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Curricular Issues in Computer-Oriented Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley State College; Floyd Wilkes, Utah Valley University; Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University

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Information Systems

paper, we present the reactions of the students whoparticipated in this process.2. Teams of TwoAs part of a junior level computer science database theory class (CS 3520) students wereorganize into teams of two. Each team selected a project from a list of projects providedby the instructor (see Figure 1). Team 1: Employee Database Team 2. Bank Database Team 3. University Database Page 14.1090.2 Team 4. Patient Database Team 5. Recipe Database Figure 1. Projects SelectedFor the first phase of the project

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Our Future in Manufacturing: STEM Outreach

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Terence Fagan, Central Piedmont Community College

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Manufacturing

difficult” cannot be ignored. Now is the time for those in industry andacademia to find opportunities that change this stigma and offer a more positive outlook on theengineering industry. This paper addresses a service learning project that involved first yearMechanical Engineering Technology and second year Graphic Design students collaborativelyworking on “How To” delivery systems that would engage middle and high school students.Some of the projects included comic books on “How to Modify an Xbox 360” and videos andpamphlets on “How To Build a Car Stereo,” which encourage them to work with theirhands. The novelty of the delivery systems, coupled with more age-appropriate and interestingprojects, introduce middle and high school students to the

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Beneficial Case Studies in AEC Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Betz, State University of New York

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Architectural

students and facultyagree on levels of creativity when they see it, regardless of a set definition and without facultystating their opinions during the design and critique process. Students were asked to apply anumber of architectural design concepts to a simple one-day design problem. They thencomparatively analyzed and critiqued the projects in group discussion that was moderated by thefaculty. Students were also asked to privately journal their observations and select withoutdiscussion a set number of the most successful projects in the class. Successful projects weredefined as ones that applied these concepts in a creative way to produce a solution. Theproblems were purposely left somewhat ill-defined with few constraints that allowed for a

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dorene Perez, Illinois Valley Community College; James Gibson, Illinois Valley Community College; Sue Caley Opsal, Illinois Valley Community College; Rose Marie Lynch, Illinois Valley Community College

holds a Ph.D. in English from Ball State University. Page 14.294.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Building an Engineering Technology Workforce: A Plan for Reaching Young People, Adults and Women“Building an Engineering Technology Workforce: A Plan for Reaching Young People,Adults and Women” is a comprehensive recruiting project to increase the number ofpeople who prepare to enter engineering and engineering technology careers. Withsupport from an Advanced Technological Education grant from the National ScienceFoundation and guided by research in career selection, the project addresses the barriersthat

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Entrepreneurship Education: Assessment and Integrating Entrepreneurship into the Curriculum

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric Johnson, Valparaiso University; Mark Budnik, Valparaiso University; Doug Tougaw, Valparaiso University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

graduates to become entrepreneurs. Even for those with a more conventionalcareer path, entrepreneurial skills and an entrepreneurial way of looking at problems will helpthem to maximize their professional success.Of course, practically all engineering programs are already overloaded with critical learningobjectives ranging from highly technical skills to highly interpersonal and communication skills.As a result, it can be a great challenge to find an opportunity to incorporate even a small amountof entrepreneurship into an existing engineering curriculum.The authors present an ongoing effort at their university to integrate entrepreneurial projects andmodules directly into required ECE courses in all four years of the curriculum. The effort

Conference Session

Signal Processing Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Birmingham, Grove City College

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Computers in Education

AC 2009-2169: MULTIDISCIPLINARY SENIOR DESIGN USINGSOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIOWilliam Birmingham, Grove City College Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Chair of Computer Science Department, Grove City College Page 14.895.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Multidisciplinary Senior Design Using Software-Defined RadioAbstractMultidisciplinary projects involving electrical engineering (EE) and computer science (CS)students are both exciting and difficult to create. We have created a year-long project based onsoftware-defined radio (SDR). The combination of software and hardware makes SDR

