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Melanie Sattler

., Campus Compact, Providence, RI.2. Bringle, Robert, Hatcher, Julie, 1995, “A Service Learning Curriculum for Faculty,” Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, pp. 112-122.3. Johnson Foundation, 1989.4. Chang, Yao-Jen, Wang, Tsen-Yung, Chen, Shu-Fang, Liao, Rhi-Hua, 2011, “Student Engineers as Agents of  Change: Combining Social Inclusion in the Professional Development of Electrical and Computer Engineering Students,” Systemic Practice and Action Research, Vol. 24, pp. 237-245.5. Goggins, J., 2012, “Engineering

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L. Massa; P. Jha

Friday Afternoon Session 1- Faculty Teaching thermo-chemical equilibrium using a MATLAB algorithm L. Massa and P. Jha Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department University of Texas at Arlington AbstractComputers are an integral part of learning in different fields of education. The ability ofscientific computing to solve realistic problems can strengthen engineering education byallowing the students to analyze complex systems. To improve the quality of learning along thispath, educators must take a step to make their teaching style flexible and

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Priscila Martinez-Avila; Emmanuel Varona; Doug D. Carlton; Abegayl Thomas; Kevin A. Schug

oflearning outcomes was distilled from the learning objectives provided for each chapter of thetextbook Chemistry for Engineering Students, Second Edition, by Brown and Holme7. Learningoutcomes were statements of the knowledge and skills students were expected to master. At thebeginning of each session, students were administered short quizzes or extended test reviewpackets, depending on the date proximity of the formal examination. All questions administeredto the students were coded with the learning objective/outcome that was being tested. Theperformance of the class was computed for each test by averaging the grades over the questionscoding one objective. This average is termed class mastery. Class mastery is a measure of howwell the class

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Edward E. Anderson

educator to helpstudents learn how to form accurate and useful mental models and apply them to knowledgedomain problems. M-MODEL is a computer-based tool that permits engineering educators todevelop problems using the principle mental models of the discipline in a consistent and flexible Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright 2013, American Society for Engineering Educationmanner. This paper describes the user environments, the philosophy behind M-MODEL, andsome of the pedagogues embedded in it.Several engineering problem solving models or schema have been reported recently. Theseinclude the

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Oscar N. Garcia; Garima Bajwa; Cynthia L. Claiborne; Shanti R. Thiyagaraja; Mohamed Fazeen; Eric H. Pruett

Friday Afternoon Session 1- Faculty Information Theoretic thread of Compression, Encryption, and Error Control for the Cloud Oscar N. Garcia, Garima Bajwa, Cynthia L. Claiborne, Shanti R. Thiyagaraja, Mohamed Fazeen, Eric H. Pruett Electrical Engineering and Center for Information and Computer Security College of Engineering, University of North Texas AbstractThis paper is based on the theme, topics and experiences of a senior/first-year-graduate verysuccessful new course taught during the Fall of 2012 to an enthusiastic small group of seniorsand graduate

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Lynn Peterson; James Epperson; Ramon Lopez; Kevin Schug; Carter Tiernan

Engineering and Department of Computer Science & Engineering The University of Texas at Arlington AbstractThe University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) is implementing AURAS, the “ArlingtonUndergraduate Research-based Achievement for STEM collaboration”, as a combined effort ofthe Colleges of Science and Engineering to increase retention of incoming first-semesterfreshmen in these colleges. The goal of AURAS is to use research-based approaches and bestpractices to increase the retention of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) majors,particularly women and other students underrepresented in STEM. Specific objectives dovetailto meet this goal, with program components

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Mohammed Arif I. Mahmood; Samir M. Iqbal

develop simple skills related to circuits with a head start in theirengineering endeavors. The student version is sufficient enough for users ranging from beginnersto enthusiasts. With the vast arrays of tutorials, instructions and discussion forums available Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright 2013, American Society for Engineering Educationonline, and with the processing power of a modest computer, one can implement decent circuitsto learn the underlying principles. Minimal supervision is necessary to setup these circuits inSPICE. This in home simulation tool can be very useful

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Nripendra N. Sarker; Mohan A. Ketkar

. 3. Give a sense of satisfaction to the students that they have learnt a new course with high-end technology. Strategy in Improving the LabIn computer engineering program, the digital logic circuit is the first course to learn a digitalsystem. Its counterpart is a lab which usually offers ten to twelve lab exercises. The first lab isusually to learn the pin and gate layouts of basic gates, like, NOT, OR, NOR, AND, NAND,XOR, and XNOR. Students grasp the functionalities of the gates by comparing the truth tableswith corresponding observed outputs. The other labs are on combinational circuits based onBoolean simplifications, DeMorgan’s Theorem, K-map solutions, Adder/subtractors,multiplexers and decoders

