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Aerospace Technical Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Roger Forsgren, NASA Headquarters; Lauren Miller, NASA Headquarters

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Aerospace

technicallycomplex, highly significant scientific programs. Even though these professionals are highlyproficient in traditional analytical competencies, there is a unique opportunity to offer continuingeducation that further enhances their overall scientific minds. With a goal of maintaining theAgency’s passionate, “best in class” engineering workforce, the NASA Academy ofProgram/Project & Engineering Leadership (APPEL) provides educational resourcesencouraging foundational learning, professional development, and knowledge sharing. NASAAPPEL is currently partnering with the scientific community’s most respected subject matterexperts to expand its engineering curriculum beyond the analytics and specialized subsystems inthe areas of: understanding NASA’s

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Innovation in ECET Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Luciano Boglione, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

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Engineering Technology

Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Designing Printed Circuit Boards for Microwave Engineering Applications: a Teaching Tool for Engineering Technology StudentsAbstractThis paper will present the results stemming from an undergraduate course in MicrowaveEngineering Technology at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. An opportunity toexperience the complete process of designing a microwave circuit with printed circuit board(PCB) technology was made possible by a grant provided by the Electrical and ComputerEngineering Technology Department Heads Association (ECETDHA). The financial support hasallowed the students to apply the theory that is part of the class syllabus to a practical

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Faculty & Program Exchanges: Internationalizing, Collaborations, Interactions

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vinod Lohani, Virginia Tech; Ricky Castles, Virginia Tech; Gary Riggins, Virginia Tech

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International

AC 2010-2064: A WORKSHOP FOR INDIAN ENGINEERING FACULTY UNDERTHE INDO-US COLLABORATION IN ENGINEERING EDUCATIONVinod Lohani, Virginia Tech Vinod K Lohani is an associate professor in the Engineering Education Department (EngE) and an adjunct faculty in the Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. He received a PhD in civil engineering from Virginia Tech in 1995. His research interests are in the areas of knowledge modeling, water and energy sustainability, engineering learning modules for freshmen, and international collaboration. He led a major curriculum reform project (2004-09), funded under the department-level reform program of the NSF, at Virginia Tech. A spiral curriculum

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tirupalavanam Ganesh, Arizona State University; John Thieken, Arizona State University; Dale Baker, Arizona State University; Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Monica Elser, Arizona State University; Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University; Chell Roberts, Arizona State University; Jay Golden, Ph.D., is a faculty member in ASU’s School of Sustainability and codirector of the; James Middleton, Arizona State University; Sharon Robinson Kurpius

AC 2010-2280: LEARNING THROUGH ENGINEERING DESIGN ANDPRACTICE: IMPLEMENTATION AND IMPACT OF A MIDDLE SCHOOLENGINEERING-EDUCATION PROGRAMTirupalavanam Ganesh, Arizona State University Tirupalavanam Ganesh, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Arizona State University. He has degrees and experience in engineering, computer science, and education. He has brought this experience to bear in previous research that examined the use of technologies in K-12 settings with diverse students. He has worked with the Children’s Museum of Houston on the development and implementation of Robotics-based STEM programming for urban youth. He is the Principal Investigator of the National

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Special Session: Impacts of Service in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; John Duffy, University of Massachusetts Lowell

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2010-2149: MAXIMIZING BENEFITS OF SERVICE-LEARNING INENGINEERINGLinda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, LowellJohn Duffy, University of Massachusetts Lowell Page 15.858.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Maximizing Benefits of Service-Learning in Engineering  AbstractAre engineering educators maximizing the benefits of service-learning to students, community,faculty, and institutions? Are we collectively converging on desired goals of service-learning asa pedagogy/philosophy that take full advantage of the benefits elucidated by research?A commonly utilized definition of service-learning is “a credit-bearing, educational experiencein which

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Outside the Classroom

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dominic Halsmer, Oral Roberts University; Elliott Butay, Oral Roberts University; Ben Hase, Oral Roberts University; Sean McDonough, Oral Roberts University; Taylor Tryon, Oral Roberts University; Joshua Weed, Oral Roberts University

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Engineering Ethics

worldview.Making the large claim that “the most coherent view of the cosmos appears to be that ofan engineered system of interdependent subsystems that efficiently interact to prepare for,develop, and support advanced life, subject to various constraints,” the article identifiescharacteristics that are found in human-engineered systems as well as the cosmos. Thesecharacteristics include: “stability, predictability, reliability, transparency, controllability,efficiency, and optimality.”Identifying the complex mysteries of nature, and the ability (not to mention desire) tounravel these mysteries, the article asks the question, “Could it be that the realm of natureand the human mind were, in some sense, made for each other; possibly for the purposeof

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Scholar Program Proposal/Develop Courses and Materials/Collaborations and Accredatation Systems for Global Engineering Education / Preparing Engineers for the Global Workplace and Successful Graduates for a Flat World: What Does It Take?

