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Preparing Engineering Students for the Global Workplace

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brian D. Koehler, North Carolina State University

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International

University (M.A. and M.B.A). Page 25.492.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Educating Globally Competent Engineers in London, United KingdomAbstractThis paper describes the background, implementation, assessment, and future plans of theLONDON: ENG 331 program hosted by the College of Engineering (COE) and the College ofHumanities & Social Sciences (CHASS) at North Carolina State University (NCSU). Themotivation for initiating the program was to structure an international experience for engineeringstudents, which differentiates them

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mo Ahmadian, Eastern New Mexico University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

competitive. Somestudies have shown that underrepresented students drop out of STEM programs at much higherrates than non-STEM programs. Although, providing equal access to higher education isnecessary, colleges and universities must also provide equal opportunity for retention,graduation, and advancement.2 In the book Talking About Leaving, Why Undergraduates Leavethe Sciences, 1.3 it is stated that nationally 40 percent of undergraduate students leave engineeringprograms, 50 percent leave the physical and biological sciences programs, and 60 percent leavemathematics programs to pursue other non-STEM programs.Recent findings from the Academic Pathways Study (APS) have shown that among the factorsthat predict the post-graduation plans of seniors

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Current Issues in Construction Education

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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

, they prepare guaranteed maximum price (GMP) for project owners usually based on 75 to80% complete construction documents. The GMP brings substantial risk to contractors sincethey promise a cap price to project owners. The ability to take such risks is possible by beingable to conduct and perform well in preconstruction. This is the stage where a contractor canaccomplish a risk management plan for the entire construction process. Part of the top 100 greencontractors' success can be attributed to their preconstruction expertise which comes from theirCM at Risk project delivery expertise (Table 1). Green building process may significantly benefitfrom a collaborative project delivery approach which emphasizes the early teaming of

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Two-year Institutions Help Fill the STEM Pipeline

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Farzin Heidari, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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Two Year College Division

Department of Industrial Technology is providing the needed support and educationalmaterials and graduate students support for both STC and South Texas technical colleges toassist them with this task. This include faculty training, updated software, online training,resources needed to train qualified manufacturing technicians, and recruiting and promotingadvanced manufacturing careers as an attractive option to high school seniors. Page 25.727.3 Total College Technical College City Degrees Offered Degree Plan

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Best of the NEE

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laurie S. Garton, Texas Engineering Experiment Station

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New Engineering Educators

). Page 25.682.2This is still the basic format we use today; however, over time, we noticed some faculty neededmore than this basic information to successfully navigate the proposal development process.Faculty are experts in their technical disciplines, but not necessarily experts in grant writing, sodetails of proposal parts and how to write them effectively were added to the workshop agenda,including proposal templates and more sample proposals. We also added a guest speakerfocusing on an aspect of Broader Impacts2, to alert the faculty to opportunities available whendeveloping the Education Plans of their CAREER proposals3. Unfortunately the broader impactscriterion required of all NSF proposals presents a significant stumbling block to many

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The Role of Engineering in Integrated STEM--uh STEAM--uh Education!

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bettina J. Casad, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Mariappan Jawaharlal, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

event and the responses were analyzed and compared against acontrol group consisting of 66 students. The theory of planned behavior was used to predictstudents‟ plans for future STEM education. The results of this study suggest that the roboticsprogram based on the guided discovery approach is successful. The success of this program ledto a follow-up study to measure students‟ perceived math and engineering ability, difficulty,STEM attitudes, and intentions to obtain good math grades. The second study indicated thatmany of the positive outcomes of this program persisted six months later.BackgroundScience, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in the United Statescontinues to garner national concern.1 A National Academies

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Lessons learned

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ibrahim F. Zeid, Northeastern University; William L. DUPE Chan, Josiah Quincy High School; Kristina Buenafe, Josiah Quincy High School; Jessica Chin, Northeastern University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

endeavor, but finding efficient ways for K-12 teachersto effectively convey these concepts and for students to retain their knowledge has been achallenge. To meet this need, Northeastern University’s NSF-funded CAPSULEprogram was developed as a professional development program that guides STEMteachers to learn how to use and implement engineering-based learning (EBL) in highschool classes. Content included are the engineering design process, CAD modeling,capstone projects, and action plans for the academic year. Two JQUS teachers (math andtechnology) attended the summer 2010 CAPSULE program and implemented actionplans during the 2010-2011 school year.This paper covers the details of the JQUS math and technology CAPSULE curriculumand implementation

