Conference Session

Innovative Pedagogy in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven J. Burian, University of Utah; Jeffery S Horsburgh, Utah State University; David E Rosenberg, Utah State University; Daniel P. Ames, Brigham Young University; Laura G Hunter, Utah Education Network; Courtenay Strong, University of Utah

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Civil Engineering

management, low-impact de- velopment, green infrastructure design, storm water management, flood risk modeling, vulnerabilities and adaptation strategies for urban water systems, and the water-energy nexus. Steve’s research projects have been funded by National Laboratories, EPA, NSF, DOD, DOE, State Departments of Transportation, and Private Industry. His work has resulted in more than 50 authored or co-authored peer-reviewed publi- cations. Dr. Burian currently is an Associate Director of the Global Change and Sustainability Center and the Co-Director of Sustainability Curriculum Development at the University of Utah. He is actively involved with several professional societies including ASCE, AWRA, AWWA, WEF, AGU, AMS

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lihong (Heidi) Jiao, Grand Valley State University

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Electrical and Computer

silica single mode optical fiber to meet the requireddispersion properties using MATLAB for their mid-term project. For the final project, a long-haul optical transmission system was designed.Keywords: Fiber Optics, optical communication systems, hands-on, active learningIntroduction Internet applications move rapidly from transmitting photos and downloading songs todownloading and streaming high-definition videos and feature-length movies as well as high-capacity, high-performance computing. According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index, globalIP traffic has increased eightfold over the past 5 years and will increase threefold over the next 5years. It would take over 6 million years to watch the amount of video that will cross global

Conference Session

Student Enrollment, Attendance, Retention, and Graduation in Engineering Technology Programs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christina R Scherrer, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Engineering Technology

their problem-solving andcommunications skills and that their participation also positively influenced their perception oftheir choice of major. Switzer and Benson11 also studied the impact of outreach activities onundergraduate students performing them, specifically as it pertained to their motivation. Onehundred sixty students were involved in creating physical models and activities to demonstratemath, physics or chemistry concepts to high school students. In this case, a survey instrumentwas used to assess the students‟ attitude toward their engineering program both before and after athree-week design project. No statistically significant change in motivation over time was found,though the authors believe the short time horizon was a factor

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Education Research

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lin Li, University of Illinois at Chicago; Yong Wang, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Systems Engineering

ranks according to U.S. News7. The Collegeof Engineering of UA is ranked as a top-ten school in the U.S. while the rank of the College ofEngineering of UB is around 60.Students' learning performance may be influenced by many factors. These influences will bereflected in the course outcomes. The following factors have been controlled during both courseperiods: 1) The courses were taught by the same instructor; 2) The same course syllabus andprogress calendar (by weeks) were communicated to the classes at the beginning of the courseand followed throughout the course periods; 3) The same textbooks8,9, lecture notes, homeworkproblems, and exam problems were used; 4) The requirements for the course project (freedom oftopic selection, requirement for

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technolog Programs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mudasser Fraz Wyne, National University; Raul Soto Jr

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Computing & Information Technology

lectures,interviews, events, etc. under different settings as well as use of equipment and humanresources. In current setup a request can be submitted, processed and managed manuallyby the library staff, whereas users demand a faster and a more efficient way of submittingmultimedia requests as it would produce faster turnaround times for scheduled projects.Therefore, a group of students was assigned the task, as their capstone project, toevaluate, develop and deploy an automated system to handle the flood of multimediarequests being received by library staff. In this paper we report a capstone experiencegained by undergraduate students. The students were required to design and implement aweb based system for not only handling the requisitions for

Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robin Fowler, University of Michigan; Lorelle A Meadows, University of Michigan

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Women in Engineering

of design projects in first-year engineering courses, little research to dateexamines the effect of such courses on student motivation. Broad studies of retention inengineering education show promising results for women and other under-represented studentsin project-based courses2; however, engineering educators need a richer understanding of howspecific project-oriented pedagogies affect students’, and in particular women’s, motivations forengineering and their intended career plans. This study focuses on women because of theircontinued underrepresentation in engineering3, 4 and the need to ensure effective retention effortsin the midst of a movement to enact large-scale curricular transformation in engineering.To address this need, this

