Conference Session

Professional Aspects of Graduate Engineering Programs

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joy Watson, University of South Carolina; Jed S. Lyons, University of South Carolina

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Graduate Studies

Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program (IGERT) to be a catalystin educating future research engineers with the skills needed in an interdisciplinarybackground14. In one IGERT program, an engineering doctoral student is paired with a master’sof business administration student and two law students to study the commercialization potential,technology transfer, legal protecting and marketing issues of the engineering doctoral students’ Page 25.860.2research project. This program creates a greater awareness of the value of engineering students’research, develops their understanding of how to sell research ideas to industry, and

Conference Session

Arduinos, Microcontrollers, Inexpensive Robotics, and Other Tech Bytes

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yan Xu, Del Mar College; Muhittin Yilmaz, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Allen Babb, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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Two Year College Division

developed for superior educational experiences7, 8, including thelegacy cycle, i.e., an approach to design a challenge-based learning environment in classrooms.The legacy cycle is widely used from K-12 to post-graduate education to help educators focus ondifferent aspects of developing the initial challenge and guide students throughout the learningprocess, including the engineering design process. It also gives students a framework to organizeand manage their learning activities to assess their knowledge. The implementation of theengineering design process with the legacy cycle in the current robotics project is also a viableapproach to attract, and guide freshman college students to do research in science, technology,engineering, and mathematics

Conference Session

Pedagogical Approaches for Software Engineering

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clifton L. Kussmaul, Muhlenberg College

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

SE also presents some challenges. There are not many POGIL activities for CS and SE,and developing them requires significant time and effort. CS and SE courses and curricula varywidely, and portions of the content change rapidly, making it more difficult to adapt or adoptmaterials developed elsewhere.This paper describes an ongoing NSF funded project to develop POGIL activities for CS and SE.First, it reviews relevant background on effective learning and POGIL, compares POGIL toother forms of active learning, and describes the potential of POGIL for CS and SE. Second,it describes a sample POGIL activity for SE, including the structure and contents, student andfacilitator actions during the activity, and how activities are designed. Third, it

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Curriculum Issues

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

MD B. Sarder, University of Southern Mississippi; Shahdad Naghshpour, University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Park

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Engineering Technology

processes hasbeen identified as one of the major competency gaps in engineering & technology education.Models such as Learning Factory and Manufacturing Integrated Learning Laboratory (MILL) aredesigned to improve students’ learning through hands-on experiences. The MILL model,developed by the Wayne State University, focuses on integrated learning. The core of the MILLconcept is the use of projects spanning multiple courses to help students gain hands‐onexperiences in design and manufacturing. It involves the coordination of realistic hands-onactivities in targeted courses around the unifying theme of designing and fabricating a functionalproduct. These activities are suited for easy implementation in a typical design andmanufacturing teaching

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching and Research in Physics or Engineering Physics III

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrian Ieta, Oswego State University College

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Engineering Physics & Physics

AC 2012-3350: IMPLEMENTATION OF AN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHCOURSEDr. Adrian Ieta, Oswego State University College Adrian Ieta received a B.Sc. degree in physics from the University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania, in 1984, a B.E.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Politehnica University of Timisoara, Timisoara, in 1992, and a M.E.Sc. degree and a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of the Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, in 1999 and 2004, respectively. He was with the Applied Electrostatics Research Centre and the Digital Electronics Research Group, the University of Western Ontario, where he worked on industrial projects and taught. He is currently an Assistant

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention Matters in Engineering Technology

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph A. Morgan, Texas A&M University; Jay R. Porter, Texas A&M University; Douglas William Twigge; John Block, Texas A&M University; Mickie Byrd

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Engineering Technology

AC 2012-3434: E-CLOCK: A WIKI-BASED OUTREACH AND RECRUIT-MENT TOOLDr. Joseph A. Morgan, Texas A&M University Joseph A. Morgan is a Full Professor in the Electronics Engineering Technology program at Texas A&M University. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Texas. His major areas of interest include wireless networking and embedded microcontroller-based data acquisition, instrumentation and control systems. Morgan has also served as Director of engineering and as a Senior Consultant to the private sector where he has been involved in several design, development and system integration projects sponsored by the FAA, USAF, and major airport authorities. As a Texas A&M faculty member, he

Conference Session

FPD III: Innovation in Design in the First Year

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan K. Donohue, University of Virginia

