Conference Session

Design Communications & Cognition I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dirk Schaefer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jitesh Panchal, Washington State University; Sammy Haroon, The RBR Group; Farrokh Mistree, University of Oklahoma

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Design in Engineering Education

Organization is “an organization that facilitates thelearning of all its members and consciously transforms itself and its context”. A learningorganization exhibits five main characteristics: (1) systems thinking, (2) personal mastery, (3)mental models, (4) a shared vision, and (5) team learning. A brief overview of these, taken from[26], is presented below.Systems thinking: The idea of the learning organization developed from a body of work calledsystems thinking. This is a conceptual framework that allows people to study businesses asbounded objects. Learning organizations use this method of thinking when assessing theircompany and have information systems that measure the performance of the organization as awhole and of its various components

Conference Session

State of Manufacturing Engineering Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

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Manufacturing

engineers are coming out of education systems where they have the opportunity to coop during there education. The [college], now [college] is an excellent example of a solid well rounded education. ● Tie the educational process to industry ASAP. Real world involvement ● LEAN! This drives most major decisions made in my organization ● Looking back at my experience while in school, I have fond memories of courses, I feel, prepared me for an engineering career by assigning projects that had required objectives and milestones. Those types of work fully prepared us for our own experiences once we graduated and were responsible for our own assignments and workload. ● I think that automotive is a huge

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Issues Part II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katherine McComas, Cornell University; Nancy Healy, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Engineering Ethics

-traditional channels, given that thesocial science students will unlikely encounter the internship information through science andengineering publications.International Winter School for Graduate StudentsThe International Winter Schools for Graduate Students (iWSG) are organized jointly by NNINand institutions in third world countries with the goal of promoting international bridge buildingand understanding by bringing together students and faculty in an intense teaching and societalexperience. Each year, 10 graduate students and faculty participate in a rigorous course in anemerging and research-intensive interdisciplinary direction that is not part of U.S. graduatecurriculums. This lasts six days and includes laboratory sections, followed by travel

Conference Session

Curricular Innovations in College-Industry Partnerships

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard T. Schoephoerster, University of Texas, El Paso; Ryan Wicker, University of Texas, El Paso; Ricardo Pineda, University of Texas, El Paso; Ahsan Choudhuri, University of Texas, El Paso

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College Industry Partnerships

AC 2011-683: INTEGRATING PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE INTO THEENGINEERING CURRICULUM: A PROPOSED MODEL AND PROTO-TYPE CASE WITH AN INDUSTRY PARTNERRichard T. Schoephoerster, University of Texas at El Paso Dr. Schoephoerster is the Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso, where he leads a College of over 3000 students (including approximately 500 graduate students) in 17 different BS, MS, and PhD degree programs, and 80 faculty members in six different departments with approximately $25 million in research funding from local, state, and national agencies and companies. Dr. Schoephoerster received his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering in 1985, and his M.S. (1986) and Ph.D. (1989) in Mechanical

Conference Session

Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gregory W. Davis, Kettering University; Craig J. Hoff, Kettering University; William J. Riffe, Kettering University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

”Engineering Creativity” that was designed to bring out the creative side of engineering and business students. Well over 1000 students passed through this course. Because of this background, he was selected to be part of a team to teach the ”Innovations and New Ventures” class on entrepreneurship that began in the summer of 2006, with him concentrating on the innovation side of the course. To date, over one hundred and eighty students have learned how to develop a product and put together a basic business plan. He led a team to develop ”Entrepreneurship Across the Curriculum” at Kettering University where faculty members attended workshops designed to help put innovation projects into their classrooms. This effort resulted

Conference Session

SPECIAL SESSION: What Works to Retain Students in Chemical Engineering Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adrienne R. Minerick, Michigan Technological University; Donald P. Visco, Tennessee Technological University; Susan M. Montgomery, University of Michigan; Daina Briedis, Michigan State University; Neeraj Buch, Michigan State University; Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University; Colleen A. McDonough, Michigan State University; Patrick Walton, Michigan State University; Amanda M. Portis, Michigan State University; Eldred H. Chimowitz, University of Rochester; Willie (Skip) E. Rochefort, Oregon State University; Keith L. Levien, Oregon State University; Nimir Elbashir, Texas A&M University; Jennifer Condit, University of Rochester ; Stephen Lindeman

