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Student Teams, Groups, and Collaborations

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laura Lenz M.Sc., RWTH Aachen University; Lana Plumanns M.Sc., RWTH Aachen University ; Kerstin Groß Mag., RWTH Aachen University; Katharina Schuster, RWTH Aachen University; Sabina Jeschke, RWTH Aachen University; Anja Richert, RWTH Aachen University

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Educational Research and Methods

virtual worlds for research alliances (e.g. virtual and remote laboratories, intelligent assistants, semantic coding of specialised information). Sabina Jeschke is vice dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the RWTH Aachen University, chairwoman of the board of management of the VDI Aachen and member of the supervisory board of the K¨orber AG. She is a member and consultant of numerous committees and commissions, alumni of the German Na- tional Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes), IEEE Senior Member and Fellow of the RWTH Aachen University. In July 2014, the Gesellschaft f¨ur Informatik (GI) honoured her with their award Deutschlands digitale K¨opfe (Germany’s digital heads). In

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NSF Grantees Poster Session I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vann Priest, Rio Hondo College; Gisela Spieler-Persad, Rio Hondo College; Ryan Taylor Bronkar, Rio Hondo College

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Beach, University of California - Los Angeles,University of California - Berkeley, and the University of Southern California. Seven have beenaccepted to NSF-sponsored REUs, three have been named as Rio Hondo College OutstandingStudents, and one was selected as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Undergraduate Scholar and wenton to accept a research fellowship at JPL.Student AnecdotesIn the students’ final reports, they are asked to comment on the impact that the scholarship hashad on them. A few of these comments follow:• Mentoring was beneficial because it allowed me to be more open about my personal goals witha professor. From my experience when I have a professor, I only see him in class and lecture andmight go to his office hours on occasions but

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Chemical Engineering Courses in Emergent Areas

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Faisal Shaikh, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Serdar Ozturk, MSOE

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Chemical Engineering

equipment for unit processes 4. Perform biomolecular engineering experimentation4.3 Laboratory Topics 1. Flocculation 2. Dead end filtration 3. Tangential Flow Filtration 4. Liquid-Liquid Extraction, supercritical CO2 extraction 5. Chromatography 6. Centrifugation 7. Freeze drying4.4 Modifications done to focus on bioprocessingThe list of topics added to the course besides traditional topics covered in similar courses in otherinstitutes are listed in table 4 below.Table 4. List of the additional topics included in the Unit Operations course. Chapters Additional topics Sedimentation Flocculation Filtration Tangential flow filtration Extraction Supercritical CO2

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Innovative Graduate Programs and Methods, Developing Master's & Ph.D. Programs and Graduate Teaching Assistants

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ali Alavizadeh, Indiana University - Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Maximo J. Ortega, Indiana Tech; Maged Mikhail, Purdue University - Calumet

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Graduate Studies

experiences include software engineering, systems engineering and analysis, and production optimization for private, governmental, and nongovernmental organizations. His research interests include complex systems modeling and simulation and systems engineering, and their application in healthcare and aerospace.Dr. Maximo J. Ortega, Indiana Tech Dr. Maximo Ortega is an Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Indiana Tech. He is responsible for the Automation Laboratory. Dr. Ortega is a Fulbright Scholar and was a member of the Mexican National Academy of Industrial Engineering. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Purdue University from 2001 to 2003. Dr. Ortega earned his Bachelor of Science

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Flipped Classrooms in Mechanical Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John-David S Yoder, Ohio Northern University

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Mechanical Engineering

Paper ID #15074Flipping the Design Class Using Off-the-shelf Content: Can it work?Dr. John-David S Yoder, Ohio Northern University John-David Yoder is Professor and Chair of the mechanical engineering at Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH. He has previously served as Proposal Engineer and Proposal Engineering Supervisor at Grob Sys- tem, Inc. and Software Engineer at Shaum Manufacturing, Inc. He has held a number of leadership and advisory positions in various entrepreneurial ventures. He is currently a KEEN (Kern Entrepreneurial Ed- ucation Network) Fellow, and has served as a Faculty Fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Classroom Practice II: Technology - and Game-Based Learning

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Rhudy, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus; Rungun Nathan, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

in the Robotics laboratory at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He worked as a post-doc at University of Pennsylvania in the area of Haptics and Virtual Reality. His research interests are in the areas of unmanned vehicles particularly flapping flight, mechatronics, robotics, MEMS, virtual reality and haptics, and teaching with technology. He has ongoing research in flapping flight, Frisbee flight dynamics, lift in porous material and brain injury He is an active member of ASEE and ASME and reviewer for several ASME, IEEE and ASEE, FIE conferences and journals. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Fluids Friday! A Method for Improving Student Attentiveness

