Collection

2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Mir M. Atiqullah

demand for composites engineers the engineering andtechnology graduates need to be knowledgeable in the field, if not develop some level of expertise, beforethey graduate from college. Traditional materials science/engineering course can accommodate only anoverview of composites. In the absence of a dedicated composites course a special project course or aresearch project on composites could be a supplement to the standard materials course. During thesummer of 2007, two minority students were awarded scholarships from Peach State Louis StokesAlliance for Minority Participation (PSLSAMP) to do undergraduate research. These students alreadycompleted their regular engineering materials course and were assigned to the project of performing

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Mir M. Atiqullah

demand for composites engineers the engineering andtechnology graduates need to be knowledgeable in the field, if not develop some level of expertise, beforethey graduate from college. Traditional materials science/engineering course can accommodate only anoverview of composites. In the absence of a dedicated composites course a special project course or aresearch project on composites could be a supplement to the standard materials course. During thesummer of 2007, two minority students were awarded scholarships from Peach State Louis StokesAlliance for Minority Participation (PSLSAMP) to do undergraduate research. These students alreadycompleted their regular engineering materials course and were assigned to the project of performing

Conference Session

The Use of Computers in Teaching Mathematics

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jayathi Raghavan, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Leslie Sena, Bethune Cookman College; Hong Liu, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; David Bethelmy, Bethune Cookman College

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Mathematics

concepts through basic ideal examples typically found in textbooks. Eachsubsequent module in that level will slowly relax unrealistic assumptions, thus increasing thenumber of related variables and ultimately resulting in a problem close to real world application.Thus, within a given level, module sets contain modules that vary in complexity and abstractionfrom simple and concrete to complex and highly abstract. The final module at the expert levelwill be comparable to a capstone course project requiring complex modeling for solving a real-world application.One of the pedagogical requirements for module development is that the module be inquirybased and introduce problems, and sub problems, by posing questions. The module will thenguide students

Conference Session

Innovations in Computer Engineering Technology Curriculum

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University; Alaa E. Abdel-Hakim, Michigan Technological University

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Engineering Technology

) Page 13.387.4More courses need to be added to the curriculum to create Computer Engineering TechnologyFocus area. The CpET curriculum will enjoy the addition of five new technical courses to the coreof EET. The new focus area will be structured in 127 credit hour similar to the current EET degreerequirements. The CpET focus area will be allocated twenty-six (26) hours out of the sixty-eight(68) Electrical Engineering Technology major which represents the core of the EET and includesix hours of capstone senior project implemented in two semesters. Appendix A details thedescription of each individual new course.Table 2 shows the CpET required courses detailing the number of credit hours per each class, thenumber of weekly hours meeting for both

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Richardson, Purdue University

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Computers in Education

outside work at home, since they have thedevelopment board. This also allows the students to be able to utilize these boards forother course projects and can significantly aid in capstone project courses.Having the students buy their own development boards can significantly add cost to thesecourses. To ensure that the students are spending their money wisely, we have turnedtowards a decision matrix to help ensure that we are utilizing the best platform for thesecourses and the future courses that the students may take.Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP):Analytical Hierarchy is a well known process of evaluating and making decisions basedon requirements. The exact process to be under taken is beyond the scope of this article.However, the general

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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Peg Pankowski

skills in a groupenvironment”, now lists the following assessment methods: Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering Education • “Ethical practices are emphasized throughout the course of study and student actions (academic practices and honesty) are continuously observed and corrected during academic instruction • Students assist in the completion of group projects and receive satisfactory participation grade from peers • Students must display ethical and interpersonal skills during group presentations • Results of individual group assignments and peer comments will be

