Conference Session

Advances in CAD with Emphasis on Dimensioning

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Holly K. Ault Ph.D., Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Linjun Bu; Kejiang Liu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Engineering Design Graphics

software and were able to justify the strategies they used during the experimental lab.As in the Johnson study17, the graduate students were instructed to build the part shown in Figure2, with half of the class instructed to model based on speed and efficiency and the remaining halfof the class instructed to build a robust, flexible model that would accommodate design changes.Students were given one hour to complete the initial model, and completion times were recorded.In the second part of the lab, the students were asked to make design changes as shown in Figure8. Unlike the Johnson study20-23, the second phase of the lab utilized parts that were modeled bythe instructor rather than models created by their peers. Half of the students in each

Conference Session

Student-Centered Information Literacy

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marian G. Armour-Gemmen, West Virginia University; Robin A.M. Hensel, West Virginia University; Mary L. Strife, West Virginia University

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Engineering Libraries

employed different media,PBL was used in each session. Felder and Brent7 (2003) discuss the lifelong learning componentof the ABET standards as well as the importance of PBL. Detlor8 (2012) writes that PBL oractive learning type methods, “challenge students to actively engage with information andresources to solve problems and create knowledge.” Both Dochy9 (2003) and Prince10 (2004)stress the importance of PBL or Active Learning in engineering education. Prince and Felder11(2007) provide an overview of different aspects of inductive teaching and learning. AlthoughPrince and Felder (2007) argue that PBL does not a have a “statistically significant effect onacademic achievement as measured by exams,” this current analysis found a

Conference Session

Evaluation of Ethical Development

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qin Zhu, Purdue University; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University; Megan Kenny Feister, Purdue University; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University; William C. Oakes, Purdue University; Alan D. Mead, Illinois Institute of Technology

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Engineering Ethics

Paper ID #10060Dr. Alan D. Mead, Illinois Institute of Technology Alan D. Mead, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology where he teaches individual differences, psychometrics, structural equations modeling, meta-analysis, research methods, and statistical analysis. He sits on the editorial board for Journal of Business and Psychology and the Journal of Computerized Adaptive Testing. Since 1989, he has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and conference presentations. Prior to joining the faculty at IIT, he spent several years as a consultant, research scientist, and psychometrician. Dr. Mead received his Ph.D. in psychology from University of Illinois

Conference Session

Architectural Design Topics in Architectural Engineering

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Cherif Megri, North Carolina A&T State University

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Architectural

: those in the upper 75 percentile, those in the 50 – 75 percentile and those below the 50 percentile populations. Thus the assessment results compiled are based on course performances and grades, exams, projects, presentations of students, and writings as required in some courses. Furthermore, each course specifically addresses the learning outcomes and relation between the course and the Program outcomes, the methods used for the evaluation of students’ performance and the relevance of the course materials to the Program outcomes following the standards adopted for the assessment process.  Students will be provided with the course descriptions including learning objectives and outcomes

Conference Session

The Nature of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Session 4

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University and Central Queensland University; Kathryn Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

University and a Professorial Re- search Fellow at Central Queensland University. He has degrees from Swarthmore College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Florida. His research on the longitudinal study of engineer- ing students, team assignment, peer evaluation, and active and collaborative teaching methods has been supported by over $12.8 million from the National Science Foundation and the Sloan Foundation and his team received Best Paper awards from the Journal of Engineering Education in 2008 and 2011 and from the IEEE Transactions on Education in 2011. Dr. Ohland is past Chair of ASEE’s Educational Research and Methods division and a member the Board of Governors of the IEEE Education Society

Conference Session

Impact of Community Engagement on Communities

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carlos German Montoya Rodriguez, Ohio State University; Mariantonieta Gutierrez Soto, The Ohio State University; Roger Dzwonczyk, The Ohio State University; John A Merrill, Ohio State University; Howard L. Greene, Ohio State University; Miriam Cater, Ohio State University

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Community Engagement Division

Engineer (PE) PUBLICATIONS 51 Peer-reviewed journal publications 74 Conference presentations 9 Short papers 10 PatentsDr. John A Merrill, Ohio State University Dr.Merrill is Associate Director of the Engineering Education Innovation Center at Ohio State University.Dr. Howard L. Greene, Ohio State University Page 24.188.1 Howard Greene is a Senior Project Manager and Research Specialist at the Ohio State University (OSU) who directs K-12 Education Outreach for the College of Engineering. Dr. Greene has built capacity in several aspects of Humanitarian Engineering (HE) through the Engineering Education

