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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremiah J. Neubert, University of North Dakota; Deborah Worley, University of North Dakota; Naima Kaabouch, University of North Dakota; Mohammad Khavanin, University of North Dakota

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

CoachingPeer mentoring and reciprocal peer coaching are integral components of our project, as weexpect the engineering peer mentors to provide real-time, instructive feedback as well asguidance on efficient study habits to students enrolled in calculus and who are consideringengineering as an academic major. Moreover, we use peer mentors to connect students to campusresources as well as to one another. Peer mentoring is regarded as a successful intervention toaddress issues of student retention in academic programs12. Peer mentoring, as defined byKram13 is “a helping relationship in which two individuals of similar age and/or experience cometogether … in the pursuit of fulfilling some combination of functions that are career-related andpsychosocial

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Sarangan, University of Dayton; Joseph W Haus, University of Dayton; Surinder M. Jain, Sinclair Community College; Jamshid Moradmand, Sinclair Community College; Nick Reeder, Sinclair Community College

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

University – Community College partnership to includeoutreach to secondary school educators. The focus of these activities is on increasing theawareness of careers and opportunities in nanotechnology. Page 23.295.8In 2012, we ran a week-long “Summer Nanotechnology Institute” for high school educators,with over 24 contact hours. Ten teachers had enrolled for this workshop, with six instructorsfrom both partner institutions and a number of engineering graduate students helping. This wasalso an opportunity to test the collaborative video system and the nanofab trainer. Theparticipants were awarded one graduate credit-hour for no charge and were given the

Conference Session

CIP Division Technical Session 2

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Abdullah I. Almhaidib, King Saud University

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College Industry Partnerships

programs for with industry. prospective employers 4. Establish a career placement center for the student. 5. Enhance the summer training program. 1. Encourage and facilitate faculty consultation. 2. Institute policies for faculty sabbatical/summer work at ENG 5-C: Facilitate industry. College services 3. Carry out intensive training programs to serve the needs of the directed at local country. industry. 4. Improve testing facilities and increase the quantity and quality

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Distance Education and Engineering Workforce Professional Development

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kim A. Scalzo, State University of New York, HQ; Lisa Miles Raposo, State University of New York Center for Professional Development

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Continuing Professional Development

development opportunities for faculty, librar- ians, and instructional support staff throughout the 64-campus State University of New York system. Lisa chairs the Program Planning Committee for the largest SUNY Conference, the Annual SUNY Conference on Instruction and Technology (CIT), and manages the Certificate Program Development for Teaching Faculty. Lisa began her career at SUNY as a Reference and Instruction Librarian at SUNY Institute of Technology. Lisa has a Bachelors Degree in English Communications from Le Moyne College, located in Syracuse, New York, and earned her Masters in Library Science from Syracuse University

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"How Do We Compare?" - Students, Case Studies, and Learning Approaches

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christi P Patton Luks, University of Tulsa

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Chemical Engineering

engineering design. 2Many articles have been published on the topic. Twenty years after Mayer and Greenointroduced this method, Albanese and Mitchell presented a meta-analysis of more than 100articles on the application of PBL.3 Today, a search for articles about PBL on Google Scholarreports more than 2,250,000 results! Felder and Silverman offered my first introduction toproblem-based learning and other active-learning approaches.4 Early in my teaching career Iread this article and, shortly thereafter, attended one of Dr. Felder’s workshops. This convincedme to try stepping outside of the traditional methods that I had experienced and to make everyeffort to provide an improved learning environment for my students. Some changes have beeneasy to

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Mechanical Engineering (ME) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Firas Akasheh, Tuskegee University; Kenneth D Dawson, Tuskegee University; Jonathan Rocha, Tuskegee University

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Mechanical Engineering

student attitudes towardsthe proposed approach. Figure 5 shows the instrument used to survey the students. The results ofthe assessment for three questions, those surveying engagement, learning of course concepts andappreciation of the engineering career, are presented in Figure 6. In the figure it is evident thatour experimental approach did result in positive impact of those three aspects (in fact all theother aspects surveyed and not included for brevity) Page 23.315.9Figure 5, survey of student attitude used in to assess the impact of the experimental approach

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Misconceptions

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shane A. Brown P.E., Washington State University

