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Raymond Addabbo

Integration of Matlab in Engineering and Engineering Technology Curriculum Raymond Addabbo Professor Arts and Sciences Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology 86-01 23rd Ave. East Elmhurst NY 11369 718-429-6600 (261) raymond.addabbo@vaughn.edu 18 Integration of Matlab in Engineering and Engineering Technology CurriculumThis paper presents the course content of Introduction to Programming (CSC 215) andits importance in the engineering and engineering technology curriculum. Specific studentoutcomes, such

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RUBA A. AMARIN; Issa Batarseh

electrical circuit problems. A practical example of applying the eTutor feature is discussedas part of a basic electrical engineering course currently given at UCF and results show improvedstudent performances in learning materials in Electrical Circuits. Keywords-component; Tutor-Me Module; Tool; Electrical Circuits; Interactive bookI. Introduction The interactive technical electronic book (TechEBook) serves as a modern, media-rich innovativeapproach to a topic-driven modular electrical engineering curriculum that recognizes the differentlearning approaches for different users. The TechEBook consists of 16 chapters, a total of 75 sectionsrepresenting typical content for the introductory circuit course at most universities in the world

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Barrie Jackson

While fundamentals are essential in the undergrad Engineering Education Curriculum They are by no means sufficient Barrie Jackson Department of Chemical Engineering Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario Canada 364 While fundamentals are essential in the undergrad Engineering Education Curriculum They are by no means sufficient Barrie Jackson Department of Chemical Engineering Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario Canada ABSTRACT As a chemical engineer with over thirty years

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Bhavna Sharma; Birdy Reynolds

the FIRSTLego League. These out-of-school efforts likely do well in promoting interesting in engineering, however,they are difficult to organize with equitable access because they depend upon community intellectualexperience with Engineering) and financial resources, which are rarely held or distributed equitably.Furthermore, complete separation between engineering outreach and formal K-12 classroom experiencesgives the impression of an irrelevance of formal mathematics and science for engineering applications, andwe risk developing students with an interest in engineering but no ability to survive college engineeringtraining.A third approach is through formal engineering curriculum units that vary in length from one week tomultiple years of

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Radian Belu

them at the proposed level. The aspects of developing materials that areappropriate for both the depth and breadth approach is also covered.2. Embedding EMC into the ET curriculum and the development of an EMC courseIt is important to keep in mind that a course in EMC is not standalone but builds on existingelectrical and electronics engineering programs as a whole. EMC/EMI concepts and principlescan be highlighted with examples from other courses e.g. analog/digital electronics, powerelectronics, mobile communication, microprocessors, VLSI and digital design, etc. Althoughvarious concepts of EMI/EMC can also be incorporated in various courses, but a dedicated EMCcourse would be of many benefits where various issues and problems can be

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Dennis J. Fallon

engineering leaders of the future—the question become how are we going to adapt our curriculums to do this???Bibliography • Some Books on changes – Holistic Engineering Education by Grasso and Burkins – Educating the Engineer of 2020 by National Academy of Engineering – Vision for Civil Engineering in 2025 by ASCE – Leadership Can Be Taught by Parks – Liberal Education in Twenty First Century By Ollis – Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century by ASCE – Changing Practices in Evaluating Teaching by Seldin – Building a Scholarship of Assessment by Banta – How Student Learn—History, Mathematics and Science by National Research Council – How People Learn

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PATRICA A. S. RALSTON; JEFFREY L. HIEB

concerning the number one priority of improving K-12 science and mathematics education. Abook published by the National Academy of Engineering and the National Research Council reviews thescope and impact of engineering education in K-12 classrooms25. Engineering in K-12 Education makesseveral recommendations to address curriculum, policy, and funding issues. The book also analyzes anumber of K-12 engineering curricula in depth and discusses what is known from the cognitive sciencesabout how children learn engineering-related concepts and skills. These reports clearly indicate a lack ofa cohesive and effective national approach to K-12 engineering education. Furthermore there is generalagreement that increasing the number of students interested in

