Conference Session

A Challenge to Engineering Educators

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa DuPree McNair, Virginia Tech; Wende Garrison, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design; writing across the curriculum in Statics courses; as well as a National Science Foun- dation CAREER award to explore the use of e-portfolios for graduate students to promote professional identity and reflective practice. Her teaching emphasizes the roles of engineers as communicators and educators, the foundations and evolution of the engineering education discipline, assessment methods, and evaluating communication in engineering.Wende Garrison, Virginia Tech Wende Garrison got her bachelor’s and master’s from Portland State University in Film & Television and Rhetoric &

Conference Session

FPD 5: Transitions and Student Success, Part I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edmund Tsang, Western Michigan University; Laura Darrah, Residence Life, Western Michigan University; Paul V. Engelmann, Western Michigan University; Cynthia Halderson, Western Michigan University; Bryan W. Thumme, Western Michigan University; Anetra Grice, Western Michigan University

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First-Year Programs

that while there is no statistically-significant difference in individualcourse performance between EH and non-EH students, first-year as well as all engineering andapplied sciences students living in EH have a statistically-significant higher fall term GPA thannon-EH students. Mandatory Math Tutoring appears to have a greater impact in Pre-Calculusthan Calculus I, leading the project team to expand this research pilot to include Algebra II in fallsemester 2012. One outcome of the Early Alert for At-Risk Student is a new data-reporting toolfrom the Office of Institutional Research that is user-friendly and allows the project team to runone report instead of multiple reports to identify all the potential at-risk students and theirdifficulties

Conference Session

Outreach Along the K-12 Pathways to Engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Liesl Hotaling, University of South Florida-St. Petersburg; Susan Lowes, Teachers College/Columbia University; Rustam Stolkin; Peiyi Lin

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Paper ID #6009Student-created water quality sensorsMs. Liesl Hotaling, University of South Florida-St. Petersburg Liesl Hotaling is a Senior Research Engineering with the College of Marine Sciences, University of South Florida. She holds a B.A. in Marine Science, a M.A.T. in Science Teaching, and a M.S. in Maritime Systems (ocean engineering). She is a partner in Centers for Ocean Science Education Excellence - Networked Ocean World (COSEE-NOW) and specializes in real time data education projects and hands- on STEM educational projects supporting environmental observing networks.Dr. Susan Lowes, Teachers College/Columbia

Conference Session

Incorporating Technology into Construction Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Antoine Jean-Pierre Tixier, University of Colorado at Boulder; Alex Albert, University of Colorado

Tagged Divisions

Construction

to provide students with field visit opportunities and use real constructionenvironments to provide context-driven education3. He further argues that such opportunitieswould provide students with better prospects to interact with professional engineers and Page 23.1139.2managers on real construction projects that are dealing with real-life challenges. Anothersolution that is suggested in literature is to establish collaborative partnerships betweeneducational institutes and local construction companies13. Although such methods are valuable,they often are not practical because (1) instructors may not gain access to construction projectson a

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Learning, Evaluation, and Assessment

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Narayanan M. Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Paper ID #8104The Comprehension ChallengeDr. Narayanan M. Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology Professor of Aerospace Engineering. Former chair, Aerospace Division of ASEE. Over 300 papers (120+ refereed), 3 Patents, 15 PhDs and over 160 undergrads guided in research. Team leader, EXROVERT project on learning to innovate on complex systems. Page 23.1174.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 The Comprehension ChallengeAbstractThe need for increased

Conference Session

iSTEM

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David R. Heil, David Heil & Associates, Inc.; Greg Pearson, National Academy of Engineering; Susan E. Burger, David Heil & Associates, Inc.