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard; Jennifer DeBoer, SPEED

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International

ideal engineering professor, an email was sent during the Fall of 2009 to distribution lists of the two authors, composed of mostly faculty, engineering education associations, members of the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES: www.ifees.net), industry members and engineering students members of the Board of European Students of Technology (BEST: http://www.best.eu.org) and the Student Platform for Engineering Education Development (SPEED: http://worldspeed.org/). BEST is a non-profit student network organization located in 30 countries that strives to help European students of technology to become more internationally minded, by reaching a better understanding of European cultures and developing

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Engineering in the Middle Grades

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jade Mitchell-Blackwood, Drexel University; Manuel Figueroa, Drexel University; Chatchai Kokar, Drexel University; Adam Fontecchio, Drexel University; Eli Fromm, Drexel University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

students, the general public and even manyteachers share this position.19 The field of engineering has rapidly changed in recent years andhas become so diverse in scope that consensus on a definition would be hard to come by evenamongst professionals. Since a conception in the minds of the middle school students is what weultimately hope to accomplish through this educational intervention, it is necessary to identifythis end result in order to evaluate the effectiveness of our parallel interventions as it should bethe basis of the educational activities implemented.20 Schunn presents a general definition thatdescribes engineering as using analytical and empirical processes to design complex systems thatmeet stated objectives and take into account

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Experiences in Teaching Energy Courses

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dale Litwhiler, Pennsylvania State University, Berks; Thomas Gavigan, Penn State Berks; Brittany Farrell, Penn State Berks

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

AC 2010-1293: ENERGY HARVESTING INVESTIGATIONS BYUNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY STUDENTSDale Litwhiler, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Dale H. Litwhiler is an Associate Professor at Penn State, Berks Campus in Reading, PA. He received his B.S. from Penn State University (1984), his M.S. from Syracuse University (1989) and his Ph.D. from Lehigh University (2000) all in electrical engineering. Prior to beginning his academic career in 2002, he worked with IBM Federal Systems and Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems as a hardware and software design engineer.Thomas Gavigan, Penn State Berks Thomas H. Gavigan is an Assistant Professor at Penn State, Berks Campus in Reading, PA. He

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Launching Successful Academic Careers

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Rose, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown

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New Engineering Educators

which is unauthorized or not approved. New engineering educators should tread lightly in this area so as not to hurt their relationships and reputation with their professional peers. Another venue is to incorporate one’s specific committee experiences into their teaching, obtain student opinions and feedback on its role and effectiveness, and write a paper documenting the exercise. 3. For university, college and departmental committee work, consider how the committee task relates to teaching within the discipline, ABET criteria, and program outcomes. If there is a connection, consider how best to pursue it, keeping in mind the interests of appropriate publication venues. Find something unique or a new

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Liberal Education for 21st Century Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nadia Kellam, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Tracie Costantino, University of Georgia; Bonnie Cramond, University of Georgia

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Liberal Education

AC 2010-1747: INTEGRATING THE ENGINEERING CURRICULUM THROUGHCROSSDISCIPLINARY STUDIOSNadia Kellam, University of Georgia Nadia Kellam is an Assistant Professor and engineering educational researcher in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at the University of Georgia. She is co-director of the Collaborative Lounge for Understanding Society and Technology through Educational Research (CLUSTER) research group. Her research interests include interdisciplinarity, creativity, identity formation, and the role of emotion in cognition.Joachim Walther, University of Georgia Joachim Walther is an Assistant Professor with the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Georgia

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Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dick Blandford, University of Evansville; Christina Howe, University of Evansville; Anthony Richardson, University of Evansville; David Mitchell, University of Evansville

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Electrical and Computer

problem as opposed to those where they followed a script for asolution.Assessment becomes problematic for project labs. Course objectives must be written in terms orproject specifications instead of in terms of methods and tools that are used to solve a problem.Toward this end, we are proposing a method of classifying computer engineering projects tofacilitate assessment and to clarify what course and curricular objectives are being met forparticular projects.The Computer Engineering Body of Knowledge (BOK)Classification of projects needs to be done with some standards in mind. The ABETrequirements for accreditation in computer engineering contain standards but these tend to applyto a curriculum and have insufficient detail to be used at the

