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Constantin Ciocanel; Mohammad Elahinia

, American Society for Engineering Educationreduce the adverse fluttering of the wing and b) a more advanced solution for the next generationaircraft. Three of the solutions that were developed and tested by the students in lab are shown inFigure 3. For the more advanced damping solution, the students were asked to provide the proof-of-concept details based on simulation results of a controllable magnetorheological damper inMATLAB/Simulink. Figure 2 - Modal analysis experimental setup for the cantilever beam (a) (b) (c) Figure 3 - Added damping solutions that was developed by the

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Enterprise Systems Innovation & Management (ESIM): A New Engineering Masters Program Thomas N. Duening Entrepreneurial Programs Office Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering Jeffrey R. Goss Global Outreach and Extended Education Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering Arizona State University AbstractInnovation is a topic on the minds of many executives leading top firms around theworld. New competitive pressures that have emerged as a result of

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Jeffrey S. Burmeister; Kyle A. Watson; Maria Garcia-Sheets

bending, buckling, and tension are performed. The tensile testing apparatus is Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering Education shown in Fig. 1. Concepts such as stress, strain and Young’s Modulus are introduced. (b) Remote Measurements Lab – armed with only a meter stick, some tape and a length of string, students are required to estimate large distances, such as the straight-line distance between the tops of two buildings. The importance of estimation and the propagation of error are concepts that are stressed during this activity. (c

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Jeffrey J. Heys

Group Projects in Engineering Using a Wiki Jeffrey J. Heys Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287AbstractGroup projects are common in undergraduate engineering course. Wikis are a new medium forgroup projects because they are webpages that are edited using the same software used to viewthe webpage. Advantages include the ability to record changes made by each individual (helpfulfor grading), ability to continuously monitor progress, and a reduced need for face-to-facemeetings for the group members. Projects based on Wikis also introduce new challenges such asthe need for the students to learn another new technology.IntroductionGroup projects are

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Paul Blowers; Kim Ogden

Integration of Sustainability into a Chemical Engineering Senior Capstone Design Course Paul Blowers (blowers@engr.arizona.edu) and Kim Ogden (ogden@erc.arizona.edu) Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering PO Box 210011 The University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721-0011 Sustainability issues are attracting many incoming students into engineering as issues related to populationgrowth, use of natural resources, and the impacts of manufacturing and use of products have emerged. Integratingsustainability issues into core courses has often been

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Kurt Colvin; Robert Crockett

A Distributed Systems Engineering Curriculum for Working Engineers in California Kurt Colvin, Ph.D., P.E. Industrial Engineering kcolvin@calpoly.edu Robert Crockett, Ph.D., MBA Biomedical & General Engineering rcrocket@calpoly.edu Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407AbstractAs part of a workforce initiative grant, we are developing a catalog and curricular structure toenable working engineers in California to obtain Systems Engineering education

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Christine Pauken

Engineering Perspectives on Biological Systems: A Course for all Engineering Students Christine Pauken Ph.D. Harrington Department of Bioengineering Arizona State UniversityProceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering EducationAbstract.Recently, the course “Engineering Perspectives on Biological Systems” was developed anddelivered to 500 students over 5 semesters. This population includes aerospace, chemical,electrical, industrial, mechanical, materials science, and bioengineering students. The coursestarts with the building

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Paul Blowers; Greg Ogden; Kim Ogden

A Toolbox for Integrating Information Literacy into Engineering Courses: Helping Students Help Themselves Paul Blowers (blowers@engr.arizona.edu), Greg Ogden (gogden@engr.arizona.edu), and Kim Ogden (ogden@erc.arizona.edu) Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering PO Box 210011 The University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721-0011 The world has seemed to leap into the information age over the last decade with the rapidexpansion of internet based search tools. However, the access students have to the wide array ofgeneral and scientific information

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John T. Tester; Perry G. Wood

Assessing the Motivational Impact of Including Rapid Prototyping into a Freshman CAD Class John T. Tester, Ph.D. Perry G. Wood, P.E. Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZAbstractNorthern Arizona University’s College of Engineering and Natural Sciences is incorporating theuse of a rapid prototyping machine into its freshman computer-aided design (CAD) course, ME180. The authors have created a simple, online instrument using an internet survey tool. Thecurrent effort is to collect data from sections of ME 180 which do not have rapid prototypingincorporated into the class offering. This data will

