Conference Session

At The Institutional Level

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Judy Loveless-Morris, University of Washington; Priti Mody-Pan; Robert Embrey, Highline Community College; Kali Kuwada, Seattle Central Community College; Marisela Mendoza, Columbia Basin College; Robert Olsen, Washington State University; Eve Riskin, University of Washington

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Women in Engineering

Community College Robert Embrey is the Project Manager for the NW Engineering Talent Expansion Partnership at Highline Community College.Kali Kuwada, Seattle Central Community College Kali Kuwada is a Counselor for engineering at Seattle Central Community College.Marisela Mendoza, Columbia Basin College Marisela Mendoza is the NW Engineering Talent Expansion Site Coordinator at Columbia Basin College.Robert Olsen, Washington State University Dr. Robert Olsen is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Student Services and Boeing Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering within the College of Engineering and Architecture at Washington State University. He is a principal

Conference Session

Materials Education Perspectives

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rajiv Asthana, University of Wisconsin-Stout

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Materials

, 2008 Writing a Book on the Role of Materials Science in Manufacturing for Instruction and Research: Lessons LearnedAbstractIn 2006, the author and two colleagues published a materials science book that tried to integratebasic elements of processing science and manufacturing technology from a materials scientist’sviewpoint. The book project essentially evolved as a scholarly experiment designed to 1) addressopportunities and challenges faced over a decade of instructing students from diverse disciplines,and 2) create a cross-over instructional resource that emphasized the solid role of materialsscience in manufacturing for use chiefly by students of engineering studying manufacturingprocesses and materials science. The goal

Conference Session

Accreditation Issues

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University

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Mechanical Engineering

world news. More specifically, if contemporary issues pertain to thediscipline of engineering, students will do little to maintain their knowledge apart from what isdiscussed in the classroom context. In reality, this topic must be more intentionally interjectedinto the curriculum to show application of engineering principles.Two categories of courses come to mind that should adequately support “soft” outcomes. Onesuch course would be a senior capstone design course. Berg and Nasr discuss such a course.1 Itis true that the capstone design course should be the pinnacle of an engineering program, wherestudents are able to integrate all aspects of their education into a challenging project. It is anatural place to discuss topics in the

Conference Session

Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harpal Dhillon, Excelsior College; Salahuddin Qazi, SUNY Institute of Technology; Sohail Anwar, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona College

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2008-1519: MITIGATION OF BARRIERS TO COMMERCIALIZATION OFNANOTECHNOLOGY: AN OVERVIEW OF TWO SUCCESSFULUNIVERSITY-BASED INITIATIVESHarpal Dhillon, Excelsior College Dr.Harpal Dhillon is currently the Dean of the School of Business and Technology at Excelsior College. In the past, he has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Information Systems, Software Engineering, and Project Management at University of Maryland, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, and George Washington University. Dr.Dhillon worked as owner/senior executive in three systems engineering companies over a period of 20 years. His research interests are in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction, Quality Assurance, and

Conference Session

Anything New in the Mechanics of Materials?

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rani Sullivan, Mississippi State University; Masoud Rais-Rohani, Mississippi State University

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Mechanics

conducting experiments using the BTS whereas those in the control group only performed theanalysis part. Based on the performance of the two student groups on a common exam problem,the experiential learning is found to have a positive impact. Moreover, the students’ responses toan anonymous survey indicate that the students in the experimental group generally showed ahigher degree of satisfaction with the class projects than those in the control group.IntroductionEngineering education in the early to mid twentieth century relied heavily on the use of physicalmodels and experiments to enforce the topics covered in an engineering course. However, overthe years, this important practice was deemphasized as hands-on activities were reduced andrelegated

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics III

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Godfrey, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Todd Taylor, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Corinna Fleischmann, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Daniel Pickles, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Engineering Ethics

instructors of each major’s seniordesign capstone project began holding multi-disciplinary “Engineering Ethics Lunches”.Students and faculty form small groups during scheduled lunches to discuss specificethical topics related to the engineering profession. The discussions are based uponassigned readings and suggested talking points developed jointly by the faculty.Afterwards, the students are required to submit essays reviewing their discussions andanswering an ethical question based upon the topic.Now in its fourth semester, the multi-disciplinary ethics lunches have receivedoverwhelmingly positive feedback from both the instructors and students. This paperwill discuss the format of the multi-disciplinary ethics discussions, the type of

