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International Division Technical Session 3

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sigrid Berka, University of Rhode Island; Walter von Reinhart

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International

engineering with the languages, it has in recent years added the opportunityfor students to do hands-on, experiential research before they start their internship in a company.This research experience, if it is carefully matched with the students' engineering discipline, andalso integrated into the curriculum they follow abroad, can be an excellent preparation for theirinternship in a company abroad, which follows the semester of study and research.The paper will discuss  How the IEP and its students go about finding the right match between their major and the appropriate institute at the partner university  What the nature of these research projects is, what students have to submit to get credit and how credit transfer for

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Materials Division Technical Session 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary B. Vollaro, Western New England University; Michael Brennan

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Materials

ASEE Materials Division, and has previously held leadership roles in the division.Michael Brennan Michael Brennan is a 2014 graduate of Western New England University, where he earned his B.S. In Mechanical Engineering. He has been an avid skier his whole life and was very excited to combine his new engineering knowledge with his passion for skiing in his senior design project. Page 24.865.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Leveraging student’s interests in a senior design project through integration of materials selection methodologyFinding

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Innovative Assessment Techniques in Civil Engineering Courses

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erik R. Wright P.E., United States Military Academy; Joseph P Hanus, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

assessment results will be compared to the 2009and 2011 studies, along with other assessments. It is believed that these results, and thecontinued assessment of the teaching approach at this institution, will provide valuable insight toother programs to help them overcome the challenges of teaching information technologies.IntroductionThe purpose of this paper is to present the results of the assessment of the continued efforts toimprove the learning and teaching of a site design software package in the Civil Engineerprogram at the United States Military Academy. The results are an extension of two previouslypublished papers: Integration of Information Technology Software in a Civil EngineeringProgram (2009, Caldwell et. al.)1 and Integration of

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FPD 6: Course Content and Educational Strategies

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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First-Year Programs

engineering experience at Notre Dame will be like and how to make itsuccessful…Overall, this event was extremely helpful in strengthening my confidence thatchemical engineering, even just engineering in general, is a good major for me.Rating of 2 (Event held for Integrated Business and Engineering Minor)I realize there is more that I can do with an engineering major than I previously knew. AlthoughI am not totally sure that I want to major in engineering, I am confident that engineering will notinhibit my ability to change fields, but open me to new job opportunities.Rating of 1 (Attended lecture by Dean of college of Engineering)This event initially peaked my interest due to the fact that I was unsure of whether I wanted topursue engineering further

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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

. Page 24.790.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Integration of Prerequisite Resource Materials in a Structural Design of Foundations Course Using PencastsAbstractAs students enter the final year of an engineering curriculum, a large body of prerequisiteknowledge is expected to have been mastered and retained. Knowledge of and proficiency inmechanics, structural analysis, and both concrete and steel structure design is typically requiredfor success in senior level civil engineering design electives and capstone courses. However,students retain only some fraction of the material covered and proficiency gained in second andthird year engineering courses as they progress

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jianghong (Esther) Tian, Eastern Mennonite University

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Design in Engineering Education

self-assessment and peer evaluations were carried outthrough the process.IntroductionWhile engineering is an exceptionally broad field, design is the central activity shared withinmany, if not all, engineering disciplines. Recognized as an essential part in many fields of study,design has become valued in engineering education. A series of two semesters or more of designcourses in the curriculum is very typical in many engineering schools. Engineering design hasbeen one of the major themes in the curricula of engineering schools in many universities andcolleges. For example, James Madison University1 has a six-course sequence in engineeringdesign, Stanford University integrates design activity in aspects of teaching and research2, andHarvey

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Design in the Curriculum

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James D. Sweeney, Florida Gulf Coast University; Kristine R. Csavina, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Lisa Zidek, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Biomedical

one of the founding faculty of the U. A. Whitaker College of Engineering. As an assistant professor from 2007-2012, she helped develop the curriculum for the bioengineering design courses and was involved in teaching courses from the sophomore to senior levels. Dr. Csavina received a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Dayton in 1992 and a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Arizona State University in 2003. Her research interests range from motion analysis of human motion in move- ment disorders, orthopedics and sports to engineering education research in student learning, pedagogical approach, and K-12 outreach initiatives.Prof. Lisa Zidek, Florida Gulf Coast University Lisa A. Zidek is

