Conference Session

Int. Engineering Education: Developments, Innovations, and Implementations

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sebastian M. Pfotenhauer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Joshua Jacobs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Julio A. Pertuze, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Daniel T. Roos P.E., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dava J. Newman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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International

molecules Patents M4. Computational Analysis of high-throughput data Biosystems Science & Differential equation modeling Engineering Course Sequence and structural bioinformatics M5. Laboratory Rotation I Experimental and research lab techniques in bio-engineering Communication, cooperation and research skills in research environments M6. Laboratory Rotation II Experimental and research lab techniques in bio-engineering

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation of K-12 Engineering Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology; Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; Shauna O'Hurley, Rochester Institute of Technology; Robert P. Lillis, Evalumetrics Research; Betsy Khol, Women in Engineering; Robert D. Garrick, Rochester Institute of Technology; Jeanne Christman, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Engineering and Public Policy, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

they already know and careabout 3) demonstrate that women can make a positive impact on the world with a career inengineering. WIT is currently surveying past participants to see if the increased positiveperception is maintained over time.Women in Technology has hosted a Girl Technology Workshop 2-3 times per year since the2008 academic year. This workshop is led by female Engineering Technology students with Page 22.1671.14support from female faculty members. The workshop introduces engineering concepts to 4th -7thgrade girls through a series of interactive laboratory experiments. The day-long workshops wereoriginally exclusively offered

Conference Session

Female Faculty, Learning, NSF, and ABET Issues at Two-Year Colleges

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Eileen Smith, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board; David Walton Gardner, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board; James K. Nelson, University of Texas, Tyler

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Two Year College Division

Conference Session

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

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mario Gomes, Rochester Institute of Technology

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First-Year Programs

learned in the Matlab programming laboratory as a fundamental component of the design project.3 Project Rules (As given to the student teams) ◦ Your materials budget for this project are the ones given to you in your “kit”. You may ONLY use the given materials to make your trigger mechanism. You will need to get film developed into 4x6 inch prints. Pick one person in your team who is responsible for that. They will need to pay that cost, keep the receipt, and submit those receipts and a form to get reimbursed. Reimbursement takes a few weeks after the form has been received. IMPORTANT: Without a receipt you cannot get reimbursed. ◦ No flammable gases, liquids, or solids are allowed ◦ No open flames

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Civil Engineering Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christianna Irene White, Iowa State University, Institute for Transportation; David J. White, Iowa State University

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Civil Engineering

. (Iowa State University 2000), all in civil engineering. He has been on the faculty of the de- partment of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at Iowa State University of Science and Technology since 2001, and currently holds the rank of Associate Professor and is the holder of the Weg- ner Professorship. Dr. White is the Director of Earthworks Engineering Research Center at Iowa State University and is in charge of the Iowa State University Geotechnical Mobile Laboratory. Dr. White has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in introduction to soil engineering, foundation analysis and design, experimental testing, soil behavior, and soil stabilization and compaction. Dr. White has research interests

Conference Session

K-12 Students and Teachers

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tirupalavanam G. Ganesh, Arizona State University

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Educational Research and Methods

school students’essays in which the subjects described their image of a scientist. They found that the typicalAmerican high school student had a stereotypical notion of what a scientist looks like anddoes at work. They described this shared image from the national sample as: The scientist is a man who wears a white coat and works in a laboratory. He is elderly or middle aged and wears glasses. He is small, sometimes small and stout, or tall and thin. He may be bald. He may wear a beard, may be unshaven and unkempt.…He is surrounded by equipment: test tubes, Bunsen burners, flasks, and bottles…He spends his days doing experiments…He experiments with plants and animals, cutting them apart

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experience

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katherine E. Winters, Virginia Tech; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech

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Graduate Studies, Student

decisions. Our results also show that despite a perceived lack of autonomy, some GTAscontinue to act autonomously when faced with decision-making in the classroom. These resultscan help inform faculty as they seek to support GTAs in the GTAs‟ teaching responsibilities.IntroductionFor many years, graduate students have served as laboratory assistants and graders forundergraduate engineering courses. Due to recent efforts to increase hands-on activities inengineering education, many institutions are now also employing graduate teaching assistants(GTAs) as course instructors and lecturers 1-3. While researchers have studied GTAs in thehumanities and physical sciences, little is known about GTA experiences in engineering. Thepurpose of this study is to

