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Innovations in Nuclear Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ivan Maldonado; Henry Spitz; John Christenson; Eugene Rutz

co-op sections. • Registering for the summer quarter following their BSME degreeThe specific details of how the foregoing is accomplished are described in the followingsections.In consonance with College policy, MNE-ACCEND students will be required to participate in amandatory co-operative educational program. Co-op professional practice assignments will be atNational Laboratories, Nuclear Power Plants, or various nuclear industry vendors and will have amechanical-nuclear engineering orientation. The normal length of the MNE-ACCEND co-opprogram [for “on schedule” students] is five quarters.Students for the MNE-ACCEND program are recruited from well-qualified and well-motivatedhigh school graduates and first year ME program students who

Conference Session

Teaching with Technologies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rocio Alba-Flores; Fernando Rios-Gutierrez

development for mobile computers d) Enhance active learning and instruction e) In laboratory data collection and document viewing f) In class assessment and evaluation of students, by means of electronic quizzes and polls. g) The wireless connectivity facilitates collaborative and interactive learning, and promotes in class participation for the students. With the integration of this technology in our classes we have made the learning experiencemore interesting and dynamic, and made difficult topics more accessible and easier to understandto the students. The wireless computer provides each student with immediate access to coursematerial such as lecture slides, examples and quizzes. In addition, the use of the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Hallacher

) identify thecompetencies and characteristics that are needed for incoming students to succeed in thecapstone semester; and (2) assess the alignment of the capstone semester outcomes withexpectations of industry. The initial results of this study have already been used in a variety of ways. Forexample, a standard process is now being used to certify that prospective students possessthe academic experience and personal characteristics necessary for success in thecapstone semester. The results have also been used to improve the design of capstonesemester instructional material and laboratory experiences, and to strengthen theclassroom interaction and teambuilding that takes place as part of the capstone semesterlearning experience

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Miller; Stephen Lombardo; Christa Weisbrook; Patrick Tebbe

Session: 1526Development of Software Applications for Thermodynamics Related Courses: The THERMOVIEW Project Dr. Patrick A. Tebbe The College of New Jersey tebbe@tcnj.edu Dr. Christa Weisbrook, Dr. Stephen J. Lombardo, Dr. William Miller University of MissouriAbstract The College of New Jersey and the University of Missouri are collaborating on a NSFCourse, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement proof-of-concept grant to develop educationalsoftware for use in

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Schreiner; John Burns

was decided that a variety of topics should be coveredat an appropriate depth such that each teacher could bring that topic back to their classroom.Topics included the engineering design process, BME modeling, gait analysis, genetics,biomedical devices, control systems, ergonomics and anthropometrics, and applying BMEprinciples to the Massachusetts curriculum frameworks. The laboratory experiences wereconstructed as stand alone modules that could easily be adapted to a particular grade level andcourse.The institute began with an introduction to engineering, biomedical engineering, and the designprocess. As with every topic presented at the workshop, the participants actively participated in

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in BIO Engr.

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry McIntire; Ka-yiu San; Ann Saterbak

biological systems· Biosystems Transport and Reaction Processes - momentum, heat and mass transport and reaction processes in human body· Systems Physiology - physiology of organism, tissue and cellular levels· Biomechanics/Biomaterials - force analysis, mechanics of deformation, biomechanics of tissue, physical and chemical properties of biomaterials· Tissue Culture Laboratory - sterile technique; proliferation and transfection assays· Bioengineering Design - design of process or product, FDA regulations, economics· Advanced Bioengineering Laboratory - modules in biomaterials, biomechanics, systems physiology, instrumentation, bioprocessing, ethicsTo enhance knowledge in one area of Bioengineering, students select one of three

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ravi Athale; John Treichler; Dave Munson; Sally Wood; Geoffrey Orsak; Scott Douglas; Mark Yoder

UniversityAbstractThe INFINITY Project (www.infinity-project.org) is a nationally recognized partnership betweenleading universities, industry, and K-12 educators to help school districts incorporate modernengineering and technology in their high school curricula. This effort aims to develop a novel andinteractive curriculum emphasizing the engineering fundamentals and the fun of the modern high-tech age.This paper outlines the goals and technology elements of the INFINITY Project. Implementationissues of the program are addressed, including textbook and laboratory creation, teacher training,and online classroom support.Math and physics high school teachers are teaching this curriculum in 14 Texas schools at thistime. This paper presents the early results of

