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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hong Huang, Wright State University; Steven R. Higgins, Department of Chemistry, Wright State University; Aaron Joseph Blake, Wright State University, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering; Jason Allen Deibel, Wright State University; Ioana Sizemore, Wright State University, Department of Chemistry

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Laboratory Course1. IntroductionNanomaterials, nanotechnology and nanoscience play a key role in the advancement of moderntechnologies in sensors, medicine, renewable energies, and more. Globally, governments andindustries have made significant investments in this field both intellectually and economically. Inthe United States, federal funding agencies have invested tens of billions of dollars on R&D andcommercialization of nano-products as well as understanding of the social environmentalimpacts.1 The National Science Foundation (NSF) projected that the nanotechnology sector willemploy 6 million workers by 2020 and over 80% of the jobs will require trained workforces innanoscience and nanotechnology.2 To meet the projected future demand, it

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Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technology Programs I

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David M. Whittinghill, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jacob Samuel Brown, Purdue University

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Computing & Information Technology

Paper ID #10954Gamification of Physical Therapy for the Treatment of Pediatric CerebralPalsy: A Pilot Study Examining Player PreferencesDr. David M Whittinghill, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. David Whittinghill is an Assistant Professor of Computer Graphics Technology and Computer and Information Technology. Dr. Whittinghill’ s research focuses on simulation, gaming and computer pro- gramming and how these technologies can more effectively address outstanding issues in health, educa- tion, and society in general. Dr. Whittinghill leads projects in pediatric physical therapy, sustainable energy simulation, phobia

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Improvements in ECE Signals and Systems

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Berenice Verdin, University of Texas at El Paso; Ricardo Von Borries, University of Texas, El Paso; Patricia A. Nava P.E., University of Texas, El Paso; Andrew C. Butler, Duke University

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Electrical and Computer

Science Board and the Director of the National Science Foundation. As a Ph.D student she worked on a project sponsored by Army Research Laboratories. In addition, she worked as a graduate intern for Locked Martin Corporations. She presented her research results on SPIE Symposium Photonics + Applications. She earned her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering in August 2009. After completing her Ph.D, Dr. Verdin taught several electrical engineering courses at the University of Texas at El Paso.Dr. Ricardo von Borries, University of Texas, El PasoDr. Patricia A. Nava P.E., University of Texas, El PasoDr. Andrew C Butler, Duke University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kamarza Mulia, Chemical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia; Elsa Krisanti, Chemical Engineering Department, Universitas Indonesia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

multidisciplinaryteam as one of its undergraduate curriculum learning outcomes, listed in Appendix B.Communication skills are considered an important component within engineering curricula,either as stand-alone classes or integrated into a program curriculum along with otherimportant process skills. In the integrated approach, all of these skills are coveredprogressively in a series of courses. Examples of the integrated approach are those at theVirginia Tech's Materials Science and Engineering Department3 and the University ofQueensland’s Project Centred Curriculum in Chemical Engineering for the third and fourthyear students4.The communication skills course in our program is a stand-alone class, nevertheless, it hasbeen developed as part of our effort to

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K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Curriculum Exchange

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anne Marie Bergen, Cal Poly State University; Katherine C. Chen, California Polytechnic State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Poly, multiple subject credential from Chapman, and M.A. in Educational Leadership from St. Mary’s. Honors include: 2010 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, Cal Poly Commencement Speaker 2009, Cal Poly Honored Alumni 2008, Amgen Award for Science Teaching Excellence 2006, California Teacher of the Year in 2003, Stanislaus County Teacher of the Year 2002. She has created many grant funded programs including From the River to the Tap, the Salmon Project, and Passport to Science. Anne Marie has been a presenter at conferences including the Association of Environmental and Outdoor Educators, the California Science Teachers Association, and the National Science Teachers Association. Her

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Trends in Engineering Education 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ibrahim Mohedas, University of Michigan; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Kathleen H. Sienko, University of Michigan

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Educational Research and Methods

amounts of information and data. In some cases, design projects are an engineeringstudent’s first significant introduction to this type of advanced information processing. Designcommunication documents are similar to explanatory writing in that one must analyze multipleinformation sources and subsequently make decisions based upon this analysis. Furthermore,designers must deal with conflicting information, questionable data sources, and advancedtechnical topics.The front-end phases of design (problem definition, development of user requirements, andtranslation to engineering specifications) require a particularly large amount of informationprocessing because one is just beginning to understand the design problem and must gain a deepunderstanding