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Nikolay Kravchuk; Ryan Colquhoun; Ali Porbaha

Development of a Friction Pendulum Bearing Base Isolation System for Earthquake Engineering Education Nikolay Kravchuk(1), Ryan Colquhoun(1), and Ali Porbaha(2) California State University, Sacramento, CAAbstractBase isolation systems have become a significant element of a structural system toenhance reliability during an earthquake. One type of base isolation system isFriction Pendulum Bearings in which the superstructure is isolated from thefoundation using specially designed concave surfaces and bearings to allow swayunder its own natural period during the seismic events. This study presentsdevelopment of a base isolation system to physically demonstrate the concept ofFriction

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Elizabeth J. Brauer; Karen L. Jarratt-Snider; Fonda Swimmer

University, Flagstaff, AZ Fonda.Swimmer@nau.eduAbstractWe have conducted a one-week residential camp for high school girls on the campus of NorthernArizona University for the past three years. Our primary objective is to encourage young womento enroll in college in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields,hence the name STEP UP, Summer Technology & Engineering Program and UniversityPreview. While similar camps are offered in a variety of forms around the country, we haveuniquely attracted a majority of Native American participants, many of whom would be first-generation college graduates. The camp runs from Sunday to Saturday and encompasses a widevariety of activities, primarily in

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Bryan Cooperrider

in Economic Settings: AnExperimental Analysis”, The Journal of Political Economy, 97 (5) pp. 1232-125416. Brown S., 2007, “The Creative Impulse”, Mechanical Engineering Design Magazine, Sept 2007, pp 24-2917. Eris, O., 2006, "Insisting on Truth at the Expense of Conceptualization: Can Engineering Portfolios Help?”International Journal of Engineering Education, 22 (3), pp. 551-55918. Faste, R., B. Roth, 1998, "The Design of Projects and Contests - the Rules of the Game." Journal of Roboticsand Mechatronics 10 (1) pp. 7-13.19. Kazerounian K., Foley S., 2007, “Barriers to Creativity in Engineering Education: A Study of Instructors andStudents Perceptions”, Journal of Mechanical Design, vol 129, pp. 761-76820. Dym C., 2006, “Engineering Design

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Wolf-Dieter Otte; Anthony Crain

Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering EducationOnce personality types (estimates) are determined with the self-scoring inventory approximationof the MBTI, it is easy to assemble teams with both breadth and depth workers. In reality, theauthor tried to achieve equilibrium between depth and breadth workers in a particular team.The following table provides an example of student personality types taken in CS386 “AdvancedSoftware Engineering” during the fall semester in 2007 (B = Breadth, D = Depth):The data gathered allows for some interesting observations, which are well in line with datacollected during two previous classes: - At the average there are as many

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Kyu-Jung Kim; Amir Rezaei

friction less than polyamide A-3 belt material friction (a) (b) Substantially reduced critical belt width for the polyamide A-4 belt design (c) (d) Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Section Conference March 27-28, 2008, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ Figure 4. Design sensitivity studies of Example 17-2 from Shigley’s Textbook [3]. (a) required friction and (b) tight-side tension of the polyamide A-3 belt design with various belt widths

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) Welcome to Education (Linda Shadiow, Director, Office of Faculty Development)8:50 – 9:30 Don Carter, Director of e-Learning at NAU, Three Emerging Technologies in Higher Coconino Education9:30 – 9:45 Coffee Break (Hallway) & Sponsor Displays (Kaibab)9:45– 11:45 Concurrent Session Presentations Kaibab Recruitment, Retention, & Related Laboratory & Modeling Innovations Canyon Moderator: Walt Loscutoff Moderator: David Scott • Elizabeth Brauer, et al., STEP UP: • Porbaha, Ali et al., Development of a Summer Engineering Camp for High Friction Pendulum