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First-Year Programs

structure and content. A hybrid instructional design for a cornerstone course is presentedand its efficacy in promoting student understanding of the engineering design processinvestigated. The instructional design is called a “hybrid” because it uses both short-term andlong-term projects to provide coverage that explores topics in both depth and breadth instead ofjust short-term or just long-term projects. A review of relevant artifacts from the Fall, 2011semester indicates that the research goal was achieved.IntroductionIn first-year engineering undergraduate programs with a design component, students are typicallyintroduced to the concept and practice of engineering design primarily through lecture,discussion, and project-based/design-build-test

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yogendra M. Panta, Youngstown State University; Hyun W. Kim, Youngstown State University; Param C Adhikari, Youngstown State University; Sanket Aryal, Youngstown State University

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Computers in Education

AC 2012-5358: WORK-IN-PROGRESS: INTEGRATION OF HANDS-ONCOMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD) IN UNDERGRADUATE CUR-RICULUMDr. Yogendra M. Panta, Youngstown State University Yogen Panta is an Assistant Professor of mechanical engineering at Youngstown State University, Ohio. He has been teaching and developing courses and research projects in the fluid thermal area. He is cur- rently conducting applied research in thermo-fluids and computational fluid dynamics with local indus- tries and federal agencies. Panta received a B.E. degree from Tribhuvan University, an M.S. degree from Youngstown State University, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Panta’s research interests are in fluid dynamics

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephan A. Durham, University of Georgia; Wesley E. Marshall, University of Colorado, Denver

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Student

take on a leadership role in an organization, develop studygroups with other members, connect with industry professionals, and participate on adesign team. Most student organizations are typically led by the top students within anengineering program. Typically, there is a president, vice president, secretary, andtreasurer for each of these student groups. The responsibilities for each of these positionsprovide students with leadership skills that will later be used in engineering practice upongraduation. Other valuable aspects of these organizations are the projects that areperformed within each. For example, many organizations participate in regional andnational design competitions, such as the ASCE Concrete Canoe and Steel

Conference Session

Contextual Competencies

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christel Heylen, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven; Jos Vander Sloten, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven

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Educational Research and Methods

christel.heylen@mirw.kuleuven.be 2 Jos Vander Sloten, Faculty of Engineering, Division of Biomechanics and Engineering Design, K.U.Leuven, Belgium Technical communication and technical writing are important skills for the daily work- life of every engineer. In the first year engineering program at KU Leuven, a technical writing program is implemented within the project based course ‘Problem Solving and Engineering Design’. The program consists of subsequent cycles of instructions, learning by doing and reflection on received feedback. In addition a peer review assignment, together with an interactive lecture using clicking devices, are incorporated within the assignments of the

Conference Session

Sustainable Product Development and Manufacturing

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Guanghsu A. Chang, Minnesota State University, Mankato; William R. Peterson, WRP Associates

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Manufacturing

courses typically focus on different product realizationprocesses and manufacturing process analysis, which often involve a lot of design andmanufacturing issues and theoretical concepts. At Minnesota State University-Mankato manydesign and manufacturing projects attempt to provide the students opportunities to practice theirdesign for assembly knowledge and promote creativity and innovation. In recent years, almost 40students in our program are involved our DFA projects every year. All of the students are givenfoundational manufacturing and design concepts, principles, and methodologies of theengineering disciplines during their first two years. MET students have to finish their study ofMaterial Processing I (MET 177), Computer Aided Drafting

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zheng, Jackson State University; Jianjun Yin, Jackson State University

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Minorities in Engineering

Solving (CPS); and to communicate the potential impact of thisscaffolding on underserved minority students’ higher-order skill development through Project-Based Service Learning (PBSL). It contends that adoption of engineering design process inexperiential learning could promote students’ demands for cognitive and metacognitive strategiesof Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) and Creative Problem Solving (CPS), and scaffolding withquestion prompts based on cognitive research findings could better facilitate SRL and CPSprocess of underserved minority students, and lead to their enriched metacognitive experience,meaningful accomplishment, and improvement of self-efficacy and higher-order skills. Theoverall goal of the presented scaffolding instruction is