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education (DEED) Engineering Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick Rowsome, University of Limerick; Niall Seery, University of Limerick; Diarmaid Lane, University of Limerick; Seamus Gordon, University of Limerick

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Design in Engineering Education

assessment tasks it is important they have a good personal construct of what it means to be capable in design education. The importance of allowing design students the facility to develop creative and innovative capacities is a priority. With standardised testing it is harder to allow for open ended and divergent projects to be facilitated and assessed. Adaptive Comparative Judgment is a dynamic assessment tool to facilitate and capture the complex iterative design process. The validity and reliability of adaptive comparative judgments as an assessment tool has been established by many in Design Education. This paper looks at the impact of A.C.J. on perspective design educators construct of design capability

Conference Session

Innovative IE Curricula

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Masud Salimian, Morgan State University; Yaseen Mahmud, Morgan State University; Avis L. Ransom, Morgan State University School of Engineering

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

of Engineering, she develops projects, plans and implements strategies and develops and documents reports, newsletters and proposals. Page 23.1262.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Training Industrial Engineering Students as Energy EngineersIntroductionBuildings consume approximately 40% 1 of all energy in the United States. Most buildingsoperate far less efficiently than their potential. In the U.S., industry alone accounts for about 31%of all energy used 8. There are many benefits to making commercial and industrialmanufacturing plants more efficient. One is to

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Ali Khasawneh P.E., Jordan University of Science and Technology; Mohammad Obadat P.E., The University of Tennessee at Martin

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Civil Engineering

as an assistant professor in the Civil Engineering Department at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio. Here he devel- ops and teaches general engineering and civil engineering courses, works on transportation engineering projects, and holds membership with a number of organizations and committees. From September 2003 to August 2008 he was a research assistant in the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Akron. He worked on a number of Transportation/Pavement Engineering research projects, and Geotechnical En- gineering research projects. Then from September 2003 to August 2008, he was a teaching assistant with the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Akron. His work has been published in

Conference Session

Information Tools and Techniques for Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy G. Buhler, University of Florida; Margeaux Johnson, University of Florida; Michelle Leonard, University of Florida; Melody Royster, University of Florida

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Engineering Libraries

include ethics education in the sciences. Michelle served as the Principal Investigator for the $298,000 National Science Foundation grant project ”Gaming Against Plagiarism.”Ms. Melody Royster, University of Florida Melody Royster received her MLS from Florida State University. She is an Assistant University Librarian at the University of Florida where she manages agricultural collections. Her recent projects include the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) agricultural journal retention working group, Scholarly Communication Outreach Mini-Grant, and the National Science Foundation funded-Gaming Against Plagiarism (GAP) grant. Melody is an active member of United States Agricultural Information

Conference Session

Fresh Perspectives on Information Literacy

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John B. Napp, University of Toledo; Phoebe Jane Ballard, The University of Toledo

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Engineering Libraries

23.750.2AbstractOne problem with trying to introduce information literacy skills to engineering students is thatsome faculty are reluctant to change their courses to include this new material. Other facultyhave difficulty developing an assignment that will require students to learn and use informationliteracy skills. Having had success with a freshman orientation class, a librarian and instructionaldesigner collaborated to transform that assignment into an online module. The module wascreated in Blackboard and was designed to be generic enough so that it can easily be modifiedfor any course. The assignment asks students to work in teams on a design project. The specificdesign project can be determined by the course instructor, making the module customizable

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yongpeng Zhang, Prairie View A&M University; Lin Li, Prairie View A&M University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

equipment has been equippedwith interfaces and software add-ons to enable users to operate the devices online. This paper presents the achievements of some funded projects at Prairie View A&MUniversity. Using an in-house developed online laboratory management system, the investigatorsredesigned a series of LabVIEW based engineering laboratories in which remote students canrotate to control the equipment, observe the lab results, record data, and submit reports. Thesesetups greatly reduce the cost of experimental facilities, enhance the accessibility of equipmentand courseware, and support instructors’ instructional needs. The paper introduces thearchitecture of the online laboratory management system, and several examples to

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Laboratory Innovations

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Goodarz Ahmadi, Clarkson University

