Conference Session

Computer Programming and Simulation

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John R. Baker, University of Kentucky

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Computers in Education

graduate student project that requires thestudents to produce a flexible FEA program to analyze beam vibration using the MATLAB userfunction capability. This work is intended to solidify for the students the basics of structuralvibration analysis, including calculation of natural frequencies and mode shapes, and also forcedharmonic response analysis. It also provides an introduction to some students on FEA. Thosewho already have FEA experience gain more insight into development of a structural model,including mass, stiffness, and damping matrices, than they may obtain from use of standard FEAsoftware, such as ANSYS®. Also, the students gain valuable programming experience, andbetter knowledge of the widely-used mathematical software tool

Conference Session

FPD 6: Course Content and Educational Strategies

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lydia Prendergast, Rutgers, School of Engineering; Eugenia Etkina, Rutgers University

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First-Year Programs

experience affects retention and success of engineeringstudents. Many studies document positive effects of interventions that involve active learningapproaches. In this paper we summarize the factors affecting retention and satisfaction inengineering, provide an overview of active learning methodologies, and describe an interventionthat combines three of such methodologies (project-based learning, inquiry-based learning, andcollaborative learning) in a first-year introduction to engineering course at Rutgers – School ofEngineering, a mid-sized engineering institution. The course had positive effects on retention andsatisfaction of engineering students. Specifically we found that three-year retention increased by19%; and students reported higher

Conference Session

Assessment

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexandra Emelina Coso, Georgia Institute of Technology; Amy Pritchett, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

. However, resources are limited for assessing students’ abilitiesto consider design from a broad perspective and to account for a design’s impact on itsstakeholders. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a rubric to assess how students perceiveand integrate stakeholders into the design of a complex system. Following a description of therubric and its development, this paper describes results from the initial application and evaluationof the rubric by a panel of faculty, graduate students, and research scientists, as they used therubric to assess aircraft design projects. This initial evaluation demonstrated the strengths of therubric (particularly with regards to validity) and how the reliability of the ratings among raterswas sensitive to the

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Turner Ralph Swanson, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society; Justin Matthew Collins, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Jill Frey, Sweet Water Foundation; Joey Zocher, Escuela Verde; Matthew J. Traum, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

MSOE’s TRIO Student Support Services program. He is developing a liquid-nitrogen-fueled vehicle with a group of fellow undergraduates for his capstone senior design project, and he is co-founder of Milwaukee Cryonetic Motors, Inc. a sustainable transportation start-up company working to commercialize this novel vehicle technology.Mr. Justin Matthew Collins, Milwaukee School of Engineering Justin Collins is a junior in the mechanical engineering program at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He has distinguished himself both as a scholar and as a member of the student community through his classroom performance and involvement in extracurricular activities. Justin has been on the Dean’s List with High Honors

Conference Session

FPD 6: Course Content and Educational Strategies

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Victoria E. Goodrich, University of Notre Dame; Everaldo Marques de Aguiar Jr., University of Notre Dame; G. Alex Ambrose, University of Notre Dame; Leo H. McWilliams, University of Notre Dame; Jay B. Brockman, University of Notre Dame; Nitesh Chawla, University of Notre Dame

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #9712Integration of ePortfolios in a First Year Engineering Course for MeasuringStudent EngagementDr. Victoria E Goodrich, University of Notre DameMr. Everaldo Marques de Aguiar Jr., University of Notre DameDr. G. Alex Ambrose, University of Notre Dame G. Alex Ambrose, the Interim Coordinator of the Notre Dame E-Portfolio Engagement Project (nDEEP), currently serves as an Academic Advisor and Co-director of the Balfour Hesburgh Scholars Program in The First Year of Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Alex is a Google Certified Teacher, Google Apps in Education Certified Trainer, and founder of Googlios.com. He is

Conference Session

Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Ethics Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald J. Bennett F.ASEE, F.ABET P.E., University of St. Thomas; Niaz Latif, Purdue University Calumet (College of Technology); Aco Sikoski, Ivy Tech Community College; Steven Wendel, Sinclair Community College; Mohammad A. Zahraee, Purdue University Calumet (College of Technology)