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Exemplary Outreach Programs in Engineering Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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L. Diane Hurtado, Texas A&M University; Andrew Conkey, Texas A&M University, Qatar; Thomas Blasingame, Texas A&M University; Christi Madsen, Texas A&M University; Cesar Malave, Texas A&M University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

a career choice, and 2) encouraging them to pursue a baccalaureatedegree in engineering at our university. In summer 2008, an evaluation was collected at the endof each of three camps. This paper will discuss the general strategy of the camp, provide anoverview of the experiential learning projects, and report evaluation results from admissions dataand surveys collected from summer 2008 camps.In all of the recruitment programs for the college, great effort is made to attract traditionallyunderrepresented groups, including African Americans, Hispanics, and women. A large part ofour recruitment plan involves the use of targeted high-achieving majority-minority schools.These schools were heavily recruited for participants in the camps. A total

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SE Curriculum and Course Management

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Stansbury, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

projects is challenging. Ideally, everystudent would work toward the project goals with an equal level of effort resulting in all studentsin the course sharing the same final grade for the project. Unfortunately, this is not realistic. Inthis paper, a number of approaches to student assessment including peer and leader evaluation,ranking systems, etc. are discussed. Based on some of these ideas and the goal of providingstudents with frequent feedback, a new assessment approach for the computer and softwareengineering senior design course at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is presented, whichutilizes rubrics to judge each student’s personal contribution and frequent delivery of theassessment so that students may iteratively improve their

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Professional Graduate Education and Industry

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Roger Olson, Rolls-Royce Corporation

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Graduate Studies

Career (Master of Engineering degree), Mid Career (Doctor ofEngineering degree), and Senior Career (Engineering Fellow degree). The centerpiece of this model is itsfocus on technology development projects. These are projects of significance to the engineer’s companyand are expected to be either part of or an extension of his or her assigned tasks. This paper will discussthe way these projects foster a synergism between innovative technology development and theprofessional growth of the practicing professional engineer in this educational model and how they mightvary with the educational level / professional development of the practicing professional engineer.2. Innovative Technology Development and Engineering PracticeThe professional engineer

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Software Engineering Teaching Techniques

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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J. Scott Hawker, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

separately identifiedand addressed. As the organization matures, additional roles and specializations are separatedout and addressed, such as project management, architecture design, and quality assurance.We are now seeing an additional, distinct role in maturing software development organizations:Software Process Engineer. In some organizations, the task of defining the software process(process engineering) and tracking its execution is the responsibility of the project manager. Inother organizations, a quality assurance organization defines a process for a project, and theproject manager tracks its execution. Regardless of the organization or person assigned the role,though, it has become useful to separate the activities of process engineering

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Innovation in Construction Engineering Education II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lingguang Song, University of Houston; Sang-Hoon Lee, University of Houston; Junshan Liu, Auburn University

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Construction

-Hoon Lee, University of Houston Dr. Sang-Hoon Lee is an Assistant Professor of Construction Management at the University of Houston. His research, teaching and consulting are in the areas of construction engineering and management, quantitative methods, construction finance management, construction safety, and information technology. He has taught courses in Construction Management I & II, Construction Finance Management, Cost Analysis and Bidding, Quantitative Methods for Project Management, Construction Safety, Reinforced Concrete Construction, Soil Mechanics and Foundation, Structural Steel &Timber Construction, and Strength of Construction Materials. His most recent research

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Aerospace Workspace: Current and Future 1

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Debbie Mullins, Texas Space Grant Consortium; Wallace Fowler, University of Texas, Austin

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Aerospace

students tospace-related problems and careers as they work toward solving a NASA mission-relevantdesign objective. Participating students work as part of an engineering design team under theguidance of a faculty advisor and alongside a dedicated workplace mentor to solve a “real-world” problem identified and provided by NASA. Over the course of one or two semesters,each team simultaneously secures funding for their individual project and satisfies course creditrequired for graduation.The opportunity to engage in substantive student research is the hallmark of the program’s effortto encourage and prolong student interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)related academic studies and careers. A measure of success is assured for all

Conference Session

Using Information Technology to Create New Information Resources

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patricia Kirkwood, University of Arkansas; Michael Culbertson, Colorado State University; Esther Crawford, Rice University