Conference Session

Methods & Techniques in Graduate Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rebecca Brent, Education Designs Inc.; Richard Felder, North Carolina State University

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Graduate Studies

A Professional Development Program for Graduate Students at North Carolina State UniversityI. Introduction The traditional engineering graduate school experience involves taking courses, selectinga dissertation or thesis advisor and project, performing the research under the advisor’ssupervision, and completing and defending the dissertation. Such an experience trains graduatestudents to carry out research on a problem someone else has defined and gotten funded. It doesnot, however, prepare them for anything else they might be called upon to do in graduate schooland in their professional careers, including: • Teaching assistant responsibilities. Grade assignments, projects, and tests; supervise laboratories

Conference Session

FPD4 - Teaching Methods for First Year Students

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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J. Roger Parsons, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Rachel McCord, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; J. Elaine Seat, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Thomas Scott, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

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First-Year Programs

profession could lead to the neglect of the human side of projects,an undervaluing of the opinions of the “feelers” on the work team, and a lack of emphasison explaining and selling projects to the public, because “the logic speaks for itself.” Shepoints out that intuitive students have an advantage over sensing students on standardizedaptitude tests commonly used for college admissions, and this extends to all timed teststhat are conceptual or symbolic in nature. Intuitives experience learning as rapid leaps ofinsight, while sensors emphasize thoroughness of understanding, and work in a slower,more linear fashion. An important conclusion of this first study was that people reachtheir potential when their profession requires them to use the

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Unique Approaches

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shawn S Jordan, Purdue Univeristy; Robin Adams, Purdue University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

13.1.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 “…A Good Imagination and a Pile of Junk”AbstractThe engineering workplace is placing more emphasis on teamwork in interdisciplinaryenvironments, out-of-the-box thinking, creative engineering, and brainstorming. These skills aretaught to varying degrees in standard engineering curriculums, and often the most fruitfulopportunities exist for students to learn in venues outside of the classroom.This paper will show how building Rube Goldberg machines is a fantastic way for learners fromvarious disciplines to get hands-on project experience in a team environment. Intensebrainstorming and work sessions result in inventive and unique machines that are fascinating forboth

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2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

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Carl Liu, Brooklyn Technical High School; Lili Ma, New York City College of Technology

work was conducted as a research project during the 2021 STEM Research Academy Summer Internship sponsored by CUNY-New York City College of Technology. 1 Fall 2021 Middle Atlantic Conference November 12-13, 2021Introduction/Background Information Robotic manipulators have been widely used in the industry performing repetitive tasks. Our work investigated the inverse engineering of the C12XL robot. The performed analyses and derivations help for the design of other robotic manipulators of similar kind.Usage of DH convention to assign frames and

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2003 GSW

Authors

Jeanne M. Gerlach; Bill D. Carroll

the design and production of systems.11. The beginning engineering teacher understands how students learn and develop engineering designand analysis skills and concepts, and uses this knowledge to plan, organize and implement classroominstruction and laboratory experiences to meet curricular goals.12. The beginning engineering teacher is able to create, guide, and manage classroom, field, andlaboratory activities to enable students to undertake quality hands-on project-based activities in a safe,creative environment. Table 2. Knowledge and Application Requirements for Standard 2The beginning engineering teacher integrates math, science, engineering, and other knowledgeto the solution of engineering problems.Knows and understands

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2008 GSW

Authors

Carol Costello; August Allo

Electrical Engineering senior-levelcapstone design class required for graduation from the University of Texas at SanAntonio (UTSA). Evolved over a period of several semesters as a recitationenhancement to the course, these workshops complement the engineeringprofessionalism, business, and project management aspects of the engineering designclass with scientific writing, professional oral presentations and teamwork / interpersonalskills to simulate the engineering workplace. The positive impact of the series of 12weeks of classroom work and individual counseling has been documented by significantimprovements in confidence recorded by the students themselves on entry and exit self-evaluations questionnaires and by the increase in professionalism of

Conference Session

Educational Software

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cameron Wright, University of Wyoming; Michael Morrow, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Mark Allie, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Thad Welch, Boise State University