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Manufacturing

Community College Steve Wendel serves as Director of the National Center for Manufacturing Education (NCME), originally established as a National Science Foundation Center of Excellence in the NSF Advanced Technological Page 24.845.1 Education Program, the NCME provides leadership development for deans, program chairs, faculty and other educational leaders in manufacturing and engineering technology. Steve is also the Director for the Project Lead The Way (PLTW) Affiliate in Ohio. PLTW-OH has grown to over 340 programs in more than 150 school districts across Ohio preparing students for STEM career and college

Conference Session

Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vignesh Subbian, University of Cincinnati; Carla C. Purdy, University of Cincinnati

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

. Traditionally, this course consisted ofin-class lectures, along with laboratory projects that required students to develop software for aserious game based on a discrete-event simulation model using Java. The course design processwas built on the waterfall model, integrated with important concepts from extreme programming(XP), including test-driven development using three levels of design and testing (system, blackbox, and glass box) and an onsite customer. When UC recently converted their academiccalendar from quarters (10 weeks) to semesters (14 weeks), the additional instruction timeprovided an opportunity to revisit and expand the design process model of the course. In additionto the existing features of the course that allow effective instruction

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pete Hylton, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Wendy Otoupal-Hylton, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Design in Engineering Education

toMotorsports Engineering) and re-activation of one that had been in hiatus (Internal CombustionEngines), the program quickly gained momentum1. The three classes filled easily and there werenumerous volunteers after the announcement of a student project to build a racecar on campus.Within two years, the motorsports program had grown to the point that the classes were beingoffered as part of a Motorsports Technology Certificate. The racecar which was built as astudent project, shown in Figure 1, was actively and successfully competing in Sports Car Clubof America (SCCA) competition. Additionally, the School of Liberal Arts had recognized themomentum of the engineering program and created its own Motorsports Studies Certificate2 for

Conference Session

Laboratory Experiences with Signal Processing and Controls

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean Jiang, Purdue University, North Central

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

TMS320C6713 DSK). Therefore, in this paper, we firstpresent a complete digital crossover platform, MATLAB design and simulations, developed Ccode inserted in both of DSP boards, crossover outputs and test results. Secondly, we address theoutcomes of students learning achievement including continuous applications of their acquiredDSP skills in other related courses and their motivations for continuing to pursue the upper-levelsignal processing related courses such as the advanced digital signal processing with multimediaapplications. More importantly, we examine the course assessment according to analysis of thecollected data from students’ learning outcome survey, project evaluation, and further addressthe possible improvements of the course content

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melissa M. Bilec, University of Pittsburgh; Daniel Mosse, University of Pittsburgh; Margaret S. Smith, University of Pittsburgh; Jennifer L Cartier, University of Pittsburgh

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

research project, NSF EFRI-Barriers, Under- standing, Integration – Life cycle Development (BUILD). She has worked in the sustainable engineering arena since 2004. As the assistant director of education outreach in the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation, Pitt’s center for green design, she translates research to community outreach programs and develops sustainable engineering programs for K-12 education.Prof. Daniel Mosse, University of PittsburghDr. Margaret S. Smith, University of Pittsburgh Margaret Smith holds a joint appointment at the University of Pittsburgh as Professor of Mathematics Ed- ucation in the School of Education and Senior Scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center. Her research

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ann Saterbak, Rice University; Maria Oden, Rice University; Amber Lee Muscarello; Matthew Wettergreen, Rice University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

delivering the lecture content ofthe design process using videos and other media, class time is freed up for concrete progress on ateam’s specific project with support of faculty.The first goal of this project is to create educational materials to transfer the delivery of contentregarding the design process to an out-of-class environment and to develop in-class activelearning modules that clarify, elaborate, and expand on critical design process topics. Thesematerials will be widely available for others to use.Currently, limited research exists on the impact of the flipped classroom model in engineering,mathematics, or science courses at the university level. Thus, the second goal of this project is toanswer the engineering education research

Conference Session

Emerging Computing and Information Technologies

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles B. Owen, Michigan State University; Sarah Coburn, Michigan State University; Jordyn Castor