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Engineering Libraries

AC 2009-925: ROUNDING UP THE COLLECTION: THE STORY OF TRAILDIGITAL CONTENT COLLECTIONPatricia Kirkwood, University of Arkansas Patricia is the Engineering and Mathematics Librarian at the University of Arkansas. A member of the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) TRAIL project since 2006. Currently she is the chairperson of the Collections Group.Michael Culbertson, Colorado State University Mike is the Engineering College Liaison Librarian at Colorado State University's Morgan Library. its implications for libraries." with Allison Mike is currently developing a study to look at how diverse populations use virtual reference services and developing a project to digitize the

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Capstone and Senior Design in Engineering Technology

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janak Dave, University of Cincinnati; Janet Dong, University of Cincinnati

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Engineering Technology

Rechargeable Electric VehicleAbstractThere is a need to improve the efficiency and reduce tailpipe emissions while maintaining theaffordability of vehicles that are currently used for daily commuting. As petroleum depositsdwindle, automobile populations soar, gas prices inflate and cities become choked withcombustion emissions, the internal combustion engine (ICE) is increasingly becoming the victimof its own success. Assuming that private automobiles continue to be a vital link in modernsocieties, they must become cleaner and more energy efficient.Students working toward a baccalaureate degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology at theUniversity of Cincinnati are required to complete a “Design, Build, and Test” Senior CapstoneDesign Project. During

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janak Dave, University of Cincinnati; Janet Dong, University of Cincinnati

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Design in Engineering Education

Rechargeable Electric VehicleAbstractThere is a need to improve the efficiency and reduce tailpipe emissions while maintaining theaffordability of vehicles that are currently used for daily commuting. As petroleum depositsdwindle, automobile populations soar, gas prices inflate and cities become choked withcombustion emissions, the internal combustion engine (ICE) is increasingly becoming the victimof its own success. Assuming that private automobiles continue to be a vital link in modernsocieties, they must become cleaner and more energy efficient.Students working toward a baccalaureate degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology at theUniversity of Cincinnati are required to complete a “Design, Build, and Test” Senior CapstoneDesign Project. During

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics V

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

including Boeing, JetBlue, VHA, HomeAid America, and the U.S. Navy in areas such as needs assessment, testing, evaluation, process analysis, and instructional design.Mary Raber, Michigan Technology University Mary Raber currently serves as Associate Director for the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies and Director of the Enterprise Program at Michigan Technological University. This program focuses on undergraduate technical and professional skill development by providing a multidisciplinary team environment in which students address real-world projects for industry, community and government organizations. Ms. Raber has overseen the implementation and growth of the Enterprise Program at

Conference Session

Collaboration, A Cool Tool: Librarians/Faculty/Students Work Together for Quality Results

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dana Denick, Drexel University; Jameson Detweiler, Drexel University; Cody Ray, Drexel University; Andrew Cebulski, Drexel University; Jay Bhatt, Drexel University

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Engineering Libraries

2006-2007. He is the 2003 recipient of Drexel University's Harold Myers Distinguished Service Award. He is actively involved with the Engineering Libraries Division of the ASEE. Page 14.850.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Library-Smart House Collaboration for Information Literacy DevelopmentAbstractThe Library-Smart House partnership seeks to design and implement a sustainable, virtualenvironment for collaboration that will seamlessly integrate project communication andinformation access. This virtual environment will provide a means for increased

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Building Diversity in Engineering Graduate Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ali Ansari, Virginia State University; Jahangir Ansari, Virginia State University; Krishan Agrawal, Virginia State University

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Minorities in Engineering

the program and the lesson that was learned during the first year.IntroductionIn 2006, Virginia State University (VSU), America's first fully state supported four-year institutionof higher education learning for African Americans and one of the seventeen 1890 Land-GrantInstitutions, was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation under the HBCU UPprogram to increase the numbers of STEM graduates from an average of 70 to over 105 per yearwithin five years. This project is a comprehensive four-phase STEM program that includes (1) anUndergraduate Bridge (UGB), (2) Course Structure Reform activities (CSR), (3) Student andFaculty Enrichment (SFE) components and (4) a Graduate School Bridge (GSB). Phase one isdesigned to attract, prepare

Conference Session

New Trends in CHE Education I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin Dahm, Rowan University; William Riddell, Rowan University