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Computers in Education

to outreach activities,we also use these real-time DSP tools in several of our regular ECE courses.In the capstone design course ECE 468, “Computers in Control and Instrumentation,” winDSK6is used as an example of an appropriate student project outcome. The student projects must uti-lize the DSK6713 which includes the HPI daughtercard. The winDSK6 program is also used todemonstrate some of the DSP software that the students need to write for their projects. The audioeffects, FIR and IIR filter routines, and the scope/spectrum analyzer are used as a reference for thefunctionality of the project code. The audible effects of aliasing and quantization noise are alsodemonstrated in class using winDSK6.In ECE 330, the first signals and systems

Conference Session

Emerging Issues in Engineering Education Research and Pedagogy

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ann McKenna, Northwestern University; Robert Linsenmeier, Northwestern University; Matthew Glucksberg, Northwestern University

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Educational Research and Methods

computational decisionsthat arise when developing solutions. To address these issues we have created a classroom andassessment activity modeled after the IPL approach. The overarching pedagogical goal is tobetter prepare students to apply computational (or disciplinary) knowledge as appropriate fortheir particular design project. Page 13.288.7The method, including instruction and assessment, that we have designed is shown in Figure 2. IPL couplet 1. “Invention” activity: students review 2. Direct instruction: in-class previous teams’ report and generate list

Conference Session

Advancing the Global Capacity for Engineering Education Research: A Year of International Dialogue

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jack Lohmann, Georgia Institute of Technology; Erik De Graaff, Delft University of Technology

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International

from Virginia Tech is serving as the principal ethnographer forthe initiative. The project has received IRB approval.Conference ScheduleThe past and future international engineering education meetings in which sessions have beenheld or are planned, including the session chairs and speakers, are the following.1 ＿ 1st SEFI-IGIP 4 Joint Annual Conference, 1-4 July 2007, Miskolc, Hungary Session Chairs: Jack R. Lohmann, Editor, JEE; Jean Michel, Editor, EJEE Speakers: Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech, USA; Erik de Graaff, Delft University of Tech- nology, The Netherlands; P.K. Imbrie, Purdue University, USA; Anette Kolmos, Aalborg University, Denmark2 ＿ 6th Global Colloquium on Engineering Education 5 , 1-4 October 2007

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K12 Teachers

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Pelletier, Northern Essex Community College; Lori Heymans, Northern Essex Community College; Paul Chanley, Northern Essex Community College

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

has been determined, the energy (kw-hr) for each Page 13.1003.7appliance can be calculated. Energy is the amount of power used in a given time.An excellent design project was the follow up to the energy and power activity. Theparticipants, working in pairs, were instructed to calculate “A Modern Kitchen’s CarbonFootprint.” The teachers designed their modern kitchen by choosing and listing theelectric appliances they would like to have. Their assignment was to determine thekitchen’s lighting scheme and wattage of various kitchen household appliances. (A list ofappliances and wattage ratings was provided). Once they knew their appliances andwattage

Conference Session

Using Technology to Enhance Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Parthum, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Educational Research and Methods

creation of the transparency be firstmaking a paper document and then copying to a transparency is time consuming. An alteration to lecturenotes contained on a transparency may require modification to the original paper document and then re-creating the transparency. It has been attempted to create transparencies that would have spacesincorporated so the instructor could add comments/diagrams, etc. to the slide during a lecture. Thisrequired that the slides be cleaned off after each lecture. It was also attempted to project the transparencyonto a whiteboard and using a marker add comments, diagrams, etc. eliminating the need to clean thetransparencies, but still required writing on the whiteboard and erasing it. Ensuring that the sequence

Conference Session

IT-based Instructional Technologies

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Information Systems

Based UnitsIntel Education informs that:Authentic project work puts students in the driver's seat of their own learning. Itis important that instructors take advantage of curriculum developed by teachersin a large collection of Unit Plans that integrate technology. Models ofmeaningful classroom projects that integrate instruction in thinking skills alongwith tools and strategies for developing one’s own exemplary technology-supported learning are always encouraged. They focus on three areas:1. It is important to learn how project-based units can effectively engage students in meaningful work and promote higher-order thinking.2. It is necessary to see how questions and ongoing assessment keep project work focused on important learning goals

