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Tricks of the Trade II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adrian Ieta, State University of New York at Oswego; Rachid Manseur, Oswego State University College; Thomas E. Doyle, McMaster University

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Paper ID #7222CAPSTONE PROJECTS: UNLEASHING IMAGINATION AND ENGAG-ING MINDSDr. Adrian Ieta, State University of New York at Oswego Adrian Ieta received a B.Sc. degree in physics from the University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania, in 1984, a B.E.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Politehnica University of Timisoara, Timisoara, in 1992, and a M.E.Sc. degree and a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of the Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, in 1999 and 2004, respectively. He was with the Applied Electrostatics Research Centre and the Digital Electronics Research Group, the

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Tricks of the Trade I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kimberly Grau Talley P.E., Texas State University - San Marcos

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, and her research focus is in active learning and project based learning in engineering and technology education. Contact: kgt5@txstate.edu Page 23.869.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Lights, Camera, Action!: Peer-to-Peer Learning through Graduate Student Videos  AbstractThe senior level “Construction Estimating” course at Texas State University - San Marcos is co-listed for master’s students to receive graduate credit. To make this course a graduate leveloffering the master’s students have traditionally completed an additional assignment in

Conference Session

Training and Support for NEEs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Canan Bilen-Green, North Dakota State University; Roger A. Green, North Dakota State University; Christi McGeorge, North Dakota State University; Elizabeth J. Birmingham, North Dakota State University; Ann Burnett, North Dakota State University

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Page 23.898.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Mentoring Programs Supporting Junior FacultyAbstract In this paper we discuss the junior faculty cohort mentoring program we developed aspart of our National Science Foundation funded ADVANCE project. We first providebackground on our ADVANCE project and review the mentoring literature that helped shape ourmentoring program. Then, we describe our program, and discuss the benefits received by theparticipants: mentees and mentors.Introduction North Dakota State University (NDSU), a progressive, public, land grant university in theupper great plains, has been undergoing transformation since the late nineties. The

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Training and Support for NEEs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Te-shun Chou, East Carolina University; John Barry DuVall, East Carolina University; Kamalesh Panthi, East Carolina University; Tijjani Mohammed, East Carolina University

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. John Barry DuVall, East Carolina University Dr. DuVall is a Full Professor and facilitator of TECS-TRAIN in the Department of Technology Sys- tems at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. DuVall currently teaches online classes to practicing professionals at the undergraduate, Master’s and PhD levels in areas such as strategies for technology management and communication and industrial supervision. He served as Director of a NSF/ARPA/TRP research project called The Factory as a Learning Laboratory – A Practice-Based M.S. Degree Program for Black and Decker (U.S.) associates and defense industry scientists and engineers. In 1994 this led to the development of the first Internet programs for East

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Tricks of the Trade II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edward F. Gehringer, North Carolina State University; Barry Wayne Peddycord III, North Carolina State University

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large projects and portfolios, butthese are typically more time-consuming and difficult to evaluate. Page 23.1151.3 2The SurveyIn order to find out how others were using textbook exercises, we developed a web survey usingGoogle Forms and sent it to three listservs for college educators and educational researchers: thePOD Mailing List, the ACM SIGCSE Members List, and the Engineering Technology* listserv.Most of the questions on the survey were open-ended.The survey collected 142 responses. Due to the uncontrolled nature of a web survey, this

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Best Methods for NEEs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carmine C. Balascio P.E., University of Delaware

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through email (e.g.Indiana University – Purdue University, Indianapolis4) to online dedicated systems completewith secure access features (e.g. Memorial University5). At UD, the Sakai LMS6 has been usedfor support of courses for several years. In addition to course sites, Sakai includes the capabilityof creating projects such as ePortfolios. In most respects, an eDossier is an ePortfolio configuredas a promotion dossier. A key respect in which an eDossier differs from an ePortfolio is that theowner of the eDossier must give up some measures of access and control to accommodateuniversity promotion and tenure conventions and to provide confidentiality of peer reviews, bothinternal and external to the university.For the eDossier pilot project at UD

