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Research to Practice: STRAND 1 – Addressing the NGSS: Supporting K-12 Teachers in Engineering Pedagogy and Engineering Science Connections (Part 1)

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Linda S. Hirsch, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Howard S. Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology; John D. Carpinelli, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program is seen as vehicle for introducing Page 26.350.2engineering into secondary school curriculum to enhance science and mathematics instruction aswell as a strategy that prepares teachers for improving interest and achievement of students in theSTEM subjects 1. A RET program was implemented at our university to provide an authenticresearch experience for high school science and technology/engineering teachers, as part of aresearch team, within a University research center, and in collaboration with a K-12 Centerwithin the University. The professional development program was designed to provide the

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 1: It's All About Teams and Teamwork

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fernando Garcia Gonzalez, Florida Gulf Coast University; Janusz Zalewski, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

a sensor based around a color camera, an infrareddepth sensor, and a multi-mic array. It allows controlling computing devices via motion andvoice instead of mouse and keyboard or joystick, making the interaction much more natural. The goal of the original project was to be able to control all of the limbs of the robot viamotion instead of having to use more complicated control systems. In short, instead of havingto manipulate a controller of some sort one could simply move an arm into the position onewould like the NAO robot to move its arm, capture this with Kinect, and the software wouldhandle moving the NAO into the correct position, see Figure 1. The goals of the demonstration to the freshmen class were: (1) to make students aware

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 1: It's All About Teams and Teamwork

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher Leslie, New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering (formerly Polytechnic University); Gunter W. Georgi, New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering; Alyssa Marie D'Apice, New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering

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First-Year Programs

toimprove, and finally made presentations of good teams.1. Preparation for Fall 2014Fall 2014 was the first trial run with the teamwork skit, causing much more thought and planningto go into this process. Multiple meetings were held across several weeks and included four veryimportant steps that were critical to the success of the skit: building, brainstorming, planning,and testing. Throughout this entire process, the faculty member was involved, critiquing andchanging aspects of each step to make this skit a success. Each step of the process is described ingreater detail below.Step 1: BuildingIn order for a team to be successful, there must first be a group of people ready to work toward acommon goal; this skit was no different. The first step of

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 1: It's All About Teams and Teamwork

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tom O'Neill, University of Calgary; Semin Park, University of Connecticut; Nicole Lynn Larson, University of Calgary; Amanda Deacon, University of Calgary; Genevieve Hoffart, University of Calgary; Bob Brennan, University of Calgary; Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary; William Daniel Rosehart P.Eng., University of Calgary

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First-Year Programs

students to rate each other on the 5 CATME dimensions, which were identified as the keyfactors underlying effective team member performance by Ohland’s research team3. A five pointscale including the anchors Unsatisfactory (1), Bare Minimum (2), Moderate (3), Strong (4), andOutstanding (5). The output appears in each team member’s dashboard once all team membershave completed their feedback ratings. The output for each individual contains the median of hisor her peer ratings for each dimension (see Appendix A). This output can then be used in class asa framework to support individual or team debriefs, action steps, and development planning.The second peer feedback tool involves distributing 10*(k-1) points across other team membersfor each CATME

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 1: It's All About Teams and Teamwork

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James E. Lewis, University of Louisville; Gerold Willing, University of Louisville; Thomas D. Rockaway, University of Louisville

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First-Year Programs

, but are very difficult to quantify.1. Introduction Page 26.1221.2The Partnership for Retention Improvement in Mathematics, Engineering, and Science(PRIMES) is a University of Louisville cross-college collaboration aimed at reducing attritionamong our STEM majors. This project unites faculty from the College of Arts & Sciences, theJ.B. Speed School of Engineering, and the College of Education and Human Development intackling identified hurdles that contribute to poor retention (and thus low graduation rates) in ourrespective undergraduate STEM programs. PRIMES’ goals are quite simple: 1. Increase by 25% the number of Bachelor’s degrees