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Diverse Issues in Renewable Energy

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Efrain O'Neill-Carrillo, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Agustin Irizarry-Rivera P.E., University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Cecilio Ortiz, University of Puerto Rico-INESI; Marla D. Perez-Lugo, University of Puerto Rico, Mayguez Campus

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

projects with communities in Puerto Rico since 2002. Eight undergraduate electrical engineering students participated in three different capstone projects related to improving water service in rural communities, in particular improving the electrical system for the pump that takes water from the community well. In one of the projects, the team included students from Electrical, Mechanical, and Civil Engineering, as well as Surveying and Biology students, and students from Purdue University15. Acting as Faculty mentor in the UICD broadened the policy horizon of Dr. O’Neill and was an invaluable capacity building experience that helped in future policy work. Another example of a community-based project is the photovoltaic (PV) laboratory at Casa

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Subjects in 3D Printing and ET Programs

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rex C Kanu, Purdue University (Statewide Technology); Caleb Hale, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Patrick O'Neal Piper, Ivy Tech Community College

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

part files were imported into the 3D printing machine as STL files. Figures 4 and5 show the Makerbot® and Lulzbot® machines used in printing the tensile test specimens. Eventhough these machines were easily accessible to the students, they had to be trained on how torun them by the laboratory technician. Figure 6 shows some of the tensile specimens that were3D printed and tested. All tensile test specimens were 3D printed at 100% fill with ± 45º rasterangle. After 3D printing the specimens, they were conditioned for over 40 hours at roomtemperature and at ~50% relative humidity, according to the standard practice for conditioningplastics for testing described in ASTM D 618-14. Following the conditioning of the specimens,an Instron materials

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Materials Division Technical Session 1

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alison K. Polasik, The Ohio State University; Glenn S. Daehn, The Ohio State University; Michelle R. McCombs, The Ohio State University

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Materials

visits each teacher four times throughout the academic year to give support with teaching and experimental methods. Guskey and Yoon note that “educators at all levels need just-in-time, job-embedded assistance as they struggle to adapt new curricula and new instructional practices to their unique classroom contexts”[3] Full Group Meetings These meetings were held four times throughout the year, and a new materials science topic and classroom laboratory was introduced at each one. Time was also allotted for the teachers to share experiences, strategies, and pedagogical best practices with each other. Spending over 70 hours together between the camp and full-day sessions

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Make It!

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Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University; Vania Willms

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Manufacturing

Automation laboratory at Texas A&M University, a state- of-the-art facility for education and research in the areas of automation, control, and automated system integration. He also serves as Director of an NSF Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program in the area of Mechatronics, Robotics, and Industrial Automation.Mrs. Vania Willms, c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Teaching Robot Perception in Middle SchoolAbstractRobots are key to manufacturing, healthcare, entertainment, and aerospace exploration feature.The industry is in great need of qualified professionals that can meet the demand of the ever-changing technologies and latest innovation. Robot perception

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Make It!

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Riley S. Booth, University of Calgary; Peter Goldsmith P.Eng., University of Calgary

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Manufacturing

implemented on the cutterwith little or no technical support, allowing rapid prototyping and the possibility of severaldesign iterations and testing cycles. The design of the hinges is an excellent exercise inmechanics of materials, since students can apply their basic knowledge of stress, strain, bending,and torsion to design and analyze different hinge patterns to predict their strength and flexibility.Hence, design, analysis and testing of hinges could provide a hands on laboratory component fora course in mechanics of materials that would highlight the usefulness of solid mechanics theory.Finally, the construction of 3D objects from 2D components is an excellent exercise in geometryand visualization, as well as a window into the field of

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Make It!

