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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Leroy R. Cox; Katie Grantham Lough

on the mathematicalProceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 4substance of laboratory reports, without giving valuable feedback as to the writing style of thework.6Educational Activities to Improve Undergraduate Engineers’ Writing SkillsIf the charge of engineering educators is to produce tomorrow’s population of engineers who arefully competent in an ever-changing workplace, then means must be sought to help our studentsin this critical area. It is not simply enough to assign a writing assignment (or collection ofassignments) to teach students good writing skills. The majority of

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Seymour Blank; John Hudesman; Robert Armstrong; Ed Morton; Adam Moylan; Neisha White

needs of these under-prepared students have focused on teachingcontent courses together with a variety of academic/study skills strategies. These have met with limitedsuccess. Our department has recently (2005/2006 academic year) received a National Science Foundation(NSF) Course Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Phase I grant to apply “Self-RegulatedLearning” (SRL) to two engineering technology courses. SRL involves teaching students a new way ofunderstanding their learning process and how to monitor and manage it. The SRL process includes an on-going three-phase cycle: (1) planning, (2) practicing and (3) evaluation. During the planning phase,students assess prior performance, set goals and choose appropriate learning strategies

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Katherine C. Chen, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Shari Weaver, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Gretchen Fougere, STEM Leadership Advisors

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Pre-College Engineering Education

University and was elected to Sigma Xi. Her research was conducted at the Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories. She received bachelor’s degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering from Vanderbilt University. She holds three US patents. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 An Engineering Design Approach to Study and Strengthen a Teacher Preparation Program in STEM at the Secondary Level (Work in Progress)Introduction A study about the Teacher Preparation Program (TPP) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute(WPI) was conducted to examine the barriers of its graduates from entering the classroom

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Meehan, University of Glasgow; Robert H. Hadfield, University of Glasgow; Andrew Phillips

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Materials

. Page 26.109.15Acknowledgements: The authors wish to acknowledge the financial support from the School ofEngineering at the University of Glasgow The authors acknowledge the dedication and assistanceof laboratory demonstrators: Mr. R.A. Kirkwood, Mr. K. Erotokriutou, Mr. G. Orchin, Mr. S.Tabor, and Mr. P. Ohiero.References1 J.W. Bridge, Incorporating Active Learning in an Engineering Science Course, Proceedings of the 2001 ASEEAnnual Conference, Session 1664.2 D. Roylance, Innovations in Teaching Mechanics of Materials in Materials Science and Engineering Departments,Proceedings of the 2001 ASEE Annual Conference, Session 1464.3 K. Stair and B. Crist, Jr., Using Hands-On Laboratory Experiences to Underscore Concepts and to CreateExcitement

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2008 GSW

Authors

Mohamad H. Ahmadian

The University of New Mexico – Albuquerque Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering Education To teach team work and improve learning the idea of small group activities has already been implemented in the engineering and engineering technology laboratory assignments. A few institutions also have created learning communities to create an environment where students have an opportunity to register in a cluster of classes during a given term. This idea is a pre- designed instructional system that leads to instructional restructuring of students’ time, credit, and learning experiences to build communities and to foster more explicit connections among students, among students and their

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mina Hoorfar; Homayoun Najjaran; William Cleghorn

development of a series of software programs that can be used byinstructors, teaching assistants, and students involved in the undergraduate curricula. Theprograms are primarily developed for the teaching purposes, but they can be used in distancelearning, student projects, research laboratories, and educational workshops. This paper presents Page 7.1001.1 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”two sample programs developed for two mechanical systems including mechanical vibrationsystems

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2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Chun-Hsing Ho; Nyawa Allieu

2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conference In-Classroom Dynamics and Pacing Strategies to Improve Student Learning: Lesson Learned from a 100-Level Course Chun-Hsing Ho 1 Name and Nyawa Allieu 2 1. Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2. Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction, University of Nebraska-LincolnAbstractThe paper presents in-classroom teaching strategies to immediately adjust lecture deliverymethod and instructional pathing to reflect student learning feedback and progress. A mid-termstudent survey was conducted to collect student comments and gain their

