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Multidisciplinary First Year Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Timothy Hinds, Michigan State University; Thomas Wolff, Michigan State University; Amanda Idema, Michigan State University; Neeraj Buch, Michigan State University; Carmellia Davis-King, Michigan State University

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-year engineering students 2008-09. Following the two years ofexperience in delivering these courses, we were able to objectively examine course content ascompared to course learning objectives and measured outcomes. This resulted in severalmodifications to both lecture content and delivery as well as to laboratory assignments as isdetailed below.Since 1993 the College of Engineering at MSU was actively involved with the ResidentialOption for Science and Engineering Students (ROSES) initiative. This was a residential living-learning program intended to provide a supportive and collegial environment for new freshmenintending to pursue majors and careers in technical fields. Starting in fall semester 2009, ournew program, Engineering Residential

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Research on The First Year II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Odesma Dalrymple, ASU Polytechnic; David Sears, Purdue University; Demetra Evangelou, Purdue University

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AC 2010-2027: EVALUATING THE MOTIVATIONAL AND LEARNINGPOTENTIAL OF AN INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICE FOR USE WITH FIRSTYEAR ENGINEERING STUDENTSOdesma Dalrymple, ASU PolytechnicDavid Sears, Purdue UniversityDemetra Evangelou, Purdue University Page 15.533.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Evaluating the Motivational and Learning Potential of an Instructional Practice for use with First Year Engineering StudentsAbstractAn experiment was conducted within a first-year engineering laboratory to provide empiricalevidence to support the pedagogical viability of Disassemble/Analyze/Assemble (DAA)activities, such as

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Potpourri of First-Year Issues

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Farid Farahmand, Sonoma State University; Saeid Moslehpour, University of Hartford

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significantly benefit from specially engineered tools andassistive technologies to address variety of needs by individual students.Motivated by such needs, through a collaborative effort between the Center forCommunity Engagement at SSU11, Kinesiology Department sponsoring the Sidekicksprogram, and the Healthcare Technologies Laboratory (HTLab) at Engineering ScienceDepartment, we developed a unique service-learning component that was introduced toES110. The objective of this project was to design and build a powered throwing Page 15.771.3machine that can throw a ball at least ten feet and can easily be customized for one ormore physically disabled students

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Potpourri of First-Year Issues

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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S. Scott Moor, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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educational materials and learning spaces that stimulate serious play. © American Page 15.470.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Engaging Spaces for First-year Engineering: A Tale of Two ClassroomsAbstractEngaging students in learning through the use of active and cooperative approaches has beenrecognized as an effective way to improve their educational experience. These approaches areparticularly important in the first year where student engagement is an important factor instudents success and retention. Engineering education has used these approaches in laboratories

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Research on The First Year II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stacy Bamberg, University of Utah; Debra Mascaro, University of Utah; Robert Roemer, University of Utah

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student response systems("clickers") to enhance small group interactive discussions and peer-based learning; CAE/CAMsoftware and rapid prototyping technology to allow students to design and manufacturesophisticated components without overwhelming our machine shop resources; in-classdemonstrations of engineering principles with oversized components and associated interactivestudent team discussions and clicker responses; inverting the lecture/homework paradigm byproviding lectures on YouTube and using in-class activities to work on homework/exampleproblems in small groups in class; elimination of some textbooks when lecture material cansuffice in order to save the students money; hands-on laboratory experiments using inexpensive,mass-produced

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Multidisciplinary First Year Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Lowery, West Virginia University; Steve Kane, West Virginia University; Vicki Kane, West Virginia University; Robin Hensel, West Virginia University; Gary Ganser, West Virginia University

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MATH 155 recitations and engineering laboratories. Thefollowing sections discuss specific implementation in each course.During the Fall 2009 semester, all students were concurrently enrolled in both MATH 155 andENGR 101 project courses. These students were all first time, full time freshman engineeringmajors. All students were able to complete all parts of the projects.Currently, during the Spring 2010 semester, the composition of the groups is quite different. Allstudents are not required to be concurrently enrolled in both MATH 155 and ENGR 101. Sincethe project worksheets are divided by course, those students in MATH 155 are required tocomplete only the math worksheets and those in ENGR 101 are required to complete only theengineering

