Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Wey Chen, Southern Taiwan University

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Computers in Education

suggested system by incorporating other programming languages suchas C++ and MS Visual Basic.AcknowledgementThis work is funded by the National Science Council in Taiwan, under the “Science Education”Program, Project No. NSC 97-2511-S-218-005-MY2.Bibliography1. Allen Tucker. (2003). A Model Curriculum for K-12 Computer Science. Final Report of the ACM K-12 Education Task Force Curriculum Committee. ACM.2. Bransford, J.D., Brown, A.L., and Cocking, R.R.(2000). How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. Washington, D.C.:National Academy Press.3. Resnick, M. (1995). New paradigms for computing, new paradigms for thinking. In A. diSessa, Hoyles, C., & Noss, R. (Eds.), Computers and Exploratory Learning (pp. 31-43). New York

Conference Session

Enhancing Recruitment and Retention in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Quamrul Mazumder, University of Michigan - Flint; Olanrewaju Aluko, University of Michigan-Flint

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

education, during his keynote speech Charles M. Vest,President of National Academy of Engineering presented data that were not only disappointing,but perhaps shocking, and urged immediate attention by all stakeholders, such as educators,parents, government and businesses1 . Vest‟s data in Table 1 clearly demonstrates our declining Page 15.76.3number of graduates compared to other three leading nations. In 2003, the fraction of collegegraduates with an engineering degree was 20% in Asia, 12% in Europe and 4% in USA. Table 1: Engineering Graduates in Four Different Nations1 Country Engineering Engineering

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DELOS Best Paper Nominations

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kelly Crittenden, Louisiana Tech University; David Hall, Louisiana Tech University; Patricia Brackin, Southeast Missouri State University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

AC 2010-1268: LIVING WITH THE LAB: SUSTAINABLE LAB EXPERIENCESFOR FRESHMAN ENGINEERING STUDENTSKelly Crittenden, Louisiana Tech UniversityDavid Hall, Louisiana Tech UniversityPatricia Brackin, Southeast Missouri State University Page 15.846.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Living With the Lab: Sustainable Lab Experiences for Freshman Engineering StudentsAbstractIn the United States, a movement toward project-based freshman engineering curricula began inthe 1990’s due in large part to the National Science Foundation’s Engineering EducationCoalitions. This movement continues at Universities across the country. At Louisiana

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in Engineering Ethics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Donna Riley, Smith College

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Engineering Ethics

willinclude the development of instruction as proposed above and assessments will be conductedbefore and after the intervention. The ultimate goal is to prepare engineering students toencounter nanotechnology education across science, technology, social sciences and humanitiesto be better equipped to participate in debates about how societies ought to be transformed.References: 1. Roco, M. C., & Bainbridge, W. S. (2001). Societal implications of nanoscience and nanotechnology: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2. National Science and Technology Council. (2000). 2000 Annual Report. Washington D.C. 3. Roco, M. C. (2003). Broader societal issues of nanotechnology. Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 5(3), 181--189. 4. Roco, M

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Methods, Techniques and New Programs in Graduate Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Dyrenfurth, Purdue University; Mike Murphy, Dublin Institute of Technology; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University; Robert Herrick, Purdue University; Gareth O'Donnell, Dublin Institute of Technology; Kathryne Newton, Purdue University; Nuria Castell, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya; Miquel Barcelo, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya; Didac Balas, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya; Maria Ribera Sancho, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya; Donal McHale, Dublin Institute of Technology; Jordi Garcia, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya

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Graduate Studies

15 cr/30 ECTS Politècnica de Cataluña Figure 2. Program Credit Allocation ModelWe envision program mobility to be largely determined by language capability. This means thatwe will structure mobility to maximize preparatory study of the Spanish or English language(whichever is the second language) so that when students actually go for their semester (s)abroad in their second language that they will have already studied that language for at least twosemesters. The semester program model as depicted in Table 1 presents a typical study programenvisioned for Purdue University student entrants. DIT entrants would study semester 1 at DITfollowed by Semesters 2

Conference Session

IT-based Instructional Technologies

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yi-Cheng Chen, Meiho Institute of Technology; Yi-Chien Lin, Meiho Institute of Technology; Ron Chuen Yeh, Meiho Institute of Technology, Taiwan; Kuo-Hung Tseng, Meiho Institute of Technology

