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Stella A Quinones, University of Texas, El Paso; Benjamin C. Flores, University of Texas, El Paso; B. Lush, University of Texas, El Paso; Gabriel Della-Piana, Evaluation Consultant ; Denise Carrejo, Ph.D., University of Texas, El Paso Center for Institutional Evaluation, Research, and Planning

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selective CdTe deposition on patterned CdTe(111), Si(100), Si(211) and SOI substrates using a conventional close-spaced sublimation (CSS) technique for applications related to solar cells and infrared detectors. Her educational activities include an NSF funded Course Curriculum Laboratory Improvement grant to develop an Applied Quantum Mechanics Course for Electrical Engineers in addition to collaborations with Purdue University on an NSF Network for Computational Nanotechnology grant to develop educational materials associated with the simulation of semiconductor devices using the NanoHUB.org website.Benjamin C. Flores, University of Texas, El Paso Dr. Benjamin C. Flores joined the faculty of the University of Texas at

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Jianyu Dong, California State University, Los Angeles; Huiping Guo, California State University, Los Angeles

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AC 2011-1107: ENHANCE COMPUTER NETWORK CURRICULUM US-ING COLLABORATIVE PROJECT-BASED LEARNINGJianyu Dong, California State University, Los AngelesHuiping Guo, California State University, Los Angeles Page 22.611.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Enhance Computer Network Curriculum using Collaborative Project- based LearningAbstractIt has been widely recognized that hands-on design and implementation is one of the essentialskills that students should acquire to become qualified computer networking engineers. Toenhance the training of students’ design skills, the computer networks

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Donald Plumlee, Boise State University

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the ability to independently cultivate further technical competencies. He is particularly interested in advocating for project-oriented engineering education. He and a research team at Boise State University is currently participating in a project focused on encouraging the adoption of project-based techniques. Page 22.234.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Assessing Engineering Student Attitudes about Cognition Due to Project-Based Curriculum: Donald Plumlee, Assistant Professor of Mechanical & Biomedical

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Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; David L. Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Ronald L. Miller, Colorado School of Mines; John L. Falconer P.E., University of Colorado, Boulder

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Concept Warehouse,which ultimately could be used throughout the core ChE curriculum (Material and EnergyBalances, Thermodynamics, Transport Phenomena, Kinetics and Reactor Design, and MaterialsScience). Conceptual questions, both as Concept Inventories and ConcepTests, will be availablethrough an interactive website maintained through the Education Division of the AmericanInstitute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), the discipline’s major professional society. The overallobjective is to lower the activation barrier for using conceptual instruction and assessment so thatmany more chemical engineering faculty will incorporate concept-based learning into theirclasses.The specific objectives of this project are to:1. Develop the AIChE Concept Warehouse

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Santosh Devasia, University of Washington; Jim L. Borgford-Parnell, University of Washington; Jae-Hyun Chung, University of Washington; Jiangyu Li, University of Washington; Amy Shen, University of Washington; Nathan Sniadecki, University of Washington; Junlan Wang, University of Washington

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from Sungkyunkwan University in Korea. His Ph.D was earned in 2004 from Northwestern University in the field of electric field guided assembly of carbon nanotubes. He has received awards including, the McMinn Endowed Professorship, an NSF Career Award, and a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Award.Jiangyu Li, University of WashingtonAmy Shen, University of Washington Professor Amy Shen is an Associate Professor at Mechanical Engineering department from University of Washington. She earned her Ph.D in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University and an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis from

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Jay McCormack, University of Idaho; Denny C. Davis, Washington State University; Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho, Moscow; Howard P. Davis, Washington State University; Michael S. Trevisan, Washington State University; Susannah Howe, Smith College; Javed Khan, Tuskegee University; Patricia Brackin P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Paul R. Leiffer, LeTourneau University; Phillip L. Thompson, Seattle University

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and testing assessments and curriculum materials for engineering design and professional skills, especially for use in capstone engineering design courses. He has been a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education since 2002.Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho, Moscow Dr. Beyerlein serves as the coordinator for an inter-disciplinary capstone design course in the College of Engineering at the University of Idaho. In this endeavor, he collaborates with five other colleagues from the departments of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Biological Engineering, and Computer Science. He is engaged in multiple research projects associated with engine testing, alternative

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electric power delivery system transformation that will accommodate highpenetration of renewable energy sources and support new types of loads such as charging PHEVsor EVs [28-29].In spite of these research activities, the educational effort on energy storage technology isinefficient for the current and future needs. Several universities/colleges have implementedcurricula or degree programs in energy and renewable energy [30-32]. Only a few universities inthe nation and around the world have a specific educational program on energy storage.Pennsylvania State University and Ohio State University, two of the few on the list, have anenergy storage curriculum embedded within their Graduate Automotive Technology Education(GATE) programs [33-35

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Steven W. Villachica, Boise State University; Donald Plumlee, Boise State University; Linda Huglin, Boise State University; Drew Borresen, Boise State University