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University; Dale R Baker, Arizona State University; Adam R Carberry, Arizona State University; Terry L. Alford, Arizona State University; Casey Jane Ankeny PhD, Arizona State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Bill Jay Brooks, Oregon State University; Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; Brady J. Gibbons, Oregon State University; Sean Maass; Candace K. Chan, Arizona State University

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Materials

evidence-based (or nontraditional) teaching methods . She serves as the College of Engineering liaison to ASEE and advises the Society of Women Engineers student chapter and leads the students in developing and implementing yearly outreach events for the K-8 female community. She is author of many peer-reviewed conference proceeding for the ASEE Annual Meetings and the FIE meetings.Prof. Brady J. Gibbons, Oregon State University Dr. Brady Gibbons is an Associate Professor of Materials Science in the School of Mechanical, Industrial, & Manufacturing Engineering at Oregon State University. His research specializes in structure-process- property relationships in multifunctional thin film materials. His group focuses on

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ala A. Qattawi, Automotive Engineering Department at Clemson University –International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR); Paul J. Venhovens, Clemson University; Johnell Brooks, Clemson University

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Design in Engineering Education

results, rather it highlights the tools needed to reach them; 3)revision and assessment plans. The evaluation process can include self, peer, student tofaculty, and faculty to student assessments to ensure that the learning objectives are met; 4)promoting participation and involvement through proper social organization of the studentsgroups, faculty, and public community. The students’ groups and forums should bestructured to promote participation. The participation should provide structure for thenecessary roles and interaction needed for project completion, which may include mentoringroles of faculty, mentoring and/or advising from industry professionals and even studentsgroups.Ayas and Zeniuk [7] suggested two additional elements for PBL model

Conference Session

DEED Melange

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Wang, University of California, Berkeley; Alice Merner Agogino, University of California, Berkeley

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Design in Engineering Education

and methods; MEMS synthesis and computer-aided design; artificial intelligence and decision and expert systems; and gender/ethnic equity. Dr. Agogino has authored over two hundred peer-reviewed publications in these subject areas. She is a member of AAAI, AAAS, ASEE, ASME, AWIS, NAE and SWE and served as Chair of the AAAS section on Engineering (2001-2002). She serves on the editorial board of three professional journals and has provided service on a number of governmental, professional, and industry advisory committees, including the NSF Advisory Committee for Engineering, Engineering Directorate, (1991-96, Chair 1996-97); Guidance Committee of the ”Removing Barriers to Collaborative Research” project of the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone Design

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael P. Frank, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering; Kamal E. Amin, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Okenwa I. Okoli, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Sungmoon Jung Ph.D., FAMU-FSU College of Engineering; Robert A. Van Engelen, Florida State University; Chiang Shih, Florida A&M University/Florida State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

department, who then assigns the student’s final overallcourse grade based on this information and other factors, such as peer review data and varioussmaller, department-specific assignments that may be associated with each individual course.Current Year’s Interdepartmental Projects Table 2 below lists the Senior Design projects this year that involve students (and facultycoordination/advising) contributed by multiple engineering departments at our College, out ofthe set: Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), Electrical and Computer Engineering(ECE), Mechanical Engineering (ME), and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (ME); theengineering departments that are currently involved in each project are indicated with an ‘X.’ The

Conference Session

Laboratory Experiences with Signal Processing and Controls

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.); Yalcin Ertekin, Drexel University (Tech.); Radian G. Belu, Drexel University (Tech.)

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

for all the BSET majors. The course focuses on planning, development, andimplementation of an engineering design project, which includes formal report writing, projectdocumentation, group presentations, and project demonstrations. The goal of these courses is todemonstrate the ability to manage a major project involving the design and implementation ofproducts with a mixture of electrical and mechanical elements as a member of a productinnovation and/or development team. In these project-based courses, the students are expected toeffectively manage their time and team efforts to produce a working prototype of a product inthree ten-week quarters. Progress and formal reports, and oral presentations constitute integralcomponents of this course

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques in Structural Engineering Courses

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew W. Roberts, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Angela Marie Jones, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Michael K. Thompson, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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Civil Engineering

