Conference Session

Teaching Materials Science Using Innovative Methods

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Surendra K. Gupta, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE)

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Materials

. Page 23.1115.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Supplementing Instruction with Pencasts created with a SmartPenTwo years ago, I bought an Echo SmartPen developed by LiveScribeTM. The package1 included a4GB pen with two ink cartridges, two caps, a micro USB cable, and a starter dot paper notebookas shown in Figure 1. Figure 1: Echo SmartPen Package1 from LiveScribeTMFigure 2 shows the major components of the pen. Ink cartridges are available in both fine andmedium points in black, blue and red colors. A tiny high speed infrared camera is focused at thetip of the ink cartridge to capture everything I would write or draw. The embedded dualmicrophones record the audio in the

Conference Session

Teaching Materials Science Using Innovative Methods

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michelle Rushe, Granta Design; Arlindo Silva, Granta Design

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Materials

introductory materialsscience to capstone design courses, and go on into MSc and PhD levels; but also include the useof TRW in pre-university courses. Figure 1 depicts the countries from where contributions werereceived. Several case studies of active users of TRW in a number of higher educationinstitutions in several countries are presented and discussed in Silva et al. (2012). The sectionbelow offers an overview of their thoughts and uses of TRW.Figure 1. The countries from which institutions contributed to this paper. The map was drawn inCES EduPack with a database of “States of the World” available from the Teaching ResourcesWebsite. Page

Conference Session

K-12 and STEM Programs in Engineering Technology

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Tillman, The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)

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Engineering Technology

illustrate what idiosyncraticfrustrations might occur during the DIY interactive digital whiteboard building process.The common features point to a possible roadmap of expectations regarding other similarundertakings by teachers to build a DIY interactive digital whiteboard.IntroductionWhile some K-12 teachers in the U.S. have been given access to interactive digitalwhiteboards in their classrooms, many others have not.1 This paper describes a proposedline of research inquiry addressing this problem, as well as the results from a pilot studythat was conducted in order to determine if the proposed line of research is feasible. Inthis proposed line of inquiry we intend to examine K-12 teachers building and using do-it-yourself (DIY) interactive

Conference Session

Software Engineering Pedagogical Approaches

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John C. Georgas, Northern Arizona University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

component design and architecture consists of a total of four and a half contacthours, with three of these contact hours devoted exclusively to the study of architectural styles—follow-on modules focus on other aspects of design, such as object-oriented design patterns.After smaller scale initial deployments, we currently use the game activity we present in thispaper throughout these three contact hours as the core element of our approach to the instructionof architectural styles (except in cases of evaluative studies, as will be discussed in Section 4).The time needed to introduce, setup, and run through the game activity ranges between 10 and 15minutes per architectural style: Student selection will consume about 1 minute and ourexperience is

Conference Session

Distance Learning and Online Teaching Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Fallon, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Engineering Technology

fulfill a partial residency,such as attendance at weekend labs conducted at the host school.The purpose of this survey has been to determine and present the means by which variousinstitutions have addressed the remote laboratory component of their distance learningprograms. Potential advantages and disadvantages related to technologies and techniquesused to implement these remote laboratories are discussed.IntroductionAccording to the ninth annual survey of online education, “Going the Distance: OnlineEducation in the United States, 2011,” published by Babson Survey Research Group 1 “The10% growth rate for online enrollments far exceeds the 2% growth in the overall highereducation student population.” As of fall 2010 6.1 million students had

Conference Session

State of Manufacturing

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Nutter, Ohio Northern University; Robert L. Mott P.E., University of Dayton; Carl R Williams, University of Memphis; Mark J. Stratton, Society of Manufacturing Engineers

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Manufacturing

technology programs. Academic programs can benefit byassessing their effectiveness to fulfill the needs and expectations of manufacturing industries,gaining insights for appropriate curriculum revisions to enhance the job-readiness of students toserve these ‘customers’ of our academic services. Page 23.1120.2The paper ends with a summary of observations, conclusions, and recommendations for use ofthe results. Among others, some significant outcomes are: 1. The Four Pillars of Manufacturing Knowledge model is a useful tool for informing a wide set of populations, both industry professionals and educators, about the breadth

