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Freshman Curriculum Development

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2002 Annual Conference

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John Gardner; Harold Ackler; Anthony Paris; Amy Moll

; Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering EducationComputer assignments were chosen to tie closely to laboratory experiences. In one case,the students discharged a battery through a known resistance, monitoring the voltage overtime. In the computer lab, the students used spreadsheets to graph the voltage over time,computer the power, then integrate the power with respect to time using simplealgorithms. In another, the students use simple algorithms to numerically solvedifferential equations that describe the heating of water over a camp stove.Assessing the Course: Student FeedbackAs with all curricular issues, assessment and improvement are an ongoing process. Inthis case, we performed a survey-based assessment

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard LaRoche; R. Muralikrishnan; Barbara Hutchings

problems without the long learning curve required by today's commercialCFD packages.FlowLab provides students with a "Virtual Fluids Laboratory" which would use CFD to teachand visually reinforce concepts in fluid flow and heat transfer. FlowLab introduces students tothe effective use of CFD for solving fluid flow problems, providing them with exposure tosoftware tools that are increasingly important in industry. FlowLab allows students to get startedimmediately without having to spend the large time commitment to learn geometry and meshcreation skills that traditional CFD software require. It also allows lecturers and teachers toeasily deploy CFD in undergraduate curricula using pre-defined examples and exercises, with theability for the teacher

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Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nick Salamon; Gautam Wagle; Cliff Lissenden

DesignA thin-walled cylindrical tube (ID = 40mm, OD=45mm, L=250mm) fabricated from a fiber-reinforced aluminum composite material having the following properties is to be tension test ed(to 50 kN) in your laboratory. The fibers are aligned in the hoop direction [90º].E longitudinal = 240 GPaE transverse = 130 GPan longitudinal = 0.33n transverse = 0.19G longitudinal = 50 GPaG transverse = 55 GPaThe tube ends are gripped by two collets (chucks) that are 50 mm long. The grip pressure appliedby the collets is 30 MPa. End plugs are used to prevent excessive deformation and cracking inthe tube due to the grip pressure. Your current end plugs are simple cylinders 50 mm long andmade from steel (E = 200 GPA, n = 0.3). Try to improve the design of these

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2001 Annual Conference

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Norman Dennis

Page 6.485.1for some type of commercial facility, plan a subsurface exploration program for their site,Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationinterpret raw field and laboratory soils data to extract design parameters and, finally, to completedesigns for shallow and deep foundations as well as earth retaining structures. All of theobjectives are accomplished through the execution of a semester long-scenario based designproblem which requires the students to work in teams to complete each phase of the project. Inaddition to the actual design computations, each team submits a series of interim

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2001 Annual Conference

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Patricia Nava

). The Neuro-Fuzzy Systems Research Group (NFSRG) at the University of Texas at El Paso is animplementation of this model. The group’s objective, beyond achieving research goals, is todevelop the student as a professional and as a person. The method involves integrating thestudent to the extent that he or she assumes collective ownership for the laboratory and thegroup’s accomplishments. The group’s operation can be described in terms of four majorcategories: technical tasks, organizational tasks, professional development activities and groupmeetings. Page 6.1006.3 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

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2001 Annual Conference

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Michelle Rogers; Kelly Burton; Kamisha Hamilton

. Students are exposed to other research available on campusthrough weekly meetings and faculty seminars, and have opportunities to visit industry andnational laboratories. Planned social activities are available to all participants. At the end of theprogram, students present their work in an open forum Participating students seemed to have benefited greatly from the program. Eighty fivepercent of the students felt the conference answered their questions about graduate school. Moststudents commented that the program solidified their decision on pursing graduate studies and thatthe experience gave them practical and real world experience. Eighty three percent of studentsreported that they were more interested in attending graduate school after

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2001 Annual Conference

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Binaya Acharya; Bruce Segee

Session 2559 Generic Data Mining Application Dr Bruce E. Segee (email:segee@eece.maine.edu), Binaya Acharya (email:bacharya@eece.maine.edu) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instrumentation Research Laboratory, University of Maine.AbstractUsing instrumentation and automated data collection technologies, it is possible toaccumulate large amount of data. This data can be efficiently stored, sorted and retrievedusing database software. However, processing data collected in a factory or in a researchapplication can be

