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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 2: Design in the First Year: Challenges and Successes

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reid Bailey, University of Virginia

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First-Year Programs

 team  could  be  tasked  to  design  a  new  activity  for  a  spring  carnival  at  a  local  school.    These  situation  are  all  open-­‐ended  and  would  require  non-­‐trivial  problem  formulation.    In  contrast,  none  of  the  prior  studies  nor  the  current  work  presented  in  this  paper    use  the  word  “engineering  design”  to  refer  to  very  constrained  design  optimization-­‐ Page 26.1510.2type  projects.  In  an  ethnographic  study  of  a  third  year  mechanical  engineering  design  class  at  Georgia  Tech,  Wendy  Newstetter  embedded  herself  in  a  design

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Multidisiplinary Student Research Experiences

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin Fevre, Elizabethtown College; Tomas Estrada, Elizabethtown College

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

a two-semester capstone Senior Project course. However, particularly motivated students canpursue additional design and research experiences by seeking out a faculty member andproposing a project, which may consist of either a novel, student-generated concept or a furtherdevelopment of a pre-existing project. These directed research experiences can take place at anypoint during the student’s four years, whether during the academic year or the summer.In this case, the experience itself took place in a seven-week span during the summer between thesophomore and junior year. Funding for the experience was available through the college’ssummer Scholarship and Creative Arts Research Program (SCARP). As mentioned in theIntroduction, both the

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Evaluating Student Behaviors and Attitudes

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Magdalini Z Lagoudas, Texas A&M University; Rodney Boehm, Engineering Academic and Student Affairs; James L Wilson, Texas A&M University - College of Engineering

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

where she was responsible for the structural and thermal analysis of payloads. She served as Director of the Space Engi- neering Institute and in 2010 she accepted a position with the Academic Affairs office of the Dwight Look College of Engineering where she oversaw outreach, recruiting, retention and enrichment programs for the college. Since 2013, she serves as the Executive Director for Industry and Nonprofit Partnerships with responsibilities to increase opportunities for undergraduates engineering students to engage in experiential learning multidisciplinary team projects. These include promoting capstone design projects sponsored by industry, developing and teaching the Engineering Projects in Community

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Measurement and Instrumentation

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brian J. Novoselich, Virginia Tech; David B Knight, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

, positive reinforcement, and additional help on project tasks,which may be construed as transformational in nature. When compared to more tangible rewardofferings in a professional setting such as promotions, bonuses, and additional vacation time, thefact that contingent reward behaviors load quite strongly with the MLQ’s transformationalbehaviors is not surprising. This conceptual understanding of the leadership phenomenon,corroborated by early works in the theory indicate that this scale may be measuring leadershipbehaviors consistent with the experiences of student mechanical engineers in a capstone setting.Next, the passive-avoidant/laissez-faire scale developed departs from the current construct of theMLQ Form 5X but is consistent with

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James E Morris, Portland State University; Jack C. Straton, Portland State University; Lisa H Weasel, Portland State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

 Three elective junior courses, (e.g. PH 382U, BI 372U and ECE 383U,) from a single cluster, (e.g. Science & Liberal Arts or Design Thinking/Innovation/Entrepreneurship,) which includes courses from multiple departments, grouped around a single theme.  An integrating two-quarter senior capstone experience, including some form of community service. (In engineering, this requirement is satisfied by the traditional capstone design project, performed in groups with participation and supervision by local industry. A future goal is the introduction of nanotechnology capstone projects which will integrate non-STE “graduates” of the nanotechnology courses into some of these industrial projects.)The four

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Practical Teaching in Manufacturing – 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ana M. Djuric, Wayne State University; Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University; Tatiana V. Goris, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Manufacturing

] Jovanovic, V., Michaeli, J. G., Popescu, O, Moustafa, M. R., Tomovic, M., Verma, A., Lin, C. (2014), “Implementing Mechatronics Design Methodology in Mechanical Engineering Technology Senior Design Projects at the Old Dominion University” ASEE National Conference 2014, June 15-18, Indianapolis, IN, 2014.[30] DeAgostino, T., Jovanovic, V., Thomas, M. B. (2014), “Simulating Real World Work Experience in Engineering Capstone Courses” ASEE National Conference 2014, Session: College Industry Partnership, June 16-18, Indianapolis, IN, 2014.[31] Purdue University (2015), GE to collaborate on advanced manufacturing to enable faster, efficient brilliant factories. Retrieved on March 10, 2015 from https://purdue.edu

