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Steve Klosterman; Simon Pitts; Steven McGonagle; Carey Rappaport

. Application andpractice of Quality Function Deployment (QFD), Deming’s “Plan, Do, Check, Adjust”, failuremode and effects analysis, design of experiments, change management and other standard toolssupply the candidates with techniques that add rigor and discipline and increase confidence whencalled to tackle difficult challenges.The final portion of the product development lecture covers broader topics, including systemsengineering, systems thinking, finance for engineers and politics, creating perspective on how 8complexity and context, the corporation, industry, society and world all play an influential role inhow products evolve.All material in the product development portion of the program is

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Kenneth Edward Dudeck; Wieslaw Grebski

NEW GENERAL ENGINEERING PROGRAM WITH ALTERNATIVE ENERGY AND POWER GENERATION TRACK AT PENN STATE Faculty Paper Sustainable Energy in the Curriculum Kenneth Edward Dudeck & Wieslaw Grebski Penn State Hazleton ked2@psu.edu AbstractThere is an emerging need for multidisciplinary quality engineers with broad range skills capableto design, develop, and integrate new technologies applied to the Alternative and RenewableEnergy Technology industry.The Penn State Hazleton Campus has developed a new innovative Bachelor of Science inGeneral

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Gaetan Garcia; Matthew R. Stein

Laboratory Experiences, Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation, 200813: A. I. Saleem, and K. M. Al-Aubidy; Mixed Reality Environment for Web-Based LaboratoryInteractive Learning, iJOE,1(4),200814: Lluis Diaz Guerra, German A. Ramos, Fuentes Hector Vargas and Ramon Costa-Castell; AVirtual/Remote Laboratory to illustrate the Internal Model Principle for Periodical Signals, 8th IFACSymposium on Advances in Control Education, 200915: U. Borgolte; Interface Design of a Virtual Laboratory for Mobile Robot Programming, Research,Reflections and Innovations in Integrating ICT in Education, 200816: F. A. Candelas Herías, C. A. Jara Bravo and F. Torres Medina; Flexible Virtual and RemoteLaboratory for Teaching Robotics, Current Developments in

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Tahany Fergany; Amal Abd El?Raouf

Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education difficulty, repeat some modules with different difficulty levels, check Need-Help icon fordifficult modules when s/he needs extra help. Moreover, the student would be able tosubmit questions or comments to his/her instructor and receive the instructor’s responseback. The different modules in the learning tool, as shown in Figure 1, are described inthe following sub-sections.3.1. Information Module It provides the fundamentals of object-oriented properties, analysis, design andimplementation. It demonstrates the basic knowledge of classes, objects, methods, andthe relations among them. It also presents students with the main programming constructsused in Java (including purpose

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S Claudina Vargas

“Mathematics, Science, Engineering, andLanguage” in Spanish, is the first program to introduce engineering and technologyeducation in K-12 classrooms in the country. Thus, using bottle rockets for this projectallow us to expose Dominican teachers and students to a very exciting science andtechnology field and to challenge the students’ imagination. They learned how bottlerockets can offer magnificent opportunities for extending learning in mathematics, thesciences, technology and engineering. In addition, we believed bottle rocket activitieswere great instruments for introducing students to DAE and to the challenge of producingwell-designed experiments. We expected the students to be motivated to experiment andlearn. And, this was in fact the case

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David Kazmer

publishes leading data on engineeringcolleges in the United States including both individual college statistics and national trends. Thisdata is published annually in the Profiles of Engineering Colleges book sent to all ASEE deansand is available online. Figure 1 provides the supply of engineers graduating from four-yearundergraduate programs during the 2008-09 academic school year [5]. The data indicates that apredominance of students graduate from the four classic engineering majors (mechanical,electrical, civil, and chemical) along with computer science and hardware. Highly specializedmajors (such as mining, nuclear, agricultural, and petroleum) represent a very small fraction ofthe graduating engineers. Mining 190 Eng

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Louis Manzione; Akram Abu-aisheh

engineering firms design, develop, andproduce their products. This has required changes in the supply change management forhigh-tech production lines [2-4]. Broadband networks, cost effective global deliveryservices, and global business realities mandate that all firms evaluate many design,development, and realization options available worldwide. These realities have created aglobal sourcing environment which will only increase as the world economies becomemore interrelated and more competitive, interdependent, and accelerated by broadbandnetworks that facilitate global relationships.In order to foster a global perspective, the goals of an international experiencerepresented in a study abroad program should go beyond one country. To obtain

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Michael J. Rust; Abe Kamal

AN ENGINEERING WORKSHOP FOR K-12 TEACHERS AND STUDENTS Michael J. Rust1 and Abe Kamal2 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering 2 Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management Western New England College mrust@wne.edu AbstractThis paper describes an engineering workshop developed for K-12 teachers and students. Duringthe workshop, participants compete in a design activity that enables them to role-play asengineers. As a result, the attendees develop basic engineering

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Sigrid Berka

RETAINING ENGINEERING STUDENTS THROUGH A J-TERM GERMAN IMMERSION STUDY TOUR Faculty Paper Recruitment, Retention, and Outreach Programs Sigrid Berka International Engineering Program University of Rhode Island sberka@uri.eduIntroduction:The International Engineering Program (IEP) organizes a 10-14 day German Study Tour duringJanuary break. It offers International Engineering and International Business students a full-immersion program to further expand and extend their study of German language and

