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Gad J. Selig

offer courses inmany of the above areas. We also conducted a short survey of select UB engineering school graduatealumni, who were in the work force. They strongly supported and re-enforced the findings identified bythe CIBETL board organizations.In our TM program modernization efforts, we wanted to assure that the Master’s Program was designedto develop leaders adept at managing technology dependent organizations, technological change, andskilled in establishing and maintaining superior competitive advantage for their respective enterprises.The UB Technology Management Program was specifically designed to develop inter-disciplinary skillsand competencies in: the management of technology dependent businesses and enterprises, globalmarkets and

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Barrie Jackson

as Bhopal, Flixborough, and Piper Alpha and the current interest ingreen engineering this should be a topical issue in Engineering Education. The general public has becomemuch more sensitized to the issue of process safety as have law makers. Although not all our graduateswill end up in a process environment, this whole issue is something that we believe to be an essentialsubject for a Chemical Engineering education.Process Safety Management begins at the design phase and is a critical aspect of operating andmaintenance procedures. Many of the large international hydrocarbon processing industries have veryextensive on-going safety training for all their employees, both professionals as well as operatingpersonnel. There is always the concern

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Daniel J. McCarthy; Michael J. Kwinn

for Systems Engineeringand Management, Wiley Series in Systems Engineering, Andrew P. Sage, Editor, Wiley & Sons Inc.,2008Rogers, G., “Faculty Workshop on Assessing Program Outcomes,” ABET, Inc. Workshop, 2007,Baltimore, MD.Author BiographiesLieutenant Colonel Daniel J. McCarthy (US Army) is an Academy Professor in the Department ofSystems Engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He has a B.S. degree fromUSMA in Organizational Leadership and an M.E. degree in Systems Engineering from the University ofVirginia. He is currently completing his PhD in Management Science (System Dynamics) from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests include systems design, new productdevelopment, system dynamics

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Junichi Kanai

’ 6performance. It was also helpful in assessing students ability in terms of ABET’s program outcomes (b),(g), and (k).AcknowledgementsWe thank our industrial sponsors’ supports and participations in the projects. We also thank J. Stookeyand A.J. Lacomba (Dept. of ECSE) in managing the server. Our students, faculty, and staff provided themotivation and excitement for this study.References1. Steiner, M, Using Real-World Multidisciplinary Design Experiences to Prepare Young Engineers to Enter Today’s Workforce, The Changing Face of Design Education, Proceedings 2nd IEPDE Conference, Delft, the Netherlands, 2004, pp. 375-382.2. Dos Santos, B. and Wright, A., “ Using Bulletin Boards in an Educational Setting”, Communications of ACM, Vol. 49, No. 3

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Beena Sukumaran; Joshua Bonzella; Kevin McGarvey; Heather Klein

Teaching Engineering Design with a focus on the developing world Beena Sukumaran, Joshua Bonzella, Kevin McGarvey, Heather Klein College of Engineering, Rowan UniversityAbstractThe paper describes a program, Entrepreneurs without Borders and a project undertaken through theprogram. The program seeks to establish entrepreneurship opportunities for the developing world. Thiswill be done through student teams comprising both engineering and business majors at RowanUniversity. The engineering and business students perform a survey of local communities in thedeveloping world, identified as having a need for engineering skills by Engineers without Borders1.During this initial survey, the students

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Roy T.R. McGrann

courseMechanical Engineering Design (ME 392) and, in the senior year, by the two-semester capstone designsequence (ME 493/ME 494).Departmental Course Review Process and ABET AccreditationABET requires that accredited engineering programs show that their graduates attain certain abilities,understandings, knowledge and recognitions. These characteristics are listed in the document Criteriafor Accrediting Engineering Programs 4 and are commonly referred to as “3(a-k).” As stated in thecriteria: “Engineering programs must demonstrate that their students attain: (a) an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering (b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data (c) an ability to

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John Hartke; Robert Kewley; Greg Kilby; Greg Schwarz; Gunnar Tamm

, theUS Army Space and Missile Defense Command, Lawrence Livermore NationalLaboratory, Textron Defense Systems, and the Army Research Office. Without the supportof these organizations this project could not have been as successful as it was.5. References[1] The Solid State Heat Capacity Laser (SSHCL) Program at LLNL; R.M. Yamamoto, J.M. Parker et al.,LLNL, June 2005.[2] “Systems Engineering Design Process for a High Energy Laser Military System,” CDT MatthewBeigh, presented at Directed Energy Systems Symposium, Monterey, CA, (Mar. 2007).[3] “A Physics Model Input to High Energy Laser Design Parameters,” CDT Juan Noda, presented atDirected Energy Systems Symposium, Monterey, CA, (Mar. 2007).[4] “Heat Management for a High Energy Laser Military