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-based educational strategies across the engineering curriculum. As part of a"Sounding Board" of potential adopters, faculty will provide guidance, review componentsof redesigned courses, and participate in a series of workshops highlighting a variety ofproblem- and project-based instructional strategies1, 2.A “Test Bed” will act as a venue for the visible redesign of existing courses in ways thatemploy authentic learning and assessment activities--where students do real-worldengineering in the classroom. The redesigned courses will also help students inbound intotheir community of professional practice 3, 4. Project mentors drawn from a localprofessional engineering organization will help students to complete projects, and onlinewebinars/live

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Sushil K. Chaturvedi, Old Dominion University; Kaustubh A. Dharwadkar

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. Page 22.1296.2IntroductionThis paper presents results from a National Science Foundation grant titled “Simulation andVisualization Enhanced Engineering Education”. The overall goal of this project (NSF-0530365)is to enhance student learning process by implementing an undergraduate curriculatransformation at Old Dominion University that integrates web-based simulation andvisualization modules in several engineering science courses. Although the scope of the projectis quite broad, encompassing a wide range of lecture and laboratory courses in three disciplinesnamely electrical, civil and mechanical engineering, the focus here is on efforts directed towardsdevelopment, implementation and assessment of web-based virtual laboratory experiments

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Jason Yao, East Carolina University; Loren Limberis, East Carolina University; Steve Warren, Kansas State University

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AC 2011-2781: USING PORTABLE ELECTRONICS EXPERIMENT KITSFOR ELECTRONICS COURSES IN A GENERAL ENGINEERING PRO-GRAMJason Yao, East Carolina University Dr. Jianchu (Jason) Yao joined the Department of Engineering at East Carolina University as an Assistant Professor in August, 2005. He received a B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Shaanxi university of Science and Technology, China, in 1992 and 1995, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in elec- trical engineering from Kansas State University in 2005. His research interests include wearable medical devices, telehealthcare, bioinstrumentation, control systems, and biosignal processing. His educational research interests are laboratory/project-driven

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Fei Hu, University of Alabama

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AC 2011-130: MULTI-DIMENSIONAL TELE-HEALTHCARE ENGINEER-ING UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION VIA BUILDING-BLOCK-BASEDMEDICAL SENSOR LABSFei Hu, University of Alabama Dr. Fei Hu is currently an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA. His research interests are wireless networks, wireless security and their applications in Bio-Medicine. His research has been supported by NSF, Cisco, Sprint, and other sources. He obtained his first Ph.D. degree at Shanghai Tongji University, China in Signal Processing (in 1999), and second Ph.D. degree at Clarkson University (New York State) in the field of Electrical and Computer Engineering (in 2002

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Michael G. Mauk, Drexel University; Vladimir Genis, Drexel University; Dhruv Sakalley, Drexel University; Holly Burnside, Drexel University

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both its objectives and practice (laboratories, experiments, andmaterials), fulfills the aims of a sustainable curriculum on several levels. First, nanotechnologyenables innovation in the areas of renewable energy, toxic waste remediation, more efficient useof materials, substitution for scarce materials, and affordable healthcare. Smith and Granqvist59provide a survey of sustainable Green nanotechnologies for electric lighting and daylighting(luminaries), heat and electricity via solar energy, cooling devices, air sensing and cleaning,thermal insulation, and electrical storage, using nanotechnology similar to the subjects of ourproposed laboratory projects. Second, Lean approaches are predicated on waste reduction—“doing more with less.” Such

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Ashley Ater Kranov, Washington State University; Mo Zhang, Washington State University; Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho, Moscow; Jay McCormack, University of Idaho; Patrick D. Pedrow, Washington State University; Edwin R. Schmeckpeper, Norwich University

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professional skills and the program level at the end of a curricular sequence for evaluating a program’s efficacy.Table 2.Summary of Sample CD Scenarios Lithium mining for electrical vehicle batteries Hanford superfund site clean up Need for prosthetics in land-mine ridden Iraq Vehicle retrofitting for wheelchair-bound drivers Strip mining on Navajo ceremonial lands RFID tracking device privacy issues 2008 Tennessee Valley coal ash spill impacts Links between power lines and cancer The primary research goal of this research project sponsored by the National Science Foundation’s Research in Evaluation of Engineering and Science Education (REESE) is to rigorously establish the reliability and validity of the EPSA

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Ingrid St. Omer, University of Kentucky

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, structuredcurriculum plans, ABET interpretation guides, and faculty-training materials. The establishmentof structural elements and key personnel roles should result in full institutionalization of programelements determined to be effective. We expect that the longitudinal impact of the project willprovide data in regards to individual veterans and cohorts, which the NSF workshop report notesis a lacking. The intent of the COE, the VRC, BCTC, and the University of Kentucky is torecognize the efforts and service of our veteran students and to alleviate many of the obstaclesthat hinder veterans when transitioning out of the military. Once they have arrived on campus,we are committed to their success.References1. Cook, Bryan J. et al, (2009) From Soldier to

