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Innovative College-Industry Partnerships for the Future

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ana Elisa P. Goulart, Texas A&M University; Chris Corti, Ph.D., Cisco Systems, Inc.; Matthew Robert Hawkes, Cisco

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College Industry Partnerships

Telecommunications EngineeringTechnology (EET/TET) program at Texas A&M. This four-year engineering program offersseveral courses on electronics, instrumentation, embedded systems, and telecommunicationnetworks. Most of the fundamental courses on electronics, programming, and communicationprotocols are taken by both electronics and telecommunication students. In general, students takespecific classes either on the electronics track or telecommunications track only in their senioryear. Moreover, the capstone senior design project teams always have a combination of bothelectronics and telecommunication students, and their design must include hardware, softwareand communication aspects. Therefore, we have noticed that electronics and

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Research on Engineering Design Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leslie Reed, Purdue University; Michael J. Dyrenfurth, Purdue University, College of Technology, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

capabilitycan be incorporated into the project management course (ECET396) for maximum impact. Aseries of lectures and skill sessions designed to help students tap into their unique creativecapabilities is under development, as are assessment tools for measuring specific aspects ofcreative performance believed to be of relevance in the more innovative aspects of technologicaldesign.An additional goal of the project was to expand the content on innovation and entrepreneurshipto the existing capstone course, ECET 39600, in an effort to add the course to the approvedcourse list for the Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Short-term, the focus of theseefforts is targeted toward a narrow demographic, but the long-term goal is the development

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Making Students Aware of Their World: Five Perspectives

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University; Warren R. Hull, Louisiana State University; David Bowles, Louisiana State University; Sarah Liggett, Louisiana State University; Stephen O. Sears, Louisiana State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. The respondents held a variety of opinions about theimportance of understanding cultural diversity (Figure 3). Most respondents found it important(36.8%) or vitally important (31.6%). Only 3 respondents (7.9%) thought engineers could expectto succeed without it. At our university, both the student population and the faculty represent avariety of cultures. The groups working on projects in our capstone courses often includestudents from diverse cultural backgrounds. Working in small groups with group members froma variety of cultural backgrounds allows students to identify and confront issues that arise whencultural norms differ.While many aspects of globalism can be addressed by this model, many cannot. Temporal orspatial issues, such as

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Manufacturing Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel J. Waldorf, California Polytechnic State University

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Manufacturing

the needs for redesign, the project was not ultimately taken to localmanufacturers to establish an arrangement for eventual production and distribution. It wasdetermined, however, that the product (or a redesign) could serve as a more traditionalemergency item that is produced and sold for storage in the home ahead of an actual emergency.In fact, the ability to neatly fold up and store the device was designed into the product for thefinal version.The second project was an extension of the first and focused on a redesign of the bike generatorusing DFA principles for simpler and quicker assembly by local manufacturer. This project wasundertaken by a single student as a capstone senior project experience. The student examinedthe product

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Understanding Our Students

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert M. Bielby, University of Michigan; Trevor Scott Harding, California Polytechnic State University; Donald D. Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan; Janel A. Sutkus, Carnegie Mellon University; Brian A. Burt, University of Michigan; Eunjong Ra, University of Michigan ; Matthew Holsapple, University of Michigan

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Educational Research and Methods

application of psycho-social models of moral expertise. He also conducts research in student motivation, service learning, and project-based learning. His technical re- search is focused on degradation of biomedical materials in vitro. He currently serves as Associate Editor of the online journal Advances in Engineering Education, is Chair of the ASEE Materials Division, and was ERM Vice-Chair for the 2010 ASEE Annual Conference. He recently received the 2008 President’s Service Learning Award for innovations in the use of service learning at Cal Poly. In 2004 he was named a Templeton Research Fellow by the Center for Academic Integrity, Duke University. Dr. Harding received both the 1999 Apprentice Faculty Grant and 2000

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ashley Ater Kranov, Washington State University; Mo Zhang, Washington State University; Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho, Moscow; Jay McCormack, University of Idaho; Patrick D. Pedrow, Washington State University; Edwin R. Schmeckpeper, Norwich University

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experiments, sampling theories, and item response theory oriented mathematical models. She holds an M.A. in education from Washington State University.Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho, Moscow Dr. Beyerlein is a professor of Mechanical Engineering and coordinator of the college-wide inter-disciplinary capstone design program at the University of Idaho where he has been on the faculty since 1987. He is involved in a number of research projects and initiatives related to design pedagogy, professional skills assessment, catalytic combustion, engine testing, and hybrid vehicle realization.Jay McCormack, University of Idaho Jay McCormack is an assistant professor in the mechanical engineering department at the University