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2001 Annual Conference

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Ronald Sterkenberg; Raymond Thompson

Page 6.524.3surveys of the student population and observe lectures and laboratory activities. Data will also be Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationcollected regarding living conditions in the dormitories or housing facilities. If the students don’tlike the university it will be very difficult to motivate students to spend a semester at thisparticular location. The important aspect of the template is to gather data that can be analyzedand compared to similar data gathered by other teams. In essence, the group will function in asimilar fashion to an accreditation team visit. An additional

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2001 Annual Conference

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Alok Verma

Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”provides a continuous supply of batteries for the conveyor belt. The equipment has beenoperational at the client’s facility for more than a year. The total cost of the project wasapproximately $ 50,000 out of which the client’s share was $20,000. Based upon three shiftoperation and displacement of five operators earning $6.00/hr, the payback period came out tobe less than a year.2. Unfunded Research ProjectsFollowing project is an example of unfunded research work done in the AutomatedManufacturing Laboratory at Old Dominion University by a group of senior students under thesupervision of the author. The equipment used in the research was donated by the S. S. WhiteCompany.Case Study

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CANCELLED: This session has been replaced by session W269 in room 223: Panel: Building Effective Pathways and Programs for Women and Minoritities

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hyun Kyoung Ro, Pennsylvania State University; Rose M. Marra, University of Missouri, Columbia; Patrick T. Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Ardie D. Walser, City College of the City University of New York, Grove School of Engineering; Lois Calian Trautvetter, Northwestern University; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego

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Minorities in Engineering

collaborative NSF-funded Gender in Science and Engineering project investigating persistence of women in engineering undergraduate programs. Dr. Lord’s industrial experience includes AT&T Bell Laboratories, General Motors Laboratories, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and SPAWAR Systems Center. She served as the President of the IEEE Education Society in 2009 and 2010. Page 22.794.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 If You Build It, They Will Come (and Stay): Recruiting and Retaining Women and Underrepresented Minority Students The 2006 Spellings

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Panel on Recruiting and Retaining Women and Underrepresented Minority Students

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hyun Kyoung Ro, Pennsylvania State University; Rose M. Marra, University of Missouri, Columbia; Ardie D. Walser, City College of the City University of New York, Grove School of Engineering; Patrick T. Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Lois Calian Trautvetter, Northwestern University; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego

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Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

collaborative NSF-funded Gender in Science and Engineering project investigating persistence of women in engineering undergraduate programs. Dr. Lord’s industrial experience includes AT&T Bell Laboratories, General Motors Laboratories, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and SPAWAR Systems Center. She served as the President of the IEEE Education Society in 2009 and 2010. Page 22.795.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 If You Build It, They Will Come (and Stay): Recruiting and Retaining Women and Underrepresented Minority Students The 2006 Spellings

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SPECIAL SESSION: Interdisciplinary Course Design Opportunities for Chemical Engineers

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph J. Biernacki, Tennessee Technological University; Christopher D. Wilson, Tennessee Technological University

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Chemical Engineering

a CHE-ME elective entitled, “Interdisciplinary Studies inCeramic Materials Processing,” and a CHE-ECE-ME elective entitled, “Introduction toMicroelectromechanical Systems (MEMS). Designed with more than one pedagogical focus,these courses were implemented not only to provide real interdisciplinary team-based activities,but also to be true design experiences with either laboratory and computational experiences orboth. Over the past ten years, this pair of courses have been test-beds for examining theeffectiveness of various team selection strategies, the integration of inquiry-based learning, andeven the introduction of a novel inter university collaboration on entrepreneurship. These twoexperiments in interdisciplinary instruction provided

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Assessment and Evaluation of K-12 Engineering Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gisele Ragusa, Ph.D., University of Southern California

