Conference Session

A Challenge to Engineering Educators

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Isolde Adriana Parker, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah; Seetha Veeraghanta, University of Utah

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

framework of a socio-economic-political matrix withan emphasis on insightful understanding of the social and ethical consequences of engineering andtechnology that they will, one day, design and create.In this paper, we present the argument that integrating information literacy content into anundergraduate research project provides a successful model for first-year students to develop andacquire transferable skills for lifelong learning . This integrated approach, we argue, not only enablesthe students to engage with concepts of sustainability as an ethical prerogative, but facilitates a betterunderstanding of information literacy principles within a research context.We draw our inferences from our qualitative and preliminary quantitative

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Topics in Biomass and Gasification Processes

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew J. Traum, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Kyle Pace; Jeremy R Anderson, EASENET

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

, syngas produced by the gasifieryielded a hotter flame than did direct wood chip combustion because the gasifier’s fuelconsumption rate was higher and neither system adiabatically contained the flames.IntroductionAccording to DeWaters and Powers [1] and to Condoor [2] lack of energy-related knowledgeamong American students and the general public is endemic. As the world transitions toward arenewable energy future, familiarity with energy and sustainability concepts will becomeincreasingly important. For example the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects 505,000engineering positions across all disciplines opening by 2016, a 10.6% increase over 2006 levels

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ABET Accreditation, Assessment and Program Improvement in ECE.

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dianna L Newman, University at Albany/SUNY; Meghan Morris Deyoe, University at Albany, SUNY

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Electrical and Computer

involved in research programs at such places as Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Universities of Texas and Wisconsin in the U.S., Kyoto and Nagoya Universities in Japan, the Ioffe Institute in Russia, and Kharkov Institute of Physics and Tech- nology in Ukraine. He was ECSE Department Head from 2001-2008 and served on the board of the ECE Department Heads Association from 2003-2008. He is presently the Education Director for the SMART LIGHTING NSF ERC.Dr. Dianna L Newman, University at Albany/SUNY Dr. Newman is Professor in the Dept. of Educational and Counseling Psychology and Director of the Evaluation Consortium. She has serve as Principal Evaluator for numerous national and international projects related to

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Information Literacy, Computer Efficacy and Readiness

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Elizabeth Paderi Cheung, Los Angeles Pierce College; Tiffany Reardon

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Two Year College Division

community collegeengineering programs to support all the courses needed by students to transfer. Meanwhile,transfer admissions have become increasingly more competitive because of budget cuts in four-year universities. As a result, prospective engineering students who attend community collegeswith limited or no engineering course offerings are at a disadvantage for both transfer admissionas well as time to completion upon transfer. This paper is a description of a collaborative projectamong community college engineering programs in California to address this problem byaligning engineering curriculum, enhancing teaching effectiveness using Tablet PCs, andincreasing access to engineering courses through online education. The project includes aSummer

Conference Session

Four Pillars of Manufacturing

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gayle E. Ermer, Calvin College

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Manufacturing

: continuous improvement of astandalone manufacturing course for mechanical engineers, and a new application of the fourpillars model of the manufacturing engineering body of knowledge. Having seen an example ofthe four pillars applied to evaluation of a manufacturing engineering program also presented atthe 2012 ASEE conference (paper)3, this method showed promise for also critiquing themanufacturing content within a mechanical engineering concentration.Project GoalThe goal of this project was to evaluate the content of a manufacturing processes course formechanical engineering students using the content areas of the four pillars, in the context of therest of the program course requirements, to help identify opportunities for improvements. Theresults

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erin M Fitzgerald, Museum of Science; Christine M Cunningham, Museum of Science

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

natural inclination todesign and build things, and to take things apart to see how they work3. Beginning in elementarygrades is also important since it is before students develop many of the stereotypes that so oftendiscourage girls and minorities from pursuing courses and careers in technical fields4. It is duringprimary school that students establish first impressions of possible career options5. Finally, at alleducational levels, technology projects can help make mathematics and science content relevantto students by illustrating these subjects’ application in real-world projects6.To build the foundation for the next generation of technicians and engineers, we need elementaryteachers who are introducing their students to technology and

