Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tom Weller, University of South Florida; Jeff Frolik, University of Vermont; Paul G. Flikkema, Northern Arizona University; Wayne A. Shiroma, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Carol Haden, Magnolia Consulting, LLC; Rhonda R. Franklin, Univeristy of Minnesota

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NSF Grantees

the students could relate to better than the conventional 20 year oldtopics in textbooks. (3) It also helped the faculty member create a diverse learning environmentfor her students that expanded on an in-class course, with notes, a textbook, and one facultymember’s viewpoint on the subject to an on-line course with active learning activities (on-linequizzes) and interactions with multiple faculty viewpoints from around the United States. Forexample, when a student had a question about one part of the module the direct interactions be- Page 22.1486.7tween myself (faculty member) and MUSE faculty provided near real-time feedback to

Conference Session

Professional Development and Scholarship

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William J. Sawaya, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Technology

uncommon for engineering andbusiness programs to consist of at least the following groups of stakeholders: undergraduatestudents, graduate students, professional students, the organizations that hire undergraduate orgraduate students, organizations directly benefiting from applied research, organizationsindirectly benefiting from theoretical or applied research, discipline specific community, theuniversity itself, colleges within universities, academic departments or programs, the academicand scholarly community, society in general – both globally and locally, the faculty, and staffmembers supporting the program. Each of these stakeholders has their own set of objectives,and any decision made in administering or changing the academic program will

Conference Session

Collaborative Learning, Project-Based, Service Learning, and Impacts on Engineering Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Russell Korte, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Bruce Elliott-Litchfield, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Laura D. Hahn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Aaron Daniel Lewicki, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Valeri Werpetinski, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Seung Won Hong, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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International

memberships and interactions in social groups. 28, 29 Socialidentity forms as a process of self-categorization. 30 Through this process of categorization,individuals evaluate their readiness and fit to a group and assess the group’s openness to theirmembership. 31 In adopting the identity of a group, the individual’s personal identity recedes tothe background and identity as a member of the group takes over, including adopting the norms,beliefs, and values of the group. 31 In the case of engineering students, the process of adoptingthe identity of an engineer is under development and thus affected by students’ experiences(curricular and co-curricular, formal and informal) and their perceptions of those experiences.Social identity can be defined as

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa R. Lattuca, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Lois Calian Trautvetter, Northwestern University; Sarah L. Codd, Montana State University; David B. Knight, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Carla M. Cortes, Northwestern University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

engineers with superior design and problem-solving skills.Data Collection and AnalysisIn 2007–08, the research team divided into three smaller teams, each comprised of four to fivefaculty and graduate research assistants from the fields of engineering and education. Each teamwas responsible for data collection and reporting for two case studies. Data collection relied onmultiple sources of evidence: personal and group (or focus) interviews with faculty,administrators, students, and professional staff (e.g., student support services); observations ofclasses and events (e.g., Projects Day), archival records (e.g., meeting minutes), and otherartifacts (websites, documents). Triangulation of these data sources enabled corroboration offacts and events

Conference Session

Persistence and Retention II: Curricular Issues

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alison A. Dingwall, Howard University; Lorraine N. Fleming, Howard University; Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Junaid A. Siddiqui, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

, Purdue University, West Lafayette Junaid Siddiqui is a doctoral student at the School of Engineering Education, Purdue University. Before joining the doctoral program he worked for nine years at the faculty development office of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia. In this role he was involved in several faculty development activities, particularly working with the faculty members for exploring the use of web-based technologies in the support of classroom teaching. He received his MS in Civil Engineering from KFUPM while he has also earned an MPBL degree from Aalborg University, Denmark. His research focus during his doctoral studies is on institutional and faculty development in

Conference Session

Curricular Developments in Energy Education I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert W. Fletcher, Lawrence Technological University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

about possibly offering a bachelors degree in alternativeenergy engineering or a degree in energy engineering. Administrators at Lawrence Tech alsoinquired about the possibility. Faculty members in the program have remained cautious,however, about starting a new degree in Alternative Energy Engineering, or even a degree in themore generalized field of Energy Engineering. Bass and White note that “As a metric for howunderserved energy engineering is in the United States, consider ABET does not list "energyengineering," or any permutation thereof, as a separate discipline.”15 Lawrence Tech has seen aninterest from its students regarding such a degree. Industry, however, does not have anyfamiliarity with what constitutes such a degree. Would such