Conference Session

Recruitment, Retention, and First-Year Programs in ECE

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qing Zheng, Gannon University; Ramakrishnan Sundaram, Gannon University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Programs in Electrical and Computer EngineeringIntroductionThis paper discusses how integrated electrical and computer engineering (ECE) projectswith science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) components can inspirethe K-12 students to pursue the undergraduate degree programs in ECE. These projectsare presented through Engineering day and Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)Day events hosted at the undergraduate baccalaureate degree institution by the ECEdepartment with ABET accreditation.In the fall of 2009, the ECE department at our university organized two Engineering Dayevents in its system integration laboratory [1]. The laboratory accommodated nearly 105high school students in six

Conference Session

New Faculty Development

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

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New Engineering Educators

Tools: MS Word, Email, WWWJuniorYear ME 302 – Fluid Mechanics ME 371 – Machine Design I Laboratory Reports: (Approx. 9 @ 4-6 pages each) Short Technical Reporting Brief narrative of procedure, measured data, Design Analysis Reports (2 @ 4- deduced and analyzed data, plotted results with 6 pp. Individual); Technical discussion and conclusions. Analysis, Economic Analysis, Recommendation for Action Tools: EES.Powerpoint ME 391

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehdi Shadaram, University of Texas, San Antonio; Thomas B. Morrow, University of Texas, San Antonio; C. Mauli Agrawal, University of Texas, San Antonio

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Aerospace

published more than 100 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He has been either PI or Co-PI for numerous grants and contracts, totaling more than $10 million in the past 15 years. NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Na- tional Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, Department of Defense, Department of Education, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Texas Instruments, and Lucent Technologies have funded his research projects. He is the recipient of the excellence in engineering research award at the College of Engineering at UTSA in 2010, the best teacher award in the College of Engineering at UTEP in 1994, and the NASA monetary award for contribution to the space exploration. He has been

Conference Session

Design Spine

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey L. Schiano, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Design in Engineering Education

. Moreover, as the professionalengineering topics are required for graduation, students cannot replace the capstone designcourse with other opportunities closer to their professional interests, for example, completing aproject in the Student Space Programs Laboratory. Page 25.51.2Following a critical review and discussion of the design component of our curriculum, theundergraduate committee identified three areas for improvement: (1) coupling the undergraduateand graduate programs by engaging undergraduates in faculty research projects, (2) diversifyingthe spectrum and depth of capstone design projects, and (3) increasing the number of credit

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rafic Bachnak, Texas A&M International University; Rohitha Goonatilake, Texas A&M International University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

AC 2012-3244: SUMMER ENRICHMENT WORKSHOPS FOR PROMOT-ING ENGINEERING EDUCATIONDr. Rafic Bachnak, Texas A&M International University Rafic Bachnak is professor and Chair at Texas A&M International University (TAMIU). He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Ohio University in 1983, 1984, and 1989, respectively. Prior to joining TAMIU in 2007, Bachnak was on the faculty of Texas A&M, Corpus Christi, Northwestern State University, and Franklin University. His experience includes several fellowships with NASA and the U.S. Navy Laboratories and employment with Koch Industries. Bachnak is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Texas, a senior member of IEEE and

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerard N. Foster

technology curriculum,often with increased complexity. As a student progresses through the curriculum, the binarynumbers they encounter increase in size and the binary formats (signed, unsigned, fractional,integer, etc.) vary according to the application. At the lower levels, the students are not ready forexamples and laboratory applications that illustrate and cement into memory the concepts ofbinary operations and formats required throughout their academic career. Thus, as educators, wemust revisit and extend the coverage of binary numbers, often with time constraints imposed bythe need to cover technical applications and circuits of the moment. The list below is a summaryof number concepts that can be generally illustrated at that level. Higher

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick C. Gee; Marvin Needler; Barbara L. Christe

interaction with positive role models from the fields of education and industry who will serve MEAP as workshop instructors, counselors, and mentors for students.5. To provide hands-on laboratory experiences and academic instruction similar to that of a typical first year of study in an engineering or technology curriculum.6. To demonstrate work-place environments by providing students with tours of local industries.7. To provide MEAP graduates with valuable summer work experience in engineering and technology-related fields within local industries.MEAP receives contributions from two main sources. Purdue School of Engineering andTechnology provides 60 percent of the funding while remaining 40 percent comes from local,technically orientated

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey L. Ray; John Farris

include the product realization process. In addition,manufacturing principles were included. The new course organization will be fully implementedduring the upcoming 2000 – 01 academic year. Entering first-year engineering students from alldisciplines offered are the target audience for the course, which is comprised of two lecture andone laboratory sessions per week. Topics covered include 3D solid modeling design techniquesand hands-on experiences in computer-numerically controlled (CNC) milling. Students areintroduced to both the product realization process and specific manufacturing principles duringtheir first semester of study, as opposed to initial exposure in upper division courses. Discussionof the implementation process and course

