Conference Session

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

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christina R Scherrer, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Engineering Technology

student retention. The Review of Higher Education. 22: 55–72. 7. Lopatto, D. (2004). „Survey of Undergraduate Research Experiences (SURE): First Findings‟. Cell Biology Education. Vol. 3, 270–277, Winter 2004. 8. Morley, R.; J. Havick, and G. May (2002). „An Evaluation of the Georgia Tech Summer undergraduate program of research in electrical engineering for minorities‟. Journal of Engineering Education, 87(3): 321– 325. 9. Zydney, A.; J. Bennett, A. Shahid, and K. Bauer (2002). „Impact of Undergraduate Research Experience in Engineering‟, Journal of Engineering Education, April 2002. 10. Karp, T.; R. Gale, L. A. Lowe, V. Medina, and E. Beutlich (2010). „Generation NXT: Building Young Engineers With

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

Engineering Education Regional Conf., June 2007.8. N. Klingbeil, K. Rattan, M. Raymer, D. Reynolds, and R. Mercer. “The Wright State model for engineering mathematics education: A nationwide adoption, assessment and evaluation,” Proc. of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2009, pp. AC 2009-1416.9. Z. Wilson, L. Holmes, K. deGravelles, M. Sylvain L. Batiste, M. Johnson, S. McGuire, S. Pang, and I Warner. “Hierarchical mentoring: A transformative strategy for improving diversity and retention in undergraduate STEM disciplines,” Journal of Science Education and Technology, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2012, pp. 148 – 156.10. E. Voyles, R. Kowalchuk, J. Nicklow, and R. Ricks

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"Modular" Learning

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Chemical Engineering

beobvious, the latter conclusion is not.Another advantage of the DOE method is that the φ values calculated for each factor andinteraction may be used as input for a mathematical model which can predict system response foruntested values of each factor within the tested range. For this 3-factor, 2-level experimentaldesign, the model equation predicting experimental response (Ymodel) would be: ϕA Ymod el = ϕ mean + ( A) + ϕ B (B ) + ϕC (C ) + ϕ AB ( A)(B ) + ϕ AC ( A)(C ) + ϕ BC (B )(C ) + ϕ ABC ( A)(B )(C ) (1) 2 2 2 2 2 2 2Equation 1 uses inputs for each factor (A, B, C) based on the specified +1 to -1 scale. Forinstance, if

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Teaching with Technology

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Larry Burton, North Carolina A&T University (Tech); Robert Cobb Jr., North Carolina A&T State University; Ibraheem A. Kateeb, North Carolina A&T State University; Li-Shiang Tsay, North Carolina A & T State University; Cameron Seay, North Carolina A&T State University; Tony E. Graham I, Department of Built Environment; Chafic Bousaba, NC A&T SU, CST Dept.

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Educational Research and Methods

was negligibledifference between upperclassmen and freshmen on satisfaction with textbooks and resources. Page 23.908.9Specific exercises have been designed over several semesters to assess ABET outcomes. Thishistorical record allows retrospective analysis of the impact of delivery methodology on specificoutcomes. All classes have met the specific measured outcomes for 2010-2012 with negligibledifference among years. Interestingly, the same results are achieved for peer-reviewedpresentation assessment and instructor-reviewed assessment. Figure 7: Learning Outcome Assessment Example for Fall 2012 ABET Course Specific

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Electrical Energy Courses, Labs, and Projects II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ramadan Elmoudi, University at Buffalo; Ilya Y. Grinberg, Buffalo State College; Mohammed Safiuddin, University at Buffalo, SUNY

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

systems analysis, design automation, and systems engineering.Prof. Mohammed Safiuddin, University at Buffalo, SUNY B.E. (Electrical) Osmania University, India, MSEE University of Illinois), MBA, Ph.D. UB(SUNY). Ju- nior Engineer, Andhra Pradesh State Electricity Board (India) (1958-59). Westinghouse Electric Corpo- ration, Buffalo, New York (1960-85). Research Professor, Advanced Technology Applications, Electrical Engineering, University at Buffalo (SUNY) (1977-2010). President, STS International, Amherst, NY (1985-present). Technical interests cover static power conversion and optimal control systems applied to industrial processes, energy conservation and energy management. Holds 10 patents in this field and has