Conference Session

Challenges of CE Education in a Global World

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy; C. Conley; Richard Gash, United States Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

are U.S. Military Academy faculty members who deployed to Afghanistanin the spring and summer of 2007 to establish the new program at NMAA. In this paper, wedescribe our processes, products, and lessons learned. Although the situation in Afghanistan isunique in many ways, the lessons we learned there are nonetheless applicable to engineeringcapacity-building projects elsewhere in the developing world as well.BackgroundEarly in 2003, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defense and the U.S. Army’s Office of MilitaryCooperation – Afghanistan (OMC-A) agreed to jointly establish a military academy that wouldprovide the newly created Afghan National Army with a capable, well-educated officer corps.1After considering a variety of different institutional

Conference Session

Sustainable Design & Global Issues in ET

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jerome Tapper, Northeastern University; Francis Dibella, Northeastern University

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Engineering Technology

-cells and DC machines, three-phase AC machines, Induction machines,Regenerative braking, Permanent Magnet Machines and Switched Reluctance Machines. Itstudies electric drive components, the EV transmission configuration and EV motor sizing.Students are required to complete a design project relative to EV and/or HEV design.Bio-technology and Bio-engineering PillarMeasurement and Analysis: Introduces students to mechanical measurements, instrumentationand experiment data. The principles developed in class are applied in the laboratory andtechnical report writing is required. Team based Laboratory experiments utilize statisticaltechniques in mechanical measurements of temperature pressure, force, deformation, strain, androtational

Conference Session

Engineering in the Elementary School

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edmond Saliklis, California Polytechnic State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

students thoroughly digest the material at hand and create newmeans of presenting the subject matter and then to act as teachers in a classroom setting withchildren. We also found motivation from the study of Elton et al.2 who sought to demonstrate“some interesting and mysterious, but explainable experiments” to a K-12 audience. The keymotivator here was the term “explainable,” we really did not want anything to come across asrandom or inexplicable. The overall structure of our research project, and its credence as asenior capstone project focused on research questions that were similar to Moskal et al.3, namely“how are children impacted by an outreach program”?, and “how are the college students andfaculty impacted by the outreach program”?. We

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Gad J. Selig

Improvement • Electronic Commerce • Entrepreneurship & New Venture Creation • Finance & Accounting for Managers • Environmental & Energy Management • Health Care Management & Administration • Leadership, Teams and Managing Change • Information Technology Management • Global Program and Project Management • Manufacturing Management • New Product Development & Commercialization • Business Policy and Strategy – Capstone and/or • Program

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Gad J. Selig

Improvement • Electronic Commerce • Entrepreneurship & New Venture Creation • Finance & Accounting for Managers • Environmental & Energy Management • Health Care Management & Administration • Leadership, Teams and Managing Change • Information Technology Management • Global Program and Project Management • Manufacturing Management • New Product Development & Commercialization • Business Policy and Strategy – Capstone and/or • Program

Conference Session

1553 FPD3 - Computer & Programming Tools in First Year Instruction

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Robertson, Arizona State University; Sarah Roux, Arizona State University; Vivek Ramanathan, Arizona State University; Mark Rager, Arizona State University

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First-Year Programs

Perspectives on a Freshman Treatment of Electronic SystemsAbstract.The conventional approach to curriculum design is that students start with the basics of scienceand math and gradually progress towards a realistic integration of all their engineering skills in asenior capstone project. That approach is now challenged by changes in the assumed boundaryconditions. Students no longer progress through the program in lock-step. Electronicsapplications have evolved far beyond the components level and many cross-disciplinary skillsare needed. Finally, all students require a level of communications, team-working, trouble-shooting and representational skills that take a long time to mature so it is too late to wait till thesenior year to introduce them. The

Conference Session

Assessment of Engineering Technology Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Esteban Rodriguez-Marek, Eastern Washington University; Min-Sung Koh, Eastern Washington University; Claudio Talarico, Eastern Washington University

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Engineering Technology

achievement of the programeducational outcomes. These outcomes are further connected to standardized assessment criteria Page 13.326.2provided by accreditation boards. A case study will be presented for the B.S. in ComputerEngineering Technology (CET) at Eastern Washington University (EWU). Expected benefits ofthe application of the proposed method are threefold: 1. Increased student ownership of learning objectives. 2. More cohesive and relevant set of class activities (i.e. tests, homework, laboratory experiments, projects, etc.). 3. A uniform program-wide way of assessing program outcomes against a set of accreditation criteria

