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NEW ASPECTS OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS / IASME International Conference on ENGINEERING EDUCATION (EE'08) Heraklion, Crete Island, Greece, July 22-24, 2008 Mathematics and Coputers in Science Engineering A Series of Reference Books and Textbooks Published by WSEAS Press ISBN: 978-960-6766-86-2 www.wseas.org ISSN: 1790-2769 NEW ASPECTS OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS / IASME International Conference on ENGINEERING EDUCATION (EE'08) Heraklion, Crete Island, Greece, July 22-24, 2008 Mathematics and Coputers in Science Engineering A Series of Reference Books and Textbooks Published by WSEAS Press www.wseas.org Copyright © 2008, by WSEAS Press All the copyright of the present book belongs to the World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society Press. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the Editor of World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society Press. All papers of the present volume were peer reviewed by two independent reviewers. Acceptance was granted when both reviewers' recommendations were positive. See also: http://www.worldses.org/review/index.html ISBN: 978-960-6766-86-2 ISSN: 1790-2769 World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society NEW ASPECTS OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS / IASME International Conference on ENGINEERING EDUCATION (EE'08) Heraklion, Crete Island, Greece, July 22-24, 2008 Editors: Prof. Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, SPAIN Prof. Azami Zaharim, National University of Malaysia, MALAYSIA Prof. Andrei Kolyshkin, Riga Technical University, LATVIA Prof. M. Hatziprokopiou, Technical and Educational University of Patras, GREECE Dr. Athina Lazakidou, University of Peloponnese, GREECE Dr. Michail Kalogiannakis, Researcher University Paris 5 - René Descartes, FRANCE Dr. Konstantinos Siassiakos, Military Institutes of Univ. Education (ASEI), HNA, GREECE Dr. Nikos Bardis, Military Institutes of Univ. Education (ASEI), HNA, GREECE International Program Committee Members: Irwin W. Sandberg, USA Benjamin Friedlander, USA Asad A. Abidi, USA Bernard C. Levy, USA Andreas Antoniou, USA Bhaskar D. Rao, USA Antonio Cantoni, AUSTRALIA Bin Yu, USA Lotfi Zadeh, USA Boualem Boashash, AUSTRALIA George Szentirmai, USA Brian D. O. Anderson, AUSTRALIA Michael Peter Kennedy, IRELAND Bruce A. Francis, CANADA Paresh C. Sen, CANADA C. Richard Johnson, USA Michel Gevers, BELGIUM C. Sidney Burrus, USA James S. Thorp, USA Charles M. Rader, USA Armen H. Zemanian, USA Desmond P. Taylor, NEW ZEALAND Guanrong Chen, HONG KONG Donald L. Duttweiler, USA Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio, USA Donald W. Tufts, USA Jim C. Bezdek, USA Douglas L. Jones, USA A. J. van der Schaft, the NETHERLANDS Earl E. Swartzlander, USA Istvan Nagy, Hungary Ed F. Deprettere, the NETHERLANDS Wasfy B. Mikhael, USA Edward A. Lee, USA M. N. S. Swamy, CANADA Edward J. Powers, USA M. Araki, JAPAN Ehud Weinstein, ISRAEL Abbas El Gamal, USA Eli Brookner, USA Franco Maloberti, Italy Ezio Biglieri, Italy Alan N. Willson Jr., USA Faye