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Integration of the Humanities and Social Sciences into Civil Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sean St.Clair, Oregon Institute of Technology; Charles E. Riley, Oregon Institute of Technology; David K. Thaemert P.E., Oregon Institute of Technology; Roger Lindgren, P.E., Oregon Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering

professional skills into capstone courses12. Due to theaforementioned reduction in credit hours and the coincidental expansion of topics to teach, the civilengineering faculty at OIT did not have space in the curriculum to develop new service learning orprofessional skills courses and they desired to have these skills introduced prior to entering thecapstone design experience. As such, the civil engineering faculty at OIT attempted to introduce thebasics of management, business, public policy, and leadership piecemeal throughout the curriculum,especially during a course on project management. However, in two separate assessments,summarized in Table 1, students revealed that they were greatly lacking in the ability to explain basicconcepts of these

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Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Reid, Ohio Northern University; Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

entrepreneurial skills.Mindset of student engineers are benchmarked at the beginning of the freshman year and thenagain at the end of the freshman year, soon after completion of a team based poverty alleviationfreshman capstone project. Two pre and post control samples of freshman engineer mindsets arebeing collected from similar sized engineering programs at comparable colleges in ourgeographic vicinity. Initial beginning-of-year testing results indicate a statistically significant tilttoward a fixed mindset in freshman engineering students compared to a growth mindset observedin an opportunity sample of freshman business students. We are tracking engineering studentsboth at the group and at the individual level, by major and by other statistically

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Innovative Teaching Methods and Learning Models

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rupa Purasinghe, California State University, Los Angeles; Peter Dusicka, Portland State University; Jeffrey W Berman, University of Washington; Edgar Bautista, California State University, Los Angeles; Michael Noddings, Portland State University; Linda My Hanh Nguyen; San Yu Aung, California State University of Los Angeles; Lang Anh Dam

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

AC 2011-2159: BRINGING CURRENT RESEARCH TO THE CLASSROOMUSING LINKED COLUMN FRAMED SYSTEM IN AN UNDERGRADU-ATE STRUCTURES LABRupa Purasinghe, California State University, Los Angeles Professor of Civil Engineering at California State University at Los Angeles, a predominantly an un- dergraduate institution. He teaches courses in computer aided analysis and design and capstone design project course.He is a co-PI for a NSF/NEES funded research project on Linked Column Framed system.Peter Dusicka, Portland State University Associate Professor Dusicka focuses his teaching and research on infrastructure engineering. He is the director of iSTAR (infraStructure Testing and Applied Research) Laboratory where he leads a team of

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Technology in the ECE Classroom

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

generally implemented with students working on team or class wide projects. Thesecourses, especially engineering capstone design courses, are used by universities to satisfy ABETcriteria [1]. All but one of the ABET outcomes can be satisfied with design courses, including: 1. An ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering 2. An ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data 3. An ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability. 4. An ability to function on multidisciplinary teams 5. An

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Rethinking PowerPoint and Other Acts of Communication

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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April A. Kedrowicz, University of Utah; Maria Dawn Blevins, University of Utah

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

withactual engineering projects to show students how intricately linked communication andteamwork skills are with engineering problem solving and design. Much emphasis is placed onsenior capstone courses, as this meets the immediate demand of preparing graduating seniors forthe non-technical aspects of their careers. In contrast, freshman classes receive less attention interms of their position to “set the tone” for the coupling of communication and engineering,likely because the demands placed on freshman engineering classes are already high. They serveas a recruitment tool, pique interest in engineering, expose students to the many and varied areasof concentration in the discipline, and perhaps, introduce students to engineering projects andbasic

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Santosh Devasia, University of Washington; Jim L. Borgford-Parnell, University of Washington; Jae-Hyun Chung, University of Washington; Jiangyu Li, University of Washington; Amy Shen, University of Washington; Nathan Sniadecki, University of Washington; Junlan Wang, University of Washington