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Assessing Social Responsibility & Sustainability

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan E Canney PE, Seattle University; Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Mikhail Russu

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods, Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

to social responsibility, but theydon’t examine how faculty or departments believe that they are influencing such views. At the17 institutions surveyed, it would be beneficial for departments to see where their students saidthey were influenced and compare that to where they thought they were affecting student views.Departments could assess if the first-year or capstone projects were influencing the ethicaldevelopment that they expect. Possible single time interventions on ethical or professionalresponsibility are not enough to provide lasting impressions on students such that they wouldhighlight that course years later. This could be an impetus to change such approaches to ethicseducation. More broadly, this work provides a useful approach

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Technical Session: Pedagogical Strategies and Classroom Techniques for Teaching Assistants

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen W. Crown, University of Texas, Pan American; Ana Alanis, University of Texas, Pan American ; Jose Luis Chavez Jr., The University of Texas, Pan-American; Joel Guadalupe Montemayor, University of Texas, Pan American; Ricardo Montemayor, University of Texas, Pan-American; Haidy Enid Soto, University of Texas, Pan American

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Diversity

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Student

teaching methodology of the courses is Challenge Based Instruction (CBI)because of its proven effectiveness over traditional lecturing. The course subjects developedincluded Water Science, Computer Aided Design (CAD), and Systems Modeling. All threecourses were administered to returning TexPREP fourth year students.At the beginning of each course, students were given the challenges of building a Stirling engineusing items that can be found at home, designing and constructing a solar car, and creating awater theme park for the Systems Modeling, Computer Aided Design (CAD), and Water Sciencecourses respectively. They were then guided through a series of lectures, mini projects, andassessment exercises to help them obtain the necessary knowledge to

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Design and Assessment of Graduate Curriculum

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ali Alavizadeh, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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Graduate Studies

exception of a few, the majority of students arefull-time employees who pursue their degree on part-time basis. Currently, there are 16 students Page 26.1342.3in the program in both tracks. The directed MS project serves as a capstone course offered in twophases. The first phase is for proposal writing. Once the examining committee approves it, thestudent proceeds to complete and present the results next semester or later, if the project is notcompleted.Motivation and background worksThe program’s core courses are designed to help students develop fundamental skills in research,measurement, and evaluation as needed in industry. The core courses are

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashley Guy, University of Texas at Arlington; Alan Bowling, University of Texas at Arlington; Panayiotis S. Shiakolas, University of Texas, Arlington

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Page 26.1144.3graduate robotics course. This paper presents the initial implementation of mechatronics instruction in the under-graduate robotics course. The effect of this instruction is assessed by examining whetherstudents who take the course use the knowledge gained in later courses or student com-petitions. The assessment for this project is the year-long Mechanical Engineering (ME)senior capstone design course. In the senior design course, students give midway and finaldesign presentations, which are open to the public. The authors attend these presentationsto determine whether their cohort of students use the mechatronics knowledge gained inlater courses. In addition, Dr. Bowling is still faculty advisor for the student competitions

Conference Session

Manufacturing and Machine Component Design

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Anstaett Metzler P.E., Ohio State University; Blaine W. Lilly, Ohio State University

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Mechanical Engineering

and the first year of professional practice. Dr. Metzler then worked in the medical device and pharmaceutical industries for approximately 10 years before returning to graduate school at Washington University. Dr. Metzler com- pleted a post-doctoral fellowship at Washington University in Biomedical Engineering, after which she worked in the consulting arena for the past ten years. In 2011 she began teaching Capstone Design in the mechanical engineering curriculum within the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineer- ing at The Ohio State University, in addition to continuing her consulting practice. In January, 2014 Dr. Metzler moved to full-time teaching responsibilities at Ohio State, where she continues to

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Evaluation: Exploring High School Engineering Education Initiatives