Conference Session

Visualization tools, modeling abilities and grading models

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hosein Atharifar, Millersville University of Pennsylvania; Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; James Richard Knapp Sr., Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology

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Engineering Design Graphics

curricula for drafters and design engineers were best fit for their jobfunctions.CADD software has been continuously evolving; the engineering design process has becomelean in the sense that many stages of the design and development can be accomplished with asingle CADD software that can be set up on a single pc station. Figure 1, for example,demonstrates different capabilities exist in Creo Parametric software. Page 23.1121.3 Figure 1 – Engineering design stages covered in Creo Parametric CAD software 2As depicted in Figure 1, many stages of

Conference Session

General Topics in Graduate Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert M. Brooks, Temple University; Mehmet Cetin, Temple University; Jyothsna Kavuturu

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Graduate Studies

United States will come from clean energysources by 20352.Most trips in almost all of the metropolitan regions in the country are driven by the owners of thecars with ridership ratio of 1:1 (between the number of riders and the cars). This process is notonly costly to individuals and society but also leads to air pollution and congestion. There areseveral solutions to this complex problem. One of the solutions is sharing cars. This is a moreefficient, but less convenient method. The objectives of this method are (1) to reduce traffic byreducing the number of cars needed by households and (2) allow commuters to bike, walk, and Page 23.1122.2use

Conference Session

Sustainability and engineering education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexandre David Wing, Colorado School of Mines; Cristal Hibbard, Colorado School of Mines; Jennifer Strong, Colorado School of Mines; Jörg E Drewes, Colorado School of Mines; Junko Munakata-Marr, Colorado School of Mines

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Environmental Engineering

assessment.Prof. J¨org E Drewes, Colorado School of Mines J¨org E. Drewes is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of Research for the NSF Engineering Research Center on Reinventing the Nation’s Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt). He also serves as Co-Director of the Advanced Water Technology Center (AQWATEC) at the Colorado School of Mines, which he co-founded in 2007. Prof. Drewes’ research and scholarly activities have been in four areas for which he is internationally and nationally recognized and which are closely related based on the common thread of drinking water augmentation with water of impaired quality: (1) design and operation of managed aquifer recharge (MAR) systems including riverbank

Conference Session

Distance Education and Engineering Workforce Professional Development

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Soma Chakrabarti, University of Kansas; Zachary Gredlics, University of Kansas; Kevin Curry, University of Kansas; Kara D Lynch, University of Kansas Continuing Education

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Continuing Professional Development

projecttitled Development of Accreditation in Engineering Training and Education or DAETE3,established a self-assessment matrix especially suited for continuing education activities. Thematrix is based on the European Foundation for Quality ManagementTM (EFQM®)4 model(Figure 1) that allows the lifelong learning organizations to clearly focus on five Enablerscriteria and four Results criteria of the continuing education activities. The self-assessmentmatrix is also extended to a benchmarking process that enables each CE organization tocompare itself with similar organizations. While the benchmarking capability was an addedattraction, the primary reason behind choosing this tool was its simplicity and relevance to theneeds of CEIPE. This paper will

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nizami Z Vagidov, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Vladimir Mitin, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Athos Chariton Petrou; Joseph L Zawicki Zawicki

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Electrical and Computer

. Athos Chariton PetrouDr. Joseph L Zawicki Zawicki Page 23.1125.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Synergy of Educational Tools in Teaching of a New Lecture/Lab Course on Electromagnetic Fields and WavesAbstractElectromagnetic Fields and Waves (EFW) courses for undergraduate students are usually taughtin traditional lecture style. The instructors that teach EFW courses using this conventionalmethod encounter several problems including these:1. There is disconnect between the mathematics used to describe electromagnetic phenomenaand the physics, even when one or

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Education Research

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Howard Eisner, George Washington University

