Conference Session

Impact of the Gulf Coast Oil Spill on Chemical Engineering Education & Misc.

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Frances C. Ray-Earle, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Center for Biorefining & Biofuels (C2B2); Nancy S. Tway, University of Colorado

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Chemical Engineering

AC 2011-1039: AN ASSESSMENT PLAN FOR EVALUATING A FOURSITE UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROGRAM IN BIOFUELS ANDBIOREFINING ENGINEERINGDaniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder DANIEL W. KNIGHT is the engineering assessment specialist at the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program (ITLL) and the Broadening Opportunity through Leadership and Diversity (BOLD) Center in CU’s College of Engineering and Applied Science. He holds a B.A. in psychology from the Louisiana State University, and an M.S. degree in industrial/organizational psychology and a Ph.D. degree in coun- seling psychology, both from the University of Tennessee. Dr. Knight’s research interests are in the areas of retention, program evaluation and teamwork

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Experiential Learning Programs and the Transition to Industry

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Hoe, University of Texas, Tyler; Mukul Shirvaikar, University of Texas, Tyler

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College Industry Partnerships

AC 2011-1222: INTRODUCTION OF SEMICONDUCTOR TEST ENGI-NEERING INTO THE BSEE CURRICULUMDavid H. K. Hoe, University of Texas at Tyler David H. K. Hoe did his undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Toronto, culminating with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1991. His professional experience includes positions at General Electric’s Research and Development Center as a Staff Engineer and at the University of Texas at Ar- lington as a Research Associate and Adjunct Professor. He assumed his present position as an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Tyler in August 2008. He teaches classes in Computer Architecture and VLSI Design. His research

Conference Session

Curricular Developments in Energy Education II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Abed El Hameed El Madwar, University of Northern Iowa; Kenan Baltaci, University of Northern Iowa; Reg Recayi Pecen, University of Northern Iowa

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

AC 2011-2094: INTEGRATION OF HYDROGEN FUEL CELL TECHNOL-OGY TO UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION IN EET PROGRAMSAbed El Hameed El Madwar, University of Northern Iowa Hameed Madwar is currently a doctorate student in the Industrial Technology Program at the University of Northern Iowa expecting to graduate on May 2011. He has a B.S in Electrical and Computer Engi- neering and a Master degree in Industrial Management. His research interests are in the area of industrial Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and Virtual Manufacturing applications. He has more than three years of industrial experience in Manufacturing Technology and four years as a teaching assistant in the areas of Circuits Designs, Renewable Energy, Electrical Power

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering, Part II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Heidi A. Taboada, University of Texas, El Paso; Jose F. Espiritu, University of Texas, El Paso; Emmanuel Gurrola

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Minorities in Engineering

work full-time over asix-week period. Each PI will open their laboratory to the undergraduates during the summer.The students will be divided into teams and split into the different laboratories. In thelaboratories, the students will be paired with a graduate student following the Pair-2-Learn(PAL) model.Pair-2-learn (PAL) model - Four undergraduate students will be “paired” with one graduatestudent to work in a research project; the graduate students will be trained by the Center forEffective Teaching and Learning (CETaL) at UTEP before they start working withundergraduate students. The graduate student will be the project leader while the undergraduatestudents will help in achieving the research tasks. The students involved in the research

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shane F. Cotter, Union College

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NSF Grantees

Fall 2005, he joined the faculty at Union College. He teaches courses in introductory digital logic, digital design and computer networking. His principal research interests are in the areas of speech and image processing, wireless communications, computer networking, and biological signal processing. Page 22.245.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Assessing the Impact of a Biometrics Course on Students’ Digital Signal Processing KnowledgeIntroductionA biometric refers to a physiological or behavioral trait which can be used to identify a

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Student Learning and Assessment II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anca L. Sala, Baker College; Raghu Echempati, Kettering University

