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Addressing the NGSS, Part 3 of 3: Supporting High School Science Teachers in Engineering Pedagogy and Engineering-Science Connections

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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J. Jill Rogers, University of Arizona; Beau R. Vezino, University of Arizona; James C. Baygents, University of Arizona; Jeffrey B. Goldberg, University of Arizona

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

the course would offer a diverse group of studentsan introduction to engineering as a possible career without the risk involved in taking the courseat the university or committing to an engineering major. The pilot course was taught by HHSteacher Jim Clark, whose credentials include BS EE, MS EE, a M Edu. and five yearsprofessional engineering experience at Motorola. Twenty HHS students completed the pilotcourse in a full academic year and each received three units of college credit. Of these twentystudents, five joined the UA COE in fall 2009 and to date, all five have graduated with anaverage GPA of 3.34. Of the 2009-10 cohort, 17 students remain in the COE today and most areon target for graduation within the next academic year. Details

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Renewable Energy Topics

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William B. Phillips Ph.D., DeVry University; William S. Sullivan, DeVry University, Long Beach; Robert Aron PhD, DeVry University; Abour H. Cherif, DeVry University; Susana Fortun Ph.D., DeVry University, Chicago

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Engineering Technology

. Phillips was a faculty member and Chair for DVU’s Biomedical Engineering Technology Program where he mentored senior projects, and taught biomedical, electronics, and basic science courses. In addition, he developed curriculum and courses in these subject matters. Before joining DVU, Dr. Phillips was a Faculty Associate at Arizona State Uni- versity (ASU) for the Bioengineering Department, where he taught and assisted in the development of biomedical engineering courses and mentored student capstone projects. He holds a PhD and Master’s degree in Bioengineering from Arizona State University and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois. Before entering into a career of higher learning

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College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph A. Raelin, Northeastern University; Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology ; Jerry Carl Hamann, University of Wyoming; Rachelle Reisberg, Northeastern University; David L. Whitman P.E., University of Wyoming; Leslie K. Pendleton, Virginia Tech

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College Industry Partnerships

, SCCT emphasizes the roleof other personal, contextual, and learning variables (e.g., gender, race or ethnicity, ability, socialsupport, external barriers) that can help shape career trajectories, including the means to remediateany disadvantages from being under-represented in particular occupations.24 More recently, Lentand his colleagues have added the construct of educational and vocational satisfaction as acontributor to structural models examining the pathways between self-efficacy and interests andpersistence intentions.25 Page 24.1202.5SCCT theory has made an impact on models attempting to explain the withdrawal of students

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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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Amelito G. Enriquez, Canada College; Wenshen Pong, San Francisco State University; Nilgun Melek Ozer, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Hamid Shahnasser, San Francisco State University; Nick Patrick Rentsch, San Francisco State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

engineering through a two-week residential summer camp. The Summer Engineering Instituteprovides participants an insight into the engineering profession and the engineering educationalsystem through a combination of lectures, hands-on laboratory activities, field trips, workshops,panels, and projects. Among the strategies employed in developing the program are emphasizingall the major fields of engineering and the various paths to an engineering career, including therole of community colleges; targeting first generation students and underrepresented minorities;collaborating with high school faculty and staff through a nomination process to identify andselect potential students; collaboration among community college and university faculty indeveloping

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WIED: Strategies Beyond the Classroom

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kerry Meyers, Youngstown State University; Leo H. McWilliams, University of Notre Dame; Catherine F. Pieronek, University of Notre Dame

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Women in Engineering

that those students who are involved inengineering organizations are also involved in other on-campus organizations (0.85). Grade-point average was moderately correlated with considering leaving engineering (-0.37), but notwith plans to work in an engineering-related field post-graduation (0.03). These relationshipswere explored further and are discussed in the following sections, which also include a summaryof the survey response rates for specific questions with emphasis on gender and race/ethnicity(white vs. non-white). It continues with a presentation of statistically significant variablerelationships (t-tests and chi-square) and continues with identification of statistically significantfactors from regression modeling, in which tests of

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Assessment in Construction Education

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jonathan Weston Elliott, Colorado State University; Carla Lopez Del Puerto, Colorado State University