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Design in the Curriculum

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amit Janardhan Nimunkar, University of Wisconsin, Madison; John P. Puccinelli, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Matthew S. Bollom; Willis J. Tompkins, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Biomedical

. For more advanced skills, such asSolidWorks, the students were required to review selected online materials and tutorials beforethe lab period. Students were tested on these materials through online quizzes before coming tolab.C. Design ProjectOne of the aims of the course is to integrate the various skills acquired in the lab portion of thecourse into an open-ended guided design project thus combining the professional and technicaldesign skills taught in the course. The students were divided in groups of 6-8 students, and all thestudent groups worked to solve the same design problem. We devised a multidisciplinary projectthat utilized all the skills taught in lab covering to some extent all five BME tracks: 1. MedicalInstrumentation, 2

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rachel M. White, Oregon State University; Bill Jay Brooks, Oregon State University; Debra M. Gilbuena, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

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Computers in Education

promoting the use of higher-level cognitive skills in engineering problem solving. His research interests particularly focus on what prevents students from being able to integrate and extend the knowledge developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of the founding members of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU. Page 24.1387.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Work-in-Progress: Development of an Android-based Student Mobile

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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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Andrew Tubesing, University of St. Thomas

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Paper ID #9355LEDs & Lamps – A Friendly Affordable Gateway to Electrical Exploration(Curriculum Exchange)Mr. Andrew Tubesing, University of St. Thomas Andrew Tubesing is Laboratory Manager for the Electrical Engineering program at University of St Thomas in St. Paul, MN. He also serves on the faculty of the UST Center for Pre-Collegiate Engineering Education. Andrew has taught university courses in circuits, electronics, and engineering design for more than a decade. Prior to his academic career, Andrew spent 12 years as an engineer in the broadcast and telecommunications fields. Andrew holds a BA from St. Olaf College

Conference Session

Gainful Employment: Preparing Technicians to Satisfy the Needs of Industry

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David I. Spang, Burlington County College

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Two Year College Division

. Page 24.345.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Curriculum Design and Assessment to Address the Industry Skills GapAbstractThe bureau of labor statistics notes that the current number of open positions in the United Statesis approximately 3.7 million, yet the official unemployment rate (U-3) remains at 7.3%representing 11.3 million people, while an alternative and more inclusive measure ofunemployment (U-6) is 13.7% and represents 21.2 million people1. The existence of unfilled andavailable positions, as compared to the total number of unemployed persons, is significantlyinfluenced by the availability of qualified candidates in areas for which there is an apparent skillsgap, i.e. jobs for which

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Jennifer Vernengo, Rowan University; Tom Merrill, Rowan University; Jennifer Kadlowec, Rowan University; Mary M. Staehle, Rowan University; Robi Polikar, Rowan University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Paper ID #10013Organ-izing the engineering curriculum with biomedically related learningmodulesDr. Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University Dr. Stephanie Farrell is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University (USA). She obtained her PhD in Chemical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1996. Prior to joining the faculty at Rowan in 1998, she was an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Louisiana Tech University until 1998. Dr. Farrell has made contributions to engineering education through her work in experiential learning, focusing

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Curriculum Exchange

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shakira Renee Hobbs, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Odesma Onika Dalrymple, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

teams of middle and high school-aged students tolearn and apply the engineering design process to build Rube Goldberg-style chain reactionmachines. These summer camp programs teach real-world engineering skills, provide experiencewith systems thinking and multi-team collaboration, integrate arts and STEM, and create apathway for student to better understand careers in engineering and other science, technology,and math fields.For the Summer 2013 implementation of the summer camp programs, new content modules onenergy and anaerobic digestion were integrated into the curriculum and introduced at three highschool sites, i.e.; two in Arizona and one in Trinidad and Tobago. A total of 65 students rangingfrom ages 13 to 18 participated in the

