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Exemplary Outreach Programs in Engineering Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Joseph Cocozza, University of Southern California

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Measure- This is a 6-point Likert type scale provided to both the teachers and the undergraduate students that measures multidisciplinarity, power of research experience and leadership. It is aligned to the National Academy of Engineering’s Grand Challenges and the NAE’s Engineers for 2020.≠ Rubric for Laboratory Presentations and Lessons- This rubric, also aligned to Engineer’s for 2020, assesses the teachers’ and REU students’ research presentation (and in the case of the teachers, their lesson plan quality.ResultsThis paper presents results of the RET and REU program in two areas: the participant teachersand their perceived impact on the students that they teach. At this point in the data analyses, dueto the fact that the

Conference Session

New Trends in CHE Education II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Ted Lee, University of Southern California

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Chemical Engineering

simply applying a nano or bio “coat of paint” to existingcourses will serve the students well. Given the wide differences between the macroscopic andmolecular approaches to teaching the students may end viewing nanotech and biotech asunrelated, rather than integral parts of their ChE education. We have chosen to address these curricular and pedagogical challenges by bringingundergraduate research and laboratory experiences into the classroom. This has beenaccomplished through the creation of degree projects: projects that will span the entire four yearsof a student’s undergraduate education. For example, students pursuing a nano-emphasis have adegree project entitled “Nanoparticles”, while the degree project for bio-emphasis students is

Conference Session

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

relationships through physicochemical characterization. The focus is mainly on hydrogen and direct methanol fuel cells for stationary as well as automotive applications.Richard Newman, Arizona State University Richard L. Newman recently retired from the Arizona State University at the Polytechnic campus as Director of Training Operations for the Microelectronics Teaching Factory. Prior to joining Arizona State University, Richard served as an Associate Director at the NSF funded Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC) and twenty years as a faculty member and administrator within the Division of Technology and Applied Sciences at Arizona Western College and the University of

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susana Lai-Yuen, University of South Florida; Kingsley Reeves, University of South Florida

manufacturing process for their own designs.Course lectures were followed by hands-on laboratory assignments where students were given aproblem to solve using the concepts learned in the classroom and utilizing the design andmanufacturing facilities at the lab. The first laboratory sessions provided students with hands-onexperiences in programming and operating manufacturing equipment such as CNC milling andrapid prototyping machines. The manufacturing laboratories were performed in teams of 2 to 3students.Students taking the Manufacturing Processes course have been exposed to CAD softwarethrough a pre-requisite course. However, it was observed during the teaching of the controlgroup that their exposure to CAD software was limited and this caused

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ECE Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wei PAN, Idaho State University; S. Hossein Mousavinezhad, Idaho State University; Kenyon Hart, Idaho State University

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Electrical and Computer

discipline. One of the authors hasextensive industrial background and has used up-to-date tools in microelectronics andrelated application areas; another author has several years of experience teaching DSP atdifferent schools.IntroductionAt our school we have a one-semester lecture course for both seniors and first-yeargraduate students, and a laboratory section in digital signal processing. The Oppenheim-Schafer-Buck textbook1 for the graduate course is widely used in many schools. We usethe book by Proakis and Manolakis2 as a text. The book by McClellan-Schafer-Yoder3 isan interesting one for signal processing first approach used in some programs. The bookby Smith4 is also available online and students can download it for free.We will next present

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History of Aerospace Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott Eberhardt, Boeing Company; Narayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Aerospace

namePolytechnic Institute of New York University.California Institute of Technology The Guggenheim building at CalTech was completed in 1928, with a $305,000 grantfrom the Guggenheim Foundation for a graduate school and laboratory in aeronautics,built around a 10-foot low speed wind tunnel designed by Louis Kleinxii. Arthur EmmonsRaymond, Chief Engineer of Douglas Aircraft from 1925 to 1960, joined in 1927 as anAssistant Professor of Aeronautics, started teaching a Saturday class on airplane design toa class including Theodore von Karman, Arthur Louis Klein, Bateman, Clark Millikan,Sechler and Merrill. Clark Blanchard Millikan, starting with a Physics PhD on steadyviscous incompressible flow, developed the wind tunnel along with Klein. Early

