Conference Session

CAPSTONE (SENIOR) DESIGN AND UNDERGRADUATE PROJECTS

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Herbert L. Hess, University of Idaho, Moscow; Edward James William Jr, Solved Engineering LLC

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

 challenging product could be made, a large defense contractor produced a competing device.  Another large defense contractor followed suit, though more slowly.  After completing this project and a few other projects for the same government agency, a new SBIR, phases 1 and 2, were awarded to the university.  The agency stated that the pattern of success on this project and others was significant in awarding the new SBIR.    The second assessment indicator is the success of the early stages of their careers.  The doctoral student found successful design work with a series of electrical equipment manufacturers.  He is now starting his own consulting and design business.  The first of the undergraduates has been with SpaceX as an electronics and power

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Student Preparation for, and Outcomes from, Community Engagement Efforts

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Devika Patel, Stanford University

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

Competence, Engineering and TabooTo fill this gap in engineering education of culturally and contextually relevant research, there isa need for a new social justice literacy in engineering.5 Yet, this is not the case when looking atthe professionalization of the engineering career: “In this point, the professional associationrecognises the need for engineers to play a broader social and environmental role. Yet theemphasis on technical competencies sends a powerful message to engineering educators,highlighting the primacy of technical knowledge in a crowded curriculum”.6 The need for thisnew literacy to highlight how one might gauge a sense of social responsibility has beenformalized through two metrics. The metrics of assessment are twofold: first

Conference Session

Additive Manufacturing Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren Rosen, Drexel University; Yalcin Ertekin, Drexel University; M. Eric Carr, Drexel University; Bret Alan Davis, Intel; Michael Cassidy, Drexel University

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Manufacturing

undertook the project primarily dueits challenging nature. However, as the project progressed the students became much moreinvolved in the historical and musical aspects of the project.The objective of the senior design sequence is to train students to use the knowledge and skillsgained during their academic career to conceptualize, design, and develop a practical product. Akey component of this development is the demonstration of a working prototype of the product.Expected student learning outcomes included an ability to use the knowledge and tools of thediscipline relating to acoustic measurement and analysis, 3D printing and prototyping,microcontroller-based sensing, analysis, and communications, an ability to design, fabricate,analyze, and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Marie Duis, Northern Arizona University; Nena E. Bloom, Center for Science Teaching and Learning, Northern Arizona University; Alexander R Ollerton, Northern Arizona University; Derek L Sonderegger, Northern Arizona University; Vanessa Fitz-Kesler, Northern Arizona University; Pauline L Entin, Northern Arizona University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

, scholarship recipients during the first semester. This course also providesthe students with professionalism skill training, career development and guidance for success inSTEM careers. Transfer-GEMS’ ultimate goal is to increase the number of transfer studentsgraduating from CEFNS with STEM majors and decrease their time (number of semesters) tograduation.In Fall 2014, 349 STEM transfer students entered CEFNS out of 2,782 new transfers to NAU. Ofthese, 26 in some way joined the Transfer-GEMS program. Fifty-seven students switched intoCEFNS during the year, for a total CEFNS transfer population for the 2014-2015 school year.This is the first cohort of three total that will be supported by the current grant, with 14scholarships to be awarded in each of

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Issues in Academic Integrity and the Value of Portfolios, Case Studies, and Supportive Programs

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lesia L. Crumpton-Young, Tennessee State University; Shabnam Etemadi, Tennessee State University; Germysha Emily Little, Tennessee State University ; T'Shana DeShai Carter

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Diversity

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Graduate Studies

engineering were earned by foreign students. 7 There are even fewerstudents that pursue graduate studies in STEM fields from historically underrepresented groups.For example, the National Science Foundation reports that an estimated 50% of Asian Americanor Asian students planned to major in a STEM field compared to 36% of African Americanstudents in the year 2012.7 An undergraduate academic career in STEM is the first step necessaryto pursuing a graduate degree in a STEM discipline. In one year of gathered national data, theNational Science Foundation discovered that approximately 50, 396 White, non-Hispanicstudents are enrolled in a graduate program in engineering compared to that of approximately4,172 Black students, 5,218 Hispanic students, and

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ben D. Radhakrishnan, National University; Jodi Reeves, National University; Jeremiah Jack Ninteman, National University; Charles Hahm

