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K-12 Programs for Girls and Young Women

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joan Kowalski, Penn State University - New Kensington; Tracie L. Brockhoff, Penn State University - New Kensington

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Women in Engineering

Mellon Science and Georgetown, SC University Engineering 1995 Allegheny Psychology Innovation Director of Inside Manufactures College Major Sales, automated equipment Johnson City, NY to count and fill prescriptions 1995 Cornell Architecture

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Projects & Partnerships Result in Student Learning

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Linda Wanless, Michigan Technological University; Scott Amos, Michigan Technological University; John Irwin, Michigan Technological University; David Wanless, Michigan Technological University

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Engineering Technology

the air. The machine’s last move is to backaway from the bottle.This idea was again used recently by RadioShack for a media event to market the VexLabs - VexRobotics parts were used to build the original robot. The robot challenge given was: "design arobot which can grab a beverage off a table, open it, and pour it into a glass." The originalconcept for the BottleBot, Built by John V-Neun and Chris Carnevale at Innovation First, Inc.,was a robot which would pick up a can of soda, puncture the side of the can, then funnel the sodainto a waiting glass. This was deemed "not cool enough" and the designers’ final concept wouldgrab a long-neck bottle, pop the top off with an opener, then pour over the top into a glass. Apicture of the improved

Conference Session

Preparing a Modern Aerospace Workforce

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Narayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Aerospace

, but I dowonder how many good analyses of Martian flight got trashed as “losers” in the process.Engineering professors should reflect on the wisdom of outsourcing student evaluation to theleast thoughtful / most managerially-mobile in industry. Another comment that left a deepimpression on me years ago came from a senior NASA manager, about the AIAA Student PaperCompetition that he had just judged: “Did you see the winner’s presentation? Wow! He lookedJUST LIKE Tom Cruise!” However, the fact remains that national competitions have a veryimportant place in concept development curricula, as long as they are not taken too seriously.A resource for cross-disciplinary thinking and daring innovation in the past decade was theNASA Institute of

Conference Session

Computer Simulation and Animation II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christiaan Gribble, Grove City College

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Computers in Education

, ‚ software architecture and the impact of design decisions, ‚ writing efficient object-oriented code, and ‚ basic algorithm analysis.The course also affords an opportunity to introduce students to the relevant computer scienceliterature, both seminal works and recent innovations, throughout the semester.In this paper, we provide a brief overview of the visibility problem and two competingalgorithms that are commonly used to solve the problem, we detail the course topics andmethodology we have used, and we describe our experience in a pilot course with a small groupof undergraduate students.2. Background Page 13.1019.2Despite the

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Interdisciplinary Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Kurtanich, Youngstown State University; William Wood, Youngstown State University; Edward Garchar, Youngstown State University

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Engineering Technology

willrequire a holistic understanding of economic growth and development in terms of the principlesof sustainability. The solutions to societal problems will require that technologies be applied notonly in innovative ways but with consideration of cultural differences, historical perspectives, aswell as legal and economical constraints [1]. Preparing today’s students for the qualities that thefuture engineering professionals will need to possess, further emphasizes the need for multi-disciplinary design experience in undergraduate education. Students completing an engineering technology degree in Youngstown State University’sCollege Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (CSTEM) in Civil & ConstructionEngineering Technology (CCET

Conference Session

Computer Applications in Energy Courses

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Clayton Hochstrasser, The Ohio State Univ.; Joseph Werner, The Ohio State Univ.; Donald Kasten, Ohio State University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

just illustrating the mechanics of the solution for a specificoperating point, a number of operating points can be calculated and results displayed in anorganized fashion. Tools such as this can make the instructional process investigative in nature,by addressing what-if scenarios. Visual Basic was chosen as the software to do this developmentwork.Visual learning“Visual learning is an important method for exploiting students’ visual senses to enhancelearning and engage their interest.” 1 Though this reference focuses on underrepresented studentsin the technical fields, the concepts are applicable across the range of the student population.Ref. 1 was part of a special issue of the IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications society on“innovative

Conference Session

Institutional and Curricular Reform

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Arunkumar Pennathur, University of Texas-El Paso; Louis Everett, University of Texas-El Paso