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Design in Engineering Education (DEED) Engineering Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mario W. Gomes, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Elizabeth A. DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE)

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Design in Engineering Education

• Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynard• Smoke On the Water by Deep Purple• Beethoven’s 9th by Beethoven• Lack of Communication by Ratt• Back In Black by AC/DC• Sweet Child of Mine (~ 1 min intro only) by Guns n Roses• Slow Ride by Foghat• Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles• Dream On by Aerosmith• Children of the Grave by Black Sabbath• Holiday by Green DayPossible criteria for song selection:• Playable on chimes• Notes are separate or simple chords• Max of 10-15 different notes• Repetition would make it easier• Appropriate lyrics• Simple melody• Consists of only a few notes and have a slow tempo• Be recognizable otherwise no one will know what we are playing• Should only consist of a few instruments to allow all aspects of the

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Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael E. Pelletier, Northern Essex Community College; Linda A. Desjardins, Northern Essex Community College; Paul Chanley, Northern Essex Community College; Lori Heymans, Northern Essex Community College

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Two Year College Division

Stephen McKnight of Northeastern University offered a two-weekprofessional development workshop for community college instructors in June, 2010. Attendingthat workshop were faculty members from three Massachusetts community colleges: NorthernEssex Community College (NECC), Middlesex Community College, and Massachusetts BayCommunity College. Over a span of two weeks, the community college faculty worked in teamsto complete the same hands-on projects that first-year engineering students at NortheasternUniversity completed in a semester. The workshop featured programming in MATLAB andC++. At the end of the workshop the community college faculty selected certain projects asmost appropriate for their institutions. Subsequently, Whittier Regional

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Creating and Maintaining Effective Communication Learning in the Curriculum

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark W. Milke P.E., University of Canterbury; Creon Upton, Unaffiliated; Glen F Koorey, University of Canterbury; Aisling Dominique O'Sullivan Ph. D., University of Canterbury; Keith Comer, Chalmers University of Technology

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Civil Engineering

-book approach to teaching writing, theyhave the distinct advantage of being goal focused, which helps in convincing reluctantengineering students to put in the effort to improve. Universities as diverse as M.I.T.(Paradis and Zimmerman, 2002) and Curtin University in Australia (Grellier and Goerke,2010) have developed Writing Style Guides with a clear dependence on a genre-basedapproach to teaching communication skills. Grellier and Goerke (2010) go so far as to usethe metaphor of a tool as a way to emphasise how engineers will use unique document typesfor specific purposes. Contextual learning, and hence genre-oriented teaching of writing, isparticularly important for engineering students because they are characteristically practical-oriented

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Methods, Techniques, and New Programs in Graduate Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Niaz Latif, Purdue University, Calumet ; Joy L Colwell, Purdue University, Calumet (Tech)

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Graduate Studies

Paper ID #6087Design, Development and Implementation of a Master of Science Degree inModeling, Simulation, and VisualizationDr. Niaz Latif, Purdue University, Calumet Dr. Niaz Latif is the Dean of the School of Technology at Purdue University Calumet. He has also served for two years as the Dean of the Graduate School and additional two years as the Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies. Dr. Latif was responsible for the graduate education ac- tivities for 14 Master’s Degree programs, development of new degree programs and courses. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri—Columbia

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Materials

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamad Dyab, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Payam Matin, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Yuanwei Jin, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

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Mechanical Engineering

Pressure Split Bar for material properties characterization under high speed deformation. During the undergraduate studies, Mr. Dyab worked as a team leader for AIRSPACES Project (Air-propelled Instrumented Robotic Sensory Platform(s) for Assateague Coastline Environmental Studies) at UMES from 2010 to 2012.Dr. Payam Matin, University of Maryland Eastern Shore Dr. Payam Matin is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES), Princess Anne, Maryland. Dr. Matin has received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan in May 2005. He has taught a number of courses in the areas of mechanical