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David Lanning

2008 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering EducationThe sixteen questions cover concepts carefully selected to encourage students to prepare forSolid Mechanics by reviewing necessary prerequisite knowledge, primarily from Statics.Examples of prerequisite skills are: a) Calculation of the force in a structural member of a simple two or three member truss. b) Calculation of the shear force at an arbitrary location in a beam. c) Calculation of the second moment of area with respect to the centroid. d) Understanding the concepts of static determinacy and static indeterminacy. e) Prediction of the shape of a bending

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Reza Raeisi

architecture ofthe Online-Lab system. Figure 1. The system architecture of the Online-Lab system2.2 Hardware architecture of Ceiling RobotThe hardware architecture of Ceiling Robot is expressed in figure 2, and the detailed descriptionsare addressed below: 1. The top part of Ceiling Robot case. 2. The bottom part of Ceiling Robot case. 3. A tank with four wheels and two tracks is controlled by an embedded system (MC68HC11) in order to move forward, reverse, turn right, and turn left. 4. Two neodymium ring magnets will be bonded with the tank. 5. The MC68HC11 embedded system board. 6. The 802.11g/b to serial port device is connected with the MC68HC11 board to provide wireless

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Christos Valiotis

tasks that involve mathematics. Diagnostic tests have shown two distinctreasons for this deficiency: (a) Students lack the requisite mathematical knowledge, and (b)students that have the needed mathematical skills are unable to apply them in physics problems. Since the ancient times, mathematics played a major part in the study of nature. Today,most physics instructors would agree that mathematics is the language of physics. Thus, it isimperative for students to have a solid mathematical background in order to succeed in physicscourses. Research has reported that students are unable to explain their own solutions to physicsproblems within a mathematical context1, 2. Their argument was supported by Maloney3, whodocumented that students

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Amir Rezaei; Mariappan Jawaharlal

Socially Responssible Senior Design Projects Amir Rezaei and Mariappan Jawaharlal California State Polytechnic University, PomonaAssistive technology is used by individuals with disabilities in order to perform functionsthat might otherwise be difficult or impossible. Assistive technology can include mobilitydevices and mechanisms such as walkers and wheelchairs, as well as hardware andsoftware. For example, people with limited hand function may use a keyboard with largekeys or a special mouse to operate a computer, people who are blind may use softwarethat reads text on the screen in a computer-generated voice, people with low vision mayuse software that enlarges screen content

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Keith Curtis

Training the Renaissance Engineer of 2025 By Keith Curtis Technical Staff Engineer Microchip Technology Inc. 2355 W. Chandler Blvd. Chandler, AZ 85224 Office (480) 792-7026 Fax (480) 792-4150 keith.curtis@microchip.com www.microchip.comThe Renaissance man was the evolutionary successor to the specialist of theMiddle Ages. Whereas the Middle Ages man was only a farmer, or a soldier, or abaker; the

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Edward J. Smaglik

Integrating Traffic Engineering Field Hardware and Research Methodologies into Transportation Engineering Education Edward J. Smaglik Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZAbstractThe limited coordination between design and implementation is a significant challengethat must be overcome when implementing a traffic engineering project. Manyengineers, particularly recent graduates, may be well versed in traffic theory but may nothave the experience to understand the challenges and issues that arise during fieldimplementation. Furthermore, the tools typically used for analysis and design may notprovide a complete picture of the range of operational issues that may be

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Keith E. Holbert; George G. Karady

Removing an Unsupported Statement in Engineering Education Literature Keith E. Holbert and George G. Karady Arizona State University, Tempe, AZAbstractThe STATEMENT that “students retain 10% of what they read, 20% of what they hear, 30% ofwhat they see, …” enjoys widespread appearance in engineering education papers. The firstarchived occurrence of the STATEMENT emerges in a trade magazine article by Treichler (1967).A continuous improvement plan compels the re-evaluation of the status quo, and as such thispaper provides a critical review of this unsupported STATEMENT and its proliferation. Thoserecent ASEE conference papers

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Elizabeth J. Brauer

WeBWorK Development in Electric Circuits Elizabeth J. Brauer Department of Electrical Engineering Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ liz.brauer@nau.eduAbstractWeBWorK is an internet-based homework system first developed for math courses but alsoutilized in science courses. Little development has been done with WeBWorK in engineeringcourses. In a similar vein, some publishers have developed computer-mediated homework toaccompany their textbooks but these tend to have limited capabilities. This paper presents workdone at Northern Arizona University to develop a collection of

