrastructure construction project, β1 = a constant indicating how the time performance isaffected by the size of the construction project measured by its cost, β2 = a constant indicatinghow the time performance is affected by a variation in number of change orders, and β3 = aconstant indicating how the time performance is affected by a variation in category.A multiple linear regression was used to analyze the data. For statistical analysis, Bromilow etal.’s 1 model was rewritten in the natural logarithmic form as follows:LnTIME = LnK + δ1LnCOST + δ2LnCO + δ3LnCAT (3)where LnTIME = natural logarithm of time, LnK = natural logarithm of K, LnCOST = naturallogarithm of cost

Conference Session

Issues of Persistence in Engineering

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rose Mary Cordova-Wentling, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Cristina Camacho, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Women in Engineering

(National Science Foundation, 2004). The2004 Science and Engineering Indicators report from the National Science Foundation (NSF)indicates that there is a “troubling decline in the number of U.S. citizens who are training tobecome scientists and engineers, whereas the number of jobs requiring science and engineering(S&E) training continues to grow” (p.1). “If trends continue the United States will lose its abilityto fill the growing demand for science and engineering jobs, yielding [its] global standing tonations such as China and India who are training thousands more engineers and scientists than isthe U.S.” (O’Brien, 2004, p. 1). Furthermore, it was noted that in 2004 the U.S. graduatedapproximately 70,000 undergraduate engineers, while China

Conference Session

Computers and Software in Teaching Mathemathetics

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raymond Jacquot, University of Wyoming; Jeffrey Anderson, University of Wyoming; David Walrath, University of Wyoming

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Mathematics

Dimensionless Time, t/L Figure 2. Temperature as a Function of Time for Nine LocationsAnother way to present the solution is a 3-D plot of temperature as a function of location andtime as shown in Figure 3. Page 14.1044.4 Pres s En

Conference Session

Mentoring and Development of New Faculty

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Taber, National Academy of Engineering; Elizabeth Cady, National Academy of Engineering; Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering

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New Engineering Educators

committeecompleted a study on the development and implementation of metrics for scholarly teaching or"instructional scholarship" within the discipline of engineering. The committee sought to identifynew options (with respect to choices of existing metrics, processes for evaluation of metrics, andagents to perform the evaluation of metrics) for evaluating scholarly teaching and to assessbroadly the options identified in terms such as their validity, reliability, and ease-of-use byengineering faculty. The intent is to contribute to greater acceptance of instructional scholarshipwithin engineering disciplines. The committee examined specific choices for metrics of thescholarship of teaching, schemes for the evaluation of selected metrics, and agent(s) who

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering: Part II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Foor, University of Oklahoma; randa shehab, University of Oklahoma

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Minorities in Engineering

include, but are not limited to arekindling of Native American pride as a result of the 1970’s Red Power movement, the growthin wealth and power of tribal governments coupled with loosening tribal membershiprequirements, continued racial intermarriage, as well as changes to the way Native Americanswere counted on the 2000 Census.28, 29 The State of Oklahoma is second to California in thenumber of Native Americans citizens living within its borders. Thirty-nine federally recognizedtribes reside in Oklahoma.The geographic location of our university and the legacy relationship with many college eligibleindividuals contributes to the high Native American enrollment. Financial incentives, includingout-of-state tuition waivers for students who belong

Conference Session

Engineering and Other Disciplines

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mahmoud Quweider, University of Texas, Brownsville; Adriana Perez, University of Texas, Brownsville; Gabriala Oropeza, University of Texas, Brownsville; Juan Iglesias, University of Texas, Brownsville

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

. Perez, sought steps to reproduce similar collaborative outcomes in the futurein a methodical way. Since the CIS students are required to finish a capstone project during theirsenior year, it was thought very useful to allow interested student to pursue a similar experiencewhile earning credit for graduation. While taking the senior project, students who pursue thispath will be asked to follow the steps.Project Selection: Student(s) will be given a range of projects to choose from. The selection will becoordinated by a joint faculty from the CIS and the Public Health departments.Project Presentation: Student(s) will be required to present the project upon its completion to the rest ofthe class; they will detail their experience and point out any