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Educational Research and Methods

was the recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2011. Dr. Brown’s research interests are in conceptual change, epistemology, and social or situated cognition. Specifically, his research focuses on theoretical approaches to understanding why some engineering concepts are harder to learn than others, including the role of language and context in the learning process. Page 23.324.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Conceptual Change in Mechanics of MaterialsAbstract Conceptual change theories rely on data from disciplines outside of engineering,such as

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary R Goldberg, University of Pittsburgh; Jon Pearlman; Christian D Schunn, University of Pittsburgh; Birdy Reynolds, University of Pittsburgh; Shelly Renee Brown MEd, The Quality of Life Technology Engineering Research Center; University of Pittsburgh

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. Unfortunately, the poor ranking is in part due to current high school science classroomsthat suffer from many problems: 1) state standards typically require many different topics to bereviewed in a time-frame that is unrealistic; 2) students do not appreciate why the material is Page 23.331.2relevant to everyday life or their future careers; 3) many teachers do not fully understand thecontent they are teaching; and 4) many teachers have weak pedagogical skills. To change thissituation, we must have teachers do more than create a few lectures/demos based on theirsummer research experiences and we must provide a large amount of support for teachers to

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Distance Education and Engineering Workforce Professional Development

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mitchell L Springer PMP, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Gary R. Bertoline, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mark T Schuver, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Continuing Professional Development

(defined as BS Eng. graduates).Land points out “…the perennial debate among engineering and engineering technologyeducators has been where bachelorette engineering technology (ET) graduates fit within thespectrum of engineering and technical careers.” To this end, the Land study was instrumental invalidating what many in business and industry already suspected; that being, the key differencebetween technologists and engineers resides in the education both receive (application versustheory) and their most applicable subsequent roles and titles on entering the workforce.Importantly, and a required follow-on, is a better understanding of each cohort’s contributions tothe engineering processes attendant to the product life-cycle.Technologists have an

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POTPOURRI

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Duke Mejia Bulanon, Northwest Nazarene University; Stephen A. Parke P.E., Northwest Nazarene University

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Computing & Information Technology

interned with the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, then spent the first several years of his career with IBM Microelectronics in Essex Junction, VT, where he worked in semiconductor R&D on five generations of IBM’s memory chip technologies. In 1989, he was awarded an IBM PhD Fellowship and began full-time study at the Uni- versity of California at Berkeley. He fabricated and studied nano-scale silicon-on-insulator transistors, and received the PhD degree from UC Berkeley in 1993. He transferred to the IBM Semiconductor R&D Center in Fishkill, NY where he became a team leader in the IBM/Toshiba/Siemens TRIAD multi- cultural technology development project. In 1996, he left IBM for an entrepreneurial academic start

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Robotics and Automation I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Sarkis Babikian, Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology; Shouling He, Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology; Hossein Rahemi, Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology

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Engineering Technology

visually understand the design process of a roboticmanipulator based on the theorem they learned from the classes, such as forward and inversekinematics, robotic dynamics and trajectory planning. Particularly, the granular jamming gripperis a creative and universal solution for robotic gripper designs. The flexible VEX® robotic armin combination with the gripper can be used as an ideal educational platform. The easilyimplemented robotic system with the creative gripper design can inspire students to explore morenovel and feasible solutions in their future careers in engineering.IntroductionRobotic arms are a popular educational tool for mechatronic engineering students to learn systemdesign by combining the knowledge learned from Electrical

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New Trends in ECE Education II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Margret Hjalmarson, George Mason University; Jill K Nelson, George Mason University; Lisa G. Huettel, Duke University; Wayne T. Padgett, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Kathleen E. Wage, George Mason University; John R. Buck, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

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Electrical and Computer

, specifically detection and estimation for applications in target tracking and physical layer communications. Her work on target detection and tracking is funded by the Office of Naval Research. Dr. Nelson is a 2010 recipient of the NSF CAREER Award. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and the IEEE Signal Processing, Communications, and Education Societies.Dr. Lisa G. Huettel, Duke University Lisa G. Huettel is an Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, where she also serves as Associate Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies for the department. She received a BS degree in Engineering Science from Harvard University