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2011-2215: PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF UNDERGRADUATEVIBRATIONS COURSEAnca L. Sala, Baker College Anca L. Sala, Associate Professor, is Chair of the Engineering Department at Baker College. Dr. Sala coordinates several engineering and technology programs, teaches and develops engineering curriculum, and leads the ABET accreditation activities in the department. She is an active member of ASEE, ASME, and OSA.Raghu Echempati, Kettering University Raghu Echempati is a professor of Mechanical Engineering with over 25 years of teaching, research and consulting experiences in Design and Simulation of Sheet Metal Forming Processes. He has published several educational and research papers at ASEE, ASME and other

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William David Schlecht, Washington State University; Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University; Paul B. Golter, Washington State University; Robert F. Richards, Washington State University; Jennifer C. Adam, Washington State University; Ashley Ater Kranov, Washington State University; Marc Compere, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Edwin Maurer P.E., Santa Clara University; Denny C. Davis, Washington State University; Olusola O. Adesope, Washington State University, Pullman; Joseph D. Law, University of Idaho, Moscow; Gary Robert Brown, AAC&U; Prashanta Dutta, Washington State University; David B. Thiessen, Washington State University; Baba Abdul, Washington State University

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NSF Grantees

has been on the Washington State University faculty for 28 years and over the past 14 years has focused strongly on innovative pedagogy along with his technical research in biotechnology. His recent Fulbright Exchange to Nigeria set the stage for receipt of the Marian Smith Award given annually to the most innovative teacher at WSU. (509) 335-4103 (Off); (509) 335-4806 (Fax); bvanwie@che.wsu.edu.Paul B Golter, Washington State University Paul B. Golter obtained an MS from Washington State University and recently defended his PhD degree and is currently the Laboratory Supervisor in the Voiland School of School of Chemical Engineering and Bio-engineering at WSU. He is married with three children.509-338-5724.Robert F

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FPD X: First-Year Design with Projects, Modeling, and Simulation

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ani Ural, Villanova University; Joseph Robert Yost, Villanova University; David W Dinehart, Villanova University; Shawn P. Gross, Villanova University

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First-Year Programs

. Lecture notesare posted on WebCT before class and students are required to come with paper copies of thelecture notes. Lectures are delivered interactively using PowerPoint during class. Meetings takeplace in a variety of locations including the home-base classroom, electrical engineeringlaboratory, and structural engineering teaching and research laboratory (SETRL). The classschedule and course overview as delivered in fall 2010 is provided in Fig. 3 Day Week Monday Wednesday (#) Location Lecture # T

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Multidisciplinary Technical Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maher E. Rizkalla, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, Integrated Nanosystems Development Institute; Mangilal Agarwal, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis ; Sudhir Shrestha, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Kody Varahramyan, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2011-421: INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE IN ENGINEERING/SCIENCEVIA NANOTECHNOLOGY PROGRAMSMaher E. Rizkalla, Integrated Nanosystems Development Institute, Indiana University-Purdue University In-dianapolis, 723W Michigan Street SL160, Indianapolis, IN 46202-5132 Received his Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 1985. He was research scientist at Argonne National Laboratory from January 1985 to September 1986 while he was an Assistant Professor at Purdue University Calumet. He joined the Department of Elec- trical and Computer Engineering at IUPUI in September 1986 where is now Professor and Associate Chair of the Department. His research interests include solid State devices

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mukasa E. Ssemakula, Wayne State University; Celestine Chukwuemeka Aguwa, Wayne State University; Darin Ellis, Wayne State University; Kyoung-Yun Kim, Wayne State University; Gene Liao, Wayne State University; Shlomo S. Sawilowsky, Wayne State University

