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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference
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Patricia Polastri; Mojeed Awonuga
the burning of fossil fuels and crude oil spills. The authors proposepractical ways of ending this problem by having an emphasis on environmental sustainability atthe heart of every oil operations.KeywordsPollution, sustainability, Energy, Economic Development, Global IssuesIntroductionEver since the Brundtland Commission produced the paper “Our Common Future”1 where themost globally accepted definition of Sustainability/Sustainable Development was coined, theattention of the world has shifted to the concept of “Sustainability”. Sustainable developmentwas defined in this report as “development that meets the need of the present withoutcompromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. Sustainability is viewedfrom three
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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference
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Benjamin Kelley
and Computer Science has been an active participatein “a national partnership of universities with the shared mission to graduate engineers with anentrepreneurial mindset…” These efforts are coordinated by the Kern EngineeringEntrepreneurial Network (KEEN) under the mantra that “it is critical for engineering schools toteach a technical skillset and an entrepreneurial mindset-fostering curiosity, connections and thecreation of value” …”so that students can create personal, economic, and societal value througha lifetime of meaningful work.”One approach used to implement KEEN EM ideals at Baylor was to commission KEENInnovators to explore opportunities to expose students to EM topics and experiences within aclassroom setting.1-3 This is more
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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference
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Kimberlee Smith; Mario Beruvides
,inquiry, and improvement. The cyclic nature of the proposed process is illustrated in Figure 1. Figure 1. The Seven Step Approach to Identifying Educational Outreach Program Solutions 1. Identify an Area of Concern 2. Operationally Define Area of Concern 3. Identify Applicable Sources of Research 4. Utilize Sources of Research to Identify Areas of Solution 5. Synthesize Areas of Solution Found within Research 6. Apply Area of Solution Found within Research 7. Assess Outcome of the Applied Area of
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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference
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Scott Koziol; Christian Tulowiecki; John DiCecco; Jason Gaudette
. Proceedings of the 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference Organized by The University of Texas at Dallas Copyright © 2017, American Society for Engineering Education 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual ConferenceExperiment HardwareThe Atmel Xplained Mini Evaluation board1 is used for this class, Fig 1. This Printed CircuitBoard (PCB) contains an AVR ATmega328p microcontroller and also an IC used to program it.Its low cost of about $10 USD makes it easy for most students to purchase. There are protoboardareas on each side of the PCB which allows students to solder on headers or other components.There is one push button on the board and an LED which can be accessed
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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference
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Sreedevi Ande P.E.
Conference Organized by The University of Texas at Dallas Copyright © 2017, American Society for Engineering Education 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conferenceskills through teamwork. Table 1 lists the activities that were designed based on learningobjectives. Table 1. GEMS Camp Overview Activities Learning Objectives • Choosing a Discipline – • Combine the fun of a personality quiz with the usefulness of a career Personality Quiz. test. • Understand different Engineering disciplines
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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference
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Jun-Ing Ker
elimination that includes the stepsof: (1) disassembling defective products, (2) inspecting individual components, (3) categorizingdefects, (4) applying basic quality control tools to quantify the defects, (5) conducting statistical Proceedings of the 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference Organized by The University of Texas at Dallas Copyright © 2017, American Society for Engineering Education 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conferencestudies to find sources of variations, (6) eliminating root causes leading to process variations, (7)replacing defective parts with good ones, (8) reassembling and retesting the product, (9) writingup
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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference
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John Hansen; Chengzhu Yu
developed a specialized 30-track head as shown in figure 1which digitizes audio to extract audio channels from the original 30 track analog tapes of Apollo missionshown in figure 2. Figure 1: 30 Track Head Figure 2: 30 track Analog TapesWe have completed digitization of 19,000 Hours of audio data from Apollo 11, Apollo 13 and Geminimissions. This enormous audio archive is the first of its kind of an organized missions based speech data.On the other hand, time-tagged processed information of the audio data is generated for analysis in theentire mission timeline. Given our research background in audio, speech and text processing, manyparameters related to behavior [1], sentiment [5], topic, conversation
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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference
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Ilse Nava-Medina; Angie Hill Price; Mathew Kuttolamadom
had a verypositive experience, and for some it even reinforced their decisions to pursue graduate school. BackgroundDifferent types of engineering and engineering technology undergraduate research experiences havebeen offered from the NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduate summer programs to smallindividual projects undertaken during the semester. Research indicates that numerous benefits fromundergraduate research accrue to the student as well as to the sponsoring faculty member.As noted by Zhan et al, faculty in engineering technology do not typically have access to graduatestudents for research, but they are expected increasingly to engage in greater amounts of researchand scholarly work.1
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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference
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Bernard J. Maxum; Andrey Beyle
: Fluid Mechanics, Theory of Elasticity,Plates and Shells, Mechanics of Composites, Advanced Electromagnetics, Finite ElementMethods, Stress Analysis, Structural Analysis, and Advanced Engineering Mathematics. Proceedings of the 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference Organized by The University of Texas at Dallas Copyright © 2017, American Society for Engineering Education 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual ConferenceOne of the authors published a textbook [Reference 1] devoted to introducing tensor concepts toundergraduates. When the law of recalculation of the components of a dyadic is derived in theframework of low level course, it is
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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference
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Roy Issa; Kenneth R. Leitch; Byungik Chang P.E.