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 1: It's All About Teams and Teamwork

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jess W. Everett, Rowan University; Jenahvive K. Morgan, Rowan University; Kaitlin Engle Mallouk, Rowan University

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First-Year Programs

, and references.BackgroundNew teams may go through an initial period of adjustment. According to Tuckman new groupsgo through four phases: Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing.1 Duringthe Forming stage group members try to size up each other, find the limits of acceptable groupbehavior, and clarify the group task.2 In the Storming stage there may be disagreement amongteam members as each slowly comes to terms with solving problems in a new environment, i.e.,the new team. Things get better in the Norming phase. Ground rules and team member roles areagreed upon. Members begin to see how they can work together to accomplish the group task.The final phase is Performing. The team is now “firing on all cylinders” and significant work

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 1: It's All About Teams and Teamwork

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nick Tatar, Olin College of Engineering; Kevin A. Nguyen, Texas Tech University; Chris Gewirtz, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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First-Year Programs

a practitioner develops and modifies this knowing-in-action, andreflection can only be done when paired with an action, and is separated into three types:reflection-before-action, reflection-in-action, and reflection-on-action. Reflection-on-action isthe only definition being employed in this case, as these students reflect on actions after theyhave already happened, ex post facto, in order to affect how they might act in the future. Kolb describes the process of learning from experience as a cycle (Figure 1), and citesreflection as the part of the learning process by which concrete experience is used to generate,validate, or otherwise affect conceptual frameworks or knowledge systems2. Reflection in thiscycle is a necessary step for

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Research to Practice: STRAND 4 – K-12 Engineering Resources: Best Practices in Curriculum Design (Part 1)

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristin M Brevik, North Dakota State College of Science; Kristi Jean, North Dakota State College of Science; Frank M. Bowman, University of North Dakota; Bradley Bowen, North Dakota State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

looking for potential employees that can solve arange of intellectual and technical problems regardless of the job position.[1] Employers arelooking for individuals that are willing to use an engineering mindset in which they problemsolve, think critically, collaborate with others, and are able to solve elementary issues as well asmore complex problems that may arise. In other terms, employers are looking for employees thathave well-developed 21st Century Skills. While not always pictured this way, engineering is avery creative profession that uses 21st Century Skills on a daily basis. It is important thatengineers be able to design a solution that is effective yet still meets constraints such as time,cost, manufacturability, size, etc.[2

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Research to Practice: STRAND 4 – K-12 Engineering Resources: Best Practices in Curriculum Design (Part 1)

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohamad Musavi, University of Maine; Cary Edward James, Bangor High School

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Diversity

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

theGathering Storm”1, made recommendations in the areas of K-12 education, research, post-secondary education, and economic policy. Despite several positive reactions to the report, thelow U.S. ranking relative to other countries, as reported in the 2010 NAS report entitled "RisingAbove the Storm Revisited"2, gave rise to a revolutionary vision in the National Research Council“A Framework for K-12 Science Education”3. This vision was used by 26 states as a blueprintfor revolutionizing their K-12 education through the implementation of Next Generation ScienceStandards (NGSS)4.To provide an exemplar for the implementation of the NRC Framework and the NGSSengineering practices, a team of the University of Maine faculty from the College of Engineeringand

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Research to Practice: STRAND 4 – K-12 Engineering Resources: Best Practices in Curriculum Design (Part 1)

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology; Mike Ryan, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeffrey H Rosen, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jayma Koval, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sabrina Grossman, CEISMC: Georgia Tech; Nancy Anna Newsome, CEISMC - Georgia Tech; Marcela Nicole Moreno, CEISMC