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NSF Grantees

Curricula." Proceedings,1995 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June 25-28, 1995; Anaheim, CA. pp. 2262 - 2269. [4] Ssemakula, Mukasa E. and Liao, Gene Y. 2003. „Adapting The Learning Factory Model For Implementation In A Laboratory‟ 33rd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Nov. 5-8, 2003, Boulder, CO. [5] Ssemakula, Mukasa E. and Liao, Gene Y. 2004. „Implementing The Learning Factory Model In A Laboratory Setting‟ IMECE 2004, International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Nov. 13- 19, 2004; Anaheim, CA. [6] Ssemakula, Mukasa E. and Liao, Gene Y. 2006. „A Hands-On Approach to Teaching Product Development‟ World Transactions on Engineering and Technology

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Materials Experiments, Labs, Demos, and Hands-On Activities

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Surendra K. Gupta, Rochester Institute of Technology; Steven John Kosciol, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Materials

AC 2011-77: MEASURING ANGLE OF TWIST IN A TORSION EXPERI-MENTSurendra K. Gupta, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) ”Vinnie” Gupta is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and a member of the graduate faculty of Ma- terials Science & Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY). He is a recipient of the 2000 Eisenhart Award for Excellence in Teaching. At RIT, he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Applied Mechanics, Computational Techniques, and Materials Science.Steven John Kosciol, Rochester Institute of Technology Senior Mechanical Technician - Mechanical Engineering Department

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Manufacturing Process Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Denny Choate, Cannon County High School; Kenan Hatipoglu, Tennessee Technological University; Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Technological University; Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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Manufacturing

Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program (now, called asTUES) seeks to improve the quality of STEM education for all undergraduate students. Theprogram supports efforts to create, adapt, and disseminate new learning materials and teachingstrategies, develop faculty expertise, implement educational innovations, assess learning andevaluate innovations, and conduct research on STEM teaching and learning. The programsupports three types of projects representing three different phases of development, ranging fromsmall, exploratory investigations to large, comprehensive projects. The RET educational researchstudy performed in this paper has been conducted at TTU’s Remotely Accessible RapidPrototyping Laboratory which was

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Research and Models for Professional Development

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Augusto Z. Macalalag Jr., Stevens Institute of Technology; Chris Jurado, Stevens Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

identified. We grouped the teachers’ responses to this question byinteractions: student- student, teacher-student, and student- technology.Thirty-three teachers mentioned students conducting science investigations, groups engaging inproblem solving activities, students having group discussions, students involved in role playing,and students building models or diagrams as examples of student-student interactions. Forinstance, Julia described how she conducts her science class with her third grade students. Sheasks students to work with partners in conducting experiments and writing laboratory reports,“…Science lab, which is what I teach, and it’s special. So, it’s forty minutes a week for half theyear. They come and we do the hands on activities, so

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Spenko, Illinois Institute of Technology; Jamal S. Yagoobi, Illinois Institute of Technology

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Mechanical Engineering

into Engineering EducationAbstractIn 2009 and 2010, the Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Department at the Illinois Instituteof Technology held two workshops titled: “Integrating Innovation into Engineering Education.”Participants included representatives from NSF, national laboratories, universities, and industry.The focus of the workshops was to understand how to teach innovative thinking at theundergraduate level. Three specific questions were addressed: 1) what defines innovation in thecontext of engineering; 2) what skill sets are necessary for innovative thinking; and 3) how caneducators teach those skill sets in order to foster the innovative thought process. The results ofthese discussions are presented in this paper.1

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ELOS Best Paper Nominations

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Ridgely, California Polytechnic State University; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

students' memory; the use of stress andstrain in design is fundamental to a wide range of mechanical engineering problems.Accelerometer MEA ExerciseIn this MEA, students take on the role of consulting engineers hired by the fictitious “Obispo-Orlando Package Service” (OOPS) to help the shipping company choose a packaging material.Materials are to be chosen based on their ability to minimize accelerations as packages impact ahard surface. The accelerations are measured using piezoelectric accelerometers on a test setupwhich is provided to the students in the laboratory. In contrast to the load cell transducer MEA,the accelerometer MEA teaches experimental measurement but not design, as the students areasked to evaluate a set of packaging materials

