Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Industrial Technology

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sorraya Khiewnavawongsa, Purdue University; Edie Schmidt, Purdue University; Kathryne Newton, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

. Courses included in mathematics and sciences core are mathematics, algebra,calculus, statistics, physics, chemistry, laboratory, and etc.Courses included in distribution and technology core are courses that are directly related to theindustrial distribution career such as purchasing, inventory control, warehouse management,supply chain management, transportation, logistics, process control, and etc. However, severalcourses are not directly to the distribution but included in this category to make students familiar,get more understand in industrial process such as material, fluid systems, and safety in industry.Some are related to computer and information technology applications such as databasemanagement, information system, and computer

Conference Session

Introducing Active Learning into ME Courses

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gul Kremer, Pennsylvania State University; Madara Ogot, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

by Product Dissection”, Proceedings, ASEE Annual Conference and Exhibition, Washington, DC., 1996.11. Lamancusa, J., Jorgensen, J., and Zayas-Castro, J., “The Learning Factory – A New Approach to Integrating Design and Manufacturing into the Engineering Curriculum”, Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 103-112, April 1997.12. Fincher, C., “Trends and Issues in Curricular Development in Higher Education”, Handbook of Theory and Research, vol. 2, 1986, Ed. J. Smart.13. Nicolai, L.M., “Designing a Better Engineer”, Aerospace America, pp. 30, April 1992.14. Beaudoin, D.L. and Ollis, D.F., “A Product and Process Engineering Laboratory for Freshmen”, Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 279-285, July 1995.15. Felder, R

Conference Session

Curriculum Development & Assessment in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Byron Thinger, Diablo Canyon Power Plant; Altaf Memon, Excelsior College; Li-Fang Shih, Excelsior College

Tagged Divisions

Nuclear and Radiological

Engineering Technology must complete an Integrated TechnologyAssessment (ITA) requirement. [5] The ITA is driven by the program’s publishedlearning objectives. Students are required to demonstrate their accomplishment of eachobjective with individualized learning statements drawn from their own academic,professional, or life experiences. The resulting portfolios must also contain evidencesupporting these statements; examples of such evidence may include copies ofexaminations or laboratory reports, design drawings, citations from supervisors or peers,honors or awards, or similar documentation. It may also include videos of presentationgiven in class or on the job, and letters from professors or employers attesting to skills inthe particular areas of

Conference Session

Feedback and IT: Improving Student Learning

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Roberts, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

and institutional support.Collaborative InquiryAs Austin and Baldwin state, “The image of the solitary scholar working alone in a li-brary carrel or laboratory is no more than a fond memory or historical artifact.”17 Just ascollaboration has become ubiquitous in scholarly research, it is important for educationalgoals as well. Collaboration can help to assess whether a desired instructional goal is be-ing met. It is especially important to use collaboration when the desired assessment fallsoutside the expertise of the instructor. Collaborative inquiry is also desirable to show thatteaching methods are effective. One instructor who had seen a dramatic improvement instudent performance was told by colleagues that his results were “interesting

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Idowu, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg; Gordon Brinton, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg; Harley Hartman, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg; Scott Neuhard, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg; Resmy Abraham, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg; Eric Boyer, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Va Va Vc Vb Formation of balanced but unsymmetrical voltage setFigure 3. Visualization of Symmetrical Components (Microsoft PowerPoint)2.4. Case 4: Visualization of line flow data (LabVIEW) The National Instruments – LabVIEW, Laboratory Virtual InstrumentationEngineering Workbench, was used to design an interface to a power system simulationprogram to display per unit values, voltages, currents, phase angles, generated voltage andsynchronous machine load angle on a polar chart. As shown in Figure 4a, the purpose is tovisualize the relationship between rotor angle and stator magnetic field in a

Conference Session

New ET Curriculum and Teaching Methods

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nancy Denton, Purdue University; Heather Cooper, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

students multiple opportunities to become confident of theirproject management skills, integrate topics across course boundaries, work closely withdepartmental faculty, and demonstrate their mastery of course content. MET 317 MachineDiagnostics is a relatively popular elective course completed by approximately 50% of METstudents, with 24-30 students enrolled per semester. The course includes fundamental vibrationtheory and applications in machinery diagnostics and maintenance practices. The class meets fortwo 50-minute lectures and one 110-minute laboratory session each week. Prerequisiteknowledge includes dynamics, introductory physics, and calculus. Course details are posted,with full accessibility to all course components except grades and

