Conference Session

Preparing Civil Engineering Students for a Flat World

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carsten Ahrens, F.H. OOW

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Civil Engineering

, which is 8 hours a day, 40 – 50 hours a week and about 1,600 hours a year ormore. A number of more sophisticated descriptors of workload have emerged recently.The student accumulates these semester credit points at any European university in anappropriate study program until he has earned enough credits to be awarded the respectivedegree. Typically the two cycles have no definitely fixed duration. The EU directive onProfessional Qualification as well as the Bologna (Follow-up) Declaration now gives a smallspan of duration or credits for each cycle as follows:Cycle EU directive BolognaFirst Cycle Not less than 3, but not more than 4 years 180 – 240 ECTS-credits (which may

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas D. Fila, Iowa State University; Justin L. Hess, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

research techniques, we sought to address the research question,“What aspects of engineering students’ innovation experiences were critical to the developmentof their ways of experiencing innovation?”Conceptual BackgroundThis study builds upon a previous study that explored differences in the ways engineeringstudents experienced innovation13. The current study expands the previous by exploring criticalincidents that led to new or refined understandings of innovation, but it is necessarily rooted inthe theoretical underpinnings and findings of the previous study. In this section, we summarizethe previous study and discuss how it informs the current investigation.The genesis of this project was a phenomenographic analysis of innovation among

Collection

2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Sourav Sutradhar; Oghenetega A. Obewhere; Karen Acurio-Cerda; Moses Dike; Rajesh Keloth; Shudipto K. Dishari

career aspirations and how they would like to achieve their careergoals leveraging training and resources in an informal set-up. We then discussed how the energy-related STEM knowledge and awareness can help them make environmentally conscious energydecisions and explore career opportunities in the energy sector. This comprehensive approachaimed to deepen their understanding of energy technologies while inspiring future careers inSTEM. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 2024 ASEE Midwest Section ConferencePost-camp Survey Response. Organizing and executing the YNS camp required significantplanning But the camp sustained a high level of engagement and achieved notable success

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Peter Golding P.E., University of Texas at El Paso; Scott A. Starks P.E., University of Texas at El Paso; Roger V. Gonzalez P.E., University of Texas at El Paso; Meagan R. Kendall, University of Texas at El Paso; David G. Novick, University of Texas at El Paso; Cole Hatfield Joslyn, University of Texas at El Paso

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #34901Leadership in Engineering Innovation and EntrepreneurshipDr. Peter Golding P.E., University of Texas at El Paso Professor in the Department of Engineering Education and Leadership. Director of the Center for Re- search in Engineering and Technology Education at the University of Texas at El PasoDr. Scott A. Starks P.E., University of Texas at El Paso Dr. Starks is a Professor of Engineering Leadership at the University of Texas at El Paso. He received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Rice University in 1978 and is a registered Professional Engineer.Dr. Roger V. Gonzalez P.E., University of Texas at

Conference Session

Circuits & Systems Education I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason McGuire, Sonoma State University; Farid Farahmand, Sonoma State University

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Electrical and Computer

Visualization for Electrical Engineering: From Embedded Systems to the Internet1. Introduction The emerging Internet-of-Things (IoT) concept is considered to be the next technologicalrevolution [1]. It describes various technologies and research disciplines that enable the Internetto reach out into the real world of physical everyday objects. By 2020, it is expected that 25-50billion “things” to be connected to the Internet. Gartner, the world's leading informationtechnology research and advisory company, projects IoT will result in $1.9 trillion in globaleconomic growth [2]-[3]. While today there are just 300,000 developers contributing to the IoT,a new report projects that an estimated 4.5 million developers are needed by 2020 [4

Conference Session

Holistic Assessment and Teaching in Service-learning Environments

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry L. Howell, Brigham Young University; Spencer P. Magleby, Brigham Young University; Terri Christiansen Bateman, Brigham Young University; David C. Morgan, Brigham Young University; Lynda Palma, Brigham Young University Museum of Art