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Design: Nanoscale thin film tester Prof. J. Wang Course: ME 495 Nanodevice projects Design: Research-type open-ended projects will be Title: Capstone Design offered on nanodevice design Prof. All InvestigatorsFig. 1. Relation between novel concepts in nanodevices in proposed modules and the learning outcomes in the eight coursesimpacted by the proposed NUE program. Recently developed courses are initially assigned the numbers ME 498 or ME 499before a permanent unique number is assigned. The other five courses (ME 333, ME 354, ME 356, ME 440, ME 471, andME 495) are core Mechanical Engineering (ME) courses that

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Post Graduate Experiential Programs and Insights

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anne Marie Coolen, Dalhousie University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

AC 2011-1204: IMPLEMENTING A CEAB GRADUATE ATTRIBUTES BASEDCO-OP WORK TERM CURRICULUMAnne Marie Coolen, Dalhousie University Ms. Coolen has been the director of the Engineering and Computer Science Co-operative Education Program for 22 years. She is a former president of the Canadian Association for Co-operative Education (CAFCE) and secretary the CAFCE Accreditation Council. She has been spearheading a project in the Faculty of Engineering to enhance the educational value of co-operative education for three years in an effort to shift the program’s focus from placement outcomes to learning outcomes. Page

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Information Literacy: Theory and Practice

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jay J. Bhatt, Drexel University; Larry Milliken, Drexel University; Lloyd Ackert, Drexel University; Eleanor J. Goldberg, Drexel University Library

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Engineering Libraries

humanistic qualities though social history education as amethod of encouraging critical thinking methods and a spirit of scientific inquiry. Condoor(2004)7 stressed the importance of teaching history of technology and outlined a method ofintegrating it into the framework of a capstone design project. This project provided students ameans to understand the evolutionary nature of technology, the impact of engineering on society,and the role of engineering failures. Condoor’s approach helped students to understand thehistorical contingency central to the evolution of emerging technologies.The American Historical Association (Stearns, 1998)8 asserts: “History helps us understandchange and how the society we live in came to be.” Teaching history 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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William K. Durfee, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Benjamin Adams, University of Minnesota; Audrey J. Appelsies, University of Minnesota; Pamela Flash, University of Minnesota

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

Spring 2010, a baselinemeasure was taken of capstone design project reports. The evaluation team consisted of onemechanical engineering faculty (a disciplinary "insider") and two experts in college-level writing(disciplinary "outsiders"). Design reports were rated on a two point scale (“sufficient” or“insufficient”) using criteria derived from the list of desired writing abilities. Included in theresults were that students were most successful in applying knowledge of physics, mathematicsand engineering to their writing (rated sufficient in more than 80% of the samples) and leastsuccessful in summarizing key points (rated sufficient in less than 40% of the samples).Every six years the mechanical engineering undergraduate program goes through

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Design Education I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Priya Manohar, Robert Morris University

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Manufacturing

Interdisciplinary Environment Along with Media Art and Marketing, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, 2007 3. Todd, R. H., Magleby S. P., Sorenson C. D., Swan B. R., and Anthony D. K.: A Survey of Capstone Engineering Courses in North America, Journal of Engineering Education, 84(2), 165 – 174, 1995 4. Amon C., Wesner J., and Hoff R.: Identifying and Implementing Projects for a Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Projects Course at Carnegie Mellon, Proceedings of the Page 22.1181.7 ASEE Annual Conference, 2006 5. Frei F. X.: The Four Things a Service Business Must Get

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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products or outputs. Suchevidence will allow you to refine the tool to ensure that it is being used as intended and willeliminate the need to second guess that question when you analyze the evidence to decide if thetool is working and why it is working. Table 3. Possible sources of evidence considered by workshop participants related to the goals for Task 1  in the case study (Appendix) were:    • Pre‐ and post‐tests as evidence of improvement in achieving learning outcomes for the  engineering science courses.    • Written reports for mini‐projects in engineering science classes that includes description of their  problem solving methodology/approach to document understanding of the process.  • In capstone design

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Focus on Entry Experiences in Chemical Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Margot A. Vigeant, Bucknell University; Lori Smolleck, Bucknell University

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Chemical Engineering

different paths.The faculty of ENGR 100 felt that the course would benefit from a “capstone” designexperience that was not specific to any particular discipline. This type of project hasbeen successfully implemented at a number of institutions in the past, to great educationalbenefit [3-6]. While each of the “seminars” was expected to have a systematicengineering design experience, the extent to which these were internalized by thestudents as teaching of design and teamwork as opposed to teaching only the major- Page 22.746.2related technical content, was limited. Therefore, the faculty sought to incorporate aproject where use of both teamwork and design