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Culbertson, Arizona State University; Michael Oehrtman, Arizona State University; Janice Meyer Thompson, Arizona State University; Josh Gardner, Arizona State University; Christopher Mehrens, Arizona State University; Dale Baker, Arizona State University; Stephen Krause, Arizona State University

aspects of a course subject focused on a personalinterest area, such as music, relevance would be high and motivation would be quite positive, ifwell taught. For good teaching, the general theoretical underpinnings are based on the principlesof effective learning are found in How People Learn1, Knowing What Students Know2, and HowStudents Learn3. The materials developed were “learner-centered, knowledge centered,assessment centered and community centered”. This was done by developing, teaching, andassessing a course which integrates required courses in mathematics and laboratory science forliberal arts and fine arts majors. It used inquiry and project based learning of the math andscience content that was embedded in the engineering design

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in CHE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Phillip Wankat, Purdue University

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Chemical Engineering

engineeringprofessors retool their research from a technical specialty to engineering education.IntroductionDespite being a relatively small engineering discipline and despite the conservatism of ChEdepartments, chemical engineers have been leaders in the push for engineering education reformand in engineering education research. Examples of chemical engineering leadership inpedagogy include the Chemical Engineering Division of ASEE Summer School that meets everyfive years, the Division’s publication of the journal Chemical Engineering Education, andleadership in teaching professors how-to-teach. Leadership in educational research has includedthe development of the guided design method, introducing Problem Based Learning intoengineering, laboratory

Conference Session

Measurement Tools

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lourdes Gazca, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla; Aurelio López-Malo, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla; Juan Manuel Garibay, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla

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Educational Research and Methods

. Page 14.305.2IntroductionUniversidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP) is a Mexican private institution of higherlearning committed to first-class teaching, public service, research and learning in a wide rangeof academic disciplines including business administration, the physical and social sciences,engineering, humanities, and the arts. The studied course, Introduction to Engineering Design(EI-100) is a first-semester 3 credit required course for almost every engineering program ofUDLAP since spring of 2001. Course content and classroom activities are divided into three,two-hour sections (Modeling, Concepts, and Laboratory) per week. Students have six differentEI-100 facilitators (an instructor and teaching assistant for each section). EI-100

Conference Session

Computational Tools and Simulation III

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University; Jacob Schroeder, Clemson University; Hanjun Xian, Clemson University

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Computers in Education

virtual laboratories. Newcyberlearning environments have the potential to extend learning from traditional classrooms andphysical laboratories to include informal environments such as social networks and virtualspaces. Despite these significant advances, a larger theoretical framework of learning thatincludes cyberinfrastructure at its very core has not yet evolved.The purpose of this research is to provide a synthesis of the fundamental characteristics ofcyberlearning environments that are being created to facilitate student learning withinengineering disciplines. Furthermore, we examine in-depth how educators are definingcyberlearning within the context of learning theories in general, and engineering education inparticular.Our methodology

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Curricular Issues in Computer-Oriented Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Phil Rawles, Purdue University; Anthony Smith, Purdue University; Raymond Hansen, Purdue University; Jeffrey Sprankle, Purdue University

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Information Systems

curricula.Baccalaureate curricula were designed to allow students completing their Associate’s degrees ata satellite campus to transfer to the main campus and complete their Baccalaureate Degreecoursework.Known colloquially as the “2+2” system, this approach created a significant critical path concernin the networking degree plan of study. The satellite campuses do not have the faculty expertise,nor the space and funds to teach laboratory-based networking courses. As a result, all corelaboratory-based networking courses had to be delivered in the junior and senior years. Studentstook the majority of their non-core courses in the first two years, then took predominatelylaboratory-based core courses in their last two years.This created several curriculum design

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Ciaraldi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Eben Cobb, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Fred Looft, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Robert Norton, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Taskin Padir, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

engineering and advised capstone design projects within the robotics and automation option. He received his PhD and M.S. degrees from Purdue University, both in electrical engineering. He received his BS in electrical and electronics engineering from Middle East Technical University. Dr. Padir currently teaches undergraduate robotics engineering courses at WPI, advises student projects and participates in curriculum development activities for WPI's robotics engineering BS degree. Page 14.428.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Designing an Undergraduate Robotics Engineering

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ed Crowley, University of Houston

