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Electrical and Computer Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yuan Liao, University of Kentucky

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Electrical and Computer

system 7. Anew course titled Power System Analysis Using Advanced Software was developed at thedepartment of electrical and computer engineering the University of Kentucky to providestudents in-depth understanding of and hands on experiences in selected software packages. Thisnew course is intended for senior undergraduate and graduate students and has been offered inthe past at our university. This class also provides an opportunity for students to appreciate themodel of real world utility systems.This paper discusses the course contents and pedagogical approach employed to deliver the newcourse. The effectiveness of the class is evaluated through assigned projects and our university’sofficial course evaluation system. Evaluation studies have

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering: Curricula and Courses

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Allan T. Kirkpatrick P.E., Colorado State University; Scott Danielson P.E., Arizona State University, Polytechnic; Thomas Perry P.E., American Society of Mechanical Engineers

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Mechanical Engineering

the mechanical engineeringtechnology graduates.The project investigated the current state of mechanical engineering education and practicewithin industry through assessment of recent literature addressing the shape and content ofengineering and engineering technology education and through conducting workshops amongstakeholders at key conferences and gatherings. The National Academy of Engineers’ (NAE)Educating the Engineer of 20201 suggests an earlier and stronger introduction to engineeringpractice within undergraduate programs, with the students experiencing an iterative process ofdesign, analysis, building, and testing. Another NAE project, Changing the Conversation2,recommended re-branding of engineering to improve its appeal to different

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Interdisciplinary Education in Engineering Technology

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Huiru Shih P.E., Jackson State University; Gordon W. Skelton, Jackson State University; Pao-Chiang Yuan, Jackson State University; Jessica Buck Ph.D., Jackson State University; Britney M. Williams, Jackson State University

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Engineering Technology

degreewith a major in Emergency Management Technology requires the successful completion of 124credits of coursework, including 39 credits for the major; 64 credits in general educationrequirements; and 21 credits in the minor, electives and other degree requirements. Thecurriculum focuses on such topics as emergency planning, incident command, disaster responseand recovery, hazard identification and mitigation, agency coordination, homeland security, andcommunity emergency training. A capstone project provides the opportunity to apply anddemonstrate emergency management skills gained during the course of the program.The establishment of this Emergency Management Technology program has met the increased

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Innovative Course Developments in Construction

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Suat Gunhan, University of Texas, San Antonio; Yilmaz Hatipkarasulu, University of Texas, San Antonio

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Construction

trades to effectively support estimating teams in their organizations. Among thevarious trades, having a good understanding of Mechanical-Electrical-Plumbing (MEP) scope ishighly valued in construction organizations since relatively fewer construction professionalspossess this expertise.Historically construction people come from diverse backgrounds, experiencing and learning theprofession in field practices1. However as projects got more complex and competition tougher,the peoples’ profile in the industry has changed over the years and college graduates mainly fromconstruction, and also from architecture and civil engineering programs started to occupyprofessional ranks in construction companies. Most graduates joining construction companiescome

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BIM and Virtual Construction Environments

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lacey Duckworth; Tulio Sulbaran, University of Southern Mississippi; Andrew Peter Strelzoff, University of Southern Mississippi

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Construction

AC 2012-5327: USABILITY OF A COLLABORATIVE VIRTUAL REAL-ITY ENVIRONMENT EARTHWORK EXERCISESDr. Lacey DuckworthDr. Tulio Sulbaran, University of Southern Mississippi Tulio Sulbaran received his Ph.D. in civil engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology with a con- centration in construction management and with a minor in computer engineering and strong statistical background. He has more than eight years of work experience in the A/E/C (architecture, engineering, and construction) industry with office and field experience in scheduling, estimating, and project man- agement in the United States and several international locations, including Venezuela, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, and Thailand. Sulbaran is an

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Reza Nekovei, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Alexandra Chincarini, RETainUS

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

. Nekovei is currently co-PI for two NSF projects related to teaching by design research and develop- ment, one in nanotechnology (NSF-NUE) and another in robotics (NSF-CCLI). He was a senior Fulbright grantee at Bucharest Polytechnic University during 2008-09 academic year where he performed collabora- tive research in computationally complex circuits and studied ”teaching by design” methodology. Nekovei was the recipient of university distinguished teaching award in 2008. He is a member of IEEE and Etta Kappa Nu honor society.Ms. Alexandra Chincarini, RETainUS Page 25.1173.1 c American