Conference Session

Panel: Opportunities & Methods to Encourage More Women Toward Research Commercialization

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adrienne Minerick, Michigan Technological University; Babs Carryer, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA); Mary Raber, Michigan Technological University; Abby Thompson, Mississippi State University ; Louise C. Dunlap, DunlapBrowder

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation, Women in Engineering

Journal cover (2008). She is an ac- tive mentor of undergraduate researchers and served as co-PI on an NSF REU site. Research within her Medical micro-Device Engineering Research Laboratory (M.D. – ERL) also inspires the development of Desktop Experiment Modules (DEMos) for use in chemical engineering classrooms or as outreach activi- ties in area schools (see www.mderl.org). Adrienne has been an active member of ASEE’s WIED, ChED, and NEE leadership teams since 2003 and during this time has contributed to numerous ASEE conference proceedings articles and educational journal publications.Babs Carryer, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) Babs Carryer is director of faculty development and

Conference Session

FPD 8: Engineering Math Issues

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tanya D Ennis, University of Colorado Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado, Boulder; Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder

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First-Year Programs

2 1 1 0 0 F D C B A F D C B A Figure 3. Final grade distributions from the spring 2012 pilot 1 pre-calculus course and the subsequent fall 2012 calculus grade distributions.As this GoldShirt cohort moved on, of the 11 students who took calculus 1 in the fall 2012, onlytwo students (18%) earned a B- or better—one student earned a B in one-semester calculus andthe other earned an A in the first semester of yearlong calculus I. Nine students (82%) earned aC, C-, D or F. Compared to the previous results, a lower percentage of students

Conference Session

Communication and Engineering Careers: Motivating Our Students

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Golder, British Columbia Institute of Technology; Deanna Gail Levis, British Columbia Institute of Technology; Darlene B Webb, British Columbia Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

the fall of 2010, the three instructors were brainstorming ideas on how to motivate engineeringstudents to hone their oral presentation skills and showcase their engineering talents in a fun,competitive arena, and Presentation Idol for Engineering Students was born. The first event washeld in the spring of 2011, with over $2,000 in prize money. After the success of the inauguralevent, Idol was held again in May, 2012, and with industry support, the prize pool for the 2012competition grew to over $3,300. The next Idol competition for spring, 2013 is currently beingplanned. Having started as a simple idea for an extra-curricular activity, Idol is now on its way tobecoming an ongoing event at the institute.How does Presentation Idol work?To make

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 2

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Michael Butler, Lockheed Martin

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Aerospace

design provided anopportunity to see the impact of a controlled intervention on students (in a typical largeuniversity environment) who have had three years of training predominantly under the deductivelearning model where emphasis is often not placed on the application of theory to real worldproblems.The Experiment In the live simulation, the students experienced being an aircraft design engineer for afictitious aircraft company called Ace Aero. The students used a combination of electronic toolsand real world role playing in order to simulate the aircraft designer experience. These realworld industry level design tools included the computer CAD tool CATIA by Dassault Systems,the synthesis tool ModelCenter® by Phoenix Integration, and

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John M Robertson, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Kathleen Meehan, Virginia Tech; Robert John Bowman, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Douglas A Mercer, Analog Devices Inc.

