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

Friday Morning Session 2- Student Forecasting the Green Potential for General Aviation Aircraft Amit Oza, Gary Coleman, Lex Gonzalez, Eric Haney, Amen Omoragbon, Xiao Peng, Bernd Chudoba Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department University of Texas at Arlington Paul Czysz HyperTech Concepts St. Louis, Missouri AbstractThe paper presented here is a specification and evaluation study to determine the potential ofgeneral

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Rasool Kenarangui; Ratan Kumar; Lynn Peterson

Saturday Morning Session 1- Faculty Establishment of a Nuclear Engineering Minor Program Rasool Kenarangui Department of Electrical Engineering Ratan Kumar Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Lynn Peterson College of Engineering The University of Texas at Arlington AbstractIn Fall 2009, the College of Engineering at UT Arlington began to offer a minor in nuclearengineering for its students. The

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

Saturday Morning Session 1- Student Development of Advanced Commercial Transport AircraftConfigurations Through the Assessment of Past, Present, and Future Technologies Amit Oza, Gary Coleman, Lex Gonzalez, Bernd Chudoba Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department University of Texas at Arlington Paul Czsyz Hypertech Concepts LLC Abstract NASA’s Subsonic Fixed Wing Project has organized its research portfolio into three areas; N+1represents concepts and

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

Friday Morning Session 1- Student Integrated Engineering Database: A 21st Century Decision Aid Eric Haney, Lex Gonzalez, Amen Omoragbon, Amit Oza, and Bernd Chudoba Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department University of Texas at Arlington AbstractThe exponentially increasing amount of information accumulated from past and currentengineering projects has created an environment where retaining and utilizing existingknowledge is paramount. The modern engineer is tasked with leveraging the intellectual andfinancial efforts of legacy projects in order to ensure on-time, on

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Amir Karimi; Randall D. Manteufel

Saturday Morning Session 1 - Faculty Factors Influencing Student Graduation Rates Amir Karimi, Randall D. Manteufel Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Texas at San Antonio AbstractIn recent years pressure has been placed on the public universities to increase their four and sixyear graduation rates. As faculty, we are aware of some factors that slow down student progresstowards graduation. A large number of students enrolled in universities in urban locations arenon-traditional students. Some entering freshmen are not

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

nurtures insights of students from very early parts of theirlives. But, over the past few decades, students with engineering as their major have declinedeven in technically advanced countries like the United States.1 Therefore, the youngsters shouldbe encouraged and facilitated with tutorials, seminars and educational programs to augment theirinterest and knowledge in advanced technologies in order to expand a capable work force fornext generation. Nanotechnology has rapidly emerged among other fields of science and engineering.Growth and development of this field over the last few years has convinced researchers andscientists that it can sustainably knock over the prevailing technological models.2 It has beenspeculated in many reports from

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Amen I. Omoragbon; Gary J. Coleman; Lex Gonzalez; Brandon Watters; Bernd Chudoba

Friday Morning Session 2- Student Feasibility Study of a Thrust Vector Control TransportAmen I. Omoragbon, Gary J. Coleman, Lex Gonzalez, Brandon Watters, Bernd Chudoba Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX AbstractThrust Vectored Control (TVC) has the potential to advance the design of commercial transports.This research evaluates the feasibility of a TVC commercial transport concept in three phases;(1) thrust vectoring technology review, (2) parametric sizing of a TVC transport, and (3) stabilityand control (S&

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Eric Haney; Lex Gonzalez; Amen Omoragbon; Thomas McCall; Xiao Peng; Vincent Ricketts; Jon Crosley; Bernd Chudoba

Friday Afternoon Session 2 – Student Leveraging History in the Context of Project Engineer Education: Project Mercury Eric Haney, Lex Gonzalez, Amen Omoragbon, Thomas McCall, Xiao Peng, Vincent Ricketts, Jon Crosley, and Bernd Chudoba Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department University of Texas at Arlington AbstractThe first manned U.S. space program, Project Mercury, is leveraged as a data-rich aerospacesystems engineering design case study. The extensive amount of contract design reports,technical memorandums, and project overviews

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

Friday Morning Session 1 - Student AVDKBS - Standing on the Shoulders of Giants Xiao Peng, Lex Gonzalez, Eric Haney, Amen Omoragbon and Bernd Chudoba Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX AbstractGeorge Santayana is known for saying “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned torepeat it”. Throughout the development history of aerospace engineering conceptual design,much knowledge has been generated although, to the best of our knowledge, no efficient systemhas been developed to help aerospace

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Melanie Sattler

Friday Morning Session 2 - Faculty Benefits of Service-Learning in Meeting Learning Objectives: Examples from Air Pollution/Environmental Engineering Courses Melanie Sattler Civil Engineering Department University of Texas at Arlington AbstractService learning is “a teaching method which combines community service with academic instruction as it focuses on critical, reflective thinking and civic responsibility.”1 Dozens ofstudies have documented many benefits of service learning for students, including improved 1)ability to

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Ronald E. Barr

Saturday Morning Session 1- Faculty Preparing for an ABET Accreditation Visit Ronald E. Barr Mechanical Engineering Department University of Texas at Austin AbstractEngineering faculty must prepare for an ABET accreditation visit every six years. Since theABET process involves demonstration of continuous assessment and improvement, one musthave a plan that begins the process several years before the visit. Many faculty struggle todetermine the best way to prepare for ABET. This is due, in part, to both the complexity

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Lex Gonzalez; Gary Coleman; Eric Haney; Amit Oza; Vincent Ricketts; Bernd Chudoba; Paul Czsyz

at the University of Texas Arlington (UTA) in order toprovide a conceptual assessment of architecture/concept of operations/technology combinations.The primary challenge has been the exploration of past, present, and future in-space investmentsin the context of mission performance, mission complexity, and industrial capability.Consequently, this study necessitated the use of a simulation capability to assess and visualizethe physical design drivers and sensitivities of the operational and technical domain.The overall goal of the study has been the development of a system with the capability to transferpayload to and from GEO. To this end the following concepts of operations (ConOp) have beenstudied: direct insertion/reentry (ConOp 1), and

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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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Camille A. Issa

Friday Morning Session 2 - Faculty U.S. ENGINEERING EDUCATION: A GLOBAL PRESPECTIVE Camille A. Issa, PhD, PE, F. ASCE Department of Civil Engineering School of Engineering Lebanese American University Byblos, Lebanon AbstractOver the last several years a number of reports have raised concern about the growing challengeto U.S. science and technology (S&T) leadership – and long-term economic competitiveness –from both rapidly developing Asian nations and

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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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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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Lana Rings

-Cultural ‘Soft Skills’ and the Global Engineer: Corporate Best Practices and Trainer Methodologies”, Online Journal for Global Engineering Education, Vol. 3, No.1, pp. 1-9.3. Chubin, D. E., May, G. S., Babco, E. L., 2005, “Diversifying the Engineering Workforce”, Journal of Engineering Education, January Vol., pp. 73-86.4. Artemeva, N, 1998, “The Writing Consultant as Cultural Interpreter: Bridging Cultural Perspectives on the Genre of the Periodic Engineering Report”, Technical Communication Quarterly Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 285-299.5. URL: http://enr.construction.com/toplists/InternationalDesignFirms/001-100.asp6. URL: http://www.devex.com/en/news/top-international-development-engineering-firms-a/64263.7. Kampf, C., 2002