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Community Engagement Division

is adjunct faculty at Brigham Young University in the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology. She is a Coordinator for Women in Engineering and Technology (WE@BYU), teaches and advises numerous Mechanical Engineering Capstone senior design teams, teaches Global Engineering Outreach with study abroad to Peru, and researches with the Compliant Mechanisms Research Group. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering from BYU and also worked at Ford Motor Company as a manufacturing and design engineer in Automatic Transmission Operations. Terri received the Adjunct Faculty Excellence Award from Brigham Young University in 2016. She is the mother of four children and is married

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cassandra J. Groen-McCall, Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Ashley Shew, Virginia Tech; Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., University of Florida

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication, effective teaching practices in design education, the effects of differing design pedagogies on retention and motivation, the dynamics of cross-disciplinary collaboration in both academic and industry design environments, and gender and identity in engineering.Dr. Ashley Shew, Virginia Tech Ashley Shew, Assistant Professor in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech, works in philosophy of technology at its intersection with disability studies, emerging technologies, and animal studies. She is author of Animal Constructions and Technological Knowledge (Lexington, 2017) and co-editor (with Joseph

Conference Session

Tablets Large and Small

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tonya Lynn Lauriski-Karriker, Colorado School of Mines; Emma Nicoletti, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara M. Moskal, Colorado School of Mines

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Computers in Education

useful, buttime consuming. He liked using the tablets and felt the tablets provided the students with theopportunity to complete applied problems during class and experience hands-on learning. Page 25.1232.7Instructor E believes that attendance in her course had improved as a result of the engagementthat the tablet PCs provided. She further found the opportunity to immediately respond tostudents’ errors as reflected through InkSurvey useful for informing instruction. All of theinstructors felt that the tablets could be useful, but only if the instructor had a desire anddedication to learning the technology. All of the instructors also

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl Carrico PE, Virginia Tech; Matthew Arnold Boynton PE, Virginia Tech; Holly M Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

and careers. To identify thefactors specific to Appalachia, we are using interviews that will inform the development of asurvey. This approach will yield both in-depth and generalizable results. Outcomes from both thequalitative and quantitative datasets will ultimately be used to develop an empirical theory, basedon Social Cognitive Career Theory and Future Possible Selves, to explain the gap in engineeringas a career choice, and then to develop potential interventions to increase engineering careerchoice in the region. We believe that the outcomes from this study will be useful to engineeringeducators, researchers and those doing outreach to high school communities.Because little is known about engineering career choice among Appalachian

Conference Session

SPECIAL SESSION: Describing the Engineering Student Learning Experience Based on CAEE Findings: Part 2

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Russell Korte, The University of Texas-Tyler; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; William Jordan, CRL-Stanford University

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Educational Research and Methods

throughput and scheduling, and planning for manufacturing flexibility. He received a PhD in Transportation Systems Modeling from Cornell University in 1982, an M.S. in Civil Engineering from Northwestern University in 1979, and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Syracuse University in 1976. He is a member of INFORMS and the Institute of Industrial Engineers. Page 13.94.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 A Qualitative Study of the Early Work Experiences of Recent Graduates in Engineering.AbstractAfter several years of demanding study, new engineers

Conference Session

Impacts on K-12 Student Identity, Career Choice, and Perceptions of Engineers

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl Carrico P.E., Virginia Tech; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Matthew Arnold Boynton PE P.E., Virginia Tech

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

include 1) many high school students being unfamiliar with engineering and notknowing any engineers and 2) students who are considering a career in engineering (but notdecided) not reporting an interest in engineering as a career choice. Recommendations forstakeholders are provided based on the findings.IntroductionResearch on persistence in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields suggeststhat factors such as role models, exposure to STEM careers, and interests in STEM fieldsinfluence K-12 students toward career choices in these fields. Of these, interests have beenbroadly cited as a particularly important influence on STEM career choices (e.g., 1, 2). However,research focused specifically on underrepresented groups often reports

Conference Session

Persistence and Retention II: Curricular Issues

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alison A. Dingwall, Howard University; Lorraine N. Fleming, Howard University; Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Junaid A. Siddiqui, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

, Purdue University, West Lafayette Junaid Siddiqui is a doctoral student at the School of Engineering Education, Purdue University. Before joining the doctoral program he worked for nine years at the faculty development office of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia. In this role he was involved in several faculty development activities, particularly working with the faculty members for exploring the use of web-based technologies in the support of classroom teaching. He received his MS in Civil Engineering from KFUPM while he has also earned an MPBL degree from Aalborg University, Denmark. His research focus during his doctoral studies is on institutional and faculty development in