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Construction

social persuasion and vicarious experience are: - Mentoring: provide like-gender mentors for female mentees. Mentors can be female faculty, students enrolled in the program, or active construction industry members. - Establish Women in Construction Clubs: These clubs support both the professional and social needs of female construction management students by providing an environment of camaraderie. - Summer Programs for Prospective Female Students: Summer program experiences encourage prospective students to explore the construction management field.Future research will focus on determining whether or not female students had formal or informalmentors who influenced their academic and career

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Teaching Approaches for Ethics

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gregory A. Rulifson, University of Colorado, Boulder; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Whitney Thomas, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Engineering Ethics

consider it my motivation to become an engineer. I think those are sort of like 2 separate spheres of my life. Sort of what I want to do academically and career-wise and what I want to do on a philanthropic and personal level.”SR Type 4 – These students had thought little about social responsibility or helping othersthrough their professions beyond safety and legal professional obligations at the time of theinterview. Many were focused on their studies and helping those closest to them. Brandon: “I think it kind of moves me towards it because, I don't know what to call it, the engineering code of ethics. Your job, first and foremost, is safety above everything else, it's a good job or at least that's the way it should be. Safety is

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The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mehmet Vurkaç, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

-education requirement at a sister institution (Portland StateUniversity) where the present author co-taught for several years with three faculty members fromthe Philosophy Department. The title of the original course was “Knowledge, Rationality andUnderstanding.” It was initially designed by a faculty member from the Psychology Department,and had a strong emphasis on decision-making.The present author was hired in 2005 as a “quantitative person” at the graduate-assistant level tohandle the Statistics content as well as the three hour-long weekly discussion sessions. Duringthe next three years, the primary instructors either retired or passed away, with the present author(graduate assistant) as the main constant and an increasingly central role in

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Models of community engagement practices

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aimee S. Navickis-Brasch, University of Idaho, Moscow; Anne Liu Kern, University of Idaho, CDA; Fritz Fiedler, University of Idaho, Moscow; Jillian Rae Cadwell, University of Idaho; Laura Laumatia, Coeur d'Alene Tribe; Kathy C. Haynie, Haynie Research and Evaluation; Christine Meyer, Coeur d’Alene Tribe Department of Education

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Community Engagement Division

students. Dr. Cadwell currently consults on a $1.2 million NSF grant that she procured in partnership with the Univer- sity of Idaho faculty in Curriculum and Instruction, UI Extension, and two local Native American Indian Tribes: the Coeur d’Alene (CdAT) and Spokane (ST) tribes. The grant, ITEST, Strategies Project—Back to the Earth (BTTE), is addressing a national call to increase the STEM workforce pipeline by supporting and improving the STEM educational experiences for Native American students. Dr. Cadwell is a member of the grant leadership team with expertise in STEM content, curriculum development, and technology ed- ucation. The team is using an interdisciplinary framework to reach under-served populations. The

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Nanotechnology

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kelsey Joy Rodgers, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Yi Kong, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Farnsworth, Managing Director of NCN (nanoHUB.org)RE: nanoHUB.org Design Project DescriptionLet me start by telling you a little about nanoHUB.org: “nanoHUB.org is arguably the largest online user facility for nanoscale engineering and science modeling and simulations in the world. It is a project that is funded by the US National Science Foundation and serves over 240,000 annually. Our users are researchers from the industry, researchers, faculty members at universities worldwide, and most importantly students – at the undergraduate and graduate levels. nanoHUB.org is the place for computational nanotechnology research, education, and collaboration. nanoHUB hosts a rapidly growing collection of

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Learning 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laura Hirshfield, Oregon State University; Jaynie L. Whinnery, Oregon State University; Debra M. Gilbuena, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

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Educational Research and Methods

or the VBioR Laboratory Project. Biological and environmental engineering studentsgenerally choose the VBioR Laboratory Project, while chemical engineering students chooseeither the VCVD or the VBioR Laboratory Project. In this study, eight teams choose the VCVDLaboratory Project and eight teams choose the VBioR Laboratory Project, with all eight VBioRteams selecting the protein production option. The students work under the supervision of twocoaches, who are faculty members in the unit. One faculty member is the VCVD coach and theother the VBioR coach and both coaches are content experts in their respective fields.Data Collection and AnalysisThis research study is an ethnographic case study using discourse analysis.47 The data iscollected

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Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 3