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Design in the First Year

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Noelle Comolli, Villanova University; William Kelly, Villanova University; Qianhong Wu, Villanova University

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Biomaterial Considerations Visit Materials Characterization lab to see Sterilization SEM, AFM, and mechanical testing devices8 Transient Systems- Organ Systems Work on MathCAD – learn how to use a basic solve block9 Regulatory/Ethical Issues with Begin project design Biomedical Device Design10 Newer Artificial Kidney Designs Project design time ProfessionalismTable 1. Overview of the topics covered in the Artificial Kidney Project. Each topic was dividedinto a lecture style instruction and a hands-on laboratory

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Multidisciplinary First Year Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ismail Jouny, Lafayette College; Polly Piergiovanni, Lafayette College

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afashion that lends itself to a sequential presentation of mathematical concepts that evolveover the 14 week semester.Lab Structure:There are eight laboratory sessions that were set up to achieve two goals: emphasizemathematical concepts, and introduce an aspect or two of the engineering disciplines.These two-hour lab sessions were developed with two constraints in mind; portability andminimal use of computers. Portability is needed because of the desire that anyengineering faculty member should be able to teach this course in any classroom in theengineering building or on campus. The second constraint is to enhance the courseportability, and to limit computer use to outside classroom assignments, and homework.So, even though the course includes

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Multidisciplinary First Year Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Dinehart, Villanova University; Joseph Yost, Villanova University; Shawn Gross, Villanova University; Aleksandra Radlinska, Villanova University

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impedance beam, use of Ohm and Volt meters (ECE) matching (ECE)SS 9 Review of experimental results of root beam Destructive testing of cylinders and beams and SMARTBEAM® ( openings) (CEE) reinforced with steel and GRFP (CEE)SS 10 Laboratory basics, identification of testing Data measurement and processing (ECE)SS equipment, measurements of beam (CEE) 11 Experimental testing of a SMARTBEAM® Ultrasonic and vibration testing of cracked ( openings) (CEE) and uncracked concrete beams (ECE) 12 Technical presentations

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Administering First-Year Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Philip Parker, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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improvement based on several modifications. Its creation has been guided bybest practices in the research, most notably the experience of Hoit and Ohland (1998). Hoit and Page 15.392.3Ohland developed a new freshman engineering course at the University of Florida that wasextremely successful in terms of retention and student attitudes. Their course, which was theinspiration for the revised GE1030 at University of Wisconsin-Platteville, was a laboratory-basedcourse which gave students hands-on experiences. Each section of the new course at University of Wisconsin-Platteville is team taught byseven faculty members, one from each engineering program

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Design in the First Year

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Pacella, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Taryn Bayles, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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correlations than my class did.Tuning a Design during Prototype Construction and Evaluation: This past semester’s project also differed from previous projects in that manygroups chose to spend much greater amounts of time in an available laboratory testing thevarious phases of their designs. Because the design criteria specified a very narrowacceptable temperature drop range many groups spent as much time as possible tuningtheir designs to achieve a desired result. As I was supervising many groups while theywere using the available laboratory, I observed a dramatic increase in their ability to uselaboratory equipment (pumps, spargers, power supplies, etc.) As this is the observed caseI would greatly recommend giving freshman engineers more

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Administering First-Year Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gretchen Hein, Michigan Technological University; Amber Kemppainen, Michigan Technological University; Susan Amato-Henderson, Michigan Technological University; Jason Keith, Michigan Technological University; Melissa Roberts, Michigan Technological University

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credits.14 The third module once again begins with the currentfirst-year engineering program design materials. It involves designing a small fish farmingfacility and building and testing an aeration system. Portions of this module are being piloted inthe three Spring 2010 sections of ENG1100. The remainder of the module will be piloted in onesection of ENG1001 in Fall 2010.With the learning objectives in mind, the three groups approached the design activities indifferent manners based on their different backgrounds and objectives. The undergraduatestudents were motivated to make the design process “better” than what they had experienced.They wanted a wind turbine that they could construct and test in a laboratory setting.Consequently, they

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Potpourri of First-Year Issues

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; Kenneth Reid, Ohio Northern University; Laurie Laird, Ohio Northern University