Conference Session

SE Curriculum and Course Management

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Scott Hawker, Rochester Institute of Technology; Ian Webber, Rochester Institute of Technology; Michael Starenko, Rochester Institute of Technology; Jeremiah Parry-Hill, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

management system. This paper provides abackground of our vision and then presents our current system implementation, our initialexperiments and results, and planned next steps.Background - ProblemStudents and instructors are challenged to manage course content and integrate it across thecurriculum. For example, a student might take five courses a semester over eight semesters – 40courses. Especially for the courses in the student’s major, the content of these courses are relatedto content of previous courses, building on and integrating prior learning. Further, within a givencourse, there are numerous lectures, exercises, exams, and projects that interrelate. When astudent gets to their senior capstone design experience, they need to draw upon all

Conference Session

Non-Technical Skills Build Success in ET

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maren Henry, University of West Georgia; Eric Granlund, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona

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Engineering Technology

transmission system. Althoughthe current results indicate a need for much revision, the authors are encouraged tocontinue developing a set of lesson plans and assessment tools that can be implementedin ME writing-intensive courses. They hope this project will empower non-Compositioninstructors teaching writing intensive courses by giving them specific teaching tools,which these instructors can add to their repertoire.References 1. Granlund, E. and Sohail A. A project-based capstone engineering design course for associate degree Mechanical Engineering Technology students. ASEE Mid- Atlantic Section Conference; 2006 April 27-28; Brooklyn, NY. 2. Mott, Robert. Machine Elements in Mechanical Design. Fourth edition. Upper Saddle River

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Roger Chapman Burk

to understand the importance of the basic logicalstructures they were taught, and they did not understand the usefulness of the modeling techniques. Theintegrative group project in the third course was often too simple to really require the systems engineeringtechniques they were taught. On the other hand, the problem had to be simple because the students didnot have the skills to tackle a complex problem. The author found in one case in which a group wasintroduced to a problem that was clearly beyond them, and then given some basic modeling techniques toaddress its basic features, their level of interest increased markedly. Meanwhile, the author was advisinga team of engineering majors working on a capstone project for NASA’s Marshall Space

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Roger Chapman Burk

to understand the importance of the basic logicalstructures they were taught, and they did not understand the usefulness of the modeling techniques. Theintegrative group project in the third course was often too simple to really require the systems engineeringtechniques they were taught. On the other hand, the problem had to be simple because the students didnot have the skills to tackle a complex problem. The author found in one case in which a group wasintroduced to a problem that was clearly beyond them, and then given some basic modeling techniques toaddress its basic features, their level of interest increased markedly. Meanwhile, the author was advisinga team of engineering majors working on a capstone project for NASA’s Marshall Space

Conference Session

Public Engineering of Engineering, K12 Standards, and Overview

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tylisha Baber, Michigan State University; Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

virtual design space and test them against the force of gravity. The purpose of theSodaConstructor computational environment is to emulate one particular aspect of engineeringdesign, the design-build-test (DBT) cycle[10]. DBT is an iterative process through whichengineers develop and evaluate design alternatives[11]. In each iteration of the cycle, engineersdesign a solution to a specified problem, build a prototype of the proposed design, and then test Page 13.499.3the prototype to determine its potential effectiveness. The DBT concept has been used inundergraduate engineering laboratories and in capstone senior design projects [12, 13]. Based

Conference Session

Industry and Engineering Technology Partnerships

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jaby Mohammed, Morehead State University; Sam Mason, Morehead State University; Xiaolong Li, Morehead State University