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computer programs are available for the structural analysis of a pavement such as ELSYM,BISAR, and ILLIPAVE. However this program is suitable for eliminating tensile stresses in granularlayers by stress transfer method. Moreover this program is tailor made for analyzing runway pavementsmaking it user friendly. Thus the demand for time and energy for learning initialization process of otheradvanced software is eliminated.Students have successfully used this program for not only designing the runways but also optimizing theirdesign by simulation. The power of simulation of the program enhanced the students’ learning of runwaydesign by providing them a feel for the large ranges of weather, load and material conditions that exist inthe country

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Peter Thomas Tkacik

teamsagainst each other. The result is that participation in labs exceeds the requirements by a great margin.The Motorsports program is a focus area in the Mechanical Engineering department and the students willgraduate with a Mechanical Engineering degree. However, while they are at school they are intenselyengaged. UNC Charlotte has a Race Shop, (Motorsports Lab), and large numbers of students are foundthere every evening working on cars and working on homework.Bibliography 1. Kowalski, S., Landman, D., Simpson, J., 2003 “Design of Experiments Enhances Race Car Performance,” Scientific Computing and Instrumentation, June 2003. 2. Jim Woodward, “University strives to keep pace with motorsports”, Charlotte Business Journal, April 21

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Rashmi Jain; Keith Sheppard; Elisabeth McGrath; Bernard Gallois

Promoting Systems Thinking in Engineering and Pre-Engineering Students Rashmi Jain, Keith Sheppard, Elisabeth McGrath and Bernard Gallois Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, New Jersey, 07030 AbstractThe context of engineering is one dominated by systems. In order to better prepare graduates with asystems perspective and the competencies to be effective in system design, we discuss initiatives topromote the development of systems thinking, both in undergraduate and K-12 communities. This paperdescribes vertically-integrated curriculum innovation, in which graduate-level coursework spawned apilot program to embed

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Bahram Nassersharif

simulations of virtual models, environments, and processes. The centerprovides a unique laboratory/classroom environment for immersive interaction with models,environments, data, and processes in engineering and the sciences. The center merges teaching andresearch activities into a powerful discovery environment in which faculty and students share a problem-solving tool for exploration of any subject using methods that are impossible in a physical laboratory.The first course that will be implemented in the classroom is our freshman engineering problemsolving/programming course using Matlab.The different phases of design and implementation of this very sophisticated classroom as well as the firstsemester teaching and learning experiences in this new

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Roger Chapman Burk

science, literature, and history, as well as onrockets, orbits, launches, re-entries, spacecraft subsystems, and human factors. The focus was on whatwould be needed for routine interplanetary and interstellar manned spaceflight, but we also covered theimportant considerations for current space operations. The intent was that at the end, the students wouldnot be in a position to start designing a space ship, but they would understand why they are designed theway they are. The author found that this course was excellent for its purpose. It excited interest instudents otherwise uninterested in engineering. The variety of topics demonstrated a wide selection ofengineering methods and concepts, and also provided variety and kept interest alive. Weekly

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Imin Kao

analysis are used as an assessment tool to evaluate the effectiveness ofintegrating podcast to teaching. This pedagogical tool for asynchronous teaching and learninghas recently been employed in the online engineering program in the State University of NewYork (SUNY) at Stony Brook.Index Terms – Assessment, Asynchronous learning, Online courses, Video Podcast.1. IntroductionMillennial students grow up with exposure to technology and are quite adapted to live withtechnologies, including their products and benefits. As a result, they are also pushing, andperhaps challenging, faculty to expand their technical horizons. Both students and faculty todayhave available to them many technologies that did not exist a decade ago. Such technologies canprovide

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Paul G. Ranky

-size video iPod videos.Our solution enables students to explore and analyze real-world processes,requirements, risks, 3D simulation, statistical analysis and design of experimentcases, following an analytical, 3D interactive multimedia approach. Wedemonstrate our method as applied to industrial engineering science,engineering management, design and manufacturing engineering, qualitycontrol, biomedical engineering, computer systems, networking subjects, andothers, with the aid of a generic architecture. In terms of our basic methods, wedeploy web-browser readable multimedia, text, images, interactive videos, 2Dand 3D animations, active code for calculations, simulation programs, and evenself-assessment tools.Our educational and computational

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Yiming (Kevin) Rong

graduate level, is designed togive the students the opportunity to gain cross-cultural experience while working on a professionalproject, as well as to develop an appreciation for the host country. The objective of the establishment ofthe Senior Project Center in Mechanical Engineering to provide WPI and HUST senior students anopportunity for international engineering research experience. 1 WPI is well known by its “two towers tradition” of focusing on both theory and practice, project-based engineering education and the global perspectives program. The junior year project, or InteractiveQualifying Project (IQP), focuses on the