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New Research and Trends for Minorities in Engineering

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ajit D. Kelkar, North Carolina A&T State University; Ram V. Mohan, North Carolina A&T State University; Vinaya Kelkar, North Carolina A&T State University; Keith A. Schimmel, North Carolina A&T State University; Earl Hilton Martin

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Minorities in Engineering

sponsored research andeducation programs in conjunction with NCA&TSU faculty expertise. The mission of NASA and its four directorates (Aeronautics, Exploration Systems, Science,and Space Operations) requires STEM content that includes the bio-chemical sciences, physicalsciences (earth and atmospheric sciences), engineering and mathematics. This project hasdeveloped and implemented innovative pedagogical concepts of integrating the associatedNASA STEM content into the related courses at NCA&TSU. Page 25.609.2Goals and Objectives The vision of the INSTRUCT project is to integrate NASA content into STEMundergraduate courses with a primary

Conference Session

Progress in Manufacturing Education II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso; Noe Vargas Hernandez, University of Texas, El Paso; Richard Chiou, Drexel University; Paras Mandal, University of Texas, El Paso; Maria Veronica Gonzalez, University of Texas, El Paso; Juan Venegas

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Manufacturing

, and others (more than 100 refereed publications). He has been serving as a principle investigator of several research projects funded by NSF, NASA, DoEd, and KSEF. He is currently serving as an Editor of the Journal of Computer Standards & Interfaces.Dr. Noe Vargas Hernandez, University of Texas, El Paso Noe Vargas Hernandez researches creativity and innovation in engineering design. He studies ideation methods, journaling, smartpens, and other methods and technology to aid designers improve their creativ- ity levels. He also applies his research to the design of rehabilitation devices (in which he has various patents under process) and design for sustainability.Dr. Richard Chiou, Drexel UniversityProf. Paras

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Integrating Sustainability Across the Curriculum

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Mueller PE P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Corey M. Taylor, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Patricia Brackin, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Richard A. House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Kathleen Toohey, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Michael S. DeVasher, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Rebecca Booth DeVasher Ph.D., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Mark H. Minster, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Environmental Engineering

and geographical sites, from ancient Greece to contemporary Nairobi,using analytical tools from various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. The fourthcourse, EM103, Introduction to Design, is required of most engineering majors. All majors inthe cohort are combined into 2 sections of EM103 with the goal of enabling students to work inmultidisciplinary teams to solve actual sustainability problems on the RHIT campus. Thestudent learning outcomes for this course are supported by the multidisciplinary, project-basedapproach. All four courses meet existing graduation requirements for all majors. Students do notlose electives or lose ground in their progress towards a major. Because all four courses areinterdisciplinary and

Conference Session

Design Cognition III

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Design in Engineering Education

fabrication, including geometric processing, control, design tools, manufacturing applications; and design and development of energy harvesting systems. Crawford is co-founder of the DTEACh program, a Design Technology program for K-12, and is active on the faculty of the UTeachEngineering program that seeks to educate teachers of high school engineering.Ms. 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

Conference Session

Community Engagement in Engineering Education: Program Models

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelsey B. Hatzell, Pennsylvania State University; Marta C. Hatzell, Pennsylvania State University; Min Young Pack, Pennsylvania State University; Johanna Gretchen Hatzell, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Samir Narendra Patel, Pennsylvania State University; Tara Lynn Sulewski, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Amy L. Freeman, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Khanjan Mehta, Pennsylvania State University

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Community Engagement Division

are to 1.) develop systems, design, and entrepreneurialthinking amongst secondary school students and their teachers, 2.) create an affordable,sustainable and replicable innovation space 3.) develop an innovative experiential sciencecurriculum 4.) integrate the indigenous knowledge of the host country into the science educationcurriculum and 5.) develop a sustainable method for building prototypes using universalconnectors.These objectives were operationalized in a Humanitarian Engineering and SocialEntrepreneurship (HESE) class that focuses on integrated engineering design, business strategyand implementation strategy development. Multidisciplinary student teams focused on severalaspects of the project including emergent integration

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vimal Kumar Viswanathan, Texas A&M University; Julie S. Linsey, Texas A&M University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

investigated in more detail with another controlled study. According to Sunk CostEffect, as designers spend more time building physical models of their initial ideas, they tend tofixate to the variations of those. Our second controlled study confirms this theory. To infer theseresults in real-life situations, the data from a few industry-sponsored graduate projects and casestudies of development of award-winning innovative products are analyzed qualitatively. Theresults from these qualitative studies show that in real-life design problem solving, buildingprototypes help designers to identify the problems in their ideas and rectify them. At the sametime, building also tends to fixate designers to the variations of their initial ideas, which is