Collection

2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

XingYing Cheng; Daren Wilcox

VHDL. In this paper, an overview ofBluespec is presented, its history and relation to VHDL, along with a simple example of coderelating VHDL to Bluespec, followed by the operation of Bluespec in Linux.Bluespec HistoryThe Bluespec language was the development of Prof. Arvind who founded the semiconductortool design company, Bluespec Inc., in 2003. Bluespec is a high-level functional hardware1 Southern Polytechnic State University, 1100 S. Marietta Parkway, Marietta, GA 30060-2896, xcheng@spsu.edu2 Southern Polytechnic State University, 1100 S. Marietta Parkway, Marietta, GA 30066-2896, dwilcox@spsu.edudescription programming language. The patented Bluespec technology is based on over eightyears of research at MIT, starting in 19971. In 2000

Conference Session

Projects and Problems in First-Year Courses

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

-nanotechnology, space elevators and microchips. While most considered nanotechnology tobe a huge area for scientific research and predicted development in medical sciences, some alsoraised critical opinions about ethical negative aspects of such powerful technologies, withimaginations drawn from “nano-babies” using DNA interactions to producing “nano-weapons”using novel high energy physics applications. Table 2: Students’ example responses during in-class Q/A session List two eng in eering  Su ppos e yo u are inv ited to you r  ap plica tion s o f nano tech nolog y  high sc hoo l to  g iv e a sh ort t alk

Conference Session

Critical issues in IT and IET: Focus Group

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Scachitti, Purdue University, Calumet; Juan Salinas, Purdue University, Calumet; Deepthi Karanam, Purdue University, Calumet

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Engineering Technology

”, Proceedings of the 40th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences – 2007, pp.131b. 5. Yvonne Lejtman, Ebrhim Shayan, Romesh Nagarajah, “Design of a suitable production management system for a manufacturing company”, Computers & Industrial Engineering, 42(2002), pp.169-174. 6. Andrew Potter, Biao Yang, Chandra Lalwani, “A simulation study of dispatch bay performance in the steel processing industry”, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol 179, Issue 2, pp.567-578. 7. Simone Appelt, Rajan Batta, Li Lin, Colin Drury, “Simulation of passenger check-in at a medium-sized US Airport”, Proceedings of the 2007 Winter Simulation Conference, S. G. Henderson, B. Biller, M.-H. Hsieh, J. Shortle, J. D. Tew

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian Belu, Drexel University

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Electrical and Computer

Page 14.91.7converters’ and inverters’ experiments designed by the MNPRE center of the Universityof Minnesota (see Figure 3), and a rectifier module, developed at our electronicsworkshop. Beside these functional modules, reconfigurable test-beds are used by thestudents to construct, test and design their own converters or power electronics circuitsused during the project phase of the course. The cost of these functional modules is rathermodest and the equipment and instrumentation employed is the usual one.The power stage of a typical power electronics converter consists of only passivecomponents (such as inductor(s), capacitor(s)) and power devices (such as switch (es)and diode(s)), as one can see in Figure 2. The use of such prefabricated

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Agnieszka Miguel, Seattle University

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New Engineering Educators

AcknowledgementsThe author would like to thank Elizabeth J. Mills and Lisa Berman for their editorial review of thisarticle.References [1] R. Boice, “Classroom incivilities,” Research in Higher Education, vol. 37, pp. 453–486, August 1996. [2] L. B. Nilson, Teaching at Its Best. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing Company, Inc., 2 ed., 2003. [3] J. M. Braxton and A. E. Bayer, eds., Addressing Faculty and Student Classroom Impropri- eties, vol. 99 of New Directions for Teaching and Learning. San Francisco, CA: Wiley Peri- odicals, Inc., Fall 2004. [4] S. Brown, “Civility in the classroom,” http://www.tc3.edu/instruct/sbrown/ fac/civilbib.htm, 2004. [5] P. J. Morrissette, “Reducing incivility in the university/college classroom,” International

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics V

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Ochs, Lehigh University; Lisa Getzler-Linn, Lehigh University; Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology; Scott Schaffer, Purdue University; Mary Raber, Michigan Technology University

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Engineering Ethics

. Mission Statement Development Identify Establish Generate Select Test Set Plan Plan Customer Target Product Product Product Final Downstream Needs Specifications Concepts Concept(s) Concept(s) Specifications Development Perform Economic Analysis Benchmark Competitive Products Build and Test Models and