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Chemical Engineering

Page 14.1205.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 THE EFFECT OF IMPROVEMENTS IN SOPHOMORE DESIGN INSTRUCTION ON PERFORMANCE IN SUBSEQUENT COURSE OFFERINGSAbstractThe chemical engineering curriculum at Rowan University includes a team-taught,multidisciplinary sophomore course sequence called Sophomore Engineering Clinic I and II,intended to teach engineering design and technical communication. Prior to 2005, SophomoreClinic I featured a semester-long design project. The faculty team made substantial changes tothe course in the Fall of 2005 to address various shortcomings in student achievement of thecourse goals. The new course design featured a 4-week project intended to introduce students tothe

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ibibia Dabipi, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Christopher Hartman, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; James B. Burrows-Mcelwain, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

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Design in Engineering Education

) platform. The primary design requirement of the projectwas the need for the parachute system to be able to deploy in the event ofcommunications malfunction, loss of control or any other critical failure that couldimpact the safety of persons or property on the ground. Project requirements stipulatedthat the design focused primarily on safe, successful recovery of the given airframe.Team members were given the opportunity to suggest alternative materials or changes indesign that may yield increased performance benefits for future prototypes.Students utilized a model Piper Cub and were able to meet the minimum designspecifications articulated by the customers. The aircraft would fly with a suitable centerof gravity (CG) and could manually deploy the

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Stephen Beck; Joshua Brent; Thomas Brown; Agostino Cala; Eniko T. Enikov; Richard Lucio

introductory engineering class is to present engineering as an exciting and welcomingfield of professionals who work together to solve problems. An introductory engineering classthat lacks creativity, teamwork and encouragement often fails to inspire students and may turnsome away from engineering. This paper describes a modern approach to team-based learningand peer teaching in the context of an introductory course for freshmen engineering students.More specifically, the use of LEGO NXT© construction kits was tested as tool to enhance theexperience of group projects. LEGOs are approachable, intuitive and have application innumerous construction projects. The low cost, reusability, and availability of a variety of sensorsfor LEGO kits make them ideal

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Innovation in the Civil Engineering Classroom

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bradly McNair, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Suleiman Ashur, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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Civil Engineering

AC 2009-2401: GEOMETRIC DESIGN OF HIGHWAY VERTICAL ANDHORIZONTAL CURVES USING EXCELBradly McNair, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort WayneSuleiman Ashur, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne Page 14.647.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Geometric Design of Highway Vertical and Horizontal Curves Using ExcelAbstractThis paper presents the work that was developed as a project in the first offering of thetransportation engineering class at the new civil engineering program at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. The project statement required the use of Excel in developing aprogram for

Conference Session

New Learning Paradigms I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Duffy, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Carol Barry, University Massachusetts Lowell; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Manuel Heredia, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

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Educational Research and Methods

engineerAbstractIn the fall of 2004 a college with five undergraduate academic programs decided to integrateservice-learning (S-L) projects into required engineering courses throughout the curriculum sothat students would be exposed to S-L in at least one course in each of eight semesters. Theultimate goal is to graduate better engineers and better citizens. Four of the degree programshave achieved on average one course each semester, with an actual coverage of 103 out of 128semester courses, or 80% coverage over the four years. Of the 32 required courses in theacademic year that had an average of 753 students each semester doing S-L projects related tothe subject matter of the course, 19 of the courses (60%) were considered engineering science,that is, not

Conference Session

Design Communications

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Ekwaro-Osire, Texas Tech; Peter Orono, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Design in Engineering Education

undergraduate students. In order to effectively enhance creativity, tools have to bedeveloped to map it. Here an attempt will be made to differentiate team creativity fromindividual creativity. Individual creativity here will relate to the process of generating ideas onthe basis of learning types and brainstorming techniques. Team creativity will relate to theadditional creativity, which is generated through synergy and team dynamics. In this study, theauthors extended the use of design notebook used in design project to research notebook used ina research project on the selection of freshman design projects. For the research notebooks, acoding rubric will be constructed that is used describe and quantify the creativity instances thatoccur in the

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Emerging Information Technologies

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Gilbert, Iowa State University; Pam Shill, Iowa State University; Kevin Saunders, Iowa State University