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, Engineering and Robotics (SLIDER) is a five-yearDiscovery Research K-12 (DRK-12) project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF)1.The project partners curriculum design specialists, educational researchers, and K-12 educatorsin an initiative to design and implement a problem-based learning (PBL) curriculum thatintegrates science and engineering to teach eighth grade physical science standards, using LEGONXT robotics as a context or manipulative. As SLIDER is in its final year of design andimplementation, we are afforded a retrospective look at the capacity of LEGO robotics to beutilized on a large scale in traditional public school classroom settings, both from an educationaland organizational standpoint.At the time of SLIDER’s conception in

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Research to Practice: STRAND 4 – K-12 Engineering Resources: Best Practices in Curriculum Design (Part 1)

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mercedes M McKay, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Susan Lowes, Teachers College/Columbia University; Devayani Tirthali, Brown University; Arthur H. Camins, Stevens Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

students in learning of several fundamental physical science concepts, computerprogramming, and engineering design. Some also use robotics as an educational strategy toincrease students’ excitement and motivation for pursuing STEM careers. With increasednational attention to and advances in STEM learning research, the National Research Council’sFramework for K-12 Science Education 1 and the Next Generation Science Standards 2 call uponcurriculum developers and teachers to increase the prominence of engineering within the contextof science education.A growing body of research suggests that problem-based learning, engineering curricula, and“design-based science” are effective means of increasing students’ conceptual understanding ofscience, their

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Research to Practice: STRAND 1 – Addressing the NGSS: Supporting K-12 Teachers in Engineering Pedagogy and Engineering Science Connections (Part 2)

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Whitney Gaskins, University of Cincinnati; Anant R. Kukreti, University of Cincinnati; Catherine Maltbie, University of Cincinnati; Julie Steimle, University of Cincinnati

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

dissertation ”Changing the Learning Environment in the College of Engineering and Applied Science: The impact of Educational Training on Future Faculty and Student-Centered Pedagogy on Undergraduate Students” was the first of its kind at the university. Whitney has been recognized by the National Technical Association (NTA) for her novel approach to studying students, specifically underrepresented minorities and women. Whitney also works with the Emerging Ethnic Engineers (E3) Program. She teaches Calculus 1 during the Summer Bridge program and instructs Cooperative Calculus 1 during the school year. Continuing with her commitment to community involvement, Whitney has previously served on the Na- tional Executive Board

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Research to Practice: STRAND 4 – K-12 Engineering Resources: Best Practices in Curriculum Design (Part 1)

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Avneet Hira, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Morgan M Hynes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

this concern, as well as the ideasaround “starting young” which have recently come to the forefront by the Next GenerationScience Standards (NGSS) focusing on K-12 engineering education curriculum 1. Another ideathat has been coming to the forefront in the engineering education committee is that ofMakerspaces, which is directed towards bringing the Do It Yourself (DIY) culture into theclassrooms to aid teaching and learning 2. However, currently there lies a gap between this ideaof classroom Makerspaces and their implementation in learning environments. This paper is anattempt at filling this gap, by proposing how an interest-based framework would not only aid theimplementation of classroom Makerspaces, but also serve as a means for

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Research to Practice: STRAND 1 – Addressing the NGSS: Supporting K-12 Teachers in Engineering Pedagogy and Engineering Science Connections (Part 2)

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Satabdi Basu, Vanderbilt University, Institute for Software Integrataed Systems; John S Kinnebrew, Vanderbilt University; Shashank Shekhar, Vanderbilt University; Faruk Caglar; Tazrian Haider Rafi, Vanderbilt University; Gautam Biswas, Vanderbilt University; Aniruddha Gokhale, Vanderbilt University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

studentsworked through the two components of the C3STEM system: CTSiM (Computational Thinkingusing Simulation and Modeling) and C2SuMo (Collaborative Cloud-based Scaled up Modeling),present the experimental study we conducted, and discuss the results in detail. We end the paperwith a summary of our accomplishments, and directions for future research.1. IntroductionThe Next Generation Science Standards place significant emphasis on combining the learning offundamental concepts with scientific and engineering practices that help students develop usea-ble knowledge that they can apply across multiple problems. In more detail, the standards em-phasize that students develop the skills to build and use models, plan and conduct experiments,analyze and