Conference Session

Research in Assessment

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Chong, University of Toronto; Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

these areas at graduation.However, the variability of these projects presents significant challenges for common rubricdevelopment and by implication, our ability to retrieve reliable data on student performance inthese categories/attributes. This variability also brings unique challenges to the development of asingle rubric that is 1) flexible enough to apply to a variety of engineering thesis projects, 2)reflective of the learning objectives of the thesis course, and also 3) appropriate for use ingathering reliable data about students’ graduate attributes.This paper describes the development of the rubric, and the inherent challenges in designing avalid and reliable tool that provides flexibility to a diverse group of projects and supervisors

Conference Session

International Division Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Oxana S. Pantchenko, University of California, Santa Cruz; Philip Jackson; Michael S. Isaacson, University of California, Santa Cruz; Ali DUPE Shakouri, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

International

, and several countries. In addition, the students participated in touring a variety ofcompanies in the Bay area, such as, Solyndra, Makani Power, Tesla Motors, and SustainabilityBase at NASA Ames in Mountain View. Additionally, the students attended lectures given byparticipating faculty and guest speakers, and participated in hands-on activities. In the beginningof the program, the students were assigned to work on a project of proposing a 100% SustainableEnergy Community. The choice of size and type of community was left to the students to decide.In groups of five, the students delivered proposals and made final presentations. At the end ofthe program, all the students were asked to answer a questionnaire and provide us with feedback.More

Conference Session

ETD Design II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nina Robson, Texas A&M University; Ibrahim Savas Dalmis, Namık Kemal University; Vasil Trenev, Bulgarian Academy of Science

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

semester, the students worked in teams and in collaboration with a specificdisabled person, with physical therapists at the local hospitals, as well as with the disabilityservices at Texas A&M University to better understand the barriers faced by the disabled on adaily basis. Based on lessons learned, in the Fall of 2010, the students in the Mechanical DesignApplications II class were presented with a new challenge.The current paper compares the student perception, as well as the instructor’s involvement andplanning in both semesters. Preparing students to actively participate in the learning process, bemore responsible for their own learning in order to become lifelong learners [10] were the maingoals of both projects. Since students who are

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education in Engineering Technology

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Hutzel, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mark Shaurette, Purdue University; Brian William Loss J.D., Purdue University; Kevin Rodgers LEED AP, Purdue University

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Engineering Technology

Law.Kevin Rodgers LEED AP, Purdue University Kevin Rodgers is a second year graduate student in the College of Technology at Purdue University. He also holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering Technology from Purdue. While at Purdue, Rodgers narrowed his focus and interests toward sustainability in residential and commercial buildings with a specific research interest in passive design. Most recently, Rodgers held the Project Manager position for Purdue’s entry in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011, where he was responsible for guiding the efforts of close to 200 students on designing and constructing a net-zero solar powered residential home. One innovative feature of the home is a biofiltration

Conference Session

Stimulating Broader Industrial Participation in Undergraduate Programs

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry Burton, North Carolina A&T State University; Shawn Pope; Ibraheem A. Kateeb, North Carolina A&T State University; Craig Rhodes, North Carolina A&T State University; Robert Cobb Jr., North Carolina A&T State University; Tony E. Graham I, North Carolina A&T State University; Li-Shiang Tsay, North Carolina A&T State University; Cameron Seay, North Carolina A&T State University

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College Industry Partnerships

Davidson County Community College (DCCC) for the purpose ofestablishing state-of-the-art IT data center research and experience-based learning labs.The long-term goal of this project is to improve data center management techniques for betterinformation availability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency. Several additional projects haveemerged and are reported in this paper. The broader impact of this project includes developmentof advanced IT skills in the Triad workforce. This project has enhanced learning outcomes ofenterprise computing technology students at NCA&T, area community colleges, and highschools by engaging students in applied research and providing hands-on experienced-basedlearning. Additionally, the authors expect

Conference Session

Spacecraft Design Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sanjay Jayaram, Saint Louis University; Michael A. Swartwout, Saint Louis University

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Aerospace

, project management, experimental, ethical, andprofessional issues faced by practicing engineers on a daily basis. Even though space missionsand spacecraft systems are designed to operate in the presence of multiple failures, occasionally,these systems will still fail spectacularly. The reasons for failure include incorrect designdecisions, operator error, manufacturing defects, and lack of proper subsystem and system levelintegration and test. The odds of these failures occurring can be significantly reduced throughgood systems engineering practice. But, in some cases, the very systems engineering practicesthemselves directly contribute to the failure. The lessons learned from success and failures are apowerful aid to understanding, but it is