Conference Session

Globalizing Engineering Education II: Best Practices

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Yating Chang, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Yi Shen, Purdue University; Joe J.J. Lin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Daniel Hirleman, University of California, Merced; Eckhard A. Groll, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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ASEE Global Programs

, multivariate statistics, and nonparametric statistical techniques as well as qualitative analysis to measurement development and model construction for assessing learning and evaluating innovations in intercultural educational practice and global engineering programs.Joe J.J. Lin, Purdue University, West Lafayette Joe J.J. Lin is a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. His research interest includes: student success models in engineering, global engineering education, teamwork and team effectiveness, and production systems control and optimization. He worked as a production control engineer in Taiwan, and has taught laboratory classes in manufacturing engineering and freshmen engi

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Education and Workforce Development Challenges

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chris R. Rehmann, Iowa State University; Diane T. Rover, Iowa State University; Mark Laingen, Iowa State University; Steven K. Mickelson, Iowa State University; Thomas J. Brumm, Iowa State University

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Civil Engineering

the undergraduate program in computer engineering at MSU. She also served as interim department chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2000 to 2001. She was a research staff member in the Scalable Computing Laboratory at the Ames Laboratory under a U.S-D.O.E. Postdoctoral Fellowship from 1989 to 1991. Her teaching and research has focused on the areas of embedded computer systems, reconfigurable hardware, integrated program development and performance environments for parallel and distributed systems, visualization, performance monitoring and evaluation, and engineering education. She currently serves as principal investigator for NSF STEP and S-STEM grants in the college. Dr. Rover is

Conference Session

Aerospace Teaching and Learning II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Praveen Shankar, Arizona State University; Jenefer Husman, Arizona State University; Valana L. Wells, Arizona State University; Wen-Ting Chung, Arizona State University

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Aerospace

flight simulator for education and research”, AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference and Exhibit, 2002, Monterey, CA9. Rogalski, T., Tomczyk, A., Kopecki, G., “Flight simulator as a tool for flight control system synthesis and handling qualities research”, Solid State Phenomena, 2009, 147, 231-23610. Tomczyk, A., “The flying laboratory for aeronautics students’ education”, Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, 2010, 82(5), pp 320-33011. Frasca International, Inc., “Frasca CRJ: Regional jet flight training device”, www.frasca.com/pdf/CRJbrochure.pdf12. Hoak, D. E., et al., "The USAF Stability and Control DATCOM," Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratories

Conference Session

Design Spine

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Salah Badjou, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

Page 22.912.2electromechanical engineering program at Wentworth Institute of Technology. Theelectromechanical engineering program is a faculty-driven, high-quality EAC-of-ABETaccredited five-year interdisciplinary electromechanical engineering program.1 It wasestablished in 1992 at Wentworth Institute of Technology. Under EAC rules, theelectromechanical engineering program had to simultaneously meet the accreditation criteria forelectrical engineering and for mechanical engineering. The graduates of this program are trueinterdisciplinary engineers proficient in tackling interdisciplinary projects in all their electricaland mechanical complexity. In addition, the graduates have excellent laboratory and machineshop skills. Recently,1,2 a

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education: Cross-cultural Awareness and Social Impacts

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Samuel James Boland, University of Iowa, IIHR: Hydroscience and Engineering; Michael V. Schaefer, University of Iowa, IIHR: Hydroscience and Engineering; Carmen M. Langel; Taryn Michelle Tigges, University of Iowa; Fabienne Bertrand, University of Iowa, IIHR: Hydroscience and Engineering; Marian Muste, University of Iowa, IIHR: Hydroscience and Engineering; Zachary David Hingst; Timothy James Middlemis-Brown, IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering, The University of Iowa

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International

region. First are visits to a variety of differentwater resources structures and laboratories. Advance arrangements are made for behind-the-scenes tours of these facilities and to interact with local engineers for discussion of their uniquechallenges. Second, each tour includes an opportunity for students to meet and interact withengineering students and faculty at one or more universities. This includes formal time together(which includes a presentation about IIHR by course participants) and unstructured timeinteracting with each other24. The previous course offerings showed that the field trips andassociated activities require a well structured management plan initiated at least one year fromthe date of the field trip. The yearly cycle of