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Chemical Engineering

career guidance to the students looking for the correct career path, as well aspersonal attention they need to make these decisions, and to fully integrate them into the“CBEE community” at the very beginning of their college experience. The retentionactivities include two first year courses that are heavily project oriented; individualizedstudent advising with a faculty member in the student’s chosen discipline; an active andsupportive CBEE Student Club (AIChE Student Chapter); K-12 outreach activities withfirst year students acting as mentors for middle and high school students; and the JohnsonScholar and Internship Program, a summer research experience for up to 20 first yearstudents. These retention activities will be discussed in more detail

Conference Session

Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kacey Beddoes, Virginia Tech; Maura J. Borrego, Virginia Tech; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Education at Virginia Tech. She is currently serving a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship at the National Science Foundation. Her research interests focus on interdisciplinary faculty members and graduate students in engineering and science, with engineering education as a specific case. Dr. Borrego holds U.S. NSF CAREER and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) awards for her engineering education research. Dr. Borrego has developed and taught graduate level courses in engi- neering education research methods and assessment from 2005-2010. All of Dr. Borrego’s degrees are in Materials Science and Engineering. Her M.S. and Ph.D. are from Stanford University, and her B.S. is

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Betsy Palmer, Montana State University; Patrick T. Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Betty J. Harper, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Dan Merson, Pennsylvania State University

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Design in Engineering Education

othercontexts on engineering solutions.How can engineering programs best develop their students' ability to integrate context anddesign? This paper reports results from two national studies, funded by the National ScienceFoundation, which are exploring educational practices and outcomes at diverse institutions.Prototype to Production: Processes and Conditions for Preparing the Engineer of 2020 (P2P)surveyed faculty members, students, alumni, program chairs, and associate deans ofundergraduate education at 31 four-year U.S. engineering schools. A companion study,Prototyping the Engineer of 2020: A 360-degree Study of Effective Education (P360), developeddetailed qualitative case studies of the engineering programs at six institutions

Conference Session

FPD IX: Research on First-Year Programs and Students, Part II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jae Hoon Lim, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Patricia A. Tolley, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Kimberly Warren, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Peter Thomas Tkacik, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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First-Year Programs

institutions are committed to the intellectual and social growth of students; that is, theyare committed to their education and not just retention.Community BuildingThe ability to successfully adjust to the emotional, cognitive, and social challenges of living onone‟s own for the first time, develop new friends and support networks, examine personal valuesand beliefs, explore various career options, and choose/succeed in a major is dependent on robustself-efficacy.24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34 Self-efficacy is the belief in one‟s ability to organize andexecute courses of action to achieve specific outcomes.24 The rigor of the engineering curriculumaffects self-efficacy appraisals and students‟ choices about persisting in the major, particularlyfor

Conference Session

Curricular Developments in Energy Education II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Teodora Rutar, Seattle University; Gregory Mason, Seattle University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

involved biology. The biology professor is particularly knowledgeable andpleasant person to work with. Also, their sponsor interactions included interactions with abiologist. During the second project, the students were disinterested in performinginterdisciplinary work, yet they functioned on an interdisciplinary team of faculty and students,that included both biologists and chemists. Some of the interactions of that interdisciplinaryteam were strained however. The mechanical engineering students did not communicate wellwith the chemistry student. The communication was so bad that mechanical engineeringstudents believed that they could have completed the same tasks better without that student andwith the chemistry professor’s guidance. Since the

Conference Session

Experiential Learning Programs and the Transition to Industry

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taylor Halverson, Brigham Young University; Robert H. Todd, Brigham Young University; Christopher A. Mattson, Brigham Young University; Gregg M. Warnick, Brigham Young University

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College Industry Partnerships

-based learning and the associated advice, based onboth their Capstone and subsequence post-graduation experience, that alumni provided toincoming students for overcoming those challenges.IntroductionThe purpose of this paper is to share feedback Brigham Young University (BYU) Capstonealumni provided concerning the challenges faced when beginning project-based learningexperiences and suggestions they recommended to new students for being successful. The BYUCapstone program started in 1990 as a two-semester senior design experience. The program wasdeveloped by BYU faculty members and industry leaders to answer the needs for improvedengineering education.1 From its small beginnings in 1990 of just four projects, the Capstoneprogram has steadily

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jack L. Beuth, Carnegie Mellon University; Rohit Kumar, Carnegie Mellon University; Carolyn Penstein Rose, Carnegie Mellon University

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NSF Grantees

monitoring student dialogues digitally, or directly by holding moretraditional help sessions run by course instructors or assistants. We will explore methods foroptimizing the levels of direct personal, remote personal and purely agent-based interactionsmost effective for our students. In the extreme, students will use tutorials in the evenings or atother times convenient to them, working with fellow students with only the dialogue agentmonitoring and coaching their work. If this proves practical, students could obtain the benefitsof an engaging, collaborative mathematical modeling experience fully on their own.Results to DateWe have run a variety of pilot studies with the systems described above in undergraduateengineering courses to verify the