Conference Session

Computational Tools and Simulation III

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University; Jacob Schroeder, Clemson University; Hanjun Xian, Clemson University

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Computers in Education

virtual laboratories. Newcyberlearning environments have the potential to extend learning from traditional classrooms andphysical laboratories to include informal environments such as social networks and virtualspaces. Despite these significant advances, a larger theoretical framework of learning thatincludes cyberinfrastructure at its very core has not yet evolved.The purpose of this research is to provide a synthesis of the fundamental characteristics ofcyberlearning environments that are being created to facilitate student learning withinengineering disciplines. Furthermore, we examine in-depth how educators are definingcyberlearning within the context of learning theories in general, and engineering education inparticular.Our methodology

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Reihaneh Jamshidi, University of Hartford; Kamau Wright, University of Hartford; Paul E. Slaboch, University of Hartford

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Materials

significantimprovement in students’ writing skills [21].The primary stage for the effort of improving engineering students’ writing skills can beincorporating writing instruction into laboratory courses which require lab reports. Requiringformal lab reports is an effective tool to integrate substantive learning into a written structure aswell as integrating communication skills into curriculum. It has been suggested that increasingthe number of collaborative writing assignments in the form of lab reports will result insignificant levels of improvement [18].This paper describes a series of teaching strategies to enhance students’ technical writing in thecontext of group-based lab assignments. A description of the methodologies employed, andoutcomes of assessment

Conference Session

Issues in the Professional Practice of Faculty Members in Civil Engineering

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Rose, University of Pittsburgh -Johnstown; Norman Voigt, Penn State, New Kensington

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Civil Engineering

their institution. In one Page 13.1257.8 recent case, a well-qualified Ph.D. student at a major research university was interested in teaching a hydraulics and hydrology course and two sections of laboratory as an adjunct faculty member at another institution. The compensation for the course and laboratory section, however, did not justify the time involved in preparation, travel and actual teaching, and as a result, the individual had to decline the position.Insights from Personal ExperiencesWhen discussing the role of adjunct faculty in engineering education, personalexperiences provide a sense of reference and add insights

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael M. Umbriac, University of Michigan; Amy Hortop, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #16979Promoting Safety Throughout the Design-Build-Test CurriculumMr. Michael M. Umbriac, University of Michigan Michael Umbriac is a lecturer in the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of Michigan, where he teaches the sophomore and junior design-build-test classes.Mrs. Amy Hortop, University of Michigan c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 WORK IN PROGRESS:   Promoting Safety Throughout the Design­Build­Test Curriculum  Abstract  The undergraduate mechanical engineering curriculum at the University of Michigan has a unique team­based

Conference Session

Student Learning and Assessment

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas Harlow, Western Kentucky University; Robert Choate, Western Kentucky University; H. Joel Lenoir, Western Kentucky University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

, designing telecommunication, data communication and information technology equipment.H. Joel Lenoir, Western Kentucky University Joel Lenoir is the Layne Professor of Mechanical Engineering at WKU, and primarily teaches in the dynamic systems and instrumentation areas of the curriculum. His industrial experience includes positions at Michelin Research and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as well as extensive professional practice in regional design and manufacturing firms. Page 15.570.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Extracurricular Project Enhances Student Learning

Conference Session

Rethinking Engineering Writing

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David M. Beams P.E., University of Texas, Tyler; Luke Niiler, University of Alabama; Beth Todd, University of Alabama; Marcus Brown, University of Alabama; Garry W. Warren, University of Alabama

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

control group. Ten students took part in theexperimental group; 22 were involved in the control group.Faculty members teaching ENGR 1201 accommodated the trial use of The Coach byagreeing to mandate the laboratory report format of The Coach for all assignments and torequire reports to be submitted in hard-copy form. Instructors in ENGR 1201 turned over alllaboratory reports to the faculty member responsible for The Coach at UT-Tyler, but onlythose reports submitted by participants were scanned to .pdf form. All reports were thenreturned for normal grading. This process was meant to preserve the anonymity of thoseparticipating in The Coach and to prevent any potential bias in grading. Scanned reportswere redacted to remove names and to assign each