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Computers in Education

AC 2009-2275: RUNNING LINUX IN A WINDOWS COMPUTER LABEd Crowley, University of Houston Page 14.1039.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Running Linux in a Windows Computer LabAbstractIn many courses, the effective use of Linux, or other open source software, can expandand enhance active learning opportunities for students. Since many institutions havestandardized on Windows Computer Laboratories, implementing Linux based learningexperiences may initially seem problematic. However, with a Live Linux CD, you canquickly and easily run Linux, and related open source tools, in an existing WindowsComputer Lab.In this paper, we will explain how Linux Live CDs

Conference Session

Enhancing Recruitment and Retention in Engineering Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eugene Brown, Virginia Tech; Robert McGahern, DDR&E; Robert Stiegler, NSWC-DD

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

to introduce teachers to the modules and the inquiry and design teaching processinstruction is provided by the College of William and Mary. DoD S&Es have recently beenadded to the program to work as mentors in the classroom beside the teachers in a fashion similarto the VDP. It is planned to disseminate the MWM in nine states during FY08-09, using Army,Air Force, and Navy laboratories as hubs for kit distribution and local partnerships.Assessing the Effectiveness of the Curricular-Change ProgramsDue to the significant investment in funds in the curricular-change programs, vigorous andcomprehensive assessment programs are essential in both determining their effectiveness and inidentifying and guiding needed improvements.VDPAssessments of

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Raluca I. Rosca

through the 2005 survey and exit interview, and the 2009follow-up email survey. From these, we present only the data associated to the professionalcareer and the diversity statement.In the 2005 Exit interview, we asked the participants ‘What Job would you like to have in theFuture.?. In Table 1 we report the answers in order of preference, and we code them asfollows:-‘Industry-Research’= industry or research laboratory-‘Research Teaching’ =faculty in a Carnegie Extensive (Carnegie 1) institution-‘Teaching-Research’=faculty in a Carnegie Intensive (Carnegie 2) institution-‘Teaching’= faculty in a Carnegie three or a Community College.We compare those answers with the present-day work positions of people, as found on a generalinternet search or as

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2009 Northeast Section Meeting

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Raluca I. Rosca

through the 2005 survey and exit interview, and the 2009follow-up email survey. From these, we present only the data associated to the professionalcareer and the diversity statement.In the 2005 Exit interview, we asked the participants ‘What Job would you like to have in theFuture.?. In Table 1 we report the answers in order of preference, and we code them asfollows:-‘Industry-Research’= industry or research laboratory-‘Research Teaching’ =faculty in a Carnegie Extensive (Carnegie 1) institution-‘Teaching-Research’=faculty in a Carnegie Intensive (Carnegie 2) institution-‘Teaching’= faculty in a Carnegie three or a Community College.We compare those answers with the present-day work positions of people, as found on a generalinternet search or as

Conference Session

Faculty and Program Exchanges: Internationalizing, Collaborations and Interactions

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohammad Saleh Keshawarz; Hisham Alnajjar, University of Hartford; Beth Richards, University of Hartford; Abdul Hai Sofizada, SHEP

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International

Associate Dean of the College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture at the University of Hartford. He is also an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He holds a BSEE from Aleppo University, an MS from Ohio University, and a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University.Beth Richards, University of Hartford Beth Richards is director of Rhetoric and Professional Writing Program at the University of Hartford, where she is teaching technical writing, critical literacy, business and management communication, and editing, as well as first year writing course conducted jointly with introduction to engineering and design.Abdul Hai Sofizada, SHEP Abdul Hai Sofizada is the Policy

Conference Session

Engaging Students in Learning

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

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Engineering Technology

programs. “Differentiated instruction, oftenreferred to as universal design, is a teaching and learning style that is the result of neuroscienceresearch on how the human brain processes and retains new information”. 1Introduction“Acknowledging that students learn at different speeds and that they differ in their ability tothink abstractly or understand complex ideas is like acknowledging that students at any given agearen’t all the same height: It is not a statement of worth, but of reality”.2 In a differentiatedclassroom and laboratory, the teacher proactively plans and carries out varied approaches tocontent, process, and product in anticipation and response to student differences in readiness,interest, and learning needs. According to Tomlinson

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Embedded System Design

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mouna Nakkar, University of Sharjah