Conference Session

Exemplary Outreach Programs

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen Davis, University of Cincinnati

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2010-252: JUST DESSERTS: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MEETSCOMPUTING OUTREACHKaren Davis, University of Cincinnati Page 15.822.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Just Desserts: Mechanical Engineering Meets Computing Outreach Karen C. Davis, Ph.D. Stephanie Heil Allison Mayborg Adam Pulskamp University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH 45221-0030Abstract – This paper

Conference Session

Assessment & Continuous Improvement in ET: Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alberto Gomez-Rivas, University of Houston-Downtown; Lea Campbell, University of Houston, Downtown; George Pincus, University of Houston, Downtown

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Engineering Technology

industry. This view ofassessment helps faculty members with an engineering background and industrial experience tobetter understand costs, goals, and operative requirements of assessment. Faculty of engineeringtechnology departments working on assessment should keep in mind the relationship with qualitycontrol in order to evaluate resources, costs, goals and other hidden details of assessment.Assessment of outcomes became a critical activity for engineering departments in 2000 whenABET changed their traditional requirements for accreditation to outcomes-based which requiresassessment of learning outcomes (or quality control). The Technology AccreditationCommission (TAC) of ABET also started requiring outcomes assessment of programs soon

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Capstone and Senior Design in Engineering Technology: Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vladimir Genis, Drexel University; William Danley, Drexel University; Warren Rosen, Drexel University; Shawn Racz, Lockheed Martin, Inc.

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Engineering Technology

AC 2010-119: CAPSTONE COURSE SEQUENCE FOR ENGINEERINGTECHNOLOGY STUDENTSVladimir Genis, Drexel University Dr. Vladimir Genis—Associate Professor and Applied Engineering Technology Program Director in the School of Technology and Professional Studies, Drexel University, has developed and taught graduate and undergraduate courses in physics, electronics, nanotechnology, biomedical engineering, nondestructive testing, and acoustics. His research interests include ultrasound wave propagation and scattering, ultrasound imaging, nondestructive testing, electronic instrumentation, piezoelectric transducers, and engineering education. Results of his research work were published in scientific

Conference Session

Communication in Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patricia Mellodge, University of Hartford; Fouad El Khoury, University of Hartford

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2010-1723: USING WIKIS IN A SOPHOMORE ENGINEERING DESIGNCOURSEPatricia Mellodge, University of HartfordFouad El Khoury, University of Hartford Page 15.1347.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Using Wikis in a Sophomore Engineering Design CourseIntroductionWith the launch of Wikipedia in 2001, the nature of creating content and gathering informationon the internet began to change dramatically. Initially introduced as a free online encyclopedia1,it has become a single source of information on nearly any subject and one of most visited siteson the internet, consistently ranking in the top ten. It can be used as a starting point for researchon almost

Conference Session

Assessment & Continuous Improvement in ET: Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carmine Balascio, University of Delaware; Thomas Brumm, Iowa State University; Steven Mickelson, Iowa State University

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Engineering Technology

AC 2010-756: COMPETENCY-BASED ASSESSMENT OF ENGINEERINGTECHNOLOGY PROGRAM OUTCOMESCarmine Balascio, University of Delaware Carmine C. Balascio, Ph.D., P.E. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioresources Engineering at the University of Delaware. He earned bachelor’s degrees in Agricultural Engineering Technology and Mathematics from U.D. He earned an M.S. in Agricultural Engineering and a Ph.D. double major in Agricultural Engineering and Engineering Mechanics from Iowa State University. He teaches courses in surveying, soil mechanics, and storm-water management and has research interests in urban hydrology, water resources engineering, and assessment of student learning. He is

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Trivett, University of Prince Edward Island

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Design in Engineering Education

many engineering programs, just as in many plant process systems,the path from input (high school) to the output (qualified graduate) is quite separate for thedifferent streams (i.e. mechanical engineering stream, versus the electrical engineering, versusbiological engineering).In this conceptual model of the education of young engineers, the decision of which processstream the students enter would, in their minds, have a huge impact on their careers. Studentsspend a great deal of time and suffer sleepless nights deciding which stream to enter, notknowing at the start what they will end up looking like at the end, nor what sort of careeropportunities they will have when they graduate. Unfortunately, a student has very little

