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Developing Young Minds in Engineering: Part I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maria M. Larrondo-Petrie, Florida Atlantic University; Ivan E. Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University

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Minorities in Engineering

AC 2012-3600: MIND LINKS 2012: RESOURCES TO MOTIVATE MI-NORITIES TO STUDY AND STAY IN ENGINEERINGDr. Maria M. Larrondo-Petrie, Florida Atlantic UniversityDr. Ivan E. Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University Ivan E. Esparragoza is an Associate Professor of engineering at Penn State, Brandywine. His interests are in engineering design education, innovative design, global design, and global engineering education. He has introduced multinational design projects in a freshman introductory engineering design course in collaboration with institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean as part of his effort to contribute to the formation of world class engineers for the Americas. He is actively involved in the International

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STS Perspectives on Engineering Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wesley Marshall P.E., University of Colorado, Denver; Michael Tang, University of Colorado, Denver; Stephan A. Durham, University of Colorado, Denver

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

two years and totals over 800 students. Roughly one-quarter ofthe students are engineering or pre-engineering majors and another one-quarter are from theCollege of Liberal Arts and Sciences, mainly from the sciences, including pre-med majors. Theremaining students are approximately evenly divided between College of Business majors andstudents from the College of Media Arts. Page 25.821.6 Table 1 – Projected Enrollments in STS courses at the University of Colorado Denver for 2012-2013 Course Section Fall Spring Summer ENGR 3400 Online 60

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Green Renewable Energy and Engineering Technology

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chao Li, Florida A&M University; Antonio Jose Soares P.E., Florida A&M University and Florida State University

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Engineering Technology

: Using the C Stamp in the Pre-Engineering, Technology, Page 25.1153.10and Engineering Programs”, Proceedings of the 2006 Mid-Atlantic Section Conference of the American Society forEngineering Education

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Design Across Disciplines

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Iem H. Heng, New York City College of Technology; Andy Zhang, New York City College of Technology; Farrukh Zia, New York City College of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

Education and Back” October 26-28, 2010, NSF ATE Principal Investigator Conference4. Ronald E. Barr, “Current Status of Engineering Education and ASEE.” In proceedings of The ASEE Mid-Atlantic Spring Conference, April 28-29, 2006. Brooklyn, NY. Page 25.82.95. Ann Higdon, President and Founder, Improved Solutions for Urban Systems (ISUS), “The Art of Enlightened Self-Interest”, October 26-28, 2010, NSF ATE Principal Investigator Conference6. Andy Zhang, Iem Heng, Sidi Berri, and Farrukh Zia. “Introduction of Mechatronic Technology into Cross-Department Product Design Curricula.” In proceedings of The 118th Annual ASEE Conference &

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FPD IV: Innovative Curriculum Elements of Successful First-year Courses

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robin A.M. Hensel Ed.D., West Virginia University; Ordel Brown Ph.D., West Virginia University; Mary L. Strife, West Virginia University

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First-Year Programs

andtechnical papers which not only inform their research11,12 but provide high quality examples ofvarious types of technical communication13.The first engineering problem solving course that first-year students take at West VirginiaUniversity, a large land-grant university in the mid-Atlantic region, requires students to write atleast two technical reports. Students, typically, have difficulty with the following: (1)understanding the parts of a technical report; (2) defining and avoiding plagiarism; (3) evaluatingtheir online sources; and (4) finding appropriate sources from which to perform a literaturesearch for background information on their assigned topic.To address these issues, engineering faculty collaborated with campus librarians14,15 to: (1

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Active and Project-based Learning

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Garrett Miles Clayton, Villanova University; Teresa Genevieve Wojcik, Villanova University; Aleksandra Radlińska, Villanova University; Noelle K. Comolli, Villanova University

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Mechanical Engineering

curriculum using impromptu design projects.” Fall 2010 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference. Page 25.741.11[6] T. G. Wojcik, G. M. Clayton, A. Radlinska, N. K. Comolli. “The Promise of Impromptu Design Exercises as a Pedagogical Tool in Engineering Design Education.” 2011 ASEE Congress and Exposition.[7] A. J. Dutson, R. H. Todd, S. P. Magleby, and C. D. Sorenson. “A review of literature on teaching engineering design through project oriented capstone courses.” Journal of Engineering Education, 86, pp.17-28, 1997.[8] P. Little and M. Cardenas. “Use of ‘Studio’ Methods in the Introductory Engineering Design Curriculum