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Educational Research and Methods

studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She runs the erstwhile Research in Feminist Engineer- ing (RIFE) group, now renamed the Feminist Research in Engineering Education (FREE) group, whose diverse projects and group members are described at the website http://feministengineering.org/. She can be contacted by email at apawley@purdue.edu.Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Purdue University, West Lafayette Canek Phillips is a graduate student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University-West Lafayette and works as a graduate assistant in Dr. Alice Pawley’s Feminist Research in Engineering Ed- ucation lab. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University and an M.S. in Mechanical

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Pedagogical Approaches in Construction Education

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Namhun Lee, Central Connecticut State University; Jacob P. Kovel P.E., Central Connecticut State University; Lee W. Lee, Central Connecticut State University

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Construction

, and AutoCAD. Without confidencein math, students may fail these courses and drop out of college9. Therefore, fundamental mathskills should be developed before students reach upper level courses. Students must be able toconfidently solve construction-related math problems by the time they graduate.Research Purpose and Method Page 24.161.2The main purpose of this study is to explore different pedagogies and identify an effective one toteach math-related content knowledge in construction education. This study investigated threepedagogical approaches to teach math-related CM courses: the traditional lecture model, theproblem-based learning model

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Trends in Engineering Education 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gerard P. Lennon, Lehigh University; John B. Ochs, Lehigh University; Derick G. Brown P.E., Lehigh University

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Educational Research and Methods

whereby a standinggraduate faculty committee and an appointed Enhancing Graduate Education (EGE) committeeworked together to create a sustainable process for periodic program review that included aframework for interpreting the five new university-level graduate student learning competencies:Knowledge, Application, Context, Communication, and Leadership. Also required wasdevelopment of a methodology for assessment and continuous improvement. This approachearned a very positive 2013 MSCHE evaluation: “university assessment practices of graduateStudent Learning Outcomes [were] particularly thoughtful ...[including] the plans, examples ofimplementation [and] the support structure.The recently developed framework for graduate SLO assessment allows

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Engineering Leadership Development Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Benjamin Ahn, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Amadin Osagiede, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

of Alabama, and a Ph.D. in Leadership and Policy Studies from Peabody College of Vanderbilt Univer- sity. Her teaching interests relate to the professional development of graduate engineering students and to leadership, policy, and change in STEM education. Primary research projects explore the preparation of graduate students for diverse careers and the development of reliable and valid engineering education assessment tools. She is a NSF Faculty Early Career (CAREER) and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) recipient.Mr. Amadin Osagiede, Purdue University, West Lafayette Amadin Osagiede is an MBA candidate in the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University. He obtained a

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Impact of Community Engagement on Communities

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julia D Thompson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Community Engagement Division

the categories. The following section gives an overview and discussion of the variousthemes. The next section also compares these findings to previously published results.Motivations Connected with StudentsAll of the participants identified student learning as a motivation for being a part of the EPICSprogram. However, perceptions regarding the program learning objectives and the influence onstudent’s careers varied among participant groups. The objectives of the community partnerswere largely focused on the learning about their specific organizations, while the advisors hadlarger educational goals. For the purpose of the program, both the community members andadvisors see EPICS impacting the student’s careers as engineers. However, the

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Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm”, was presented in Japan at COMPEL 2012.Cristina Rivera-V´elez, GREAT IDEA Cristina Rivera-Velez is from Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Holds a B.A, in Communications from the Uni- versity of Sacred Heat, San Juan, P.R. Attended the University of Puerto Rico- Mayaguez, where she completed her Master of Business Administration (2013). As graduate student, she worked as a graduate research assistant with GREAT IDEA, where she assisted in the research regarding attitudes of engineers. Also a member of the GREAT IDEA, she organized two events for the academic community, an Alter- native Job Fair and an Appropriate Technology Forum. During the Fall 2013 semester, served as the teaching

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Learning and Assessment in ME

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark F. Schar, Stanford University; Sarah L. Billington, Stanford University; Sheri D. Sheppard, Stanford University

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Mechanical Engineering

is closely related to business skill self-efficacy, having a“divergent” learning style, and a “systemizing” approach to problem solving. This suggests thateSBL curriculum could be an important tool in preparing engineering students for a career inentrepreneurship or other business-related activity within core engineering course content. Inaddition, faculty impressions on instruction using this curricular tool are shared.1. Introduction: Engineering + XThe career pathway for engineering students overwhelmingly leads to industry. A recent studyby the National Science Foundation of newly graduated engineering bachelor and master’sdegree recipients shows that 75 percent of graduates are employed by “private industry orbusiness.”1 It is apparent

