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Camille A. Issa

engineeringaccreditation. ABET AccreditationEngineering programs in the United States are accredited by ABET, formerly the AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology. After some eight decades of development and activity, 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 EducationABET has earned a reputation as one of the best, if not the best, accreditation systems forengineering and related area academic programs. “ABET is a non-profit and non-governmentalaccrediting agency for academic programs in the disciplines of applied

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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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Lana Rings

Republic of Ireland, Pakistan, India,and Poland14. In addition, “there were an estimated 988,000 EU8 (Czech Republic, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Slovenia) born residents in the UK,” as well as “an estimated 141,000 Romanian and Bulgarian born residents in the U.K.”14.Therefore, DeGraaff and Ravesteijn argue for “more ‘complete engineers’, i.e. engineers with sophisticated and practical knowledge, not of technology alone, but of ‘technology and society’”15.Third, engineering education programs are also aware of this reality. Because of the increasinglyinternational and collaborative nature of some engineering endeavors, educators are ever moreinsistent that engineers need excellent cross-cultural social skills

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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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Christina K. White; Richard H. Crawford

together totake steps in effecting change to systematically enrich the field of engineering educationRecently, the National Academy of Engineers (NAE) explored broad realms of human concern –sustainability, health, vulnerability, and joy of living – and generated 14 specific 21st CenturyGrand Challenges that await innovative engineering solutions. The NAE solicited research andeducational leaders to face these 21st Century issues by establishing the Grand ChallengesScholars Program (GCSP) to prepare college students to solve the Grand Challenges. The NAEGCSP provides a framework for curricular enhancements that will motivate students to addressthe Grand Challenges through five components: (1) a research experience related to a GrandChallenge; (2

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Danielle Reynolds; Nur Yazdani; Tanvir Manzur

 important to help students see real life applications to thelessons that are taught in the classroom. It is apparent that the exposure to real life exampleshelped students understand why they needed to learn the material; it also helped motivatetheir interest in career fields (such as engineering, sciences, mathematics and technology).The teacher benefits in other ways, such as the ability to gain knowledge outside their area ofexpertise, create new educational and professional relationships between the high schools andthe university, better understand career fields in relation to material in the classroom, acquireprofessional development hours and the financial assistance in terms of a summer stipend.Through the RET project, teachers began to view

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Melanie Sattler

many benefits of service learning for students. Many ofthese skills are important outcomes of engineering programs, and are evaluated as part of theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) reviews of undergraduateprograms. Selected service learning benefits, their related ABET outcomes, and research studiesdocumenting these benefits for engineering students are listed in Table 1. The studies listed usedvarious methods of determining the effectiveness of service learning projects in meeting ABETlearning objectives. Some studies relied on faculty observations/judgment 4-6; other studies reliedon student perception of effectiveness as reported in reflections 7,8 or surveys 9-13. Only one study14 employed a direct rather than

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

Force Stability and Control Digital DATCOM. The program allowed forthe user to define the geometry of a fixed-wing aircraft and the specifications, including theSpitfire’s propeller and engine location, within an input file.  The static aerodynamic and dynamic stability derivatives at various flight conditions were predicted using non-linearaerodynamics and semi-empirical calculations. A secondary method, Tornado4, was employed to 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 Educationserve as a sanity check for the

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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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Ronald E. Barr

program. The ABET team then reassembles for a Sunday eveningdinner and discussions about report preparation. 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 EducationThe Monday visit starts with a presentation by the engineering dean, who overviews data aboutthe college. The PEVs then travel back to the program facilities to interview faculty and staff.The noontime luncheon on Monday includes alumni and student invitees, as well as programadministrators. This is an important luncheon since it gives the PEV one-on-one opportunities todiscuss the program

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Amir Karimi; Randall D. Manteufel

prepared for college courses and arerequired to complete remedial courses. In a structured degree program such as engineering,students are required to satisfy prerequisites in order to proceed through the curriculum. Lack ofcourse offerings, especially offering all required courses every semester, can delay progresstowards graduation for some students. This paper surveys a cohort of senior engineeringmechanical engineering students to determine the causes for delays in graduation. In respondingto survey questionnaire, students provide such information as whether they attend school fulltime or part-time, how many years to graduation, whether they attend summer school, the coursesthat students have difficulty passing, and other questions related to

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Tanvir Manzur; Md. Kabirul Islam; Nur Yazdani

anotherresponse it has been found that 65% of students found hands-on training on software to beimportant, very important or vital. Inadequacy of computing facilities was considered by moststudents as one of the major constraints of the program. The pilot study under HEQEP thusprovided important initial data regarding the approaches that may be considered for improvementof the course curriculum and related facilities that are necessary for future ABET accreditation.Rapid economic changes are continuously increasing and broadening the scope of work,responsibility and role of engineers in their respective communities. The new generation ofengineers needs to be globally competitive with strong communication skills to performeffectively in a

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Yucheng Liu P.E.