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bart Taylor M.Ed., A&M Consolidated High School; Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University; Dezhen Song

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Manufacturing

Engineering Technology and the De- partment of Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include engineering education, cognitive task analysis, automation, robotics and control, intelligent manufacturing system design, and micro/nano manufacturing. He is Director of the Rockwell Automation laboratory at Texas A&M University, a state- of-the-art facility for education and research in the areas of automation, control, and automated system integration. He also serves as Director of an NSF Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program in the area of Mechatronics, Robotics, and Industrial Automation.Prof. Dezhen Song c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 MAKER: From 2D

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Biomedical Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amelia Spencer Lanier, University of Delaware; Ashutosh Khandha, University of Delaware; Sarah Ilkhanipour Rooney, University of Delaware; Michael H. Santare, University of Delaware; Jill Higginson, University of Delaware; Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware

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Biomedical

-on experiences and follow-up laboratory reports. Research indicates science conceptunderstanding improves with the use of unstructured context maps and that writing-to-learnpractices can greatly improve student learning and engagement; however, these practices are oftenlacking in STEM 2,3,4. To incorporate these research findings, we developed a fading paradigmscaffolding approach to maximize engineering students’ communications skills. Our goal is toelevate the writing capability of undergraduates to the level of graduate students by utilizing afading paradigm scaffolding approach, where writing templates become less structured over time.We hypothesize that this approach will increase the average writing ability of engineeringundergraduates

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Make It!

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William H. Heeter, Porter High School Engineering Dept.; Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University; Jun Zou, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University

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Manufacturing

group of students received a provisional U.S. Patent. Several students have seen their work actually produced by industry, including the ordering touch screens used by Bucky’s.Dr. Sheng-Jen ”Tony” Hsieh, Texas A&M University Dr. Sheng-Jen (”Tony”) Hsieh is a Professor in the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. He holds a joint appointment with the Department of Engineering Technology and the De- partment of Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include engineering education, cognitive task analysis, automation, robotics and control, intelligent manufacturing system design, and micro/nano manufacturing. He is also the Director of the Rockwell Automation laboratory at Texas A

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Make It!

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Javaid S. Siddiqi, Lone Star College; Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University

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Manufacturing

Department of Engineering Technology and the De- partment of Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include engineering education, cognitive task analysis, automation, robotics and control, intelligent manufacturing system design, and micro/nano manufacturing. He is also the Director of the Rockwell Automation laboratory at Texas A&M University, a state-of-the-art facility for education and research in the areas of automation, control, and automated system integration. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 MAKER: Programmable Logic Control (PLC) Based Automated System for Water-Level Control for Teaching Pneumatics and

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Evaluation: Exploring the Impact of Programs & Professional Development for K-12 Teachers

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anthony Steven Brill, New York University; Colin Hennessy Elliott, New York University; Jennifer B. Listman, New York University ; Catherine E Milne, New York University; Vikram Kapila, New York University

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

Paper ID #15165Middle School Teachers’ Evolution of TPACK Understanding through Pro-fessional DevelopmentMr. Anthony Steven Brill, New York University Anthony Brill received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno, in 2014. He is currently a M.S. student at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, studying Mechanical Engineering. He is also a fellow in their GK-12 program, promoting STEM education. He conducts research in the Mechatronics and Controls Laboratory, where his interests include using smart mobile devices in closed loop feedback control.Colin Hennessy Elliott, New York

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Student Recruitment and Retention in ET Programs and Labs in ET Programs

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alka R Harriger, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Bradley C. Harriger, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Technology

its steering committee for several years. He has invested over twenty-five years in the development and maintenance of a multimillion dollar manufacturing laboratory facility complete with a full scale, fully integrated manufacturing sys- tem. Professor Harriger has been a Co-PI on two NSF funded grants focused on aerospace manufacturing education and is currently a Co-PI on the NSF funded TECHFIT project, a middle school afterschool pro- gram that teaches students how to use programmable controllers and other technologies to design exercise games. Additionally, he co-organizes multiple regional automation competitions for an international con- trols company. c American Society for

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PBL and Flipped Classrooms in Civil Engineering Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Heather Noel Fedesco, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Cary Troy, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

300 has standard first-level fluid mechanics content that includes fluid properties,hydrostatics, shear stress, the Bernoulli Equation, control volume analysis, dimensional analysis,and open channel flow. The three credit hour course has enrollment that varies betweenapproximately 90 and 175 students, and is dominated by junior and senior civil engineeringstudents (about 60%), with a smaller percentage of students typically from agricultural andbiological engineering and other engineering disciplines. Most (>80%) students enrolled in CE300 are also enrolled in a companion one-credit laboratory course, but there are no recitationsections for the course.Flipping CE 300During the Fall 2013 semester, CE 300 was structured as three 50-minute

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Biomedical Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carrie A. Francis, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Rachel L Lenhart, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Jason R. Franz, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University; Jarred Kaiser, Boston University; Joseph Towles PhD, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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Biomedical

- Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University Jason Franz is Assistant Professor in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University, and Director of the UNC/NC State Applied Biomechanics Laboratory. He received B.S. (2004) and M.S. (2006) degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech and served for three years as a biomechanist in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at the University of Virginia. Dr. Franz then earned his Ph.D. in Integrative Physiology in 2012 from the University of Colorado Boulder. His primary research seeks to discover the musculoskeletal and sensorimotor adaptations that underlie a loss of independent

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NSF Grantees Poster Session II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Director of the Rockwell Automation laboratory at Texas A&M University, a state-of-the-art facility for education and research in the areas of automation, control, and automated system integration. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Design and Evaluation of Sensor Module for Portable Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) Kit for Automated Control EducationAbstractAutomated control can be found in almost every sector of the economy. Many automated controlapplications are integrated into daily life, such as traffic lights, automatic doors, elevators,coffeemakers, automated lighting, and copy machines. In all these applications, sensors are

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Fundamental: K-12 Student Beliefs, Motivation, and Self Efficacy

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer B. Listman, New York University ; Vikram Kapila, New York University

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

Vikram Kapila is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering (NYU Tandon), where he directs a Mechatronics and Control Laboratory, a Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics and Entrepreneurship, a GK-12 Fellows project, and a DR K-12 research project, all funded by NSF. He has held visiting positions with the Air Force Research Laboratories in Dayton, OH. His research interests include K-12 STEM education, mechatronics, robotics, and control system technology. Under Research Experience for Teachers Site and GK-12 Fellows programs, funded by NSF, and the Central Brooklyn STEM Initiative (CBSI), funded by six philanthropic foundations, he has con- ducted significant K-12

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Solid and Structural Mechanics in Aerospace Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rani W. Sullivan, Mississippi State University

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Aerospace

piloted aircraft (OPA) shown in Fig. 15. ManyMississippi State University students are familiar with this aircraft as it is housed at the RaspetFlight Research Laboratory. Elements of this research study were integrated over the semester atappropriate times.In the following sections, the overall program development, objectives of the study and adiscussion linking ABET student outcomes to student learning are presented. A brief descriptionof the wing vibration research is given, along with student activities that use the results of thisresearch. A complete summary showing the integration of this research in class topics is shownin Appendix A.II. Program Development, Learning Objectives, and Relationship to ABET OutcomesVibrations

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NSF Grantees Poster Session I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brian J Skromme, Arizona State University; Xiang Gao, Arizona State University; Bhargav Korrapati, Arizona State University; Vignesh Seetharam, Arizona State University; Yih-Fang Huang, University of Notre Dame; Daniel H Robinson, The University of Texas at Austin

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

typicallyyields knowledge gains (Cohen d-values) of around 0.76 σ (where σ denotes the standarddeviation), comparable to those resulting from expert human tutors (0.79 σ) and superior to thoseof answer based systems (0.31 σ).1 In a previous, laboratory-based evaluation, this superioritywas confirmed with a significant effect size of 1.21 σ and strongly positive impacts on studentmotivation (0.91 σ) as well.2,3This system further emphasizes the use of worked examples that are exactly isomorphic to thetypes of problems students are required to solve in the exercises. This approach is supported bythe well-known pedagogical importance of learning from examples in the early stages of learninga new cognitive skill.4-8 Studying worked examples before (and

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Issues in Engineering Technology Education II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Otilia Popescu, Old Dominion University; Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University

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Engineering Technology

incolleges of arts and science, they are not as much embedded into engineering curriculum17.Examples of engineering writing assignments can include tasks related to a job search, journals,or instructions for some simple projects such as paper airplanes18.Writing across the Electrical Engineering Technology CurriculumThe Electrical Engineering Technology curriculum at Old Dominion University includes severalrequired writing courses, such as English Composition and Engineering Technology InformationLiteracy/Research in freshman year, followed in sophomore year by English Composition coursethat culminates with the preparation of a fully-documented research paper. In upper divisionyears Electrical Power and Machinery Laboratory for example is a writing

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Systems Engineering Learning Outcomes and Assessment

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kamran Iqbal, University of Arkansas, Little Rock; Gary T. Anderson, University of Arkansas, Little Rock

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Systems Engineering

projects.Systems engineering program assessment includes assessment of student outcomes that mirrorthe ABET a-k outcomes. These outcomes are assessed in the system engineering core courses(see Appendix: Table 1). The achievement of each of the 11 SYEN student outcomes (SOs) is tobe demonstrated by a primary core course and often by one supporting course. The assessment ofeach SO is based on quantitative performance measures that directly assess the SO. Assessmentmethodology is based on the student work, such as assignments, exams, projects, presentations,laboratory experiments, etc. Samples of student work supporting assessment of SOs are retainedand placed in the course binders maintained in the department office.The student outcomes are assessed as per