Conference Session

Why Industry Says that our Engineering Students Cannot Write

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey A. Donnell, Georgia Institute of Technology; Betsy M. Aller, Western Michigan University; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; April A. Kedrowicz, University of Utah

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

deal of debugging. Gragson tells arepresentative story of a chemistry laboratory class that was modified in an effort to promotegeneral improvement in student writing skills by offering extended instruction on report writingand better writing feedback on graded reports.9 To meet these goals, the number of projectreports was reduced from 10 to 4, and the instructors created from scratch a writing manual foruse in the course. An elaborate peer-review process was also implemented, along with a systemfor assuring that students actually performed their peer-reviewing tasks. This paper judgesstudent performance to be satisfactory, but large questions remain open; student retention of thewriting lessons was not assessed in subsequent classes or in

Conference Session

Novel Approaches to Teaching Materials

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John A. Nychka, University of Alberta

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Materials

Page 22.1266.3concepts is an active process involving visual thinking; looking is not seeing, nor is seeingnecessarily believing, understanding, and being able to demonstrate knowledge. Upon viewing anew concept students often reflect about their own tacit knowledge and try to make a connectionto the new concept, thereby creating their own knowledge. Unfortunately, as educators we oftenassume we don’t have control, or even awareness, of such connections in each of our students’minds, thus it is exceedingly difficult to correct miss-steps along the way. However, by taking aproactive and creative approach, we can guide the visualization process through seeded commonexperiences generated in the classroom, study hall, or laboratory. Setting

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert W. Whalin, Jackson State University; Qing Pang, Jackson State University

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Minorities in Engineering

AC 2011-1399: SOLVING THE ENGINEERING PIPELINE CHALLENGERobert W. Whalin, Jackson State University - Dr. Whalin Associate Dean, Professor of Civil Engineering, and Director, Center of Excellence for Natural Disasters, Coastal Infrastructure and Emergency Management, College of Science, Engineering & Technology, Jackson State University. He is Director Emeritus of the Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS. He received his PhD in Oceanography from Texas A&M University in 1971 and is a Registered Professional Engineer. Dr. Whalin was Director of Army Research Laboratory (1998- 2003; Adelphi, MD), and Technical Director /Director of Waterways Experiment Station (1985-1998; Vicksburg, MS

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pavlos George Mikellides, Arizona State University; Chen-Yuan Kuo, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

involves more technical issues than those covered in a traditionalengineering analysis course, the teaching approach presented in this paper provides a broad, flexiblecontextualized alternative to cover technical competence that is different from traditional engineeringprograms which are made up of structured sequences of lecture-based and laboratory courses. Page 22.1389.2I. Introduction Project-based learning (PBL), or project-centered learning (PCL) to distinguish it from thepedagogy of problem-based learning1, was first adopted by Aalborg University in Denmark2. In a PBLcourse, students are given project assignments and they work in

Conference Session

Two Year-to-Four Year Transfer Topics Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erik N. Dunmire, College of Marin; Amelito G. Enriquez, Canada College; Kate A. Disney, Mission College, Santa Clara

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Two Year College Division

Conference Session

Enhancing Instructional Effectiveness in Civil Engineering: Case Studies

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Morgan Reese, U.S. Military Academy; Joseph P. Hanus, U.S. Military Academy; Ledlie Klosky, U.S. Military Academy, West Point

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Civil Engineering

objectives to guide my learning. 15 My instructor communicated effectively. 16 In this course, laboratory exercises contributed to my learning. 17 My instructor demonstrated positive expectations of the cadets in the class. 18 My instructor used visual images (pictures, demonstrations, models, diagrams, simulations, etc.) to enhance my learning. 19 My instructor gave me timely and accurate feedback on my learning progress. 20 In this course, the WPR's were fair and relevant. (WPR = Written Partial Review, also known as a mid-term examination) Page 22.1685.7 21

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Innovative College-Industry Partnerships for the Future

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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College Industry Partnerships

Profs. Edward Coyle and Leah Jamieson7-9. The program has grown steadily in bothsize and breadth to where it is recognized as its own academic program under the College ofEngineering. It has dedicated laboratories in the Armstrong Hall of Engineering. In the 2010-2011 academic year, almost 700 students participated on 90 projects , addressing needs rangingfrom data management for human services to creating energy efficient, sustainable home designsfor low income families and from designing learning centers for local museums to developingcustom play environments for children with disabilities. EPICS spans all engineering disciplinesat Purdue and includes students from over 60 majors across the university.Each project involves a team of eight to

