Conference Session

Innovations in Nuclear Education I

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Davis; Roman Stemprok; Charles Bittle; Mitty Plummer

located inDenton, Texas. During this time it was possible to expand the program to include a Bachelor’sdegree Electronics Engineering Technology , a Master’s Degree in Engineering Technology, anda Masters degree in Business Administration. The program is entirely supported by the utilityand no state funds are involved in the program. The program has strong competition from non-accredited degree granting institutions. Methods of delivery vary with the course of instruction.For laboratory courses, the instructor will generally travel from campus to deliver the material atthe site; for lecture only courses, videoconference is frequently used. Efforts are underway toimport additional courses from other universities at the time of this writing.II

Conference Session

Intro to Engineering: Not Just 1st Year Engineers

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Todd A. Watkins; Drew Snyder; John Ochs

more than enough to talk about during class.One might question using three faculty to teach one class, but with 45-55 students expected inthe class each year, it is as if we were each teaching 15-20 students in individual sections, whichis slightly-but-not unusually low by Lehigh freshman seminar class-size norms (usually 20-25).We do have the luxury of 1) Lehigh’s extensive laboratory, computer and library resources, 2)two TAs for grading purposes and for helping set up the workshop space, as well as 3) $200 perteam for prototyping expenses and for purchasing competitive products to reverse engineer.Presumably these last minor expenses could be left to the students. But regarding the first, it

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Heather Nachtmann

Session 1639 Integrating Research into the Cost Engineering Classroom Heather Nachtmann University of ArkansasAbstractThis paper is based on the author’s positive experience of integrating research into the classroomat two levels of engineering education, graduate and freshman. Several integrative teaching andresearch activities were conducted in a graduate Cost Estimation Models course. These activitiesincluded article reviews, presentation of current faculty research, and student research projects.The freshman level course, Industrial Cost Analysis, introduced

Conference Session

Aerospace First-Year Project-Based Learning

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alok K. Verma, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

AC 2011-876: IMPACT OF PROJECT BASED LEARNING IN INTRO-DUCTION TO ENGINEERING/ TECHNOLOGY CLASSAlok K. Verma, Old Dominion University Dr. Alok K. Verma is Ray Ferrari Professor and, Director of the Lean Institute at Old Dominion Univer- sity. He also serves as the Director of the Automated Manufacturing Laboratory. Dr. Verma received his B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from IIT Kanpur, MS in Engineering Mechanics and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from ODU. Prof. Verma is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Virginia, a certi- fied manufacturing engineer and has certifications in Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma. He has orga- nized several international conferences as General Chair, including ICAM-2006

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Sanjiv B. Gokhale; Michael O'Dea

learning”. Consequently the concept is oftenmisunderstood and at times erroneously used to describe a wide variety of experimentaleducation endeavors from volunteer and community service projects to field studies. At theIndiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), a faculty-student workshop in 1995,offered an uniform, unambiguous and a succinct definition for service-learning - as integratingstudents’ community service experience with academic study so that learning is enhanced and arecognized community need is met. The idea is simple, and hence compelling – improve thequality of teaching/learning environment while fostering and enhancing student’s sense of civicresponsibility.II. History of Service-Learning in the Engineering

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Todd Nocera; Martha Cyr; John McDonald; Chris Rogers

Session 3553 The Design and Performance of Musical Instruments Chris Rogers, Martha Cyr, John McDonald, and Todd Nocera Tufts UniversityAbstractBy challenging the students to design and build a musical instrument, we teach the fundamentalsof engineering design and acoustics, as well as introduce statics, dynamics, fluid mechanics, andvibrations to liberal arts students and first-year engineers. Using the instrument as a non-threatening medium, students get a chance to do hands-on problem solving from the beginning oftheir college career. One of the unique aspects of this course is that it is co

