TIJ special isssue editorial Mark Rajai

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Integrating Chinese Students into an American Capstone Engineering Technology Design Course rblust@udayton.edu Scott J. Schneider University of Dayton sschneider@udayton.edu

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John_patton@homedepot.com

Task Diminishment: Construction value loss through sub-optimal task execution John_patton@homedepot.com John R. Patton

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Matthew_Elam@tamu-commerce.edu

Global Trends in Patenting Matthew_Elam@tamu-commerce.edu Ben D. Cranor, Matthew E. Elam, Ph.D. and Jerry D. Parish

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Todd.Myers.1@ohio.edu

Globalization Issues in the Industrial Technology Transfer Supply Chain Todd.Myers.1@ohio.edu Todd D. Myers

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a_saberkari@ee.iust.ac.ir

A 2.4 GHz High Performance CMOS Sub-Harmonic Mixer a_saberkari@ee.iust.ac.ir Alireza Saberkari and Shahriar B. Shokouhi

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agrawajp@calumet.purdue.edu

A Classroom/Distance Learning Engineering Course on Wireless Networking with Virtual Lab agrawajp@calumet.purdue.edu Jai P. Agrawal, Yakov E Cherner

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bekhouch@jsu.edu

Teaching Circuits to Multiple Disciplines: Hardware, Software, Both? bekhouch@jsu.edu Noureddine Bekhouche and Terry Marbut

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ccory@purdue.edu

Building Information Modeling: An Academic Perspective ccory@purdue.edu Vivek Sah

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cheng1fs@cmich.edu

Integrating 3D Vision Measurements into Industrial Robot Applications cheng1fs@cmich.edu Frank S. Cheng and Xiaoting Chen

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jantonio@ncat.edu

International Partnerships in Engineering Education: American and African Perspectives jantonio@ncat.edu Jerome Antonio and Saeed Moaveni

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jmhill@hartford.edu

Development of a Research-oriented Wireless System for Human Performance Monitoring jmhill@hartford.edu Jonathan Hill, Majdi Atallah and Kevin Ball

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mejohnson@purdue.edu

Planning of Non-Routine Work for Aircraft Scheduled Maintenance mejohnson@purdue.edu Josanne Aungst, Mary E. Johnson, Sung Soo Lee, Denver Lopp and Marc Williams

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mejones@ncat.edu

An Evaluation of Privacy and Security Issues at a Small University mejones@ncat.edu Michael Jones

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pablor@ipfw.edu

Risk Assessment of Highway Bridges: A Reliability-based Approach pablor@ipfw.edu Reynaldo M. Pablo Jr.

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phmatin@umes.edu

Partitioning Algorithm for Routing of phmatin@umes.edu Payam H. Matin and Ali Eydgahi

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pjs18@psu.edu

Improved Learning of Engineering Mathematics through Hands-on, Real-world Laboratory Experiments pjs18@psu.edu P. J. Shull

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rtango@spsu.edu

Technology Integration into Architecture Building Systems rtango@spsu.edu Robert W. Tango

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saguccione@eiu.edu

Automatic Identification/RFID Course and Equipment for Teaching and Research saguccione@eiu.edu Sam Guccione and Uros Marjanovic

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sdubikov@purdue.edu

Learning Aerospace Design and Manufacturing Processes to Demonstrate ABET Program Objectives sdubikov@purdue.edu Brent Vlasman, Sergey Dubikovsky, Jonathan Schwartzkopf, and David Vallade

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shahrak@farmingdale.edu

Optical Properties and Applications of Nanoscale Silicon shahrak@farmingdale.edu Adam A. Filios, Yeong S. Ryu and Kamal Shahrabi

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thammarav@ccsu.edu

Estimating Position and Orientation of an Unmanned Guided Vehicle with Ultrasound and Radio Frequency Sensing thammarav@ccsu.edu Ravindra Thamma

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tmirzoev@georgiasouthern.edu

Synchronous Replication of Remote Storage tmirzoev@georgiasouthern.edu Timur Mirzoev

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tropp@purdue.edu

Implementing Safety Management Systems for Aviation into an Aviation Technology Curriculum tropp@purdue.edu Timothy D. Ropp

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zhang@email.wcu.edu

Hand Tremor Detection via Adaptive Empirical Mode Decomposition and Hilbert-Huang Transform zhang@email.wcu.edu James Z. Zhang, Brant T. Price, Robert D. Adams, Kenneth Burbank and Theodore J. Knaga

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Welcome to the Technology Interface Journal, the on-line journal for the Engineering Technology profession serving education and industry. We have many excellent papers for this issue. The authors have done an excellent job with their topic selection and their coverage of the material. I want to thank our guest editor, Mark Rajai - IAJC President & 2008 Conference General Chair, for his work putting this edition together.

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The Technology Interface Journal is currently seeking papers and TechTips for the Spring 2010 edition. The deadline for submitting papers or TechTips for inclusion in the Spring 2010 edition is March 6, 2010.

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Jeff Beasley, Editor
Michael Morrell, Associate Editor
Farrokh Attarzadeh, Associate Editor for student papers.
Ali Mehrabian, Associate Editor for Book and Software Reviews
Wangping Sun, Associate Editor for Global Learning