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Best of Computers in Education Division

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nathaniel Bird, Ohio Northern University

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Computers in Education

the weekly directed laboratory assignments as well as the quarter-long project.As part of the course, students were required to purchase their own Arduino board and afew other parts. This is a departure from the way this course has been run in the past inour department, where the school maintained a set of microcontrollers that were onlyavailable during the laboratory sessions. However, due to the desire to incorporate aquarter-long project and potentially longer laboratory assignments, restricting the use ofthe Arduino boards to laboratory sessions was not feasible, so students were required topurchase their own boards. Costs were kept in line with previous iterations of the courseby requiring a much cheaper textbook, however.The following

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First-year Programs Division Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Byron L. Newberry, Oklahoma Christian University of Science and Arts; Richard Miller, Oklahoma Christian University of Science and Arts; Robert Andrew Stevenson, Oklahoma Christian University

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First-Year Programs

class is spent introducing basic concepts from higher-level courses such as differentiation, integration, first and second order linear differentialequations and linear algebra. Furthermore, the laboratory portion is designed to directlycomplement the lecture periods of the course as students apply that week’s teaching directly toengineering models. This program inaugurates incoming engineering students by introducingapplications of math within multiple disciplines of engineering.Course success was initially examined by issuing a mid-term calculus readiness exam designedby the Oklahoma Christian mathematics department as well as examining student final classgrades. After students who participated in the first incarnation of this course in fall

Conference Session

Learning Outside the Classroom

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Massi, University of Central Florida; Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida; Cynthia Y. Young, University of Central Florida; Cherie Geiger, University of Central Florida; Patrice Lancey, University of Central Florida; Divya Bhati, University of Central Florida

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Educational Research and Methods

”. She has collaborated with optical scientists from the Australian Defense, Science, and Technology Office on experiments in Adelaide Australia and Kennedy Space Center, Fl. In 2005 she did a sabbatical at the Naval Research Laboratory in which both theoretical and experimental studies were conducted with NRL scientists and engineers. In 2007 Dr. Young was named a fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineers. Dr. Young has received the UCF Research Incentive Award, Teaching Incentive Award, and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning award. Dr. Young is currently the co-director of the UCF EXCEL program.Cherie Geiger, University of Central Florida Dr. Cherie Geiger is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farrokh Attarzadeh, University of Houston; Deniz Gurkan, University of Houston; Mequanint A. Moges, University of Houston; Miguel Angel Ramos, University of Houston; Victor J. Gallardo, University of Houston; Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi

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NSF Grantees

AC 2011-2548: NSF GRANTEE PRESENTATION: CHALLENGES OF IM-PLEMENTING A PEER MENTORING PROGRAM TO SUPPORT STEMLEARNINGFarrokh Attarzadeh, University of Houston Farrokh Attarzedeh earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston in 1983. He is an associate professor in the Engineering Technology Department, College of Technology at the University of Houston. He teaches software programming and is in charge of the senior project course in the Computer Engineering Technology Program. He is a member of ASEE and has been with the University of Houston since 1983. Dr. Attarzadeh may be reached at FAttarzadeh@central.uh.eduDeniz Gurkan, University of Houston Deniz Gurkan received her B.S. (1996) and

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Curriculum Innovations in Architectural Engineering Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ahmed Cherif Megri, University of Wyoming

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Architectural

AC 2011-2611: ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUM ANDHVAC SYSTEMS CAPSTONE DESIGNAhmed Cherif Megri, University of Wyoming Dr. Ahmed Cherif Megri, associate professor of architectural engineering at the University of Wyoming (UW), teaches several HVAC and energy courses. Dr. Megri is also teaching a course titled ”Compre- hensive Performance of Building Envelope and HVAC Systems” for Summer School at UW, and ”Smoke and Fire Dynamics” during summer session at Concordia University, Canada. His research areas include airflow modeling, zonal modeling, energy modeling, and artificial intelligence modeling using the support vector machine learning approach. Prior to his actual position at UW, he was an assistant