Boudreaux-Bartels, USA Yoji Kajitani, JAPAN Georgios B. Giannakis, USA Mohammed Ismail, USA Gonzalo R. Arce, USA Kemin Zhou, USA H. Vincent Poor, USA Ruey-Wen Liu, USA Hagit Messer, ISRAEL Nabil H. Farhat, USA John V. McCanny, UK John I. Sewell, UK Joos Vandewalle, BELGIUM Jerry M. Mendel, USA Jose C. Principe, USA Magdy A. Bayoumi, USA Jose M. F. Moura, USA Bertram E. Shi, HONG KONG K. J. Ray Liu, USA M. Omair Ahmad, CANADA Kaushik Roy, USA N. K. Bose, USA Kenneth Rose, USA Igor Lemberski, LATVIA Keshab K. Parhi, USA Alfred Fettweis, GERMANY Kon Max Wong, CANADA Brockway McMillan, USA Kung Yao, USA H. J. Orchard, USA Louis L. Scharf, USA Jacob Katzenelson, ISRAEL Martin Vetterli, USA Vincent Poor, USA Mati Wax, USA Abraham Kandel, USA Meir Feder, ISRAEL Bor-Sen Chen, CHINA Michael C. Wicks, USA C. S. George Lee, USA Michael D. Zoltowski, USA Hamid R. Berenji, USA Michael T. Orchard, USA Kevin M. Passino, USA Michael Unser, SWITZERLAND Lawrence O. Hall, USA Miguel Angel Lagunas, SPAIN Ronald R. Yager, USA Moeness G. Amin, USA Witold Pedrycz, CANADA Mohamed Najim, FRANCE Agoryaswami J. Paulraj, USA Neil J. Bershad, USA Ahmed H. Tewfik, USA P. P. Vaidyanathan, USA Alan V. Oppenheim, USA Patrick Dewilde, NETHERLANDS Alfonso Farina, ITALY Peter Willett, USA Alfred O. Hero, USA Petre Stoica, SWEDEN Ali H. Sayed, USA Phillip A. Regalia, FRANCE Anders Lindquist, SWEDEN Pierre Duhamel, FRANCE Arthur B. Baggeroer, USA Pierre Moulin, USA Arye Nehorai, USA Pramod K. Varshney, USA Rabab Kreidieh Ward, CANADA Giorgio Picci, ITALY Robert M. Gray, USA Graham C. Goodwin, AUSTRALIA Rolf Unbehauen, GERMANY Han-Fu Chen, CHINA Ronald W. Schafer, USA Harold J. Kushner, USA Rui J. P. Figueiredo, USA Hidenori Kimura, JAPAN Russell M. Mersereau, USA Ian Postlethwaite, UK Sadaoki Furui, JAPAN Ian R. Petersen, AUSTRALIA Shun-Ichi Amari, JAPAN Jan C. Willems, NETHERLANDS Simon Haykin, CANADA Jim S. Freudenberg, USA Soo-Chang Pei, CHINA Karl Johan Astrom, SWEDEN Soura Dasgupta, USA Lennart Ljung, SWEDEN Stefan L. Hahn, POLAND M. Vidyasagar, INDIA Steven Kay, USA Mark W. Spong, USA Takao Hinamoto, JAPAN Matthew R. James, AUSTRALIA Takashi Matsumoto, JAPAN Munther A. Dahleh, USA Tapio Saramaki, FINLAND P .R. Kumar, USA Tariq S. Durrani, U.K. Peter E. Caines, CANADA Thomas F. Quatieri, USA Pramod P. Khargonekar, USA Thomas L. Marzetta, USA Richard T. Middleton, AUSTRALIA Thomas S. Huang, USA Roberto Tempo, Italy Thomas W. Parks, USA Roger W. Brockett, USA Uri Shaked, ISRAEL Romeo Ortega, FRANCE V. John Mathews, USA Shankar Sastry, USA Vladimir Cuperman, USA Stephane Lafortune, USA William A. Pearlman, USA Steven I. Marcus, USA Wolfgang Fichtner, SWITZERLAND T. E. Duncan, USA Wu-Sheng Lu, CANADA Tamer Basar, USA Yaakov Bar-Salom, USA W. M. Wonham, CANADA Yingbo Hua, USA Weibo Gong, USA Yong Ching Lim, SINGAPORE Xi-Ren Cao, Hong Kong Yoram Bresler, USA Yu-Chi Ho, United Kingdom Zhi Ding, USA George Antoniou, USA A. A. Goldenberg, CANADA C. Manikopoulos, USA Angel Rodriguez-Vasquez, SPAIN Ashraf Abdelbar, EGYPT Erol Gelenbe, USA Alain Abran, CANADA F. L. Lewis, USA Akshai Aggarwal, CANADA Harry Wechsler, USA Nestor thome, SPAIN, Howard C. Card, CANADA Jose Aguilar, VENEZUELA