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Keith M. Gardiner

2030 and even 2050. Think of 2030,two decades will have flown by, or looking back we may reflect on 1990. Times were verydifferent then and will likely be even more different in the future. Today there are newcompanies, new ‘toys,’ high technology cellular devices, marvelous digital cameras, andpolitically significant social movements all catalyzed by these innovations. Have oureducational methods changed in parallel?What of 2031? The US will likely no longer be a primary ‘top-of-the-heap’ nation; what isthe U.S. prognosis? In particular, education practices have not experienced major curricularearrangements since the traumas of Sputnik. U.S. science, technology, engineering andmathematics (STEM) rankings are below world-class. Our students

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PAUL FAGETTE; SHIH-JIUN CHEN; GEORGE R. BARAN; SOLOMON P. SAMUEL; MOHAMMAD F. KIANI

. In 2005, the Department ofMechanical Engineering at Temple University responded to a request from the GeneralEducation Program to create new courses for non-engineering students across theuniversity. Accordingly, the Department crafted two new courses: TechnologicalTransformations and the Bionic Human, both of which were targeted to lower division,non-engineering students. These new courses helped to enlarge and expand the nature ofgeneral education courses but also brought an understanding of engineering principles,systems, and approaches to a larger segment of the university population. The newcurricula followed the guidelines set forth in the General Education request forscience/engineering courses which included problem sets

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KENNETH WADE JACKSON

for the 21st Century-Balancing Engineering Science,Information Technology and Multidisciplinary Studies Kenneth W Jackson Ph.D., P.E. Southern Polytechnic State UniversityAbstractEducating engineers for success in the 21st century workforce will requirecontinually adapting the curriculum subject matter to reflect relevancies to publicand corporate stakeholders. The planet’s population is growing to unprecedentedlevels and making vital resources even scarcer. For decades after World War IIengineering education tended to focus primarily on engineering science or physicsusing reductionist analytics. The less mathematical sciences of design, synthesis,systems, organization and planning became relatively minor parts of anundergraduate’s

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Radian Belu

. Interest in the production of electricity from renewable energy sources is rapidlyincreasing. Carbon tax, pollution reduction, and emissions trading legislation are paving the wayfor environmental accountability and sustainability in the industries. In the last two decades therehave been significant advances in the renewable energy technologies, as well as increaseddemands for engineers and technicians trained in these areas. These require the development ofinnovative curricula, new courses and laboratories to educate students to work in this rapidlydeveloping industry, or to help professionals become acquainted with these new technologies.However, the pace of change in education curriculum is growing exponentially due to legislativechanges

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Wael Mokhtar

CFDundergraduate course.For a Heat Transfer course, Newell et al. 6 and Fleischmann et al. 7 used design projects tosupport the material of the course for upper level engineering students. Leifer 8 also used projects 500in junior level Kinematics and Dynamics courses. Crone 9 used projects in three courses in theMechanics sequence. Mokhtar et al. 10 presented several approaches of using projects in aMachine Design course. In Thermo-Fluid, Mokhtar et al.11 discussed the integration of designprojects in several level of the engineering program. Mokhtar 12 and Hadim 13 expanded theusing of Project-Based-Learning (PBL) in several levels of the engineering program startingfrom the freshman year to the completion

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Donald D. Joye

to cover this need;consequently we have more difficulties with this approach. In another effort to address lab experience earlier in the curriculum, Villanova hasfollowed the Notre Dame example6, adapting it to unique situations at our site7,8. In eachsemester of the freshman year, students have a choice of experiments to sign up for. One isusually close to the field they will major in and one outside it. There are six experiments they canselect from, and they are mostly bench-scale. Two faculty members, each from a differentdepartment, supervise and guide the experiments. Student response has been overwhelminglypositive, so hands-on work is a significant motivator for engineering students and is anotherreason for keeping some

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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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Valerie Lundy-Wagner; IRAJ KALKHORAN; MELINDA PARHAM; Yona Jean-Pierre; HAANG FUNG; LINDSEY VANWAGENEN

into college-level mathematics courses andsubsequently STEM bachelor’s degree programs.In the future the e-Math Forum will also be evaluated with reference to: a) improvement instudent preparation for gateway mathematics courses, and b) persistence through NYU-PolySTEM degree programs.We may also consider the benefits of expanding the e-Math Forum to all admitted NYU-Polystudents, adding a physics curriculum, evaluating it as recruitment tool for students living outsideof New York City, and conducting cost-benefit analyses.References1. National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Statistics (2009). Women, Minorities, and Personswith disabilities in science and engineering, NSF 09-305, Arlington, VA. Retrieved fromjttp