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Mechanical Engineering

Aeronautical Engineering Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, 13699-5725, USA Particle transport, deposition and removal occur in many important processes inmicroelectronic, imaging and pharmaceutical industries. In addition, numerousenvironmental processes involve particle transport, deposition and removal. In the lastthree decades, significant research progress in the areas of particle transport, depositionand removal has been made. A series of courses were developed to make the newimportant research findings available to seniors and first year graduate students inengineering departments through specialized curricula. This project also involved anintegration of numerical simulations and experiments in a series of

Conference Session

iSTEM

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University; Elizabeth A Parry, North Carolina State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

and feel, as well as how they defined their curricular approaches, even writing some oftheir own curriculum. The role of engineering in the various approaches will be highlighted.The STEM rubrics from the state of North Carolina will be used to evaluate the various schoolsand their approaches.IntroductionAcross the state of North Carolina, many school systems are joining the STEM movement,motivated by many reasons. North Carolina has been a strong Project Lead the Way state forsome time, involving 100 schools in offering either the middle school or high school courses. Inaddition the state Department of Public Instruction has a series of courses that it has supportedthat relate to engineering and technology in middle and high school as well

Conference Session

Building BIM into Construction Curricula

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hyunjoo Kim, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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Construction

Paper ID #7196Energy modeling/Simulation Using the BIM technology in the Curriculum ofArchitectural and Construction Engineering and ManagementDr. Hyunjoo Kim, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte Assistant Professor of Engineering Technology and Construction Management He has 10 years of work experience in the construction fields and six years in research and teaching. His research interests include the use of 3D/BIM (Building Information Modeling) technology for energy modeling and simulations, information technology support for project management, artificial intelligence, data mining, machine learning, and

Conference Session

Topics in Biomass and Gasification Processes

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Drew Witte, IUPUI; Peter J. Schubert, IUPUI

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

America, can be seen from space, and is full. It is scheduled to closein October 20134. NYC has shifted all their MSW transfer stations to the waterfront, to providemore options for export of trash5. The “City that Never Sleeps” is already the biggest exporter inthe US, sending trash as far away as Indiana and Texas. In the European Union, available spacefor new landfills has already vanished, and has sparked huge interest in converting waste intoenergy, thereby solving two problems at the same time6. In the US, a few waste-to-energy(WTE) projects are either being planned or are in pilot scale operation. For thermal energy only,a number of “mass burn” facilities exist which combust trash to produce steam, although theenvironmental suitability of

Conference Session

Instrumentation Technical Session III

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

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Instrumentation

Paper ID #7393Using the Parallax Propeller for Mechatronics EducationDr. Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University Hugh Jack is a Professor of Product Design and Manufacturing Engineering at Grand Valley State Uni- versity in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His interests include manufacturing education, design, project man- agement, automation, and control systems. Page 23.1343.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Using the Parallax Propeller for Mechatronics

Conference Session

Statics & Strength of Materials - A nice couple

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Aidsa Ivette Santiago Roman, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Genock Portela-Gauthier, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Arturo Ponce, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez

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Mechanics

projects. The average gradeson the projects are less varied by discipline, possibly due to the fact that the projects werecompleted in groups of 3-4 in which disciplines were mixed. However, a number of importanttrends were observed, including:  many students (at least 50%) resisted using the spreadsheet and used in minimally; we were surprised by the number of students who chose to do a number of “side calculations” manually and then enter these numbers into the spreadsheet, rather than performing them directly in the spreadsheet; students who did this were at a general disadvantage to answer some of the more conceptual questions that required a variation in parameters to illustrate trends in behavior.  a

Conference Session

CIP Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles E. Baukal Jr. P.E., John Zink Co. LLC; Geoffrey L Price, University of Tulsa; Geoffrey D. Silcox, University of Utah; Michael Newton, University of Utah, Chemical Engineering Department; Terry L Phipps

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College Industry Partnerships