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Electrical and Computer

fundamentals of Digital Logic Design as well asadvanced knowledge of systems and interface. Teaching a board's interface with severaldifferent peripherals is not an easy task. The matter gets worse with the increase of flexibility ofembedded chips. The more features added to the chip, the more difficult the teaching process.Perhaps, the most effective way to teach SoC is through laboratory and well guided tutorials7-12C. Design project and guided tutorialThis paper offers a tutorial design project which is geared towards junior and senior students.The project is implemented on Altera DE2 board13. The project is offered in three phases. Thesephases reflect three design steps of embedded systems: digital logic design and implementation

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

, students will become further challenged to calibrate their modelsand check the accuracy of the results. “Even though information technology is a powerfulreality, an indispensable, rapidly developing, empowering tool, computers do not contain theessence of teaching and learning, which are deeply human activities. So we have to keep ourmeans and ends straight” 4. With the inevitable increase in the use of computers in engineeringapplications, a solution to this problem of inaccurate modeling is quickly needed.A unique laboratory exercise was recently developed to address the problem of inaccuratemodeling. Senior undergraduate students in their terminal analysis course were challenged withthe task of predicting the natural periods of vibration of a

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Rabb, United States Military Academy; Andrew Biaglow, United States Military Academy; David Chang, United States Military Academy

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

engineering curriculum necessitated incorporation of controls engineeringcoursework in their program of study. An existing dynamic modeling and controls courseexisted between two departments: electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. With theintroduction of chemical engineers in the course, the chemical engineering specific lessons aretaught by a chemical engineering instructor. This organizational structure is important, allowingthe multidisciplinary faculty team to synchronize their efforts, bringing their individual strengthsand resources together for the course to promote student learning. The instructors engage inmeaningful dialogue concerning their assignments, lesson preparations, laboratory exercises, andtheir results. The

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention in Engineering Technology Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donald Richter, Eastern Washington University; William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University; Jason Durfee, Eastern Washington University; Terence Geyer, Eastern Washington University

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Engineering Technology

class, excused absences will not be counted. This class is structured as fourhours of lecture per week. Professor 2 teaches the same class with attendance is taken with adaily sign-in sheet. The attendance policy includes a penalty for missing class. The policy asstated in the course syllabus is: “Missing class will have a very negative impact on your finalgrade for the course. Three to five unexcused absences will reduce your course point total by10% and six or more unexcused absences will reduce your course point total by 25%.” From this,you will notice that a significant harmful outcome on the student’s final course grade resultsfrom repeatedly missing class.TECH 320 Non-Metallics, uses a lecture/laboratory mode of instruction. Professor 4

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Workplace Concerns, Realities, and Intangibles

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Craig Gunn, Michigan State University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

surveys of these incoming freshmen finds some startlingrevelations. Comments range from, “I will never have to write again,” to “I’m going to be anengineer and that means NO English!” We realize that with a little thought from thesestudents on the reality of life in the world of engineering will ultimately change thisperspective. But it is an incoming group that sees engineering in a different light from thefaculty and academic staff. It is important, therefore, to make every effort to juxtapositionthe teaching of the necessary technical material with those skills that will make an engineerboth suited for the real world technically and fully capable of communicating his or herengineering expertise to a waiting public.Obviously it is important to

Conference Session

Two-Year/Four-Year Articulation and Cooperation

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christal Wade, Western Kentucky University; Andrew Ernest, Western Kentucky University; Jana Fattic, Western Kentucky University; Karla Andrew, Western Kentucky University

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Two Year College Division

AC 2009-1731: WATER/WASTEWATER TECHNICIAN TRAINING INSTITUTE:THE FIRST YEAR RETROSPECTIVEChristal Wade, Western Kentucky University Ms. Wade holds a Master of Science Degree in Biology from Western Kentucky University. She began working in the WATERS Laboratory as an undergraduate in 2004 and accepted full-time employment as a laboratory analyst upon graduation in 2006. Ms. Wade currently holds certification under the Kentucky Microbiological Laboratory Certification Program and is an EPA Approved Principal Cryptosporidium Analyst under the Long-Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule. She manages both the Microbiological and Cryptosporidium programs at the WATERS Lab. Ms. Wade

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New Trends in CHE Education II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sundararajan Madihally, Oklahoma State University