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Environmental Engineering

career, he had a very successful corporate management career working in R&D at Lucent Technologies and as the Director of Global Technology Management at Qualcomm. He had initiated and managed software development for both the companies in India. Prof. Radhakrishnan holds Masters Degrees (M.Tech, M.S., M.B.A) and Sustainable Business Practices certification from University of California San Diego.Dr. Jodi Reeves, National University Dr. Jodi Reeves is an Associate Professor and Department Chair of Applied Engineering at National Uni- versity in San Diego, CA. She teaches courses in design engineering, engineering management, and data analytics. Prior to academia, she worked for almost ten years as a quality

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 2

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Grace Altimus, Syracuse University; Dacheng Ren, Syracuse University

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Diversity

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Instrumentation

professor in the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and the Director of Chemical Engineering Graduate Program. Dr. Ren received an Early Career Translational Research Award in Biomedical Engineering from the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation in 2009 and a NSF CAREER award in 2011. He was named the College Technology Educator of the Year by the Technology Alliance of Central New York in 2010. Dr. Ren is also a recipient of the Faculty Excellence Award from the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University. Dr. Ren currently has 44 journal publications with over 2000 citations (h-index 24), 7 issued/pending patents and research supports from NSF, EPA, Wallace H. Coulter Foundation, Alfred

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca A Atadero, Colorado State University; Christina Paguyo, Colorado State University; Karen E Rambo-Hernandez, West Virginia University; Heather Lysbeth Henderson, West Virginia University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

. Finally, at the end of thepresentation specific examples of biased actions were explicitly addressed. For example, thedean said that biased activities such as racist or sexist jokes were not tolerated in the College ofEngineering. Directly following the presentation, the CIVE 102 instructor indicated that sheliked the content and thought it was very relevant.Panel of Professional Engineers. Around mid-semester we hosted a panel of engineers in bothclasses. The panels informed students about engineering practice and hopefully provided somerole models to the students. In putting the panels together we attempted to represent at leastsome racial and gender diversity as well as diversity in engineering career paths within thepractical constraints

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Curriculum and New Course Development in ET

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ali Ahmad, Northwestern State University

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Engineering Technology

and supervisory careers in a variety of industries. The programcombines technical knowledge with communications skills and teamwork to provide theflexibility needed in today’s rapidly changing marketplace. Figure 1 depicts an as-is curriculummap of the selected Industrial Engineering Technology program. The selected programeducational objectives are:  Demonstrate technical proficiency in the field  Apply quantitative reasoning and critical thinking in solving technical problems  Effectively communicate technical knowledge, ideas, and proposals to others, including upper management  Lead project teams in successful completion of projects  Have strong organizational and management skillsA brief description of some of

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Construction Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carla Lopez Del Puerto, University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez ; Omar I. Molina-Bas, University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez; Darwin Serrano Maldonado, University of Puerto Rico

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Diversity

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Construction

an attractive payback period for investors and a feasible solution for the current parkingchallenges that the university faces.BenefitsCEM graduate students involved in the project benefited by increasing their knowledge about acurrent challenge in their campus community and finding alternative solutions to alleviate theproblem. They also benefited by interacting with campus administrators and facility managementpersonnel which was similar to the interaction that they would have with a client in theirprofessional careers. They also increased their knowledge about P3, feasibility studies and theempowered the community in the decision making process of investigating if a multistory parkinggarage using a P3 is acceptable and feasible. The

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 6: Design and Design Chanllenges

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James B. Riggs, Texas Tech University

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First-Year Programs

basic, Java and Python. There isclearly no consensus on what or how first-year engineering students should be taught. By examining the goals of these courses we can better understand how the currentstate evolved and where we can go from here. The goals of these course in generalinvolve preparing the first-year student for the remainder of their academic andprofessional career and take the form of teaching students what engineering really is andwhy it is important to society, how to work in teams, how to implement design, how toprogram a computer, how to solve engineering equations, how to solve engineeringproblems and how to develop models. While these are noble goals, most students fail tounderstand the significance of what they have

