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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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Mohammed Zubair; Cherif Aissi

Extended Abstract with Poster A Labview Project: Design of an Automated Water Heating System Mohammed Zubair Department of Industrial Technology University of Louisiana at Lafayette Cherif Aissi Department of Electrical Engineering University of Louisiana at Lafayette AbstractThe task to attract students to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fieldsis becoming more challenging. There is a need to introduce students to one

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Tyler Crosson; Monica Hew; Bernd Chudoba; Amit Oza

Extended Abstract with Poster Fall Semester Mini-Project: Reverse Engineering a WWII Fighter - The North American P-51D Mustang Tyler Crosson, Monica Hew Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department University of Texas at Arlington Bernd Chudoba, Amit Oza Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department University of Texas at Arlington In the fall of 2012 the senior design capstone class has been assigned a semestermini-project that challenges the students to reverse engineer a high performance WWIIfighter

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Melanie Sattler

: Operation SMART air quality presentations to elementary school girls for Girls, Inc.; Air Pollutant Sampling of Carbon Monoxide, Particulates, and Ozone for the American Lung Association; Analysis of Environmental and Economic Impacts of Energy and Water Efficiency Improvements for a Habitat for Humanity House; Analysis of Air Pollution Emissions for the Tema Oil Refinery, Ghana.Effectiveness of the projects in improving student skills in application of knowledge, criticalthinking, communication, and teamwork is evaluated, along with impact of the projects onstudents’ sense of civic responsibility. Based on qualitative information from student projectreflections, the projects were effective in helping students

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Danielle Reynolds; Nur Yazdani; Tanvir Manzur

Experience for Teachers (RET) project on Hazard Mitigation at UT Arlingtonwas funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The project had the importantintellectual focus of educating high school STEM teachers in inquiry-based research learning,research design, execution and implementation, and in solving real-world hazard-relatedengineering problems with open-ended solutions. The RET program brought together 27 highschool STEM teachers from 10 high schools in the Arlington, Texas, and five other schooldistricts from surrounding areas. A total of seven summer research projects with the commontheme of hazard mitigation were identified and conducted. In the six week summer extremewind RET project, the STEM teachers were provided with hands on

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

engineers. Overall, the skills developed through the project will allow eachteam member to carry on techniques and knowledge to other aircraft conceptual design. IntroductionThe Supermarine Spitfire is one of the most iconic and beloved aircraft or its era, and thissemester, a group of senior students was able to participate in the active learning experience ofreverse engineering this exceptional airplane as a part of the Senior Design Capstone Course.The Senior Design Capstone Course compiles the years of undergraduate studies to test andapprove the student’s engineering abilities. Under the direction of Dr. Bernd Chudoba the senior class was tasked to reverse engineer the famous World War II fighter

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Christina K. White; Richard H. Crawford

Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Educationinternational scholars striving with hope in this challenging time. We do more than hope for abetter, safer, and more accessible world for our global citizens because, as agents of change, weput that hope into action with the work and research that we conduct. Margaret Mead oncewisely advised, "Never doubt that a small group of people can change the world. Indeed, it is theonly thing that ever has." Commensurate with her notion we face the 21st Century EngineeringGrand Challenges locally with student-facilitated projects and globally as a network of activists.Teachers, students, community members, policy makers, and industry are working

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

communities keep and use such valuable inheritance. Inthis context, we do routinely witness events such: (i) the failure of aerospace projects, like TitanIV, whose explosion has been deemed the responsibility of a design defect; (ii) the losing ofvaluable aerospace specialists and their expertise, like at Boeing, “…more than half of theBoeing work force will be eligible for retirement within the next decade. That's roughly 80,000employees’ cumulative corporate wisdom walking out the door.”; (iii) the ostensibly well-keptbut not easily accessible knowledge has seldom shown its value and contributed to activities, likethe books and journals covered by dust in library.In order to efficiently use energy, time and money, and apply previous precious

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Nripendra N. Sarker; Mohan A. Ketkar

the application of MultiSim simulation tools for the rest of the semester.The second method, introduced in Spring of 2012, was a mix of three things, i) traditionalhardware, ii) MultiSim software, and iii) the use of XILINX FPGA on Digilent Nexys 2 board,the project being built using XILINX ISE software.First MethodThe equipment shown in Figure 1 was used to teach the truth tables of some basic logic gates andsome simple digital circuits. Students appreciated this part as they could visualize how the digitsystems work. They also identified the hassles of wire connections together with bugs generatedfrom faulty and/or loose connections combined with often malfunctioning of the box itself thatholds the board. As the complexity of circuit grew

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Xavier Mirza; Amir Ali; Thomas Reyes; Jonathan Zea

. BackgroundOur interest in energy harvesting led us to believe that we can take apart a complex device suchas a pacemaker and eliminate it’s battery as the primary power source. We introduced this idea tofew medical professionals such as Dr. Macknojia, a cardiologist, and Dr. Curran, PHD inNeurology. Their enthusiasm and inputs for this topic gave us motivation to design a completeproduct for demonstration. The main complexity of this project dealt with the piezoelectricsensors since our application needs sufficient power to work. Since we cannot use an actualhuman heart to test our theory, we created a mimic heartbeat model using Arduinomicrocontroller. This required us to create a complex C code which is listed in Appendences ofthis paper. Our