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ABET: Reflections on Accreditation

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ryan Fries, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Sree Kalyani Lakkaraju, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Brad Cross, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Susan M. Morgan, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Andrea L. Welker, Villanova University

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Civil Engineering

for Engineering Education, 2012 Survey of Civil Engineering Assessment Changes in Response to Revised ABET CE Program Criteria1. AbstractIn 2008, ABET, Inc. revised the “Program Criteria for Civil Engineering (CE)” included in theCriteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs to better reflect the Civil Engineering Body ofKnowledge for the 21st Century. CE faculty at Southern Illinois University Edwardsvilleconducted a nationwide survey during the summer of 2011 using the American Society of CivilEngineers‟ Department Heads Council list serve to determine if other CE Departments weremaking changes in their programs or assessment plans in response to the revised criteria. In theUS there are 224 accredited CE

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Capstone Design Projects and Courses

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michele Miller, Michigan Technological University; John K. Gershenson, Michigan Technological University; Amilcar Alejandro Rincon-Charris, Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Bayamon; Carlos A. Alvarado, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico; Jose A. Rojas, Universidad del Turabo

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Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

Design Analysis Evaluation Concept Readiness QFD Assembly Design Organization Description Constraints Statement Plan Assessment Evaluation Concept Drawings Materials Specifications Plan Plan Keys

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Capstone Courses in Construction

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vivek Sharma, Texas State University, San Marcos; Vedaraman Sriraman, Texas State University, San Marcos

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Construction

/safetyconsiderations this course underwent a modification whereby students were engaged in physicalconstruction of a small scale mock-up of residential units on campus in the constructionlaboratory. This modification obviated some of the critical issues. There was minimal industrialinvolvement with the capstone course. The modification notwithstanding, both the students andthe industrial advisory board (IAB) felt that more could be done by way of preparing students forthe construction industry. During summer 2011 the process of reengineering the capstone coursebegan. The following sections detail the planning and design of a “new” capstone course, withsignificant industrial participation, for the purpose of better preparing CSM majors for theconstruction

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K-12 Teacher Professional Development

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

districts to plan, deliver and sustain atargeted inservice teacher professional development and a middle and high school STEM studentcurriculum intervention. Recognizing that understanding informational text is a major problem inurban schools and a major barrier to science and achievement, we have worked at improvingstrategic instruction in science literacy for our teachers and their students in addition to foci oninquiry instruction with emphases on engineering problem solving and experimentation. Resultsof this teacher and student focused STEM educational intervention has revealed a dramaticincrease in student interest in scientific experimentation, engineering problem solving andincreased science literacy and achievement.IntroductionEngineers

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Tricks of the Trade II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marcus L. Roberts, U.S. Air Force Academy; Randall Deppensmith, U.S. Air Force Academy; Ryan Jay Silva, U.S. Air Force Academy

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New Engineering Educators

sticky points of this observation is that that the example or demonstrationused in class to relate theory to the real-world must be applicable to the students. If they cannotidentify with the example or demonstration and relate it to their world, it’s merely anotheracademic exercise. It’s irrelevant. So, we casually opine that the “relevance needs to berelevant.” Beyond the need of the “relevance to be relevant,” well-intended instructors becomeso consumed with the syllabus or lesson plan, they forget to plan specifically for these examples. Page 25.987.5If proper planning prevents poor performance, than certainly improper planning promotes

Conference Session

Before and After: Matriculants and Alumni

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Helen L. Chen, Stanford University; Michelle Marie Grau, Stanford University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Stanford University; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, SKG Analysis; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Michelle Warner, Stanford University

