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"Modular" Learning

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Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University - Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

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Chemical Engineering

Ph.D. work under the guidance of Dr. David Bayless at Ohio University, developing novel catalysts for the efficient production of electricity by solid oxide fuel cells. After receiving his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 2008, Dr. Cooper moved to the Raleigh area to serve as a research chemical engineer for RTI International, focusing on energy research. In January 2011, Dr. Cooper joined the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University, where he currently teaches Transport Phenomena and the Unit Operations I and II laboratory sequence. Page 23.878.1

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Instrumentation Technical Session II

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Mohammad Rafiq Muqri, DeVry University, Pomona; Furqan Muqri, UT Southwestern Medical School; Shih Ek Chng, DeVry University

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Instrumentation

Page 23.886.2traditional books on EEG, this paper will attempt to concentrate on pattern recognition,identification of rhythms and waveforms. It also explains the laboratory setup of a conventional10-20 electrode based EEG monitoring station using modern data acquisition tool and softwarefor EEG feature extraction. Students will begin their analysis by looking at frequency, amplitude,distribution or location, symmetry, synchrony, reactivity, morphology, rhythmicity, andregulation and correlate the characteristic appearance on the EEG with existing conditions,certain pathology, and drug or electrolyte effects.A diagnostic tool using Java programming has been developed. The graphical user interface willbe used in conjunction with EEG monitoring

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Capstone Design II

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Mohamed E. El-Sayed, Kettering University

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2012-5299: PRODUCT REALIZATION EXPERIENCES IN CAPSTONEDESIGN COURSESDr. Mohamed E. El-Sayed, Kettering University Mohamed El-Sayed is a pioneer and technical leader in vehicle durability, vehicle integration, vehicle development process, and design optimization. Through his research, teaching, and practice, he made numerous original contributions to advance the state of the art in virtual simulation, lean, and integrated design and manufacturing in the vehicle development process. Currently, El-Sayed is a professor of mechanical engineering and Director of the Vehicle Durability and Integration Laboratory at Kettering University. He is the SAE International Journals Committee Chair. El-Sayed has more than 30

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National and Multi-university Initiatives

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Owe G. Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering; William M. Jordan, Baylor University; R. Radharamanan, Mercer University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2012-3655: PROPOSED KEEN INITIATIVE FRAMEWORK FOR EN-TREPRENEURIAL MINDEDNESS IN ENGINEERING EDUCATIONDr. Owe G. Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering Owe Petersen is Department Chair and professor of electrical engineering and Computer Science at Mil- waukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He is a former member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories and received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. His technical work ranges over topics such as optical data links, integrated circuit technology, RF semiconductor com- ponents, and semiconductor component reliable. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and an ABET EAC Program Evaluator in electrical engineering.Dr. William M

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CoED General Technical Session I

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Thad B. Welch, Boise State University; Cameron H.G. Wright P.E., University of Wyoming; Michael G. Morrow, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Computers in Education

, June 1997. Paper 1220-06. [3] J. H. McClellan, C. S. Burrus, A. V. Oppenheim, T. W. Parks, R. W. Schafer, and S. W. Schuessler, Computer-Based Exercises for Signal Processing Using M ATLAB 5. M ATLAB Curriculum Series, Prentice Hall, 1998. [4] G. W. P. York, C. H. G. Wright, M. G. Morrow, and T. B. Welch, “Teaching real-time sonar with the C6711 DSK and MATLAB,” ASEE Comput. Educ. J., pp. 79–87, July–September 2002. Page 25.1098.8 [5] T. B. Welch, C. H. G. Wright, and M. G. Morrow, “Experiences in offering a DSP-based communi- cation laboratory,” in Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Digital Signal Processing Workshop and the 3rd

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Design Cognition I

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Hamid Rad, Washington State University, Vancouver

