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- Current Topics in IE Education
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- Luis Rabelo, University of Central Florida; Ethling Hernandez, University of Central Florida; Lesia Crumpton-Young, University of Central Florida; Hamidreza Eskandari, University of Central Florida; Serge Sala-Diakanda, University of Central Florida; Sandra Furterer; Kent Williams, University of Central Florida
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level of 95% at least 50% of respondents believe that all desired characteristics,except complexity theory, are important professional attributes for the IE graduates. A significantproportion of respondents (more than 88%) believe that the first five characteristics areimportant. A Chi-square test has provided sufficient evidence to indicate that there is astatistically significant difference between industry and education perspectives in a few desiredcharacteristics. The industry put more emphasis than education on the leadership awareness andhuman dimension of management. Education put more emphasis than industry on the system ofsystems.Table 2: Statistical results on emerging topics
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- New Topics in Engineering Economics
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- Leslie Pagliari, East Carolina University; Gene Dixon, East Carolina University; Paul Kauffmann, East Carolina University; Merwan Mehta, East Carolina University
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them.Engineering Economy in Professional Master’s ProgramsProfessional masters students such as those in MS TS, MS OS, and MEM programs offer aunique perspective to educators. Since most of these students are working professionals in theDE program, they have strong opinions regarding the value of course topics for the near term inthe current job, and in the long term for their professional and personal development. As aresult, they judge the quality of course content, in large part, based on the likelihood ofapplication. For many students, these graduate programs will be the last formal educational step.Remaining career development will consist of non-credit and continuing education courses.Consequently, it becomes the instructor’s challenge to provide
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- Topics in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Education
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- Erich Schneider, University of Texas-Austin; Sheldon Landsberger, University of Texas-Austin; Steven Biegalski, University of Texas-Austin
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2006-1228: THE PIPELINE OF GRADUATE STUDENTS TO THE NATIONALLABORATORIESErich Schneider, University of Texas-AustinSheldon Landsberger, University of Texas-AustinSteven Biegalski, University of Texas-Austin Page 11.1318.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 The Pipeline of Graduate Students to the National LaboratoriesAbstractIt is well know that the national laboratories are in a critical situation to recruit "newblood" into its aging workforce. Competition for highly qualified U.S. students comesfrom both industry and the national labs. In the past several years we have activelypursued a strong collaboration with Los Alamos, Sandia, Oak Ridge, Idaho
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- ECE Poster Session
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- Peter Idowu, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg; Gordon Brinton, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg; Harley Hartman, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg; Scott Neuhard, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg; Resmy Abraham, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg; Eric Boyer, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg
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the Master of Engineering, Electrical Engineering program at The Pennsylvania State University – Harrisburg. Page 11.760.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Information Visualization Applied in Presenting some Fundamental Power Systems TopicsAbstractVisualization methods are widely credited for simplifying presentation of difficult subjects aswell as aiding cognition. Its use in the power engineering industry and education is enjoyingsignificant growth. However, developing visualization systems for fundamental powersystem topics is a time-consuming task. This paper presents a
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- Instrumentation and Measurements: Innovative Course Development
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- Sri Kolla, Bowling Green State University; Joseph Mainoo, Bowling Green State University
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. Page 11.642.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Fieldbus Networks Topic in Instrumentation and Control Systems CoursesAbstractFieldbus networks are digital, two-way, multi-drop communication links that are used to connectintelligent control devices. These are currently introduced in the industry to replace thetraditional 4-20 mA point-to-point connections. It is important to integrate fieldbus networkstopic in technology courses to align the curriculum with the current industrial practices. Thispaper, therefore, presents how the fieldbus networks topic is integrated into ECT 441Instrumentation and ECT 453 Digital Computer for Process Control courses in the Electronicsand Computer
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- Approaches to Emerging Topics