Lei Xu, P. R. CHINA Maria Isabella Garcia-Planas, SPAIN Leon O. Chua, USA Philippe Dondon, FRANCE Marco Gori, ITALY Constantinos Angelis, GREECE Narasimhan Sundararajan, SINGAPORE Zahra Ahmadi Brooghani, IRAN Sankar K. Pal, India Kostas Arvanitis, GREECE Tamas Roska, USA Ahmed Al Kindi, OMAN A. Stephen Morse, USA Mansoor Al-A'ali, BAHRAIN Alberto Isidori, USA Munir Al-Absisi, SAUDI ARABIA Ali Saberi, USA Malik Alamaireh, JORDAN Andrew R. Teel, USA Muhammad Al-Gahtani, SAUDI ARABIA Antonio Vicino, ITALY Nima Amanifard, IRAN Anuradha M. Annaswamy, USA Antonios Andreatos, GREECE Benjamin Melamed, USA Maja Atanasijevic-Kunc, SLOVENIA Bruce H. Krogh, USA Carlos Aviles-Cruz, MEXICO David D. Yao, USA Jamil Ayoub, JORDAN Donald Towsley, USA Jose Azana, CANADA Eduardo D. Sontag, USA Ina Taralova, FRANCE Edward J. Davison, CANADA Leila Baccouche, TUNISIA G. George Yin, USA Ahmad Bagheri, IRAN Harold S. Stone, USA Carlo dell'Aquila, ITALY Harry L. Van Trees, USA Metin Demiralp, TURKEY Henrique S. Malvar, USA Lawrence Deng, TAIWAN Hsueh-Ming Hang, CHINA Paolo Di Giamberardino, ITALY Jaakko Astola, Finland Vincenzo Di Lecce, ITALY James R. Zeidler, USA Anne-Marie Di Sciullo, CANADA Jan P. Allebach, USA Zeljko Djurovic, SERBIA Jitendra K. Tugnait, USA Valentin Dogaru Ulieru, ROMANIA John M. Cioffi, USA Tomas Dostal, CZECH REPUBLIC John R. Treichler, USA Maitreyee Dutta, INDIA Olga Martin, ROMANIA Anastasios Economides, GREECE Zvone Balantic, SLOVENIA Karl Edelmoser, AUSTRIA Tudor Barbu, ROMANIA Erki Eessaar, ESTONIA Cássia Baruque, BRAZIL Karim El Guemhioui, CANADA Lúcia Baruque, BRAZIL Hamed Elsimary, EGYPT Shariq Bashir, PAKISTAN Ehsan Esfandiary, IRAN Daniel Batas, GERMANY Mehrez Essafi, TUNISIA Radu Ciprian Bilcu, FINLAND Tchier Fairouz, SAUDI ARABIA Stefan Bruda, CANADA Qi Feng, CHINA Miodrag Bulatovic, YUGOSLAVIA Hans Fernlund, UNITED STATES Martin Burke, IRELAND Marta Fernandez, SPAIN Stefano Cacciaguerra, ITALY Andreas Floros, GREECE Miriam Capretz, CANADA Franco Frattolillo, ITALY Leonarda Carnimeo, ITALY Juan Frausto-Solis, MEXICO Ram Chakka, INDIA Richard Gallery, IRELAND Nitin Chanderwal, INDIA Gao Gang-yi, CHINA Ching lung Chang, TAIWAN Georgia Garani, GREECE Fengming Chang, TAIWAN Gloria García, SPAIN Huay Chang, TAIWAN Christos Georgiadis, GREECE Yun Seok Chang, KOREA Ahmad Ghanbari, IRAN Athanasios Chassiakos, GREECE Baluta Gheorghe, ROMANIA John Chatzakis, GREECE Ryszard Golanski, POLAND Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, GREECE Alexander Grebennikov, MEXICO Yung-Fu Chen, TAIWAN Andrea Guerriero, ITALY Yangjun Chen, CANADA Oscar Gustafsson, SWEDEN Toly Chen, TAIWAN Ofer Hadar, ISRAEL Ching-Han Chen, TAIWAN James Haralambides, UNITED STATES R.C. Chen, TAIWAN Suhono Harso Supangkat, INDONESIA Chi-bin Cheng, TAIWAN Hafiz Md. Hasan Babu, BANGLADESH Chaochang Chiu, TAIWAN Iraj Hassanzadeh, IRAN Yoonsik Choe, KOREA Mohsen Hayati, IRAN Hyung Rim Choi, KOREA Maria Ines Herrero Platero, SPAIN Shihchieh Chou, TAIWAN Tzung-Pei Hong, TAIWAN Hwang-cherng Chow, TAIWAN Kuo-Hung Hou, TAIWAN Slo-Li Chu, TAIWAN Michel Houtermans, NETHERLANDS, THE Shun-Ping Chung, TAIWAN Chung-Yuan Huang, TAIWAN Rafa E. Al-Qutaish, CANADA Zhou