Implementing Sustainability with a Solar Distillation Project Roy Issa1, Kenneth Leitch1 and Byungik Chang2 1 West Texas A&M University/ 2University of New HavenAbstractStudents in the mechanical and civil engineering programs at West Texas A&M University areexposed to sustainability in a wide variety of required courses in thefreshman through seniorlevel coursework. The projects in these courses are carefully selected to provide an in-depthunderstanding of sustainability through analytical and experimental studies. In thermal-fluiddesign, students were asked to build an environmentally friendly and energy efficient systemforthe distillation of
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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference
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Randall D. Manteufel; Amir Karimi
PoolingElectronic pooling (iClicker) has been used to promote active learning in large classes. Theprimary benefit from using an iClicker system is that the response from many students can becollected and assessed very quickly. For example, in a thermodynamics class the followingmultiple-choice questions were posed: Q1: Under what conditions can you assume an ideal gas model for a gaseous substance? Select the best answer from the following choices: (A) TR ≈ 0, (B)TR ≈1; (C) PR ≈0; (D) PR ≈ 1; (E) Z =0 Q2: The change in internal energy of a closed system undergoing any process is: (A) ≤ 0 , (B) ≥ 0 , (C) ≥ 0 but ≤ 1 , (D) ≥ 1, (E) both A and B Q3: The change in the entropy of a closed system undergoing any process is: (A
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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference
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Amir Karimi; Randall D. Manteufel
justified. 4In heat transfer students have difficulty applying the boundary conditions correctly in solvingboundary value heat conduction problem; under what condition the available equations for onedimensional heat conduction in a fin can be used (e.g., why Bi must be << 1); under whatconditions the lumped capacity solution can be used for a transient heat conduction problem; orunder what conditions in a transient heat conduction problem it can be assumed that the surfacetemperature is approximately the same as the convective fluid temperature. In convection heattransfer some students have difficulty to select a correct empirical equations that satisfies its rangeof application. For example for forced convection, most equations are accurate
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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference
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Amir Karimi
. During the last fewyears of 1990s programs were given the choice of being evaluated based on the old criteria or thenewly established EC-2000 criteria. Since 2000, all engineering programs requesting accreditationfor the first time or seeking re-accreditation by ABET-EAC must demonstrate that program meetsa set of criteria that include both the general criteria for baccalaureate degree programs as well asthe program criteria required by the program lead society (e.g., ASCE, IEEE, ASME).1 Theprograms must also meet all the requirements listed in the Accreditation-Policy-and-Procedure-Manual of ABET.2Since 2000, there has been minor changes to EAC general criteria and program criteria. Originallythe ABET-EAC-2000 accreditation was based on 7
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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference
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Raj Desai
commercialization. Thispaper also talks about leadership and entrepreneurship. Through the use of these steps and skills, we givestudents the tools for innovation and success.Idea GenerationDuring the first week, the students are told how brainstorming is conducted in the lecture part of theclass. Current students were also told about the products developed by previous students. They were alsotold that the best ideas were those that the students had a personal interest in developing, to fill an unmetniche. Once the list of potential products is developed, as in Table 1, students evaluate each product orconcept, considering student interest in the project, strengths and weaknesses of the concept, feasibilityof execution, etc. Students then form teams based
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2016 St.Lawrence Section Meeting
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Rebecca K. LaForest; Iulian Gherasoiu; Daniel White; Harry Efstathaidis
obtained that these programs retain more studentsin STEM fields and improve test results. This work also provides a cost and payout analysiswhich shows that investing in the P-TECH model is economically advantageous forstakeholders. Finally we identify local thriving nanotechnology higher education programs andhighlight the need for a strong vertical structure to supply a pipeline of prepared and motivatedstudents.IntroductionAccording to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, between 2000 and 2010, STEM employmentgrowth was 5.3% higher than non-STEM employment growth. This difference is expected to beeven larger, at 7.2%, between 2008 through 2018 [1]. In New York State, the professional,scientific and technical services sector had the third largest
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2016 St.Lawrence Section Meeting
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Amanda Abrew; Melanie Villatoro P.E.