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Best Methods for NEEs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James C. Squire, Virginia Military Institute; Turk McCleskey, Virginia Military Institute; Elizabeth White Baker, Wake Forest University; Anthony Evan English, Western New England University

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interdisciplinary papers the authors have published with faculty from clinicalmedicine, bioengineering, finance, educational psychology, colonial history, business, sportsmedicine, and seismology. The paper includes five reasons to seek opportunities to applynumerical analysis to interdisciplinary problems, three common pitfalls of work in suchinterdisciplinary projects, and ten best practices for conducting numerical analysis ofinterdisciplinary problems.I. Reasons to seek interdisciplinary numerical analysis opportunities Interdisciplinary research often reveals low-hanging fruitAs a graduate student, one of the authors was the lone electrical engineer in a biomedical centerthat had a predominantly molecular chemistry emphasis. His specialty was analog

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Training and Support for NEEs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vishwas Narayan Bedekar, University of Arkansas; John DUPE Lee, University of Arkansas; Douglas E. Spearot, University of Arkansas

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the dots between classroom learning and real worldapplications. We assessed this program informally during tests, projects, and an industry visitduring the first semester, and then formally via an online evaluation in the second semester of theprogram. This manuscript presents the outcome of the teaching mentorship experiment. Ourapproach could provide a pathway for new engineering faculty to become effective teachers andsuccessful mentors.I. Introduction and BackgroundThe 2lst century has seen a significant shift from bricks to clicks, from simultaneous to non-simultaneous engineering and communication cultures. 1-2 Traditional classrooms, in the walls ofbricks, have transformed with integration of software and design tools, digital

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Tricks of the Trade II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Walter W Schilling Jr., Milwaukee School of Engineering

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. There is obviously a need for formalprograms for future training. However, with the ever shortening relevancy of technical skills, tobe successful in the workplace, students also must be strongly motivated self-learners.4,5 Page 23.764.2Many techniques have been tried to improve the ability of students to be self-directed learners.Mandatory attendance at professional society meetings, service functions, free-form labactivities, and project based learning all aid in this process6. For these activities to be successful,however, students need to learn how to differentiate the quality of sources by being exposed todifferent forms of media. The

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Best Methods for NEEs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert A. Chin, East Carolina University; Michael Behm, East Carolina University

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conversations, draftsof manuscripts circulated among friends and colleagues, discussions at meetings and seminars,and private correspondence. Reports on the current status of projects or other works in progress,dissemination of ideas through formal outlets such as a series in a journal that reports on worksin progress, copies of speeches delivered at conferences, or summaries of studies are examples ofsemiformal means of disseminating findings. Works offered for general circulation throughmediums such as journals and other periodicals and books complete the formal process.Redmond, Sinclair, and Brown’s (1972) rationalization curve (see Figure 1) illustrates theresearch process and the manner in which new knowledge is disseminated and archived.3

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Training and Support for NEEs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chirag Variawa, University of Toronto; Sherif N Kinawy, University of Toronto; D. Grant Allen, University of Toronto; Chris Damaren, University of Toronto; Susan McCahan, University of Toronto; Bryan Karney

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aspects of the PPIT program then concludes with a teachingdossier project, after which each student is awarded a certificate of completion and a notation ontheir official academic transcript.There are currently 115 alumni of the PPIT program, as a result of its 6 year history. Theprogram began in 2006 as a pilot program with 20 participants following an initiative by threeengineering professors at the University of Toronto. An initial evaluation resulted inencouraging feedback that prompted the establishment of PPIT as an official Faculty-sponsoredprogram in 2007, with an average enrolment of 25 participants per year depending on number ofeligible applications. While the program was originally directed at Ph.D. candidates, postdoctoralfellows

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Tricks of the Trade I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tomas Enrique Estrada, Elizabethtown College

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Paper ID #6192Entering the Performance Zone: a Practical Pre-Lecture Guide for New Fac-ultyDr. Tomas Enrique Estrada, Elizabethtown College Page 23.542.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Entering the Performance Zone: a Practical Pre-Lecture Guide for New FacultyIntroductionWhile, in recent decades, undergraduate engineering curricula have been strengthened throughan increased emphasis on projects and hands-on learning, the need to provide students witheffective lectures remains a key