Conference Session

Teaching Design

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ann McKenna, Northwestern University; James Colgate, Northwestern University; Gregory Olson, Northwestern University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

integrating design education throughout the engineering curriculum at Northwestern University.Gregory Olson, Northwestern University Gregory B. Olson, Fellow of ASM and TMS, is the Wilson-Cook Professor of Engineering Design and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University, Associate Director for Research of the IDEA Institute for Design Engineering & Applications, Director of the Materials Technology Laboratory/Steel Research Group, and a founder of QuesTek Innovations LLC. He received the B.S. and M.S. in 1970 and Sc.D in 1974 in Materials Science from MIT and remained there in a series of senior research positions before joining the faculty of Northwestern in

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University; Steven Eisenbarth, Baylor University; Cynthia Fry, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

International

2006-1394: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A GLOBAL WORLDVIEWKenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University Ken Van Treuren is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at Baylor University. He received his B. S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the USAF Academy, his M. S. in Engineering from Princeton University, and his DPhil. at the University of Oxford, UK. At Baylor he teaches courses in laboratory techniques, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and propulsion systems, as well as freshman engineering.Steven Eisenbarth, Baylor University Steven Eisenbarth is Associate Dean of the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Baylor University. He received his B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from

Conference Session

FPD9 -- Technology & Textbooks

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Keith Hargrove, Morgan State University; Marie Dahleh, Harvard University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

needand desire to reduce the gap in student learning and real world problem solving asgraduates enter the workforce. The National Academy of Engineering has appealed toengineering programs to integrate theory and practice in the curriculum, and introducemore innovative learning methods that simulate industrial decision making in theclassroom and laboratory [1]. Hence, the challenge for engineering educators is the useof more innovative methods for instruction and learning to replicate real world problemsolving, and provide an environment for intellectual exchange of ideas and solutions in aclassroom setting. This is further reinforced by the Accreditation Board for Engineeringand Technology (ABET) to encourage the use of a cadre of tools and

Conference Session

New ET Curriculum and Teaching Methods

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Blake, Austin Peay State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

with this, as there is more time in a class meeting to mixpresentation and laboratory work.While one still has the same number of hours to present material, the greater challenge is to helpthe students learn the material in the shorter time frame of eight weeks. This is perhaps thegreatest challenge. There is only limited room to spread material out by adding more courses.One possibility is to offer two courses as partners, where half of each courses is offered in eachof two consecutive eight week terms. The students will have completed half of each course bythe end of the first eight week term, and will complete the rest of the course in the second eightweeks. This would give the students sixteen weeks to master the material in both courses

Conference Session

Building Communities for Engineering Education Research

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sally Fincher, University of Kent at Canterbury; Josh Tenenberg, University of Washington-Tacoma

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

programming. Most recently, his research is in Computer Science Education, where he is investigating student software design and metacognition.Sally Fincher, University of Kent at Canterbury Sally Fincher is a lecturer in the Computing Laboratory at the University of Kent where she leads the Computing Education Research Group. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy & Computer Science (University of Kent, UK) and an M.A. in English (Georgetown University, Washington DC). She is Editor of the journal Computer Science Education, jointly with Renée McCauley. Her principal research areas are Computer Science Education and patterns and pattern languages, especially patterns for interaction design

Conference Session

Teaching Design

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rashmi Jain, Stevens Institute of Technology; Anithashree Chandrasekaran, Stevens Institute of Technology; Bernard Gallois, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

of the Engineering Curriculum to Include a Design Experience each Semester”, ASEE, 1999.9. Pugh, S., “Total Design”, Addison-Wesley Publishing Corp., 1991.10. Lyons, J., Young, E., “Developing a Systems Approach to Engineering Problem Solving and Design of Experiments in a Racecar-Based Laboratory Course”, Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 353-357, 2001.11. Wilczynski, V., Douglas, S., “Integrating Design Across the Engineering Curriculum: A Report From the Trenches”, Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 235-240, 1995.12. Moriarty, G., “Engineering Design: Content and Context”, Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 135-140, 1994.13. Wigal, C., “Systems and Creative Thinking and Student Experience of Design”, 34th ASEE