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2016 St.Lawrence Section Meeting
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Dimitri Papazoglou; Saneela Rabbani; Shouling He
were exclusive and taught the youngand brilliant girl scouts what engineering really is.IntroductionResearch has shown that children decide on subjects they like or dislike as early as elementaryschool or middle school [1]. Evidence suggests that female students can lose their interests inmath and science and eventually choose careers far from engineering around the age of ten totwelve. Results in the ratio between male and female engineers are quite large [2]. Therefore,introducing students to the exciting potential of engineering at an early age is of significance.A student’s choice of an academic track or career in engineering mainly depends on the studenthaving gained positive experience associated with the field during middle school or
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2016 St.Lawrence Section Meeting
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Alex Avery; Joe Hudden; David Ruan; Eric Schulken; Cody Smith; Jessica VanGiesen; Michael Zielinski; Ray Ptucha
driving. perception and localization. Efforts have been made to ensure that the APM will always operate safely. A fail-safe emergency stop feature ensures that power will be cut from I. INTRODUCTION the drive motor and the brakes will be applied when a system The field of autonomous vehicles (AVs) has seen fault is detected, when a passenger hits the stop button, ortremendous growth and investment in recent years [1]. While when the stop button is triggered remotely.many advances have occurred, the
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2016 St.Lawrence Section Meeting
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Paul Cotae; Mahmoud Elsayed; Ira Moskowitz
instead of a large number offixed sensor nodes. Our experimental network system setup and approach will analyze the following: 1. The entropy of the transmitted and received message signal, where we use the pseudo random noise (PN) sequences [11] of the transmitted and received signal. We will consider the binary sequences due to PPM (Pulse Position Modulation) [11] used in the acoustic modem set. 2. The channel noise for the underwater communication transmission medium. In our channel model the input is the random variable X and the output the random variable Y. If the channel is noiseless, the output distribution will be equal to the input, up to reindexing. However, in general, the transmission medium is noisy
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2016 St.Lawrence Section Meeting
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Victoria Sorg; Lilian Johnson; Alexandra Westbrook; Susan Daniel
Focusing on the Family: Engineering Outreach Targeting Rural High School Females and their Parents Victoria C. Sorg1 , Lilian C. Johnson1 , Alexandra M. Westbrook1 , and Susan Daniel1 1 Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 April 25, 2016AbstractIn 1985, women received 23% of the bachelor’s degrees awarded in chemical engineering nation-wide [1]. By 2014, nearly thirty years later, this number had barely improved (32%) [2]. TheGraduate Women’s Group in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at CornellUniversity
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2016 St.Lawrence Section Meeting
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Liyong Sun; Robert Edwards
. Figure 1. Apparatus for the pressure exercise.CONCLUSIONSThis paper presents an in-class exercises that help MET students to understand the fluid pressurebecause it is very difficult for students to understand that the pressure of the fluid when the fluidis moving is different than the pressure of fluid at rest. The exercise development and apparatusare presented. The plan is to have the apparatus ready for fall of 2016.REFERENCES:[1] D. Hanson, T. Wolfskill, “Process Workshops – A New Model for Instruction,” Journal of Chemical Education, 77, 120-129, 2000.[2] R. M. Felder & L. K. Silverman, “Learning and Teaching Styles in Engineering Education. Engineering Education,” 78, 674--681 (1998).[3] R. M. Felder & J
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2016 St.Lawrence Section Meeting
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Ryan Milcarek; Michael Garrett; Ryan Falkenstein-Smith; Jeongmin Ahn