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ofeffective teaching tool to effectively teach context-rich case-based engineering cases. Since thisis an ongoing research project, the final results of the hypothesis tests are not available yet.Introduction Page 22.355.2Multidisciplinary collaborations, uncertainty, and conflicting requirements are common inmodern engineering systems as the domains for engineering applications continue to rapidly  expand. A growing concern with current engineering education is the disconnection between thescience-based engineering curriculum and current industry practices. In a typical engineeringclass, subject and

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Darrin S. Muggli, Benedictine College; Brian Tande, University of North Dakota

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economicallyengineering programs at four-year institutions that would otherwise not have the resources to doso. With modest costs and little risk, this flexible model can be replicated at many of the 83% ofU.S. colleges that do not now offer engineering degrees. Benedictine College (BC) is serving asthe proving ground for the model’s full implementation and evaluation. After implementing theBC Engineering Model in Fall 2009, the new BC Engineering Department has established five-year dual-degree programs in each of the four major engineering disciplines (chemical, civil,electrical, and mechanical engineering) through a partnership with the University of NorthDakota’s Distance Engineering Degree Program (UND DEDP). Over the past 1.5 years, the BCEngineering

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Nathan W. Klingbeil, Wright State University; Scott Molitor, University of Toledo; Brian W. Randolph, University of Toledo; Shane A. Brown, Washington State University; Robert G. Olsen, Washington State University; C. Richard Cassady, University of Arkansas

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core sophomore-level engineering Page 22.1517.2courses. These include the traditional physics, engineering mechanics, electric circuits andcomputer programming sequences. More importantly, the EGR 101 course replaces traditionalmath prerequisite requirements for the above core courses, so that students can advance in theengineering curriculum without first completing the required calculus sequence.Over the course of a single 10 week quarter, the mathematical content of EGR 101 includeslinear and quadratic equations, trigonometry, 2D vectors, complex numbers, sinusoids andharmonic signals, systems of equations and matrices, basics of

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Richard Chiou, Drexel University; Michael G. Mauk, Drexel University; Robin Kizirian, Drexel University; William Peeples, Drexel University

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light energy to electrical energy. Thus, the qualityof solar cells is a crucial factor in determining their efficiency. Hands-on renewable energyrelated classes, labs, and projects promote alternative energy efficiency education. This paperpresents the establishment of a renewable energy teaching and research laboratory through asenior design project involving undergraduate and graduate students, and faculty in learningabout alternative energy at Drexel University5-7.There are many manufacturing variables that can affect the quality and efficiency of a solar cell.Anomalous grain structures, contamination, and surface roughness may lead to unpredictable or

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Yi Guo, Stevens Institute of Technology; Shubo Zhang, Stevens Institute of Technology; Hong Man, Stevens Institute of Technology; Arthur B. Ritter, Stevens Institute of Technology

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AC 2011-644: A CASE STUDY ON PILL-SIZED ROBOT IN GASTRO-INTESTINAL TRACT TO TEACH ROBOT PROGRAMMING AND NAV-IGATIONYi Guo, Stevens Institute of Technology Yi Guo received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Xi’an University of Tech- nology, China, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. She obtained the Ph.D. degree from the University of Sydney, Australia, in 1999. From 2000 to 2002, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She was a Visiting Assistant Professor at University of Central Florida from 2002 to 2005. Since 2005, she has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. Her main research

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Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University; Jacquelyn E. Kelly, Arizona State University; Andrea Marta Eller, Arizona State University; Dale R. Baker, Arizona State University; Jessica Triplett, Arizona State University

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displayed in the graph from Fall and Spring 2009 show that the CLIC project approachwas more effective than earlier 2002 lecture-based instruction. However, the graph also showsthat there are significant issues in achieving more effective learning with the topics of bonding,crystal structures, and electrical properties. Improved approaches are being tested to addressissues in these areas. The results demonstrate the potential to use feedback from instruction forareas that are in need of the most attention.Measuring Student Attitude with Support of Student Learning SurveyAn additional outcome not originally planned in CLIC was a summative survey administered atthe end of class to determine students' attitudes toward course instructional strategies

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Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Tuba Pinar Yildirim, University of Pittsburgh; Karen M. Bursic, University of Pittsburgh; Natasa Vidic, University of Pittsburgh

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department she worked as a Senior Consultant for Ernst and Young and as an Industrial Engineer for General Motors Corporation. She teaches undergraduate courses in engineering economics, engineering management, and probability and statistics in Industrial Engineering as well as engineering computing in the freshman engineering program. Dr. Bursic has done research and published work in the areas of Engineering and Project Management and Engineering Education. She is a member of IIE and ASEE and is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Pennsylvania.Natasa Vidic, University of Pittsburgh Assistant Professor Industrial Engineering Department Swanson School of Engineering University of Pittsburgh