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

and university clients. Heil is a co-author of Family Engineering: An Activity and Event Planning Guide, and serves as a member-at-large on the Executive Committee of ASEE’s K-12 Division.Mr. Greg Pearson, National Academy of Engineering Greg Pearson is a senior program officer with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in Washing- ton, D.C. Pearson currently serves as the responsible staff officer for the public and private-sector funded study ”Integrated STEM Education: Developing a Research Agenda.” He is also study director for the NSF-funded project ”Changing the Conversation: From Research to Action” and the project ”Changing the Conversation: Building the Community,” supported by the United engineering

Conference Session

Restructuring/Rethinking STEM

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Laplace transforms,feedback control, data acquisition and signal processing. More enlightened courses Page 23.1237.2include labs or long-term projects that challenge students to connect theory to design(Tranquillo, 2007). But one way to create a T-shaped course is to challenge engineers toapply their skills outside of traditional boundaries. With that goal, I challenged myBMEG 350 (junior-level biomedical engineering) students to design and build non-traditional musical instruments.Each student team designed and constructed an instrument that would record biologicalsignals and then transform those signals to Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI

Conference Session

K-5 Teacher Transformation

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue Ph.D., Towson University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

teacher educator, she has added engineering to her elementary and early childhood science methods courses, and developed a Teaching Engineering Design course for middle school pre-service teachers in a science track. Since 2008, she has partnered with Harford County Public Schools in Maryland on the SySTEmic Project, a district-wide project to implement elementary engineering instruction using EiE units of instruction. More recently, she has provided science and engineering professional development to Tunbridge Public Charter School, Baltimore City, and to Cecil County Public Schools, Maryland. Her research largely examines factors that support and those that hinder elementary teachers as they learn to teach

Conference Session

Issues of Outreach and Interest in Engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara A. Atwood, Elizabethtown College; Joshua M Frey, Elizabethtown College

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

introduced an extrinsic performance goal that enhancedthe undergraduates’ motivation, but left us able to answer our research question: what are thesimilarities and differences between women and men undergraduates in their intrinsic motivationto perform K12 outreach?MethodsOutreach Project Our study focused on an outreach activity performed in one mid-level course (Strength ofMaterials) within the ABET-accredited general engineering curriculum at a small (less than2,000) private regional liberal arts college. The course had an enrollment of 22 students spanning10 sophomores (45%), 11 juniors (50%), and 1 senior (5%), including 16 men and 6 women(27%). To expose undergraduates to outreach, all undergraduates enrolled in the Strength

Conference Session

RET Initiatives

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zornitsa Georgieva, West Virginia University; Reagan Curtis, West Virginia University; Tyler A Saenz Saenz, West Virginia University; Miracle David Solley, West Virginia University; Darran Cairns, West Virginia University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Impact of Research Experience for Teachers with International and Societally Relevant ComponentsIntroductionWe sought to bridge the divide for teachers and their students between secondary science andmathematics content, on one hand, and the engineering of solutions to real-world societally-relevant problems, on the other hand. The expected outcomes for the Research Experience forTeachers: Energy and the Environment project* (RET) included: 1. Teacher knowledge and attitudes toward science and engineering will improve as a result of participating in ongoing engineering research projects for six weeks during the summer and

Conference Session

Activities and Assessment for “Awkward ABET Outcomes”

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William J. Davis P.E., The Citadel; Kevin C Bower P.E., The Citadel; Ronald W. Welch, The Citadel; Douglas H. Fehrmann, The Krause Center for Leadership and Ethics, The Citadel

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Department program outcomes is measuredusing embedded indicators with the six levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy 12,13 summarized as: 1.)Knowledge, 2.) Comprehension, 3.) Application, 4.) Analysis, 5.) Synthesis and 6.) Evaluation. Page 23.393.6Table 1 summarizes the 22 CEE Department program outcomes adopted for the CivilEngineering program and identifies the ten outcomes that are being used to assess leadershipdevelopment. Course embedded indicators on tests, assignments, and projects are usedsystematically to evaluate each of the 22 CEE Department program outcomes. Multiple meansof assessing each CEE Department program outcome are deployed and include

Conference Session

Perspectives and Approaches to Teaching Simulation and Design-Based Courses

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Turton P.E., West Virginia University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 A new motivation and perspective on teaching simulation and design: The development of a dynamic process model in conjunction with an operator training simulator (OTS)IntroductionDuring the past five years, the author was involved, as part of a team of researchers anddevelopers, in building an Operator Training Simulator (OTS) for an Integrated GasificationCombined Cycle (IGCC) power plant. In a companion project, a 3-D fully Immersive TrainingSystem (ITS) was developed for the same IGCC power plant OTS. During this process, theeducational potential of both the OTS and ITS became evident and provides the motivation forthis paper.Traditional process/plant