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Systems Engineering

applieddirectly to current and future curricula in the fields of systems and software engineering andarchitecting.Systems Engineering ArchitectingAn extraordinary technical leader who set the stage for architecting large-scale systems was E.Rechtin. His book on architecting established the fundamentals, which included his articulationof the four basic approaches, namely1: 1. The normative (pronouncement) methodology 2. The rational (procedural) method Page 23.1126.2 3. The argumentative approach, and 4. The heuristic approachA few years after Dr. Rechtin’s book appeared, the Department of Defense came out with itsC4ISR Architectural Framework

Conference Session

Programs in Support of Systems Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Valerie Maier-Speredelozzi, University of Rhode Island; Colleen Grinham; manbir sodhi, University of Rhode Island

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Systems Engineering

students to pursue engineering as a career.1 Many efforts havefocused on developing improved curricular materials for K-12 engineering education,2, 3 andsome of these studies have specifically looked at systems engineering and systems thinking inthe K-12 classroom.4, 5 Many K-12 educators encourage certain students to pursue engineeringdegrees, but do not necessarily incorporate engineering concepts into their normal classroomlessons and do not always include different types of engineering, such as industrial and systemsengineering.A two-day workshop was planned, including a plant trip and several activities that explained anddemonstrated systems engineering. The funding was provided through a grant from NASA, sothroughout the workshop the

Conference Session

Programs in Support of Systems Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael C Smith, University of Virginia; Barry Horowitz, University of Virginia; Thomas S. Brett, Dept of Systems Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science

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Systems Engineering

)#sponsored#a#workshop#in#April,#2009#in#which#participants#identified#needs#and#opportunities#and#laid#out#principles#and#strategies#for#assisting#eligible#veterans#to#obtain#the#education#needed#to#transition#into#advanced#technology#careers#in#government#and#industry.###The#workshop#findings#are#available#in#the#report#“Veterans’#Education#for#Engineering#and#Science”#posted#on#NSF’s#web#site#at#www.nsf.gov/eng/eec/VeteranEducation.pdf.1####The#University#of#Virginia#offers#a#customized#pilot#Accelerated#Masters#Program#in#Systems#Engineering#for#Veterans#(AMPFV);#a#program#based#upon#an#existing#program,#but#modified#along#the#lines#of#the#principles#established#at#the#NSF#workshop#for#tailoring#educational#programs#toward#the#career#development

Conference Session

Simulation and Programming

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carrie Steinlicht, South Dakota State University; Byron G. Garry, South Dakota State University

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Manufacturing

thinking heuristics, post-modern systems thinking, and total systems intervention, will broaden the education ofengineers.An example of system thinking being taught in a course, but not using the direct tools of theSystems Engineering community, is reported by Aung at Lamar University in a Capstonecourse.1 They describe the process of integrating system thinking, reasoning, and decision-making skills into a Capstone-type course.Systems Thinking for Operations ProfessionalsManufacturing operations are systems that are emphatically interdisciplinary. Manufacturingoperations bring together a wide variety of people, equipment, and processes that must worktogether to build products. They are highly complex adaptive systems that can change quickly.The

Conference Session

Issues in Advising and Mentoring

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan Dolenc, University of Virginia

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Educational Research and Methods

of science, technology, mathematics, and engineering (STEM)1. Students involvedin robotics activities and competitions show an increase in attitude toward science2 and possess agreater awareness of engineering careers3. The largest high school robotics competition focusedon inspiring students in STEM areas is the FIRST Robotics Competition. An important part ofthe FIRST program is mentoring. In general, mentoring is believed to lead to high levels ofsuccess in both personal and professional endeavors4. With respect to FIRST, mentoring is givena high level of importance and is attributed with a large part to the program’s success5. This study investigates the role of mentors in eleven different robotics teams participatingin the FIRST

Conference Session

Design Teamwork

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg Kremer, Ohio University

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Design in Engineering Education