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

AC 2010-1014: REFLECTIVE PRACTICES OF ENGINEERING CAPSTONEDESIGN TEAMSRobert Gerlick, Washington State UniversityDenny Davis, Washington State UniversityShane Brown, Washington State UniversityMichael Trevisan, Washington State University Page 15.1025.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Reflective Practices of Engineering Capstone Design TeamsABSTRACTReflection is widely understood as a critical component of learning, especially learning fromexperience. Effective professionals learn from experiences and use this knowledge whenencountering similar or more complex problems. The engineering capstone design courseprovides an excellent opportunity for

Conference Session

Retention Strategies in Action Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Armando Rodriguez, Arizona State University; Anita Grierson, Arizona State University

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Two Year College Division

understandingthat the university wanted to help the CCs with their recruitment and retention of pre-engineeringand computer science students and to assist their students with transfer only after they could gono further in their engineering studies at the CC.Representatives from ASU and MCCCD worked together for several months writing a grant forthe National Science Foundation. The primary objective of the project was to work together on aprogram to encourage more potential and actual CC students to consider engineering. The firstauthor had discovered through her research that of the engineering transfer students in Fulton,many of them had gone to a CC with no particular major in mind and had decided on engineeringor computer science after they had

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

,” Journal of Engineering Education, 94 (1), Jan. 2005, p.147-164.4. Felder RM and Brent R, “The ABCs of Engineering Education: ABET, Bloom’s Taxonomy, Cooperative Learning, and so on,” Proceedings ASEE Conference, 2004, Session 1375.5. Bransford JD et al, How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, National Academy Press, Washington DC, 2003.6. Lohmann JR, Editor, Journal of Engineering Education Special Issue: The Art and Science of Engineering Education Research, Jan. 2005.7. Bloom BS, Taxonomy of Educational Objectives 1. Cognitive Domain, Longman Press, NY, 1984.8. Dym CI and Little P, Engineering Design: A Project-Based Introduction, J. Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, NJ, 2nd Edition, 2004.9

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Engineering Design: Implementation and Evaluation

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shanna Daly, University of Michigan; Seda Yilmaz, University of Michigan; Colleen Seifert, University of Michigan; Richard Gonzalez, University of Michigan

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Educational Research and Methods

most of his concepts, he first suggested a food that could need to becooked with his product. He seemed to go through a list in his mind of the foods, and diversifiedhis designs by suggesting different foods he had not previously considered. For example, he saidbefore generating concept 9, “Other things to eat. We’ve got shish-kabobs, jerked meat, the driedherbs, the soups and things, um, let’s see.” For one of his concepts, he utilized the processheuristic of synthesizing by combining two previous concepts (concepts 3 and 4) into one new,superior concept (concept 5). Engineer 1 also emphasized different constraints from the problemas he worked. For example, in concept 2, he focused on "maximizing the intensity of thesunlight," while in the

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Enhancing Recruitment and Retention in Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Beth McGinnis-Cavanaugh, Springfield Technical Community College; Glenn Ellis, Smith College; Diana Fiumefreddo, Smith College

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2010-1579: DRAFTING A BLUEPRINT FOR EDUCATING TOMORROW'SENGINEERS TODAYBeth McGinnis-Cavanaugh, Springfield Technical Community CollegeGlenn Ellis, Smith CollegeDiana Fiumefreddo, Smith College Page 15.430.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Drafting a Blueprint for Educating Tomorrow’s Engineers TodayIntroductionWith the establishment of a STEM middle school and other initiatives, the Springfield,Massachusetts Public School System (SPS) has made a commitment to excellence inTechnology/Engineering instruction for all of its 5700 students. To support this commitment, apartnership between the Springfield Middle Schools, Springfield Technical Community

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steve Warren, Kansas State University; Jianchu Yao, East Carolina University

AC 2010-2156: PORTABLE CYBER-LABORATORIES FOR ELECTRICALENGINEERING EDUCATIONSteve Warren, Kansas State University Steve Warren received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Kansas State University in 1989 and 1991, respectively, followed by a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 1994. Dr. Warren is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Kansas State University. Prior to joining KSU in August 1999, Dr. Warren was a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. He directs the KSU Medical Component Design Laboratory, a facility supported by the National

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer-Part I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Chasnov