Society and has received many departmental, college, and university scholarships. He worked with Dr. Jost O.L. Wendt of Utah for two years as a research assistant in the oxy-coal combustion group as part of the Institute for Clean and Secure Energy, helping three doctoral students’ research efforts. His work was presented at the 2nd International Oxyfuel Combustion Conference in Yeppoon, Australia in September 2011. Additionally, Newton spent a summer taking part in the National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Undergraduates working as a student research associate for Oscilla Power, Inc. in Salt Lake City, Utah. His project with Oscilla Power, Inc. entailed a preliminary design and investigation into the

Conference Session

Laboratory Experiences in Electronics and Circuits

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Avik Dayal, Virginia Tech; Kathleen Meehan, Virginia Tech; A. A. (Louis) Beex, Virginia Tech

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

staff have developed experiments that have moved from a ‘cookbook’ approach toone in which students are presented several open-ended design projects during the semester. Themotivation to alter the pedagogical approach used in the labs was to attract and retain students inthe BSEE program by increasing student self-confidence, providing opportunities to instill self-reliance, developing deeper understanding of fundamental concepts through visually Page 23.290.2demonstrations, and supporting students as they strive to achieve technical goals. Other desiredoutcomes for all students, identified as the project evolved, were to develop better

Conference Session

Research Initiatives

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric N. Wiebe, North Carolina State University; Malinda Faber, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation; Jeni Corn, Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, NC State University; Tracey Louise Collins, North Carolina State University; Alana Unfried, North Carolina State University; LaTricia Townsend

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

for Educational Innovation at NC State University, Dr. Corn serves as PI of several large, statewide evaluation and research studies of innovations in K-12 schools and districts, including leading the evaluation of initiatives funded under North Carolina’s Race to the Top grant. Her research interests focus on leadership, professional development, teaching and learning, infrastructure, and evaluation for technology-enhanced innovations in public school settings.Mrs. Tracey Louise Collins, North Carolina State University Tracey Louise Collins is the Project Coordinator for the MISO Project. Responsibilities include imple- menting activities of the project, coordinating efforts among K-12 science, technology, engineering

Conference Session

INT. Engineering Education: Developments, Innovations, Partnerships, and Implementations

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Genaro Zavala, Tecnologico de Monterrey; Angeles Dominguez, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM); Ruth Rodríguez Gallegos, Tecnológico de Monterrey

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International

Beichner from NorthCarolina State University in the SCALE-UP project3. Like the ACE classroom, there are manyother similar classrooms located in the United States and throughout the world. In general, theseclassrooms all share the basic elements proposed in the SCALE-UP project, differing only in thenumber of tables (due to room size) and the technology they have. Due to their characteristics,such rooms are ideal for teaching sciences such as physics, mathematics, chemistry and biology.However, we have found that other areas such as language or literature also reap the benefits ofthe setup and overall environment that is created in these classrooms4.For several years, Beichner conducted research and experimented with on different classroomsdesigns

Conference Session

The D/M/A of CE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lindsey Anne Nelson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Community Engagement Division

on theexperience of leading the learning experience with students, and analyze the deliverablesprepared by students during the learning episode. The goal of this paper is to open a conversationwith other engineering educators using service-learning pedagogies about how to preparestudents to make the most of site visits to community partners.The StudentsI intentionally designed this learning experience for students enrolled in a service-learningprogram at a major university in the Midwest. Students participate in multidisciplinary designteams that have long-term commitments to working with specific community partners. Eachteam organizes itself so as to give students project leadership experience. Typical leadershiproles include team leader

Conference Session

Design Methodology and Evaluation 1

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tamecia R. Jones, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Design in Engineering Education

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 (A Foreign Language not so Foreign) The Design of Language for Engineering Education: Recycling IM and Text Messaging to Capture Engineering ProcessesAbstractIn an ideal world, teachers would be able to track the rationale of individual students or studentgroups and communicate with students continuously rather than at the end of a project or atmilestones. Current design rationale tools tested in industry show that engineers (and students)have to break their momentum to stop and record ideas or document, so those tools are not aseffective as they could be. A

Conference Session

It's Elementary

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chrissy Hobson Foster, Arizona State University; Jenefer Husman, Arizona State University; Christine Mendoza