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Educational Research and Methods

alumni are a common approach taken by departments to collect evidencedemonstrating how educational objectives are being met for the purpose of continuousimprovement of the program (ABET Criterion 4). While survey administration tools havebecome widely available and easy to navigate, researchers must still address the challenges ofdesigning not only a concise survey instrument but also an effective deployment plan that resultsin a high response rate among targeted respondents.To explore these issues in a real world context, this paper draws upon first hand experiencesrelated to the planning of the Pathways of Engineering Alumni Research Survey (PEARS) whichwas piloted with geographically distributed engineering alumni from four institutions in

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ADVANCE and Related Faculty Issues

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marcia Gumpertz, North Carolina State University

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Women in Engineering

Opportunity, the Director of University Planning and Analysis (the university’soffice of institutional research), and the Assistant Vice Provost for Faculty and Staff Diversitywas formed and met for ten months in 2007. A retreat with an outside facilitator forced us toclarify our goals and our understanding of which goals might be drivers of change in increasingfemale faculty presence. Through this process it emerged that having women in leadershippositions and in senior faculty roles within the department changed the tone of departmentconversations and was key to hiring and retaining more women. That became the first principleof the D3 project.The grant proposal was developed by a subcommittee of the Task Force on Women Faculty,which included social

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jingshan Wu, Zhejiang University; Xiaodong Zou, Zhejiang University; Hanbing Kong, Zhejiang University

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2012-5526: CULTIVATING T-SHAPED ENGINEERS FOR 21ST CEN-TURY: EXPERIENCES IN CHINAMiss Jingshan Wu, Zhejiang University Jingshan Wu, Ph.D. candidate, majors in educational economy and management. Her research interest is the cultivation of engineering talents. She has been working for ”Research on International Engineering Education: Frontiers and Progress” and ”Model Innovation on Engineering Education” recently.Prof. Xiaodong Zou, Zhejiang University Xiaodong ZouPh.D., Vice President of Zhejiang University, professor of Public Administration School, Zhejiang University. His research area is administration and strategic planning of science, technology and higher education, organization management, and innovation

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Innovations in Teaching and Research in Physics or Engineering Physics I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jian Peng, Southeast Missouri State University; Santaneel Ghosh, Southeast Missouri State University; Ken Surendran, Southeast Missouri State University

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Engineering Physics & Physics

, the students work on the analysis and design of the system during the first eightweeks of the semester and on implementation in the second eight weeks. During the first half,they also learn and take exams on the support process, present their results orally for the otherstudent teams to review, and prepare intermediary project reports. During the second half of thecourse, the students make the research presentation, complete the project, make the projectpresentation, demonstrate the system to evaluators, and prepare the final project report. Table 1: Common Hour Schedule Week # Course Content 1 Course overview, project management (plan) 2

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Construction Curriculum Development

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James G. Sullivan, University of Florida, Gainesville

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Construction

) Leadership in Energy andEnvironmental Design (LEED) for New Construction and Major Renovation (LEED-NC) orLEED for Existing Building (LEED-EB). In 2008 the Florida Energy Act mandated that all statefunded buildings pursue a nationally recognized high-performance green building rating systemas approved by the Department of Management Services. LEED and Green Building InitiativesGreen Globes are specifically mentioned. In 2010 there were over 600 registered LEED projectsin the state of Florida. Preparing our students for these jobsite requirements is essential.University Facilities SettingIn 2003, the University of Florida Facilities, Planning, and Construction (FPC) Officeconstructed the first USGBC Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rafic Bachnak, Texas A&M International University; Rohitha Goonatilake, Texas A&M International University

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Minorities in Engineering

activities were scheduled on Monday thru Friday from8:00 am to 5:00 pm. Award of certifications were presented on the last day, Friday, July 22,2011. As for the subject matter in the profession, two sessions accomplished a very importantportion of the program. One was on “Engineering design projects using AutoCAD” and the otherwas “Lego robot session” followed by “Lego robot competition for the participants”. Winners ofthe competition were recognized.Program planning included first, seeking adequate collaboration from local schools, UnitedIndependent School District (UISD), Laredo Independent School District (LISD), and other areaeducational academies. A website was developed to provide details about the program, includingapplication material. A

Conference Session

Design Cognition I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jonathan Gerard Spillane, University of Limerick; Niall Seery, University of Limerick; Donal Canty, University of Limerick; Diarmaid Lane, University of Limerick