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Research to Practice: STRAND 1 – Addressing the NGSS: Supporting K-12 Teachers in Engineering Pedagogy and Engineering Science Connections (Part 2)

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marie Anne Aloia, Bayonne High School; Howard S. Kimmel, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

are two well-known high school programsavailable, Project Lead the Way, PLTW 1, and the Infinity Project 2. However both programs areexpensive and neither allows any flexibility to the teachers. Furthermore, there is a lack ofprogram outcomes assessments for Project Infinity, while reports on PLTW have shown existingissues. For instance, a curriculum content analysis concluded that the PLTW curriculumaddressed fewer content standards and showed far fewer points of integration of mathematicalknowledge than would be expected 3. Further, other published empirical studies showed mixedresults from state achievement test scores 4. In addition, neither of these two programs arealigned with the current standards. What had been considered alignment

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Thermodynamics, Fluids and Heat Transfer II

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Austin W. Burrus, University of Oklahoma; Diana Bairaktarova, University of Oklahoma

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Mechanical Engineering

as entropy. This shows that the majority of the class may be reached using this methodwhile allowing for more specific tools to be used for the rest. 1. Introduction As a disclaimer and assurance of the validity of this study, one must have anunderstanding of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. This theory is a model for the motivators of astudent. The Hierarchy is applied in such a way that if one’s more basic needs are not met, theless basic needs cannot and will not be fulfilled. Education does fit into this model and isrelatively high on Maslow’s Pyramid. Figure 1: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs1 The pyramid’s foundation is physiological needs. These call for homeostasis and a foodsupply. The next

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Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Max de Jesús Suárez Montiel, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico; Alberto Abelardo Hernandez-Luna, Tecnológico de Monterrey

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Diversity

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Industrial Engineering

experience tools and ServQual.The proposed Toolkit is developed through the following five stages: 1) collect voice ofcustomer (VOC) and voice of process (VOP); 2) analyze the information; 3) recommendactions; 4) identify and classify projects; 5) prioritize. The recognition phase is based ontwo dimensions: a) service quality; and c) customer experience.The toolkit developed provides a framework that incorporates customer experience tools towiden the application of six sigma in service industries. The framework and toolkit weretested in the International Lean Six Sigma ITESM-BMGI Certification Program. Theresults of its application are presented and discussed and future work is proposed.Keywords: Six Sigma, ServQual, Customer Experience, VOC

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Mathematics Division Technical Session 4

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Peter Goldsmith P.Eng., University of Calgary

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Mathematics

setting of abstract algebra, the theory is presentedhere in a less general but more accessible manner. We also introduce some new concepts andconstructs that increase its utility and pedagogical value. These include relation diagrams (thecounterpart of traditional block diagrams) and impedance relations. Examples illustrateapplications of the theory and its potential benefits for engineering education.1 IntroductionEngineers use problem solving to invent, design, build, and improve structures, machines,devices, systems materials, and processes. Thus, a central goal of engineering education is todevelop the problem solving abilities of students. Since mathematics is the basis for modeling,reasoning, and communicating solutions of technical

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Design as a Social Process: Teams and Organizations

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bryony DuPont, Oregon State University; Christopher Hoyle, Oregon State University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

the capability of an existing project selectionalgorithm developed by Kirkwood 1. This framework utilizes a user-defined objective andconstraints that can be solved using mixed-integer linear programming methods, and iscurrently run on a web-based optimization server such that the user does not need their ownoptimization software capability to perform team selection. Future work will include thedevelopment of a local optimization environment, such that the team selection software isstandalone.This work also seeks to expand on the existing Comprehensive Assessment for Team- Page 26.273.2Member Effectiveness (CATME) system 2 – an online tool that

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Supply Chain and Logistics in Manufacturing Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sangarappillai Sivaloganathan, United Arab Emirates University; Omar Gamal Ayad; Waseem Yousef Hittini

