Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew West, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

very limited applied examples. The course suffered from low engagementand enthusiasm on the part of both students and instructors. Students routinely reported thatIntroductory Dynamics was their least-favorite course in the curriculum, and the department faceda constant struggle to persuade faculty to teach the course. Instructors reported that the coursewas a higher-than-normal teaching workload.The instructional reforms undertaken in Introductory Dynamics involved the following keychanges: (1) an active learning discussion section format, including group work activities and afocus on “real-world” applications of the course material; (2) active learning in lectures usingclassroom response systems (using the i>clicker system); (3) online

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach and Out-of-School Time Engineering Programming and Research

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin Reed Campbell, Robert Morris University; Sarah Marie Riordan, Robert Morris University; Stephanie Abbott; Sarah Mukui Mutunga, Robert Morris University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Paper ID #8977Impact of a 5-Week Collegiate Level Residential STEM Summer Program onSecondary School Students (research to practice)Dr. Benjamin Reed Campbell, Robert Morris University Ben Campbell holds a BS in physics and MS in electrical engineering from Penn State and a PhD in en- gineering from Robert Morris University. For the first decade of his career, he worked as a laser engineer at the Penn State Electro-Optics Center. In 2011 he joined Robert Morris University as an Assistant Pro- fessor of Engineering. Since 2005, Dr. Campbell has served as faculty for the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Sciences (a

Conference Session

Robotics and Automation

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas B. Stout, Tidewater Community College; Steve C. Hsiung, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

cost and is easily adaptable to fit their curriculum needs; the autonomousvehicle can fill those needs. With this basic platform, the robotic vehicles can be developed instages. First, it can be driven by an umbilical system, so students learn the basics of its motionand how it should be driven by the controller. Then, the platform can be adapted to thecontroller’s electronics, expanding the system to include the line following, wireless-remote, andautonomous capabilities. Page 24.27.5 Instructors at all levels in the educational process are trying to inspire the next generationof engineers and technologists and may not have the time, or

Conference Session

Construction Materials and Technologies

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rui Liu, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Yilmaz Hatipkarasulu, University of Texas at San Antonio

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Construction

: Industry requirements, state of the art, and gap analysis." Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 139(11). 2. Sabongi, F. J. (2009). "The Integration of BIM in the Undergraduate Curriculum: an analysis of undergraduate courses." Proc., 45th Annual Conference of ASC, Gainsville, FL. 3. Becerik-Gerber, B., Gerber, D. J., and Ku, K. (2011). "The pace of technological innovation in architecture, engineering, and construction education: integrating recent trends into the curricula." Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction, 16, 412-431. 4. Wu, W., and Issa, R. R. (2013). "BIM Education and Recruiting: Survey-Based Comparative Analysis of Issues, Perceptions, and

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brianna L. Dorie, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Gina Navoa Svarovsky, Science Museum of Minnesota

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

engage in what was labeled as“precursors to engineering behavior”.1-3 These precursors include asking questions/stating goals,explanations, construction, problem solving and evaluating design.4 However, as “children” growup and enter undergraduate engineering courses, many of these behaviors are now absent, untildeveloped again through the undergraduate engineering curriculum and professional workexperience.5Recently, several design process models have been developed for younger children, includingthose put forth by the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)6, the PBS television showDesign Squad 7 and the Museum of Science in Boston’s Engineering is Elementary curriculum8 (toname a few). Within NGSS, engineering design is integrated throughout

Conference Session

Impact of Community Engagement on Students

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew T. Siniawski, Loyola Marymount University; Victoria Louise Graf; Shawna Leigh Draxton, WISH Charter

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Community Engagement Division

Paper ID #8657Student Perceptions of Design Projects That Involve Developing Assistive De-vices for Elementary School Children with DisabilitiesDr. Matthew T. Siniawski, Loyola Marymount University Dr. Matthew T. Siniawski is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. He teaches the senior capstone design project courses and has recently begun mentoring students on the design of assistive devices for children with disabilities. One of his research interests lies in understanding how these Learning Through Service projects impact participating engineering students