Conference Session

Fresh Perspectives on Information Literacy

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy S. Van Epps, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Libraries

record, not a secondary instructor or limited to participating in teaching just theinformation literacy part of the content and the grading. This option was available since thelibrarian-author has multiple engineering degrees as well as a MLS degree.PurposeThis paper reviews the student work from one section of the first year engineering course relatedto information literacy. The analysis provides an empirical measure of how well students are ableto complete various information literacy tasks required of them throughout the semester.CurriculumCourse structureThe course learning objectives presented in the syllabus are:Successful completion of this course will enable you to: • Examine and analyze career information from various resources to

Conference Session

International Division Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caridad Cruz López, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla.; Aída Hernández Hernández, Universidad Politécnica de Tlaxcala; Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas Puebla

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International

project funded by the Campeche State Council for Scienceand Technology (Consejo Estatal de Investigación Científica y Desarrollo Tecnológico deCampeche). Its goal is to promote an early approach to engineering and science among thestudent population at the upper elementary, middle and high school levels of the State ofCampeche by creating high quality learning environments that promote interactiveclassrooms and contribute to a better understanding of science and mathematics whilepromoting careers in science, engineering and technology12.In general, Mexican teachers and students have an incomplete understanding of engineers andengineering as a profession1, 2, 12. Images shape the way individuals view the world13, thus,eliciting and understanding

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching and Research in Physics or Engineering Physics II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marie Lopez del Puerto, University of St. Thomas; Adam S Green, University of St. Thomas; Jeffrey A. Jalkio, University of St. Thomas; Marty Johnston, University of St. Thomas; Paul R Ohmann, University of St. Thomas (MN)

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Engineering Physics & Physics

Association ofPhysics Teacher’s “Statement on Computational Physics” says, “Computational physics hasbecome a third way of doing physics and complements traditional modes of theoretical andexperimental physics.” 1 Computation should be an important component in the physicsundergraduate curriculum, and ideally it should merge seamlessly with the rest of the curriculum.Throughout the past 15 years, the University of St. Thomas physics department has beenimplementing an integrated physics curriculum where students gain the theoretical, experimental,computational, and communication skills they will need to succeed in their careers. Thecomputational work in our department began with an NSF-sponsored effort (DUE-0311432) todevelop computational modules in

Conference Session

CIP Division Technical Session 2

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Meagan C Pollock, Purdue University

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College Industry Partnerships

expect others to craft the education experiences that best suityour interests[3]. Meagan took the initiative to create this opportunity, unlike her first and thirdinternships at TI which were somewhat preordained as requirements for her university programs.While the role with TI ET explained in this paper materialized somewhat quickly, she had triedthe year before for similar opportunities to no avail. Meagan chose to “own her education” andactively, with persistence and dedication, seek an internship opportunity to gain the experienceshe desired. It is recommended that students pursue opportunities to explore their interests, betterhone their career objectives, and improve professional competence.Network intentionally. One important note, is

Conference Session

Product Development and Manufacturing

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University; Wm Adam Farmer, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Technology

. c.Figure 3. (a). Instuctor Provided Part; (b). Cavity and Core Model; (c). Fill Simulation Figure 4. Example ENTC 361 Course Project: A Key Holder Page 23.38.6 Figure 5. Mold Design Fill Simulation for a ENTC 361 Project ComponentSurvey DataData were collected from students pre and post intervention to assess the perceived effect of thecourse alterations on three main specific aspects: the relevance of the course to the studentsfuture industrial career, the coherence of the course with the overall program curriculum andinteractions with the other two courses under consideration. Initial data were collected in thespring semester of 2011

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Capstone Design Courses and Tools in support of Systems Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ravi T. Shankar, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL; Jonathan Paul Dickson, FAU; Carlo A Mazoleny, Florida Atlantic University

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Systems Engineering

need has arisen to define a body ofknowledge relevant to SE.BKCASE is a four year old knowledge-based project with a scope to define a SE Body ofknowledge (SEBoK9) and then use SEBok to develop a graduate reference curriculum for SE,called GRCSE8. A reference curriculum exists at the graduate level for systems engineering(SE), but not at the undergraduate level at present9. The document is ‘forward’ looking withprogram objectives being fulfilled five years after graduation by students in their near to mid-term of their careers. This is in keeping with GRCSE’s goal to develop a professional master’sdegree in SE; that is, a degree intended for someone who will either enter the workforce as asystems engineer, or who is already in the workforces

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Preparation of Professional Engineers Outside of the USA. What are the Education, Experience, and Exam Requirements?