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Design in Engineering Education

apparent as students progressed through the task. Web-capture software was used to trackeach student’s progress and monitor their decision making.A multidimensional problem-solving framework was employed when observing participantsattempts. The problem-solving framework looked at four key stages: Identifying, Planning,Implementing, and Evaluating. This was supported by the sub-cycle of conjecture, test, andevaluate (accept/reject) method presented by Carlson and Bloom [3] used to analyse mathematicalproblem-solving. Simultaneously audio responses were also captured, which gave researchers avaluable and rich data set to interpret individual heuristics, conceptual knowledge and decisionmaking.The findings presented in this paper illustrate a clear

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National and Multi-university Initiatives

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University; William M. Jordan, Baylor University; Edmond John Dougherty, Villanova University; Nassif E. Rayess, University of Detroit Mercy; Pritpal Singh, Villanova University; Kenneth F. Bloemer, University of Dayton

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

opportunity evaluation and venture planning course/workshop called Corporate Intrapreneurship Training (CIT).The ISP features the development, piloting, and assessment of three types of student projectstructures and will be led by the other two HHDN institutions (University of Dayton andVillanova University): Identical projects run in parallel at each participating school Projects where the team members themselves are distributed Projects that distribute tasks among teams at each schoolTogether, these objectives cover most of the experience of turning an unrecognized market needinto a product within an established company. In particular, they impart in the students the skillsassociated with need identification, ideation

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Building Information Modeling (BIM)

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Namhun Lee, East Carolina University; Carrie S. Dossick, University of Washington

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Construction

Modeling (BIM). Current projects include technology and collaboration strategies for green building design and construction, global virtual teams, and applications of BIM and COBie in operations. She has received funding from the National Science Foundation, U.S. Army, U.S. Department of Edu- cation, Mechanical Contractors Association of Western Washington, University of Washington Royalty Research Fund, University of Washington Capital Projects, and the College of Built Environments’ BE Lab and was awarded the College of Architecture and Urban Planning 2007 Dean’s Development Fund. Page 25.898.1

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Capstone Design II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen W. Laguette, University of California, Santa Barbara

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Design in Engineering Education

Capstone Designproject. The design experience and course experience includes defining the problems to beaddressed with formal Design Requirements and identifying how the problems will be solvedwith a formal Project Plan. As the design and the project evolve, the course experience includes aDesign Review and an Engineering Report. For those students that have not had the benefit ofprofessional work experience or internships, these course deliverables provide an initiation andfoundation for their professional engineering careers.Objective assessment of the course deliverables is difficult for Capstone Design projects andcourses. There is excellent published literature that provides guidance based upon learningoutcomes and the design process. The

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wei Zheng, Jackson State University; Huiru Shih P.E., Jackson State University; Gordon W Skelton, Jackson State University; Jianjun Yin, Jackson State University

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Civil Engineering

a research subject andeducational practice in the context of Educational Psychology. It refers to active learning that isguided by motivation to learn, metacognition (awareness of one’s knowledge and beliefs), andstrategic action (planning, monitoring, and evaluating personal progress, and taking properaction). A wealth of research has supported that optimal academic performance is strongly tied tothe extent to which the learner uses SRL1. Equipping students with SRL abilities not onlycontributes to success in formal education, but also prepares them for lifelong learning2. Despitethe extensive research in the literature, SRL is still not well known and utilized by theengineering education community for facilitating student learning in

Conference Session

Retention and Two-year to Four-year Transfer

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Armando A. Rodriguez, Arizona State University; Anita Grierson, Arizona State University

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Two Year College Division

community colleges.5 This studywarns that there is not just one magic cure for student success but an accumulation of events andexperiences that will affect the success of a student. The 13 promising practices (which arereally not new) fall in the three areas of Planning Success, Initiating Success, and SustainingSuccess.5 Page 25.413.2Many CC students are undecided in their career choice. Of 61 university transfer students in anengineering scholarship program in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona StateUniversity (ASU), 19 (31%) did not know what they wanted to major in and this influenced theirdecision to go to a community college