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- Ron Madler, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott; Phillip Anz-Meador, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott; Karl Siebold, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott
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, give an idea about the topics to becovered in previous lectures or courses.This example illustrates also theinterdisciplinary nature of most spacedebris related problems. Additionally theMATLAB programming language hasbeen successfully used during a classroomsetting for plotting the results in a graph.The code, which is generated by thestudents in a homework assignment issurprisingly simple, considering theresults it delivers. The above examplewas very well received in graduate levelphysics and space engineering classes atthe Universities of Houston/Clear Lake Figure 2.2and Colorado/Colorado Springs where thestudent clientele was mostly NASA/JSC Mission Operations employees. It also received a verypositive reception in
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- Building Communities for Engineering Education Research
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- Heidi Diefes-Dux, Purdue University; Robin Adams, Purdue University; Monica Cox, Purdue University; Deborah Follman, Purdue University
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Page 11.335.8interacting with upper-level administrators at the university were recommended activities. Also,engineering education faculty new to campus presented their programs of research, and speakersfrom various campus resources spoke on topics of interest to graduate students (Table 2).The SEMINAR course learning objectives are: COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVESAs a result of taking this course, the participants will develop the knowledge and skills to:1. Define my role in the engineering education community2. Identify and interact with members of the engineering education community at the local and national level3. Identify and utilize resources that will help me successfully complete my doctoral program4
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- Trend in Construction Engineering Education I
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- Ifte Choudhury
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include housing, alternative technology, issues related to international construction, and construction education. He teaches Environmental Control Systems at an undergraduate level and International Construction at a graduate level. Dr. Choudhury is also a Fulbright scholar. Page 11.473.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Development of an Undergraduate Program for Construction Education in Bangladesh using General Linear ModelAbstractThe purpose of the study is to develop an undergraduate curriculum for construction education inBangladesh. A standard Likert style survey instrument was
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- ABET Accreditation of Multidisciplinary Programs
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- Richard Helgeson, University of Tennessee-Martin; Edward Wheeler, University of Tennessee-Martin
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2006-987: PASSING THE FUNDAMENTALS OF ENGINEERING EXAMINATIONAS A GRADUATION REQUIREMENT IN A GENERAL ENGINEERINGPROGRAM: LESSONS LEARNEDRichard Helgeson, University of Tennessee-Martin Richard Helgeson is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Engineering Department at the University of Tennessee at Martin. Dr. Helgeson received B.S. degrees in both electrical and civil engineering, an M.S. in electral engineering, and a Ph.D. in structural engineering from the University of Buffalo. He actively involves his undergraduate students in mutli-disciplinary earthquake structural control research projects. He is very interested in engineering educational pedagogy, and has taught a wide range of
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- Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech
for Engineering Education, 2006 The Higher Education Job Market for Engineering Education Program GraduatesAbstractThe potential job market in colleges and universities is investigated for graduates of newcertificate, M.S., and Ph.D. programs in Engineering Education. Data sources include positionsposted to engineering education listservs over a recent one year period and an anonymous surveyof engineering academic deans. The results suggest that engineering education programgraduates will be competitive for a variety of staff and faculty positions in colleges and schoolsof engineering. However, availability of tenure-track positions will be limited, as a Ph.D. in thediscipline is generally required
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- David Wells, North Dakota State University
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2006-16: ON THE STRUCTURING OF THE GRADUATE ENGINEERINGDISQUISITIONDavid Wells, North Dakota State University David L. Wells has been a manufacturing engineer for over four decades, roughly equally divided between industrial and academic employment. He has been Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at North Dakota State University since January 2000. Prior to this appointment, he served in a manufacturing engineering and education post at Focus: HOPE for six years and on the faculty of University of Cincinnati for fifteen years. His early career included some twenty years in research and development, manufacturing engineering and production management in the power generation
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- Kenneth Ports, QTS, Inc.; Dennis Kulonda, Florida Tech; Clifford Bragdon, Florida Tech; Carmo D'Cruz, Florida Tech