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Jiancheng Liu; Ashland O. Brown

their ability to solve design andanalysis problems. This paper shares our attempts in teaching the machine design and analysiscourse in our school for senior students. The introduced design and FE analysis projects areexplained.IntroductionWhile working in industry, the authors have had many opportunities to work on machine designand analysis projects with a number of junior engineers, who recently graduated from variousuniversities with bachelor’s degrees in mechanical engineering[1]. It has come to our attentionthat many of the newly graduated students are not very capable of tolerating ambiguity, dealingwith uncertainty and making assumptions and decisions during the design process. It seemsmany of these new members of the workforce are

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William R. Peterson

graduates lack writing, presentation, and teamingskills. EAC/ABET criteria "d" and "g" require demonstration of these skills in the general criteriafor all programs. Since industry deems this a problem with engineers, then we seem to not bemeeting criteria "e". If the graduates of EAC/ABET programs are still deemed deficient in theseskills, there is a serious disconnect between our (academe) measurement of this outcome andtheirs (industry). Why does this discrepancy exist? Whose perception is better? Is this a case oflooking at two different measuring scales, two different points on the same scale being deemed"satisfactory", or some other phenomenon? This paper looks at this issue and formulates somehypothesis for study based on the author's

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Richard Theis; patricia watkins; Angela Beck

sustainability across the curriculum may have surface validity, thepresenters question whether a space can be made for the teaching of sustainability in theirspecific educational context, i.e., a technologically-oriented university that is driven byengineering, physics, and similar disciplines. More specifically, the teaching philosophies heldby the engineering faculty at this educational institution may not be compatible with those of thepresenters who seek to integrate sustainability into the engineering curriculum. The purpose of this presentation will be to report on the teaching philosophies of theengineering faculty at this university as regards sustainability. The authors propose a dialogicmethodology to encourage these faculty to

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Bruno Osorno

classroom teaching. To do so wesplit one class in two sections; the first one is the online section and the second one is theclassroom section. To reduce the duplication, while the online section is taking the class, we havea smart board with the computer screen on it and the classroom section is taking the lecture atthe same time.The time has arrived where all students have a laptop or have a PC at home. 90% of the studentstaking these classes own a laptop with wireless communication. It is very encouraging to see thatthe students in the in-classroom class have their own laptops connected to the online class sothat they can minimize note taking and pay more attention to the lecture. The question is; how doI make sure that students outside of the

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Taufik Taufik

Polyhave had steady increase in their enrollments4. As an example, enrollment in the introductorycourse EE 410 had grown from 9 students in Fall 1999 to 58 students in Fall 2005.In the past on-campus career fairs at Cal Poly, power electronics companies were visited toidentify their current needs in terms of knowledge and skills that would particularly be of interestfor them when hiring new graduates. Several skill-sets and new technical concepts wereidentified such as those related to multiphase topologies, soft-switching, digital control, surfacemount components and soldering, and magnetics. This further contributed to the redesigning ofthe three existing power electronic courses and to the development of a new course in magneticsdesign. In

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Peg Pankowski

Assessment for Accreditation and Beyond Peg Pankowski, Ed.D.AbstractThis paper details the story of one division’s efforts to update program assessment based onABET and NWCCU accreditation requirements. During a fall term, the college required allprograms to submit and implement new assessment plans, with results analyzed and reported atthe end of the spring term. This coincided with our application for ABET accreditation of two ofour engineering technology associate degree programs. The paper outlines the steps taken alongthe way to accreditation, highlighting efforts to articulate a program assessment plan. Collegeassessment forms are referenced and sample plans

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Paul Blowers

work investigates the useof multimodal (spoken verbal, written verbal, and visual) approaches integrated through Microsoft's OneNoteprogram to change student access to problem solving frameworks in the context of a junior level thermodynamicscourse on equilibrium thermodynamics for chemical engineers. One of the challenges in engineering is getting students to move beyond plug-and-chug type solutions andframeworks to having them fully integrate new knowledge into an independently organized thought process forbringing complex information to bear in applied ways. Students have a difficult time developing these skills fromtextbooks because the texts are not interactive and because they often do not present information in more than oneway