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Factors Impacting Engineering Career Choices, Including Engaging Families

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David R. Heil, David Heil & Associates, Inc.; Neil Hutzler, Michigan Technological University; Christine M. Cunningham, Museum of Science; Mia Jackson, Foundation for Family Science & Engineering; Joan F. Chadde, Michigan Technological University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

inquiry, creativity, teamwork, and collaborative problemsolving and can be used by individuals and organizations to plan and conduct successfulcommunity outreach events that increase public understanding and appreciation of engineeringand the role it plays in everyday life. Modeled after the popular publications Family Science1and Family Math2 a new publication titled Family Engineering: An Activity and EventPlanning Guide3 will serve as a valuable resource for professional engineering societies andstudent chapters of those societies as well as formal and informal educators who want to host aFamily Engineering event in their community.With support from the National Science Foundation, hands-on activities that introduce familiesto traditional and

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Assessment and Accreditation in Engineering Management

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pawel Pawlewski, Poznan University of Technology; Zbigniew J. Pasek, University of Windsor

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

todevelop their own product ideas from initial concepts to a business plan for a start-up. Thecourse is offered in English. The second course, offered to 3rd year students, introduces fundamental concepts relatedto industrial process analysis and improvement. Students learn necessary data collection andanalysis techniques (such as, for example, Value Stream Mapping) and also the basics ofprocess simulation using a commercial software package. Student teams work with industrialsponsors and develop competing innovative ideas for process transformation andimprovement. Emphasis is placed on the quality of the student work and final results. Topprojects are offered to present at technical conferences, publish their results in technicaljournals, and

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Capstone Courses

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin Edin Grimheden, Royal Institute of Technology

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Mechanical Engineering

changed the way many software developersorganize their work and projects, for example as in Scrum by delegating responsibilities,empowering individuals and delaying decisions. The main driver in most methods is“accelerated delivery” realized by focusing on small steps, incremental development,prototyping and quick feedback rather than extensive planning and documentation [1].The “Agile Manifesto” [2] is based on twelve principles to follow as an agile softwaredeveloper: from “…satisfying the customer through early and continuous delivery…”,“…welcome changing requirements…”, “…business people and developers must worktogether…”, “…face-to-face conversation…”, “…self-organizing teams…” to “…the teamreflects on how to become more effective…” [2].The

Conference Session

Empowering the User Learning Experience: Evolution in Library Design

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Honora N. Eskridge, North Carolina State University; Kim Duckett, North Carolina State University

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Engineering Libraries

usedpersonas, popular in web interface and product design, to package much of our data into a formthat can be used for planning spaces and services within the new library. Such efforts to studyour users have enabled us to keep students and researchers at the heart of designing new spacesand services. It should be noted that this paper does not discuss the findings of the data collectedin detail, but focuses on our processes of gathering user-research data and effective methods foruser studies that are applicable in other libraries.II. Designing for the userProviding excellent spaces, services, technologies, and websites are now fundamental to themission of the academic library. At the heart of these efforts is the need to design with the user inmind

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Entrepreneurship Teaming and Collaboration

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chad Milewicz, University of Southern Indiana; Zane W. Mitchell Jr., University of Southern Indiana; Kerry S. Hall, University of Southern Indiana

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

students to haveextensive contact with his organization. The individual desired an EIR program that was morethan a one-time, passive interaction between a CEO and students. The Executive perceivedbreaking the status-quo as critical to success in business, and he spread that belief to the EIRprogram. The Executives that co-sponsored the ideation challenge in the following 2 years wereequally committed to this belief.As with the planning of every ideation challenge since, the key criterion for selecting the objectof the challenge is that it is relevant to college students. The inaugural ideation challenge forcedstudents to create an alternative design for the cardboard pizza box. The Executive neverintended to pursue the idea. It was merely a

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering

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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

performance for 12  Need for developmentDevelopment listed types of abilities/attributes  Development planPlan  Identify 3 abilities needing further development  Evidence needed for success  Define a plan to develop one abilityProfessional  Identify 3 abilities of attempted development  Old development motivation,Development actions, impact, refinement  Explain development in an area attemptedin Progress