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

William E. Cole; Walter Buchanan

students and no post lab work was required. Figure 2: Students performing the sixth experiment in the labOne addition we did make to the Drexel program, however, was to require the students tomaintain a laboratory notebook. This was implemented to start them into the practice of keepinga laboratory notebook to record their work in the lab.For proctoring in the lab, a graduate student Teaching Assistant was responsible for the studentsin the lab and conducting each lab period. He was assisted, in each lab, by an upper classEngineering Technology student (a junior year student). Three different students were used toproctor these labs. Additionally, School of Engineering Technology faculty were activelyinvolved with the labs. Two

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert A. Merrill; Elizabeth A. Scholle

Session 3248 From the Ground Up: The Challenges and Triumphs of Building a New Multi-use Lab Elizabeth A. Scholle, Robert A. Merrill Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering Technology Rochester Institute of TechnologyAbstract:After twenty-eight years of sharing labs with Rochester Institute of Technology’s MechanicalEngineering Department, the Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering Technology Departmenthad the opportunity to develop new laboratory facilities due to enrollment growth in bothdepartments. The Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher E. Rizkalla; Charles F. Yokomoto

hands-on learning, and the success of the close tie between theory and applicationhas led us to consider introducing laboratory experiences in courses that have traditionally beenlecture-only courses. The just-in-time design principle led us to conceptualize the other threecourse design concepts.2.2 Attached Learning.Attached learning [6, 7, 9] is a course development principle which requires that instructorsopenly promise students that all course contents would not only be delivered just-in-time forapplication on their weekly laboratory projects, but will also help them be successful on anexciting, hands-on, industry-style design project. Thus, all course contents would be “attached”to something they will look forward to with high anticipation

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Stratton; Ranaye Marsh; Jonathan Lawson; Jay Kunze

technicians. For instance, Argonne NationalLaboratory heavily promotes teamwork 8 between the two classes of employees. At the IdahoNational Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, a Team Excellence Award programrecognizes outstanding performance of entire teams, with engineers, planners, technicians, andsecretaries all sharing equally in the success of the team.9Student PerspectivesSeveral former students who had received degrees in both applied technology (two or three yearprograms) and later conventional engineering four-year programs were invited to participate in theconference. Since all of these students are presently employed as engineers, it was not unexpectedthat they generally expressed concerns that each had when they were $technicians

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

K. Swyler; A. Peskin

Coordinated ProgramBrookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is a multi-disciplinary research laboratory of theU. S. Department of Energy. It is the home for thousands of scientists, engineers andtechnicians. Among its world-class scientific instruments are the National SynchrotronLight Source, the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron, the High Flux Beam Reactor, andthe Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider currently in development. It is also the base forunique information repositories such as the Protein Data Bank and the National NeutronData Center which are referenced daily by hundreds of researchers all over the world.BNL has also long had a vibrant education program reaching out to faculty and studentsat every academic level. Undergraduate research

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

K. Swyler; A. Peskin

Coordinated ProgramBrookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is a multi-disciplinary research laboratory of theU. S. Department of Energy. It is the home for thousands of scientists, engineers andtechnicians. Among its world-class scientific instruments are the National SynchrotronLight Source, the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron, the High Flux Beam Reactor, andthe Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider currently in development. It is also the base forunique information repositories such as the Protein Data Bank and the National NeutronData Center which are referenced daily by hundreds of researchers all over the world.BNL has also long had a vibrant education program reaching out to faculty and studentsat every academic level. Undergraduate research

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

John S. Schmalzel; Ralph A. Dusseau; Kauser Jahan

Session 3615 Introducing Civil Engineering Measurements through Bridges Kauser Jahan, Ralph A. Dusseau and John S. Schmalzel Rowan UniversityABSTRACTFreshman engineering students at Rowan University are introduced to engineering measurementsthrough a series of hands-on laboratories emphasizing teamwork, computer utilization, oral andwritten communication skills and professional ethics. The major focus of the freshman clinicclass for a full semester is engineering measurements and design. Problems are drawn from thefour disciplines to introduce students to laboratory and field measurements