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Educational Research and Methods

. Page 13.166.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Aligning Student Learning, Faculty Development and Engineering Content: A Framework for Strategic Planning of Engineering Instruction and AssessmentAbstractThis paper outlines an innovative framework for modeling and planning engineering educationassessment interventions. The theoretical bases for the framework are primarily derived andintegrated from research methods and findings in several different disciplines - humanengineering, engineering education, human communication sciences and, mathematicalmodeling using statistical and neural network approaches. The framework consists of four keyelements – the task of instruction, the players

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment I

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven Northrup, Western New England College; John Burke, Western New England College

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Electrical and Computer

its Effect on the Quality of Student Learning”, Innovations in Education and Training International, Vol. 37, no. 4, 2000, pp. 381-389.12. Streveler, R., Geist, M., Ammerman, R., Sulzbach, C., Miller, R., Olds, B., and Nelson, M., “Identifying and Investigating Difficult Concepts in Engineering Mechanics and Electric Circuits”, Proceedings of the 2006 ASEE National Conference, June, 2006.13. Bromage, B.K. and Mayer, R.E., “Quantitative and Qualitative Effects of Repetition on Learning from Technical Text”, Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol. 78, no. 4, Aug. 1986, pp. 271-78. Page 13.332.8

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Engineering in Middle Schools

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Cathell, Drexel University; Michael Birnkrant, Drexel University; Jean Robinson, Martha Washington Elementary School; Priscilla Blount, Martha Washington Elementary School; Adam Fontecchio, Drexel University; Eli Fromm, Drexel University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

community.This 6th grade SimCity project was one of a series of engineering lesson modules implementedby a team of two graduate students working in the 5th and 6th grade classrooms at MarthaWashington Elementary School, in west Philadelphia. These GK-12 modules were designed togenerate excitement about Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields. Theparticipating teachers developed new perspectives on innovative ways of teaching science andmathematics. The graduate student teaching fellows, in turn, learned to meet the challenges of amiddle school classroom and gleaned valuable insight and teaching experience, particularly asthey worked with a student audience much different than their traditional graduate peers. Themiddle school students

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New Trends in ECE Education II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Saeed Monemi, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

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Electrical and Computer

necessity. We sought touse these technologies in a new and innovative way such that their necessities could beharvested. This project incorporates a voice recognition system that can control themovements of a battery-powered wheelchair as well as command a GPS unit to map out apath such that the wheelchair may perhaps autonomously navigate itself to a givendestination. This could provide a safe and efficient way for people with excessivedisabilities to navigate with ease.This project consisted of several objectives including designing the voice recognitioncontroller, implementing GPS navigation, as well as incorporating safety features such ascollision detection. All the systems were integrated into one, such that the voicerecognition would control

Conference Session

Mechanics Education Programs and Projects

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sridhar Condoor, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng.; Sanjay Jayaram, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng.; Lawrence Boyer, Saint Louis University

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Mechanics

concept inventory: Development and psychometric analysis,” Journal ofEngineering Education, Oct., 2005, pp. 363-371.3. Kuznetsov, H., 2002, “Technology-based Innovative Teaching Methods”, Proceedings of the 2002 AmericanSociety for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.4. Pollack, M., 2005, “Basic Mechanics: Learning by Teaching – an increase in student motivation (a small scalestudy with Technology Education students), 35th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference.5. Steif, P.S. and Dantzler, J.A., “A statics concept inventory: Development and psychometric analysis,” Journal of Page

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Shelley A. Lorimer P. Eng., Grant MacEwan University; Jeffrey A Davis P.Eng., Grant MacEwan University

terms of online teaching tools of demonstrations for kinesthetic learners,and standardization of online content. Research potential exists in terms of developing anunderstanding of the effects of the use of online textbooks on learning, developing an alternative topractice problems (when solutions exist online), and developing software to pre-check studentsubmissions for quality. Finally, efforts will be made to improve communication between students andinstructors as well as efforts to improve participation rates for all activities.AcknowledgmentSupport from the Teaching and Learning Innovation Fund from Grant MacEwan University isgratefully acknowledged.References1 A. Hoy, H. Davis, E. Anderman, “Theories of Learning and Teaching in TIP