. Angela Marie Jones, University of Wisconsin–Platteville Angela Jones teaches First-Year English Composition / Rhetoric and Research Writing at UW–Platteville and adds Screenwriting to the above courses at the University of Dubuque. She has worked as a Tech- nical Writer & Editor at ENGEO, a geotechnical engineering company in San Ramon, CA. She takes special care to uphold brevity in most writing instances, and has led a writing workshop for engineers and geologists that tackles wordiness and related style issues.Dr. Michael K Thompson, University of Wisconsin, Platteville Keith Thompson is an associate professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin

Conference Session

Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice L Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Educational Research and Methods

)? Reflect and memo. Memo: how does this help us think about answering our research questions? Consider: Memo on RCG lenses 7. A. how is my RCG (including intersectionally) operating here? (Word doc) B. how is RCG (including interjectionally) operating here? Of what is this a case? Write up short case of interview using insights from passes, memos (especially the ruling relations memos (step 4) and the TOC

Conference Session

Gender Perceptions and Girls in K-12 Engineering and Computer Science

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christina Deckard, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific; David Quarfoot, SDSU/UCSD; Kimberly C Csanadi

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

compriseabout 28% of the population, but their presence in nonacademic science and engineeringpositions is only about 9%[5]. Clearly, these groups represent large reservoirs of untappedpotential for new STEM professionals. We can no longer afford to waste the talent of two-thirdsof our increasingly diverse population. As stated in President Obama’s Executive Order No.13583[6]: “We are at our best when we draw on the talents of all parts of our society, and our greatest accomplishments are achieved when diverse perspectives are brought to bear to overcome our greatest challenges.”This important idea is extended in Peter Godfrey-Smith’s “Theory and Reality”, who writes thatsome female philosophers believe that “the experiences of the

Conference Session

Engineering Physics & Physics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren A. Turner, Westfield State University; Glenn W. Ellis, Smith College; Robert J. Beichner, North Carolina State University

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Engineering Physics & Physics

-based, pedagogically appropriate approaches and curricula including Peer Instruction 6,Workshop Physics7, Real-time Physics8 and Studio Physics9.But, what about circular mechanics? Arnold Aron’s observes 10, “The kinematics of circular motionin a plane is usually glossed over very quickly because of the obvious parallelism to rectilinearmotion. For students who have genuinely mastered the concepts and relations of rectilinearkinematics, this is appropriate since unnecessary repetition would waste their time.” Thisphilosophical approach has pervasively infiltrated introductory textbooks. Whole chapters aredevoted individually to the topics of velocity, acceleration, etc. while all of rotational kinematicsand sometimes even dynamics are crushed

Conference Session

Engineering as a Professional Calling

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qin Zhu, Purdue University; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jian Yuan, Beihang University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, in the “program evaluator competency model”,ABET also emphasizes the professional competency of program evaluators, which mainlyencompasses professional ethics requirements for program evaluators as “professional peers”: “a.conveys professional appearance and demeanor, b. is committed to contributing and adding valueto the evaluation process, c. considered a person with high integrity and ethical standards, d.represents ABET and responsible technical society as a practicing professional, e. willing tomake observations to stimulate innovation and further the program's efforts toward continuousimprovement, f. shows professional respect for institution faculty and staff, g. upholds ABETcode of conduct at all times.”18In contrast, the CEEAA’s

Conference Session

Student Beliefs, Motivation and Self Efficacy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam Kirn, Clemson University; Courtney June Faber, Clemson University; Lisa Benson, Clemson University

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Educational Research and Methods

wanted an in-depth un-derstanding of the specific ways students experience a phenomenon from their perspective26,25 .Initially, interview transcripts were analyzed to create units of relevant meaning28 . These units ofrelevant meaning were established and refined through peer review by the authors29,28 . Next, unitsof relevant meaning were clustered for each participant resulting in a set of themes. Another passwas conducted to further cluster units of relevant meaning based on themes and patterns acrossrespondents. Four common themes emerged across participants: ‘Future Career’, ‘Characteristicsof Future Career’, ‘Future Career’s Influence on Present Action’, and ‘Past/Present PerceptionsInfluence on Future

Conference Session

Mechanical Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Trivett P.Eng., University of Waterloo

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Mechanical Engineering

thermodynamics students. WhileHeller et al. 8 have helped to clarify the language, they have also shown that the path to achievinggreater student engagement in engineering requires faculty providing an active learningenvironment and demonstrating genuine enthusiasm for the topic, as well as studentsparticipating more fully in activities, and interacting with peers and faculty. As faculty, we hopethat our enthusiasm for teaching leads to student engagement and learning. However, themethods and context need to suit the student’s background.Patterson et al. 9 have proposed that “…in order to attract and retain students in engineeringcourses, the courses must be taught in a context that is familiar to students…” They haveproposed a template based on five