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Factors Affecting Student Performance

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maddumage Karunaratne, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown

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Engineering Technology

buildingcareers based on digital circuit design will probably encounter electronic systems built on suchdevices in their professional work. Therefore, it has become necessary to introduce related courses atundergraduate level along with a considerable number of hands on laboratory sessions as well.This paper discusses the teaching and enhancements made to such courses in digital design toundergraduates majoring in Electrical Engineering Technology (EET). The author will elaborate theattempts taken in promoting a certain level of excitement in students during the digital designcourse. The paper also describes several considerations taken into account in the adaptation ofVerilog Hardware Description Languages (HDL) and automation based digital design flow

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Build Diversity in Engineering Graduate Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Allison Kang, University of Washington; Lisa A. Peterson, University of Washington; Elena Maria Hernandez, University of Washington

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Minorities in Engineering

courses early on, limiting their academic choices18. Many URMstudents are assigned to lower curriculum levels, independent of their test scores; this isparticularly true for math courses19. Approximately 1/3 of URM students intend to major inscience and engineering as college freshmen20; however, of that group only 37% graduate in aSTEM field. Of the more than 60,000 B.S. degrees earned in biological sciences in 2004, fewerthan 15% went to URM students (Table 3). In comparison, the retention rate for majoritystudents in STEM is 68.3%. African American and Hispanic students are also more likely todrop out of college altogether because of finances, poor precollege preparation, low facultyexpectations, poor teaching, and inflexible curricula21

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Use of Technology in Civil Engineering Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Harry Cooke, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering

AC 2011-1255: USE OF SOIL BEHAVIOR DEMONSTRATIONS TO IN-CREASE STUDENT ENGAGEMENT IN A SOIL MECHANICS COURSEHarry Cooke, Rochester Institute of Technology Harry Cooke is an associate professor in the Civil Engineering Technology program at Rochester Institute of Technology where he teaches courses in geotechnical engineering, construction materials, pavements, and mechanics of materials. His research interests include geotechnical engineering, civil engineering materials, and engineering education. Page 22.1598.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Use of

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Developing Systems Engineering Curriculum, Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa Guerra, NASA Headquarters; Wallace T. Fowler, University of Texas, Austin; Martin James Brennan, University of Texas, Austin, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

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Systems Engineering

McGraw Hill textbook, ”Human Spaceflight, Mission Analysis and Design”. Her current efforts in systems engineering curriculum can be located at http://spacese.spacegrant.org.Wallace T. Fowler, University of Texas, Austin Wallace Fowler is Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin. ASEE offices held include Chair, Aerospace Division, Chair, Zone III, ASEE VP Member Affairs, ASEE First VP, and ASEE President 200-2001. He is a member of the U of Texas Academy of Distinguished Teachers and has received numerous teaching awards.Mr. Martin James Brennan, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Universityof Texas at Austin Growing up in Ocean

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New Trends in ECE Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Farzad Pourboghrat, Southern Illinois University; Narayanan Ramachandran, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Aishwarya Vasu, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Arjun Shekar Sadahalli, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Prashanthi Banala, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Giampiero Campa, MathWorks

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Electrical and Computer

describes our efforts in renovating an existing non-required mechatronicscourse to upgrade the contents of the course and to improve the students’ learning experience.The main efforts include developing lecture materials, demo tools, and laboratory projectmodules employing model-based design approach, using Matlab, Simulink, and a number ofother Mathworks toolboxes. These tools simplify the process of system modeling, control design,and embedded microcontroller programming for rapid prototyping and design verification.1. IntroductionIt has long been known that teaching through examples and hands-on laboratory exercisesimprove the students’ learning experience, especially in technical multi-domain subjects such asMechatronics. However, the