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Robin K. Burk

coming to USMA she spent 27 years in industry in roles ranging fromsoftware engineer and project manager to program manager, senior executive and member, Board ofDirectors, in small and mid-sized advanced technology companies serving both commercial and Defensemarkets. She holds an MBA in finance and operations from the University of North Carolina at ChapelHill. At present she is a Ph.D. candidate in Information Science at the State University of New York(Albany) with research emphases in artificial intelligence and knowledge management. Her dissertationresearch combines on-board natural language understanding and probabilistic object recognition inautonomously mobile robots.Ms. Burk is a senior member of the IEEE as well as a member of INFORMS

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Ismail I. Orabi

, to engineering problem solving, to concepts of design process, to group work, and tooral and written communications.The student performance, student satisfaction, and instructor experiences were compared in thetwo class formats. In addition, the study documented the benefits and limitations of the twodelivery alternatives. The students’ perception of the instructor and the course with respect tocontent and delivery were evaluated. The students’ comparative perceptions of their experienceswithin the online course versus a traditional course were also analyzed in the survey. Studentsuggestions for improvement of the course were also collectedThe results show that students appreciated the fact that online courses provide them withconvenience

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Gregory S. Parnell; Michael Kwinn

Series in early 2008. The authors redesigned the introductory course, now titled“Fundamentals of Systems Design and Management,” around a system thinking presentation, anindividual decision problem, and a group design project. We have continued to improve the course forthe past two years.IntroductionDesigning the first course of any academic program is always challenging. There are more foundationalconcepts than time in one semester. The first course of any engineering program is especiallychallenging. Several key questions need to be answered. What are the foundational topics that will beneeded in future courses to provide the knowledge for follow-on courses? Will students have thenecessary prerequisites? What pedagogy should be used?In the

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R. Radharamanan; Ha Van Vo

CAD/CAM and Robotics Applications in Laboratory-Learning Environment R. Radharamanan and Ha Van Vo School of Engineering, Mercer University, Macon, GA 31207-0001, USAAbstractIn this paper, how the design/automation hardware and software and manufacturing laboratory facilitiesare effectively integrated to teach Computer Aided Design (CAD), Computer Aided Manufacturing(CAM), CAD/CAM integration, and robotics with appropriate hands-on experiences in the Biomedical,Mechanical, and Industrial Engineering Programs are presented and discussed. A typical CAD moduledeveloped and taught in Biomedical Engineering includes the use of patient-specific 2D

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Christopher W. Swan; Julia Carroll

engineering companies, the need for marketing and business development, project procurement, and project financing b. Legal aspects of engineering: contracts and agreements, terms and conditions of engineering services, legal adjudication including Alternate Dispute Resolution c. Professional risk management techniques: insurance requirements for design professionals, peer review processes, and product quality management d. Personnel/career management including professional licensure and society participation Additionally, the course presented an overview of future trends and challenges to theengineering profession, focusing mainly on

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began to take shape, the CGA Civil Engineering Faculty found more and moretopics were needed to provide civil engineering graduates with level of the educationnecessary to effectively serve in the field and to foster achievement of educationalobjectives. As Coast Guard Civil Engineering began moving from a historicalengineering design and construction model to a broader engineering management model6,the CGA Civil Engineering program was asked to respond. The faculty recognized that itwas not possible to adequately cover construction management and project planningtopics within a senior capstone design class. Assessment data reflected that these topicswere not well covered and that there was insufficient time and focus on the actual

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Carol Siri Johnson

across the plant. Typing was not a common skill so anew class of worker appeared, the stenographer typist, who could produce multiple copies of documents.This increased the length of the communications and allowed the managers and foremen to exchangeinformation more rapidly and accurately. The handwritten notes sometimes covered two or three pages,but they were six inches by nine inches with large writing. The letters that now emerged were one to sixpages of single-spaced text. This increased the sheer amount of knowledge that was circulated at LukensSteel and in the outside world. Drawing was also an essential part of the manufacturing and production processes. In the past, itwas regularly taught in engineering programs. It was a

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Abdelrahman Elleithy; Alaa Abuzaghleh; Abdelshakour Abuzneid

A NEW MECHANISM TO SOLVE IEEE 802.16 AUTHENTICATION VULNERABILITIE Abdelrahman Elleithy, Alaa Abuzaghleh, Abdelshakour Abuzneid Computer Science and Engineering Department University of Bridgeport Bridgeport, CT 06604 Abstract- Wi-Max (Worldwide) Interoperability for Microwave Access is a new technology that canprovide broadband access at a high bandwidth. The availability of microwaves towers provides a verycost effective for delivering high bandwidth in metropolitan. Wi-Max is a multi-hop network wheresecurity is a major issue in designing such networks. Designing a secure Wi-Max is a major