Conference Session

Professional Identity

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine M. Morley; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Shawn S. Jordan, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2011-850: GENDER AND ENGINEERING: USING PHOTO ELICITA-TION AS A METHOD OF INQUIRYKatherine M. Morley Katherine is an undergraduate student in Aeronautical Engineering at Purdue University. As a member of the Society of Women in Engineering, and a participant in the Women in Engineering Program at Purdue University, she took interest in feminist engineering research. She is particularly interested to learn how engineering is conceptualized and gendered.Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Alice L. Pawley is an assistant professor in the School of Engineering Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Women’s Studies Program at Purdue University. She has a B.Eng. in Chemical Engineering

Conference Session

Tablet PC use in Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leanna M. Horton, Virginia Tech; Kahyun Kim, Virginia Tech; Shreya Kothaneth, Virginia Tech; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech

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Computers in Education

future potential, a mixed-method investigation of theprogram was conducted. This analysis explored student and faculty usage of Tablet PCs,including benefits and barriers associated with Tablet PC use, through interviews with facultymembers (n = 4), focus groups with undergraduate students (n = 21), an online survey toundergraduate students (n = 1090), and a sociotechnical systems analysis of the COE. Resultsindicated many improvements in student learning related to Tablet PC use as well as severalbarriers toward adoption affecting both faculty and students. Notable benefits associated withTablet PC use included increased student engagement, improved visualization features, morestreamlined classroom presentations/note taking, and better

Conference Session

Int. Engineering Education: Developments, Innovations, and Implementations

Collection

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

Page 22.1129.13faculty themselves experienced during their course of study.“I am also in a learning process in the MIT-Portugal Program, in this new engineering approach ofbringing together economic aspects, management, etc.”“Probably after they finished their curricular part, and I have no doubts, the students are better preparedfor issued of management than most of the teachers that are teaching them.”The findings underline that the program has a enormous impact on these junior faculty. Theyreport an observed “boost” in career opportunities, a drastic expansion of their scientificnetwork, and important new inputs in their research. Conversely, young faculty seem to be moreeager to explore and exploit the range of opportunities offered

Conference Session

Myths About Gender and Race

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carroll Suzanne Seron, University of California, Irvine; Erin A. Cech, University of California, San Diego; Susan S. Silbey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Brian Rubineau, Cornell University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

in sociology at UC San Diego. Her research examines individual-level, cultural mechanisms that reproduce inequality, especially those pertaining to sex segregation in science and engineering fields. Her dissertation investigates the self-expressive edge of inequality, analyzing how gender schemas and self-conceptions influence career decisions of college students over time. She also studies the role of professional culture in wage inequality, cross-national beliefs about work time for mothers (with Maria Charles), and, in a Social Problems article, perceptions of inequality among high-level professional women (with Mary Blair-Loy). She earned Electrical Engineering and Sociology degrees from Montana State

Conference Session

Globalizing Engineering Education II: Best Practices

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan McNeill, University of Florida, Gainesville; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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ASEE Global Programs

- sity. She obtained a B.S. in mathematics from Spelman College, a M.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Alabama, and a Ph.D. in Leadership and Policy Studies from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. Teaching interests relate to the professional development of graduate engineering students and to leadership, policy, and change in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. Pri- mary research projects explore the preparation of engineering doctoral students for careers in academia and industry and the development of engineering education assessment tools. She is a NSF Faculty Early Career (CAREER) award winner and is a recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chao Chen, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Carlos Pomalaza-Raez, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Edwin Chobot, Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Daniel B. Newby, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Renee Kathleen Chandler, Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Nusaybah Abu-Mulaweh, The Johns Hopkins University

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Design in Engineering Education

communication networks.Carlos Pomalaza-Raez, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne Carlos Pomalaza-Rez is an Electrical Engineering Professor at Indiana-Purdue University, Indiana, USA, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Oulu, Finland. He received his BSME and BSEE from Universidad Nacional de Ingeniera, Lima, Peru in 1974, and his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, in 1977 and 1980, respectively. He has been a Faculty Member of the University of Limerick, Ireland, and of Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York. He has also been a member of the technical staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology.Edwin Chobot, Purdue