Conference Session

Assessment and Impact

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech; Kahyun Kim, Virginia Tech; Jason Forsyth, Virginia Tech; Ed Dorsa, Virginia Tech; Thomas Martin, Virginia Tech; Eloise Coupey, Virginia Tech

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2012-5469: INTERDISCIPLINARY PEDAGOGY FOR PERVASIVE COM-PUTING DESIGN PROCESSES: AN EVALUATIVE ANALYSISDr. Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech Lisa McNair is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech where she serves as Assistant Department Head for Graduate Education and co-directs the Virginia Tech Engi- neering Communication Center. Her research includes interdisciplinary collaboration, communication studies, identity theory, and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include: interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design, writing across the curriculum in stat- ics courses, and a CAREER award to explore the use of e-portfolios

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Transportation and Geotechnical Engineering

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yusuf A. Mehta, Rowan University; Leslie Ann McCarthy P.E., Villanova University

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Civil Engineering

solutions. The exams were an individual effort; thus, giving the Instructor anopportunity to gauge each individual student’s level of understanding and competency with thepavement design concepts and MEPDG software. Because of the smaller class size, the graduate course was structured more of a project-centric course and included very few traditional problem-based homework assignments. Amajority of the homework assignments required the MEPDG software for generating solutionsand were to be completed individually. There were two exams which were take-home, open-note format and individually completed. Because the graduate students are challenged to a morerigorous level, the MEPDG software was required to solve 50 percent of the problems in

Conference Session

Standards and K-12 Engineering

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jing Wang, Purdue University; Melissa Dyehouse, Purdue University; Nicole R. Weber, Lesley University; Johannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Conceptualizing Authenticity in Engineering Education: A Systematic Literature ReviewAbstractThe term authenticity is pervasive in the education literature in general and specifically in theengineering education literature; yet, the construct is often used un-reflected and ill defined. Thepurpose of this paper is (1) to critically examine current conceptualizations of authenticity asprinciples to design curricula and learning modules within engineering education and (2) thedevelopment of a systematically derived model of authenticity. The context of the project istowards pre-college engineering education yet findings are applicable across the lifespan

Conference Session

Focus on Elementary

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth A. Parry, North Carolina State University; Emily George Hardee, Brentwood Magnet Elementary School of Engineering; Lizette D. Day, Rachel Freeman School of Engineering

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2012-4900: DEVELOPING ELEMENTARY ENGINEERING SCHOOLS:FROM PLANNING TO PRACTICE AND RESULTSElizabeth A. Parry, North Carolina State University Elizabeth Parry is an engineer and consultant in K-12 STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math- ematics) Curriculum and Professional Development and the Coordinator of K-20 STEM Partnership De- velopment at the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University. For the past 15 years, she has worked extensively with students from kindergarten to graduate school, parents, and pre-service and in-service teachers to both educate and excite them about engineering. As the Co-PI and Project Director of a National Science Foundation GK-12 grant, Parry developed a

Conference Session

Reflections on the “Raise the Bar” Initiative (Part I) - Using a Decade of Experience to Chart the Future

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Monte L. Phillips P.E., American Society of Civil Engineers; Forrest M. Holly Jr. P.E., University of Iowa

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Civil Engineering

perspectivesOutcome 12 Risk and Uncertainty Outcome 21 TeamworkOutcome 13 Project Management Outcome 22 Professional Values and AttitudesOutcome 15 Technical Specialization Outcome 23 Lifelong LearningOutcome 16 Communication Outcome 24 Professional and Ethical ResponsibilityOutcome 17 Public Policy Table 1: Experiential Outcomes Page 25.1331.6The EI is expected to attain the outcomes through

Conference Session

Outreach Activities and Introductory Materials Engineering

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amber L. Genau, University of Alabama, Birmingham

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Materials

, the fundamental connectionbetween structure, properties, processing and performance was emphasized. Due to timeconstraints, not all students were able to experience each small-group station. The studentsdisliked that aspect, and in the future, care will be taken to ensure that all students have theopportunity to participate in all activities.A highlight of the program was an afternoon trip to a local steel mill, which included lunch, atalk about the company and some of the materials problems that they tackle, and a tour of theirrecycling and production facilities. The students were very engaged in the tour and had manyquestions afterwards, particularly about the environmental impact of the facility.Design Project: Model RocketsThe camp