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Engineering Technology

, industrial training opportunities and Page 13.355.7course/program curriculum development. Benefits for the student side are far greater in numberwith opportunity to have industrial adjunct faculty to present real life scenarios in certainmanagement based courses. The Advisory Board is generating endowment money to supportscholarships to IET students and they support equipment donation in areas of need. The mostimportant is cooperative education placement. This usually results in greater possibility of futurefull-time employment and helps develop topic areas for their Senior Project capstone course. TheAdvisory Board now supports the teaching, research

Conference Session

Professional Skills and the Workplace

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Johannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica Cardella, Purdue Engineering Education

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Educational Research and Methods

providing ataxonomy of problems with classes of attributes.Jonassen [2] proposed a classification of problems on a continuum between ill-structured andwell-structured problems. For well-structured problems, the parameters of problems are specifiedin the problem statement; they possess knowable, correct solutions that are determined bypreferred solution paths; and they apply a limited number of regular rules and principles that areorganized in a predictive and prescriptive arrangement [2]. The kind of problems most oftenencountered in engineering education programs (except for capstone and assorted designexperiences) is the story (word) problem, which is well structured. When learning to solve storyproblems in engineering, students learn to

Conference Session

Fostering and Assessing Effective Teaming

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Roach, University of Texas-El Paso; Elsa Villa, University of Texas-El Paso

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Educational Research and Methods

learning. Original PLTL workshops have six essential components26: (1) ThePLTL workshop is integral to the course; (2) faculty and peer leaders work together to prepareworkshops and train peer leaders; (3) peer leaders are well trained; (4) workshop materials arechallenging and at an appropriate level; (5) organizational arrangements promote learning; and(6) the department administration encourages innovative teaching. In the standard setting, a peerleader works with six to eight students during weekly workshop sessions. The peer leader meetswith the same students each week.Our approach to PLTL is modeled after a successful HP-funded project in the UTEP Departmentof Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) that targeted a gatekeeper course in the

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Michael Khoo, University of Southern California; Ellis Meng, University of Southern California

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Electrical and Computer

. In addition to pre and post test (summative) data that they are nowcollecting resulting from our baseline results and reform efforts, the faculty researchers will becollecting and analyzing formative assessment data (ESAs) throughout the project to enable themto make just-in-time revisions to the curriculum throughout the reform/research process. Figure1 (below) describes the ERC’s powerful performance system that formatively and summativelymonitors the progress and success of curriculum reform. The performance assessment has beenconstructed using embedded signature assessments. Past attempts of measuring the performanceof BME students have relied on a single senior-level capstone design course and end-of-coursesurveys. The faculty

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Javier Paez Saavedra; Lina Margarita Prada Angarita

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International

summer courses; increasingknowledge of others cultures through exchange programs, lectures, special lectures and othermulti-cultural activities.The Universidad del Norte has a special interest in achieving international accreditation2 withone of the agencies of the US. For this reason it has advanced the respective contacts and theinternal preparation. Particularly in the Engineering College, the strategy of internationalizationgoes back to 1993, when seeking to have international projection, the college looked for theABET accreditation (Substantially equivalent that was offered to the programs of engineeringout of the US) which was achieved in 1996, and it was renewed in 1999. Unfortunately, thetravel warning for Colombia mentioned by the

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Research

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Lambrechts, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Environmental Engineering

precipitation intothe ground by itself can be the complete answer to the problem of preservation of wood piles, butit is a vital part of the solution. Student senior design capstone project in 2005 investigatedmeans for recharge of precipitation, and environmental aspects of using surface runoff for a fourblock neighborhood in the South End. It was also determined necessary to include a perimetercut-off barrier through the Fill stratum to retain the recharged water. The project was presentedto a group of City and State representatives who have since authorized $2 million for actualinstallation of the cut-off barrier that would essentially create a groundwater “bath tub”.The possible drawdowns caused by groundwater withdrawals into leaking low lying

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Controls Laboratories

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yanfei Liu, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne (Eng)

