AC 2007-2315: DEVELOPMENT OF AN INNOVATIVE STRUCTURAL TESTING LABORATORY TO ENHANCE EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING Manar Shami, University of the Pacific Manar Shami, Ph.D., PMP., is a Faculty at the School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California. Professor Shami received M.Sc., M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He did extensive research and consulting in project management in the U.S. and internationally. He was a Faculty at the University of Cincinnati. He was also a senior aviation engineer with ATAC Corporation in Sunnyvale, California working on NASA and DOD projects. He provided executive project management training and PMP exam prep courses for over 100 senior managers at Consolidated Contractors Company (CCIC) in Dubai and other major companies in Kuwait since 2004. He published numerous journal papers and research reports in the areas of airport engineering, sustainability, green construction, deconstruction, etc. Ed Pejack, University of the Pacific Edwin R. Pejack, Ph.D., PE, is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of the Pacific, in Stockton, California. Prior to joining Pacific, Professor Pejack held positions at Aptech Engineers, Sunnyvale; Teledyne, Palo Alto; NASA Ames Research Center; and others. He was also a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Youngstown State University, Ohio. Professor Pejack’s fields of expertise include Solar Energy, Thermodynamics, Vibrations, etc. Throughout his academic career, Dr. Pejack published numerous scholarly journal and conference papers. Dr. Pejack is the founder of Solar Cookers International, a Nonprofit Corporation in the U.S.A. Ravinder Jain, University of the Pacific Ravi Jain, PhD., PE, is Dean of the School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. Prior to this appointment, he has held research, faculty, and administrative positions at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Cincinnati. He has been a Littauer Fellow at Harvard University and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University. He has published thirteen books and over 100 scholarly papers and research reports. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Page 12.524.1