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; David L. Silverstein, University of Kentucky; John L. Falconer, University of Colorado, Boulder; Ronald L. Miller, Colorado School of Mines

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Endowment for the Humanities, and the Colorado Commission on Higher Education, and he has published widely in engineering education literature. His research interests include measuring and repairing engineering student misconceptions in thermal and transport science. Page 25.322.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Collaborative Research: Integration of Conceptual Learning throughout the Core Chemical Engineering Curriculum – Year 1Overview and ObjectivesWe report on the progress of the first year of a CCLI Type 2 project. The goal of this project is tocreate a

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering: Trends and Tools

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy A. Doughty, University of Portland; Steven O'Halloran, University of Portland

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Mechanical Engineering

use of flexible, affordable, and accessible data acquisition platforms,undergraduate students are becoming more and more familiar with the design of experiments andthe topics associated with data collection. For this study a self-guided tutorial was developed tointroduce the topics of data acquisition. Students at various stages of their undergraduatecurriculum are asked to work through the tutorial. This tutorial is also used in conjunction with across-curricular project involving numerical simulation and experimental validation of heattransfer topics of conduction and convection. Students were surveyed, both prior to and shortlyafter the tutorial, to determine the perceived value of the exercise in the context of theireducation and future

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering: Curricula and Courses

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy M. Hodges P.E., Virginia Military Institute; Elizabeth White Baker, Wake Forest University

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Mechanical Engineering

intent of exposingstudents to graduate work in engineering. The Undergrad Only College and a Grad Institutionpartnered to create and jointly fund summer research projects for the Undergrad Only Collegesstudents. The students propose a research project that is jointly mentored by a Grad Institutionfaculty member and a faculty member at the home Undergrad Only College. After the projectswere selected, the student spends the summer at the Grad Institution conducting a study orexperimental work to complete the research project. The program broadens the researchopportunities for the undergraduate student by enabling the student to go to the Grad Institutionand interact with graduate faculty and students.The initiative is to promote and instill a

Conference Session

ETD Design II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Devdas Shetty, University of Hartford; Claudio Campana, University of Hartford

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Engineering Technology

body. This topical area provides an ongoing thesis topic for graduate engineering students at the masterslevel.IntroductionNon-contact methods are generally based on projecting energy waves to the surface and capturing the reflected ortransmitted energy. Computer Tomography, Microwave Radars and Ultrasonic Waves are non-optical methods thatare very common in measurement and inspection. Computer tomography is useful to examine internal cavities thatcannot be seen from outside, on the other hand, accuracy with these systems is dependable on material densities thatmay be a problem for different types of materials. Microwave and ultrasonic methods are reflection based methodsthat typically measure the distance by calculating the time between

Conference Session

ABET Accreditation, Assessment, and Program Improvement in ECE

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry L Wear, University of Washington, Tacoma; Orlando R. Baiocchi, University of Washington, Tacoma; Matthew Alden, University of Washington, Tacoma; Robert Gutmann, University of Washington, Tacoma; Jie Sheng, University of Washington, Tacoma

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Electrical and Computer

University. He has more than 25 years of experience in teaching, in addition to 10 years of industry experience, and is an ABET Program Evaluator for electrical and computer engineering.Dr. Orlando R. Baiocchi, University of Washington, Tacoma Orlando Baiocchi has more than 40 years of experience in teaching, research, and administration, both in Brazil and in the United States. He has been an ABET Evaluator representing the IEEE. He recently stepped down as Director of the Institute of Technology at the University of Washington, Tacoma, to return to teaching and research. He is currently involved in cooperative projects with several universities in Brazil. His areas of expertise are electromagnetics and pulse propagation

Conference Session

International Engineering Education: Developments, Innovations, Implementations, and Pedagogical Challenges in Engineering Education

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert De La Coromoto Koeneke-Ramirez, Daytona State College; Alireza Rahrooh, Daytona State College; Karla Patricia Moore, Daytona State College

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International

incorporation ofthe new technology, which is the base of our study.IntroductionField Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are devices that can be electrically configured toperform any digital circuit. FPGAs consist of two-dimensional arrays of programmable logicblocks that implement logic functions, a programmable routing structure to interconnect theselogic blocks and I/O blocks that allow interconnections with the external world.Compared to other technologies such as Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC), FPGAshave significant advantages. FPGAs can be programmed or reprogrammed in a matter ofseconds, which gives considerable flexibility to the designer. FPGAs have been the choice for allsizes of projects from the simplest circuits to very

