AC 2012-4358: COLLEGIATE SOLAR BOAT PROJECT PREPARES TO-DAY’S ENGINEERING STUDENTS FOR TOMORROW’S ENERGY CHAL-LENGESDr. Saeed D. Foroudastan, Middle Tennessee State University Saeed Foroudastan is the Associate Dean for the College of Basic and Applied Sciences (CBAS). The CBAS oversees 10 departments at Middle Tennessee State University. He is also the current Director for the Master’s of Science in Professional Science program and a professor of engineering technology at MTSU. Foroudastan received his B.S. in civil engineering, his M.S. in civil engineering, and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Tennessee Technological University. Additionally, he has six years of industrial experience as a Senior Engineer
AC 2012-3059: INTRODUCTION OF ”MICROFLUIDICS” TO UNDER-GRADUATE FLUID MECHANICS COURSESMr. Onursal Onen, University of South Florida Onursal Onen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Acoustic Transducers Laboratory at the Department of Mechan- ical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, Fla. His research interests are acoustic transducers, ultrasound applications, bio/chem sensors, and engineering education. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, both in mechanical engineering.Dr. Rasim Guldiken, University of South Florida Page 25.850.1
AC 2012-4357: PROGRAM OFFERINGS AND CURRICULUM CONVER-GENCE BETWEEN THE DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (DIT)AND THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY (UMBC)Dr. Brian E. Reed, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Brian E. Reed is a Fulbright Scholar, Dublin Institute of Technology, an educator in the Department of Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering, UMBC.Dr. Julia M. Ross, University of Maryland, Baltimore CountyDr. Brian Bowe, Dublin Institute of TechnologyMr. Gavin Duffy, Dublin Institute of Technology Gavin Duffy is a lecturer in the School of Electrical Engineering Systems in the Dublin Institute of Tech- nology since 2002. Before that, he worked in industry as a Chemical Engineer and Control
AC 2012-3021: DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, AND IMPLEMENTATION OFEDUCATIONAL ROBOTICS ACTIVITIES FOR K-12 STUDENTSDr. Can Saygin, University of Texas, San Antonio Can (John) Saygin is an Associate Professor of mechanical engineering and a research investigator in the Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Lean Systems (CAMLS) at the University of Texas, San Antonio (UTSA). He is also the Director of the Interactive Technology Experience Center (iTEC) and the Director of the Manufacturing Systems and Automation (MSA) Laboratory. He received his B.S. (1989), M.S. (1992), and Ph.D. (1997) degrees in mechanical engineering with emphasis on manufacturing engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, in Turkey. In
AC 2012-4620: CIVIL ENGINEERING EDUCATION AT THE ANNA UNI-VERSITY, INDIA, AND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDADr. Rajarajan Subramanian, Maryland State Highway Administration Rajarajan Subramanian is currently working as a Transportation Engineer at Maryland State Highway Administration. He earned his Ph.D. and master’s degree in engineering from the Department of Civil & Costal Engineering, University of Florida. He has 20 years of experience with government, academia and industry. He was a Senior Lecturer at Annamalai University, India, teaching civil engineering for nine years. He also worked in Linton Institute of Technology as a Senior Lecturer in Ipoh, Malaysia, for three years. In Watertown, Mass., he
AC 2012-3561: AN INTERNATIONAL MULTIYEAR MULTIDISCIPLINARYCAPSTONE DESIGN PROJECTDr. James L. Ellingson, University of Saint Thomas James Ellingson received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota. Honors include a full-year Fulbright Grant for work at the Technical University of Denmark and an NSF-JISTEC grant for summer research in Japan. He worked for more than 10 years in industrial automation, instru- mentation, and process development at 3M, Boston Scientific, and PPSI. In 2009, he returned to academia, joining the engineering faculty at the University of Saint Thomas, where he teaches courses in embedded systems, digital electronics, micro controllers, and machine design.Dr
AC 2012-3312: SYSTEMS ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN THE U.S.: TEXT-BOOKS AND PROGRAMSDr. Jane M. Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo Jane M. Fraser is Chair of the Department of Engineering at Colorado State University, Pueblo. She was formerly on the faculty at the Ohio State University and Purdue University. She has a B.A in mathematics from Swarthmore College and a M.S. and a Ph.D. in industrial engineering and operations research from the University of California, Berkeley.Dr. Abhijit Gosavi, Missouri University of Science & Technology Page 25.1230.1 c American Society for
the College of William and Mary in 2010. He worked as a member of technical staff at Bell Labs China, Lucent Technologies, for four years from 1999 to 2003, mainly on the development of a web-based distributed service management system for an intelligent net- work.Dr. Weiying Zhu, Metropolitan State College of Denver Weiying Zhu received a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Va., in Aug. 2006, a M.S. in communication and information engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in June 1999, and a B.S. in biomedical electronic engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in July 1996. She worked as a Software Engineer
AC 2012-4224: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAM FOR EDUCATIONIN HYBRID AND ELECTRIC DRIVE VEHICLE ENGINEERINGDr. Wayne Weaver, Michigan Technological University Wayne Weaver received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering and a B.S. in mechanical engineering from GMI Engineering & Management Institute in 1997, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical en- gineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He was a Research and Design Engineer at Caterpillar, Inc., Peoria, Ill., from 1997 to 2003. From 2006-2008, he also worked as a researcher at the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, Engineering Research and Development Center (ERDC), Construction Engineering Research Lab (CERL), in Champaign, Ill., on
AC 2012-3189: GOT RISK? THE ROLE OF RISK ANALYSIS IN HIGHSCHOOL EDUCATIONMs. Eva Andrijcic, University of Virginia Eva Andrijcic is a third-year Ph.D. student at the Department of Systems and Information Engineering at the University of Virginia. Page 25.675.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Got Risk? The Role of Risk Analysis in High School Education 1. IntroductionThe purpose of this paper is to focus on an important aspect of systems engineering, namely riskassessment and management, and to present a case study of a class in which high school studentswere
AC 2012-3861: UMES STEM FACULTY, STUDENTS, AND STAFF COL-LABORATE TO ADDRESS CONTEMPORARY ISSUES RELATED TO EN-ERGY, ENVIRONMENT, AND SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTUREDr. Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore Abhijit Nagchaudhuri is currently a professor in the Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences at University of Maryland, Eastern Shore. Nagchaudhuri is a member of ASME and ASEE professional societies and is actively involved in teaching and research in the fields of robotics and control, remote sensing and precision agriculture, and biofuels and renewable energy. He received his M.S. degree from Tulane University in 1989 and Ph.D. degree from Duke University in 1992.Dr. Madhumi Mitra Ph.D
AC 2012-3515: UTILIZING PROJECT-BASED MULTIDISCIPLINARY DE-SIGN ACTIVITIES TO ENHANCE STEM EDUCATIONDr. Andy Shaojin Zhang, New York City College of Technology Andy S. Zhang earned his master’s in mechanical engineering from the City College of New York in 1987 and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 1995. Zhang’s research area includes materials testing, product design and prototyping, CAD/CAE, and mechatronics. From 2007 to 2009, Zhang served as a member of the Pre-engineering Advisory Commission of Advisory Council for Career and Technical Education of NYC Department of Education, which was designed to help high schools to enhance existing technology
AC 2012-4490: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PROMOTING DESIRABLECHARACTERISTICS IN ENGINEERING PH.D.S: PERSPECTIVES FROMINDUSTRY AND ACADEMIADr. Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West LafayetteMiss Jiabin Zhu, Purdue University, West Lafayette Jiabin Zhu is a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She obtained a B.S. in physics from East China Normal University, a M.S. in optics from Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and a second M.S. in biomedical engineering from Purdue University. Her primary research inter- ests relate to comparative study methods and frameworks in engineering education, global engineering, professional development, and mentoring of engineering graduate students. She is
AC 2012-4083: PARTNERING TO IMPROVE ENGINEERING LEARN-ING AND PERFORMANCEDr. Donald Plumlee, Boise State UniversityDr. Steven W. Villachica, Boise State UniversityDr. Linda Huglin, Boise State UniversityShannon Rist, Boise State University Shannon Rist is a Graduate Assistant in the College of Engineering. She will complete her master’s degree in instructional and performance technology from Boise State University in 2012. Page 25.1028.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Partnering to Improve Engineering Learning and Performance Engineering Education Research
The University of Kansas Aerospace Engineering Flight Systems Research Alec Bowman, Chris Hedden, Gonzalo Garcia, and Ryan Lykins The University of KansasThe University of Kansas (KU) is a national and international leader in research anddevelopment of radars for remote sensing and Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) for EarthScience missions. KU has had a long history of design, manufacturing, and flight testing UAS’sdating back to 1999. As the most visible of our programs, the Meridian is also the largest UAVplatform ever designed, built, and successfully flight tested autonomously by an academicinstitution. The Meridian is an 1,100 lb UAS designed for Polar research and has been flighttested
, diversity, and leadership. Her research interests include statistics education, concept inventory development, assessment/evaluation of learning and pro- grams, recruitment and retention, diversity, equity, and cultural humility. She has received funding from the National Science Foundation, Department of Education, various foundations, and industry. Reed- Rhoads is a member and Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education and a member of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Industrial Engineers. She serves as an ABET EAC Evaluator for ASEE.Dr. Amanda G. Idema, Michigan State University Amanda G. Idema is the Assistant to the Dean for Academic Services at the College of
AC 2012-4150: THE INTERLACE PROJECT: EXAMINING THE BAR-RIERS TO IMPLEMENTING COLLABORATIVE, INQUIRY-BASED IN-VESTIGATIONSDr. Morgan M. Hynes, Tufts University Morgan Hynes is a Research Assistant Professor in the Tufts University Education Department and Ed- ucation Research Program Director for the Tufts Center of Engineering Education and Outreach. Hynes received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2001 and his Ph.D. in engineering education in 2009 (both degrees at Tufts University). In his current positions, Hynes serves as PI and Co-PI on a number of funded research projects investigating engineering education in the K-12 and college settings. He is particularly interested in how students and teachers engage
AC 2012-4393: SUBWAY MAP VISUALIZATION TOOL FOR INTEGRAT-ING THE NAE GRAND CHALLENGES FOR ENGINEERING INTO THEPHILADELPHIA AND KENYAN HIGH SCHOOL CHEMISTRY CURRIC-ULAMr. Jared P. Coyle, Drexel University Jared Coyle is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineering at Drexel University. He earned a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Drexel University in 2008. Coyle is a former NSF IGERT Fellow and current NSF GK-12 Fellow who has spent two years bringing modern scientific perspectives to Philadelphia High School for Girls in the School District of Philadelphia. Coyle’s current research includes the study of wearable power generation and display technologies.Dr. Adam K. Fontecchio, Drexel University
AC 2012-3456: EMBEDDED RF SYSTEM DESIGN WITH THE RFPIC12F675Prof. Omer Farook, Purdue University, Calumet Omer Farook is a member of the faculty of electrical and computer engineering technology at Purdue University, Calumet. Farook received the diploma of licentiate in mechanical engineering and B.S.M.E. in 1970 and 1972 respectively. He further received B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees in 1978 and 1983, respectively, from Illinois Institute of Technology. Farook’s current interests are in the areas of embedded system design, hardware software interfacing, digital communication, networking, image processing, and biometrics, C++, PHP, and Java Languages. He has a keen interest in pedagogy and instruction delivery
AC 2012-4112: SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING INTERNSHIPS: CREATIONAND ASSESSMENTDr. Yvette Pearson Weatherton, University of Texas, Arlington Yvette Pearson Weatherton received her Ph.D. in engineering and applied science (environmental engi- neering) from the University of New Orleans in 2000. She is currently a Senior Lecturer and Associate Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Arlington, and is a registered Professional Engineer in Louisiana. Pearson Weatherton has served (and continues to serve) as PI or Co- PI on several projects funded by the National Science Foundation, including ”Engineering Sustainable Engineers,” which is the focus of this paper.Prof. Victoria C. P. Chen
AC 2012-4100: SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING MODULESProf. Victoria C. P. Chen, University of Texas, ArlingtonDr. K.J. Rogers, University of Texas, ArlingtonMrs. Andrea M. Graham, University of Texas, Arlington Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering DepartmentJohn F. Dickson, University of Texas, Arlington John Dickson has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Anna University, India, a master’s in engineering management from the University of Texas, Arlington, and is pursuing a Ph.D. in sustainable engineering at the University of Texas, Arlington.Prof. Stephen Mattingly, University of Texas, ArlingtonDr. Melanie L. Sattler, University of Texas, Arlington Melanie Sattler serves as an Associate
AC 2012-4270: VISUALIZATION OF NANOSCALE COMPONENTS US-ING ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPYDr. Salahuddin Qazi, State University of New York, Institute of Technology Salahuddin (Sala) Qazi holds a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Technol- ogy, Loughborough, U.K. He is a Full Professor (Emeritus) and Past Chair in the School of Information Systems and Engineering Technology at SUNYIT, Utica, N.Y. Qazi has been a visiting summer research faculty member at the Air Force Research Lab, where he also spent his sabbatical. He has co-edited a CRC Press Taylor & Francis handbook on ”Nanotechnology for Telecommunications” and has published several articles, books, and chapters in the area of fiber
industry-academia collaboration on many fronts. It was inspired by a round tablediscussion, where engineering graduates of Region’s colleges have suggested ways to startdeveloping viable and enduring connections between local industries and the academicinstitutions of the Arab Gulf States. Strategies to help promote the collaboration effort areoutlined. In particular, activities (plans, and scenarios) perceived as effective in closing the gapbetween academia and industries are described. Training, capstone courses, consulting by facultyand joint research projects, aimed at serving the interest of both parties (academia & theindustrial partners) are also addressed. The paper sheds light on: the mission, the nature, andrelevant benchmarks of
AC 2012-5558: COLLEGES BRING NUCLEAR TRAINING INTO THECOLLEGE CREDIT FOLDDr. Richard P. Coe, Thomas Edison State College Richard P. Coe has more than 18 years experience in managing commercial nuclear training and education and the U.S. Department of Energy. He is currently Assistant Dean, nuclear engineering technology, at the Thomas Edison State College in Trenton, N.J. He has also served as a Senior Consultant in nuclear training and education to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Page 25.324.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Colleges Bring Nuclear
recruitment contacts.Lahoma Jayne Howard, Colorado State University Graduate student, Department of Sociology Page 25.327.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Communications Strategies to Increase Recruitment of Women to EngineeringAbstractIn 2006, the College of Engineering at Colorado State University launched a program to attractwomen to its existing undergraduate engineering programs. The initiative included extensivesurveying, reworking the College’s website, a communications plan that included gender-segmented communications, and a student
the more explicit inclusion ofengineering that has characterized more recent efforts. However, creating theseexperiences in the classroom is far from trivial. Much of the work looking at the specificstructure of such inquiry-based activities at the K-12 level has consisted of eitherarticulating intended goals or rubrics for assessing the degree of inquiry learning. Thispaper is intended to illuminate the means for achieving those goals and levels bygenerating a taxonomy of different pedagogical structures used for inquiry activities. Weaim to articulate structures that are more general than individual lessons but more specificthan broad goals. By systematically reviewing over 300 activities across a variety ofcurriculum sources, content areas
, accreditation and economic development activities has been published in more than 85 papers, book chap- ters and journals. She is a licensed engineer, an IEEE Senior Member, an ASEE Fellow, an ABET reviewer and member of various national and international boards including the US National Academies Board of International Science Organizations, the US National Science Foundation International Science and En- gineering Advisory Committee, Past President of the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies, engineering expert of the OECD AHELO project and Co-Director of the International Institute for Developing Engineering Academics (IIDEA). Together with colleagues, Lueny has offered more than 90 engineering
GC 2012-5633: INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION IN FACULTY DE-VELOPMENT FOR LIFE LONG LEARNINGDr. R. Murugesan, Anna University of Technology Madurai Dr. R.Murugesan is presently heading Anna University of Technology Madurai as Vice-Chancellor. He is the first Vice-Chancellor of this state owned University which is established by the Act of Government of Tamilnadu in June 2010. His vision is to make this University a premier institution that offers world class technical education thereby generating a quality work force that will drive our country towards a glorious future. Dr. R. Murugesan was born in Porto-Novo, Chidambaram Taluk, Tamilnadu. After obtaining Diploma in Civil Engineering at Muthiah Polytechnic
AC 2012-3519: STRATEGIES AND TOOLS FOR ENGAGING AND AS-SESSING STUDENTS WITH CYBER LEARNING BY INTERACTIVE FRE-QUENT FORMATIVE FEEDBACK (CLIFF) IN CORE MATERIALS CLASSESProf. Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University Stephen J. Krause is professor in the School of Materials in the Fulton School of Engineering at Ari- zona State University. He teaches in the areas of bridging engineering and education, capstone design, and introductory materials engineering. His research interests include evaluating conceptual knowledge, misconceptions and their repair, and conceptual change. He has co-developed a Materials Concept In- ventory for assessing conceptual knowledge of students in introductory materials engineering classes
AC 2012-2997: TOOLS, TECHNIQUES AND CLASS EXPERIENCES WITHON-DEMAND MULTIMEDIA CONTENT IN AN ELECTRIC MACHINESCOURSEDr. Carl J. Spezia, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Carl J. Spezia is an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Technology program in the Depart- ment of Technology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (SIUC). He joined the program in1998 as a Visiting Assistant Professor. He worked as a power systems engineer for electric utilities for eight years prior to seeking a career in higher education. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Illinois. His in- dustrial assignments included power system modeling, power systems protection, and substation design. He received his M.S