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roxanne Moore, Georgia Institute of Technology; Meltem Alemdar, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sunni H. Newton, CEISMC; Jeffrey H Rosen, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology; Stefanie A Wind, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

and university engineering curricula in the US have been following similartrajectories for some time. In the early 1900’s, engineering was treated more as a ‘trade’ at theuniversity level, and high schools encouraged vocational studies, including auto repair, woodshop, metalworking, cosmetology and other ‘trades’ to the non-college bound. Between 1935and 1965, most university engineering curriculum moved away from a trade-school curriculumto a more theoretical, mathematically-intensive one, delaying any hands-on design projects untilthe senior or ‘capstone’ design course 11.Similarly, the nation’s high schools tried to erase the division between the trades and the college-preparatory tracks to prepare anyone who might be inclined to attend a

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 2

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine G. Nicometo, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Jeffrey S. Russell, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Engineering Management

first joined UW-Madison’s faculty in 1989 as an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, where he co-founded the Construction Engineering and Management Pro- gram and developed the construction curriculum. In addition, he has authored and co-authored papers on the subject of educating civil engineers. His body of work demonstrates his commitment to using emerging technology in the classroom to prepare the next generation of engineers and other students for the challenges of the future. Jeff was honored in 2014 with an Outstanding Projects and Leaders Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Society of Civil Engineers. He holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from

Conference Session

Making in Design

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vincent Wilczynski, Yale University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

problem-based learning and service learning alsobecame popular approaches to connect course material with field applications, often using client-driven scenarios and open-ended challenges.5,6 This attention to increasing student engagementwas in part prompted by an increased awareness of the value of active learning and team-basedproblem solving.These initiatives manifested themselves in a variety of fashions, including improving studentexperiences using cornerstone and capstone design projects as well as the creation of U.S.Government sponsored initiatives. For example, the grant-funded “Learning Factory” projectwas developed to simultaneously create a practice-based curriculum and the supporting physicalfacilities required to design/fabricate

Conference Session

Studying Engineering Education Research & Institutions

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lauren A. Sepp, University of Washington; Mania Orand, Human Centered Design and Engineering ; Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington; Lauren D. Thomas, University of Washington; Brook Sattler, University of Washington; Cynthia J. Atman, University of Washington

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Educational Research and Methods, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, and type of reflection: how reflection is being operationalized. As aresult of our findings, it is evident that there has been a significant and recognizable upwardtrend in the explicit attention to reflection across the body of the ASEE conference publications.Understanding the trends of reflection across literature can help us further analyze its prevalenceand importance in the engineering education community.IntroductionIn engineering education, there has been an increase in pedagogical approaches that positionstudents at the center of the teaching practice, like problem-based learning, project-basedcourses, and capstone design courses.1,2,3 Such pedagogical approaches often engender reflectionby engaging students in reflection activities

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Pipeline and Performance in BME Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dianne Grayce Hendricks, University of Washington; Lucy L. Pick, University of Washington; Alyssa Catherine Taylor, University of Washington

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Diversity

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Biomedical

Paper ID #12283Bioengineering Global Health: Design and Implementation of a Summer DayCamp for High School StudentsDr. Dianne Grayce Hendricks, University of Washington Dr. Dianne G. Hendricks is a Lecturer in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Wash- ington. She earned a BS in Molecular Biology at the University of Texas at Austin and a PhD in Genetics at Duke University. Dr. Hendricks’ teaching interests at the University of Washington include develop- ing and teaching introductory and honors courses in bioengineering, tissue and protein engineering lab courses, and capstone projects. She is committed

Conference Session

Course Development / Curriculum Development

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Computers in Education

personal engagement in assignments (3.69) o Provided personal satisfaction in completing assignments (3.68) • On a scale of 1 to 5, students reported that the labs in the course impacted their motivation and confidence for their capstone design project or career most in the following ways: o Increased self-directed learning skills (3.76) o Provided motivation for performing well in project tasks and responsibilities (3.67) o Influenced confidence that the design project or career is within their abilities (3.5)Open answer responses over all 3 semesters revealed a range of student thoughts andperspectives. The majority of the individual responses affirmed the course

Conference Session

Innovations in Communications and Wireless Systems Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wayne A Scales, Virginia Tech; J Michael Ruohoniemi; Geoff Crowley

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Electrical and Computer

Cornell University in Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics. He has received several Dean’s citations for teaching excellence during his years at Virginia Tech.Dr. J Michael RuohoniemiDr. Geoff Crowley, Geoff Crowley is the Founder and Chief Scientist of Atmospheric & Space Technology Research As- sociates (ASTRA). He is also a co-founder of the American Commercial Space Weather Association (ACSWA) and serves on the Executive Committee. He has published over 100 scientific papers as lead author or co-author. His interests include measuring the ionosphere from the ground and from space. He led the ’CASES’ GPS receiver development project, and development of the ’TIDDBIT’ HF sounder, and he leads several