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael K. J. Milligan P.E., ABET; Daniela Iacona, ABET; Joseph L Sussman, ABET

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Civil Engineering

Paper ID #6573ABET’s Global EngagementDr. Michael K. J. Milligan P.E., ABET Dr. Michael Milligan is executive director of ABET, the worldwide leader in assuring quality and stimu- lating innovation in applied science, computing, engineering, and engineering technology education. Prior to joining ABET, Dr. Milligan worked in environmental satellite program development at the Aerospace Corporation and also served 24 years as a career U.S. Air Force officer where he managed international re- search portfolios in Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, and Africa visiting universities and research institutes

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Micro-Technology and Nanotechnology

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hisham Hegab P.E., Louisiana Tech University; James D Palmer, Louisiana Tech University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

state students to Louisiana Tech University. One third of the currentenrollment of nanosystems engineering majors is out of state students as compared to theuniversity average of only 14% of students being out-of-state residents. Additionally, theuniqueness of the degree has helped to elevate the university to be recognized for itsmicro/nanotechnology education and research. In the past five years, our college has had threeNSF Career award winners (all but one for the entire college), which have used this uniquedegree program as part of their required educational component of their grants. In addition, theNSE faculty have also received two NSF Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education awards thathave assisted with course and laboratory

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Palmyra Catravas, Union College; Michael E Hagerman, Union College; Brian D. Cohen, Department of Biological Sciences, Union College; Samuel Amanuel, Union College; Rebecca Cortez, Union College; Kevin Bubriski, Green Mountain College; Amin Meyghani; Seyfollah Maleki, Union College

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

(SEM) and atomic forcemicroscopy (AFM) and their related modes and diagnostic methods. These microscopystudio labs serve as key bridges to encourage faculty-student interactions, cultivatestudent interest in careers in nanotechnology, and promote and recruit for our programwhich links five academic departments (Biology, Physics, Chemistry, MechanicalEngineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering). Key topics that were covered in the course included: static versus dynamic self- Page 23.258.3assembly, atomic force microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, biomimetics,engineered systems and directed self-assembly, and AFM and SEM studies

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Tablets, Mobile and Technology

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wanda Eugene, University of North Carolina - Charlotte; Shaundra Bryant Daily, Clemson University; Tiffany Barnes, NC State University; Richard Burns, West Chester University

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Computers in Education

and Conference on Human Computer Interaction.Tiffany Barnes, NC State University Dr. Tiffany Barnes is an associate professor of Computer Science at N.C. State University and received her Ph.D. from N.C. State in 2003. Dr. Barnes received an NSF CAREER Award for her novel work in using data to add intelligence to STEM learning environments. Dr. Barnes is co-PI on the $9 million NSF STARS Alliance grants that engage college students in outreach, research, and service. She has received ˜$2 million in funds as PI from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and industry sources to research effective ways to build serious games for education, exercise, and environmental awareness; promote undergraduate research; and

Conference Session

Instrumentation Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Rafiq Muqri, DeVry University, Pomona; Robert Alfaro

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Instrumentation

:  Expose students to the engineering career field by showing them what an engineer does, the skills required, and the exciting projects engineers work on.  Emphasize hands-on, learn by doing exercises.  Provide students engineering design, prototyping and testing skills.  Demonstrate how wireless networking is routinely used in engineering design projects.  Provide hands-on laboratory exercises using commonly available, low cost sensors and Zigbee-capable boards with the appropriate RF module firmware module and encourage students to independently continue their studies beyond the course.For initial testing of Zigbees, an X-CTU, a Windows-based application provided by Digi,was used. This

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Hubert Wilck IV, East Carolina University; Paul J. Kauffmann P.E., East Carolina University

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Engineering Economy

partners. Dr. Wilck has held a faculty position at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is currently an assistant professor of Engineering at East Carolina University.Dr. Paul J. Kauffmann P.E., East Carolina University Dr. Paul J. Kauffmann is a professor and former chair in the Department of Engineering at East Carolina University. His industry career included positions as Plant Manager and Engineering Director. Dr. Kauff- mann received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and MENG in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Penn State and is a registered Professional Engineer in Virginia and North Carolina