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Design in Engineering Education

to Design Complex Tool Design” Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June 20-23, Salt Lake City, Utah.[8] Sinha, A., “Integrating a Reverse Engineering Project in a Laboratory-Based Introductory Engineering Course” Section 514, 2009 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June 14- 17, Austin, Texas.[9] Otto, K.N.; Wood, K.L., “ A reverse Engineering and Redesign Methodology for Product Evolution”, Proceedings of the 1996 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Design Theory and Methodology Conference, August 18-22, 1996.[10] Student Design Project, “Reverse Engineering of a Lighted Ball-Point Pen” Junior Class of 2008-2009.[11] Student Design Project, “Reverse Engineering of a

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Active and Project-based Learning

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John-David S. Yoder, Ohio Northern University; James P. Schmiedeler, University of Notre Dame; Michael Milo Stanisic, University of Notre Dame

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Mechanical Engineering

at the Jet Propul- sion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and an Invited Professor at INRIA Rhone-Alpes, Monbonnot, France. Research interests include computer vision, mobile robotics, intelligent vehicles, entrepreneurship, and education.Dr. James P. Schmiedeler, University of Notre DameDr. Michael Milo Stanisic, University of Notre Dame Page 25.1135.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Robotic Football: An Inter-university Design Competition Experiment1. IntroductionRobotics competitions have grown significantly over the past decade. The FIRST competitionhas inspired many K

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Reza Nekovei, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Alexandra Chincarini, RETainUS

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

manipulation of monomials.IntroductionDuring the summer of 2011, the teacher participated in the Texas A&M University-Kingsville(TAMUK) Research Experience for Teachers (RET) project. This involved conducting researchalongside graduate student, Divya Thummelapally, under the supervision of Dr. Reza Nekovei.The research focused on studying and recording various voltages as they pass through carbonnanotubes (CNTs). Since little experimental research had previously been done in this area, theteacher was literally a pioneer. As a mathematics teacher, she had never been a member of aresearch team nor worked long hours in a laboratory. She had no prior knowledge of electricalengineering going into the summer research program and experienced a steep

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Energy Conversion and Conservation Poster Session

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Constantine Nicholas Tzouanas; Vassilios Tzouanas, University of Houston, Downtown

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

/SIMULINK”, Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science, San Francisco, CA, October 22-24, 2008.7. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, www.nrel.org8. MSX-60 and MSX-64 Photovoltaic Modules, http://www.californiasolarcenter.org/newssh/pdfs/Solarex-MSX64.pdf Page 25.1201.11

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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J.A. Ortega-Saenz, PSJA High School; Hua Li, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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the market, for which I had to choose between many characteristics such assize of the work-table, number of axles, power, operating system, CAM software, etc. Accordingto the needs of my project and the available budget, the best option was to purchase a ProbotixFireBall V90CNC router. The details of this equipment are described in detail on Appendix C.Heat GunSince shape memory polymers are activated by heat, during the summer an industrial furnacelocated in a TAMUK laboratories was used for the experiments. This can be considered adisadvantage for the Legacy Cycle, especially when experiments need to be performed in theclassroom. However, as an alternative heat source, a heat gun with variable temperature (RyobiHG500) was bought, which

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Energy Education Courses, Labs, and Projects II

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Frank Wicks, Union College

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Distribution of Power on Earth” 6 which is described as thenext great economic revolution.Accordingly, the author is often asked, including by reviewers, why not hydrogen fuel cells thatcan also produce electricity and heat, rather than the “Electricity Producing CondensingFurnace.” It is a good question. Fuel cell research is being performed in universities andindustrial laboratories around the world. Auto manufacturers continue to research and promotefuel cells for future vehicles.The author answers these queries by first explaining that although hydrogen is called a fuel, itreally is not a fuel, in the same way that electricity is not a fuel. Hydrogen and electricity arehighly refined mediums for transferring energy. Neither one is found in a

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Richard Gilbert; Mark Maughmer; Bonnie Osif; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College; Renata Engel, Pennsylvania State University

must structure the mechanics topics sequence so students can apply their newfoundknowledge directly to the project as the course progresses. With regard to topics outside the scopeof the course, such as engineering codes, the instructor must raise student awareness and citereferences for the students to explore. Finally, the instructor should provide an opportunity forstudents to assess and get feedback on their understanding of the knowledge throughout the projectsolution stages.Inquiry-based learning is differentiated from the other two strategies in that it is driven by specificquestions for which the students must present answers that are grounded on investigation,research, experimentation, or discovery. While step-by-step laboratory