Page 23.1131.5University are listed and explained below. The primary assessment data that supports thesestatements are the examples provided by students in written and face-to-face performancereviews that address both team skills and project quality, and the quality of the team experienceand the team output as assessed by an external advisory board via interactions with teamsthroughout the design process and review of the working prototypes.Factor 1: Create a team culture:The culture sets student expectations, and those expectations can make or break any attempt ateducational innovation. During the first few years of our new approach to the capstone designexperience, team effectiveness was impacted by the prior culture. Prior to 2000 the

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technolog Programs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James P Cohoon, University of Virginia; J. McGrath Cohoon, University of Virginia; Luther A Tychonievich, University of Virginia; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants

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Computing & Information Technology

they have been unintentionally excluding girls.Evaluation of this session shows that 75% of the survey respondents strongly agreed that theinformation provided was useful (N=204) and over 60% of the 49 respondents to the summer2011 follow-up survey indicated that they had used the information during the prior school year.CS1 redesignThere have been several successful attempts in recent years to modify CS1 pedagogy andpractices to make the curriculum interesting to diverse groups of people.1, 19, 12 We alwaysinclude a session with a CS1 instructor whose practices are particularly encouraging to womenand minorities. The CS1X effort developed at University of Virginia has been of particularinterest to high school computer science teachers because

Conference Session

Basic Concepts in Entrepreneurship

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel M. Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sridhar S. Condoor, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng.

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

entrepreneurship event from another. Today in the popularpress and academic literature there are overlapping definitions and terms that make it difficult foreven an experienced observer or researcher to be certain of how to classify, describe andcompare entrepreneurial endeavors. This paper discusses the definitions used to describeentrepreneurial activity which are often confusing and conflicting. It proposes an organizationand categorization of entrepreneurial activity or taxonomy of entrepreneurship. Ourcategorization proposal differentiates entrepreneurial ventures in which the changes in products,processes or concepts occur based upon: 1. the significance of changes within their paradigm, 2.the venture’s profit or non-profit status legal status, and

Conference Session

K-12 Professional Development I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bradley Bowen Ed.D, North Dakota State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

these programs provide uniqueopportunities in different settings. The SWEPT programs typically place teachers in an industryenvironment while RET programs place teachers in an on-campus research facility.There are also many programs being implemented regionally that place teachers in a corporatework environment. The Industry Initiatives for Science and Math Education (IISME) is a popularprogram located in California.[1] Initiated in 1985, this program places teachers in STEM relatedfields into industry positions for 8-week summer work experiences. Once the experience is Page 23.1134.2complete, the teachers are required to produce an

Conference Session

...by Design

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amber Kendall, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Merredith D Portsmore, Tufts University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

representations of the engineering design process (EDP), design is undeniablycentral to the work of engineering, and thus essential to the education of professional engineers.A number of studies have investigated the engineering design process for college students andprofessional engineers.1-3 Recent shifts in K-12 STEM standards4 have instigated discussions ofexactly what engineering content and methodologies belong in elementary and secondaryclassrooms,5, 6 and if the EDP is to be included in these standards, researchers must learn what K-12 teachers who will be teaching engineering understand about it, and how they incorporate theprocess into their lessons in order to design appropriate curricular supports and resources.7-11Interviewing or surveying

Conference Session

Environmental engineering pedagogy and innovation

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder

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Environmental Engineering

for future use of the inverted coursemodel and recommendations for others are provided.BackgroundA number of studies in engineering, physics, and other disciplines have shown that activelearning by students during class rather than traditional lectures enhances student learning.1 Buthow can instructors de-design a class to allow more active learning? A flipped or invertedclassroom moves lectures out of class time to videos, thereby allowing time for active in-classactivities such as small group problem solving.2-7 A recent search of the American Society forEngineering Education (ASEE) conference proceedings website identified 238 papers thatincluded the search term “inverted classroom”. These lecture videos allow students to watch attheir own