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Kristine K. Craven, Tennessee Technological University; Laura Cruz; Jennifer Renee Meadows

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Diversity

journals, as elected member of the national board for faculty developers in the United States, and as principle inves- tigator for four externally funded grants. Her 100+ publications and invited presentations include work in her first discipline (history) as well as the areas of design thinking, educational development, organi- zational change, and educational innovation. Her most recent co-authored book, Taking Flight: Making your Center for Teaching and Learning Soar was published in 2020 by Stylus Press.Dr. Jennifer Renee Meadows Dr. Jennifer Meadows is an Associate Professor in the Curriculum and Instruction (C&I) Department at Tennessee Tech University (TTU). She holds a Ph.D. in Exceptional Learning with a

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2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

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Eileen Deng, Rye Country Day School; Eunice Lee, Townsend Harris High School; Daniel Shameti, Midwood High School, Brooklyn, NY ; Yu Wang, New York City College of Technology

in healthcare and medicine, where large amounts of medical records and dailycollected data are outlets for algorithms to prove themselves effective and have accuratepredictions [1]. There are several different subtypes of machine learning: supervised, semi-supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement, to name a common few. Supervised learning utilizeslabeled datasets to train algorithms and then classify the data or predict target data. Some examplesof algorithms associated with supervised learning include Support Vector Machine (SVM), NaïveBayes, K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), Random Forest, and Decision Tree. In healthcare, machinelearning provides for several innovations that enhance present treatments and diagnosis. Currently,focus is on

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2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

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Jacky Huang, Villanova University

Paper ID #35687Examples of Virtual Teaching Implementations in Chemical Process Controlduring the COVID-19 LockdownJacky Huang, Villanova University Zuyi (Jacky) Huang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Villanova University. He teaches Chemical Process Control (for senior students) and Systems Biology (for graduate students) at Villanova. He is enthusiastic in applying innovative teaching methods in class to educate students with modeling and control skills. His research is focused on developing advanced modeling and systems analysis techniques to manipulate microbial biological systems for

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2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

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Mohammad Abu Rafe Biswas, The University of Texas at Tyler; Aws AlShalash

project and research students.Aws AlShalash American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Improve Technical Communication using Scaffolding Method in Mechanical Engineering CoursesAbstractOne of the most effective and well documented ways, throughout literary sources, to educate anddevelop capable and independent professionals such as engineers combines lecture sessions withstep-by-step synergistic activities (experiments and reports). Therefore, many engineeringeducators are seeking experiential learning techniques and implementations that are innovative toassist students understand, exercise, and communicate engineering concepts they

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2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

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Amitabha (Amit) Bandyopadhyay P.E., State University of New York, College of Technology at Farmingdale

architecture primarily through its measurable, problem solving criteria. The council ofarchitecture failed to assert the clear identity of architecture as primarily a design activity.Critical Energy at AhmedabadThe School of Architecture at Ahmedabad is an exception to the above trend. By deliberately andstudiously avoiding the affiliation with a university, (recently the school has been forced by theCouncil to affiliate with the North Gujarat University) Ahmedabad has maintained academic andadministrative autonomy and with an innovative program has emerged, in a short span of twentyfive years, as a center of excellence with international recognition. The School started in 1962 underthe aegis of the Ahmedabad Education Society [4] and was actively

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2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

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Paige Janae Harvey, Morgan State University; Otily Toutsop, Morgan State University; Kevin Kornegay, Morgan State University

Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPR), IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Se- curity (IoTSMS), IEEE Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud), IEEE International Conference on Smart Innovations (SCI).Prof. kevin kornegay, Morgan State University Kevin T. Kornegay received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, in 1985 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1990 and 1992, respectively. He is currently the IoT Security Professor and Director of the Cybersecurity Assurance and Policy (CAP) Center for Academic Excellence in the Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 GSW