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmed El-Antably; Richard E. Pfile; Maher E. Rizkalla

technology that ranges from Power Electronics, ComputerSimulation, Data Acquisition, DSP, Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic, Electromagneticsand Energies, and Microprocessor Control. Normally these topics are covered in details inmore than fifteen credit hours, while using "only as needed" philosophy, we can cover whatwe need from these materials that serve an important application: Electric Vehicles. Thepaper details the contents of the course, the laboratory components utilizing an actualpropulsion system as donated from Delphi E. Inc, a subdivision of GM, and the role ofLabView as a data acquisition system. The course was offered in a senior project formatand the student satisfaction is reported here. In addition, the course is offered officially

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Kay C Dee

below.Bibliography1. Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend: on being a mentor to students in science and engineering, (NationalAcademy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine), National Academy Press, 1997.2. P. C. Wankat and F. S. Oreovicz, Teaching Engineering, McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, NY, 1993.3. W. J. McKeachie, Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers, D.C.Heath and Company, Lexington, MA, 1994.4. J. Lowman, Mastering the Techniques of Teaching, Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, CA, 1985.KAY C DEEKay C Dee is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Cell and Tissue Engineering Laboratory in theDepartment of Biomedical Engineering at Tulane University. She has served as

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 26

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher A. Sanchez, Oregon State University; Kahlan Fleiger-Holmes, Oregon State University; Brian John Zhang, Oregon State University; Naomi T. Fitter, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

online, and in-person. The resulting data from approximately 200 consentingundergraduate mechanical engineering students in each of the synchronicity options (N > 600)showed that grades for certain lab experiences (i.e., early labs with high levels of skill-building)actually benefitted from an asynchronous online format, even above in-person offerings, while alater lab with deeper dives into specific skills produced better learning and ratings from studentswhen offered either in-person or synchronously online. The results of this investigation can benefitengineering educators, as well as those with interest in online physical labs in other disciplines.Keywords: Online Education, Laboratory Learning, Student ExperienceIntroductionSince the

Conference Session

Developing International Engineering Research, Course Enhancement, Leadership of, and Online Engineering Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bahawodin Baha, University of Brighton; Ogai Ahmadi, Kabul University, Afghanistan

Tagged Divisions

International

AC 2011-230: THE LEADERSHIP OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERINGEDUCATION IN AFGHANISTANBahawodin Baha, University of Brighton Dr. Bahawodin Baha is a Principal Lecturer at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Brighton, England. Following his graduation from Kabul University (KU) in 1980, he was an assistant lecturer at KU for a while. Then he was able to obtain a British Council Scholarship and completed his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees at the Universities of Salford and Brighton respectively. He has been teaching at the University of Brighton since 1989, where he has been teaching and conducting research in electron- ics, where he has published many papers on power electronics at high quality international

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

James E. Mitchell

learned.BackgroundAll Junior Architectural Engineering students take a pair of courses, Architectural EngineeringDesign I & II(ArchEng 390, 391) which are their introduction to the design of engineeringbuilding systems. As course prerequisites they have taken at least two Architectural designstudios. They have also had as pre- or co-requisites: introductions to structural engineering,HVAC fundamentals and electrical/lighting systems. Virtually all students are also experiencedEMail users and are accustomed to using personal computers for word processing and analysis intheir courses.Drexel has full ethernet/appletalk wiring of all buildings including most laboratories as well andall dormitories. In addition we have several multi-media rooms which are

Conference Session

Issues and Solutions in Mathematics Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gisela Gomes, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie; Janete Bolite Frant, Universidade Bandeirante; Arthur Powell, Rutgers University

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Mathematics

, Brazilian government concerned with the teaching for engineeringsponsored a project named PRODENGE – Program for Engineering Development. Thisprogram that aimed to support engineering programs at universities and the basic subjectssuch as Physics, Chemistry, Computing and Mathematics promoted the restructuring andmodernizing of teaching and research in Engineering (Longo, Rocha and Loureiro2). Itwas a partnership of the Coordination for Improving University Education Staff(CAPES), the Secretariat of University Education (SESU) and the National Council ofScientific and Technological Development (CNPq). The results of this effort, accordingto Longo3, should be measured not only by products generated by laboratories,educational material available