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Architectural Engineering

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jill Nelson P.E., California Polytechnic State University; John W. Lawson, Architectural Engineering, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Architectural

contribute. This admissions experiment was short-livedand terminated due to funding constraints (Zweifel 2012)2. Figure 1 ARCE ActivityWith the strong belief that ARCE, ARCH and CM studentsshould remain together in the basic statics and strength ofmaterials classes, ARCE 211 and ARCE 212, the ARCEDepartment embarked on a bold effort to raise passing ratesof non-engineering majors without compromising thecourse content. In 2005 the department completelyreconfigured the courses covering statics and strength ofmaterials, ARCE 211 and ARCE 212 (Dong 2006)1. One ofthe major course revisions was to change the method ofcontent delivery from (3) one-hour lectures per week to (2)one-hour

Conference Session

Instructional Innovations and Global Issues in Architectural Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James P. Mwangi P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Architectural

assess the success of thetraining program. The trainings as presented were found to be very successful.IntroductionHaiti, located on the western one-third portion of the Hispaniola Island in the Caribbean attainedher independence on January 1, 1804 from France. Since independence, Haiti has been plaguedby political instability that has led to social and economic hardships placing this country of tenmillion people1 as the poorest in the Americas2. Although French is the official language, onlyabout ten percent of the population is proficient in speaking, reading and writing in French. Thegeneral population communicates, but most cannot read or write in the second official language;the Haitian Creole, a French based creole with African

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

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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

Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technolog Programs

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian R. King, Bucknell University; Ashwin Satyanarayana, New York City College of Technology

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Computing & Information Technology

committee and fine tuned based on our own experience7. 1. Introduction. Basic concepts, definitions and terminology of data mining should be covered here. Motivate the field with real-world applications of where data mining has been used. We encourage you to discuss current uses of data mining by pulling examples from various news repositories. Discuss some of the implications of data mining, such as privacy and ownership. Using the examples from the news and current events, discuss the different kinds of data repositories on which data mining can be performed. Encourage them to think about the different kinds of patterns and knowledge that can be mined. Introduce the idea of what it might mean

Conference Session

Recruitment, Retention and First-year Programs in ECE

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher R. Carroll, University of Minnesota Duluth

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Electrical and Computer

, Page 23.1141.2conveniently called 0 and 1. That’s enough information to distinguish digital things from thereal-world, continuous experience with which they had daily exposure. Digital does not meanthat digits are involved, but rather means that variables interact under very different and limitedrules compared to familiar continuous variables. What’s a circuit? It was enough to simplydefine a circuit as a collection of electrical components connected by wires, and leave it at that.Behind the ScenesStudents in this camp were given a breadboard on which to build digital circuits. Three TTLintegrated circuits including eight 2-input NAND gates (two 74LS132s) and six D flip-flops (one74LS174), and a seven-segment common anode LED display digit

Conference Session

Laboratory Experiences in Signal Processing and Controls

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ding Yuan, Colorado State University - Pueblo

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

, engineering design processes were represented as a flowchart, such as theone shown in Figure 1. Although some researchers argued that important factors, e.g. teamworkand communication, were missed in the flowchart approach, Mosborg et al13 found in their studythat most of participating practicing engineers basically agreed with the model shown in Figure1. Thus, the flowchart in Figure 1 remained in this approach and the activities in the proposedproject were grouped based on this six-stage design procedure.The project proposed in this approach was course-related. Hereby, its topic should be within thescope of the course contents. For many years, control-related topics have been included inundergraduate engineering curriculums. Traditionally, they

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fred J Figliano, Troy University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Conference Session

Innovative IE Course Content

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas H Timmer, University of Texas, Pan American; Miguel Gonzalez, University of Texas, Pan American

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

constructed with varying amounts of variability in the height,width and depth dimensions facilitating different outcomes. Assessment of student performanceand perceptions (behavior and attitudes) from a small-scale (initial) pilot study will be measured,evaluated and discussed.IntroductionMontgomery states that “determining the capability of the measurement system is an importantaspect of many quality and process improvement activities.”1 Quality is integral component ofmost organizations and is a primary method in which organizations compete.2 The Society ofManufacturing Engineering (SME) has repeatedly identified quality as an important competencygap in the field of manufacturing.3,4This paper presents a method to address the quality competency gap