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Chemical Engineering

ofgrant post-award.2. Safety Demonstrations. In the seminar series, one topic commonly addressed in mostgraduate programs is the laboratory safety. Typically, the laboratory manager or instructorresponsible for undergraduate teaching laboratory performs the safety instructions. Graduatestudents are reminded about the importance of material safety data sheet, safe experimentalpractice and waste disposal constraints within the organization. However, addressing the samecomponents every semester may not be an effective methodology, particularly for residentgraduate students. Further, there are a number of safety issues one has to consider and oneseminar may not be sufficient to address all the components with ever changing global issues.For example

Conference Session

Research and Education in Radiation and Radiologic

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erich Schneider, University of Texas, Austin; Steven Biegalski, University of Texas, Austin; David Hearnsberger, University of Texas, Austin; Sheldon Landsberger, University of Texas, Austin

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Nuclear and Radiological

Engineering Teaching laboratory andespecially the TRIGA research reactor. The Institute will therefore serve its students intwo critical ways: it will expand their experiential knowledge base in ways not possible attheir home institutions, making them more attractive and accomplished candidates foremployment or graduate studies, and it will heighten student interest in, and awarenessof, careers within the nuclear industry where their talents are sorely needed.We view this aggressive program as the kick-off for a prestigious, recurring Institute thatwill serve a very large body of students who do not have access to facilities comparableto those of the Nuclear Engineering Teaching Laboratory. In particular, we are excited toreach out to institutions

Conference Session

Freshman Experience in Engineering Technology

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Niaz Latif, Purdue University, Calumet; Akram Hossain, Purdue University, Calumet

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Engineering Technology

the faculty members. SOTalso provided graduate teaching assistants at both locations to help the faculty members with theSDD pertaining to laboratory work and assignments. The teaching assistants helped with thecourse delivery in content area and related laboratories including the collection of hard copies ofthe assignments. The graduate assistants also helped with communication between the facultymembers and the students.To improve the quality of visual presentation at the remote locations, two Polycom cameras wereinstalled at the remote location (Figure 1b). The Document Camera and the Tablet PC were usedto show or demonstrate supplemental instructional and laboratory materials. One faculty memberextensively used the text book. The document

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Colin D. Paul; Melinda B. O'Neil; W. Roy Penney; Bernard J. Van Wie; Paul B. Golter; Robert R. Beitle; Edgar C. Clausen

method for teaching freeconvection,10 and the use of an integrated experimental/analytical/numerical approach that bringsthe excitement of discovery to the classroom.11 Supplemental heat transfer experiments for usein the laboratory or classroom have also been presented, including rather novel experiments suchas the drying of a towel12 and the cooking of French fry-shaped potatoes.13 Suggestions for theintegration of heat transfer material into the laboratory and classroom have been described byPenney and Clausen,14-20 who presented a number of simple hands on heat transfer experimentsthat can be constructed from materials present in most engineering departments. This cross-course integration of course material has been shown to be a very

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ying Tang, Rowan University; Linda Head, Rowan University; Ravi Ramachandran, Rowan University; Lawrence Chatman, Camden County College

University, Glassboro, New Jersey. She completed her Ph.D. studies in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of South Florida, Tampa in 1991. Her research interests include materials reliability for VLSI interconnects, rapid wafer-level test design, test structure development and noise characterization of materials and devices for integrated circuitsRavi Ramachandran, Rowan University RAVI P. RAMACHANDRAN is a Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ. His research interests include digital signal processing, speech processing and pattern recognition. He teaches systems and control, signal processing, speech processing, adaptive filters

Conference Session

Aerospace Workspace: Current and Future 2

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Guerra, NASA; John A. Christian, University of Texas, Austin; Wallace Fowler, University of Texas, Austin

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Aerospace

the students was thelead systems engineer for the in-house satellite build project, called Texas2Step, sponsored bythe Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). An added bonus to the pilot class was theparticipation of the capstone design professor, as well as a graduate teaching assistant with aMaster’s degree in aerospace engineering from Georgia Tech with an emphasis on SystemDesign and Optimization. The participation of all these many perspectives provided continuousimprovement on the course content and delivery. {Note that current offerings of the SE Courseare available to all students in the space track of the aerospace engineering degree program.}The SE Course content is based on numerous systems engineering handbooks and primers fromNASA1