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K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Curriculum Exchange

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Justin Michael Hutchison, University of Illinois

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

internalizing theinformation and developing lesson plans, under guidance from the teacher and graduate students, onclean energy for an Integrated Physical Science (IPS) class comprised of Special Education students andEnglish Language Learners. Following the presentations by APES students, the IPS students weredivided into smaller working groups with an APES student acting as the group manager. The smallgroups were tasked with designing, building and testing inventions that improved upon or specificallyused solar, wind, water or biologically-derived energy. As a culmination to the project, the high schoolstudents presented their inventions to a mock-investor panel which included faculty members and localentrepreneurs. This activity-based

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Diversity in K-12 and Pre-college Engineering Education

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lyndsey Alyssa Wright, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara M. Moskal, Colorado School of Mines

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Paper ID #8956Including Children With Disabilities in STEM: An Outreach Program forDyslexic Students (Research to Practice)Ms. Lyndsey Alyssa Wright, Colorado School of Mines Lyndsey Wright is working towards an M.S. in Applied Mathematics at the Colorado School of Mines. Her research is on Numerical Methods for Poisson’s Equation; she has also worked on various K-12 outreach and course assessment projects under Dr. Barb Moskal.Dr. Barbara M. Moskal, Colorado School of Mines Page 24.726.1 c American

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Innovative Techniques in Structural Engineering Courses

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey A. Laman, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Civil Engineering

Education, College of Engineering, at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. She has a Master of Arts Degree in Education and Human Development specializing in Educational Technology Leadership. Her work focuses on projects assess student perceptions of learning related to their experi- ences with engineering course innovations. She has worked extensively in the design of assessment tools for course methods and activities. She is a faculty development consultant with previous experience in in- structional design, and the instructor of the Graduate Teaching Assistant Seminar for engineering teaching assistants at Penn State

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

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen J. Krapcho, University of Utah; Cynthia Furse, University of Utah

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Paper ID #9005Lessons Learned Developing an Engaging Engineering Summer CampMs. Karen J Krapcho, University of Utah Karen Krapcho,M.S. is the Outreach and grant coordinator for NSF-0652982.Dr. Cynthia Furse, University of Utah Page 24.861.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Lessons Learned Developing an Engaging Engineering Summer CampIntroduction In order to meet the growing workforce needs in science and technology it is projected thatthe U.S. must increase the

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Logan Oplinger, Arizona State University; Andrew Michael Heiman; Matthew Dickens, Arizona State University; Chrissy Hobson Foster, Arizona State University; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Micah Lande, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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, Arizona State UniversityDr. Shawn S Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Shawn Jordan, Ph.D.is an Assistant Professor in theDepartment of Engineering atArizona State Univer- sity. He is the PI on three NSF-funded projects: CAREER: Engineering Design Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society (EEC 1351728), Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?(EEC 1329321), and Broadening the Reach of Engineering through Community Engagement (BRECE)(DUE 1259356). He is also Co-PI on one NSF-funded project: Should Makers be the Engineers of the Fu- ture?(EEC 1232772), and is senior personnel on an NSF-funded grant entitled Workshop: I-Corps for Learning (i-Corps-L). He received his Ph.D. in Engineering

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Gainful Employment: Preparing Technicians to Satisfy the Needs of Industry

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Farzin Heidari, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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Two Year College Division

train graduates that perform better in high-tech manufacturing positions: Advancedmanufacturing technologies are the key to competitive production in manufacturing. Theyprovide efficiency, productivity, and better product quality to the production process. Thecurriculum to be developed by technical college instructors will be in the form of lesson plans,student projects, online resources, or instructional materials.Strategy 1.2 Train skilled technicians to increase the productivity, efficiency, and quality ofmanufacturing: Advanced manufacturing incorporates many high-tech computer controlledproduction tools that are developed for and used in the manufacturing field, including high techproducts and processes to produce parts, and flexible

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From Industry to the Academy - Female Faculty Boundary Spanners Offering and Gaining Perspective

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary K. Pilotte, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Diana Bairaktarova, The University of Oklahoma; Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University