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Hossein Rahemi; Shouling He

. 536ConclusionsIn this paper, we have discussed the development of the Mechatronics Engineering program at VaughnCollege of Aeronautics and Technologies. In addition to traditional programs, the new curriculum andcourse arrangement address on students’ hand-on experiences and collaboration and communicationcapabilities. Besides, we have industry involved in the departmental events, resulted programs thatsatisfy today’s industry technological demands and produce graduates who are well prepared for bothworkplace and graduate study. In particular, internship and capstone degree project provide our studentswith valuable hands-on and carrier-building experiences.For past several years, our students participated in many technical conferences, competitions

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Paul G. Ranky

, Stabile Lab., NJIT[20] April 14, 2009, Sustainable Green Engineeering and Quality seminar, ASQ (AmericanSociety for Quality) regional meeting at NJITApril 21, 2009, SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Green Mobility International WorldCongress R&D paper presentation: Sustainable Green Design And ManufacturingRequirements and Risk Analysis Within A Statistical Framework, Detroit, Michigan (In theWorld Congress proceedings)[21] April 21-22, 2009, Green Supply Chain the Eyefortransport Logistics TechnologyForum in Chicago, 10th North American Technology Forum[22] April 30-May 1, 2009, New Jersey Technology Education Conference, WorkshopDesigned on Sustainable Green Engineering (curriculum development and research),http://www.njtea.org/Pages

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Ravi Shankar; Don Ploger; Oren Masory; Francis X McAfee

, when solving problems in school science andmathematics, students have difficulty applying the knowledge they have learned. In the examplesshown in this study, the students are highly motivated because they have selected the problem tobe solved.We propose to use autonomous robots and mobile phones to teach math and physics to high schoolstudents. This paper is based on a new undergraduate engineering course that is being offered for thesecond time this semester. During the first offering, the enrolled students developed hardware andsoftware components that will be used this semester to build a set of autonomous robots that can bemanaged from smart phones. The eventual goal is to develop two games (Tic-Tac-Toe and Chess) thatcan be played with

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Jessica L. Buck; Bertiel Harris; Elizabeth Y. McInnis

. In addition, great sums of persuasive confirmation submits to the benefits of servicelearning and experiential methods, thus revealing that teachers yet depend on thetraditional practices of lecture and teacher-directed educational procedures—notappealing to all learning styles. Traditional practices should, in no way, be dismissed;however, it should include approaches where students are able to apply what has beenlearned in the classroom. Cohen and Brawer (as cited in Burr, 2001) stated the following: It is reasonable to assume that in an institution dedicated since its inception to "good teaching," new instructional forms will be tried. However . . . traditional methods of instruction still flourish. Visitors to a campus

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Qinghai Gao

, andYork College. Since 2001 he held positions in industry as Software Developer, DatabaseAdministrator, Network Engineer, Researcher, Consultant, and Information SecuritySpecialist.Dr. Gao received a PhD in computer science from the City University of New York in 2007.So far he has published one book and >20 articles. His present research interests includeDigital Forensics, Network Security, Biometrics, Biological Information System, ForensicDNA Analysis, Cryptography and Steganography. 274 Introducing biological mechanisms to computer security studentsAbstract:Biology has broad impact on computer security. Many computer security approaches to defenseoriginate from the observation of biological

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

classroom discussions thatallow students to compare traditional (microprocessor-driven) robotics engineering withsimulation using PLCStudio6-8.We have constructed a series of fully functional robotics experiments, and have been ableto incorporate experiments involving many aspects of mechatronics in various classesthroughout the Engineering Technology curriculum. These experiments can be integratedinto course segments involving robotic systems, solar energy, bionics, and emergingscience and technologies such as microrobotics and microfluidics. Integrating thesetopics into courses across the Engineering Technology curriculum provides fresh,exciting topics of study and research for Engineering Technology students9-16.Furthermore, the establishment of