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nam Kim; Sean Clancey

participation in the “PAWS” Safety program in the Unit Operations Laboratory; and(8) performance on the Fundamentals of Engineering exam.Three of the tools--the departmental skills test, the interviews, and the surveys–have only beenimplemented since 1999. Tool five--the portfolio--has never been fully implemented, as it overlapthe reviews of the plant design reports. Discussion has been conducted on folding that tool intothe second tool and replacing it with a summary of the comments made by work supervisors ofstudents completing co-op assignments. Those comments concern the supervisors’ evaluation ofthe students’ preparation for professional engineering work.A detailed explanation of these tools can be found in the 2001 conference proceedings1

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Chaloupka; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh

teaching has been rewarded by receiving several educational awards including the 1999 RayW. Fahien Award, 1998 Dow Outstanding New Faculty Award, the 1999 and 1998 Joseph J. Martin Award, andfour teaching awards.Edward C. Chaloupka is Associate Professor in the Department of Health and Exercise Science at Rowan University Page 6.481.5in New Jersey. He is the Co-Director of the Exercise Science Research Laboratory and teaches courses in humanProceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright2001, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carl K Frederickson, University of Central Arkansas

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division (EP2D)

complete tendirected laboratory projects and a final comprehensive project at the end of the semester.Students must maintain laboratory manuals for each activity. The program requires the use of thePython scripting language throughout upper division coursework. The department is changing itscurriculum to introduce coding in the 1st-year physics sequence. To reinforce these skills, theelectronics course will introduce the use of Jupyter Notebooks (JN) as the laboratory notebookformat. A JN is a web-based platform that allows students to create cells of code or text. Textcells provide a platform for students to describe the “what, why, and how” of theirmeasurements. Code cells can run Python (or many other programming languages) code. Thisallows

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Ralph A. Dusseau; Kauser Jahan

. Rowan Hall has 92,000 sq.ft. space with multifunctional laboratories and classrooms suitablefor interactive learning. Mr. Rowan is the founder and the CEO of Inductotherm, Inc. which is the world’sleading induction melting equipment manufacturer.The Rowan engineering program addresses use of new innovative methods of teaching and learning to preparestudents for entry into a rapidly changing and highly competitive marketplace (2,3,4). The major hallmark ofour Rowan engineering program is a unique common class known as the engineering clinic. The engineeringclinic class is integrated throughout the entire curriculum for eight semesters. All four engineering departmentsof Chemical, Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering have this common

Conference Session

Computers in Education (CoED) Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexander Hans Nagl, Penn State Berks; Rungun Nathan, Penn State Berks

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Computers in Education

State Berks Dr. Rungun Nathan is an associate professor in the division of engineering at Penn State-Berks. He got his B.S. from University of Mysore, his DIISc from Indian Institute of Science, his M.S. from Louisiana State University and his Ph.D. from Drexel University. He has worked in electronic packaging in C-DOT in India and then as a scientific assistant in the Robotics laboratory at the Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore, India. He worked as a post-doc at University of Pennsylvania in the area of Haptics and Virtual Reality. His research interests are in the areas of unmanned vehicles particularly flapping flight, mechatronics, robotics, MEMS, virtual reality and haptics, and teaching with technology

Conference Session

Topics in Biomass and Gasification Processes

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Madhumi Mitra Ph.D, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Corinne Johnson Rutzke, Corinne Rutzke

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

for educators forenhancing instruction in the areas of sustainable bioenergy and bioproducts: In addition totraining STEAM educators on a systems perspective of bio-energy, the program and the institutefocus on developing and providing workbooks and laboratory tool kits for implementingclassroom activities in bioenergy and bioproducts. The workbooks that are developed are alignedwith national and state standards of science, technology, and mathematics and do provide samplelessons in bioenergy and bioproducts for middle and high school students. It is anticipated thatthe bioenergy and bioproducts teaching tools will become self-sustaining following thetermination of the project.3. To leverage other ongoing training activities and training