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Proven Strategies in Classroom Engagement Part I: Artifacts for Creative Pedagogy

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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S Alireza Behnejad P.E., University of Surrey, UK

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Civil Engineering

Surrey since 2014. Incidentally, the ArchiVision Company from Iranassisted the design of the structural components of this full-scale teaching kit and the tubularelements were manufactured in the University Workshops. Each group of students has todesign a configuration using (all or part of) the available structural components and check thepracticality of their design in the laboratory, Figure 4. To facilitate the design process, a set ofmagnetic bars together with steel balls are available for making small scale models. Also, thefull-scale structural components are available to the students for assembling the structure, orparts of it, in the lab. This would give them confidence about the practicality of the design.After the group meeting in the

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Understanding the Military Veteran's Human Resource Needs - Transition from Military Service to the Engineering Profession

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anthony W Dean, Old Dominion University; Connor Schwalm, Old Dominion University; Patrick Sean Heaney, Old Dominion University; Linda Vahala, Old Dominion University; Yuzhong Shen, Old Dominion University; Jennifer Grimsley Michaeli P.E., Old Dominion University

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Military and Veterans Constituent Committee

, research experiences with faculty and outside laboratories, professionaldevelopment activities, academic support, social integration, and mentoring.15 As adult learnersmake up an increasing portion of enrollment at universities, understanding how to increase theperformance and retention of this subpopulation is a significant issue facing institutions of highereducation. Research on student retention has started to address the unique characteristics andchallenges of adult learners, but there are still open questions about the effectiveness of programproposals.14, 16 There has been significant research related to retention of other minority groups,which may be instructive to future research and program proposals to address adult learnerretention.15

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Works in Progress: Classroom Practice

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tracy A. Bibelnieks Ph.D., University of Minnesota Duluth; Kristen S. Gorman, University of Minnesota; Brian D. Gute, University of Minnesota Duluth; Joshua W. Hamilton, University of Minnesota Duluth; Elizabeth M. Hill, University of Minnesota Duluth; Alison B. Hoxie, University of Minnesota Duluth; David A. Saftner, University of Minnesota Duluth; Andrea J. Schokker, University of Minnesota Duluth; Pete Willemsen, University of Minnesota Duluth

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University of Minnesota Duluth faculty, he spent four years at the Natural Resources Research Institute as a Research Fellow in the Center for Water and the Environment engaged in computational toxicology research. His current research interests include inquiry-based laboratory activities and the flipped classroom.Dr. Joshua W. Hamilton, University of Minnesota DuluthProf. Elizabeth M. Hill, University of Minnesota Duluth Dr. Hill is focused on active learning teaching methods and research for engineering education. After receiving her Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Dr. Hill spent several years working on polymer processing research and advanced materials manufacturing. She has an extensive background in

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Evaluation: Exploring the Impact of Programs & Professional Development for K-12 Teachers

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathleen A. Harper, The Ohio State University

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

first part, the model development, students are guided (usuallythrough carefully crafted laboratory experiences) to develop concepts and gain familiarity withthe associated representations for those concepts. The students become accustomed to referringto their laboratory data as the authority on scientific relationships. In the deployment phase thatfollows, students apply the model to a variety of situations and test the limits of the model, oftenthrough problem solving and sometimes via lab practica. Incorporating engineering applicationsin the deployment provides the ideal structure for seeing the relationship between fundamentalscientific understanding and well-planned engineering.The Ohio State University has offered a series of Modeling

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Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Terri M. Lynch-Caris, Kettering University; Letitia M. Pohl, University of Arkansas

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Diversity

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Industrial Engineering

laboratory settings.The multi-disciplinary nature of ergonomics and its broad application in many domains (e.g.,transportation, manufacturing, aviation, medicine, product design, software development) meansthat potential course topics are numerous and therefore the instructor usually has much latitude indesigning course coverage and types of assignments.In practice, the broad range of topics within ergonomics can be included in a variety of IEundergraduate courses. Typical course names include Ergonomics, Human Factors, MethodsEngineering, Safety Engineering, Cognitive Engineering and Work Design, among others.6 In a2015 review of the 94 ABET accredited IE programs, Jane Fraser7 states that 90% of thoseprograms require work methods, human factors or