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Innovations in ECE

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard James Choquette, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Payam Matin, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Ali Eydgahi, Eastern Michigan University

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Electrical and Computer

the senior design project. The main goal of thisproject was to design and implement an autonomous system with the ability to navigate whileutilizing GPS, a digital compass, and infrared (IR) sensors for obstacle avoidance. The system isdesigned in such way that can easily be replicable with a low cost platform while utilizing opensource software and hardware. A number of tests were conducted to validate the performance ofthe model buggy. The student has gained significant experience in the development of thisautonomous control system while applying knowledge learned during the undergraduate programof study.1. IntroductionWith the price of most Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles(UGV) upwards of tens or even hundreds of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raymundo Arroyave, Texas A&M University; Miladin Radovic, Texas A&M University; Jefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

field of computational materials science.Dr. Miladin Radovic, Texas A&M UniversityDr. Jefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University Jeffrey E. Froyd is a TEES Research Professor and the Director of Faculty Climate and Development at Texas A&M University. He served as Project Director for the Foundation Coalition, an NSF Engineering Education Coalition in which six institutions systematically renewed, assessed, and institutionalized their undergraduate engineering curricula, and extensively shared their results with the engineering education community. He co-created the integrated, first-year curriculum in science, engineering, and mathematics at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, which was recognized in 1997 with

Conference Session

Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Shari E. Miller, University of Georgia ; Nadia N. Kellam, University of Georgia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

social welfare history, and service-learning. Her research interests are guided by two over- arching themes, social work education and the culture of the profession, and generally fall within three domains: professional socialization, educational innovations, and educational outcomes. Some specific projects in which she’s currently engaged explore questions of professional socialization; professional self-care; critical thinking as a process and outcome; social work’s environmental paradigm; and trans- disciplinary educational approaches. She’s currently collaborating with colleagues from engineering to develop trans-disciplinary approaches to education for reflective practice in a global society, and with colleagues

Conference Session

Engineering Design

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame; Victoria E. Goodrich, University of Notre Dame; Jay B. Brockman, University of Notre Dame; Jay Caponigro, University of Notre Dame

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

early in his career, Caponigro was the founding director of the Robinson Community Learning Center, a 10-year-old educational partnership between the university and the northeast neighborhood of South Bend. In that capacity, he was the PI on community-based projects through the Department of Justice, the Small Business Administration, and HUD’s Office of University Partnerships, where he also served as a reviewer. Caponigro has co-authored articles in Christian Higher Education and the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement. Page 25.707.1 c American Society for

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Government Policy, Manufacturing Education, and Certification

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College; Richard A. Gilbert, University of South Florida; Danielly Orozco, Florida Advanced Technological Education Center (FLATE); Karen Wosczyna-Birch, CT College of Technology; Peggie Weeks, Lamoka Educational Consulting

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Manufacturing

modified for application in other schools throughout the country.Mrs. Danielly Orozco, Florida Advanced Technological Education Center (FLATE)Prof. Karen Wosczyna-Birch, CT College of TechnologyMs. Peggie Weeks, Lamoka Educational Consulting Peggie Weeks has twice been a Program Officer at the National Science Foundation and currently serves as External Evaluator on four Advanced Technological Education projects and centers. She was on the faculty at Corning Community College for 16 years. Prior to teaching, she was employed as a Process Engineer with Corning, Inc. She has a master’s degree in ceramic engineering from Alfred University and a bachelor’s degree in metallurgy and materials science from Carnegie Mellon University

Conference Session

Thinking About the Engineering Curriculum

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Feser, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science & Technology Policy ; Maura J. Borrego, National Science Foundation; Russ Pimmel, University of Alabama; Connie Kubo DUPE Della-Piana, National Science Foundation

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Educational Research and Methods

and cultureat the institutional level are currently being tested. The Science Education Initiative, facilitatedby Carl Wieman, at the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of British Columbia13and efforts in the University System of Maryland14 are concrete examples of efforts to change Page 25.1126.2institutions. At their core, these projects emphasize evidence-based teaching and studentengagement through active- and inquiry-based approaches. While these model initiatives addressmany disciplines within STEM education, engineering education leaders have similar aspirationsfor achieving excellence in undergraduate education. The