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

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

fell in the middle of education and engineering students in all ofthe lifelong learner comparisons. Low reliability of the lifelong learner items (see Table 2)mitigates the impact of these findings, and further analysis is needed. Also, as a role “lifelonglearner” may be complicated in that it is an integrated role in professional careers while moreexplicit and separable as “student” in graduate school.Current and Future Role AlignmentThe analysis of the alignment questions also produced interesting results. First, we see that thereis no statistical difference between any of the groups in terms of (a) what they want to do andwhat they are actually doing now (p = 0.260) with an overall mean of 5.220, (b) what theybelieve is expected of them and

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Audra N. Morse, Texas Tech University

Tagged Divisions

International

petroleum engineering and industrial engineer may take these courses abroad. However, thecourses will not be approved for mechanical engineering students to take abroad. Facultymembers have been very supportive of accepting the international courses as electives and onedepartment is looking to revise the curriculum to create an ideal semester for the students to goabroad, should they choose to use the semester long exchange as their method of accomplishingthe international requirement. The WCOE will be working with the other engineeringdepartments and degree programs to rework their 4-year curriculum plan to identify the idealsemester(s) students should participate in a semester-long study abroad experience.6. Finding ways to make programs as cost

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.)

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

product or project. This course is an excellent capstone experience, which requires bothteamwork and individual skills in solving a modern industrial problem. Senior design projectsseminars in fall and spring quarters bring the students, faculty, and industrial partners together tosee the student’s results and to give them the additional experience of public presentation of theirwork.The importance of project work in the curriculum of our undergraduate engineering programs iswell understood. Students want and need to know the best industrial practices also. An engineershould be a designer, thinker, innovator and systems integrator. Hence, the educational systemshould inculcate into its students various aspects such as engineering principles

Conference Session

BOK2 - Influencing Changes to the ABET Civil Engineering Program Criteria and Civil Engineering Curricula

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allen C. Estes, California Polytechnic State University; Thomas A. Lenox , Dist.M.ASCE, F.ASEE, American Society of Civil Engineers

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

and reports, the committee engaged in an all-encompassing and exhaustive discussion of all possible changes to the CEPC. The final product was an initial draft of the proposed Civil Engineering Program Criteria. The road to consensus started with a question: To what extent does the typical baccalaureate-level civil engineering program have room for more accreditation requirements given the credit-hour constraints on civil engineering programs around the country? Committee member opinions ranged from the current curriculum being full already to there is still room for seven to eight additional substantive accreditation requirements. The most common response was there is still room for three to

Conference Session

SD Technical Session: Tricks of the Trade

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington; Brook Sattler, University of Washington; Kathryn Ann Mobrand, University of Washington; Drew Paine, Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Student

significant, dissatisfaction with the rate atwhich research drives action, as well as the belief that research can be more effectively leveragedto support action, has motivated increased activity around this topic. For example, the funding oflarge-scale centers on “translational science” and conference themes such as “knowing is notenough” are powerful indicators of the significance of the issue. Understanding and being able toengage in translational work is thus an important issue for emerging scholars.Consider, as a public manifestation of translational work, formal research publications. Journalarticles and conference papers often contain statements identifying implications for action. Whilethere exists a large body of literature that focuses on

Conference Session

The Nature of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Session 4

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William A. Kline, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; William D. Schindel, ICTT System Sciences

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

to explore and define engineering innovativeness and the innovationcompetencies4,6. The Innovation Competencies4 for working in a technical environment aresuggested to including three components - Discipline Competencies, Discovery Competencies,and Systems Competencies, in an integrated framework. Arranging these competencies in a 3-D“Innovation Competency Space”, shown in Figure 1, is useful for understanding the activities ofinnovators and visualizing the day-to-day combinations that arise from all three areas.The Discipline Competencies of Figure 1 are those specific to individual technical degreeprograms, such as EE, ME, ChE, CE, etc. This includes competency in the phenomena andtechnologies specific to a discipline.The Systems