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Academic Programs

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

D. Cenk Erdil, Marist College

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

data architectures and support infrastructures are both inefficient and incompletein most cases. Looking from the other side, it also takes months, if not years, to bring computerscientists and engineers up-to-speed with particular needs of health informatics related data andinformatics tasks.Initiatives to introduce informatics and computer science skills for every student have beenaround for a while. 9,10,11,12,13 As these initiatives target future generations, we still need to act forthe current and upcoming generation of engineering students who may be interested in a career inhealth and/or medical sciences. In an effort to help address the existing skills gap, we have lookedat the existing undergraduate majors and minors across the United

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cary Troy, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Josh Boyd, Purdue University; Natascha Trellinger Buswell, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Rebecca R Essig, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

mechanics, and transport processes.Prof. Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Brent K. Jesiek is Associate Professor in the Schools of Engineering Education and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He is also an Associate Director of Purdue’s Global En- gineering Program, leads the Global Engineering Education Collaboratory (GEEC) research group, and is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award to study boundary-spanning roles and competencies among early career engineers. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Tech and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Virginia Tech. Dr. Jesiek draws on expertise from engineering, computing, and the

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Diversity Issues in K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Miles J. Mabey, Arizona State University; Micah Lande, Arizona State University; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

teaches context-centered electrical engineering and embedded systems design courses, and studies the use of context in both K-12 and undergraduate engineering design education. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Education (2010) and M.S./B.S. in Electrical and Com- puter Engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Jordan is PI on several NSF-funded projects related to design, including an NSF Early CAREER Award entitled ”CAREER: Engineering Design Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society” and ”Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?” He has also been part of the teaching team for NSF’s Innovation Corps for Learning, and was named one of ASEE PRISM’s ”20 Faculty Under 40” in 2014. Dr. Jordan also

Conference Session

Revitalization of Manufacturing Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University; Bimal P. Nepal, Texas A&M University; Manoj Vanajakumari, Texas A&M University; Ismail Capar, Texas A&M University

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Manufacturing

-proposal for their capstone project. In Phase II (residencyweek), students are involved in several activities related to the best practices in businessresearch methodologies. Depending upon the class size, the residency week may includea one-day visit to a local company / case study as an exercise to formulate researchquestions based on a real-world problem. Alternately, instructors can develop teachingcase studies based on real-world problems to aid the student learning.Course Objectives  The objectives of the Distributor Process I course are to provide the students with sufficient exposure and training to perform applied research in their post- graduation career in general, and carry out their capstone projects in particular

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Understanding and Improving Female Faculty Experiences in STEM

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yang Lydia Yang, Ph.D., Kansas State University; Doris Wright Carroll Ph.D., Kansas State University

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity, Engineering Deans Council

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Women in Engineering

settings.6Gendered microaggressions have been used to explain subtle sexism and sex-baseddiscrimination on women.12, 13 Gendered microaggressions are manifested in various forms,such as making gender stereotypical assumptions, sexually objectifying women, or being genderblind.13, 14 Several studies have shown that gendered microaggressions cause detrimentalconsequences to women’s psychological and behavioral health, and their careers.12, 15, 16 Thisstudy focused on women faculty, an often under-represented group in many male-dominantSTEM disciplines. We examined whether, and to what degree, women faculty in STEMexperienced gender-based subtle bias and discrimination.MethodsInstrumentsSeveral research measurements have been established to gauge

Conference Session

Teaching & Learning Dynamics, Vibration, and Mechanics More Broadly

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacob R Grohs, Virginia Tech; Michelle M Soledad, Virginia Tech, Ateneo de Davao University; David B Knight, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Scott W Case, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Mechanics

first-time admit students begin their college career at a particular institution but may,while still working on a degree from that institution, choose to take courses at another institutionand transfer courses back to the degree-granting institution (double-dipping). In the case ofengineering mechanics courses, transfer students may bring in some or all mechanics coursecredit because of earned Associate’s degrees, preparation curricula for entrance into a four-yearengineering program, or transfer from one school’s undergraduate engineering program toanother. Reasons to transfer credits through double-dipping, on the other hand, varysignificantly; this strategy can be used to catch up or get ahead in one’s curriculum, tocircumvent a difficult

Conference Session

Engineering Physics Technical Session 3

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg S Mowry, University of St. Thomas; Camille M George, University of St. Thomas

