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Papers by Dale Buechler
2010 Annual Conference & Exposition, Sep 3, 2020
2021 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)
Online teaching has imposed great challenges for student engagement during the pandemic. Building... more Online teaching has imposed great challenges for student engagement during the pandemic. Building a virtual classroom with active student participation is our approach to address some of the concerns and make online learning more effective. In this paper, Microsoft Teams is introduced as a virtual study room with many virtual tables (channels), where each table (channel) serves as an integrated platform for group meetings. Within MS Teams, Learner-learner interaction is boosted by virtual meetings, group poster boards, the “mention” function, and emojis. By integrating MS Teams with Zoom meetings, we can offer a zero blackout, fully interactive learning environment. The paper includes a detailed description of the required technologies for such a delivery, time requirements for the design and delivery of such an approach, and faculty assessment and perspective of the methodology. Finally, a summary of the advantages, disadvantages, and student feedback is included in the paper.
2005 Annual Conference Proceedings
At the request of local industry, the University of Wisconsin-Platteville started a collaborative... more At the request of local industry, the University of Wisconsin-Platteville started a collaborative Electrical Engineering (EE) program at one of the two-year campuses located 90 miles away from main campus (UW-Rock County). This program was established to allow place-bound non-traditional students, who work during the day, the ability to complete their entire undergraduate degree in electrical engineering at the local two-year school. The program began with one full-time on-site faculty member in the fall of 2006 with the addition of a second faculty member in the fall of 2007. Since the fall of 2006, ten UW-Platteville EE courses have been offered to students at this location, each having a lab. Prerequisite coursework (math, science, English, and the humanities) is provided by the two-year college. In this paper, we will discuss our experiences with teaching place-bound students at this remote location over the first two years, including techniques used to help improve student lear...
Hawai'i Community College has engaged in formal assessment activities since 2005. From 2005 to 20... more Hawai'i Community College has engaged in formal assessment activities since 2005. From 2005 to 2012, the College conducted instructional program assessment through a well-designed process that evaluated student learning outcomes at the program level. Through the 2011-12 academic year assessment was facilitated through an ad hoc Assessment Committee and implemented within and through each division and department, based on the instructional programs' and support units' needs. During the 2012-13 academic year, the ad hoc Assessment Committee its mission, goals, and membership framework and was accepted as a formal College committee. During the 2012-13 academic year, the committee responded to recommendations made by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, Western Association of Schools and Colleges (ACCJC) Accreditation Team. The responses to and results of the College's actions to the ACCJC Accreditation Team's recommendations are part of the report that follows.
Office hours are an essential component of undergraduate engineering education. In a traditional ... more Office hours are an essential component of undergraduate engineering education. In a traditional program, student questions that arise during the completion of assigned work are handled through face to face office hours. Our collaborative electrical engineering program, which allows students to complete their entire four-year degree on site, is taught primarily by on-site faculty and is supplemented through distance education offerings taught via streaming video (SV). We have found that most of our place-bound students, both in distance and face to face offerings, underutilize office hours due to outside constraints. Since most engineering students have a difficult time verbalizing what they are having trouble with, it is difficult for these students to get their remote questions answered adequately without being able to share the same piece of paper. In our SV offerings, we have experimented with web conferencing software to obtain equivalent office hours for distance students and ...
An experimental system has been developed and tested for inducing hyperthermia by means of ferrom... more An experimental system has been developed and tested for inducing hyperthermia by means of ferromagnetic implants. The coil is 60.5 cm in diameter and produces a field strength of 1500 A/m at 93.6 kHz. This is somewhat greater than that required in most clinical situations, but it provides the opportunity to study experimentally optimal characteristics. The operating characteristics of the system are given, as well as the thermal characteristics of the thermally regulating ferromagnetic materials. Methods for calibrating the heating characteristics of the seeds are described, and the results of phantom and animal trials are presented. This system is ready to be introduced into the human clinic.
2006 Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
2003 Annual Conference Proceedings
2004 Annual Conference Proceedings
Part-time students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), an urban commuter campus, make... more Part-time students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), an urban commuter campus, make up about thirty-five percent of the students in the College of Engineering and Applied Science. Since Engineering is only offered at a few schools in the UW System, UWM receives a large number of transfer students. We have found that a significant number of the students entering
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 1991
American Journal of Clinical Oncology, May 1, 1989
Seventeen patients have been given regional hyperthermia treatments using the Center for Devices ... more Seventeen patients have been given regional hyperthermia treatments using the Center for Devices and Radiologic Health (CDRH) Helix, a resonant helical coil unit. Most of these patients had large, clinically advanced tumors, whose mean volume exceeded 1000 cc. Mean maximum, minimum, and average temperatures were 40.6, 38.6, and 39.6 degrees C, respectively, for all sites combined. The pelvic heating capabilities of the CDRH Helix and the BSD-1000 annular phased array were compared, and generally were equivalent. Although the Helix could be used in a wider variety of locations, and was more comfortable and easier to use than the BSD-1000 annular phased array, neither device was particularly effective in generating clinically useful temperatures; the Helix is currently under investigation for use in regional-systemic hyperthermia in combination with antineoplastic drugs and biologic response modifiers.