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Engineering and Public Policy, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

student learning inSTEM via formation, nurturance and sustaining an important targeted school-university urbaneducational partnership. Our university has partnered with a large urban school district to plan,deliver and sustain a targeted inservice teacher professional development and a middle and highschool STEM curriculum intervention.Teacher Intervention Through our university partnership with local urban public middle and high schools, weengaged in a targeted recruitment of mid career teachers in the sciences. The project’s leadershipteam has worked with teams of two teachers who were placed, based on research interest, in anengineering laboratory that is conducting research using societally relevant engineeringtechnologies. The teacher

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Engineering Technology Futuristic Planning

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter J. Shull, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona

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Engineering Technology

difficulties in terms of resources such as classrooms,laboratories, and teaching staff. The technology program, however, with its smaller enrollment(~34-40 students/year) is affected by small changes. Page 25.301.2Although we are addressing all three area affecting student enrollments, our primary focus is inrecruitment. Year-to-year fluctuations of students entering our technology programs have hadthe largest effect on the health of the programs and they test the resilience of our resources.Another element of this effort was to help students’ awareness of the differences betweenengineering and engineering technology. Most first-year engineering

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering: Trends and Tools

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Timothy A. Doughty, University of Portland; Steven O'Halloran, University of Portland

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Mechanical Engineering

shown in Figure 3. This finalexercise is then used directly in lab in a following class period. Figure 1: Photograph of experimental setup for the final tutorial exercise. Page 25.377.4Figure 2: LabVIEW block diagram for the final tutorial exercise Page 25.377.5Figure 3: LabVIEW Front Panel for the final tutorial exercise.Results and DiscussionThe self-guided tutorial was used in the Fall 2010 semester to teach LabVIEW in twoundergraduate courses, ME351 (Mechanical Systems Laboratory) and ME443 (Systems andMeasurement). ME351 was comprised of mostly juniors

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ying Tang, Rowan University; Sachin Shetty, Tennessee State University; Xiufang Chen, Rowan University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Rowan and TSU have an important laboratory component (e.g., 2.5hour laboratory period every week for the Digital I course at Rowan), where our games aredeployed as a replacement to the traditional lab experiments. The overarching goal of thesegames is to provide an attractive and motivating environment for students to tackle engineeringdesign in general, and to impart essential reading and reasoning strategies to promote improvedproblem-solving skills, in particular. More specifically, the broad objectives of the games are to:1. Improve students’ active reading and thinking of ECE concepts by exposing them to a selection of metacognitive reading strategies through carefully designed game activities demonstrating ECE principles.2

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Computer and Informtion Technology-related Issues

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Warren Rosen, Drexel University; M. Eric Carr, Drexel University

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Engineering Technology

AC 2012-4164: A GRADUATE ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY COURSEIN NETWORKS FOR THE INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTDr. Warren Rosen, Drexel University Warren A. Rosen received his Ph.D. in physics from Temple University in 1978. Between 1978 and 1985, Rosen served as Assistant Professor of physics at Colby and Vassar colleges, where he carried out research in optical physics, solar physics, and medical physics. From 1985 to 1996, he worked at the Naval AirWarfare Center, Aircraft Division in Warminster, Penn., where he established an optical communications laboratory for development and characterization of optical components, systems, and protocols for high-performance avionics data networks. Rosen is currently an Assistant Clinical

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Design Across Disciplines

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Iem H. Heng, New York City College of Technology; Andy Zhang, New York City College of Technology; Farrukh Zia, New York City College of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

, wealso have the joint laboratory sessions where hands-on collaborative multi-disciplinary activitiestake place. The following Figure 3 shows the students engaged in these multi-disciplinaryactivities. Figure 3: Hands-on Activities in CET and MET Joint Laboratory Sessions4. Comprehensive Design Capstone Project ActivitiesAs discussed in Section 3 on the collaboration activities, it is importance to know that theseactivities are part of the comprehensive capstone projects. The capstone project presents anideal opportunity for cross-departmental collaboration. Students from both departments canjointly work together on their capstone project activities.The students’ design projects simulated the actual design activities that occur in industry