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. The All-in-One Guitar-Playing Robot Video and Game. Online. URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEFxJFFA5OQ2. J.-D. Yoder, B. Jaeger, and J. K. Estell, “One-Minute Engineer, Nth Generation: Expansion to a Small Private University,” 2007 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, AC 2007-1599.3. J. Renaud, C. Squier, and S. C. Larsen, “Integration of a Communicating Science Module into an Advanced Chemistry Laboratory Course,” Journal of Chemical Education, vol. 83, no. 7 (July 2006), pp. 1029-1031.4. J. K. Estell, L. Laird, and J.-D. Yoder, “Engineering Personified: An Application of the One Minute Engineer,” 2008 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, AC 2008-171.5. J. K. Estell and J. K. Hurtig, “Using Rubrics for the

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Potpourri of First-Year Issues

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Benjamin Flores, UTEP; James Becvar, UTEP; Ann Darnell, UTEP; Helmut Knaust, UTEP; Jorge Lopez, UTEP; Josefina Tinajero, UTEP

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Page 15.685.7of PLTL activities. This exercise led to the development of general peer leader selectionstandards and training activities. Selection standards required a minimum gpa of 2.9 and acourse grade of an A or B in the course for which they would be a peer leader. Trainingrecommendations resulted in the addition of a formalized pre-semester and post-semesterworkshop with all peer leaders meeting together, rather than in discipline-specific trainings. Inphysics, a decision was made to effect change in laboratory experiments to de-emphasizeformulaic outcomes and produce better interconnection with lecture and workshop materials.One of the members of the advisory board worked with the chemistry faculty on a programoutcome that promotes peer

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Introducing Programming in the First Year

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven Gordon, The Ohio State University

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students completing the course received three hours ofcollege credit and a waiver of the freshman course if they attend the university.The modeling and simulation skills are tied to a variety of applications that require anunderstanding of applied mathematics, computer programming principles, and simplifiedengineering and physical systems behaviors. The computer simulation was mixed in with a few,simple laboratory exercises where experimental data were collected and compared to simulationresults from a mathematical model. Those were then topics of discussion concerning thevalidation of model accuracy. Other example model exercises included a ball dropped from abridge and a population growth forecast. Students also heard presentations on large

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Research on the First Year I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Senay Purzer, Purdue University; Jing Chen, Purdue University

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, 126(2), pp. 237-248.16. Tetley, Josephine, Grant, Gordon, Davies, Susan. (2009). Using narratives to understand older people's decision-making processes. Qualitative Health Research. Vol. 19 Issue 9, p1273-1283.17. Thom, RM, Tyre, D, Anderson, MG, & Fleming, CA (2009). Adaptive management for decision making at the program and project levels of the Missouri River recovery program. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Richland, Washington: 99352.18. Thurston, D.L. (2001). Real and Misconceived Limitations to Decision Based Design with Utility Analysis,” ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, 123( 2), 172-186.19. Younker, J., & McKenna, A. (2009). Examining student use of evidence to support design decisions

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Potpourri of First-Year Issues

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rod Paton, University of Auckland; Chris Smaill, University of Auckland; Gerard Rowe, University of Auckland

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of Physics Department at anotherlarge and well-regarded high school. This academic, perhaps unsurprisingly, has a specialresearch interest in the transition from high school to first-year engineering.This paper reports on the observations of and the conclusions reached by the first author as hespent a full academic year immersed in the University of Auckland’s first-year engineeringprogramme. Few formal requirements were imposed; by choice the teacher sat in on thelectures, tutorials and laboratory sessions of several engineering courses. He also chose toenrol in two university courses in order to learn social-sciences research methods that heapplied during his year at the university. While the teacher did involve himself in several

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Administering First-Year Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rick Williams, East Carolina University; William Howard, East Carolina University

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incorporate best practices from the National Science Foundation’s Engineering EducationCoalitions.1 Among these best practices was the “Implementation of ‘engineering up front’: theexposure of freshmen to hands-on, real world engineering practice early in their undergraduateeducation, ranging from ‘professional level’ laboratory facilities to realistic design projects.”2Two freshman courses designed to provide students early exposure to engineering concepts werecreated. Both were six-credit courses. The first, ICEE 1010 (ICEE stands for IntegratedCollaborative Engineering Environment), was taught in three one-hour lectures and three two-hour lab sessions per week. Topics included graphics, introductions to mechanical and electricalengineering