Conference Session

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies: Pedagogy of Lab-Oriented Courses

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rupa Purasinghe, California State University, Los Angeles; John E. Shamma; Brian Phan, California State University of Los Angeles ; Howard Lum, California State University Los Angeles

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Paper ID #12495Bringing Lifeline Research to Vertically Integrated Classrooms via a Four-Point Bending Test of a PipeDr. Rupa Purasinghe, California State University, Los Angeles Dr. Purasinghe is a Professor of Civil Engineering at California State University at Los Angeles and coordinates Freshman Civil Engineering Design and Capstone Design courses as well as Computer Aided Structural Analysis/Design and Experimentation Lab. Please note that this paper has several co-authors as well.Mr. John E. Shamma John E. Shamma is the Facility Planning Team Manager for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California

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Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. Davidson, Wentworth Institute of Technology; James Lambrechts P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology; Leonard Anderson, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Nakisa Alborz, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering

a specialty in building design and construction with over 10 years of industry experience on private and public projects and 2 years of teaching experience at the university level. Page 26.1019.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Intra (Sub)-Disciplinary Integration in Civil Engineering Education: An Approach to Integrate the Various Civil Engineering Sub-Disciplines with the Use of a Design Studio LabAbstractTypically, Civil Engineering education

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College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles E. Baukal Jr. P.E., John Zink Co. LLC; Ted Song, John Brown University; Will C. Holmes, John Brown University; Kyle Andrew Crouse, John Brown University; Zachary Jordan Lee, John Brown University; Cameron Drax Geiger, John Brown University

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College Industry Partnerships

applytheir knowledge and skills to real-world problems.15 Some universities have used industry to helpteach senior design courses as part of capstone projects,17 where these adjunct instructors aresometimes referred to as “Professors of Practice.”18 Industry can sponsor research projects withfaculty that also include student workers and can also provide facilities for students to conductresearch if these are not available at the university. Industry can provide formal mentors foruniversity students and participate in supervisory thesis committees for graduate students,9including sponsoring industrial theses that are carried out in industry.13One of the major benefits of these collaborations is that students gain exposure to actualengineering

Conference Session

Potpourri

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gonca Altuger-Genc, State University of New York, Farmingdale; Ilknur Aydin, Farmingdale State College

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Computing & Information Technology

past several years. Dr. Aydin is the implementor of SCTP module in QualNet network simulator (a public software). Before coming to US for graduate studies, she had also worked as a software engineer in a tech company in Istanbul, Turkey on projects such as implementation of GPS based tracking software. Dr. Aydin is also interested in computer science education and increasing the recruitment and retention of women in computing Page 26.448.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Design and Development of Self-Directed Learning (SDL) Modules for

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Cooperative & Experiential Education Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Simeon Ntafos, University of Texas, Dallas; Maria Hasenhuttl, University of Texas at Dallas, Jindal School of Management

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

% 72.4% 71.4%70% 68.9% 68.6% 68.7% 67.6% 68.1% 64.5%65%60%55%50% 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013Figure 1. A 14-year history of Freshman retention rates.School, the reputation of its programs, and the career-readiness of its students. Students alsoview them as an important factor in their job search. Industry participation in capstone SeniorDesign projects is becoming the rule rather than the exception. All is not uniformly rosyhowever; the most commonly reported reason for students in academic

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 8

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicole P. Sanderlin, Virginia Tech; Kim Lester, Virginia Tech; Liang Li Wu, University of California, Irvine; Thomas Carl Long, Virginia Tech

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International

comes to collaboration. The students felt thatthe American system offered benefits in learning collaborative problem-solving skills throughouttheir coursework. Virginia Tech students found that they could contribute to the conference in areas of bothprocess and leadership. Following the guidance of an advisor, Dr. Pradeep Raj, Professor ofAerospace Engineering, students incorporated lessons learned pertaining to leadership fromcreating their Senior Capstone Projects. They felt that this allowed them to embrace the themeof the conference while also producing technically sound presentations. UCI students contributedto the conference by demonstrating two specific case studies of product development withemphasis on engineering design