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Gustavo Narez; Sarah Hussein; Bernd Chudoba; Amit Oza

design class project. In this experience, a development of individualeffort and studies lead to a very important process of collaborative effort (an essentialquality required in the industry). In aircraft design, a process is executed such that all thedisciplinary studies of aeronautics are applied to produce together one single concept fora vehicle to be built followed by more detailed planning phases. The design is first of allachieved by creating a conceptual shape of the aircraft made by a convergence ofvariables that best fit the subjected mission requirements. The following seven steps givean overview of the conceptual design for an aircraft: 1) Analysis, 2) Integration, 3)Iteration, 4) Convergence, 5) Solution Space Screening, 6) Solution

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Jonathan Crosley; Vincent Ricketts; Amit Oza; Bernd Chudoba

for the capstone class. This project consists of a dedicatedliterature search generating a pertinent database and knowledge base. In addition, a designmethodology is developed leading to a parametric sizing tool capable of visualizing the availablesolution for long-range electric aircraft. Central to this project is a study by NASA, who startedcontracting major corporations (i.e. Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Cessna, etc.) to address about30 years (N+3) of future technologies concerning the use of hybrid electric aircraft forcommercial use by 2030-2035. The mission, identified by the AVD Laboratory, is along theRoute 66 highway, from Chicago to L.A., a distance of roughly 1,660 nm. This experimental-type aircraft will be electric with no hybrid

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Raj Desai

number of students in theIT programs. IntroductionThis project will apply Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints (TOC) to serve the workingprofessionals in the technology courses at UTPB. In education we have to increase enrollment inorder to keep up with the increasing cost of education. The constraint in developing onlinecourses is that it takes a lot of work to develop an online course. Finding ways to increase thenumber of online courses will help serve the working professionals and increase studentenrollment and program enrollment. Overview and BackgroundIn 2004, I was brought in to start up a new Industrial Technology program at UTPB. Thecurriculum is a combination

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Tanvir Manzur; Md. Kabirul Islam; Nur Yazdani

common in BUET. These typesof competition ensure participation of students having different skills in a team environmentwhich allows quick and easy exchange of skills and concepts. The current practice amongundergraduate students of BUET is to focus primarily on course work and chase hard for a bettergrade. There are limited opportunities for undergraduate research in BUET. Research experienceis useful and helpful for undergraduate students to become independent, interdependent andlifelong learners.A survey was conducted among students of the course titled "Structural Analysis and DesignSessional III" under the HEQEP project. It is a final year design-based course in which studentshave the opportunity to utilize commercially available structural

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

apparent that this model of instruction was effective in improvingsuccess rates in high-loss courses. Current efforts are devoted to exploration of ways to makethe project more sustainable. The paper will document the success of the program and discusscurrent efforts toward sustainability. The project is supported by National Science Foundationgrant #0856796. IntroductionThe Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP) is acongressionally-mandated program administered by the National Science Foundation (NSF).The STEP program has as its goal increasing the number of students (U.S. citizens or permanentresidents) receiving associate or baccalaureate degrees in established

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Camille A. Issa

, while the US suffers anincreasingly serious decline in the number of engineering graduates and a lack of well-educatedengineers.While until quite recently U.S. engineering firms dominated in global infrastructure projects andthe development of new design and engineering solutions, they are now becoming minorparticipants and are quite often not even invited to propose and bid for important projects. Earlierlast century the US has built structures such as the Empire State Building in fewer than 18 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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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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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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Ronald E. Barr

background to go Graduates pursue advanced education, research, to graduate school and do research and development in science and engineering. Graduates have leadership and teamwork skills Graduates participate as leaders on team projects Graduates are aware of ethics and professional Graduates conduct themselves in a professional and responsibility in the workplace ethical manner in the workplaceLack of Alumni Involvement in Defining PEOsSince the PEOs pertain to achievements by recent graduates, the program alumni should beinvolved in writing and reviewing them from time-to-time. Most programs have an externaladvisory committee (EAC) that has some members who are program alumni. Hence using

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

Current Industrial Capability 40 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 4000 4500 Range, milesFigure 1. Electric GA Aircraft Transportation PotentialStudy ObjectivesThe principal objectives of this study are as follows: to develop an electric GA technologyroadmap to identify this new industry potential, and to explore the transition of such technologyinto operational and practical hardware applications. The investigation itself is limited to theformulation of first-order forecasting projections and the application of

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Andy Walker; Bernd Chudoba

are encouraged to read the latestdesign textbooks, learn how to use a few basic statistical equations, plunge into the details ofparametric mass properties analysis. To manage the growing and ever-changing body of weightestimation knowledge, and bridge the gap in Mass Properties education, a standardizedengineering “tool-box” of conceptual & preliminary design weight estimation methods wasdeveloped for future projects in the UTA AVD Lab. It will also be used as a living body of workfor use by future students in the AVD Lab.  This “tool-box” consists of a weight estimation method bibliography containing unclassified, open-source literature for conceptual andpreliminary flight vehicle design phases. To provide structure, a logic scheme