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Communication: From Pecha Kucha to Bullets

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth R. Leitch, West Texas A&M University; Rhonda B Dittfurth, West Texas A&M University; Freddie J Davis P.E., West Texas A&M University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

curriculum.Even more modest approaches to improved technical writing skills of engineering students have been utilized withmeasurable improvements. The United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA) developed an engineering technicalstyle writing guide in conjunction with the university writing center6. Similarly, Embry-Riddle AeronauticalUniversity developed a style guide in conjunction with humanities and communications faculty7. The University ofMaine has developed a partnership between the Civil Engineering Department and the English Department toimprove the technical laboratory writing skills of freshmen students8. The University of Houston9 has developed apartnership between its writing center and a multidisciplinary engineering capstone course in order

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

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Kline, Western Michigan University; Betsy M. Aller, Western Michigan University; Edmund Tsang, Western Michigan University

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First-Year Programs

AC 2011-1625: IMPROVING STUDENT RETENTION IN STEM DISCI-PLINES: A MODEL THAT HAS WORKEDAndrew Kline, Western Michigan University Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering PhD, Michigan Technological UniversityBetsy M. Aller, Western Michigan University Betsy M. Aller is an associate professor in industrial and manufacturing engineering at Western Michigan University, where she teaches first-year engineering and coordinates capstone design project courses. Dr. Aller’s research interests include professional development of students to enter and succeed in the engineering workplace, and enhancing engineering and technology-related experiences for women and minorities.Dr. Edmund Tsang, Western Michigan University

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Faculty Tools

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Walter W. Schilling, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Computers in Education

. Page 22.709.5 Figure 4 GForge system.2.2 GForgeGForge is a collaborative software application in the cloud originally created for SourceForge. Itincludes multiple tools which engineering students find useful, especially for capstone projects.GForge integrates administrative tasks (user management, security, etc.), issue tracking,document storage, file storage, a wiki, and a subversion repository into a single online system.Students can then use the GForge system to store project artifacts as a project evolves.GForge and related systems have been used in multiple environments for capstone projects.11, 12From a faculty standpoint, the GForge system allows a faculty member limitless access toanalyze student

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Innovative Instructional Strategies and Curricula in ECE I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cordelia M. Brown, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Yung-Hsiang Lu, Purdue University

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Electrical and Computer

Page 22.1412.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Teaming in an Engineering Programming CourseAbstractVarious formats of teaming have been explored in engineering courses. Engineeringcourses with teaming have varied from project oriented to capstone design to courses thattarget first year students. Laboratory oriented courses have also extensively utilizedteaming. The formation of teams has also varied from self-selected to instructor selectedto computer software team formation tool selected. Outside of pair programming, verylittle has been studied or reported on the benefits of students working on programmingassignments together. In an earlier study, a model for integrating teaming in

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Incorporating Innovative Technologies into the Curriculum

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University; Tony Lee Kerzmann, Robert Morris University

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Manufacturing

assessment, sustainable product de- velopment, and active learning. Page 22.137.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Active Learning through SAE Baja CompetitionIntroductionActive learning is described as finding ways of engaging students in the learning process toimprove the results of the process. Active learning has become popular as an organizedmethodology in engineering education in the last few years. It is an important approach toprepare better engineers. Competitions, course projects sponsored by industry, capstone projects,laboratory exercises simulating real-life

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kemper Lewis, University at Buffalo - SUNY; Deborah A. Moore-Russo, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Omar M. Ashour, Pennsylvania State University ; Timothy W. Simpson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Xaver Neumeyer, Northwestern University; Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic; Wei Chen, Northwestern University

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requirement to an early cornerstone or later capstone design experience as a result,making these courses an ineffective “catch all” for many ABET requirements. In this paper, weaddress this issue in a novel way by synthesizing concepts from archaeology with advances incyber-enhanced product dissection to implement new educational innovations that integrateglobal, economic, environmental, and societal concerns into engineering design-related coursesusing product archaeology.1 Introduction and MotivationOutcome h in the requirements of ABET [1] has become a significant challenge to manyengineering departments. Providing effective, useful, and engaging educational experiences tounderstand the global, economic, environmental, and societal impact of

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Topics Related to Telecommunications

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James O. Everly, University of Cincinnati; Xuefu Zhou, University of Cincinnati