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

VISAR BERISHA, Arizona State University; HO-MIN KWON, Arizona State University; Andreas Spanias, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

from a single or agroup of sensors, etc. This capability enables students to use all of the existingsignal processing functions in J-DSP and form and execute real-time/real-lifesimulations using the user-friendly environment of J-DSP.Educational simulations include, obtaining data, characterizing the frequencyspectrum using real-time FFTs, performing time-invariant or adaptive filtering,using simple non-linear functions (thresholds) to detect events at specificlocations, etc. In fact virtually all non real-time online laboratories that wepreviously developed8 can be adapted for use with real-time sensor data. Not onlycan undergraduate experiments now be performed real time, but we can also usethese platforms to provide exposure to exciting new

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharnnia Artis, Virginia Tech; Glenda Scales, Virginia Tech; Odis Griffin, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

Science, 1992, Johns Hopkins University; Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, 1985 Old Dominion University.Odis Griffin, Virginia Tech HAYDEN GRIFFIN is currently professor and head of the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He holds BSME and MSME degrees from Texas Tech and a Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from VPI&SU. He had 13 years of experience in industry and government laboratories prior to joining Virginia Tech in 1985. Prior to moving into his current position, he was associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Engineering. Page 11.655.1© American

Conference Session

Issues in Digital Signal Processing

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Kubichek, University of Wyoming; Thad Welch, U.S. Naval Academy; Cameron Wright, University of Wyoming

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

of using a full-fledged VSA and VSG were recently demonstrated by Welch, etal.3 who discussed its use in a laboratory-based course on special communication topics. Thiswas a very rewarding experience that indicated such wide-band instruments could be valuableteaching tools in a variety of communication courses.2 Description of the HardwareNI’s PXI system provides a tremendous amount of capability for use in the classroom or studentlaboratory environment. The PXI is a configurable backplane chassis that can be adapted to awide range of applications. In our case, the system includes a PC-compatible controller runningWindows XP professional, an NI 5421 arbitrary waveform generator (AWG), an NI 5610 RFupconverter, an NI 5600 RF downconverter

Conference Session

Software Engineering Teaching Methods and Practice

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin Zhao, Mercer University; Laurie White, Mercer University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

individual topics covered in the workshops, the students also 2experienced the incremental development process of a full-featured multi-tier system. Thecomplete case study worked well as an example for the team projects.Overall StrategyLectures and guided laboratories are common practices in teaching a wide range of computerscience and engineering courses. Lectures are a necessary component in teaching a softwareengineering course to present concepts, principles, and technologies, which are necessary tounderstand the background of a development scenario. But they are not efficient indemonstrating what artifacts are to be generated under the given scenario and how to use CASEtools to generate them. The

Conference Session

Teaching with Technology in Dynamics and Mechanics of Materials

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Honghui Yu, The City College of New York; Feridun Delale, The City College of New York

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

increase studentawareness of the application of MoM in emerging technologies, several examples ofbeams in Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) were analyzed and illustrated. Besides content update, we also made some changes in teaching methods. Since thecourse has no laboratory component, we adopted four simple home experiments toenhance the understanding of basic concepts. In the classroom we demonstrate beambending, column buckling, and torsion of a tube etc. Also, some time was allocated forstudents to solve problems after the instructor had solved a similar one. With help fromthe instructor and their peers, students can identify their deficiencies, clear somemisconceptions and grasp the content more effectively. From surveys conducted

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lashun King, Tennessee State University; Thomas Byl, U.S. Geological Survey; Roger Painter, Tennessee State University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

in partnership with the USGS has conducted extensive research regardingbiodegradation of contaminants in karst aquifers. This research resulted in the development of anumerical approach to modeling biodegradation of contaminants in karst aquifers that is taughtto environmental engineering students in several steps. First, environmental engineering studentsare taught chemical-reaction engineering principles relating to a wide variety of environmentalfate and transport issues. Second, as part of TSU’s engineering course curriculum, students use anon-ideal flow laboratory reactor system and run a tracer study to establish residence timedistribution (RTD). Next, the students couple that formula to a first-order biodegradation rateand predict the