Conference Session

Engineering as the STEM Glue

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ben Pelleg, Drexel University; David Urias, Drexel University; Adam K. Fontecchio, Drexel University; Eli Fromm, Ph.D., Drexel University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2011-664: A REPORT ON A GK-12 PROGRAM: ENGINEERING AS ACONTEXTUAL VEHICLE FOR MATH AND SCIENCE EDUCATIONBen Pelleg, Drexel University Mr. Ben Pelleg is a third year Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineering at Drexel University. He earned a BS degree in applied and engineering physics from Cornell University in 2008. Ben is a NSF GK-12 fellow and teaches science, math, and engineering to students in the School District of Philadelphia. Ben’s current research includes the study of holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystals and other polymer/liquid crystal devices.David Urias, Drexel University Dr. David Urias has an extensive educational background in international education, policy studies, and program

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Mechatronics in the Curriculum

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yang Cao, University of British Columbia

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Mechanical Engineering

more, the virtual simulator development gains students interest andmotivates student in learning robotics. It allows more lab-type of learning. Some homework canalso be readily verified using the virtual robot. For future teaching plan, the developenvironment will be open to students‟ choice. Other engineering tools, such as simMechanics,ADAMS will be considered for dynamics and control design purpose.References[1] T., Hakan; G, Metin; B, Seta, “Hardware in the Loop Robot Simulators for On-site and Remote Education in Robotics”, International Journal of Engineering Education, Volume 22, Number 4, August 2006 , pp. 815- 828(14).[2] Costas S. Tzafestas, Nektaria Palaiologou, “Virtual and Remote Robotic Laboratory: Comparative

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Assessment Methods and Learning Pedagogy II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farrokh Attarzadeh, University of Houston; Deniz Gurkan, University of Houston; Mequanint A. Moges, University of Houston; Victor J. Gallardo, University of Houston; Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi; Morteza Sameei, Houston Community College Northeast

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Engineering Technology

concept mapping were presented by invited faculty. Samples of concept mapscreated by current lab assistants were presented as learning objects. One additional goal was thecreation of a library of concept maps for CLABS. In addition, at the beginning of each semester,the Lab Management team and faculty offer a two-day laboratory assistant orientation workshop.Topics such as teaching techniques, safety procedures, professional etiquette, and organization oflaboratories were covered during the workshops. The attendees included Lab Assistants (LA),Student Assistants (SA) and Undergraduate Mentors (UGM) although, this specific workshopwas aimed to the LA's, SA's and UGM who were involved directly in the ELET 1100, ELET1101, ELET 2103 laboratories as

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Multidisciplinary Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

of engagement, and cooperative learningstrategies in particular. The paper is a follow up to previous work by the author, on viablestrategies to improve the classroom environment of engineering colleges in the Region. At thestart, the paper provides an overview of relevant benchmarks of engineering education in theRegion. Then, relates author’s preliminary findings on teaching/learning practices inengineering colleges of the Region, sheds light on the pros and cons of the lecture format, andexamines the literature on meanings and substance of different active learning protocolsfocusing on cooperative engagement strategies. Next, it identifies common barriers toreformation in general, and to the use of modern pedagogical skills in particular

Conference Session

Engineering Design in Pedagogy

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Louis S. Nadelson, Boise State University; Patricia Pyke, Boise State University; Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Anne Hay, Boise State University; Joshua Pfiester, Boise State University; Mark A. Emmet, Boise State University

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Design in Engineering Education, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

The Evergreen State University, a Secondary Teaching Certifi- cate from University of Puget Sound, an M. Ed. in Instructional Technology Leadership from Western Washington University and a Ph.D. (research-based, not theoretical) in Educational Psychology from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.Patricia Pyke, Boise State University Patricia A. Pyke is the Director of the STEM Station at Boise State University. The STEM Station in a university-level initiative to build a STEM community where students and faculty are connected to the resources and support they need to achieve their individual goals in education, career, teaching and research. Her role as director for the STEM Station builds on previous work