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Women in Engineering

industrial work experience, and supportive of her academic roles, Mary actively leads academic outreach to industrial firms to develop in-classroom, project-based, active learning through identification of ”real life”, in-context problem scenarios. Pilotte’s research interests involve understanding engineering culture, identity, and communication in the context of professional engineering practice. Expanded interests include understanding student benefits associated with in-context active learning, innovative distance learning, and global learning experiences. She holds Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Leadership and Supervision from Purdue Univer- sity, an MBA from the Goizueta School of Business, Emory

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Mentoring Minorities: Effective Programs, Practices, and Perspectives

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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DaVina J. Hoyt, Washington State University; Charles Pezeshki, Washington State University; J. Manuel Acevedo, Washington State University; Jairo Luis Rodriguez Acevedo; Corinna Cisneros, Washington State University

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Minorities in Engineering

Clinic, where students work on real-world industry problems with specified deliverables for their capstone projects. He is also interested in global engineering and the evolution of engineering education.J. MANUEL ACEVEDO, Washington State University J. MANUEL ACEVEDO, Director Office of Multicultural Student Services Washington State University Compton Union Room 409 PO Box 647204 Pullman, WA 99164-7204 (509)335-1071 ˜ acevedo@wsu.edu EDUCATION Washington State University, M.Ed., 1995, Counseling Psychology Universidad Santo Tomas, 1990, BA, Education PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Director, Office of Multicultural Student Services, Washington State University, 2004-Present Associate Director, Office of

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WIED: Strategies Beyond the Classroom

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Raquel Perez-Castillejos, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Priya Radhi Santhanam, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Women in Engineering

/index.php/trends-stats/3293-literature-review[5] R. Sevo, The Talent Crisis in Science and Engineering. In B. Bogue & E. Cady (Eds.). Apply Research to Practice, Assessing Women (and Men) in Engineering (AWE) project: Literature Overviews, USA (2004). Available online: http://www.engr.psu.edu/awe/secured/director/assessment/Literature_Overview/PDF_ overviews/ARP_Talent_Crisis_in_SandE_Overview.pdf[6] Handbook for achieving gender equity through education, S.S. Klein, B. Richardson, D.A. Grayson, L.H. Fox, C. Kramarae, D.S. Pollard, C.A. Dwyer (eds.), 2nd Edition, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc., Mahwah NJ (2007).[7] American Association of University Women Educational Foundation (AAUW), Under the microscope: a

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohammad Rabiul Islam, Oregon State University; David S. Hurwitz, Oregon State University; Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

aims listed in theprevious section. The major project activities include the following:Interviews and MisconceptionsThe overall methodologies utilized for identifying the misconceptions are shown in Figure 1,which includes the process of developing concepts for the study using a Modified DelphiMethod, interview protocol development, interview methodology, and data analysis procedures.a. Selecting Core Concepts: The fundamental concepts of traffic signal operations were identified through an iterative modified Delphi process involving 14 senior transportation engineering professionals and 16 engineering faculty from across the country who have been involved both in teaching and doing research in the area of traffic signal operations

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Innovations in Computer Engineering Courses

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph P Hoffbeck, University of Portland

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Electrical and Computer

12-hour clock is a standard commercial product. It performs a useful function, yet it issimple enough that it can be used as either an example in lecture, or can be designed by thestudents as a series of homework problems or in project. In the author's course, part of the clockis presented as an example in lecture, and the students design the rest of the clock in a groupproject and homework problems.Digital clocks are usually set up to start at 12:00, and they count 12:01, 12:02, 12:03, 12:04,12:05, 12:06, 12:07, 12:08, 12:09, 12:10, and eventually the clock gets to 12:58, 12:59, 1:00, andso on. The one's place of the minutes (the right-most digit) counts 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, andthen repeats, and a circuit that counts in this way is

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Best of DEED

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julia Kramer, University of Michigan, College of Engineering; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Seda Yilmaz, Iowa State University; Colleen M. Seifert, Univ. of Michigan

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Design in Engineering Education

ongoing projects. Our analysis revealed that allteams carried their heuristic-inspired concepts to their latter stage designs, with seven teamscarrying their heuristic-inspired concepts to their final designs and prototypes. As all eight teamsstudied were working on different design problems, our findings demonstrate the utility andpracticality of Design Heuristics across various design contexts. In addition, we found patterns inthe design teams’ general approaches to the design process, including synthesis, transformation,and abstraction. Seven of the eight teams showed some evidence of concept synthesis in theirdesign processes, but often struggled in synthesizing multiple concepts together. Additionally, allteams seemed to directly transfer