Conference Session

Out-of-school-time Engineering: Implications for Underrepresented Students

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Luster-Teasley, North Carolina A&T State University; Radiah C. Minor, School of Agriculture and Envrinmental Sciences, North Carolina A&T State University; Vernal G. Alford III, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

Paper ID #14910After School Matters: Expanding the Time to Engage Minority Middle SchoolGirls in STEMDr. Stephanie Luster-Teasley, North Carolina A&T State University Dr. Stephanie Luster-Teasley is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Departments of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, and Chemical, Biological, and Bioengineering. Over the last ten years, Dr. Luster-Teasley has demonstrated excellence in teaching by using a variety of research-based, student-centered, pedagogical methods to increase diversity in STEM. Her teaching and engineering education work has resulted in her

Conference Session

Design Based Energy Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer M Peuker, University of Alaska, Anchorage; Steffen Peuker, University of Alaska Anchorage

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

course, with an emphasis on computer programming using MATLAB and communication. Her teaching interests are in the area of thermo-fluids and freshmen engineering. Her current research is focused on the success of freshmen engineering students, and implementing a flipped classroom by using Team-Based Learning in engineering core courses. Jennifer can be reached at jmpeuker@gmail.comDr. Steffen Peuker, University of Alaska Anchorage Dr. Steffen Peuker is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of the Thermal System Design Laboratory at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He is teaching the Thermal System De- sign, Thermal System Design Laboratory, HVAC Systems Optimization and Introduction to

Conference Session

Recruitment, Retention and First-year Programs in ECE

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hector A. Ochoa, The University of Texas at Tyler; Mukul Shirvaikar, University of Texas at Tyler

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

a freshmen course in electrical engineering to improve retention. Another paper is related to the development of an online graduate course in Random Process. And the last paper focuses on the development of an online course in Linear Circuit Analysis for Electrical Engineering Student.Dr. Mukul Shirvaikar, University of Texas at Tyler Dr. Mukul Shirvaikar is the Chair and Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Tyler, where he develops curriculum and laboratories in computer engineering. Prior to this he worked at Texas Instruments specializing in real time imaging systems. Dr. Shirvaikar graduated with his doc- torate from the University of Tennessee, a M.S. degree from the University of

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Faycal Saffih, University of Waterloo

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #17771Artificially Intelligent Method (AIM) for STEM-based Electrical Engineer-ing Education and Pedagogy Case Study: MicroelectronicsDr. Faycal Saffih, University of Waterloo Dr. Fayc¸al Saffih (IEEE, 2000) received B.Sc. (Best Honors) in Solid-State Physics from University of S´etif-1, Algeria, in 1996, M.Sc. degree in Bio-Physics from University of Malaya, Malaysia, in 1998, and Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2005. In 2006, he joined the Communication Research Laboratory, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, where he developed a versatile FPGA

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2023 Fall Mid Atlantic Conference: Meeting our students where they are and getting them where they need to be

Authors

Chenchen Huang, Rowan University; Weiling Cai; LuoBin Cui, Rowan University; Cheng Zhu, Rowan University; Ying Tang, Rowan University

., theoretical concepts, laboratory testing, and engineering design) in traditionalgeotechnical engineering education. Many students find geotechnical engineering education to be disconnected from theirinterests and career aspirations, leading them to perceive geotechnical jobs as tedious,challenging, and irrelevant. As a result, current geotechnical engineering education oftenfails to establish a strong interaction with students[1, 2]. To overcome these challenges andraise students’ interest in geotechnical engineering, traditional group projects ingeotechnical engineering courses are being replaced with creative, project-basedparticipation games, such as mixed reality games, to illustrate engineering principles usingreal-world applications. Based on

Conference Session

Optical and Wireless Communication Systems

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ernest Kim, University of San Diego