Conference Session

Classroom Management

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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New Engineering Educators

their progress through higher education focuses on the importance oflearning communities. Realizing the significance of such emotionally sustaining supportnetworks should alert faculty members to the need to seize on opportunities to assist theirdevelopment when these arise. A caring faculty can assist in bringing students closertogether through formation of learning partnerships, peer teaching, and sharing data andinformation with one another. It has been astonishing to see how working in collaborativedissertation groups has affected students. Long after their graduation, students recall themost significant aspect of their graduate program being the interpersonal learning and thedevelopment of collaborative sensitivity and mutual understanding

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Ekwaro-Osire, Texas Tech University; Fisseha Meresa Alemayehu, Texas Tech University; Haileyesus Belay Endeshaw, Texas Tech University; Ricardo Cruz Lozano, Texas Tech University

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Design in Engineering Education

Department of Mechanical Engineering. Ekwaro-Osire’s research interests are engineering design, wind energy, vibrations, and orthopedic biomechanics. He has supervised more than 29 doctoral and master’s students. Ekwaro-Osire was recently a Fulbright Scholar. As a Summer Faculty Fellow, he has conducted research at NASA and the Air Force Research Lab. He has published, from his research efforts, more than 150 peer-reviewed technical papers, among which 44 of these in archival journals. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the state of Texas, and industry. He is a member of Texas Tech University’s Teaching Academy, which promotes and recognizes teaching excellence at

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheila Reyes Guerrero, Universidad de las Américas Puebla; Nelly Ramirez-Corona, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas Puebla

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International

Design Projects Web Page developed by Dr. Richard Turton18, wasutilized for every assessed team. Students were asked to present a written report and to carry outa formal presentation of their solution methodology, obtained results and conclusions for thisdesign challenge. For assessment of their problem solutions we utilized three different ValueRubrics (Problem Solving, Oral Communication, and Written Communication) developed by theAssociation of American Colleges and Universities (AACU)19, 20. For the final presentations,every student performed a self-evaluation and peer-evaluation regarding oral communication andproblem solving skills using the corresponding rubrics. For the written report only two appraisalsby means of the corresponding

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kemper Lewis, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Deborah A. Moore-Russo, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Phillip M. Cormier, SUNY - University at Buffalo; Amy M. Johnson, Arizona State University; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University; Wei Chen, Northwestern University; David W. Gatchell PhD, Northwestern University; Timothy W. Simpson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Conrad Tucker, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Steven B. Shooter, Bucknell University; Charles Kim, Bucknell University; Christopher B. Williams, Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Education, 2014 Paper ID #8971 Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 1994. His research interests include product family and product platform design, product dissection, multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO), and addi- tive manufacturing, and he has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers to date. He teaches courses on Product Family Design, Concurrent Engineering, Mechanical Systems Design, and Product Dissection, and he serves as the Director of the Product Realization Minor in the College of Engineering. He is a recipient of the ASEE Fred Merryfield Design Award and a NSF Career Award. He has received

Conference Session

Computer-Based Learning Models

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Computers in Education

regulation in higher education courses.Their efforts are discussed next.Contemplative practices in higher educationThe Center for Contemplative Mind in Society has spearheaded the inclusion of attentiontraining techniques in education. A book published in December 2013 103 explains the methodsused to teach attention regulation and aims to empower educators to adopt and teach them tostudents. The authors present arguments about the importance of learning how to self-regulateattention and explains that this can be facilitated by the sustained practice of introspective andcontemplative activities such as mindfulness meditation, contemplative reading writing, andlistening, mindful movement, and compassion practices. They present research about

Conference Session

Promoting Technological Literacy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College-Dublin

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

the heart ofthe technology and society debate [12, p 9].A further integration may be made if students work together in a team project in which they areinvolved in the appraisal. One of the complaints that industrialists have made of new graduates isthat many of them have no experience of working in teams. By participating in appraisals ofthemselves and their peers they should obtain some insights into human behaviour. Greaterinsight into human behaviour, particularly in organizations would come from exercises that focuson learning and perception.MethodClearly there has to be some closed instruction in a stage of romance, this may be taken toinclude formal reading. But the spirit of the stage is that of open-ended inquiry as a prelude