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Information Systems

computing (Wu& Hisa, 2004). These principal ICT directly enabling modern E-commerce include Web-basedcomputing, mobile computing, and ubiquitous computing (Banavar & Bernstenin, 2002; Kannanet al., 2001; Samaras, 2002).The Web-based computing was implemented based on a wirednetwork using the Internet until the ability to connect started approaching physical limit-mobility.The mobile computing based on wireless infrastructure gave rise to a new S curve, with the newphysical limits being a higher level of ubiquity and embeddedness (Lyytinen & Yoo, 2002).Over the past decade, we have witnessed the rapid developments in ICT which have substantiallychanged the landscape of E-commerce. The Internet has introduced a significant wave of

Conference Session

Sustainable Energy Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Simon, University of Nevada, Reno; Ted Batchman, University of Nevada-Reno; Christine Taylor, Lewis and Clark University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

rising energy prices create a renewed opportunityto move U.S. public policy and engineering education in a mutually beneficial direction. Callsfor change in the way energy education occurs are certainly not new, and earlier expressions ofconcern are a good source for our current reflection. Writing in 1973, the highly respectedRepublican legislator Howard Baker pondered the then-current oil supply shortage.4 Heconcluded that well-developed education programs linking environmental attitudes with energyuse could have a strong and lasting impact on energy consumption behaviors in the country. Inthe 1970‘s, President Jimmy Carter advocated the development of energy education programs tochange students‘ perceptions of energy and alter patterns of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mrinal Saha, University of Oklahoma; Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma; Bipul Barua, University of Oklahoma; Firas Akasheh, Tuskegee University

from the National Science Foundation under theCCLI program through the grant number DUE#0837747REFERENCES[1] Bonwell, C.C. and Eison, J.A., Active Learning: CErating Excitement in the Classromm” ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report Number 1, The George Washington University, School of Education and Human Development, Washington, DC. 1999[2] Davis, C. and Wilcock E. Teaching Materials using Case Studies, UK center for Materials Education, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GH[3] White, H.B., To Improve the Academy, Richlin, L. (Ed), Vol. 15, pp. 75-91, Stillwater, OK: New Forums Press and the Professional and organizational Network in Higher Education.[4] Chubin, D. E., May, G. S., and Babco, E

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Teaching Mechanics of Materials & General Mechanics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Anderson, Texas Tech University; Roman Taraban, Texas Tech University

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Mechanics

. Thesetags are: - bold font, - italic font, - subscript, - superscript, - paragraphbreak, and - symbol font. Up to two random variables named var1 and var2 may beinserted anywhere in the question statement. The random variable minimum value, maximumvalue, and step size dictate the range and division of the random variables and are entered in theappropriate fields of Figure 4. The axis system (2- or 3-dimensional) is determined by entering 2or 3, respectively, in the Axis field. The minimum number of the various graphical objects isthen entered into appropriate fields. Acceptable units, separated by #’s, are entered in the Unitsfield. Point deductions for major and minor errors are entered into their respective fields. Thetitle for the graphic

Conference Session

College-Industry Partnerships: Bringing Industry into the Curriculum Development and Design Cycle

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Osman Cekic, Purdue University; Monica Cox, Purdue University; Jiabin Zhu, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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College-Industry Partnerships

). Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and employing America for a brighter economic future. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press. Available online at: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11463.html.6. Graham, R., Crawley, E., & Mendelson, B. R. (2009). Engineering leadership education: A snapshot review of international good practice. Bernard M. Gordon MIT Engineering Leadership Program.7. Farr, J. V., Walesh, S. G. & Forsythe, G. B. (1997). Leadership development for engineering managers. Journal of Management in Engineering, 13(4), 38-41.8. Torr, S. R., & Ofori, G. (2008). Leadership versus management: How they are different and why. Leadership and Management in Engineering, 8(2), 61-71.9. Bowman

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elsa Head, Tufts University; Adam Carberry, Tufts University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, J. S., & Newman, S.E. (1989). Cognitive apprenticeship: Teaching the crafts of reading, writing, and mathematics. In L. B. Resnick (Ed.), Knowing, Learning and Instruction: Essays in Honor of Robert Glaser (453 - 494). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.7. Lave, J. (1991). Situating Learning in Communities of Practice. In L. B. Resnick, J. M. Levine, and S. D. Teasley (Eds.), Perspectives on Socially Shared Cognition (63 - 84), Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.8. Vygotsky, L. S. (1978). Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.9. Brown, J. S., Collins, A., & Duguid, P. (1989). Situate Cognition and the

