Conference Session

Track 1b - Session 1

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2014 ASEE International Forum

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Valentina Cecchi, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Mona Azarbayjani, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Brett Tempest, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Paper ID #11061Collaborative Research and Education in the Design and Building of a Net-Zero Energy Solar Powered House – Testimony of a Solar Decathlon 2013EntryDr. Valentina Cecchi, University of North Carolina, CharlotteDr. Mona Azarbayjani, University of North Carolina at CharlotteDr. Brett Tempest, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Page 20.7.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Collaborative Research and Education in the Design and Building of a Net-Zero Energy Solar Powered House

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

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Henry Griffith, Wright State University; Riad Ajami, Director, Center for Global Business, WSU; Angela Griffith

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noteworthy is the appearance of a somewhatparabolic trend in the time series data, suggesting that the estimate is most inaccurate for materialpresented both far and immediately before the exam. This observation seems consistent with whatmany instructors observe in practice – namely that students perform best on questions related tomaterial that has been presented in lecture recently, assuming that adequate time has passed toallow for appropriate review and content retention. Unfortunately, this may indicate that theperiodic review functionality of ALEKS under default parameter settings is not sufficient to ensurelong-term content mastery for international students.Another interesting observation is the variation in student midterm performance as a

Conference Session

Track 1b - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Nannan He, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Han-Way Huang, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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offer courses on Eclipse-based MBD of embedded system, only the graduate school in Chinese Science Academy hasopened a research course recently as far as best knowledge.5. ConclusionMBD is cost effective for developing complex and reliable-critical embedded systems. Thispaper presents our teaching experiences of integrating this new MBD paradigm into a system-level Programming Tools course for CE and EE students. It mainly describes two new topicsintegrated to this PT course: MBD concepts and eclipse-based software tools supporting MBD,from the course materials preparation and instruction approaches two aspects. In the future,students and our teachers will together create and gather more capstone projects related to MBDby means of eclipse-based

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Achille Messac, Mississippi State University; James N Warnock, Mississippi State University; Masoud Rais-Rohani, Mississippi State University

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world; and provide them an opportunity to experience thedifferent and similar challenges faced by international researchers. This exposure reinforces thestudents’ appreciation for the global context of engineering practice. Additionally, professionalsociety meetings provide an opportunity for students to network with professionals, futureemployers and graduate school recruiters.Design competitions are a way of enabling students to develop their teamwork skills, engineeringskills, and communication skills, and an effective means of creating a sense of community withinthe cohort. Moreover, because design competitions are conducted outside of the classroom or acourse, students are more likely to develop intellectual autonomy because there is not

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Dianne J DeTurris, California Polytechnic State University; Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University; James M Widmann, California Polytechnic State University; Lily Hsu Laiho, California Polytechnic State University; Fred W DePiero, California Polytechnic State University; Zoe Wood Wood; Alana Christine Snelling

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of the National Women’s Studies Association, and as a Post-Doctoral Research Officer at the Center for Informal Learning and Schools (CILS) at King’s College, University of London. Her graduate training is in Science & Technology Studies and Women’s Studies at Virginia Tech.Dr. James M Widmann, California Polytechnic State University Dr. Jim Widmann is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He received his Ph.D. in 1994 from Stanford University. Currently he teaches mechanics and design courses. He conducts research in the areas of machine design, fluid power control and engineering education. He is a past chair of the ASEE-DEED Division and a U.S