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Farrokh Attarzadeh

ton. Shortly after our faculty retreat, the author consideredwhat could be done to meet some of the goals discussed during the retreat and considered theidea of using electromechanical components. After years of sweating in the lab building gadgets, Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at Arlington Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationthe author came to appreciate the artistic component of the efforts. The integration of theseexperiences, the thought process that went in to them, and thinking about innovation led theauthor to coin the term Electromechanical Folk Art (EMFA). An extensive search was

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2003 GSW

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H. Dwayne Jerro; Chun-Ling Huang; Patrick Mensah

/lanzing/cm_home.htm8. URL: http://www.coun.uvic.ca/learn/program/hndouts/map_ho.html9. URL: http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/research/epp1/epp1.htm10. URL: http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/kb/conmap.htmH. DWAYNE JERRODr. H. Dwayne Jerro currently has a joint faculty appointment as Assistant Professor in the Mechanical EngineeringDepartments of Southern University in Baton Rouge (SUBR) and Louisiana State University (LSU). His researchinterests include the mechanics, design, and affordability of composite structures, smart composite pipingdevelopment, mechanical systems design and innovation, and utilization of alternative energy sources.CHUN-LING HUANGDr. Chun Ling Huang earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Chung Yuan

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2003 GSW

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Jerry K. Keska; Raghavender Charupalli

. Jeffrey Y. Beyon, National Instruments, LabVIEW Programming, Data Acquisition And Analysis, New Jersey,PHPTR, 1997.6. N.Ertugrul, "Towards Virtual Laboratories: A Survey of LabVIEW-Based Teaching/Learning Tools and FutureTrends", International Journal of Engineering Education, No. 16, Vol.3, 2000.7. Kostic, M.,“Instrumentation with Computerized Data Acquisition for an Innovative Thermal ConductivityApparatus,” Conference Proceedings ASEE 1997 Annual Conference of American Society for EngineeringEducation, p.131-136.8. C.V.Knight, et.al. “Modernization of a Mechanical Engineering Laboratory Using Data Acquisition withLabVIEW”, Proceedings of the 1998 ASEE Conference, Session 2266, available at http://www.asee.org.9. LabVIEW Manual, National

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2008 GSW

Authors

Ian A. Gravagne; Kenneth W. Van Treuren

assessment efforts will be encouraged to restart their ELG, which is the intention of theauthors. The second ELG will conclude in spring 2011, giving a complete and thorough assessment-improvement picture. If successful, this novel learning structure will be adaptable to almost anyresidential campus.In the long run, energy and sustainability are bound only to increase in importance. Manyresearchers and authors feel that world energy usage is not only unsustainable, but that industrialeconomies will experience continuing volatility as non-renewable resources dwindle. Solutions mustcome not only from technical innovation, but also through changes in business practices, legislation,and personal choices. Individuals in all walks of life will be affected

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2008 GSW

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Victor Gallardo; Mequanint Moges; Enrique Barbieri; Aymara Boggiano; Carlos Ramirez

– TMAC Gulf Coast Region at the University of Houston.AYMARA BOGGIANOShe received the BA in 1982 and MA in 1987 from The Ohio State University. Her career as a Spanish, French, andEnglish language teacher spans over 19 years. She has effectively applied the communicative, proficiency andinteractive-based teaching approaches in a variety of educational environments, including K-12, Community Colleges,Universities, and Industry, in the US and in Venezuela. She is currently at the University of Houston where she teachesSpanish Language and Spanish for Heritage Speakers courses. She is also the coordinator of The Spanish LanguageProgram. Her current interests include Training Teaching Assistants and Part-time faculty, and exploring innovative usesof

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2008 GSW

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Luciana Barroso; Jim Morgan

Freshman Engineering Course.” 1994 ASEE Conf. Proc., Edmonton, Canada, June 199416. Flori, R.E., Koen, M.A., and Oglesby, D.B. “Basic Engineering Software for Teaching ("BEST") Dynamics.” Journal of Engineering Education, January 1996, Vol. 85, 61-67.17. Foley, B.J. “Designing Visualization Tools for Learning.” CHI '98: CHI 98 Conference Summary on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Los Angeles, Calif., 1998, 309-310.18. Naps, T. (co-chair), Roessling, G. (co-chair) et al. (2003). “Evaluating the educational impact of visualization.” ITiCSE-WGR '03: Working group reports from ITiCSE on Innovation and technology in computer science education, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2003, 124-136. Proceedings