Conference Session

Capstone Courses II

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Fernandez, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering Constituent Committee

Interaction, John Wiley &Sons, Inc., New York, NY.13. Prey, J. C., Baldwin, D., Reek, M., Popyack, J., Now for the laboratory experience! The view from four differentundergraduate computer science curricula, 28th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 3, 1337-1338, 1998.14, Rosson, M.B., & Carroll, J.M. (2002). Usability engineering: Scenario-based development of Human-ComputerInteraction, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Diego, CA.15. Shared Software Infrastructure Hub, Texas A&M University, web site at http://ssi7.cs.tamu.edu/ssi/16. Shneiderman, B., & Plaisant, C. (2005). Designing the user interface, 4th Ed., Addison Wesley Pearson Education, Inc.,Boston, MA.17. Software Engineering Institute, CMMI Web Site, http

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum & non-Technical Skills

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Khan, DeVry University-Addison; Barbara Eichler, DeVry University; John Morello, DeVry University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

backgrounds in biology, medicine, mathematics, physics, chemistry,material science, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering. For innovativeadvances in nanotechnology, the key is researchers with expertise in multiple subsets ofthese disciplines since so many implications and fields are linked to a nano “micro-revolution.” Page 11.608.7Education and training in nanotechnology require special laboratory facilities that can bequite expensive. The cost of creating and maintaining nanotechnology facilities is a majorchallenge for educational institutions. But by using innovative approaches such as inter-university collaboration, academia-industry

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Idir Azouz, Midwestern State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

need.The Integrated Engineering program is in its 6th year of implementation and the curriculum hasundergone two cycles of iteration. The curriculum is shown in Figure 2. It includes 120 credithours. As can be seen from this figure, the curriculum is strong in the fundamentals and includesseveral design laboratory courses which form the backbone of the program. Furthermore, it ismuch broader than any of the traditional engineering programs. Graduates of the program arealso required to pass the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam in order to graduate.The Integrated Engineering program produced its first graduated class (eight students) in May2004. All of the graduates have found employment at or before graduation, with salaries rangingfrom

Conference Session

Topical Public Policy Issues

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carole Womeldorf, Ohio University-Athens

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

2006-1722: HOLD PARAMOUNT: DESIGNING AN ENGINEERING EDUCATIONTO OPEN MINDS AND SERVE THE PUBLIC GOODCarole Womeldorf, Ohio University-Athens Carole Womeldorf is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Ohio University. Her areas of technical expertise and interests include distributed energy generation, combustion, heat transfer and fluid dynamics. She worked in the Fire Sciences Division of the Building and Fire Research Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology from 1993 to 2000. Dr. Womeldorf earned her Sc.B. et A.B. in Mechanical Engineering and English and American Literature from Brown University, her Masters of Science in Oceanographic Engineering from

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory Davis, Kettering University; Craig Hoff, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

alumni of these competitions feel that these events helped themto gain better employment opportunities and faster career advancement? Both alumni who hadthese experiences and alumni who did not have these experiences were surveyed.This paper provides a brief introduction to the SAE design competitions along with the results ofthe alumni survey.IntroductionStarting in the early 1960s, engineering education shifted away from engineering practice andmore towards engineering science. Declining enrollments and shifting priorities causeduniversities to reduce program length. In order to accomplish this, many programs reducedapplication oriented courses and laboratories.1 This has resulted in a gap between whatuniversities are teaching, and what

Conference Session

Sustainable Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vered Doctori Blass, University of California-Santa Barbara; Mary Hong Loan Dinh, University of California-Santa Barbara

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

2006-1763: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO A MULTI-PHASEENGINEERING PROJECT FOR THE DEVELOPING COMMUNITY OFARAYPALLPA, PERUVered Doctori Blass, University of California-Santa Barbara Vered Doctori Blass is a graduate student at the Bren school of Environmental Science & Management at UCSB. She serves as the co-president of EWB-UCSB and as the Araypallpa, Peru project manager.Mary Hong Loan Dinh, University of California-Santa Barbara Mary Dinh is a Staff Engineer in the Mechanical Engineering Department at UCSB. She develops undergraduate laboratory courses. She also serves as the staff advisor for EWB-UCSB