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Bruce R. Dewey; Raymond Jacquot

MechanicalEngineering in 1969. He is a member of ASEE, IEEE and ASME and has been active in ASEE for the past twodecades serving as Rocky Mountain Section Chair and PIC IV Chair. His professional interests are in modeling,control, simulation and animation of dynamic systems. He currently serves as Professor of Electrical Engineering.BRUCE R. DEWEYDr. Dewey is a graduate of Iowa State University (B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 1959, and M.S. in NuclearEngineering,1964) and the University of Illinois (Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 1967). In 1982, hemoved to UW. He has worked as a consultant and research collaborator for Union Carbide, Oak Ridge NationalLaboratory, General Electric, Laawrence Livermore Laboratory and Pafec, Ltd. His research

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Christopher Vondrachek; Joseph Hoffbeck

, American Society for Engineering Education Session 2793VIII. Bibliography1. Texas Instruments. TMS320C3x DSP Starter Kit User’s Guide. Texas Instruments, 1996.2. Chassaing, R. Digital Signal Processing-Laboratory Experiments Using C and the TMS320C31 DSK. J. Wiley,1999.3. B.P. Lathi. Signal Processing and Linear Systems. Berkeley-Cambridge Press, 1998.CHRISTOPHER J. VONDRACHEKChristopher J. Vondrachek is currently a hardware design engineer at Intel Corporation in Hillsboro, Oregon. Heearned his B.S.E.E. from the University of Portland in 2000 and currently works as a printed circuit board designerwithin Intel’s desktop products division. His technical

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Deborah van Alphen; Sharlene Katz

full time basis.The lower division circuits course, EE 240, Electrical Engineering Fundamentals, studied in thispaper is offered by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and is required of allengineering majors in the college. This is a three-unit lecture, one-unit laboratory course thatrequires both a Physics course in Electricity and Magnetism as a pre-requisite and an applieddifferential equations course as a co-requisite.In this study, we collected the records of 229 students who had completed the EE 240 courseover the past two academic years. Only the lecture portion of the course was studied, not thelaboratory. For each of these students, the following factors were recorded: • CSUN grade point average

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Ranji Vaidyanathan; Todd Anderson; Ray Umashankar; Ramesh Sharma; Marlene Platero; Greg Artz; Chris Choi; Al Ortega

ofACR’s rapid prototyping business. Greg also collaborates with UA for teaching computer-aided design and rapidprototyping to undergraduate students by building prototype models of CAD files sent by the students to ACR.CHRISTOPHER Y. CHOIChristopher Choi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering of theUniversity of Arizona. Dr. Choi has established the Instructional Computer Laboratory and developed a courseentitled Introduction to Computer Aided Design and has introduced Rapid Prototyping in conjunction with the state-of-the-art CAD technology. Dr. Choi received a Ph.D. degree in M.E. from Colorado State University.ALFONSO ORTEGAAlfonso Ortega is an Associate Professor in the Aerospace and Mechanical

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Jerry A. Caskey

Department to students who want a background in environmental engineering. Thetopics covered include sedimentation, filtration(including micro and ultrafiltration), adsorption,ion exchange, and membrane separations. A laboratory project has been developed to makedrinking water out of raw sewage using sedimentation, granular filtration, carbon adsorption,deionization, ultrafiltration and chlorination. The project has had a natural appeal becausestudents easily relate to raw sewage and drinking water. The purification process wasconstructed using Plexiglass cylinders, Tygon tubing, peristaltic pumps and permanentlymounted on a 4 ft by 8 ft plywood panel. Water samples are taken after each unit operation andthe following tests performed: Suspended