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tolga Kaya, Central Michigan University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

. Page 24.714.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Improvements through the Second Year Research Experiences for Teachers ProgramAbstractWe have successfully finished our second summer in our National Science Foundation (NSF)supported Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Site entitled “Multidisciplinary EngineeringResearch for Rural Michigan's Future.” The summer program was 6 weeks long and hosted 7 in-service teachers (high school science) and 5 pre-service teachers (integrated science majors).Participants were split into 6 groups and teamed up with an engineering faculty and anengineering undergraduate student each. During their 40 hours/week work

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margaret Scheiner, Florida State University; Micah McCrary-Dennis; David O Olawale, Dept of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering; Okenwa I Okoli, Florida A&M University/Florida State University

an entrepreneurial twist to refocus senior studentspursuing careers and graduate programs in STEM fields.The field of advanced materials is very broad; however, the REU curriculum focused the studentat several key, real world application-based endeavors. Several projects involving the processingand applications of nanomaterials and multiscale-multifunctional composite materials werechosen to be student research project initiatives. These were selected to equip the students withknowledge in the synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials and their utilization inmanufacturing processes. Students learned the fundamental synthesis mechanisms ofnanomaterials critical to controllable and consistent production. The students also learned

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raquel Perez Castillejos, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

2015.1,2 Research and development in nanotechnology is likely to changecompletely the design, analysis, and manufacturing for a wide range of engineering products.Nanotechnology, however, is still mostly a topic for graduate schools whereas undergraduateprograms that focus on nanotechnology remain sporadic.3 Our NSF-NUE award will builda multidisciplinary, cross-campus educational program that integrates nanotechnology to theundergraduate curricula in science and engineering. Our educational program in nanotechnologywill also reach out to high school (K9-K12) and graduate students.In the development of an educational program for introducing nanotechnology to undergraduate(UG) students majoring in STEM at the New Jersey Institute of Technology

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suzanne W. Scott, The Petroleum Institute; Jamal Sheikh-Ahmad, The Petroleum Institute; Jaby Mohammed, Petroleum Institute; Samuel N. Cubero Jr., The Petroleum Institute; Khalid Abdalla Alhammadi, The Petroleum Institute

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

, project management,interpersonal skills, leadership, marketing skills, and life-long learning skills. While teamworkhas long been considered an integral part of a design program, not all universities, includingours, offer multidisciplinary courses or courses that expose students to “concurrent design work”methodology.1 The practice of these more recently recognized methodologies trains students toperform parallel and integrated tasks in the design process and to practice importantinterpersonal communication with colleagues in other disciplines.The second-year multidisciplinary engineering design course described in this paper broughtmultidisciplinary design education back to a The Petroleum Institute of Abu Dhabi, UAE.Although the original model

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

into the curriculum, in essence attempting pragmatic definitions of Page 24.357.6engineering. There are tensions that the Mann report never fully resolves around the practical vs.theoretical or abstract vs. material elements of engineering. At the time more theoretical subjectswere covered in the first two years, while more technical subjects were taught in the latter two.This structure arose from the definition of engineering as an applied science: “The conceptionunderlying this and all later curricula is that engineering is applied science; and therefore, toteach engineering, it is necessary first to teach science and then to apply it…Only

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deeksha Seth, Drexel University; John Joseph Carr Jr., New Jersey Academy for Aquatic Sciences; Angela D. Wenger, New Jersey Academy for Aquatic Sciences ; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech; James Louis Tangorra, Drexel University

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College Industry Partnerships

focused on family learning. Ms. Wenger is deeply commitment to diversity issues and broadening access to science for underserved audiences. She is also passionate about professional development of youth and staff working in science centers and museums.Dr. Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech Lisa D. McNair is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she also serves as Assistant Department Head of Graduate Programs and co-Director of the VT Engineering Com- munication Center (VTECC). She received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in English from the University of Georgia. Her research interests include interdisciplinary collabora- tion, design education