Conference Session

Incorporating Projects into the Curriculum

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua Vaughan, Georgia Institute of Technology; William Singhose, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Technology. He received a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His primary research interests are spacecraft control, sway reduction in cranes, control of flexible structures, and active seat technology. Page 11.230.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 ARLISS: A Multidisciplinary Extracurricular Design Project for UndergraduatesAbstractDesign projects that require students to build working prototypes are an invaluable sup-plement to traditional lectures and laboratory exercises. Additionally, allowing students toparticipate in challenging design projects outside of any

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary and Liberal Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hilkat Soysal, Frostburg State University; Oguz Soysal, Frostburg State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

design work. For lab experiments, either portable experimentation setswere brought to the classroom or the students were taken to a laboratory to watchdemonstrations such as electro-mechanical energy conversion, renewable energy, andproperties of sound.The experience gained in the fall semester showed, however, that a traditional classroomsetting was not convenient for this type of course due to the limitations to engage thestudents into inquiry based learning experience. In spring 2006 the class was scheduled ina physical science lab with 24 seats for two 75-minute long meetings per week. Thisschedule allows more time to finish lab experiments, simple design activities, casestudies, and video presentations followed by guided discussions.By

Conference Session

Faculty Development: Tenure & Promotion

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Rose, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

also emphasize teaching excellence over grantmoney and research accomplishments. Each position has its own characteristics that may beviewed as either advantages or disadvantages by different people. Tenure track positions inengineering technology3-7 and at predominantly undergraduate teaching institutions8-10 provideother options for those not interested in traditional tenure-track positions at research universities.Visiting positions,11-12 adjunct13-15 and laboratory instructor positions also provide alternatives totenure-track positions at various institutions.Most graduate students looking for academic positions have come through a traditionalengineering science program and have attended a research university as part of their education.In

Conference Session

Technology in Classrooms - Construction Engineering Perspective

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Mulva, Texas State University-San Marcos

Tagged Divisions

Construction

concerned.Students have also planned projects using the SimVision® software by simultaneously designingboth the activity precedence relationships and the organizational resources as a model.Typically, they report that the process is simple and intuitive. Certainly, the activity of modelinga project leads to excellent questions being asked by the students about project control andmonitoring while in a laboratory setting. Plus, once their simulation is compiled, studentsreceive immediate feedback regarding the potential time and cost impact of their design. Thisform of feedback allows each student to make adjustments to improve project planning in much Page

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erik Schwartz, University of Missouri-Rolla; Timothy Philpot, University of Missouri-Rolla; Richard Hall, University of Missouri-Rolla

Engineering. Dr. Philpot teaches Statics and Mechanics of Materials and is the author of MDSolids – Educational Software for Mechanics of Materials and MecMovies, recipients of the Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware.Richard Hall, University of Missouri-Rolla Dr. Richard H. Hall is a Professor of Information Science and Technology at the University of Missouri-Rolla. He received his BS degree in Psychology from the University of North Texas and Ph.D. degree in Experimental Psychology from Texas Christian University. He is director of UMR's Laboratory for Information Technology Evaluation, and his research focuses on design, development, and evaluation of web

Conference Session

Design Projects in Wind and Solar Energy

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samuel Lakeou, University of the District of Columbia; Esther Ososanya, University of the District of Columbia; Ben Latigo, University of the District of Columbia; George Karanja, University of the District of Columbia; Wagdy Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia; Wilfried Oshumare, University of the District of Columbia

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

2006-1992: DESIGN OF A LOW-COST SOLAR TRACKING PHOTO-VOLTAIC(PV) MODULE AND WIND TURBINE COMBINATION SYSTEM.Samuel Lakeou, University of the District of Columbia Samuel Lakeou received a BSEE (1974) and a MSEE (1976) from the University of Grenoble (Universite Joseph Fourier), and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Ecole Nationale d’Electronique et de Radioelectricite de Grenoble of the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, France, in 1978. He is currently a Professor and Chairperson of the department of Electrical Engineering at UDC. He was formerly staff member at the New Products Laboratory of RCA’s Consumer Electronics Division in Indianapolis, IN (1984-86).Esther Ososanya