Conference Session

CANCELLED: This session has been replaced by session W269 in room 223: Panel: Building Effective Pathways and Programs for Women and Minoritities

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hyun Kyoung Ro, Pennsylvania State University; Rose M. Marra, University of Missouri, Columbia; Patrick T. Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Ardie D. Walser, City College of the City University of New York, Grove School of Engineering; Lois Calian Trautvetter, Northwestern University; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego

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Minorities in Engineering

practicing engineer in industry,government, or non-profit organization. We also explored if being active in engineering clubs orprograms for women and/or minority students played a role in their career planning. Whenwomen and underrepresented minority students actively participated in these types ofengineering clubs or programs, they were, indeed, more likely to plan to work in engineering, butthey were also more likely to expect to focus on management or sales rather than on becomingpracticing engineers. After two engineering faculty members prominent in promoting a more diverse studentbody commented on these findings, the floor was opened for a discussion of the findings andtheir implications for engineering and engineering education

Conference Session

International Experience, Effective Instruction, and Student Exchange Programs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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International

require students toconsider multiple factors and to integrate information from various sources. Thus, cases, invarious forms, are one solution to the widening discrepancy between traditional classroomteaching and what really takes place in the real world (9). They give students experience withsituations and challenges they do not usually come across during traditional classroom activities.In any of their form, thoughtfully planned and well prepared cases provide: • Relevance. Cases depict real situations at a particular location and point in time. As such, they provide an insight into the decision-making process. Students see the relevance of the case to their future careers. • Motivation. Cases can provide incentives for

Conference Session

FPD IV: Improving Student Success: Mentoring, Intervening, and Supplementing

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Scott, Morgan State University; Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University; Jumoke 'Kemi Ladeji-Osias, Morgan State University; Carl White, Morgan State University; Myra W. Curtis, Morgan State University

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First-Year Programs

has over ten years of experience in the management of funded research, both technical and educa- tional. Dr. White’s most recent award was from NASA’s University Research Center program to establish the Center of Excellence in Systems Engineering for Space Exploration Technologies. As the Associate Dean for Morgan State University’s School of Engineering, Dr. White’s primary tasks are to provide support for the research endeavors conducted by faculty and associate researchers within the School of Engineering, to oversee the quality of the graduate program offerings, and to manage recruitment and retention programs in order to establish and sustain a pipeline of quality engineering graduate students and research

Conference Session

Study Abroad, International Exchange Programs, and Student Engagements

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven L. Shumway, Brigham Young University; SClaudina Vargas, Complex Systems Optimization Lab; Geoff Wright, Brigham Young University; Ron Terry, Brigham Young University

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International

. Under the supervision of three BYU faculty members, theuniversity students developed the curriculum during spring term and then presented the materialduring summer term. The Dominican Republic students were assessed as to their learning andsatisfaction with the instruction. The university students were assessed as to the effect that thestudy abroad had on their teacher development.This paper contains a report of the curriculum development, the study abroad activities, and asummary of the assessment results of both the Dominican Republic and BYU students.Curriculum DevelopmentOverview. From the university perspective, the major purposes for initiating a study abroadopportunity for the BYU students was to provide pre-service teachers an

Conference Session

BME Courses and Learning Activities

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles J. Robinson, Clarkson University

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Biomedical

required totake good notes in lieu of buying a textbook, and about how ethics were integrated into engineer-ing decisions. For our students, the approach that this course took has served to provide an over-view of the biomedical and rehabilitation engineering fields. This paper noted before that 18additional students signed up for the BmE or BS&T minors while or after taking this class. Sincethe majority of the class were sophomores or juniors, no post-graduation data are available as ofyet as to what careers they ultimately will embark upon. The one high school student in the classwill be going to the Albany College of Pharmacy. No data are available regarding whether life-long-learning skills were enhanced, although a number of students

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susannah Howe, Smith College; Mary A. Moriarty, Smith College; Apurva Errabelli

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Design in Engineering Education

knowledge and skills from their capstone experience that they couldtransfer to their future careers. Yet, little is known about what students actually transfer to lifeafter graduation.2. MotivationThe transfer literature is filled with varying definitions and frameworks about what constitutestransfer. While it is not the intent of the authors to advocate for a particular framework, it isimportant to articulate the theoretical background from which our work originates. Our view oftransfer is influenced by the work of Schwartz et al.11 In their view, transfer is not necessarilythe ability to directly apply what one has learned to new situations but rather an identification ofskills and knowledge that best position preparation for future learning