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Attracting Young Minds: Part II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carl White, Morgan State University; Clifton Sean Martin, Innovative STEM Foundation and Bluford Drew Jemison STEM Academy; Givon Forbes, Innovative STEM Foundation; Charles Lamont Clark, Academic Training Management Organization; Joseph White, Innovative STEM Foundation; Albert Edward Sweets Jr., iSTEMS

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Minorities in Engineering

contentknowledge, which they will be able to use in their everyday lives, as well as, apply to theirprojects in the Lab segment.During the Lab segment, students are placed in a hands-on, out of the classroom learningenvironment. This portion begins after lunch when the students are more likely to have increasedlevels of energy and are more apt to getting out of their seats and moving around in theclassroom. Participants are given interactive, hands-on projects that allow them to apply theproblem-solving lessons, system engineering concepts, and systems thinking techniques that theyhave learned during the Instruction segment. Students are taken on field trips to local STEMinstitutions and research laboratories so that they can witness STEM professionals in

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Active Learning and Demonstrations in Materials Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barry Dupen, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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Materials

AC 2012-3869: UNDERGRADUATE DESIGN AND MODIFICATION OF ATENSILE TESTING FIXTURE FOR BIOMATERIALSDr. Barry Dupen, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne Barry Dupen is an Associate Professor of mechanical engineering technology at Indiana University- Purdue University, Fort Wayne (IPFW). He has nine years’ experience as a metallurgist, materials en- gineer, and materials laboratory manager in the automotive industry. His primary interests lie in materials engineering, mechanics, and engineering technology education. He is also an experienced contra dance caller. Page 25.1385.1

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering: Curricula and Courses

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Timothy M. Hodges P.E., Virginia Military Institute; Elizabeth White Baker, Wake Forest University

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Mechanical Engineering

. Page 25.1391.4 11) Understanding science 12) Learning ethical conduct in your field 13) Learning laboratory techniques 14) Ability to read and understand primary literature 15) Skill in how to give an effective oral presentation 16) Skill in science writing 17) Self-confidence 18) Understanding of how scientists think 19) Learning to work independently 20) Being part of a learning community 21) Confidence in my potential to be a teacher of science Benefits of UG Research Graduate Institution Undergrad Only College Items 11-21

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Aerospace Technical Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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M. Javed Khan, Tuskegee University; Bruce Edward Heath, Tuskegee University

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Aerospace

where the DBF approach has been used to enhance learning ofengineering concepts6, 7, 8, 9.Flight Test Engineering (FTE) as an important element of the design & development cycle of anaerial platform certainly is well known. In view of this aspect, teaching of FTE is incorporated inaerospace engineering curricula at some engineering schools across the US for example10, 11, 12.FTE facilities are also utilized as flying laboratories for explaining concepts in aircraftperformance, stability & control. Page 25.1460.2Engineering students need to be exposed to important aspects such as teamwork, time and spacemanagement, planning engineering

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Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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xue zhang; Debbie Vogel, Sprint; Mahesh K. Banavar, Arizona State University; Shuang Hu; Andreas S. Spanias, Arizona State University; Photini Spanias; Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan, Arizona State University

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Computers in Education

Learn. Available online at: http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Mobile/Products/Mobile-Learn.aspx5. Sprint ID, Available online at: http://ria.sprint.com/ria/pages/index.jsp?ms=SprintID&id16=Sprint%20ID#/learn6. A. Spanias and V. Atti, “An introduction to Java DSP (J-DSP),” Tech. Report, School of ECEE, Arizona StateUniversity. Available online at: http://jdsp.engineering.asu.edu/MANUAL/m1_generalinfo.pdf7. S. Ranganath, J. J. Thiagarajan, K. N. Ramamurthy, S. Hu, M. Banavar and A. Spanias “Undergraduate SignalProcessing Laboratories for the Android Operating System,” ASEE2012 Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas,June 10-13, 2012 (Accepted).8. J. Liu, S. Hu, J. J. Thiagarajan, X. Zhang, S. Ranganath , M. K. Banavar and A. Spanias

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Innovatiive Methods to Teach Engineering to URMs

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jose F. Espiritu, University of Texas, El Paso; Heidi A. Taboada, University of Texas, El Paso; Connie Gomez, University of Texas, El Paso

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] In fact, Seymour et al. (2003)reported in 2002 that students gain, to different extents, personal skills, professionalskills, the ability to think like a scientist, laboratory skills, clarification of career paths,enhanced career and graduate school preparation, and changes in attitude toward learningand working.[5] Another study, students’ responses indicated that the personal andprofessional skills they felt they gained through undergraduate research experiencesincluded skills concerning teamwork, leadership, time management, self-confidence, andinterpersonal skills.[4]While REUs have been quite successful, there are several barriers that might postobstacles for students with regards to participating in a REU. The biggest obstacle forREUs

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2001 Annual Conference

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Lloyd Feldmann; Robert Hofinger

the pusher, while the younger traditional counterpart being the puller. Page 6.1033.3 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education”Since these non-traditional adult students are working full time while pursuing their academic work,they really put in a full day’s work. Classes at the Columbus campus typically start at 4:30 pm or at6:00 pm with the laboratories scheduled from 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm. A student who is taking twotechnology courses and working full time would leave work in time for a 4:30

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2001 Annual Conference

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James Rehg

,and corrections are made to rungs in order to fix the problems. This process continues until aprogram solution is reached. The result is a program without sequential structure that is difficultto analyze and understand. With large PLC programs, troubleshooting the program when systemproblems develop is difficult.This paper describes how a technique called sequential function charts (SFC) is used in a two-course sequence covering PLC programming. The SFC process adds structure to the PLCprogramming process and produces programs that are easy to analyze and troubleshoot. Thepaper also includes a description of the SFC process; types of problems assigned for studentwork; and the benefit derived from using SFC in a PLC programming laboratory or

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2001 Annual Conference

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Mohamed. E. Brihoum; Ahmad Ibrahim

now referredto as; communication skills, team work, critical thinking, ethics, applied research, and provenskills. Such attributes are still considered important as demonstrated by more recent studies [3]and are taken into account in assessing quality of education [4]. These attributes are fundamentalto the “new” rules of the accreditation board for engineering and technology [5].The extent of these attributes is usually assessed through a successful completion of a technicalproject before graduation. The way is paved for the technical aspects of such project by the workdone in numerous laboratory courses where students perform experiments with progressivelevels of sophistication in both design and analysis. Instructors can form cross

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2001 Annual Conference

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Michael Vislocky; Cecil Beeson

. Over a period of time this will certainly change and we will submit an appropriate request.XII. Facilities Needed Use of a laboratory type room is the most obvious first facility needed. Tables and access to a wide array of technical equipment will be necessary. Appropriate room security is a must. A method to recognize College owned equipment from student owned equipment must be devised and enforced.XIII. Equipment Resources The following equipment represents a minimum requirement: • Multi-meters • Oscilloscopes • PCs • Simulation and circuit design software • Access to the Internet • A variety of tools, e.g., pliers

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2001 Annual Conference

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Raul Ordonez; Jahan Kauser; Ravi Ramachandran

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Universityof Minnesota, Minneapolis in 1993. Dr. Jahan has worked for Harza engineering as a water resourcesengineer and as an environmental engineer for the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection (NDEP).Raul OrdonezDr. Ordóñez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at RowanUniversity. He has extensive expertise in both theoretical and applied control practice. He has developedand published new control theoretical results in the area of adaptive control algorithms and nonlinearcontrol. He also has significant control implementation experience in laboratory and industrial settings,including work performed on nonlinear estimation, fault detection

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2001 Annual Conference

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Bruce Segee; Michael D. Amos

in corporation with other laboratories at the University of Maine to evaluate thinfilm gas sensors. These sensors are used in a multidimensional array to determine specific gasconcentration in a gas mixture. Since the information from the sensors is noisy and unstable,neural networks are needed to help separate the information from the noise. This CMAC systemwill further help these gas sensor development efforts by facilitating easier sharing of processedinformation via the WWW and other internet technologies.III. ConclusionWhile still in the early in development, all indications are that this will prove to be a usefulsystem for engineers and database users alike. We have taken some of the cryptic, customapplications away from the Neural