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2023 ASEE GSW

Authors

Tracy Hammond; Robert H. Lightfoot

Environment. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 31(1), 50-62.Robert H. LightfootRobert Lightfoot currently serves as an Associate Professor of Practice in Computer Science and Engineering at TexasA&M University. His research interests include engineering education and teaching non-Computer Science studentsintroductory Computer Science courses. He also teaches Software Engineering courses which follow closely with hisindustry experience.Tracy HammondDr. Hammond is currently the Director of the Sketch Recognition Laboratory and a Professor with the Department ofComputer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University. She is an International Leader in sketch recognition andhuman-computer interaction research

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2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Mollie Petersen; Emily Fitzpatrick; Chloe Mann; Jessica Deters

experiences played asignificant role in their ability to learn from and communicate with cultures other than their own.Two students directly reported that time spent in laboratories was influential. One participantwrote that “labs at college have a very diverse group, specifically physics, so it allows me towork with other people.” 16 students mentioned the diversity of their high school. One wrote thatthey “went to a high school with a very wide array of economic and social background” and that © American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conferencethey “also participated in both artistic and athletic programs, giving [them] different experienceswith people

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2013 GSW

Authors

Nripendra N. Sarker; Mohan A. Ketkar

tosimulation tools, such as MultiSim. Use of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) board iseven a better choice. This helps students to create schematic circuits at ease and also indeveloping Hardware Descriptive Language (HDL) program. The schematic or the HDL codecan simulate a circuit and help to fix any possible problems and finally to download the programon to FPGA board. The whole process is clean, neat, and encouraging to the users. As an addedadvantage, this hands-on process keeps the students engrossed in learning by keeping them awayfrom side-talks, high-tech distracters, such as smart phones and iPads. On another front, we haveintroduced high-end technology in teaching assembly language using microcontrollers. Thereare newer versions of

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

Robert M. O'Connell

summative final assessment or exam, which is usedto help determine a grade. It is not used for feedback to improve student learning. Although themost common form of summative assessment is the final examination, some instructors structuretheir courses in units, and do a summative assessment after each unit. In that model, each unit ofthe course is essentially a self-contained mini-course.Midterm exams are frequently used for both summative and formative purposes. For example, ina course having two midterm exams and a final exam, the midterms may each be used todetermine ten to twenty percent of the final grade (while the final exam, laboratory scores,homework, and other items determine the remainder of the grade). This is the summativecomponent of

Conference Session

Curricular Innovations in Computing -2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramakrishnan Sundaram, Gannon University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

in the 21st century thanin the preceding timeframes. Engineering technology and the requirements from the globalworkforce are in constant evolution. This behooves engineering programs at universities acrossthe world to adapt their curricula to prepare the graduates for the challenges in the engineeringindustry. The engineering curriculum which adopts integrated projects on a centralizedengineering project platform [1] enables the student to become an active, intentional, and goal-oriented learner through problem-solving [2]-[3] in a project-based [4]-[6] and project-enhancedlearning [7] environment. Traditionally, core lecture and laboratory courses have been taught inrelative isolation of each other. This approach does not effectively

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session: Pedogogy and Training

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Francisco Bueno, Saint Louis University; Henry Wright, Saint Louis University; Shaun Samuel, Saint Louis University; Srikanth Gururajan, Saint Louis University

Paper ID #38093Learning Outside of the Classroom - Applying a Design,Development, and Testing Exercise to Augment the Early-Stage Undergraduate Aerospace and Mechanical EngineeringExperienceFrancisco Bueno Francisco Bueno is an undergraduate student majoring in Aerospace Engineering and a concentration in Mechanical Engineering. He studies at Parks College of Engineering, Aviation, and Technology of Saint Louis University. He has been a part of AirCRAFT laboratory since Spring 2021, where he is team captain for the AUVSI AUS competition. His current vision is to follow a Master's program after finishing his