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

2008 to fix the problem.2. These experiments expose you to a way how data acquisition is done in real industrial applications. If not, please elaborate. The average rating for this question is 4.3.3. These experiments are reasonable in content and length. If not, how can we improve it? The average rating for this question is 4.6From the assessment result, we can conclude that the students are very satisfied with theseexperiments. In addition one of the students who took this course in the fall of 2005 used asimilar PCI DAQ board manufactured by Measurement Computing in his capstone project todesign and build a Software Controlled Radio. The experiments in this course provided him withimportant knowledge for his senior design

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Bradshaw, U.S. Naval Academy; Jack Nicholson, U.S. Naval Academy

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Computers in Education

upgrades and algorithm enhancements inthe field via in-circuit programming, enhancing its longevity as a useful educational tool. Inaddition, a variety of controllers or a personal computer (PC) can communicate with the INUboard through a standard RS-232C serial interface. This compact unit provides good systemperformance at a reasonable cost compared to most commercially available units. These featuresenable hands-on education techniques in the navigation aspects of robotics, examples of whichare presented.IntroductionA significant amount of work in robotics is done in the USNA Systems Engineering Department,with autonomous vehicles in particular. Such ABET accredited engineering programs require a“capstone” design project for graduation, and

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

David J. Palazzo; Chad C. Schools

Department of Physics has introducedPC-based video analysis as a means of enhancing both our interactive lecture curriculum and ourintroductory physics laboratory program. The impetus to implement video analysis focused on three keycapabilities; the capability to analyze physical phenomena which are more familiar to cadets, thecapability to create educational links between the classroom and the dorm room, and the capability tofacilitate a more interactive classroom.Method In the Fall of 2006, video analysis was introduced as a capstone laboratory project for the NewtonianMechanics course. Based on the feedback from this initial implementation, video analysis was used fortwo separate laboratories in the Fall 2007 Newtonian Mechanics course and

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

David J. Palazzo; Chad C. Schools

Department of Physics has introducedPC-based video analysis as a means of enhancing both our interactive lecture curriculum and ourintroductory physics laboratory program. The impetus to implement video analysis focused on three keycapabilities; the capability to analyze physical phenomena which are more familiar to cadets, thecapability to create educational links between the classroom and the dorm room, and the capability tofacilitate a more interactive classroom.Method In the Fall of 2006, video analysis was introduced as a capstone laboratory project for the NewtonianMechanics course. Based on the feedback from this initial implementation, video analysis was used fortwo separate laboratories in the Fall 2007 Newtonian Mechanics course and

Conference Session

Curricular Developments in Energy Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University; Ian Gravagne, Baylor University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

AC 2008-1474: ENERGY AWARENESS EFFORTS AT BAYLOR UNIVERSITYKenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University Dr. Van Treuren is a professor on the faculty in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Baylor University. He teaches the capstone Mechanical Engineering Laboratory course as well as courses in heat transfer, aerospace engineering, fluid mechanics, and wind power. His research interests include energy education and literacy and gas turbine heat transfer. He can be contacted at Kenneth_Van_Treuren@baylor.edu.Ian Gravagne, Baylor University Dr. Gravagne is an assistant professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Baylor University. He teaches the Engineering Design II

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ying Wu, Iowa State University; Qingze Zou, Iowa State University; Stephanie Culter, Virginia Commonwealth University; Kam Leang, Virginia Commonwealth University; Gina Pannozzo, Virginia Commonwealth University; Santosh Devasia, University of Washington

AC 2008-814: MODELING AND CONTROL OF SMART ACTUATORS:INTEGRATING NANO/BIO TECHNOLOGY INTO THE ME CURRICULUMYing Wu, Iowa State UniversityStephanie Culter, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityQingze Zou, Iowa State UniversityGina Pannozzo, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityKam Leang, Virginia Commonwealth UniversitySantosh Devasia, University of Washington Page 13.900.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Modeling and Control of Smart Actuators: Integrating Nano/Bio Technology into the ME CurriculumAbstractA recent projection noted that over 7 million jobs will be created in the nano and bio-related fieldworld wide by 2015. The expected growth of