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Lisa Huettel, Duke University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Paper ID #9940Virtual Community of Practice: Electric CircuitsProf. Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteDr. Lisa Huettel, Duke University Dr. Lisa G. Huettel is an associate professor of the practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University where she also serves as associate chair and director of Undergraduate Studies for the department. She received a B.S. in Engineering Science from Harvard University and earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Duke University. Her research interests are focused on engineering education, curriculum and laboratory

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen A. Harper, Ohio State University; Lisa Abrams, Ohio State University; Jonathan P. Ruffley

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

disciplines, as well as to teach themhow to use particular tools, employ some data techniques, and write technically.8 Content that iscommon between the two tracks include engineering graphics (both by hand and with a softwarepackage), MATLAB, design, and engineering ethics. They also address an array of professionalskills, including teamwork and oral reporting. The major additional content area for the honorsstudents is computer programming in C and C++. Further, with the additional contact time, thehonors students are able to engage in a more challenging and substantial design project.9 The honorsprogram reserves ten weeks at the end of the program almost exclusively for this project, while thestandard track integrates their design project with

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn Barger, FLATE (Florida Advanced Technological Education Center of Excellence); Marie A. Boyette, FLATE; Nina C. Stokes, Florida Advanced Technological Education Center

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

award winning curriculum design and reform for secondary and post-secondary Career and Technical Education programs; and provides a variety of professional development for STEM and techni- cal educators focused on advanced technologies. She earned a B.A. in Chemistry at Agnes Scott College and both a B.S. in Engineering Science and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Environmental) from the Uni- versity of South Florida, where her research focused on membrane separation science and technologies for water purification. She has over 20 years of experience in developing curricula for engineering and engineering technology for elementary, middle, high school, and post secondary institutions, including colleges of engineering

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

Vice Chancellor. As a program chair and dean, Mr. Sikoski was involved in developing several technology and engineering programs, including the Energy Technology and Pre-Engineering Program. Developing programs to meet industry workforce needs and student’s successes are his priorities. He served as an educational co-chair and chair of the curriculum committee of the Indiana Energy Consortium. He is a member of the Executive Board of Association of Technology Management and Applied Science and a visiting team member. Additionally, he serves on the advisory boards for College of Technology at Purdue University Calumet, Purdue University North Central and the Porter County Career Center.Mr. Steven Wendel, Sinclair

Conference Session

Engineering Physics & Physics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harold T. Evensen, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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Engineering Physics & Physics

regularly identify this course as one of the strengths of theEngineering Physics curriculum. Their comments indicate that the goals of the course are beingmet. These goals include: • Learning about a variety of common sensors and their implementation, including sensor terminology. • Developing an electronics skill set to pull information from the sensors; • Developing laboratory skills, such as experiment design and implementation, troubleshooting, and reporting; • Learning and applying a new programming language (VB6) to communicate with external equipment (the DAQ), interpret sensor signals, and “make decisions” based on the sensor output.Programming Languages in Sensor LabThe Sensor Lab has used VB6 since its inception in

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John C. Oliva, Hemlock Semiconductor Corporation

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

university, their two engineering schools have a lot of common ground.Both are primarily undergraduate institutions, offering master’s programs, but no doctoraldegrees. Greater emphasis is given to teaching rather than to research. Each also emphasizespractical experience, with mandatory co-op job placements woven through the curriculum in a“one academic semester, one work semester” fashion. In both of these roles I taught manycomputer aided design and computer aided engineering courses (CAD/CAE), but thrown into themix were also classes in engineering graphics, design, solid mechanics, machine design, and thelike. By the time I left GVSU, I had become a permanent tenure track faculty member.Perceiving that an industrial job might offer me a better

Conference Session

Construction Contracts, Law and Ethics

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John David Cioara, Arizona State University; Dean Takeo Kashiwagi, Arizona State University; Sylvia Romero, Arizona State University; Kenneth Timothy Sullivan, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