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Research Experience in Stormwater Management

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Tech

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Civil Engineering

receiving the URP funds recruitedstudents internally4. In 1986, the NSF established the REU program emphasizing recruitment ofstudents from underrepresented groups and required the grantee institutions to recruit most of theresearch participants from outside the host institutions4. Raicu and Furst5 have described a modelfor interdisciplinary undergraduate research by engaging students in studies targeted at exploringthe frontier between computer science and medicine. In a study reported by Gonzalez-Espada andZaras6 , the authors found an overwhelming evidence to show that the REU programs at NationalWeather Center (NWC) are having a positive impact on students’ decisions to pursue careers inscience. In describing their experiences of a successful

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Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Community Engagement Division

requirements (their history, political agendas, desires, forms of knowledge, etc.) is fully understood. (p. 125)18So how do basic and contextual listening relate to each of four design strategies? Listening indesign for technology may be constrained. For instance, in one of our research interviews, aformer graduate student and current faculty member stated that his undergraduate educationand early industry experience taught him that, in design contexts, he needed to “listen to thespec.” By that, he meant that he needed to listen to the specifications that were implicit orexplicit in the client’s explanation of the problem and desired solution. That trained his ear tobe a basic listener and to consciously filter out information that did not

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Teaching and Assessment Methodologies

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bimal P. Nepal, Texas A&M University; Barry Lawrence, Texas A&M University; Esther Rodriguez-Silva PhD, Texas A&M University

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Manufacturing

Page 24.970.2 Corresponding author; Nepal@tamu.edu, 1-979-845-2230, Fax: 1-979 845-4980very successful serving over 2500 students, 62 faculty members, and 49 separate courses acrosssix engineering departments in one year alone. There are different models of experientiallearning mentioned in the engineering education literature. For example, service learning is atype of experiential learning approach in which students can achieve their personal growth andearn professional development education while providing service to community [5]. However,researchers argue that experiential learning that takes place during community service activitiesis different from the one that takes place in the university laboratories [6]. The reason behind thisis

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Student Beliefs, Motivation and Self Efficacy

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Courtney June Faber, Clemson University; Sarah Jane Grigg, Clemson University; Adam Kirn, Clemson University; Justine M. Chasmar; Lisa Benson, Clemson University

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Educational Research and Methods

the basement of the residencehalls, have faculty member presence in the dorm, and hold extra-curricular activities to promotestudent engagement and community growth. However, both LCs differ in terms of academicrequirements for admittance to the program, resources available to the participants, and programgoals.The honors LC (HC) has an interdisciplinary focus and is open to students in any major whomeet minimum academic requirements. The mission of the HC at this institution is “to foster Page 24.504.3continued intellectual growth, to cultivate a lifelong respect for learning, and to prepare studentsfor lives as leaders and change-agents”5

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tanmay Bhowmik, Mississippi State University; Nan Niu, Mississippi State University; Donna Reese, Mississippi State University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

human who plays an active and pri-mary role in making the final decision. Such a process is called assisted requirements tracing(ART).8 Recent studies on students’ ART performances5, 8 clearly showed the challenges inthat students invariably made errors of omission (threw out correct links) and errors of com-mission (added incorrect links). Dekhtyar et al.8 conducted a statistical analysis of the fac-tors affecting ART performance, though all the participants were students enrolled in Soft-ware Engineering courses. Our work, reported, in this paper extends the body of knowledge inART by making a head-to-head comparison between students and software professionals.Preparing graduates for a smooth and successful transition toward their roles in

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DEED Melange

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Design in Engineering Education

Fellow of ASME, 2005; Chancellor’s Award for AdvancingInstitutional Excellence, 2006; Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring, MechanicalEngineering Graduate Student Council, 2007; Chancellor’s Awards for Public Service:CARES (Commu-nity Assessment for Renewable Energy and Sustainability), 2010; Best Note Honorable Mention, (withKimiko Ryokai, Lora Oehlberg and Michael Manoochehri) ACM CHI (Conference on Human Factors inComputing Systems), 2011; Professor of the Year, UC Berkeley Pi Tau Sigma, 2011; Academy of Dis-tinguished Alumni, University of New Mexico, 2012; and Leon Gaster Award for Lighting Technology(with Yao-Jung Wen), 2012; AAAS Lifetime Mentoring Award, 2012-13; and Reviewers’ Favorite Awardat the 2013