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary First-year Experiences

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tanya Kunberger P.E., Florida Gulf Coast University; Chris Geiger, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

-driven component or do not require discipline specific information to bedistributed are organized by sections, such that all three disciplines are present in the same room.Scheduling the multiple sections to run concurrently also allows all the sections to meet togetherin a larger classroom so that outside speakers can reach out to all the students at the same time.  Figure 2 also demonstrates the in-class and out of class activities that the students participated infor the revised course. Many of the activities and subsequent homework assignments weredesigned as milestones for successfully completing the semester project. In many ways, thiscourse was designed in a similar fashion as one might design a capstone design course, withmultiple

Conference Session

Broad Perspectives on the Chemical Engineering Curriculum

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Watson L. Vargas, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá; Oscar Alvarez P.E., Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá; Jorge Mario Gomez, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá

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Chemical Engineering

this context that weenvision the role for Chemical Engineering to be one of significant importance.Until recently, the Chemical Engineering curriculum at the Universidad de los Andes, as well as,all the programs offered in other Universities in Colombia, could be described as traditionalprograms representative of a curriculum style followed internationally and particularly in theUSA, almost invariably based on the concept of unit operations and transport phenomena with aprocess-based design capstone project, and all taught in a classical manner. Such style andcontent had remained in general unchanged since the 70s, as it is the case in many other

Conference Session

Student and Other Views on Engineering Leadership

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Agnew Trevey, Marquette University; Andrea L. Gorman, Marquette University; Kristina M. Ropella, Marquette University

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Diversity

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

insolving problems. In this paper, we present curriculum design, early results andrecommendations from first year assessment of the program and plans for future programmaticelements and assessment.Students are accepted into the leadership program during sophomore year. The curriculum isdesigned to follow an intentional sequence of experiences that meet students’ developmentalreadiness and needs over the three years in the program. In each year, the student cohortsexplore one of three themes of the program (leading oneself, leading with others, or leadingtechnology and innovation) through a combination of three formal leadership courses, a varietyof experiential learning opportunities, and the completion of a capstone project. Uponcompletion of the

Conference Session

Something New??? within Engineering Design Graphics Education

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Daniel Kostar, Daniel Webster College; John Glossner, Daniel Webster College; Linda Marquis, Daniel Webster College; Nicholas Bertozzi, Daniel Webster College

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Engineering Design Graphics

). Visiting Assistant Professor: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts – Low- ell, Lowell, MA, (2003-2004). Design and Advanced Materials Engineer: Advanced Mechanical Design Section, G.E. Aircraft Engines, General Electric Corp., Cincinnati, OH, (2000-2002). Project Engineer and Program Manager: Composites Technology Division, Foster-Miller, Inc., Waltham, MA, (1998-2000).John Glossner, Daniel Webster College Dr. John Glossner is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Daniel Webster College. He also serves as CEO of Optimum Semiconductor Technologies. Prior to joining OST John co-founded Sandbridge Technologies and served as EVP & CTO. Prior to Sandbridge, John managed both

Conference Session

Interactive Panel on Improving the Experiences of Marginalized Students on Engineering Design Teams

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lorelle A Meadows, Michigan Technological University; Denise Sekaquaptewa, University of Michigan; Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Debbie Chachra, Olin College of Engineering; Adrienne Minerick, Michigan Technological University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education, Electrical and Computer, Engineering Libraries, First-Year Programs, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Student, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering, Women in Engineering

experiences.Dr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co- directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on com- munication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring com- munication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Curriculum Design and Evaluation

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cory J. Prust, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Richard W. Kelnhofer, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Joerg Mossbrucker, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Kerry R Widder, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Hue V. Tran P.E., Milwaukee School of Engineering; Stephen M. Williams P.E., Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Electrical and Computer

Electrical Engineering CurriculumAbstractThis paper presents findings from an impact study of a lower division student experience withinan undergraduate electrical engineering curriculum. This experience, culminating in the secondyear of the curriculum, is integrated across multiple first and second year courses and includeselements commonly found in senior-level capstone project courses. An introductoryprogramming course utilizing an embedded platform is the first course in the sequence. Thefinal course in the sequence requires students to design, build, and test an autonomous mobilerobot. Through a series of milestones, students systematically complete both the hardware andembedded software tasks required for the project. The final milestone