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Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Priya Seshadri, Purdue University; Tahira N. Reid, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Joran W. Booth, Purdue University

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, Purdue University Joran Booth is a graduate student at Purdue University, studying visualization and abstraction in design. Page 24.51.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 A Framework for Fostering Compassionate Design Thinking During the Design ProcessAbstractDesign educators in mechanical engineering departments have witnessed an evolution in the typesof design problems that students prefer to address in their courses. Anecdotal evidence fromdiscussions with colleagues indicate that over the last 30 years, projects have evolved from thedesign of

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New Course Development Concepts in ET I

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jorge Crichigno, Northern New Mexico College; Ivan Lopez Hurtado, Northern New Mexico College; Alfredo J. Perez, Northern New Mexico College; Raul R Peralta, Northern New Mexico College

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Great Schools, Inc.The Department of Engineering houses the IET program, where there are 60 students enrolled inthe program. There are three full-time faculty members exclusively dedicated to this program,plus the chair of the department who contributes to the IET and the Mechanical Engineeringprogram. The IET faculty are professionals who studied Engineering Physics, ElectricalEngineering, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics and BusinessAdministration, and specialized in technological areas such as networks, data communications,computer hardware, programming, databases, project management, and telecommunications. Thefaculty members (full-time and part-time) have experience in both industry and academia. Eventhrough

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California on the Move: A Robust Array of Student Success Initiatives

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Catherine Baker Lipe; Brandon Price

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Two Year College Division

resources.20 The NASA CiPair Internship Program is a 10-week summer researchinternship program for community college engineering students wherein groups of three to fourstudents work on a research project under the supervision of a university faculty and a graduatestudent mentor. The program has been shown to increase student self-efficacy for success in afour-year institution and interest in pursuing advanced degrees.21 Supplemental instruction (SI) isan academic assistance program that creates a safe environment for students to get theirquestions answered and receive feedback from peers who have been successful in their course.Another academic support program developed to help students develop the study skills necessaryfor college success is the

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Khaled Sobhan, Florida Atlantic University; Edgar An, Florida Atlantic University; Ryne A. Sherman; Nancy Romance, Florida Atlantic university ; Nicolas A. Brown, Florida Atlantic University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Paper ID #10732Exploring the disconnect between Self Determination Theory (SDT) and theEngineering Classroom EnvironmentDr. Khaled Sobhan, Florida Atlantic University Dr. Khaled Sobhan is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Florida Atlantic University. He is the Principal Investigator of a NSF RIGEE grant on student motivation and learning in the classroom environment. He has also led and participated in several Faculty Learning Communities dealing with Inquiry-based and Project-based learning in engineering disciplines. He is the recipient of the award for ”Excellence and Innovation in Undergraduate Teaching” and the

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Montasir Abbas P.E., Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

researcher. He was an Assistant Research Engineer and the Corridor Management Team Leader at Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), where he has worked for four years before joining Virginia Tech. Dr. Abbas conducted sponsored research of more than $720,000 as a principal investigator and more than $750,000 as a key researcher at TTI. After joining Virginia Tech, he has conducted over $2,400,000 worth of funded research, with a credit share of more than $1,750,000. Dr. Abbas is an award recipient of $600,000 of the Federal Highway Administration Exploratory and Advanced Research (FHWA EAR). The objective of the FHWA EAR is to ”research and develop projects that could lead to transformational changes and truly

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ECE Program Development

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert A. Strangeway, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Stephen M. Williams P.E., Milwaukee School of Engineering; Edward W. Chandler P.E., Milwaukee School of Engineering; Richard W. Kelnhofer, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Owe G. Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Electrical and Computer

anengineering perspective (within the BS-EET program). The AAS-EET to BS-EET transfertransition is further described in Strangeway et al.15 Although it was not required that the seniorproject was a design project, all BS-EET senior projects were design projects that wereindistinguishable in level and scope from projects completed by traditional BSEE students at thesame institution.Since fall term 2003, 231 students from these AAS-EET programs transferred into the BS-EETprogram at MSOE, 44 are currently attending, six have changed programs to EE, and 147 havegraduated to date. The graduation rate, not counting students currently in the BS-EET programand those who changed programs to EE, is 81 percent. If students who left the program beforegraduation in