Conference Session

Engineering Identity 2

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Educational Research and Methods

- building in instructional technology.Alana Unfried, North Carolina State University Alana Unfried is a Graduate Research Assistant at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University. She works on the Data Analytics team for the MISO Project (Maximizing the Impact of STEM Outreach through Data-Driven Decision Making), funded by the National Science Foundation. Alana’s responsibilities include the development of statistically sound evaluation instruments for teachers and students involved in these campus outreach programs. She also analyzes survey results and related data to understand the collective impact of these pre-college outreach programs. Alana is also a full-time Ph.D. student

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kimberly A Warren, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Chuang Wang, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

thinking. One wayof doing this is to facilitate interactive classroom experiences and learning. As part of a four semester long course curriculum improvement research grant funded bythe National Science Foundation Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (TUES) Program, the use of interactive classroomtools referred to as Geotechnical Concept Tools (GCT) have been developed and are in theprocess of being evaluated. This project involves a required undergraduate GeotechnicalEngineering course at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The intent is to createstudent-centered learning activities and interactive classroom models and/or visuals to evaluatetheir effect on comprehension and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Kathleen Meehan, Virginia Tech; Bonnie H. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; Dianna Newman; Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University; Mohamed F. Chouikha, Howard University; Deborah Walter, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

networks, among other areas. He also focuses on enhancing recruitment and retention of underrepresented minorities in the STEM areas in general, engineering in particular.Dr. Deborah Walter, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. Deborah Walter is an associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She teaches courses in circuits, electromagnetics, and medical imaging. Before joining academia in 2006, she was at the Computed Tomography Laboratory at GE’s Global Research Center for eight years. She worked on several technology development projects in the area of X-ray CT for medical and industrial imaging. She is a named inventor on nine patents. She has been active in

Conference Session

Development of Computational Tools

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Oyebisi Samuel Oyediran; Olawale Babatunde Akinwale, Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.; Kayode Peter Ayodele, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria; Lawrence O Kehinde P.E., Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State

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Computers in Education

runs in a browser, though it can also be a standaloneapplication, which the user interacts with to configure experiment, send experimentspecification and retrieve result from the Lab Server via the Service broker. The client is thefront end of the system. The client program interacts directly with the Service broker throughweb services. The design and development of a functional Mobile Client for iLab is the aimof this project and it is an improvement over the originally used clients for desktopcomputers.Lab ServerThe Lab Server is the backend, a server connected to the remotely located lab equipment (orlaboratory model in the case of a virtual lab). It executes the experiment based on theexperiment specification and notifies the Service

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maria Teresa Napoli, UC Santa Barbara; Arica Lubin, Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships, University of California, Santa Barbara; Liu-Yen Kramer, Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships, University of California Santa Barbara; Jens-Uwe Kuhn, Santa Barbara City College; Nicholas Arnold, Santa Barbara City College; Ofelia Aguirre, Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships; Megan T. Valentine, University of California, Santa Barbara

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #8011Engaging Community College Students in University ResearchDr. Maria Teresa Napoli, UC Santa Barbara Dr. Maria Teresa Napoli received a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara, in 2004. In 1999, she also earned a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Padova in Italy. Currently, she holds positions as project scientist in the Mechanical Engineering Department, and as Community College education coordinator at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Prior to this appointment, she worked for several years as a microsensors system

Conference Session

Perspectives and Approaches to Teaching Simulation and Design-Based Courses

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nelly Ramirez-Corona, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Ramirez Apud Lopez Zaira, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas Puebla

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Chemical Engineering

). Page 23.213.6An example (that was assessed for this study during the course) of a decision-making problem isdescribed in Figure 3. In this case students had to decide (and justify their decision) the order forplacing both reactors, based on their reactor and kinetic knowledge, as well as 10 MAI items(they had to answer items numbered 2, 6, 8, 11, 21, 22, 23, 34, 41, and 42 on Appendix A)related to regulation of cognition, most of them particularly associated with planning andmonitoring, were used as a form of coaching.Additionally, a design problem (Appendix B) was implemented as final project, which wasassigned for teamwork (groups of two students) on the last week of the semester and studentshad a period of one week to develop their proposal

Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues: Culture

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech; Courtney S Smith-Orr, Virginia Tech

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Women in Engineering

way. I can never see you doing that, and I took that as an insult. Like, it hurt my feelings because … he's, like, I picture you going into fashion design or something like that. [92208_430]In other cases, biases manifest themselves in subtle ways as women find themselves workingwith men who don’t seem to quite trust them or have confidence in their abilities, but don’t makeovert comments: I just got a lot of felling a lot of times, like, I did a good bit of that project, and I feel like a lot of times the stuff I did was, like, second guessed, like a lot of them went back and checked it. There was one guy in the group particularly that never took any of my ideas…..[In another group] we had to come up with a list of solutions

Conference Session

Computers and Learning

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pramod Rajan, Laboratory for Innovative Technology & Engineering Education (LITEE); P.K. Raju, Auburn University; Chetan S Sankar, Auburn University College of Engineering

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Computers in Education

research and teaching interests, Dr. Sankar has published more than 100 papers in journals, book chap- ters, and conference proceedings. He has won many awards for research and teaching from the Society for Information Management, NEEDS and John Wiley and Sons, Decision Sciences Institute, American So- ciety for Engineering Education - Southeastern Section, American Society for Mechanical Engineering, Auburn University, and the Project Management Institute. Page 23.1063.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013Serious Games to Improve Student Learning in Engineering

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INTERACTIVE SESSION – Measuring the Impact on Communities

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Julie P Martin, Clemson University; Denise Wilson, University of Washington; Melani Plett, Seattle Pacific University; Tamara Floyd Smith, Tuskegee University

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Community Engagement Division

,fundamental, and extremely pervasive‖ motivation of humans to fulfill needs for attachmentthrough social bonds (Baumeister & Leary18, p. 497).However, reaping the benefits of connection to community can be especially challenging inintrovert-dominated19 engineering and similar STEM fields because sense of community hasbeen shown to be moderated by level of extraversion,11 thus making it substantially harder forintroverts to develop these connections. Service learning programs and other projects thatprovide motivation for interactions while allowing work that may be individualized can supportthe development of a sense of community in introverted students.Social capital can be defined as resources gained from relationships. In the context

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Undergraduate Student Issues: Persistence

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cate Samuelson, University of Washington; Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington

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Women in Engineering

Paper ID #6686Seeing the Big Picture: The Role that Undergraduate Work Experiences CanPlay in the Persistence of Female Engineering UndergraduatesMs. Cate Samuelson, University of Washington Cate Samuelson is a Doctoral Candidate in Education and Leadership Policy Studies at the University of Washington. She also works as a Research Assistant at the University of Washington (UW) Center for Workforce Development (CWD), where she conducts qualitative research and analysis on the Project to Assess Climate in Engineering (PACE) project. Her research interests include P-20 school-community relations and community capacity

Conference Session

Beyond BS: Issues Affecting Graduate Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zsuzsa Balogh, Metropolitan State University of Denver; Marvin E. Criswell P.E., Colorado State University; Michael A De Miranda, Colorado State University

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Civil Engineering

three times in the student‟spreparation: after their undergraduate work, immediately after a graduate level program, or afterMasters-Level graduation and the first few years of experience. This study addresses in somedetail how well the Masters-Level structural engineering education, supplemented with theknowledge increase expected from the initial professional experience, meets the expectations ofthe structural engineering profession in the United States. The outcomes of this research project include an assessment of the competency level(using Bloom‟s taxonomy [1]) expected to be achieved by the conclusion of the Masters-Levelprogram and after the initial five years of professional practice following the graduate program ineach of the