Conference Session

Epistemic Research

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erick Jacob Nefcy, Oregon State University; Edith Stanley Gummer, Education Northwest; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

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Educational Research and Methods

Virtual LaboratoryIntroductionModeling has been identified as a critical element of engineering practice. Theories regardingmodeling by STEM professionals in practice contend that models are initially constructed fromprior knowledge and newly gathered information and that they are refined in an iterative cycle ofcreation, use, evaluation, and revision.1,2,3 However, authentic modeling practices are difficult toreplicate in the school environment.In order to develop these iterative modeling skills in students we have designed the Virtual CVDLaboratory Project. It has been specifically designed to provide students an authentic,industrially-situated task which they can solve using the fundamental knowledge and skills

Conference Session

The Teacher as Manager: Best Practices for Culminating Design Experiences

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Oswald Beiler P.E., Bucknell University; Arthur D. Kney, Lafayette College; David A. Veshosky, Lafayette College

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Civil Engineering

, he has written a number of peer reviewed journal articles and conference papers, as well as co-authored a book chapter and a technical guidance manual.Dr. David A. Veshosky, Lafayette College David Veshosky has a bachelor’s of civil engineering degree from Catholic University; a master’s in sci- ence, technology, and public policy from George Washington University; and a Ph.D. in business and economics from Lehigh University. He teaches courses in engineering economics and project manage- ment at Lafayette College. His current research interests involve sustainable development. Page 25.7.1

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-college Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl Farmer, UTeachEngineering; David T. Allen, University of Texas, Austin; Leema Kuhn Berland, University of Texas, Austin; Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin; Lisa Guerra, NASA

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2012-3949: ENGINEER YOUR WORLD: AN INNOVATIVE APPROACHTO DEVELOPING A HIGH SCHOOL ENGINEERING DESIGN COURSEMs. Cheryl Farmer, UTeachEngineering Cheryl Farmer is the founding Program Manager and Project Director of UTeachEngineering. Funded through a five-year, $12.5 million Math and Science Partnership grant from the National Science Foun- dation, UTeachEngineering offers a well-designed, well-rounded, design-based high school engineering course that can be implemented at low cost in virtually any setting, as well as a variety of professional de- velopment programs for pre-service and in-service teachers who want to add engineering to their teaching portfolio. Prior to co-founding UTeachEngineering, Farmer spent

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael S. Trevisan, Washington State University; Denny C. Davis, Washington State University; Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho, Moscow; Jay Patrick McCormack, University of Idaho; Phillip L. Thompson, Seattle University; Paul R. Leiffer, LeTourneau University; Howard P. Davis, Washington State University; Susannah Howe, Smith College; Jennifer E. LeBeau, Washington State University; Robert E. Gerlick, Pittsburg State University; Patricia Brackin, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; M. Javed Khan, Tuskegee University

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2012-4389: INTEGRATED DESIGN ENGINEERING ASSESSMENTAND LEARNING SYSTEM (IDEALS):Prof. Michael S. Trevisan, Washington State University Mike Trevisan is a professor of educational psychology at Washington State University and the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Education. For more than 17 years, he has worked with engineering educators across the country to develop engineering design curriculum and assessments for a variety of engineering disciplines. His key collaborator is Dr. Denny Davis, Washington State University.Dr. Denny C. Davis P.E., Washington State University Denny Davis is professor of bioengineering at Washington State University. He has led numerous educa- tional research projects

Conference Session

Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Hennessey Wikoff, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Michael Hoge Carriere, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

ABSTRACTThis paper describes the way innovation and entrepreneurship have been integrated intoan engineering curriculum through a year-long liberal arts seminar. This three-coursesequence has “The City” as its topical focus, and it incorporates principles ofentrepreneurship and innovation through course content specifically centered on theseconcepts through experiential learning in a service project, and through critical thinkingand rhetorical analysis of students’ own research strategies using the Burkean parlormodel of academic and professional conversation.In Fall Quarter, students read texts, view films, and study other cultural products relatedto the concept of “The City.” They examine how depictions of entrepreneurs andindustry illuminate our

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Development

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald G. Kander, Philadelphia University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

  Arts/Culture   Business  Models   Capstone  Project   History/Language   Business   Systems  Analysis   Humanities   Design   Research  Methods   Integrated  Teams   Seminars/Capstone   Engineering   External  Customers   Real  Deliverables   First, College