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Siamak (Sia) A. Ardekani

the course material. However, such grades havealways been used by instructors as the key assessment measure for this purpose. Hence, it hasbeen used in this study as a surrogate measure of understanding course materials. It should alsobe emphasized that the conclusions in this study are predicated on the specific distance learningdelivery mode and student-instructor interactions described above and may not be valid for othertypes of delivery modes and interaction techniques. Although the majority of DL courses rely onthe video streaming of lectures with web-based delivery, there is a wide variation in how thequestion and answer, homework assignments, project reports, and exams are handled. Theselatter elements may also play a significant role

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Bonnie Boardman

. The app isa data collection tool only; it leaves all calculations up to the student. Prior to designing thisapplication, the author had no C, Objective-C, or C++ programming knowledge and didn’t evenown a Mac. The timeline of the entire development project from purchasing the Mac to seeingthe app appear on iTunes was three months working entirely after work hours and on weekends.The cost to develop the app including the computer, the developer license, and the LLC creationwas around $2000.Time & Rate has been in use for several years. The app is not required for coursework. Studentswho own an iOS device and want to use the app may do so. Students who do not own an iOSdevice or who don’t want to use it are allowed to use mechanical stop

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Dan O. Popa; Nahum Torres; Cody Lundberg

system integration. At UTA, this endeavor has beencombined with Undergraduate Electrical Engineering education through independent studyprojects, Senior Design projects, and is an excellent bridge to follow-up micro-nanoscaleinstruction in graduate school. Furthermore, it presents an opportunity for engineering students tointeract with sponsor companies, and engage in other outreach activities. Future papers willdescribe more detailed competition, including research technology and educational outcomes ofMMC. Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright 2013, American

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Lana Rings

., Egypt, Canada, Spain, Singapore,France, Finland, Denmark, Japan, China, Sweden, Italy, Australia, Taiwan, Lebanon, S. Korea,Belgium, Germany, Austria, Ireland, and Kuwait 5. According to Devex, “[r]ecent decades have seen a growing involvement of major engineering firms in international development projects.The world’s developing communities have become clients under a corporate portfolio that includes both mega-infrastructure undertakings and small projects that provide basic services toimpoverished villages”6.Second, paradoxically, the international nature of the workplace may be found in one’s own “cultural backyard.” There is a better understanding that multicultural diversity occurs both within societies, as well as between them7,8. For

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

obvious. While thehistorical documentation is abundant, there is much which is shielded from the public forproprietary and national security reasons. The publication and selection of standards as done bythe NIST in the US and other international organizations through open competitions anddisclosures has assisted in the development of specific projects and indirectly providedfundamental experiences. In what follows we develop the subject with the same unifying intentthat we introduced in the course. A Conceptual MapWe offer in Figure 1 the conceptual structure that guided us in our educational journey. Ofnecessity it starts with the concept of information measures with a probabilistic

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

sizing process applied to a fast turnaround project by using a dedicated knowledge-harvesting approach coupled with a unique sizing methodology to represent the first step in the conceptual design phase. Identify and visualize the solution space available for a hypersonic endurance (20 to 30 min) demonstrator that employs an air-breathing propulsion system. Propose prospective baseline vehicle(s) based on (1) available industry capability and (2) high-priority research (technology) required. Demonstrate a best-practice product development and technology forecasting environment that integrates the key team members, including (1) manager (decision maker), (2) synthesis specialist (integrator), and (3) technologist (disciplinary

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

(MGS), has been conducted as part of a joint researchactivity between NASA and DARPA in order to assess technology development and investmentby both agencies. The goals of the MGS study are technology, concept, and architectureassessment/forecasting for manned servicing missions within the next 5 to 10 years.The MGS research project is decomposed into five constituents; Team 1 - Hardware to GEO,Team 2 - Crew to and from GEO, Team 3 - Human Presence, Team 4 - Human/RoboticsSynergy, and Core Team - Project Definition and Synthesis. As a member of Team 2, theAerospace Vehicle Design Laboratory (AVD Lab) is responsible for the assessment oftechnology/vehicle requirements to transfer crew to and from GEO. This article summarizes the

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John Sibert; Matthew Goeckner; Dave Galley; Kory Goldammer

address the STEM workforce problem and to increase significantly the number of studentsearning undergraduate STEM degrees, the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), Collin CountyCommunity College, and Richland College of the Dallas County Community College Districthave formed the Dallas STEM Gateways Collaborative (referred to as the “Collaborative” in this document), a cooperative project providing a comprehensive and coordinated set of activitiesfocusing on the gateway experiences during the first two years of the students’ undergraduate experience. The activities include recruitment and retention efforts aimed at STEM studentscombined with a series of curricular and faculty development activities that are designed toproduce significant cultural