Conference Session

Qualitative Research Programs & International Research Experience from Around the World

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yating Chang, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Joe J.J. Lin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Juila D. Thompson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Yi Shen, Purdue University; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Eckhard A. Groll, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Edwin Daniel Hirleman, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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International

responsibilities include engagement of both students and faculty members at Purdue University to embrace global engineering mindsets and practice. During the first 2 years at Purdue University, she drove a 2X increase in the number of engineering major participating in both short-term and long-term overseas study. At her current position as the assistant director of the Purdue Office of Professional Program, Chang expands her expertise area to concentrate on developing global professional and research internships for students in the Engineering, Technology and Business disciplines. In 2010, she became the Program Director of International Research and Education in Engineering (IREE), a NSF funded program that sent 58 U.S

Conference Session

Ethics in different disciplines

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diana Bairaktarova, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Demetra Evangelou, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Ethics

students graduating from engineering programsmust have an understanding of how ethics work in the real world and how ethical problems canaffect an engineer’s entire professional career. This course will focus on the ethics of engineeringpractice. As part of the course students will be expected to consider the effects of their actions(and failure to act) including the economic, environmental, political, societal, health and safetyconsequences of their work, while also keeping in mind the manufacturability and sustainabilityof their structures and products.This course was originally developed in the context of a curriculum design course. It was createdwith the intention of further development using the results of a program of rigorous research

Conference Session

Special Session: Discovering implications of the Academic Pathways Study for YOUR Campus

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia J. Atman, University of Washington; Sheri Sheppard, P.E., Stanford University; Samantha Brunhaver, Stanford University; Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Deborah Kilgore, University of Washington; Micah Lande, Stanford University; Gary Lichtenstein, Quality Evaluation Designs; Dennis Lund, University of Washington; Karl A. Smith, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington; Ken Yasuhara, University of Washington

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Educational Research and Methods

your college offer courses or programs (such as speaker series)that reveal to students the range of jobs and careers within the engineering field? How arestudents encouraged to integrate a variety of experiences into informed decision making onmajoring in engineering? Do they have an accurate and sufficient understanding of the field ofengineering and their place in it? How is re-examination of their decisions to stay in engineeringsupported through advising?Pathways: What is the range of pathways that your students take through your curricula? Wheredo they find support? What organizations, faculty, student groups, and peers help studentsnavigate through the institution? Does your institution support varied pathways through theundergraduate

Conference Session

Special Session Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the MATE International ROV Competition

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas R. Consi, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

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Ocean and Marine

wholesystem. This requires the students to become literate in other areas of engineering so they caneffectively interact with their colleagues in the team, thus preparing them for real-world careerswhere team efforts are the norm. The ROV competition plays yet another important role inexposing students to ocean and marine engineering careers. In order to best realize these andother benefits it is important that the students be given the proper advice and oversight by theROV team’s faculty advisor. College students live in a different world than high school ormiddle school students and their advising needs are substantially different. Time management inparticular is an important issue with undergraduate engineers (who constitute the bulk of college

Conference Session

New Research & Trends for Minorities in Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

K.L. Jordan, Michigan Technological University; Susan Amato-Henderson, Michigan Technological University; Sheryl A. Sorby, Michigan Technological University; Tammy L Haut Donahue, Michigan Technological University

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Minorities in Engineering

AC 2011-659: ARE THERE DIFFERENCES IN ENGINEERING SELF-EFFICACY BETWEEN MINORITY AND MAJORITY STUDENTS ACROSSACADEMIC LEVELS?K.L. Jordan, Michigan Technological University K.L. Jordan completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Technological University in 2006 and 2008 respectively. During her undergraduate tenure she was an active member of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) and currently serves on the Board of Directors. She is also the President of the ASEE student chapter at Michigan Tech. As the recipient of a King-Chavez-Parks graduate fellowship, Ms. Jordan has agreed to seek an engineering faculty position upon completion of her Ph.D. degree. She is also

Conference Session

FPD XI: Assessing First-Year Programs, Experiences, and Communities

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia R. Backer, San Jose State University; Emily L. Allen, San Jose State University; Janet Sundrud, San Jose State University