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International Division Technical Session 6

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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! 𝐶!!.! −𝑟!! = 0.0745𝐶! 𝐶!Determine the proper order to install both reactors. Figure 3. Decision-making problem example (Adapted from Tiscareño12 for IQ407 and Doherty and Malone17 for IQ412).A final design problem was used to simultaneously assess student attainment of learningoutcomes for both courses, through the synthesis and analysis of the reaction and separationstages in a chemical plant. The final project was assigned for teamwork (groups of three to fourstudents) on the last week of the semester and students had a period of two weeks to developtheir proposal, which they presented as their final exam. The same chemical process, styreneproduction, taken from the

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Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew E. McFarland, University of Virginia; Reid Bailey, University of Virginia

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Design in Engineering Education

practice of engineering in such a way thatthere now exists disconnect between engineering education and engineering practice. This disconnect hasresulted in today’s engineering students lacking the key skills needed to be successful engineers [4]. There have been many prominent calls to reduce the distance between engineering education andengineering practice, with perhaps the most notable being from the National Academy of Engineering’sEngineer of 2020 project [5], [6]. As a result, engineering education is starting to change.One key area of change in engineering education is the inclusion of interdisciplinary knowledge andteamwork skills into engineering curricula. According to the National Academy of Engineering, the needto experience

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sabeen A. Altaf, Institute of International Education; Eck Doerry, Northern Arizona University; Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Edward Randolph Collins Jr. P.E., Clemson University

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Paper ID #9329Joining Hands: Using Consortia to Efficiently Create Easily Accessible Inter-national Experiences for Engineering StudentsMs. Sabeen A Altaf, Institute of International Education Sabeen Altaf is currently the Senior Program Officer for Science and Technology Programs at the Institute of International Education (IIE). She manages the Whitaker International Program which sends emerging U.S.-based biomedical engineers abroad to study and/or undertake a self-designed research project, along with the Global Engineering Education Exchange (Global E3) Program, a leading international consor- tium for undergraduate

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WIED: Faculty and Gender Issues

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology; Carol Elizabeth Marchetti, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Stefi Alison Baum, Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Women in Engineering

as part of the NSSA degree programs. She co- chaired the committee to design and develop the Bachelor of Science degree in Information Security and Forensics and has participated in numerous security working groups, conferences and training programs. Sharon is a co-PI on a $3.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation for the project ”CON- NECT: Increasing the Representation and Advancement of Women Faculty at RIT.” The NSF ADVANCE IT project, Creating Opportunity Networks for Engagement and Collective Transformation: Increasing the Representation and Advancement of Women Faculty @ RIT (Connect@RIT), is an effort across RIT’s nine colleges, all of which include STEM/SBS disciplines. The project’s goal is

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College Industry Partnerships Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hadi Ali, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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College Industry Partnerships

-phase research project on characteristics of BPTconducted within a Fortune 500 Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) multi-national company.The aim of this research is to support ways to capture technical knowledge in industry and enablethe transfer of this knowledge to the next generation of professionals.BackgroundIn today’s organizations, human capital, and the potential it brings in terms of expert knowledge,efficiency, and insight,1 is more important than traditional assets such as equipment, facilities ornatural resources.2 Organizations that see themselves as “knowledge-generating communitiesmust continually determine what they know and do not know, find ways to efficiently share whatthey know among their members, and create or acquire knowledge

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Engineering Student Experiences

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janet Callahan Ph.D., Boise State University; Patricia Pyke, Boise State University; Susan Shadle Ph.D., Boise State University; R. Eric Landrum, Boise State University

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Educational Research and Methods

basedon solid data, has itself been the study of recent research. Borrego, Froyd and Hall (2010)10found that even high levels of awareness of innovative engineering education practices did nottranslate into high levels of adoption. Henderson, Beach and Finkelstein (2011)11, in ananalytical review of literature based on 191 conceptual and empirical journal articles publishedbetween 1995 and 2008, concluded that simply disseminating “best practice curricularmaterials…to other faculty does not work.” (Henderson et al., 2011, p. 971) Like Seymour(2001)12 they found weakness in the (unproven) theory that Seymour suggested as ascribed to bymany STEM reform projects and funding agencies, that “good ideas supported by convincingevidence of efficacy, will