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Frank Caserta; Robert J. Lind; Loutfallah G. Chedid

-level analysis, modeling, and design”. This Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Northeast Section Annual Conference University of Hartford Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education relatively new program also maintains the Wentworth Institute of Technology’s focus on hands-on laboratories with faculty instructors, small class sizes, and work-coop experiences. Theprogram is highly successful placing graduates in industry and graduate programs. More than35% of all Wentworth Institute of Technology students typically accept permanent employmentwith their co-op employer[16].The literature on studies of how or why students chose particular majors suggested, as well as

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Wendy Otoupal-Hylton; Pete Hylton

can relate to.[15] Results The first offering of the summer program was conducted with students given an assessment teston the first day of class. It was repeated again on the last day. The assessment was designed to measuretheir understanding of basic engineering and math concepts. The expectation was that after beingexposed to the pre-engineering curriculum, that students would show a significant increase in theirengineering skills and hopefully some associated gain with their math skills. The results were segregatedby gender and are show in Table 1. Table 1 Results of Assessment – Year 1 – (p<0.025) – (Max score

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Cristian Craciun

then control the cell with a PLC.6. Real PLC and Virtual FactoriesIn the PLC class the students start from device level (connecting sensor and actuators tothe PLC) then controlling premade cells. In CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing) classthe students learn SolidWorks and get introduced to Catia so they are able to design theirown cells in Delmia. Then in the PLC Class the students build the cell and create the PLCprogramming then check their PLC programming. Fig 1. Example an Assembly Cell in Delmia Automation Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Northeast Section Annual Conference University of Hartford Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education After the

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Biswanath Samanta

with imprecise and uncertaininformation [18, 19]. The combination of incomplete, imprecise information and the imprecise nature ofthe decision-making process make fuzzy logic (FL) very effective in modeling complex engineering,business, finance and management systems which are otherwise difficult to model. The major issuesinvolved in the application of FL or FIS are the selection of fuzzy membership functions (MFs), in termsof number and type, designing the rule base simulating the decision process as well as the scaling factorsused in fuzzification and defuzzification stages. These parameters and the structures are, in general,decided based on trial and error and expert knowledge.AIS: AIS has been developed with an inspiration from the

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Christian Bach; Salvatore Belardo; Hassan Bajwa; Sahas Sakhare

INFORMATION SYSTEMS EFFECTIVENESS MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENT DEVELOPMENT Christian Bach Salvatore Belardo Technology Management Management Science and Information Systems University of Bridgeport University at Albany cbach@bridgeport.edu belardo@albany.edu Hassan Bajwa Sahas Sakhare Electrical Engineering Technology Management University of Bridgeport University of Bridgeport

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Saeid Moslehpour; Hesham Elsaghir

Ethernet designs.These reference designs are based on vendors' Ethernet transceivers and help engineersevaluate embedded Ethernet applications. Most of them carry tutorial examples on a CD-ROM, with links to the vendors' homepages. Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Northeast Section Annual Conference University of Hartford Copyright © 2011, American Society for Engineering EducationSoftware is vital for fast product development and is often an enabler in product-featuredifferentiation. For developing embedded Ethernet applications, designers have threeoptions: develop their own, open source, or commercial.Each option has advantages and disadvantages. System designers must understand

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Christian Bach; Salvatore Belardo; Hassan Bajwa; Pushpa Kantharaju; Praveen Prasanth

FACTOR ANALYSIS IN MEASURING INFORMATION SYSTEMS EFFECTIVENESS Christian Bach Salvatore Belardo Technology Management Management Science and Information Systems University of Bridgeport University at Albany cbach@bridgeport.edu belardo@albany.edu Hassan Bajwa Pushpa Kantharaju Praveen Prasanth Electrical Engineering Technology Management Technology Management University of Bridgeport University of Bridgeport University of Bridgeport hbajwa@bridgeport.edu

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Bruce Char

problem. We have used these techniques the past four years in engineer- ing classes including some involving 600-1000 first-year students. Over 120,000 student responses are automatically graded annually for homework assignments and proctored exams.Keywords: Symbolic mathematical computation, test management systems, computer-based training.IntroductionWeb-delivery test management systems such as Maple TA[1] can invoke programs which use scientific com-putation libraries for question generation and automatic answer-checking and grading. They facilitate eval-uation and practice on technical subjects for large classes of students. We have used Maple TA each term tobetween 500 and 900 engineering students each term in the past five years to

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Tom Goulding; Durga Suresh

engineering manager and a Socratic hardware and software concepts that must beinstructor is not that of subject matter expert. It is mastered when programming at the lowest level in aexceptional organizational, motivational, and computer system. A complex project had not beencommunication skills that matter to both. A Socratic previously considered for this type of course atinstructor is skilled at problem definition and Wentworth Institute of Technology.decomposition, guiding the search for applicableThe plan which the authors adopted involved the they would discover that the rotors turn after eachSocratic instructor (Professor Goulding) joining the character is typed. This ensures