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 12: Work-in-Progress Postcard Session #1

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Miguel Andrés Guerra, Universidad San Francisco de Quito; Jacoba Ubidia; MariaEmilia Mariño; Francisco Jativa Valverde

student empowerment to address climate change. Currently, MiguelAndrés is developing teaching and evaluation pedagogy that directs a philosophy of seeking excellence as a pillar to eradicate corruption.Francisco Wladimir Jativa Valverde © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Work in Progress: Designing a First-Year Hands-on Civil Engineering Course to Reduce Students Dropout and Improve the Overall College Experience María Emilia Mariño1, Jacoba Ubidia1, MiguelAndrés Guerra2*, Francisco Játiva21 Undergraduate student, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Colegio de Ciencias e Ingenierías

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kirsten R. Basinet, Western Washington University; Andrew G. Klein, Western Washington University; Richard Martin, The Air Force Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Technology Richard K. Martin received dual B.S. degrees (summa cum laude) in physics and electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1999 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, in 2001 and 2004, respectively. Since August 2004, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), Dayton, OH, where he is a Professor. He is the author of 35 journal papers and 68 conference papers, and he holds five patents. His research interests include radio tomographic imaging; navigation and source localization; electronic warfare; and laser radar. Dr. Martin has won seven teaching awards

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Ciaraldi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Eben Cobb, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; David Cyganski, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Michael Demetriou; Greg Fischer; Michael Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Fred Looft, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; William Michalson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Bradley Miller, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Taskin Padir, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Yiming Rong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kenneth Stafford, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Gretar Tryggvason, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; James Van de Ven, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

pneumatic actuators, power transmission, materialsand static force analysis, controls and programmable embedded computer systems, systemintegration and robotic applications. Laboratory sessions consist of hands-on exercises andteam projects where students design and build mobile robots.RBE 2001. Unified Robotics I.First of a four-course sequence introducing foundational theory and practice of roboticsengineering from the fields of computer science, electrical engineering and mechanicalengineering. The focus of this course is the effective conversion of electrical power tomechanical power, and power transmission for purposes of locomotion, and of payloadmanipulation and delivery. Concepts of energy, power and kinematics will be applied.Concepts from

Conference Session

Curricular Transformation

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shawn Griffiths, University of Wyoming; Janel Seeley

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

implemented, so long as proper measurementand monitoring are performed and safety is not compromised.Advances in sensing technology are occurring at an ever increasing pace. As smart cities aredeveloped and advances are made in sensing and wireless technologies, training engineers to usethis technology will also likely be an important part of developing the future engineer.Consequently, a course teaching students about instrumentation has been developed and offeredat the undergraduate and graduate level at the University of Wyoming. This paper presents anoverview of the course content, an evaluation of the course objectives, and lessons learned.The authors are aware of two other instrumentation courses that have been developedspecifically for civil

Conference Session

ECCD Innovations in Energy Engineering & Technology

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; Ulan Dakeev, University of Michigan, Flint; Kenan Baltaci, University of Wisconsin, Stout; Keith L. Coogler, Sam Houston State University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

Paper ID #11224Energy Harvesting from Air Conditioning Condensers with the use of Piezo-electric DevicesDr. Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University Faruk Yildiz is currently an Associate Professor of Engineering Technology at Sam Houston State Uni- versity. His primary teaching areas are in Electronics, Computer Aided Design (CAD), and Alternative Energy Systems. Research interests include: low power energy harvesting systems, renewable energy technologies and educationDr. Ulan Dakeev, University of Michigan, Flint Dr. Ulan Dakeev is currently a faculty of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan-Flint. His

Conference Session

Virtual Reality, Simulation, and Optimization of Manufacturing

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Magesh Chandramouli, Purdue University Northwest; Ge Jin, Purdue University Northwest; Justin David Heffron, Purdue University Northwest; Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Technological University; Mel Cossette, Edmonds Community College; Cheryl A. Welsch, Eastern Iowa Community College; Wayne Merrell