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chi N. Thai, University of Georgia

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Computers in Education

Course for Engineering StudentsAbstractFor Spring 2011, a senior-level robotics course (first taught in Spring 2010) had been revisedaccording to principles for “Smart Teaching” described in the book “How Learning Works”.Homework, laboratory sessions and anchor projects had been redesigned to provide betterscaffolding for students with 2 different but complementary engineering backgrounds, and alsofor a better flow towards the theme of humanoid robotics. The e-portfolio tool EMMA wasintegrated into this course as a collaboration and feedback tool between instructor and students tohelp improve student algorithm development work, but EMMA was not found to be responsiveenough nor useful for this kind of use.IntroductionIn the Summer 2010, the

Conference Session

Computers in Education General Technical Session II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel J. Waldorf, California Polytechnic State University; Lizabeth T. Schlemer, California Polytechnic State University

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Computers in Education

contentaccompanied the lecture links and were provided to students by way of BlackBoard® learningmanagement software. Weekly at-home assignments and quizzes also accompanied the onlinelectures. Working sessions, with associated assignments, were held weekly as well, with thesecond class session each week dedicated to reviewing solutions, solving other exampleproblems, and providing high-level perspective for the short online lectures. In the workingsessions, students were encouraged to work together using open notes, open books, opencomputer/internet, and open access to the instructor, but individual submission of results wasrequired prior to leaving the class. The three-hour, hands-on laboratory also took place eachweek but was unchanged from previous

Conference Session

Technology in the ECE Classroom

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Jakob Fritz, Oklahoma State University; Wira Mulia, Oklahoma State University; Sohum Sohoni, Oklahoma State University; Kerri S. Kearney, Oklahoma State University; Mwarumba Mwavita, Oklahoma State University

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Electrical and Computer

ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems 6. An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility 7. An ability to communicate effectively 8. A recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning 9. A knowledge of contemporary issues 10. An ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.Choosing and effectively implementing a Computer Engineering design course laboratorycomponent is a challenging task. In many Computer Engineering design courses, the complexityof designs and the ease of use of simulation tools have resulted in laboratory courses tendingtoward the exclusive use of small example problems, simulation and

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Issues Part One

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Craig Titus, Purdue University; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jill L. May, Illinois Institute of Technology

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Engineering Ethics

areconsidered right and wrong—behaviors often articulated in codes of ethics. The studiesmentioned above, and others like them, use the DIT to measure groups of people organized bytheir professions (i.e. IT professionals15,16, medical laboratory professionals17, and universityhousing professionals18) or they use it to establish a baseline description of individual’s ethicalreasoning abilities in order to look for correlations with other behaviors or to help validate resultsfrom other instruments19. They do not use the DIT as a measure of moral reasoning in anengineering context.Our own preliminary research showed that generalized, non-engineering-specific ethicaldilemmas, such as those encountered in the DIT are not seen as the same types of issues

Conference Session

Project-Based Learning

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Oscar G. Nespoli, University of Waterloo; Harry Tempelman, Hitachi Construction Truck Mfg Ltd.; Ryan Spencer; Steve Lambert, University of Waterloo

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Design in Engineering Education

ofimportant behaviors. Recommendations include incorporating a professional spine in thecurriculum, whereby students may have an opportunity to integrate their knowledge in acontextual environment. A second recommendation outlines the need for students to makeconnections between theory and practice and to develop the thinking skills required forengineering practice. This requires an inductive, as opposed to a deductive, approach to teachingand learning.The integration of professional identity, knowledge and skills requires that students have anopportunity to experience engineering practice, through so-called approximations to practice.Often this means exposing students to laboratory or design project teaching methods (they aredifferent). A recent

Conference Session

Managing Dual-Career Issues

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adrienne R. Minerick, Michigan Technological University; Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University; Jacqueline A. El-Sayed, Kettering University; Donna Reese, Mississippi State University; Brian P. Kirkmeyer, Miami University