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Post, Bradley University; Shankar Seetharaman, Bradley University; Sree Abimannan, Bradley University

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Aerospace

. Benson, T., 1997, Interactive Educational Tool for Classical Airfoil Theory. AIAA-1997-849.6. Hepperle, M., 2008, JavaFoil, http://www.mh-aerotools.de/airfoils/javafoil.htm7. Allison, J., Bidaiah, S., Colwell, D., DeFranco, R., Findley, M., Hall, E., Miller, B., and Kemper, B., Universityof Colorado Design/Build/Fly 2008 - 2009: A Guide to Designing a Stable Flying Wing Aircraft. AIAA.8. Boyer, L., and Peck, C. AC 2009-1346: AIAA Design, Build, Fly Project Highlights. ASEE 2009.9. Arena, A., Experience with the Student Design/Build/Fly Contest at Oklahoma State University. 6th AIAAAviation Technology, Integration and Operations Conference. AIAA 2006-783310. Broughton, A. An Approach to Integration of Academic Studies with Practical Applications

Conference Session

Curricular Developments in Energy Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian Belu, Drexel University; Darko Korain, Desert Research Institute

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

principle of operation of fuel cells and designprinciples of hybrid power systems. The topics covered include the need and benefits of AEDG,modeling of wind and PV power generation, energy storage devices, power electronicinterfacing, and principle of operation of fuel cells as well as hydrogen production7-18. The Page 15.414.4benefit of such broad coverage is to give the students a broad view of the various components ofAEDG. Each student picks one area to explore further by studying and presenting one or tworesearch paper(s) to the class as well as doing an end-of-term project developing a written reportand presenting the results of their work to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brock LaMeres, Montana State University; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Fred Cady, (Retired) Montana State University

consent form at the beginning ofthe semester indicating that their answers could be used in this project.The introductory microprocessor course used in this project contains 11 laboratory exercises.Online quizzes were given after exercises 3-7 to collect information on the student understandingof the learning objectives. The following table gives the topic and order of the 11 laboratoryexercises conducted in our microprocessor course. The table shows, for each lab session, theassessment tool used and the targeted objective(s) measured. Table 1. List of laboratory experiments, targeted objectives, and assessment tools used. Laboratory Experiment Objective(s) Assessment Tool(s) 1 Introduction to

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zhang, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

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Electrical and Computer

. Distributed systems: concepts and design. Addison-Wesley,second edition, 1994.[7] J. Farley. Java: distributed computing. O’Reilly and Associates, 1998.[8] S. P. Amarasinghe. Multicores from the compiler's perspective: a blessing or a curse? Keynote Speech,International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), San Jose, CA, March 2005.[9] S. Carr, J. Mayo and C-K Shene. ThreadMentor: a pedagogical tool for multithreaded programming. InACM Journal on Educational Resourses in Computing, Vol. 3, Issue 1, March 2003.[10] C. Shene and S. Carr. The Design of a multithreaded programming course and its accompanyingsoftware tools. The Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, Vol. 14 (1998), No. 1 (November), pp. 12 - 24.[11] Homepage of MIT 6.189

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jianyu Dong, California State University, Los Angeles; Nancy Warter-Perez, California State University, Los Angeles

15.690.9Students expressed that they would have really liked to be able to use the calculator that isdesigned in the final class project earlier in the quarter to learn about unsigned and signednumbers and 2’s complement arithmetic. While we have previously included a first experiencewith the FPGA board, based on student recommendations we are replacing the ping-pong gamewith the binary calculator. The ping-pong game and other designs will be available for studentsto download and experiment with outside of class.As we have continually evolved the experiments some quarters we included a project related toDeMorgan’s theorem and in other quarters we did not. In the quarters it was included studentsdemonstrated a much better understanding of DeMorgan’s

Conference Session

POTPOURRI

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Kirk Love, Utah Valley University; Paymon Sanati-Mehrizy, University of Pennsylvania; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