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taylor Martin, University of Texas, Austin; Pat Ko, University of Texas, Austin; Stephanie Baker Peacock, University of Texas, Austin; Jennifer Rudolph, University of Texas, Austin

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

engineering and in computer science, Pat worked in computer chip design before changing careers to teach high school. He is currently a graduate student in STEM Education at The University of Texas at Austin and his research interests include measuring the educational benefits of middle school and high school robotics programs.Stephanie Baker Peacock, The University of Texas, Austin Stephanie received her BS and MS of Mathematics at branch campuses of The University of Texas and is pursuing her PhD in Science and Mathematics Education at The University of Texas at Austin. Her predominate research interest focuses on development of algebraic reasoning and symbolic understand- ing. Special attention is paid to students in

Conference Session

SE Capstone Design Projects, Part I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith G. Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology; John A Nastasi, Stevens Institute of Technology; Eirik Hole, Stevens Institute of Technology; Peter L. Russell, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering, Systems Engineering

approach into the existing curriculum by creating aframework of educational and organizational components that integrates discipline-specificsenior design and special projects courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Byincluding graduate students as well as external advisors, we anticipate providing a level ofprofessionalism, experience and knowledge that would not be possible on an undergraduate-onlyproject, also giving context to the career aspects of Systems Engineering for all studentsinvolved.Project DescriptionThe Stevens project, which is design/build, has been conducted over two semesters and involved4 undergraduate sub-teams from Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Management, Electrical& Computer Engineering and Civil

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gisele Ragusa, Ph.D., University of Southern California

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

. Specifically, the NAE charges universities and colleges to prepareengineers that are leaders with strong globally focused communication, leadership andinterdisciplinary research and professional skills in diverse in engineering environments. This paper describes six universities’ response to this important NAE challenge. Thepaper will describe both curricular and pedagogical research and a measure of engineering globalpreparedness. In this study, engineering students received interdisciplinary globally focusedengineering education and then were assessed as to their preparedness to work in globalworkforces and research environments. An Engineering Global Preparedness Index wasadministered to assess this educational and research experience with a

Conference Session

SPECIAL SESSION: Interdisciplinary Course Design Opportunities for Chemical Engineers

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wendy C. Newstetter, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Chemical Engineering

and form relationships to arrive at asolution, for they cannot solve the problems alone. Obvious partners are the other team members,at first strangers but hopefully colleagues and friends as the term progresses. A successful teamlearns to see each member as a potential learning partner who both offers opportunities forlearning but also is a learner him/herself. Other learning partners can be outside experts that thegroups are encouraged to consult such as physicians, family members, faculty members,graduate students or post-docs working in labs as well as the faculty facilitator who guides thegroup. In providing a learning environment in which forming relationships is essential tosuccess, students are ideally moving from a model of learning

Conference Session

Experiential Learning and Globalization in BME

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara Burks Fasse, Georgia Institute of Technology; Paul Benkeser, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Biomedical

AC 2011-1256: DEVELOPING THE GLOBAL BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERTHROUGH A 12-MONTH INTERNATIONAL UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHEXPERIENCE IN THE U.S. AND CHINABarbara Burks Fasse, Georgia Institute of Technology Barbara Burks Fasse is an educational psychologist and senior research scientist in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech. Dr. Fasse studies the efficacy and value of student-centered learning initiatives– specifically Problem-Based and Project-Based Inquiry Learning– in classrooms, in- structional labs, and undergraduate research experiences. She joined the BME faculty in 2007 following ten years in Georgia Tech’s College of Computing where she was a member of the NSF-funded Learning By Design

Conference Session

Innovative Instructional Strategies and Curricula in ECE I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

MaryPat Beaufait; Duyun Chen, University of Pennsylvania; Carl B Dietrich P.E., Virginia Tech; Cecile Dietrich; Garrett Michael Vanhoy, University of Arizona

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Electrical and Computer

like. The friendly interactions with faculty and current graduatestudents helped him realize how rewarding research can be. Duyun indicated that he after theprogram, he better understood what graduate studies involves and this reinforced his decision topursue the Ph.D. portion of his future career plans.MaryPat went into the program with a definite plan to complete an undergraduate degree inelectrical engineering and then pursue a Master‘s or Ph.D. in biomedical engineering. Theprogram confirmed her desire to stay in academia and work on research under faculty mentors. Page 22.1548.15Working with her fellow engineering students and her