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Computing & Information Technology

the tools are for blind students in Computer Science.There have been projects aimed at attracting blind students and, indeed, it was one of thoseprograms that got Jordyn excited about the major.2 However, there have been fewer efforts toprovide support for students once they are in a curriculum. Several projects have created customlanguages that are designed for blind and limited-vision users, such as Quorum3 and AudioProgramming Language (APL).4 However, few projects have addressed the problem of studentssucceeding in programs where they must use languages common in curricula, such as Java, C++,and Python. Existing tools generally follow the pattern of adapting a visual tool such asNetBeans or Eclipse by tacking on accessibility that speaks

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fazleena Badurdeen, University of Kentucky; Dusan Sekulic, University of Kentucky; Bob Gregory, University of Kentucky College of Engineering; Adam Brown, University of Kentucky; Hai Fu, University of Kentucky

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Systems Engineering

journals. Dr. Sekulic is the Principal Investigator of the NSF TUES multi-year STFS project.Bob Gregory, University of Kentucky College of Engineering Bob Gregory is a senior staff writer in the College of Engineering, University of Kentucky. His MA and PhD degrees in English are from University of California, Irvine. After twenty years spent teaching college students how to write at a variety of colleges and universities, including Carnegie Mellon and University of Miami, Dr. Gregory currently assists faculty with multidisciplinary grant proposals and projects. Despite his lack of previous academic training in engineering, his background has been instru- mental in assisting faculty in cross-disciplinary work between

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl A. Bodnar, University of Pittsburgh; Eric J. Beckman, University of Pittsburgh, Chemical Engineering Department; Joseph J. McCarthy, University of Pittsburgh; Steven R. Little, University of Pittsburgh

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Chemical Engineering

is appreciated by many that these skills can and should be taught if we are reallygoing to be able to develop the next generation of innovators. Recently, the American Societyfor Engineering Education and the National Science Foundation assembled thirty four invitedrepresentatives from industry that had an important stake in engineering education along withseven academics to discuss what modifications to the current educational system would benecessary to meet the needs of employers. Pre-workshop survey results indicated that engineerswho are graduating from colleges and universities today are lacking skills in areas of increasingimportance such as project management, decision making, leadership and communication.7Chemical Engineers and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elsa Q. Villa, University of Texas, El Paso; Peter Golding CPEng, University of Texas, El Paso

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

courses, identifiesrelevant field-based work for engineering majors, and identifies successful activities of theexisting UTEP Noyce scholarship program to prepare Noyce Scholars for the demands of K-12 Page 24.242.2classrooms.Project GoalsThe overarching goal of the project is to build capacity within the UTEP College of Engineering,in partnership with the UTEP College of Education, to prepare for recruiting and certifyingengineering students, which includes computer science majors, to become teacher-engineers. Tomeet this broad goal are the following two goals with respective descriptions: Goal 1: Build the infrastructure for producing

Conference Session

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

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Ann Marasco, University of Calgary; Laleh Behjat P.Eng., University of Calgary

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, engineering design techniques can change student perceptionsof gender within STEM fields. We designed a series of creative projects that combine mandated science, mathematics,technology, English, social studies, physical education and fine arts courses with basic electricalengineering concepts. These projects were led across five schools by one of the femaleresearchers6. Over 350 local grade 5 students participated in the projects. Impressions held bystudents towards STEM were measured through quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews,both before and after the completion of the projects. These results are summarized in Table I.Table 1: Comparison of student percentages who responded “agree” or “strongly agree”Survey Question

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hong Man, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES)

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

processes ofmedical imaging modalities, and to practice computing skills on bio-medical signal processing.The simulation software suite, SimuRad5, implements a series of numerical algorithms tosimulate the physical and biological processes in several common medical imaging modalities.The software contains expandable modules, each to support a serious lab exercises related to aparticular modality. Currently implemented modules include math fundamentals, computedtomography (CT), x-ray physics, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), image enhancement andanalysis. This assessment study involves six lab exercises, over which both student survey dataand direct assessment data were collected for analysis. Lab 1, Projection and Projection Slice Theorem

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs and Curricula

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jane M. Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Leonardo Bedoya-Valencia, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Jude L. DePalma, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Nebojsa I. Jaksic, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Ananda Mani Paudel, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Hüseyin Sarper, Colorado State University-Pueblo; Ding Yuan, Colorado State University, Pueblo