Conference Session

Persistence, Outcomes and Barriers for Women in Engineering

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gail Baura, Loyola University Chicago; Matthew J Miller, Loyola University Chicago; Leanne Kallemeyn, Loyola University Chicago; Andrea Hércules, Loyola University Chicago; Erika Esmeralda de la Riva, Loyola University Chicago

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

States of America. Her research interests include the evaluation of innovative educational curricula and programs that address inequities and understanding how educational practitioners use evidence to inform their practices. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9152-3928Andrea H´ercules, Loyola University Chicago Andrea H´ercules is a doctoral student in the School Psychology program at Loyola University Chicago’s School of Education. Their research examines the schooling experiences of girls of color labeled as ”at-risk,” with particular attention to how these youth resist systemic marginalization. Andrea is also committed to advancing research on holistic mental health supports for marginalized and immigrant youth.Erika

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Michael Schearer, Cleveland State University; M. Ann Reinthal, Cleveland State University; Debbie K. Jackson, Cleveland State University

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

interviews and focus groups.During the second summer, she also facilitated one, 1-hour seminar for the participants in order toprepare them for the presentation to the high school students. The program coordinator arrangedhousing, payment, and transportation for all students. She had many informal conversations withstudents in person, on the phone, and by email before, during, and after the summerprogram.Data CollectionThe data collected for this study included surveys, focus groups and interviews from the studentsand notes from the team members. The surveys contained 31 statements of confidence. 17statements were derived from the student outcomes from the Accreditation Board for Engineeringand Technology (ABET) [14]. For example, “I am confident in

Conference Session

Curricular Developments in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anu Aggarwal, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

of functions that arecomputationally intensive in other paradigms. Application domains of neuromorphic circuitsinclude neural prosthesis, building computational neuroscience models in silicon, machinelearning processor, and applications of neural hardware like eye-camera.Similar courses offered at Georgia Tech [5] and at the Institute of Neuroinformatics (INI),ETH Zurich [6] were studied to choose the topics appropriate for the course. Based on thestudy, topics to be covered in the course included: MOS transistors in CMOS technology,floating gates, static circuits, dynamic circuits, systems (silicon neuron-synapse arrays,silicon retina, silicon cochlea, silicon hippocampus, silicon lateral superior olive) with anintroduction to multi-chip

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary P. Halada, Stony Brook University; Lisa Ospitale, Stony Brook University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

engineering education with a focus on emerging technology systems in thecontext of applications and societal impact. We do this through a program of faculty-mentoredmultidisciplinary research, professional development, and exposure to real-world issues thatreflect the impact of nanotechnology on society, the business community, human health, and theenvironment. This approach also supports self-efficacy, multidisciplinary team-building,understanding the broader impacts of technology, and building the skills necessary for researchand lifelong learning.Overall, the key goals are:1. To provide an exciting and productive research experience for each fellow.2. To create a small cohort of students, who share common goals, that supports the developmentof

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Elise Barrella P.E., DfX Consulting LLC; Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Robin Dawn Anderson, James Madison University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

she conducted research in transportation and sustainability as part of the Infrastructure Research Group (IRG). In addition to the Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Dr. Barrella holds a Master of City and Regional Planning (Transportation) from Georgia Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Bucknell University. Dr. Barrella has investigated best practices in engineering education since 2003 (at Bucknell University) and began collaborating on sustainable engineering design research while at Georgia Tech. Prior to joining the WFU faculty, she led the junior capstone design sequence at James Madison University, was the inaugural director of the NAE Grand Challenges Program at JMU, and developed first

Collection

1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

Lester W. Spencer

FIBER OPTICS For Non-EE Educators Lester W. Spencer Lake Superior State College Fiber optics is a technological break-through thatis having a revolutionary impact on the electronic industryand the field of medicine. Television signals can easilybe carried over a single fiber, thereby opening up newpossibilities for both entertainment and business purposes.Buildings can be "wired", with the almost invisible fibers,to provide internal communication services. Much of the cabling that interconnects metropolitantelephone switching centers goes through underground ducts.Light-wave communications with their high capacity andsmall size not only are making