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Diversity

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Engineering Physics & Physics

with business, law, and engineering expertise,at both the graduate and undergraduate level.Finally, we have observed that one of the outcomes for the students involved in the humanitariansenior design projects is that their world-view changes. Many of these students, anecdotally after-the-fact, indicate that they want to reorient their career goals to pursue careers that havehumanitarian objectives. These outcomes line-up with the objectives of the ‘Peace Engineering’29and REAL30 outreach programs in the School of Engineering at the University of St Thomas.AcknowledgementsIn order to be successful, projects like those just described require the integrated efforts of manygroups and individuals. We would like to thank the ICRISAT-Mali teams for

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Minorities in Engineering Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gloria Guohua Ma, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Lili Ma, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

recruitmore female students to the STEM fields by showing them the emerging and multidisciplinaryaspects.Our collaboration with the local high school started in Fall 2014 by offering their students a year-long robotics workshop. Our objective is to utilize the robotics workshop to introduce STEMconcepts to high school students, and encourage them to be interested in an engineering andscience career. A sequence of workshop topics were given to introduce the fundamentals ofrobotics science and the basic components of a robotics system, including hardware, software,programming, sensors, and control. The students would gain intensive experience working withthe robots. In addition to introducing the fundamentals, we planned to prepare the students withthe

Conference Session

Assessment of Learning in BME

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Casey Jane Ankeny, Arizona State University; Stephen J Krause, Arizona State University

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Biomedical

be useful in their career or future educational goals(90%), and helped show the relevance of the course to the real world (97%).Lastly, the majority of the students in all three classes did not feel that the MP exercise was too“costly”. In other words, 72%, 75%, and 70% of the students in the BM, ST, and TP coursesrespectively did not feel that the MP exercise was too costly in terms of effort, time and emotion.More specifically, 71% of all surveyed students stated that the activity did not take too mucheffort. Sixty-nine percent of students felt that it did not make them anxious or frustrated.Finally, 77% of the students did not feel that the activity took too much time.Table 1: Student Value of Muddiest Point Survey Results in Three

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak Jr, National Science Foundation; Mani Mina, Iowa State University; Kate A Disney, Mission College

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

EC 2000, the means of assessing thetechnological understanding of the majority of undergraduates who are not engineering studentsis yet to be systematically addressed. The work reported here describes the initial stages of aneffort to develop a technological literacy assessment suitable for use with students who are notintending careers in STEM disciplines. As an initial starting point, the work focuses on abilitiesrelated to the identification and characterization of systems. Specific abilities include identifyinga system and its boundaries, recognition of inputs and outputs, analysis of system structure,determination of subfunctions within the system, recognition of major components, associatingspecific physical processes with particular

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karl A Smith, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus; Rocio C. Chavela Guerra, American Society for Engineering Education; Russell Korte, Colorado State University; Christopher Swan, Tufts University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

University, Polytechnic Campus Ann F. McKenna is a Professor in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering and Director of The Poly- technic School at Arizona State University. Prior to joining ASU she served as a program director at the National Science Foundation in the Division of Undergraduate Education, and was on the faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Segal Design Institute at Northwestern University. Dr. McKenna received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.Rocio C Chavela Guerra, American Society for Engineering Education Rocio Chavela is Director of Education and Career Development at the American

Conference Session

UAV and other Team Projects in Aerospace Engineering

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter J. Schubert, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

post-project follow-up on perceptions and career choices.This approach may find interest among professors with limited funds who seek to develop solidpreliminary data to make grant applications more competitive.I. IntroductionAerospace research can be expensive and may require specialized facilities. Faculty just gettingstarted in settings without extensive hardware may need to bootstrap their research activities bydeveloping preliminary research. Presented herein is a team project, based on aerospace studygroups on space solar power and space colonization in the 1970s and 1980s, to address complexspace systems. The team of undergraduate students worked pro bono during the summer breakfrom college. Results were published in a paper at a major

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hsiao-Wen Wang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

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Design in Engineering Education

abilities must be emphasized, fostering flexibility and innovative as well as effectiveness, which are necessary for an uncertain and unpredictable future. This study applies project-based learning (PBL) to hydraulic engineering education. PBL were designed for an undergraduate course to emphasize real-world problems while enhancing learning motivation and performance, and fostering the problem-solving skills necessary for innovation and excellence in the learners’ future professional careers as hydraulic engineers. Not only divergent thinking activities, but also convergent thinking strategies (i.e., those which involve evaluating and selecting among generated innovative thoughts according to the guidelines and purposes of the activity) were