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Information Systems

, interface design, human computer interaction, ethics, and graduate life. For theremaining time, students conduct interdisciplinary research projects in groups of three. Eachgroup is mentored by graduate students in the Human Computer Interaction Graduate Programunder the supervision of HCI faculty. The five research projects are presented at an end-of-thesummer campus-wide research symposium in the form of posters, demos, and a five-pageresearch paper. This REU Site benefits from strong institutional support and mechanisms forrecruitment, mentoring and long-term retention that are particularly effective at targetingunderrepresented groups in science and engineering.This analysis offers the reader key insights into building an REU experience that

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Hall, Louisiana Tech University; Mark Barker, Louisiana Tech University; James Nelson, Louisiana Tech University

Full Implementation for Over 400 First-Year Engineering StudentsAbstractTwo years ago a robotics-centered sequence of three first-year engineering courses wasexpanded to include all beginning engineering students as part of an NSF CCLI grant. Theobjective of this course sequence is to immerse students in a skill-based, project-drivencurriculum that builds creativity and a can-do spirit. Students purchase a Parallax BASIC Stampcontroller, sensors, servos, and software to provide the basis for a mobile laboratory and designplatform; this mobile platform, which is owned and maintained by the students, provides amechanism for boosting experiential learning to a level that would be difficult to achieve usinguniversity

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gregory Bucks, Purdue University; William Oakes, Purdue University; Jeffrey Richardson, Purdue University

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Electrical and Computer

leadershipskills. The younger students are integrated into real engineering projects earlier in their careersgiving them a genuine engineering experience that serves to address retention challenges facingmany engineering programs. A challenge, however, is creating projects that both challenge theolder students and allow the younger students to participate. At Purdue University, verticallyintegrated teams are brought together to address the needs identified in the local community.LabVIEW tools are utilized to allow the younger students to get up to speed on the projects andparticipate in areas such as data acquisition, data analysis, and microcontroller programming.This paper describes how the vertically integrated teams are formed, provides an overview of

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Innovative Methods to Teach Engineering to URMs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

ongoing CCLI-Phase I Project funded by NSF. He has led the new course module development for CCLI-Phase I project and integrated its pilot implementation in his course at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at JSU.Gordon Skelton, Jackson State University Dr. Gordon W. Skelton is an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at Jackson State University (JSU). He is the founder and director of Center for Defense Integrated Data at JSU. He is involved in research on wireless sensor networks and intelligent decision systems. His current research includes Disaster Response Intelligent System. He serves as the freshmen advisor and the instructor for the freshmen entry-level

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Design for Society and the Environment

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zesheng Chen, Florida International University; Erik Pazos, Florida International University; Darian Garcia, Florida International University; Dayron Garcia, Florida International University; Julio Duharte, Florida International University

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Design in Engineering Education

Harvesting Control PanelAbstractReducing high energy consumption and costs is imperative and significant to our daily life. Inthis paper, we describe a capstone senior design project that develops an efficient energy-savingsolution. The solution is called the GreenLite system and consists of two components: a self-adjustable solar tracker panel and a light harvesting control panel.The solar tracker panel tends to maximize the absorption of solar power. Specifically, the solartracker panel can adjust itself automatically to the direction where the panel is directly facing theSun. To achieve this, the component employs photo-sensors to measure the irradiance of the Sunand to provide the feedback signal on the current position of the panel. The

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mukasa Ssemakula, Wayne State University; Gene Liao, Wayne State University; Darin Ellis, Wayne State University; Kyoung-Yun Kim, Wayne State University; Shlomo Sawilowsky, Wayne State University

’ – BASED MANUFACTURING EDUCATION1. IntroductionThe Learning Factory (LF) model was first developed as part of the TRP/NSF fundedManufacturing Engineering Education Partnership with the goal of developing a practice-basedengineering curriculum that balances analytical and theoretical knowledge with integratedphysical facilities for product realization in an industrial-like setting1-2. The model has beensuccessfully implemented in several other institutions3. However, full implementation of the LFmodel can be expensive. In 2002, Wayne State University was awarded an NSF grant to developan adaptation of the LF model that would be less costly to implement. This goal was achieved byintroducing the use of coordinated hands-on projects