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desire to preserve the frontier culture and a perception that wealth would flow fromknowledge. Austin’s educational infrastructure and entrepreneurial activity existed for decadesbefore the fast, self-sustaining growth occurred. It was Dr. George Kozmetsky who played a keyrole in the development of Austin as a high-tech mecca. Kozmetzky a founding faculty memberof the innovative Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Tech (later CarnegieMellon University) left academia to work for Howard Hughes and later to found the verysuccessful Teledyne Corp. In Austin, he became the city’s second god-father of entrepreneurship(after Dean Dr. Frank McBee of the University of Texas Business School), encouraging andinvesting in many new
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- Ricky Whittington, Morgan State University; Douglas McLennan, Goddard Space Flight Center; Guangming Chen, Morgan State University
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Engineering at Morgan State University and a research assistant in the NASA project. He received a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Morgan State University in May 2005. Page 11.752.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING COLLABORATION WITH NASA ST-5 PROJECT Ricky Whittington*, Guangming Chen** Morgan State University School of Engineering Department of Industrial, Manufacturing and Information Engineering Baltimore, Maryland 21251 (*Graduate Student; **NAFP Fellow and Contact Person
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- Improving ME education: Broad Topics
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- Renuka Thota, University of Louisiana-Lafayette; Suren Dwivedi, University of Louisiana-Lafayette
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. In this curriculum a course MCHE578 under special topics is being introduced where in product life cycle design; finding designsolutions using optimization technique; The students will gain fundamental knowledge on rapidproduct realization using rapid prototyping and virtual prototyping techniques, solid free-formfabrication and will learn the trade offs including part accuracy, build speed and materialcoverage among different fabrication processes. Practical skills such as STL file preparation, partslicing, and support generation can be gained. They will be provided with hands-on experienceusing commercial rapid prototyping machines. An opportunity to compare solid free-formfabrication with CNC machining in the making of physical parts
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- Amir Mobasher, Alabama A&M University; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo, Alabama A&M University
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feature to enhance retention rate at the sophomore level forconcentrating studies in engineering disciplines. Citing evidence of project oriented financialsupport for the students is an attractive technique for motivation. This motivation assuresstudents in multi task projects and thereby builds strength. This strength reflects students’learning and directs them towards completing their educational goals in engineering. In a truesense these potential graduates may involve in as many multidisciplinary tasks as they mayencounter in the working arena.RECRUITING STRATEGYEntering new freshmen as well as transfer students constitute big weight of the composition ofthe student body within a given program. It is therefore important to formulate a
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- Andrew Jackson, Texas A&M University-Commerce; Mary Johnson, Texas A&M University-Commerce; E. Delbert Horton
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: Industrial Operations Research courses, Industry Systems Design course and Engineering Management course. He has over 38 years experience in the product development and manufacturing, and intelligence systems development and integration for U.S. Government agencies and in academia. His experience includes various engineering development and management, and consulting roles at Electrospace Systems, E-Systems, Raytheon Systems and Stephen Meyers & Associates. Page 11.786.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Integrating Internal and External Stakeholders into a Successful
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- Richard Devon, Pennsylvania State University; Elizabeth Kisenwether, Pennsylvania State University; Richard Schuhmann, Pennsylvania State University; Robert Pangborn, Pennsylvania State University; Kim Barron, Pennsylvania State University
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Engineering Skills and Making Oral Presentations. In Table C, preparation in theseskills is perceived to be higher than importance. Therefore, Table C lists the skills that newgraduates feel they are over prepared in and the importance is relatively low compared to theskills listed in Tables A and B.Two observations can be made from Table C. First, the topic identified by graduates as being themost over-prepared is Using General Education Course Materials (AHS). However, some of theskills that the graduates identified as being under-prepared in Table A are those skills that shouldbe covered in the General Education Courses. Further, they are more likely to gain value fromthese courses as they advance in their careers. The other four skills in Table C
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- Jamie Workman-Germann, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Heather Woodward-Hagg, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