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Amin Karim; Ahmed Khan

background and training inwireless technologies. Electronics engineering technology (EET) graduates are not only expectedto understand the theory of state-of-the-art wireless technologies, but also to exhibit hands-onanalytical and problem solving skills.To address these changing industrial needs, it is imperative that new courses in wirelesstechnologies be developed and incorporated into the Electronics Engineering Technologyprogram. To help achieve this goal, a survey was conducted in the wireless industry to determinethe required level of training for EET graduates. This paper describes a proposed wirelesstechnology lecture/laboratory course implementing the future trends identified through feedbackfrom the wireless industry

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

benefit by gaining access to university laboratories, faculty, and student resources; and byreceiving the products, processes, software, and services that university students and facultycreate3 . Joint venture can provide school with addition revenue and access to high techequipment they could afford to purchase themselves3 . Faculty can benefit by being exposed tothe latest industry needs and technology3 . Globally speaking, the world educational arena must take these suggestions and combinethe vast resources of students, faculty and industry for the mutual benefits of all parties con-cerned. The new curriculum must focus attention to societal needs. There are many countriesaround the world that cannot provide job opportunities for their

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

K.A. Korzeniowski

electronic instrumentation skills to non-Electrical Engineers. - The course, Electrical Instrumentation and Measurement, taught through the Electrical EngineeringDepartment at the United States Naval Academy (USNA), is a one semester elective course that meets twice aweek for an hour in class and for a two hour laboratory period. The main emphasis in the course is on laboratorywork. Class time is spent exploring the interaction between the components in an instrumentation system andthe theory behind the physical changes that take place in sensing devices. Theses concepts are tested andvalidated in the laboratory design work. II. Course Objectives The intended audience for this course is the

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

P. Jayanetti; J. Olcott; J. Johnson; J. Patton

real world plant. The heart of the model is a dual synchronous generator representation written inJava. The output terminals of the synchronous machines contain three-phase voltage andcurrent information that is fed to the metering and protective relays. The relay outputsare interfaced to the laboratory PLCs. Manual or PLC-operated generator field and gov-ernor controls determine the machines’ behavior. A synchronizing switch enables manualsynchronization. The wye-grounded/delta power transformer is connected between themain bus and the equivalent system. The equivalent system represents an infinite busbehind the system impedance and draws or supplies real and reactive power based on thesynchronous machine field and governor controls.4

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy L. Denton

, including simplification for ease ofcalculation, idealized dimensions, and neglecting the effects of manufacturing processes. Aprimary goal of basic mechanics courses is to teach students how to develop appropriateengineering models which will allow them to reasonably approximate “real-life” results. In atypical first laboratory-based strength of materials course, students conduct establishedexperiments to verify simple engineering models, but may not consider the constraints imposedon the test specimen in order to obtain experimental results which match theoretically predictedvalues. In particular, manufacturing factors are frequently overlooked.A laboratory exercise based on the statically indeterminate bar of multiple, equal length

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

S. A. Chickamenahalli; M. Bolepalli; Chih-Ping Yeh; Venkateswaran Nallaperumal

meaning of phase sequence and direction ofrotation. They help students understand meaning of poles and rotating MMF. They also helpstudents observe flux distributions due to changed number of poles. They also enable studentstart and actuate motor operation. The stepper motor visualizations illustrate half, full andmicrostep modes of operations by utilizing a cross sectional view of the motor stator and rotors. Page 4.219.2All animations are developed using Authorware and Flash.Videotaped demonstrations of some Hampden controllers for ac and dc motors, evaluated as partof the NSF-GC project serve as laboratory illustrations for the manufacturing

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Shreekanth A. Mandayam; John L. Schmalzel; Ravi Ramachandran

college. The sizeof the college has been chosen to provide specialization in small departments and permit thecreation of a multidisciplinary curriculum in which laboratory/design courses are offered to allengineering students. The hallmark of the Rowan program is the interdisciplinary, projectoriented clinic sequence. This 8 semester long sequence is taken by all engineering students.The Engineering clinic is based on the medical school model and involves side by sideinteraction among students and faculty for performing laboratory experiments, design projects Page 4.237.1and research. Multidisciplinary design projects and laboratory experiments at

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard D'Amato

LabView ® simulations can substitute for “hands-on” experience. In an attempt to assure ourstudents receive some field experience before graduating and undertaking their profession, theyparticipate in several environmental engineering laboratory exercises out in the field. A laboratory exercise that has been used with great success in Mercer University’sEnvironmental Engineering program is a unique combination of environmental and civil engineeringtechniques. This hydrology experiment was created in order to give our students some in-fieldexperience and introduce them to some of the basic tools, both physical and analytical, of theenvironmental engineer. This experiment includes the construction of groundwater monitoringwells, basic