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

to motivate students throughout the engineering science classes. Third year courses. Use exercises and projects in which students apply engineering knowledge to topics in sustainability. Fourth year courses. Ensure students’ knowledge of sustainability in the senior seminar and require that students consider sustainability in senior design projects.In each year we continue the previous strategies and add more, so that by the senior year, thestudents find sustainability a natural part of engineering and a natural view of the world. Explicitinstruction on sustainability is done as “bookends” with an introduction to the topic in the first

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University and Central Queensland University; Russell Andrew Long, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

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. He was the 2002–2006 President of Tau Beta Pi.Mr. Russell Andrew Long, Purdue University, West Lafayette Russell Long is Director of Project Assessment at the Purdue University School of Engineering Education. He has extensive experience in assessment and student services in higher education and has worked for eight years as the Data Steward of the MIDFIELD project

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharnnia Artis, University of California, Berkeley; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech; Tsu-Jae King Liu, University of California, Berkeley

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

research as the catalyst for engagement, the TTE REU program hassupported 30 community college students from the California Community College System.During the nine-week summer program, each TTE participant is paired with two mentors, afaculty advisor and graduate student mentor, who oversee and guide the student in independentresearch activities, through regular research group meetings and one-on-one discussions. Outsideof their independent research projects, TTE participants are trained in research protocol,laboratory safety, and professional ethics; and participate in academic and professionaldevelopment activities to prepare for a baccalaureate degree and career in science andengineering. The TTE REU program also partners with the UC

Conference Session

WIED: Strategies Beyond the Classroom

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelsey Morgan Irvin, Washington University in St. Louis; Elizabeth Hiteshue, University of Pennsylvania; Mary Yvonne Lanzerotti, Air Force Institute of Technology; Sheldon Hochheiser, IEEE History Center; Michael Geselowitz, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

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Women in Engineering

of Young People in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)AbstractThis paper describes a new collaboration between a DOD government institution of highereducation in the United States and the History Center of the Institute of Electrical andElectronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest technology organization for the advancementof technology, to create a workforce development and one-on-one career-building and life-changing mentorship program for female undergraduate students in science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This project provides the students with hands-onSTEM research in the government institution and one-on-one exposure to some of the world’sleading female science and engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University; Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; Craig J. Kief, COSMIAC at UNM; Bassam H. Matar, Chandler Gilbert Community College

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

) and microcontrollers is sweeping theelectronics world in the rush to create smaller, faster, and more flexible consumer and industrialdevices. Drake State Community College has put together a team of educational partnersspanning the country with the background and skills necessary to create a vibrant virtual center.Team members include colleges and universities with a history of reaching out to minority andunder-served student populations. Partners on this project have years of successful NationalScience Foundation project implementations educating and training hundreds of instructors, andintroducing thousands of students to advanced technologies. The goal of this project is to offer anunprecedented opportunity to bring America’s technicians

Conference Session

FPD 11: Culminating Considerations

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Silvia Husted, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Judith Virginia Gutierrez; 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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First-Year Programs

exerciseseffective.2-4 This paper will describe in detail how a second semester cornerstone (and pillar)course (Introduction to Chemical, Food, and Environmental Engineering Design) for theseundergraduate degrees at Universidad de las Américas Puebla (Mexico) is helping to achievethese objectives, as well as its alignment with the Investment Theory of Creativity (ITC)developed by Sternberg and Lubart.5-8Creativity assessment was grounded on the Consensual Assessment Technique that is based onthe idea that the best measure of creativity regardless of what is being evaluated, is theassessment by experts in that field.9 The two major projects from this course were presented toexperts in the field that assessed student creative thinking by means of a rubric

Conference Session

Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; William Joseph Frey, Univ. Puerto Rico - Mayaguez; Marcel J. Castro-Sitiriche, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez; Joann M. Rodriguez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Jeffrey Santiago, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Tyrone Medina, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez; Ricardo Maldonado; Cristina Rivera-Vélez, GREAT IDEA; Davis Chacon-Hurtado, University of Connecticut; Pablo Jose Acevedo, UPRM

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Community Engagement Division

). Papadopoulos has diverse research and teaching interests in structural mechanics, biomechanics, engineer- ing ethics, and engineering education. He is PI of two NSF sponsored research projects and is co-author of Lying by Approximation: The Truth about Finite Element Analysis. Papadopoulos is currently the Program Chair Elect of the ASEE Mechanics Division and serves on numerous committees at UPRM that relate to undergraduate and graduate education.Dr. William Joseph Frey, Univ. Puerto Rico - Mayaguez William J. Frey has taught research, business, engineering, and computer ethics at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez since 1990. He is a member and former director of that university’s Center for Ethics in the