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Engineering Education, 2006 Implementing Lean/Six Sigma Methodologies in the Radiology Department of a Hospital Healthcare SystemAbstractIncreased focus is being placed on the quality of care provided by Hospital Healthcare Systemsaround the country. Caught in the middle between tightening government standards, strictercompliance guidelines for insurance companies, and the basic mission to serve those in needwith quality and compassion; hospitals are looking for ways to improve their processes (services)for the benefit of all.CT (Computed Tomography – CAT Scan) and MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) services inthe hospital radiology departments are revenue-generating areas. The reimbursement rates forthese services are very
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- Heidar Malki, University of Houston; Michael Gibson, University of Houston; Enrique Barbieri, University of Houston; William Fitzgibbon, University of Houston
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2006-2437: TOWARD AN INTERDISCIPLINARY GRADUATE DEGREE INTECHNOLOGYHeidar Malki, University of Houston Heidar A. Malki received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is a senior member of IEEE and associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. Dr. Malki was the general chair for the 1997 ASEE/GSW Conference and one of co-chairs of 1997 ICNN-IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks. Currently, he is Associate Dean for Research in the College of Technology and a professor in the Department of Engineering Technology at the University of Houston. His research interests are applications of neural networks
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- Andrew Jackson, Texas A&M University-Commerce; E. Delbert Horton; Mary Johnson, Texas A&M University-Commerce
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Engineering Dr. Johnson teaches the Introduction to Industrial Engineering course, System Simulation, Enterprise Analysis & Trends, and Manufacturing Systems. She has over 17 years experience in the manufacturing, aerospace industries, and in academia. Her experience includes various engineering, management, and consulting positions at Vaught Aircraft, the University of Texas at Arlington, and numerous manufacturing firms in the Dallas, Texas metroplex. Page 11.643.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 First-Time Accreditation: Lessons Learned from the
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- Joseph Flynn, The College of New Jersey
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contact! Students see grades as payment for time theyspend on the course. They feel cheated if they don’t get good grades regardless of how long theyactually work at it and how much they have learned. Exceptional students receive A’s. Butstudents who get into college have been told they are exceptional since the first grade. Thiscertainly warps the education plane. The administration is the sole provider of all good to bothfaculty and students. Faculty members do research to obtain grants to do more research. At firsttenure and promotion may be strong motivators, but as motivators they are self-limiting.Students go to graduate school to get an advanced diploma that converts to more pay.The one area where the ancient model is retained in the
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- Kim Needy, University of Pittsburgh
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prepared for its ABET visitin the fall 2005, it became apparent that its IE 1035 – Engineering Management course was aprimary course for satisfying ABET outcomes (h) the broad education necessary to understandthe impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context;(i) a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning; and (j) aknowledge of contemporary issues.4 IE 1035 is a semester-long, 3-credit, required course forIndustrial Engineers taken in their senior year. Specifically this course discusses modernengineering management theory as it applies to technical organizations. Topics include: themanagement process; project management; managing technical people; communications
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- Devin Stewart, National Academy of Engineering; Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering
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, and subsequent policy discussions, does not tacklethe questions that engineering education research seeks to address, in terms of understanding allrelevant aspects of systems of engineering education and, based on that understanding,modifying system parameters to increase the quantity and quality of engineering graduates. The concept of engineering education research, which seeks to understand and correctstructural deficiencies in our systems for teaching and learning, is largely unknown to mostmembers of Congress, so a key component to generating support for engineering educationresearch funding is informing the members as well as their staffs. The degree to which this is achallenge will vary member-to-member. Some members may be very
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- Manufacturing Education Program Innovation
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- Daniel Waldorf, Cal Poly State University; Sema Alptekin, Cal Poly State University; Robert Bjurman, General Motors Global Engineering
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, the process involved the following steps: 1) Define Goals: Broad objectives of the session were specified. 2) Collect Ideas: During this phase, the participants were asked to come up with ideas while deferring judgment. 3) Group Ideas: Ideas were grouped according to the objectives that they addressed. 4) Rank Ideas: Participants were asked to review and rank ideas according to perceived value and to vote for the best ideas in each topic area.Ideas addressing the future of manufacturing education generated from this process aresummarized and categorized in the following sections of this paper.MethodsSessions at the SME/CIRP international conference in San Luis Obispo were designed topromote discussion and idea-generation