Conference Session

Assessment of K-12 Engineering Programs and Issues

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Debra Brockway, Stevens Institute of Technology; Elisabeth McGrath, Stevens Institute of Technology; Mercedes McKay, Stevens Institute of Technology; Dawna Schultz, Stevens Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

another chimes in “My dad’s an engineer and I never knew what it was and now Iunderstand what my dad does at work.” Or imagine an eighth grade class implementing anengineering unit where several students, characterized by their teachers as being disaffected, askpermission to bring their projects home so they can have more time to work on them. Forteachers in two New Jersey school districts, these are not imaginings; these are actualexperiences resulting from the introduction of engineering activities in their classrooms.As participants in the Engineering Our Future New Jersey (EOFNJ) Program, these teachers areamong the 2,400 elementary, middle, and high school educators in New Jersey who have beenintroduced to engineering concepts and curricula

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce Dunne, Grand Valley State University; Chirag Parikh, Grand Valley State University; Andrew Sterian, Grand Valley State University

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Electrical and Computer

interface. This configuration providesfor future flexibility in using the accelerometer to further introduce motion sensing andcontrol algorithms, either as abstract function calls to the ARM processor or directly inuser code written for the ATmega324P.Some of the circuitry, such as the RF transceiver and FPGA are not strictly necessarythough they do enable interesting laboratories and projects not directly related to controltheory, as well as provide the option of using this robot for other courses. It is entirelypossible, for example, to control the robot without an MW2 board and use the ARMprocessor for all functions, thus making this robot suitable for our senior-level course onmicrocontroller applications.PID ControlOur students employ PID

Conference Session

Integrating Computer-based Technology in the Civil Engineering Classroom

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ayhan Irfanoglu, Purdue University; Yating Chang, Purdue University

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Civil Engineering

initiate discussion bysuggesting a relevant topic or project.Besides the regular class-material based homework assignments, on average given every otherweek, completion of a term project on Istanbul, “Istanbul: the past, the present, and the future”,was a requirement to receive a passing grade in the course. The term project, with its separateparts on cultural history, seismic history, seismic hazard setting to be completed before theoverseas trip, and the state of the built environment of the city, estimation of the state of the builtenvironment immediately after a major earthquake in the near future, and mitigation andemergency-response recommendations, allowed the students with different levels of education topresent their understanding at

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eduardo Montanez, Freescale Semiconductor; Michael Norman, Freescale Semiconductor

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Electrical and Computer

of real, modern hardware to a curriculum. The ability to add student-created customhardware to an existing modular platform provides many options for a satisfying undergraduatefinal project or graduate level lab or research project.Software Development ToolsThere are several options when it comes to choosing software development tools to supportdevelopment on a Tower platform. The basic need is a compiler and debugger or an integrateddevelopment environment (IDE). CodeWarrior® Development Studio7 is a good option for anIDE. It supports most of the Freescale MCU and MPU architectures and offers a Special Editionversion that has some restrictions on object code size but is complimentary. Having freeprofessional tools available to outfit all

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering Education II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Muge Mukaddes Darwish, Texas Tech University T-STEM Center; Mary Frances Agnello, Texas Tech

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Construction

population ≠ Provide focal points for the increasing environmental awareness ≠ Coordinate GREEN engineering research projects that engineering professors and students from cross engineering and other related disciplines pursued independently in the past ≠ Provide GREEN perspectives for an interdisciplinary approach to students from a variety of disciplines ≠ Facilitate and advocate for sustainability issues in Engineering Colleges, through the university and the society at large ≠ Develop innovative interdisciplinary courses which can be taught through multi- discipline faculty(The Georgia Institute of Technology's Center for Sustainable Technology is an exemplarymodel to this approach.)Whole curriculum

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hetal Jasani, Northern Kentucky University; Wei Hao, Northern Kentucky University

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Electrical and Computer

systems), Computer Networks, and Operating Systems. Page 14.738.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Innovative Network Security Course DevelopmentAbstractNetwork security courses become increasingly popular in colleges (including communitycolleges) and universities. This paper discusses about developing the novel course of networksecurity using laboratory activities. It elaborates innovative projects that are suitable forlaboratory work in network security curriculum. It explores both hardware and softwarecomponents that are now being used for practical exercises in network security courses. Mostoften these