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Computer Hardware and Simulation

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Biswanath Samanta, Georgia Southern University; Jonathan Gregory Turner, Georgia Southern University

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Computers in Education

forcontroller implementation are reported. The students were asked to give their response to eachstatement in the scale of 1-5: 1: strongly disagree, 2: disagree, 3: neutral, 4: agree, and 5:strongly agree. All 10 students in the course responded to the survey. For the lab experimenteffectiveness, the average response was 4.8 out of 5, and positive response (agree or stronglyagree) percentage was 100%. For the FPGA based controller implementation, the average scorewas 4.1 and the positive response percentage was 80%. The students liked the lab experiments inthe course but a few students (2 out 10) had some difficulty in appreciating the FPGA basedimplementation, possibly because of their academic background unrelated to Mechatronics andtheir career

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Engineering Education in the Middle East and Technology Exploration in Africa and Developing Countries

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Muhammad Ali, University of Florida; Fazil T. Najafi, University of Florida

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International

, seminars and workshops, and has developed courses, videos and software packages during his career. His areas of specialization include transportation planning and management, legal aspects, construction contract administration, and public works. Page 23.37.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 A Cost Effective Methodology for Pedestrian Road Crossing for Developing CountriesAbstract:The objective of this paper is to present a low-cost methodology for the selection of properpedestrian crossing facility by anticipating pedestrian delays at

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Mechanical Engineering (ME) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nina Robson, California State University, Fullerton, Texas A&M University

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Mechanical Engineering

that are relevant to their future careers and give them theopportunity to engage in course concepts and tasks.Other than increasing student motivation, preparing students to actively participate in thelearning process, by exercising original thinking, evaluating alternative solutions, makingdecisions and defending them, was my ultimate goal. With the trend in higher educationto move away from teacher-centered instruction to a more student-centered approach,IBL gives the opportunity to help students learn the content and course concepts byhaving them explore a question and develop and research a hypothesis. Thus, givingstudents more opportunity to reflect on their own learning, gain a deeper understanding ofthe course concepts in an integrated

Conference Session

"Modular" Learning

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University - Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

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Chemical Engineering

career.”was a bit different from typical • “Yes, it was a good assignment.”engineering homework sets. Do • “I thought it was a really interesting way to learn theyou think that the DOE concepts.”assignment demonstrated therelevance of DOE concepts ineveryday life?Was the DOE assignment more • “Yes! It was a fun assignment that challenged students’enjoyable to complete than a creativity.”typical homework assignment? • “Yes! I liked it a lot.” • “I'm not sure if enjoyable is the right word, but it is a great way to illustrate the concepts in DOE.” • “I don't usually consider homework to ever be

Conference Session

Electrical Energy Courses, Labs, and Projects I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dale H. Litwhiler, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus; Elizabeth Wiggins-Lopez, PSU-Berks

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Paper ID #6786Low Voltage Power Distribution System Provides Incubator for Energy-RelatedStudent ProjectsDr. Dale H. Litwhiler P.E., Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus Dr. Dale H. Litwhiler is an associate professor at Penn State, Berks Campus in Reading, Pa. He received his B.S. from Penn State University, M.S. from Syracuse University, and Ph.D. from Lehigh University, all in Electrical Engineering. Prior to beginning his academic career, he worked with IBM Federal Systems and Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems as a hardware and software design engineer.Mrs. Elizabeth Wiggins-Lopez, PSU-Berks

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Design in Engineering Education (DEED) Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stewart Parnell Prince, California State University Northridge; Yassaman Tarazkar, California State University, Northridge

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Design in Engineering Education

, and career advice each semester and would be supervised directly by a faculty mentor.Students who demonstrated skills in the area of research were given the opportunity to performsuch paid activities in summer.While the primary goal of the study was to increase the number of minority students enteringSTEM at CSUN, goals also included increasing this student base who transfer from JCs ,monitoring their progress and ensuring they graduate in a timely manner, and creating atemplate, or model for other institutions to use in the future.As shown in figure 1, the number of minority students at CSUN, and in particular Hispanicstudents, is increasing. These students enter CSUN (1) as freshman (2) as upper divisiontransfers from JCs