Conference Session

Engagement in Formal and Informal Learning Environments

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey H Rosen, Georgia Tech - CEISMC; Cher C Hendricks, Georgia Institute of Technology; Norman F. Robinson III, Georgia Institute of Technology - CEISMC; Julia Sonnenberg-Klein, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Minorities in Engineering

the role as FLL Operational Partner for Georgia, I am involved in two NSF funded research projects that use engineering design and robotics in STEM education. The NSF projects are SLIDER:Science Learning Integrating Design, Engineering, and Robotics and the recently awarded AMP-IT-UP:Advanced Manufacturing and Prototyping Integrating Technology to Unlock Potential.Prof. Cher C Hendricks, Georgia Institute of TechnologyMr. Norman F. Robinson III, Georgia Institute of Technology - CEISMC Norman Robinson is a seventeen year STEM educator currently serving as an Education Outreach Man- ager for the Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (CEISMC) since June 2011. Prior to his service at

Conference Session

Beyond the Classroom: Summer and Scholarship Programs to Engage Minorities

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ivan Lopez Hurtado, Northern New Mexico College; Charles Knight, Northern New Mexico College; Raul R Peralta, Northern New Mexico College; Jorge Crichigno, Northern New Mexico College

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Minorities in Engineering

after working 60-90 hours, three hours a day, fivedays a week for four-six weeks. This is an increase in efficiency compared to the number ofweeks that students spend on math courses either at the high school or in remedial math classesat the college. Although other summer boot camps for minority students focused on strategies tobuild a sense of self-confidence, this one is focused on improving the student math skills in avery expedite way and this helps indirectly to build their self-confidence.I. IntroductionThis paper presents the strategies implemented and the promising results of a successful summermath accelerator program that the Department of Engineering has prepared for studentscategorized as not ready for Calculus.The project has been

Conference Session

Design Pedagogy and Curriculum 2

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Srujal Patel, Georgia Institute of Technology; Dirk Schaefer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Daniel P. Schrage, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

and motivate more adolescent learners topursue careers in Engineering. Recently multiple initiatives have been undertaken to raiseinterest in STEM education in the United States2, 3. Many of these initiatives are outreachprograms to engage high school students in projects which focus on cultivating their aptitude inSTEM related disciplines. Most of these programs appear to be focused more on Science orMathematics rather than on Engineering and Technology (besides the use of computers) 4. Evenin those rare K-12 outreach programs where Engineering is the primary area of focus, it isusually introduced through problems or activities related to the application fields of Robotics,Manufacturing, Computer-aided-design (CAD) etc. Most of these

Conference Session

Training and Workforce Needs in the Energy Sector

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hayrettin B Karayaka, Western Carolina University; Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Paper ID #6261Nuclear Workforce Development Scholarships and Enhancements ProgramPhase I: Outreach and RecruitingDr. Hayrettin B Karayaka, Western Carolina University Hayrettin Bora Karayaka, PhD Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Western Carolina University Department of Engineering and Technology Belk Building 339 Cullowhee, NC 28723 Bora Karayaka is an Electrical Engineering faculty at Kimmel School, Western Carolina University. With his over ten years of industry experience, he has extensive experience in project management, and a clear understanding of deadlines, industry requirements, safety and

Conference Session

A Challenge to Engineering Educators

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Purdue University; Kacey Beddoes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

(eitherimplicitly or explicitly) that the public does not understand or appreciate engineering becausethey are uninformed or misinformed and that, consequently, the provision of more information(in the form of scientific literacy or the benefits of engineering) will lead to increasedunderstanding and support for engineering. In that way, such initiatives are enactments of thedeficit model. The deficit model (DM) is a term from the field of Science and TechnologyStudies (STS) used to describe initiatives/projects that are based upon a belief in the public’slack of knowledge and scientific literacy and seek to remedy it by providing more, and correct,information. However, a large body of literature has now identified significant problems with thedeficit

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan L. Burkett, University of Alabama; David F. Bahr, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Shelley N Pressley, Washington State University; Kimberly R Schneider, University of Central Florida; John C Lusth, University of Alabama

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #6352Three Training Programs for Preparing Undergraduates to Conduct ResearchDr. Susan L. Burkett, University of Alabama Dr. Susan L. Burkett earned the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Univer- sity of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri in 1985, 1987, and 1992, respectively. She joined the University of Alabama in 2008 as the Alabama Power Foundation Endowed Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. From 2005 to 2007, she served as program director at the National Science Foundation in the Division of Undergraduate Education. She has funded research projects with the National