Conference Session

Future Career and Professional Success for Graduate Students

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech

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Graduate Studies

. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design; writing across the curriculum in Statics courses; as well as a CAREER award to explore the use of e- portfolios to promote professional identity and reflective practice. Her teaching emphasizes the roles of engineers as communicators and educators, the foundations and evolution of the engineering education discipline, assessment methods, and evaluating communication in engineering. Page 24.652.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Graduate

Conference Session

WIED: Faculty and Gender Issues

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara Wadia-Fascetti, Northeastern University; Jan Rinehart, Northeastern University; Simon Pitts, Northeastern University

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Women in Engineering

. Page 24.1044.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Northeastern ADVANCE Research Leadership Development Initiative: A Program to Strengthen the Leadership Skills of Mid-Career FacultyAbstractAs part of the ADVANCE program, Northeastern University launched the Research LeadershipDevelopment Initiative (ReDI) in the fall of 2012 as a leadership program for associate and earlyfull professors. The goal is to prepare these rising research scholars to lead collaborativeresearch teams of peers in activities to create or grow centers, institutes, and/or multi-institutional collaborations. Through participation in the different program components

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sigrid Berka, University of Rhode Island; Walter von Reinhart

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International

application. The IEP usuallysupplies a template for the faculty member abroad to use for the letter of invitation. DAAD grantapplications are highly competitive, and students who can demonstrate “contact to a researchlab” by supplying an invitation letter, have more competitive applications, especially when theycan show how their research abroad adds value to what they have done at home because the lababroad has specialized equipment, or concentrates in an area that complements their work in thehome lab, and thus bridges both research experiences.Some students may be open to doing research but need help with the selection or placement. Inthat case the IEP director writes on the students’ behalf to contacts who have hosted studentspreviously or

Conference Session

Graduate Ethics Education & Professional Codes

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yanna Lambrinidou, Virginia Tech; William Joseph Rhoads, Virginia Tech; Siddhartha Roy, Virginia Tech; Erin Heaney, Clean Air: Organizing for Health and Justice; Glenn Andrew Ratajczak, Clean Air Coalition of Western New York; Jennifer Holly Ratajczak, Clean Air Coalition of Western New York

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Engineering Ethics

vision of 21st century civilengineering, it states: “Means of communication include listening, observing, reading,speaking, writing, and graphics. The civil engineer must communicate effectively withtechnical and nontechnical individuals and audiences in a variety of settings. Use ofthese means of communication by civil engineers requires an understanding ofcommunication within professional practice. Fundamentals of communication should beacquired during formal education.”17In practice, however, training in listening is rarely included in the engineeringclassroom.13 In fact, counter to the engineering profession’s ideal of engagement, it hasbeen suggested that engineering education fosters a “culture of disengagement.”According to sociologist

Conference Session

Evaluation of Ethical Development

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edwin R. Schmeckpeper P.E., Ph.D, Norwich University; Ashley Ater-Kranov, Washington State University; Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho, Moscow; Jay Patrick McCormack, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Patrick D. Pedrow P.E., Washington State University

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Engineering Ethics

markets for energy.The students were divided into teams, with one part of the team conducting the discussion andthe other part of the team using the EPSA Rubric to assess the discussions. Instead of usingelectronic voice recorders as is typically done by the researchers on the NSF sponsored project,when using the EPSA Method in a class-room setting all data was collected as the discussionstook place, with the assessors writing tally marks and notes directly on the relevant portion of theEPSA Rubric. The teams for both the practice scenario and the record scenario were organized asshown in Table 3.Table 3. Organization of the Discussant and Observer TeamsDiscussion Sub-Team Observer Sub-Team3-4 individuals (ideally

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technology Programs I

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Chastine, Southern Polytechnic State University (ENG); Charles Richard Cole, Southern Polytechnic State University; Christopher Welty, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Computing & Information Technology

Architec-ture students can provide. It is this synergy that results from each discipline contributing to thesuccess of the other that makes for a better overall product that is both a unique architecturalpresentation and a visually exciting and engaging game design.Current Status and Future Plans As of this writing, we are entering the last weeks of fall semester 2013 and planning forthe “pitch” in spring 2014. Although the plans for the pitch are still fluid, the concept of the col-laborative will continue to acknowledge the synergy from our unique perspectives and to contin-ue to emphasize the importance of a team-approach in the design and production of the architec-tural product and game design product. We are faced with the challenge