Page 15.1020.121. A Companion to Science and Engineering Indicators 2004, National Science Foundation Report. http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind04/c0/c0s1.htm#c0s1l4, Retrieved on March 2005.2. National Science Foundation Statistics on Women, Minorities and Persons with Disabilities in Science & Engineering, http://www.nsf.gov/statstics/wmpd/sex.htm, accessed on Jan 2010.3. Freeman, C. E., Trends in Educational Equity of Girl s and Women: 2004. Retrieved from http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2005/equity/Section9.asp.4. Bentz, N. E., & Hackett, G. (1986). Applications of Self-Efficacy Theory to Understanding Career Choice Behavior. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 4, 279-289, 1986.5. Beyer, S., Rynes, K., Perrault, J., Hay, K

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering - Part II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Harris, Northeastern University; Carrie Boykin, Northeastern University; Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University

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Minorities in Engineering

, extracurricularactivities, and recommendations by school officials.”In the mid 1990’s the Ujima Program was impacted by the University’s emphasis on “smallerand better” campus recruitment and the overall size of the student body. As a result, the criteriafor admissions was modified for the Ujima Scholars Program by the Admissions Office in 2000in direct response to the University’s call for Colleges to raise the SAT threshold. The minimumSAT was increased from 750-800. Students with SATs between 750 and 800 with a strong highschool GPA were considered. Also students with a GPA below 2.0 and a SAT score of 950 orhigher would receive consideration if extenuating circumstances could be substantiated. TheUjima Scholars enrollment pattern remained steady until 1996

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

L. Brent Jenkins, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Electrical and Computer

+ I2 = 2.74 mA 12V R2 R3 V3 V1 = 4.59 V — Find: R1, R2, and R3 Is Figure 7: Series-Parallel Circuit The design proceeds as follows: V1 4.59 V Ohm's Law (R1): R1 = = = 389 I s 11.8 mA Kirchhoff's Voltage Law (Outer Loop): V3 = 12 V − V1 = 12 V − 4.59 V = 7.41 V V3 7.41 V Ohm's Law (R2): R2 = = = 2.70 k

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Signal Processing Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Santucci, Arizona State University; Tushar Gupta, Arizona State University; Mohit Shah, Arizona State University; Andreas Spanias, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

-DSPTonalityDue to the presence of a large amount of noise in the signal, the original tone of the signal mightget masked. Tonality is a measure of the signal‟s tone-like or noise-like characteristic. TheSpectral Flatness Measure (SFM), defined as the ratio of the geometric mean to the arithmeticmean of the power spectrum, is used to compute the tonality for each frame 4. P(k )  Re2[ X (k )]  Im2[ X (k )] (2) GM {P(k)} (3) SFM (dB)  10 log10 AM {P(k)} SFMdB

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Improving Student Entrepreneurial Skills

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Santarelli, Cal State Fresno

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

8 6 4 2 0 t t m s t s

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Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyle Simmons, University of Utah; Susan Sample, University of Utah; April Kedrowicz, University of Utah

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Liberal Education

environment, where issues specific to each individual team member can beaddressed. Next, teams create a working agreement and submit it for feedback regarding clarity,expectations, consequences, etc. The agreement is assessed and returned with comments,suggestions, and encouragements. At the end of the term, each team member assesses both theworking agreement and the team’s ability to abide by (and, if necessary, revise) the document.To facilitate application of teamwork skills in the classroom, students participate in a role-playexercise. The roles relate to different interpersonal styles and the goal is to encourage students tothink about their own role(s) within the team process. Finally, in an effort to keep in contact witheach team and to

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Enhancing K-12 STEM Education with Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taylor Martin, University of Texas, Austin; Tom Benton, University of Texas, Austin; William McKenna, University of Texas, Austin; Pat Ko, University of Texas at Austin

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Conference Session

Women in K-12 Engineeering & Outreach Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tirupalavanam Ganesh, Arizona State University; John Thieken, Arizona State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

; Ultrasonic sensor; sound sensor - when you talk the robot moves.S2: Q4 - Sense heat Q5 - MotorsStudent 1’s (S1) response to question 5 received a high score for listing a majority of thecomponents needed from the LEGO Mindstorms NXT robotics kits to simulate a desert tortoise,while Student 2’s (S2) response to question 5 received a very low score. In both cases, S1 and S2make references to actions performed by a desert tortoise that cannot be simulated by thecomponents listed in question 5. The lack of a relationship between questions 4 and 5 couldindicate that these students are separating the natural sciences of the desert tortoise and thetechnology of the LEGO Mindstorms NXT robotics kits

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Enhancing Environmental Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Environmental Engineering