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Research Technical Session 7

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Research and Learning (INSPIRE) at Purdue University. In 2011, she received a NSF CAREER award, which examines how engineering students ap- proach innovation. She is also a NAE/CASEE New Faculty Fellow. She is an editorial board member for the Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education (JPEER) and the journal of Science Education. Purzer conducts research on the assessment of difficult and often vaguely defined constructs such as innovative- ness, information literacy, engineering design, and data-driven decision-making. Purzer has M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Science Education from Arizona State University. She also has a B.S. degree in Physics Education and a B.S.E. in Engineering.Dr. Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue

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The Nature of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Session 4

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

entrepreneurship as a career path.This study examined the following hypotheses: 1) Engineering students who intend to minor inentrepreneurship have higher scores on locomotion and creative-self efficacy and lower scoreson assessment. These students will also have more positive perceptions of entrepreneurship as apossible career path. 2) More positive views of entrepreneurship as a career will be positivelyassociated with higher scores on locomotion and creative self-efficacy and lower scores onassessment. 3) Students with a close family member who is an entrepreneur will be more likelyto intend to minor in engineering entrepreneurship and have more positive perceptions ofentrepreneurship as a career. The results suggest that students who are considered

Conference Session

Summer and Cohort Programs for Minorities: Student Success

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Cooley Jones, Louisiana State University; Kelly A. Rusch P.E., North Dakota State University; Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University

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Minorities in Engineering

). For the fall 2009 cohort, the mean physics GPA was 2.50 (number of courses =10). It should be noted that two students in this cohort received “F’s” in PHYS 1100, and onestudent enrolled in the PHYS 2102 course, earned an “A”.Engineering Residential College (ERC)Ten of the 22 freshmen 2008 S-STEM scholars were housed in the ERC, a residence hall forfreshmen engineering students. ERC students are required to take three of the designated ERCcourses in math, physics, chemistry or English. Several faculty members instructing thesedesignated courses have participated in the NSF STEP supported Faculty DevelopmentWorkshops and Learning Communities. Several of the designated ERC courses included onsitetutoring and review sessions, academic advising

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Integration of Engineering and Other Disciplines (Including Liberal Arts)

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arthur Felse, Northwestern University; Igor Kourkine

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

to be at the forefront of technologycommercialization. The situation is further complicated by the fact that about 45% of students inengineering MS programs are non-resident aliens, who are even less familiar than domesticstudents with the technology commercialization processes in the United States. Given thesubstantial number of graduate degrees awarded in the USA annually (Table 1), we think thatmore rigorous education in technology commercialization is not just beneficial, but it is Page 24.103.4necessary for graduate students’ career growth and the future success of technologycommercialization. This education should be designed to bridge

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Opening General Session 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Qu Jin, Stanford University; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Sheri D. Sheppard, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

(Epicenter), and leads an NSF program at Stanford on summer research experiences for high school teachers. Her industry experiences includes engineering positions at Detroit’s ”Big Three:” Ford Motor Company, General Motors Corporation, and Chrysler Corporation. At Stanford she has served a chair of the faculty senate, and is currently the Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Education.Dr. Helen L. Chen, Stanford University Page 24.295.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Comparing Engineering and Business Undergraduate Students’ Entrepreneurial Interests

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FPD 3: Retention

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter A Sable, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Sharon Liz Karackattu; Matthew J. Traum, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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First-Year Programs

aerospace engineering. In addition, he attended the University of Bristol, UK as a non-matriculating visiting scholar where he completed an M.Eng thesis in the Department of Aerospace Engineering [2000] on low-speed rotorcraft control. Prior to his appointment at MSOE, Dr. Traum was a founding faculty member of the Mechanical and En- ergy Engineering Department at the University of North Texas where he established an externally-funded researcher incubator that trained undergraduates how to perform experimental research and encouraged their matriculation to graduate school. Dr. Traum also serves as the founding Chief Technology Officer at EASENET, a start-up renewable energy company he co-founded with former students to