Engineering Education Figure 12. Solve problem 3 using the interface Discussions and ConclusionsThis paper presents courseware that can be used to solve fundamental problems inthermodynamic courses. Theories and algorithms related to the problem solving wereimplemented in the program, which was developed using C#. As validated by means ofthree application examples, the developed courseware can be used to solve typicalthermodynamic problems, including: determine gas status, evaluate substance’sthermodynamic properties, and analyze basic thermodynamic cycles from the perspectiveof the conservation of energy principle. Graphical user interfaces were designed for thecourseware, through which a

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S. Nasrazadani; Devon Henkis

Friday Afternoon Session 2- Faculty A Recent Experience in Utilization of Online Resources in Teaching Undergraduate Dynamics S. Nasrazadani and Devon Henkis Engineering Technology Department University of North Texas AbstractUndergraduate Engineering Dynamics (ENGR 2302) is one of the challenging courses in bothEngineering and Engineering Technology curricula. Variety of topics related to EngineeringMechanics is covered in this course with varying degrees of difficulty students perceived todevelop their understandings of the

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Mohammed Arif I. Mahmood; Samir M. Iqbal

. Copyright 2013, American Society for Engineering Educationregular basis. Many other specialized simulators have been designed subsequently; however allother design tools used for such simulations still roughly follow the format of original SPICE.Core SPICE program is text command based. A much user friendly PSPICE was initiallydeveloped by Microsim Corporation in San Jose, CA, which was later acquired by CadenceDesign System, Inc. PSPICE provides a user-friendly graphical interface for circuit design. Astudent version with certain number of maximum nodes is available for free that can be used bystudents as learning tool.SPICE can simulate circuit operations using basic components like resistors, capacitors etc.Included library provides a pool of

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Mohammed Zubair; Cherif Aissi

and the block diagram. Thefront panel shown in figure 2 is designed with the primary aim of making it user friendly as itacts as an interface between the human and the system. Figure 2: Front panel of the ApplicationThe input parameters to the system are provided through the control modules. The block diagram shown in figure 3 has three main blocks that are responsible for (a)relating the voltage to the corresponding temperature in Celsius (b) conversion of Celsius into 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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John Sibert; Matthew Goeckner; Dave Galley; Kory Goldammer

Results and DiscussionThe Collaborative is a partnership between three institutions (UT Dallas, Collin College andRichland College) to facilitate the recruitment and success of STEM students. Specific programsinclude the following with selected activities highlighted in subsequent sections. The successful2+2 articulation program in engineering (including important curricular alignment agreements)between Collin College, Richland College and UT Dallas was expanded to all STEM disciplinesat both Collin College and Richland College. Enhanced Advising has played a key role in thiseffort at the community college level. Direct presentations to students, parents, and counselorscoupled with the offering of Technical Dual Credit coursework at local high

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Musab J. Bari; Samir M. Iqbal

. These moved the probe tip in a circular manner following anarc path. The arc radii for the movements were related to the lateral position of the probe arm’s tip. Z X Y 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 Education Figure 2. Unmodified Singatone S-725 micropositioner For complete automation, each

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

hardware and software andhow they should work in order to perform the supposed functions. The aim of this effort is topoint out a path to the functional knowledge-based systems, but no actual system is developed atthis stage. In this era, John F. Gilmore1 discusses the system requirements of KBSs, theirrelevance with computer-aided technology and points out a potential application. KunioMurakami et al2 do preliminary research on inference engine and the related knowledge base.Anton Bigelmaier4 investigates the representation problems for geometrical knowledge in CAD- Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013

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Andy Walker; Bernd Chudoba

vehicle legacies can lead to significant proprietary analysis resources.Weight engineering is also problematic because it has the capability to sell an aircraft on thegrounds of meeting operational and/or cost-to-weight requirements. A program contract can bewon based on whether or not a vehicle’s configuration (structural & system design and operation) is affordable and meets or exceeds customer expectations. Small Educational InvestmentA third problem is a lack of educational investment in mass properties. This is oftenovershadowed by more exciting or fashionable technology development fields outside of massproperties analysis. Weight engineering has always been a small field of study. It now risksbecoming a

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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

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L. Massa; P. Jha

. Copyright 2013, American Society for Engineering Educationlinear equations. The advantage of computers in education is, in this second case, to make thelecture less abstract by presenting a realistic analysis.The present research investigates benefits related to the second issue. The topic underinvestigation is the definition of thermo-chemical equilibrium, which mechanical and aerospaceengineering students learn and apply to determine chemical compositions, flame temperatures,specific impulses of rockets, etc..., in combustion, propulsion and atmospheric modeling classes.In this paper we argue that explaining the concept of thermodynamic equilibrium based onchemical reactions3 is an uninformative approach for two reasons. First, it does not

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Gustavo Narez; Sarah Hussein; Bernd Chudoba; Amit Oza

Engineering Education Figure 1. Design team diagram with team members and position within chosen criterion.AerodynamicsThe aerodynamics group will specialize in tradition aerodynamic topics related to theresults of normal and shear stress distributions applied to plane including coefficients oflift, drag, and moments applicable to any given dynamic pressure value. The group willdecide on an implementation of measuring such values. Process possibilities include ThinAirfoil Theory, to find correlations in data, or advanced DATCOM programming.PropulsionThe propulsion group will work to analyze the propulsion aspects surrounding mainly thepropeller and power plant of the aircraft. Other topics of concern to be shared amongperformance are fuel

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Jonathan Crosley; Vincent Ricketts; Amit Oza; Bernd Chudoba

-Southwest Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright 2013, American Society for Engineering Educationdocuments are organized into four distinct categories, technical books, technical reports,manufacture reports, and historical, senior design reports. The outline of the KB documentcontains the book or report the information is cited in, including page number, extractedinformation and/or relations and figures. In another section of the KB are visualizations andcomparisons of output data from the analysis tool. These visualizations aid in the development ofpresentation and report material. The DB was constructed in a different manner that contains

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Karen McGill; Amir Karimi

. Copyright 2013, American Society for Engineering EducationThe National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Thermophysical Properties Software[15, 16] was used to generate property values for v (T, p), u (T, p), s (T, p), and h (T, p). TheNIST website provides a thermodynamic property databases for a wide range of substances,covering 74 different fluids. The program uses equations for the thermodynamic and transportproperties to calculate the state points of the fluid or mixture. Behavior of Specific Internal EnergyFor several isotherms, the departures of specific internal energy of compressed liquid water fromtheir saturated states are plotted versus (P-Psat) in Fig. 1. The figure indicates that