An initial series of comparisons are made between finite element computations and laboratory meas... more An initial series of comparisons are made between finite element computations and laboratory measurements obtained during heterogeneous phantom heating with the Sigma 60 applicator. The phantom is a relatively complex, though still idealized, rendering of the pelvic area which has been used to study the deep heating characteristics of the Sigma 60 in this anatomy. Direct electric field measurements as well as inferred SAR through transient temperature analysis are plotted against computed results along 11 one-dimensional tracks through the phantom. Quantitative comparisons provided through the track-by-track analysis show generally good agreement between computation and measurement. The finite element method is found to predict well the jumps in the electric field when polarized perpendicularly to a muscle/fat interface. Visualizations of the complete three-dimensional distributions are also highlighted and correlate well with physical reasoning about the expected behaviour of the fields produced. Some discrepancies in the data persist and are discussed and analysed in depth. They underscore the difficulties that can arise in performing comparisons between measured and computed results and stress the need for careful and thorough investigations when attempting these types of model validation studies.
2nd ISA/IEEE Sensors for Industry Conference,, 2000
A-1-The feasibi@ of physically s d l sensors for localized dieleetrii measurements have been inve... more A-1-The feasibi@ of physically s d l sensors for localized dieleetrii measurements have been invesfigated A small and a large open-ended coaxial probe were developed for comparison Complt?~ dielecbie measurement results on vmious lqnids showed good agreement beiween the two probes. The initial investigrn'on of a s d I copknar sensor for localired measurements is dso discussed bbz aaO 12 = j 1 j cos$'Jp2 i p T 2-Zpp'cos ′d'd′d'dp'dp Where 11 and 12 are dependent upon the radii YL neglects radiation kom the coaxial aperture
2010 Annual Conference & Exposition, Sep 3, 2020
2021 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)
Online teaching has imposed great challenges for student engagement during the pandemic. Building... more Online teaching has imposed great challenges for student engagement during the pandemic. Building a virtual classroom with active student participation is our approach to address some of the concerns and make online learning more effective. In this paper, Microsoft Teams is introduced as a virtual study room with many virtual tables (channels), where each table (channel) serves as an integrated platform for group meetings. Within MS Teams, Learner-learner interaction is boosted by virtual meetings, group poster boards, the “mention” function, and emojis. By integrating MS Teams with Zoom meetings, we can offer a zero blackout, fully interactive learning environment. The paper includes a detailed description of the required technologies for such a delivery, time requirements for the design and delivery of such an approach, and faculty assessment and perspective of the methodology. Finally, a summary of the advantages, disadvantages, and student feedback is included in the paper.
2005 Annual Conference Proceedings
At the request of local industry, the University of Wisconsin-Platteville started a collaborative... more At the request of local industry, the University of Wisconsin-Platteville started a collaborative Electrical Engineering (EE) program at one of the two-year campuses located 90 miles away from main campus (UW-Rock County). This program was established to allow place-bound non-traditional students, who work during the day, the ability to complete their entire undergraduate degree in electrical engineering at the local two-year school. The program began with one full-time on-site faculty member in the fall of 2006 with the addition of a second faculty member in the fall of 2007. Since the fall of 2006, ten UW-Platteville EE courses have been offered to students at this location, each having a lab. Prerequisite coursework (math, science, English, and the humanities) is provided by the two-year college. In this paper, we will discuss our experiences with teaching place-bound students at this remote location over the first two years, including techniques used to help improve student lear...
Hawai'i Community College has engaged in formal assessment activities since 2005. From 2005 to 20... more Hawai'i Community College has engaged in formal assessment activities since 2005. From 2005 to 2012, the College conducted instructional program assessment through a well-designed process that evaluated student learning outcomes at the program level. Through the 2011-12 academic year assessment was facilitated through an ad hoc Assessment Committee and implemented within and through each division and department, based on the instructional programs' and support units' needs. During the 2012-13 academic year, the ad hoc Assessment Committee its mission, goals, and membership framework and was accepted as a formal College committee. During the 2012-13 academic year, the committee responded to recommendations made by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, Western Association of Schools and Colleges (ACCJC) Accreditation Team. The responses to and results of the College's actions to the ACCJC Accreditation Team's recommendations are part of the report that follows.