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2008 GSW

Authors

James B. Farison; Zhuocheng Yang

Educationaccredited programs that no longer seek accreditation, any of the several types of interim visits,and any other “innovations and special assignments” by ABET as they seek to fulfill their overallaccreditation responsibilities. Therefore, the actual number of visitors needed each year remainsuncertain until the roster of program accreditation assignments is finalized by ABET a fewmonths preceding the visit schedule. In order to develop some indication of the likely variationsof PEV workload from year to year, the chart below tabulates ASEE’s actual experiences for theinitial two years of accreditation responsibility. Preceding the actual ABET report of ASEE PEVvisit assignment responsibility each year, only the first three entries are available from

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2008 GSW

Authors

G.R. Kanapuram; Enno “Ed” Koehn

: 23 possible points. • Materials & Resources: 16 possible points. • Indoor air quality: 22 possible points. • Innovation: 05 possible points.Sustainable Siting and DesignThe following site selection parameters must be taken under consideration: • Use appropriate building sites • Preserve open space • Reduce sprawl • Develop brown fields • Safeguard endangered species • Restore damaged environments • Design to optimize sun, wind and light.Site IntegrationDuring the site integration phase the factors below must be considered: • Enhance naturally occurring biodiversity • Minimizing site disturbance • Manage storm water • Optimize transportation options • Reduce heat

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2008 GSW

Authors

Benjamin S. Kelley; Adam P. Ecklund; Aaron Dabney

improve thisintervention initiative, with the revised program design containing academic- and preparatory-skillscomponents available during the summer and in advance of normal fall enrollment. IntroductionThe importance of engineering and computer science innovations and creativity to Americanprosperity and quality of life is widely acknowledged.1 Many studies have documented the needand demand for U.S. engineers, especially in the Sunbelt states.2, 3 University and college academicengineering programs play a paramount role in supplying the nation’s technical workforce throughattracting, retaining, educating, and graduating a diverse and capable population of practicingengineers.1Although collegiate

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2009 GSW

Authors

Charles Baylis; Randall Jean

aforementioned limited number of department faculty, combining the hands-on laboratoryexperience with the lecture has proven to allow other innovative ventures to be pursued by themicrowave faculty members, such as the work of the second author in developing the course inApplied Electromagnetics and integrating antenna design topics into the Freshman Engineeringcourse, and the work of the authors to develop an industry advisory board for the program and toorganize an on-campus mini-symposium addressing wireless and microwave topics. ConclusionsA course sequence in High Frequency Electronics incorporating theory, software experiences,and hands-on laboratories has been developed at Baylor University. The first

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2009 GSW

Authors

Tzu-Liang (Bill) Tseng; Richard Chou; Yongjin Kwon

aforementioned limited number of department faculty, combining the hands-on laboratoryexperience with the lecture has proven to allow other innovative ventures to be pursued by themicrowave faculty members, such as the work of the second author in developing the course inApplied Electromagnetics and integrating antenna design topics into the Freshman Engineeringcourse, and the work of the authors to develop an industry advisory board for the program and toorganize an on-campus mini-symposium addressing wireless and microwave topics. ConclusionsA course sequence in High Frequency Electronics incorporating theory, software experiences,and hands-on laboratories has been developed at Baylor University. The first

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2009 GSW

Authors

Melissa C Lott; Dr. Carey W King; Dr. Michael E Webber; Dr. Kathy J Schmidt

Center for International Energy & Environmental Policy The University of Texas at Austin Dr. Kathy J Schmidt Faculty Innovation Center The University of Texas at Austin AbstractEstablishing a reliable and sustainable electricity supply is one of the daunting challenges facingcommunities today. Unfortunately, discussions on this topic include wide varieties ofmisinformation, subjective analysis, and biased resources. The Texas Interactive PowerSimulator (TIPS) tries to address these shortcomings by providing a quantitative and transparenttool that teaches the basic