Conference Session

Measuring Success of Graduate Program Components

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Graduate Studies

gathering. It also encompasses essential functions of meaning-making,action, and commitment to improve. Absent any of these elements, the doing ofassessment becomes hollow. Ted Marchese, Senior Consultant at Academic Search,served 18 years as vice president of the American Association for Higher Education(AAHE) and was a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He isalso a trustee of Eckerd College and of the Transnational 21st Century LearningInitiative. While at AAHE he edited Change (higher education’s most-read magazine),the AAHE Bulletin, and directed a foundation-supported project that resulted in hiswidely praised publication, “The Search Committee Handbook.” Assessment as‘learning’ is not a third-party research project

Conference Session

Enhancing Recruitment and Retention in Engineering Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Systems Safety and Engineering Division. Page 14.1241.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 The Pre-Engineering Program Initiative of the National Defense Education Program—A Navy FocusAbstractThrough the Pre-Engineering Program (PEP) initiative, a part of the National Defense EducationProgram (NDEP), the Department of Defense (DoD) is mounting a nation-wide effort to assurethe viability of the nation’s future scientific and engineering workforce. Building on lessonslearned from the Navy-supported Virginia Demonstration Project (VDP) begun in 2001, the PEPwill grow to reach from coast to coast in 2010 when

Conference Session

Advanced Materials Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ajit Kelkar, North Carolina A&T State University; Ronnie Bolick, North Carolina A&T State University

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Materials

, strength etc. Furthermore, it is also stressed that the cost ofmaterials and manufacturing, is comparable to the parts that are being reengineered.Session 3: Reengineering of an actual engineering component made out of AluminumIn the lectures 1 and 2 of Session 3, a replacement for a typical aerospace part made out ofAluminum 2024- T3 is considered as a reengineering project. First students are provided withphysical properties of the aluminum and fiberglass/carbon composites. In general students followthe following procedure for reengineering the component using composite materials.Reengineering procedure≠ Tape properties are calculated using classical micro-mechanical theory for S-Glass fibers and Carbon fibers with Epoxy resin system

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eugene Ressler, United States Military Academy; Michael Miller, United States Military Academy; Christa Chewar, United States Military Academy; Jean Blair, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

addition to engineering education, his research interests include simulation and software engineering.Christa Chewar, United States Military Academy Dr. Christa Chewar is an Army Major and an Assistant Professor in the computer science program of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the United States Military Academy, currently serving as an engineer on a major software project in Virginia. Her research interests include human-computer interfaces in addition to engineering and computer science education.Jean Blair, United States Military Academy Dr. Jean Blair is a Professor of Computer Science and director of the computer science program of the Department

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arlen Planting, Boise State University; Sin Ming Loo, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

separately. The material has been developedto promote both a thorough understanding of microprocessors, and greater productivity thatallows students to do more intriguing and relevant projects. The course presents just enough C,at a very low level and in a specific topic order, to enable the students to better comprehendmicroprocessors and how they can control a broad range of devices. The updatedMicroprocessors course is currently in its fourth iteration.IntroductionThe C programming language is increasingly being utilized in development of embeddedsystems and ultra-small microcontrollers that were previously the domain of assembly language-only programming. Teaching assembly only in a Microprocessors course does not providestudents the skills they

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenny Mahan, University of Alabama; Jesse Huguet, University of Alabama; Joseph Chappell, University of Alabama; Keith Woodbury, University of Alabama; Robert Taylor, University of Alabama

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

. This paper reports on the second yearof an NSF CCLI Phase I project to implement a sequence of Excel modules for use in theThermal Mechanical Engineering Curriculum.A collection of Excel Add-ins has been developed for use in solving thermodynamics problems.This paper reports on development of three Add-ins to compute properties of refrigerants R134and R22 and to compute gas dynamics relations for isentropic, Fanno, and Rayleigh flows ofideal gases. All of the Excel Add-ins developed can be downloaded at the project websitewww.me.ua.edu/ExcelinME.IntroUnder a National Science Foundation (NSF) Curriculum, Classroom, and LaboratoryImprovement (CCLI) grant a number of software modules have been developed to facilitateengineering analysis in a