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

Northwest Ge Jin, D.Sc, is currently an associate professor in the Department of Computer Information Technology and Graphics at the Purdue University Calumet. He teaches computer game development, computer graphics and animation, as well as computer information technology courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Prior to joining Purdue University Calumet, he was a postdoctoral research scientist at the George Washington University, Department of Computer Science. Professor Jin holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Peking University, China, and an M.S. in Computer Science from Seoul National University, South Korea. He earned his Doctor of Science degree in Computer Science with a concentration in computer

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachel Shinn

, vibration, mass properties, communications,sensor testing and propulsion (among others), generally require elaborate and expensiveequipment. Such equipment is generally outside of the budgetary range of an undergraduateuniversity. Using modest resources, the instructor must develop experiments that streamline thesetests for illustration purposes, and simplify the tests to illustrate key principles.This paper covers the experiments we have found helpful in meeting these goals and compareswhat we have done in our space lab to what has been done in other undergraduate aerospaceprograms.I. IntroductionThe US Naval Academy1, Virginia Tech2 and the US Air Force Academy3 have all implementedsome form of space laboratory experience for their undergraduate

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Erlandson

Session 2793 A Student Design Program that Integrates Research, Education, and Community Service Robert F. Erlandson, Ph.D. Enabling Technologies Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202IntroductionThe Enabling Technologies Laboratory (ETL) has created a unique student design program thatnot only complements and integrates a student’s previous academic experiences, but alsonaturally integrates research, education, and community service into the student design activity.Developing such a program is

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew N. Vavreck

. Anexample of a software screen, for link length and position input, is shown in Figure 1. Theprogram is relatively easy to learn and use, and relates clearly to analytical concepts describedin the text, so it avoids the so-called "black-box syndrome," where "students will notunderstand or perhaps even care what it [the software] is doing." [Wankat, p.156] Figure 1: Simulation Software Page 5.275.3In addition to the increased emphasis on the software, a sequence of classes in a modulararrangement was developed which would address a concept in a lecture format (50 minutes,two days a week), followed with a laboratory (2

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Hager; Jacques Lesenne; Dominique Saintive; Richard Devon

short-term exchanges to the US, andfor the limited support of foreign faculty for short-term exchanges to Béthune. Because of theEnglish language proficiency requirement in both their engineering and engineering technologycurricula, they expect US faculty to teach modules of selected courses in English.a For purposes of this paper, US terminology for various disciplines and program areas are used; actual Frenchterminology will differ;b Most programs require two foreign languages.c The distinction between engineering and engineering technology is formally defined be the Accreditation Boardfor Engineering and Technology (ABET). In simpliest terms the difference is in the focus on engineering theory inengineering and the focus on engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shouling He, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology; Douglas Jahnke, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #41810Board 241: Developing PLC and Robotic Automation Technician CertificateProgram for Service IndustriesDr. Shouling He, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology Dr. Shouling He holds a position of professor of Engineering and Technology at Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology, where she teaches various courses in Mechatronics and Electrical Engineering. Her academic and educational interests focus on Robotics and Automation, Machine Learning, and Mechatronics Education. She has authored over 50 papers published in journals and conferences.Dr. Douglas Jahnke, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology

Conference Session

Curricular Developments in Energy Education I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hayrettin B. Karayaka, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi; Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi; Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; Korinne Caruso, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

AC 2011-530: A NUCLEAR POWER INDUSTRY CAREER DEVELOP-MENT WORKSHOP FOR HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS IN A HISPANICSERVING INSTITUTIONHayrettin B Karayaka, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi Bora Karayaka is a Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Technology faculty, and the power and en- ergy leader in the program. With his over ten years of industry experience, he has extensive experience in project management, and a clear understanding of deadlines, industry requirements, safety and reliability issues, and other aspects in the power and energy fields. He is responsible for teaching the energy and power courses in the department. Dr. Karayaka’s research interests include power generation and renewable energies. He