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Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David N Raizen, UMES; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Madhumi Mitra Ph.D, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

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Computers in Education

Evaluation1.IntroductionThe Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in North America, stretching nearly 300 km long andpossessing a watershed spanning parts of six Mid-Atlantic States and more that 165,700 km3. Itis a vital resource to more than 16 million people that live in its watershed and beyond, providingfood, jobs, habitat, recreation, and other benefits. It is, however, a fragile resource madeespecially vulnerable to eutrophication (nutrient-enrichment) due to its long dendritic shorelineand the many human activities that are prevalent. These include high concentrations ofagricultural activities as well as several major population centers3, 10. Additionally, theChesapeake Bay has a large ratio of watershed area to estuarine area, (14.3:1) which

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ravi P. Ramachandran, Rowan University; Robi Polikar, Rowan University; Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; Ying Tang, Rowan University; Sachin Shetty, Tennessee State University; Richard J. Kozick, Bucknell University; Robert M. Nickel, Bucknell University; Steven H. Chin, Rowan University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

peer-reviewed publications. He is also interested in developing educational paradigms that allow undergraduate and entry-level graduate students to participate in rigorous computational intelligence research. Polikar is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.Dr. Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University Kevin Dahm is an Associate Professor of chemical engineering at Rowan University. He received his B.S. from WPI in 1992 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1998, and joined Rowan in 1999. He has received the Joseph J. Martin Award, the Raymond W. Fahien Award, the PIC-III Award, the Corcoran Award and the Mid-Atlantic Section Outstanding Teaching Award from ASEE.Dr. Ying Tang, Rowan University

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Computers in the Laboratory

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Biswanath Samanta, Georgia Southern University; Jonathan G. Turner, Georgia Southern University

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Computers in Education

site in mechatronics, ASEE Mid Atlantic Spring Conference.[50] Prewit, C. and Bachnak, R. (2004). Implementing PID temperature control using LabVIEW, ASEE Gulf- Southwest Annual Conference, Texas Tech University.[51] Quanser Academic, http://www.quanser.com.[52] Educational Control Products, http://www.ecpsystems.com.[53] National Instruments, Inc. http://www.ni.com.[54] MathWorks - MATLAB and Simulink for Technical Computing, http://www.mathworks.com.[55] Speedgoat - Real-Time Simulation and Testing, http://www.speedgoat.ch.[56] Boe-Bot Robot Information, http://www.parallax.com/go/boebot.[57] LEGO Education NXT, http://www.legoeducation.us.[58] iRobot: Education & Research Robots, http://www.irobot.com/create

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International Engineering Education: Developments, Innovations, Implementations, and Pedagogical Challenges in Engineering Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Muge Mukaddes Darwish, Texas Tech University; Ali Nejat, Texas Tech University; Tewodros Ghebrab, Texas Tech University

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International

Intercultural Relation,s 34(2010) 303-313. Page 25.674.9 [14] Han, S.H., and Diekmann, J. E. (2001)”Approaches for making risk-based go/no-go decision for international projects.”J .Constr. Eng. Management. 127 (4), 300-3008. [15] Kangari, Roozbeh and Chester L.Lucas. (1997)Managing international operations: a guide for engineers,architects, and construction managers. January.1 ASCE Press.[16] Kirby, J.T., and Salama, T.( )”Globilazation of Engineering Education Alabama to Egypt: AUB CivilEngineering study Away certificate programs http://www.asee.org/documents/sections/middle-atlantic/fall-2010/01-Globalization-of-Engineering

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Research on Engineering Design Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher B. Williams, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Yoon Suk Lee, Virginia Tech; John S Gero, George Mason University

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Educational Research and Methods

) Be<>Bs Documentation (5) S>D Reformulation I (6) S>S Reformulation II (7) S>Be Reformulation III (8) S>F Page 25.619.43. Experimental Methods3.1 ParticipantsParticipants in this study were drawn from mechanical engineering (ME) and engineeringmechanics (EM) departments at a large mid-Atlantic land grant university. The EM students areconsidered the control group in this research, as the EM curriculum has a theoretical orientationthat focuses on

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First-year Programs Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Reap, Virginia Tech; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Rachel A. Louis, Virginia Tech