Conference Session

ECE-related Engineering Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seemein Shayesteh P.E., Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Maher E. Rizkalla, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Electrical and Computer

parameters is of greatuse. Several examples may include storage devices such as battery systems, fuel cells, andultra-capacitors. Projects related to thermal sciences may also need thermal sensors andsignal processing. The area of digital control and robotics inquire background fromelectrical and electronics circuits. Furthermore, the multidisciplinary undergraduateresearch initiative program (MURI) encompasses ideas from digital control and mixedsignals. ME students also wish to have career-relevant project topics, and fast-growingnew ME career areas such as Renewable Energy are increasingly dependent on electronicsfor power switching, analog processing for mechatronics, circuit modeling and MEMS(microelectromechanical systems).Specific examples of

Conference Session

Effective Use of Technology in Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frank Vahid, University of California - Riverside; Alex Daniel Edgcomb, Zybooks; Susan Lysecky, Zybooks; Roman Lysecky, University of Arizona

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Diversity

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Computers in Education

Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Califor- nia, Riverside in 1999, 2000, and 2005, respectively. His research interests focus on embedded systems, with emphasis on runtime optimization, non-intrusive system observation methods for in-situ analysis of complex hardware and software behavior, data-adaptable system, and embedded system security. He was awarded the Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award from the European Design and Automation Associa- tion (EDAA) in 2006 for New Directions in Embedded Systems. He received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation in 2009 and four Best Paper Awards from the

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Assessment

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Breigh Nonte Roszelle, University of Denver; Matt Gordon P.E., University of Denver; Bradley S. Davidson, University of Denver; Peter J. Laz, University of Denver

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

engineering problems during their upperdivisional years. The exam also provides a checkpoint to see how well students are prepared totake the FE during their last year of study. And lastly, data from the exam allow for analysis ofindividual subjects and questions, allowing for exploration of how well students understand eachsubject tested, as well as individual topics.Overall, our faculty has found the sophomore exam to be a helpful tool in assessing both theknowledge of our students, as well as the effectiveness of some of our early engineering courses.The MME department also requires that all students take the FE exam to graduate, giving a set ofassessment data at two different time points in their career as a student.IntroductionSuccessful

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Efforts in Introductory Courses

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas A Baine P.E., Grand Valley State University; Huihui Qi, Grand Valley State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

this, but they often emphasize multidisciplinary teams at the end of the program in asenior design class. However, this develops the mentality in students that there will always besomeone else to do the part that they are not comfortable with. As a result, engineering studentshave a tendency to lack comfort in cross-disciplinary topics (topics outside of their chosendiscipline), despite taking fundamental courses in such topics. All engineers specialize as they progress through their education and their career;however, many find that they are never comfortable with the fundamentals of cross-disciplinarytopics. For example, mechanical engineers often receive some basic training in circuits and aresomewhat competent in the area, but they

Conference Session

Student and Other Views on Engineering Leadership

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jed S. Lyons, University of South Carolina

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Leadership Development Division

not important in promoting or supporting the shared concepts. CourseLearning Concept Maps and Team Reflections reveal the students’ perspective on what mayhave supported making the connections and which approaches were less effective. In looking atthese course concept maps, for example, similar shared concepts are represented as on the SMELConcept Maps at the beginning of the course – communication (5 occurrences), teamwork (3),and leadership (3). One important, new concept also emerges, however – career connections.All 5 groups represent ties to careers on the final course concept map. These connectionssuggest that considering social media, engineering and leadership in the context of future goalsand of defined careers adds a specific

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sam Kelly-Quattrocchi, University of Washington; Denise Wilson, University of Washington; Rachel Roberts, University of Washington School of Environmental and Forest Sciences; Rachel Yonemura, The University of Washington

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

People (3 principles) and Profit (1principle).Many students favored improving waste prevention (recycle, reduce, reuse) as the principle ofsustainability that would dominate their role as engineers in contributing to sustainable practice.29 of 94 classifiable responses were coded within this principle. Some responses were quitesimple and general such as: "Not wasting a lot of paper or electricity" (Female, Caucasian)Other students attempted to connect their career interests within their chosen major to reducingwaste. For example, one student voiced this inherent opportunity: "I want to work with nanotech so I guess making a lot smaller technology would mean less trash" (Male, Caucasian)Another student did the same with