Page 24.1248.2 mechanism to enhance a project.5. CCA senior level class was not motivating the students to fully utilize the associate faculty as industry legal experts.6. Senior students were not able to articulate construction contract issues and their solutions with the traditional lecture approach of the class.The class structure was not stimulating the students in an actionable way or preparing them forthe construction industry as project managers, contractor representatives, and owners. Thestudents needed a thirty thousand foot view of construction contracts, and needed to understandhow the construction contract administration concepts integrate with the other constructionmanagement skills. The students also needed a mechanism to

Conference Session

Enhancing Success/Peristence at Two-Year Colleges

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elaine L. Craft, Florence-Darlington Technical College; Manjari Wijenaike; Dennis M. Faber, FCC, inc.

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Two Year College Division

Investigator and Director for the TIME Center (Technology & Innovation in Manufacturing & Engineering), an Advanced Technological Education Regional Center of Excellence funded by the National Science. Mr. Faber has extensive curriculum design experience in developing customized education, training and occupational certification programs. His leadership helped build the DACUM Resource Center into a respected state, regional and national curriculum and instructional design resource over its sixteen-year history, serving business, industry, labor, government and educational customers and training over 350 DACUM facilitators nationally. He continues to be ac- tively involved in a variety of educational and

Conference Session

K-12 Computer Science and Computational Thinking Initiatives

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Afrin Naz, West Virginia University Inst. of Tech.; Mingyu Lu, West Virginia University Inst. of Tech.

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

established in the core K-12standards5. To address this challenge, the third model5 implemented a computer scienceendorsement program for secondary school teachers with focus on the national level modelcurriculum set by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)9 and Computer ScienceTeachers Association (CSTA)10. Following their successful experience, we designed ourworkshop to be closely aligned with the CSTA standards. The fourth model8 offered an onlineprofessional development workshop for high school teachers. Inspired by the fourth model,online forum and online technical support are integrated in our post-workshop activites. In Page 24.53.3summary

Conference Session

FPD 7: Beyond Course Content

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Nathan E. Canney PE, Seattle University

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First-Year Programs

they progressthrough the engineering curriculum using a longitudinal study.BackgroundIt has been asserted that the current generation of incoming college students possesses a highdegree of civic responsibility. The Higher Education Research Institute has been studying civicresponsibility for over 40 years and reported that civic engagement has increased, evidenced bythe fact that 72% of first year college students in 2012 said that “help others in difficulty” was anobjective that was essential or very important,1 as compared to 58.7%, in 1987.2 The Associationof American Colleges and Universities (AACU) currently has an initiative to educate studentsfor personal and social responsibility, stating a goal that campuses should “prepare [students

Conference Session

Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Antonette T. Cummings P.E., Purdue University; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Community Engagement Division

. Cummings P.E., Purdue University Antonette Cummings is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.Dr. William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette William (Bill) Oakes is the Director of the EPICS Program and Professor at Purdue University. He is one of the founding faculty members in the School of Engineering Education with courtesy appointments in Mechanical, Environmental and Ecological Engineering as well as Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education. He has received numerous awards for his efforts at Purdue including being elected as a fellow of the Teaching Academy and listed in the Book of

Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kirk D. Dolan, Michigan State University; Yinjie J. Tang, Washington University; Wei Liao, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

metabolic reactions under controlled variables. TheMathWorks grant-funded project of systems biology and kinetic process modeling relied onfundamental knowledge in biology, chemistry, mathematics, statistics, kinetics, and chemicalprocess engineering, which was integrated into the curriculum for four major courses at WUSTLand MSU. 1. Metabolic engineering (ChE596) at WUSTL focuses on analysis of complex interactions in biological systems and introduction of metabolic changes to achieve desired cellular properties [1]. Currently, numerous chemical compounds, ranging from pharmaceuticals to biofuel, have been produced with the aid of biological tools. The ability to efficiently synthesize natural or synthetic products requires a