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Electrical and Computer

subjectss in math and science.This analytical foundation is essential for those who wish to become practicing, creative, analogcircuit design engineers. With tinkering and observation comes design instinct and appliedknowledge that’s hard to get any other waway. y. In the ten years since introducing “tinkering labs”into the curriculum (with other college initiatives) retention of first year electrical engineeringstudents between 2001 and 2010 has risen from below 70% to over 83%.Now with the introduction of a cost effective, portable instrument cluster, we are dramaticallychanging our thinking on how to effectively deliver engineering lab content and expand thedomain for student participation in the hands

Conference Session

Micro-Technology and Nanotechnology

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhiyong Gu, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Bridgette Maria Budhlall, University of Massachusetts; Hongwei Sun, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Carol Forance Barry, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Alfred A. Donatelli, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Jill Hendrickson Lohmeier, University of Massachusetts Lowell

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

electroosmosis isequation; the Hemoltz-Schmulowski, Henry, and Huckel equations; decoupling electrophoreticmobility and hydrodynamic fluxes; and the principle of electroosmotic microfluidic pumping.“Lecture 3: Dielectrophoresis” expanded this focus with particle assembly and crystallizationunder AC electric fields, the advantages of AC over DC electric fields, the Clausius-Mossottiequation for dielectrophoretic force, and particle chaining force. Finally, the fourth lecture,“Electrokinetics in Microfluidics”, provided a comparison of electroosmotic microfluidicpumping with pumping and valving by MEMS and pumping by passive valves. It also includedon-chip function of electrophoretic separations in microchannels.Laboratory Module IV: Effect of Ionic

Conference Session

Design Pedagogy and Curriculum 1

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William A Kline, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Cory A. Hixson, Virginia Tech; Thomas W. Mason, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Patricia Brackin, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Robert M. Bunch, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Kay C Dee, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Glen A. Livesay, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

evaluate the benefits in education and industry settings.References1. ABET. 2013 - 2014 Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs. Baltimore, MD: ABET, 2012.2. Allen, Kathleen. Launching New Ventures. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2009.3. Altshuller, G. 40 Principles (Extended Edition): TRIZ keys to technical innovation. Worcester, MA: Technical Innovation Center, Inc., 2005.4. Altshuller, G. Creativity as an exact science: The theory of the solution of inventive problems. Luxembourg: Gorden and Breach Science Publishers Inc., 1995.5. Andrew, James P., Joe Manget, David Michael, and Hadi Zablit. “Innovation 2010, A Return to Prominence.” Boston Consulting Group, April 2010.6. Atman, Cynthia J., Robin S. Adams

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Project Based Learning In ET Program

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chih-Ping Yeh, Wayne State University; Gene Yeau-Jian Liao, Wayne State University; Joseph L Petrosky, Macomb Community College

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Engineering Technology

studentsto transfer from associate degree programs to WSU for the baccalaureate degree program, andadvance to the master degree program. To further support green mobility, WSU-DET establishedthe Undergraduate Certificate Program in Advanced Energy Storage Systems (AESS) throughthe support of a NSF-Course Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) grant awarded tothe WSU-MCC partnership. Page 23.125.4  In 2010 the WSU-MCC partnership was invited by the Michigan WDA to serve as educationproviders in a proposal to the DOL for green job training. The proposal

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Using Communication and Writing Techniques to Improve Student Learning

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shannon Ciston, University of California, Berkeley; Sean Poust, University of California-Berkeley

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Chemical Engineering

organization, data interpretation, and analysis. Using an online simulationprovides an outlet for collection of data within constraints of a stand-alone technical writingcourse: limited time and laboratory equipment resources; and is an effective way to engagestudents in laboratory report writing.Works Cited1 Atman, Cynthia J., Sheri D. Sheppard, Jennifer Turns, Robin S. Adams, Lorraine N. Fleming, ReedStevens, Ruth A. Streveler, Karl A. Smith, Ronald L. Miller, Larry J. Leifer, Ken Yasuhara, & Dennis Lund. (2010).Enabling engineering student success: The final report for the center for the advancement of engineering education.San Rafael, CA: Morgan & ClaypoolPublishers. (http://www.engr.washington.edu/caee/CAEE%20final%20report

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Robotics, Mechatronics, and Control Systems - Multidisciplinary Perspectives

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Li Tan, Purdue University, North Central; Jean Jiang, Purdue University, North Central