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Diversity

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Manufacturing

survey would have identified the areas where they have hadsubstantial benefits and where improvements could be made. However this has not beendone. This hindsight led to the development of a questionnaire that could be used in thefuture.1.IntroductionWhetton [1] rightly states that most important professing of a professor, involves histhoughtful choice of reading materials, assignments, activities and most of all learningobjectives. This is even more pronounced when the instructor has to choose few experimentsand a project from a wide variety of mechanical engineering applications. The choice has tobe further developed to meet the learning outcomes called the student outcomes defined byABET [2]. Outcomes are descriptions of the end product of

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Course Development / Curriculum Development

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alisa Gilmore P.E., University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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Computers in Education

increase students’ success, persistence and engagement wasintroduced into our department with an NSF funded project to adapt and augment the TekBoT®mobile robot platform developed at Oregon State University to the undergraduate curriculumfrom freshman through senior year in a vertically integrated manner. 1 By the end of this verticalarticulation project spanning 2005 – 2008, the TekBot was completely integrated into thefreshman year sequence, in one sophomore lab, and in one junior level experiment. 2 In thisproject, it was discovered that the TekBot was not well suited for the department’s upper levelclasses.2 As a result of this discovery, in 2008, a team of students and faculty came up with anew design for a brand new robot learning platform

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Civil Engineering Division Technical Session 8

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William Greenwood, University of Michigan; Dimitrios Zekkos P.E., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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Civil Engineering

using a web-basedcommenting form. The number of views per project page during the review period are shown inFigures 1 and 2 for CEE549 and CEE542 respectively. As shown by this data, there wassignificant web traffic to the class projects during the review period. While only a small fractionof viewers leave review comments, the view counts indicate the sizable interest in student workby professionals. The final reports remain online and can be viewed at:http://www.geoengineer.org/education/web-based-class-projects Page 26.1206.3 1200 1000 800 Views 600 400 200 0

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Civil Engineering Division Technical Session 5

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Claire Louise Antaya Dancz, Arizona State University; Kevin J. Ketchman; Melissa M. Bilec, University of Pittsburgh; Amy E. Landis, Arizona State University

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

that make product’s green through the process ofcomparison to chairs not labeled green, discussion and disassembly.The SusMet module has been integrated into over 15 classes over the past five years. Itwas conceptualized in 2009 as a way to introduce civil engineers to concepts of designfor environment, design for disassembly, design for end-of-life, as well as assessingsustainable metrics. The module learning objectives have been updated from Antaya et al Page 26.1319.32013 and now cover students’ ability to 1) explain the basics of design evolution, 2

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Reporting Out: Dissemination of Several NSF Projects of Interest to Two-Year Colleges

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College

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Two Year College Division

options.Since inception the overall mission of the program has remained the same while specificcomponents have been transformed to reflect the changing needs of our student population.A brief review of the academic accomplishments of participating students in previous EDGEprograms as reported by National Student Clearinghouse in December 2014 is shown in Table 1.Education Enrolled Not in Enrolled in Graduated Enrolled in Graduated GraduatedLevel in EDGE Records a 2 Year with a 4 Year with a with a College Associate University Bachelor’s Master’s Degrees Degree Degree# Students

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 7: The Transition from High School to College

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Caitlin Cairncross, University of Portland; Sharon A. Jones P.E., University of Portland; Zulema Naegele, University of Portland; Tammy VanDeGrift, University of Portland

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First-Year Programs

, pedagogy, and best practices for retention and engagement. Page 26.300.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Building a Summer Bridge Program to Increase Retention and Academic Success for First-Year Engineering StudentsAbstractThis paper reports on a grant-funded summer bridge program developed for first-yearengineering students who were not academically prepared to start Calculus 1 in the fall of theirfreshman year. The primary objective of the program was to increase retention and success offirst-year engineering students by 1) allowing students to enter