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- Ken Vickers, University of Arkansas; Ron Foster, University of Arkansas; Greg Salamo, University of Arkansas
1 toan average of eighteen students over the last three Cohorts. In general, about two-thirds of thestudents in each Cohort enter in the fall semester. There is no negative curriculum impact to thestudents entering in January, so our history has been that about one third of the microEP studentsenter in the spring semester.This educational experiment was supported initially by a NSF small group research grant,followed by a 1999 NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) grantand a 2000 Department of Education Fund for Improvement of Post Secondary Education(FIPSE) grant. The microEP program has since won a three year NSF Research Experience forUndergraduate (REU) site and then five year extension, a five year NSF
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- Kim Shollenberger, California Polytechnic State University; James Widmann, California Polytechnic State University
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eight years at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, before joining the faculty at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, as an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Currently she teaches thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics. Her research is in the area of multiphase flows and computational modeling of thermal-fluid systems. Page 11.1168.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Student use of Textbook Solution Manuals: Student and Faculty Perspectives in a Large Mechanical Engineering DepartmentAbstractAnecdotal evidence
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- Carole Womeldorf, Ohio University-Athens
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public and conduct themselves honorably, responsibly, ethically, and lawfully so as to enhance the honor, reputation, and usefulness of the profession...” In this paper, rather than discuss the teaching of engineering ethics, the author will explore the significance of the “hold paramount” principle for engineering educators, the engineering curriculum, and its potential impact on public policy and the student body. How we teach engineering may in fact dominate the ethical and societal lessons we wish to teach. Questions explored include: How can one effectively and practically teach fundamental engineering concepts in a way that will equip our graduates to
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- John Denton, Purdue University; Grant Richards, Purdue University
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2006-973: REVIEW OF AN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY GRADUATECOURSE PROJECT TO DEVELOP UNDERGRADUATE COURSELABORATORY CURRICULUMJohn Denton, Purdue University John P. Denton is an Associate Professor for the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Department at Purdue University. His primary teaching responsibilities are electronic communications and advanced circuit analysis courses. He has won four outstanding teaching awards in ECET.Grant Richards, Purdue University Grant P. Richards is pursuing a Ph.D. in Technology at Purdue University focusing on the use of visualization technology in electromagnetic education. He currently serves as a Graduate Instructor for the Electrical and
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- Animesh Patcha, Virginia Tech; Glenda Scales, Virginia Tech
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Learning and Computing in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. She began her career working for the U.S. Department of Defense in Fort Meade, Maryland as a computer analyst. Dr. Scales served in a major leadership position at North Carolina A&T State University where she, along with the distance learning team, launched the University’s virtual campus. She has presented her research in Electronic Performance Support at national conferences, including a recent market research study on graduate distance learning programs for working engineers at the American Society for Engineering Education national conference. As the Associate Dean, Dr. Scales is leading the College in
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- Leonard Bond, Idaho National Laboratory; Robert Wharton, Idaho State University; Andrew Kadak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Kevin Kostelnik, Idaho National Laboratory
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. Page 11.1314.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 The new Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES)AbstractA secure and affordable energy supply is essential for achieving U.S. national security, incontinuing U.S. prosperity and in laying the foundation to enable future economic growth. Thenext generation energy workforce in the U.S. is a critical element in meeting both national andglobal energy needs. The Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES) was established in 2005in response to U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) requirements. CAES, located at the new IdahoNational Laboratory (INL), will address critical energy education, research, policy study andtraining needs. CAES is a unique joint partnership between the