Conference Session

Computer Programming and Simulation

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gregorio E. Drayer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ayanna M. Howard, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

opportunity to take more active control on their learning by work-ing on real-world projects in a supervised environment. That is the goal of a multi-disciplinarydesign program at the Georgia Institute of Technology, called Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP)Program,2 which offers undergraduate students a research and development opportunity to partic-ipate in team-oriented projects from their sophomore to senior years. Although the majority ofthese interdisciplinary teams are based on designing, programming, and deploying embedded sys-tems in various application scenarios, there is currently no common curriculum module focusedon embedded systems programming.Currently, students are forced to rely on themselves to acquire the skills on embedded

Conference Session

Computer Hardware

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ying Yu, University of Hartford; Krista M Hill, University of Hartford

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Computers in Education

instrumentation. Page 24.1303.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Use of a CPLD in an Introductory Logic Circuits Course with Software and Hardware UpgradeAbstractThis paper documents our continued efforts to integrate the use of complex programmable logicdevices (CPLD) into our introductory logic circuits course at the University of Hartford.Although programmable logic devices (PLDs) have been long introduced in our advancedcourses, the widespread acceptance demands that PLDs be introduced earlier in the electrical andcomputer engineering curriculum. In the

Conference Session

K-12 Engineering Resources: Best Practices in Curriculum Design, Part 1 of 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sara Hahler, Louisiana Tech University; Krystal S. Corbett, Cyber Innovation Center

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

24.1347.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014Using Teacher Feedback to Improve the Design of a Fourth Year High School MathematicsCurriculum (Research to Practice) Strand: K-12 Engineering Resources: Best Practices in Curriculum DesignAbstractThis paper presents an evaluation of a high school mathematics curriculum, NICERC’sAdvanced Math for Engineering and Science (AMES), through high school teacher feedbackalong with conclusions from this evaluation. First, the reason behind creating such a curriculumis discussed, followed by a description of the curriculum as well as the implementation process,and lastly the evaluation and conclusion sections.The motivation for creating

Conference Session

Computers in Education General Technical Session 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Huiru Shih P.E., Jackson State University; Jacqueline M Jackson, Jackson State University ; Cassandra L Hawkins Wilson, Jackson State University; Pao-Chiang Yuan, Jackson State University

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Computers in Education

which software,technology, or skills should be addressed in the classroom. To provide students with acompetitive edge for their future, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)educators need to observe a trend and recognize the most important technology skills. Becausetoday’s students are learning with their tablets and smart phones, mobile services andapplications should be extremely engaging for this generation of students.To diffuse computing technology into other disciplines as well as to motivate EMT students tobe interested in the computing concepts and mobile application, one course module has beendeveloped. This course module was integrated into an existing technology course “ComputerApplications in Emergency Management

Conference Session

Diversity Redefined: Nontraditional Views in Traditional Environments

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chrissy Hobson Foster, Arizona State University; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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Minorities in Engineering

writes that a holistic curriculum shouldconnect the coursework to one another and emphasize all areas of development and growth –spiritual, emotional, physical, and environmental. He advocates that the teachings of BlessingWay and Protection Way should be a mainstay in the pedagogy in order to practice characterdevelopment (e.g. integrity with social transactions) and learn new skills and knowledge (e.g.viewing coursework through a lens of ecological awareness). By providing Western links to aNavajo framework for learning, Benally attempted to represent a connection between Navajo andWestern knowledge while explicating a framework from Navajo sacred knowledge. The intent ofthis was to prepare Navajo children to be able to function in the modern