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Research on The First Year II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Melissa Dagley-Falls, University of Central Florida; Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida; Cynthia Young, University of Central Florida

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, communications, medical field, manufacturing, transportation engineering, amongst others. Dr. Georgiopoulos is a Director of the Machine Learning Laboratory at UCF.Cynthia Young, University of Central Florida Cynthia Young is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics in the UCF College of Sciences and a Co-PI of the NSF-funded S-STEM program at UCF entitled the "Young Entrepreneur and Scholar(YES) Scholarship Program" as well as the NSF-funded STEP program entitled "EXCEL:UCF-STEP Pathways to STEM: From Promise to Prominence." Dr. Young's research interests are in the mathematical modeling of atmospheric effects on laser beams. She currently has projects with the Office of Naval Research

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Introducing Programming in the First Year

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gregory Bucks, Purdue University; William Oakes, Purdue University

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Page 15.781.5 Figure 2: Example of a LabVIEW Block DiagramThe computing concepts covered in LabVIEW were first introduced in the lecture period andreinforced through activities in the laboratory period. Overall, it took 6 lecture and lab periods tointroduce students to all of the fundamental concepts covered in the course.In order to tie the design and computing aspects of the course together, a service-learning projectwas presented in the middle of the semester. Students were required to develop a program inLabVIEW that would teach a concept from the Indiana State math or science curriculum for the7th grade. Students were provided with the Indiana State standards for math and science andwere allowed to choose the

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Research on the First Year I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Cassady, University of Arkansas; Gigi Secuban, University of Arkansas

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1123/1121L University Chemistry II (with laboratory) and PHYS 2074 University Physics II. This selection has no impact on the students’ selected CoE major at the conclusion of their first year. The University Core Elective can be any course that satisfies one of the requirements of the University of Arkansas core curriculum in the social sciences, humanities, and fine arts.Like similar students at many of our peer institutions, a significant number of FEP students donot have the mathematics ACT score (26 or greater in the 2007-2008 academic year, 27 orgreater in the 2008-2009 academic year) required to enroll in MATH 2554 as a new freshman.Most of these students qualify to take MATH 1285 Precalculus Mathematics

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Administering First-Year Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Caverly, Villanova University; Howard Fulmer, Villanova University; Sridhar Santhanam, Villanova University; James O’Brien, Villanova University; Gerard Jones, Villanova University; Edward Char, Villanova University; Frank Mercede, Villanova University; Pritpal Singh, Villanova University; Randy Weinstein, Villanova University; Joseph Yost, Villanova University

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proper format for an engineering laboratory report.Carbon FootprintIn lecture, we discussed a chemistry-based as well as an energy-based approach to calculatingthe amount of CO2 we produce on an annual basis; i.e., our carbon footprint. To obtain“ballpark values,” we pointed the students to several online carbon footprint calculators thathandle various pollution sources. A specific source of CO2 generation is a dorm room, and that’swhat we wanted the students to investigate.The carbon footprint assignment proceeded as follows: • In your dorm, note all the electrical appliances (e.g. refrigerator, computer, lighting, cell phone charger, iPod, etc.). Enter each appliance name into Excel, along with its operating current, voltage, and

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Mentoring First Year Students

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daina Briedis, Michigan State Univesity; Nathaniel Ehrlich, Michigan State University; Colleen McDonough, Michigan State University; Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University; Thomas Wolff, Michigan State University

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has lead a laboratory in knowledge-based systems focused on task specific approaches to problem solving. Over the last decade, Dr. Sticklen has pursued engineering education research focused on early engineering; his current research is supported by NSF/DUE and NSF/CISE.Thomas Wolff, Michigan State University Dr. Thomas F. Wolff is Associate Dean of Engineering for Undergraduate Studies at Michigan State University. He is principal investigator on several NSF grants related to retention of engineering students. As a faculty member in civil engineering, he co-teaches a large introductory