Office hours are an essential component of undergraduate engineering education. In a traditional ... more Office hours are an essential component of undergraduate engineering education. In a traditional program, student questions that arise during the completion of assigned work are handled through face to face office hours. Our collaborative electrical engineering program, which allows students to complete their entire four-year degree on site, is taught primarily by on-site faculty and is supplemented through distance education offerings taught via streaming video (SV). We have found that most of our place-bound students, both in distance and face to face offerings, underutilize office hours due to outside constraints. Since most engineering students have a difficult time verbalizing what they are having trouble with, it is difficult for these students to get their remote questions answered adequately without being able to share the same piece of paper. In our SV offerings, we have experimented with web conferencing software to obtain equivalent office hours for distance students and ...
An experimental system has been developed and tested for inducing hyperthermia by means of ferrom... more An experimental system has been developed and tested for inducing hyperthermia by means of ferromagnetic implants. The coil is 60.5 cm in diameter and produces a field strength of 1500 A/m at 93.6 kHz. This is somewhat greater than that required in most clinical situations, but it provides the opportunity to study experimentally optimal characteristics. The operating characteristics of the system are given, as well as the thermal characteristics of the thermally regulating ferromagnetic materials. Methods for calibrating the heating characteristics of the seeds are described, and the results of phantom and animal trials are presented. This system is ready to be introduced into the human clinic.
2006 Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
2003 Annual Conference Proceedings
2004 Annual Conference Proceedings
Part-time students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), an urban commuter campus, make... more Part-time students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), an urban commuter campus, make up about thirty-five percent of the students in the College of Engineering and Applied Science. Since Engineering is only offered at a few schools in the UW System, UWM receives a large number of transfer students. We have found that a significant number of the students entering
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 1991
American Journal of Clinical Oncology, May 1, 1989
Seventeen patients have been given regional hyperthermia treatments using the Center for Devices ... more Seventeen patients have been given regional hyperthermia treatments using the Center for Devices and Radiologic Health (CDRH) Helix, a resonant helical coil unit. Most of these patients had large, clinically advanced tumors, whose mean volume exceeded 1000 cc. Mean maximum, minimum, and average temperatures were 40.6, 38.6, and 39.6 degrees C, respectively, for all sites combined. The pelvic heating capabilities of the CDRH Helix and the BSD-1000 annular phased array were compared, and generally were equivalent. Although the Helix could be used in a wider variety of locations, and was more comfortable and easier to use than the BSD-1000 annular phased array, neither device was particularly effective in generating clinically useful temperatures; the Helix is currently under investigation for use in regional-systemic hyperthermia in combination with antineoplastic drugs and biologic response modifiers.
An initial series of comparisons are made between finite element computations and laboratory meas... more An initial series of comparisons are made between finite element computations and laboratory measurements obtained during heterogeneous phantom heating with the Sigma 60 applicator. The phantom is a relatively complex, though still idealized, rendering of the pelvic area which has been used to study the deep heating characteristics of the Sigma 60 in this anatomy. Direct electric field measurements as well as inferred SAR through transient temperature analysis are plotted against computed results along 11 one-dimensional tracks through the phantom. Quantitative comparisons provided through the track-by-track analysis show generally good agreement between computation and measurement. The finite element method is found to predict well the jumps in the electric field when polarized perpendicularly to a muscle/fat interface. Visualizations of the complete three-dimensional distributions are also highlighted and correlate well with physical reasoning about the expected behaviour of the fields produced. Some discrepancies in the data persist and are discussed and analysed in depth. They underscore the difficulties that can arise in performing comparisons between measured and computed results and stress the need for careful and thorough investigations when attempting these types of model validation studies.
2nd ISA/IEEE Sensors for Industry Conference,, 2000
A-1-The feasibi@ of physically s d l sensors for localized dieleetrii measurements have been inve... more A-1-The feasibi@ of physically s d l sensors for localized dieleetrii measurements have been invesfigated A small and a large open-ended coaxial probe were developed for comparison Complt?~ dielecbie measurement results on vmious lqnids showed good agreement beiween the two probes. The initial investigrn'on of a s d I copknar sensor for localired measurements is dso discussed bbz aaO 12 = j 1 j cos$'Jp2 i p T 2-Zpp'cos ′d'd′d'dp'dp Where 11 and 12 are dependent upon the radii YL neglects radiation kom the coaxial aperture