Conference Session

K-12 and Precollege Engineering Curriculum and Programming Resources, Part 2 of 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brandon Gregory Morton, Drexel University ; Youngmoo Kim, Drexel University; Matthew Nester VanKouwenberg; Chris Lehmann, Science Leadership Academy; Jessica S. Ward, Drexel University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Paper ID #10316Developing Curriculum For Introducing CyberSecurity To K-12 StudentsMr. Brandon Gregory Morton, Drexel University (Eng.) Brandon Morton is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Drexel University. He received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2009 and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University in 2011. He was an NSF GK-12 fellow from 2011 to 2014. Currently he is researching methods for detecting influence between musical artists.Prof. Youngmoo Kim, Drexel UniversityMatthew Nester VanKouwenbergMr. Chris Lehmann, Science Leadership

Conference Session

Summer and Cohort Programs for Minorities: Student Success

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Darryl Dickerson, Purdue University; Freddy Solis, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Virginia Booth Womack, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Tasha Zephirin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carol S. Stwalley, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Minorities in Engineering

totransition instead of remediation resulted in an increase in URM student performance andretention [13, 14].In January of 2004, after benchmarking the Challenge Program at Georgia Tech and similarprograms at large predominant white institutions around the country, a minority program in alarge selective Midwestern university launched a five-week summer bridge program to simulatethe rigor of the first semester of the freshman engineering curriculum. It was designed with afocus on URM student transition, preparing incoming URM freshmen engineering students forthe cultural shift from high school to global competition at a selective institution.This study quantitatively examines the effect of this summer bridge program on the URMengineering student

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hakan Gurocak, Washington State University, Vancouver; Ashley Ater Kranov, Washington State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

engineers whocan do system design and integration using motion controllers and Programmable LogicControllers (PLC) as the primary building blocks for automation/mechatronics applications.They are not expected to design controllers, control algorithms or interface electronic circuits atthe board level or program microprocessors.In this curriculum development effort, our goal was to complement the existing controls andmechatronics curricula. We aimed to “teach the fundamentals”, but in the context of industrialmotion control technology to address the gap.In this paper, we present an overview of a new modular curriculum designed in collaboration withindustry to “teach the fundamentals”, but in the context of industrial motion control technologyand

Conference Session

Mechanical Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Goodarz Ahmadi, Clarkson University

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Mechanical Engineering

. Page 24.969.10 9CONCLUSIONS The development of a sequence of web-based courses on particle transport,deposition and removal was described. Different modules of the course are outlined andthe integration of simulations and experiments into the curriculum are described. Thestudent learning and the suitability of the course website in helping the student learningwere assessed. The results showed that the availability of the course material andcomputational modules on the website were very helpful to student learning, and studentsat multiple campuses could take the course simultaneously. The student evaluations ofthe experimental course suggested that the hands-on component was very well

Conference Session

Curriculum & Student Enrollment II

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Troy Harding, Kansas State University Salina

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Engineering Technology

can be an effective method forengaging millennial students.1,2 This paper highlights experiences of using a collaborative editorto facilitate learning in a first-year programming course. The paper will describe how thecollaborative editor was customized for the class and how it was utilized by the teacher and thestudents. The web-based editor allowed students to see and edit the same program file and thenexecute the program individually without leaving the web browser. The editor became aneffective classroom tool in the flipped learning model utilized in this course. Qualitative datawere collected through the use of observations and surveys. The author discusses what waslearned about the impact on students’ attitudes, learning and quality of

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Program and Curriculum Design Initiatives

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Victoria Ann Hill, Numeritics

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Manufacturing

has grown to include a consortium of eight companies whohave joined forces to provide similar training, and has evolved from an original trainer/traineeformat to its current mentoring-based curriculum. Apprenticeship 2000 has successfullygraduated 116 students, and has 49 current apprentices in training.National Science Foundation Advanced Technical Education (ATE) ProgramAn excellent model for using community colleges to train skilled workers is that of the NationalScience Foundation’s (NSF) Advanced Technical Education (ATE) program. This programoffers Federal grants to community colleges that are focused on educating technician for high-technology fields. The program encourages partnerships between educational institutions andemployers to

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Suleiman A. Ashur, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Mohammad Alhassan, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne

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Civil Engineering

and Effective Assessment Tool to Evaluate Engineering CoursesAbstractThe civil engineering program at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne wasestablished in the fall of 2006. The program went through ABET accreditation in 2011 and wasgranted accreditation in August 2012. A key component of getting accreditation is thedevelopment and the implementation of an effective and continuous assessment based process toidentifying strengths and weaknesses and to ensure continuous program improvements.The goal of this paper is to present an integrated assessment tool to assess course outcomes basedon direct and indirect assessment measures. The tool was developed to establish consistency inthe course assessment

Conference Session

Green and Sustainable Manufacturing Education

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Technological University

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Manufacturing

. Page 24.780.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Integrating the Energy Efficiency and Assessment Components into ManufacturingAbstractThis paper reports the current developments and implementations on energy efficiency andassessment studies in an engineering technology program. The developments are basically in twocategories: 1) Web-based teaching modules of Renewable Energy Education have beendeveloped through a funded research project. Instructional Materials, Laboratory Practices andAssessment Exercises have been posted to iLearn (which a Desire2Learn system) and Canvas(which is an Instructure system). Developed materials have been tested by

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radu F. Babiceanu, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Systems Engineering

larger complexity of future’s systems and the widespread inclusion of software in almost every type of engineered system built today and/or envisioned for the future.These facts prompted the engineering faculty at Embry-Riddle to seek a solution for theintegration of the related software engineering and systems engineering courses part of thegraduate engineering curriculum. The expected outcomes of this integration are: Page 24.127.4 • An increased exposure to the software engineering development methods and tools for the electrical and computer engineering, and potentially other engineering disciplines students who

Conference Session

Materials Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nitin Sukhija, Mississippi State University (Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems and Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering); Tomasz A. Haupt, Mississippi State University; Mark Fredrick Horstemeyer, Mississippi State University

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Materials

, entitled“Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) for Metals” (ME8990). This course isalso deployed for online learning in a virtual classroom. The course was taught for the first timeduring the Fall 2012 semester and is being taught for the second time during the Fall 2013semester. The course design is based on blended learning approach3 to facilitate integration ofadvanced technological resources (ICME Cyberinfrastructure) with traditional pedagogicalpractices (textbook, Mark F. Horstemeyer, “ICME for Metals” 4).The interdisciplinary course curriculum is fragmented into independent learning modules witheach module focusing on teaching different material length scales with its respectivecollaborative student group assignments and

Conference Session

Engineering Physics & Physics Division Technical Session 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey A. Jalkio, University of St. Thomas; Brianna R. McIntyre, University of St. Thomas

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Engineering Physics & Physics

computational problems used, the difficultiesencountered by both the students and the instructor and ideas for both improving the exercisesand addressing the issues identified.IntroductionIn 2012 our department engaged in an effort to integrate computational and experimentalproblems into our upper division curriculum in a number of classes that traditionally lack labsand are more analytical in nature1. These classes include quantum mechanics, theoreticalmechanics and electromagnetics. While the intent was to change courses for physics majors,most of the students in the electromagnetics course are electrical engineering majors at ourinstitution. Therefore, we tried to find computational and experimental problems for that coursewhich would interest the

Conference Session

Developing the Design Skillset

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daria A. Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado, Boulder; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Seda McKIlligan, Iowa State University; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Madeline Polmear

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Design in Engineering Education

evidence to support that their program is meeting ABET outcomes A through K[25, 28-29].Engineering programs strategically locate capstone design courses within the last year ofundergraduate engineering studies, where students can apply the fundamental technicalknowledge gained in previous courses in an authentic real-world context. Several institutionshave identified Capstone Design as an ideal place for teaching professional skills, which aretypically not emphasized earlier in the curriculum [30]. Howe’s Capstone Design survey of 232engineering institutions showed that the five most common topics taught were: writtencommunication, oral communication, engineering ethics, project planning and scheduling, anddecision making. Only 48% of the survey