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Rasool Kenarangui; Ratan Kumar; Lynn Peterson

at UT Arlington hold PhD degrees in nuclear and relatedengineering fields. Several members of the College’s Advisory Board are involved in power generation industry and have voiced unequivocal support for this program. The faculty and administration of the College of Engineering have been very supportive,providing both moral and financial support to initiate the minor.The nuclear industry, particularly nuclear power generating companies, hires engineers from alldisciplines. The majority of these hires come from mechanical or electrical engineering. Theseengineers are involved with design, construction, operations, maintenance, quality assurance,information technology and radiation protection / monitoring. The NE minor is

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Jonathan Crosley; Vincent Ricketts; Amit Oza; Bernd Chudoba

Saturday Morning Session 1- Student Design Innovation for Electric Aircraft Jonathan Crosley, Vincent Ricketts, Amit Oza, Bernd Chudoba Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department University of Texas at Arlington AbstractIn spring 2012 the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) aerospace engineering senior designcapstone class was challenged to design an electric experimental aircraft that adopts the Spirit ofthe Spirit of St Louis. The mission for this next-generation electric aircraft is to fly along thehistoric Route 66. The spirit of this modern

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George Kitamura; Kristin Milam; Elvin Hii; Chris Kniffin; Alexander Graves; Amit Oza; Bernd Chudoba

Extended Abstract with Poster Reverse Engineering through Simulation of a Conceptual Design Process of Supermarine Spitfire George Kitamura, Kristin Milam, Elvin Hii, Chris Kniffin, Alexander Graves, Amit Oza, Bernd Chudoba Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of Texas at Arlington AbstractThis paper is a report documenting the experience of participating in a Senior Design Capstonecourse in which the Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vb was reversed engineered. Instituting multi-disciplinary analysis, first

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Camille A. Issa

. ISSADr. Issa currently serves as a Professor of Civil Engineering at the Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon.His research interests include finite elements, concrete mix design, experimental investigation, repair andrehabilitation of structures, structural concrete design, and seismic analysis and design. Prof. Issa is a registeredProfessional Engineer in Mississippi and Lebanon. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers andserves as an ABET Program Evaluator. 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

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

-budget completion of modernday engineering tasks. A system that encompasses this information from relevant past andcurrent projects and is integrated into the design process allows for transparent, best practicedecision-making. The prototype data-base (DB) system presented focuses on current efforts inhypersonic vehicle research & development. The Hypersonic DB is presented as an example casestudy for modern aerospace data collection, categorization, and comparison. Focus has been onrepurposing data to provide insight into financial and technical trends in hypersonic research tosupport objective managerial program decision-making. The end-product is a dynamic aerospacedata-base that is capable of rapidly providing information and

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Christina K. White; Richard H. Crawford

Engineering Grand ChallengesThe newly founded Grand Challenges Scholars & K12 Partners Program (GCSP & K12) is aninterdisciplinary, university-wide program, housed in the Cockrell School of Engineering whichis affiliated with the National Academy of Engineering. The University Texas at Austin is thefirst in the nation to be a university-wide program. The GCSP is a certificate program designedto be complementary, not additive, to the student’s traditional academic path. GC Scholars will complete courses, research projects, community The five keyprojects, a comprehensive reflective report, and a final design that components of our GCSP and

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Matthew Rivera; Vladimir Santalov; Andres Delagarza; Randall Manteufel

ongoing effort toimprove the graduation rate of the students of any state University without compromising thequality of the education or the value of the engineering degree. In this paper, several categories of impediments to students’ academic success are presented and analyzed. The impediments were hypotheses by current students at the end of theengineering program at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). The impediments are:(1) cost of attending, (2) dissatisfaction with the faculty members, (3) strict course prerequisitechains, (4) availability of courses, (5) high school preparation, and (6) difficulty of courses. The analysis of the problems a student faces during their academic journey aims toconsolidate the

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Melanie Sattler

 apply what they have learned in class to “real-world” problems (bridging the gap between theory and practice), 2) critical thinking skills and problem analysis, 3) communicationskills, 4) teamwork skills, and 5) sense of civic responsibility and awareness of opportunities forcommunity involvement. Many of these skills are important outcomes of engineering programs,and are evaluated as part of ABET. Service learning also promotes active involvement ofstudents in their own learning, which has documented positive results.This paper summarizes relevant research regarding the benefits of service learning in achievingthe ABET outcomes mentioned above. It also describes examples of 4 service learning projectsthat the author’s students have conducted

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Raj Desai

of manufacturing, petroleum, and business coursework. Theprogram was specifically designed to meet the needs of the manufacturing and petroleumindustry in the Permian Basin of West Texas as one out of five jobs in the area is related tomanufacturing and exploration related to the petroleum industry. The courses were initiallyoffered at night because we expected working people to be interested in this program.When we started the Mechanical Engineering program, enrollment in the Industrial Technologyprogram dropped as we were competing for some of the same students. By offering coursesonline we attracted a new group of working students that were constrained by their jobs frombeing able to take any day or night courses. Many of these students