Engineering Learning design in engineering education has been considered both a central as well as adistinguishing skill of the engineering profession.1 However, Dym et al. provides an insightfulhistory of the engineering design process in engineering education that makes it clear that teachingdesign in engineering education has been challenging and has changed in many ways over theyears.2 In that work, Dym et al. defines engineering design as “a systematic, intelligent process inwhich designers generate, evaluate, and specify concepts for devices, systems, or processes whoseform and function achieve clients’ objectives or users’ needs while satisfying a specified set ofconstraints”.2 That process is difficult to teach systematically as it
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2016 St.Lawrence Section Meeting
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John Foo; Iwijn De Vlaminck; Kimberly Williams
. Thesurvey results show that the majority of the students found the transition to the FlippedClassroom easy or somewhat easy to adapt to despite not receiving information about thebenefits of this pedagogical model. Students indicated that having clearer instructions aboutwhat is expected of them would further smoothen this transition. These findings suggest thatinstructors may be able to successfully use the Flipped Classroom model in a modular fashionwhen expectations for students are clearly communicated.1. IntroductionThe Flipped Classroom is a pedagogical model that moves direct instruction outside of theclassroom to allow more time in class for student-centered activities such as group work orpeer-instruction. Bishop and Verleger define the
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2020 PPC
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Miriam Quintal
Debt $303 billion 7%Federal Investments in Engineering• 60 percent of federal research investments in university engineering are funded by the Department of Defense and the National Science Foundation. Other USDA 11% 1% NASA 7% DOD Total Investment: 41% $6.8 billion
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2020 PPC
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Frazier Benya; Al Roming
Michigan Billy M. Williams American Geophysical Union 1 NAM Member 2 NAE MemberSponsors Key findings• There is extensive sexual harassment• Gender harassment is the most common form of sexual harassment• Sexual harassment undermines research integrity, reduces talent pool, and harms targets and bystanders• Legal compliance is necessary but not sufficient to reduce harassment• Changing climate and culture can prevent and effectively address sexual harassment Finding: Prevalence of Sexual HarassmentSexual harassment is common in academic science,engineering, and medicine.• Best available analysis to date shows that 50 percent of women
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2020 PPC
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Dawn Tilbury
Engineering at NSFDAWN TILBURY, NSF ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR ENGINEERINGASEE ENGINEERING DEANS INSTITU TE, NEW DEANS O RIENTATIO NF EB . 3, 2020 1 NSF champions research and education across all fields of science and engineeringBiological Sciences Engineering Mathematical & Computer & Geosciences Physical Sciences Information S&E (including Polar) Integrative Activities Education & Social, Behavioral & International Science Human Resources Economic Sciences & Engineering
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2020 PPC
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Miriam Quintal
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2020 PPC
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Neil C. Ruz
Practical Training approvals surpassed initial H-1B visa approvals in 2010, 2014, 2015 and 2016 Number of OPT and H-1B visa approvals, in thousands Note: H-1B visa data are in U.S. federal fiscal years, which run from Oct. 1-Sept. 30. OPT data are in calendar years. H-1B data include both capped and uncapped approvals. H-1B visa applications require an equivalent to a U.S. bachelor’s degree or higher. See Appendix B for OPT educational requirements. Source: Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement data received August 2017 through a Freedom of Information Act request and publicly available
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2020 PPC
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Kazem Kazerounian; Jelena Kovacevic; William R. Berkley
engagements with movie and media industry and social mediaSession 1 (3.5 Min Each) 1) Yannis Yortsos 2) Ian Robertson 3) Steve McLaughlin 4) Fotis Sotiropoulos 5) Jelena Kovačevic CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL MEDIA INTELLIGENCE Yannis C. Yortsos (Yortsos@usc.edu) Dean USC Viterbi School of EngineeringASEE PUBLIC POLICY COLLOQUIUM February 4, 2020 Center for Computational Media Intelligence (CCMI) PI: Shri Narayanan, ECE and SAIL What we do› Study media content
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2020 PPC
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Michael Cox