Collection

2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Nannan He; Han-Way Huang

ASEE-NMWSC2013-0050 Integrating Modern Model-based Development Concepts and Tools in a Programming Tools course Nannan He, Han-Way Huang Department of Electrical, Computer Engineering and Technology Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN 56001AbstractSoftware programming is often considered to be difficult for many engineering students.Nowadays, many control and automation systems are facing the increasingly sophisticatedfunctional and non-functional demands. In such systems, software portion is always expected tohave the greater impact. Therefore, educators continue to

Conference Session

Gender Track - Technical Session I

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Maya Rucks, Clemson University; Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University

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Diversity, Gender

CommunityBackgroundThe need for STEM graduates in the United States is growing at an alarming rate. A 2012President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) report predicted that therewill be a 1 million college student deficit in science, technology, engineering, and mathematicsover the next 10 years (Olson & Riordan, 2012). For years now, there has been a call for moreunderrepresented groups in STEM fields. According to the National Center for EducationStatistics (NCES), only 18.4% of the students earning engineering degrees in the year 2014 werefemales (Digest of Education Statistics, 2015). Given this underrepresentation of women, it isimportant to determine why so few earn engineering degrees. Studies have shown that onepossible

Conference Session

Novel BME Courses and Course Adaptations

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Catalano, State University of New York-Binghamton

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Biomedical

socialsystems as well as other fields in which the design, development or modification ofcomplex, knowledge-intensive systems is a requirement. Bioengineering is similar totraditional fields of engineering in that all engineering programs educate individualsin the art of product and process development for the improvement of human healthand quality of life. However, bioengineering is unique because of the need tounderstand the emergent properties of living systems. Living systems, unlike mostman-made products and processes, are composed of large numbers of "self-replicating" components, which undergo "self-organization." These features provideliving systems with most of their fascinating and complex properties and are theprimary focus of bioengineering

Conference Session

Project-Based Experiences in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sinead MacNamara, Syracuse University; Larry D Bowne II, Syracuse University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

architecture. Forthe architecture students it was a first experience in having to request, manage andappropriately integrate outside technical knowledge into their design process, for theengineering students it was their first exposure to the design process and the multifacetedway their highly specific skills are deployed in a real world process. The teaching,evaluation and assessment of the courses represent an opportunity for educators to thinkabout the role of service learning in architecture and engineering education. The Bergcompelled students to integrate technology and structure in the design process, requiredstructural engineers to and as such can be seen as experiments in advancing designpedagogy.BackgroundDesign build, community service and

Conference Session

Analysis of Effectiveness and Impacts of Graduate Programs: Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fazil T. Najafi, University of Florida; Sarah Rajkumari Jayasekaran, University of Florida

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Graduate Studies

the process of cement production generates Green HouseGas (GHG). The use of SCM in concrete can be a major help in reduction of greenhouseemissions. This inclusion can make it possible to reduce the CO2 emission in atmospheretowards eco-friendly construction technique. 10These emerging environmental impacts demand detailed knowledge to progress towardssustainable practices. The embodied energy of various human created objects has been usedas a defacto scale to assess the environmental impact and reduce unsustainable practices. Thenext step to better understanding the environmental impacts is embodied CO2 analysis, whichrelates with the issue of climate change. 11Sustainable constructionDue to the increasing awareness about climate change, the

Conference Session

Digital Communications Systems

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce Dunne, Grand Valley State University

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Electrical and Computer

LaboratoryIntroductionTraditional undergraduate communications courses have focused on analog transmissionschemes such as amplitude (AM) and frequency modulation (FM). Given the comparativelysimple design of analog modulation circuitry, offering a laboratory component to the course isstraightforward. In a typical laboratory session, students could construct and investigate theperformance of AM or FM transmitters or receivers.With the emergence of technology such as digital cellular telephony and wireline and wirelessdata communications, the emphasis has shifted from analog to digital modulation. Because ofthis shift, digital communications has become an important component to all levels ofcommunications instruction. Due to the complexity of equipment that can emulate

Conference Session

Instrumentation Technical Session I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rafic Bachnak, Texas A&M International University; Sofía Carolina Maldonado, Texas A&M International University; Fernando Garcia Gonzalez, Texas A&M International University