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Satinderpaul Devgan

Page 6.923.1well-established Center for Neural Engineering that is funded by the Office of Naval Research "Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education"and six well equipped research laboratories for CISE, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD),Intelligent Signal Processing, Intelligent Control Systems, Probabilistic Design, and ComputerIntegrated Manufacturing, which are well equipped with latest computer hardware and softwareneeded to support research. Our faculty’s academic and research areas include signal and imageprocessing, intelligent control systems, application of ANN, fuzzy logic and genetic

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Bahador Ghahramani

Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, 174-180, 1996.[8] G. Premkumar, K. Ramamurthy, and K. Nilakanta, Implementation of Electronic Data Interchange: An Innovation Diffusion Perspective. Journal of Management Information Systems 11, no. 2, 1994.[9] B. Rechtin, Foundations of System Architecting. Systems Engineering, 1(1), 35-42, 1994.Biography of the Author:Dr. Bahador Ghahramani is an Associate Professor of Engineering Management in the School ofEngineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR). Prior to joining UMR he was aDistinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) in AT&T-Bell Laboratories. His workexperience covers several years of academics, industry, and consulting. Dr. Ghahramani haspresented and

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Jeff Fant

Camp andthe Plano Amateur Radio Klub (P.A.R.K.), there are a lot more kids on the air and we aretalking to each other on a regular basis.”Jordan Goldblatt, KD5KQM(Grade 8)Comments from parents:”Tech Camp 2000 was an exceptional learning environment that constantly challengedstudents with new ideas and hands-on situations to reinforce the material. While it maynot be for every student, it is a wonderful blend of classroom, laboratory and fieldactivities that engages learners at a lot of different levels.Our son, Jordan Goldblatt, worked very hard to earn his FCC Technician license prior tothe camp session. During the session, he learned a lot about radio frequency (RF)technology and how to work effectively in a group to achieve a goal.Jordan

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Kwok Pang

, three hours for lectures and three hours fordesign laboratory. The model is used extensively to show how a plant is designed andconstructed, from process engineering, detailed equipment design, piping, civil electrical andinstrumentation and finally to construction.They now appreciate how complex the piping network is or how and why such a plot plan is puttogether. Students also have an opportunity to visit the actual plant in Chevron’s El SegundoRefinery. It is such a treat to the students to finally see the real plant, exactly the same as themodel which they have studied for several years. They climbed to the platform to see the largeair-coolers and their exposed finned tubes. They marveled at the height of the depropanizer.The design

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Rakesh Pangasa; David Scott; Marc Herniter

, Laplace transforms, frequency response, and op-amp analog filtering. MATLAB has been used throughout the course in the following applications: a. Solving ordinary differential equations arising from RL, RC and RLC circuits. b. Measuring time constants from data collected in the laboratory and graphed using MATLAB. c. Measuring frequency content of signals filtered with a resonant RLC circuit by employing the Fast Fourier Transform. d. Root finding and pole zero mapping of transfer functions in the s domain. e. Laplace and inverse Laplace transforms using symbolic mathematics f. Partial fraction expansion of s domain functions. g. Frequency response Bode

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Nicholas Arcolano; Richard Vaz

addressed in EE 2311 is fairly typical of introductory signal and system analysiscourses in curricula that present continuous-time analysis separately from and before discrete-time analysis. The main topics of the course are: • Description and classification of signals and systems • Singularity functions • Impulse response and convolution • Trigonometric and exponential Fourier series • The Fourier transform and some of its applications • The Laplace transform and some of its applicationsThe course meets 35 hours during WPI’s 7-week term, and has no formal laboratory component.Students are expected to invest about 15 to 20 hours per week, including class time, into thecourse.Historically, this course has proved to be challenging for

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Katherine Carels; James Howard; Charles Bersbach; Debra Larson

specializing in Computer Science andEngineering. She was one of the three graduate students that took EGR 686 Managing Engineering Design duringthe spring of 2000.JAMES HOWARDJames Howard is an astrophysicist for Navel Research Laboratory and is simultaneously enrolled as a master studentin NAU’s Master of Engineering program specializing in Mechanical Engineering. He was one of the threegraduate students that took EGR 686 Managing Engineering Design during the spring of 2000. His research projectis “Redesign of the Narrow Angle Tracking Mirror on the Navy Prototype Interferometer”. He is graduating withhis Master of Engineering this May of 2001