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Engineering Technology

. Page 22.496.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Development of Low-Cost Radio Frequency Test EquipmentAbstractThis paper focuses on the construction of low-cost radio frequency test equipment which will besubsequently used to conduct performance measurements on a 7 MHz Radio Frequency (RF)transceiver. The transceiver project provides a "Project Based Learning" RF capstone experiencefor students in Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology. The Transceiver Projecttogether with performance testing is structured to support course goals and objectives of "Topicsof RF Communications" offered as a technical elective at the beginning of the senior year. Eachstudent enrolled in the

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Allan T. Kirkpatrick, Colorado State University; Scott Danielson, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Robert O. Warrington, Michigan Technological University; Richard N. Smith, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; A. Kulacki, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; William J. Wepfer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Thomas Perry, P.E., American Society of Mechanical Engineers

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Mechanical Engineering

(faculty, space, andlaboratory) required with this approach. Many believe that their school’s senior capstone coursesdeliver project-based learning experiences. There was an interest in flexibility in the curriculum,so that students can take specialized courses such as entrepreneurship courses if they so desire.There was a stated need for text modules, not textbooks, to integrate innovative material into thetraditional courses. A recommendation was made to aggregate best practices from differentinstitutions to be shared among peers. Interestingly, department heads also mentioned that oneof the larger barriers to change within the curriculum and pedagogical approach is faculty.Another question was if the professional school model, similar to

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Faculty Tools

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joshua A. Enszer, University of Notre Dame; Jessica A Kuczenski, Century College; Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame; Jay B. Brockman, University of Notre Dame

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Computers in Education

Portfolios in Academic Advising, Self-Guided Learning, and Self-AssessmentAbstractAs part of our undergraduate program’s commitment to producing quality engineers who havebegun to look beyond entry-level jobs, we have recently launched the Notre Dame ElectronicPortfolio (NDeP) project. In its second year in the chemical engineering department,implementation of the program for new sophomores was informed by the pilot year andimproved in both scope and execution. We have further collected data at the start and end ofthese sophomores’ first semester to track changes in student perceptions as they relate to many ofthe desired outcomes of our accredited engineering programs. We have found that this semestermarks several changes in

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eric C. Dierks, University of Texas, Austin; Jason M. Weaver, University of Texas, Austin; Kristin L. Wood, University of Texas, Austin; Kendra Crider, U.S. Air Force Academy; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy

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Mechanical Engineering

, sun-tracking equipment, and adaptive protection while vibrationharvesters may be fitted with self-tuning and bandwidth widening capabilities55.3: Project-centered Learning Case for Energy Harvesting Energy harvesting was incorporated into the Capstone Design course at the United StatesAir Force Academy in the 2009-10 academic year by Dr. Dan Jensen. The project-centeredcourse focuses on identifying and developing innovative opportunities to harvest energy in orderto power structural health monitoring systems on highway bridges. Wireless sensor nodes areused to acquire and transmit strain, crack, and corrosion data to a host computer offsite. Thistype of project is of particular interest as much of the nation‟s infrastructure

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Faculty Tools

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher P. Pung, Grand Valley State University; John Farris, Grand Valley State University

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Computers in Education

delivery of a new graduate biomedical engineering masters degree with a focus on the medical device development Page 22.261.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011A Preliminary Assessment of the CATME Peer Evaluation Tool EffectivenessAbstractIn project intensive courses student teams are used to enable completion of significant work and,hopefully, significant learning in one semester. Faculty desire to use peer evaluations and self-evaluations to assess how much each team member contributes to the overall effort and successof the project. Ideally, the evaluations and assessments will lead

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven W. Villachica, Boise State University; Donald Plumlee, Boise State University; Linda Huglin, Boise State University; Drew Borresen, Boise State University

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University of Northern Colorado.Donald Plumlee, Boise State University Dr. Plumlee is certified as a Professional Engineer in the state of Idaho. He has spent the last ten years es- tablishing the Ceramic MEMS laboratory at Boise State University. Dr. Plumlee is involved in numerous projects developing micro-electro-mechanical devices in LTCC including an Ion Mobility Spectrometer and microfluidic/chemical micro-propulsion devices funded by NASA. Prior to arriving at Boise State University, Dr. Plumlee worked for Lockheed Martin Astronautics as a Mechanical Designer on struc- tural airframe components for several aerospace vehicles. He developed and improved manufacturing processes for the Atlas/Centaur rocket program