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Women in Engineering

researchers and served as co-PI on an NSF REU site. Research within her Medical micro-Device Engineering Research Laboratory (M.D. ERL) also inspires the development of Desktop Experiment Modules (DEMos) for use in chemical engineering classrooms or as outreach activities in area schools. Adrienne has been an active member of ASEE’s WIED, ChED, and NEE leadership teams since 2003.Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University Beena Sukumaran is Professor and Chair of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Rowan University. She has been at Rowan University since 1998. She is also Director at Large for the Women in Engineering Division of ASEE.Jacqueline A. El-Sayed, Kettering University Dr. Jacqueline El-Sayed is a

Conference Session

Two Year-to-Four Year Transfer Topics Part I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frankie Santos Laanan, Iowa State University; Dimitra Lynette Jackson, Iowa State University; Diane T. Rover, Iowa State University

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Two Year College Division

director of the undergraduate program in computer engineering at MSU. She also served as interim department chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2000 to 2001. She was a research staff member in the Scalable Computing Laboratory at the Ames Laboratory under a U.S-D.O.E. Postdoctoral Fellowship from 1989 to 1991. Her teaching and research has focused on the areas of embedded computer systems, reconfigurable hardware, integrated program development and performance environments for parallel and distributed systems, visualization, performance monitoring and evaluation, and engineering education. She currently serves as principal investigator for NSF STEP and S-STEM grants in the college. Dr

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irina Igel, Polytechnic Insititute of New York University; Ronald Leonel Poveda, Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Magued G. Iskander, Polytechnic Institute of New York University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

scanners and other mobile devices in Holtsville, N.Y. His largely experimental research is focused on parametric studies of novel lightweight composites and simulations of functionally-graded materials under load.Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic Institute of New York University VIKRAM KAPILA is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Brooklyn, NY, where he directs an NSF funded Web-Enabled Mechatronics and Process Control Re- mote Laboratory, an NSF funded Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics, and an NSF funded GK-12 Fellows project. He has held visiting positions with the Air Force Research Laboratories in Dayton, OH. His research interests are in cooperative control

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Physics I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University; Arun R. Srinivasa, Texas A&M University, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Jefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Physics & Physics

Accreditation Cycle. 2010, Baltimore, MD: ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission.2. Gentner, D, & Stevens, A. L. (1983) Mental Models, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.3. references forthcoming4. Duit, R. (2009). Bibliography – Students' and Teachers' Conceptions and Science Education (STCSE), Retrieved January 17, 2011, from http://www.ipn.uni-kiel.de/aktuell/stcse/stcse5. Hestenes, D., Wells, M., & Swackhamer, G. (1992). Force concept inventory. The Physics Teacher, 30(3): 141-151.6. Thornton, R., & Sokoloff, D. (1990). Learning motion concepts using real-time, microcomputer-based laboratory tools. American Journal of Physics. 58, 858-867.7. Thornton, 19968. Thornton, R., & Sokoloff, D. (1998). Assessing

Conference Session

Emerging Areas: Biotechnology, Microtechnology, and Energy

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claire Komives, San Jose State University; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University; Theresa A. Good, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Laurent Simon, New Jersey Institute of Technology; John P. O'Connell, University of Virginia; Jeffrey John Chalmers, Ohio State University, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Erik Fernandez, University of Virginia

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Chemical Engineering

AC 2011-2605: BIOLOGY ACROSS THE CURRICULUM: PREPARINGSTUDENTS FOR A CAREER IN THE LIFE SCIENCESClaire Komives, San Jose State University Dr. Claire Komives is presently an Associate Professor in the Chemical and Materials Engineering De- partment at San Jose State University (SJSU). She has taught ten different courses, including core chem- ical engineering courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels, Biochemical Engineering lecture and laboratory courses and a bioethics general education course. She has research experience in the areas of biosensors, enzyme kinetics, cell culture, fermentation and bioprocess engineering. Among her profes- sional positions, she has spent one year as a Visiting Scientist at

Conference Session

ABET and Curriculum-Level Assessments

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University

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Chemical Engineering

effectively on multidisciplinary teams. While students work in teams of 4-5 in Chemical Plant Design, neither the teams nor the design problems can be well described as “multidisciplinary.”  Some program objectives are related to ability to perform hands-on experimental and laboratory work. Chemical Plant Design at Rowan University makes extensive use of process simulation but has never been taught with a wet-lab component.Junior/Senior Engineering ClinicRowan University has an eight-semester Engineering Clinic program intended to provideEngineering students with experience solving practical, open-ended engineeringproblems. The sequence culminates in the Junior/Senior Engineering Clinic, in whichstudents work on