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Andy Walker; Bernd Chudoba

, Conceptual Flight Vehicle Design & Development, Flight Test Simulation,Certification, System Risk Management, and Project Engineer Education. In supportingactivities for each of these endeavors, knowledge is passed down through collaborative activity& “living documentation.”  In this way, knowledge & lessons-learned are preserved, all in theinterest of invigorating the past of flight vehicle design such that we influence future generationsof design.One of the major problems I’ve experienced, along with other Mass Properties professionals, is a high turn-over rate of new hires to our engineering discipline stemming from:1. a lack of understanding of the actual process of generation & usage of Mass Properties data,2. a lack of

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Tanvir Manzur; Md. Kabirul Islam; Nur Yazdani

these requirements for future engineers, all the departments ofBUET have been updating and modifying their respective curricula. Moreover, there has been anincreasing concern among the majority of faculty members at BUET that ABET accreditationshould be sought to enhance and streamline its academic curricula, educational administrationand management processes.In view of this, The Civil Engineering Department of BUET had recently taken several stepsthrough a program called Higher Education Quality Enhancement Program (HEQEP) funded bythe University Grant Commission (UGC) of Bangladesh. As a first step of the program, severalcourses are being evaluated according to the criteria used for ABET accreditation. The objectiveof this paper is to

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

for Engineers.The designed interventions intended to produce a change in pass rates for these courses weremodeled after the Emerging Scholars Program (ESP) implementations [1]. The ESP modelrequires increased student time in a seminar/workshop setting to promote key features and to“learn how to learn” mathematics or chemistry.   The ESP model has been adapted at over one hundred campuses across the nation and has been broadened to include a variety of introductoryscience and engineering courses as well as those in the introductory mathematics sequence.Research studies show that the ESP model positively impacts retention in a STEM-based major. The AURAS programThe AURAS program at UT Arlington is a combined

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Amir Karimi; Randall D. Manteufel

capstone design project in the Spring 2013 andconducted surveys in two upper-division courses to determine areas that have contributed indelaying student graduation. Analysis of Student Academic RecordThe mechanical engineering program at UTSA requires 128 SCH of course work in order for astudent to receive a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (BSME) degree. The degreerequirement includes 42 SCH of the University Core Curriculum. Courses in general chemistry,engineering physics, and calculus are parts of both the University Core Curriculum andmechanical engineering degree requirements. In examining the academic records of 60 studentswho are completing their senior design project in spring 2013 we made several

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

Interactive Aircraft Design". Technology Assessment and Management, pp.221-230.22. Baily, S. A. 1987. "Aeronautical Systems Conceptual Workbench: A Concept". Conference: Eighth Annual IEEE/AESS Dayton Chapter Symposium: Avionics in Conceptual System Planning, pp. 61-66.23. Dos Santos, Walter A. B. B. 2009. "A Knowledge-Based and Model-Driven Requirements Engineering Approach to Conceptual Satellite Design". ER 2009, LNCS 5829, pp. 487-500. 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 Education24. Gong, Chunlin, Gu, Liangxian

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Sara E. McCaslin

independent design and engineering graphics consultant, astructural engineer with 30+ years’ experience, a petroleum engineer, and a mechanical engineer working in heat transfer. All students lived and worked in North America. The studentsincluded both civil and mechanical engineering graduate students, all with undergraduate degreesin engineering.The course was presented to the students using the learning management system BlackboardLearn, which allows faculty to monitor student activity even without enabling statistics trackingon particular items [3].All course materials were made available through Blackboard in form of video lectures, videodemonstrations, handouts, and discussion forums.  The midterm was a “take-home” exam and the final consisted

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Siamak (Sia) A. Ardekani

flow theory, traffic surveillance systems, intelligent transportation systems, managed lane operations,roadway pricing, emergency transportation management, and public transportation design and operations. Prof.Ardekani is a registered PE in Texas and Virginia. 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 EducationTable 1. Mean Exam Grades by Semester for In-Class versus DL Students in the Same Graduate Courses P-value Semester In

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John Sibert; Matthew Goeckner; Dave Galley; Kory Goldammer

. Copyright 2013, American Society for Engineering EducationFaculty Innovation GrantsThe Collaborative has introduced a faculty innovation grant program designed to facilitatefaculty and student interaction across the 2 year and 4 year institutions. Thus, at least one facultymember from UT Dallas and either Collin College or Richland College are required as co-PIs onany submission. The series of recurring meetings across institutions that led to the formalarticulation agreements described above have served as a critical vehicle in stimulatingdiscussion among faculty concerning common research interests, resulting in the development ofproposal ideas. This further solidified the value of regular faculty meetings involving membersfrom all three

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

Saturday Morning Session 1 - Student Solution Space Screening of a Hypersonic Endurance Demonstrator Amit Oza, Gary Coleman, Lex Gonzalez, Bernd Chudoba Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department University of Texas at Arlington Paul Czysz Hypertech Concepts LLC St. Louis, MO AbstractThe Solution Space Screening for a Hypersonic Endurance Demonstrator program was atwo and one-half month study to: Demonstrate the Aerospace Vehicle Design (AVD) Laboratory

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

 express the program pthat runs in M and produces s as an output. The smallest possible L(p) for a given s over allprograms and all machines that outputs s is the Kolmogorov measure of information in Xrelative in complexity to M represented as: KM(s) = min(L(p))+CM where CM is the number of bitsthat it takes to describe the machine M, a quantity that is independent of s. Since a Turingmachine may simulate any other machine, it may be used to estimate CM except that we cannot 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 Educationbe sure of a