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Radian Belu

his career Dr. Belu published several papers in referred journals and in conferenceproceedings in his areas of the research interests. He has also been PI or co-PI for variousresearch projects United States and abroad in power systems analysis and protection, loadand energy demand forecasting and analysis, renewable energy analysis, assessment anddesign, turbulence and wave propagation, radar and remote sensing, instrumentation,atmosphere physics, electromagnetic compatibility, and engineering education. 58 Introduction to the EMC/EMI Education into the Engineering Technology (ET) Curriculum through Course Assignments and ProjectsAbstractModern electronic and electrical systems engineering

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Radian Belu

engineering and renewable energy technologies can readily involve electrical,mechanical, computer, civil, and chemical engineering aspects while still being accessible toundergraduate students.A natural and efficient way of teaching and embedding renewable energytechnologies into curriculum is the problem-oriented and project-based learning approach. In thispaper, we are discussing a series of renewable energy projects, included for over a three-yearperiod into the senior project design, power electronics and renewable energy technologycourses. Theoutcomes and observations are discussed in details, as well as the lessons learnedand the future improvements.Design, development and build renewable energy projectsallowstudents to work on projects that

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Gaffar Gailani; Sidi Berri; NIEVES ANGULO

the department faculty members who collaborated withLouis Stokes for Minority Participation in STEM, LSAMP, to implement research activities infreshman and sophomore classes. The work went further when the department obtained two majorgrants, NSF ATE and NASA CIPAIR. The NASA CIPAIR project is focusing in involving studentsin NASA and aerospace research in their early stages in college through building partnership withNASA. The project allows students to work in NASA active projects and faculty to collaborate withNASA scientists. Curriculum enhancement to include aerospace relevant material is a part of theproject. A new course in Remote Sensing has been introduced as well. On the other hand,collaboration is built with Hostos Community

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Walter W. Buchanan; Robert J. Herrick

the Franklin Institute of Boston) in 1947. [1] Theseprograms very successfully educated engineering technicians and made them a valuable part of theengineering team.After Sputnik was launched in 1957 by the Soviet Union, leaders in the United States became veryconcerned that the Russians were surpassing the U.S.A. in engineering. As a result, moremathematics and science was pumped into the engineering curriculum. Something had to give andthat was experiential learning laboratories with most of the engineering classes. As a personal aside,when one of the authors majored in electrical engineering at Purdue University, only five or six ofhis engineering classes had laboratories with them. Later when he became a faculty memberteaching electrical

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Richard Y. Chiou; Michael G. Mauk; M. Eric Carr; Bret Davis

of computerscience, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. This paper discusseslaboratory development and the hands-on learning experience within the context of thiscapstone course on robotics and mechatronics. Topics covered include the innovation ofteaching industrial robotics to undergraduate students working on solving real-worldproblems, particularly as it applies to multidisciplinary fields such as bionics and solarenergy.IntroductionThis paper presents the establishment of a robotics and mechatronics laboratory forteaching and research integrated with the emerging fields of bionics and solar energythrough an NSF project involving undergraduate and graduate students, and faculty atGoodwin College of Drexel University

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Sheikh Ghafoor; Stephen Canfield; Michael Kelley; Tristan Hill

move to solving advanced models thatdescribe how the world works. A recent model has been implemented in the college ofengineering at Tennessee Tech (TTU) to base the initial programming experience onhardware in the loop approach where the programming target is a micro-controller. Thiscourse has been offered in both C/C++ and Matlab programming language. From multiple previous implementations, we see that the students that engaged in thehands-on, hardware-based programming activities reported a more positive earlyexperience with programming and its relation to the engineering curriculum relative totheir comparison-group peers. The students participating in the project also reportedimproved confidence in their ability to learn and use

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Keith M. Gardiner

andlikely future workplace. Our students today are rather different animals than those of just afew decades ago. Admittedly, though, good students can survive our existing prescriptivecurricula and become excellent contributors; but it is reasonable to postulate alternativeapproaches that may increase our STEM population.SummarizingIt is worth reflecting on the ideas of Confucius/Xun Xi in 450 B.C. and striving to placegreater reliance on Project-Based (or ‘experiential’) Learning (PBL):"Tell me, and I will forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I will understand."Senior Design projects seem satisfactory for students that survive to become seniors.However, if the whole curriculum could be inverted to offer major ambiguous