Conference Session

Delivery Methods in Mechanical Engineering Courses

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raghu Echempati, Kettering University; Anca L. Sala, Baker College, Flint

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Mechanical Engineering

Page 23.569.5welcomed the opportunity to complete some of the work for the course in a remotelocation at a time of their choice. The class met face-to-face for six weeks and online forfour weeks out of the 10-week quarter as shown in Table 1. The first in-class meetingtook place during the first week of school to discuss in detail the format and all therequirements of the course. The final two weeks the class also met in-class so thatstudents were able to completethe laboratories and the final design project. In betweenthese weeks the class met every two weeks face-to-face,and every two weeks online.Table 1. Schedule of Hybrid Mechatronics CourseWeek Class Format Topics1 In-class Introduction to Mechatronic

Conference Session

...by Design

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tanner J Huffman, Purdue University; Nathan Mentzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kurt Henry Becker, Utah State University - Engineering Education

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

State University and the current director for the Center for Engineering Education Research (CEER) which examines innovative and effective engineering education practices as well as classroom technologies that advance learning and teaching in engineering. He is working on several National Science Foundation (NSF) funded projects in- cluding a project exploring engineering design knowing and thinking as an innovation in STEM learning. His areas of research include engineering design thinking, adult learning cognition, engineering education professional development and technical training. He has extensive international experience working on technical training and engineering projects funded by the Asian Development

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael G Mauk P.E., Drexel University; Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng.); Vladimir Genis, Drexel University (Tech.); M. Eric Carr, Drexel University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

laboratory projects for teaching topics inprototyping, fluid mechanics, chemical kinetics, electrochemistry, separation science, heat andmass transfer, process control, biotechnology, materials science, and image processing.Microfluidicis is also an useful gateway for introducing engineering students to biotechnologyand biomedical fields, since many chemical and biotechnology processes done on the chemistrylab bench can be translated to microfluidic formats. Moreover, microfluidics is emerging as animportant commercial technology, and engineering students will be well served by gainingknowledge and experience in this field. A typical microfluidic system is centered around a credit-card sized plastic ‘lab on a chip’ thathosts a fluidic network of

Conference Session

Learning styles affect on students in graphic and design courses

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary

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Engineering Design Graphics

Information Graphics and Engineering DesignAbstractDocumentation for engineering design requires succinct project descriptions, often withinformation and data visualizations. In an effort to expose students to these types ofvisualizations students were asked to summarize each individual chapter of a technology-basedbook of their choice using a different visualization method. This exercise exposed students to awide range of methods and gave them tools for future engineering project document design. ThePeriodic Table of Visualization Methods1 website was used as a starting point for the types ofvisualizations students could explore. This site is an e-learning site focusing on visual literacy:the ability to evaluate, apply, or create conceptual visual

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ishbah Cox, Purdue University; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Minorities in Engineering

from Spelman College, a M.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Alabama, and a Ph.D. in Leadership and Policy Studies from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. Teaching interests relate to the professional development of graduate engineering students and to leadership, policy, and change in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. Primary research projects explore the preparation of engineering doctoral students for careers in academia and industry and the development of engineering education assessment tools. She is a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career (CA- REER) award winner and is a recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

Conference Session

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

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Weizhao Zhao, University of Miami; Ann G Bessell PhD; Nurgun Erdol, Florida Atlantic University; Anthony J McGoron, Florida International University; William T. Rhodes, Florida Atlantic University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

the viewer’s attention and conveying explanations more effectively22. On the otherhand, the Internet’s interactive feature is usually utilized well but its advantage to learningevaluation is often neglected. For example, the Internet provides the teaching-learning process anefficient and automatic means to receive un-biased feedback by designed assessmentfunctions19,26. A dynamic tracking system embedded in the Internet accessible interactivityteaching software is highly desirable to use the Internet’s un-biased and online feedback featureto influence evaluation.Educational Hypothesis and Project ObjectiveThe motivation to start the project was to match student’s learning style10, “I hear and I forget, Isee and I remember, I do and I