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David H. K. Hoe

indicated the students generally perceived the value of the in-class peer interactionactivities. IntroductionSeveral studies have indicated the benefits of utilizing in-class peer interaction exercises toimprove student learning and motivation. For example, the use of peer interaction activitiescentered around conceptual questions in an undergraduate genetics class was found to producegains in conceptual understanding.1 A similar study in computer architecture classes indicatedthe learning benefits associated with the active engagement of the students discussing problemswith their peers.2 This paper investigates the potential learning benefits from implementingactive learning exercises centered around peer

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Hector A. Ochoa

-communicationscourse. The professor or teaching assistant will need to prepare the experiment before hand, andthe students will login from their computers to perform measurements in the previouslyassembled experiment. The measurements were performed using a LabView Interface and byphysically observing the setup with the help of a webcam. It is evident that this approachpresents a good solution to provide hands-on experience to the students in communications, byallowing them to observe and manipulate the inputs and outputs of the experiment. However, thissystem does not allow the students to learn from assembling the system. It is well known thatthey learn more by making mistakes and debugging the circuit. On the other hand, Chesnuttdecided to use the NI myDAQ

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Xiao Peng; Lex Gonzalez; Eric Haney; Amen Omoragbon; Bernd Chudoba

the development of computer science, researchers all over the world proposevarious Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS) to proficiently capture, store and apply knowledge.The following table is a succinct summarization of the KBSs developed during the past decades:Table 1 Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS) DevelopmentResearchers Year Discipline Contribution Discussion on system requirements of aJohn F Gilmore1 1984 Computer Science KBSKunio Preliminary research on inference engine 1984 Computer ScienceMurakami2

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Mohammad Obadat P.E.; Mohammad Ali Khasawneh

and analyze real lifeengineering-mechanics problems. On the other hand, instructors’ challenge is to get the studentsto participate, focus, and understand the material during class periods. Turning Technology, LLCoffers a response system that can get immediate students’ participation and feedback. Thisinteractive system is used along with PowerPoint slides to facilitate and try to improve students’ learning experience in Statics at the Department of Engineering at UTM. The used technologywas found to be useful, effective, simple to use and inexpensive tool. This response system wasimplemented in teaching Statics as an auxiliary tool along with multiple-choice questions onvarious topics each class time. The course-textbook supplementary

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Mohammed Zubair; Cherif Aissi

projects in the freshman year curriculum and even in high school curriculum.This process will help students to understand what they can accomplish by enrolling in STEM(Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields, and more importantly is to equipthem with tools that will make learning STEM subjects more interesting.One of the tools that are widely used in the academia and industry is  National  Instrument’s Labview data acquisition hardware and software to acquire data, process and control [1]. Theseintegrated hardware-software tools use computers increased computational capabilities to assist Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March

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Christina K. White; Richard H. Crawford

) connect socially and culturally to engineering; and c) find solutions to theworld’s  most  pressing  societal  and  technical  issues.  These  experiences  will  be  described  with examples of interdisciplinary and design-based teaching at The University Texas at Austin. TheGrand Challenges Scholars’ reflections and survey results will represent ways that they engagedin and responded to international and interdisciplinary engineering education projects.Specifically, the experiences of the design and launch of an enterprise in Ghana will create athick and rich description about interdisciplinary, international, service-learning, andentrepreneurial components of engineering designs framed within the 21st Century EngineeringGrand Challenges. This

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Rasool Kenarangui; Ratan Kumar; Lynn Peterson

, decontamination and decommissioning, fusion power,regulating nuclear reactors, nuclear power economics and environment;Prerequisite: Math 3319 (differential equations / linear algebra) or MAE 3360, Phys 1444(general technical physics II)Course Learning Goals/ ObjectivesThe course objectives for NE 3301 Introduction to Nuclear Engineering are to provide thefollowing: Introduction to the fundamental principles of nuclear engineering. These topics includeatomic and nuclear physics, fission and fusion, isotopes and radioactivity, nuclear reactions,chart of nuclides, radiations; detection and interaction with matter. Introduction to criticality and reactor kinetics, reactor licensing, safety, economic andenvironment impact. In addition to light water