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Rick Duley; S P Maj; D Veal

-416, 1998.Biographical InformationRICK DULEY graduated with First Class Honours in Computer Science in 1996. He is currently a DoctoralResearch Student at Edith Cowan University working in the field of Software Engineering Education. Coming froma Heavy Industry and Mining background he has a special interest in things industrial and in the application ofengineering principles to software construction. r.duley@ecu.edu.auDr S P MAJ is a recognized authority in the field of industrial and scientific information systems integration andmanagement. He is the author of a text book, ’The Use of Computers in Laboratory Automation’, which was commissionedby the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK). His first book, 'Language Independent Design Methodology

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Phillip McReynolds; Andras Gordon; Andrew Lau; Richard Devon

extraction to disposal inthe life cycle of a product, the design process is where we make, or reflects where others make,the most important decisions; the decisions that determine most of the final product cost,3 and thedecisions that determine most of the ethical costs and benefits and to whom they accrue. It paysto do design well, but design is much bigger than our pursuit of profit, protection, or pleasure. Itis revolutionary behavior that has become routinized and institutionalized. Whether in theOlympics, in the laboratory, or on the operating table, we can no longer even decide wherehuman nature ends and technology begins. Every generation lives in a very new world withradically fewer natural species and many new technological species. Few, if

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Shirley Holloway

support materialsRationaleStudent Self-Assessment (optional)Connection activityExploration activityExperiential activitySummaryPractical activityStudent Post Self-Assessment (optional)The LOG typically does not contain lecture material since the main purpose of the system is tofacilitate classroom and laboratory activity rather than to create instant distant delivery materials.However, individual lecturers may elect to incorporate notes into their LOGs or use links to theweb, a text or CD ROM. Versions of the LOGs created for distance delivery would be expectedto be more complete in content and may include links to or embed video or audio lectures.Preparing and Working with a Digital Curriculum DatabaseTypical instructors at NAIT are content

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Sanjiv Gokhale; Hadi Yamin

feeling the crunch of class and laboratory space (and even parking), time-shortenedcourses offer a solution. The Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUI, offered thefirst intensive course in 1998 and today, there are almost a dozen offerings of such coursesacross the various disciplines. This paper will present some research comparing the traditionallength courses to those taught in a time-shortened format, and discuss how this transition will bemade in the Department of Construction Technology, IUPUI.II. An Overview of Time-shortened CoursesTime-shortened courses are actually not a new phenomenon7. After all, summer sessionofferings of courses, has been around for almost 80 years. Initially such courses were offered tostudents who may

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Thomas Currin

thegraduate level are required to attend another school since SPSU does not offer graduate civilengineering or civil engineering technology programs. With respect to transportation, all students are currently required to take a course entitled“Introduction to Transportation Systems” which is a 4 semester hour course with 3 hours oflecture and 3 hours of lab scheduled each week. This course attempts to generate interest in Page 6.1070.4transportation engineering through the use of the step by step approach to the analysis and designof roadways, traffic analysis including capacity analysis, and the basics of transportationplanning. Laboratory

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Raymond Luebbers; R.A. Rodríguez-Solís; José Colom-Ustáriz

from UMASS at Amherst. His research interest aremicrowave circuits, microwave remote sensing, and numerical methods for electromagnetics. He is currently thecoordinator of the COOP program at the ECE Department and the IAP coordinator. He teaches courses in the areaof Applied Electromagnetics and basic circuit analysis.RAFAEL RODRIGUEZ SOLISHe is an Assistant Professor at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineeringfrom Penn State University and an MSEE from the University of Florida. His research interest are microwavebroadband antennas, microwave circuits, high frequency simulations, and numerical methods for electromagnetics.He is currently the director of the Radiation Laboratory, which is sponsored