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First-Year Programs

Page 22.255.7engineering students: Engineering Student Success Center and MESA (Mathematics,Engineering, and Science Achievement) Engineering Program.The Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering Student Success Center (ESSC) includes aninfrastructure that provides academic, career, co-curricular, and advising programs forengineering students. It is an inclusive environment that fosters collaboration and responsibilityamong students, staff, and faculty. The mission of the ESSC is to empower engineering studentsfrom application to graduation, to support their academic and personal growth, and to engagethem as lifetime members of the college learning community.The ESSC’s main goal is to support engineering students and the college learning

Conference Session

FPD I: Attacking the Problems of Retention in the First Year

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan D. Niemi, LeTourneau University; Robert W. Warke, LeTourneau University

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First-Year Programs

, we recommended that initialimprovements be made in our freshman year. These should focus on an early introduction to theengineering field and the creation of first-year interest groups with significant faculty and peermentor interactions. The development of a new first-semester course to provide experiences inengineering practice was also recommended.This report details our findings and supports our recommendations.IntroductionFor the five freshman cohorts (1998–2002) that were considered in this study, the averagegraduation rate for LETU engineering and engineering technology students was 42%. This wassubstantially below the roughly 55% US national average graduation rate in recent years forundergraduate engineering students. In addition to

Conference Session

Special Session Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the MATE International ROV Competition

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas E. Oppliger, Michigan Technological University; Valorie Troesch, Michigan Technological University; Jean Kampe, Michigan Technological University

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Ocean and Marine

) was an outcome of a December 2004 report generated byMichigan Lieutenant Governor John Cherry’s roundtable commission that addressed the issue ofhow to create a 21st century Michigan workforce2. In response to this report, representatives fromMichigan Tech began investigating ways to increase linkages with K-12 education. They soughtto motivate and prepare more students for higher education and STEM careers. Among themultiple initiatives undertaken was High School Enterprise. The university agreed to fund asmall, one-year test program in three Michigan high schools for the 2007-2008 school year.Based on positive preliminary outcomes, a pilot HSE program was subsequently supported byNSF through a one-year IEECI (EEC 0835670) award and then a

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering in Silico

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Debra Gilbuena, Oregon State University; Ben Uriel Sherrett, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

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Chemical Engineering

deliverables.End of • Design Memo Meeting (DMM) Student teams meet with the expert to discuss design strategy.Week 1 o Initial run parameters Upon approval of strategy and parameters, students are given a o Experimental strategy username and password to access the Virtual Laboratory Project.End of • Update Memo Meeting Student teams meet with expert to discuss progress, issues, andWeek 2 o Progress to date receive feedback.End of • Final Recipe Teams deliver a 10-15 minute oral presentation to the expert, 2Week 3 • Final Report other faculty members, and the other students in the laboratory

Conference Session

WIED Olio

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carmen G. Villa, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City; Elsa Gonzalez, Texas A&M University

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Women in Engineering

direct the questioning. In addition, and referring to Lincoln andGuba14, persistent observation adds salience to a study; it helps the researcher to identifyrelevancies and atypical cases. Students were observed in their institutional settings and in twoengineering classes. Lastly, documents were reviewed at each institution that helped theresearchers understand the experiences of the female students.In addition, peer debriefing was used to provide an external check of the inquiry process, todiscover our own biases, clarify interpretations, and discuss possible future directions. Finally,the respondents had the opportunity to review their transcripts and provide or refine theinformation. This member checking technique is described by Lincoln and

Conference Session

EM Program Design

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary A. Viola, School of Engineering, Tufts University

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Engineering Management

assignments to apply these new skills withintheir teams at both Tufts and in their workplace.Modules from various courses are taught throughout the program. This reinforces the learningachieved early in the program as students proceed through the course of study. As an example,the Project and Operations Management course includes 2 modules taught in the first semester, 1in the second semester, and 1 in the fourth semester. Although different instructors may teachmodules in a particular course, the faculty enforces quality control; each course has a singular“course director”. Each semester, faculty members meet to discuss common projects, integration,and overlap of modules

Conference Session

Experiential Learning Programs and the Transition to Industry

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roy Pruett, Bluefield State College; Bruce V. Mutter, Bluefield State College

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College Industry Partnerships

university cooperativeeducation with an industry-centered approach. Our program will allow a student to complete upto four semester-long paid work experiences related to his/her major and career interests, whilestill earning a bachelor degree in four years. ARAP students would graduate on-schedule andahead of the curve.ARAP is designed to offer students the opportunity to “learn while they earn” and to:  Explore different professional positions related to their major and career interests before graduation.  Practically apply classroom knowledge and laboratory experiences in real-world problem-solving scenarios, preparing them for more advanced coursework and exciting careers of the future.  Better accomplish goals