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Bonnie Boardman

Extended Abstract with Poster An iPhone Application Developed for Time Study Practice Bonnie Boardman Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department University of Texas at Arlington Extended AbstractTools developed for the engineering professional often don’t work well for teaching purposes.  The cost/benefit ratio is usually very high considering the limited amount of a semester in whichthe tool would be useful. In learning situations instructors often want students to not onlygather data but also to complete calculations and

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Danielle Reynolds; Nur Yazdani; Tanvir Manzur

engineeringdesign lab in aerospace engineering, and the projects in computer engineering and smartrobotics. Student groups also were able to make modifications to their projects to determinewhat could be added or removed from their designs to improve the performance of theirstructure in the wind loads provided in the simulation. Building a structure that is strongenough and balances cost, strength, and time required to build, as learned by the studentsthrough the RET project, is sound engineering practice. Overall, the students had generallypositive comments about the RET lesson experience. Of the 20 junior and senior studentssurveyed after the field trips in 2008 and 2009, six are currently studying engineering.From the teacher’s perspective, it is

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Tanvir Manzur; Md. Kabirul Islam; Nur Yazdani

assistants (TAs) depending on thenumber of registered students.One of the major drawbacks of the current undergraduate teaching method in BUET is thewidespread use of the deductive method by a significant majority. In this approach, students aretaught theories and governing laws with the assumption that once the principles are wellunderstood, students will be able to apply them to particular situations and cases as needed.Induction is the natural way of learning and most engineering students are inductive learners(Felder et al., 1988). Classroom evaluation is important to assess and eventually to bring out thebest of the students potential abilities. The evaluation method should be carefully designed toenhance the learning capacity of students. As

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John Sibert; Matthew Goeckner; Dave Galley; Kory Goldammer

and computer science. Theresponse from faculty and students has been overwhelmingly positive with, for example, amolecular biology student commenting that this is the best experience of her life and a facultymember sending an unsolicited e-mail report that his engineering student is outstanding andcompleting tasks so quickly that the faculty member is challenged to keep him occupied – a goodproblem to have! Most importantly, all twenty students who have participated in the program arecurrently or will be pursuing STEM degrees at UT Dallas.Peer Led Team Learning (PLTL)The integration of Peer-led Team Learning (PLTL)9 into the UT Dallas STEM learningframework has been supported, in part, by the Collaborative. The PLTL program began in theFall

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Azhar Hyas; Uyen H. T. Pham; Madiha M. Hanif; Samir M. Iqbal

familiar withconcepts of nanoscale. The approach incorporates an anchored instructional scheme supported byhighly motivating and attention-grabbing hands-on activities followed by a visit toNanotechnology Research and Education Center (NanoFab). The tutorial content is carefullydesigned to integrate basic and application-oriented knowledge to teach students with dissimilarknowledge-base and diverse backgrounds. The learning objectives are achieved by takingexamples from daily life and demonstrating the underlying principles with simple but highlyconvincing hands-on activities. Practical demonstration of in-class learned concepts motivate thestudents to explore the new territory of bio-nanotechnology. Their excitement, thought processesand quest

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Ronald E. Barr

Overall competence Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright 2013, American Society for Engineering EducationCriterion 7: Facilities Table 7: PEV Checklist for Criterion 7 CheckABET criterion 7 pertains to the program facilities. 7. FACILITIES C, W, DThe PEV will want to tour the classrooms, or Nonelaboratories, offices, and computing facilities. The Adequate to support

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Amit Oza; Gary Coleman; Lex Gonzalez; Bernd Chudoba; Paul Czsyz

Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright 2013, American Society for Engineering EducationClearly, the early identification of the correct trade-space and technology combinations requiresusing logic, organization and transparency before any baseline design can be selected. This approachwill provide the greatest insight into the design problem within the time assigned.The process of rectifying thus reducing the theoretical trade-space available consists of: (a)Formulate a classification scheme for the design options available. (b) Focus the DB/KBdevelopment and team learning on relevant design trade-studies. (c) Harmonize pre-selected tradeswith

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Amit Oza; Gary Coleman; Lex Gonzalez; Eric Haney; Amen Omoragbon; Xiao Peng; Bernd Chudoba; Paul Czsyz

aviation electric aircraft technology towards the green technology revolution. It forecaststhe solution space for electric aircraft industrial capability. For this purpose, a sizing process hasbeen adopted to demonstrate a long-range planning capability for electric general aviationaircraft. This study examines five case studies, all based on the Ryan NYP and Lancair-IV: theaircraft are sized for four unique technology packages including two different internalcombustion engine, one all-electric, and one hybrid-electric powertrains. In this way the designsensitivities can be adopted to generate lessons learned for green transportation. The paperconcludes with a forecast that provides design and mission recommendations, followed by abreakdown for