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

and employment with Koch Industries. Dr. Bachnak is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas, a senior member of IEEE and ISA, and a member of ASEE. During the 2009-2010 academic year, he was a Fulbright Scholar at Notre Dame University, Lebanon.Miss Sof´ıa Carolina Maldonado, Texas A&M International University Sof´ıa Carolina Maldonado is a graduate student at Texas A&M International University (TAMIU), cur- rently completing a M.S. in Information Systems. She obtained her B.S. degree in Systems Engineering from the same University in Fall 2011. Sof´ıa was a Distinguished Student Scholar and Student respondent at the Fall 2011 Commencement Ceremony. Throughout her TAMIU education, she has been

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Papers Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

June Marshall; John Marshall

engineering ethics have become norm” comments Herkert (2002)from the National Academy of Engineering in his article Continuing and Emerging Issuesin Engineering Ethics Education. According to a 1999 study, “nearly 70 percent ofABET-accredited institutions have no ethics related course requirement for allengineering students. Although 17 percent of institutions have one or more requiredcourses with ethics-related content”.A significant percentage of these programs report they are unsure of the specificmethodology to utilize in adequately addressing this component in their programs. Thismanuscript focuses on how ethics instruction is being implemented into undergraduatecollege programs via preservice seminars. These preservice seminars are

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fatih Oncul, Southern Polytechnic State University; Wasim Barham P.E., Southern Polytechnic State University; Metin Oguzmert P.E., Southern Polytechnic College of Engr and Engr Tech

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Civil Engineering

AC 2012-4932: A FULL-SCALE RUBBLE-HOUSE CONSTRUCTION ANDTESTING PROJECT POWERED BY UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT VOL-UNTEERS WORKFORCEDr. Fatih Oncul, Southern Polytechnic State University Fatih Oncul is an Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering Technology program, Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta, Ga. He received his doctoral degree from University of Colorado, Denver, in 2001. He is currently teaching geotechnical and foundation engineering related courses. His main research interest areas are finite element analysis, subsurface exploration, soil-structure interaction, and geotechnical earthquake engineering.Dr. Wasim Barham, Southern Polytechnic State UniversityDr. Metin Oguzmert

Conference Session

Project/Problem Based Learning (PBL) in Construction Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohsen Garshasby, Mississippi State University; Saeed Rokooei, Mississippi State University; Mohsen Goodarzi, Ball State University; Ali Garshasbi, Mississippi State University

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Construction Engineering Division (CONST)

Science at Mississippi State University. His professional responsibilities include project planning and management as well as architectural design practice in private and public construction and engineering firms. He has taught in architecture and construction programs since 2006. Dr. Rokooei’s primary research interests include simulation and serious games, project management methodologies, construction education, data analytics, creativity and innovation, and emerging technologies. He is actively pursuing the development of educational techniques and methods in construction. He has developed construction-based simulation applications and strives to bring aspects of project management into simulation applications.Dr

Conference Session

Track 1b - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Nannan He, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Han-Way Huang, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Tagged Topics

Curriculum and Lab Development

electrical engineering andcomputer engineering students. Eclipse is an integrated software development environment fromIBM. Recently, eclipse-based development tools have been employed by increasing number ofsoftware projects in both academy and industry. Many eclipse-based software tools supportMBD, which is an emerging development methodology for complex embedded software. Thenovelty of our work is to introduce students the MBD process in combination with eclipse-basedtools. The goal is to equip engineering students with the knowledge of using real-world softwaretools and cost-efficient software development methods. Our primary observations show that thiscombination could help students understand advanced software development technologies

Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian G. Belu, Southern University and A&M College; Richard Chiou, Drexel University; Lucian Ionel Cioca, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

, several papers in referred journals and in conference proceedings in his areas of the research interests. He has also been PI or Co-PI for various research projects United States and abroad in power systems analysis and protection, load and energy demand forecasting, renewable energy, microgrids, wave and turbulence, radar and remote sensing, instrumentation, atmosphere physics, electromagnetic compat- ibility, and engineering education.Dr. Richard Chiou, Drexel University Dr. Richard Chiou is Associate Professor within the Engineering Technology Department at Drexel Uni- versity, Philadelphia, USA. He received his Ph.D. degree in the G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology