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2001 Annual Conference

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Victoria Aladejana; Gregory Payne; Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein

student had an opportunity of working with scientistsin two Universities collaborating on an environmental engineering project. Water pollution has been a growing problem for all nations as a result ofindustrialization. Most of the industrial pollutants are toxic and have been classified as hazardousand carcinogenic. Typical examples generated from dyes used in the textile industry and found inwastewater are phenolic compounds. The development of economically treatment processes toremove these substances has been of research interest worldwide. A physical-chemical methodusing chitosan and a biochemical method using laccase for the potential removal of phenoliccompounds from an aqueous medium was investigated. The dual state behavior of

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Vinay Dayal; Jerald Vogel; Rebecca Sidler Kellogg

howengineering design methods and tools might be transformed to the on-line format. On-linelearning provides engineers an opportunity to obtain the training they need at the point inprojects where they most need it. The power of learning and using information immediately, as itis needed, is a key to the attractiveness of using the Internet as a delivery mode.Iowa State University has initiated an experimental project with eCollege.com to develop creditand noncredit on-line courses. The Communications and Continuing Education organization andEngineering Distance Education are facilitating the details of the experiment. Two engineeringfaculty members, a team of graduate students, and specialists in distance education, combinedefforts to transform the

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2001 Annual Conference

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Denny Davis; Larry McKenzie; Steve Beyerlein; Michael Trevisan

-faceted design assessment. Page 6.454.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Educational Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationII. Transferable Integrated Design Engineering EducationFor the past six years, a coalition of universities and community colleges in Washington statehave led efforts of educators and industry representatives throughout the Pacific Northwest toestablish effective processes for improving engineering design education. Known as theTransferable Integrated Design Engineering Education project or TIDEE, its central

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2001 Annual Conference

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Laura Lucas; Erdogan Sener

the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education As a university department we have access to the technology, training facilities and theconstruction experienced faculty to share our knowledge and testing labs with the VocationalCommunity, (be it K-12 or 2 year Technical Colleges.) Faculty at vocational institutions do nothave the funding for the well equipped testing labs as we do, and are thus at the disadvantage ofteaching only the lecture aspects of certain kinds of classes without the benefit of the experimentsto reinforce the technical concepts. This project is intended to address this shortcoming.This is especially

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2000 Annual Conference

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Steven H. VanderLeest

on technology in integrativecapstone courses, such as an engineering senior design projects course. However, capstones canbe narrowly focused since they are usually intended for a specific major. A third possibility istechnology from the viewpoint of a particular discipline, such as history of technology,philosophy of technology, or ethics of technology. Even here, the courses are often comprisedmainly of students in one particular major.III. A Science Fiction and Technology CourseA course that combines perspectives on technology with a focused study of science fictionliterature offers an interesting solution to the problem of introducing students to broader issues oftechnology. Many students have a personal interest in science fiction and

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2000 Annual Conference

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Bruce Segee; Michael D. Amos

5.54.3network controller polls the decoder, the data that is held in the local memory is transmitted viaRS-485 to the network controller module, where it is held in local memory in the networkcontroller. The data is held in the network controller until the controller is polled by the customPC software and moved to another location.In the event of a power failure after data has been stored in memory in either the barcode decoderor the network controller, but before being moved to a more secure location, a battery backupsystem will keep the memory intact. This is important for reliability and for fail-safe protection,both important topics to the client company.Custom PC SoftwareThe custom software developed for this project consists of two separate

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2000 Annual Conference

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Rosalyn S. Hobson

;iii. that provides students with the opportunities to use newly acquired skills and knowledge in real-life situations in their own communities; andiv. that enhances what is taught in school by extending student learning beyond the classroom and into the community and helps foster the development of a sense of caring for others.2In the fall semesters of 1998 and 1999 at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in theSchool of Engineering, a group of freshmen students in one section of the Introduction toEngineering course (ENGR 101) were offered an opportunity to participate in a service-learning project. ENGR 101 is a laboratory based required course for all engineering schoolfreshmen in their first semester. The students

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2000 Annual Conference

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Nora Valeiras; Luis A. Godoy

wereestablished for this project, including • To stimulate the development of a critical point of-view in the research work. • To develop the ability to write a paper with high chances of being accepted. • To visualize and solve conflicts associated to the publication process. • To train in the review of scientific and technical papers.2. MethodologyTraditional approaches in this field consist in providing training in technical writing (see,for example, Brusaw et al.3 , Day 6). The emphasis is placed on writing aspects, but otherperhaps more important areas are left out of the discussion.In this project we attempt to include topics related to the research process itself, includingthe presentation of the main concepts, the

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2000 Annual Conference

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William M. Jordan; Debbie Silver; Bill B. Elmore

of thefuture teachers themselves. This project moves toward that end.Louisiana Tech University’s undergraduate engineering program has been significantlymodified during the past two years. Emphasis has been placed on creating an integrated(college-wide) program for freshmen and sophomores. A key part of this program is a three-course sequence in the freshman year that largely deals with engineering problem solving.It is our belief that part of the problem with K-12 science education is that teachers do notknow how to relate the science they are teaching to real world experiences. To deal with thatissue, we incorporated what we have learned in developing our freshman engineering coursesequence as a basis to create a new three-hour course in

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Real-World Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

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Syed Azmat; Snehamay Khasnabis; Richard Darin Ellis; Pratap Srinivasa Murthy; Frank Plonka; Diane M. Schuch-Miller

. Engineering Economics has been designed as an eight-module, three-credit course. The first seven modules present the basic fundamentals necessary to makeinvestment decisions. The purpose of this paper is to describe the eighth module, which requiresstudents to demonstrate their understanding of the principles on a real life engineeringinvestment analysis case study. The case study deals with the manufacturing of pulleys involvedin the balancing operation of machine components. Because of some malfunctioning in thebalancing operation, the manufacturer is faced with a high percentage of scrap. The analysisinvolves the identification and evaluation of alternate strategies for meeting a projected marketdemand, as specified in probabilistic terms, leading

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Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

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2002 Annual Conference

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Christine Masters; Renata Engel

address some of these concerns regarding the lecture portion of thecourse.Concept Question and Peer Instruction ApproachBriefly, the ‘peer instruction’ approach detailed by Mazur consists of planned, intermittentopportunities for students to assess their own understanding and to articulate their understandingto their peers and the instructor, and for the instructor to obtain immediate feedback about thelevel of student understanding of key concepts. These learning opportunities are placed atspecific times in each lecture with the frequency depending on the number of conceptsintroduced or reviewed during a particular lecture. After a concept is covered, a question thatfocuses on that single concept is projected on the overhead for the entire class

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Undergraduate Research and New Directions

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2002 Annual Conference

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Pradip Srimani; Joseph Hughes

engineering volume by the end of 2002. A “strawman”draft, including both the computer engineering body of knowledge and major report sections, isplanned for approximately the time of the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference. The conferencepresentation will describe the overall project, the status of the computer engineering volume, andplans for review of the volume. It also will provide an opportunity for members of the computerengineering community to provide suggestions and comments on the computer engineeringvolume and to participate in the review process.[1] http://www.computer.org/education/cc2001/ Page 7.321.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American

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2001 Annual Conference

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Paul Lin; Hal Broberg

enrolled in Electrical Engineering Technology (Networking Option) BS degree program • 8 students enrolled in Electrical Engineering Technology BS degree program • 3 students majoring in Computer science and/or Information system • 3 students enrolled as distance learners currently studying in the Civil Engineering graduate program at Purdue University • 1 practicing engineer with a need to broaden his knowledge in this areaIn addition to homework, laboratories and tests, a course project (with 2 to 3 studentsforming a team) or comprehensive final exam is required for the completion of thecourse. The majority of students selected the term project option, while only two chosethe final exam. Examples of final projects are

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2001 Annual Conference

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Rujin Cheng; Tze-Leong Yew; Kurt Gramoll

environment is based, in part, on the successful multimedia course for engineeringstudents that have been conducted at the University of Oklahoma for the last fours years[2]. It isexpected that through the use of the Internet, the course content can be accessed by otherinstructors to learn how to develop and implement electronic media into their own courses.The distance learning site named “Electronic Media Education for Teachers” or EMET, is madepossible through a grant from the Hitachi Foundation. EMET is a three-year project that began inJanuary 2000, and is a joint collaboration between the College of Engineering and the College ofEducation at the University of Oklahoma. Figure 1 shows a screenshot of EMET. Fig. 1

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Engineering Management Curriculum

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2002 Annual Conference

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Stephanie Adams

should be continuously provided as needed. Also, during this time it is important to reward team members. Rewards are typicallygiven upon completion of a task or project, but this model promotes rewards throughout theteaming process for meeting major deadlines, meeting them ahead of schedule or other acts thatdemonstrate success by the team. Rewards might consist of a “pat on the back” for a job welldone, a certificate of achievement, a pizza party for all team members, verbal acknowledgementor some other motivational event. Once the task is completed a post-assessment should beconducted to measure the effectiveness of the team. Page

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

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Nashwan Younis

curriculum committee has changedand modified the freshman engineering courses. In fact, simple design component is currentlybeing taught in the Introduction to Engineering, Technology, and Computer Science course. Themain project in this course is small teams of students design, build, program, and test a mobilerobot using lego parts, sensors, and a controller [7]. Utilization of sketching and computer-aideddesign are introduced at the first freshman required engineering course (GraphicalCommunications and Spatial Analysis). In addition, the philosophy of the elementaryengineering design course was changed. This was accomplished by introducing techniques fordefining problems, generating solutions, and deciding between them what are used to setup

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ET Student Design Teams

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2002 Annual Conference

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Terrence Kelly; Aaron Cowin

Session 3550 Using the SAE Aero-Design Competition to Expose Students to Multidisciplinary Design Teams Aaron R. Cowin, Terrence K. Kelly Parks College of Engineering and Aviation Saint Louis UniversityAbstractStudents at Saint Louis University have an opportunity to participate in the SAE (Society ofAutomotive Engineering) Aero-Design student competition. The competition challenges studentsto design, fabricate and fly an aircraft carrying a desired weight in a pre-determined flight pattern.Participation in the project draws

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Fazil Najafi

alist of contacts in each of the agency’s ten offices. It can be accessed on the Internet athttp://scitech.dot.gov or http://t2.dot.gov.For a broader approach to federal Research and Development (R&D), a good reference is TheUnited States Government Manual (yearly) available from the U. S. Government Printing Office.Using this as a starting point, one can search through the telephone numbers to locate someoneactually involved in R&D who can provide meaningful information on the subject of say,“concrete.” However, one must be wary since many offices have the word “Research” as part oftheir title although they are not related to R&D projects per se. Another approach is to work thebuddy network by scanning the ACI directory for members

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2001 Annual Conference

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Jerome Tapper

ties to the industrial base in the Boston and surrounding New Englandareas. The impetus for creating these strong ties is linked to this educator’s desire to improvefuture student cooperative work assignments, and increase both after-graduation employmentopportunities and industrial research project assignments. Over the past two years, industrialpartnerships have been established with two leaders in the industrial control systems market,Siemens Energy and Automation Corporation and Cutler-Hammer Corporation.2 3 Partnershipshave been established with several other smaller players as well. Each of these companies hascommitted itself to assisting Northeastern University’s School of Engineering Technology inachieving its goal of becoming a

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2001 Annual Conference

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Daniel Davis; Elizabeth Petry; James Fuller

” Session 1606At the University of Hartford’s Ward College AET program:• Design is introduced early in the program and integrated throughout the curriculum. Every semester has a design studio course.• Increased exposure to practice is provided through industry-in-the-classroom activities.• Increased emphasis is placed on communication, both oral and written. Requirements are integrated throughout the curriculum.At the University of Hartford, students are often challenged with "real" projects. Whenpossible proposed sites are accessible for student visits. Students present their solutionsand are critiqued by their peers, faculty, local professionals, and invited guests. Othermembers of the College and University community are present as well

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Nanotechnology/RFID

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ahmed S. Khan, DeVry University,Addison, Illinois; Aram Agajanian, DeVry University, Chicago

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Engineering Technology

Society. He teaches Wireless Engineering, Net- work Engineering, Fiber Optic Communications, Technology and Society, and Project Management. He also advises students on their senior design projects. He is the author of ”The Telecommunications Fact Book, 2E” and co-author of ”Technology and Society: Crossroads to the 21st Century,” ”Technology and Society: A Bridge to the 21st Century,” and ”Technology and Society: Issues for the 21st Century and Beyond.” He is a member of ASEE, and a senior member of IEEE.Aram Agajanian, DeVry University, Chicago Dr. Aram Agajanian is a senior professor at DeVry University in Chicago. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Rochester, a M.S. in Electrical

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Information and Network Security

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peng Li, East Carolina University; John M. Jones, East Carolina University; Kris Kareem Augustus, East Carolina University

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Computing & Information Technology

machines efficiently. From 2008, westarted experimenting with new centralized virtual lab automation systems, specifically VirtualComputing Lab (VCL) which was used in several projects that year. The next year VMware(vCenter) Lab Manager (VLM), another virtual lab automation package, was made available inselected courses.Our VCL infrastructure was supported by 84 IBM HS21 blade servers, each with two Intel dual-core Xeon processors and 12 GB memory. 1 TB Network-attached storage (NAS) was available Page 22.856.4for students to save their work. In contrast, the VLM system was supported by a total of six LS22blade servers with each blade consisting of

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Educating Students for Professional Success

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ajit D. Kelkar, North Carolina A&T State University; James G. Ryan, Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering

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Graduate Studies, New Engineering Educators, Student

numberof times in the presentations and papers of Mihail Roco 1 of NSF who has projected thatapproximately 2 million nano-related jobs will be created by 2015 (40% of them in the US) andif typical multipliers are used the number of Nano-related jobs would be substantially more. Thiscorrelated with the predictions made by Lux Research (a well known contract research firm) thatnanotechnology will contribute $3.1 Trillion to the world's economy by 2015. We expect JSNNgraduates to find positions in industrial, academic and government research labs in fieldsincluding pharmaceuticals, defense, materials and electronics companies. The Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering (JSNN) currently offer twodegree programs (a Professional M.S. in

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Experiential Learning Programs and the Transition to Industry

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Hoe, University of Texas, Tyler; Mukul Shirvaikar, University of Texas, Tyler

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College Industry Partnerships

that the elective class in semiconductor test really helped thestudents pull together the theory from all their course work, this integrative approach willprovide this benefit to the students as they progress through the program rather than waiting fortheir senior year.6 Third, from a pragmatic perspective, the gradual introduction of the tester labsinto the curriculum will allow the faculty to get up to speed on using the tester, introducingmaterial as the lab projects are developed. The proposed learning objectives for each testlaboratory are summarized in Table 2. Table 2. Learning Objectives for Test Laboratories Laboratory Main Learning Objectives Resistor Understand overall ATE

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Developing Young MINDS in Engineering: Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christine E. Hailey, Utah State University; Chandra Y. Austin, Auburn University; Cameron Denson, North Carolina State University; Daniel L. Householder, Utah State University

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Minorities in Engineering

, understanding ideas, participating in activities, and design projects. Factor two,Communication and Problem Solving, includes five items. These items deal with communicatingengineering knowledge, solving problems, and developing solutions. One item did not meet the0.40 loading criterion required for inclusion within a factor. The results of the factor analysis ofthe self-efficacy items are reproduced in Table 2.Engineering Self-Efficacy ScaleFactor 1 – Understanding, Learning, and Demonstrating Item Loading Statement 2 0.800 Perform an engineering task in MESA 1 0.742 Understanding the engineering ideas taught in MESA 3 0.696 Learn new material relating to engineering

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Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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K. Hodge, Mississippi State University

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Mechanical Engineering

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Using Travel and the Internet to Develop and Formulate Enhanced Homework AssignmentsIntroductionOne student criticism of homework and project exercises in engineering courses is thelack of connection that the projects have with the “real world.” The author has taught arequired course in thermal systems design in Mechanical Engineering at MississippiState University for many years and has endeavored to make assignments as realisticand credible as possible. Over the last decade the realism has been enhanced bydeveloping homework exercises from engineering “examples” observed on trips. Thispaper will delineate in detail the process of evolving assignments based on

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Student Learning and Assessment II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anca L. Sala, Baker College; Raghu Echempati, Kettering University

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Mechanical Engineering

. Understand the effects and apply basic control actions commonly used in industrial automaticcontrollers in modeling different control systems.11. Complete a course project involving topics of the course and transient and steady-stateresponse analysis of the control system.The course format includes lectures, and computation and visualization sessions using Matlab.As stated before, the mathematical modeling of mechanical systems overlaps with the similartopic in the Vibrations course. Anecdotally, students who have already taken Vibrations, or aretaking Vibrations concurrently with DCS, remarked they already knew some of the material fromthe Vibrations course. This can be of great help to students in the DCS course, allowing themsome confidence

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Attracting Young Minds: Part II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah M. Brown, National Society of Black Engineers; Lauren D. Thomas, Virginia Tech

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Minorities in Engineering

, program titles, and categories. Most service hours reported aretraditional community service projects, for which hours are tracked, but no other evaluationoccurs. A Walk For Education is also widely adopted, with Informal Science and Engineeringthird, STEM community training next and no chapters reporting Technical Expertise Servicesprograms. A Walk for Education has been a popular for several years as many membersparticipated in the event for the first time when it was hosted at the regional level. Through theTORCH program evaluation it became apparent that the program needed adjustment whichresulted in chapter based events. This program is also popular for chapter collaboration. InformalEngineering and Science takes many forms for the chapters

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Multidisciplinary Technical Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Summer Dann Johnson, Louisiana State University; Paige Davis, Louisiana State University; Ashley Elisabeth Thibodeaux, Louisiana State University; Laura H. Ikuma, Louisiana State University; Kelly A. Rusch P.E., Louisiana State University; Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2011-680: PEER MENTORING, A TRANSITIONAL PROGRAM TOIMPROVE RETENTION IN THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERINGSummer Dann Johnson, Louisiana State University Ms Dann is the Project Manager for the College of Engineering’s STEP program. She has her Master’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering and worked for industry for 9 years prior to returning to academia.Paige Davis, Louisiana State University Paige Davis has 20 years experience as an Instructor in the College of Engineering at Louisiana State University. In addition to teaching she assists with the STEP program. She received her baccalaureate degree in Engineering Technology and her master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Louisiana State University.Ashley

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sushil K. Chaturvedi, Old Dominion University; Kaustubh A. Dharwadkar

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NSF Grantees

Implementation of Virtual Experiments in a Laboratory CourseKeywords: Virtual labs, simulation, visualization, assessmentAbstractThis paper presents results from a National Science Foundation grant titled “Simulation andVisualization Enhanced Engineering Education”, funded by the EEC division. Although thescope of the project is quite broad, embracing a wide range of courses in three engineeringdisciplines, the present work describes the results obtained from application of simulation andvisualization for development and implementation of web-based virtual engineering laboratories.The present work leverages the advancement in hardware and software technologies to mapphysical experiments into web-based virtual experiments