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Special Session: Moving Towards the Intended, Explicit, and Authentic: Addressing Critical Misalignments in Engineering Learning within Secondary and University Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Anderson, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Sandra Shaw Courter, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Mitchell J. Nathan, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Amy C. Prevost, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Christine G. Nicometo, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Traci M. Nathans-Kelly, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Thomas Dean McGlamery, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Amy K. Atwood, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Educational Research and Methods, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

problems while being mentored by moresenior engineers, faculty or graduate students should take on roles as practicing engineer 13 14mentors. They could also take on roles as mock clients where actual clients are not available.This type of learning needs to move beyond the senior design seminar and become a greaterportion of learning throughout undergraduate education. Additionally, faculty members need to explicitly connect learning about propercommunication to engineering courses. There should not be an assumption that these skills willbe sufficiently learned in communications courses that are

Conference Session

Developing Systems Engineering Curriculum, Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Agnes Galambosi, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Ertunga C. Ozelkan, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Systems Engineering

sustainability in technology education.Borchers et al.[13] gave a detailed example of an undergraduate course in environmental designand manufacturing, while Lynch-Cary and Sutherland[14] discussed how to integrate principlesand practices of sustainability into the industrial engineering curriculum.Kumar et al.[15] discussed infusing sustainability principles into manufacturing and mechanicalengineering curriculum and describing challenges of the process and a benchmarking study atMichigan Tech. They concluded that the three main barriers were lack of accreditation processimprovement, conventional thinking of some faculty members and company expectations andrecruiting trends. Christensen[16] investigated how deans and directors at selected 50 globalMBA

Conference Session

Persistence and Retention II: Curricular Issues

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas F. Wolff, Michigan State University; Steven M. Cramer, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Barbara A. Masi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2011-1416: RETENTION: QUANTIFYING THE APPLES AND OR-ANGESThomas F. Wolff, Michigan State University Dr. Thomas F. Wolff is Associate Dean of Engineering for Undergraduate Studies at Michigan State University. In this capacity, he is responsible for all activities related to student services (academic ad- ministration, advising, career planning, women and diversity programs, etc.) and curricular issues. He is principal investigator on several NSF grants related to retention of engineering students. As a faculty member in civil engineering, he co-teaches a large introductory course in civil engineering. His research and consulting activities have focused on the safety and reliability of hydraulic structures, and he

Conference Session

Investigating Alternative Energy Concepts

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Rubaai, Howard University; Abdul R. Ofoli, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

cadre of graduates who value experimentation as an essential and natural part of solving engineering problems; 4) to prepare students for industry as well as advanced courses and research and development oriented careers;Hardware DescriptionThe students are given a tutorial that leads them through the experiments, describing thehardware apparatus and the actions to be performed in each step. The hardware apparatusused in this experiment, shown in Figure 1, consist of: 1) a DC-DC switch-mode powerstage converter9, 2) a 14-bit PCI Data Acquisition Processor (DAP 840/103)10, 3) atermination board (MSTB 010-06-C1Z) [15], 4) a Pentium III 550-MHz personalcomputer (PC) with Windows NT 4.0, and 5) a micro-controller (PIC16F877)11

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laila Guessous, Oakland University; Qian Zou, Oakland University; Brian P. Sangeorzan, Oakland University; Xia Wang, Oakland University; Gary Barber, Oakland University; Lorenzo M. Smith, Oakland University; LianXiang Yang, Oakland University; David Schall, Oakland University, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Michael A. Latcha, Oakland University

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Mechanical Engineering

recommend scheduling several coffee or lunchtime (pizza)meetings with professionals of varying backgrounds. These were always a great hit and don’trequire too much time on the part of all involved. Depending on the personalities of theindividual students and industrial visitors, faculty may need to take an active role in getting aconversation started. One may for example begin immediately with introductions all around andask each person to tell something personal about themselves (where they’re from, hobbies or sideinterests, etc.) Once the introductions are complete, the faculty member may encourage thestudents to ask questions or ask questions that s/he thinks would be of interest to them to get theconversation going. Depending upon the