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Feedback Control System labs (ME 376/ECE 382) (ECE 308) ME students EE students Mechanical Vibration Digital Control System (ME 457) (ECE 483) Figure 1 Flowchart of the related courses.As shown in Figure 1, engineering students in Circuit Analysis I (ECE 201) gain the knowledgeof circuit analysis in time-domain including AC analysis. Electronic Measurement Techniques(ECE 208) is the circuit laboratory course in which students acquire hands-on skills in usingelectronic measurement equipment

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Issues in Engineering Technology Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher R Conty, Editor On Behalf of You

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Engineering Technology

(SRA); & manufacturerssuch as Bell & Howell (C. E. Merrill). Everyone continued making money, added new salesterritories, etc., so this change in the relationship authors, editors & adopting professors had withtheir texts' publisher/ owners – from a personal "you matter to me" to an impersonal "it's justbusiness" attitude – didn't seem so important at the time, but would by the mid-late 1970's. 17By the late 1960’s, two college publishers dominated in “technology” – Prentice-Hall in Engr.Tech (NY, East) & Gregg-McGraw-Hill at the high technician-to-unaccredited-technology level(Calif., rest of US). In each case, their market "leader" was a DC/AC Circuits text – Jackson forPH, (> 25,000 copies/ year); Grob for MH, (40-60,000

Conference Session

New Concepts for Alternative and Renewable Energy Courses

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.)

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

, scaling up the output of a limitednumber of PV actual solar cells. A FPGA implementation is proposed for this simulator. The PV Page 23.602.12simulator is tested and operated using a directly coupled DC load as well as AC load via aninverter. The experiment involves: I-V characteristics of PV, open-circuit voltage, short-circuitcurrent, power output vs. insulation, and meteorological parameters, tracking systemperformances. The emulator was implemented in MATLAB/Simulink and the theoretical model,and data acquisition in IDL and Maple. Figure 5 is showing the Simulink diagram of ths PVemulator.Figure 5 Simulink model of PV array with input and

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Novel Pedagogies 2

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Liu Junhua, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Yue Zhang, Singapore University and Technology and Design; Justin Ruths, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Diana Moreno, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD); Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Kristin L. Wood, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

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Educational Research and Methods

; Tavakoli, 2000; Newman,2001; Dennis, 2001; Jensen, 2000, 2005; Bilen, 2002; Blessing, 2002; Campbell, 2002; Ulrich, 2004;Green, 2004; Charyton, 2009; Linsey, 2010; Markman, 2011; White, 2011; Wood, 2000, 2001, 2002,2005, 2012). These advancements, in various direct and indirect ways, provide frameworks for learningthrough open-ended problems, creative problem-solving, and engagement in service-learning and society-based projects. The work reported in this paper builds upon these foundations and advancements. Figure 1. Kolb cycle for integrated learning experiences in assimilating and processing information Page 23.758.5II.4 Performance

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

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas A. Lenox, Dist.M.ASCE, American Society of Civil Engineers; James J O'Brien Jr., American Society of Civil Engineers

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Civil Engineering

include the Army War College. Recent awards include the ASCE’s ExCEEd Leadership Award, ASEE’s George K. Wadlin Award, ASCE’s William H. Wisely American Civil Engineer Award, and the CE News’ ”2010 Power List – 15 People Advancing the Civil Engineering Profession.” Dr. Lenox was selected as a Distinguished Member of ASCE in 2013. He is married to Jane O’Connor Lenox. They have three adult children and three grandchildren.Mr. James J O’Brien Jr., American Society of Civil Engineers Page 23.1172.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 The Civil Engineering

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Community Engagement Division Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bowa George Tucker, UMass Lowell; David O Kazmer, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kurt Paterson P.E., Michigan Technological University; Annie Soisson, Tufts University

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Community Engagement Division