Conference Session

Instrumentation Technical Session I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rafic Bachnak, Texas A&M International University; Sofía Carolina Maldonado, Texas A&M International University; Fernando Garcia Gonzalez, Texas A&M International University

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

a member of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society and Vice-President and Treasurer of the Society of Engineering at TAMIU. In addition, Sof´ıa was a Research Assistant for the project ”Topography of an Object: Detection and Display (Software and Hardware)” and was team leader of the Engineering Senior Project Design entitled ”New Classroom Propulsion Demonstrator.”Dr. Fernando Garcia Gonzalez, Texas A&M International University Dr. Fernando Gonzalez is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Math and Physics Department at Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas. He is currently involved in implementing a new undergraduate Systems Engineering degree program which includes selecting the curriculum

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James L. Hanson, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

NationalScience Foundation) have been widely reported (e.g., Refs. 7, 8).Several of the studies have involved bringing research activities directly into the curriculum(e.g., Refs. 9, 10, 11, 12). Most of these investigations appear to keep research as the focal pointof the experience for the students. Sanford-Bernhardt and Roth reported multiple options foradministratively promoting research activities for students. 9 Others have reported research-oriented capstone project experiences (e.g., Ref. 10). A lesser amount of research experiences forconventional lecture and/or laboratory courses has been reported (e.g., Refs. 11, 12), especiallyin civil engineering. When incorporated, students have reacted favorably to having curricularcontent that is not

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering (ME) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

computation and simulation capabilities to the determination of the motion(including velocity and acceleration) of mechanisms starting from the governing ordinarydifferential equations. It was noted that the animations were effective in supporting the learningof visual learners6. Yin devised a 2-semester long computationally intensive project to designtwo specific mechanisms one for de-watering of moored boat and the other a piston crankmechanism for small internal combustion engine7. Excel computation and graphic capabilitieswere central to the project. The spreadsheet computations mainly consisted of inverting thecoefficient matrix of the systems of simultaneous equations describing the mechanism motion.Liu and Boyle used a pseudgraphical method

Conference Session

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

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

communities that, in turn, become moreconducive to the well-being of individuals.12 The interventions described below employ thesocial constructionist framework to address the need to develop technological fluency whileactively engaging students as agents of change for their own communities. Althoughimplemented in ways appropriate for each context, the strategy employed began with adiscussion of community issues as well as solutions to existing problems. Next, workshopparticipants used Scratch, a programming environment developed by the MIT Media LabLifelong Kindergarten group, 13 to express their ideas. These projects often were in the form ofadvertisements, stories, and games. Further details about this process are presented below.    Case Study 1

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leda Lunardi, NC State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

director for the Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) Division in the Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, VA. She was the director of Graduate Programs of the ECE Department in 2007, before joining the leadership team of Gen 3 NSF-ERC Future Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management (FREEDM) Systems Center. There she led the Education Pro- gram from 2008-2011, and leads the REU-site ”Engineering the Grid.” She has served on several IEEE executive and technical committee conferences, national and international governments’ ad-hoc commit- tees for grants and projects reviews. She has authored and co-authored more than 100 publications and conference

Conference Session

Involving Undergraduates in Research

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Usama El Shamy P.E., Southern Methodist University; Tarek Abdoun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Flora P McMartin, Broad-based Knowledge, LLC; Miguel A. Pando, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Paper ID #6383Integration of Remote Major Research Instrumentation in UndergraduateCivil Engineering EducationDr. Usama El Shamy P.E., Southern Methodist University Dr. Usama El Shamy is an assistant professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Southern Methodist University. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2004. He is the Principal Investigator and Project Director of the NSF funded TUES-Type 1 project: ”A Multi-Institutional Classroom Learning Environment for Geotechnical Engineering Educa- tion.”Dr. Tarek Abdoun, Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteDr

Conference Session

Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharnnia Artis, University of California, Berkeley; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

students’ confidence to continue in science and engineering; and 4) exposure tothe diversity of professional career opportunities that apply science and engineering 
training.Additionally, the program collaborates with UC Berkeley’s Transfer Alliance Project (TAP).TAP provides individualized academic and transfer advising and enrichment programs thatprepare community colleges students to be competitive applicants to four-year colleges.Theoretical FrameworkTo provide a comprehensive experience for community college students, the TTE REU adaptedthe Branford, Brown, and Cocking’s “How People Learn” (HPL) framework to design aninclusive, supportive, and effective environment for community college students. This HPL

Conference Session

Design Pedagogy and Curriculum 1

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jay R. Goldberg P.E., Marquette University; David B. Rank, Root Cause Consortium, LLC

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #6230A Hands-On, Active Learning Approach to Increasing Manufacturing Knowl-edge in Engineering StudentsDr. Jay R. Goldberg P.E., Marquette University Jay R. Goldberg, Ph.D, P. E. is a Clinical Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Marquette University, and Director of the Healthcare Technologies Management program at Marquette University and the Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee). He teaches courses involving project management, new product development, and medical device design. His experience includes development of new prod- ucts in urology, orthopedics, GI, and dentistry. Dr. Goldberg

Conference Session

Enhancing Engineering Management

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Liana Bayatyan, Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY); S. Jimmy Gandhi, California State University, Northridge

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

thereare many opportunities to conduct research in the area of interaction between people andmachines, tasks and environments [18] – both of which are interactions that are necessary forengineering managers to understand in order to manage projects successfully. Psychological Theories that affect the workplace The mechanistic paradigm originated during the Scientific Revolution and dominated thescientific realm up until the mid 20th century [5]. According to the mechanistic approach, theuniverse, people and other entities are complex mechanisms and are best understood through themechanistic perspective. Initially, the management of human capital within the organizationalsettings was also purely mechanistic. The 18th

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Learning, Evaluation, and Assessment

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lawrence E. Whitman, Wichita State University; Cindi Mason, Wichita State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

paper.SERVICE LEARNING IN ENGINEERINGThe aim of this section is to answer four basic questions regarding service learning:1. What is it?2. Why is it necessary?3. How can it be incorporated?4. How can it be assessed?Although concise definitions of the term ―service learning‖ vary in presentation, there are somedefinitive attributes associated with the term. Service learning is ―experiential education‖12 or―hands-on learning‖13 in which students learn academic objectives by completing a project thataddresses human and community needs12, 13, 14. Factors that differentiate service learning from Page 23.215.3community service are the credit

Conference Session

K-12 Robotics

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Krystal S Corbett, Cyber Innovation Center; JoAnn M. Marshall, Cyber Innovation Center/National Integrated Cyber Education Research Center

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

inscience, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) applications.The framework described in this paper is specific to integrating the informal activity of aregional robotics competition (designed for 4th-12th grades) with formal learning, specificallyfor middle school grades (6th–8th). The STEM applications courses are designed to increaselearning and develop better understanding of fundamental topics while providing preparationtime for the regional robotics competition. While students are learning through the use of arobotics platform, the fundamental STEM topics for the class are re-emphasized. Havinginteractive projects in the classroom provides a context for the fundamental content being taughtwhile also impacting those students who

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Education Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chehra Aboukinane; Daniel N. Moriasi, USDA-ARS; Ann L. Kenimer, Texas A&M University; Kim Dooley, Texas A&M University; James DUPE Linder, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

is also a faculty of Project management at Fairleigh Dickinson University, in Vancouver, B.C. Her research focuses on the management of the soil and water interface for maximum productivity within the envi- ronmental requirements of long term sustainability, climate change issues and overall ecosystem health. Other research projects include watershed modeling and simulations, project management, curriculum design and development, Information technology and distance education.Dr. Daniel N. Moriasi, USDA-ARS Dr. Daniel Moriassi is a scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Engineering from Egerton University at Kenya, and both his master’s in Biological and