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Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technology Programs I

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alireza Kavianpour, DeVry University, Pomona; Simin Shoari; Behdad Kavianpour, University of California, Irvine

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Diversity

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Computing & Information Technology

calculating the lo-cation and orientation of an object. An algorithm for recognitionof an individual identity based on a digitally represented image ofthe scanned retina is presented. The technology is based upon thefact that no two retinal patterns are alike. In this paper, the nine parameters of an ellipsoidal shape fit-ted into a retinal image such as coordinates of the center of theellipsoid, the length of major, minor, intermediate axes, and thedirection of three axes will be calculated. For each individual, theseparameters are unique. Key Words: Ellipsoid, image processing, pattern recognition,parallel algorithm, retina, three-dimensional moments . 1

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International Division Technical Session 5

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cheryl Matherly, The University of Tulsa; Sarah R. Phillips, Rice University ; Cody A. Chapman, University of Tulsa

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Diversity

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International

countries. The NSFreported in its 2014 Science Indicators that 24.9% of science and engineering papers publishedworldwide in 2012 were internationally coauthored; for science and engineering paperspublished in the U.S. for the same year, 34.7% were internationally coauthored. This is anincrease from 1997 values of 15.6% and 19.3%, respectively.1 In its 2011-2016 fiscal yearstrategic report, the National Science Foundation (NSF) identified as one of its key performancegoals to “[k]eep the United States globally competitive at the frontiers of knowledge byincreasing international partnerships and collaborations.” The plan stated further that “[a]s S&Eexpertise and infrastructure advance across the globe, it is expected that the United States

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Innovations in Communications and Wireless Systems Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard J. Hartnett P.E., U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Kelly Charles Seals P.E., U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Paul Benjamin Crilly, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Electrical and Computer

. More specifically, students are tasked withwriting a MatlabTM function that uses two 10 bit shift registers in order to calculate eachGPS satellite’s unique 1023 bit L1 “Coarse Acquisition” (C/A) Gold Code (Figure 1)1.Validation of each satellite’s correct pseudo-random noise (PN) sequence (of 1’s and 0’s)is accomplished by comparing the first 10 values (chips) of that satellite’s PN sequencewith an octal number provided in the GPS signal specification1,2. One solution for afunction that produces the PN sequences for satellites 1-32 can be found in Appendix A,under the heading “GPS P/N Sequence Generator Mini-Project Solution.”Once each student completes the “PN code generator” assignment, we have them unravelthe mysteries of Code Division

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elif Ozturk; Bugrahan Yalvac, Texas A&M University; Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University; Xiaobo Peng, Prairie View A&M University; Ke Liu, Prairie View A&M University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

demographic data.IntroductionCAD tools are pervasively used throughout the product development process in manyindustries 1. Consequently, today’s engineering students will go into a professional fieldwhere they need to adapt to the new challenges of working with these tools as part of theburgeoning model based enterprise 2. Prospective engineers should have diverseexperiences and skills to effectively use the CAD software. These experiences shouldalso be more authentic3 and entail using CAD to meet design objectives4.With CAD tools students use their knowledge and skills to create models and adapt tonovel problems. These tools can support students to attain a level of expertise if a deeperpractical knowledge is taught. However, most available CAD

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Introductory Experiences in Chemical Engineering

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Edward Butterfield, University of Utah; Kyle Joe Branch, University of Utah

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Chemical Engineering

resurveyed the samedepartments in 2015 (Figure 1). At the start of ourwork, early curriculum laboratory experiences foraspiring chemical engineers were rare. Figure 1 Figure 1: Percentage of Chemicalshows lab courses for freshmen and sophomores Engineering Departments Requiringhave been gaining in popularity; however, such Engineering Laboratory Courses. Fiftycourses are still relatively rare and the best practices randomly selected departments are represented.for managing such laboratories remain in need of These departments were surveyed in July ofinvestigation. 2012, and these same departments were