Conference Session

Engineering Leadership Development Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ella Lee Ingram, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Richard A. House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Steve Chenoweth, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Kay C. Dee, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Jameel Ahmed, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Craig G. Downing, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Donald E. Richards, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

. and at Bell Labs. He specialized in starting new projects, and in reviewing such projects. All of these software development projects involved some associated social change. At Rose-Hulman he has been involved in starting the bachelor’s and master’s programs in software engineering.Dr. Kay C Dee, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Kay C Dee received a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in biomedical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After completing her graduate work, Kay C joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and later joined the faculty at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Conference Session

Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janusz Zalewski, Florida Gulf Coast University; Fernando Garcia Gonzalez, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

Paper ID #10496Creating Research Opportunities with Robotics across the UndergraduateSTEM CurriculaDr. Janusz Zalewski, Florida Gulf Coast University Janusz Zalewski, Ph.D., is a professor of computer science and software engineering at Florida Gulf Coast University. Prior to an academic appointment, he worked for various nuclear research institutions, including the Data Acquisition Group of Superconducting Super Collider and Computer Safety and Re- liability Center at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He also worked on projects and consulted for a number of private companies, including Lockheed Martin, Harris, and

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ang Liu, University of Southern California; Stephen Y. Lu, University of Southern California

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Design in Engineering Education

key functions of complex systems. To date, however,few efforts have been devoted to apply the IDEF0 method to model a design course as a complexsystem. Next, we explain our interpretation of a (good) “design thinking” course with respect tothe four IDEF0 building blocks: input, output, mechanism, and control. The conceptual model isillustrated in Figure 1.Input of a “design thinking” course includes both design methods and design projects. Theformer specifies a particular process (or pattern) of performing design, which the instructor cansystemically teach step-by step. Whereas the latter allows the students to practice the newmethods that they learnt by solving real-world design problems. In some sense, a certain designmethod can be

Conference Session

Renewable Energy in Classroom

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy L. Marbach, California State University Sacramento

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Paper ID #8622Significant Learning in Renewable EnergyDr. Timothy L Marbach, California State University Sacramento Dr. Timothy Marbach is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at California State University Sacramento, where he teaches courses in thermodynamics, thermal-fluid systems and project engineering. Tim received his Bachelors degree from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas and Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma in Norman. He has received the Outstanding Teaching Award for the CSUS Col- lege of Engineering and Computer Science and the Tau Beta Pi California Upsilon Chapter’s Outstanding

Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shyam Aravamudhan, North Carolina A&T State University; Diedrich A. Schmidt, North Carolina A&T State University; Hany Nakhla, North Carolina A&T State University

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Ocean and Marine

, assembly and demonstration project named Perseus II, sponsored by the Office of theSecretary of Defense’s Rapid Reaction Technology Office (RRTO). The goal of this challenge-based engineering project was to explore if a team (a) with just a general background inengineering (role filled by undergraduate students), (b) modest resourcing and (c) in a relativelyshort period of time, could assemble an underwater vehicle to perform a specified mission. Theproject culminated with the operational demonstration of the underwater vehicle in a dive lagoonand the acquired engineering skills. Ultimately, we believe this project uniquely exposedundergraduate students, including minorities, to challenging real-world ocean engineeringproblems so as prepare or

Conference Session

Distance Learning in Engineering Technology

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve C. Hsiung, Old Dominion University; John M. Ritz, Old Dominion University; Ece Yaprak, Wayne State University; Feng Jao, Ohio Northern University

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Engineering Technology

team of researchers4, in addition to the push by their institutions to move coursesand programs into a distance learning environment. These faculty sought external funding toassist them in their research to find solutions to delivering hands-on technical content coursesusing the advantages provided through electronic instructional delivery technologies. The technologies developed and used by these researchers were supported by a three-year, proof of concept, National Science Foundation project. The initial year’s work explored theneeds for developing such a training platform to use in delivering instruction, so students couldparticipate in laboratory activities guided by faculty, plus an additional design of operationalmicrocontroller