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Mechanical Engineering

Energy: Properties and Policy IssuesAbstractStudents following a curriculum designed to provide a degree in mechanical engineering (ME)inevitably take one or more courses in Thermodynamics along the way. One of the many keysbeing addressed in such courses is the Principle of Conservation of Energy, otherwise known asthe First Law of Thermodynamics. Whereas one of the program accreditation requirementsspecifically addresses the need to incorporate design of components or processes of thermalsystems1 into the curriculum, does this necessarily include all (or any) of the following: fossilfuel combustion, greenhouse gas production, alternative energy sources, energy conservation, orenergy policy?It is our contention

Conference Session

Novel Methods in Engineering Ethics

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Craig Titus, Purdue University; Carla Zoltowski, Purdue University; William Oakes, Purdue University

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Engineering Ethics

AC 2010-1428: INTEGRATING ETHICS CURRICULUM WITHIN ASERVICE-LEARNING DESIGN CONTEXTCraig Titus, Purdue University Craig Titus is a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy at Purdue University and a graduate assistant for the EPICS Program, participating in the curriculum development and the research teams.Carla Zoltowski, Purdue University CARLA B. ZOLTOWSKI is Education Administrator of the EPICS Program at Purdue University. She received her BSEE and MSEE from Purdue University, and is a PhD Candidate in Engineering Education at Purdue. She has served as a lecturer in Purdue’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.William Oakes, Purdue University William Oakes is the Director of the

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer II

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mathew Hagge, Iowa State University; Gloria Starns, Iowa State University

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2010-1510: CONCEPT BASED LEARNING: DEMONSTRATING ITSEFFECTIVENESS IN THERMODYNAMICSMathew Hagge, Iowa State UniversityGloria Starns, Iowa State University Page 15.307.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Concept Based Learning: Demonstrating its Effectiveness in Thermodynamics1. Project OverviewFeatures:This project examines the coupling of concept based learning and findings from the fields ofneurology and cognitive science to empower students to solve problems of increasingcomplexity. The central question the authors seek to answer is: does concept based learningoffer an advantage to students in terms of their ability

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in Chemical Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Zollars, Washington State University; Christopher Hundhausen, Washington State University; Pawan agrawal, Washington State University

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Chemical Engineering

, HI.: ASEE.2 L. S. Vygotsky. 1978. Mind in society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.3 C. Quintana, B. Reiser, E. Davis, J. Krajcik, E. Fretz, R.G. Duncan, E. Kyza, D. Edelson, and E. Soloway. 2004. Journal of the Learning Sciences 13, no. 3: 337-386.4 R.M. Felder and L.K. Silverman. 1988. Learning and Teaching Styles in Engineering Education. Engineering Education, 78 no. 7: 674-681.5 D. Norman and S. Draper, User-centered system design, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc., Mahwah, NJ, Page 15.564.8 (1986).

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Engineering Management Program Design

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anoop Desai, Georgia Southern University; Jean-Claude Thomassian, State University of New York, Maritime College

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Engineering Management

AC 2010-382: CREATION OF A GRADUATE PROGRAM IN ENGINEERINGMANAGEMENT: APPLICATION OF BASIC SIX SIGMA PRINCIPLES TOCURRICULUM DESIGNAnoop Desai, Georgia Southern University Dr. Anoop Desai received his BS degree in Production Engineering from the University of Bombay in 1999, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering from The University of Cincinnati in 2002 and 2006. His main research interests are in Product Lifecycle Management, Design for the Environment, Total Quality Management including tools for Six Sigma and Ergonomics.Jean-Claude Thomassian, State University of New York, Maritime College Dr. Jean-Claude Thomassian received his BS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mechanical

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Industry Sponsored Research and Project Initiatives in Industrial Technology & Industrial Engineering Technology

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jorge Rodriguez, Western Michigan University; Alamgir Choudhury, Western Michigan University; Luis Rodriguez, University of Wisconsin - Waukesha

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Engineering Technology

redesigned electric nailfile.MethodologyThe project followed typical steps in engineering design process: 1. Research the existing devices in the market and identify issues that users might have. A survey was used in this phase. 2. Brainstorm to determine alternatives to address the issues with the initial goals in mind. 3. Evaluate concepts and implement in parametric CAD the top ideas in order to have better visualization and ability to make modification for improvement. 4. Fully develop the selected alternative. All components were modeled using Pro/E (most common software in shops in the area). Models of parts and assemblies, STL files for rapid prototyping, and production drawings for manufacturing were generated