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First-Year Programs

included items from the MSLQ as wellas demographic information. The posttest included the same questions as the pretest withadditional open-ended questions designed to further explicate impacts of the ChocolateChallenge.ParticipantsAll study participants attend a public university in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States.Approximately 244 students in the Chocolate Challenge group and 331 students in thecomparison group received invitations to participate in an online survey at the start of thesemester. Contact lists were generated from the course rosters for each section. The pretestyielded 95 complete, usable responses with 48 in the experimental group and 47 in the controlgroup. The overall pretest response rate was approximately 17

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New Trends in ECE Education II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Craig J. Scott, Morgan State University; Petronella A. James, Morgan State University; Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University; Jumoke O. Ladeji-Osias, Morgan State University

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Electrical and Computer

ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section’s Distinguished Teaching Award.Dr. Jumoke O. Ladeji-Osias, Morgan State University Page 25.1413.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Useful Strategies for Implementing an Online Undergraduate Electrical Engineering ProgramAbstractOnline programs in Electrical Engineering disciplines have been mainly offered at the graduateschool level to avoid the complexities associated with conducting courses that require alaboratory component. To our knowledge, there are only a handful of online Accreditation Boardfor Engineering and

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Instrumentation in Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University; Craig J. Scott, Morgan State University; Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Jumoke O. Ladeji-Osias, Morgan State University

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Instrumentation

. He is the recipient of the 2012 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section’s Distinguished Teaching Award.Dr. Craig J. Scott, Morgan State UniversityProf. Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Kenneth Connor is a professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, where he teaches courses on plasma physics, electromagnetics, electronics and instrumentation, electric power, and general engineering. His research involves plasma physics, electromagnetics, photonics, en- gineering education, diversity in the engineering workforce, and technology enhanced learning. Since joining the Rensselaer faculty in 1974, he has been continuously involved in research programs at such places as Oak Ridge National

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FPD IX: Research on First-year Programs Part III

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robin A.M. Hensel Ed.D., West Virginia University; Todd R. Hamrick Ph.D., West Virginia University

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First-Year Programs

-orientedapproach addressing only topics relevant to the core engineering courses5; and instituting an“early warning” system with optional “intensive pre-calculus” mid-semester math tracks forstruggling students6,7,8. Many of these approaches have been successful in increasing studentsuccess in calculus and in increasing engineering retention at the specific university in which themethod was implemented. Each university environment has a unique set of characteristics,policies and culture. What works effectively in one university, may not be easily accomplishedor as effective in another. Page 25.334.2The mathematics department at West Virginia University

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Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Enrique D. Gomez, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Esther Gomez, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Angela D. Lueking, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

validity of tests and instruments.Ms. Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University ParkDr. Enrique D. Gomez, Pennsylvania State University, University ParkDr. Esther Gomez, Pennsylvania State University, University ParkProf. Angela D. Lueking, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Page 25.1442.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Using student ambassadors to relay themes from Changing the Conversation in Engineering First Year SeminarsAbstractThis paper describes the efforts at a large mid-Atlantic university to integrate themes

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Contextual Competencies

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hyun Kyoung Ro, Carnegie Mellon University; Lisa R. Lattuca, University of Michigan; Dan Merson, Pennsylvania State University; Patrick T. Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University

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Educational Research and Methods

students atthe 31 institutions were invited to participate in web-based surveys. The student survey includedquestions regarding respondents’ background and demographic characteristics, future careerplans, perceptions of classroom practices, out-of-class interactions with faculty, andextracurricular experiences. The survey also queried students’ self-assessments of selectedlearning outcomes, including contextual competency. [Copies of these instruments are availableat: http://www.ed.psu.edu/educ/e2020/surveys-1/E20204yrStudentSurvey.pdf.] The survey instrument was first pilot tested on a sample of 478 engineering students fromtwo four-year public institutions in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The finalversion of the survey

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Broadening Participation

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christine M. Cunningham, Museum of Science, Boston; Cathy P. Lachapelle, Museum of Science, Boston

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

social and societalconnections with engineering and science—the place of engineering and science in developmentof knowledge and technology, the roles of engineers and scientists in driving theory-building andtechnological change, and the effects of these disciplines on all aspects of modern life—increasesinterest and motivation of students to drive their own learning and achievement [2].In this section we introduce three design principles that contribute to greater interest andmotivation for all students, but particularly groups who are underrepresented in engineering: (1)using narratives to develop and motivate students’ understanding of the place of engineering inthe world; (2) demonstrating how engineering helps people, animals, and/or