Conference Session

Basic Concepts in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leo E. Hanifin, University of Detroit Mercy; Ross A. Lee, Villanova University; Jonathan Weaver, University of Detroit Mercy; Kenneth F Bloemer, University of Dayton; Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

is a Senior Lecturer of Computer Science and Assistant Dean for Special Projects in Page 23.17.1 the School of Engineering & Computer Science at Baylor University. She teaches a wide variety of engineering and computer science courses, leads the iNova Weekly Innovation Challenge, and is a KEEN Fellow. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 “The Influence of Culture, Process, Leadership and Workspace on Innovation and Intrapreneurship in American Corporations, and the Implications for Engineering Education”Current entrepreneurship education

Conference Session

Recruitment, Retention and First-year Programs in ECE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chad Eric Davis P.E., University of Oklahoma; James J. Sluss Jr., University of Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

centralfocus of our outreach and recruiting activities is to create fun, exciting, and interestingdemonstrations and hands-on activities that are related to the specific items listed by the students Page 23.862.5in the surveys. Most of these are created by ECE students. In this way the students can see thetypes of things they will be capable of doing if they choose ECE as a major. Another surveyquestion asked the students to state “what impressed them about the experience” (if they wereexposed to our outreach or recruiting activities). The most popular response to this question wasrelated to seeing the student projects. Looking back at some of the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Ehlig-Economides, Texas A&M University; Bugrahan Yalvac, Texas A&M University; Emily Binks-Cantrell, Texas A&M University; Don R Gilman PE, PMP, Texas A&M University; Mehmet Ayar, TUBITAK; Timothy Allen Robinson, Penn State University; Anthony R Kovscek, Stanford University; Reza Toossi, California State University, Long Beach; Sarma V. Pisupati, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sukesh K Aghara, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

the How People Learn framework.Dr. Emily Binks-Cantrell, Texas A&M University Emily Binks-Cantrell, Ph.D., is a faculty member in the Department of Teaching, Learning & Culture at Texas A&M University, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the field of reading education. Additionally, she serves as a statistical consultant for the NSF-funded Live Energy project, a collaborative e-textbook project for freshmen engineering courses between Texas A&M University, Pennsylvania State University, Stanford University, California State University Long Beach, and Prairie View A&M University. She has published several articles and book chapters on the importance of quality teacher

Conference Session

Novel Pedagogies 1

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Cutler, Virginia Tech; Maura J. Borrego, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

distinctionbetween cooperative and collaborative learning or between problem-based learning and project-based learning. To decrease confusion, there should be agreed upon characteristics for eachRBIS that ensures it is being used optimally. These characteristics can also help define whichcharacteristics are needed for increased learning and engagement.Also, RBIS are “research-based” and, therefore, developed by researchers and discussed asresearch elements. Efforts need to be made to ensure that discussions of these RBIS are not onlydiscussed within research circles, but also in ways practitioners can understand and make use of.Again, developing and defining specific activities to be done in the classroom can help bridge thegap between researchers and

Conference Session

Design Methodology and Evaluation 1

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vimal Kumar Viswanathan, Georgia Institute of Technology; Julie S Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

) providingsuitable warnings to novice designers can help them in avoiding design fixation. Thesehypotheses are tested using a quasi-experiment conducted during a freshmen class project.Students complete their projects in three different experimental groups. One group receives afixating example with an undesirable feature. The feature negatively influences the functionalityof the design. The second group receives the same fixating example with warnings about theundesirable feature. The third group completes the project without the help of an example(control). Students are instructed to build and test their designs. The designs are photographedbefore and after testing. The occurrence of the flawed example feature in each design is studied.The results show

Conference Session

Topics in Energy Management

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jaime Ramos-Salas P.E., University of Texas, Pan American; Emmanuel Benitez, University of Texas, Pan American; Leonel Aguilera, University of Texas, Pan American

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

Photovoltaic system itself.The software being utilized for this project is a graphical user interface (GUI) designed inLabVIEW. The data acquisition part of the project is compound of a variety of sensors that sendinformation to the data acquisition interface, which is a minilab 1008 connected to the computervia USB. The data is read and processed through LabVIEW. The energy management system ismostly implemented through LabVIEW as well. In addition to our photovoltaic system, we haveintegrated a Solar Irradiance instrumentation laboratory, which provides real time informationregarding the solar resource at our site. This data is collected and displayed in our GUI.An energy management system was implemented in order to create a micro smart grid in