TOTAL xx STUDENTS # A B C . . . X Y Z THE CRITICAL THINKING RUBRIC RUBRIC COURTESY OF W. S. U. WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY PULLMAN, WA. 99164. LIKERT SCALE WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION : (1 : Strongly Disagree; 5 : Strongly Agree) 1 Environment: Fundamental Knowledge and Concepts 4 5 3 . . . 4 4 4 4 2 Ability to Address the Consequences Pertaining to Environment 3 4 4 . . . 4 3 3 2 3 Integration with Relevant, Contemporary Environmental Issues 5 4 3 . . . 3 4 5 2 4 Depth of Understanding of the Importance of Environment 4 3 4 . . . 3 3 4 4

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Gerlick, Washington State University; Denny Davis, Washington State University; Shane Brown, Washington State University; Michael Trevisan, Washington State University

issues.An analytic induction approach will be used for data analysis. In general, this entails comparingindividual case studies with existing definitions and hypotheses of a phenomenon (Taylor andBogdan, 1998). Each case is used to either confirm the existing model(s) or serve to reformulatethem.Currently, the first stage of data collection has been conducted. The next section presents resultsfrom this stage, which includes analysis of the first set of individual interviews with teammembers.RESULTSFor the first stage of the study, interviews were conducted with twelve members from the twoparticipating teams. These interviews were analyzed for congruence with the models listed inTable 2. Three representative interviews are presented and discussed

Conference Session

Clearing up Student Misconceptions in Materials

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacquelyn Kelly, Arizona State University; Keith Heinert, Arizona State University; Jessica Triplett, Arizona State University; Dale Baker, Arizona State University; Stephen Krause, Arizona State University

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Materials

weremultiple misconceptions for each student's response to each question. After reading through andmaking note of student misconceptions, similar misconceptions were grouped into categories.These categories were developed through emergent themes from student misconceptions asdisplayed on each Topical Module Assessment. For example, many student misconceptions ofcrystal structure included addition or deletion of atoms in the unit cell. Not all misconceptionsinvolved adding or removing the same atom, but because these were similar misconceptions,hinting at an emergent theme, they were grouped into one category referencing extra or missingatom(s). Each student conception was then assigned categories based on these emergent themes.This categorization

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Education: Underclass Years

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kwannin Kuo, Lunghwa University of Science and Technology; Pao-Chi Chen, Lunghwa University Science and Technology; Meei-Ruey Hsu, Ming-Chuan University

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Chemical Engineering

two prior fundamentalchemistry competences needing reinforcement. More importantly, the methods adopted in thepresent study may illustrate an approach to connect industrial demand and academicinstruction.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTThe authors gratefully acknowledge the financial supports provided by the National ScienceCouncil of the Republic of China under grant NSC 97-2511-S-262-008-MY3. Page 15.1327.11REFERENCESCuhls, K. (2003). Delphi method. Technical report, Germany: Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research.Faherty, V. (1979), Continuing Social Work Education: Results of a Delphi Survey, Journal of Education for Social Work, 15(1), 12

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Effective Methods for Recruiting Women to Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Manjusha Saraswathiamma, North Dakota State University; Kathy Enger, North Dakota State University; Canan Bilen-Green, North Dakota State University; Achinthya Bazebaruah, North Dakota State University; Bruce Schumacher, North Dakota State University

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Women in Engineering

holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Nebraska, an M.S. in Environmental Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and a B. S. in Civil Engineering from Assam Engineering College in India.Bruce Schumacher, North Dakota State University Bruce Schumacher is an ABD doctoral student in education at North Dakota State University. Schumacher holds an M.S. Ed. from Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota, an M.A.T in Education and B. A. in History from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Page 15.367.1© American Society for Engineering

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Innovations in First Year Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Lewis, University of Louisville; Jeffrey Hieb, University of Louisville; David Wheatley, University of Louisville

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First-Year Programs

disaster. In defense of their entity, the students createdan opening statement for the defense, called up to three defense witnesses/experts and composeda defense closing summary statement. In addition to defense, students were allowed to cross-examine witnesses called by other defendants and prepared questions in advance. The aim of thecross-examination was for the students to identify and clarify weaknesses in the arguments andpositions presented by other entities and to make sure information given was complete andaccurate.The overall purpose of this mock hearing was to engage the students in critical thinking andanalysis in a fun and relevant manner. The first objective was to identify what technical error(s)occurred and then dig deeper and try