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

of concepts introduced in each course.Curricular design of both courses as well as assessments of concurrent registration in the coursesis presented. Specific laboratory design, fabrication, and measurement experiments conducted inthe RF and microwave engineering course that helps emphasize concepts introduced in theengineering electromagnetics course are outlined.IntroductionRadio frequency (RF) and microwave engineering courses are commonly taught as an electricalengineering elective in the senior or graduate years of study.1 Concepts introduced in RF andmicrowave courses benefit from a solid understanding of passive and active circuits, and time-varying electromagnetic field theory.2 With regard to electromagnetic fields, wave

Conference Session

SDR & Programming in ECE Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhiping Zhang, Wright State University; Zhiqiang Wu, Wright State University; Bin Wang, Wright State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

-director of Broadband, Mobile and Wireless Networking Laboratory at the Department of Electrical Engineering of Wright State University.Dr. Zhiqiang Wu, Wright State University Dr. Zhiqiang Wu received his BS from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 1993, MS from Peking University in 1996, and PhD from Colorado State University in 2002, all in electrical engineering. He has worked at West Virginia University Institute of Technology as assistant professor from 2003 to 2005. He joined Wright State University in 2005 and currently serves as full professor. Dr. Wu is the author of national CDMA network management standard of China. He also co-authored one of the first books on multi-carrier transmission

Conference Session

TC2K Methods and Models

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohan Ketkar, Prairie View A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, Page 11.310.2 (h) a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in lifelong learning, (i) an ability to understand professional, ethical and social responsibilities, (j) a respect for diversity and a knowledge of contemporary professional, social and global issues, and (k) a commitment to quality, timeliness, and continuous improvement.The program criteria are established by the lead society in the discipline. For ElectricalEngineering Technology programs it is the Institution for Electrical and Electronics Engineering(IEEE). The goals are also to be linked or aligned with the University mission. Continuousimprovement is expected and can be achieved by monitoring the students’ progress,effectiveness of teaching

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael A. Magill

failure due to fatigue loading on cracked anduncracked structures, designing to prevent failure, analyzing stress corrosion cracking, andconducting ASTM standard tests. An outline of course topics and laboratory projects is includedin this paper along with detailed highlights of effective course activities. This paperdemonstrates that the topics of fatigue and fracture mechanics fit well with the mechanicalengineering technology (MET) curriculum and the MET student.BACKGROUNDThe course has two primary components: fatigue and fracture mechanics. This section provides abrief description of these two topics.The term fatigue, in the engineering sense, means the mechanical fatigue of materials. Allstructural materials (i.e. metals, timber, concrete

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2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Daren Wilcox, Kennesaw State University

a challenging experience. In this paper, anembedded design project in an online only sophomore course is presented. The design project isbased on the EFM8BB1 from Silicon Laboratories. The EFM8BB1 is an 8051 seriesmicrocontroller that is self-contained, economical, and very student friendly. What follows is adiscussion of the sophomore course, an overview of the EFM8BB1, and an example of theproject design based on the EFM8BB1.1. IntroductionThe sophomore course referred to in this paper is the second course of the digital designsequence in the electrical engineering technology program at Kennesaw State University.Kennesaw State University was founded in 1963 as part of the University System of Georgia. In2015, Kennesaw State merged with

Conference Session

Manufacturing Division Technical Session - Online and Remote Learning Communities

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Richard Chiou, Drexel University; Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas at El Paso; Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University; Michael G. Mauk, Drexel University; Regina Ruane Ph.D., Temple University

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Manufacturing

Professor with Drexel University, Engineer- ing Technology program. Her area of expertise is in thermo-fluid sciences with applications in micro- combustion, fuel cells, green fuels and plasma assisted combustion. She has prior industrial experience in aerospace engineering that encompasses both theoretical analysis and experimental investigations such as designing and testing of propulsion systems including design and development of pilot testing facility, mechanical instrumentation, and industrial applications of aircraft engines. Also, in the past 10 years she gained experience in teaching ME and ET courses in both quality control and quality assurance areas as well as in thermal-fluid, energy conversion and