Paper ID #6469Faculty Perspectives on Service-Learning in Engineering Education: Chal-lenges and OpportunitiesDr. Bowa George Tucker, UMass Lowell Dr. Bowa George Tucker is a research fellow for the National Science Foundation-funded Engineering Faculty Engagement in Learning through Service and Engineering for the Common Good in the College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He received his doctorate from the University of Massachusetts-Boston in Higher Education Administration in 2010. Dr. Tucker has extensive experience in program management and evaluation of multi-year, multimillion dollar

Conference Session

Novel Pedagogies 1

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M. Razi Nalim P.E., Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Manikanda K Rajagopal, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis; Robert J Helfenbein, Indiana University-IUPUI, School of Education

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Educational Research and Methods

novice instructors adopting active learning approaches.Student teamwork, increased communication with engineering faculty, and professionalism werealso emphasized. Significant findings include faculty perceptions of both the value of andbarriers to implementing a PEL component in gateway engineering courses and an underlyingunderstanding of the need for increased student engagement in the engineering curriculum.Literature ReviewFor most college majors, the first year is the most critical for persistence in college. Tinto3observed that almost one-half of students entering two-year colleges and more than one-fourth ofstudents entering four-year collegiate institutions leave at the end of their first year. However, inthe decade ending in 2010

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Mechanical Engineering (ME) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacob Lee Finley; Mehrdaad Ghorashi P.E., University of Southern Maine

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Mechanical Engineering

Paper ID #7136Effective use of an Undergraduate Research Fellowship for Design and Man-ufacture of Tools to Assist in Teaching Strength of MaterialsMr. Jacob Lee Finley Jacob Finley came to the University of Southern Maine in spring 2010. He is majoring in Mechanical Engineering. Finley became fascinated with mechanical properties of materials after taking a class with Dr. Ghorashi and observing the applications of the subject. He then teamed up with this professor and developed a way of demonstrating complex concepts in solid mechanics with easy to understand hands-on test set ups. Finley has always thoroughly enjoyed

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

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. Dyrenfurth, Purdue University, West Lafayette; James L. Barnes, James Madison University; Susan Kubic Barnes, James Madison University

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International

as to innovation processes. How can we evolve a theory ofinnovation. Through this presentation the authors present a study that has wide application for allfacets of engineering and technology education as an integral component of continuous programimprovement.References1 Dyrenfurth, M. J.(2011, June). Technological innovation: a critical imperative for engineering and technology departments/colleges. Paper AC 2011-830 in the ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Vancouver, Canada.2 Altshuller, G. (2000). The Innovation Algorithm: TRIZ. Systematic Innovation and Technical Creativity, Translated, edited, and annotated from Russian by Lev Shulyak and Steven Rodman, Technical Innovation

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Trends in Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alex Albert, University of Colorado

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Educational Research and Methods

subjects and settings (Johnson and Christensen 2010). Every research study needsto include appropriate or representative samples of the target population to be able to makegeneralizations. MBT studies through inter-subject replication enhance external validity. Alsoliterature suggests whenever necessary to use of clustered groups based on demographics orbehavior and to reduce systematic variability 27 through which logical generalizations can bemade.Finally, each study is conducted on a sample of subjects in a specific setting. In order to ensuregeneralization beyond the sample to the target population, sufficiently large samples 55 must berandomly assigned to the study and the study must be conducted under sufficient differentsettings 31

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K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Thomas Malcolm, University of Virginia

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

this kind of multi-step geometry problem.Bibliography1 French, J. J., & Leiffer, P. R. (2012). The Genesis of Transformation: Preventing “Failure to Launch” Syndrome in Generation in First-year Engineering Students. Proceedings of the 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. Session AC 2012-32822 Rheinlander, K., Wallace, D., Morrison, W., Ansari, D., Coch, D., & Williams, B. V. (2008). Teachers talk: Pressure points in the k-8 mathematics curriculum. Numeracy, 1(1), 1–19. doi:10.5038/1936-4660.1.1.43 Dunn-Rankin, D. (2001). Evaluating design alternatives – the role of simple engineering analysis and estimation. Proceedings of the 2001 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. Session 25254 Koedinger, K