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Arthur Heinricher; Brian Savilonis; David Spanagel; Robert Traver; Kristin Wobbe

Great Problems Seminars: A New First-Year Foundation at WPI Arthur Heinricher1, Brian Savilonis2, David Spanagel3, Robert Traver4, Kristin Wobbe5AbstractThe Great Problems Seminars are a new program designed to engage Worcester PolytechnicInstitute’s first-year students with current events, societal problems, and human needs. Eachseminar starts with an important global problem and helps students to find a place where they canmake real progress, no matter how small, in solving the problem.Four WPI faculty representing Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, and Humanities developedand delivered two Great Problems Seminars in 2007. Feed the World

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M. Ali Montazer

Consolidated Industries Inc. (a metal forging company) and Valley Tool andManufacturing (a machining and manufacturing services company). In this presentation,we will explain in details the program, the relationship created between Connecticutaerospace parts manufacturers, CCAT/NALI and the University of New Haven, theprogress made to date and the road ahead.IntroductionFor many small companies and their managers, lean is a concept that makes a greatdiscussion topic at conferences and in meetings – it looks nice on paper and makes senseonly theoretically. For them, unless the concept is put to practice in their workenvironment with tangible results that can be measured and are observable, the initiativeto implement lean could slowly dissolve in the

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John Adams; Charles Kochakian

systems engineering concepts and introducing economicconcepts and business benefits through implementations such as found in Supply Chain andWarehouse Management (SCM/WHM). In addition, RFID is a natural place to introduce ethicalas well as global engineering issues. The course includes selected RFID projects incorporatingbusiness student participation on multidisciplinary teams. As a result, the department has beenable to tailor the course to specifically addresses ABET1 outcomes 3 (d), 3 (f) and 3 (h). Earlyexperience in multidisciplinary teamwork has been favorable, one example provided by a teamthat evaluated possible adoption of RFID by the college’s library. The role of assessment indeciding to adopt this course, and the assessment of the

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Saikat Ray

dilemma. CBT quizzes can be administered in every class withoutincreasing the grading load. Clearly, a CBT is effective only for objective-style questions and theytherefore cannot replace homeworks. However regular testing would condition the students to continuousstudying and quizzes designed around homework questions are likely to make students take homeworksmore seriously.Several popular online course management software such as BlackBoard and Moodle have the option ofconducting CBT. In this paper, we discuss the pros and cons of using CBT in graduate courses, as well asanalyze the various options provided by BlackBoard in designing CBT and provide suggestions in how toeffectively use them.I. IntroductionThere is a popular perception that the

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Ashraf Ghaly; Megan Ferry

very significant way. It wasnothing short of a U-turn. In today’s highly charged climate of environmental politics, and with thescarcity of water resources, dams may not be constructed without a well-detailed environmental impactstudy. Studies of this nature usually examine factors that are important to both the engineers and the non-engineers. Dam design and construction is not only about the technical aspects related to the building ofthe dam, but is also about the effect of the dam on the livelihood of people, and the welfare of wildlife,animals, and birds. One of the major impacts of dam construction is the formation of a large lake in theupstream side of the dam, which, in addition to displacing people, results in the flooding and

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Diana Schwerha; Chang Liu; Sertac Ozercan; Tripura Vadlamani; Lev Neiman

statistics sessions as well as virtual experiments in the field of human factors and ergonomics.AcknowledgementsWe thank the Ohio Learning Network for funding this project. We also thank Dr. Ernst and his team atM.I.T. for providing the Groupthink exercise for us to use in Ohio University classes.Biographical InformationDiana J. Schwerha is an Assistant Professor in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department atOhio University. She earned her doctorate in Industrial and Management Systems Engineering fromWest Virginia University. Diana’s research interests focus on improving the safety, productivity, and jobsatisfaction of older workers. She teaches classes on statistics and ergonomics and is currently workingon several funded projects.Dr

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Abdelshakour Abuzneid; Khaled Elleithy

2006, Professor Elleithy wasappointed Associate Dean for Graduate Programs in the School of Engineering at the University ofBridgeport. Dr. Elleithy published more than seventy research papers in international journals andconferences. He has research interests are in the areas of computer networks, network security, mobilecommunications, and formal approaches for design and verification.Abdelshakour Abuzneid has received his BS degree in Computer Engineering and Control fromYarmouk University and MS degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Bridgeport in May1997. Currently Abdelshakour is pursuing his PhD in Computer Science & Engineering from theUniversity of Bridgeport. His research interest is in Data / computer / wireless