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Amit Oza; Gary Coleman; Lex Gonzalez; Bernd Chudoba; Paul Czsyz

first step in efficiently utilizing existing aircraft design knowledge has been a systematicliterature survey, which in itself has been an ongoing effort throughout the existence of the AVDLaboratory and of course during the current research period. Source for accessing normal andradical design data and knowledge have been (a) public domain literature, (b) institution andcompany internal sources, and (c) expert advice. For efficient handling of design related data andinformation, a dedicated computer-based aircraft conceptual design data-base (DB) has been setup, see Figure 1. Reference 3 presents the literature DB file-structure. This system handlesdisciplinary and inter-disciplinary literature relevant for conceptual design (methodologies

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Amir Karimi; Randall D. Manteufel

: tutoring, mentoring, learning centers, first-year students,at-risk students, academic advising, and career awareness.Much has been done to understand and improve the retention of students6-10. Universities useproblem solving recitations, and the integration of math/science/engineering into more excitingengineering courses with more active design project for students. Much of these efforts havelimited success and can often be overwhelmed by changes in the student body attending theuniversity, changes in faculty teaching key engineering courses, and changes in seeminglyinsignificant aspects such as classroom scheduling. In many cases, modest changes impact therate of progress through particular classes and the overall program.In this work, it is

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Gustavo Narez; Sarah Hussein; Bernd Chudoba; Amit Oza

accomplish a nation with strong STEM foundation, advanced levels of thinking mustbe achieved instead of following learned procedures in the classroom. A creative mind inconjunction of STEM initiatives will enable this nation to become an international leaderin the scientific fields. This paper will present the overall procedure carried in the seniorvehicle design project of reverse engineering of the World War II fighter planes byutilizing available historical resources and applying methods of group execution to arriveat a conceptual design of the aircraft. A method of aircraft design will be implemented tothe aircraft based on the flight mission requirements that the fighter planes were requiredto maintain. The handling of the student group will

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Cherif Aissi; Mohammed Zubair

education in the area of circuit and design hasbeen mainly focused in linear models is that linear system theory has been thoroughly developed,and mathematical tools are available to analyze such systems. This philosophy has led manyscientists and experimentalists to disregard many observed phenomena because linear systemtheory can not explain them. In the last decade, there is a strong interest in exploring systems thatdisplay unusual complicated waveforms, commonly known as strange attractors. These attractorshave been increasingly observed in several nonlinear deterministic systems.Therefore, it is important for today's students to be exposed to these complex chaos phenomena.From the educational aspect, students need to learn not only how to

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Andy Walker; Bernd Chudoba

University of Texas at Arlington, March 21-23, 2013 Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education IntroductionMy job is to estimate how big flight vehicles are. That is to say formally that I am a MassProperties engineer working in the conceptual design of aircraft. My work revolves aroundquick turn-around weight & balance estimation methods, usually of lower fidelity or granularitythan is available in later design phases where more people and computational power is available,and airplanes are actually being built in factories.  The UTA AVD Lab, through which I’ve learned much of what I know about conceptual design, is directly involved in CompetitiveAnalysis

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Lana Rings

they are failing tocommunicate. Instead, they will ascribe negative personality traits and behavior to each other.That is because different cultures tend to assign differing interpretations to specific words,phrases, texts, and situations. Thus, what may be polite interaction in one culture may be aninsult in another. Furthermore, although Participant A may have learned Participant B’s language and speak it well with him or her, nevertheless, speaking the same language does not meanassigning the same meanings to spoken or written words. As Blum-Kulka and Oshtain say,“[S]econd language speakers might fail to communicate effectively, even when they have anexcellent grammatical and lexical command of the target language”1 (my italics). In other

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Eric Haney; Lex Gonzalez; Amen Omoragbon; Amit Oza; Bernd Chudoba

stores and categorizes raw data; similardata for different products is compared. KB stores lessons learned and draws embedded trendsfrom DB. PP provides parametric systems level analysis and quantifies performance.All three tools are able to function independently, but a data-base without a parametric processcan be seen as shallow, and a parametric process without a data-base can be seen as unfounded.The current prototype DB is a first step in creating fully-functioning product-forecasting system.It is the ultimate goal to have all three tools seamlessly connected in a product developmentenvironment that has the capability to assess the performance of a novel product in physics-basedplatform using proven, justifiable methods and considering the