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicole Lynn Sears; Jeffrey L. Beynon, Flour Bluff ISD; Raul C. Rivas, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Patrick L. Mills, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

. Page 25.308.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Teaching Topics and Modules based on Biofuels Technology from the Project Effects ofPretreatments for Grapefruit Processing Waste (GPW) Biomass on the rates of enzymatic hydrolysis for conversion to sugarsAbstractThe objective of this work was to develop and test an aspect of the utilization of citrus waste toenergy and bring this new knowledge into the classroom for secondary science education anddiscussion. A citrus waste based biorefinery has the potential to make the disposal process botheconomically and environmentally beneficial. This potential can be achieved by developing aprocess that is rapid, inexpensive, and productive

Conference Session

Community Engagement in Engineering Education: Program Models

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carrie-Ann Miller LCSW, State University of New York, Stony Brook

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Community Engagement Division

keep the student in TechPREP involved in STEM education.STEM Tech engages 7-9th grade girls in STEM Clubs by providing an after schoolprogram in their communities. The pedagogy of both programs is deeply rooted inservice-learning. All of the projects the students do are generated from the interestand focus on the environment and the community in which they live. Theprograms are supported by multiple community organizations, networks andcorporate sponsors.WISE has many partnerships that support its programs. Each provides animportant function that lends to their success. To get a full understanding of themagnitude of the WISE partners I have listed and given a short description on ofhow they support the WISE, TechPREP and STEM Tech students.The

Conference Session

Advances in Communication Instruction

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth A. DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology; Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; Risa Robinson, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

-3 Similarly, RIT students working as lab instructors on-campus or participating inteaching activities off-campus report that they viewed teaching experience as a valuable part oftheir college careers.4 However, in order to teach, we must first prepare our students tocommunicate their ideas clearly.Within the mechanical engineering curriculum at RIT there has been past work done tostrengthen the communication abilities of engineering students. Namely, a team-basedpresentation project has evolved within an advanced thermodynamics course as a way tointroduce upper-level engineering students to an engineering outreach opportunity while alsostrengthening communication skills and deepening engineering knowledge.5-6 Formativeassessment results

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Stimulating Broader Industrial Participation in Undergraduate Programs

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Annie R. Pearce, Virginia Tech; Christine Marie Fiori P.E., Virginia Tech; Kathleen M. Short, Virginia Tech

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College Industry Partnerships

teams in capital projects. This knowledge not only supports the selection of successfultactics for use in future projects, but also provides key information to rethink tactics that are notbeing widely diffused.Establishing a benchmark of the current status of sustainability-related construction innovationsis important not only for understanding which companies are using what practices and technolo-gies, but also why they are choosing to use them and how to design future practices and technol-ogies to be more successful. Benchmarking is a continuous process of measuring products, ser-vices, and practices against the toughest competitors or those recognized as industry leaders1.Benchmarking in the U.S. construction industry is usually conducted

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Elizabeth August, Loyola Marymount University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

the scholarship of teaching and learning community and is a 2006 CASTL Institute Scholar (Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning). She is currently directing graduate and undergraduate students on two NSF-funded projects, to develop materials for teaching ar- tificial intelligence through an experimental approach modeled after the lab sciences, and to develop a Virtual Engineering Sciences Learning Lab in Second Life to provide an immersive learning environment for introductory engineering and computer science courses. Her industry experience includes software and system engineering for several defense C3I programs, and applied artificial intelligence research for military and medical

Conference Session

Information Literacy in Context: Enabling Real World Problem Solving

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Fosmire, Purdue University, West Lafayette; David F. Radcliffe, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Libraries

creative act than is captured in more analytical“problem solving,” even where this is understood to include problem identification andformulation.2 More recently the term “design thinking”3 has caught hold as way to encapsulate themany cognitive and social dimensions of what is involved in the act of design in the context ofnew product development, with an emphasis on user-centered design.In the educational process, design projects provide an opportunity to integrate and apply contentknowledge, but perhaps more importantly, practice using the professional skills, often erroneouslyreferred to as ‘soft skills’ that are key to success according to the Engineer of 2020 report.4 Therole of information in design has been investigated by many groups over