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

board of Learning and Instruction and Teachers College Record. In 2006 she was awarded the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER grant award and received the Presiden- tial Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the President of the United States. She has conducted and advised on educational research projects and grants in both the public and private sectors, and served as an external reviewer for doctoral dissertations outside the U.S. She publishes regularly in peer-reviewed journals and books, and has held both elected and appointed offices in the American Psy- chological Association (APA). Dr. Husman was a founding member and first President of the Southwest Consortium for Innovative Psychology in

Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melissa A Dagley, University of Central Florida; Nirmala Ramlakhan, Nee-Moh, Inc; Cynthia Y. Young, University of Central Florida; Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida

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Women in Engineering

students who participated in the mentoring program andremained engaged in the intervention over a two-year period had significantly higher grades thanthose students who received no active intervention (non-mentored students)17.BackgroundThe National Science Foundation funded a STEP project at the University of Central Florida(UCF) titled “UCF-STEP Pathways to STEM: From Promise to Prominence”. The NSF STEPprogram seeks to increase the number of students (U.S. citizens or permanent residents)receiving associate or baccalaureate degrees in established or emerging fields within science,technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The STEP project at UCF, called theEXCEL program, was a 5-year program funded in 2006 which has since been

Conference Session

Accreditation, Program Evaluation, and Education Resource's Impact in Latin America

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erick Jones, University of Texas, Arlington; Vettrivel Gnaneswaran, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; Beatriz Murrieta, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Queretaro

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International

differentfrom his/her home country will not be same as that of the students working in their homecountry. This transcript describes how an NSF funded international research experiences inMexico impacted the Industrial Engineering (IE) students who participated in this project. Thestudents worked with companies that had operations in Queretaro, Mexico, over the summer,including several multi- national firms. The students were required to take Spanish, a researchmethods course at Monterrey Tech, Queretaro, and perform research as part of their program.The impacts of learning, communicating and presenting final results in Spanish are evaluated. This research describes the results two cohorts of students and their experiences over the lastcouple of

Conference Session

Integrating Curriculum and Labs in Engineering Technology Programs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Antonio Francisco Mondragon, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Adriana Becker-Gomez, Rochester Institute of Technology (KGCOE); Joe Bungo, ARM Inc.

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Engineering Technology

Research and Development Engineer and Project Leader for the Automotive Industry in the area of Embedded and Software Systems. She also worked as an Assistant to the Dean of the Graduate Studies of Engineering Division at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico in 1995 .In 2000 she was a grader at Texas A&M University. In 2001 she interned in the Preamp R&D SP Group at Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX, and at Intersil Corporation, Dallas / Milpitas, as a Design Engineer, in the High Performance Analog Group in 2005. She worked at Intersil as a Senior Design Engineer in the Analog and Mixed Signal-Data Converters Group. In 2009 she joined Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York as an adjunct

Conference Session

FPD 5: Transitions and Student Success, Part I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Patrick Walton, Michigan State University; Daina Briedis, Michigan State University; Mark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State University; Timothy J Hinds, Michigan State University; Carmellia Davis-King, Michigan State University; Thomas F. Wolff P.E., Michigan State University

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First-Year Programs

academic and co-curricular activities. By design, the group collaborates closely toensure that timelines of academic and co-curricular activities are aligned and reinforce andcomplement each other. Page 23.262.3The academic director has the following principal responsibilities: ● develops the curriculum for the academic program ● coordinates instruction for the academic courses ● manages the teaching assistants and undergraduate mentors required to operate the courses ● establishes interdisciplinary connections and initiatives that provide broad opportunities for course projects ● maintains the quality and safety of the

Conference Session

The Civil Engineering Technologist and the Civil Engineer – What’s the Difference?

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe D Manous Jr P.E., Institute for Water Resources, USACE; Jon D Nelson, Tetra Tech, Inc.

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Civil Engineering

Services group of Tetra Tech, Inc. in Tulsa, Okla. He has 39 years of engineering experience with most of his career focusing on municipal water and waste water projects. He has been with Tetra Tech for 28 years. He holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Kansas State University and a M.S. degree in Environmental Engineering from Oklahoma State University. Nelson is licensed as a professional engineer in four states and holds Class A operator licenses in Oklahoma for water works and waste water works. Nelson served on the Oklahoma State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors for twelve years and was board chair for two years. He served as president of the National Council of Examiners for