Conference Session

ABET Accreditation, Assessment, and Program Improvement in ECE

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; Stephen M. Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Electrical and Computer

accrediting process, where aprogram is eligible for ABET accreditation upon graduating a student from the program. If aprogram applies for accreditation as soon as they are eligible, then there does not exist a body ofalumni from the program who are sufficiently removed from graduation (i.e., three to five yearsout) upon which to properly evaluate the degree of attainment of the program educationalobjectives. However, some programs report being cited for an item that is impossible for them toassess: • “Since we are a new department with new programs and only a few recent graduates just employed a year or two or three, we had no data as we did not launch any surveys due to such a small sample size. In a reply to the report, we

Conference Session

Program Criteria, Assessment, and Sustainability in Civil Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mikhail Gershfeld, S.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Judith Ellen Sheine, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Gary LeMarr McGavin, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Department of Architecture

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Civil Engineering

at the end. Strict deadlines were established for engineering-sensitive decisions and engineering students were required to monitor these deadlines and soundan alert to the architecture students and faculty (who also monitored the design process) if thesewere slipping.Following are comments from some of the architectural and engineering judges that have beeninvolved in the studio for the last three years. They were asked to provide some reflection onwhy they are willing to take 6-8 hrs of their time, typically on Fridays, to judge students’ de-signs.Will Shepphired is a registered engineer and architect. He is a principal of his own successfularchitectural firm. He has been an active member of our judging panel for the last three years

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Maura J. Borrego, Virginia Tech; Jefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University; Wendy Newstetter, Georgia Institute of Technology; Karen L. Tonso, Wayne State University; Peggy Noel Van Meter, Pennsylvania State University

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NSF Grantees

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 from University of Wisconsin-Madison.Jefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M

Conference Session

Teaching Analog and Digital Communication: Novel Ideas for Lecture Courses, Laboratories, and Projects

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ratchaneekorn Thamvichai, Saint Cloud State University; Tonya Lynette Smith-Jackson, Virginia Tech; Carl B Dietrich P.E., Virginia Tech; Tamal Bose, Virginia Tech

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Electrical and Computer

digital signal processing.Dr. Tonya Smith-Jackson, Virginia Tech Dr. Smith-Jackson is an Associate Professor in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engi- neering. Her specialty areas are cognitive ergonomics and system safety.Carl B. Dietrich, Jr., Virginia Tech Carl Dietrich is a research faculty member at Virginia Tech, where he completed Ph.D. and M.S. de- grees after graduating from Texas A&M University. He worked with the Defense Information Systems Agency, Arlington, Virginia and Bell Northern Research, Richardson, Texas and conducted research on adaptive and diversity antenna systems and radio wave propagation. His current work in software defined radio (SDR) includes leading projects

Conference Session

Professional Development from a Distance

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mitchell L. Springer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Gary R. Bertoline, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Continuing Professional Development

outside the United States. Ethics, Law and Policy for 2 One of the most important challenges of this century is the crisis in ethical leadership and decision making. Ethics Leaders involves a social conscience - through the case method, students will explore the issues surrounding ethics in business, industry, and technology. Project 2 Opportunity to study specific problems in the field of supervision and personnel under the guidance of a qualified faculty member within the department. Does not include thesis work. Figure 1

Conference Session

Emerging Information Technologies

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara E. Brazon, Penn State University; Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Computing & Information Technology

worldwide has an estimated annual cost of $6.2 trillion dollars2. TheDepartment of Information, Sciences and Technology (IST) at The Pennsylvania StateUniversity recognized the importance of project management and problem based learning as anecessary component required to support the needs of the business community. Employers andHuman Resource recruiters have communicated to us that their organizations are interested inemploying IST graduates that have studied project management and systems integration anddesign. A course in project management was developed and first offered in the Fall semester2003 at the Penn State Hazleton Campus. Students in the integration option of IST have beenrequired to take the IT project management course and software

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Issues Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

with the built-inconnections to the material that students bring to the class, important questions can be addressedrelated to technology‟s benefits and harms and who benefits or is harmed.1 Similarly, sciencefiction can be used for teaching mechanics and heat transfer as well as raising issues about theecological impact of “alien” resource use across the galaxy.2 Issues related to balancing theteaching of science fiction and technology in a single course and the benefit of working with aninterdisciplinary team (i.e., faculty from science and humanities) are presented by Layton, who isa member of an English department, and calls for the development of more classes like the onedescribed here.3 He also presents issues that may make it easier for